He was thrown into a cold guard-room, and spent the night there without bed, or fire, or food.

Next morning he was discharged by the magistrate, but cautioned that he must not sell any more of such pictures.
Many things struck Bianconi in making his first journeys through Ireland.

He was astonished at the dram-drinking of the men, and the pipe-smoking of the women.

The violent faction-fights which took place at the fairs which he frequented, were of a kind which he had never before observed among the pacific people of North Italy.

These faction-fights were the result, partly of dram-drinking, and partly of the fighting mania which then prevailed in Ireland.