This was the celebrated levee, held in the Round Room of the Rotunda, on the 30th of May, the anniversary of the imprisonment.

It was referred to a sub-committee, on which Mr.Davis and Sir Colman O'Loghlen were principals, to devise the most appropriate celebration for that important day.

They determined on a public levee, to which were summoned whatever there was of respectability, authority, genius and worth in the island, which recognised the wisdom, justice and holiness of the struggle for Nationhood.

All the corporations, every delegation which derived public authority from the popular voice, besides citizens of the unincorporated towns, answered the summons with alacrity.

That day witnessed a scene the most extraordinary, imposing and formidable of the kind in modern annals.