Show A vault the most interesting place of pilgrimage in dublin Is st iu where ahe organ Is still to be seen upon which handel Is eald to have composed his messiah in the graveyard Is the last resting place of robert emmet and the vault at st Ml chans provides a more grew some thrill than the morgue the sexton lifts an iron door and descends a few rude steps carrying n algat without which the place would be pitch dark you follow and find yourself in a narrow passage from which cell like recesses belonging to different families branch off whether it Is owing to the extreme dryness of the surroundings or to some mysterious property of the place the process of decay has been arrested and the tea ture persons dead tor two centuries may bo recognized from authentic portraits here lie the brothers who were executed for their share in the united irish conspiracy bide by side almost with the earl of who was murdered about thirty acara ago the earls ancestors for hundreds of years back rest in the same vault perhaps the strangest thing about alie vault la the tact that apart from the weird sensation there Is nothing offensive in the surroundings london |