... the perpetua- case in a nut-shell, if' the Irish Scots are no better men ti on of distinctions between the various races united than their neighbours in Connaught and Munster, are in it is a menace to its cohesion and its very existence, there no Belfasts ...

... Railways ; in all these channels Imperial money flows into Ireland for purposes mid to an extent not permitted in the rest of the United Kingdom ; and now the Royal Commission on Irish Public Works recommends a great extension of this expenditure. The administration ...

... one of the little sooty imps who are always in mischief came to hear of it, and told the principal devil in charge of the United States, whose name is Politicianus. Dear me,' said the Devil, this will never do. I will see to it immediately.' And he went ...

... the . .second capital of the Empire to sit in judgment with him on the Special Commission, join with him in appealing to the United States and other centres of enthusiasm for more money, and generally stand between his innocence and that wind of questioning ...

... State strikes oft all Irishmen on the ground that the question to be tried is an Irish conspiracy in respect of which Irishmen are likely to take a strongly biassed view. The defence object to Americans because they are not Irishmen, to Englishmen because ...

... an Englishman, almost always without knowledge and very often without the slightest sympathy. Sympathy with Mr. O'Brien and United irdand . . . ? There is a point at which the Want of ordinary dignity and self-respect becomes something less than tolerable ...

... SCOTS are given to protesting that nothing more is needed to win the everlasting love, respect, and affection of disaffected Irishmen than to give them local self-government—' coupled with the name of Mr. Gladstone.' It is not, however, necessary to take ...

... Scotland (which for long was sternly and bitterly opposed to union with England) is proud of being an integral part, of the United Kingdom. In this there is a supprawsh, ver; which vitiates the suggested argument. Scotland has been so readily 'assimilated ...

... This consideration will be the surrender or partial surrender the English banks of the powers of issue. But we are still an united kingdom ; and if the State is to assume the direction of note issues in England, what about Scotland and Ireland ? KNowiNo ...

... there has been an enormous exodus from Ireland to America; and there the Irish have done well. It has been said, indeed, that Irishmen do well everywhere save in Ireland; but this well-doing is what Bentham calls a questionbegging epithet.' The most are but ...

... courageous, but unfortunate being, full of gallant and lovely impulses. On the other hand, all Irishmen who are true to their pay—as almost all Irishmen are except telegraph-clerks—are stigmatised, like the two spiteful Catholic judges,' as soulless ...

... the measure, urged the House to unite in supporting it, as they were engaged in a warfare with the internal enemies of the State—ignorance, Socialism, and the rest. He appealed to the representatives of Prussia to unite as if a foreign foe were at their ...