... tive to the Irish arms bill bad increased the number of arms among the people. 3,000 arms had been registered in one day, and 120,000 notices. He could speak as to bis own county, The that the arms act had given an impetus to arming. ...

... parliament ? What esid Mr, Grattan on that point ? He asked, after 1782, long after, if 1 remember tiphtly—* What bas your independent legislature etfected for you ? Has the place bill been passed—bas the pensivn bill “No,” said Mr. Grattan, “we gota police bill”—if ...

... identical, that the Irish peasant exposes himself to so dangerous a privilege ?—(bear.) The noble lord the member for London (Lord John Russell) complains too of the great restriction of the franchise in ,Ire- land as compared with that of England, and stated ...

... Ile was not him- self aware until a very short time previous that that duty would devolve on Lim. Ie was concerned for Mr. John O'Connell, having with him a leader whom he was roud to serve under, Mr. Sheil; he was bis senior, and be did not think that ...