... were added to the Irish House Commons by the house of Stuart ( Grattan's Life, by his son, v 01.4, page 119 and supra.) Various attempts had been made to reform this oligarchy. The armed convention of the volunteers, led on by Mr. Flood, tried to do ...

... Mr. BRIGHT readily accepted the measure as omen of better legislation for Ireland. After some observations from Sir John «alsh, Mr. John O'Cotlnefl, Mr. Horsman, Mr. Henley, Mr. Monaell, and Mr. Bankes, Leave was given to bring in the bill. The SOLICI ...

... the last year there were 32,000 of the regular army there, 4,500 pensioners, and a force of thirteen or fourteen thousand armed constabulary—men, be it recollected, who were not paid by money levied from the people of Ireland, but out of the funds of ...