FAMINE AND COERCION
... It is very difficult to go back upon the records )t any session of the Imperial Parliament witlout slighting upon a Coercion Act foi Ire'and. When )he famine cloud hung omniously over this devoted land in 1846, we find before both houses a bill for the protection of life in Ireland.' Lest some of our rerdess, in the simplicity of the-r hearts, might suppose this was a comprehensive measure ...