William Gladstone: “But the day may come when your condition may not be so happy.”

In fact, these men have been punished for doing in Ireland that which would be perfectly lawful in England, and which, I believe, is perfectly lawful even in Ireland, under any fair interpretation of the act.

I do not expect, any more than I desire, these foreign complications, but still it is not wise wholly to shut them out.

For that statement of the right honorable gentleman, as amended and admitted, there is not a shadow of foundation. (Irish cheers.) That you cannot contradict, although you have plenty of myrmidons, and, perhaps, some minions.

It is a sign that the law does not do its work.