12 MARCH 1870, Page 2

The O'Donoghue followed in a pleasant and dignified speech very

nearly in the same tone, referring sarcastically to the freaks of those members who now opposed the Bill as " the gambols of excited patriots." Aud the Irish Solicitor-General, Mr. Serjeant Dowse, of whose amusing sallies we have said something else- where, closed that night's debate with an argument chiefly directed to show that the Bill carefully provided that the arbi- trators or judges who award compensation for eviction not only may, but ought to, take into account the whole circumstances of the tenancy, to abate compensation for every past boon of the landlord's, and to raise it towards its maximum in all cases where the landlord can be shown to have dealt hardly with his tenant in times past.