Mr. Maguire introduced the Irish debate on Tuesday in a
speech not without ability, but much tainted with declamation. He described how the country was now held, —gunboats in every river and harbour ; police offices easemated with iron, bored with loopholes, and held as little forts ; soldiers swarming in the bar- racks, and a supplementary army of 13,000 men, the constabulary, scouring the town and country in every direction. He insisted too much on the penal laws of the last century, dilated on the broken promises of the British Government, especially as to ex- pending a fair proportion of Government money on Irish public works—docks, and so forth—rehearsed the Irons of the tenants, branded the Protestant Establishment as an insult to Irish feelings, and demanded, in a rather windy peroration, justice to his country.
