Lord Naas on Thursday asked for a continuance of the
Act suspending the Habeas Corpus, for three months only. It was, he said, with the greakest reluctance that Government made the application, but it was absolutely necessary to retain the means of arresting the American Irish. He denied, however, that the peasantry of Kerry sympathized with the movement, and pointed out the extreme ease with which troops were now moved through the country. Lord Naas spoke with compassion of the "mis- guided people," but threatened to treat their foreign leaders as "filibusters," that is, to hang them. The House of course acceded to the extension, and the only incident of the debate was a speech from Major Knox, regretting that the Habeas Corpus was not suspended for a year, and telling Mr. Bright not to go "roaming about the country" raising hopes which would never be fulfilled. 'Whereupon Mr. Bright very quietly told him that "if he were out of the House, he should call his sentiments atrocious."
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