Mr. Ferrand has made one of his " big bow-wow
" speeches at Devonport, itt which he called Lord Palmerston a gambler, a political impostor, and jockey, Lord Russell a juggler, and accused Sir Arthur Buller of vilifying and traducing him. He recounted to the electors how many bold questions he put to the Go- vernment about the dockyard labourers, and how little answer he obtained ; how often he had alarmed the Government, and how violently he had denounced it. Ho expressed warm sym- pathy for the Irish, of which he gave a somewhat singular proof. He did not vote, he siys, on the Catholic Prison Chaplains' Bill, because he was sure that there were strong arguments on both the Protestant and the Catholic sides :—" If half a million of Irish were brought into the country, as the millowners had done in Lancashire, they had no right to do so without providing the means of religious consolation for them, and it was upon that ground he remained neutral, and he thought he was justified in so doing." Clearly, Mr. Ferrand contemplates sending all the half million of Irish to prison for their religous consolation,—a stronger Protestant measure than even the Protestant party contemplated, and in hesitating at which we think he was fully justified.
