They had reference chiefly to prohibition of raising in Ireland anything like a military force--even in the shape of a militia or volunteer force.

On June 2nd, there was one of those transformations in which the Old Man is constantly surprising friends and foes.

He was alert, vigorous, watchful of everything that went on, and the voice rose to its old strength and resonance.

It was during that afternoon that there was a slight indication for the first time throughout the progress of the whole Bill of any dissatisfaction on the part of the Irish members.

Mr.Byrne--one of the Unionist gang of lawyers--proposed a ridiculous amendment, the effect of which would have been that the Irish Legislature would not have had the right to give a license for a fowling-piece, or to arm their police to meet a rising of the Orangemen.
[Sidenote: Mr.Sexton intervenes.] It was then that Mr.Sexton intervened with a word of warning against such a restriction.