So now the whole council is French, and in all ordinary matters of legislation they vote together and in the French interest, not the English.

The English population is very slender; it has not votes enough to elect a legislator.

Half a dozen rich French families elect the legislature.

Pope Hennessey was an Irishman, a Catholic, a Home Ruler, M.P., a hater of England and the English, a very troublesome person and a serious incumbrance at Westminster; so it was decided to send him out to govern unhealthy countries, in hope that something would happen to him.

But nothing did.