"It was hard, indeed, as you say, to get an Irishman convicted by an Irish jury--especially the agitators.

But we've changed that.

We've made them see that loyalty to the Throne is better than loyalty to a Fenian." "How have they done it ?" "A little persuasion and some slight coercion, sir." "I am glad of it.

It would be a crime against justice for a man who openly breaks the law not to be punished through being tried before a jury of sympathisers." "Few of them escape, Mr.Kingsnorth.Dublin Castle found the way.

One has to meet craft with craft and opposition with firmness.