All the displays of anger, disapproval, contempt, all the vocabulary of denunciation in debate and in the Press, all the studied forms of insult, all the marks of social displeasure, only served to convince the Irishmen that they were producing their effect.

Still, the House continued to act on the assumption that it could vindicate its traditions in the old traditional way: it was determined to change none of the rules which had stood for so many generations: it would maintain its liberties and put down in its own way those who had the impertinence to abuse them.

The breaking-point came exactly at the moment when Redmond was elected.
On Monday, Jan.

24th, 1881, Mr.Forster introduced his Coercion Bill.

It was open, of course, to any member to speak once, and once only, on the main motion.