Such a course would produce a reaction, violent in proportion to the hopes that had been excited.

Fresh rigours would become necessary; the re-enactment of the penal code would not be sufficient.

They must abolish trial by jury, or, at least, incapacitate Catholics from sitting on juries.

2,000,000 of Protestants must have a complete monopoly of power and privilege in a country which contained 5,000,000 of Catholics, who were in most of the country four to one--in some districts twenty to one--of the Protestants.

True, there were difficulties in the way of a settlement.
'But,' asked Sir Robert Peel, 'what great measure, which has stamped its name upon the era, has ever been carried without difficulty?
At the present moment there is a loud cry in the English press for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, and for the old remedy, coercion.
Those who raise the cry would do well to read Mr.Shiel's speech at the Clare election in 1828.