The gentlemen of Clanrickard came to me.

I found it was but dallying to win time, so I left Ulick as little corn and as few houses standing as I left his brother; and what people was found had as little favour as the other had.

_It was all done in rain and frost and storm_, journeys in such weather bringing them the sooner to submission.

They are humble enough now, and will yield to any terms we like to offer them.' And so Malby and his soldiers enjoyed a merry Christmas; and when Walsingham read his letters, giving an account of his civilising progress, to the Queen, she, too, must have enjoyed a fresh sensation, a new pleasure amidst the festivities and gallantries of her brilliant court.

Mr.Froude has rendered a timely service in this Christmas time to the Coercionists, the Martial Law men, and the Habeas Corpus Suspension men of our own day.