Not without profound disturbance and incalculable suffering was the new system established in England; the story may be read in the pages of Marx, Cunningham, Cooke Taylor, or any of the economic historians.

But, for all the blood and tears, it was established.

Insulated from the continental turmoil, served by her Titanic bondsmen coal and iron, England was able to defeat the Titan, Napoleon.

Now it is idle to deny that this period would under any government have strained Ireland, as the phrase goes, to the pin of her collar.

But the Union made her task impossible.