Since we are to use moderation of speech and banish all rhetoric from these pages, one is at a loss to characterise Union arrangements and post-Union finance.

Let it suffice to say that they combined the moral outlook of Captain Kidd with the mathematical technique of a super-bucket-shop.

From the first Great Britain robbed the Irish till; from the first she skimmed the cream off the Irish milk, and appropriated it for her own nourishment.

One has a sort of gloomy pride in remembering that although cheated in all these transactions we were not duped.

Mr Foster, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons--in those days the Speaker actually spoke, a whimsical Irish custom--tore the cloak off Lord Castlereagh's strutting statesmanship, and laid bare his real motives.