Ireland's crown of thorns and roses; or, The best of her history by the best of her writers, a series of historical narratives that read as entertainingly as a novel .. . ed by a striking incident. As hesat, pale, panting and still under the excitement of the greatreception he had received from the crowds outside, the wholeLiberal Party (with four exceptions) and all the Irish mem-bers sprang to their feet and cheered him four exceptions to this general mark of reverence andesteem were the four Dissentient leaders. Lord Hartington,Sir Henry James, Sir George Trevelyan and
Ireland's crown of thorns and roses; or, The best of her history by the best of her writers, a series of historical narratives that read as entertainingly as a novel .. . ed by a striking incident. As hesat, pale, panting and still under the excitement of the greatreception he had received from the crowds outside, the wholeLiberal Party (with four exceptions) and all the Irish mem-bers sprang to their feet and cheered him four exceptions to this general mark of reverence andesteem were the four Dissentient leaders. Lord Hartington,Sir Henry James, Sir George Trevelyan and Mr. Chamber-lain remained sitting, and in a group by themselves they pre-sented a curious look of isolation amid these took Mr. Gladstone upwards of three hours to set forthall the details of his great measure. His voice lasted wellto the end, and the attention of the House never relaxed fora moment. The speecch was calm in language, and the Torieswere decent enough to abstain from any outbursts of im-patience. Indeed, the general desire to catch every word ofa speech in which every sentence was fateful produced areticence from both friend and Ornamont on leather caso of Book of Petries Round Towers. CHAPTER XXVIII. HOME RULE DEFEATED. It would be wearisome to got at any length through thestory of the intrigues, negotiations, rise and fall of fortunethat characterized the interval between the introduction andthe second reading of the Home Rule Bill. It became evi-dent from the start that Mr. Gladstone had enormously in-creased his difficulties in passing the Home Rule Bill by theintroduction of the Land Bill. It was quite true that he hadguaranteed the British Exchequer absolutely against loss; buthis enemies were either stupid or unscrupulous enough tomisrepresent his scheme and to travesty it into a plan whichwould lose to the British Exchequer every penny advanced,and ultimately add several millions to the burdens of theBritish taxpayer. Mr.
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