Of Mr. Sexton's speech, which breathed fire and slaughter against
the British Parliament, and exulted in the success of the Irish party in undermining British liberty, we have said enough elsewhere. Sir Patrick O'Brien replied to it with even more than Mr. Sexton's own verve, declaring that Mr. Sexton was "a trading politician," and condemning him bitterly for making capital in that House by floods of abuse of Irish Members, both past and present. "The honourable gentleman who represented formerly the Irish World, and now the Irish Nation, proud of his Hyperion curls, thought he could trample on every one who sought to interpose." He intimated that if Mr. Parnell" who often put away unpleasant questions with a sickly smile," had been in the House when Mr. Sexton was opeaking,the attack made on Irish Members would have been suppressed. He never im- puted to the advanced Irish party, unless it was Mr. O'Donnell, a knowledge of anything," except what they called Irish politics, gathered from reading American papers." Irish Members on the Ministerial side of the House were reproached with having done nothing. Well, there was one thing they never had done, —" they had never appealed to a foreign country for money to pay and keep them." And so Sir Patrick ran on, in his own beet style, dealing blow after blow at Mr. Sexton and his colleagues.
