22 MAY 1886, Page 2

On the same day, Mr. A. W. Hall, M.P. for

Oxford, drew a picture of Irish Alabamas ' scouring the seas to put an end to our commerce, while an Irish rebellion was carefully prepared in the interior of the island, a picture which did not excite much terror ; and Lord Wolmer, on the other hand, opposed the Bill on the ground that it could not be regarded as a final settle- ment, maintaining rather rashly that if it could be so regarded, it ought to pass. We certainly cannot imagine its being a final settlement ; but even if it could be so regarded, and if it were also, as we think it would be, an unjust settlement, as well as one ruinous to Ireland, ought it to be accepted ?