On Monday, an amendment by Mr. T. H. Bolton securing
compensation for property either taken or "injuriously affected" by the Irish Legislature, was negatived by a majority of 34 (284 to 250), and one by Mr. if. Hobhouse insisting that the compensation paid to any sufferer should be "such as he is at present by law entitled to," was rejected by a majority of 32 (-290 to 258). /Ir. Carson's motion to restrain the Irish Legis- lature from passing any law by which a proceeding by " petition of right" might be altered or abridged, was negatived by 37(301 to 264); and Mr. Rentoul's amendment refusing to the Irish Legislature the right to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, was negatived, after a warm discussion, by a majority of 29 (270 to 241). It was to no purpose that it was pointed out that in the United States the tendency is more and more to exclude the right of suspending the Habeas Corpus Act in the special State Legislatures, and that in many of them the State has now no such power.
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