He sat down, as our report says, amid “loud and long and ...

He sat down, as our report says, amid “loud and long and continued cheering.” Within a few hours the statesman who had commanded the applause of that listening senate was a wreck of life and strength, shattered, feeble, restless, and agonized. The feverish interval is past.

That heart has ceased to beat; that tongue is ever still.

That ardent spirit and capacious intellect are now in another and an unknown world.

On the whole the Whigs were successful, mainly because they sent two honest gentlemen, Drummond and Ebrington, to the Castle and left them alone, and

in '41 they handed over to their

successors an Ireland neither prosperous nor contented, but at least reasonably quiet. The nationalist agitation which sprang up suddenly in the following years, round Gavan Duffy and his friends, was unexpected.

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