It was already evident that the degree of influence that the New English could exert in Ireland was becoming severely restricted by governmental practices that tended to concentrate effective power in England.

Then again, why should there not be an ‘Emigration Service,’ and Secretary, with adjuncts, with funds, forces, idle Navy-ships, and ever-increasing apparatus; in fine an effective system of Emigration; […]

The committee on rules, obeying the caucus instruction, has reported that it is prepared to smooth the way for the passage of an abolition bill such as the caucus, in its jugglesome way indorsed on June 25, but it says it has no authority to frame an abolition bill.

Annabelle recognised the silver-leaved ironbarks, stunted and twisted in their growth, pale golden wattle in bloom, the dense scrub pressing to the verge of the road.