§ MR. BRADYsaid, he rose to call the attention of the House to the answer given by the First Lord of the Treasury to a question put on Friday last, the 6th instant, relative to the enrolment of Volunteers in Ireland. The people of that country were now quite as loyal and as well-disposed towards the English Government as any other portion of the United Kingdom. If, unfortunately, any hostile descent should be made on our shores, the blow would, doubtless, be struck at England, and then Ireland would necessarily be denuded of troops, whose presence would be required at the part of our Empire which was most seriously menaced. In such a case Ireland would be left in a state of the greatest insecurity, because it would be impossible for her 20,000 men of the constabulary to afford her adequate protection. If a hostile force effected a landing in Ireland the people would be demoralized and the country thrown back a century in material prosperity and civilization. It was, therefore, the bounden duty of the Government to enable the Irish people to arm themselves, so that they might defend their homes in the hour of peril. The Queen's prize at Wimbledon was carried off by a Scotchman, but there was not a single Irishman among the competitors. He understood that the noble Lord at the head of the Government was himself a private in the brigade of Irish Volunteers raised in London, but the existence of that corps, instead of being a compliment, would be a stigma, unless the people of Ireland were allowed to raise similar corps in their own country. By the present system of legislation the people of Ireland were compelled to think that they would not be allowed to be loyal. The House sat till nearly four o'clock in order that a Coercion Bill might be introduced, but the Irish were not allowed to bear arms in order that they 1859 might defend their own property, the rights of the Crown, and the institutions of the country.