Members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords debated concerns about the famine, failed prosecutions for sedition, so-called "monster meetings" and Irish revolutionary opinion in general, including its effect on Great Britain. The "Crown and Government Security Bill" had gone from its first reading to law in the month of April, mentioning Mitchel and resulting in the Act of Parliament under which he had been charged. A seditious article of Lalor's from "The Irish Felon" was quoted on 22 July by the Prime Minister, John Russell, who additionally referred to "The Nation". Lalor was quoted by the Marquess of Lansdowne and Baron Kerry, Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, two days later in the House of Lords, after which the "Habeas Corpus Suspension (Ireland) Bill" was passed. Martin had handed himself in on 8 July 1848 after a warrant was issued for his arrest. Kevin Izod O'Doherty and Richard D'Alton Williams, two proprietors of The Irish Tribune, were arrested two days later. The press was stopped and the type and press seized on 28 July and future publication suspended.