The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-19

ISI1. all the parish priests in Ire
1e< ,ount of labor which these
NEE " 4A for him can only be
properly Toc. Hhen one remem-
bers that he <ce> .ted himself to
speak extempore, that the repug-
nance he felt to repeat himself rendered
the preparation Of each speech a matter
of long and careful consideration.
At the general election in the summer
of 1926 the defeat OF Lord George Beres-
ford at Waterford by the popular candi-
rate, Villiers Stuart, exerted profound
influence on the situation, which was in
tensihed when similar result occurred
in Loretto, where She'll acted as counsel
for the popular candidate. A speech
which he delivered at the association on
Jan. 10, 1927, on the recently published
Memoirs of Wolf Tone" was made a
rretext by the government to punish
him for an alleged insulting reference in
a previous speech to the Duke of York.
He was indicted, but the threatened
prosecution was dropped on the acces-
sion of George Canning to the ministry.
In 1928 Vesey Fitzgerald, who had Wig
orously opposed in parliament the bill
to repeal the Test Act, introduced by the
Duke of Wellington, and who had been
newly appointed president of the Board
of Trade, sought reelection for the
County Clare. She'll vehelnently urged
O'Connell to oppose his return His
advice was productive of consequences
not toreseen by him, and with the cleo
ton of O'Connell the question of eman-
cipation entered on it's final stage.
A counter agitation sprang up
among Protestants, both in ireland and
England. With view to stemming it.
Shell by purchasing small freehold in
the county, qualified himself to speak at
meeting OF the gentry and freeholders
OF Kent at Penenden Heath on Oct. "a,
1928. convened to petition against fur
ther relaxation of the laws against the
Catholics. The tone OF his speech and
the courage with which he faced hos
tile crowd were warmly commended, and
before he left England public dinner
was given in his honor at the London
Tavern on Nov. 3. But the controversy
which had been going on for quarter
OF century was at last brought to a
close The following year the British
parliament and bigoted and narrow
minded sovereign were compelled to
abolish the greater number and the most
atrocious Of those infamous penal laws
which were the curse OF Ireland for 15o
years.
In 1880 She'll was admitted to the in
ner bar, being one OF the first Catholics
to obtain that coveted distinction In
the same year he was elected member
OF parliament for Milborne Port, in
Dorset. At the general election in 1881
he was returned for Miborne Port and
County Louth, but elected to sit for the
latter. During the session he advoca ed
the application of poor law system to
Ireland, and supported O'Connell's ell
deavors to procure the assimilation OF
the Irish reform bill to that of England.
In January, 1883, he was returned unop-
posed for County Tipperary to the first
reformed parliament, and sat for that
county until 1S41, when he became men,
Der for Dungarvan.
She'll took prominent part in the de-
bate in parliament on the question OF the
repeal of the Union in April, 1884, when
he delivered a speech of remarkable elo-
quence. Others of his more important
speeches we're those on Orange lodges
and the Church Of Ireland, 1889; the
Corn Laws, 1842; Vote by Ballot, 1843,
and the Income Tax, 1874. In 1887
She'll was appointed commissioner OF
Greenwich Hospital, and in 1889 be-
came vice-president OF the Board OF
Trade. In 1841 he was made judge ad-
vocate general, and from 1916 to 1850
was Master of the Mint. 1t was during
his tenure of office that the silver form
was put into circulation. In December,
1885, he became minister to the Court OF
Tuscany and removed with his wife to
Florence, where he died May 23, 1851.
His body was conveyed to Ireland and
buried at Long Orchard, County Tip
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