General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1893 Original Publisher: Birmingham Daily Gazette Company Subjects: Ireland Irish question Home rule (Ireland) Great Britain History / Europe / Great Britain History / Europe / Ireland Travel / Europe / Ireland Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: No. 2. – PANIC AND DISASTER. THE situation is becoming hourly more serious. The overexcited condition of men’s minds is rapidly ripening into a panic. The impending Second Reading is driving the respectable population of Ireland into absolute despair. The capital is inundated by men from all parts of the kingdom anxious to know the worst, running hithttr and thither, asking whether, even at the eleventh hour, anything may he done to avert the dreaded calamity. An eminent solicitor assures me that during the last four-and-twenty hours a striking change of opinion has taken place. Red-hot Home Rulers when confronted with the looming actuality are on all sides abandoning their loudly proclaimed political opinions. My friend’s business – he is, or has been, an ardent Home Ruler – is chiefly connected with land conveyancing, and he declares that his office is besieged by people anxious to
withdraw their charges
on land and house property, that is, to recall their money advanced on mortgage, however profitable the investment, however apparently solid the security. He instanced the case of an estate in Cavan, bearing three mortgages of respectively 1,000, 3,000, and 4,000, and leaving to the borrower a clear income of 1,700 a year after all claims were paid. The three lenders are strenuously endeavouring to realise, the thousand-pounder being prostrate with affright, but although the inves…
