text:  Look back on the "tempest of provocation " which recently assailed the Irish Attorney-General on the vexatious delays and frivolous objections which sprang up at every move of the crown lawyers called forth by one who though "_not valiant_ " was well known to the government to be "most cunning offence" ere they challenged him but who "despite his cunning fence and active practice " may perhaps find that this time the law has clutched him with a grasp of iron