For instance, one Unionist wished to restrict the Irish Legislature as to the law of marriage and divorce.

Mr.Gladstone has over and over again pointed out that, as the Irish have one way of looking at these things, and the English another, it would be absurd not to allow the Irish Legislature to settle such a matter in accordance with Irish feeling.

Curiously enough, the Unionists did not receive much encouragement on this point from the Irish branch of the enemies of Home Rule.

Mr.Macartney, an Irish Orangeman, proclaimed on the part of his co-religionists that the Irish Protestants had nearly as much objection to divorce as the Irish Catholics; and, so far as that part of the amendment was concerned, he had no desire to see it pressed.

What he apprehended was a change in the law for the purpose of prejudicing mixed marriages--marriages between Catholics and Protestants.