34-127.

From the opinions expressed in these chapters I see no reason for receding.
[110] Mr.M'Carthy, April 10, 1893, _Times Parliamentary Debate_, 353.
[111] [May 6, 1882.

Now twenty-nine years back.] [112] Every one should read Mr.Lecky's letter of April 4, 1893, addressed to the Belfast Chamber of Commerce, and printed in the _Chamber's Reply_ to Mr.Gladstone's speech.

It deals immediately not with the relations between England and Ireland, but with the alleged prosperity of Ireland under Grattan's Constitution.

But in principle it applies to the point here discussed, and I venture to say that every page of Mr.Lecky's _History of England in the Eighteenth Century_ which refers to Grattan's Parliament bears out the contention, that no inference can be drawn from it as to the successful working, as regards either England or Ireland, of the legislature to be constituted under the Home Rule Bill.
[113] Add also that steamboats and railways have practically, since the time of Grattan, brought Ireland nearer to England, and Dublin nearer to London.