Its fundamental principle is, in the eyes of every Unionist, unsound, and the Bill itself therefore unamendable.

My object is simply to describe and criticise the general constitutional provisions of the Bill and to show their bearing and effect.
[82] Compare _England's Case_ (3rd ed.), pp.

258, 259.
[83] See _England's Case_ (3rd ed.), pp.

214-218.
[84] See Home Rule Bill, clause 3, sub-clause (7) (p.

198, _post_), and compare same clause slightly amended, in Bill, as sent up to the House of Lords, sub-clause (8).
[85] These strictures on the financial arrangements which were to exist between England and Ireland apply directly to the Home Rule Bill as introduced into the House of Commons, but they are less applicable to the Bill as amended, more or less in favour of Ireland, before the Bill was sent up to the House of Lords.