If once we have cabinets and parties based upon sectional divisions, if we have English ministries and English parties as opposed to Scottish ministries or Irish ministries, and Scottish parties and Irish parties, it is not in the long run the most powerful and wealthy portion of what is now the United Kingdom which will suffer.

It is hardly the interest of Scotsmen or Irishmen to pursue a policy which suggests the odious but inevitable cry 'England for Englishmen.' _Fourthly_, as long as Irish members remain at Westminster the English Parliament will never be freed from debates about Irish affairs.
This is a point there is no need to labour.

Unless (what no honest man can openly propose) the 80 or 103 members from Ireland are to be taken from one Irish party only, they must represent different interests and different opinions.

Some few at least will represent the wishes, the complaints, or the wrongs of Ulster.

But if this be so, it is certain that the controversies which divide Ireland will make themselves heard at Westminster.