This is no doubt a remedy for some of the evils of an unworkable proposal.

It is a cure which to any Englishman of sense or spirit will seem tenfold worse than the disease.

It is a cure in that sense only in which a traveller may be said to be relieved from the fear of robbery by a highwayman shooting him dead.

The irregular interference of the Irish delegation in the formation of the British Cabinet, and other matters which indirectly concern England, is to be regularised (if I may use the term) by allowing to Irish members permanent despotism over England in matters which, on a system of Home Rule, concern England alone.

Irish members may disestablish the Church of England, though England is to have no voice in the pettiest of Irish affairs.