[3] “Did the people of Ireland understand that the destruction of the Union, so lightly advocated by Lord Haldane, must result in the cessation of those largely eleemosynary benefits to which the progress of Ireland is due, her ‘dissatisfaction’ would be unmistakably directed towards her false advisers?”—­Letter to the Belfast Telegraph, October 7, 1911, criticizing Lord Haldane’s preface to “Home Rule Problems.”

ERRATA

Since this book went to press the Treasury has issued a revised version of Return No. 220, 1911 [Revenue and Expenditure (England, Scotland, and Ireland)], cancelling the Return issued in July, and correcting an error made in it.  It now appears that the “true” Excise revenue attributable to Ireland from spirits in 1910-11 (with deductions made by the Treasury from the sum actually collected in Ireland) should be L3,575,000, instead of L3,734,000, and that the total “true” Irish revenue in that year was, therefore, L11,506,500, instead of L11,665,500.  In other words, Irish revenue for 1910-11 was over-estimated in the Return now cancelled by L159,000.

The error does not affect the Author’s argument as expounded in Chapters xii. and XIII.; but it necessitates the correction of a number of figures given by him, especially in Chapter xii., the principal change being that the deficit in Irish revenue, as calculated on the mean of the two years 1909-10 and 1910-11, should actually be L1,392,000, instead of L1,312,500.

The full list of corrections is as follows: 

Page 259, line 9, for “L1,312,500,” read “L1,392,000.”

Page 260, table, third column, line 6, for “L10,032,000,” read
“L9,952 500”; last line, for “L1,312,500,” read “L1,392,000.”

Page 261, table, last column, last line but one, for “L321,000,” read “L162,000”; last line (total), for “L329,780,970,” read “L329,621,970.”

Page 262, line 7, for “L10,032,000,” read “L9,952,500”; line 10, for “L1,312,500,” read “L1,392,000.”

Page 275. table, last column, line 2, for “L3,734,000,” read “L3,575,000”; line 7, for “L10,371,000,” read “L10,212,000”; line 14, for “L11,665,500,” read, “L11,506,500”; in text, last line but one of page, for “L10,032,000,” read “L9,952,500.”

Page 276, line 5, for “L500,000,” read, “L340,000”; table, last column, line 2, for “L3,316,000,” read “L3,236,500”; line 3, for “L6,182,000,” read “L6,102,500”; line 9, for “L8,737,500,” read “L8,658,000”; last line, for “L10,032,000,” read “L9,952,500.”

Page 277, line 2, for “L1,672,500,” read “L1,752,000”; line 7, for “L1,312,500,” read “L1,392,000”; line 8, for “L10,032,000,” read “L9,952,500”; line 12, for “L1,672,500,” read “L1,752,000”; footnote, line 1, for “L1,793,000,” read “L1,952,000.”