[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.  Compare clause 10 of the original Bill with clause 11 of the Bill as amended and brought up to the House of Lords.

[86] Bill, clauses 14, 15, and 16. [Compare with these clauses of the original Bill clauses 13, 14, 15, and 16 of the Bill as amended before being sent to the House of Lords.]

[87] See Fiske, Critical Period of American History, chs. iii. and iv.

[88] See, e.g., letter of Mr. Clancy, M.P., on the Financial Clauses of the Home Rule Bill, Manchester Guardian, April 4, 1893.

[89] Bill, clause 15.

[90] See pp. 72 and 82, ante.

[91] See pp. 79, 80, ante.

[92] Souvenirs de Alexis de Tocqueville, p. 63.

[93] The reader should note the history of the insurrection in Ticino during 1891.  It is quite clear that the Liberals of Ticino who had distinctly broken the law were more or less comforted or protected by the Liberal party in the Swiss Federal Assembly.  Compare Hilty, Separatabdruck aus dem Politischen Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft (Jahrgang 1891).

[94] See p. 103, ante. [The force of this illustration has been increased by every Land Act passed since 1893.  ’The Imperial Exchequer [i.e. in effect Great Britain] has made a free grant of L17,000,000 towards furthering land purchase; moreover to that end it has expressed its willingness to pledge its credit to the amount of L183,000,000 of which over L35,000,000 has already been raised.  The Imperial Exchequer looks to the Irish tenant purchaser for the interest and sinking fund on that loan.’—­Cambray, Irish Affairs, p. 214.]

CHAPTER III

WHY THE NEW CONSTITUTION WILL NOT BE A
SETTLEMENT OF THE IRISH QUESTION

’We believe that this measure [the Home Rule Bill] when improved in Committee will be, at all events in our time, a final settlement of the Irish question.’[95]