On Monday Lord Balfour carried an amendment depriving the Irish
Parliaments of the power to impose a surtax on OA, incomes of pc.rsonri residua ani donrctled in Ireland. The Irish peers urged that tho surtax windd complote tile ruin ot the loyal elements in the South, and Lord limaxiciaster, cureilly enough, agreed with them. Lord Finley's propcsal to deprite the Parliaments of the power to grant s elkf frcra 1710,preTaXwPs withdrawn. Lord Desart was defeated by 75 vates 48 ill his attempt to maintain the unity of the Irish High Courts but the Lord Chancellor hinted that there might, after all, be no need for two Courts of Appeal. The Goverr.mont were beaten by a single vote on the clause providing that Southern Ireland should be ruled as a Crown Colony if she would not return members to a Southern Irish Pardament, The Lord Chani.skt then accepted Lord Salisbury's proposal that thc Act should not come into force either in the South or in tee North uutt both Houses at Westminster had passed resolutions declaring that "the authority of the King and the protection in their rights and liberties of all persons" in the South and in the North respectively "are fully assured." We assume from what followed that the Act might take effect in the North forthwith, though the amendment was not altogether free from ambiguity.
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