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deserves that appellation, and for whom I have consistently voted

ever since the Home-rule split. My vote will, with regret, be transferred to the Free-trade candidate for this division, whoever he may be ! As a danger to the Empire, Home-rule, with all its objectionable features, is a dwarf com- pared with Mr. Chamberlain's Tariff Reform scheme ; and if Unionist Free-traders will only have the good sense and " grit" to follow your advice, they may even succeed in making the next Free-trade Government independent of the Irish vote. If so, the question of Home-rule will, in my opinion (reading between the lines of the Liberal leaders' speeches), be relegated to the Greek Kalends.—I am, Sir, &c., D.