Many newspapers have been displaying a great deal of interest
in the intentions of Mr. Bonar Law as regards Ireland. "A. P. N.," writing in the Daily Chronicle of Thursday, says that Mr. Boner Law feels himself honourably bound by his pledges to Ulster, and that he interprets them to mean not only that ho should not join in any coercion of Ulster but that ho should prevent anybody else from coercing Ulster. He would regard it as coercion if it were sought to reduce North-East Ulster " to the position of a province like Quebec in an All-Ireland Dominion." His opinion, according to "A. P. N.," is that though ho may have to oppose the Government it is unnecessary to anticipate a situation which may never occur. Let ps devoutly hope that it will not. No body would rejoice more heartily than we should if a scheme were produced which Ulster could accept. But we shall never be party to pretending that coercion is not coercion.
