UNIONISTS AND DISUNIONISTS IN IRELAND.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "EFECT■TOR "]
SIR,—In Ireland, one in five, or, say, twenty per cent., of the adult male population have the Parliamentary franchise. To judge by the proportion of Home-Rule Members of Parliament returned by Ireland (62 out of 103), about three-fifths of the Irish voters, or, say, twelve out of every twenty men who have votes, are Home-Rulers, and eight are Unionists. Of the remaining eighty men in each hundred, who are chiefly Catholic artisans and labourers, it is safe to say that seventy are Home-Rulers, or Separatists, which gives eighty-two per cent., corresponding to eighty-sir Members of Parliament out of 105, who should be opposed to the Union, and eighteen who should be in favour of it.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Grange, Waterford, March 10th. EDMUND HARTET.
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