In spite of this, there were one or two phrases
which were of a more hopeful character. For example, Mr. Cosgrave described it as a calumny to allege that he and his friends are "seeking territory Out of the jurisdiction of the Provincial Government or coercing its population to secede from the Northern Government." Again he said, "We desire earnestly peace and amity. . . As I have over and over again pointed out, we have never staked a claim to this territory or that." If Mr. Cosgrave sticks to this opinion we see a ray of light. Before we leave the problem of when a Boundary is not a Boundary. but an area, we desire to draw attention to two very important articles dealing with the controversy con- tributed by Professor J. H. Morgan to the Morning Post of Monday and Tuesday. They deal in detail with the legal and constitutional aspects of the case. Here we can only refer specifreally th one-point; the quotation from the Colonial Boundaries Act (68 and 59 Viet., cap. 84). That Act expressly 'provides that "the consent of a self- governing colony shall be required for the alteration of the boundaries thereof." For the 'purposes of this Act Northern Ireland is certainly to be regarded as a colony. Will the Dominions, we wonder, like to hear that the new Bill inferentially repeals this safeguard
