17 APRIL 1886, Page 14

HOME-RULE.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SITCTATOR."1 SIR,—Analysis of the argument for Home-rule appears to present this result :—Ordinary government and extra-ordinary govern- ment have failed. Gentleness and stringency in the hands of both parties have failed. The power of law and order has ceased to be. It remains only for England to give in, at the ruinous cost of two separate Legislatures instead of one, and

of an enormous outlay of public money, with a very shadowy prospect of repayment and of interest. May I add here expression of my thankfulness for Canon MacColl's letter in the Spectator of April 10th P It is well to shake hands before and after fighting.—I am, Sir, &c.,

GEORGE ANTHONY DENISON.