19 MARCH 1904, Page 14

THE OVER-REPRESENTATION OF HOME-RULE. [To THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,-Will Mr. Waters (Spectator, March 12th) point out where in the Act of Union the number of representatives for Ireland was fixed at one hundred as an irreducible minimum P The fact that the Church clause was declared irrevocable surely lends significance to the absence of such a provision as to the representation.—I am, Sir, dee.,

AN OLD CROMWELLIAN.