22 APRIL 1893, Page 2

Mr. Atherley-Jones attacked the federating tendency of the " in-and-out"

proposal for the Irish Members, though he in. tended to vote for the second reading ; and later in the evening, Sir John Lubbock, pointing out how much money bad been advanced already to Ireland, and how much of it (one-fifth) had been written off as irrecoverable, asked how such advances were to be obtained in future at the high rate of interest which the state of Irish credit would demand. The certain result of the Home-rule Bill would be scarcity of capital, and a falling rate of wages in Ireland.