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This is obviously the right solution. To create a single

Senate for Ireland would be to abandon the whole principle of the Bill. The Bill is based on realities ; it recognises that there is already partition in Ireland owing to furious religious and racial jealousy, and it provides a bridge in the shape of the Council—which necessarily has very small powers at present— in order that the two factions may ultimately meet and shake

hands. Sir Edward Carson said that he thoroughly approved of the course the Government had taken. A second House would probably not be of very much use in the North, but he saw the desirability of having one in the South, and if there were to be one in the South it was inevitable that there should also be one in the North.

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