We have not room to summarize Sir Edward Carson's speech,
which was marked by an exceptionally grave tone and by carefully weighed phrases, but we must mention the interest- ing point of political history that be and his fellow Unionists wrote a private letter in vain to Mr. Asquith during the Home Rule debates, begging him to accept the amendment excluding Ulster from the Bill. "Let nobody say that long before trouble began we did not do all that men could do to bring to the Government a realization of the true facts."- Sir Edward Carson concluded with these wogs : "We may, perltaps we will, be coerced in the long run into submission. I say we may, because, of course, they have got the Army and the Navy. But if we are, we will be governed as a conquered community and nothing else." We have written elsewhere of the Irish crisis, and will only add here, that the general though tardy recognition that Ulster is engaged in no foolish mummery, but speaks and acts in deadly eal nest, is a valuable step in the direction of discussion and delay. Our hopes that a formula for a free discussion will be discovered and a Conference be called are rising.
