Lord 'Cowper also writes a very interesting letter to Wed-
nesday's Times on the subject, in which he asserts that Irish- men really care a great deal more about the Land Question than they care about political questions of any kind; and that they support Mr. Parnell as they do, mainly because they think this the best way of getting the Land Question settled after their own hearts. Lord Cowper thinks that if we could really make peasant-proprietorship sure and final, the quiet of Ireland would be assured without any national Government such as the Home-rulers are crying out for. Mr. Isaac Butt and Mr. Shaw, he points out, utterly failed to rally any party on the Home-rule cry. It was not till Mr. Parnell took up the Land Question that he elicited any enthusiasm in his favour. If that question were finally settled, Lord Cowper expresses the gravest doubt whether the Home-rule and Separatist Party would be able to keep together any efficient organisation.
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