3 FEBRUARY 1912, Page 2

Even if the " In.and-Out " clause is carried and

there is not a permanently " In " provision for the Irish, Scotch, and Welsh representatives, he will be in the position of a man who has bailiffs in the house. There will be some 180 Irish, Scotch and Welsh members at Westminster ready to flock in and vote the moment the rights secured to the so-called subordinate Parliaments are called in question. In other words, the "men in possession" will see that not a stick of the furniture on which they bold an execution shall be parted with or even moved. John Bull is no doubt a very stupid animal, but when one thinks of the prospect of getting him to assent to an arrangement of this kind the music-hall catch-phrase naturally rises to one's lips : " Yes, I don't think I "