SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT ON "SAFEGUARDS." [To Tan EDITOR OF TAM
..SPILCZATOR."]
Sm.,—You aud Professor Dicey have in recent numbers of the Spectator demolished, with irresistible arguments, the illusions of those numerous Unionists who fondly hope that a Parliament may be allowed to meet in Dublin, provided adequate guarantees and safeguards can be elaborated to diminish the risk of such a policy. Will you grant me space to contribute the opinion of a leading advocate of the English Home-rulers on the use of so- called " safeguards " in Acts of Parliament ?
Should the constituencies see fit, when again appealed to, to reverse the present majority in the House of Commons, Sir William Harcourt will be, of course, a leading member of the committee which the Cabinet will appoint to draw up our new federal Constitution; and Sir William Harcourt, speaking at Chester on November 10th, 1885, defined safeguards thus "Safeguards," he said, "are things which are intended to prevent a Bill from working, and from being that which it pretends to
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