4 OCTOBER 1913, Page 29

[To THE EDITOR OF ME "SPECTATOR. "] Silt,—" Liberalism," says the

Nation in a thoughtful and pacificatory article on the Irish crisis, "means government by consent, and no pains ought to be spared to secure that capital result." Agreed. Why, then, is the Liberal Party at such infinite pains to force the powerful, prosperous, and hitherto contented community of loyal Protestants in North- East Ulster under a domination which they utterly abhor ?—