Last Saturday was " Ulster Day," when the Covenant against
Home Rule was signed by Ulster Unionists. In Belfast the ceremony of signing was preceded by services in the Cathedral and the Ulster Hall. In the Ulster Hall there was displayed the yellow silk banner which was said to have been carried before William IIL at the Boyne. The first to sign the Covenant was Sir Edward Carson. He was followed by Lord Londonderry, the Moderator of the General Assembly, the Bishop of Down, and the Dean of Belfast. Later the general public passed through the hall to sign in batches of four or five hundred. In all the chief Protestant towns the signing was-preceded, as in Belfast, by services. At Porta- down more than 2,000 persons signed in half an loth:: The Bishop of Clogher signed at Enniskillen, the Bishop of Derry at Londonderry. Sir Edward Carson and the other leaders of the movement left for Liverpool in the evening. So great were the crowds and such the enthusiasm that they took, says the Times correspondent, fifty-five minutes to drive from the Ulster Club to the quay, a distance generally traversed in leas than ten minutes. We print elsewhere a very remarkable account of the signing in a rural parish in the North, contributed by "Martin Ross," one of the joint authors of that delightful series of wise and richly humorous books which began with,the "Reminiscences of an Irish R.M."
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