6 DECEMBER 1913, Page 18

On Friday week Mr. Bonar Law addressed four meetings in

Dublin and spoke of nothing but the Irish crisis. Replying to an address of welcome, he said that Unionists were opposed as completely as ever to any idea of breaking up the Union. The Government had no right to make the change unless they bad behind them, "clearly and unmistakably, the will of the people." The policy, and the sole policy, of the Opposition would be to insist that this sanction must be received. At luncheon Mr. Bonar Law said that he had just read Mr. Asquith's Leeds speech, and that it seemed to him to be a complete acceptance of Mr. Redmond's orders of "Full steam ahead." "If so," he added, "our difficulties are gone; we are prepared to meet him and we shall beat him."