Sir J. P. Hennessy goes beyond Mr. Parnell in his
demands cu. behalf of Ireland. He has written a letter to Father O'Halloran stating that the Home-rule he should like to see is "what has worked so well in the self-governing Colonies," —in other words, "not only complete control of the Land, the Police, and all appointments, but control of our Customs and our fiscal system." He adds, sensibly enough, " Whether we can get it from England is another matter," which it certainly is, for, of course, in turning Ireland into a Colony, it would break up the United Kingdom altogether, and prepare the way for that willingness to let her go which we have always professed to feel as regards the self-governing Colonies, should they themselves express a desire for the severance of the tie. We do not suppose that the Gladstonians will at all like Sir J. P. Hennessy's declara- tion, though we confess we think it a much more logical form of Home-rule than any half-and-half system. The drift, how- ever, of this logic is towards complete separation, and that is precisely what we have always said of Mr. Gladstone's latest policy for Ireland.
