Lord Dunraven has issued a reply to Mr. Redmond in
the columns of the Cork ;Tree Press. Mr. Redmond has announced that the veto is dead, and that his demand for Home-rule will be complied with at once. Lord Dunraven proceeds to analyse the situation created by the Election, and to show how far the new conditions, and the indefinite promises of the Government, square with Mr. Redmond's "hallucinations." "If the majority in the old Parliament did not justify a demand for guarantees, how can the demand be justified by the same or a weaker majority in a new Parliament P " Turning to the programme of the next Session, Lord Dunraven maintains that there can be little legislation until next autumn, before which last year's and this year's Budget and the Declaration of London Bill will have to be passed, and the Parliament Bill will have to be thoroughly debated in the Commons. When this has been done, and the Parliament Bill has been amended in the Lords so as to embody the Lansdowne Reform Resolutions, the questions for the country to decide will be these : "Will you retain the principle that 'accident of birth' confers a right to legislate, and will you increase the number of the House of Lords to 1,100; or, will you have a Second Chamber of 100 members, not one of whom will sit by virtue of the accident of birth?"
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