YET ANOTHER SOLUTION OF THE HOME RULE PROBLEM. [To THE
EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In a "Life" of Professor Blackie, the well-known, in his day, professor of Greek in Edinburgh, and an advocate of " Home Rule " all round, the following suggestion is made by him as regards Scotland, which could be applied of course equally to Ireland :—
"If the present Scottish members of Parliament and repre- sentative peers were to sit together in Edinburgh for the despatch of distinctively Scottish business for sir weeks or two months before their duties at Westminster began, the problem would be solved without any multiplication of legislators."
I should like to have your opinion of this idea.—I am, Sir, &a, D. R. [The plan was often discussed during the first Home Rule controversy, but somehow never attracted the goodwill of any considerable body of people. The danger would be the fostering of Particularist tendencies, while at the same time
giving no real satisfaction to the Nationalists. The Union may not be perfect, but it is the only way of regulating our
relations with Ireland which would not grow into something intolerable.—ED. Spectator.]
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