24 FEBRUARY 1912, Page 14

THE CASE OF ULSTER.

[TO TEE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1

SIR,—The precedent of Geneva—which stood so long out- side the Swiss Confederation—might be followed by the three

counties which object to Home Rule. Let Antrim, Armagh, and North Down remain as they are for the present. It is doubtful whether Londonderry will prefer the Orange regime In due time they may join their Home Rule neighbours, and for a good reason, as the land legislation of the future is more likely to be democratic in Ireland than in England. The northern farmers will hardly get agrarian reform from an. English Parliament of an advanced character.—I am, Sir, &c.,

H. A. S.