25 MARCH 1922, Page 2

The Irish Free State Bill was read a second time

in the House of Lords on Thursday, March 16th. Lord Carson described it as a piece of hypocrisy, inasmuch as the Government knew that the Sinn Feiners who signed the Treaty were still working for a Republic. He commented bitterly on the murder of the constables lying helpless in hospital at Galway. The Lord Chancellor, in reply, declared that the Free State Constar', tion must be within the terms of the Treaty. It was as unfair to blame Mr. Collins for the murders in the Free State as it would be to blame the Northern Irish Government for what had happened in Belfast.