PASSION OR REASON.
[TO THE EDITOR OF TH8 "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—A good instance of the way in which passion can obliterate reason occurs in the letter of Sir Edward Carson in the Times of 26th inst., where he says : " I should like to ask where does Lord Londonderry End any assurance that when the Home Rule Bill has been rushed through the House of Commons Mr. Redmond, who has dictated the present situa- tion, would not demand that the Lords be again cornered by the creation of peers." This is to argue that the Royal prerogative may be successfully invoked regarding issues that have never predominated at a General Election, and further suggests that in such a contingency the Unionist Party, which even now professes to represent the feeling of the country, would shrink from office and a dissolution based on the new
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