We wish we had space to dwell upon Lord Sydenham's
very sound and reasonable appeal. We should like also to have been able to quote from the speech of the Duke of Abereorn,, but can only accord it the barest summary. Speaking as an Ulster Volunteer who believed that the Home Rule Bill would be unworkable, he nevertheless felt it his duty to support the Amending Bill. He asked the Government to remember that the men who lived, as he did, on the border of what was some- times called "Unionist Ulster" were in the position of the toad under the harrow. Ile could not describe how trying the tension had been for the last two years. The Amending Bill offered, he declared, some chance of the avoidance of the awful calamity that bad threatened the nation for the last hundred years. The debate ended with a very witty speech from Lord Crawford, who, we are glad to see, is rapidly gaining the ear of the House.
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