The debate in the House of Lords on Wednesday was
remark- able for the speech of Lord Grey of Fallodon. He supported Lord Londonderry's amendment to the Address framed in the interests of Ulster, although he did not actually vote for the amendment. The general coincidence between the reflections of Lord Carson and Lord Grey of Fallodon was a remarkable fact, and it is not to be wondered at that the Government escaped defeat by only seven votes. The sense of Lord Grey's speech was that he accepted the proposed Irish settlement, but that he regarded the road by which it had been reached as .one of humiliation and disgrace. As for the Craig-Collins dispute he urged with much emphasis, as Lord Carson had already done, that the Government were bound to remove -misunderstanding and make a clear statement upon the subject at once.
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