NEWS OF THE WEEK.
UES DA Y'S newspapers contained a letter signed by nine Unionist Members of Parliament advocating Home Rule— provided that the measure shall be capable of application to the whole of the United Kingdom, and so of forming a comprehensive Federal scheme. If it is decided to create a system of self-govern- ment for Ireland, consistent with the Federal treatment of the whole United Kingdom, a body like the recent Speaker's Conference should, add the signatories, be at once called upon " to work out the general application of the principle for England, Scotland, and Wales." The letter ends with a fervent appeal that Ulster should " make the one other contribution to unity that it is in her power alone to make, by consenting to take her rightful place in Irish counsels without forfeiting the place in the councils of the United Kingdom of which she has been so rightly jealous."
