24 JUNE 1922, Page 2

The Free State is not to take part in any

war without the assent of the Imperial Parliament, " save in the case of actual invasion." As regards the Judiciary, there is to be an appeal from the Irish Supreme Court to the Privy Council. After the Constitution had been published the four Southern Unionists who had been consulted during the recent. discussions—Lord Midleton, Lord Donoughmore, Dr. Bernard (the Provost of Trinity) and Mr. Andrew Jameson—issued a statement to the effect that in their opinion no Senate elected as proposed and with powers so strictly limited could afford genuine protection to minorities. They regretted that the precedent of the Senate under the Act of 1920 had not been followed.