During the week a so-called Peace Conference has been held
in Dublin Some six hundred persons received tickets for admission from the Irish Dominion League. No Sinn Feiners were present nor were there any Ulster Unionists, at all events none in an official capacity. But among the six hundred were men of position and responsibility in Ireland, peers, lords- lieutenant, deputy-lieutenants. clergymen, lawyers and some farmers. We derive our information from the Morning Post of Wednesday. A resolution was passed demanding for Ireland " full national self-government within the Empire." The offer, it was-suggested, should be " immediate and binding," and should be accepted or rejected by specially elected representatives of the people. Lord Shaftesbury expressed the opinion that the people of Ulster would accept it. A deputation was appointed to convey the resolution to the Prime Minister. The resolution, we must add, provided that in spite of the " unalterable repug. Hance " of the. Conference " to any form of partition," North- East Ulster should be accorded " the status of a free contracting party."
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