Before we leave the subject we most note as a
very happy augury the moderation and good sense with which the Unionist papers have treated the debate and supported LordLansdowne's attitude towards the Amending Bill Nothing, for example, could possibly have been better or more statesmanlike than the leading articles in the Fiume. We observe with speeial satis- faction the advice to Unionists contained in the 'leader" of Friday. The Times insists upon the vital importance of "getting down as soon as may be to practical propositions based upon the Amending It goes on to state that no other course is now possible, and to warn those "who advocate the promotion of conventions, commissions, and conversations" that the postponement involved in these proposals renders them now impracticable. Whatever the abstract merits of many of these proposals, there is now one, and only one, thing to save us from civil war, and that is the exclusion of those parts of Ireland in which the operation of the Bill would cause civil war.
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