It is stated on authority that Tollymore, the beautiful park
in county Down which belonged to the late Lord Roden, is to be purchased or leased by the Prince of Wales. We trust that design will be carried out, even if Parliament has to vote the money. There should be a Royal residence in Ireland, and the Prince of Wales, with his love of sport and enjoyment, and his grand- seigneur ways, is just the man to be appreciated in Ireland. Let us dress the Irish Regiments in the national colours, so that they may have abroad the honour of their valour ; trust the Heir to their keeping ; treat Ireland, in short, as we treat the Highlands, and half the bitter envy and suspicion which now feed Irish dis- content will disappear. "When," writes an Irish tradesman, "we shoot landlords, we are called Irish. But when we shoot the enemies of England we are 'English' soldiers." That describes in a sentence our mode of conciliating the most sensitive of nation- alities.
