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The Government agreed, however, after some pressure, to reconsider the

future of the Irish Post Office. The Bill provides that if, and when, the Northern and Southern Irish Parliaments agree to unite, the Post Office shall be transferred to the Irish Legislature. It was pointed out that in the United States and in the British Dominions the postal service is reserved by the Federal authority. Yet Mr. Long tried to find excuses for not following the same obviously right course in Ireland. The truth is, of course, that the authors of the Bill paid little regard is principles or to the experience of other countries. They were trying to please the Federalists and the Dominion Home Rulers at the same time, and the compromise satisfies neither section,

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