5 NOVEMBER 1910, Page 3

The Duke of Argyll is reported in Thursday's Times to

have sent the following most sensible opinion upon Home- rule to an Irish newspaper :—

" My views have not changed as to the mischief racial division will cause in British government. All needful local cases can be met by county government or county unions. There must be one central Government in our little isles, supreme in all that con- stitutes national government. Disintegration spells ruin to the dislocated. Why should Irishmen emigrate into an unendowed home from one having the pull over an Imperial purse ? "

In this context we may note the admirably firm and well- considered series of anti-Federalist resolutions passed by the Ulster Liberal Unionist Association.