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 widely from anything that prevails in any other part of the United Kingdom, and which will not command the adhesion of any considerable party in Ireland.

If, however, Parliament is not yet prepared to take up the vital question of general devolution, and it is decided that a settlement for Ireland is so urgent that it cannot be,any longer postponed, and must therefore, at any risk, be dealt with separately; then The Times' scheme, though not free from blemish, seems to offer the most statesmanlike basis that has yet been propounded on which a just and safe edifice may be erected. 2em