[26] See Egerton, "Federations and Unions in the British Empire" (Clarendon Press, 1911). Introduction.

[27] On the financial questions involved the Government have been advised by a Committee containing financial experts; but the Report of this Committee is withheld from publication, and it is believed that its advice will not be followed.

[28] House of Commons, April 8, 1886.

[29] Quoted in "The True History of the American Revolution," by S.G. Fisher (Lippincott, 1903).

[30] Childers, p. 340.

[31] See Cambray, "Irish Affairs and the Irish Question" (Murray, 1911), p. 146.

[32] Mr. Gladstone always declined to call it a "Parliament," but some Ministers of to-day are less scrupulous.

[33] Dicey, "A Leap in the Dark" (Murray, 1911), p. 71.

[34] See "The Church of Ireland and Home Rule," by J.H. Bernard, D.D., Bishop of Ossory, 1911.

[35] House of Commons Papers, 1864, xli. 79.