7. That the particular form of Home Rule granted is comparatively immaterial.

8. That the Home Rule Bill of 1886 may readily be amended in such a manner as to satisfy all real and unpartisan objectors.

9. That the Land Bill of 1886 is the best that has ever been devised, having regard to the advantages offered to the new Irish Government, the landlord, and the tenant.

FOOTNOTES:

[60] Reprinted by permission, with certain omissions, from the Contemporary Review, August, 1887.

[61] "Home Rule and Imperial Unity:" Contemporary Review, March, 1887.

[62] Mill on Representative Government, p. 310.

[63] See Statesman's Year-Book: Switzerland and Germany.

[64] Heeren's Political System of Europe, p. 152.