suffer. Such eventualities need not
seriously be considered. The analogy with the Transvaal and Canada
loans, which were mainly for public works, is very close.

FOOTNOTES:

[152] Parts of this chapter have appeared in a paper by the Author in
"Home Rule Problems."

[153] Agricultural Statistics of Ireland, 1909.

[154] See pp. 10-17, 66-71.

[155] See p. 270-271.

[156] See p. 267.

[157] Cd. 4005, 1908.

[158] This and subsequent figures are taken from an answer to question
in the House of Commons, July 25, 1911, and from the current Exports of
the Land Commission and Estates Commissioners.

[159] Cd. 4412, 1908. The basis taken was the Poor Law valuation of the
lands unsold, multiplied by the number of years purchase of the lands
sold under the Act of 1903. On this basis the value of the land neither
sold nor agreed to be sold in 1908 was L103,931,848. On the basis of
acreage, the estimate worked out at L102,078,448, and on the basis of
holdings (regarded as unreliable by the Commissioners) at L92,660,694.
The total sum required from first to last, including sums already
advanced under all the various Acts, was L208,366,175.

[160] Pasture land let on eleven months' tenancies (a common form of
tenure) counts as untenanted land, and is subject to purchase by the
Land Commissioners, compulsorily, if necessary.

[161] But not always. Heavily mortgaged landlords profited most,
perhaps, under the Act of 1903.

[162] Only once exercised up to October, 1911: over Lord Inchiquin's
estate in Clare, to be acquired for the relief of congestion.

[163] See p. 75. There the loan for compulsory Land Purchase was
ultimately raised by the Dominion of Canada, as one of the conditions
upon which Prince Edward Island entered the Federation in 1873. Under
the Land Purchase Act, passed in 1875 by the Island Legislature, with
the assent of the Dominion, three Commissioners adjudicated upon the
sales; representing the Island Government, the Landlords, and the
Dominion Government respectively.

[164] Finance accounts of the United Kingdom, 1911.

[165] Report of the Commissioners of Public Works, 1910. The amount in
1907-08 was L434,796; in 1908-09, L361,282. The Commissioners have been
lending since 1819, and have lent since that date L48,792,319.

CHAPTER XV

THE IRISH CONSTITUTION[166]

I have dealt with the major issues of Home Rule. The exclusion or
retention of Irish Members at Westminster, and the pow