to Ireland than
to any other State in the Empire. Any minor defects will be
infinitesimal beside the vast and beneficial change wrought by
responsible government.

DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO HOUSES.

It is essential to provide for this, and it would be difficult to better
the proposal in the Bill of 1893: that after two years, or an
intervening dissolution, the question should be decided by a joint vote
in joint session.

MONEY BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS.

To originate in the Lower House on the motion of a Minister.

POLICE.

The Royal Irish Constabulary and Dublin Metropolitan Police should be
under Irish control from the first. The former force will undoubtedly
have to be reconstituted, and its reconstitution, as an ordinary Civil
Police, ought to be undertaken by the Irish Government, but the
financial interests of "retrenched" officers and men should be
safeguarded in the Bill itself.

JUDGES.

All future appointments should be made by the Irish Government, without
the suspensory period of six years named in the Bill of 1893. Present
Irish Judges should retain their appointments, as in both previous
Bills. The precedent of Canada, where provincial Judges, unlike the
State Judges of Australia, are appointed and paid by the Federal
Government, is certainly not relevant.

LAW COURTS.

The Federal analogy, except in one particular noticed under the next
heading, has no application to Ireland. Only one provision of any
importance is needed, namely, that Appeals, in the last resort, should
be to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council instead of to the
House of Lords. The Judicial Committee is the final Court of Appeal for
the whole Empire, and, strengthened by one or more Irish Judges, should
hear Irish Appeals. It is true that the tribunal has been subjected to
some criticism lately, especially from Australia. Federal States
naturally wish to secure pre-eminent authority for their own Supreme
Courts. But the tribunal is, on the whole, popular with the colonial
democracies, and the argument from distance and expense does not apply
to Ireland. At the end of an interesting discussion at the last Imperial
Conference, in which suggestions were put forward for strengthening the
Judicial Committee by Colonial Judges, it was agreed that new proposals
should be made by the Imperial Government for an Imperial Final Court of
Appeal in two divisions, one for the United Kingdom, another for the
Colonies. If