When the inhabitants of a country quit the country _en masse_, because the Government will not make it a place fit for them to live in, the Government is judged and condemned, It is the duty of Parliament to reform the landed tenure of Ireland." More than twenty years ago Mr.Disraeli said: "He wished to see a public man come forward and say what the Irish question was.

Let them consider Ireland as they would any other country similarly circumstanced.

They had a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, an alien Church, and, in addition, the weakest executive in the world.

This was the Irish question.

What would gentlemen say on hearing of a country in such a position?
They would say at once, in such case, the remedy is revolution--not the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.