On any wide view of large public questions expediency will be found to be only another name for justice.

It can be neither the interest nor the duty of any nation to legislate in a way which produces more of suffering than of happiness.

A policy opposed to the interests or the welfare of the United Kingdom as a whole, even though it may appear for a moment to favour some particular portion of the State, is, we may be well assured, a policy opposed not only to wisdom, but to justice.
[Sidenote: 3.

Exclusively English point of view.] _Third objection._--To look at Home Rule mainly from an English point of view, to criticise it because of its bearing on the interests or welfare of England, is, it may perhaps be thought, to treat the whole matter from the wrong side, and to betray an indifference to the welfare of Ireland.

Home Rule, the objector may say, is a scheme for the government of Ireland.