ULSTER'S DREAD.
A NONCONFORMIST VIEW OF HOME RULE. SHIFTING OF POPULATION. By TelecraDh-Prosa Ausodatlon-OopjTlrtl London, February 11. The H«v. U. F. llorton (minister of Lyndhuist Road Church, flnmpstead), writing to "Tho Times,' , says the Nonconformists in Kngland and Wales understand Ulster's dread of Romp. Tho Nonconformists feel compelled, owing to their political principles, to support Home Rule, but personally they hope that if Ulster's fears are realised," a shifting of (be population will tike place, Ihe large Irish population in the English cities would be drifting to Ireland, and the Protestants returning to England and Scotland. LORD PIRRIE MOBBED, ROTTEN EGGS, FISH, AND FLOUR. (Rec. February 12, 11.50 p.m.) London, February 12. A crowd of eix hundred at Lame, Comity Ant-rim, pelted Lord Pirrie with rotten eggs, herrings, and small bags of flour, and oalled him "Traitor!" and "Turncoat!" Lord Pirrie boarded a steamer going to London under police protection. THE LIBERALS' HOPES. INSURANCE AND HOME RULE. ~ ~_, , London, February 12. The Master of Elibank, Government Whip, speaking at Edinburgh declared that as tho Unionists had made the National Insurance Act a party measure, the Government would use the whole power and force of. the party machinery in order to convince every household that the Bill was duo to tho Radicals. If it was not approved after the technicalities were explained, the Government were prepared to stand the shock. Tho Conservatives were not attacking norae Rule on its merits. It would be a triumph to democratic government, and it would give strength to the Empire, where there was now weakness.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1362, 13 February 1912, Page 5
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259ULSTER'S DREAD. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1362, 13 February 1912, Page 5
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