Show IRELANDS MEMBERS in government and party organs of the english press the old timo cry that ireland is represented over in tho imperial parliament in proportion to her population is revived those who make a point out of the shibboleth the fact that the deplorable decline in the population of ireland is due directly to the long con linued which tor generations compelled the peasantry to leave the land of their birth and seek in other countries the justice denied them in their own ireland having thus been cruelly wronged and despoiled by successive british governments the logic of the present outcry is that she should be punished for a condition of things tor which her task masters and not she are responsible but apart from this consideration it is self evident that the irish representation sen tation in the imperial parliament fixed at members by the act of union was never calculated on tho basis of population for it it had been ireland would have had 20 members in 1800 instead ot less than hal that number it is satisfactory to know that in offering strenuous opposition to this reactionary policy the irish party will hae the support ot all fair minded men among their tory compatriots the independent order of orangeman orangemen Oran gemen registered a strong protest against tho movement when first mooted and now the irish reform association composed mainly of landlords of the lord dunraven Dun raven type has issued a manifesto in which the gross illegality and injustice of the design are demonstrated though irish unionists naturally tt ish to the strength of the home rule movement diminished they are not prepared to have this done at the expense of the country and in defiance of iho solemn and binding declaration as to the extent ot the irish representation contained in the act ot union that instrument was in the nature of a treaty between the parliaments of great britain and ireland and in law and equity can only be annulled or altered by the consent of both parties subscribing to it it is true that ahe irish nationalist aim is to do away with tho arrangement altogether to secure for ireland her legislative independence and it the duly authorized representatives of both countries jointly consent to Us abrogation then the union like every other contract can be annulled without the slightest infringement of any constitutional principle but the materialists materia lists hile insist ng that the present enforced connection between the two countries must be maintained intact coolly propose that england on her own motion and without any reference to the rights or wishes of her partner shall eliminate an essential portion ot the deed simply because it suits the convenience or gratifies tho spite ot ono particular po lotical section to do so |