A few moments later
he was moving the Second Reading of a most generous Housing Bill,
under which Irish Corporations will be enabled to build thousands of
dwellings largely at the expense of the general taxpayer.
[Illustration: FAILING TO DIFFER.
SIR EDWARD CARSON AND MR. DEVLIN.]
In his warm welcome to the measure Sir EDWARD CARSON revealed a side
of his character not often seen, except by his personal friends.
He was so sympathetic to the needs of the Irish working-classes, so
eloquent upon the benefits to health, sobriety and contentment that
good houses would secure, and so insistent upon the necessity of
making the new dwellings beautiful as well as useful, that Mr. DEVLIN
could do little more than say "ditto to Mr. BURKE."
_Wednesday, May 16th_.--Those persons, at home and abroad, who persist
in regarding the British as universal land-grabbers will please note
that Spitsbergen, despite the undoubted fact that an Englishman landed
there three centuries ago, leaves us cold. Although no direct response
was made to Mr. ASHLEY'S suggestion that the future of the island
should be referred to the Coal Commission, it is widely felt that if
Mr.
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