Morning journal and courier., 1882-02-21

mends plan, prepared by the superintend-
ent of Insurance. for a government insur-
/ ance of the lives of employees, for the benefit
of their widows and others dependent on
them. Charges for profits, management and
| investment risks would be saved by this
method, for one or more clerks would attend
| to the details of the system. The minimum
amount of insurance suggested is for twice
| the salary OF the incumbent, the premium
| being deducted in monthly instsllments An
| increase in the amount of insurance is per-
| mitted, though it is recommended that after
the age of twenty-five certificates of unim-
paired health should be required. This pro-
vision for the families of those in the public
| service is to be compulsory for the minimum
amount on all persons who enter the service
under ordinary conditions. Those who enter
the service, for special qualifications, at
later age, and are already insured, may con-
slider the plan as optional. The commission
remark upon the importance of securing the
interest in this insurance against transfer, at
tachment and liability for debts.
Mr.. Gladstone's recent utterances on the
Home-Rule question have created quite
stir. He has declared frankly that he is will
ing to entertain the project if the Irish mem
bers can show him that Home Rule does
not mean imperial dismemberment. Mr..
Jennings, the London correspondent of the
New York World, writes Mr.. Justin Nc
Carthy the Irish leader pro tenn. will short
IL submit Home-Rule scheme, but doubt
if it will satisfy the Premier, and 1 am sure
it will not suit the Irish National party.
Mr.. Mccarthy, if L may judge from his
magazine articles on the subject favors the
Home Rule enjoyed by the provinces in the
Canadian Confederation. Ireland is to have
absolute control over all minor legislation
affecting her interests and to exercise su-
preme voice in the regulation of educational,
religious and municipal matters. But if in
the Dominion provincial autonomy is con-
stantly clashipg with federal supremacy,
what would happen in Ireland? On the
Canadian plan, all acts passed by Parliament
on College Green would be subject to review
and disallowance by the Imperial Ministry,
and unless I am woefully mistaken this would
lead to a'smash-up before Home Rule was
year old. 1t is possible to conceive of har-
monious Irish Parliament composed of ''ad-
vanced nationalist whose ambition is an
Irish republic, and Ulster Orangemen, who
see the Pope's hand in everything, and who
look upon Mr.. Parnell as the direct repre-
sentative of King James but L do not be-
lieve that such body could be constituted
as things go now in Ireland. The old Irish
Parliament, whose glories are SO often sung,
was a Protestant body wholly, and, more
over, at that period of Irish history the
Ulster men were quite as advanced as the
men of Munster. But since then Ulster has
become the seat of the Orange society, and
'nationaIism" is extinct there. Mr.. Nc
Carthy has difficult job in hand, and trust /
he will succeed but to me, at least, success
seems impossible. If Home Rule were in
existence to-day, and Mr.. Parnen passed
land bill, it would be disallowed beyond
doubt by the Imperial government, and then
what would become of Home Rule? The
fact is no such halfway house can be built
between Ireland's present position and her
absolute independence of British rule.