Mr. ARNOLD WARD: I feel unwilling to share the responsibility for this Clause, and I intend to vote against it to-night, as I did on the Committee stage, on the ground that it is against all the principles 338 of good statesmanship to take a course at the Crisis of Your Fate Which is perfectly certain to lead to very serious trouble— either to civil war or rebellion or to disorders and perils of all sorts and kinds, and the serious trouble which, in view of the attitude of the representatives of three-fourths of Ireland, must ensue, will not bring, so far as I can see, any compensating military advantage whatever.