[ 28 ] Like Mr. J. Allan, Honorary Secretary of the Ulster Unionist Council, I have had the opportunity of discussing the question with many Unionists, and I have never yet met a single one who favoured the policy of exclusion. The dismemberment of Ireland, as we have seen, has been condemned on its merits both by Sir Edward Carson and by the Unionist Press. It would be fatal to the prosperity of the excluded counties and cities, marooned at the extremity of an alien Ireland. Their prosperous industries are financed by the great Ulster banks, “The Belfast,” “ The Northern,” and “The Ulster.” The Belfast Bank has three offices in Dublin, the Northern three, and the Ulster four. All those banks have scores of branch offices and agencies scattered through the provincial towns of Leinster, Munster, and Connaught. The segregation of six Ulster counties from the rest of Ireland would be a disastrous blow, not merely to the prosperity of the Ulster banks, but to the system of credit on which Ulster industries depend. Belfast and Derry have a large and profitable wholesale trade in the south, east, and west: that trade could hardly survive the exclusion of Belfast and Derry from a self-governed Ireland. The Ulster members of the Irish Bar, even the most prominent Unionists who sit for Unionist con- stituencies are, as I have reason to know, strongly and unanimously opposed to the policy of exclusion, Heretofore they have secured at least their fair share of legal practice and patronage. They bitterly resent the prospect of banishment from the Four Courts of Dublin. Sir James Campbell would, I fancy, be rather re- luctant to abandon the position of Lord Chief Justice of Ireland to preside in the Supreme Court of the six counties,