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Cutting from the "Dublin Express" reporting the vigorous campaigning of the Ulster Unionists and rejecting WSC's argument that Home Rule will reduce legislative congestion in the Westminster parliament.

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Cutting from the "Staffordshire Sentinel" on: the excitement aroused by the Home Rule meeting to be addressed by WSC in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] and the previous notable speeches in the Ulster Hall; WSC's introduction to "Home Rule in a nutshell" by Jeremiah MacVeagh.

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Cutting from the "Northern Whig" (Belfast) on the likelihood of a Unionist counter-demonstration to the Home Rule meeting to be addressed by WSC and John Redmond and the advisability of WSC addressing the meeting alone.

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Cutting from the "Belfast News-Letter" criticising WSC's advocacy of Home Rule for Ireland as part of a general federal scheme for the United Kingdom.

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Cutting from the Times giving the report in the "Northern Whig" on the likelihood of a Unionist counter-demonstration to the Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC and John Redmond and the advisability of WSC addressing the meeting alone.

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Cutting from the "Pall Mall Gazette" hinting at the dangerousness of WSC joining John Redmond and Joseph Devlin at a Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland].

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Cutting from the "Morning Post" on: the opposition to Home Rule of the Irish Presbyterians; the plans to stage a Unionist counter-demonstration to the Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC; the reprinting by the Union Defence League of a speech made on the Union in 1800 by Lord Clare.

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Cutting from the "Scotsman": letter from a Unionist refuting WSC's citing (in his introduction to "Home Rule in a nutshell" by Jeremiah MacVeagh) of federal systems elsewhere in the world to support his case for Home Rule.

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Cutting from the "Newcastle Daily Journal" asserting that it is the Government's desire to carry too much legislation in too short a time that has clogged Parliament, not Irish legislation as claimed by WSC in his introduction to Home Rule in a nutshell by Jeremiah MacVeagh.

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Cutting from the "Daily Telegraph" on the possible response of the Unionists to the forthcoming Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC and John Redmond, the campaign of the Irish Presbyterians against Home Rule, a meeting of the Ulster Women's Unionist Alliance.

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Cutting from the Westminster Gazette on the challenge of F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead] to WSC to define the difference between the positions of Lord Randolph Churchill and Sir Edward Carson, and to say whether he still believes that the motives of a Liberal government which is introducing a Home Rule bill because it is dependent on Irish Nationalists' support should be viewed with suspicion.

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Cutting from the "Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury" criticising the Ulster Unionists' prophecies of disorder when WSC and John Redmond address a Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] and considering the possibility of Andrew Bonar Law addressing a meeting in Belfast.

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Cutting from the "Times" on a speech by F E Smith [later 1st Lord Birkenhead] criticising the Government's economic policy and remarking on the cost of Home Rule, the forthcoming Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC and the current position of the Unionist Party.

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Cutting from the "Pall Mall Gazette" on the division of opinion among the Irish Nationalists on financial policy.

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Cutting from the Times: speech by Sir Edward Carson [later Lord Carson] at the Manchester Constitutional Club rejecting WSC's arguments in favour of Home Rule.

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Cutting from the "Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury" on the forthcoming discussion at the conference of the Royal Economic Society on railway nationalisation and the financial relations of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Cutting from the "Daily Telegraph": speech by Sir Edward Carson [later Lord Carson] at the Manchester Constitutional Club rejecting WSC's arguments in favour of Home Rule.

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Cutting from the "Dundee Advertiser" criticising the Ulster Unionist Council's announced intention of preventing the holding of the forthcoming Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC.

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Cutting from the "Pall Mall Gazette" urging WSC not to inflame Unionist opinion by addressing a Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland].

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Cutting from the "Dundee Advertiser" criticising the Unionists' reaction to the forthcoming Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC.

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Cutting from the "Star": letter from W H Davey of the Ulster Liberal Association criticising the resolution of the Ulster Unionist Council to try to prevent the forthcoming Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC.

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Cutting from the "Morning Leader": article by James Douglas recalling the Home Rule crisis of 1886 and reflecting on the current entrenched opinions on the subject in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] which make it advisable that WSC should abandon his plan to address a Home Rule meeting there.

Scope and Contents Cutting from the "Pall Mall Gazette": letter from Moreton Frewen suggesting John Redmond should be glad of the excuse to call off the Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] because the Government's proposals on Home Rule could then still remain a "state secret". Refers to his adjournment of a political meeting in Killarney [County Kerry, Ireland] for fear of violence and asserts that Home Rule will never receive the consent of the people of Ulster; letter from Bernard Holland...

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Cutting from the "Bath Chronicle": letter from J W Tranter attacking the Ulster Unionists' announced intention of preventing the Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC and citing other examples of the Unionists' "tyranny".

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Cutting from the "Manchester Dispatch": article by "a Loyalist" suggesting that the Ulster Unionists may have made a tactical mistake in announcing their intention of preventing the Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC.