Ulysses
theory of colonial (e.g. Canadian) expansion and the evo-
lutionary theories of Charles Darwin, expounded in The
Descent of Man and The Origin of Species. In 1885 he had
publicly expressed his adherence to the collective and na-
tional economic programme advocated by James Fintan
Lalor, John Fisher Murray, John Mitchel, J. F. X. O’Brien
and others, the agrarian policy of Michael Davitt, the con-
stitutional agitation of Charles Stewart Parnell (M. P. for
Cork City), the programme of peace, retrenchment and re-
form of William Ewart Gladstone (M. P. for Midlothian, N.
B.) and, in support of his political convictions, had climbed
up into a secure position amid the ramifications of a tree on
Northumberland road to see the entrance (2 February 1888)
into the capital of a demonstrative torchlight procession of
20,000 torchbearers, divided into 120 trade corporations,
bearing 2000 torches in escort of the marquess of Ripon
and (honest) John Morley.
How much and how did he propose to pay for this coun-
try residence?
As per prospectus of the Industrious Foreign Acclima-
tised Nationalised Friendly Stateaided Building Society
(incorporated 1874), a maximum of 60 pounds per annum,
being 1/6 of an assured income, derived from giltedged se-
curities, representing at 5 % simple interest on capital of
1200 pounds (estimate of price at 20 years’ purchase), of
which to be paid on acquisition and the balance in the form
of annual rent, viz. 800 pounds plus 2 1/2 % interest on the
same, repayable quarterly in equal annual instalments until
extinction by amortisation of loan advanced for purchase