. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. x years, and should not be dependent on the in-coming and outgoing of cabinets. There should be a privy council in Ire-land, to assist the viceroy, who should have the right to give or withholdassent to bills of the Irish Parliament.* Over this the veto of the in full force. The Irish legislature shou
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. x years, and should not be dependent on the in-coming and outgoing of cabinets. There should be a privy council in Ire-land, to assist the viceroy, who should have the right to give or withholdassent to bills of the Irish Parliament.* Over this the veto of the in full force. The Irish legislature should consist of two bodies, a council and anassembly, and the speaker defined the numbers in each, their qualificationsand the qualifications of electors. The existing constabulary should be * The Tories of the period made every effort to cast odium upon the project for an independent Irish Parlia-ment. As usual in such cises, caricature came to the rescue of argument. The prints of the day presentedmany cartoons at the expense of the hapless Irish, whose alleged weakness in temperate statesmanship was fre-quently the theme of witty pencils. One picture of unusual force and pith was entitled A Dream of an IrishParliament. FIRST BATTLE FOR HOME RULE. 609 ^1 f^ ^ir^iTw^. 39 THE BRIlIbH NUTIUN UF AN IRISH PARLIAMENT. 6lO 1-IF1-: AND TIMES OK WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. replaced in time by a new police, to be appointed by the legislature. TheIrish members in the imperial Parliament should be reduced to eighty, andshould be precluded from taking part in the divisions on such bills or reso-lutions as affected only Great Britain or things or persons therein. Theremainder of the bill differed not much from the provisions of the HomeRule bill of 1886. Mr. Gladstone concluded his address with an eloquent peroration. Hehoped that the controversy between the two countries would here and nowbe ended. He could himself never be a party to the transmission to thegenerations following of the heritage o
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