Mediaeval and modern history . ext cabinet. The agitation for Irish Home Rule, however, went on. In 1892the elections resulted in bringing Gladstone to the premiershipfor the fourth time. He now brought in a new Home Rule bill(1893), which in its essential features was like his first. Therefollowed a long and bitter debate between the partisans of themeasure and its opponents. The bill passed the Commons, butwas rejected by the House of Lords by an almost unanimous vote. The following year, owing to the infirmities of advanced age,Gladstone laid down the burdens of the premiership and retiredf
Mediaeval and modern history . ext cabinet. The agitation for Irish Home Rule, however, went on. In 1892the elections resulted in bringing Gladstone to the premiershipfor the fourth time. He now brought in a new Home Rule bill(1893), which in its essential features was like his first. Therefollowed a long and bitter debate between the partisans of themeasure and its opponents. The bill passed the Commons, butwas rejected by the House of Lords by an almost unanimous vote. The following year, owing to the infirmities of advanced age,Gladstone laid down the burdens of the premiership and retiredfrom public life. He died in 1898 at the age of eighty-eight, IRISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL 6ii and, amidst unusual demonstrations of national grief, was buriedin Westminster Abbey. His name has a sure place among thegreat names in English history. 676. Irish Local Government Bill (1898). —The cause of IrishHome Rule seemed to have descended into the tomb with Glad-stone. The Conservative ministrv of Lord Salisbury, however, in. Fig. ioi. — William Ewart Gladstone. (After a painting by LenbacJi) 1898, hoping to satisfy in a measure Irish demands, enacted alaw which created local governing bodies in Ireland, like thosewhich had then recently been estabUshed in other parts of theUnited Kingdom (sec. 664). The Irish had good reason in this matter to fear the Toriesbringing gifts. One purpose of the Conservatives in this piece 6l2 ENGLAND SINCE THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO of legislation was to kill Home Rule with kindness; that is,by the creation of a number of local councils, to induce the Irishto cease their clamor for a general legislature for Ireland. But it seems hardly likely that these tardy and partial conces-sions to the Irish demands for self-government will persuade theIrish to abate their demands for a national Parliament at Dublin,a body that shall truly represent the hopes and aspirations of theIrish people as one of the great nations of the British Empire. 677. Agrarian
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