. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . ssed the Lords, therewould have been less agitation in Ireland since that time; butafter the lapse of a decade the same state of affairs obtained. The Irish members pleaded vainly with the Government forsome resistance of this fiat of the Peers. The most that the Min-istry would do was to promise a comprehensive measure nextsession with a committee, for the present, to inquire into the agri-cultural condition of the country. Perhaps the Ministers, in theabsence of their chief, hesitated to take any decided action; andcertainly such action,
. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . ssed the Lords, therewould have been less agitation in Ireland since that time; butafter the lapse of a decade the same state of affairs obtained. The Irish members pleaded vainly with the Government forsome resistance of this fiat of the Peers. The most that the Min-istry would do was to promise a comprehensive measure nextsession with a committee, for the present, to inquire into the agri-cultural condition of the country. Perhaps the Ministers, in theabsence of their chief, hesitated to take any decided action; andcertainly such action, taken by Hartington, would have had muchless weight than if Gladstone had insisted upon it. Tlie Second Gladstone Ministry. 375 The Home Rulers were of course bitterly opposed to thisquiescence, and did not hesitate to say so, in many speeches whichthe Government considered inflammatory; and this judgment wasperhaps not without foundation. The Ministry had made themistake of not consulting a single Irish member in connection with ?..-. . •?.. ipwffi ?*-?????. ??:???? v .? m m mmm Wmm lliir
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