Next moment the scene was changed. Mr. Redmond moved that
the Irish Legislature should be called the Irish Parliament, declaring that the concession would be most agreeable to Irish sentiment; and Mr. Gladstone objected, nominally because the Queen was not in the Irish Legislature, really because the word conveys too much authority. This was, indeed, stated by Mr. Morley, who, while admitting that the Dublin Legislature would have more power than Grattan's Parliament, stated that the Government had used the word " Legislature " to avoid arousing jealousies and susceptibili- ties. The Gladstonians, who wish to minimise the Bill as far as their leader will let them, eagerly accepted his permission to vote against the word " Parliament," and as the Unionists agreed, Mr. Redmond was defeated by 466 to 40. The total result of the two amendments is that the Irish Legislature is not to be declared either subordinate or 10-ordinate, but is to be left in a position in which its first anxiety will be to assert its own position as against that of the British Parliament. This is the consequence, as we con- tend elsewhere, of the fatal confusion in the minds of the Gladstonians, who do not precisely know whether they want to create a Sovereign Assembly or a County Council, and would like very much to make both ideas operative in the same plan.
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