Sir George Trevelyan made a poor and vague speech, con-
sisting in considerable part of an attack upon Lord London- derry; but the sensation of the evening was the speech of the Parnellite leader, Mr. J. Redmond, who, while declaring himself quite willing to call the Irish Parliament he demanded a " minor " Parliament, so far subordinate to the Imperial Par- liament as the Colonial Parliaments are subordinate to it, protested in the name of all sections of the Irish Home-rulers against any notion that the decisions of the Irish Parliament should (in regard to any Irish matters) be treated as liable to review in the Imperial Parliament, and to reversal or con- firmation by the British Legislature. He defied any Irish representative of the Home-rule Party to assert that Ireland would accept any Legislature that should not be practically independent of the Parliament at Westminster, and challenged Sir William Harcourt to say whether this demand,—which he asserted was all that Mr. Parnell had insisted on,—would, in his opinion, be what he had termed "Mr. Parnell's Fenian Home-rule."
