• Nor did Mr. Goschen think it possible that, even
if the Gladstonians are serious in their Clerkenwell-cum-Limehonse promises, they could get to work at that part of them affecting the social comfort of the working classes till the beginning of the twentieth century. 'There are three years to run before a General Election. Even if the Gladstonians win it, it will take them two years to restore the Irish Legislature, two years more to give Home-rule to Scotland and Wales, and to effect the adjustment of the functions of these new Legislatures to the .functions of the " torso " left at Westminster. Then comes the recast of the...English Constitution on the principle of 't One man, one vote," and biennial Parliaments ; and if the House of Lords kicks against the prisks,-as it will, all this cannot be accomplished before the twentieth century is begun.
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