Mr. Parnell's followers supposed that they had gained this when
the Parnellites and Anti-Parnellites agreed to accept on Thursday an amendment of Mr. Clancy's appointing a depu- tation of four members of the party, Mr. J. Redmond, Mr. Healy, Mr. Sexton, and Mr. Leamy, with Mr. IL Power, the chief Whip of the party, to wait upon Mr. Gladstone, Sir William Harcourt, and Mr. Morley, and ask for pledges that the Constabulary should at once be surrendered by any Liberal Home-rule Bill to Irish control, and that the subject of the Land should be left open to treatment by the Irish Legislature. Mr. Gladstone is reported to have objected both to giving any answer to these demands, and also to the selec- tion of three specified members of the late Liberal Cabinet as the Ministers whom the Irish Party desired to pledge. But it was understood that some pressure was being put upon him by Liberal politicians to give the deputation a hearing.
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