For the fuller explanation of the whole of this subject see _England's Case against Home Rule_ (3rd ed.), pp.

234, 238 Note that England gains little or nothing (as compared with what was offered to her under the Home Rule Bill of 1886) by the Imperial Parliament retaining the power to legislate for Ireland, for even under that Bill the Imperial Parliament (_i.e._ the Parliament at Westminster when consisting both of British and of Irish members) could legislate for Ireland.
[54] _Unionist Delusions_, pp.

6-9.
[55] The following passage from the writings of a man whose words, whilst he was yet amongst us, Unionists and Gladstonians alike always heard with the respect due to sense, to ability, to knowledge, and to fairness, deserves attention:-- 'In Mr.Gladstone's proposed measure of Home Rule' _[i.e._ the Bill of 1886]' the Parliament sitting at Westminster was no longer to contain Irish members.

I hold this to be an essential feature of the scheme, an essential feature of any scheme of Home Rule.

By Mr.
Gladstone's scheme, Ireland was formally to exchange a nominal voice, both in its own affairs and in common affairs, for the real management of its own affairs and no voice at all in common affairs.