Depend upon it that an Irish Legislature will not be up to the magnitude of the enormous business that is going to be cast upon it unless you leave all the brains that Irish public men have got to do Irish work in Ireland.

Depend upon this, too, that if you have one set of Irish members in London it is a moral certainty that disturbing rivalries, disturbing intrigues would spring up, and that the natural and wholesome play of forces and parties and leaders in the Irish Assembly would be complicated and confused and thrown out of gear by the separate representatives of the country.

All this is bad enough.'[41] These are the words of my friend Mr.Morley.[42] They were spoken at Newcastle on April 21, 1886.

He was then, as now, responsible for the government of Ireland.

Nothing can add to their gravity; nothing can add to their force; they were true in 1886, they remain as true to-day as they were seven years ago.[43] As to England .-- The presence of the Irish members at Westminster is on the face of it a gross and patent injustice to Great Britain.