carefully distinguished.

1. The British Parliament at Westminster, containing no Irish
members, which was to legislate for Great Britain and for the whole
British Empire except Ireland.

2. The Irish Parliament at Dublin, containing no British
representatives, which was to legislate for Ireland, but which was
not to legislate for England, Scotland, or for any other part of
the British Empire, and was not to have any voice whatever in the
general policy of the Empire.

3. The Imperial Parliament also sitting at Westminster, and
comprising both the British and the Irish Parliament. This body
would have corresponded nearly, if not exactly, with the existing
Parliament of the United Kingdom, and was intended to come together
only on special occasions and for a special purpose, namely the
revision or the alteration of the Gladstonian constitution. 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. This is the true relation of Home Rule. As dependent
Canada has no representatives in the Parliament of the United
Kingdom, so neither would dependent Ireland have representatives in
the Parliament of Great Britain. I am unable to understa