No one rising to reply to Mr. Parnell, Mr. Gladstone
at length rose to express his astonishment that the Government should not answer him ; to remind the Government that they might have forced Mr. Parnell to accept a jury if they had put him on his trial ; to declare that though the Government might have named names on the Commission which would have met with the " warmest acclamation," he was not prepared to say that, as regarded all the three Judges named, such a:selection had been made ; and to support with the utmost warmth Mr. Parnell's demands for the limitation of the inquiry. He went further, and said that unless Mr. Parnell's conditions were conceded, he would take no responsibility for the Bill ; and he thought that unless they were conceded, the country would be driven to the conclusion " that the proposal had been made in order that it might be refused."
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