Gladstone told the Queen, the House of Commons would never accept, and the first effect of persistence in such a course would be a stronger move against the episcopal seats in the House of Lords than had been seen for more than two hundred years.
Morley recounts Gladstone's warning about the political repercussions of the House of Commons rejecting certain proposals.
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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.
Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.
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