The Liberals returned. Hartington and the Whigs held aloof: John Bright had ...

The Liberals returned. Hartington and the Whigs held aloof: John Bright had called the Nationalists rebels, and when he said rebels he meant rebels, like those who his idolized North had crushed to preserve another Union.

The first Home Rule Bill was laid before

the Cabinet and Chamberlain resigned.

It was introduced into Parliament, together with a LandPurchase Act, and it was defeated.

Ninety Liberals followed Bright, or Chamberlain, or Harrington, and at the General Election of 1886 the Unionist parties were in a majority of 110: Mr Gladstone's attempt to reverse the decision in 1893 brought them back with a majority of 152 and a policy of Land Purchase and Resolute Government.

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