. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. the life of your Royal Highness, every pri-vate and personal may be joined with every public blessing, I have thehonor to remain, Sir, your Royal Highnesss most dutiful and faithfulservant, W. E. Gladstone. H. R. H. the Prince Albert Victor. The responsibility of forming a Conservative government was uneasilyborne. After th
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. the life of your Royal Highness, every pri-vate and personal may be joined with every public blessing, I have thehonor to remain, Sir, your Royal Highnesss most dutiful and faithfulservant, W. E. Gladstone. H. R. H. the Prince Albert Victor. The responsibility of forming a Conservative government was uneasilyborne. After the death of the Earl of Beaconsfield, on the 19th of April,1881, the leadership of the Conservative party had been assigned to the 58o LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. Marquis of Salisbury. To him, according to tlie custom which had nowbecome virtually constitutional, the queen must appeal. He was accord-in<dy sent for and appointed prime minister. He succeeded in forming aConservative ministry, and in June of 1885 became the head of the govern-ment. For the second time it was thus the fortune of the Conservativeministrv to inherit from its predecessor a Liberal measure for the reform ofParliament. The Redistribution Bill, not yet a law, was carried over to. ROBERT ARTHUR CECIL, MARQUIS OF SALISBURY. Conservative hands, and the new government had little difficult}- in passingthat measure throuo-h its final stages. The general election was now pending, and it was thought that theConservatives would be able to make larg-e grains. There was not a littleastonishment when the result showed for them precisely the same number(two hundred and fifty-one) of members returned as they had elected morethan five years before. The Liberals returned three hundred and thirty-three members; but the Home Rule contingent was now increased to eighty- FIRST BATTLE FOR HOME RULE. 581 six members, so that the latter faction, now become a veritable party, heldthe balance of power. The Marquis
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