. 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. e should be protectedand confirmed. Public employments should be made pure. Conscience,more than party, should be followed in such an era of disturbance anddanger. Parliament, acting with moderation and prudence, should show itsdevotion to English institutions. Those Institutions would still survive tobless the coming times
. 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. e should be protectedand confirmed. Public employments should be made pure. Conscience,more than party, should be followed in such an era of disturbance anddanger. Parliament, acting with moderation and prudence, should show itsdevotion to English institutions. Those Institutions would still survive tobless the coming times. Great Britain should not yield to the Europeanturmoil.—On the whole the effect of these pacific and conservative utter-ances was hardly less marked than had been the epigrams of measure of the income tax for three years was carried through Parlia- isS LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. ment by a substantial majority, and the policy of free trade emphaticallyconfirmed. We have just remarked the distracted condition prevailing in Europein the year 1848. Nothing like it had been witnessed since the era of theFrench Revolution. The Citizen King of the French was readily dismissedfrom further service. The revolution spread into Belgium and Spain and. WILLIAM SMITH O BRIEX. Italy and far beyond the Rhine. Chartism in England was the correlatedcircumstance. The government of Great Britain must needs be antirevo-lutionary. Victoria and the late King of the French had been atone. TheChartist leaders found that the overturning of political abuses was a muchmore difficult task than it had been with the revolutionists on the Conti-nent. The insurrections in Paris, Berlin, and Brussels had easilv succeeded ;but that in London could not succeed—except by the tedious processes of REPRESENTATIVE OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY. 159 history. It is not in the nature of England to yield of a sudden to any-thing. Her structure will not permit it. That structure has been wroughtby cent
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