. 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. at he had arrived at the con-clusion that Mr. Parnell should resign the leadership of the Irish party,and indicating Mr. Justin McCarthy as his successor. The letter was notintended to be public, but through some bungling it got to the public andprecipitated on Parnell the necessity of resigning or of breaking with theLiber
. 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. at he had arrived at the con-clusion that Mr. Parnell should resign the leadership of the Irish party,and indicating Mr. Justin McCarthy as his successor. The letter was notintended to be public, but through some bungling it got to the public andprecipitated on Parnell the necessity of resigning or of breaking with theLiberals, upon whom his hopes for the success of his cause depended. Hewould not resign, but was deposed by a majority. A large part of the Irishparty stood with him in the day of his downfall, and, as we have said, to the 6o4 LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. clay of his dcalh. The Irish party was thus rent in twain, and one of thoseforces upon which Mr. Gladstone had depended was almost destroyed bythe schism. Such was the discouragement of the situation that it was be-lieved he himself would retire finally from the conflict. But he had otheropinion of his duty, and still hoped for success. It was at this juncture, when Mr. Gladstone was in his eighty-first JUSTIN MCCARTHY. that a bill was brought into the House of Commons to remove the restric-tion by which Roman Catholics were interdicted from the offices of LordChancellor and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. This was the last remnant of theancient discriminations against adherents of the mother Church, and came to the support of the measure as a part of the policy to\yhich he had devoted the greater part of his public life. When it wasknown that he would speak, the House, although it was in the afternoon, FIRST BATTLE FOR HOME RULE. 60: was crowded, as it always was when Gladstone was to be the central figureOn this occasion he spoke for more than an hour, with no symjotoni of weak-ness or indication of tha
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