. 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. aval agreements involved in the previously compact; and thatshe by her voluntary act restored to the sultan his full rights which hadbeen hampered under the conditions of the treaty of Paris. Alexandersaid that it was not his purpose to revive the Eastern Question, and thatas to the treaty of 1856 he desired to ad
. 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. aval agreements involved in the previously compact; and thatshe by her voluntary act restored to the sultan his full rights which hadbeen hampered under the conditions of the treaty of Paris. Alexandersaid that it was not his purpose to revive the Eastern Question, and thatas to the treaty of 1856 he desired to adhere thereto, except as to suchparts of it as related to the neutralization of the Black Sea. That and nomore he would abrogate. Great Britain for her part wished to support the treaty of Paris intact DECLINE OF THE REFORMATORY MOVEMENT. 465 in all of its jDrovisions. She therefore solicited and obtained the holdingof a conference of the powers in London. Contrary to her wishes, how-ever, the conference agreed that the existing compact about the neutraliza-tion of the Black Sea should be abrogated. This seemed to force GreatBritain from her chosen ground, but she was obliged to accept the situa-tion. The government was thus subjected to the taunts of the ALEXANDER TI, EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. Mr. Disraeli entered the arena and handled the ministr)- roughly. He saidthat Great Britain had lono- apfo eiven a guarantee to Prussia of herSaxon provinces, and now, when the question was again opened. GreatBritain for that guarantee had o-ained nothino-. There should also havebeen an advantage as compensatory with the recent pledge given byPrussia that no prince of Hohenzollern would be a candidate for the vacant3° 466 LIKE AM) TIMES UF WILLIAM E. tlLADSTONE. throne of Spain. Mr. Disraeli went on to .sa>- that the so-called armed neu-trality of Great Britain had become so attenuated as to be a scandal. Hesaid that the recent conference in London had succeeded simply in making
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