. 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. ationsare decreasing. This condition of affairs produced great excitement and much bitter-ness in Parliament and throughout the country. An attack was made onthe pfovernment of Lord Aberdeen all along the line. Denunciations were 236 LIKE AM) TIMES UK \VILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. heard in both the Commons and the House of Lords.
. 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. ationsare decreasing. This condition of affairs produced great excitement and much bitter-ness in Parliament and throughout the country. An attack was made onthe pfovernment of Lord Aberdeen all along the line. Denunciations were 236 LIKE AM) TIMES UK \VILLIAM E. GLADSTONE. heard in both the Commons and the House of Lords. Lord Palmerston, thehome secretary, could not and would not restrain himself. It becameevident to all that he more truly represented the sentiment of England thanany other personage in the cabinet, from the premier to the last by day he grew in popular favor. True, he had just at this timeoffended with his radicalism the staid and commonplace orthodoxy of therealm by insisting that natural means, extending all the way from ordinarycleanliness to the highest applications of science, are better preservatives ofthe public health than fastings and prayers. He had made the greatestecclesiastics and the greatest cities dance to his sanitary music in a way to. MISS NIGHTINGALE IN THE HOSPirAL AT SCUTARI make the heads of the fearful swim. He had said to the Presbytery of Edin-burgh, asking that a day of fasting and humiliation be appointed to stay theapproach of cholera : Lord Palmerston would therefore suggest thatthe best course which the people of this country can pursue, to deserve thatthe further progress of the cholera should be stayed, will be to employ theinterval that will elapse between the present time and the beginning ofnext spring in planning and executing measures by which those portions oftheir town and which are inhabited by the poorest classes, and which, fromthe nature of things, most need purification and improvement, may be freedfrom those causes and
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