. 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. ia. None could doubt his loyalty and devotion, but he was atheart a man of peaceable disposition, and that did not well accord with thetemper of England militant. The opponents of the ministry were able tomark the discordant parts of the ministerial body and to emphasize andexaggerate its disagreements. There, for instance,
. 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. ia. None could doubt his loyalty and devotion, but he was atheart a man of peaceable disposition, and that did not well accord with thetemper of England militant. The opponents of the ministry were able tomark the discordant parts of the ministerial body and to emphasize andexaggerate its disagreements. There, for instance, were the Peelites, of whom Gladstone was one, whowere accused of being in the government for expedienc)-, and of having noactual sympath)- with their colleagues. Besides, there were at least twomembers of the ministry who aspired almost openly to the leadership whichwas held by the moderate Aberdeen. These two were Lord Palmerstonand Lord John Russell. These bold and aggressive spirits had a strongfollowing, both in the cabinet and out of it. The temper of Lord Palmer-ston in particular was almost the exact expression of the belligerent temperof Great Britain. When he spoke England spoke more truly than in the ACCESSION OF PALMERSTOX AND TREATY OF PARIS. -^■■^.. JClHxN DKKSHl. Private enterprise was sum- utterance oi any other. These disagreements did not proceed as tar asdownright quarreling and dissensions in the government, but they were aweakness and source of anxiety to all typ-ical Englishmen, from the queen to theCornish miner. ^ To this was added a circumstance ortwo of popular discontent having a deepfoundation in fact. The condition of theBritish army in the Crimea after the bat-tles of Balaklava and Inkerman was de-plorable. Authentic information of thestate of the troops, of their suffering incamp and hospital, was borne back to themother country, and produced a furor ofsympathies and not a little denunciationof the military authorities. In this denun-ciation G
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