. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . egative. Explain-ing the position in which he stood, he proceeded to inquire intothe true state of the case. He charged the British Governmentwith practising concealment, and asserted that the United StatesGovernment had been deceived and misled. The law had know-ingly been broken by the agents of the British Government;and the American Government had cause to complain, since anagency within the United States had been employed to give in-formation and to tempt, by the offer of valuable considerations,citizens of the United States to go beyo
. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . egative. Explain-ing the position in which he stood, he proceeded to inquire intothe true state of the case. He charged the British Governmentwith practising concealment, and asserted that the United StatesGovernment had been deceived and misled. The law had know-ingly been broken by the agents of the British Government;and the American Government had cause to complain, since anagency within the United States had been employed to give in-formation and to tempt, by the offer of valuable considerations,citizens of the United States to go beyond their boundaries forthe purpose of enlisting in the English army. The British em-bassador had not only failed to inform the United States thatthis was being done, thus justifying the charge of concealment,but he had wilfully broken his engagement not to communicate,except to those who addressed themselves to him, the terms up-on which they would be received into the army. Mr. Gladstonemaintained that those four officials who had been punished had. MR. GLADSTONE IN HIS LIBRARY AT HAWARDEN Progressing Towards Liberalism. 165 only been made scape-goats for the Government which had up-held their actions in the main. The question was a most remark-able illustration, he said, of the disorganized state of the greatparties ; such a disagreement upon any subject of foreign policywould have been impossible in the days when Lord John Russelland his allies occupied the Treasury Benches, and Sir RobertPeel sat opposite. As we have already intimated, Mr. Gladstone, though he con^demned the policy of the Government upon this question, wasnot ready to give his vote to an ineffectual attempt to overthrowthat Government. There were many others who thought as hedid, and the Ministry had a majority of nearly two hundred up-on the division. At the opening of the session of 1857, when the royal speechwas read and the address came up for consideration, Mr. Dis-raeli made some severe strictures upo
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