. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . It was not academic Oxfordwhich defeated him—for defeated he was—but the vast body ofoutsiders who had votes. The Thunderer launched its stately sentences against the in-stitution of learning which had thus rejected as its represent-ative a man of Mr. Gladstones distinction as a scholar; andadded to its fulminations against Oxford the assurance thathenceforth Mr. Gladstone will belong to the country, but nolonger to the University. Those Oxford influences and tradi-tions which have so long colored his views, and so greatly in-terfered with
. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . It was not academic Oxfordwhich defeated him—for defeated he was—but the vast body ofoutsiders who had votes. The Thunderer launched its stately sentences against the in-stitution of learning which had thus rejected as its represent-ative a man of Mr. Gladstones distinction as a scholar; andadded to its fulminations against Oxford the assurance thathenceforth Mr. Gladstone will belong to the country, but nolonger to the University. Those Oxford influences and tradi-tions which have so long colored his views, and so greatly in-terfered with his better judgment, must gradually lose their holdupon him. To the words of the Times the crisper sentencesof the Daily News, the chief Liberal organ, were a fitting echo; 232 Emancipation from Toryism. The late Sir Robert Peel was but the chief of a party, untiladmonished by one ostracism, he finally became emancipated byanother. It is thus that men rise from opposition to greatereffort, and the instances are not few in which by facing public. Cathedral of St. Paul—London. scorn they have risen to a higher plane, and have renderedtheir names illustrious—names that might have been almostburied in oblivion but for the ostracism they were compelled tosuffer. Not every one is able to learn wisdom from past experi-ences. Then, as now, the statesman who was destined to giveup to mankind what was never meant for the barren service of a. Emancipation from Toryism, 233 party, could say to those honest bigots who thus rejected him: I banish you;There is a world elsewhere. As soon as it became evident that he would be defeated at Ox-ford, Mr. Gladstone hastened down to Lancashire, and lost notime in presenting himself as a candidate for the southern di-vision of that county, where three Conservatives and two Lib-erals were already in nomination for the three seats. It was onTuesday, the day of the great Manchester weekly market, thathe arrived there, and the exchange of the city
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