. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . party, and yet he had since completely surrendered to Mr. Brights letter was not a satisfactory answer to the variouspoints urged by Mr. Gladstone, but the member for Central Bir-mingham added, Though I thus differ from you at this time andon this question, <lo not imagine that I ever cease to admire yourgreat qualities, or to value the great services you have rendered toyour country. A correspondence between Mr. Gladstone and Mr. A. J. Bal- Third and Fourth Administrations. 423 four, published in July, demonstrated that the
. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . party, and yet he had since completely surrendered to Mr. Brights letter was not a satisfactory answer to the variouspoints urged by Mr. Gladstone, but the member for Central Bir-mingham added, Though I thus differ from you at this time andon this question, <lo not imagine that I ever cease to admire yourgreat qualities, or to value the great services you have rendered toyour country. A correspondence between Mr. Gladstone and Mr. A. J. Bal- Third and Fourth Administrations. 423 four, published in July, demonstrated that the former had urgedupon Lord Salisbury the absolute necessity of dealing immediatelywith the Irish qpystion, and expressed a strong hope that the sub-ject should not fall into the lines of party conflict. The general election of July, 1886, was fought out under cir-cumstances of great excitement, and much misrepresentation of theLiberal position on the part of Conservative and Liberal Unionistcandidates. The Liberals were defeated, and the new House of. Casket Presented to Mr. Gladstone by his Liverpool Constituents. Commons was composed as follows: Conservatives, 316; Lib-eral Unionists, 78; Gladstonian Liberals, 191 ; and Irish HomeRulers, 85. With such a decided majority against him, Mr. Gladstoneresigned office, and Lord Salisbury again became Prime Gladstone congratulated the Government on not announcing apolicy of Coercion in the House of Commons, and said that withevery admission that Coercion would not be applied again, hebelieved Home Rule came nearer and nearer. Until law wasadministered in Ireland in an Irish spirit, there would be nosecurity for social order in the sister country. 424 Third and Fourth Administrations. Mr. Gladstone left England for a tour in Bavaria in the autumn,but before doing so he issued a pamphlet on the Irish question,divided into two parts : I. History of an Idea; and, II. Lessonsof the Elections. In the former section he traced th
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