. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . d the bill. It was wordedcunningly ; they did not object to the bill ; they simply asked towhat it was to lead. The amendment of the Lords was adopted,and the bill was got rid of for the present. Meanwhile, Mr. Gladstone was the object of a good deal of abuseby the ultra Tories who so strenuously opposed the reform. Thereason for this was the course which he took to defeat the was an ingenious plan, the audacity of which almost tookaway the breath of the Opposition. Mr. Gladstone announcedthat as the system of purchase was the crea
. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . d the bill. It was wordedcunningly ; they did not object to the bill ; they simply asked towhat it was to lead. The amendment of the Lords was adopted,and the bill was got rid of for the present. Meanwhile, Mr. Gladstone was the object of a good deal of abuseby the ultra Tories who so strenuously opposed the reform. Thereason for this was the course which he took to defeat the was an ingenious plan, the audacity of which almost tookaway the breath of the Opposition. Mr. Gladstone announcedthat as the system of purchase was the creation of royal regula-tion, he had advised the Queen to take the decisive step of can-celling the royal warrant which made purchase legal. It was a blow for the House of Lords. Having made publicbeforehand what they were going to say, they found that there wasno chance to say it. The only part of the bill which remained wasthat relating to the compensation of officers, but which had beendeprived of their money value; to refuse to pass this would sim-. 19 289 290 The First Gladstone Ministry. ply be to refuse the officers, for whose interests they were con-tending, the one small compensation which the Government wouldgive them. Nothing was left for the House of Lords but to passthe bill as quickly as possible, and this they did ; coupling itspassing, however, with a resolution announcing that it was pass-ed only in order to secure to officers of the army the compensa-tion they were entitled to receive, and censuring the Govern-ment for having obtained, by the exercise of the Royal Preroga-tive, and without the aid of Parliament, that which Parliamentwas not likely to have granted. When the course of the Government was announced in theHouse of Commons, it was received after a moment of bewilder-ment with a wild outburst of Liberal exultation. It was at oncefelt to be a splendid party triumph. But after the first enthusi-asm of victory was over, there were not a few Liberals who,lo
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