. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . tle ceremony, the Government went through that other littleceremony of issuing a new writ for Northampton, and Mr. Brad-laugh went through the third ceremony of being elected. The two Houses of Parliament may be said (somewhat irrever-ently) to resemble that little girl Longfellow tells of, who, When she was good, she was very good indeed,But when she was bad she was horrid. They showed themselves very good indeed over the question oferecting better dwellings for the poor in the great centres of popu-lation ; and there was quite a remarkabl
. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . tle ceremony, the Government went through that other littleceremony of issuing a new writ for Northampton, and Mr. Brad-laugh went through the third ceremony of being elected. The two Houses of Parliament may be said (somewhat irrever-ently) to resemble that little girl Longfellow tells of, who, When she was good, she was very good indeed,But when she was bad she was horrid. They showed themselves very good indeed over the question oferecting better dwellings for the poor in the great centres of popu-lation ; and there was quite a remarkable case of party the meantime the Egyptian question had raised its head again, Ihe Second Gladstone Ministry. 409 and was spitting fire at the Ministry. In a debate which tookplace at the beginning of April, Mr. Gladstone inveighed bitterlyagainst the oppositions constant harping on this subject; seventeennights, he said, had been spent in fruitless discussion of the Soudanquestion, and the Ministry had been much enibairassed by this General (Chinese) Gordon. Mr. Gladstone, it was said, had rarely, if ever surpassed, this re-markable philippic for energy or earnestness. The Government wassustained by the testimony of Gordon himself at this time, as com-munication with Khartoum had not yet been interrupted, and dis-patches were frequently received from him, stating that he wasentirely safe, and had much hope of the success of his little later, however, the dispatches assumed a less confident 410 The Second Gladstone Ministry. tone, and the Government determined to send an expedition to rescuethe popular hero. This determination was perhaps the result of restoration to health; as there was a perceptible differencein the vigor of the Governments Egyptian policy during his pros-tration and after his return to the active conduct of affairs. But the Conservatives were not deterred from their attack. SirMichael Hicks-Beach replied to Mr. Gladst
Size: 1452px × 1720px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectgladstonewewilliamew
