. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . e capable of an-swering this speech. We pass over the defense of Palmerstonspolicy by Mr. Cockburn, since Lord Chief Justice of England, aspeech which was only second to Palmerstons own as a brilliantdefense, and which first assured the rank of the speaker as anorator; and the calm, grave, studiously moderate remon-strance of Sir Robert Peel. The most exhaustive answer, andthe one upon which the Opposition chiefly relied as an expres-sion oi their opinion, was Mr. Gladstones. He put the Romancitizen business in the strong light of common se
. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . e capable of an-swering this speech. We pass over the defense of Palmerstonspolicy by Mr. Cockburn, since Lord Chief Justice of England, aspeech which was only second to Palmerstons own as a brilliantdefense, and which first assured the rank of the speaker as anorator; and the calm, grave, studiously moderate remon-strance of Sir Robert Peel. The most exhaustive answer, andthe one upon which the Opposition chiefly relied as an expres-sion oi their opinion, was Mr. Gladstones. He put the Romancitizen business in the strong light of common sense; the Romanwas the representative of the conqueror, a member of a privi-leged caste, a citizen of a nation which had one law for him andanother for the subject world; the British subject, on the otherhand, should claim only such privileges as his Government waswilling to grant to others. But it was all of no avail, contrast-ed as it must be with the brilliancy of Palmerston ; the Britishsubject was at least the equal of the Roman citizen, and the. Gladstone vs. Disraeli. Ill course of the Government which maintained this was approved. It is pleasing to find this utterance of Peel on this occasionfree from that bitterness which is apt to creep into political con-troversies; and to learn that he had spoken in the highest praiseof the eloquence of the man whose policy he thought say that this generosity is pleasing, for this was to be thelast debate in which the great Tory was to take part; and hislife had not been spent in bitter struggles, but in earnest, the House of Commons early on the morning of June29th, 1850 (for the division on this question was not taken untilfour in the morning), he was thrown from his horse the afternoonof the same day, and died July 2nd, from the injuries death took place at a comparatively early age, for he wassixty-two, an age at which many an English statesman has beenin the very heyday of his career. Indeed, P
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