. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. hadfailed to take rational measures forsupplying the deficiency in the laborof the West Indies after the act ofabolition. For himself, he would nothold to a theory as against a condi-tion ; but the restoration of the pro-tective system could not bring back tothe West Indies or to any country alost prosperity. But he believe
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. hadfailed to take rational measures forsupplying the deficiency in the laborof the West Indies after the act ofabolition. For himself, he would nothold to a theory as against a condi-tion ; but the restoration of the pro-tective system could not bring back tothe West Indies or to any country alost prosperity. But he believed that the reduction of duties on sugarought to be gradual, and that the period of the final extinction of the sameshould be prolonged in the interest of the Jamaican planters. At this juncture the distinguished Henry John Temple, Lord Palmer-ston, appeared in the debate. He attacked right and left, touching uponthe incongruities in Gladstones speech. That gentleman, he urged, was achampion of free trade. He had promoted the abolition of the protectivesystem in Great Britain ; but now when the shoe pinched he was favoringat least the partial perpetuation of the protective system in the comments were at least superficially effective, and Gladstone had to. SPENCER HORATIO WALPOLE. BEGINNINGS OF THE CHURCH QUESTION. I 73 ware right and ware left to save himself from the charge of Buxton resolution was indeed rejected, but the majority against it wasreduced to forty-one votes. It is in the nature of political parties to torment the one the otherall they can. They take every advantage of conditions to put each other,never up, but always down. At the parliamentary session of 1850 thetroublesome question of the English and Irish universities was ao-ainbrought before the House of Commons. The question of religion wasalways at the bottom of such issues. In this case a motion was made by aMr. Heywood to inquire into the state of the higher institutions of l
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