. 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. these related to the law of partner-ship ; another to the agricultural condition of Great Britain ; a third to thesugar duties, and a fourth to the abolition of the Corn Laws. That relatingto the British railways has already been considered. The sugar questionstruck down deep into the whole commercial system of the realm. T
. 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. these related to the law of partner-ship ; another to the agricultural condition of Great Britain ; a third to thesugar duties, and a fourth to the abolition of the Corn Laws. That relatingto the British railways has already been considered. The sugar questionstruck down deep into the whole commercial system of the realm. TheCorn-Law dispute also held in it the whole issue as between free trade andprotection, considered as a policy of the State. So important were these ques-tions that Gladstone at this time considered them in extenso in a political 142 LIFE AXU TIMES OF WILLIAM K. GLADSTONE. and economic brochure entitled Remarks upon Rccoit Commercial Legisla-tion. The work was made up, in part, from his own report as President ofthe Board of Trade, in part from his speeches in ParHament, and in partfrom a general consideration of the question. Tlie writer dwelt in particuhir on the tariff as affecting the trade ofEngland. He attempted, as so many others have done, to follow out the. MUORE. principle of legislative interference with economic laws to the ultimate the whole his arguments tended to the defense of free trade as the truepolicy of the empire. It is evident from an examination of his pamphlet atthis distance, that his opinions were rapidly crystallizing into a convictionthat the best course to follow in the establishment of the supremacy ofBritish trade throughout the world was to make that trade as free as possi-ble—subject to as few restrictions in the shape of customs duties as mightbe under existing conditions. THE FREE-TKADE TRANSFORMATION. J 43 Just at this juncture, namel)-, in the year 1845, one of those peculiarcrises for which the poHtical history of Enol
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