. 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. existed for the prosecution of commerce. Itspolitical functions had been acquired gradually, according to the enlargeddemands which had fallen on the corporation. The smoke of the mutinyhad not cleared away until one India bill after another was introduced forthe better government of the races and nations that had been brou
. 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. existed for the prosecution of commerce. Itspolitical functions had been acquired gradually, according to the enlargeddemands which had fallen on the corporation. The smoke of the mutinyhad not cleared away until one India bill after another was introduced forthe better government of the races and nations that had been brought underthe sway of the English scepter in the East. The first measure of this kind was brouirht before the Commons in 178 LIFE AXD TIMES OF WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE, February of 1858, and had for its bottom principle to end the existing formof government in India. In the next place, a measure was introduced bythe chancellor of the exchequer to abolish the political powers of the EastIndia Company and to transfer the same to the crown. After some discus-sion this measure was withdrawn, and the third India bill was brought for-ward, which was discussed at considerable length, and was passed by theHouse on the 8th of July, 1858. By this act the entire political machinery. GKNKKAL HAVELOCK (JREETED UV THE CHKISTIAXS WHOM HE SAVED. and administrative powers of the company were transferred to the crown ofGreat Britain. It was enacted that India should be henceforth governedby, and in the name of the sovereign of England through one of the princi-pal secretaries of state, assisted by a council of fifteen members. The gov-ernor general was to be entitled Viceroy of India. The British troops, act-ing hitherto under the company, and numbering about twenty-four thousandofificers and men, were absorbed in the royal army of India, and the existingIndian navy was abolished as a separate service. Thus was constituted thatempire of which, at a subsequent date, under the auspices of Benjamin Dis-
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