. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . nvasion by France—Tax on Paper—Proceedings in the House ofLords—Liberals and Tories—Lord Russell Withdraws His Reform Bill—Cross Purposes in Parliament—Rivalry Among Opposing Factions. HE Ministry which came into power at the beginning ofthe year 1858, was, from a literary point of view, a re-markable one 5 and one which would be almost if not quiteimpossible in America, where the necessity of achievingname and place by his own exertions renders itless likely that a mancan succeed in many di-rections. The Earl ofDerby may become emin-ent in
. Life and public services of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone . nvasion by France—Tax on Paper—Proceedings in the House ofLords—Liberals and Tories—Lord Russell Withdraws His Reform Bill—Cross Purposes in Parliament—Rivalry Among Opposing Factions. HE Ministry which came into power at the beginning ofthe year 1858, was, from a literary point of view, a re-markable one 5 and one which would be almost if not quiteimpossible in America, where the necessity of achievingname and place by his own exertions renders itless likely that a mancan succeed in many di-rections. The Earl ofDerby may become emin-ent in literature and poli-tics with less exertionthan is required for anAbraham Lincoln to gainadmittance to the bar; itis for this reason thatwe find so many Englishstatesmen and so fewAmericans excelling inother things than state-craft. It is true that allscholarly British states-men do not reach the em- Lord in letters of Macaulay, who died about the period wehave now reached in this history. But, on the other hand, Ma- 179. 180 The Palmerston Ministry. caulay, who figures with some prominence in the early stages ofthis narrative, in order to become great as an historian and es-sayist, was obliged to retire almost entirely from the strife forpolitical honors. At the head of the Government at this date was that brilliant,impulsive speaker, whose words were sometimes fiery eloquence,and sometimes grandiloquent nonsense j who was often carriedaway by the passions which, subdued, he might have used as ef-ficient weapons against the evils of the cause which had arousedthem; whose blunders often lost the victories which his head-long daring had almost won, so that Disraeli, his brilliant sub-ordinate had already christened him The Rupert of Debate,after the fiery Stuart j he was long eminent as a statesman, firstas Lord Stanley, afterward becoming Earl of Derby, but had notat this time become known as a translator of the Iliad, whichwill more surely perpetua
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