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MR. (ILADSTONE'S CHAPTER OF AUTO.
BIoriRAPHI.

Ortxtorts will differ even among his most
attached supporters as to the prudence or the
neceasity of the eloquent justification which Mr.
Guam-form has just published in the form
of a " Chapter of Autobiography." Riau-
Lulu's remark Give me two lines of
" any man's writing, and I will hang him," inevit-
ably comes to mind when a statesman fore-
most in a great conflict of policies and
principles commits his reputation to the
treacheries of print, and to the malignant in-
genuity of garbling critics. Mr. REVERDY
JOHNSON, who has been a guest of Mr. DISRAZLI,
and who had read his " works" with admiration
before he came to know Lim as a statesman,

playfully suggested (at the Brighton banquet on
Saturday) that perhaps Our PREMIER now " wishes
•' he bad never put his pen to" those delightful
political novels in which, by his own subsequent
avowal, he had purposely embodied his most inti-
mate and disinterested convictions on public affairs.
There is this peculiarity, however, in Mr. GLAD-
grob-Y.'s position before his countrymen. It is
precisely for those qualities of mind and
heart—the chivalrous contempt of petty sub-
terfuges, and the earnestness which the com-
mon run of political worldlings and cynics call
rashness—which have compelled him to publish
his Apsdogia at this moment—that he is honoured
and beloyedbythegicat body of his fellow-country-
men with an enthusiastic and affectionate trustful-
ness such as few statesmen have ever called forth,
and still fewer have deserved. Hostile critics may
garble and distort passages of this Chapter with
all the dexterity of which the craft of literary
calumniators is capable. But the great body of
his fellow countrymen will love and trust the
author of this confession none the less that it lays
him open to the attacks of meaner me.% States-
manship, however, is not an affair of aeutinient,
or of the growth and formation of opinions in
one n.an's mind. It it a science of exigencies.
On this point Mr. DfsB.ABLI and Mr. ethaesioxr
cannot lust agree. Thu consistency of any one
atatesnaui is a secondary consideration except to
himself. Not so his character, his conduct, and
Lis miracle:me ; Ouse belong to his party, and to
her country. And it is in this belief no doubt that
Mr. (ii.eIiBTONS bus puldishol his present " Chap-
'• ter of AutobiognqJiy."
This " Chapter of Autobiography" cool to the
root of the allegations made against Mr.
GLairsTosh by hi, enemies. There is neither
besting about the bush nor attempt to depre-
cate the gravity of the issues ruined. The
Liberal loader frankly takes his countrymen into
his confidence; admits consistency in public men
to be an all-important virtue ; and preforms the
general explanation of his own eondect awl the
aspersione cast on it thus :
()ere thing I have not done, and shall net dn. 1 Khali
not attempt to laugh off the question, or to attenuate its
Importance. lu theory, at least, and fot others. lum
myself it purist with respect to what touches the con-
sistency of statesmen. Change of opinion is those t 4
whose judgment the public looks more or less to assist its
9" is an tail to the gantry, although • mugh Imallsr