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judgment is very much rarer on the Liberal side of
the house. The Tory party has still something of
the compact nature of ' an avalanche about it,
which " moveth altogether, if it move at all." Th,,
Tory " Cave," in spite of the spirit and weight of
those who led it, was an utter failure ; Lord Cran-
borne was the leader of a band of only six. Almost,
dl the rest stuck to their party and voted en masse.
The advantage of having a mind, when your follOwers
do not, as a rule, profess one, is evidently much
greater than the advantage of having a mind when
your followers do profess one, and this Mr. Disraeli
now feels. But party reasons are not the only ones
at the bottom of this remarkable ebb of Mr. Glad-
stone's tide and flow of Mr. Disraeli's tide sinse the
crisis in the Ministry. To some extent we believe
that personal causes in relation to the tone and tem-
per of -the house at large have limited Mr. Glad-
stone's influence over his own party, and lent Mr.
Disraeli a sort of adventitious aid due to the strong
contrast of moral and intellectual qualities in which
he stands—in general very much to his own disad-
vantage—With his opponent. There is something
strict aboht Mr. Gladstone, something of the
" righteous and-devout" man who lives " in all good
conscience beforos God," scrupulously serving the
nation and his party, but never unscrupulous or au-
dacious, and prompt to rebuke the slightest levity,
so far as he discerns it, in the political conversation
of those around him. Indeed, he imparts moral
scrupulosity and moral indignation of tone into his
most purely political arguments. Instead of using
the regular party arguments, instead of speak-
ing merely of mischief to the country, unfair
partiality to this or that class, politic a disaster,
and personal inconsistency, as connected with the
course his opponents purste, Mr. Gladstone in-
sinuates, and ia nine cases out of ten not without
sufficient reason, a shade of moral disgust into his
manner, which, while in a Christian point of view it
is often infinitely gentler than the regular party
artillery, yet conveys a certain effect of moral cen-
sorship, and gives the impression of a holier politi-
cal nature than that of the House at large--which
the House is apt to regard as a sort of hitting below
the whist. Mr. Disraeli once spoke of Mr. Glad-
stone's official oratory as " the sanctimonious elo-
quence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer," and as
it is certain that Mr. Gladstone's moral calibre has
always been really higher and more scrupulous than
that of the House of Commons, so it is certain that
the House has always been sensitively alive to this
difference, and conscious of the indications of this
difference in Mr. Gladstone's .own tone and man-
ner. Members have something of the feeling to-
wards him which the Athenians had towards Aris-
tides the Just. Far from being really dictatorial,
Mr. Gladstone has recently, in more cases than one,
consulted the wishes of his folloWers too much ;
but in spite of this, there has been about his
speeches the dictation, • not of imperious will,
but of ',scrupulous obedience to a more -.rigid
code of distie&ioni, . stri_etiOt; political piety,
of more accurate observance . of the whole
law of political righteousness. - This is what
Mr. Disraeli alluded to when in the debate on
the second reading of the -Reform Bill he accused
Mr. Gladstone of putting him " to the question,"
familiarand add addressing,
the
ing him
" with the tone and air of a
;" adding, in order to
complete the caricature, " that ready he had con-
gratulated himself on having a solid piece of furni-
ture between them." Now, no doubt, the strong
apparent repulsion there is to this tone about Mr.
Gladstone is due in large measure not to the self-
righteousness of the great Liberal statesman, but to
the political unrighteousness of the present House -j
of Commons,. whose virtue may fairly and truly be
said, without theological explanations, to be rather
of the nature of filthy rags. We could have no better
example of the kind of manner in which Mr. Glad-
stone's sincere,—and only relatively rigid—political
conscience has convicted the house of sin to its own
great discomfort, than the debate on the motion for
removing Mr. Churchward from the Commission of
the Peace in Dover, when four Liberal members of
the House of Commons were included within the
terms of the proposed penalty by Mr. Bentinck's
amendment. It will be remembered that in answer to
a sardonic question from Mr. Bagge, at the begin-
ning of the discussion, as to whether the four gentle-
men convicted of bribery of four specified elections,
were the gentlemen of those names now members of
the House of Commons, Mr. Disraeli had replied,
with reprobate jocularity, that nothing had struck
hirs as so startling as the frequent cases of mistaken
identity ; that the highly libefral tone of the gentle-
men in question in condemning anything like Tory
corruption was prima facie evidence that they could
not be the same persons, and that it would be well
to have a select committee to inquire. Mr. Glad-
stone was naturally shocked at the leader of the
house thus openly assuming a cynical air, and turn-
ing the corruptness of the country into a joke. He
withstood Mr. Disraeli to his face ; and the house,
who secretly felt.grateful to Mr. Disraeli for making
light of their sins, fidgeted uneasily under the light
but grave rebuke of Mr. Gladstone. "I do not
sympathize," said Mr. Gladstone, with some solem-
nity, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer's prac-
tice in attempting to get-rid of these subjects as if.
they were matters of great levity." And he re-
peated afterwards, amidst a scene of great excite-
ment, that " this house should take care as to the
impression it creates out of doors with regard
to the seriousness of its intention of strik-
ing at - acts of bribery in high places."
Now; the "seriousness" of the house's intentions
on tbis.subject is of a very questionable kind in-
deed, and it is apt to feel uncomfortable when Mr.
Gladstone or any other prophet reasons before it of
" righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come."
It feels just as Felix felt when Paul indulged in re-
marks on these unpleasant subjects—fidgetty—and
that prophets are jarring to the nerves. It prefers
secretly Mr. Disraeli's bold heathenism.
THE "SATURDAY REVIEW" ON MR. GLADSTONE'S
RECENT DOINGS.—ZWe must rook to Mr. Gladstone
for an account of the present state of things.- And it
will be found in his own remarkable character. In
its littleness and
greatness it is hardly appreciated.
He is a man of the closet, not of the fiei.J.
Demosthenes did not make much of it
with his harness on. Nothing could be
better than the fine patriotie ideal which Mr. Glad-
stone prescribed to himself at the beginning of the
session. Party and party tactics were to be laid
aside ; on the common altar of the country all self-
seeking was to be abandoned. Everybody bad
ample reason to bury the dead past ; it was on all
sides a dreary retrospect of failures, inconsistencies,
and vain professions. A vigilant but friendly cri-
ticism on details it was the duty of the Opposition
to urge, but in a patriotic spirit. No ungenerous
use was to be made of the weakness of the Govern-
ment. If Ministers could anyhow reconcile it to
their own sense of personal honour to bring in and
pass a Reform Bill, it was not for Reformers, who
themselves had failed often enough, to hinder or
taunt them. Even if Mr. Gladstone despised the
worms, it was not magnanimous to trample on
them. Brave words—pious sentiments—amiable
resolutions. Only they were nothing more than
words, sentiments, and resolutions. When it came
to practice his good purposes, Mr. Gladstone found
that his way of displaying these virtues was not
quite what was expected of him or them. He did
not mean to be obstructive, only vigilant ; and his
notion of practical vigilance was to suspect every-
thing and condemn everything by anticipa-
tion. He did not intend to be other than con-
ciliatory; but he always took -care to announce
that his notion of conciliation was that every-
body should do as he told them. He was quite
ready to give and take, but he must do all the giv-
ing and taking himself. And, to do them only
justice, the Ministry scarcely winced at even this
indignity. Night after night Mr. Gladstone rose
with his questions, his suggestions, his announce-
ments. his instructions, his nnimata, and the Trea-
sury Benchblandly smiled. It was not here that
Mr. Gladstone failed. He got on well enough with
the Government ; be was provoking, they
were long suffering. It was :the Liberals whom
he was alienating all the time. They could
see well enough that their leader had pledged him-
self to a policy which he was intellectually, perhapl
physically, incapable of carrying out. That policy
was a policy of self-restraint, :and Mr. Gladstone is
incapable of self-restraint. Silence is an impossibi-
lity to him; to watch and watt is physical torment
to a spirit so excitable and energetic. If he cannot
Bealesfidenc es
a,
take counsel with the gods, he must exchange con-
And so. , carried away by a
noble irretention of speech, for six or seven weeks Air.
Gladstone did nothing but interpose, interpellate,
atiegnbt. alk anyhow—with even
interfere, announce, dictate, and prescribe to every-
body about everything on every, possible—and now
and then, as with Beales, impossible—occasion: if
it had only vexed his opponents we might have de-
murred to the taste and judgment of all this. But
it told upon his own party more than on the Minis-
ters. Unable to appreciate the relations of time
and occasion and persons, Mr. Gladstone showed
himself equally lacking in the power to appreciate
the relative importance of things. With so very
earnest and sineere.a person particles. became as
important ae the structure of the epic. Toa A very

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keen but microscopic eye a drop of water is as the
Eo,smos itself. It is as necessary to take your stand
OD the tail of a rubric as on the creed itself. The
thing which is for the instant before Mr. Gladstone
its his
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to be increased by an additional half-hundred weight,
we should all be chaos within sive minutes? Mr.
Gladstone must guard against this; he must fence
his position against this danger; it is a considerable
danger, it is a possible danger, it is an extant dan-
ger, it is an existing danger, an imminent danger, it
is a danger which is actually ready to crush us now
this very moment. The more he looks at anything
the more it rises, swells, expands, and stretches in
size and grandeur. And so he is always vehement, al-
ways in a towering fit of e irnestness and vigour. He
selects, as we have been rein ind ed, th e compound house-
holder. As soon asMr. Gladstone realised thee° rn pound'
householder, all human destinies and duties centred
themselves in the compound holseholder. On the
compound householder he took his stand.. Here he
would give battle. On this point he would hear of
DO compromise; he just admitted the possible sin-
cerity of those who demurred to the stupendous mag-
nitude of the last notion which had suggested itself to
Mr. Gladstone. With a mild and half-contemptuous
scorn he could understand Mr. Locke and Mr. Clay ;
but listen to them, no never. He had drawn up his
instruction, and he must force. it down the craven
throats of his and all human kind's enemies. Only
in delivering the assault he fell on his back. And
now Mr. Gladstone is at the other end of the pole.
From the heights of dictation he is floundering in
the bons of despair. He confides his sorrows to the
Guildford Reform Association. Who Mr. Brooks
may be, and of whom the Guildford Reform Asso-
ciation consists, Mr. Gladstone, we suppose, knows
as little as we do. The only rural branch of the
League that we happen to be acquainted with has a
jobbing tailor for Secretary. Mr. Brooks of Guild-
ford is, we dare say, a very distinguished politician.
Anyhow he is goo I enough and great enough for
Mr. Gladstone to spend his Sunday letters upon.
And Mr. Gladstone writes to Mr. Brooks in a ter-
ribly wounded and depressed spirit. He is all amort.
He is like Hamlet ; he has the task of setting all
wrong things right, and he finds out his own weak-
ness and impotence. He is hurt; he is downcast;
he has suffered. One would think that. he was
no reputation. He has piped, and the children have
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not danced ; nay, even his friends have forsaken him.
He can hardly promise anything ; he is net sure that
he can do anything, say anything, undertake any-
thing. His faith in himself, which never yet de-
serted him, is shaking and trembling. He is ready,
it would almost seem, to sacrifice that leadership
which has only led his army to defeat. And all this
the great leader of the great party confides to Mr.
Brooks of Guildford. He who dictated to 240 a
week aga;. and at least reduced them to silence, now
pours his sorrows into the heart of Brooks of Guild-
ford. To a man in this frame of mind the Easter
holidays must do good. Jaded, disappointed, ener-
vated, Mr. Gladstone is very sore, and unfortunately
shows how very" sore he is. But let him take
courage. There is plenty of work in him, and plenty
of work to do. It only wants more temper and less
talk, for the rest of the session.
THE " WESTMINSTER GAZETTE " ON EMANUEL
SWEDENBORG, THE VISIONARY OF EGYPT.—It is ex-
traordinary how much interest heresiarchs excite.
The world makes heroes of them ; so does Mr.
Carlyle. He glorifies Luther, and raises Knox-to
the stars.. But Luther and Knox were sober men
compared with Swedenborg. A wilder visionary
never dreamed, and he has recorded his interviews
with not fewer than sixty-seven personages in the
spiritual world. Among them we find Popes, Em-
perors, Apostles, philosophers, and poets ; and, as
a good deal of history is blended with Sweden-,
borg's narrations, we may truly say that he
relied on his memory for his dreams and on his
imagination for his .facts. About five years ago,
M. Matter, in an elaborate life of him, brought
his works under a sort of transcendental criticism,
which, being that of a French Protestant, was
scarcely less vague than that of the. visionary
whom he was criticizing. He looked upon Swed-
enborg as " the supernatural in the presence of the
sceptic, the greatest reconciliation ever attempted
between the natural and the supernatural, the ra-
tional and the marvellous." For ourselves, we
look in vain in Swedenborg for any such harmoni-
ous adjustment, and we think it worse than vain to
seek it elsewhere than in the Catholic Church.
Mr. White ,has given, in the volumes before us,
a still more detailed account of the seer of
Stockholm than M. Matter. The home of his
boyhood, his first essays in authorship, his
travels, his poems, fables; and scientific projects
are all brought vividly before us. We see him '
appointed assessor of mines by the King of
Sweden, engaged in engineering, and writing
on tin-plate. We dip into his geological and
chemical writings, and mark at every turn his
rage for novelty, his daring speculation, and his
tendency to build intellectual theories on a mate-
rial basis. He studies anatomy to discover the
soul, and resolves to prove at the same time
" that the soul is perfectly mechanical,"and that
it is immortal." He visits Rome in 1739, -but is
blind to the light of the Sacred .City, and ob-
tains no blessing from the venerable and aged
Clement XII. Some years later, when his visions
were in rapid progress, he was more fortunate than
when he visited the Vatican. He saw Clement
XII. (Corsini) in the other world. The Pontiff
had for some time " presided over the Papists"
there, but had " abdicated of his own accord,
and passed over to the reformed Christians,"
among whom "he enjoyed a blessed life !" lie
informed Swedenborg that the invocation of
saints is vain and ridiculous, and that he had
been very anxious to reform the Church during his
popedom, but had found it impossible. The wise
and devout Benedict XIV. (Lambertini) had not
been dead three weeks before he honoured
Swedenborg with an audience: He listened to
him with great politeness while he discoursed on
the New Jerusalem, but soon returned to the
cavern, where he persisted in keeping company
with cunning and malicious devils. He confessed
that while on earth he held the Bible in con-
tempt, and thought his own speeches in the Con-
sistory very superior. He loved the Jesuits, and
when they were shown to be devils he still clung
to them. He met one day in hell the most
cunning of all the Popes who had died before
him, and, wishing to put his own craftiness to
the test, found that they were equals. Sixtus
V. (the famOus Felix Perretti) likewise favoured
Swedenborg with many communications equally
important. He assured him that the vicarship of the
Popes was a human invention, and that, unlike
Benedict XIV., he held the Scriptures to be divine
and more holy than Papal edicts. St. Francis
Xavier had become " quite idiotic " when Sweden-
borg met him in the world of spirits ; St. Ignatius
Loyola was looking down with horror on his own
followers, and, like all the other Catholic saints,
was highly offended at being invoked. It is incon-
ceivable how such drivelling nonsense, such paltry
and perverted imitation of Dante's poetic visions,
could ever have been accepted by any men, or
women either, as the voice of wisdom and in-
sysfrwateidoeno.borig,settruheisoboiry stogoroaopshiers
in anewassures usthatdefini-
tion tion of the relations between the Creator and the
creature," and that " his other world experiences
are. altogether' subsidiary to the illuttration of
these. relations." That the poor man was demented
there cannot be a doubt, and if we are to judge
-i
by the New Jerusalem Magazine and the New Jer-
usalem Messenger, published respeCtively in Boston
and New York, we must • pronounce the Same
judgment on those who still honour him as the
founder of theme. sect. Every one who has read
Mohler's " Symbolism " knows what hiS doctrines
were, and what view the " Pillar and Ground of
the- Truth " takes of them. Ile maintained a
Trinity of principles, not of persons ; that the
Holy Spirit "is not a person separate from the
Lord ;" and that Christ is in Himself the Di-
vine Trinity. He was constantly battling with
the Lutherans on the one hand, and with Catho-
lics on the other. He consigned both to perdition
if they adhered to their .standard. lie contended
for justification by works and not by faith, but he
accepted baptism and the Lord's Supps-r as signs
only, devoid of any spiritual efficacy. In his
" Apocalypsis Revelata ' (or "Revelation Re-
vealed "), and also in his " Vera Christiana Re-
ligio," he says, " With regard to Purgatory, I can
aver that it is a pure Babylonish fiction, invented
for the sake of gain, and that no such place does or
can exist." In short, this crazy dreamer, in his accept-
ance and rejection of Catholic doctrine, appears to
have been actuated by no fixed principle, and to
have yielded his judgment
.entirely to the guid-
ance of his fancy. His rhapsodies about the plan-
ets which he visited remind one of the Koran and
the BOA of Mormon.. The only excuse we can
• make for him is 'that he had never been instructed
i the Catholic faith,' was a PQetarian, sprung