New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-02-01
TIE DEMAND For RETIREMENT.
NECESSITIES IMPOSED BY THE APPROACHING SIS
SION OF PARLIAMENT-MR. GLADSTONE'S LII
FRARY WORK COMPARED WITH The EXIGENCIE:
OF TIE LIBERAL PARTY.

NECESSITIES IMPOSED BY THE APPROAcHNG sES-
SION OF PARLIAMENT-MR GLADsTONE's LII
ERARY WORK COMPARED WITH The EXIGENCIES
OF TIE LIBERAL PARTY,
froa, The London ZINES oJJu. "A.
The approach of the session Of Parliament
signal TO others besides the Ministers Of the Crown
grid themselves up Tor labor and no one can lie sur
among the principal members OF the late Cabinet with
respect TO their position in the coming session II
maDifesiy undesirable that the experience OF last
year should b. repeated. MI Glads one was then
neither In the House OF Commons nor out OF IT, The
greater part Of the Summer he remained brOOding
the vclsstudes OF political life on the coast OF
Wales whence he descended upon me moor at west
minister The spirit caprciOuSy moved him. The Bud
get drew him 70 besOw blessing on his former pupil
nce more he was provoked t. OestOw the very reverse
OF a blessing upon Mr.. SmOllctt; and when the Public
Worship bill reached the House OF Commons he sud
deuIy appeared wn bundle OF resolutions in his hand
which filled LIS friends with terror. Once only did he
act a. the leader Of an organized party and while
ON taat O,casou be displayed in It's highest form
that mastery Of debate IN which he Is supreme.
IL was secretly murmured that friendship for Lord
LytteOu rather than regard for his party was the ani
mating motive OF the fight in which he engaged Look
iug back the last session realize more clearly
perhaps man az the iie IRE paraS SIS o. parry aeti9n
refuses y lead aud yet declines the privilege OF retire
NOthiug be arranged IN his absence since 1t
uncertain whether he may not at any moment return
and upOn the rare occasions his unforeseen appear
ance tuOss who sit on the front Opposition bench are
anxious 10 know what bolt may be about to fell.
MT GadstO one mty desire TO become a simple member
OF the House Of Commons, visiting IL occasionally,
Lord Macau did IN the latter days OF the time he held
a ~ to deliver his personal opinions upon any
matter that especially dear to him, but II is lmpOss
1
position He is eitncr chief or h Is no chief Let him
come agaiu Ike tue long-desred Arthur, and willing
host win follow hIu whether it be 10 victory defeat
him hutsy retire, and there will be lamentations
but tne broken ranks would close together and
OrgdnzaIOn wOull be slowly evolved Let him neither
return nor withdraw but appear cometke at unknown
periods aud unknown orbits, and the Opposition must
remain an aggregation OF atoms without much the
arrangement that might issue out OF their foruitous
eOncOursc.
Mr. Gladstone has been pressed and pressed TO come
back but declines. The sale of the house in Carlton
House Terrace was no unreal portent Ills resolution
has been taken 20 for the future III North Wales dc
voting himself literature and rural ire, visiting Lon
don only country gentleman may VINO mas seat In
Parliament taste for the arts ana Keen appte-
citation Of ecclesiastical controversy. When Mr..
BOhn's china comes TO be sold ne VIII DC seen az
Christie & Manson's; meeting Tor the mnitipl'
Rooms; and the lucky member who secures a Wednes-
day fori q Church bill may anticipate his presence but
eTraticaly-aways hurrying back 10 Wales and eera-
ture when the impulse that draws him away from them
Is spent For literature or what passes as sueh,
Is to be in future the chief occupation OF the
Bduire OF Ha@ardeD, and, as II TO add
20 the perplexity OF the prospects, the
literature most affected by him threatens ba OF that
kind which pregnant with
mischief 10 the fortunes OF bis dearest friends TIVE
months have not exhausted the astonshmont excited
word I'm an article 10 1ks Contemporary kevtep upon
another subject provoked the resentment OF Roman
Catholic readers, ana TINS accldentaI circumstance
became the motive for writing an exaggerated panph-
let which should have been written Tour years
earlier II written at all, the present publication
OF which is, however justified the especial
Snd peculiar duty OF its author An elaborate argument
snstans this plea yet II is impossible not TO see that
the bill had not been brought Into the House
Of Commons .5s chur cS Of Rome Mr. Gladstone
ywould not have been stirred to tell our-hfths
of the Inhabitants OF Ireland In the spirit mol III the
owe their civil allegiance 10 the Pope and not 20 the
Queen. And this terrible vein Is not exhausted Mex
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