The record-union., 1898-05-19

in Great Britain dropped out Of sight
before the passing Of Mr.. Gladstone.
IN two places. perhaps, was the ten
sion most keen and heartfelt-the
House of Commons and Hawarden.
Just before the House rose yesterday
telegram from Mr.. Gladstone reached
Lord Stanley. announcing that his faith
er was sinking. Already before his
death the hush Of grief seemed to fall
over the scene Of his triumphs, and
from the present men turned to the
past, recalling sayings and dOings. A
great lion lay dying, his old colleagues,
his one-time enemies and followers
watching his last long fight with his
last and implacabIe foe, as they watch
ed in days past his fight against foes
whom he could overcome. True to him
self. he was yielding slo' ly. inch by
inch. 1t was generally felt 1t st. Steph
ems that his dying was but The sequel to
that great scene witnesse / four years
ago. when his last speed spoken, he
quilted the House without one word
of spoken adieu.
bers Of the Government discussed the
appropriate procedure to be followed,
and decided that no effort on their
part should be wanting to mark a suit
able sense of their loss. Disregarding
recent precedent. it was decided that
the programme in Parliament should be
the same as that adopted in the cases
OF the Earl of Chatham and of the
younger Pitt namely, an address to
her majesty. praying for funeral at
the public charge. and a monument
erected in Westminster Abbey.
Throughout the whole kingdom every
public gathering added its words of
grief to the volume Of national mourn
ing clearly voiced in the telegram from
the Prince of Wales to Herbert Glad
stone:
My thoughts are with you, your
mother and your family at this trying
time you are experiencing. God grant
that your father does not suffer.
ALBERT EDWARD"
At the banquet of the Home Counties
Liberal Federation last evening Sir
William Vernon Harcourt. Liberal
leader in the House of Commons. in
stead of delivering an important party
attack only uttered a few words of
grief and left the room. The Duke OF
Devonshire, Lord President of the
Council OF Ministers. speaking before
the British Empire League, referred
touchingly to the mOurnful scenes at
Hawarden. where the greatest OF
Englishmen was slowly passing away"
In other places, Lord Horatio Davis,
Lord George Hamilton, the Secretary
of State for India Henry Campbell
Bannerman and many others in Lon
don, as well as in Birmingham, Swan
sea, Cardiff, Liverpool, Edinburgh and
elsewhere, at all sorts of gatherings,
politicians, divines, agitators, reform
ers and women, joined in the expression
of national and individual grief, while
the press without exception, published
columns of detail and columns of ed
itorial comments.
1t was the topic of the hour in Great
Britain, but abroad the evidences of
sympathy were almost as universal NJ.
Faure, President of the French Repub-
lie, daily inquired and has regularly
received every bulletin The press of
Belgium, France, Italy and Greece, in
a spontaneous outburst, recalled how
Gladstone's life have offered hymns of
praise for his Intervention in their be-
half; while in Madrid, even, the pros
pect of his death has caused a twenty
four-hour suspension of war animosity
against England
Not the least point in this tribute to
Mr.. Gladstone was its profound una
nimity.
GLORIOUS LIGHT EXTINGUISHED.
LONDON, May 19.-6:30 a. m-AlI
the papers are out with special editions
in heavily loaded borders, annourc-
ing the death of Mr.. Gladstone. The
Daily Chronicle" heads it's editorial
with a quotation from Wordsworth:
This is the happy warrior; this is he
That every man in arms should wish
to be-"
The editorial says: "A glorious light
has been extinguished in the land
Mr.. Gladstone is dead, and all his life
lies in the past; memory to US and our
children; an inspiration and possession
forever. The end has come as to A SOL
der at his best. 1t found him calm,
expectant, faithful, mistaken Death
has come robed in the terrors of mortal
pain, but what better can be said thar.
that as he taught his fellows how 10
live, so he has taught them how to die.
1T is impossible at this hour to sur
vey the mighty range of this splendid
life. We would assign to him the title
The Great Nationalist of the Nine
teenth Century To Italy, Greece,
Montenegro and Belgium his name Is
hallowed, but beyond all, we claim him
as the patriot. the greatest of the mas
ter builders of modern England. Ii
nudity had no place in Mr.. GladstOne's
soul. He was a lion among men. and
endowed with a granite strength of viii
and purpose. rare, indeed. in our age of
feeble convictions"
The Daily News" says: 1--WE cannot
help dwelling upon the opinions which
Mr.. Gladstone held most strongly and
the sen.Iments which he felt most