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being undeceived. as much perhaps to the
surprise of its subject IS to their own.

being undeceived. as much perhaps to the
surprise of its subject ss to their own.
His Marriage.
Meanwhile another event happened which
had a still more marked Influence on Mrs
Gladstone.s career. On July Is, 1883, at
the age of 30, he was married. az Hawar-
den, to Miss Catherine Giynne. the eldest
sister and, in her issue, heir of Sir Stephen
Glynne, ninth and last baronet of the name.
No better suited helpmate could have been
found for the future statesman than this
accomplished and high-minded lady. The
Hawarden estates were in a bad way. as
Sir Stephen was anything but business
man. His new brother-in-law took the
management OF affairs. was enabled to ad-
vance the baronet money and soon had
things in a prosperous condition. Cath
crime, Glynne and her sister Mary were
known as 1.-THE handsome Glynne girls"
in the sos, and were married on the same
day at Hawarden. w. E. Gladstone lead
ing to the altar Catherine and Lord Lyt-
Teton marrying Mary.
After his marriage Mr.. Gladstone made
his home at Hawarden by invitation Of his
brothsr-in-law. and when Sir Stephen died
the estates passed by will to Gladstone's
eldest sen, the castle and grounds being
given to Mrs Gladstone for life. Gladstone
also made over to his eldest son the real
estate which he had bought in the neigh
borhood. The eldest son died in 1891. and his
son is now the heir Of the Glynnes and OF
the Hawarden Gladstones.
From Tory to Liberal. %
The twelve years which succeeded his
marriage formed the period Of transition.
during which Mr.. Gladstone. reversing his
fathers political career, passed from the
Tory to the Liberal side. AS colonial secre-
tary and now member of the cabinet,
he had followed his premier. Peel. first
in voting to abolish the corn laws and
adopt free trade and then in retiring from
Office. But during the successive admins
trations of Aberdeen and Derby he was
not idle. His speeches in parliament and
his publications, mostly in pamphlets which
were eagerly read, some on church ques-
tions, in which he was highly conserva-
tive. snd some on foreign policy in which
he was strongly liberal. kept him before
the public mind. CHANGING to visit italy
in 1851. while the expressions Of Ferdinand
II. were most rampant. when more than
half the chamber Of deputies had been
banished or imprisoned. and not less than
10000 of the best citizens were languishing
in prison and subjected to the greatest
cruelties, Mr.. Gladstone penetrated the
dungeons inquired into the cases Of the
sufferers, and published an elaborate and
terrible indictment Of the Neapolitan gov
ernnnent, in series OF letters to Lord
Aberdeen. The British government adopt
ed his statements, and circulated them
through Europe. The result was seen--a
few years afterwards in the revolutions
which transformed Italy from a geo
graphical expression to a constitutional
monarchy, and made her one of the five
great powers of Continental Europe and a
firm and most valuable ally of Great Brit
ain.
Downfall of Derby Government.
!. In 1853, on the downfall of the Derby
government, wrecked by an unpopular
budget, which had been forced upon Dis
raeli, then chancellor of the exchequer,
by his agricultural supporters, MT. Glad
stone succeeded, under Lord Aberdeen, to
the Office which his almost life.fong rival
and opponent had vacated. The budget
which he proposed on April %. 1858, was
awaited with intense interest, and received
with unbounded applause. Its character
and the remarkable ability shown in the
speech introducing 1t made its introduction
an event of historical Importance. 1t set
tied the financial system of the empire GER
centuries to come; and its effects made
its proposer four times prime minister. It
removed taxes by Wholesale 6 st lessened
the charges ON -commonspFocesses- of bus
iness, on locomotion, on postal communi-
cation, and on several articles OF general
consumption" and 1t made up the de-
fciency, by succession duty on real prop
erty, and by an increase of the income tax
and OF the duty on spirits. In effect 1t
shifted the burden of taxes from the poorer
classes to the owners Of property and the
consumers of luxuries.
Mr.. Horatio Hale was on that memorable
eveiing introduced into the gallery of the
house OF commons, and, writing of the
scene In the Critic. says:
Scene In House of Commons.
''The long and brilliantly lighted cham
ber' or hall. which seemed to stretch far
below and beyond the gallery, like q
resplendent cavern in the earth. had at
its farther end the speakers chair and
canopy. In front Of this bewigged and dig
niiied functionary extended that solid piece
and broad table. on @ which % Bills bills
and petitions are metaphorically laid. On
table. sat Mr.. Disraen himself, with cold
and -impassive visage; and besides him. on
the rising tiers OF benches. his followers
kept their stern countenances fixed on the
protagonist OF the evening. whom they
were beginning to regard as dsserter
and as a traitor to his party. He stood
composedly opposite Disraeli. having be-
side and behind him the crowded ranks
OF the anxious and expectant Liberals.
Mr.. Gladstone was then in the prime
OF life and ,vigor, A years of age, but look
ing SO much younger that stranger would
hardly have taken him to be much more
than 30. slender and almost boyish fig-
ure. above the middle height, but not mo-
ticeably tall, handsome and speaking
countenance, framed with wealth of
dark hair. and lighted with dark eyes,
beaming with intelligence and good humor
his person swaying with constant but
always graceful movement of the body,
| limbs and hands in enforcement of his
words-made him an attractive central OBJ
tect. His voice. always clear and reson-
| ant, carried his words. without apparent
effort. to the ear of every person in the
chamber He spoke without notes, and
was heard, SO far as is remembered, with
only two Interruptions besides the fire.
quent cheers of his partisans. One of these
was from Mr.. Disraeli, exposing what he
thought was a mistake-an exposure well
coined by boisterous acclaim from his
followers. This suddenly ceased when a
prompt and quiet reply from Mr.. Gladstone
showed that the supposed mistake was
merely an error OF the opposing chief; and
no further Interpolation came from that
| side. A discontented Liberal interposed
one objection. which Mr. Gladstone met
with ready and smiling courtesy, by re-
| minding his honorable friend that to ar
que this single point at this time would
| only lead to a personal 'duellum,' as he
expressed 1t. which would not advance the
present object. Under this appeal the OBJ
lection promptly subsided. amid the cheers
| and Laughter of his party. Throughout
Mr.. Gladstones speech his tone was not
that of an orator, but of n lively converser
explaining his views on an important mat
ter of business to company of friends.