The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-19

ly with the opposition party, he resign ed his seat for Newark and remained for some time out of parliament. At the general election in August, 1S47, he was, with the late Sir Robert Harry Inglis, elected for the University of Oxford. In the parliament of 1S47-52 the questions of university reform and the removal of Jewish disabilities were frequently and earnestly agitated in the lower house. Though MT. Glad stones early sympathies no doubt bound him strongly to the high church and Tory party yet he felt that on both these points the exigencies of the times required that some concessions should be made. He consequently found him. self frequently opposed to his former friends, and eventually separated him. self from the great body of the con servative party in February, 1851. At the general election in July following MT. Gladstone was reelected for the University of Oxford, but not without a severe contest. On the formation of what is generally known as the "Coali- tion" ministry, under the Earl of Aber- deen, in December, 1852, MT. Gladstone was appointed to the chancellorship of the exchequer, in which office the thor ough knowledge of finance which he had acquired and had tested by prac- tical experience at the board of trade proved of the greatest assistance to the ministry.
 After the breaking up of the Aber deen administration, or rather, on it's reconstruction under Lord Palmerston at the beginning of 1855, MT. Gladstone at first continued to occupy the same post, but he resigned in the course of a few weeks, on finding that it was not the intention of the ministry collective ly to oppose the vote of censure inn piled in the resolution of MT. Roebuck, in favor of the appointment of a com mittee of inquiry into the state of the British army before Sebastopol, and the cause of it's sufferings. For some time Mir. Gladstone, who held no public of fee, gave Lord Palmerstons ministry independent support. In the winter of 1S5S-9 he accepted, under Lord Derby's second cabinet, a special mission to the Ionian Islands, to arrange certain diff culties which had arisen in the admin istration of that dependency; and in June, 1859, resumed office under Lord Palmerston as chancellor of the ex- chequer. In this capacity he was mainly instrumental in repeating the paper duty, and in promoting the nego- tiations conducted by MT. Golden which resulted in the commercial treaty between this country and France Mir Gladstone, though originally very jeal- ous of an intervention on the part of the state in the matter of university reform, lent the government from time to time very valuable assistance, by supporting the suggestions of the Ox- ford university commissioners, through his extensive personal and official in- fuence with the authorities at Oxford as one of the representatives of that university in parliament. Besides be- ing eminent as statesman MT. Glad stone had acquired celebrity as an author. His first work, a treatise en- titled "The State in Its Relations With the Church." published in 1888 9th edit. enlarged. 2 vols, 1S41), and fol- lowed, in 1S41, by his Church Princi- pies Considered in Their Results,' stamped him, while still a young man. as deep and original thinker. His views on these subjects. as they are unfolded in these treatises. had, we need scarcely say, been formed and moulded by the education and associa- tions of Oxford, to which university they are dedicated as the first fruits of her teaching and training. Soon after their appearance, they were thought worthy of a long and elaborate criti- cism by the late Lord Macauley in the pages of the Edinburgh Review. MT. Gladstone's Remarks on Recent Com mercial Legislation" published in 1S45, while the country was on the eve of an important change in her commercial system, were intended to pave the way for the extensive modification in the restrictions on commerce imposed by the corn laws, and contain an able and comprehensive summary of the benefi- cial results of the tariff of 1S42. Tn 1851 he published work of a different kind, which created considerable interest both at home and abroad. During a. visit to Naples in the previous year, he learned that a large number of citizens of that place, who had formed the "op- position" in the Neapolitan chamber of deputies, were exiled or imprisoned by King Ferdinand, and that above 10000 of his subjects had been thrown into prison on a charge of political disaffec- tion. Having ascertained the truth of these statements, MT. Gladstone wrote to the Earl of Aberdeen, urging his in- deposition on their behalf; and that noble lords remonstrances proving in- effectual he published a letter on the subject of the state prosecutions at Naples, which was translated into sev- eral foreign languages and was sent by Lord Palmerston to our amba bassador and ministers on the continent, with orders to forward copies of 1t to their respective courts. In 1850 he published an elaborate work on Homer Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age" vols.), and in July, 1884, he was solicit ed to become candidate, in the liberal interest, for South Lancashire, but re- fused to forsake his former constitu- ents. Having been rejected by the University of Oxford at the general election in July, 1865, MT. Gladstone was returned, being third on the poll. for South Lancashire.
 After the death of Lord Palmerston he became leader of the house of com mons, retaining the chancellorshtp of the exchequer in Lord Russell's second