The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-05-26

The following was received at Ha-
warden from the United States ambas-
iador, Colonel Hay:
TO the Right Honorable Herbert
Gladstone:
Il beg to present to all your family
NY heartfelt expression of sympathy at
Tour personal loss, and at the same
time to reverently congratulate you
and the English race everywhere upon
he glorious completion of life filled
With splendid achievements and conse-
Grated to the noblest purposes.
JOHN HAY"
The queen and the Prince of Wales
received early intelligence of Mr.. Glad
'tone's death, and Immediately sent eX-
'ressions of coincidence to the widow.
London, May 21.-The universal ex-
preston of grief and sympathy at the
teath of Mr.. Gladstone gathers volume
aourly. Memoirs and "reminiscences OF
Hr. Gladstone are flooding the press
which everywhere shows column rules
reversed. Almost every court in Eu-
Aope has wired condolences.
Vice President Hobart wires the Dali
y Chronicle as follows: Not even in
ais own land was Mr.. Gladstone more
highly esteemed and venerated than in
he United States. His death has been
we'll nigh national calamity to US;
and 1t occurred at q time when our
people are closely drawn by ties of
Iympathy and mutual interest toward
The nation to which his long career of
public usefulness was so generously
dedicated"
The body was removed to the large
bedroom to-day and placed in a palm
ak coffin surmounted by an oak cross,
extending nearly the whole length of
he lid. At it's foot will be the inscrip-
hon. Three panels are on each side, the
.enter OF each being Of raised dark
metal.
The House went into committee to
consider the address to the queen in
'egard to the interment of the remains
IF Mr.. Gladstone in the Collegiate
Church of st. Peter at Westminster,
otherwise Westminster Abbey.
A. ]. Balfour, the government leader
md first lord of the treasury, in spite
If the weakness of his heart, which is
officially acknowledged, was able to
move the address, although 1t is said
ie Will probably have to take holiday
Immediately. He introduced the sub
ect with a lengthy eulogy of the de-
.eased, speaking with evident emotion.
md concluded with formally moving
The presentation of the addrtss to the
lueen. The Liberal leader, Sir William
Vernon H arcourt, seconded. the motion.
Mr.. Balfour's speech was remarkably
eloquent and displayed great good
taste, while Sir William Vernon Har-
eourt's econiums of his dead leader
we're delivered in more glowing style
The Liberal leaders voice thrice broke
with emotion, and he was compelled
70 pause and wipe his eyes.
Mr.. Dillon was in his most oratorical
style, and when he described how Mr..
Gladstone's sympathes were unbound
ed by nationality, and embraced the
oppressed of all races, the Irish benches
responded with murmurs of assent.
kilograms continue to arrive in great
numbers at Hawarden Castle from all
parts of the world. Mrs Gladstone is
Is we'll as can be expected.
The czar to-day telegraphed to the
widow, in English, saying: IT have
lust received the painful news of the
gecease. consider it my duty to ex-
press my feelings of sincere sympathy
pn the occasion of the cruel and ire
parable bereavement which has befal-
en you, as we'll as the deep regret
which the sad event has given me. The
whole civilized world will beweep the
oss Of the great statesman, whose po-
atical views were 80 widely human and
peaceful. NICHOLAS"