The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-19
GLADSTONE is DEAD
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mastery of general principles, and it re-
ceiyed the sanction of both houses with
| scarcely an alteration. In 1S43, Mr.
| Gladstone succeeded the Earl of Ripon
| as president of the board of trade. bnt
| resigned that office early in 1S45. In
January. 1876 Sir Robert Peel an
| nounced his intention of proposing n
modification of the Corn Laws. Mr.
Gladstone who had succeeded Lord
Stanley (the late Earl of Derby in tho
post of Secretary Of State for the Col
onies adhered to the leader under whom
he had entered upon ministerial life; but
possibly, unwilling to remain under obi
cations to the late Duke Of Newcastle
who sympathized strongly with the on
position party, resigned his seat for New
ark and remained for some time out of
Parliament.
At the general election in August.
1917, he was, with the late Sir Robert
Harry lnglis, elected for the University
of Oxford. In the Parliament of 1917
-, the questions of university reform
and the removal of Jewish disabilities
were frequently and earnestly agitated
in the Lower House. Though Mr.. 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 eXigencics 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, 1881.
At the general election in July follow
ing, Mr.. Gladstone was reelected for
the University of Oxford, but not with
out severe contest On the formation
of what is generally known as the
coalition" ministry, under the Earl of
Aberdeen, in December. 1882. Mr.. Glad
stone was appointed to the Chancellor
ship of Exchequer. in which office, the
thorough knowledge Qf finance which he
had acquired. and had tested by practi-
cal experience at the board of trade,
proved of the greatest assistance to the
ministry. After the breaking up of the
Aberdeen administration, or rather, on
its reconstruction under Lord Palmers-
ton. ut the beginning of 1850, Mr.. Glad
stone at first continued to occupy the
same post. but he resigned in the course
Of few weeks. on finding that it was
not the intention of Hhe ministry collec-
lively to oppose the vote of censure inn
piled in the resolution Of Mr.. ROebuck,
in favor of the appointment of com
mittee of inquiry into the state of the
British army before Sebastopol. and the
cause of its sufferings. For some time
Mr.. Gladstone. who held no public office,
gave Lord Palmerston's ministry an in
dependent support.
In the winter of 1S5S--J9 he accepted,
under Lord Derby's second cabinet, a
special mission to the Ionian Islands, to
arrange certain difficulties which had
arisen in the administrator of that de-
pendency: and in June 1889, resumed
office under Lord Palmerston as Chan
cellor of the EXchequer. In this capa-
city he was mainly instrumental in re-
pealing the paper duty, and in promoting
the negotiations conducted by Mr.. Cob
den. which resulted in the commercial
treaty between this country and France.
Mr.. Gladstone, though originally very
jealous 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 sup
porting the suggestions Of the Oxford
University Commissioners. through his
extensive personal and official influence
with the authorities ut Oxford, as one
of the representatives of that university
in Parliament
Besides being eminent as a statesman,
Mr. Gladstone had acquired celebrity rs
an author. His first work, a treatise en-
titled THE State in its Relations with
the Church, published in 1888 18th edit.
enlarged, = volumes. 1S41), and followed
in 1871, by his Church Principles con-
sidered in their Results" stamped him,
while still a young man, as Il deep and
original thinker. His views on these
subjects, as they are unfolded i'll these
treatises, had, we need scarcely say, been
formed and moulded by the education
and association of Oxford, to which Uni
yersity they are dedicated as the first
fruits of her teaching and training.
Soon after their appearance, they were
thought worthy of long and elaborate
criticism by the late Lord Macaulay in
the pages of the Edinburgh Review.
Mr. Gladstone's remarks on recent
commercial legislation" published in
1915. while the county was on the eve
OF an important change in her CONNER
cial system, were intended to pave the
restrictions on commerce imposed by the
Corn Laws, and contain an able ana
comprehensive summary of the bene-
fetal results of the tariff Of 1872. In
1851 he published IL work Of Il
different kind. which created con
siderable 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 opposition in the Nea-
politan Chamber Of Deputies were eX-
lied or imprisoned by King Ferdinand,
and that above 10000 of his subjects had
been thrown into prison on charge OF
political disaffection. Having ascertain
ed the truth of these statements. MI.
Gladstone wrote to the Earl OF Albef-
deem, urging his interposition on their
behalf and that noble lords remon-
strances proving Intellectual, he pub
lished letter on the subject of the State
prosecutions at Naples, which was trans
lated into several foreign languages
and was sent by Lord Palmerston to oul
ambassadors and ministers on the the
Continent, with orders to forward copies
OF it to their respective courts In 1890
| he published an elaborate work OH