When Mr Gladstone was Born

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 6, 26 June 1886, Page 3

When Mr Gladstone was Born

r 'The following extract, writes a correspondent, may interest some of j&ror readers. It is from Bell's Weekly Dispatch, dated Sunday, September 80, 1810. The leading article headed, Dangerous 1 -State. , of our ..Country, 'after some references to the unsatisfactory state of ' our r# f val system,' goes on. to say, no sjjeps to be taken for quieting the dilcontent in Ireland? Is that unhappy country still to continue a disgusting scene of poverty, of ignorance, of prejudico, oi religious animosity, of disaffection and tumult ? Is Ireland to be left in that vulnerab'e state that an invading en^my might expect to meet with friends instead of enemies oir his landing there? If our rulers suffer all these tfrings to go on as they hare d(?ne, and if t at the . jsanie %\me, they j quarrel among themselves and fire pistols at each Qther,Vwe have; indeed very little-to h'opefor, and have anly to pray that tlie saying of the ancient moralist may not be fulfilled in respect to them— ■ .-' ,:' Quo Deuß vult perdere, priufl d^itientat When these words were written Mi Gladstone was just nine months old and few of our present legislators had yet arrived at that vefy early period of life. Are the statesmen who have charge of the Irish question of to-day about to solve it rt by • quarrelling among themselves ?, ,, It sqems only too likely.' „ . '„' :