The Feilding Star. Published Daily. THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1894. THE NEW ENGLISH PREMIER.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 258, 8 March 1894, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Published Daily. THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1894. THE NEW ENGLISH PREMIER.

The successor of Mr Gladstone to the Premiership of England, the Earl of Rosebery, was born in London iv 1847, and received his education at Eton, and at Oxford. The first time he ever spoke in public was in 1871, when, at the opening of Parliament lie was selected by the Prime Minister, Mr j Gladstone, to second the address in reply to the speech from the throne. He soon took a decided position on the question of national education, and when the Government Education Bill for Scotland was before the House of Peers, he moved an amendment to it I by which he aimed at the exclusion of catechisins'froiu public schools. Dur- ! the session of 1874 Lord Rosebery i moved for and was made chairman of a committee on the Scotch and Irish representative Peerages. He was President of the Social Science Congress which met in Glasgow in 1874. In 1878 he was elected Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen in in succession to Mr W. E. Foster. In 1880 he was elected Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh. He was appointed Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department which position he resigned in 1883, and in 1884 became First Commissioner of Works in succession to Mr Shww-Le&svce) who succeeded Mr | Fawcett as Postmaster-General. In j Mr Gladstone's next government he was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and won general approval both at Home and abroad for the firmness with which he conducted the difficult questions arising out of the Servo-Bulgarian war, and the (*reek desire for a territorial indemnity. In 1881) he was elected member of the London Coun<y Council, and was appointed chairman of that body, over whose deliberations he presided with success ; but, owing to his many public duties, he had to resign. His Lordship abstained, to a great extent, from his usual political and social labours during the year IS9 I, owing to the lamented death of Lady Rosebery. His monograph of William Pitt, the younger — a remarkably clever literary effort — was published in November of that year. In 1892 he again became chairman of the London County Council, and held the position for some months, till the approach of the general election compelled him to resign it. When Mr Gladstone succeeded to power, Lord Rosebery was made Secrei ary for Foreign Affairs, a post he lias occupied with distinction until the retiren.ent of Mr Gladstone, when his Lordship became the fitting successor of one who had been his friend and patron from the first.