TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2834, 31 October 1885, Page 2

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Gladstone, The Right Hon. William Ewart, was born at Liverpool, Lancashire, on December 29, 1809. His father, Sir John Gladstone, was a Scotchman. William, the fourth son, was elected a member of the British Parliament for the Borough of Newark, in the county of Notts, in 1832 ; after representing that borough for fourteen years he was rejected for aiding Sir Robert Peel in carrying the great measure of Free Trade through the House of Commons. But he was elected in the following year, 1847, for the University of Oxford, where in his earliest years he had closed a brilliant career by taking a double first class degree ; that was in 1831. Rejected by his academiic constituency in 1805, he was returned by South Lancashire ; but was rejected by his native shiremen in 18G8, when Greenwich returned him. In March 18S0, Parliament was again dissolved, and Gladstone was returned for Midlothian after the most exciting contest of the general elections on that occasion. He still represents Edinburgh county. Campbell, Sir Colin (Lord Clyde) was born in Glasgow, in 1792. His father was a cabinet-maker, named John Macliver, but Colin assumed the name of Campbell to gratify an uncle on the mother's side. He died, after a famous British military career, acquired principally in the Spanish peninsula, the Crimea, and India, in August 18G3.