MR. GLADSTONE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 276, 19 June 1874, Page 3

MR. GLADSTONE.

- Outside Parliament there is certain to be a reaction of feeling in favor of Mr. Gladstone... The. same people who, were anxious to stop him in what they thought . a wrong course, who were offended by his 1 tone;'or s alienated by his colleagues.iwill begih.to feel something 6f pity and, regret and a little' personal contrition when the details of Mr. Gladstone's administration are forgotteh, ■ and when the greatness of the things he did and the greatness of the huiuiliationl:„to.which he was subjected; alone survive in their memories. This reaction must have come in any case; for if Englishmen i;have any marked -politicals'' characteristic, it'is that' of ! being just and generousi to' statesmen when out) of office, (Jißuftheichange in public feel- ; ing will' be much intensified when it conceived that the .services, : of iMr.v.Gladthe nation. If everything goes on smoothly in the years';;i{uri"ii'g which Hves"apd^is^abletq"do.public service, the: 'sentiment "o|- |egret 'at''" his" ! withdrawal l from the scene)of,politics may be a gentled one to which'men'wili gradually become! .accustomed'; -but-if'a erisif;arrives;' and' it is thought:that one else can. a call may possibly be madeupon Mr. Gladstone's sense ot dti-y which, with all his-yearriing'fbr repose' and a' se eluded peaceful old"age, he may find it: iuipossibie ( to resist.-—■ 'Spectator.'