John Bright. PANEGYRIC BY MRGLADSTONE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 356, 3 April 1889, Page 5

John Bright. PAN EGYRIC BY MRGLADSTONE.

London, March 29. Mr Gladstone delivered a formal panegyiu; on the late Mr John Bright in the Bouse of Commons to-day. He said an old colleague had been removed from the bus}' scene of life ab a happy moment, when the great cause of free trade, which he had advocated for so many years, ivas in a fair career of triumph. His opposition to Home liule, though disappointing to those with whom he had been associated, had not been able to piovoke disparagement of his character on their part, but he believed it had pioduced a deeper impression than either his distinguished intellect 01 his splendid eloquence. Mr Bright's supreme eulogy was an elevated political life of the loftiest standard, which had become the object of reverential contemplation, and had caused his n^me to lie indelibly written on the heart- t»i all Englishmen. London, March 30. The funeral of the la c John Bright took piace to- rt iy, the deceased being in tie i red in t,we Quakers' Cemetery, Rochdale, Lancashire. Among those who followed the remains were representatives of Her Majesty the Queen, a large number of 'the members of the House of Commons, and other political bodies.