MR GLADSTONE

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2527, 10 February 1877, Page 3

MR GLADSTONE

*a|ling- opinion aa toothe -probable 'return' ofsiJfetrp Gladstone!? to: like 'position ">%s • ?^p^t^rlka^eß7^iThe^^«rs'afisrms /th'atf Mr Gladstone's retiieinent' irffov(i/'t)i'6!\ leaderffhipj'GPwthe' dLiibeirals" was- the^ expression *f^detwMDatibp[%mVed asaf;sr; ttp^nGti^|i4s:eMte^ tial a^d^iKe^fpre^npfciip be.f^ s a'sid| chaiJ^l'piE. ..perspnal ioclin^t;' t!Bii/of gi [tfte.acciaintsjorißijlities^r -X?; Gladstdiie'iasj We'Ha\te reason to believe,' ttor© than oncg,.pnd jquite recently renewed., .the^ expression /.of:<rb,is« originair pjirppse.?3;Sß vkwls declined no^oi ttike aptioii,;oQrr,'eT«a* ito h'appeSE.( ton': occasional which -mi^hfc dead -■>. to>attfti¥flns' derstanding of the course he has tal:,en: The vplanscof life ■ on 'which; lie 'determined when he took farewell of hrg T-?61- n lowers nearly two years ago in his letter to Lord Grar^ail^^jJiWipPßi changed. He .has 'felfc 10-it' 5' liis'^dnty..' "W ;i take n6 step which appearance of pi^ttipg Mmself "foirward;-inS apposition wiiich Jb/e, T h'?s deliberately "quitted 1, and 10 i'ncreksina ,the a .difficidties..;ipi? Lthose on whom b^r'niS; action '^nd ipjypart by his suggestion, an arduous and difficult ppatLjias.:been- conferred. -'Jhis is,- we Deiierpf ikj^ilpbstance f aod .'meaning if these are liot the precise words, with which .vfdjc '^Gladstone <ha"s: replied tb> and declined solicitations and*in arks of-honouthearinga-pariy;character.' But; as Weiffentureditosay when i&.r- Gladstone's' retirement was fi«st announced, th>e 16saris; not all-tess.' slf '■ his^actibn is i:restraifie'd'.in' 86meTdirecti6ns litf the' Jpbsi{idn;which-he, has assumed 1, imd'yy^j^lektion^'in !w^iic&; it plies'- him "tb^hy^ t^eilj^Jolitieal f6lj6w^s. r it4s^enlarged in; pffierS. JTb^^lp|iSr-£q : ; party^ injte>ests!; is*a?gaiii' tip^^.i^leyesls'fav,^^ deeper, and more permanentthah.thoseofparty^ Mr.Glad-i Btone^aijibeen enaj)iedrto speakfor.and tothe natign a* a whole, to rouse its sympathies, and toiguide its action, in a manner wiiichvwoiild: hare; been impossible if he werß .recognised leader of the Oppoiition^and'tKe^destined^eadiof thfene"st -JiMral^Gofernnient^' slt; is;is an, Englishman, and the mos^ t illustribus; of Hying Englishmen\Wht> llc*ari r still actively serve "tlie^fa^knd; not as a party man o.r aai x a r partyife^6ri.^jt:a| cMr^Gladstone/has taYen the ]ihy"he has'adopted'i^ cbntfoveTsywhlch^now'en and it isJnpthis^GJiaractef that-.he f will attend which could scarcely bp)%epnaiji,ered complete ■without him.