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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4310, 24 October 1882, Page 3

Mr Gladstone, in his seventy-second jeer, still walks with perfect uprightness of carriage, and is able in a single week to brine in a budget and explain a Land Bill. Of late his attendance 'on the duties of the' House baa been a little less persistent. He frequently, as the hand of the clock , approaches midnight, folds his tent like the Arab, and as silently steals away. He has also betrayed some disposition to forego the greed of speech which formerly distinguished him. It was the old complaint among his. colleagues in. his former administration that the Premier left them scarcely, anything, to do in their places in the (House of Commons. His boundless vigqr : not only c«rered the necessities of his own post, but was at all times ready to do Ibe work of others., Daring the current session there hare been occasions when Mr Gladstone has actually delegated to a[*6Heagne the duty of replying to. a question put to himself. Still, he never shirks work, and sometimes seems to iMfcricrr- '- -' ' '"