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MR GLADSTONE AND B K A COI* SFIE LD COMP A R K i > ■ Both Lord Beacousfield and Mr Gladstone have now entered uii what if- inevitably the fi al stage of a long eareer. To Lord Beacousfield that ex- perience ib synonymous with an entirely unex pected failure; to Mr Gladstone with an unpre- cedented success. Nothing has been more con- fidently predicted, by all those critics who belong to the class of so-called supeiior persons, during the last few years, than the absolute effacement of Mr Gladstone's influence with his countrymen. He had, we were assured by those, already out- lived his reputation and authority He had be- come a laughing-stock and a byword, and his eloquence was, at the very best, only the furious mouthing of the foiled agitator. The most tolerant of Britons, it was declared, regarded with con- tempt the ludicrous spectacles of Mr Gladstone's tree-fellings at Hawarden, his reception of mechanics in Hawarden Park, his perpetual speeches at railway stations, his general irrepres- sibility, his superabundance 'of emotional en- thusiasm. Now it turns out that whatever opinion the members of aristocratic London clubs might hold ab< >ut the political wisdom or unwisdom of Mr Gladstone's doings, those doings attracted the sympathy of the multitude, and endeared him to the mind of the masses and while Pall Mall has been giving pretty little shrugs of supercilious merriment, the English people have been filled with admiration. The Liberal victory at the polling-booths, the prospect of a Liberal Admini- stration in which Lord Partington will fill the post of Foreign Secretary, are events on which the nation may well be congratulated. But, national as the gain is, it must not be overlooked that the triumph is in a signal degree a personal victory for Mr Gladstone. He has now placed the fact beyond doubt that he is the greatest force in England which has existed during his generation. St. James-street may laugh, but the millions applaud; and Mr Gladstone's passion, eneigy, conviction, and eloquence carry all before them, and diffuse an atmosphere of magnetism around. Mr Gladstone travelled to Scotland via Gran- -tham, York, Newcastle, Berwick. At each one of these places he delivers a little speech—ad- mirably adapted for its special purpose-at the railway stations. The Times and the Telegraph and the West-end Londoners snigger and sneer, and say that Mr Gladstone is making himself ridiculous. But what is the sequel P At each one of the places at which Mr Gladstone speaks a decisive Liberal victory is gained. Lord Beacons- field has devised and dared and done much, but he has never done anything like this and it may be questioned whether any English statesman who has ever lived has achieved such an exploit as has been performed by the Squire of Hawar- den.

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