«Отдельные люди могут оправиться даже от серьезной болезни; похоже, это не относится к правительствам». — Г-н Гладстон, Nineteenth Century, сентябрь 1887 г. 302.Dec. 2, 1873.303.The conservatives had gained a seat at Stroud on Jan. 6, and greatly reduced the liberal majority at Newcastle-on-Tyne.304.“The continual loss of elections,” Lord Aberdare wrote to his wife, “and the expediency of avoiding being further weakened in detail, have determined us to take at once the opinion of the country, and to stand or fall by it. I am rejoiced at this resolution.”—Aberdare Papers, Jan. 23, 1874.305.It was an extraordinary feat for a Statesman of sixty-five who had quite recently been confined to his bed with bronchitis. The day was damp and drizzly; numbers, which are variously estimated from six to seven thousand, had to be as far as possible brought within the range of his voice, and his only platform was a cart with some sort of covering, in the front of which he had to stand bareheaded.—Spectator, Jan. 31, 1874.306.Mr. Gladstone on Electoral Pacts, Nineteenth Century, November 1878.307.February 17, 1874.—“I was with the Queen to-day at Windsor for three-quarters of an hour, and nothing could be more frank, natural, and kind, than her manner throughout. In conversation at the audience, I of course followed the line on which we agreed last night. She assented freely to all the honours I had proposed. There was therefore no impediment whatever to the immediate and plenary execution of my commission from the cabinet; and I at once tendered our resignations, which I understand to have been graciously accepted. She left me, I have no doubt, to set about making other arrangements.”308.March 19, 1874.309.Aberdare Papers.310.See vol. i. p. 337.311.Blachford's Letters, p. 362.312.Herod. vii. 157.313.Congregationalist, Feb. 1875, p. 66.314.See Cecconi's Storia del Conc. Vat. i. p. 3. For Mr. Gladstone's earlier views on the temporal power, see above, vol. i. p. 403.315.See Purcell, ii. chap. 16.316.“Outside the Roman state, I am amazed at the Italian government giving over into the hands of the pope not only the nomination to the bishoprics as spiritual offices, but a nomination which is to carry with it the temporalities of the sees. They ought to know their own business best; but to me it seems that this is liberality carried into folly; and I know that some Italians think so.”—To Lord Granville, Dec. 21, 1870.317.Conversations of Döllinger, by Louise von Köbell, p. 100.318.Mr. Gladstone in Speaker, Jan, 18, 1890.319.Gleanings, vi. pp. 107-191. There the reader will also find (p. 141) the six resolutions deemed by him to furnish a safer and wiser basis of legislation than the Public Worship Regulation Act.320.The Vatican Decrees in their bearing on Civil Allegiance: a Political Expostulation.321.Republishing his article on ritualism in 1878 (Gleanings, vi. p. 127) Mr. Gladstone appends in a footnote on the passage that stated the anti-vatican campaign, an expression of belief and hope that “some at least who have joined the Latin church since the great change effected by the Vatican council, would upon occasion given, whether with logical warrant or not, adhere under all circumstances to their civil loyalty and duty.”322.He died in 1821, when Mr. Gladstone was a boy at Eton.323.Dr. Michael's Ignaz von Döllinger, p. 296.324.For a detailed description of this collection, see Times, June 21, 26, 1875. His London house for the next five years was 73 Harley Street.325.Guardian, May 22, 1872.326.In the preface to his fourth edition Strauss said, “My countrymen might learn from the foreigner how the earnest conscientious statesman recognises a similar quality in an author whose influence he nevertheless considers to be dangerous. They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as such.”327.Olymp. i. 53.328.George Meredith.329.Barrow's Works, iv. p. 107 (ed. 1830).330.See Southey's Life, vi. p. 327.331.εὐδαίμων μὲν ὅς ὲκ θαλάσσας ἔφυγε χεῖμα, λιμέυα δ᾽ἔκιχεν; εὐδαίμων δ᾽ὅς ὕπερθε μόχθων ἐγένεθ.
Счастлив тот, кто, избежав бури, достиг гавани; счастлив также тот, кто преодолел труды и невзгоды. — «Вакханки», 902-5. 332.Pyth. iv. 485; Life of Tennyson, ii. pp. 332, 308. Mr. Gladstone's share in the pensions to Wordsworth and Tennyson is described in Mr. Parker's Peel, iii. pp. 437-442.333.The glorious lines of the Lycian chief in Iliad, xii. 322-8, valiantly repeated, by the way, by Carteret, as he lay dying, and the very essence and spirit of the minister to whom Mr. Watts was writing.334.Mr. Gladstone to Mr. W. L. Courtney, Sept. 5, 1888.335.See above, vol. i. p. 143.336.Referred to by Mr. Gladstone in the House of Commons, Nov. 19, 1867.337.The Prelude, vii.338.Vol. i. pp. 476 and 521.339.Mr. Stead, then at the Northern Echo in Darlington, began his redoubtable journalistic career in pressing this question into life.340.The Bulgarian Horrors, and the Question of the East.341.The story of the heroic death of Colonel Kiréeff, her brother, was vividly told by Kinglake in the introduction to the cabinet edition of his Invasion of the Crimea. This episode is supposed by some to have helped to intensify Mr. Gladstone's feeling on the issues of the eastern war.342.Lessons in Massacre.343.Church, Life, p. 252.344.Letters of J. R. Green, pp. 446-7.345.Spectator.346.Mr. Balfour, House of Commons, May 20, 1898.347.At this interview Mr. Chamberlain was present. He had asked Mr. Gladstone what he would like to do or see in Birmingham. Mr. Gladstone said he thought he should like to call upon Dr. Newman. The wonderful pair were nervous and constrained, and each seemed a little relieved when, after twenty minutes of commonplace conversation, they rose to part.348.Speeches of the Fifteenth Earl of Derby, i. p. 297.349.Pall Mall Gazette, Feb. 26, 1898.350.Lord Carnarvon resigned in January, 1878, when the fleet was ordered to the Dardanelles, and Lord Derby in March on the calling out of the reserves.351.Russia demanded from Turkey the Dobrudscha in order to cede it to Roumania in exchange for the Roumanian province of Bessarabia.352.As it happened, the severance of northern from southern Bulgaria only lasted seven years.353.Mr. Gladstone made an important speech on the treaty-making power on June 13, 1878.354.At Knightsbridge, July 27, 1878.355.See Gleanings, ii. p. 213.356.Ibid. ii. pp. 146-7.357.Spectator, February 8, 1879.358.Saturday Review, November 29, 1879.359.Much Ado, Act i. Sc. i.360.Faguet.361.Lord Selborne (Memorials, i. 471) says that Lord Granville reported to him (Dec. 21), that Lord Hartington at this meeting wished to insist upon Mr. Gladstone resuming the lead, but that the rest were, for the present at all events, against any such step. Lord Granville's own view was that the question, like many other questions, would have to be solved ambulando.362.Speech at West Calder, April 1, 1880.363.The other candidates stood:—Barran (L.), 23,674; Jackson (C), 13,331; Wheelhouse (C), 11,965. As the constituency was three-cornered, Gladstone, Barran, and Jackson were elected.364.Letter to electors of Leeds, April 7, 1880.365.The iron railing of this balcony is now a sacred relic in the hands of a faithful follower.366.Published anonymously in the Fortnightly Review, May 1880.367.See, for instance, Pall Mall Gazette, April 2 and 22, then conducted by Mr. Greenwood, the most vigorous and relentless of Mr. Gladstone's critics.368.November 25, 1879.369.The Plimsoll matter was a movement to give Mr. Gladstone a public reception on his arrival in London. Mr. Gladstone declined the reception as inconsistent with his intention, expressed at Edinburgh, to avoid all demonstration, and also because it would be regarded as an attempt made for the first time to establish a practice of public rejoicing in the metropolis over the catastrophe of an administration and a political party, and would wound feelings which ought to be respected as well as spared.370.See an interesting letter from Viscount Esher, Times, Feb. 22, 1892.371.“Without their full acquiescence—and indeed their earnest pressure—he could not even now take a step which would seem to slight claims which he has amply and generously acknowledged.... If either now or a few days later he accepts the task of forming and the duty of presiding over a liberal administration, it will be because Lord Granville and Lord Hartington, with characteristic patriotism, have themselves been among the first to feel and the most eager to urge Mr. Gladstone's return to the post to which he has been summoned.”—Daily News, April 22.372.Up to this point the memorandum is on Windsor notepaper, and must have been written between the end of the audience and the time for the train—a very characteristic instance of his alacrity.373.The reader will find the list of the members of the cabinet, now and at later periods of its existence, in the Appendix.