Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1886 — GLADSTONE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GLADSTONE.

A Portrait and Brief Sketch of the Greatest of Living Statesmen. -* ’ " " - ’ ■ • f ; ■; . , William Ewart Gladstone was born at Liverpool Dec. 29, 1809, and is therefore in the 77th year of his age. His father was a wealthy merchant, and acquired a large fortune in the West India tjjrode. Mr. Gladstono' was educated at Eton and Oxford, and entered Parliament in 1832 as a member for Newark, which borongh he continued to represent until 1840. Daring this period he was a constant contributor to the Quarterly Review, chiefly on literary and '-ecclesiastical subjects. In 1834 he was made Junior Lord of the Treasury, and in 1835 Under Secretary for Colonial Affairs. In 1841 hen-wns sworn in a member of the Privy Council and appointed Vice President of the Board or Trade and Master of the Mint. In 1843 he was made President of the Board of Trade. In 1845

he entered the Cabinet as Secretary of the Colonies, /under the Premiership of Sir, Robert Bejel. In 1852 he became Chancellor of the Exchequer under the Earl of Aberdeen, and retained the office for a short period under tho Premiership of Lord Palmerston. In 1858 Mr. Gladstone declined a position in the Cabinet, but accepted an appointment as Lord High Commissioner Extraordinary to the lonian Islands. On Lord Palmerston’s return to power, in 1858, Mr. Gladstone again became Chancellor of the Exchequer. After the death of Lord Palmerston, in 1865, he became the leader of his party in the House of Commons. In 1868 Mr. Disraeli’s Ministry resigned, and Mr. Gladstone succeeded him as Premier.' He continued at the Bead of the Cabinet until 1874^when the Liberals being defeated in the Parliamentary elections, Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues resigned, and Mr. Disraeli again took the helm. In 1879 Mr. Disraeli again retired, and was a second time succeeded by Mr. Gladstone, who, with the exception of a very brief interval, has been Premier ever since.