we saw that our tellers were on the right in walking
to the table, indicating that we had won. Fremantle gave out the
numbers, and then the intense excitement raised by the sight we had
witnessed found vent in our enthusiastic (quite irregular) hurrah
with great waving of hats. Upon looking back I am sorry to think
how much I partook in the excitement that prevailed; but how could
it be otherwise in so extraordinary a case? I thought Lord John's a
great speech--it was delivered too under the pressure of great
indisposition. He has risen with adversity. He seemed rather below
par as a leader in 1835 when he had a clear majority, and the ball
nearly at his foot; in each successive year the strength of his
government has sunk and his own has risen.

Then came the dissolution, and an election memorable in the history of
party. Thinking quite as much of the Scotch college, the colonial
bishoprics, and Tract Ninety, as of sugar duties or the corn law, Mr.
Gladstone hastened to Newark. He was delighted with the new colleague
who had been provided for him. 'As a candidate,' he writes to his wife,
'Lord John Manners is excellent; his speaking is popular and effective,
and he is a good canvasser, by virtue not I think of effort, but of a
general kindliness and warmth of disposition which naturally shows
itself to every one. Nothing can be more satisfactory than to have such
a partner.' In his address Mr. Gladstone only touched on the poor law
and the corn law. On the first he would desire liberal treatment for
aged, sick, and widowed poor, and reasonable discretion to the local
administrators of the law. As to the second, the protection of native
agriculture is an object of the first economical and national
importance, and should be secured by a graduated scale of duties on
foreign grain. 'Manners and I,' he says, 'were returned as
protectionists. My speeches were of absolute dulness, but I have no
doubt they were sound in the sense of my leaders Peel and Graham and
others of the party.' The election offered no new incidents. One old
lady reproached him for not being content with keeping bread and sugar
from the people, but likewise by a new faith, the mysterious monster of
Puseyism, stealing away from them the bread of life. He found the
wesleyans shaky, partly because they disliked his book and were afraid
of the Oxford Tracts, and partly from his refusal to subscribe to the