138] Mr. Gladstone compiled this list of the statesmen in the maternal
ancestry of his children:--

Right Hon. George Grenville, Great, great grandfather.
Sir W. Wyndham, Great, great, great grandfather.
Lord Chatham, Great, great granduncle-in-law.
Mr. Pitt, First cousin thrice removed.
Lord Grenville, Great granduncle.
Mr. Grenville, Great granduncle.

[139] _Paradiso_, xxvi. 64-6--

'Love for each plant that in the garden grows,
Of the Eternal Gardener, I prove,
Proportioned to the goodness he bestows.'--WRIGHT.

[140] _Ibid._ iii. 85. See above, p. 215.

[141] See Lord Palmerston's speech, Aug. 10, 1842.

[142] _Hansard_, 3 S. vol. 53, p. 819.

[143] 'It was the common talk of Oxford how the most distinguished
lawyer of the day, a literary man and a critic, on hearing the speech in
question, pronounced his prompt verdict on him in the words, "That young
man's fortune is made."'--Newman's Funeral Sermon on J. R. Hope-Scott in
_Sermons preached on Various Occasions_, p. 269.

[144] The reader who cares for further particulars may consult the
_Memoirs of J. R. Hope-Scott_, i. pp. 248, 281-8; and ii. p. 291.

[145] His first house was 13 Carlton House Terrace, then his father gave
him 6 Carlton Gardens. In 1856 he purchased 11 Carlton House Terrace,
which was his London home until 1875. From 1876 to 1880 he occupied 73
Harley Street.

[146] 'At that period the board of trade was the department which
administered to a great extent the functions that have since passed
principally into the hands of the treasury, connected with the fiscal
laws of the country.'--_Mr. Gladstone at Leeds_, Oct. 8, 1881. In 1880,
writing to Mr. Chamberlain, then president, he says: 'If you were to
look back to the records of your department thirty-five and forty years
ago, you would find how much of the public trade business was transacted
in it. Revenue was then largely involved: and hence, I imagine, it came
about that this business was taken over in a great degree by the
treasury. I myself have drawn up new tariffs in both, at the B. of T. in
1842 and 1844-5, and at the treasury in 1853 and 1860. Why and how the
old B. of T. functions also passed in part to the F.O. I do not so well
know.'

[147] I suppose this points to incompatibility in the fevers of the hour
between protestant Ulster and a