, v. p. 28. Also Martin's
_Life of the Prince Consort_, v. p. 421.

51 See Walpole's _Russell_, ii. p. 358.

M26 Progress Of The War By 1862

52 War-with England, or the probability of it, would have meant the
raising of the blockade, the withdrawal of a large part of the
troops from the Southern frontier, and substantially the leaving of
the Confederates to a _de facto_ independence.--Dana's _Wheaton_, p.
648.

53 Rhodes, _History of the United States since 1850_, iii. p. 538. See
also _Life of C. F. Adams_, by his son C. F. A., Boston, 1900,
chapter xii., especially pp. 223-4.

54 In the summer of 1862 he took an active part in schemes for finding
employment at Hawarden for Lancashire operatives thrown out of work
by the cotton-famine. One of the winding-paths leading through some
of the most beautiful spots of the park at Hawarden was made at this
time by factory workers from Lancashire employed by Mr. Gladstone
for purposes of relief.

55 Walpole's _Life of Russell_, ii. p. 361.

M27 On The Tyne

56 In a jingle composed for the occasion, the refrain is--

"Honour give to sterling worth,
Genius better is than birth,
So here's success to Gladstone."

In thanking a Newcastle correspondent for his reception, Mr.
Gladstone writes (Oct. 20, 1862): "To treat these occurrences as
matter of personal obligation to those who have taken a part in them
would be to mistake the ground on which they rest. But I must say
with unfeigned sincerity that I can now perceive I have been
appropriating no small share of honour that is really due to the
labour of others: of Mr. Cobden as to the French treaty, and of the
distinguished men who have in our day by their upright and
enlightened public conduct made law and government names so dear to
the people of England." "Indeed," says a contemporary journalist,
"if Middlesborough did not do honour to Mr. Gladstone, we don't know
who should, for the French treaty has been a greater boon to the
iron manufacturers of that young but rising seaport, than to any
other class of commercial men in the north of England."--_Newcastle
Daily Chronicle_, Oct. 11, 1862.

_ 57 Letters on England_, pp. 146-78.

58 Adams wrote in his diary: "_Oct. 8._ If Gladstone be any exponent at
all