M69 "Fresh Intrigue Every Twelve Hours"

_ 161 Halifax Papers._

162 See above, p. 126.

_ 163 Gleanings_, vii. p. 135.

M70 Fenian Plots

_ 164 Hansard_, May 31, 1869.

165 At Greenwich, Dec. 21, 1868.

M71 The Standard Raised

166 He had also in his own mind the question of the acquisition of the
Irish railways by the state, and the whole question of the position
of the royal family in regard to Ireland. On the first of these two
heads he was able to man a good commission, with the Duke of
Devonshire at its head, and Lord Derby as his coadjutor. "But this
commission," he says, "did not venture to face any considerable
change, and as they would not move, I, who might be held in a manner
to have appealed to them, could do nothing."

167 Mr. Gladstone's letter to Lord Russell is given in Walpole's
_Russell_, ii. 446.

168 Till like a clock worn out with eating time,
The wheels of weary life at last stood still.--Dryden's _OEdipus_.

M72 Disraeli Becomes Prime Minister

169 Lord R. Gower, _Reminiscences_, p. 202.

M73 Resolutions On Irish Church

_ 170 Gleanings_, vii.

M74 Elected At Greenwich

171 In Lancashire (Nov. 24) the numbers were--Cross, 7729; Turner, 7676;
Gladstone, 7415; Grenfell, 6939. At Greenwich (Nov. 17)--Salomons,
6645; Gladstone, 6351; Parker, 4661; Mahon, 4342.

172 England and Wales, Liberal, 1,231,450, Conservative, 824,056,
Liberal Majority, 407,393. Scotland, Liberal, 123,410,
Conservative, 23,391, Liberal Majority 100,019. Ireland, Liberal,
53,379, Conservative, 38,083, Liberal Majority, 17,297.

_ 173 National Review_, June 1898.

M75 Formation Of Government
M76 First Cabinet

174 The reader will find the list of its members, now and at later
periods of its existence, in the Appendix.

M77 The General Situation
M78 Views Of The Queen

175 No: Archbishop Trench and Lord Carnarvon. See Selborne, _Memorials_,
i. pp. 114-6.

M79 Bill Introduced

176 See _Life of Tait_, ii. pp. 8-14.

177 The Irish Church bill is the greatest monument of genius that I have
yet known from Gladstone; even his marvellous budgets are not so
marvellous.--_Dr. Temple to Acland, March 12, 1869._

M80 Second Reading

178 368 against 250.

_ 179 Life of Tait_, ii. pp. 18-19. How little he was himself the dupe of
these