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M148 Further Discussions

_ 288 Carm._ iii. 5, 27. In Mr. Gladstone's own translation, _The Odes of
Horace_ (p. 84):--

... Can wool repair
The colours that it lost when soaked with dye?
Ah, no. True merit once resigned,
No trick nor feint will serve as well.

A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some
scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have
once fallen away from it.

289 He said he had once made a computation of what property the church
would acquire if disestablished on the Irish terms, and he made out
that "between life incomes, private endowments, and the value of
fabrics and advowsons, something like ninety millions would have to
be given in the process of disestablishment to the ministers,
members, and patrons of the church of England. That is a very
staggering kind of arrangement to make in supplying the young lady
with a fortune and turning her out to begin the world."--_Hans._, May
16, 1873.

M149 Death Of Bishop Wilberforce

290 The house of Mr. Frederick Leveson Gower where for many years Mr.
Gladstone constantly enjoyed a hospitality in which he delighted.

_ 291 Life of Hope-Scott_, ii. p. 284.

M150 Ministerial Embarrassments

292 Rising as soon as Mr. Ayrton sat down he said that his colleague had
not accurately stated the law of ministerial responsibility. He then
himself laid down its true conditions under the circumstances, with
the precision usual to him in such affairs. This was one of the
latest performances of the great parliament of 1868.--July 30,
_Hans_, 217, p. 1265.

293 The following changes were made in the cabinet: Lord Ripon
(president of the council), and Mr. Childers (chancellor of the
duchy of Lancaster) retired. Mr. Bright succeeded Mr. Childers, Mr.
Bruce (home secretary, created Lord Aberdare) Lord Ripon. Mr. Lowe
became home secretary, and Mr. Gladstone chancellor of the exchequer
in union with the office of first lord. The minor changes were
numerous. Mr. Monsell was succeeded at the post office by Dr. Lyon
Playfair; Mr. Ayrton was made judge advocate-general, and Mr. Adam
took his place as commissioner of public works; Mr. Baxter retired
from the treasury, Mr. Dodson becoming financial, and Mr. A. Peel
parliamentar