Gladstone
WILLIAM EWART, an English statesman, born in Liverpool, Dec. 29, 1809; was graduated at the University of Oxford in 1831; became a Tory member of the House of Commons WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE in 1832; appointed Junior Lord of the Treasury in 1834, and Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1835. He made his first great speech in 1852 in a GLAND the Liberals. Soon after this Gladstone reply to Disraeli's famous address against the Liberals. Soon after this Gladstone and upon rendering his first budget became Chancellor of the Exchequer; made house and gave him a high reputation as a speaker on the most difficult financial problems. In 1865 he was appointed speech which enthralled the when the Government resigned. He was Speaker of the House of Commons, but continued in that office for one year only which period he introduced three bills dealing with the great difficulties of Irefirst prime minister in 1868-1874, during land. The first measure, that of the disestablishment of the State Church of Ireland, was adopted by a large majority; third, treating of Irish education, was the second, having to do with defeated, land laws, was also adopted; but the the second, having to do with the Irish signed. Mr. Gladstone was again prime defeated, on which the ministry re- "The State in Its Relations with the Church" (1838); "Studies on Homer and minister in 1880-1885, in 1885-1886, and in 1892-1894. His publications include Church" (1838) ; "Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age" (1858) ; "The Vatican Castle, Flintshire, North Wales, May 19, Years" (1879); "The Irish Question" 1898. (1886); etc. He died in Hawarden on which the ministry remis Castle, in which is still shown the Castle, Flintshire, North Wales, May 19, miles S. W. of Forfar. Near it is Glamchamber in which Malcolm II. was asmis Castle, in which is still shown the castles of Macbeth, and gave him his sassinated in 1034. It was one of the