igable and effective zeal
in one of the best of causes.

[58] _Memoir of Althorp_, p. 471.

[59] _Lord George Bentinck_, chapter xviii. p. 324.

[60] Report of an interview with Mr. Gladstone in 1890, in _Scottish
Liberal_, May 2, 9, etc., 1890.

[61] Daniel Whittle Harvey was an eloquent member of parliament whom the
benchers of his inn refused to call to the bar, on the ground of certain
charges against his probity. The House appointed a committee of which
Mr. Gladstone was a member to inquire into these charges. O'Connell was
chairman, and they acquitted Harvey, without however affecting the
decision of the benchers. Mr. Gladstone was the only member of the
committee who did not concur in its final judgment. See his article on
Daniel O'Connell in the _Nineteenth Century_, Jan. 1889.

[62] See Cobbett's _Life_ by Edward Smith, ii. p. 287. Attwood of
Birmingham seems to have voted for the motion.

CHAPTER II

THE NEW CONSERVATISM AND OFFICE

(_1834-1845_)

I consider the Reform bill a final and irrevocable settlement of a
great constitutional question.... If by adopting the spirit of the
Reform bill it be meant that we are to live in a perpetual vortex
of agitation; that public men can only support themselves in public
estimation by adopting every popular impression of the day, by
promising the instant redress of anything that anybody may call an
abuse ... I will not undertake to adopt it. But if the spirit of
the Reform bill implies merely a careful review of institutions
civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, the
correction of proved abuses and the redress of real grievances,
then, etc. etc.--PEEL (_Tamworth Address_).

MISCELLANEOUS READING

The autumn of 1834 was spent at Fasque. An observant eye followed
political affairs, but hardly a word is said about them in the diary. A
stiff battle was kept up against electioneering iniquities at Newark.
Riding, boating, shooting were Mr. Gladstone's pastimes in the day;
billiards, singing, backgammon, and a rubber in the evening. Sport was
not without compunction which might well, in an age that counts itself
humane, be expected to come oftener. 'Had to kill a wounded partridge,'
he records, 'and felt after it as if I had shot the albatross. It might
be said: This should be more or