89 Critical Contest
M90 Bill Carried

_ 187 Spectator._

188 Lecky, _Democracy and Liberty_, i. p. 165.

M91 Fenian Prisoners

189 Article on Mr. Forster, _Nineteenth Century_, September 1888.

M92 Advance Of Ideas

190 "In 1843 the government of Sir R. Peel, with a majority of 90,
introduced an Education bill, rather large, and meant to provide for
the factory districts. The nonconformists at large took up arms
against it, and after full consideration in the cabinet (one of my
first acts in cabinet), they withdrew it rather than stir up the
religious flame."--_Mr. Gladstone to Herbert Gladstone, May 7, 1896._

M93 Mr. Forster

191 In 1869 about 1,300,000 children were being educated in state-aided
schools, 1,000,000 in schools that received no grant, were not
inspected, and were altogether inefficient, and 2,000,000 ought to
have been, but were not at school at all. The main burden of
national education fell on the shoulders of 200,000 persons whose
voluntary subscriptions supported the schools. "In other words, the
efforts of a handful out of the whole nation had accomplished the
fairly efficient education of about one-third of the children, and
had provided schools for about one-half; but the rest either went to
inefficient schools, or to no school at all, and for them there was
no room even had the power to compel their attendance existed."--See
Sir Henry Craik's _The State in its Relation to Education_, pp. 84,
85.

M94 A Crucial Decision
M95 Anger Of Nonconformists

_ 192 Life of Dale_, p. 295.

_ 193 Life of Forster_, i. p. 497.

M96 Effects Of Party
M97 Bright's Return To Government

194 For the rest of the letter see Appendix.

M98 Endowed Schools

195 See Appendix.

196 In 1874 the conservative government brought in a bill restoring to
the church of England numerous schools in cases where the founder
had recognised the authority of a bishop, or had directed attendance
in the service of that church, or had required that the masters
should be in holy orders. Mr. Gladstone protested against the bill
as "inequitable, unusual, and unwise," and it was largely modified
in committee.

M99 University Tests

197 See vol. i., book iv., chap. iv. By the act of 1854 a student could
proceed to the bachelor's degree wit