stle-on-Tyne.

304 "The continual loss of elections," Lord Aberdare wrote to his wife,
"and the expediency of avoiding being further weakened in detail,
have determined us to take at once the opinion of the country, and
to stand or fall by it. I am rejoiced at this resolution."--_Aberdare
Papers_, Jan. 23, 1874.

M154 Electoral Manifesto

305 It was an extraordinary feat for a Statesman of sixty-five who had
quite recently been confined to his bed with bronchitis. The day was
damp and drizzly; numbers, which are variously estimated from six to
seven thousand, had to be as far as possible brought within the
range of his voice, and his only platform was a cart with some sort
of covering, in the front of which he had to stand
bareheaded.--_Spectator_, Jan. 31, 1874.

M155 The General Election

306 Mr. Gladstone on Electoral Pacts, _Nineteenth Century_, November
1878.

M156 To Meet Parliament Or Resign

307 February 17, 1874.--"I was with the Queen to-day at Windsor for
three-quarters of an hour, and nothing could be more frank, natural,
and kind, than her manner throughout. In conversation at the
audience, I of course followed the line on which we agreed last
night. She assented freely to all the honours I had proposed. There
was therefore no impediment whatever to the immediate and plenary
execution of my commission from the cabinet; and I at once tendered
our resignations, which I understand to have been graciously
accepted. She left me, I have no doubt, to set about making other
arrangements."

M157 Explanations Of Defeat

308 March 19, 1874.

_ 309 Aberdare Papers._

M158 Reasons For Withdrawal

310 See vol. i. p. 337.

M159 Ecclesiastical Debate
M160 Bright And Other Colleagues

_ 311 Blachford's Letters_, p. 362.

_ 312 Herod._ vii. 157.

_ 313 Congregationalist_, Feb. 1875, p. 66.

314 See Cecconi's _Storia del Conc. Vat._ i. p. 3. For Mr. Gladstone's
earlier views on the temporal power, see above, vol. i. p. 403.

M161 The Two Schools

315 See Purcell, ii. chap. 16.

316 "Outside the Roman state, I am amazed at the Italian government
giving over into the hands of the pope not only the nomination to
the bishoprics as spiritual offices, but a nomination which is to
carry with it the temporalities of the sees. They ough