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137. For Mr. Gladstone's later view of this transaction, see Gleanings, i. p. 39. He composed a letter on the subject, which, he says, 'will probably never see the light.'

138. Mr. Gladstone compiled this list of the statesmen in the maternal ancestry of his children:— Right Hon. George Grenville, Great, great grandfather Sir W. Wyndham,Great, great grandfather Lord Chatham,Great, Great granduncle-in-law Mr. Pitt,First cousin thrice removed Lord Grenville,Great granduncle Mr. Grenville,Great granduncle

139. Paradiso, xxvi. 64-6—

'Love for each plant that in the garden grows,

Of the Eternal Gardener, I prove,

Proportioned to the goodness he bestows.'—Wright.

140. Ibid. iii. 85. See above, p. 215.

141. See Lord Palmerston's speech, Aug. 10, 1842.

142. Hansard, 3 S. vol. 53, p. 819.

143. 'It was the common talk of Oxford how the most distinguished lawyer of the day, a literary man and a critic, on hearing the speech in question, pronounced his prompt verdict on him in the words, "That young man's fortune is made."'—Newman's Funeral Sermon on J. R. Hope-Scott in Sermons preached on Various Occasions, p. 269.

144. The reader who cares for further particulars may consult the Memoirs of J. R. Hope-Scott, i. pp. 248, 281-8; and ii. p. 291.

145. His first house was 13 Carlton House Terrace, then his father gave him 6 Carlton Gardens. In 1856 he purchased 11 Carlton House Terrace, which was his London home until 1875. From 1876 to 1880 he occupied 73 Harley Street.

146. 'At that period the board of trade was the department which administered to a great extent the functions that have since passed principally into the hands of the treasury, connected with the fiscal laws of the country.'—Mr. Gladstone at Leeds, Oct. 8, 1881. In 1880, writing to Mr. Chamberlain, then president, he says: 'If you were to look back to the records of your department thirty-five and forty years ago, you would find how much of the public trade business was transacted in it. Revenue was then largely involved: and hence, I imagine, it came about that this business was taken over in a great degree by the treasury. I myself have drawn up new tariffs in both, at the B. of T. in 1842 and 1844-5, and at the treasury in 1853 and 1860. Why and how the old B. of T. functions also passed in part to the F.O. I do not so well know.'

147. I suppose this points to incompatibility in the fevers of the hour between protestant Ulster and a Puseyite chief secretary.

148. Autobiographic note.

149. It would appear from the manuscript at the British Museum, that Macaulay's sentence about Mr. Gladstone as the rising hope of the stern and unbending tories, which later events made long so famous and so tiresome, was a happy afterthought, written in along the margin.

150. Parker's Peel, ii. pp. 514-17.