Gladstone And The Queen

OUadstone is the one living man whose political experience stretches bevond that oí the queen. His is the one figure that for a longer period than that of the queen has filled the political stage. That is a remarkable position for any public man to hold. To all others the queen represents knowledge, experience and training which none of them can possibly possess. She knows more about politics, persons, movements, routine, than any man who may be one of her advisers. She began by learning f rom the least of them; she ends by instructing them all. No one knows so much of the private history of men and of familres, and in all her Ufe there has been, with the exception of the Lady Flora Hastings case, of which we yet know little or nothing, no example of any mistake or indiscretion on the part of the queen. She has hated some of her advisers, c'istrusted some, and merely disliked others, but every one of them bas testified to her perfect faithfnlness