We can but look back over his marvellous career, and note the salient points of success and failure, the former immensely predominating. At the outset of such a review, one thing must strike every unprejudiced observer. It. is the moral nature of the man. Attached firmly to duty as t he mainspring of his actions, upright and honourable, earnest and sincere in all he undertakes, Mr Gladstone, at every period of his long and brilliant career, inspires confidence and respect. It is this high moral nature which has, combined with his vast abilities, his marvellous eloquence, the solidity of his constitutional arguments,the pat riotism and power of his international utterances, the clearness, elegance and force of his Budget speeches, and with his great range of literary service, to make Mr Gladstone the figure he is in the eyes of the Empire. His failures are few and of the kind due either to generosity and rashness, or the force of circumstances. His defence of slavery, such as it was, his advocacy of the union between Church and Slate, his statement that the Confederates had acquired belli gerent rights, the failure of the Soudan Ex pedition to relieve Gordon, the loss of the Reform Bill of 1807 —what after all are these, and who will remember any of them but the terrible Gordon episode ? And for that the historian, when he has before him all tli > evidence, will not, we feel sure, blame the great Prime Minister, who in that awful January of 1885 so sincerely and eloquently mourned the loss of his personal friend. As for his successes they are recorced in undying letters on the page of history and within the solid bindings of the Statute Book. Of the great Budget speeches we need say nothing. The unseen work of the earlier years is only now beginning to see the light, as for example his drafting of the details of the measure which Peel in troduced for the repeal of the Corn Laws. Mr Gladstone framed it all, but as he had been elected for Newark in the Protec tionest interest, he resigned office and his seat, and was not in Parliament when that momentous struggle was fought out—a remarkable proof of bis scrupulous ad herence to the highest moral standard. 