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VOLUME LXIV.--JANUARY TO JUNE, 1873.
THE GLADSTONE CABINET.—1873.
First Lord of the Treasury ......
Lord Chancellor........
Chancellor of the Exchequer .....
Lord President of the Council . . . . .
Lord Privy Seal . . .....
Home Office .........
Foreign Office .
Colonial Office ........
War Secretary ........
Indian Secretary '......
Admiralty .
President of the Board of Trade .....
President of the Poor Law Board ....
Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Chief Secretary for Ireland......
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone.
Lord Hatherley (succeeded hy Lord Selborne).
Eight Hon. R. Lowe.
Marquis of Ripon, K.G. (formerly Earl De Grey and Rtpon).
Viscount Halifax.
Right Hon. H. A. Bruce (now Lord Aberdabe).
Earl Granville, K.G.
Eakl of Kmberley.
Right Hon. E. (now Viscount) Cardwell.
Duke of Argyll, K.T.
Right Hon. G. J. Goschen.
Eight Hon. Chichester Fqktescue (now Lord Carlingford).
Right Hon. James Stansfeld.
Right Hon. Vv. E. Fokstee.
Right Hon. Hugh C. E. Childehs.
Marquis of Haktington.
POLITICAL
FAGE
^V/Fr. Gladstone's Ministry having in previous Ses-
sions successfully grappled with the Irish Church and
the Irish Land, now turned their attention to the third
great question affecting that country—the improvement of
its Higher Education. The Royal Speech, on the opening ;
of Parliament on the 6th of February, introduced this diffi-
cult subject in the following terms :—" A measure will be
submitted to you on an early day for settling the question
of University Education in Ireland. It will have for its
object the advancement of learning in that portion of my 1
dominions, and will be framed with a careful regard to the
rights of conscience."
Accordingly, a week after the opening of Parliament, .
Mr. Gladstone brought forward his Irish University Edu- J
cation Bill, which was not destined to run the same pros-
perous course as his two great preceding schemes for the
disestablishment of the Irish Church and the improved
tenure of Irish land. At first it appeared to be received
with some degree of approval but further consideration of
the details of the Bill provoked great hostility, so much so |
that the Division on the Second Beading left the Govern-
ment in a minority of 3, 284 members voting for the Bill,
and 287 against it. It would be superfluous to enter into
particulars of a measure which was thus rejected, and has
never since been revived; but one of its provisions for
securing the rights of conscience, framed with a view to
induce Roman Catholics to avail themselves of College
advantages—for the University of Dublin was to be made
" the central sun " of the new educational system—was too |
extraordinary to be passed over in silence, seeing that it
SUMMARY.
would have excluded theology, modern philosophy, and
modern history from the list of subjects to be taught by the
Professors.
The consequences of the rejection of a Bill, which the
Government hoped would have enabled them to complete
their great Irish, triad, had at one time a serious aspect, as
the following account of what occurred (condensed from
the Annual Register), will show. Mr. Gladstone had
already declared that his Ministry would stand or fall
by the result of the Division (on the Second Beading),
and, accordingly, he immediately placed his resignation
in the hands of the Queen, to the bewilderment of the
country, which had troubled itself very little about the pre-
cise merits of the Debate, and the nature of the points at
issue. The Ministerial crisis proved to be a mere flash in
the pan, and in a week's time the public suspense was ended.
Mr. Disraeli, as Leader of the Opposition, declined to take
Office with a minority in the House of Commons, at a time
too when an immediate dissolution of Parliament was not
possible ; and, on the 20th of March, Mr. Gladstone and
his colleagues resumed their places on the Treasury bench.
The House settled at once into the peaceful condition which
it maintained for the rest of the Session; and at a later
period a Bill for the Beform of the University of Dublin,
framed by Mr. Eawcett, the member for Brighton, was,
by arrangement, allowed to pass in a mutilated form as
a simple measure for the Abolition of Tests.
The greatest measure which passed into law this
Session was the Supreme Court of Judicature Bill, intro-
duced by the Lord Chancellor into the House of Lords.
THE GLADSTONE CABINET.—1873.
First Lord of the Treasury ......
Lord Chancellor........
Chancellor of the Exchequer .....
Lord President of the Council . . . . .
Lord Privy Seal . . .....
Home Office .........
Foreign Office .
Colonial Office ........
War Secretary ........
Indian Secretary '......
Admiralty .
President of the Board of Trade .....
President of the Poor Law Board ....
Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Chief Secretary for Ireland......
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone.
Lord Hatherley (succeeded hy Lord Selborne).
Eight Hon. R. Lowe.
Marquis of Ripon, K.G. (formerly Earl De Grey and Rtpon).
Viscount Halifax.
Right Hon. H. A. Bruce (now Lord Aberdabe).
Earl Granville, K.G.
Eakl of Kmberley.
Right Hon. E. (now Viscount) Cardwell.
Duke of Argyll, K.T.
Right Hon. G. J. Goschen.
Eight Hon. Chichester Fqktescue (now Lord Carlingford).
Right Hon. James Stansfeld.
Right Hon. Vv. E. Fokstee.
Right Hon. Hugh C. E. Childehs.
Marquis of Haktington.
POLITICAL
FAGE
^V/Fr. Gladstone's Ministry having in previous Ses-
sions successfully grappled with the Irish Church and
the Irish Land, now turned their attention to the third
great question affecting that country—the improvement of
its Higher Education. The Royal Speech, on the opening ;
of Parliament on the 6th of February, introduced this diffi-
cult subject in the following terms :—" A measure will be
submitted to you on an early day for settling the question
of University Education in Ireland. It will have for its
object the advancement of learning in that portion of my 1
dominions, and will be framed with a careful regard to the
rights of conscience."
Accordingly, a week after the opening of Parliament, .
Mr. Gladstone brought forward his Irish University Edu- J
cation Bill, which was not destined to run the same pros-
perous course as his two great preceding schemes for the
disestablishment of the Irish Church and the improved
tenure of Irish land. At first it appeared to be received
with some degree of approval but further consideration of
the details of the Bill provoked great hostility, so much so |
that the Division on the Second Beading left the Govern-
ment in a minority of 3, 284 members voting for the Bill,
and 287 against it. It would be superfluous to enter into
particulars of a measure which was thus rejected, and has
never since been revived; but one of its provisions for
securing the rights of conscience, framed with a view to
induce Roman Catholics to avail themselves of College
advantages—for the University of Dublin was to be made
" the central sun " of the new educational system—was too |
extraordinary to be passed over in silence, seeing that it
SUMMARY.
would have excluded theology, modern philosophy, and
modern history from the list of subjects to be taught by the
Professors.
The consequences of the rejection of a Bill, which the
Government hoped would have enabled them to complete
their great Irish, triad, had at one time a serious aspect, as
the following account of what occurred (condensed from
the Annual Register), will show. Mr. Gladstone had
already declared that his Ministry would stand or fall
by the result of the Division (on the Second Beading),
and, accordingly, he immediately placed his resignation
in the hands of the Queen, to the bewilderment of the
country, which had troubled itself very little about the pre-
cise merits of the Debate, and the nature of the points at
issue. The Ministerial crisis proved to be a mere flash in
the pan, and in a week's time the public suspense was ended.
Mr. Disraeli, as Leader of the Opposition, declined to take
Office with a minority in the House of Commons, at a time
too when an immediate dissolution of Parliament was not
possible ; and, on the 20th of March, Mr. Gladstone and
his colleagues resumed their places on the Treasury bench.
The House settled at once into the peaceful condition which
it maintained for the rest of the Session; and at a later
period a Bill for the Beform of the University of Dublin,
framed by Mr. Eawcett, the member for Brighton, was,
by arrangement, allowed to pass in a mutilated form as
a simple measure for the Abolition of Tests.
The greatest measure which passed into law this
Session was the Supreme Court of Judicature Bill, intro-
duced by the Lord Chancellor into the House of Lords.