24 JULY 1886, Page 1
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MR. GLADSTONE, as we anticipated, has resigned, and the Queen on Wednesday accepted his resignation, and sent for Lord Salisbury. We never entertained the notion that Mr. Gladstone would cling to power, which we do not believe that for its own sake he values. And as for promoting the policy of Home-rule in Ireland, he knows very well that he cannot do that by ignoring the verdict of the people of the United Kingdom. Doubtless he is deeply convinced that the cause which he has taken up will yet triumph, and certainly he could not aid it better than by bowing at once to the decision of the people, and refusing to have anything to say to the advice of so unscrupulous a politician as Mr. Labouchere.
