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We fear that the effort of this great speech delivered

so soon after recovering from his attack of influenza, was too much for Mr. Gladstone, for he has since been obliged to keep absolutely quiet,—indeed, he has been sent to Mr. Colman's seat in the neighbourhood of Lowestoft, that he may be kept absolutely quiet,—and Sir Andrew Clarke is said to have given very peremptory instructions against permitting any farther outbreak of Mr. Gladstone's indomitable energy. It is plea- sant to see the enthusiasm with which, at the age of eighty- one, Mr. Gladstone returns to the earliest field of his ardent public interests. But he should not trespass even on his almost inexhaustible stock of vivacity and force. The speech was, however, a great monument of his oratorical power.

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