In his private capacity Mr. Gladstone has always been high!: esteemed, and his name is not unknown to fame as an author. Hi treatise, entitled The State Considered in its Relations with th Church,' published in 1840, and his 'Church Principles Considered their Results,' In 1811, each in one voL Svo, stamped hlm, while stil a young man, as a deep and original thinker. His views, we nee. hardly say, as unfolded in those books, had been formed by tho educe tion and associations of Oxford, to which university they are dedicatee They were thought worthy of discussion at the time by Mr. Macaula in the pages of the 'Edinburgh Review.' In the.fifteen years whic have elapsed since he published those works, his religious views hay however undergone II considerable modification ; and they are now fa less theoretic, and more in harmony with the existing condition things both in church and state.
Ilia 'Remarks on Recent Commercial Legislation; published in 184: gave an able and elaborate detail of the beneficial working of the tars of 1842, and were intended to pave the way for the great modificatio of the then existing system of commercial restriction, which was carrie into effect in the following year. In 1851 Mr. Gladstone gave to tb world a work which created considerable interest both in England an upon the continent. In 1850, during a sojourn at Naples, he form a very large number of Neapolitans, who had constituted the oppi sition in the Chamber of Deputies, either imprisoned or exiled t King Ferdinabd, and also discovered that from 20,000 to 30,000 otbi Neapolitan subjects had been thrown into prison on the charge I political disaffection. Mr. Gladstone having ascertained the truth .
the facia, wrote a letter to the Earl of Aberdeen, urging his inte position on their behalf; and on Lord Aberdeen's remonstrance proving ineffectual, he published an indignant letter on the Neapolits victims, which was translated into several languages, and transmitte by Lord Palmerston to all our ambassadors on the Continent, to 1 forwarded by them to their respective courts. The result was th. some relaxation of their sentence was granted to the unhappy inmate of the Neapolitan prisons.
From his first entrance into the House of Commons, Mr. Gladstone's putation has always stood high as a Parliamentary orator. His voice clear and musical, his command of language perfect, his expression :ady and fluent ; and there is a stateliuess and finish in the flow of is periods, which is seldom met with in the present day. Whatever uestion is before him, he is sure to take it out of the beaten path f debate, to present. it in some new and unexpected light, and to meet it with classic and historical allusions.
In 1839 he married Catbariue, daughter of the late and sister of the resent Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, Bart., of Hawarden Castle, by 'ham he has a youthful family.