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Show A I'ASMAUK AT Alt MS. Mr. Gliiclstono and Professor Tymlal tlio lirHt, tlio roproNontativo ninn of the Liliornl citiiFo in (!rcat Britain, the seo-oml,fi seo-oml,fi imy of tlio torios lately lui'l a tilt in conneution with the jmblio charge, inailo by Tymlal, that Mr.Olailtitono had called Mr. I'itt, tho old time statesman, "a blauKeuiiril." Mr. OliulHtono addressed ad-dressed a brief letter to Mr. Tyndal, the concluding words of which wore: "1 havo -to request that you will at your early convenience supply mo with your authority for that statoniont." Mix weeks later Professor Tyndal ro-npondod ro-npondod to this simple request in n voluminous vol-uminous document, which he admits he wroto with tho intention of giving it to tho press. Tho opening paragraph ombodios the substance of his answer to Mr. Gladstone's Glad-stone's request: "I did not say you had called Mr. Pitt n blackguard." I said: "Ho (Gladstone) waited until ho was 70 years old to discover that Pitt was n blackguard and tho union n crime." To this Mr, Gladstone incisively rays: "I tlimik you for rernllliw to my memory the exnet wonlM wiiii'h were nxed liv ou lit, lielfiift rei-pirtiiiK lr. I'itt, r.nd wliieh impliiil tlmt 1 luul eonuivti'd the word hliu'lixiiiii'd with Iuh inline; hut I reifret Unit after the hihom of xitt weekH huve nllowed jnu to Kiiliufy youm-lf thill I luul not been able to prevail upon yourivlf to eonlcsH jour error." Tho en tiro correspondence on the part of Mr. Gladstone is a model for conscisentBd of Iriikuckc, beauty of stylo and incisivo dissection of his ef-fusivo ef-fusivo adversary. Tho wonderful vijjor of tho veteran statesman and his ability to cope with tho keenest intellects nnd the most cultured men of the day, is nowhere no-where more cogently demonstrated. |
