Show GiR detone anil alie queen gladstone is tho one living man whoso political experience stretches beyond hilt of the queen his is tho one figure that for a longer period than that of tho queen has filled tho political stage that is a remarkable position for any public man to hold to all the queen represents knowledge experience and training which nano of them can possibly possess she knows more about politics persons movements routine than auy man who may bo one of her advisers she began by learning from the least of them she ends by instructing ting them all no one knows so enuch of the private history of men and of families and in all her life there has been with tho exception of the lady flora hastings case of we yet know little or nothing example of any mistake or indiscretion on the part of the queen she has hated como of her advisers distrusted some and merely disliked others but every one of them has testified to her perfect faithfulness to them all yoke of the empire by bretsc |