“ Wickedest Englishman of the Generation.”

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 450, 6 May 1890, Page 2

“ Wickedest Englishman of the Generation.”

PROFESSOR TYNDALL'S OPINION OF GLADSTONE. Proxxsbob Tykdall writes to the Times:— 1.-hope Sir William Harcourt will forgive the familiarity when I say that, on reading his last letter iu the presence of a friend, X made the remark, *■ He is not a bad fallow after all." He baa certainly olimbsd ooneiderably down from the elevation bo occupied when he describe! my words at Belfast aa "foolish and disgraoefu'.” But as he wax betrayed into this language by some thickwittedl.Gladetonlan, I freely forgive him. Xt appears that the perversion of knowlsdge which afflict e Sir William Harcourt regardin g tbe Irish question ia exemplified on a sma 1 scale by his notions regarding me. Had I Sir William's gastric juice I should undoubtedly have shared in the banquets which my friends in Belfast wore only too willing to offer me. As it was, eschewing all banquets, X quitted Belfast for the shadow of 'Slieve Donard. Snow was on the mountain, but that would not have prevented me from climbing It. My great enemy was the storm ; and for the first time iu my life, while on the flanks of that mountain, I found myself fairly overthrown by the wind. This wae the region —most akin to “Alphlne heights ”—in which I sought to purge my brain of all the impurities ascribed to it by Sir William Harcourt, and to consider my words regarding Mr Gladstone, Here, upon the Surrey moors, my views are still the same. Judged by tbe consequences of his policy, and without having regard to bis intentions, I still hold Mr Gladstone to be the wickedest Englishman of our day and generation. Would that I could make Sir William Harcourt and hie colleagues share my conviction—founded on the soberest reflection and the sternest facts—that if Mr Gladstone should succeed in his Irish policy, the disasters awaiting us will cause to shrink into nothingness those of the Transvaal and the Soudan.”