The speech on April 6th was an additional proof of this.

Comparisons were naturally made between this speech and the speech by which he introduced the Bill, and everybody who was competent thought that the second speech was the finer and better of the two.

Stories have trickled through to the public of the anxieties and worries with which Mr.Gladstone was confronted--not from the Irish side--on the very night before he had to bring forth this prodigious piece of legislative work.

It is these small worries that to many Statesmen are the grimmest realities and the most momentous and effective events of their inner lives.

It is reported that one of the few sleepless nights which have ever disturbed the splendidly even and sane and healthy tenor of this tempestuous and incessantly active life, was the night before the introduction of the Home Rule Bill.