Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone

by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton

[[76]] The obstruction of the Peace Preservation Bill, which ended in the autocratic intervention of the Speaker, and the removal of the Irish Members from the House.

[[77]] Sir Arthur Godley, at that time private secretary to Mr. Gladstone.

[[78]] Sir Erskine May.

[[79]] The Jacobite description of the mole whose burrowings caused the death of William the Third by making his horse stumble.

[[80]] The Comte de Serre was a Minister under Louis XVIII., and a leader of the Moderate Royalists after the Restoration.

[[81]] Sir John Lubbock's.

[[82]] For closing debate.

[[83]] At this period shadowing Mr. Gladstone's movements.

[[84]] Sir John Lubbock, in conversation with Miss Gladstone, complained of the lack of a guide or supreme authority in the choice of books. She suggested Lord Acton, and mentioned this talk in writing to him.

[[85]] Harold Browne.