This oration was recently selected as the original for a parody competition in The Weekly Dispatch, the subject treated being the political situation on the resignation of Mr. Gladstone.
The Prize was awarded to Mr. T. Alderson Wilson, 3, Church Terrace, Queen’s Road, South Lambeth, S.W., for the following:—
Sir William Harcourt (LOQ.);
Whigs, Lib’rals, Radicals, lend me your ears;
I cannot speak of Gladstone and not praise him,
The work that statesmen do lives after them,
Though it is oft imperilled by their fall.
So will it be with Gladstone. The noble marquis
Hath told you Gladstone was ambitious.