[293] England, Ireland, and America.
[294] Hansard, III. lxxii. 1016.
[295] Speeches, on the Coercion Bill, i. 308.
[296] Speeches, i. 425, 369 (1866).
[297] Hansard, III. cxciv. 2071.
[298] Ibid., 1955, 1963.
[299] See the Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the condition of education in England (1869-70). So little importance was attached to the education of girls that the Commission at first proposed to confine its work entirely to boys' schools!
[300] Morley's Gladstone, ii. 318.
[301] For a statement of Gladstone's views on war and the Manchester doctrine, see his speech at Edinburgh on the 17th March, 1880, quoted in Morley's Gladstone, iii. 182.
[302] Times, 25th September, 1870.