Prince Henry had volunteered for the Expedition to Coomassie in the autumn of 1895; he was taken ill with fever on the march and died on his way home. He was buried in Whippingham Church, near Osborne, February 4, 1896. The picture represents the transference of the body from H.M.S. _Blenheim_ to the Royal Yacht _Alberta_.] [Sidenote: Its Rejection by the Lords.] [Sidenote: Mr. Gladstone Resigns the Leadership.] It was September before the measure reached the Upper House, whence it was thrown out by the unprecedented proportion of 419 to 14 votes. Among the majority were numbered no less than sixty-two peers whom the Queen had created on Mr. Gladstone's own recommendation. The attention of the Ministerial party was then directed to stirring up popular indignation against the House of Lords on account of their resistance to the popular will. But it has to be confessed that this appeal evoked remarkably little response. On the other hand, considerable impatience was manifested on the part of many supporters of the Government at the general election, on account of the neglect to carry out the multiform promises contained in the Newcastle programme. Accordingly, Parliament was summoned together for a winter session in November in order to consider the Parish Councils and Employers' Liability Bills. These important measures, which went through the successive stages to completion in the course of 1894, remain the principal achievement of Mr. Gladstone's last year in the public service. Early in 1894 his withdrawal from active politics was announced; the leadership of the House of Commons devolved upon Sir William Harcourt, and, although Mr. Gladstone did not resign his seat for Midlothian, he brought to a close a period of sixty-two years' attendance in the House of Commons. His last utterance from the Treasury Bench was a vehement denunciation of the action of the House of Lords in dealing with the Bills last referred to. [Illustration: _R. Ponsonby Staples._} {_By permission of Messrs. Graves & Co., Pall Mall._ THE HOUSE OF COMMONS: MR. GLADSTONE INTRODUCING THE HOME RULE BILL, February 13, 1893. Mr. Gladstone stands at the table: on the seat behind him are Mr. John Morley, Sir W. Harcourt, Mr. Marjoribanks (now Lord Tweedmouth), Mr. Mundella and Sir C. Russell (Lord Russell), and Mr. Herbert Gladstone sits in the "gangway." Mr. Asquith can be seen between Mr. Gladstone and the clerk at the table. On the front Opposition bench, beginning at the further end, are: Sir E. Clarke, Sir R. Webster (leaning forward), Mr. Goschen, Mr. Balfour, Lord Randolph Churchill, and Mr. Edward Carson.] [Sidenote: Lord Rosebery becomes Prime Minister.]