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London, England, 1869-02-25 00:00:00

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MR. GLADSTONE'S HUMlLlTY.—Arrogance has
been imputed to him; but, to our thinking, quite erro-
neously. Although there is one matter, certainly in re-
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overweening estimate of his liefrofrem
own capacity, or of his
right to dominate over the opinions of others simply
because the opinions to which the is
giving utterance
are his own, that we believe the contrary ought
rather to be imputed to him, and that too, it
should be said, far rather as a vice than as a virtue.
As the Spectator, in one of its most generous and
thoughtful articles, has very recently remarked, the
Premier's "greatest political weakness is due to a very
genuine humility," what it speaks of, in fact, at the head
of its argument, as his "Political Humility." The re-
ference to this distinguishing peculiarity of Mr. Gladstone
being, there, made "h propos" to his acknowledgment,
iu a letter dated August the Bth, 1868, of his utter misap-
prehension, six years previously, of the significance of
i Mat' .C(Tiiitelss;" Vitlfter"Vitu kll,,_the United States.
in that apology address° I to an American citizen,
" I must cou!ess that I was wrong ;" adding, as if
that wore not enough, " I took too much upon myself in
expressing such an opinion," namely, that the South had,
then, iu the August of 1862, virtually succeeded in achieving
its independence. Arrogance can assuredly be hardly im-
puted toanyone capable of thus frankly, and explicitly, and
fearlessly, acknowledging an error of judgment. Else-
where, in the course of the same article, to which we
nava but just referred, the writer speaks of, what it
designates, "Mr. Gladstone's Ecclesiastical Humility."
And justly so designates it —for his abjection is as
many-sided, it seams to us, as even his genius in
statesmanship. In further illustration of which, it
,nay be said that there was Literary Humility of the pro-
foundest kind in that graceful letter of his, privately ad-
dressed to Macaulay, under date April the I.oth, 1839, in
reference to the latter's then just published criticism on
Church and State in the Edinsurgh, a communication
in the course of which, among other acknowledgments,
sir. Gladstoae does not hesitate to write thus ingenuously
to his reviewer, " I am perfectly conscious, whenever I
have occasion to reopen the book, of its shortcomings, not
only of the subject, but even of my own conceptions."
Acknowledgments like these, however, we do not quarrel
with—acknowledgments like those of 1868 to the Amer--
can, or like those of 1839 to Macaulay. What we do ob-
ject to in Mr. Gladstouo's not infrequent evidences of
humility, whether political, or literary, or ecclesiastical,
is this, that occasionally. with a sort of perverse disregard
for anything like self-respect, he will wantonly outrage
his own dignity by assuming the sackcloth and strewing
ashes on his own head—to what end ? Simply that he
may cast them off afterwards in a kind of humiliating self-
vindication. —The Gladstone Government, by a Templar.
WRECK ON TILE GOODWIN3.—A vessel, which
afterwards proved to be a French or Prussian schooner,
was wrecked on the Goodwins on Sunday night. The
greater portion of the crew reached Deal yesterday morn-
ing in then* own boats. One man was reported to be left
in the rigging. The Ramsgate lifeboat went out, but when
it reached the vessel the man bad disappeared. He is
supposed to have dropped from the rigging, and so lost
his life.
Mayor Cogswell of Salem (Massachusetts) re-
commends the union of the sexes in the same rooms of the
grammar schools, and the consolidation of the schools for
that purpose.. • .. . _