The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1874-12-27
Gladstone and Manning at College.
New York Worl

New York World Correspondent
LONDON, November 26-There was some
thing very pathetic in that sen tence of Arch
bishop Manning's recent letter concerning Mr..
Gladstone's pamphlet, wherein the preate said
Church had clouded "the friendship of forty
FIVE years." When DR.. Manning and the late
Mr.. Hope Scott left the Church of England for
the Church of Rome, some twenty years ago,
Mr.. Gladstone said he "felt as if he had lost
his two eyes," Mr.. Gladstone and the present
Archbishop of Westminster were not simply
educated at Oxford together; they were while
| there the private pupils of the same tutor
Charles Wordsworth-aud although they be-
longed to different colleges they were intimate
friends. Gladstone belonged to- Christ Church
College, Manning to Balliol. One who seems
to have known them very well thus speeks of
them as they were at college:
There are many persons who can recollect
the slim, well-dressed figure, the bright, pol
lished, fascinating manner of Henry Manning,
of Balliol. Perhaps no young man of his
time, Mr.. Gladstone alone excepted, had matri-
culated at the University preceded by such u
public school reputation. He had carried every
an elegant scholar he was fair cricketer a
fair raquet player, and an active strategist in
the football fields. BUTT was his rich combina
tion of social qualities that specially disting-
uished him. That Henry Manning was a hard
worker no one ever doubted but no one ever
knew when all the work was done. He seemed
| to have leisure for everything-leisnre to de-
| vote to the reading of the newspapers and all
the current literature of the day, of which he
was an insatble consumer; leisure to devote
| to the Union debates, leisure to devote to
downs and the Oxford wolds. No one ever
| asked Henry Manning to join in an expedition
! or a pastime, and received a refusal on the
ground he had no time; no one ever doubted
he would take q first class in the schools. 1t
was in the debates of the Oxford Union
that Henry Manning's greatest prestige was
acquired, and it was as speaker here that he
BECAME aware of the existence of w. E. Glad
oSo hef0ra thew laid fhe of
their future friendship in the rooms of Mr..
Wordsworth, now the Bishop of st. Andrews,
| in Christ Church Henry Manning was incom-
parsbly the most effective and accomplished
| elocutionist of his time. His manner I shall
best describe by saying it was altogether in
advance of his years. There was no lack of
Sidney Herbert, Roundell Palmer, Gaskell.
TAFT, and Cardwell, to say nothing of Glad
stone, all frequently assisted in the proceed
| ings of the mimic parliament. Bot The best
had cultivated his voice with degree of at
tention approached by none Of his rivals; he
thoroughly understood the art of gesture and
the secret of emphasis. Mr.. Gladstone, on the
other hand, spoke with an earnestness which
was often ponderous, and with an intensity
which was sometimes painfnl. Conviction
was stamped on every word he uttered, just
as the determination to persuade was visible
in the well-turned phrases aud neatly cut
tence of the then Mr.. Manning. You had but
to look at the two young men to detect the diff
ference between uneHl. GlauStOne OF CnTlSC
Church, was careless to a proverb of his toilet !;
his cravat was notoriously awry, his clothes
notoriousy i'll cut. As you passed him in the
street il was plain that bis mind was occupied
with some uufathomable topic dimly looming
through an infinite vista of space. The last
person in the world of whom he was thinking
was himself"
These two men were drawn closer together
after they loft college. In 1888 the Tractarian
| movement asserted itself, and they had the
same feeling concerning it. In 1888 Mr. Glad
stone published his book on Church and State,
and this increased their intimacy. Mr.. Man
ming was then the Rector of Lovington, and
Mr. Gladstone who had entered, the Parlia-
ment, spent-a all his leisure time at the
rectory with Manning, and there, too.
Hope-Scott was a frequent visitor. In 1854
Mr Manning and Mr.. Hope-scott went to
Rome, but Mr.. Gladstone remained behind.
The friendship and intimacy, however, be-
tween the two college friends did not cease !;
nor has anything occurred to overcast it until
this pamphlet of the ex-Premier on the Vati-
can DEGREES appeared. PICCADILLY.