The New York herald., 1874-11-17
GladAtone and Manning.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.]

lriOm Sho DhOVAyu LoSiCsJ
Travelling back about the number OF years in
dlcated BY DR.. Manning, we should see among the
most promising OF the students at Oxford Uni
versity, william Ewart Gladstone, OF Christ
Church. and Henry Edward Manning, Of Balliol
afterward Fellow OF Merton. The former was the
son OF Sir John Gladstone. wealthy merchant;
the latter OF William Manning, head OF the rm OF
Manning Il Anderdon, still existing IN London, .
member Of the House OF Commons, and, at one
time, Governor OF the Bank OF England. The boy
hood OF Gladstone had been spent at Eton that
OF Manning at Harrow. The two became intimate
at oxford, each being distinguished speaker at
the famous Union Debating Club. In the race for
academlca honOrs both attained first class in the
classics and Gladstone first in mathematics also.
1t was the period OF that great reactionary move.
ment IN the English Church known as the High
Unnrcn i OF nj an Gr name ae,
which John Henry Newman, Kebe, Richard Hur-
ren Froude and DR.. Pusey were the chief contrib
deed been at most others, the university of mature
saints and youthful sinners. But Gladstone and
By unusual gravity ana strength Of character.
Each chose his way In life. GLADSTONE under the
auspices Of sir Robert Peel, Peel, entered the political
Church, profession which, In one or the most elo-
quent OF his sermons before the University, he de-
scribed as 'full OF calm peace II life and hope in
DEATH" Their friendship was based upon the rule
OF Cicero, '1dem velle, tdem n0lle'-the same sim
and unselfish aspirations, the same purity OF lie
and culture OF mind. Their friendship was not un-
like In It's depth and intimacy to that OF David the
s0n OF Jesse, with Jonathan, the son OF SAUL Both
were impressed with the revived churchmansnp
OF the new movement, OF which Gladstone became
the chief parliamentary and Manning the chief
pulpit defender. When GladstOne's eldest son
was born Manning was its godfather" in baptism.
Mr.. Gladstone has Surrendered ,nimself.
from The World.l
M. Gladstone knows that there Is still extant
and active In Great Britain great body OF worthy
people who look upon the Pope and all his ennis
saries AZ no better than q brood OF Satan. 1t is
nard to believe that he can have had any other
object In view In his recent manifesto than to
persuade this great body OF worthy people that the
Pope really means mischief to their lber ties, and
that nothing but the return OF the liberals TO
power can protect those liberties. II Mr.. Clad
stone really meant anything more than this IL
he really meant to nave all the world under.
stand that he himself regards the pretensions TO
spiritual infallioility or the Roman Pontin as
politically dangerous to English freedom. and
TO the English State, then, indeed, has
he surrendered himself bound nand ana
foot, as . lamb for the sacrince, 10
his gifted ecclesiastical antagonist For
u tine Cathoc,Church entertain the design which
Mr.. Gladstone, 6y implication ut least lmputes to
It, MT. Gadstone's undertaking to defeat those de-
signs by the publication Of political pamphlet
would deserve to be ranked with the enRagement
rebDksd In the year Books" VI the man who