The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-08-26
THE ENGLISH CARDLMAL.
HOME LIFE OF DIR. MANNING.
London World, August 81

HOME LIFE OF DR.. MANNING.
London World August 81
Henry Edward, Cardinal priest of the
Holy Roman Church, by the title of st.
Andrew and St. Gregory on the Ceiian
Hill, by the grace of God and the favor OF
the Apostolic See, Archbishop of West
minster'-snch is DR.. Manping's official
style-is perhaps the most finished type OF
the nineteenth century Papal ecclesiastic
the world just now possesses, and not the
least disting gushing of his characteristics Is
his universally.
In every state, hue and circumstance oi
life, Cardinal Manning is at home. In bis
titular church at Rome, addressing hit
clergy in Italian, and the crowd of his OWE
country men, aeseD bled to witness hls IN
stailation, in English In his pro cathedra
at Kensingtop, preaching to eongregatiot
half composed of "beretics," who have
come as much to see him as to hear him
at garden-party at Chiswick; at Exeter
Hall, pleading the cause of total abstinence
with allthe ferver of an apostle at the
Vatican Basilica. swaylng the debates anc
shaping the decisions of an u ,umeolca
Council; at bright Oxford banquet IL
honor of some academic festival, re appear
ing for q brief hour, as If from another
world, on the stage of his early triumph
and first friendships-wherever the worl
which he has chosen to take in hand may
ba in any way advanced, Cardinal Man
nlrg ia to be found, alway saying the righ
word and doing the righ: thing, as by 1
,rt of natural gift AID instructive wis
dom.
The position which DR.. Manning actual!
holds is, 1t must be allowed, great one
| The income which it gives him is less thai
a decent benefce in the English Church
The head of the Roman Catholics of Eng
land, like the Pope himself is in no smal
degree indebted to the voluntary priuci
Pile" But the greatness of his office stand
out in more CONSPICUOUS relief from hi
baroness of this worlds goods. In the oil
European BY stem, which the French Revolu
ton so completely shaft cred, cardinal Q
the Holy Roman Church ranked with roy
| atty itself "Reges non sunt, sed Regibu
oquiparautur," was the rule which fXe
their place. The habitation in which Car
dinal Manning dwells is curiosly signifcan
! of the changed position of the princes {
the Roman Church at the present day
Archbishop's House, Westminster, look
very like what it was before it passed int
the'hands of it's present possessor. 1t is
large modern building, in nondeecriI
style of architecture, standing alone
a desolate piece of ground between th
Vauxhall Bridge road and the Millban
| Penitentiary, and was originally built
serve the purpose of a Soldiers Institut,
Near it is one day to rise, we are told, th
long talked of Catholic Cathedral. Lothai
however, has yet to fulfill his mission, an
Cardinal Manning feels that he has MOI
pressing work to do than the rearing {
" stately fanes of prayer" a brief visit I
his house will to some extent show wh:
that work is.
The servant who admits you TELLS 20
probably His Emlnence is engaged at thi
moment; he has some one with him, an
several other persons are waiting to BE
him. You send up your card and ps
tiently wait your turn. The minutes sll
away the visitors who have proceeded 20
some of whom bear a very suspicious II
semblancs to ritualistic clergymen or e.
ce1gynen-ope by one disappear; and ;
last the butler tells you that your turn ht
| come and that His Eminence Will now sc
: You. Passing through the library you lin
, yourself in his study, tranquil, cheerfu
looking room, the mUst noticeable decorf
tiol of which are two photographs ov'
the ,uausel piece representing ST. EdwaI
the COnle4sor's ShrlUe in Westminster Al
: bey, az IL was in the thirteenth centur
and as it ia IN the nineteenth. Here amor
mass of books and papers, CaTdin
= Manning sits and works, III spite of pc
. petual Interruptions and distractions, sc
/ ting through more business 10 seven
!. eight hours than most men could Gccon
j plIsh in sixteen. The Cardinals ascot
[
: shar rply-cut features, wears the stamp
intellectual supremacy. "Plain iviI
and high thinking are written upon eve
: line of it. The BILE at which he is sittiI
d speaks Significantly of the variety of
Il occupations, bearing SIS it does proof shee
It of an article for the Nineteenth Centur,
ia the MS. OF a paper to be read at the Cath
: lie Academia; notes of two or three Sc
- mons to be preached on the next Snuda
81 pile f letters read and duly endorsed I
le the guidance of secretaries; another pi
D. scarcely lees formidable, still to be d
o. posed d of; number of Latin documen
impressed with the archlepiscopal seal, a
: apparently awaiting the archiepIscopal g
- nature. He wears the ordinary uudr,
oe robe Of Catholic bishop, his scarlet ska
cap and stockings denotiug bis csrdina
tial rank, and as he rises to greet you,
attenuated figure gives an Impression
greater tsllness than he really possess
He receives you with an unstudied dign
a. and frank kindness, and at once les
,o YOU to talk of the business which