New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-04
GLADSTONE AT CANNES.
HIS HOUSE, HIS HABITS, HIS FAMILY AND
HIS FRIENDS.


lFRoM A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBUsEI
CANNES, France February IL.
The FL glish Premier will remain ut Cannes until
about the first of March, He 10 glad to discharge
his Lcnten duties in place in which, he says God
reveals Himself with a smiling face through Naturs
The scenery of the RiI iera is almost sublime in
MANY places. But as it always remains beautiful it
never attans that pitch OF severe grandeur hich
is necessary ia constitute sublimity. Mr.. Glad
stone. as he advances in years, becomes less theo-
logical and more open to that Divinity which is
man tested in creation. lie looks upon Nature
than he used TO do Bible ia which Gods will is
made known to those who seek with bumility,
truthful hearts and patience to understand il.
Earth and SKY in the corner Of Southern France
where he now reposes from the burde1 of executive
tasks in such perfect as to affect his soul as
does sweet and solemn music Every morning the
British statesman weDds his way to O morning SER
vice at st. Paul's. little Anglican church which
stands in an olive grove--iared alas soon TO dis
appear The incumbent is a rJuast clergyman,
ard indeed Catholic in all that does not regard
the Popes infalibility. Mr.. Gladstone if NOT OVER
ruled by his predetermined wife. would 20 there
fasting. She insists on his taking a cup of milk
warmed with little tea and small roll of bread.
His attitudes one of profound reverence. watched
him closely at churcn. He does not appear to
follow the service mechanicalv He ia in silent
meditation while the clergyman is officiating
Would il be too much ais to add that he ia also in
meditating, fancy free think not The stimulus
OF religion gives wings to his soul. His conscience
and his imagination are actvely at work
This great good man reflects on the short time
that remains to HIM to work for the benefit of his
country ana for the development of those institu-
lions and forces which will enable Great Britain 10
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who have sat in darkness and been grouBd down by
oppression. Tie Irish are among the latter. Glad
stone profoundly sympathizes with Old ireland,
with the Ireland that was, when the Continent was
gwen over to barbaTism, learned Christian and
nOn-Pa?a; with the Isle Of SAINTS which sent ont
bands Of mis- sionarles to evangeze the FTankish
territory. He earnestly desires to hight tic wrongs
from which hat country has suffered. prayer
that ho offers up Is that if Lis lie and health are
spared for few years longer God may aid him TO
bring to successful end The emancpat.Dg TASK
which he has begun in relation 10 Ireland. He now
wants to mako the humblest ITshnan feel that he
is governing agency aud that Government is %
be carried on by him and for him.
Mr. Gladstone cOmmuues whenever he has an Op-
pcttunity, After be has done sosand retired to bis
pew be remains until the cOnsecrated bread aud
inc are removed to the vestry, with his head rev.
erently bowed | should suppose that he believes
in tho Lutheran doctrine of cOnsubstantiatiOn.
Mrs. Gladstone regularly attends church on Sum
days She is tall, strong built elderly lady with
retrOu Ss6 nose vi Icn may in girlhOOd have had
piqUant expression, and little brown tHinkling
and, though -natured, very shreN blocking
eyes. In point of lineage she Is superior to her IL
lustrious husband, her father having been Welsh
baronet of old family. Sir Stephen II. Gynne, Of
Hawarden Castle. Her name is Catherine 1t
should have been Martha. more thoroughly
matter-of- fact person never lived But strong and
healthy Celtic feeling underies her surface prose-
Mrs. GladstOne's life has been of unselfsh de-
vet'on and Of duty All her children we'll
brought up. They are like father and mother.
duty-lOy and not III any stuck up"
Stephen: the eldest son. Is rector Of lawarden He
dresses like a French Catholic priest, but ls en-
tlrely free from the faint OF spiritual pride ritual
istic narrowness. His humility of manner is not
Affected TIE Mss Gladstone who is at Cannes Is
q falr-haired girl of pleasing though h0mely coun-
teDance She dresses very plainly aud does not
seem be at all endowed with femin taste for
pretty clothing She has, she feels. mission 10
teach and she teaches in young ladies' colleges
and wh hen she is at Howardeu in the Sunday school,
Her teeth very regular and white, and brighten
up her face when she laughs. Mr.. GLADSTONE is
neither Scotch nor English look ng HIS father.
merchant and his mother was q Miss Robertson of
Storuoway In the top of the North" of Scotland.
Her father was Provost OK Dingwall. Ships OF the
Spanish Armada were wrecked there Query:
Does Mr.. Gladstone take his intensely dark and
lgstIous eyes and regular features OF a southern
type fIOm some hldalgo who had sailed in tho
Armada with the object OF establishing the Holy
Oiice in the British Islesl
was introduced to him at Chateau Scott. where
he handed me at a morning reception three cups of
tea and drank as many himself He shakes his
head at the French Liberals, who he is afraid. do
not want to liberate anybody, but TO retain their
country in the chains wrought by the Valois and
Bourbon kings and Cardinal Richeleu. II tho
Conser natives went back to the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries they would every where find
presidents for local franchises. There was free
dom in the Middle Ages in the burgs and indeed all
important towns of France. What gave the first
blow to it was the unfortunate war between France
and England which may be said TO have begun In
the tms of Edward III. and to lave ended in the
lofeat OF the English by Joan of Arc
Mr. Gladstone has singuiarly receptive mind.
lie IS although not credited Tor heng so, a good
listener | was under the impression before met
him that he talked for himself and every one else.
and that his conversation was monOogue.
favorte expression of his when ne is listening Is.
= And is that ~ His contradiction is not violent.
It is often expressed in a shake of tie head. or
short observation which may suggest \ brief out
burst If eloquence At Cannes he listened to tho
Comte de Paris to Legltmist noblcmen and to NJ.
Clemenceau. Las. Monday he dinrd with the Or
eanist Pretender at his beautifully situated villa
On the preceding Friday evening he had II quiet
t6te-a.tete chat with the Deputy OF Moatmartre.
AGAINST W hon reactionists have since attempted to
poison his and Lord Wolverton's mind.
The Chateau Scott was built by wealthy Aus
tralian rho took fancy to the site. IG might
we'll be called Scotts Folly The masonry OF the
erraces through which the avenue winds ND
steep hill ruined the Australian. His chateau and
extensively laid out grounds were eventually seized
~ a creditor and sold at public auction for the
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