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Gladstone and Manning.

THE PRINCIPALS IN THE GREAT RELIGIOUS CON-
TROVERSY AS THEY WERE AT COLLEGE.
[London Correspondence of the World.]

time. Sidney Herbert, Roundell Palmer, Gas.. kell, Tait, and Cardwell, to say nothing of Gladstone, all frequently assisted in the proceedings of the mimic parliament. But the best orator was beyond doubt Henry Manning, He had cultivated his voice with a degree otattention approached by none of his rivals; he 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 painful. Conviction was stamped on every word he utItered, just as the determination to persuade was visible in the well-turned phrases and neatly cut sentences of the then Mr. Manning. You had but to look at the two young men to detect the difference between them.

There was something very pathetic in that sentence of Archbishop Manning's recent let-thoroughly understood the art of gesture and ter concerning Mr. Gladstone's pamphlet, wherein the prelate said that the statesman's attack upon the Catholic 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 that he felt as if he had lost his two Mr. Gladstone and the present Arch-stone, of Christ Church, was careless to a eyes." bishop of Westminster were not simply edu. proverb of his toilet; his cravat was notoricated at Oxford together; they were while ously awry, his clothes notoriously ill-cut. there the private pupils of the same tutor-; As you passed him in the street it was plain Charles Wordsworth-and although they be- that his mind was occupied with some untalonged to different colleges they were intimate thomable topic dimly looming through an infriends. Gladstone belonged to Christ Charch finite vista of space. The last person in the College, Manning to Balliol. One who seems world of whom he was thinking was himto have known them very well thus speaks of self." them as they were at college:

There are many persons who can recollect the slim, well-dressed figure, the bright, pol. ished, fascinating manner of Henry Manning, of Balliol. Perhaps no young man of his time, Mr. Gladstone alone excepted, had matricu. lated at the university preceded by such a public school reputation. He had carried everything before him at Harrow. He was not merely an elegant scholar; he was a fair crick. eter, a fair raquet player, and an active strategist in the football fields. But it was his rich combination of social qualities that specially distinguished 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-leisure to devote to the reading of the newspapers and all the current literature of the day, of which he was an insatiable consumer; leisure to devote to the Union debates, leisure to devote to long afternoon stretches over the Berkshire 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 that he had no time; no one ever doubted that he would take a first class in the schools. It was in the debates of the Oxford Union that Henry Manning's greatest prestige was acquired, and it was as a speaker here that he became aware of the existence of W. E. Gladstone long before they laid the foundations of their future friendship in the rooms of Mr. Wordsworth, now the Bishop of St. Andrew's, in Christ Church. Henry Manning was incomparably the most effective and accomplished elocutionist of his time. His manner I shall best describe by saying it was alto. gether in advance of his years. There was no lack of able debaters at the Oxford Union at this

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These two men were drawn closer together after they left college. In 1833 the Tractarian movement asserted itself, and they had the same feelings concerning it. In 1838 Mr. Gladstone published his book on Church and State, and this increased their intimacy. Mr. Manning was then the Rector of Lovington, and Mr. Gladstone, who had entered Parliament, spent all his leisure time at the rectory with Manning, and there, too, Hope Scott was a requent visitor. In 1854 Mr. Manning and Mr. Hope-Scott went to Rome, but Mr. Gladstone remained behind. The friendship and ntimacy, however, between the two college riends did not cease; nor has anything oc urred to overcast it until this pamphlet of he ex Premier on the Vatican decrees appeared.

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