MR GLADSTONE'S GOLDEN WEDDING.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1795, 27 September 1888, Page 4

MR GLADSTONE'S GOLDEN WEDDING.

The golden wedding of Hr and Mrs Gladstone, which was celebrated quietly on July 25th, recalls a reminiscence of the days, now mere than half a century distant, when Mrs Gladstone first future husband. It was at a dinner party in London where the younger Miss Glynne’s attention was directed by an eminent statesman who was by her side to a tall, handsome young M.P. who sat opposite, “ Do you see that young man?” said he, “note him we'l, and mark my words. If his life is spared he will one day be Prime Minister.” Miss Glynne naturally took keen note of Mr Gladstone, but they did not speak, nor was it until some time afterwards that she made his acquaintance in Italy. The prediction, however, has been thrice fulfilled and Mrs Gladstone will probably have the gratification of seeing it fulfilled a fourth time before long. Mr Gladstone has been singularly fortunate in his wife, to whose constant care and equable serenity of temperament he owes more than most men imagine. Now after the lapse ot fifty years we may be pardoned if we allude to the fact that Lady Glynne was by no means delighted with the marriage which was to make her daughter the wife of a Prime Minister. Mr Gladstone was only a merchant’s son, and but for the happy expedient by which Lord Lyttelton married the eldest sister the same day on which Mr Gladstone married the younger it is doubtful whether Lady Glynne would have beeu present at the ceremony which united her daughter to her plebeian bridegroom, of the brilliance of whose subsequent career she did not even dream.