Untitled

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1961, 17 April 1875, Page 2

•^Gladstone and r MurariNG.^^Of- the"--4 two as students at "Oxford, the World says:—" The best orator was beyond doubt Henry Manning. ' He had cultivated his voice with a degree of attention approached by none of his" rivals ;" he thoroughly understood the art of gesture and the secret of emphasis., .Mr ..Gladstone, cri the other hand, spoke with an •earnestness which was ■ often ponderout, and with an intensity which was sometimes painful. Conviction was stamped on every word" he uttered, just as the determination to persuade was visibl* in .the well-turned phrases and neatly-cut sentences ,of the then ( Mr Maiming. You had but to look at the two young men to detect the, .difference between them. Gladstone of Christ Church was careless to a proverb of his toilet; jtis cravat was notoriously awry, his clothes notoriously ill-cut.. As you,pasted:hits in the street:,it was ■ plain .that his - mind was occupied with some .«nfathom» able topic dimly.looming through an infinite vista of space. The last person in the world of whom he was thinking; was himself. It was exactly the opposite with Mr Manning; there wasi-sense of self-consciousness which his hearers never failed to perceive assert itself? t wlien he was speaking, talking ia ordinary conversation, or walking down .the' street'; and thougli everything he did was done consummately- well, it was, you somehow" / instinctively know, dons for effect;*" ; ~" Catholic relief was frequently discussed;: aud here it is.interesting to know that' < Manning and Gladstone were generally found on different sides, the former re* sisting and the latter advocating it. Such is the irony of history:" .