AN UNFINISHED LEADER.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 66, 15 May 1869, Page 3

AN UNFINISHED LEADER.

News received by the last mail informed us of the sudden death of Mr. Manson, the principal leader writer of the " Edinburgh Daily Renew." Mr. Manson died in his study, arid on his desk was the following portion of a leading article for next' day's paper, which his had been engaged in writing: — "The citizenry of Edinburgh will this day receive an illdstifious accession to their number ; arid within a few hours of the time ,wheri these lines can be read by any, we shall be able to include as one of ourselves the most powerful tribune of the people which. England hate yet produced. John Bright is m every sense.zt man of the people ; he is of them and, he is for them. He springs, direct from the English soil, arid, brings with him all its raciest qualities ; nor ougKt we to pass unnoticed the fact that the three foreriiost men of the time owe nothing to aristocratic connexion. . Mr Bright would himself,, we know, accord the first place to William Gladstone ; arid unquestionably there is a phase in the mental development of Mr. Gladstone that brings him more fully than either of the others within the.rarige or\ aristocratic sympathies. This is the perfection to which he has carried his intellectual culture. By this means tendencies and even convictions thdjfc Seeni td.be mutually repulsive in othefc men fall into harmony in him. Con - servatism arid Liberalism 1 meet iri hinj j for every one knows that he wants to disestablish the Irish Church for the purpose of preserving the Church in Irelarid by according her the conditions of activity. And he has the esteem of both Church and Dissent. Oxford, is proud of him ; for the one b,e could write a Greek disquisition ; for , the other he could construct a btidget. With certain of. the family' features of the economist, he combines a" . Here the quill Bad fallen from Mr. Manson's hand, arid leaning back in his chair he quietly passed away.—" Dundee Advertiser:"