MR. GLADSTONE'S GOLDEN WEDDING.

Bush Advocate, 15 September 1888, Page 3

MR. GLADSTONE'S GOLDEN WEDDING.

: weeing of Mir and ; Mrs"Gfladßt6he, w^ich was celebrated, quietly on July .•■2sth,' recalls a ?vi reminiscence of the days, now more than half a century distant,- when Jto Gladstonefirst saw her future iiusband; >. It was at a dinner party in London where the younger Miss ; Olynne's attention was directed by , ai eminent statesmen 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 well, and mark my wdrds. 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 9he made his ae■i quaintanceinltaly. Thepredictibn • however,hasbeenthricefulfilledand • Mrs CHadstone 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 ..,,coiistant care and equable serenity of temperament he owes more than most men imagine. Now after the laps/) # fifty years we may be pardoned if we allude to the; fact .that Lady Glynne was by no means delighted with the marriage ■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 aister the . same day. on whioh Mr Gladstone married the younger it is doubtful whether Lady Glynne would have;, been present at the ceremony which united her daughter to her plebeian bridegroom, of the brilliance of whose subsequent career she did not even dream.