DYING IN HARNESS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 85, 13 April 1869, Page 2

DYING IN HARNESS.

( From the Dundee Advertiser.) Mr. Hanson, the principal leader writer of the Edinburgh Daily Review, died suddenly on Monday. Mr. Manson died in. his study, and on his desk was the following portion of a leading article for next day's paper, which he had been engaged in writing : — The citizens of Edinburgh will this day receive an illustrious accession to their number ; and within a few hours of the time when these lines can be read by any, we shall be able to include as one of ourselves the most powerful tribune of the people that England has yet produced. John Bright is in every sense a man of the people ; he is of them and he is for them. He springs direct from the English soil, and brings with him all its raciest qualities ; nor ought we to pass unnoticed the fact that the three foremost men of the time owe nothing to aristocratic connexion. Mr. Bright would himself, Aye know, accord the first place to William Gladstone, and unquestionably there is a phase in the mental development of Mr. Gladstone that brings him more fully than either of the others within the range of aristocratic sympathies. This is the perfection to which he has carried his intellectual culture. By these means tendencies and even convictions that seem to be mutually repulsive in other men fall into harmony in him. Conservatism and Liberalism meet in him ; for every one knows that he wants to disestablish the Irish Church for the purpose of preserving the Church in Ireland by according her the conditions of activity. And he has the esteem of both Church and Dissent. Oxford is proud of him, and Manchester is proud of him ; for the one he could write a Greek disquisition ; for the other he could construct a budget. With certain of the family features of the economist, he combines a " . Here the quill had fallen from Mr. Manson's hand, and leaning back in his chair he quietly passed away.