At a Conservative meeting at Wolverhampton held yesterday week, a
cousin of Mr. Gladstone's—the Rev. J.E. Gladstone, Vicar of St. Matthew's, Wolverhampton,—remarked that what his eminent cousin wanted, was the patience of Lord Beaconsfield with the Turk. The Gladstone constitution, he said, on the authority of his own experience, was an irritable one ; Gladstonea were incapable of sitt- ing patiently, and biding their time. It must be very satisfactory to a clerical mind to rebuke a great Minister in this way, while magnanimously admitting a certain kinship in frailty, as a verifi- cation of the relationship. There is something, we suspect, delightful to a clergyman in .thus publicly taking the mote out of his own eye, in order that he may see clearly to take the beam out of a (very eminent) cousin's eye.
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