the last time that England and Wales had two living cardinals was 135 years ago, in 1879, when John Henry Newman gained his red hat to join Henry Manning in the College of Cardinals.No wonder, then, that there was much celebration at the English College in Rome on Sunday night following the consistory where Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster was given the red hat. And for staff, students and former seminarians of the college, it was a particularly special ­celebration: both Cardinal Nichols and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor studied at the Venerabile.Hundreds of guests, including visitors from England who had flown to Rome for the consistory, gathered at the college headquarters on the Via Monserrato, for a buffet supper and drinks. As well as wine and bubbly, the ingred