New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-18
GOSSIP FROM LONDON.
From Our Own Correspondent

From Our Own Correspondent
LONDON, Friday, May 30, 1856.
We are sending out our ships on the pacific IN g.
zion of removing troops from the Crinea, and We
are dismantling our RunbOats in small patches
Militia, too, are being disembOdied, not without
military grumbliDgs. Indeed, it is rather hard on
the Dalgettys generally to find so promising war
cut short in two years. These gentry were all
agog, and thought We were in for a regular long
war extending from land to land. And now we
have poor tubaltern of the German Legion writ
ing to the papers to show that his pay enabled him
to i've exactly with debt of FL Is. per month
accruiDg, and that disembodment hangs over him.
Then the younger sons in the militia regiments
just consider. The poor fellows find their snug
pay cut off, and that they must fall back on the
governor again The war was quite awakening
the old martial spirit in our youth. brother of
Shirley Brooks enlisted and (pOOr fellow y died
of dysentery in the Crmea. The sOn of well.
known humOrst earnestly pressed the old gentle
man to buy him commission. Why" said the
sire, with his eye twinkling with humor ~ can't
"do that but tell You what, FH meet you holt
"n0y. If you enlist as as private, upon my
" honor won't buy you out" What are all our
bellicOse lads to do, Mr.. TRIBUNE, il you and |
insist on not engaging them to cut our respective
thrOats
Just after posted my last William Palmer was
found guilty and sentenced to death, as you would
see by the steamers latest news He goes to
Stafford to be executed among all his old assOcla-
tons-aDOng the people Of his own county and
the neighbors Of his famil y among those who so
loatbed him and believed in his gut-that he was
brought to London for trial az the only chance Oh
bis getting fair play There is something horribly
impressive about this. But the villain will die
Il d.. 30 <hn la,f onnh
a murderer as we have not had this long time. L
suppose few doubt that beside his friend Cook, he
posoped his wife Ann, and some of his children,
perhaps and his brother Walter; and people who
knew him at all well, are now laying their heads
together and comparing notes as to whether he
ever tried on anything with them. His sporting
acquaintances had heavy bets on the trial. The
Cont was mobbed inside and out. Princes and
lords, men of learning and men of genius, watched
bis fate to the last. Judge of the excitement of
the work, from little story. Lord Grey once
during the trial asked: "Was that letter signed ~
and only shrunk sstOnisbed into the recollection
that he was mere spectator, at LOOK from
Lord Derby. We shall have strychnine mania
for some time to come, no doubt. And a great
blessing il is that the man is fairly convicted.
Poisoning is the fashionable crime; and l fear
people were beginning to think that it was so
difficult to detect that it might be practiced with
immunity. This delusiOn will be dispelled cOnclu
siyely in front of Stafford Jail. Palmer is firm,
aid should think would die without confession.
He has mother alive, who Is rlch; brother,
CLERGYMAN: and little boy. But you will not
think very tepderly of the mother when tell you
ION good authority though the fact is not printed
here) that to keep the old lady money from going
out of the family by her marriage, her sons con.
pived at her having paramOrus, and that one OF
those paramours came and lied for Palmer In the
witness box! What nest of villans-to be
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barrel of the law The trial was mastery
affair in point of legal talent though Shee is found
fault with for asserting his belief in the prisoners
innocence 1t was q breach of legal etiquette no
doubt.
So-now for lighter matters. The Derby went
off with great tclat but it is hackneyed sublect
and nothing new happened. The Queen has been
at a ball ut the Turkish Embassy" gorgeous and
| brilliant" affair. In literature we have nothing
TO talk much about. Peels Memoirs disappolnt;
| the Magazines are but $3.50; the great guns are
silent. John Halifax" by the authOress of
1.-The Ogilyies," 10 the best recent novel. Said
authorizes is Miss DiDah Mulock, gifted and in
deed good-ookiDg young lady, whose books are
alwsys NICE interesting and sentimental. DO your
scholars read George Longs editions of Cicero
Orationsi Ifso, congratulate them; II not so, l
advise them to repair the omission. Georgus
Lonpus las they 10 doubt call him in Germany is
a fine. sound, honest scholar and enriches the old
| authors with abundance OF hearty, modern, hnmon
illustrations; go that you absolutely see that cicero
is man to him, and not tombstone to be scraPed
and scrubbed into little more iDtellgibity only
He knows that the Roman lessons are our lessons,
and that if they had psupersm, bribery, &c.
wby that surely II throws light on our pauPerisn,
bribery. &c, TO study them. OF course need
NOT ask if you read Grote. The twelfth and con-
| cudiog volume has been lately well reviewed In
| The Times-perhaps by Goodwin smith. Have
ever me ntioned his name before Probably not;
but he ia man of great parts and somebody
| if | am rightly informed, Peelte, too. kusAin
Notes" on the Academy are lsudatory tins year
on the whole. We are not idle in letters after all
though lust at present have but little TO say oil
them. Reviews and magazines exhaust the clever
men. even while the clever men do not DO tneir
| best in them. Yet only the great magazines pay
and no new ones succeed. The bes! OF these
publications is, that We get at superior men
views of things now and then wltnou'
having to wait for book from them-as wnen
Kipcsley writes in The North British, or Lewes 10
The Lesder, or Brimley in FrGser's, or Mrs. Gss-
kell in Household Words. BY the way, shall DC
happy to have to speak of Mrs Gaskelps memoir
| Of Jane Eyre" Poor Mrs. NicOl the greatest
woman of her time. That was an awful loss; l
need say nothing of Little Dorrit' to P1oiie
which reads it a. regularly IS our own: But
fancy that with bis "Circumlocution once and