New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-28
ENGLISH GOSSIP.

We make the following extracts from letter OF
July Is from London which has been submitted to
our perusa
"In observing the working and debating OF the new
House of Commons, every one has been struck by the
singular absence of anything ike commanding talent
amor the new members, who form so large proper
ton of the assembly. Kingake of Eothen celebrity,
from the occasional splendor Of whose private CONVEX
saion grea things expected as debater, broke
down in the course Of his maiden speech, aud has
never recovered hnself since; from among the
new men has there emerged single speaker rising
above medocity suppose is partly owing to this
circumstance that The Times, his old enemy, well
comes the temperance of Mr.. Bright in Parliament,
az member for Birmingham, for which he yester.
day formally returned. Tie other Liberal candidate
for the vacancy occasoned by the death of Mr.. Muntz
withdrew Had he stood the Conservative candidate
would have prolted by the split in the Liberal party,
and would probably have been returned. But as this
spt was put so to speak, kors de combat BY the with
dawa of the Liberal candidate, the Conservative has
wisely withdrawn too, and Mr.. Bright walks the
course There is at first sight, something rather odd
in the spectacle of an apOte of both peace and tent
perance being returned for a town Like Birmingham,
where the beer.selleIs and tho gun makers are so
strorg But Mr.. Bright is not only peace and TEN
perance mamie is freetrader, and thus he MANAGE
to conciliate the two classes who are his natura'
enemies. The explanation is easy. Government mas
for several years endeavored to make ITSELF IN the
matter Of smal-ams, Independent of Birmingham, ana
to establish gun factories OF its own. As eraaer
Mr. Bright oppoSes this interference OF Government
with private enterprise and so, though a man OF
peace he has gained the affections rather suddenly,
of The Brummagem gun-makers. Then, though Dir.
Bright is Temperance man. yet, as ireetrader De Is
opposed to the present licensing system; and so long
as the sale Of intoxicating drinks is allowed he would
permit the sale of all and any of them to be universal
Thus the beer-seers who are now declared from
selling spirits without special license, delighted
with their temperance friend.
"Our newspapers as You will have seen, announce
tie death of MI Delane, the ex-edcr of The Times.
You must not copfound him and the mistake Is often
committed even here) with his son, the younger De-
lane who is the present editor or directorgenera OF
The Times. Seldom, indeed, has it occurred that
father and son have welded in succession such ggan
tic power The elder Delane was editor OF TIE Tunes
from the Reform Bill onward till 1917, when the
Peeites bought The Morning Chronicle appointed
bin its editor, and furnished bm with funds ample
even for the Indulgence of his prnoely berality in
newspaper matters. But the great fuaDcier OF The
Chronicle in ts Peete days, Mr.. Beresford Hope, the
present Member for Maidstone, and son of ADastasus
Hope, insisted its supporting Puseyism; ard all the
talent of Philip HarSood, Veuables, Shirley Brooks
the novelist and Abraham Hayward the Edinburgh
Reviewer ard translator Of " Faust y could not per-
suade John Bull to swallow the Puseyite pill. The
Chronicle failed financially and has at last passed into
the Lands ola Hebrew capitalist who works it, they say
so as to assist h stock obbrg operations on the Pans
Bourse. Long before this epoch of degradation the
elder Delaie Of course had quilted TIE Chronicle.
Tie Times bid for his services, but be had left Il alter
a quarrel, ard too proud to return to it. How
ever lis old claims easily procured him the Treasu
iershp of the Kent County Courts, snug and pretty
lucrative sinecure, Of the same kid as that which
Mr. Diaaeli, when Chancellor of the Exchequer
bestowed upon his brother James. As Treasurer OF
the Kent County Courts Mr.. Delaie is succeeded by
the notorious Coppock-ReformC Club Coppock-the
Wing Parliamentary agent, who carries in his pocket
the keys of three fouhs of the constituencies of the
kingdom, and who as he bustles about the lobby of
the House Of Commons, is looked on with only
second to that inspired by the presence of the Right
Honorable w. G. Hayter, the Ministerial whipper-in
and patronage Sc cretay Of the Treasury. Sic Eur ad
dStTO.
"The greatest novelty in literature greater than Mr..
Gladstones prosipg Homeric paper in the new number
Of The Qnarter an instalmen it is said Of elabo-
rate work upon Homer is Mrs Newton Crosland 5
Light in the Valley an exposition Of her experiences Of
Spi,ualism. Mrs. n. Grassland may be better known
r.rbsps, by her maiden name of Camilla Toulmin I'M
der which she was long prolific contributor to our
aesthetic periodicals Mrs. Croslands work was lately
heralded by one from the pen of her husband detail
ing the steps BY which they were mutually converted
10 A faith in Spiiiualisu; br his book was greeted
with a ridicule which vii not impair the reception
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