New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-19
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Winter appears to be passing the Spring in England.
No sign of Summer is yet SEEM The Notwithstanding
and fannel-waistcoat temperature prevails, and the
quicksilver stands at steady cold with irmness and
aplomb that the Hanlon Brothers would give their
heads to rival The air is misty, murky foggy and
all things meteorologically miserable. Fears are in
consequence entertained for the coming harvest which,
at be st. will be later than it has been for many years.
Some few days, however, of golden sunlight may re-
verse this picture, and stay this dark foreboding.
TIE House of Commons has been but thinly at
tended Reform and supply being the order Of the day.
1t is strange, but is ever So that on supply nights,
when millions of money are being voted away for
everything and anything, the representatives of the
frs commercial country in the world invariably keep
away, and leave Ministers to manage the products Of
taxation as best pIeases them. Even the sweet music
of Gladstone's silver style cannot draw house.
few miscellaneous members sometimes present for
tie reason that the stars in Lovers pretty ballad
twinkle because they have nothing else to DO
CT drop on for lounge, or some private
business the House of Commons beng the best
club in England Palmerston alone continued stead
fast 10 bis post and at all hours and at all times may
be found in his accustomed seat, with hat down over
w.
One of the wonders of the age is this male Nnon de
Enclos, who is now at an age when most men snow
the shrunk calf and toddng gait apparently as buoy.
ant and vigorous full of animal Spirits as dsdainfu
of crutch in hand spectacle nose, and as NEIL
tally elastic as at any time within the past half century,
One mode Of preserving this wonderful uveniy is his
love of horseback exercise, generally riding before
breakfast when at Broadlands his Irish estates,
some twenty or thirty miles. Even our own admirable
Chevalier Wikof who piques himself on his perfec-
ton in all manly pastmes, narrates in his "rovings
of how he shrunk, when visit to the Premier,
from yenturing into the saddle alongside Of the aged
Gallant in his morning ride Another secret OF this
charm which he possesses in common with our Cheva-
lers his perfect immobity. Not only has he acasron
constitution butalso castiron heart, which gives him
complete command of histemPerament To him all men,
Parties and principles are alike; he is no more moved
than than milestone is affected by the quality of the
grain it grinds. He uses all as mere implements to-
ward attaining his one great object, Po~er, at any
price, at all tines and under every circumstance Like
| his master, Taleyrand, upon whom he has modeled
himself on an English mantle, and whom he resembles
in his identification with all the parties to his tne
turn he never exhibits too much ZEAL but uses just IA
little as is required attain his object 1t Is true tat
the English public generally do not attribute 10 MN ts
mperturbabily in which he is engaged against every
emotional influence His speech upon the old ola mats
which had touch Of most genial poetry about It, S
speech at Sir Robert Pees wedding which was IN the
happest taste and happiest style, and his celebrated
speech Of disbelief in original SIN, are ced by many
admiring worshippers az proofs OF his deep sensDy'
But no one better understands the weaknesses oil the
| English people ponders to them with more playin
/ lag. nd baya attn lied
him more closely believe that these bits Of sensbiity
were simple put on for the OCCASION His recent en-
treaty to be allowed to make his subscription, " five
soyereigns for that splendid little fellow, Sayers,
iust such another delicious touch of sensiby which
will endesr him in a hundred English houses where
| faith in English pluck and endurance is absolute.
Not half so viglant and active, though more than
twenty wears his Junior the leader of the Opposition,
DIsrael generally if he can, leaves the house early
for his residence at Grosvernor Gate always walking
out Of the House with kind Of sarcastic air, as II the
| Asian mystery was not half impenetrabe US the
fact Of how number of men could submit to be bored
| by such dullness ne thot which reigns around him.
| His brother novelist Bulwer Lytton, too, seldom
thinks il conducive to the health Of his intensely pre-
served whskers to permit them TO catch the dampness
| of the Thames after nine o'clock. Young Stanley Is
tie most patient sitter of his party On the leading OPP
poein bench he can be found with an expression
as if all the cares Of the four quarters Of the globe were
on his shoulders until the last lingerer has lef
smile scarcely ever fits his features. or his
| father the late Premier, who entetains for him
reveIental awe, and always phyfnlly calls him
papa. he GAYS that he would be great man II he
would only consent to look at any subject seriously
Even the most steady sers may have been lately ex-
cused for an occasional absence, dull and unprota
bic have been the discussions in the House Members
have scarcely deemed the new Reform bill worth
good nights debate, and it will probably saunter neg
| leeted through the Commons to find grave IN the
| House of Lords.
Another fat ecclesiastical place has fallen INTO Tue
gift of Lord Pslmerson. The Archbishop OF ork Is
dead Politically the appointment is not OF much
moment, IA the Liberal Bishops seldom remain long
true to their party. Lord Melbourne used 10 say
"a Bishop always the first TO forget hls MAKER
The bishopries not now quite equal to what they
had BEEN That Of Durham, for instance, the nshest
in England, although j. retains still the git oil 81
livirgs, averaging f6O0 year, and the income OF
G8OO0 year, under the old deportation, 1t has oS
ts great Of which was in the renewal Oh
leases Of the coaLEines Dr. Maltby, the Last Bishop