Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-04-02
FROM LONDON.

FROM LONDON.
Foreign correspondence of the 1ntelligsncer.l
Gossip about Matters Political, Liter.
nry, Musical and Religious.
LONDON, March ID, 1860.
Shall give you, sermon-like, my gossip,
in firstly and secondly, down to SeUsnthky,
cxhausting your patience without exhnus-
ting my budget; or, make Il medly of it,
and let your readers, whose dump of
order" Ito speak phrenologically,) is dis
turbed thereby, arrange systematically?
London world is prolific just now in scenes
and matters OF interest to the stranger that
is therein rather think shall stick to
my points and begin with the budget of
Mir. Gladstone 1t came into the House of
Commons, you know, with the great Com
mercial Treaty just negotiated by Mr..
Golden, between England and France, in
cluded. So there have been long and
stirring discussions upon every article,
and the wise craftsmanship of the Chan
cellor has been seen in most eloquent
speech in defence of his cause, and in
yielding to outward pressure by substitu-
ting some reforms. The many depUta-
tons visiting his Lordship to state their
| grievances and ask for a change, have
come away satisfied he would do all in his
power consistent with the best good Of
the greatest number to crafty them. Re
publican as am, begin to think there is
more trWe liberty of speech and action,
and if not better government, in slow NOV
ing conservative old England with
| Queen at her head, than fast young Ame-
RIGA, under her Democratic President
Herctical am l? God bless my Father
land, New England, and all her sister
States; and noble old Virginia, mother of
| PrcSidentS-hOme of Washington! She'll
| fran herself from and nil
sorts oftyranny But to return to Lon
don, aud the French Treaty. I dare say
the ladies are all pleased at the prospect of
| getting those splendid silks from Lyons at
such unheard of prices,-but the brandies
and wines coming over tree-oh! horror
struck were the brewers and publicans
whose craft and beer were in danger. So
up they went in large force, and strange to
tell, met at the Office of our friends, their
natural opponents,-the tsst0tdlEerS and
pTohibitioniSts, bent on the same GRAND
viz: to prevent the free importation of
liquors, and more especially the making of
every little beer house, and candy saloon,
4 place to drink wine and brandy too
Beer, they say, is doing harm enough
we should like that hNnished from the
country,-~don't open tie fiood-gatcs of
| drunkenness wider still! Next to the wine
! question, in Importance, came the paper
duty" and the advocates for its repeal
| have WSsd much paper, and made such an
outcry, that l believe they have conquered.
| OF things Literary, IA most interesting and
| large collection of historical letters and
! papers at Eden Lodge, kensington Gore,
has come to light. Among them are pri-
| vate and secret letters from George, the
Third, Lord Mansfield, Sir W. Blackstone,
| Lord North, Adam Smith, Burke, Fox, and
| Pitt There is information of touching
and romantic nature, concerning the pri-
| vate life of the latter-and much of
| Howard, perhaps, of ;'IUUinS," who knows?
| As these papers are of great public value,
the public will doubtless hear more of
! them some day. Charles, the son of
| Dickens is going to India in banking
capacity under the patronage of the Bar
| ing's and the richest lady in the Kingdom,
Miss Burdctt Coults. His father went
| down to Liverpool lately and under police
escort visited the ''slums," as one may see
in AH the Year Round of last week.
Thackery's shilling monthly magazine is
! having unprcccdcnt succcss-almUst ruin
ing the smaller fry. am glad to find age
is exerting kindly effect upon this brill
liant satirist. The Newcombs, lately pub
lished, gives some credit to poor human
nature, and even recognises some grace in
| the heart.
hear from private and good authority,
that S. c. Hall and Lady have become
spiritualistS. BY the way, Rev. 7. L. Mar
ris, who has created some stir in London,
by what the reporters call eloquent preach
ing, and late a leader in American spirit
circles is out with letter, ascribing all
such influences, rappings,- &C., to be the
work of the dsrH, and renouncing his be-
4 lief Our friend, Mr.. Tweedic, Hon. Sec'y
J OF the National Temperance League, and
Z Publisher in the Strand, is about bringing
out the Grace of Thousand Miles for
Freedom" or a history of the escape of
I VIM. and Ellen Crafts, ofwhom Mrs. Stowe
speaks ip Sunny Memories. To-day 1
I read that Sampson and Low, of this city,
are soon 70 publish new work by the
author of Uncle Toms Cabin. OF things
musical, there are u great variety. aud one
] is rarely without treat for the ear in this
metropolis. heard lately from the Lon
/ don Glee and Madrigal Union, without
accompaniment, fine old English glees,
capitalIy sung. Six voices, including one
Soprano and one Alto, gave US the pCrfec-
ton ofthis ancient music. Then on Friday