, 1866-08-22
FROM EUROPE.
Our London Letter.

Correspondence Of tho Chicago Tdhune.1
LONDON, August !, lsG8.
At this time Of year, London Is usually
dull, wearisome city-given up to business of
q material Kind, in which routine Is the
guide and where there Is little to stir or to
crafty the intellect. In ordinary years,
there is no political life In the month Of Au.
gust. Peers and Commonets arc away at tue
eea-sidc or on the moors or IN foreign capt.
tails. Every one. in town envics his nesghbor
who Is out Of town, and mentally vows that
he will take his departure as soon as he can.
But this year, thanks to the existence of
Tory Government, and to the treachery Of
considerable number Of members Of Parlia-
meut who were returned to promote reform
and who have done their best to destroy it,
Te arc nr IN aa stste t1e e. 9sl ss on
placardcd with exciting appeals to the peo-
pie to come into the streets or into the parks l.
and express their determination to have re-
form and their anger at the interruption of t
their right to meet In the only spaces Of |
Gold Cabinet councils from day to day, and |
some are for relying upon the military and |
others for letting matters alone. II they
yield, they fear to be taxed with weakness;
If they resist, they see nothing before them
hut bloodshed and the horrors Of riot. The
The agitation reaches the lowest or criminal
classes, who always profit BY street DEMON
strations, and who have to- pay of old scores
with the police; and this naturally fTightens
all Who have anything to io5s. Monday o,'d n night
metropolis, assembled to hear the Democrat
ic leaders speak on the subject Of reform and
the conduct Of the Government, aud those
who witnessed the scene will never forget it,
Gazing over that eea Of faces and listening to
1fr hat
est Of tue sentences employed By tho orators,
it seemed Ms though d new era had begun
as If another London had become revealed
ns though the old society was about to be
thrust aside and new powers, new influences
day but unqucstionably the irritation Of the
multitude Is great, and the metropolis is
moved to Its lurtlcrmost windings and su-
burls.
The Timts has completely changed Its tone
sions Of ofopinion. Mr.. Delune, the editor, was
himself present at the wonderful gathering
on Monday, md was astoundea not only ut
| the numbers, hut at the evidences Of charac-
ter, of sincerity and Of earnestness, as well as
Of determination. The Post cries out for Gov.
crument interference, and would lave the po-
lice stop the people on their way to the meet
| ings. The Tory papers heap abuse upon those
| who are present, and yesterday one Of them
did Its hest to call down upon itself the yio-
lcnsc Of the crowds, by posting on the dead
account of - Tie great donkey show at Ag-
ricultura1 Hail. the place at which the as
| scMblagc had taken place. But the Govern
mcnt arc wiser than these foolish supporters,
and carefully withdrew the police from the
have becn held both IN Hyde Park aud in tic
Victoria Park si1ce the prohibition was an
nounccd, aud tue Reform Lcagne practically
has won the day for TIE time. What l,ny be
done when Parliament breaks up next week,
is another matter.
The" "scason" " is nt an end, balls and Gro.
9uet parties are over, and In . day or two
Parliament will be proroguel. Even the
Emperor Napoleon has gone 10 watering
place. Only hard working journalists viii!
even amongst them. The Opera Houses ure
shut und 1hc musicians ure flying to tht
Continent or to the Provinces. Meanwhile
over us who remain, gloom is cast by III,
terrible visit Of the cllotera. The fashion
es anss Se'a Ra1 9s not f fonon w taepta tbs s
are aprrorria.ing wards FOR cholcrl patients
and getting them flied. The doctors 1av.
busy and dangerous time Of It, for they ar,
gradually becoming OF one mind about th'
Registrar General Whose return Is published
to-day, tnys Of tho scenes now taking place
at the seat Of tie metropolis
"1he mortality Is overwhelming in come Of th
you sce them Of al ages, chillrcn and ailalts, j,
Ing ahoat their beds like pcople under the ineu
ence ot deadly potsens t some acusy = su&:{srlng & r.
Is going on around them. Here the doctor /
drawn In by the husband to eee. tho wife now NJ
there &c sas e5 il sasm1 here
there lies inc four.yeaf Old Child, his curly Ira
dropping III lealli, but his mother says bia pulls
der pFots1 da y st es 4s ~" abea
;. Several wards OF the London Hoep.tal nre full I
Ea'ieiS. Nany Of them are ;onug ehild,e,
, dying, come Wsil again ana playing; Tke medic;
men have no resi-, mud with the health officers a
sssS s 9s ss ss s 81 S TIT ss pssn sasy sy psea 's +
themselves arc 1nost patient; must willing to bel
saeh other the women always i1 front, and ne1 s'
lear in The midst of tits eeenc the an!horitit
hare been to come extent Rar;syzsa The MI
'leithcT aie tic medical oiiccrf. Ths admInistl
5 tive work has not heen organized With su1ic!e'
: energy. Such calamity as ,lis may well 6,
especially Nan:ed Z exesu.iye EowGI vel o1ganl
Ihr people Of Eas, London want help"
's Whether by intention CT not, ana unab
II TO say, but it is the case that the authorlti
'c Of the Atlantic Telegraph had omitted
~ Contcut and New York was Incomplete, at
= it was not until last night that We receive
l. messages direct from New York. We full
s. expected when the cable was down, to ha
r. an abstraet Of the political intellisencc
~ chary oftheir lnt tclliEcnee all along. Althou:
VIC are assured that telcgrams were passi1
OF all day Willie the Great Eastern was on Il
u voyage only, two, sicrotypcd phrases We
a'a ebeet Seeming to be to to keep eeasal
~ ly before our eyes the name and the impe
~ tance Of 31r. Glass. I do not question I
70 value Of tlsis gentlenan's services, nor, If
Of has set his heart upon getting knighted, q!
r. him Of the toy; bnt we wanted someihi,
=. more than the constant repetition Of
as name when we were on the tenter hooks
T. anxiety as to what was tcing done on t
In vessel. The dealings With The press ha
AZ although, without the encouraging and hoI
- ful articles In the journals, the neccssa
"a capital for the enterprise would never ha
NJ been found Our first really bnslncss-li
e message arrived at noon to-day, dated n
In dated New York. Sunday, but so spoiled d
- VIC, that VIC chatcd at the delay.
VI 1T ordinary times ! would not think
p quoting Blackwool's Magazine as IN auth
ty ity as to the current Of public opinion OF
st particular question but the fact that ms
m ! Than one ot its contributors are now nc
- bers Of the Government, gives tcnpora
rs Importance to some Of It's contents. VII
lis Sir E. Buiwcr Lytton, now Lord Lytton, "
to In Office, he was engaged at ~ thS s;. same II
nv 1t SO happened that the portion which !
v. pcarca at the time of bis appointment, bt
Ece the construction That he had written 1t n
nd special reference to his new position a
IN. lie deemed it e1relieut to announce that I
n. Ms. was tlufslied before he had entered
~ ~ Cabinet. It Is very probable that
se article on 'sDritish America " in Blackwc
u, for August was written by our new Sec
le- tary for the Colonies. Lord Carnaryt
be though. Of course: previously to bis act
~ stances, the views it expresses have so
on THIS writer in Elack,cood says that in
he citlsns upon the future Of British Amer
In the statesmen Of our day have at least SC
ac ways before them; aud these he says,
OF Fir,t-I.et British America alone.
'ul .EtoHd-D0 no moro than c0lontzc
to Hndson's Bay Company's territory: :,
1hir.l.Let the colonies drift OF and
~. como independent.
~, FourA-Let Canada and the mariti
eu colonies form a confederation under Brit
ny protection.
10 FUii-I.ct Canada and the maritime r
nv ! vInccs consolidate into one State.
~, S.xth-Let the Whole Of British Amer
~ ~ enter into i confederation stretching fr
MS. the Atlantic to the Pacific.
led .Sf,xnth-Let tho whole Of British AM
MS | ca be consolidated into one State Or Emp
rle and not confcdcrated.
IN Taking the whole Of these under rcris
AZ Black1rocd dismisscs all Of them except
On fourth and portion Of the second as
at practicable or premature. The writer c
Ing siders 1t certain that a new British colony
nd ! more than one, will he formed in the Hud'
~. Pay territory, and that the confederation
~ Canada and the maritime provinces will
Its pushed forward, with the consent Of
adj provinces themselves, as rapidly as circt
n- stances wilt nllow. Neither" he ad
,,,t ..udmits Of delay. While the native b