The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-08


| 1880 per cent. popular loans altogether to the
vast sum of $3.50, 900, 000 we are quite sure that
| our nelghb0r assumes too much In quoting the
revival of this 'Wall street. feeling on the pre-
sent occasion. On the contrary, we believe that
through the medium OF the New York market, a
very large conversion Of the other securities Of
the United States Will be made into the cOnsoi.
dated five per cent. stock of the United States
as soon as 1t Is authorized and made ready for
distribution on the terms Indicated by the bill
now before Congress.
Lord John Russell and Our Enfant Terri
bIe-"Why Should We Not be Friends9'
From The Herald.
Lord John Russell is a man of excellent senti.
ments-like "Joseph Surface" He is also an
eminenty respectable man; so very respect
able, that it would not at all do, it would be a
kind OF social outrage to suppose that he could
be guilty of any act of questionable morality.
He has assured us frequently of his high regard.
He has told us how much he admired our
sntiit and paid us the highest OF all the re.
spectacle compliments in declaring that we
were second only to England herself in the
possession Of all admirable qualities His SEN
timents were so beautiful and his respecta-
biity so positive, that it would have been the
basest lDgratitude in us not to feel how
splendid thing it was to have secured his re-
coeniuou. We felt it accordingly. How could
we have had the moral courage 10 intimate that
he might not be sincere We so young and be
so respectable. 1t IS true that we kne all the
time he had done things not consistent with his
protested admiration and amity. We mad a
thousand good evidences that he hated us with
bitter intensity. But we were so oVerpo Wered
by his respectability, so oppressed by the gra-
ciOus condescension of his sentiments that we
never had the heart to speak out plainly and
call him to account, and 50 we went on in the
conventional way, and through Mr.. Sewarl
who, does propriety on our part, we ans wered
Lord Russell's polite palaver with palayer
eOualIy polite. and assured him in thn tr,,
society style, OF our distinguished consideration.
But there is character not to be controlled
by the ordinary usages OF sOcieCy, not crushed
By the dignity OF others, never put down by any
reflections on its own significance This is the
enTdnt terrible. 1t is creature that is the
horror of all good society on account of the
simple truths 1t blurts out. No solemn sham is
safe against its chlldike simplicity. II asks
the splendid lady OF fashion ii those are her
new teeth, and what she has done with the
ugly ones she had last year and to please take
her hair OIL to show how easy she can do it,
Ii tells the elegant Top that the coat he has on
now is prettier than the blue one with patches
on the elbows that he had on last time and so
on, exposing with innocent Inconsistencies all
the admirably arranged cheats of the respectable
people.
We have in our American family good specl-
men of this character named Bancroft. One day
we had party, ana among those invited were
some particular friends OF the emmently respect
able man OF beautiful sentiments Earl Russell
And 1t happened that the e71tdnt terrible let out
in the presence of these persons all our private
family opinions OF the great Earl. 1t was terri
BILE. All our h1eslde expressions we're absolutely
laid bare to the world by this indscreet little
gabber, and the Earl, who had supposed chat
our polite expressions were sincere, learned that
we really saw through all his 5hams and actu-
ally had the audaclty to canvass his hypocrisy.
We were awtully ashamed it made such a fuss
But this, bad as it was, was not the worst Of it,
The exposures of an eHtdu terrible are uncOm-
Portable enough, and people generally show
nv rain sinrr ha, IL,
SAID 1t will commonly be noticed that when
an e7Jdnt terrible has hit upon any particularly
awkward poirt, every body is looking out OF the
window or lost in rapturous admiration of a
Domenichino, or doubled up over a torso in the
corner, so that you can hardly attract their at
tentlon. This is polite, and the injured indivi-
dual may suppose that no one has heard what
was said. Imagine any one stupid enough to
answer the entdnt terrible, or insuitutlng an ar
gument on the topic to correct false impressions!
This is Just what Lord Russell has done.
He has written to pater tdnaalidS that the
e7ltdnt terrible must be hauled over the Goals;
that such praltler must not be permitted to
throw suspicion on the good intentions of so
respectable person. His letter to Mr.. Adams
is model for all future personages who, scanda-
lized by uncomfortable truths may deem it ex-
pedient to write to the guardians or other per-
sons supposed to be responsible tor the offending
infant.
The enfant terrible, however, had found let
ter somewhere, and no sooner does he hear of
RusselPs demand that he should be laid across
the paternal knee, than, presto, he produces this
letter. Brought to the point, he gives clear
distinct deliberate, unquestionable proof Of
his original declaration that Russell had ''made
haste to send word through all the palaces of
Europe that the great republic was in its
agony; that headstone was all that remained
due by the law of nations.n His argument will
immensely deepen the impression made by his
original utterance. He discloses, also a curious
tact-namely, that he had told the British Min
lister not to come to the House of Representa-
tiyes on the day IN question. He Informed him
twice that he would hear unpleasant things
and had better STAY away; but the bold Briton
wouldn't do it. He would have his feelings
hurt. He was resolved and determined to
endure the hard things and went Just where
he knew they would reach him. The letters
OF Russell to Adams about Bancroft and of
Bancroft to Adams about Russell with the ac.
companying papers, are richly worth perusal
There is one very remarkable point in Rus
SELLS exculpation Of himself, as fine piece of
British cant as we have ever seen. Unable to
answer the arguments of his completely in the
English scheme against us, he threw himself
back on the general principles OF philanthropy.
lie quotes from the Declaration OF Independence
the words of the fathers that Englishmen should
be to us as the rest OF mankind, "enemies in
war, in peace friends" And upon this he