New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-06-11
LONDON.

LONDON.
TIM wurTsuyrrpE HOLIDAYS IN Town AND COUS.
rgY-EcHoEs OF THE LONDON PANIC FRo1 Tux
PROvIgcEs-THE PROPOSED CoNGREss-ARhSd
OPP THE NATIONs-ITALIAN HOPES AND EXpEc-
rATIoNs-NAPoLEoy III.-EYGLIsH SYnPATnifs
AND AyrIPATmEs-A FURTHER COMPLICATION
PRINCE CHARLES oP HonESzoLLERS AND
Observation-Disclosures BRIGHT UPON IT
ADJUSTMENTS IN LoSDoS-THg HORSE snow
AND INTERNATIONAL HoRTTcULTURAL ExHIBI-
TIoys-AYEcDoTEs OF EYGLIru SSoBBERf-
CHARLES DIcKEYs--THE FIGHT FoR TIE CHAM
PIoNsHIP-ITEMs.
From Our Special Correspondent $50 go ,.,e
"The English took their pleasures sadly, after their
fashion" That very old, and hackneyed, and FIehch
saying of Freilsas and like the generality Of such Ie-
marks must be taken with good deal OF allowance;
still there is thin subraum OF truth in it, recognizable
during our recent Whtsuntide holidays You know that
these occasions still observed in the old country tho
Church Of England having conserved very much OF tho
Roman Catholic partition of the year into saints 'ays,
fasts and feasts vgs and other supernatural dVsons
which we. in new world, with "a new heaven and
earth" for our inheritance have pretty nearly got nd o.
OF course Papa Rome borrowed them from Olympus iast
the guise of the new installed the Madonna and infant
Jesus on the vacant pedestalof Venus and Cupid apop
sted the pimbus-zory of Mars Bacchus Apollo yTornm
10 decorate her saints and martyrs and did other things
Of the like Sort nsomuch that We live think and worship
in an awful antiquity" Our Wbitsuntlde holidays, them
have passed their usual fashion, with more drcnkea
ness than enjoyment headache than pleasure, more
waste Of time than solid satisfaction to the bulk OF those
who observe themif what have observed about ths me-
tropos afford any criterion There is no denying the iact
that large proportion of lower-class Englshmen
holiday means beer and little beside; they esteem that
potable absolutely good as well as one Of the Deoess-
ties OF existence. Except on New-Years day 10 New
York and perhaps the glorious Fourth have seldom seen
90 many drunken during the last five days These,
however are but the stayat-homeslook for the majority
~ decent men, with their wives aud families in the
meuse excursion TRAINS crowdlng the steamboats,, Mak
inc the galleries of the British Museum, and
other exhibitions Pato ann I e sEIbs on ne
places of resort, where they behave as well az any
people in the world. They have, by the way, had
Unusually dsageeabe weather this season sunshine per
hans but dust and the bteres of cast Winds making Tho
temperature like that of January than the eve IT
June In the country, too, every little village has IT'S
"cnH of agricultural laborers who hire band, parade
the streets carving gpped slaves 20 10 church. dino
and commonly finish up with beer and general intozloa-
ton Realizing Whitsuntide whether IN town OF out
quite ustides Sir G. c. Lewis paradox tina, "fe would
be very tolerabe but for its pleasures Why 80 df
fcult for upon the truth THAI pleasure IL essen
TALLY so volatile that inevitably make mess Of It
when we 90 in for il deliberately And fer ALL Jean
Paul is night the only perennial dreproo pleasures arc
empoyments.
fashion enough The echoes OF the pceuniary pane from
the large provincial towns have been doefnL GLASGOW,
Manchester, Birmingham, and Liverpool, ana especially
the latter experiencing the crisis that troubled
London weeks ago Part OF Lancashire too has the
disease, 'hateful to gods aud men,, of impecuniosiy
and the old division OF the people OF nat famous mart
into two classes those who are gone and those who arc
gong-into bankrupts IA and a. pos-is once moro
renewed Like New York however, Liverpool has great
mover of regeneration We have Teysifyng and ygor
ous principles within ourselves observed Major Pawkls
TO Martin Chuzzewt shall we drink bitter aiore dr.
ner One may get accustomed 10 crises and panics as
the peoe of San Francisco were TO fires The emblem Of
Liverpool is significant, being ph1niX. But at present
the news thereffom engthens mons faces on Change.
The failure of Fene Brothers has involved ten or twelve
firms of greater or lesser magnitude and the present con-
don of the market suggests further eollapse all
of which will be felt here Then the withdrawal OF
900 in gold from the Bank of England Tor the Continent,
and the condition of Europe generally does not improve
matters The reports OF our money markets IN the day
papers, will AFFORD more confirmation OF Ills han caro-
TO descant on.
To those true mirrors of the times might also refer yon
for the chief subject of the week. after tho reaction Of tho
panic-namey the proposed European conference. Tho
question whether there shall be peace still remains
unsolved except by guesses Most persons think the lat
ter certain, and predict that there will be lighting within
night by Mr. Disraei, Mr.. Gladstone was remarkably
diplomatic in his Her Maestys Government
have entertained With earnest ueSfe hougn perhaps bo
as yet with sanguine hope the proposal for meeting or
conference among the powers Of Europe They thought
that il was their duty pass by the chances presented
in view OF the calanites which they sought 10
prevent and which appeared TO be certainly impending
over great part Europe They have therefore acceded
10 the proposal made TO them far they could enter
tain the question; bat the precise terms upon which The
invitation was be addressed TO the powers of Europe
general have not think been finally adjusted, according
10 the latest information which have received. AT the
same time do not think there is any reason TO suppose
so far as pret information goes, that difficulty is likely
10 arise upon the adjustment of those terms. There 10
nothing very encouraging in this II means that only the
barest prcminaries agreed upon. Furthermore we
are told that Austria declines conference, II Neneua 10
10 form question Of debatewhich is just cutting out tho
part of Hamlet in the play OF that name. Meanwhile, the
three powers preparing for Armageddon on colossal
SCALE Austria has army of 100000 men under arms,
and. it is said, raise 100000 in short tmei Prussia
musters 900 000 while Italy has 26Oc0 Garbadan voun-
tees to say nothing Of her regulars To be sure the fret
nation owes f3l6 900 600, the second t59O,o,oW tho
third f52 900 900 but they wise enough TO eouIt
the cost before commencing hoslintiesl IL ap
pears not. | have mentioned the din OF IN.
eli.h synpathes before now-for Austria against
Prussia and for Italy against Austria minus some as
count as prudential considerations The Italians ID Lon
don-and there not few OF them-appeai hse tb~t
counymen at home rampant for war win e ~ ,e
They have seItled the programme OF INC l1u-e "