The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-24

Auo idbuluR EOIuey Dy requesting
him to "strike out the whole passage referring
to Girard and Smilhson."
Once landed in the Old World, Forney was
Every much edited" at Liverpool to find the
people destitute of "greenbacks and small
currency" Some "very amusing Mistakes"
he tells us, "were the result of this remark
able state Of things" but the final upshot of it
was to make Forney more than ever anxious
for the return of specie payments in the
United States" After which he retired to
rest for his first night in England, and was not
surprised, nor will anybody else be, to find his
''slumber visited by conflicting and illogical
Visions" II was no better with him when he
awoke the next day, nor, indeed, throughout
bis tour. His book is one long ind gestion.
To follow him throughout its 'conhicting and
illogical" chapters would give one the night
mare for lifetime. He seems to have taken
his comparison of himself to Robinson Crusoe
as "happy thought" " and proceeds to speak
of Great Britain, France, Switzerland, and
Germany as if no civilized foot before his own
had ever trod those remote and mysterious
shores.
Going down by rail from Halifax to Liver
pool, at the rate of thirty miles an hour, he
was surprised that no "living object inter
rupted or threatened his progress, " and having
neither been thrown off the rails by herde of
banditu nor run over a Sunday school, he
came to the conclusion ''that the absence of
human beings from these fertile and shining
acres proved the presence of the government
of the aristocracy." The "arstocraoy," " in
deed, were always on his mind, but he was
nevertheless greatly pleased with what he
describes as the Exclusive little snuggeries"
of the English railway carriages, and he takes
immense satisfaction in stating that hs went
over a carpet factory in company with the
"son of baronet." II also made profound
impression upon him that "member of Par
lament in railway car, !" should have told
him that the "inevitable success Of the plan
of reconstruction proved Americans to be
wonderful race"
In London FOrney quite exceeded himself.
He thought the Parliament Houses $50 rich in
precious historical "reminiscences, that the
British statesmen could have probably deli
berated nowhere else with any desire to keep
before them the warnings of their own his
tory" What this surprising sentence means
only Heaven and Sumner know. To mortals
it is a hard saying. His fine perception of
character was illustrated in the House of Com
mons by his detection of resemblance be-
tween Charles Sumner and-Mr. Gladstone
who are really just as much like one another
as the late New York elections were like a
Republican victory, or as Forney is like
Robinson Crusoe. He pays his radical
employers of the Senate in general, how
ever, the left handed compliment of being
and manner those of a gentleman" Concern
ing political matters in England, Forney, two
weeks after his landing, discourses finally and
with prophetic wisdom. The insight of
Bunsby meets in this great man with the elo-
quence of Elijah Pogram. The future" he
saith, twill take care of itself. Whether the
end sees the overthrow of monarchy or not it
will assuredly witness the victory of the
people. The English are governed more by
their religious, political, and literary tradi-
tions than almost any other race, excepting
always the American 1t will be some gene
rations before they decide upon the expert
ment of republic, unless, indeed, they are
hurried into another revolution
Take away the Seoretaryship of the Senate
from a thinker of this force and profundity F!
The idea is-mOnstrous He has had such ex-
perience, too When he listened to Disraeli
on the Reform bill his mind ''went back
twenty years." to the time when, Gas Demo-
cratic editor" he (Forney) ''read and reviewed
in the Washington Union that remarkable
GCd 'that the views expressed by him of Mr..
Disraeli, while he was the editor of Demo
cretic pro-slavery paper, are made good while
he is cooperating with the only true Demo.
cracy in the world-the Republican party Of
America ~
Turn this man out Of the Secretaryship OF
the Senate There is madness in the thought.
"Mr. Bright and his friends" got punished for
| their American sympathies by undergoing a
good deal of Forney. What they suffered they
! of course have been too polite to say. Forney,
! on his part, exclaims:-'I have never expert
enced rarer pleasure than in listening to
them. How we'll they understand our par
ties 1t was an agreeable surprise to find my
| humble name almost familiar to them"
No feature in the brutal tyranny OF the
British aristocracy more shocked and grieVed
| Forney than the expensiveness of the opera
| ga glance at these prices" cries Forney
Sufficiently proves the impossibility of the
| poorer classes in England enjoying operate
harmonies." In our free and happy land, as
is well known, nothing is more common thar
for deck laborer or a coal-heaver, after his
days work is done, to buy pair of white
kid gloves, and pass his evening in an orches
ira stall at the Academy of Music. The
superiority in every particular of all sorts
and kinds of things and people in America wai
continually borne in upon the ample brain o
Forney, and he adduces the most unex
pected illustrations of this great truth. By
way of proving, for instance, that "none but
an American can respond to the call of {
genial philanthropy" Forney informs us tina
Mr.. Peabody's generous gift to the London
poor has already stimulated one EnglishmaI
to bestow sum of thirty thousand pounds
upon the Peabody Fund, while it has moved
Mr.. A. T. Stewart, of New York to "procur
copies of the plans, and photographs of tn
buildings"
AS to British religion, Forney evidently ha
more piety in his little finger than John Bul
in his body. He went to hear Spurgeon, and
though he saw at once that 1--WE have twent
more powerful and cultivated divines in
Philadelphia, - he recognized the vast merit
/ Il AloA NH ~