New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-02-14
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
LONDON.

from Special Correspondent roNDoS Jan. o. 1857.
- H. a,or;cons resident in London
80 - r!Is % A,narica were considerably scan
saI;rad ~, learning that Mr. Walter of The London
O.. IA hooD entertained at Washington by Coz
-, ord that a large plumber of Republicans
tonresentinp Congress and the press had uhIeu ="
err roocrtion Mr.. Walter had been the most I'M
,lacabIe foe of the United States during tno i'.o
war lie has been the inplacable foe OF Heou'ni ~
his own country and it was from his foruoSS 'n"'
REASONED arrows have been for quarter OF century
flying at Golden, at Bright, at every ono VINO was
aiming to uplift the people of England under theSe
o;ro,,uostonces our English friends naturally ex-
seod vary freely their sense of the bad taste OF an
Entertainment acccoded by radicals to the proprietor
of The Times The report III some OF the American
naners that Mr. Walter had experienced change OF
6eart and had expressed his regret at the course Oh
his paper during the American war; excited generai
surpriso and called forth the remark that Amolcdhs
nnst la green indeed if they imagined that The
Times would swerve from its traditional course Oh
laundering America. Well Mr. Walter has returned
Col Forney doubtless read The Times, and he will
probably be impressed by the American letters and
fine editorials which have been filling that paper ever
since the tdngs of the proposition to nnpeach the
President came to these shores. He-COl forney-
will not fail 70 find his own name mentioned repeat
edly in these editorials of his friend Walter paper
need not refer particularly TO the articles. IL Is
enough 10 say that the malignancy the meanness Oh
"the bloody old Times" as Golden used to call IT,
have mover at any period been more concentrated
than in the daily leaders which are now directed
against Congress- Ashley, Forney, and every
body else who is battling for the threatened security
md dignity of American institutions. 1t supports
johnson with precisely the same purpose that II sup
ported Jeff Davis and by the systematic false
hood To-day it publishes letter from Its Washing
ton correspondent detailing. by permission OF the
President, a conversation with that humble lndl-
yidual" This is the second time that MI johnson
has chosen The London Times his vehicle for giving
the world his private views. When we consider the
course of The Times in the late Rebellion the appro-
priateness of the selection is undeniable. But if
johnson falls none will kick him harder than The
Times Ii is now engaged in the servile work of eat
ing it's own words the subject of the Alabama
claims and a very dirty meal it is. To use John
Bright phrase it "scatters dirt. well knowing that
il can eat it afterward" if it is necessary may say
here that proposition has ever excited more enthu
siastic approval among our real friends here than
that to impeach the President. Mazzin said to me
the othor day: If the American Republic purges its
Presidency of that man, it Will be the subhmest sight
the world ever saw and form epoch In history"
1t il probable that hereafter John Bright WILL per
Bonally DO let alone by his adversaries One by one
those who have wrestled with him have had the most
stunning falls ever received by smooth set OF gentle
man since the world began. Mr. Seymour is i'll COM
pete disgrace for the most nartstic nsrepresenta-
toni in The FOraigbib RereC eli MIR Bright speeches
Mr. Garth has not even found sorry defender for
De1sonal slanders for which he could give better
basis than that he had heard them he could not ex
actly say where or when; and Mr.. Ferrand for a
similar attack has only succeeded ia unearthing a
most terrible and cOntemptUOus criticism on his own
parliamentary career made by the late Mr.. Byng to
Mr Cobden-an authority which no Englishman can
afford TO dcspise. The assertion that the firm of
Bright Brothers stintcd toward the sufferers by
the cotton famine in Lancashire, has brought out
that they gave much as any firm in the Kingdom
though their own losses great and that they Of
fered more. 1t also brought to light that the twt
Brights had supported, secretly and from their Owl
purse for many years, agent whose entire time L
given to the relief of the poor in ROchdae. And tho
charge Of mpOpuaTity among the working classes OF
his own vicinity has now brought forth demonstTa
ton byFhem at ROchdae that not only refutes the
SANDERS but was really toEching-One of those
almost romantic incidents which at rare in
teryals bloom upon the hard face Of
politics There was profound earnestness in the
voice of the spokesman who last night with TIE
workingmen around him. expressed their sympathy
and respect for him uRder the ISLANDERS which had
been urged against him as their employer" and
prayed that his life as an employer and statesman
usually real in the informal utterances of feeling
and the hearty cheers that were given. Mr. Bright
was yisibly moved as he arose 10 reply. After ex
pressing his gratitude for their friendship the orator
said in a solemn voice, which thrilled all present
Rely upon it, the ISLANDERS that are uttered against
have and meant TO have, the effect of reach
ing aud damaging you." If the Brights were proved
% DO tyrants, their workmen were by implication
slaves and towards. Then NE said with frank con
fidcncc. a" YOW kuOw-eveTY man and woman IN
ROChdae knOws-that there is not the shadow
of shade of foundation for the charges that have
been made against me- This followed by inn
mense cheering. "WhY is it, asked Mr. Bright,
that l. and the firm to which lifelong, are assaedF
There are five hundred firms of a similar kind in the
country and why the 499 left untouched. and he
and alone assIiledY Our aSsaantS are the mOnOpO-
lists Of political power IN this country and the base
creatures who for selfish purposes found crawl
ing about them My crime is that have resisted this
monopoly of power; that from the first hour that
stepped upon public platform, and took part in
political questions, have pleaded Tor the nights OF
the million Of the people of this country" Some of
the passages of Mr. Bright'S speech were fail OF that
simple grandeur of which he the greatest English
master. 4" An unjust law" he said, wounds every
home in the country, and that most unjust law-the
Corn law-penetrated every town, and parish, and
village, and house, and wounded every man in every
house Just law on the contrary, has good influ-
cnCs equally unIVeTsal il Is like the lifegiying sun
like tine fertilzng shower it scaters good every
where; there is district 50 remote, 10 family
humble, no occupation so unimpOltant, that 1t does
law" Listening 20 John Bright, whose eloquence
grows with the emergency which IL has brought on
this country az much rs any ono cause, always IT,
call EmerSOns lines:
He spoke, and words moro soft than rain,
Brought the age Of goa again"
One OF the most interesting and substantially vau-
able works that have been published in England for
many years has Just appeared from the press of the
tlrcs on the History and Practice of the Fine and
Ornamental Arts" II Is by William Il. Scott, brother
of tho late David Scott of the Royal Society, whose
life he has written. The lectures were delivered be-
the (3Oyerumeut School of Art at Newcastle, of