New-York tribune., 1867-10-04
GREAT BRITAIN.

TUAtkEkAN.
yea Our ovu CoI's.onieHt
Mr.. Carlyes Shooting Niagara; and After.
will be rc-puilishcd 10y Chapman and Hail. with adj
ditions aud corrections. Few essays III late years
have elected - much comment-counoli mostly 'l
Q hostile kind. and written mostly ia fofeeliWn'"a
of the delight with which the Inaugural Adol'SS at
Edrbursh last year was received. inc n"".'s
article of The TRIBUNE was copied into many Eh-
plsh panerS ns M authoritative answer from America
TO so much If Mr. Carlye's essay q. concrHh'H
America 4! was a pleasure to many ~ his IN, ls
s, "a, find that the protest on your side coud nc
stated with great -, force, o, ana 70 which
Carlyle is entitled. whatever may be oui pItse !ii-
ference ior him. In very strong contrast =" ',S hs, -
All article in NE Nation of yOur city. rthte. mere
in some Journal which seems 10 sIpprSe t', in. c,%
ton represents an apprec liable body 0i Ahrn,San
opinion. IL Is precisely such articles a. o D o,yI,.
Ism is more fond of personal altSe than 'o i-''S
Unhapply If particularly bad article cooS ~
written in AM rca, IL IS only too APT t e"l q'Nl J."
EngIond ouH the rpope here who read. Tor instance
the hppant impcrtinence Of 1he Ndts" to"a'i Sir
Carlyle cannot be- expected 10 kiiow trt -" e liz
habits of lieIary composition had been ioFihG'
1t is commonly Thought on your side 'nat taFiyie
fs TO be rerkou,d among the enemies ot Ah'U.h
know tie opinion 10 bc n wrong one. Enemies Of
America are ntrneious enough but Mt CArFlr u not
one of them The ruling classes IN Ehgiah1 were tE' E
ally on The side of the South for tlf Soni was lk
inG t,leir battle. lts success vOuld have postponed
in1euitely the success of the Reform movement hcre
aud Of other movements yet To come b"I tIiN up
position was not what America resented most keei-
w. There amoug the same classes very zen
,ral dislike and contempt for the North and 4 WAS
the display of these feelings which rOnsrt American
Indignation. | affirm of my own hh9Wie"se tna.
Calyes feelings were Of kind very different iio'a
these. He disbceved IN the ideas on wU!ch
the American Republic is built, but for America Tor
the people Of America and for the hdehty ana co9r-
age which marked the struggle OF the North 10 ni1n
tan the Union he has often expressed hls cordiai
liking and admiration. have right 10 prnt con-
yersations but say this much because 1t Is due 70
Carlyle that his intellectual dissent from onr pohu-
cal theories should be cOnfoundrd with the bitter
personal anim0sity against everything, american I
WHICH disgraeed the bulk OF those whom nave
spoEen OF as the ruling classes The conversations
refer TO took place last year. and were repeated 10
many friends Of his and mine when went hoWe. lap.
peal to Their mm0y God % s MsH or s might not
be slated with much more emphasis than now u.s. ush.
I am as far as ANYBODY can be from agreeing WIN
his political theories or with his notions aheut Ja-
maica about tho negro. and about many other mat
ters. As to some the negro for instance, ne Is Ut
ferlv mistaken in his facts as well rs his theories
Bnt for his great genius and his great services 10
literature and to mankind have profound re'e!-
snce, and think the many Americans 10 whom ils
name is dear have right to know that they also are
More or less gossip abort coming Ministerial
changes may be heard by those who care 10 listen
30 not know whether it has anything better than
conjecture TO bud OIL Considering that this Is the
hull season. that Lord Derby ana Dir; bstaef are are
way till next February, there would seem to be no
occasion for an immediate change. When Pariia-
nlent meets and when the lIish and Scotch Reform
bills are To be dealt with, Mr. Dsrael may be glad
enough of reinforcement. Last session lie fought
his way through almost literally slnge-haded, and
he did in tho country this week, that IN September
ho was not up to politics., His colleagues on the
Treasury bench are of snall help in Parliamentary
uoiss As for single-handed contests, there was
scarcely Nn important question dul1Dg the ketoTln
sny one of his subordinates. The withdrawal of
Lord Cranborne robbed him OF his only debater.
That LoId CranbOrne should again light under the
fun in one of the sero-comic weeklies, in Che
shape OF mock correspondence between Derby
and Disraeli hints that Gen. Peel might come DacK
rs War Minister, and Lord Carnarvon resume his Co
Ionial Secretaryshp. But Csnarvon attacked Derby
IN the Lords with as much bitterness as CIanoorne
did Disraeli in the Commons He described the ex.
isting Tory Ministry as an organized hypocrisy
"a phrase which he borrowed FROM pisraeli who ap-
piled il to the Government OF Sir Robert Peel) The
debate hot one, but these things are got over
sometimes If there is any real urgency for change,
IT is in the case of Sir John Pakington. With the
Abyssinian Expedition under weigh an able Secre-
tary OF War is much needed. darlington is dull,
with great opinion of his own ability, and a great
talent for getting things into mess.
1t is limited that Lord Derby's CONT is worse, and
its attacks growing frequent as TO impair bis
strength Ii there were q successor he might be
10 fallf DisTaeh was never liked by the genuine
Tories and is liked less than now that he has
made them the instrument of reform victory: Bnt
Disraeli or nobody must lead the Tory party in the
House. Under Lord Derby he IS content wlth the
first place in the Commons and the second place IN
the Ministry, but under whom else would he servef
Lord Stanley is his JUNIOR. and II Is dheu 20 men
tion another name which anybody would propose TO
put higher than Disrael?s. Lord Derby must man
age bis gOut as best he can.
There is great fuss about the rescue Of few Fe
mans at Manchester II they had been prisoners OF
they got safely TO jail safely out Of il bat being
Fenians the ahray is magnitied into political dis
turbance. The newspaper comments are more amns-
ing than any thing they have provided since Payiia
Inent adjouTred-ust as the heavy tragedy is often
more funny ;han the best Jokes of the low comedian
The Times gets its very highest stills, and after
describing the inc dent as an outrage nnpre-
cedented IN recent times, eXclaims it Is
startling thus TO find ourselves face 10 face with
an armed enemy i'm one of the most important
cities of the kingdom. The Fenans have declared
war against institutions. and have carried It into
the very heart of the country J" This IL ON Thurs
,lay and is sufficiently dreadful. On Friday-tho
writer probably finding that people were laughing
Mt him-the same journal says: There is probably
no ground for seriOns alarm, and We have not the
least wish to exaggerate its importance!n and it
thinks a. fow hundred cavalry" viii be able in tu-
fure to take care of the thirty forty Fenians You
surely will be shocked 10 learn, on the same high
authority, that the Manchester rescue was one of
the most audaciOus practices Of American fowdy-
ISM
The West supplies MS with literary scandal touch
ing female novelist already of some notorety. In
Mis- Baddons magazine "Belgrayia." there appeared
novel under the name of "Circe" purpOrting 10 be
written by Mr. Babngton White. 1t has been pub
lshed in book form. The Pal ddH Gazette reviewed
IL on Monday. and showed that il was translation,
without acknowledgement, from Octave Fcuillets
''Dalila." On Tuesday, letter signed with Miss
Braddons name, appeared III The FaH hdH, saying
that the discovery of the theft has fallen like thun
derbOt on her senses, that she unconscious of
Mr. BabingtOn Whites deception, and that she
should like 70 return the money paid by, her sn6-
scrbcrs for those numbers of "BelgIavia' in which
"Circe' had usurped a place. What could be more
beautiful than thiS-whOSe sense OF honesty so bne
rs Miss NJ. T.. BraddOn's But on Wednesday aJ-
pears letter the writer of which remarks thai in
tOleTaby large acquaintance with professional HHTI
tears he never yet found ~, any one WHO