New-York tribune., 1868-02-20

be maintained But now long doho -iA'
since this champion of indissolube union was tne
vehement partisan of the Shareholders hepei-
lion, and uttered every kind OF onehslNe sian ISr
der against the people OF the NO MSi'gSsr 9sei,
Union should not be pulled in piecesf Mr.; brlgnt
however, is no partisan of repeal between EngIanu
and Ireland. He Will be content WIN the t
of the State Church. and the transfer OF Iann 70
small prOpTietOrs by process which shall be neither
compulsory nor too rapid To the Church, once sep
arated from the State, he would grant some smal
maintenance out of the public funds, and 70 tn9 t9
Catholic and Presbyterian bodies the same III wiz
be long before even the most moderate plan CONES
before the public in any other way than as olro
for general discussion Not even Mr. Bright concur
plates action by this expiring Parliament ana .no
Tories have nailed to the mast their Irish accesMa1 M
tical flag Undoubtedly they will Keep II m I,HS R tb
Lord Derby thinks best 20 take another DedP AZ d dr
Dark or Mr. Dsraeli shall have completed Pefopm tnS
cation of his party on this point as well as on
SO long as it is safe to do nothing lOr o pOou
ing will be done Torres ana cpn he touched in
Ireland without shaking Land and ChuIcn III In
gland also aud on such question every sueP is
AZ the story of the Lord Willoughby scandal went
IN Won bv last steamer may assume that II IS tanl-
liar TO all the scandal-lovlng world ana lha1 you
have duly mOralized upon It, IL IS curious lor nGC
curious as yOu chOOsel, that the society OF when
Lord WllOughby is so distinguished an ornament, Is
inclined TO find eXtenuating circumstances Needless
TO say that such lie on the surface, OF wlthm
any ordinary vision The Lord Chief Justice who
tried the case the general public which read " inc
press which printed leading articles on IT, are oi one
mind The periodical fit of British moranty is on
and certainly recurs much 0ftener than once IN
seven years 1t never had me9neT scoundrel 10 ueal
with. Lord Chief-Justice COckbuTns indignation
was perhaps the greater because TIE whOle World
knows t-n respect 70 a connection in some respects
similar TO that of Lord WlllOughby he had OehaVedi
according TO the worlds code very generously and
handsomely. Society is reluctant TO believe that us
Grand Chamberlain can be quite so black as he
is painted. Society suggests that such q man as
Col Dudley Carlton would not at any stage OF the
business have acted as Lord Wllloughbys friend,
have proposed terms and an allowance to the Coun-
tess IL Ateysac and have allowed his principal after
ward to withhold what he had promised; If Lord
WillOughby, through Col Dudley Carlton, had
offered el 200 year. and $1,000 cash TO the Countess
d Alteysac. and had refused afterward 10 pay tho
money, Col. Carlton, say his friends would nave
compelled Lord WillOughby TO keep ms falth, or
would have shot him. Meantime, Lord Nlloughby
not having been shot does society cut hlm1 Ger
tainly not, say some anthorities. Nobody Is cut IN
these days. Society is too well bred TO OeJlay ltS
ANNOYANCE by any personal rudeness. 1t does not
cut Lord WllOughby nor lecture him. but 1T regards
him for the present as good man not to invite TO
dinner. 49,, -, ,
The Cunard people are not little angry with the
Post Office authorities for recognizing the existence
of the Southampton lines Procuring the city editor
of leading journal TO take up their quarrel, they
put forward, through this apparently impartial
source, a selection of statements which would DO
very damaging TO the southampton ships II they
happened TO be true. The mails now leave South
amptOn on Tuesdays by the North German Lloyds.
Queenstown on Thursdays by the Inman line South
Queenstown on Sundays by the Cunarders. In their
jealousy of their very prosperous rivals the Cunard
Company assert that these Friday mails are OF no
use because they will reach New oTk no sooner on
the average than the mails leaving London Saturday
evenings for the Cunard ships at Queenstown on
Sundays. prediction IN a convenient form OF as
sertiOn because nobody can dlSprOYe II: but us
extreme GOODNESS may be judged from the TACT that
in the only competition that had mp TO that tlIne
occurred the Cunarder had been beaten ont Of sgnt
by the German ship, and had Landed her mails IN
New-York four days ahead of her rival which lett
one day later. Nor do i see why the Cunard line
should complain that il cannot have whole weeks
or three DAYS mails TO itself since that line is pald
fixed sum of f77O per trip, while the other llnes get
only the pOstages, amounting TO Tree tlUO 10 Nv
each tIp pointed ont some time ago that the Post
Office here had shown a favoritlsm to the Cunard
Company, which superiority in its services Justi-
fed / remarked also that the Cunard Company
while pretending 10 enlarge Its facilities by giving
a weekly line to New4ork. instead OF running TO
Boston and New-YOTk alternately. wO1d really de-
crease them by taking off fast strips and putting on
such mere freighting vessels as the Siberia and Pal
myra This they have done, and they have so much
diminished the average speed OF their voyages that
If We had the Cunard line alone TO depend on. cor
respOndence between London and New-fork wonld
require about week longer for It's completion than
il now does. Indeed, one is at loss 10 know on
what the Cunard line can now base claim 10 supe-
riority. 1t is neither more regular nor more sure
than either of ITS three main ryals-the North Ger
man Lloyds the Hamburg, and the lnman Compa-
In speed IT 10 frequently surpassed by
each one of them.
1t is at last settled that the University Boat Race
will be pulled this year as usual The challenge
reached Oxford on Thursday, and it is a matter for
great rejoicing among loyal Cambridgemen that all
discouTa gements were finally surmOunted. Better
row and be beaten than not row at ALL is sentiment
which in this case must be deemed sound. oxford,
durng its interval of expectation. has had time 10
talk over the challenge from. Harvard College IN
America. There was every disposition TO treat IL
with respect but fancy il IS looked upon Inuch as
Sir Robert Napier would regard proposition from
King Theodore TO array an Abyssinlan against a
British regiment of equal force, on open ground ana
let them fight it out. The pluck shown in such
proposal would scarcely atone for its absurdiy The
University race will be r0wed on the Thames. from
Pntnev To- Mortlake over the usual course and prob
ably on the usual day, the Saturday before Good
Friday which this year is April 4. really wish the
Harvard men would send over here some one IN
whose judgment they have confidence. Then let
him saw after seeing the great contest between OI-
ford and Cambridge, whether he thinks crew OF
American undergraduates can contend with decent
possibility of success against even the losing crew.
Sonebody--pTobably MT. Lowe-Once complained
that man might graduate IN hOnoIs from an In
glish University and not be able 10 find Chicago on
the map Yet America proves to be country not
wholly unknown in Cambridge, and If her geOgTa-
ply is not studied there, her literature certainly IS
The subjects for the law examinations nave Just Deen
announced for 1869 including those assigned to can
ddates for hOnOTs in law and for the ChanceilOTs
medal Out of six modern textbooks prescribed 10
the competitOrs for hOnors and pIlzes. three are
American The three English books are Williams on
Real Property, Blackstone, and Haams Consntn-
tional History. The three American are Storys
Equity Jurisprudence, and the treatises Of Kent and
Wheaton ON International Law Upon this latter
topic, the Importance of which increases every day,
and which forms of the distinct subjects both for
honors and for the Chancellor's medal. the Ameri-
can writers are the only authorities in the Cambridge
paper. They have, of course, long been standard
books with the bar and the general public, and the
university stamp Is more credltable TO Itself than 10
the great writer's whom ii adopts.
1t turns out that the "spiteful letter" on which
Tennyson wrote his recent verses was an anony-
nous letter and not one but series of letters Ey
cry two three months for the last year two the
Laureate has received long epistle of COM
whom but ALWAYS by the same person. Ii
is to this mysterious and contemplate cor