The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-14

Stanley have been sowing. The snubbed and
unapprecated Junior partner of the former
political firm of Weed, Seward, and Greeley,
seems to have his revenge at last on his de-
ceitful and greedy seniors. To take away
with himself the credit and glory of settling
the Alabama claims will be the best imagin-
able way of vexing the subtle and selfish soul
of Seward and will send that venerable
statesman back to Auburn in more dismal
and grabbed detection than when he returned
from Chicago in 1850 as the great unnomi-
mated.
Still another symptom, and one of the most
decisive, is the enthusiastic zeal which the
Tribune has displayed for the success of Mr..
Gladstone in the recent English elections. On
certain days, indeed, 1t has been really difficult
to decide whether the Tribune was an Ameri-
can radical newspaper edited in London, or an
English Liberal newspaper edited in New
York. And what but the approaching presen-
taton of II. G. at the British Court can ex-
plain the extraordinary assertion which the
Tribune has just made that Admiral Farragut
found all the rights of American citizens re-
spected in Great Britain; or its not less
extraordinary proposition Extraordinary, we
mean, as coming from such q source) that
the President of the Fenian Congress is not a
proper person to be sent as American Consul
TO Leeds
We repeat, the thing is settled. II. G.. is to
Queen Victoria. And, after all, why not
1t is true that II. G. has already made one
experiment at diplomacy with no very bril-
liant results. But he went as envoy to meet
the Confederate commissioners at Niagara
without proper credentials, and there are
abundant reasons for believing that if Mr..
Lincoln would only have accredited him with
full powers to the government of Jefferson
Davis the day after the first battle of Bull Run,
we should have had peace at once and at any
price.
Moreover, as envoy to the British Court at
this particular time, H. G. will not be called
upon to do much more than is expected of
those valuable young men who are invited to
evening parties for the purpose of diffusing q
genial air through the assembly by standing
around and smiling" He will find all the
knotty questions at issue between the countries
quite disentangled, and, after setting his seal
TO the work OF his predecessors, nothing prac-
tically will remain for him to do but to write
evasive letters to Geo. f. Train, to give good
dinners and eat them, to dress WELL to dance
occasionally with the Princess of Wales and
other young ladies of rank, to make agricultu-
raj speeches in the rural districts and CONNER
cial speeches at the Lord Mayors banquets,
to quote Shakespeare and the laws of Saxon
Alfred, to weep on the tombs
of ga common ancestry" and generally to
make himself literary, poetical, and agreeable.
Is there one OF these duties to which Ii. q.
can justly be considered incompetent 1t
may possibly be thought that the great
breeches question viii trouble him. But, in
the first place, it has already been settled by
her Maiesty's chamberlain that if the Ameri-
can Minister chooses to come to court in a
short-wasted blue coat with brass buttons,
red and white striped waistcoat, and naukeen
trowsers riding high up his republican legs,
with fluffy white hat set far back upon his
manly brow, and green cotton umbrella
tucked under his resistless arm, everybody
will be delighted to see him. And, in the
second place, the chances all are that
Ii. g., when he gets to England, will
insist on wearing court suit of uncut velvet,
or at the very least an embroidered uniform.
Now that the Quaker John Bright is about to
appear at the levees of his sovereign in the
blue and silver of cabinet minister, we may
depend upon it that II. G. will rejoice to prove
himself also to have soul above buttons. In
our opinion, he has been all his lifelong mis-
understood in this matter of costume. We
believe him to be real clothes philosopher,
who Ehas dressed himself not from mere
sense of duty, but with a Just aesthetic eye to
moral effects and social influences. Such q
man, if sent to the King of the Feeiee Islands,
would need no carpet-bag; while if sent to the
Queen Of Great Britain, we may depend upon
it that he will tax the genius of Poole to its
utmost stretch of inventive ingenuity to make
him beautiful forever" Bless him-let
him go!