The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-08-27
ENGLAND.
whe Diplomatic Clothing Question.

Whe Diplomatic Clothing QUESTION
The Pau NAL Gazette, which is pretty good
authority upon matters of taste, has announced
that Minister johnson will be received at court
in a simple black dress SUIT, without question or
imp. diment, on toe ground that, as he was ap'
pointed after Congre had laid down the rule in
regard 10 dress, he has never known any oetter,
aud cannot be found fault with reasonably. In
deed, 1t adds that il he should choose to attend
in a shooting jacket, the same courtesy WIN be
extended towards him. This decision may give
some comfort to the souls OF sumner and Others
who are worried bout this important diplomatic
affair. For myself since the Queen cousenteI
to receive gentlemen at her afternoon breakfast
in black coats anu light trowsers, do not see
how she can reasonably object to any eccentrci-
ties OF costume. To the Americans who come to
London to be presented at court, the advent OF
Minister Johnson will be great blessing. For
some time before his resignation Minister Adams
presented nobody
Public Optnion on the Election Canvass.
The London Post, of August Is, remarks that:
The election speeches and addresses which
are already being made all over the country
furnish not only very pretty study, but also
useful collection of indications as to the polIti-
cal oUinlons which are likely TO be in vogue,
and the "set" which the nam current is likely
to take when all these streamlets have been
poured into IL. The most amusing that we have
met with Is certainly one delivered To the cleo
tors of East Cornwall by Mr.. Nicholas Kendall,
who appears to be an extraordinary tine sDecl-
men OF fossil pol tlcian, no v for the first time
exhumed from long superintendent silence.
public men are in the present day agreed,
1t Is as 10 the beneficial effects OF free
trade, and yet Mr.. Kendall, with an election
and an extended constituency in full view, posi-
lively claims credit tor having been one of "the
nineteen men who stood TO their guns IN Paria-
INT on behalf OF protection" when the system
was finally abandoned, and not only that, but
he gives a reason for his tenacity which Is even
more curious than the teDaclty ITSELF He ap-
pears TO be sorely 0adgered by troublesome
questioners; but he answers them BY pro essing
G,un in Inrln orhu AID tff 4, oil
is political virtue, or even political quality
OF any iptellgIbe sisnidcation, perhaps Mr..
Kendall may yet obtain more or less respecta-
bic minority OF votes.
Sir John Trelawny and Mr. Bridges Wilyams,
the liberal candidates tor the same division of
the county, are men OF very different sort.
The former declares that he has al 8aYs been an
advocate tor the negro suffrage, which has now
been conceded, and reminds us that the work of
reform ls as yet Tar from mpletc, since the re-
distribution must shortly come on again for
treatment, willie he regards complete
scheme OF education as the necessary compile
ment of the measure. AS TO the ltlsh Church,
he frankly asks:-"ls it right or proper
that the English people should be bouud
to pay heavy taxes in order to MAINTAIN an army
when is to compel the Irish to allow Church
to exist in their country which they themselves
depTecate, and which is in l'sei an intrusive
Church aud never will become an establish
ment liked by the peopeW He reminds us that
the Government has, rs tar as We at presen. are
informed and as far as can be asceraned from
tlons, mo policy at all,n and that the only
remedy for the admitted evils OF the case is
that which has been proposed by the opposi-
tiOn, Of which he aVo VS. himself supporter, as
does also MrWillyams, who seeks TO be returned
with HIM. We imagine there can be little doubt
as 10 the choice which East Cornwall will make
between these three candidates.
Lord LyIton and Mr.. LongfsIIow.
To the editor of the London btar:-Sir-Some
short tiue ago an account, taken from an Anne
rican paper, was reproduced In some OF the
English journals, of a suubblng which Mr.. Long
fellow (Who at that time lad to gain his laurels)
received at the hands OF Sir Edward BulWer-
now Lord-Lytton.
As the story ran the poet arrived at Kneb-
worth with letter or introduction to Sir Ed
ward, who, at the moment OF the poets arrival,
was on the point OF leaving home on horseback.
If we are TO believe the American writer the
author of Eugene Aram' would not only not
Voucbsa'e An interview, but treated the author
OF "Hiawatna" with the greatest possible con-
tempt
discreditably, has forwarded me the following
letter, which beg you to insert Yours, ETC.,
JAMES HOLDEN.
No. l6l Townhead, Rochdale.
KNRBwoRTH, July 27.-Dear Sir:-The para
graph you were good enough to send me rea
tive 10 Mr.. Longiellow and myself is an impu-
dent falsehood from beginning to end.
have the honor to be, dear sir, truly yours
Jefferson Davis
and his family had not yet left Liverpool, but
they had removed from the Adelphi House to a
private residence belonging to an American
merchant, and which had been placed at their
disposal by The owner, whose family were out
OF Town. This step was taken by MIR. Davis as a
matter of necessity, as he 1nd that residence
at public hotel hDdered hun from ob'ainlng
that thoraugh rest and privacy SO necessary for
hls health.
FRANCE.
Commerce or ths Em piEe.
The Paris TENNIS Of Anuust IN contain the