New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-01-22

they are not half so influential as people think. De
lane is good fellow, but he gets his ideas 1Ioli t1
talk in clubs and at few great houses, Il III
wreck his ship some day. The value OF me Ieo 20
that letter or whatever wants known is SUR ~
be read If there printed 1t is means OF puO,ley
There is good deal of truth III that, anu IL NJ
kind of remark which is becoming common. &c &c
account which believe to be perfectly COLT, 9o
the sources of The IineSS opinions EXPLAINS o o." nyyeat
often of late years the paper has gone wrong on
questions, and notably on America !" my
help explain the only thing IN W EInna ,roo 70
consistent-its worship Of success nneio mower
time when its leading articles were n p ChMei
elsewhere than in London; when inc Manehes,
ter manufacturer scarcely dared To, 20 10 pea
till the paper which &C once or bm had been read
They are a mower still but nothing like so great
power as once Nobody now sits up o nights to hear
what the Thuuderer has said. 1t is becoming rather
the fashion TO pooh pooh its artlcesa sure sign OF
decadence. Worse than that people are beginning
to find out that it cannot be trusted for news 10
does not always print all the news; sometimes pc
cause it has not ALL sometimes because 1t chooses TO
suppress it, often because 1t does not seem
to know what is news. You cannot read me
Times and feel sure that you master of the intel
ligence of the day. 1t occasionally beaten on news
of great importance; il is habtuay beaten IN news
of interest IN the details and incidents OF Continental
affairs. 1t does not reproduce the news OF the con
tnenta Journals Nc London paper is edited IN this
respect carefully it might be- but The Times IS
poorest of all 1t depends on its correspondents and
they of various degrees of merit Take the recent
Italian campaign, and you may search ats columns
in vain for anything like connected, lntenSlDle;
OF in degree trustworthy account OF what beiel
III those eventful November days Ii seldom mas a
telegraphic dispatch from one of its own men. but
trusts TO Reuters Agency which is many degrees IN
feriOr to the Associated Press of New Yorkyet what
NewYOrk journal would think of depending on the
Associated Press for all its newsi And it is slow:
Even RusSells letters, which immensely Increased
its reputation, were often behind-hand, and almost
always came leisurely along by ordinary post HIS
account of the battle of KOniggratZ last year was
printed nearly q week after the event. great
debate occurs i'll the Corps Legislatt. The
of \
full, and it is here at night 1t
will be three days before The Times prints transla-
ton. Paris journals are full OF political items, winch
appear on less often in some OF the London JonT
nails Tie Daily NecS for instance, but never IN Ihe
Times Such paper as the INDEPENDENCE Beige, which
contains most admirable summary OF European al
fairs brings every day to this Office which should
have appeared in the London papers of the same
date, but which, very likely will not appear at all.
not taken in Printing House square.
1T is TO be said, however that the appetite of the
English public for news is much less keen than that
OF the American The makeup OF me Times IS unac-
cOuntaby clumsy, and it is common to find news re-
lating to the subject three different pages.
II is possible to find in some very grave instances,
its leading article written in Ignorance OF dispatch
in its teegTaphc column, and once at least within
few weeks the telegTaphlc fact has been fiat con-
tradictiOn of the editorial conjecture. | cannot
imagine more fragrant proof of bad editing.
However, did not mean to write an essay on me
Times. If the desultory criticism which | offer has
any value, IL is because il Is the criticism OF journal
and who long since learned that he could not trust
it as newspaper owe it one more grudge for hav-
ing occupied so much of a letter which might have
been filed with more nutritious matter.
Undismayed by the public criticisms on his APP
pointment, Mr.. Thornton has accepted the ministry
to Washington. You are therefore TO be denied the
qualification. which Engshmen believe TO be the
dearest that can be offered TO America, of having
Lord for British envoy at Washington. Ii appears TO
be true that Mr. Thornton is politically and socially
series of patient diplomatic at fourt-rate
courts. He has been away from England for score
of years, and seems to be about equally ignorant OF
the country which he is TO represent and the cOur-
try TO which he goes. The Foreign Office may per-
haps be supposed TO prefer him for this reason being
that he will not venture to have involvement
opinions of his own. The public is less satisfied with
this arrangement, for the public has discovered that
the Ministry to Washington, though. technically
secOndTae. is of irstTae importance so long as the
Alabama claims remain unpaid and the fenlan
movement survives. What looks like an effort to
dragon Lord Stanley into changing his man goes on
the less persstently now that it is known Mr. Thorn
not afraid TO brave powerful opinion against
him. Half dozen names are put forward as thOSe
is one, and would be good man, although he has
been ViceToy of Ireland. Lord Carnaryon and Lord
CTanborne are mentioned, but it is difficult to be-
eVe that either would he forgiven Tor ms consistent
TOryism by this Tory Government.
The late Baron Marochetti, who recently and quite
suddenly died in Paris, was never popular among
English artists and still less among English critics.
This chiefly due to the fact that he was magnl-
fed by the Queen and, consequently, by the aTlstoc-
racy, quite beyond his artistic merits. Notwith-
standing certain hard and mechanical quality in
his sculptures. however, he nearly always made
good likeness lie was, perhaps, the most laborious
artist in the world His studio at Brompton consists
of four immense rooms completely filled with the
busts in marble, plaster, and bronze, which
no had made III the twenty-five years OF his
career as an eminent artist twelve OF which were
passed in England. Here stand the faces IN marble
of all the most eminent royal and official personages
Of his timebefoTe all, the Queen and late Prince
ConsOrt and after them, dukes duchesses statesmen,
and military men without number. heroic statue
of the Duke of Wellington is perhaps his finest work.
1t is at the entrance to Strathheldsaye.
Considerable interest has been excited IN certain
quarters by course of metaphysical lectures which
the Rev. James Martineau is delivering weekly in
his chapel i'll Little Portland-st: The lectures arc
especially meant TO grappe with the Cantst theories
whose prevalence among English thinkers, and men
of science, particularly Mr. Martineau views with
some alarm. He declares that the whole question OF
the existence of Deity has now been shifted from
the point whether creation implies Creator TO the
point whether there are any of our faculties which
can deal with such questions at all: HIS lectures
have thus far been devoted TO classification OF the
sciences, and to showing that for every physical sci
ence there is a corresponding mental science All
this is however, preliminary TO their main object
tive listeners have been Miss Cobb, the Rev. w. H.
Charming, aud the Unitarian clergy generally.
few advance copies of MT. swinburnes critical
expect that the work will soon be theme of the
reviews. 1t is a large volume, and Mr.. Hotten has
spared pains to make the work excellent work
OF art. The illustrations drawn carefully from
Blakes own works, the colors being preserved These
pictures are of startling and altogether indescriba
bic character They, as well as the citations
from, that eccentric authors POEMS show that
he he had, even in the Reign of George the
Third, anticipated the modern Spirtuasts
IN every particular, and this work will
probably be great favorite with that class Of
believers. According TO Mr. Swinburne's view he
anticipated also the freedom and the style of Walt
Whitman, who, il is suggested, is American reap
pearance or TRANSPORTATION Of Blake. The book is
III every way one of the most curious that has for
many years appeared i'll England 1t is inscribed
TO William Michael Rossetti, the art-critic who
is the chief of the small circle of pcrtnacious