New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-06-01

French Imeant for him, but is q good likeness of
Fechter looks grimly For the title we learn that
this scene a representation Of the Almighty Dollar
and Jonathan is soliloquizing: wall John don't
seem much scared, any how, about ftin'. Wonder
how many dollars he'll shell out to satisfy our Ma
tional Honorp To which is added by way Of edito-
rial answer "Quite as much as it is worth, depend
upon it,"
The fourth artist deals in color. scene Of sky
and ocean waste of deepest blue; cliff, also blue;
reposing on the edge of the blue cliff blue lion;
bristling dyspeptic, fore-paws guarding what looks
like fiat, blue tombstone, inscribed Canada. Lean
eagle tattoed with American arms also blue, wings
widespread and beak yawning, swoOps down on the
couchant lion and his tombstone Lion looks as if he
didn't like it. but roars out in large type Come if
Won Dare" This masterpiece is dedicated, with
the very warmest Feelings of Respect and Affection
to the American Eagle by his Loving Cousin, the
British Lion"
Well. yOn say, all this is great rubbish. No doubt
it is but it is the kind of rubbish that just now finds
purchasers and approval from those who don't pnr-
chase Past Mr. Smiths news stalls where these
trophies of art were hung great crowds were hurry
ing to and from the railway trains. good many
stopped to look and stopped a minute to hear the
comments; which proved to be all in one line.
That's the way to put it to 'em;" They'd soon
find out what's what If it came to a war;" and so on
Coarse and stupid as are these caricatures, with
their appeals to bad passions they are
certainly not any more mischevous than
such articles as The Spectator printed last
week That journal, once friendly to America, has
applied itself to the task of proving how surely Great
Britain would beat America, if they came to blows,
If The Spectator understood in the least the people
whom it seeks to intimidate, it would know that
nothing would inhame their desire for war so much
as arguments basely addressed to their fears. Does
not The Spectator see that to tell Americans they
must be defeated is an innocent temptation to them
to prove the cOntrary3 Yet there has been good
deal of that sort of talk.
People are beginning nevertheless, to discover
how grossly Mr.. Summers speech has been misTepre
scented in the English press What the American
press has said this matter is just, and now that
the English papers perceive the enormous blnnder
they themselves made they attempt to conceal it by
saying that Mr.. Summers speech is disavowed at
home. The English Interpretation of 1T has been dis
ayowed in America no doubt but the journals here
seem incapable of frankly confessng their mistakes
They may say what they like with comparative i'm
punity, since none of them has printed the speech
itself All the general public knows of it is at second
hand. With the exception of few persons who have
read the speech in pamphlet, have met nobody who
really knew what it contained. If anybody had
chosen to say it demanded the immediate indie
pendence of Ireland he would have found plenty of
people to believe him.
1t may be worth while to correct mistake in a
Cable telegram which speaks of The Star Mr..
Bright's organ. 1t is not, and never was. Mr..
Bright once owned a small portion of the stock. OF
capital but he parted with all his interest in the
paper some time before he went into the Cabinet.
He has even taken some pains to cause it to be
known that he has no connection of any kind with
that OF, believe any other journal 1t is not the
fashion for Ministers here to have organs, though
mysterious relations have been kept up and still are
between certain Ministers past and present, and GER
tain journals When, therefore, The Star in today
issue sees fit to describe Mr.. Summers argument as
"preposterous and undmifed' or to rant about Mr..
Summers "vaporings," Mr.. Bright may or may not
agree with the views thus expressed but he certainly
is not responsible for them in the remetest degree.
We have had all sorts of announcements, by cable
and by post, about Mr. Motleys instructions. and all
sorts of comments thereupon. But there is nothing
of real importance to add to what have written
above and in former letters respecting the state of
public opinion. The whole subject is involved in
cloud of doubts, conjectures and contradictions
Everybody is very nervous, and everybody abso-
lutely ignorant of what Mr.. Motley viii do and say
am sorry to have to add that usual, there seems
to be general willingness to ignore the real feeling
on the American side, and to go blindiy drifting on
till the keel strikes the rock.
Harvard may take it as acompliment to their repu-
tation that Oxford has already picked her four men
Tor the international race They began practice
Wednesday evening, as follows: Bow, X. ID. Benson,
Balliol College; No. 2, A. c. Marlborough, Lincoln
College; No. 3, j. c. Time University College;
Stroke, s. D. Darbishire, Balliol College This crew
is taken bodily out Of the University eight which
was victorious at Putney last March, and in which
they then moved the four after oars Darbshire being
stroke as now Benson is shifted from No. TO the
bow Marlborough pulls in the same place, relatively,
as before. The only very heavy man among them is
Time who weighed on the morning OF the University
race II stone 1OI lbs the other three averaging
little over ia stone-about l62 lbs. If may judge
from some correspondence in New-YOTk papers, Har-
ward is making point of putting heavy men into
the boat which is all right if their heaviest men
happen to be the best oars But they may as well
observe that Oxford rejects two men out OF her last
crew. each about a stone heavier than three OF those
who are TO row in the fOuroar. The new crew rowed
on Wednesday down TO Ifley and back, going very
well together, and with unmstakabe strength.
Cambridge seems little slower IN
getting to work. We do not hear
of crew having been selected, one obvious reason
for which is the great difficulty of getting four men
into the boat who can row and will row. But
understand that the acceptance OF Cambridge has
been made final The well-kown London Rowing
Club has sent challenge OF their own to Harvard,
urging that the race is TO be an international one,
and that the London Club has a claim 10 represent
the amateur oarsmen of England not less strong
than that of the Universities Their long Of VIC
tories at Henley and elsewhere. including know not
how many Grand Challenge cups, entities them to