New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-13
GREAT BRITAIN.


LOT ELECTION OF THE CIAHTlSr LEADER
As MEMBER FOR MANCHEsTER-DEATH OF
MR.. ERNEST JONES-MR. REVERDf JOHNSON
APPEARS IN GLAsGoW-CoMMITTAL or THE
COMMERCIAL QUAKER AND THE Co-DIREC-
TORS OF oyEREND AND GURNEY-RoYAL IN
TEREST IN CO-OPERAr0RS
lFGoM az OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT
LONDON jan %, 1860.
The Homo Secretary, the Right Hon. II. A. Bruce.
has found seat Mt Renfrewshre As whole the
Scotch are inclined TO elect any one named Bruce;
but this Mr. Bruce really took their fancy. He has
good Scotch presence looks WISE and speaks sensiby
and has an air aud tone of such manifest honesty
that things said TO the Scotch which would have
been lattcrng from the lips OF Mr Horsman, sounded
like genuine civity from Mr. Bruce. He did not
pretend TO DC otherwise than Weshman, and his
family namo Is Price--a most un-Scotch cognOmen
but having adopted the name Of Bruce, Renfrcw
elected Taiiy Price; and his proposer declared no
was brother Sco,Chman.' Dir. Bruce smiled
in mild deprecatOry way, but had no heart to
disallow it, but honestly and properly said, as
soon Us he took the door (of the Hustngs Gentle
men. am Welshman" Rcnfrew is a small. dull,
struggling village. about five miles from Glasgow and
three from Paisley. on the banks of the Clyde. The
only conspicuous building in the place is clocktower
attached TO a low heavy fabric which serves for JAIL
councl.chambers town-hal. poce-oilice, and other
things Though the oldest Barony in Scotland, Rem
frew. as far as human knowledge goes, is in the con-
dItion ID was at the time oil the flood. after
that event rs Scotch baTsnies began 10 be. The
place neither grows decreases IL Is gifted with
the attribute of nnChangeableness Paisley has been
crgated nourishcd, and deCayed since Renfrew be-
gan its existence Glasgow has grown into n world
The ship builders of the Clyde stretch down to the
old Barony. Ten thousand busy hammers ring on
it's banks The great hum Of Glasgow grows louder
and nearer every hour, still Renfrcw. like the
Sleepy Hollow which Washington Irving de-
scribcs needs no sound, feels no impulse, and owns
no change At the foot of the clocktowor referred
TO, last Monday morning, allow hustings with wide
and gracious staircase was put up, and by supreme
effort OF Scotch taste and prodigaity, covered with
blue and crimson cloth, lighting the dull village
with moro than Pagan-even Turkish gayety. Inc
Renlrew Rad is narrow where Dir. Bruce stood. Up
posite 10 him. and near enough for the Home Secrc-
tary speak TO them, pretty Scotch ihsses sood
Mt a chambsr-window: but there two laddies in
the crowd of more interest to them than Mr.. Bruce
and am sfraid they did not give their minds prop
erly TO what the Home Secretary had to say. The
assembly vas SMALL the male portion consisted
chiefly of policemen, few country electors from
Paisley and women, babies and children in general
aapked bv tall droyers with dreadfully long faces,
and gonylilc boards; and short men with expansive
red whiskes and boards thick IA mattress, firm ms
n board and wide enough 10 serve Rituaistlc cier-
ayman for reading desks. A Short stout, enthusl-
astic. round faced gentleman, spoken OF as Major
Graham of Cape. said all sorts OF civil things OF
Mfr. Bruce. md when be had done he stepped back
and said to Mr. Bruce 81 fear have been too long"
Mr. Rruce lid not know 50 suddenly appealed TO,
what 10 say. He could not snub or discourage. or
criticise or tleprccae his friendly and garrulons
euooizer and 50 he said, Very proper worry proper
which M a modest man. he would not have said
had Inc Lad time to think. seeing that the Major
had been ouIOgizng him ~ a " brother Scotchman
who owed everything TO his own merit aud Mr.
Gladstones penetrating eyes, Mr. Bruce who IL |
not en- imaginative orator. aud never astonishes the
Uonso of Commons by gayety of speech, yet standing
ON the border OF Ayrshire caught the poetic spirit
and tboneh be did not make poetry himself, quoted |
IT. and flat with spirit and taste. Thinking. no |
donhf of fine question often asked, Why has Mr. !
Brnre be.n made Home Secretary he said
often / have been tempted 10 apply To myself the |
somewhat cynical lines Of great modern English poet
who says
N ,re,us Ike stories fou the lsn&of spirits
n am msn itsins that which BE- merits.
Or anr merits Which BE- abtana'
GcntIcu,cu know nOs whether do merh that which
have obtained but have obtained very high honor Oh