The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-21


ers) that the only treaty ever made with Rus
sia, and which now binds MS together, was |
negotiated by James Buchanan. All he need
do is to study with care the diplomacy of his
two immediate predecessors, over which shone
the serene brightness of Mr.. Stewards imper-
turbable intellect, and which was guided by
the precepts of that stainless sage and adorned
by the splendor of his style, more gorgeous
than all windows of all apothecares upon
earth. Especially will Pennsylvania expect of
him to study that brief and brilliant period of
diplomacy extending from July to October,
1862, and illustrated by no less than five des-
patches, when this country was represented
at the Court of the Gar by one in whose foot
steps Governor Curtin, no doubt, must delight
to tread-her favorite son, number two, three,
or four Eve really forget hch)-Simon
Magus Cameron; may his tribe increase
THE FOLLIES OF A KNIGHT.
From the NJ Y. Tribune.
Earl Spencer like the loyal Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland that he is, determined to keep the
last birthday of Queen Victoria as the birth
day of such a good woman and royal Lady
ought to be kept, especially in Ireland which
has such good reasons for thinking her good
and royal. The land is poor, Earl Spencer
thought, the people wretched, ground down
by taxes, familiar with famine, fed full of OPP
preston in nearly every form, loathing their
rulers, fleeing by thousands to land, of equal
rights from their own land where they have
no rights to anything but wrongs-how can
the good Earl Spencer but testify to the ten
der sympathy of Victoria, mother of all her
people, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland?
Earl Spencer has bright idea born of prac-
teal craftsmanship, and the famous good
sense of the ideal Englishman. The Irish
people need help and sympathy, and this is
the way they get them. The Viceregal Lodge
is illuminated, the drawing-room is fitted up
as chapter room a throne is placed in it for
Earl Spencer, and table in the middle COW
cred with blue cloth and with the star of the
most illustrious order of st. Patrick
embroidered upon it. The object OF all this
splendor is the investiture of Lord Carysfort
and Lord Gosford as knights of this famous
order, and ''Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King
alarms, is bound to conduct the ceremonial
with a scrupulous attention to every minute
detail of courtly form and etiquette for
which the Irish prince of heraldry is distin-
guished." And if we may believe the
Times, he carried out his purpose There was
a banquet, first of all, which wanted nothing
to its perfection but the gastronomic presence
of an American Minister, the lack OF whose
well-known speech was but tamely atoned for
by Sir Bernard Burkes grandiloquence
Perhaps, however, he ate better than he
spoke. But the banquet was merely pre-
liminary, and Sir Burke was soon in the
midst of a scene where nature made him to
shine. The guests rose from the table and
went to the drawing-room, where the Countess
Spencer and brilliant assemblage of ladies'
who had been holding q sort OF Sorosis with
their teapots while the men were making
for port awaited the ceremonial of inves-
titure, the tea things having having been
| cleared away. On. B.-This statement about
| the tea things is made on our own
authority, but we suppose we are justified
| in taking it for granted that, though the Irish
| people were starving round the Viceregal
| Lodge, while Earl Spencer and the rest of the
| gentlemen were faring sumptuously, yet the
| lovely Countess and her ladies could hardly
| have been permitted to share the fate of the
unhappy natives The ceremony of investi-
trre was no doubt stately scene. There
was flourish of trumpets, and Earl Spencer,
in his part of Grand Master of the Order for that
night only, entered the apartment with his
procession, while band stationed in the ad-
| joining room played the national anthem with
excellent effect Then the Grand Master,
with the aides-de-camp in waiting
and the aides-de-camp not in
waiting and Sir Burke, G. b., Ulster
King-at-Arms, and the Right Hon. This
and his Excellency That, and the sword of
state-an implement with which the Irish
people are well acquainted-took their seats
| at the Dlue-taDle linen, more trumpetS, or,
as the Jenkins we are drawing upon beauti-
| fully puts it, ''the trumpet-call was heard in
| the distance" Then enter more professions
| in pomp and state. Then the new cQmers
make the customary reverences. Then the
| Grand Master asks for more. Then to please
him the formalities are repeated, and the
| knights are led in one by one and Invested
in accordance with the customary usages.
! Then the Grand Master gave them bonny blue
! ribbons. And badges of the order And
| admonished them. And congratulated them.
| And made them sit down at the blue table.
And the farce ended by the whole noble set
| getting away from Ireland a soon as they
could to stay for couple of months.
The effect upon the prosperity of Ireland of
| these judicious measures was at once made
evident. The ceremony was on a Monday,
nick, County Wexford, was called up for trial
Mr. Furney had bought some landed property
in the Landed Estates Court. A poor laborel
named Whitly lived in a-wretched cabin on
the estate Mr.. Furney wished Whitly to leave
his cabin and live in his gate lodge, Whitly
taking care of Furney's herds, Whitly's wife
and family taking care of the lodge. Whitly
did not like the work he was set at, ano
he and his family went back to their ole
cabin. Then Mr.. Furney requested him tC
leave. Whitly said he would go when ht
could find place to go to- Mr.. Furney, like
noble-hearted landlord, ordered Whitly cabin
to be pulled down, and pulled down it wa
over the heads of the family. Whitlys wife
said she would allow the cabin to fall on her
before she would leave. But Furney, in the
goodness of his heart, had her pulled out first.
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