Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1869-07-15


! II you come to Londo Ia do business
| at all out of the ordinary course Of
things. bring with Won an ample stock
of patience. BE prepared to wait. In
necessarily. provokingiy so. delays oc-
| cur. Nou mustn't be surprised if YOU
don't see the principal for weeks. or not
at all. sually he i surrounded BY a
Gordon of solicitors. The solicitor takes
! Your proposition. adds to it his own
gloss of advice, reports it to the princi-
/ pal and brings back the answer. You
make rejoinder which goes through
the same channel. and If after weeks Of
| battle dor and shuttlrcocl negotia-
! tion Won come Ia conclusion which half
AN hour Of tree conversation might have
accomplished Won are fortunate. and
must not complain. Nevertheless. IL j.
an intolerably stupid way of doing bus
/ mess stupid 10 every body but the
solicitor. who no doubt finds hi account
in the system and won't change it,
| thing Won want Ia do. at once. there i
no need Of being Idle in London ON
| first visit. Doctor johnson said IL wa.
! the only place in the world Fl Ia live in -.
| and il ha- certainly been greatly i'm
proved since his day. have no idea
Of writing yon any description Of H. hut
five week al hum drum negotiation
| gives me leisure beyond what j. absorb
ed in observation. and perhaps YOU
| would like tai read Il a letter reaches
YOU in an idle hour.
The three great items OF public mo-
ment since | have been ia London have
bceu the Dcrbv-cal il Darby and YOU
biz the London -pcech--thc Irish church
and the Summer war. The greatest was
I'll course the Derby. M Hotel was on
one oi the direct roads To- the course
and - got Into the midst 81 it. and
/ had full experience. Every body went,
or turned out and lined tn. streets. "a A.
/ Ia -ce those who did 90. Horse. tonie-.
/
/ pie their. There arr three million.
! in London with the Prince "f Wales at
+ the head of thcm. The Prince went la
the Derby, aud - dill the rest. pre-
sumo ihcs were all their. There were
enough At any rate. The broad road
from Lnndon--eventccn miles ofi-wa-
F full for hours from end tn end. Al a
point thirteen miles from the course
where the road j. wild. enough for
four carriages abreast. a iadv friend OF
mine Ma half an hour getting across
III" street. under The escort Of police
man.
II l. not Often YOU can see such flight
of blood horses. Twenty two in full
! pursuit of a purse OF thirty five thousand
dollars in gold l:unning for the most
part we'll together and the winner get
ting out only half head in advance.
Ani then the hurrah home. The great
animal ola crowd Wa surging aud
blowing towards EPSON from daylight
Ia afternoon and il yelled aud founder
ed back To London all night Thanks
giving. Fourth Of July. General muster.
and Election Day rolled into ne
That the Derby Only two Duke.
ruined b. their losses. and how many
common folks j. not reported.
But the Derby j. only on. day. Ire
land and the Irish church arr perpetual.
| wrot" Won about Ireland from Dub
lin. Since then have heard the cA-c
OF the debate in the Commons, aud the
most important -pcechc- in the Lords
upon Mr.. Gladstone'- bill. | have no
reason To- alter the opinion | expressed
then. Have had half hours talk with
the greatest man in England. Mr.
bright, and although he don't say so. |
doubt if he has any more faith in the
Church Bill than have Hi, measure
for distribution Of land among the oc-
cupant-. j. the only one that i. good for
anything. The lri.hman will not be
content 10 pay the absentee twenty-five
millions Of dollars annually. out of the
proceeds OF butter aud calves. And
not 10 blame either. Getting rid of the
English Church a. an establishment. is
getting rid Of "A nuisance. but not the
greatest one. The people of Ireland
VIII not be satisfied until they own the
land they have cultivated so long and
80 carefully
The closing debate in the Commons
called out the leading speakers. and
was the result evidently Of careful prep
aration. Di.raeli interested me most.
although Gladstone is evidently the
most effective speaker. The debate ran
for nine hours from four O'Clock To one
in the morning. and was pertinent. In
many respects they better our House of
Representatives. During the whole
time doubt if anybody was on the 40 or
OF the House, but members and officers
OF the House. nor newspaper seen,
and what Is better, not speech read.
The member who opened the debate
had prepared jaunty speech with a
fine peoration and when he came to it
his memory tripped, and he looked at
his notes. He looked and spoke so
nearly together as to have the appear
ance of reading ''Don't read! Don't
read! shouted the House, and he had
to say that he could remember and let
the rest go. Ofcourse no letters were
written, as there is no chance to write
any, and no pages were called by clap
ping Of hands. for there are no pages to
call. Nor did members wander from
seat to seat, or stand in groups con-
versing, nothing of the kind. Ii they
did not incline to listen they went out.
| lfthey remained i'm the HOuse they liz