New-York tribune., 1871-11-02
GREAT BRITAIN.

GREAT BRITAIN.
TELEGRAPIuC ENTERPRISE IN FORWARDING TO
LONDON THE ACCOUNTS OF TIE CHICAGO
FIEE-TUE NEW SOCIAL MONEMENT-MORE
DENIALS BROM iIlE PEEKS-M. LOUIS BLANC.
iPROM TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRlBtEEl
LONDON, Oct. 81. Nothing cOuld he better
proof II any proof needed Of English interest in
Chicago than the extraordinary efforts of the London
press to get early aud full accounts. sharp lookout
was kent for the Sesia Plymouth and for the Java at
Queenstown, bringing respectively Ncwfork papers OF
the 10th and llh The sc-ia arrived at o'clock yes
ter lay morning, and the Java Nu cnSoWn briuS haf
day's sail nearer New YorJ late the afternoon.
The Siesas papers in season TO be forwarded hy
train to London, but the Queenstown dispatches had TO
be tccgraphcd. The Postal Telegraph being seldom
c0ual to all emergency without special prrparation an
agent had been sent from London 10 facilitate the trans
mission dispatches both to London aud other parts Of
the Kingdom
The newspaper reporters went Of in n stcamtnS to
intercept the Java caught her distance out at sea,
got papers, and this morning have from three to sin
columns in each OF the leading journals partly by clc-
graph and partly from the papers which came by the
Plymouth train All this is very different from the sleepy
way IN which such Things once managed Tho use
of the inland telegraph, must add must become TAR
more common than it now H. and will he limited only
y the ability uclltiou OF the Post once u transact
the business wLri customers want done Mr.. Hcu,'
nores idea that the newspapers " want too much
news may day take its place among the
fossil curiositics Of the Department. He must get
the consent of Parliament to raise the rates II
he expects check the enthusiasm
OF the British Press. They put clause into the bill
which transferred the telegraphs to Government fixing
the tariff for Press dispatches at shilling 2i ctsJ for
a hundred words from any part of the United Kingdom
The actual cost Of these very shOwylookng dispatches
is therefore, about IS column Meetings for relief OF
Chicago continue to be held, and the ow OF subScrp
tons Is uIrhcckcd You receive constant accounts by
tcl graph and need not recaptulatr figures But here
is letter which presume has not been Scnt Ivy cable
but which to express very Eenine and beautiful
feeling:
PONTYMrsTER, EIerA NEwrOET. Monmouth,
SUNDAY, Oct. Il. 1871. 5
GEN. scnEScK: SIR: have one gold dollar which
to hcag0; may hr the means Of Keeping one or even
from actual starvation for shrrt period; am
hrLalf Of NV wife and myself our heartfelt sympathy
with the sun"rers by this awful cliamiIy; am Sir
Formerly Co. L. sd Regt. N. " " from lsGl 10 &C.,
Among the recent large subscriptions mote the Bank
OF England aud the Union Bank Of London each $1,000
The new alliance has fallen into dscredt; Lord Sails
bury, Lord Derby. Lord CarnaryOn, the Marquis Of
Iorne the Duke Of Richmond Lord Henry Lennox Sir
Stafford Northcotc and Mr. Claiborne Hardy have sever
ally denied all completely in the business. Some OF them
had never heard Of it till they read the newspaper ac-
counts. There remain Of the alleged signatures only
Lord John Manners and Sir JohniPakinSton. Nobody
greatly cares, suppose, whether between thch dnu inc
workIngIncn there has has not been any c"quctry
Mr. r. Barry, be sure wrote to the papers, out OF
fun heart perhaps, but in very shady English,
declaring that the signatures OF the Lords were in pos
session OF Mr. Scott Russell. But then, the Council OF
Workingmen, OF which Mr.. Barry signed himself the
Treasurer write by the hand of their Secretary, Mr..
George Potter averrng that Mr.. Barrys statements
wholly unauthorized-tho they do not untrue.
Anpaycnty we must stil wait for Mr.. Scott Russelrs
account 70 clear up part OF tho mystery Possibly
it may turn out that Mr.. Scott Russell is an autograph
collector In any case nobody will doubt the good faith
Of the published dcnials.
Louis Blanc is hero on brefvs looking, am sorry
TO saw quite haggard and with the anxetes Of the
last wear He will either sell lease his house in London
and reside in Paris hencefOrthun another revolution
orc oD at banishes him again. He lost largely by the
Commune fires Nearly all his books and great part OF
his own and his wifes personal effects which had been
sent from London in nine or ten boxes were destroyed
in the Paris military station loss Whlch ne depiores
far more was that Of the completed manuscript OF an un
published work. BY good fortune the notes from which
II WAS written had not been with the other things
and since been discovered in his house. 30 tnat
will he possible to rewrite the work. M Louis Blanc is
considering whether he will visit America. He has
received liberal offer go to lecture but doubts
whether he can rightly absent long enough from his
duties at bone to crafty his eager desire TO see the great
Republic Ihope he may CO. No living Frenchman de-
seryes more cordial welcome from Americans OF his
rank q. statesman and historian 1t s supernuous 70
sneat or the charm which surrounds his private lfe
or the brilliancy Of conversation aboundDgn snec-
dote and information Of his pure and exquste Engsh
IL Would be "a impossible to speak too highly as u would
be TO oyer.prase either the simplicity OF his character OF
his lifelong devotion 70 great IDEAS U" w."