The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-06
OUR LONDON LETTER.


THE CHIEF COMMAND or THE BRITISH ARMY
''ToM browns" ANGLo-AAER1CAN PEACE COM
MITTEE ENGLIsB sYMPATHrEs IN THE
FRANCO GERMAN wAR-Co-oPERArGvE soCIE-
TIES, ETC, ETC.
From Our Oirn Correspondent
LONDON, Jan. II, 1871 Pace GUg dam0Si
DIR. Elizabeth Garrett the lady who was lately
so triumphantly elected to seat on the First
Metropolitan School Board is actually going
to be married. A most prosaicaly happy mar
riage, too-pleniy of money and an unexcep-
tionably respectable mercantile position on
the husbands part. The enemy have an
unlooked-for occasion for merriment, and
are not falling to make the most of it. While
those friends who believed that where the
education of our girls no less than Of our
BOYS was at last determined on, it would be
well that womens voices should be heard in
settling how and what snail be taught, we're
canvassing with all the energy of conviction
for Miss Garrett she came in for variety
enough, and to spare of invectve. 1t was
easy to hint and print that she was free
thinker-delightfully vague word!-but she
might and did get the better of her oppo-
nents on that score by simply stating that
she aIwnys had been and was a member of
the Established Church. 1t was equally easy,
and more likely to influence adversely the
vote of the average London elector, TO de-
clare her a man-woman, "person" of
sternly masculine propensities, entirely mac
cessible to the ordinary feelings of her sex.
And to think that such being should, after
all, succumb to the very human and feminine
weakness of falling in love and getting mar
ried The enemy have shifted their ground,
of course. and now ask sneeringly how the
lady intends to reconcile the duties Of sur
gerry, maternity, and administration of the
Education act. Well, have great faith in
the capacity of DR.. Garrett Anderson that is
to be-for under that name she purposes
continuing in her profession and feel no
doubt that she will contrive to solve the
problem satisfactorily.
Parliament meets early in February, and it
needs no great gift of prophecy to discern
that Mr.. Cardwell,. Secretary Of State for the
War Department will SOON find himself in
troubled waters. A determination has for
some time been gradually growing up that
the dual government OF the army, by the
Commander-in-C Grief at the Horse Guards and
the Secretary Of State at the War Office, is an
evil to be done away, and the shutting words
and unsatisfactory deeds OF Mr.. Cardvell
during these critical months Of the Fraaco-
German war have rapidly diffused and iIten
sifed the feeling Mr.. G.. o. TrevelysI, till
recently one of the younger members of the
present administration, plainly demands the
resignation Of our royal Commander-in- Chief,
and he is backed by no mean following
fINa or
experience has been enough to show that the
post cannot be satisfactorily filled by mere
civilian, and it is hardly once in a generation
that a man arises in whose person are COM
bined the best attributes of civilian and sol
der Sir William Mansfield is spoken Of
and is perhaps the fttest candidate, but j
will indubitably be easier to overthrow thi
existing system than to build up one to sue
ceed il.
To those amorg us, already many in mum
ber, and constantly growing in numbers and
influence, who are ever looking forward will
eager hope to the day when all unhappy
grounds of quarrel and ilLfeeling between
Great Britain and the United States shall
have been finally removed, the sensibly in
creasing friendliness of the tone of our press
is q great cause of Joy and thankfulness. At
no time since the close of your eVer-memori-
BILE war have our papers devoted so muchof
their attention and space to your actual ind
possible relations with this country, and
never, assuredly, have they been so horestly
appreciative and coneiliatory. In all drcles
the arrival of General Schenck is lOokei for
ward to with kindly anticipation, AMI If, as
we hope, he brings in his pocket cle'r, tenn
perate instructions, and has unfetterei powers
of carrying them out, he may rely uJon find
ing the patton and the Government prepared
to meet him halfway. We are tirfd OF mis-
understandings and sick of mutualjealousies,
and we would fain join hands With you on
terms of equality and reciprocal respect IN
the great work of spreading the idea
of freedom and civilization, as under
stood by the Anglo-Saxon family,
over both hemispheres of the world. On Gtt-
and indeed, before this reaches you the
cable will probably have dragged the matter
from privacy into the sunlight of publicity
a committee is at this moment being formed
In London, with Tom Hughes at/lts head,
and corresponding branches in NV York and
Montreal, for the special purp'se OF delvlng
into and setting forth, candjhy and without
national bias, the real trup about the various
causes of difference tc4ched upon in the
Presidents last messase, and for the cultiva-
ton of more cordiA relations between the
citizens of the tw/countries. Americans of
established nan,/ and influence have already
enrolled tbepSelyes in the committee here,
and there sAms good hope of lasting gain
vosrItipo rom its efforts