New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-22
GREAT BRITAIN.
ARREST OF AN AMERICAN BANKER-MARINE
DISASTERS.


DISASTERS.
LONDON, Thursday, Nov. q, 1872.
Nr. Robert Bowles WAS arraigncd to-day be-
fore the Lord Mayor The Mansion House. on charge
OF faudlcuty converting 100 dcbentures Of the Lom-
bardo-Vcnctiou Railway. Nr DaSOut, banker OF Ma
PIES is the prosecutor phe Lord Mayor remanded the
prisoner for further examination ON Tuesday next
Information has received in London that the bark
Samuel Iarrabcc, which sailed from Savannah on the
9th OF January for Bremen, aud the bark Lanercos
which left Baltimore on o l9h Of February for Belfast
at sea, and every person on board the two YES
scls persisted
FicldMarshal Sir William Maynard Comm was in
stalled to-day as Constable of the Tower Of London
TIE LONDON PRESS ON THE REELECTION OF
PRESIDENT GRANT-BEALTH OF MIR. SUMNER.
IRON Tbs REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF fHE TdBUNB.l
LONDON, Nov. 0.-An American WIN ro"dS
the articles in the English papers on the lresdenua
election can have but opinion about theI' luoAt
care whether hc is for Mr. Greeley Mr.. Grant, whether
the articles in question one side or the other
Tho Judgment Of an American them must be that
they are siDgularly-nay, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NOT
do mean % Judge them by high standard nor yet on
the other hand 10 make my condemnation so sweeping
as TO be without exception Take the American papers
on European topics They blunders, but they are
f.rly wcninformed, and n they have not always
INFINITELY accurate knowledge Of tho details OF European
politics The leading journals are at any rate suncenty
careful 10 steer clear Of gross Of tho crude school,
hO
iu It's treatment OF the Presidential election.
To bcoip with The TINES. That paper draws moral IL
fa,orof Civil Service Reform from the spoils to the
yicors doctrine explains what sweeping change would
have followed ,ir Greeieys election informs It's readers
THAT 20 be Collector at NcwNOrk Is nearly as goOd
thing as TO Minister 10 London or Pans and then by
way of proving its easy familiarity with the subject re-
marks that lower down IN the scale are such places as
glleIn 20 which President Pierce sent his friend HaW-
thorno" One might have expected even The Times 70
know that Pierce gave Hawthorne the consulate at
Idverpool II speaks Of President Grants reelection
the first stop toward the Of the Republic from the
politicians who now live upon the Illicit gains they make
ont of its oHcesthe leaders OF the Reform being Of
course Messrs Cameron COnking, land Morton. Since
when has any ono Of those distinguished Senators paid
10 Reform the homage Of much hypocrisy as might
consist prctene 10 be iu favor OF it, or Mr. Gree
lev Tie Times says that he has apOOgzed for Tmmany,
that he the worst incidents IN the cotem
orary history OF NewYor the frOcs OF lively com
nerce and that he had up the moment when he was
nomated the rival Of Gen. Grant, invincible diff
Guilty IN seeing the scandal Of the Presidents ndscre
tious do MT suppose tho Presidents own organ
az NewYork would think It worth while, that the
election is over try impose on its readers belief
in such reckless calumnes these. In the Of The
Tunes they are probably honest enough SANDERS by
which mean simply that journal has some
such charges New-York paper during the heat OF
tho canvass, and adopted them willingly without in
written Of Mr.. Greeley vita injustice so bitter as 10
suggest a personal motive. l know nothing Of the
authorship OF its American articles, nor need charac
terize them except a. / have done, by quotation.
A Journal Of a different sort The telegraph, always
wise after the event. declares that the reelection OF
President Grant has always, from the day since Mr.
Greeley was nominated against him, been a certainty
II has cultivated Of writing with that judcious
vagueness which betrays indeed, the spsop character
OF writer's knowledge but which him often from
direct contradiction. But the most judicioL gencrazer
sometimes descend TO particulars, so we have The
Telegraph Of rashness informing its readers
q that
In the State Of NewYork whose elections are fixed by
law for tue Tuesday succeeding the INST Monday Al
November the citizens choose that day, nos only the
Presidential electors but the Governor the Senators the
MemOcis OF the Assembly, and almost al tue cniel
officers OF the State.
The juicy kernels Of the following paragraph are toe
numerous 70 extract separately, and give the whole:
Tomorrow viii decide, not only whether Grants
maJVIlly snail nave 30 many lower, ana Greeley 4
minority 30 hany mOre in the Electoral College
but whether Democrats or Republicans shan rule The
State Of New York. and III every Office that OF
Governor 10 thG Of pOsnan, with their nominees for
the next two yea The fact Is that IN this I'm almost
every American ptbhc act the functions OF the Federal
and the State Government inscparably connected
Upon the issue whether Grant Greeley carry New
YORK state VIII depend the whole constitution Of the
state Government; aud again. upon the constitution
te state GoyeTnment VII probably depend the issue
whether NeW-1OTk, az The next Presidential election
shall 70 for the Republicans or the Democrats.
Or takea paper Of very different kind The Spectator
which ustd to discuss American matters with inteli
and good sense but which Of late has fallen into
unhappy yein The Spectator writes about the Demo
cratic party and about reOpeninR the issues Of the
civil war" a. IL entirely unaware that Baltimore had
adpted the Cincinnati platform. But that perhaps il
Onl! the echo Of sO-a American papers which knoV
bettH and only sVop remark how numerous such
eehoe are, and how reaoh- ~ampaign attacks On Mr.
~aSseesHe caught W sna T0ps~ad by Euslsh Dspsrs