New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-02-06

such spectacle OF aggomerated path0s over Queenly
Affections with ytuperson Of the Radical leaders as the
Kingdom has rarely witnessed. Aided little by the
floating rumors 10 might be thought indeed that the
meeting designed TO be vertable Dutch Council OF
BORT One OF these unfortunate pasteboards fell into my
hands, and half hour before the time walked down
Piccady past the palace built at Hyde Park corner by
the great Duke Of Wellington and mile further to the
front Of the spacious riding stable Of the minor modern
Duke
The street In front of the entrance choked with
an already populous mass OF one or two thousand,
gathered under London night mist and making IL per-
fecty nebulous with back ground Of black hats. There
dismal hOOting OF that varegated sort that char
acterzes British gatherings and altogether such bed
lam Of noises amid the gare Of the street lamps TO
give no intelligence at first coming, OF the spectacle
Omnibuses and carts splitting at intervals the
crowd that filed In behind again rapidly as 1t was
broken. The half Of those the ground seemed to
be possessed Of the tasmanc cards and we're surgng
toward the great door of the Riding School for add
mance but through these made repeated counter
charges by wedge OF hundred policemen, who had
been summoned hand 10 preserve order, and who
trsnsaDR their instructions in the usual police
fashion 10 mean disorder To make this scene OF an
English Conservative gathering more anomalous to o
strangers apprehension the crowd In the streets center
suddenly caught up with half thousand voices that
anthem o. Republics the Marseillaise, and lifted 1t
through the mist half way 10 the middle OF London.
The paradox Of the situation was not relieved by the
the Queens own, With their gsettes clngng 20 their
elbows breaking into the mass and hurrahng for Sir
Charles Dixie. These soldiers undergoing with the
OF the English public the happy manipulating pro
OF the Royal Ill Health to turn them into Knights Of
Chivary for the Queena very unkud emf for them TO
maintain citizen instincts in spite OF IT,
Then there waded among the roaring assembly an eX-
temporized rag banner with " Cheers for Dixie aud
Republic" daubed thereon IN heavy capitals. With the
aid OF flying sentences all about the riddle Of this mu
ttude OF Conservatives with Republican sentiments was
quickly solved. The Liberal Radical masses OF Lon
DON who control neither the journals nor any other or
ganzed means OF public expression in spite Of all the
maudlin sentimentates OF the Press which have belied
them, about the renewed popular enthusiasm for
Royalty and its sick representative, has resolved TO
quietly postpone I'll later date public denomination
OF their actual sentiments They were determined how
ever In this last OF popular expression through
public meeting not to be msrepresented SO when this
card meeting OF Chelsea announced FOR the effect OF
dealing out condOeuce 10 Royalty the wOrkngmen OF the
Borough and out OF OF London WELL were on hand
seeing that there shoudnOt flung out on the public
this morning with their seeming Endorsement the reso-
buttons OF packed assembly Their pet too Sir Charles
Dixie, had been, they rightly interpreted It, In
yidiously aimed at In the Reputation sentiment ex
pressed the card, and there plenty OF personal
animus on hand to give edge TO the oceaslon. The
tickets held by the half OF these sturdy bousewearers
suspicously pale look hardly up 70 the exquisite
roseesf tinge the cards for true believers. Con-
servaism had furthermore discovered too late that the
distribution OF its own favors had turned half Of the
cipents into ardent Radicals Co. while the upperblood
Of Royalty had kept OF the London night fog 10 sip
O'Clock In their parlors, this Conser-
vatiye assembly OF the Duke of wellinstons
Riding School looked unlike Conservatism as any thing
Al this was revealed much too late to the loyal
managers and there left them only the remedy OF
instructng the police TO bar out everybody until the
chiefs on the platform inside who had entered the build
ing the by the passageway best known TO the
Dukes horses should have announced their resolutions
and gone of The police after the first opening OF the
doors in the evening when several hundred tickehod
ers lad rushed n played their role very effectively TIL
the doors were suddenly opened when there poured out
from the inside rushing body Of truly conservative
looking individuals who declared that the auspices for
row inside altogether too promising 10 suit their
peaceful dispositions. The banging blousemen outside
dropped the notes Of thor Marseillase on the high
auaver, and seized this opportunity for an inward
counteush Before the open doors were flung backward
again by the police half hundred Republican Dkemen,
and with them, entered with the rush The Dukes
Riding Hall does him credit; there was space Tor 'V0
people on It's floor occupied by mass OF about 1000
men, mixed Liberals and Queencondoers standing on
rows Of chairs and upurned broken benches and howl
ing 10 a gas-ut mist that would have made good
atmosphere for Bedlam The spectacle the platform
erected FOR the Conservative proceedings il the rear was
hopelessy Democratic A hundred handsome loyaI
figure pieces including several baronets aud lord or
two among them, who brought in TO give dignihed
prestige 10 the OCCASION had all risen TO their feet in
twisting struggling with another hundred or two
O, hardy British workmen headed by their leaders
and cheerfuy animated by the approving presence OF
couple OF salwart Life Guardsmen. At the front cen
ter OF the stage the knot OF this striking tabeau sug
sesting scene Of tragic melodrama out OF PickWick
There was short thin, baldheaded ancient Individual
in spectacles broadcoth caught up horizontally be-
che rfra fae AZ
tempng still under embarrassments 70 successful
oratory artculate Radical denunciauons upon the
callers o. packed public meeting" AT the very out
set the meeting he had scrambled from the crowd IN
front the stage, where he had fallen an apple OF ais
cord seized aud caned by the hghhanded managers
there who had received In return from the pit flight
Of chairs which had broken Tory head or two linen
the chairs had been quickly followed by the Republicans
themselves and q miscellaneous crash OF tables But
the venerable orator was allowed short shriit IN MS
harangue being quickly tossed In the melee over the
heads Of crowd and succeeded by the Conservative
leaders and appointed speakers OF the evening, Capt
MERCER and James Ashbury Of yachting defeat fame
These distinguished gentlemen speedily followed the
venerable Radical orator, and were hurled. IN their
turn. by the Republican Rssses TO the rear MERCER
made attempt 10 command the notice OF The
hall by thanking the mob and taking position FOR orator.
cal purposes O stool In the rear, but wac quickly
wrapped In red rag, sway from the stage rail-
ings In the first crash pulled down and elected.
At this affairs nearly over with the pink
tinted public, and the workngman. John Bull, broke
the spacious riding hall with the renewed war cry
OF Dixie and Republic" The Tories retreated In
body from the stage, and stslwart black bearded
pebeian in high boots and riding hat took possession OF
the Dueal premises In the Of "the English working
men," and remained master OF proceedings 70 the END
The leaders had hardly left the hall and
refuge beyond heels Of the Dukes stud In the
rear stables. when the meeting was organized with
Republican Chairman, and half dozen Radical orators
advanced the 'front.' proolaming Charles Dike