Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-08-14
I-nNnnN Inlr o6 1875

LONDON, July 26, 1872.
You will have heard, perhaps, that an
itinerant newsvender has been sentenced
to a term of Imprisonment for calling
out, with a view to the sale of his wares,
" Death" and "Last dying words of
Mr. Gladstone. His accuser complain
ed that, after paying three pence for
penny paper on the understanding that
it gave the proclaimed intelligence, he
found that it proclaimed nothing of the
kind. The subject, however, is not a
laughable one, for Mr.. Gladstone is re-
ally very weak if not seriously i'll. The
very night on which the INSCRIPTIONS
hawker endeavOred to make money by
''bulling" the evening journals, through
a device which would have had direct
" contrary effect on the Stock Exchange,
Gladstone's feeble, care worn appear
ance was the general subject of remark
in the lObbys of the House of Commons.
Fortunately his holiday is at hand
though it may be doubted whether the
vacation will be to him a period of even
comparative repose. He will no more
be worried by the petty defeats to which
his government has had to submit so
often during the present session, but the
conservative agitation by which the re-
cess is to be enliyened will certainly oc-
cupy him, and he will have enough to
do if he undertakes to answer even a
small proportion of the attacks with
which his administration. rather than
his political direction of affairs, is threat
ened. Besides, his party-and indeed
the whole of the liberal party, which in
Cludes many of his seyerest critics-is
in need of reorganization. The utter alb
sence of discipline among the reformers
of all kinds to whom the epithet of
liberal is indiscriminately applied, is
shown by the fact that seven, if not
eight candidates have come forward on
the liberal side to contest the seat left
vacant by the death of Sir David Solo
mon. On the other hand, only one con-
sentative candidate is spoken of. The
proportion of liberals to conservatives
may be made, no doubt, to tell in favor
of liberalism but the votes of the lib
eral electors of Greenwich will, appa-
rently, be distributed among them, while
the conservative, left to do battle alone,
will be returned. The last Staffordshire
election is to be decided by a trial of
strength between the supporters of the
government and three classes of oppo-
nents conservatives in a broad sense
special opponents of the government Gn-
Guiding the Roman Catholics and most
of the Protestant clergy) on the educa-
ton question and public house keepers
with the beer interests generally at their
backs. This curious combination will
be represented by Mr.. Allsop, the well
Known might almost say celebrated
brewer of bitter ale.-One would ex-
pect to find on the other side the whole
OF the temperance party. But no, the
tetotallers, like so many other classes of
voters, are offended with the govern
ment, and, rather than countenance an
administration which refused its support
to the permissiye liquor bill, stand aside
to let the government candidate fight the
great power without their aid. From
the two examples / have cited it NAV be
seen that the liberals of the country,
though as numerous, perhaps more nu-
merous than ever, are not Just now,
working satisfactorily together.
TIE TIcHBoRNE oAsE-PAUL DE KocK.
| suppose you are pretty well inform
ed by telegraph as to the particulars in
the Tichborne case. Nothing that oc-
ours in or out of parliament, approach
es it in interest for the majority of news
paper readers. The manager of one of
our principal morning journals told me,
the other day, that everything had TO be
sacrificed to this interminable trial.
which, tiresome as it may be, in a gener-
al point of view, is always presenting
new and curious features. 1 am told |
that the literary discussion between the
Lord Chief Justice and DR.. Kenealy, as
to the morality of Paul de Rocks nov
els, which formed so large portion of |
Roger Tichborne's library, has caused |
the works of this almost forgotten
French author to be much inquired for. |
DIR. Kenealy, who was at one time much
given as well to the practice as to the
study OF literature, and who, among
other similar feats, translated, during |
briefiess days the greater part of MooreS |
into Greek verse, does not |
seem to have given his attention to the /
literature of France Otherwise he +
surely would not have described Paul de
Rocks novels as works of art neither /
would he have spoken of the polished |
elegance" of writer whom French
critics refuse to consider as writer at
all. Paul de Kock was read, no doubt
but was never esteemed q mean in a lit.
srary sense) in his own country. where
le was looked upon as affording snita-
pie reading for shop-boys and CONNER