New-York tribune., 1874-07-17
PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.


LADY AMBERLEY-A woMAN's TRIUMPH ABB
prTIoys TO THE CIVIL LIST PENsIoNs-DINNER
TO MR.. TOOLE THE ACTOR.
tFRoM TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRIBuNEl
LONDON. July 2-Now that Mr. Moran has de-
clincd the Assistant Secrearyship of State offered
hlm. hope | shall offend nobody if ! say that he
deserves a hgher place than that If the state De-
partmont has no good mission to offer him abroad
his present post is one in which he is certainly more
useful than be could bo in n fourth-ratc place IN
Washington. / think Mr.. Moran entitled 10 some
reward, or at least recognition, and this have SAID
at times when there has been no question about one
particular appointment another. Our diplo-
matte service, if can be said to have one,
has never been organized on the theory OF edd-
eating training, and by degrees promoting capable
men. But that is no reason why, In an exceptional
case it should not do an exceptionally good thing.
Mr.. Moran's case is exceptional; and what he mas
done for this Legation and for his Government is
too well known to need restatemeut The "0vern-
ment assume, meant their recent proposal as an
expression of gratitude and therefore the existence
Of some occasion for gratitude may be taken for
granted Do they think 1t would be too much for
once to hold in suspense that rule which assigns
foreign missions to politicians, and give the next
vacant good berth to a man who has rare diplomatic
experience and abilityi Do they think they would
be worse served for it by other secretaries! IL Is
not now prudent believe, to speak of Civil Service
Reform so limit my remarks to Mr.. Morans case;
adding only that neither for him nor for anybody
else am asking any favor or any sort Of consdera-
ton but that which rests justice aud sound policy.
| The death of Lady Amberley this week was pam
fully sudden She had been taking care of her little
girl who was suffering from diphtherla caught the
| malady from her, and died 1 two days. Many
Americans remember Lady Amberey and ner nus
| band Lord Amberley Earl RusselFs son and heir,
from their visit to the United States few years
ago. | am not sure that she was altogether favor
| te there. People misunderstood her. heard Her
habit of doing what she liked and saying what she
| Thought. without much concern about what Others
| might think of it, was set down as aIstocratc
| superciliousness. But it was not that. 1t was
personal trait, not badge of her class. She was
considered very Independent here where, it is true,
the arisocracy have in sense the courage OF their
| opinions and where fine ladies do and say without
| fear things on which their middleclass mltdtofs
would never venture. Lady Amberey was daugh-
ter of Lord Stanley of Alderley and if people some
times called her eccentric she may have been sup
| posed to inherit some of her fathers sngulaTltes
She was withal a woman OF real force and sincerity
of character and her death is great loss to her
| family and to some causes in which she took deep
/
instance 1t is stated in notice of her that her
constitution was weakened by the fatigues of her
! American tour: the writer evidently looking upon
| a Journey 10 the United States enterprise of
equal hardship if not of equal peril, with one in
Central Africa. Lady Amberley was 81 and leaves
three children,
More than 100000 persons" are said TO have
signed petitions to Parliament in favor of the For
syth Woman Suffrage bill. The persons in this case
are supposed to include the inferior sex-I mean
men, of course. But Mr.. Forsyths bill has no chance
OF passing, and the women who head the suffrage
movement don't care whether 1t does OF not or.
perhaps would rather it should not since it is only
a half loaf and they, woman-lke, prefer no bread.
Nobody. however can say that women are not get
ting on Their latest triumph has been achieved by
Miss Richards. This young lady has just
walked thousand miles in a thousand
hours for wager. l regret to have to add
that the state of English law permitted Miss Rich
ards. father to put the money she won into his own
pocket. The other sex, beaten the earth, has
taken to the air-not in balloon, but with wings
1t is Frenchman who has led the way-a Mr. DE
Groof-with n flying machine of his own invention.
He does not precisely soar in it from earth to
heaven At present he contents himself with com
ing down safely from heaven toward which he as
cends a certain distance in a balloon to earth. But
this is Of itself a sufficiently remarkable achieve
ment and entities Mr.. De Groof to the respectful
gratitude of those of his own sex who may have
contemplated Miss Richards's performance with
some alarm.
-Four additions to the Civil List Pensions have just
been made by Mr. Dsrae These are pensions for
the encouragement of Literature and the four per-
sons encouraged are Lady Jackson who gets flO0
per annum Miss Eliza Meteyard, with E4O in ad-
dition to geo she previously enjoyed; Mr. T. Ii.
Horne, ESQ Miss Geraldine Jewsbury, f40 Out
of these four respectable Names two probably have
been heard of in America before. OF course l am
not going to say which two. ] hope am not inno-
cent enough to get myself into trouble that way,
especially three ont of the four are ladies' and as
Orion Horne slOped more or less slowly to the West
great many years ago, aud that leaves only one
lady out of three who eau have been known n the
United States. Lady aackson suppose to be the
widow of Sir George Jackson. dpiomatlst of long
standing. whose memoirs were some time since pub
lished and proved less indiscreet than was hoped;
yet interesting They are presumably the ultimate
cause OF the fl00 year Lady Jackson Is to enjoy
for the rest of her life. Miss Metcyard has written
a life of Wedgwood the Potter, faithful but some-
what overdone book; and believe other books. and
is deserving person. Miss Jewsbury is a novelist of
good repute in circulating Libraries; known also as
contributor to literary periodicals an accomplished
woman and critic 1t is hard TO believe that either
Miss Meteyard or Miss Jewsbury can be actually in
need Of the ptiful yearly which the State doles
out to them. But neither it easy to understand
their taking it unless they needed it. There no
honor in being put on pension list; least of all on
such beggarly one as England thinks suitable and
sufficient for such of her literary ornaments have
been i'll rewarded by the public. The whole sum
annually granted is 81 2OO and the number of bene-