New-York tribune., 1874-12-05
BRITISH GOSSIP.

~"' ,. ,,n ,,oy, ry.s uEaLTH-CoI- FoRNEY's
EFFORTS IN BEuAIF OF THE ceNrHNNiNh Ia
uBITIoN.
rnox THE REGULAR coRREsroNpsNr of TIN i"''''N'
Ioxpoy. Nov. l9-Mr EmerAon's defeat for the
lord Rcctorshp of Glasgow need not cause MN Oh
his friends any chagrin. The 900 majority for MI
Disraeli is less than, in the circumstances mien'
have been expected. Mr.. Elncrsons supporters
polled 500 votes. lie was the nominee OF the niue
pendent Club. and at a meeting OF that ciuo no'u
after the result was known a member OF u sum'ncu
ND the situation by saying that SIX mohths ago 'o
Indsnandent Climb had no footing in the college;
that they had to contend against two s'rongiy Vi
oanzed political associations; that their candidate
wos q, Amcricon. and was repnrtcd to be hetero-
dox. considering all which. he thought 1t remark
ohlo fact that so students had como forward
ord gven their votes for him. In these days every
thing turns t. politics. Glasgow University has o
Conservative club and Liberal club, aud until the
independents appeared on the scene there was no
thought Of anything bat political struggle Tor the
Lord Rectorship. Mr. DiSraeli is the present
Lord Rector. and WAS the fOreordaned candidate OF
the Tories rs his successor. The Liberals after
vaiuly soliciting Mr.. Gladstone TO stand. nominated
Mr. w. Z. Forster in his absence, but Mr. Forster
declined. lt being then too late to start rev man
with any prospect of success, they coalesceu WIN
the lndepe ndents in support of Mr. Emerson. Dut
the coalition does not appear TO have been complete
The Tories raised the cry of "intidelity"-a very
potent one in Scotch university, where religious
intolerance is likely to have taken strong root Is
is stated that oy ,hree Divinity students voted for
Mr Emerson, and that two of the professors out OF
the four ho presided over tho polling in the differ
cut nations" tOuk sides against him nOminally be-
cause MI Emerson is an "alion" Some Tory youngster
had lodged written protest against Mr. Emerson
on this ground dad bung it up in the voting places,
and the two professors applied themselves to calling
the attention of the students to this document. lhs
seems 10 have frightened off a number-I hope not
many-of Mr. EmerSons supporters. AT any rate
the lndenendeut and Liberal Committees Thought III
sufficient interference with the freedom OF eiec-
ton to warrant protest against the Vahdlty Oh Mr'
Disraeli's election, the ground that undue mhu-
ence WAS brought 10 bear on the voters. But moth
ing seems to have come of it, and MIR. Emelsons
Glasgow friends will do well to accept their defeat,
and remember only the honor Mr.. Emerson did
them in consentug to be their candidate. All OF us
on this side have reason to lament the ilsuccess OF
the attempt for we had some reason to hope that
M Emerson would have come over to deliver his
inaugural address had he been elected From an
international point of view Also the choice OF an
American TO be the Lord Rector of Scotch Uni
yersity would have been pleasant. Otherwise there
is nothing 10 regret Glasgow has no honor to offer
which could add lIstcr to Mr.. Emerson's name
November is not month when many Americans
can be expected to arrive i'll London or TO remain
here if they have any excuse for getting away. 1t
is the one month in the year which fully justies all
the hard things that commonly said about the
climate Of London the month of fogs and suicides.
Most of the people who DO not jump over Waterloo
Bridge 60 to Brighton, and latter is on the whole,
preferable way of escaping the horrors that environ
YOU For one thing, IL Is easier to come back. III
you 90 TO Brighton in November you find the Ring
in Hyde Park in all its glory Of last May-the same
people the carriages and horses, the same tO-
lets, (since new fashions here set early in the
year and scarcely changed the same gossip the same
mcthodical adherence to routine in amusement.
Only the hours and the scene are changed. You
drive from three to five instead Of from five to seven,
and you have the ocean instead Of the Serpenne to
look at. and, If you will wait for them the finest
sunsets in E1gland. those of October excepted You
have real air to bTeatheat least good deal oftener
than in town but there fOgs also in!BrightOn.
unhappily. You tnd that though you are at tho
seaside ii is not cold and though at first you think
the English are odd people to 90 to watering
place on the Channel in what is almost Winter
MONTH you end by discovering that it is very sem
sble thing to do 10 their diversions, as in other
things they are before all things practical. and
there is no country in the world where the god of
common sense sits high throne. or has go
many faithful wOIshipers, as in England.
Bat as to Brighton, | am speaking am sorry
to say from memory and not from the experience
of to-day. Some friends whom l wanted to see
here are gone down there. but we are not absolutely
devoid of Americans even in London last week and
this Mr.. Grinncll was here. freshly arrived from
NewYork but allowing only few days to England
on his way to Paris MIS-. Senator Sprague with
her family left last week also for the COntnentfor
Wiesbaden, if l remember rightly. Mr.. and Mrs.
j. Lorimer Graham, jr. spent fortnight in London,
but they too are gone 10 Paris. where they remain
month on their wav back to Flnrence-a city which
they have made seem half American and homelike
10 many of their countrvmen and women during
many Yeas past Mr.. BouphtOn is back after three
months Of rurai hfo in Haslemere, lovely spot in
Surrey, wifi portfolio full Of sketches. Like that
of most artists his has been a Woodworking vaca-
ton, some of the fruit Of which we shall sec next
May on the walls of the Academy. Here too is Mr..
HenDessy. busy with commission from Mr..
Graham who was charmed, many other connois-
scurs have been with landscape of his which hangs
on Nj C0nway's well covered walls. keeping COM
pany with Turner's and Fl fres and BoughtOns and
Courbcts and man. another famous painter. Mr.
Ilennessy stands high in the esteem of many excel
lent critics of art and 10 stand much higher both
with them and the public needs but to act on one
maxim-that great painting does not necessarily
require a great His best work has been
done within moderate Gnits-as has that of the
most famous artists now living IN Europe. And if
Mr.. BOughtOn should keep the same fact in mind. it
would by no means narrow the scope of bis genius,
nor retard the growth Of his fame. Mr.. Conway is
by this time comfortably settled IN his new home.
There are hundreds OF Americans who will hear,
rot without regret, that the snug house in Noting
Hl-square Will open its doors to them again.
The truth Is | believe. the number Of his friends