New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-27
NOTES FROM LONDON.


OF MR.. MoTLEY's HEALTH-rHE MISSING EARL
OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ADVERTISEMENT OF
NEW WEEKLY JOURNAL
IFRoN The REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
LONDON, June 12.-Gen. Schenck IS back again,
and has disappointed a number of persons inspired
with a landable curiosity To his wife. They are
reluctantly led 10 the behef that he did not marry
anybody after all. The General faithfully repre-
sented the United States at State Concert thus
week at Buckingham Palace, ACCOMPANIED by the
Misses Schenck and supported by Mr. Moran our
Secretary Of Legation. We are supposed to have a
second Secretary of Legation but Col. Cheese
boroughs time has been-if al accounts be true-so
much taken up on the Stock Exchange that his
absence in the United States on two months leave
does not greatly weaAen forces at the Legation
Col CheesebOroughs experience is said 10 have
changed bis original opinion of the relative shTewd-
ness of London and Wall-st operators. He may, on
his return make up his mind TO stick TO the dull
but less dangerous occupations of his office Per
haps he VIII think these things ought not 10 he
mentioned. Other people NAV think they ought not
to have been DONE and that the connection between
the United States Legation and the City (which is
English for Wall street. not, aud Is not IN need
OF any further extension.
Mr.. Motley is again IN London and his Winter in
Cannes has perceptibly improved his health Com
"a
Heve his physicians see no reason why he may not
expect it. DR.. Frank, the distinguished resident
physician at Cannes, and Sir William Gull the re-
cOgnizcd head Of the medical profession in London,
agree in their opinions on the case and in their
hopefulness for the future. They still forbid their
patient any thing like mental effort, though Mr.
Motley laughingly remarked that he knew of no
greater effort than to get through some of the novels
he is allowed TO read. He walks about, using
cane. everybody, goes out to dine and looks a
very different man from the one who quilted Lon
don last Autumn for the lonely healthfuness OF the
Mediterranean shore. -
Putting an end at last to his long stay in Paris,
MI Lowell has got as far on his way home as Lon
don. which he visits too seldom aud too briefly TO
suit the views OF his English admirers and friends.
On Monday he goes TO Cambridge for the ID. {. L.
which that ULiver.ity following The lead of Oxford,
is to give him. He returns to London afterward.
and sails for America the sd inst. The distinc
ton which The two great Universities confer on him
is only public expression of the regard and honor
in which he is held by the most cultivated people in
England. Public receptions aud speeches and din
ners to foreign guests are not quite SO much the
fashion here as with you. The English newspapers,
also play a less part in welcoming strangers thar
the American. But in manifestations of different
and not less valuable kind England shows herself as
bospitable as the United States. Emerson Long
fellow, Motley President Eliot Lowell, aud other
Americans who have been here of late years will tell
YOU that the civillties of all kinds offered them
only too numerous to accept mention only men of
literary fame, unless Mr.. Motley be thought
ception. and of him it is true that while he was
Minister here his diplomatic position insured him
social attention. II Is true, equally, that long
before he was Minister he widely
known in London that diplomatic position could
give him little nothing which had not before
been offered the private individual and 10 the
historian. President Grant might make MT. Lowell
Minister to-morrow-and might do worse thing if
he could get Mr. Lowell to accept which doubt but
be could not add much TO his popularity and social
renown 1 hear of Americans who complain that
society. and especially certain great houses in
England, do not open their doors freely to all
American corners. Our Legation knows, suspect,
something of such complaints. The people whe
make them don't seem to be aware of the inference
20 be drawn with respect 10 themselves. nor are
people who will 90 the length-though know well
enough such thing is not extraordiuary-ot asking
for invitations the people VINO generally have much
night to expect them. with or without asking. The
eInps truth Is that great courtesy is shown 10
Americans as such, and because they are Americans
Such eminent men l have named would be sure
of honor regardless of nationality, but even they
better llkeu ODau II, HOdinR suHaI LAIN IA AVcA
atare :ney came of some other race.
The papers this week present a fine instance OF
Che delicate consideration shown in this country to
the feelings of the nobility Lord has been miss
ing He left home without the knowledge of his
friends or domostIcs has been absent a week, I'M
heard from. and reward Of 500 IS oreIed for
news of him II was about the time OF the Derby,
but his disappearance is not known TO have any
Connection with Turf losses. The latest story IL
that be drew a check for Ei 900 before leaving
Had he been plebeian of note, bis name would IN
stantly have been published. Being a patrician, 1t
is carefully suppressed. 1t is limited that he is
nearly connected with Lincolnshire and one journal
ventures TO describe him as the missing link be-
tween Marquis and d VisoOunt AN Earl thai Is
Everybody who is anybody knows that 1t Is the
Earl of Marlborough who has thus taken himself out
of the way. When say his name would have bees
published instantly were he not a nObleman, have
IN mind an incident that occurred two years ago. A
gTl committed suicide. leaving note behind her TO
say she bad been seduced by man. afterw ard be-
ment by the latter had killed herself in despair.
She gave the names Of both. The seducer wac a
man Of great distinction in literature md of NOT
less in politics az a Radical. The other was n,be
man of high rank. The newspapers published the
name of the former at full length and suppressed
the latter Yet there every to believe that
the charge of seduction was false, and the abandon
tlent by the nobeman true
There appears to-day the advertisement o.