New-York tribune., 1875-11-13
BRITISH LAND TENURE.
EARL DARNLEy's APOLOGY.

-TIfE TELEGRAPH SUP EsEpfxG rHE MAILS.
(rRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT on rHE rhbUSEJ
LONDON, Oct. 27.-The Darney incident has taken
an UNEXPECTED tarn The Eall has written u letter
to Mir. Lake declaring that he the EaI1 had no IN
tention of interfering with the Queels forces. adj
mit;inc explicitly that he was scarcely justified
in giving Mr.. Lake notice 10 Quit, aid adding; l
recret that gave that notice. and now beg with
draw it, and at the time 10 express hope that
our friendly relation Of landlord and toIaI'- may be
rrJstab,shed on ts former footing That Is a very
handsome lett1r. Its coafes ession is 50 frank and
the apology TO Mr. Lake 80 complete that
one regrets slr Lake could not SEQ DIS
way to accepting the Earis proposal ana
the whole matter end with general as you We're"
But MIR. Lake, while saying everything that was
proper and thanking the Eail for the Just and
cenerous impulse which prompted him to with
drawt e notice refuses to resume his Old position
His main reason is the attitude the other tenants
took which was certainly scryilo 10 Lord DaIney
aud offensive to Mr.Lake. Bus | think the latter
might have reflected that they would have turned
round with alacrity Oh discovering that the Wild
hed changed at Gotham IIan. However. he IS er'-
titled to Judge for himself as to whether ms iutfe
positioa on the estate would probably have been
pleasant one OF not. All / mean to say Is that he
does not stand as well with the public ~ If he had
taken he hand Lord Darnlcy held out 10 him. That
poblcIrsp has learned a useful lesson so has the
public. Away from his estate and outside hls
own or,ler Lord narnley an unknown man. lie
is known now one who has had the courage 10
own great llisake aud to oAsr reparaton lor IL.
and on apology for IL 10 a man "ho Was hls social
Inferior Those thing. always tell. They toll M
favor not of Lord D&rulsy only, but Of the order to
which he belongs
4 minute point in the correspondence may Dc
noted Lord Danley's previous letters are adj
~ \ bn Iatta Of
ad lreaycl "W. Lake. esq" Tho change means some
thing. so nice arc the shades of civility in this
country of rigid conventIonali.ies. i hardly know
how TO make tine diiforcuce und 5rsOoI III America,
where one honest way of earning ones bread Is AS
respectable as another and certainly more resPecta-
be than not earning il ut all But an Englshinan
woud t. YOU at once that TO address letter Mr.
John Smith implies that John Smith is something
less than gentlemaa-that he Is tradeSman, OF
workingnau, for instance. HJohn Smith be- proies-
sional E.an OF a Pcrsoa OF any social po'uon'
hs letters must bear the superscrip'lon Jom lth'
"esauire" If he have no higher tito. And II John
Smiths position happened 10 be just within the line.
he wonld certainly be extremely particular about
the "esqure;" if it an assured position, he
might OF might not be particular but the persons
who wro;o to him wonll be, in his behalf. Now Mir.
Lake is a tenant farmer class which includes men
who are lust above agricultural laborcrS, and men
who are just below the Ian LORDS of whom they hod.
There are tenant farmers who pay 10 year ana
tenant far nors who pay 1000 ycaG. Mr. Lake Is
among the larger. being, IN fact. man o lndepend-
ent means, and Msynr of GraveSend.
Not aaite - plainly a, in the blunt phrase of Lord
Darnleys earlier letters, but still plnnly, you mag
catch the ftual note in the utteranoeS OF very d
fercnt mal. Who should be free from Middle age
notions ii prt th1 son OF Liverp vol m'rchant' And
yet here is Mr. ella lsone puring in character that
can only describe something between Biblicai
patriarch and one of Walter Scotrs badOns. Tie
late Prime Minister is landel proprietor His pos
sessions are neither extensive nor of ancient date
hut they have cast AT least for moment. spell
upon a man who is many things the very ncanIa-
ton of tho modern spirit. lie asked LIS tenants, and
those of the Gladstone family generally, to dae yes
telaV in tent erected near the Castlcai Ilawarden
quite as Lord Darney might have summoned his re-
tainers TO the dinner which he complained
bir Lake did not attend. II Is Ike one
of those festivals which are given to children
when the elder people become the servants of the
younger and wait on them. The tenants are
treated hike children. and Mr. Gladstone carves
j1nts fo1 them, and ali the family assist IN serving
the food And it is all duly reported in the papers
though in much finer language. no less a word than
collation. answering TO describe The cold cats that
were banded round. TLcD came toastS and speeches; ;
two speeches by Mr.. Gladstone; mostly hat lianl-
let found in the book lie was reading. There is
hardly quO;able sentence III tithei OF them. lhr
tone which runs through them IL what strikes you;
so cuiioasly paternal swectly patronzing; en-
tirsly the tone of being not 30 much Superior to
those h. is addressing different from them; Oi
another race and male OF finer clay. Tie lcea
which runs through IT is the permanency of class
distinctions There il particular line of separa-
ton Mir. Gladstone tells his hearers drawn in the
social system OF this country. From the Queen
down to the cott4geT every one is near to those
about him. Just as-he might have added, but did
uot-evcfv step in loity staircase Is near to the one
above and below it. But the top IS not Veiy near the
bottom.
The accusation of printing Stanleys letters pre-
naturely brought by The Ncc- York HG0Id against
Tho Balg Telegraph has stirred up not litoexeite-
ment among L0nlon Journalistic The Telegraph
makes 10 public reply the charge, but it's friends
repel voy stTenuously ia private everything bike an
inputa ion on its go Vi fai h. 1t II difficult to see
what Tie telegraph could have gained By bad faith.
There j. great interest ia taaleys expedition, bat
few days delay would not have abated it. The mis-
take of The Teiepayh wss in making no allowance
for accident OF delay in the transmission of the
lttes 40 New-YoTk After the receipt of the letters
in London il waited for hut one steamer TO leave
before publishing the long summary OF which Ihe
Herald Justly complains This Tuesday
steamer and anybody who has Lad to watch
the course Of the mails to Newiork could have told
The 7elcgroph people that Tuesday steamer is some
times oyertakcn by that of the following Thursday.
In this case the letters. am told missed the
steamer and for some not posted tall the
Satul day following. Bat that does not excuse the
needless haste of The Telegraph. 1t might well have
waited till tie next week
Two Of the penny papers find the,nselves at last
Il. A.. e. fpaa Nl,f. Ia ffT he