New-York tribune., 1875-08-20
THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
LAST DAYS OF THE SESSION.

CIRCLEs-THE ENTRANCE TO NEw-YORK HARBOR
-MR. CONwAY's LECTCRFs.
brow THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TrE TRiBrSE.l
LONDON Aug. Mot word need be said of Mr..
Disraeli's explanation of the Merchant Shipping bill
business in his Mansion House speech on Thursday.
1t reiterated the statement which everybody laughed
at before Nor is more attention needed TO the little
vrangle last night about the barrenness OF the ses-
sion in which he and Lord Harrington took part.
Neither of them in earnest. The essential fact
is that bill has been passed for the better protec-
tioD of seamen: not much of bill, but better than
the Board of Trade wanted Nobody will remember
ANYTHING else about this session than that IT has been
filed with petty things. Everybody is impatient TO
get away. and Lord Harrington has enIaged the ex-
official Liberals by notification that they VIII be
wanted here till the 2Oth One or two of them were
actually across the Channel. and had to come back
IN pretty temper. you may guess The non-oticials
may do they like, unless, perchance, sense of
duty prove too strong for some OF them.
ReGnter DIR. Kenealy. The subject he touched In
the House, Thursday night he did not adorn 1t is
seldom in these days that the great butchers
advocate can even get a hearing. If anything
could create reaction in Col. Bakers favor, II
would be DR.. Kenealy's appearance against HIM. 30
of Mr. Justice Brett. 1t is clear gain to that most
eccentric Judge to be attacked in the House by
DIR. Kenealy. There was as remarked at the time,
a general feeling that Mr.. Justice Brett let Baker
off much too easily and that the he gave for
doing il were not creditable to him. Social in
fuences whether brought to bear directly on the
Judge OF not manifestly weighed with him. 1t was
the more unfortunate because Mr. Justice Brett is
he who outraged public sentiment by his monstrous
sentence the gasstokers and more lately by taking
ground in favor of prize-fghting-or something very
like it, But with the House, and with the better
classes of English men and all over the conn
II co1.- 20 tnl M
Ms support comes. apparently, from the lowest of
the low-by from the working classes
proper. He barely got hearing in the House, and
did and could have expected to do, no kind of good
by calling attention to Mr.. Justice Bretts undue
lenity Then he exposed himself to a bitter retort
by one Major Dickson you see the military men
stand by each other, and Col Baker still finds friends
10 speak for HIM, who dragged up an old conviction
against Keneay for cruel treatment of his own son
"A sufficiently horrible case yet Dcksons citation
Of it damaged himself and his cause as much as II
did Kenealy. The House, though it may applaud in
q moment of excitement, does not like that sort of
thing.
The motion of Dr. Kenealy was mischievous
because it could lead to nothing. But there is one
point somebody might well inquire into. Col. Baker
is still (so far as the world knows officer of tie
British Army. Probably the public is quicker to
expect than the Home Guards to act al some tech
meal reason delays the announcement Of Col.
Bakers military disgrace. 1t is incOnceivabe that
he should not be cashiered. The honor of the army
stands high but it could not bear the stress the re-
tention of Cob Bakers name on the rolls would put
on it, If there he any purpose to keep him there the
delay would be explicabe. In another fortnight
Parliament will have adjourned, and inconvenlent
ouestions can longer be put except In the Press
where nobody need answer them. have no means
of knowing what the feeling among officers IL. i
certainly do not believe they desire to be associated
with man who has been convicted OF shameful
crime a cowarlly assault on a woman. They can
hardly like TO the same name appear in the army
list and on the register of a common jail.
The Times of Friday publishes letter from An
Englishman" complaining i'll no measured terms OF
the condition of the approaches TO NcwYork Harbor.
lie af6rms that during the whole OF last Winter,
and even now. "there is scarcely an important buoy
in position" He specifies those at the entrance OF
Gedney's Channel and Of the Swash and main
channels, alleging that many ships have struck IN
consequence that unnecessary detention Is caused
during hazy weather and that the pilots openly ac-
knowledge their inability to keep in the fairway.
"No notice." he says, is taken of the pilots almost
daily remonstrances," and he hopes his letter in
The Times may have some effect though Americans
do not heed the criticisms of their vena press" and
though America is the only great country which
would tolerate such an outrage. don't know any
thing about the matter, but the Eng,ishman shall
have the benefit of one gratutous notice in the
"venal press" III there is grain of truth in what he
states, the fact that he has lost his temper AMI
writes an angry letter is not important And If he
niisstates that ought TO be pointed out, for such
letters DO harm.
The series OF lectures which Mr.. Conway. who
sails Aug 20 for the United States, will de-
liver promises to be a very remarkable
His subjects are, London" Oriental Reli-
gion,' "The Devil st. George, and the Dragon"
and the Fossil Mana list not wanting in
variety, certainly, and not likely to be treated
by Mr.. Conway in a commonplace way. London is
not an easy topic to deal WITH if for other reason
its vastness. man might write twenty lectures on
London-but one! The temptation to put in too
much is a hard one to resist, but Mr.. Conway has
sensbly chosen to touch certain sides Of
London life capable of being picturesquely
treated One of the least known is that
which might be supposed best known-the
city itself, the cOrporatiou the city
panies and that awful functionary, the
Lord Mayor himself. Old usages surviving
after the reason of them is dead-nothing could be
more English than that. The inwardness Of these
things hardly TO be got out of books but must be
learned orally, and MIR. Conway had many helps to
this from the fact that his well-knOwn chapel in
eludes among its members a number OF city digni-
taries-Day, even produces occasionally Lord
Mayor. The lectures on the Devil and ST. George
are really lectures on Demonology; the latter deal
ing fully with the Devil he appears in the folk
lore of England. They are similar in character to
the four lectures on DemonOlOgy which Mr.. Conway
gave at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, of
the most coveted platforms in England, and perhaps
the most distinguished platform to which no man