New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-25
BRITISH TOPICS.
Mnrfs IRON LONDON.

fvROn TUE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TuR TRieUSE.l
LONDON March al will not trouble you Win
any details about the Judicature bill when mas
been slaughtered tins week in a manner anlaEngto
the constitutional mind. mention 1t only 10 SUI"
how much political power is still possessed mere oS
an aristocracy supposed by some enthusiastic pei
soma to be in the last stage Of decay ana 10 suo"
how weak a "strong" Government may prove
on sts first trial. The essential fact oil inc
Jndioature bill was its abrogation Of the APP
rcllate Jurisdiction Of the House OF Lorus.
Thia At any rate, was the feature OF ~
which evoked the opposition that has killed IL
The proposed change was one to when pupno OPiI-
ION Is beyond doubt favorable but whloh lOiy
Lords Of ancient family and not much concern ~
orainarv politics scowled upon as diminutlon OF
cha prestige OF their branch OF the Legislature
Ancient family for this purpose may be taken 10
mean families holding peerages Of creation ante
cedent 20 the present generation. Ihese Neneraoie
relics of the past took courage from the conserVa-
tive reaction II was nothing to them that the meas
ure In question stood foremost among the pledges OF
Che Oueep's speech. A few of the most energetic
among them resolved to do for the BILL and the way
they set about 1t is most remarkable. No agitation
no letters 10 the newspapers, no speeches. a qulet
dinner OF two, q few morning calls. g few private
notes on coroneted paper, assembage OF notaDIeS
in a private drawing-TOOm In q great mouse ln o.
Jamess-gquare; and the thing was DONE AcresA0
move Do,yerfoI than rnen Mr. Disraeli was notified
that majority Of the Peers were ready to vote down
the bill. Lord Cairns. his own Lord Chancellor
Lord Selborne, who was Lord Chancellor under the
last Government, are the two ablest lawyers
in the Lords and were both for the BILL
So was Lord Derby who stands for what there is OF
moderate good sense in the titled section OF the
marty All the Liberal Lords would have voted the
same way But all this went for nothing More
over it was open to the Government to defy the ln-
sOlent dictatOn Of this mob Of Peers. determine
tlon to appeal to the country would have brought
the st. James caucus to reason. A mere threat OF
resignation OF dissolution would probably have SUI
feed But Mr.. Disraelfs old spirit seems to have
gone out of him. 1t is said he Outvoted IN the
Cabinet; but what is tho Cabinetf dozen sub
ordipates holding Office at the will of their chief
He appointed and he can dismiss them. Ill health
very likely has relaxed the PremieTs nerves. BE
the cause what it may he submittcd ana, to all ap-
pearance the lead in the Government has passed
from it's nominal head into the hands of mutinous
caba Of which Lord Salisbury is the master spirit.
SO much the better. The reign will be the shorter
The business Of picture-forgng seems never to
have been carried on more brskly than now. Since
MIR. White called attention to the spurious Linnels
in the market various other manufactures on less
scale have been exposed. Mr. G., j, Lewis aud Mr..
EIskine Niool both have letters in The Times this
week complaining that counterfets of their pictures
are in circulation Mr.. Nicol says that many times
year he Is called upon to identify pictures pur-
chased as his most Of which arc copies, and some
times sklful sometimes also, pictures signed
with his name, but not copies OF anything he has
ever painted. And once n gentleman sent him for
Identification acknowledgement from a drawing
of his which had been offered 10 the innocent crea-
ture at price that would have been exOgbiant for
the drawing itself That fictitious paintings should
appear in the auction rooms is matter for sur
prise, for the auctOneers proclaim on every
catalogue that they do not hold themselves
responsible for the correct description, genuine
ness, or authenticity OF anything they sell.
This opens the door to any amount of dishonest
enterprise. but is ut the time fair warning to
buyers French pictures are falsifed as well En-
glisb saw a so-cslled Diaz sold the other day for
SO and another at a dealers offered for $500, which
would not have been parted with for thrice that
sum had it been genuine. There has long been
regular manufacture OF COrOts in Paris. and it is
not wholly impossible that some of the bastard pro-
auctions which pass under the name of that great
master may even have found their way to America |
heard of lately cleverly done that profess
sional expert declined to pronounce against it till
he had carried it for yericaton to CJrot himself
When Corot saw it be quietly took knife and
scratched ms name OF tho lying canvas. A New |
York letter to this weeks academy gives some
account Ofthe recent attempt to sell the imitation
salome Of Regnault. The writer remarks that THE
TRIBUNE has deserved well of tho public for the
persevering energy with which it has hunted down
the rascals concerned IN that swindle and exposed
their game. Bat he omts to give Mr. Clarence Cook
the credit due him for his perception of the fraud,
and his courageous statement Of the facts.
In the same paper occurs notice by Mr.. Rossett
of a recent picture by an American artist, whose
friends at homo will like to see that even a slight
example of his work attracts notice from high au-
thority kir. Rossetti says:
"The ssere.," by Mr.. Haunessy. shows two Od.world
lovers pacing bv twilight in the grounds OF unpre-
tentous country house, an so hnsned ana pacu mat
white rdbht close behind them squdts up on s hind
quarters pleasant little work from skilled hand.
Some friends of Mr. George Jacob HolyoaEe have
begun a subscription for him-in which 1 think
there must be Americans who would like to join.
Mr.. Holyoako has been i'll for some months. He has
reached an age at which his brilliant abilities and
his industry would have given him wealth had he
chosen to make them Of service to himself, But he
has been all his life working for others and for
tain ideas OF principles. You may agree with him
or not but the number of mon who devote them
selves unselhshly and helpfuy 70 promoting the
welfare of Others is not so great that you afford
not 10 admire Mr.. HOyOake. His committee seek
TO recognize his services to unfrended TRUTH extend
sng over thirty years; services Of great public use
often perilous, of o nature the reverse of profit
able to him. continually involving exclusion from
positions of credit or profit. while his time and >
resources were taxed in many ways in more than
one country. With means of reasonable leisure
and choice Of pursuit they add, it IS believed he
may continue has efforts in behalf of free thought
and progress, aud that is why they want a fund
raised for him.
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