New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-21
BRITISH GOSSIP.
NOTES FROM LONDON.

MORAN
room THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBuNEl
ToSDoy. Jan. I've have been told so many
t;mes of Mr. Disraelps improving health that we are
forced 10 believe it stood in great need of improve
mont A month ago there some sinister re-
norris coupled with or Immediately followed by, as
suranoes that he rapidly getting all night again.
During the present week we have had about one
paragraph day to the effect that his health was
substantially restored. This morning IT taxes 'ne
shape of a statement that he is steadily improVis'
and thst he hopes to be able to return from Douin'
mouth in time for Cabinet Council on inc ~"
He was 60 years Of age on Thursday anu MI
Gladstone was 65 on Tuesday. Yet hooouS th'nhS
of either as an old man. Vgor of body and mind IN
This country last to a most surprising age-snrpnS-
inc to race of Americans brought up on hot bread
ond buckwheat cakes and bent on turning them
selves into steam engines. But Mr.. Disraeli is
annareutIy in Just that state where he ought to
nurse himself a while and lie fallow. With n
twelvemonths rest he might hold good for another
ten years equal to the last ten. But it il his misfor
tune TO be at the head of party to which he has to
supply ideas, and that is a fatiguing duty.
Sir William HarcOurt, too, figures unexpectedly
On the invalid list. lie is laid up with bronchitis.
caught while making bis latest speech, which the
Spectator. with its usual amiablity toward Sir WI
liam, treated bid for, or step toward the
Were that So it would he singular catastrophe
that he should be disabled temporarily just when
Mr.. Dsrael is But / do not believe Sir William
Harcourt means to lead the Tory party. He is
Liberal and has won his fame by Liberal ideas His
recent speech is perhaps nti-RadcalIbut not anti
Liberal If The Spectator supposes him to be merely
selfsh-which am very far from believing-lt can
not suppose him to be ignorant of the strong dislike
of the English people to rafting The suspicion
of would cost him all his popularity on one side,
without insuTing him welcome on the other No
body knows that better than he does.
From Mr.. Gladstone, meantime, nothing is heard
He has taken no share in party councils. and he
leaves the newspapers 70 speculate on the chances
of his resuming the leadership Of the Liberals The
Times this morning warns him that he must decide
now what place he Is to take in the future, assuring
him-and no doubt with sinceTity-tbat it would
be grave mistake to retire in the fullness of his
powers, and while his political aspirations, If not
his personal ambition are yet unexhausted. The
party is now in this odd position with reference to
its chief-that those who used to be most discoD-
tented with him-the Radicalsare least disposed TO
part with him. while the Wings and other modeT-
ates, who supported hm against the Left, are rather
placidly specializing on the possible necessity Of
choosing his successor One explanation of which
is that the successor would probably have to come
from the ranks of the latter and not of the former
The recent transfer of Tie Continental Herdldfrom
Geneva TO Paris is likely TO have a considerable in
luence on the fortunes of AnglO-AmeTican journal
ism i'll Europe Paris has long had daily paper
printed in English. the well-kn0wn Gdlignans Mes
senger-a paper which its worst enemies never ac-
cused of radicasm its best friends could adj
mire cnterprising 1t was content with the tele-
grams supplied by the Iavas Agency and the Havas
Agency considered Madrid and Bucharest the two
4
II you for the politics Of the PTincpalties
the intTigues of Spanish adventures you would
never be at loss. If yOu wanted to know what
was going IN the United States, there was not
much good in consulting the Havas dispatches
GaIgnoRi e" . you in addition copous extracts
from the English papers, and briefer and less
frequent ones from the American with some
items out of French journals and a bit of
Paris gossip to fill up. For this we used
to pay in Paris 10 cents; latteIy reduced to eight
which is double the price Of the dearest of Paris
papers. Most French journals sell at two or three
cents the number. The Continental Herald an
nounces-with what take to be unconscious irony
that it does not mean to intrude on field now
occupied-not to wTest position from any one, but
to create one of its own. to occupy one which il
finds totally UnOccupied. 1t boldly puts down Its
price to three cents, and for this sum offers paper
Of eight pages with special kilograms plus those of
Hayas with a correspondence of its own, full sum-
maries OF American news, extracts from leading ar
ticles. American and English and articles of its own
well. The American reader will find in it abund-
ant information about the things he most needs to
know, whether at home abroad An edition viii
still appear at Geneva also.
And it turns out that after all the story about the
Bishops and Mr.. Gladstone, and the Bishop who had
the garden-party and could not come. was true! Or
tfue to some extent at least-the garden marty mart
of it certainly true; which being admitted don't
see how much else can be denied Poor Mr.. West
who was SO snubbed by the Bishops and whose wit
nesses went back on him, and who had TO apologize
to everybody, right. His turn has come II is
the Bishop Of Winchester who cOntTadcted him
with much unepiscOp9l heat VINO has TO apologize
now. As he does in a letter to MT. West-not as he
should de- III LEI to The Inns where he published
lis first lettcr accusing Mr. West Of having invented
the story. The Bishop of Winchester has received a
communication which shows him that his contra
diction too unqualified" though his impres.
siOns on the general observation-disclosures that may
be-are confirmed. So he expresses bis regret at
having told Nir. West his statements were untrue
This letter finds its way into print in a stout old
Tory weekly paper John Bull, Journal worthy of
its name. 1t cannot be suspected of malice toward
Bishops hut it caps the whole story 10y letting out
the fact that it was the Bishop of Hereford who
had tho garden party. For which his Lordship will
be immensely grateful-Out Of brOthcTy love to the
rest OF the Bench who are released from suspicion.
A farewell dinner 10 Mr.. Moran by Americans IN
London is suggested by The dRgl0- Americ0n Times
a good suggestion, there anybody to act on il.
and take the trouble to arrange the dinner. But as
The AnGi0-AwericdR says, we are not a colony. We
are only 80 many units III a vast metropolis and
cannot he got together without infinite pains If