New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-01
BRITISH TOPICS.
NOTES FROM LONDON.


ING coMPANY-AN ENGLISH ARMY OFFICER
CAsHIRRED.
PROM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBuSk'l
LoNpoN Feb lS-You are to be richer and we
are TO be poorer next Autumn by one good Ameri-
ean. Nv friend Mr.. Conway-the Rev. Moncnre ID.
Conway he used to be calledis going to the United
States for a visit and lecturing tour. Really 60
ing this time. His friends at home have 10 often
been promised visit from him aud 10 often been
disappointed. that wish to assure them that nv
present announcement is made on the best possible
authority, that Of Mr.. Conway himself AT last"
writes he in his characteristic way, have yielded
10 the voice of the tempter. go to America IN the
Autumn for a turn.at lecturing. l am told that
NAV arrange my journeyings so rs to see my old
friends also in many parts of the country. Ii has
been SO long said that going over that unless
Won saw il is true and that you have 1t on my au-
thority the lecturng platforms will pass over the
report with contempt" Let the unbelievers believe
that.
But hardly know for nv own part how to con-
template the prospect As American friend OF
his and mine. who has twice paid us a visit wrote
me not long since, Il cannot conceive OF London
without Conway. 1t would no longer be LONDON 10
me.n But suppose We ought TO spare him TO you
for time He does not hint what South Place
Chapel is to do-whose voice is to be heard in the
pulpt where his for so many years has gathered
faithful band about him, with many reGnforcemcDts
IF strangers who thrOnged hear American celeb
rity Nor do see how The Cincinnati Commercial rs
to supply the place of his letters-that quaint,
fresh, original raey correspondence which exposed
TO the Buckeye view many sides oil London
life that nobody else saw, or could
describe if he did. Mr.. COnway's life here has
been n very unusual One-very honorable to him
in all ways. His is the case of an American
4D.4a naatnF
of English intellectual life. center crowded with
ability where talents elbow one another; where
the literary work to be done bears but fearfuly
ANAL proportion to the number of men who want to
doit-and succeeding. Mr.. Conway made himself q
reputation in England. all the while preserving ana
extending what he had previously gained IN
America. Ills acquaintance is wide and slngnlary
various He is going to lecture to you, among other
tories on London. When You have heard hIn'
London will ever after seem TO Won new place
French wits said of Dumas on the appearance OF one
of his most famous books of travel that he had dls
covered the Mediterranean. In q similar sense you
will declare that Mr.. Conway has discovered
London His views Of England and En-
eIish life are sure to be picturesque; his
oDiuions viii be his own, lis judgment
upon our cousins ingenious, daring. possibly
sometimes hayward, but always worth hearing
Whether YOU agree with iim or not, you can't Dnt
love him and enjoy him. His other topics Will be
the Devi!-whom he did not discOver-and Oriental
RELIGION. His studies for many years past have
been much occupied with both these subjects His
now wellknown book, Tho Sacred Anthology
showed how extensive his survey of The latter had
been OF that book the whole third edition has, by
the enlightened liberaity of a Scotch gentleman,
been sent ont to India for the members OF the
Brahno Somai | do not know what the Brahmo
Souai may be- but the Scotch gentleman rs not
likely to throw away his money on unworthy Oh
iects A fourth edition will soon appear with a
new introduction.
Tie examination OF the books and accounts OF the
Emma Mine-under the petition to wind up that
concern--is proceedings an order OF court having
cOmpulSoIily put end to the not unnatural reluc-
rance of the managers to have its affairs looked into
Impossible to say yet what has been discovered the
inquiry being private. There seems reason to be-
heve however, that this scrutiny will go pretty
derD into the mysteries that have hung about the
matter. The Secretary OF the Company attempted
lately to refuse the explanation demanded OF him
respecting certain cash item but the Court COM
PEELED bin to testify Ii viii all come out when the
case comes on for hearing. Then, suppose, we
shall have the pleasure of seeing the name OF tho
American Minister figuring once more III the English
papers with possibly some accounts OF the way III
which he was induced to become Director and
trustee OF luc company, ana 10 dON HloCiA w OC
advertised such under the title of United States
Minister to the Court Of st. James.
Meantime. two more agreeable stories about him
arc in circulation When you hear Gen. SchencS
discussed il by chance it is not in connection with
the Emma Nine, it Is aim st certain to be Poker
People who are in the habit OF meeting him say that
his passion f,r this game brooks no restraint. As
soon as dinner is Over-0r it may be lunch, for
poker is capable in his judgment, of being played
by daylight-tha General begins to fdget for the
cards He may be seen!1naking his way TO the card |
table which he clears OFT with his own ministerial
hands, and with his own hands also makes up the /
packs and divides the counters The preparation OF
card-tabes is usually, in this terribly aristo- |
cratic country, left TO the servants, but Gen. |
Schenck has no prejudices, and cards, ike |
frcHte Ct qtarante at Monaco, are great lev
elers. his best known performance, perhaps, was
at a country house when he sprang up from table
this was at lunch-seizsd poker from the hearth,
siouldered it, marshaled the company behind him,
and led the way TO the drawing-room where tho
card tables laid crying out to his followers,
"In hoe signo vncesw There were who
thought it profane; others who laughed readily
both at and with the American Minister. 1t is per-
haps still more remarkable that our representative
recommends poker to bis English acquaintance as
ian eptome of American life :"
Sir Charles Dixie is back in London and in his
place in the House of Commons He went lately to
Algeria in search OF health, but the result hardly
answered his expectations 1t is not to he supposed
that he is an Invalid in the ordinary sense of the
word On arriving i'll London, however he was
laid UP for a few days with attack of chicken
pox. Having quite recovered from this he is hard
at work usual.
Mr.. McCulloch returned lately from America, and