New-York tribune., 1875-07-26
ANGLO-AMERICAN TOPICS.
roIrpTu or July IN LONDON.

FRANCHISE BuI-TuE 1AIEPRotEssoh SA'h->n"
AND THE UNION CaUsE-TRAvtLiNG AALRi-
CANs-ILTERARY GOSSIP.
,rRom THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TEiBUSE'i
IoypoN. July lO.-There was, believe, Fourth
of Juy dinner at the Crystal Palace Oh the flith'
:. uh;cb some Americans and Englishmen were
present can only speak from Lcarsay, for dd not
care TO attend q celebration over when the l''e
Trustee and Director of the Emma Mine PRESIDED
With single exception no American OF dls'ihe.ioh'
ves;l,nt in London, was present. Mr.. McCuiloch
twhose charity got the better of his Judginen was
there. but the other great American banking houses
were nnrepresenied. Neither Mr.. Morgan's, n"r MI.
Russell Sturgiss, nor Mr.. Pcabodys name appears
among the guests. Sir Curtis Lampson was absent.
SO were Mr. Conway and Mr.. Stillman, and, 50 far
as am aware all the resident Americans known to
he connected with literature or art. Perhaps /
should except the Chevalier Wikof, and perhaps
Col. foney may be rcckoned among o'u residents
and among the sympathizers with Gen. sohencK.
Perhaps, also ought 10 contradict the report ttat
the bin of fare was printed cn the Ace oi spades,
with device at the bottom wherein you saw the
head of the American Minister emerging from the
mouth Uf an ell PITY mine; figure wearing the ap-
pearaLee of a baiif hesitating whether to seize
him. between and lowering over the two, On Amer
lean Eagle. We are left to conjecture whether the
lister from the myrmidons of British law or whether
Mr. Lowells description applies:
III the bird of our country could ketch him. she'd skin
seem : though see her, with wrath iu each quill,
Like chancery lawyer, ail.n hef Dill
The alluson TO Chancery, though apt, can hardly
have been meaut 10 hint at the numerous proceed
ings before that court in the Emma Mine cases. MIR.
Iowel,'s verses date from the Mexican War. The
papers omitted to state that likeness of Mr. Albert
Grant adorned each of the four corners Of the card
and that the various dishes bore names Of other per-
sonages most intimately connected with the affairs
of the Emma. And believe il is not true that rack
of cards was laid by each plate or that the ceIe-
monies of the evening concluded with draw-poker
The House of Commons enjoyed itself this week.
II is never 30 happy as when thoroughly illogical,
and this it shows itself in rejecting the County
Franchise bill. That bill proposed two thDgs-to
give the franchise 10 members of the class which
now POSSESSES il in bor0ugs and to give II to gri-
cultural abOrers The former are denied IT SIMPLY
because they live outside certain artificial limits.
Their brother artisans have had II since
1866 The laborers have hardly begun TO agtatc
for it, Stated more simply still, the bill is one
20 extend Household Suffrage to the Counties. Oi
course nobody expected it to pass. This is period
of political stagnatOn. The Government is III Office
~ do nothing aud il fulhls It's mission with slgai
ability. 1he argument tlLtt picNdib hioSt LII 'i'
House of Commons is not one of necessity or propr
ety. 1t is one of tImchness. Convince the House
that the country wants q measure and it will 90
through This bill will 60 through some day-Mr
Disrae,i himself viii very probably pass it, Now he
die, not even think it worth while to oppose it, hut
was content to put up the feeblest member of his
Cabinet, Lord John Manners, to say no 30 it
for the present The Liberals are generally for the
bill in spite of the Tory members that were dscov-
cred in the last enfranchsed residuun" Mr.. Forster
is for it strongly. The Independent members have
taken il up as a cardinal measure. Lord Harrington
spoke against it, and voted neither way which was
acharaeteris,ic performance on his part. he very
nearly provoked an open rebellion below the gang
way. Lord John Manners said as much, and the
Liberals to whom he referred answered with loud
applause They did not less significant thing in
welcoming Mr. Gladstone, who entered the House
almost immediately after Lord Harrington sat down,
with burst of cheers unusually prolonged. Mr..
Gladstone did not speak, but voted for the bill. The
majority against it was 102, which docs not much
vary from the majority of last year.
The death of Prof. Calrnes Thursdays is an event
which we as Americans have peculiar cause to de-
plore. He did one of the greatest services ever
done by an inIi ii lual to foreign nation Weknew
something Of his remarkable book, 1.-The Slave
Power at the time of its publication in 1861 Ol
'G2 We could judge of its singular power and abl
ity, but not SO well of its influence English
opinion. The testimony of English wtne ,ses is best
Oh that point, and could be better than that of
1he Spectator which says that it did more, at the
time OF the American civil war. to turn the intelec-
tual clements in English society against the South
than any other literary effort Of the period" The
EJdRiRG says:
His work on The Slave Power" published during the
Civil war IN America, produced great influence here Oh
mt mos
side while gained Tor its author the aneclonate grati
fp,c Of large sections Of the people OF the United Sia.os
II was "a matter great value NJ the time the book wds
written that All English political ec"nOius sliOid hnng
cut a powerful work proving that slavery II
ical, as nisclevous az IL morally hd'icnsble Ia
the sensitive condition of American public opinion on the
exressI,s of s,urathy wtn the houth winch charic-
tened ths mos influential Ensiish newspapers
speeches of more han one leading Ehy--n tta'tsi""n
during the Civil War; this book the most timely and
vau.hle contribution the side OF those VINO rcos
nl1ed the war as one that wond decide the Ia'e oi
Slavery the American continent.
This is evidence from unlmpeachable sources;
from those who were themselves among the Most
sincere influences on our side Let ne quote also
the more guarded, but hardly less significant est
mate of The Times:
IN 1851 Prof C1es delivered OF lectures 10
his class al Dublin whicn brought s
In wider circle Oi readers HJitng tLe beleI that tir
history nations had been largely Affected by The action
OF economic causes lie studied the characteristics Of
u dependent upon the Organization Ji slave labor
ant IN this way ~ ed 10 It's nl.i"ote causes te Wal
OF secession tlat lad t.n broken out III the United
States "1be Save rover was recognized rs tue con-
tfbuton IA student, ID whose cOnd' NINA
the attempting 10 SCI slave
Power grain of ianatcisn cOuld lie detected. the
book speedily ran through first eiilion.
Prof. Cairnes's rank an economist was very
hig probably the highest in England Mr. Mill
was one of those who set the g eatest value on hIs
powers and his contributions to economical
literature His last book was lis most important
aud most vigorous. lie dictated the whole Of it
while victim to a malady which fastened him to his
bed st.l,.fled his whole body denied tie