New-York tribune., 1876-03-27
ANGLO-AMERICAN TOPICS.
THE WASHINGTON SCANDALS.

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| OBsERvANT-A CORDIAL WELCOME ASSURED MIR.
| DANA DEFEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT ON A
| SCOTCH BILI-THE NEW IMPERIAL TITIE-ELo-
QUENT APPEAL OF MR.. GLADSTONE.
| IfRoM TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRIBUSE'l
| LONDON, March Ill suppose need scarcely say
that London spite of agreeable incident has not
been very agreeable place for an American this
| week. The special dispatches to The Times have
| given us-wth copiousness never before known
the details OF the crimes scandals investigations,
| accusations, exposures-and / know not what else
which have made the past ten days hideous. You
will remark that the mode of transmission has made
them unusually conspicuous. The Times has done us
the honor print them at the head of it's news col
umns in its biggest type. The disgrace Of one exist
ing Cabinet Minister III Washington has taken pre-
cedcnce of the appointment of whole new-and
probably honest-Cabinet in France. This morning
we are treated to the shameful story OF the broker
age in pablic Offices which the Presidents brother
| has carried on Nor has there been day this week
when some new American rascality has not been
published to Europe in a similar way that is, III the
way to make it most garng. / do not say so COM
plainingly These events are matters of news. They
are by far the most interesting news of the day. even
to Englishmen, and The Times is quite right to print
| the most interesting news in the most prominent
! place.
1t il inevitable also that this should be COM
mented on, and on the whole, don't think we have
much cause TO complain of the comments. should
like 10 see them reprinted in fall in every paper in
| the United States They would not be pleasant
reading. but they would he profitable, and never
heard that medicine was less likely to the pa
tient because he did not like the taste of II. Their
effect over here is quite another matter. he cause
Of Rcpublicanism in Europe haa got a blow from
III bo. ,.,,
Washington are hardly less helpful to European
Absolutism aud Aristocracy than the crimes OF the
Commune were in 1871. From the crimes of the
| Commune mems minds-thc minds of the most mod
erate-recoiled with horror. ! Iom the crimes at
! Washington mems minds rcc0 with disgust and
probably disgust is 4 not ess powerful feeling than
horror.
! Europe is more than ever convinced that honest
and cultivated people Will have nothing to do with
| politics in America We owe oar critics some graft
tude for the view they take They do not say there
are no honest and cultivated people in America.
They do not doubt there many such, but they set
Themselves 10 inquire how II happens that such peo-
plc hoh themselves lnOf from TIE conduct of public
affair." II does not happen, they say, III monairical
counrics there as a rule the ableSt and most hon
| orablc men proud TO devote themselves to the
service Of the STATE IL il only in republic that the
tins fact is naturally unfayorable 10 republican
form of government. The conclusion IS not in fact.
either logical or Just. II is not true that a republic
is The only nurse Of wees. There has never been
suy;hirp more plOi gate than the jobhing of public
offices I'm France under Louis Philippe VIXEN GuiZot
/ was Prime Minister; Tor than tho joh!.iug IN the
pubiic fund. and spccula':pGS Of all kinds by the
ministers of Napoleon Third. But those things hap
pcncd day before yesterday; Bclknaps thicycry was
Yesterday; aud everything that went before Is sud
Geuly forgotten. Again say wc have 40 night 10
complain The fact that corruption has left a stain
on other Cabinets than those of President Grant, -
no reason why corruption in Prc-il"n Grants Cahi-
net should not be- ccusurcd. IL is clearly for the
general good that tie lash should be Laid Oh every
ro1Ic- back rs il comes along
Mr. pana's nomination ~ Minister 70 this country
continue, to elicit expressions o. strong approval
| from sources the most unlike II has wruug from
The Standard ccngratulation addressed to President
Grant coupled with the remark that il is something
that even under the pressure Of a powerful opposi-
ton lac has at last recognized ms duty and per-
formed it,. The Spectator of to-day halls this nomi-
nation a. "a return TO the ancient practice oi
| selecting American dipomatIsts from among the
! cultivated men Of the United States who, whatever
they may DO will not soil their fingers with money
| making iobSn These two journals represent the
antioodcs Of opinion. The Standard Is, with perhaps
| the cxcertion of The PdH Wall GG:e'fc, Of all the
chief daily papers, the most Systematically un-
friendly TO the United states: The Spectator always
one of the most friendly. The swift recognition of
Mr.. Dauas fitness for the post which came from The
lnc. and Daiiy Ncics quoted in previous letter.
All the resident Americans whom have met rejoice
over the appointment. Our English friends are de-
lighted for their own sake aud for ours. and tbcy
are as n rule good enough TO choose Mr. Dana's
nomination. and not Mr. licllnaps impeachment, as
a topic Of conversation with Americans.
Tho i'll luck or i'll Judgment, or whatever you
choose 10 call it, which spoke Of IN my last letter
as attending on the Government for the last fort
night has gone on from bad to worse. They have
been beaten for the first time III pretty full House
| ON direct vote. The bill on which this happened
| n bill to alter tho Game laws in ScOtland-was no
| hanging matter, but the Government committed the
strange mistake of announcing they would oppose
H. and neslectng the usual measures to defeat it.
| The majority against them was 22. In the press,
and with people generally defeat of that kind is
not taken very seriously. but it is taken very serl-
ously by an important section of Mr. DsraelTs sup
porters-the county members and all the squres.
| PEOPLE generally, however aud the press and So
ciety and the clubs take very seriously indeed the
Royal Title bill, which has reached another stage OF
it's career since wrote 1t passed its second reading
on Thursday-second reading here being nearly the
parliamentary equivalent of third reading with us
but under circumstances which are full OF peril.
| First Of ALL Mr. Disracli, met by Mr. Samuelson
| motion. WAS compelled TO state 10 the House the
title the Queen meant to assume-Empress oil lndla.
! He advocated that title in one OF the weakest
| speechcs lie ever made-a speech which contained
but one assertion that could be called an argument,
ana that an assertion which is not true. The people
I...l.a anfgar fort In