New-York tribune., 1876-04-07

Tn. Scotch peopls must mend their manners.
They appear TO be relspsing into social state much
worss than that which Mrs. Trollopo aud Basil Hall
discovered, somo forty years ago, in tina wllds OF
New-York Philadelphia. and Cincinnati. tourist
from Meta gcntloman iotIng from FrIssisn bar
barans 10 find comfort in the reinoments of Glas-
gow-wrtes TO Tho HeraM Of that city in tho follow
ing strain a person angry says to-day That no
WAS trum the theatre gallary spit upon. Very Gne
| also was spit npon Not Oh the dress but into tho
eve strait it camo with strong force while look up
angry to the gallary. BefOr come to your country
| worship the Scotland of my books. my Wayerly
Novel. YOU know, but now i dwell hero since six
months in al parts, the picture change. now
know of the bid smell. the oath and curse OF Gods
name the wisky drink and the rudeneSs. fOu have
much money here but you want what money can
not buye.-heart culhvating that makes respect Tor
gcntlo things. o to bo spit in the eye in one hall
million Of peoples town. Let me no longer bo IN
this cold country, whore people push IN the street
blow the uoze with naked finger, empty the dish st
the house door. chooze tho clergy from tho lower
classs and then 60 with them to death for On ecce-
siastcal theory which none of them can understand
90 home three days time" The agsrleved foreigner
is q man Of singular penetration Dix months In
Scotland have enabled him TO detect the great want
of all Britain according TO one of the most distin-
ING that makes respect for gentle things but Mat
thew Arnold's Sweetness and Light T. =
The Custom house was busy yesterday trying to
relieve Mr. Conkling from the consequences Of his
yot, against tho confirmation OF Mr.. Dana, by de-
clar,ng that the report incorrect. The
statement came from of the most ac-
curato and careful correspondents III wash
ipgton and there is every reason to believe
it, Besides there Is reason 10 doubt that
Mr.. Conkling obeyed his ncw master, Senator
Cameron, even at tho risk of offending his old one,
Gen. Grant. Both ho and Morton dance nowadays
TO Senator Cameron's music, and neither dares TO
do otherwise. Each knows he is helpless without
tho Pennsylvania delegation. and tho willy Pennsyl-
vapian still feeds each with tho hope of getting
il. Mr.. Conkling sustained Mr.. Cameron against
that incompetent and low-bred person. Mr. Richard
H. Dana whom the President wanted to send to
London to disgrace us. Mr. Conkling will sustain
Mr.. Cameron against any other unprincipled adven-
turer like Dana In fact Mr. Conkiing will
sustain Mr. Cameron against anybody, or anything
until the vote of that Pennsylvania delegation is
cast He doesn't dare TO do otherwise.
The opera-goers of Berlin are in n state OF bewi-
derment. They have heard for the first time Wag-
ners Tristan and Isolde and, after paying rs high
~ 800 for single ticket, the most of them don't
feel sure whether they should admre-or if So what
The composers sworn followers, on tho other hand
are in ecstasies. At tho close of the performance
some of them exclaimed: wagner is greater than
Beethoven aud Goethow This provoked an Ontcry
of dissent but an Austrian, who was standing near,
said very emphaticaly: "You quite right he is
greater composer than Goethe. and creator poet
than Beethoven"