New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-16
PERSONAL.

bridge are the only field marshas in the British army
A portrait of Lieut.. -Gov. Shuman has been
presented to the Illinois Senate by several prominent
citizens of Chicago
Albert Grant, the London capitalist, of Emma
Mine notorety is about TO sell his magnificent collection
OF modern paintings.
Holman Hunts smaller picture of "The
Shadow of the Cross recently sold for $751; the ar
tist painted 1t in the Holy Land.
Gen. and Mrs. Grant were to leave Pitts
burgh on Saturday evening for Washington. Penn,
where they arc to be the guests Of W. W. Smith.
Naches. the venerable Piute.chief, is in bad
health and has been taken to Nevada town Tor medical
treatment The white settlers anxious for his re-
covery he Of peace, being quietly engaged IN
farming.
j. III. Mccarthy, the son Of Justin Mccarthy
henovest though not quite 20 years old, is promising
contributor to the London press. He wrote recently
biographical notice of Mr.. WOolner, the sculptor and
friend of TennysOn.
Mr.. Sharp has the best prospects OF being
appointed to the Poetry PrOfessOrsp at Oxford lie Is
described as man only of great culture, rare crit
zeal power wide poetic sympathies thoroughly catholic
taste, but man of matured and tolerant Judgment
equally free from the faint Of pedanry on the one Land
or of paganism on the other
Mr.. Ashbury, the yachtman, who now repre-
sents Brighton in the British Parliament has been con-
strained to tender and publish apology to Mr.. Glad
stone for a rash statement which he recently made
about the right honorable gentleman in his char
acter Of pamphlet writer. The exPremier, ME-
Ashbury affirmed, writes pamphlets In order
to put money in his pocket, and 1t was circum-
stantiay added that he had Melted 10000 by his re-
cent publications on the Eastern question In accepting
the apology, Mr.. Gladstone expresses doubt whether
the whole Of his literary abos during the last 40 years
yielded the sum which the imaginative Dir Asnoury SCI
down as the profits Of couple OF pamphlets
The suicide of the Alsatian painter Marchal
caused good deal of sensation in the literary and artis
tic circles of Paris The deceased was on terms OF In
tmacy with some of the most distinguished literary men
Of the time, among them being NJ Alexandra dumas,
NJ Edmond About, and NM. Recommendation.
letter addressed by the departed painter to his
friend BrGbaut Just before his death runs as follows
"My sght is di5ordered When | want to paint or
design the object is doubled in manner almost imper-
ceptibe That is enough TO prevent me from dong any
thing It's kind of nervous trouble of the eye which
seems nothing but for painter 1T Is DEATH III now
about year since began to experience this torment,
which hoped would soon cease 1t becomes eternal.
have never breathed anything OF it to living soul,
even 10 my poor friend whom you know. What is the
of purposcess complaints 1t only troubles peope
have waited patiently but picture dealer IN distress
has failed mis- engagements to me- cannot withstand
so many accumulated blows and as ME deserts NE
must renOunce it. Adieu, then, my dear Paul"
The Parliamentary career Of Mr.. Layard, the
new British ambassador the Porte is recalled In The
London World which says: 4" 1t was in the debates OF
1854 and 1850 foreign policy anu the conduct OF
the Crimean war; that Mr. Layard first really distinguished
himself Having received overtures from Lord Derby III
1852 and having been in vain angled for with various
offers by the Coalition Cabinet he attacked with equal
freedom and severity both the Administration OF
Lord Aberdeen which he helped to throw out, ana
that of Lord PalmcrstOn, which followed IT,
Commenting on the depOrabe state of public affairs
in February 1865 Mr. Layard declared the new Ministry
merely presented the old men in different offices. What
the country he said, wanted, speaking in auson to
Lord PamerstOn was not septuagenarian experience,
but more of youthful activity and energy The best
parliamentary speech which Mr. Layard ever maze
was about two months after this, at dinner given
TO him in Liverpool when he criticised III very erect
i've and spirited fashion, the proposals made at the
Vienna Conference by Austria Certainly no man OF MS
day ever paid more attention TO Eastern politics. ana
il was the strength OF his convictions on THESE "cn
led 10 his quarrel with Lord Stratford de Reu-
clihc and retirement from the Legation at me
Porte i'm 1859 How he witnessed the Dattle OF INC
Alma from the maintOp OF the Agamemnon, he has nm
self described Mr. Layard's powers Of getting up any
subject arc unique. lie has mastered spanish ahalfs
Turkish affairs lie knows already aud his friends say
that during his official residence ut MadId he mas aued
to the instincts of politician some at least Oh the mall
ners desirable in an embassad0r'