New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-03
PERSONAL JOURNALISM.
THE sArIRIsTs OF TO-DAY.


| THE NEW TORY WEEKLY on TIE wAR-PATI-MR.
| DELASE OF TIE TINES AGAIN REMOVED BY THE
| Observation-Disclosures. GLADSTONE SHARPLY AS
| sAILED-TuE sCANDALoUS NOVEL NOT SUP
| PRESSED MIR. HOLYoAKE AND THE SECULAR RE-
VIEW.
| FRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRiBUSEI
LONDON, Feb. 16.-It was too good to last, and
ought to have known il. The light touch and the
| tone of easy good-naturc which distinguished the
| first number of London have already vanished. Num-
Der two was dull and number three is ill-tempered
Anim0sity is contacious the fcver-spot from which
the first issue was not free has spread, and London
thus RAPIDLY has fallen into the habit of violence
which is so curOusy characteristic of Tory papers
in general. Ii has a standing and personal quarrel
on hand with The lines aud its editor. What seemed
! only q spurt of irritation has become n rooted en-
nifty. The Times would not insert an advertisement
| of London which seems weak, but the complaint
about it is weaker still. Now We are told 1t Is ru-
mored on good authority that Mr. Deanc Is about to
| retire from The Times, and Mr.. Greenwood OF
The PdH MAJ gazette is to take his place. Upon this
| the comment is: g 1t is hardly TO be hoped that the
| DAYS of trimming platitudes and wIshy -washy nom
! sense which have discredited The Times are gone
| by, and that vigorous and masculine policy OF
common and patriotic foresight is To succeed
them" Not a country squire can take this as
true description of The Times, whom its worst enemy
never accused of wanting vigOr. AS to the rumor"
Of Mr. Delanes retirement that is doubtless just as
| tue as any one of the dozen similar rumorS that
| have previously been put into circulation and no
trucr Ii is bit of gossip which makes It's appear
| ance pretty regularly; generally when no other
! spicy personality happens to he thought OF. No two
men in Europe have been so often III in the news
papers, during the past two or three years as MI.
| Delane aud the Pope. ParagTaphists take turns
| Z. 1 4i.aD f.Ea 10 lex
and vice versa 1t certainly is not probable that Mr.
Greenwood Will take the place of either Of them
| when either rrtircs. I have doubt Mr. Green
! wood would make an excellent Pope, bat should
| be sorry to see him in Mr.. Delanes chair. The peg
| is in its proper hole with Mr. Greenwood as cdI-
! tor of Tie PQH NdH GG=ciie-a journal which occu-
! pics unique position. Ii filled vacancy. Mr.
| Greenwood was the first 10 perceive there was
| a vacancy, and the tact with which he
took and kept possession of il is proof enough that
| hc possesses very remarkable abilities. lie has eX-
| creased great influence over the classes whom he
cares to influence. He is mistaken in thinking that
they are in tie last resort the governing classes OF
! England. They reign. but they do not govern. But
! the authority which Tie ldH NdH Ga:Goo has ac-
CURED Was very difficult to acquire, for it Is an au-
| thority-or if that be TOO strong a word, an innu
! cnce ovcr-tho opinions of very critical, even
| cynical set Of men and women; many of them cul-
! tivated and familiar with affairs So delicate are
| the conditions Of journalism, however, that If Is
probable this paper could never have succeeded had
! it not been an evening paper It's morning expert
! mcut was n complete failure, and don't know a
better lesson that could be- set 10 student OF jour
| naiisn than to compare those two papers when they
appeared twice day, and examine The causes OF the
success of and the failure of the other II does
not follow that Mr.. Greenwood would wreck The
| I. i4 tirIn nj
! NQH gazette afoat. But there are plenty OF other
reasons why he ought not to make the attempt, and
why he is not likely 10 b. asked TO make it. The
one in which the nublic has most interest IL the fact
| that he is now as | SAID, in lis ri2ht place, aud
ough; 10 be kept there. The IaH patL Gd>ettc gives
| neatly perfect reflection of the great capacities,
| strong mcudicics and quite unlimited seiiishncss of
the elias SEES of society occupying tho highest social
! position in England. But the praises bestowed Oh
| it, by implication, in Lond0a, are awkward.
policy of common and patriotic foresight is by
40 means the dillercntathg quality of The IdU
| U0H gazette.
| 1t is r,ally painful 10 see how much mere abuse
| there is in this one number Of the new Tory weekly
abuse Of Mr. Gladstone, abuse of Sir illiam llr
court abuse Of Sir George Campbell, abuse of the
| luke Of Argyll abuse of Cardinal Manning. TO
| Nh. Gladstone a whole article is devoted, with
! cl.ycrncss cuough to have been effective had the
abuse bccu lief. ont. 1t is natural that u Tory paper
I should seek t. diminish the influence of a Liberal
| leader But viii ans body think the worse of Mr..
! Gladstone for hearing Lin described Is Il Burke in
caiye'fo1: icy or as a wat rspout in shirt collars
and pot half Does il convey al idea to say that
! he las usurpcd the throne long cLanted without
rivalr, ly the Irreprcssible Ni9geri There Is more
| wiz in the comparison between Irving and Glad
, stone: The man at the Lycoum is a comedian of
/ the finest parts, rising higher occasion than most
men, and sinking lower than all artists moment
| af .crWaTd; tho man of st. Stephens fills the deep
domed cmpyIean with the might Of his OratOry,
passes from apJtAe0sis TO apOtheosis i'll successive
votes on budget but he cannot keep his legs from
country platforms nor lis Handwriting from country
| post-onices And it is amusing enough for
encny-to say chat Mr.. Gladstone, far from being
now the Peoples William, is not Evcrybody's
| Bill" But does it make anybody smile to speak of
! Mr.. Gladstone and Cardinal Manning as those two
dear old women u. The nan who by general
sent, has risen most rapidly and surely of late in
| political life is Sir William liarcourt. Is 1t any,
| thing but personal dislike which dictates the re-
mark that " Sir William has long tried in vain to
write and roar himself into conspicuous place ?"
! From VI. Lab0nchcIc, on the other hand, have
this ecdotc: - What I want said the late Mr..
Disraoh, when he angicd for SIR William lIarcourt,
| els a man who wind up debate just before the
division is cdllcdp To return to London. Sir George
! Campbell is held up to Tory scorn as bore, Of nn
comfortable exterior aud harsh nasal tones, guo-
rant and an nquistive busybody. By way of con-
trast suppose, the public invited to admire the
'maturcd bcauy" of Lady Granville and the
! Duchess Of Manchester, and Lord Granville is said
to have fairly won the title of the First Gentle
man of England | don't know what Lord Gran