New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-17
GEN. GRANT IN LONDON.

[FRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
LONDoN, July ten. Grant himsclf-who must
by this time rank as an expert in such maters-pro-
nounces his dinner With Mr.. John Russell Young OF
The Aeic- York HGdM at the Grosvenor Hotel on FRI
day. one of the most enjoyable among the many
given him in London. 1t has been said that Gen.
Grant cherished no great affection for journalists as
journalists yet the exceptional feature OF Mr.
Youngs dinner was the fact that most Of the guests
were journalists. Perhaps it is only American jour
nalists whom Gen. Grant does not like. Nearly all
the newspaper men present on Friday were, nat
urally enough. Englishmen. You will hardly find
their names mentioned in any English paper so
close is the veil which English journalism delights
to throw around the individuals who make 1t their
profession. | hope 10 great harm will be done II |
lift a of the veil, and give you glimpse OF
some of the men who help TO govern Great Britain.
could not begin with name less known or more
worthy of being known than that of Thomas Wal
ker. some time editor of The Daily News. Possibly
he is better known in America Chan here. If fame
depended solid service done, his fame ought to be
a wide one in America He it was who put that
powerful journal side in 1861, and kept II
there through the long period of disaster and
encouragement which saw almost every other
London paper steadily defending the cause of Rebel
lion. Ibis act Mr.. Walker did against influences
men-against even the remOnstrdnces of the owners
of The DAILY Necs who feared peril to their property
from the policy il supported We can't afford to for
get a man who rsked and endured so much for us.
Gen. Grant did not forget it, | am glad to say, but
when Mr. Walker was presented to him. greeted him
with n warmth he does not always display. For
similar reasons something of the Generals
usual reserve disappeared when he shook
hands with Mr.. Frank Hill, the present ed
itor of the paper, who has kept it
true to its old traditions of friendship with
America. have had to mention Mr.. Frank Hill
now and then-Once the author of that volume
of Political Portraits which is one of the most
brilliant of modern contributions to political tera-
ure HIS is the no less brilliant and solid paper in
the last FortnighHy on the Due de Broglie Not far
off sat Mr. Robinson, the manager of the same paper,
to whose energy and genius for news-gathering 50
much of its recent commercial success is due Other
contributors to this great journal present. Mr..
Fraser Rae who you know in America excellent
writer, and who has published books in other de-
partmcnts Mr. Pigott, a leader-writer. now
Censor of PLAYS in the Lord Chamberain's Office
Mr. Lucy, who does its Parliamentary summary
every night, who wrote the famous Under the
Clock" series for The World (LOndon), and who Is
now the editor of weekly paper set up as rival
to that and known as NGRfdir-a very readable col
lection of chat, and of things better than chat.
The Times was represented by Mr.. Macdonald, its
business manager for twenty years, and news man
ager also since the death of Mr.. Mowbray Morris.
TO say that a man has held such position as that
on the leading Journal OF the world for such length
of time is eulogy enOugh-not that mean TO occupy
myself with eul0gy-ma<ing on him or anybody else
HIS colleague, Mr. Stebbng, is younger man,
whose work lies III the editorial wing of the paper
if so much may be said without seeking to penetrate
the profound mystery which envelopes the whole
of that part of establishment. Later in the
evening came Mr.. Macdonell, Times leader-writer.
known in newspaper circles for the finish and ac-
curacy of his work. Opposite Mr.. Frank HILL the
editor of The Daily Ners, sat Mr.. Frederick Green
wood, the editor Of The Pdtt Nal Gazette opposed
in almost every and on an almost every ques-
ton of public policy OF Mr.. Greenwood, too, have
rather lately been writing with as much freedom as
| ought, more and of him, to, it may be
said that his successes in making The FGu MdU
Gazette what it is, is one of the conspcu-
Gus facts in modern journalism. Mr.. Trail Of
the same paper is a of letters student of 9TH
er literatures beside English whose recent article
on Paul Louis Courier hope every American jour
nalist read. Tie Daily Telegraph is present in TIE
person of Mr. Sala its most versatile and popular
correspondent, and the writer of its social and many
other articles Mr. Edward D.cey was once, and
perhaps still is, a contributor to that journal but is
now editor in his own right Of The Obscrrer, the
Sunday paper which ranks by ITS ability aud enter
prise with the dailies Of London an old paper to
which Mr. Dicey has brought fresh power and talent
enough to give it of late years more important po-
sition than it ever had before. lie, too, Is known
IN America by his own services, and by the fact of
having married one of the most beautiful and ac-
complshed of American women Mr. Edmund
Yates you know, also novelist and journalist,
editor of The gorld which was the first and is still
the most widely circulated, and one of the most
readable of what | have taken the liberty TO call
Boulevard weekes
NV catalogue is already long one, but dare say
have omitted some names, and must at any rate
include three American journalists who were
present: Mr.. Conway, Of whom we are all proud;
Mr. William Winter, your graceful dramatic critic,
and Mr.. Chamberlain, the promising son of the
veteran writer who was so long Mr.. Greeey's per-
sonal friend and political opponent Among guests
who do not belong to the profession were the Minis
ter of the United States, and next to hn Mon
signor Capel, dark faced man whom, being born
Puritan | set down as having the face of a Jesuit
(which | believe he isl, but genial and cultivated
man. renowned IN London as n capital talker Mr..
Roscoe Conklng attracts general attention, his per-
sonal gifts and bearing being at least as conspicuous
in an English as in an American assembly. Next
Gen Grant, who sits Mr. Young's right, came Sir
Joseph Fayrer an Anglo-lEdian of twenty-five years
experience, who showed perhaps equal courage in
the immortal defense of Lucknow and in forbdIing
the Prince of Wales to 20 to Madras lie was the
Princes physician. ! use the word "forbdding,"
but what happened was this: The Prince most
eager to go; there was cholera, and it was not pru
dent he should go; there the certainty that his
presence would attract an immense crowd, amidst