New-York tribune., 1877-07-10
ANGLO-AMERICAN TOPICS.
GEN. GRANT AND MR.. GARRISON.

GREET REMARKS.
lPRos TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIDUNE.l
LONDON, June 2S.-Gen. Grants public perform
ances-if he Will pardon word that smells of the
turf-have been few this week. lie made "A speech,
very good of ITS kind at the Trinity House banquet
last Saturday. What the Prince of Wales then said
about him, and what Earl Carnarvon said was
extremely cordial in tome like all tho hin - that
said in after-dinner speeches. need not repeat
that Gen. Grant is gratiiicd by these con-
tnued proofs Of goodwill to himself and his
country. He never loses an opportunity to say so, In
public or private. The papers here-I know not how
IT may be with youare merciful, and do not report
his strictly private movements. They don't think
1t necessary to publish the fact that he goes
into the Cty-the CITY means the business
part of London--in the morning with Gen. Badeau,
and strols quietly about wondering at the soldity
and spendor which 80 be seen all around him.
He has by means mastered all its ntricacies; the
man who found his way Without mistake through
the dense forests of the Wilderness in Virginia, and
drew up his own orders of the day directing the
march Of each corps sometimes gets lost in the laby
rinth of city lanes which radiate from the Bank.
But he turns up all right for luncheon at quiet
restaurant with his old friend Gen. Badeau, and l
doubt whether he does not enjoy this part OF his
London life quite ~ much as the drums and dinners
and garden parties and crowded receptions, which
he makes it duty to attend. He has ,een heard to
remark that the dinners are generally composed of
the dishes, aud the evening parties OF the same
guests perhaps polite way of saying that they are
slightly monotonous and that the everlasting repeti-
ton of them does in the end pail slightly upon the
wearicd mind. But this is conjecture.
An exception may have been found in the visit
to Windsor. He there the Queen for the first
time, | suppose, and sat down TO dinner in a circle
,ei, lus. val of Of
sentatiyes and household retamers Of royalty. have
heard some details of his reception which however
Will omit. understand That Gen. Grant considers
this visit private one, and that good taste iorbds
more to be said of it than has been printed already
i'll the newspapers here. |, on my part, an quite
willing to acquiesce in his view. The same rule
would prohibit anything more than the bare
enumeration of the other visits Inc has made u other
private houses Snd this you have already had. 1t
would be safe to assume that the stately magnih-
cence Of Windsor Castle made its due impression Oh
the stern old soldier, ana that he admired perhaps
even admired enthusiastically, the grand avenues
and the broad eXpanse OF hill and dale and water
which make up that incompatible paIk.
Mr.. Labouchere informs the British public that the
'seiect circle" invited to meet Gem Grant after his
dinner with the Prince of Wales ut Mr.. PierrepontS
the other evening was so vory select that not a sin
Gle American was Lidden, "noJ even the Golden
sphynxD DO not know no tie Golden SphynX is.
at first sgntn continues Mr.. Labouchere, who is
something of an authority i'm such matters, lit GER
tainly seems strange that the American Minister
should exclude Americans from party given at the
American legation" He finds, however, an excuse
for Mr. Peuepont in the fact that the American coll
ony in London is unusually numerous and thinks 1t
would have been an inyidous task to select the
wheat from the tares, ESPECIALLY when the crop
of one OF them at all events is large" But should
YOU be surprised to hear that all the Americans III
London together are represented by less than 800
cards at the Legationl Mr. Labouchere tells other
stories about Gen. Grant and Mrs Grant but they
have sort of kitchen flavor about them which
seems to make their republication undesirable.
A breakfast was gwen to Mr. Garrison on Tuesday
by the Anti-slavery Society," at the Devonshire
House Hotel, wherever that NAV be-somewhere in
the city, believe. A number of member rs of Par
lament assisted but the only man of real dstinc-
lion among them was Mr.. Forster. Mr.. Garrison
made speech into which, if the brief reports OF 1t
in the papers may BIZ trusted, he contryed to con-
dense good deal of unwsdom. Gen. Grant will be
pleased to hear that, Ill Mr. Gaulsons opinion. he
guided the affairs Of the country for eight years
with wonderful skin. Mr.. Garrison ought 10 have a
seat by the side of Mr.. Newton Crane that fine
towering American Consul who lately as
sur,d British audience that Gen. Grant
had given q brighter uster to the Presidency than
Washington OF Lincoln. But presume MI. Carl
sons opinions known TO you so far as you care to
know them. Whatever he may choose to say Mt home
is one thing, but it is painful to Il man whose
career was until lately, an honorable one, tellnga
British audience that President Hayes has yielded"
to the South He is reported also to have said that
the South would carry the next election by buying
Indiana Remarks of that sort might well be kept
for home consumption, but Mr. Garrison seems to
think that abuse of his countrylnen who differ
from him in political views is just as appropriate AT
an anti-slayery meeting IN London as at an anti
slavery meeting III Boston-just as timely after the
abolition of slavery as before.
Mr. Forster said he had been asked in New Orleans
if the elections were not conducted there with as
much order as i'm England. Yes" he replied, but
even in our wretched old country, we could manage
10 keep order with thirteen companies of infantry IN
the city and five ships of war on the river" lie
made point by adding that in the building then used
as court house the troops were negroes, with negro
officers and that they stood in the very room where
before the war negroes were sold by auction. He
would rather those troops there he SAID than see
the public sale of women and children. Mr.. Forster
is reported as expressing an opinion that If the adj
vice of Mr. Garrison and his party had been taken
wears ago. the war with the South might have been
avoided The remark is less philosophical than
some other remarks which have been heard from the
same lips.
Mr. Garrison's visit TO this country, he said, was
visit in search of health and it would perhaps be
charitable to pass IN silence the speeches of an in
valid. Unhappily, they are made public by him or
his friends, and it is impossible not to regret the
spirit of hatred and bitterness toward the South
which breathes in them. When MIR. Garrison refers