New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-24
LONDON TOPICS.
NEW CONSERVATIVE WEEKLY ISSUED.

IApOUCHERE's PAPER-AMERICAN CHARITIES IN
pIsFAvoR-MR. BENNETT IN LONDON.
.-.o, ryE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRIBUNE
ToxpOS. Feb. 3-Still another weekly paper has
,,ode its appearance and this, l fear is one that
,onst be read. 1t has a mission, and it fills gap
II tarts off with the audaciOus assertion that there
is NJ present no weekly Conservative organ, and
,erk0as no pGper which represents Conservatism IN
rs latest phase. Hence London" Not a bad name.
certainly. We had all heard there was to be a new
Tory venture. and we all, most of u.s. assumed
that would be violent dull. and probably both.
Torvism has never taken kindly to journalism. Full
EMPLOYMENT for the brains of the party has been
found elsewhere. The party creed was contained in
the memorable remark which believe quoted the
a,her day but which will bear quoting again, of
hghly-placed parsonage, that he hated men OF
brains they were generally such cads. Dizziness for
generations has been certificate Of respectablity
snd of political orthodoxy But, 10! here is Tory
caDar starting all at once into life written with
r,deniabIe cleverness, readable from end to end,
and in parts positively brilliant. If were Tory
should read 1t with horror; for every form OF
mental activity must be- in the long rum deleterious
% Conservatism. Not being Tory, find 1t ex-
tremely amusing, and should like above all things
10 know who are the men who have hidden their
light so long under Tory bushel.
should you suppose anything new could be said
.bout Lord Beaconsfeld 7 Could YOU augur well of
apaper which opened its first number with so hack
ueyed a topic ? The paper being Tory, you know of
course that an article on the Tory leader must be
conventional and prosy and mdlscriminatey eulo-
oistic Wei. il is not any of the three. If it
has fault the fault is in being too epigrammatic
and dazzling It's clever author is too bent on shin
ING. and has put too much into his first article
The gentry AT the Carlton will no more see through
this shower of witticisms than through the Eastern
ouestion or the last acrostic and the tone of Its
op.uing sentences is simply revolutionary:
This the Age OF Commonplace. Sameness is the order
NJ the day Repression is the last word OF human tx
rereuce Tue spirit Of gresariousness las attained us
four supreme expression in Fashion Men and women
strive be much alike possible and the stream OF
hr rolls methodicai as hundred yards OF straw
plating from Luton
That sounds more like paragraph out of Roche
forts Iroifs de PHOmme than anything else. But it
is the prologue to a study Of ." him whom men call
Dizzy;" the back ground on which to paint his por
trait " In such days it is gratifying to behold
MAN. And you come at once upon note OF tolera-
ZION though in the shape of a sheer individuality
50 rare that it does good to meet It, eteH IN
Radical club rooms. Among the weak and
vooy entities who make shift to pass for rulers of
men and leaders of opinion this Man becomes inter
estingr must ask you to print Man with a capital
~ since so it printed here; and, if any pious soul
thinks il blasphemous, his indignation should be
discharged against the original offender, and not
against YOU or me- What degree of license may not be
expected from Tory who dares speak OF bis chef
as having made budgets and bishops with some
degree Of success - who does not fear to reproduce
the nigh forgotten nickname of the Hebrew hum
bug" which young DisraelTs first speech in Parha-
ment earned him; who laughs at his fantastic
raiment;" who invents for him fresh and
apt title, the Oriental Voltaire" who says
of him that che has craze for magnifcence
and splendor, for pomp of dicton, glory of furni-
ture. radiance of apparel if he had had to lay out
the universe. he would have shown a extraordin-
arv hberality in the matter of and stars ~ a
still higher flight of bOldness implied in the Obser
vation that Alroy" is one of the worst books ever
printed If Lord BeacOnsfed can bear that, he can
bear also to hear that his great weakness is a
urofound conviction that he can write sentimental
and impassiOned rhetoric. Ii is real pity that the
section of the Conservatives which would most enjoy
these hard things should be unable to appreciate
them. If the county member who rubs his eyes
over them and his afternoon tea at the Carlton
should doubt whether he is not reading a red-hot
Radical paper impudently disguised in Tory cOlOrs
he will be treasured little further The hatred
Of Mr.. Gladstone is genuine. " Most people, and
nearly all politicians, rat In their lives Mr..
Gladstone has rated but his is against nature
be began as an old maid, and is ending as an old
woman. and he need not be ciJed~ And there is
equally genuine party rancor in the remark that
Radcahsm is not strong IN attack unless the hight
takes place over a dungheap saving Frederick
Harrison its epigam is unsavory."
MOI a canon of Old-fashiOned journalism which
London does not break. and break with the kind OF
t1epressible animal spirits with which boy breaks
windows 1t has three or four savage attacks on
she Itmes and even on its editor by name. We are
assured in its salutatOry preamble that the reign of
the scandaous chronicler is happily over. On an
other page-by way Of proving that 1t Is oyer-we
read: Ii is almost too bad 70 be believed but 1t Is
nevertheless true, that lady well known IN Society
left her husband few days ago. and, in a note an
nouncing her Intentions coolly told HIM that she
had not gone away with any particular rival, but
that she was ambitious Of and meant at any cost to
obtain, distinguished place in the derni-monde.'
THIS may be true but has not the excuse of being
new. How wide the range of one mans antIpath!es
may be is shown by yeTsifed lampOOn OH Mr.. De-
lane, and another by the same hand Oh Mr.. William
Morris Should YOU still doubt whether the reign OF
the scandalOus chrOnicer be over read the very
spicy but bitter lines on the Countess OF three
sars, the first picture in new Gallery OF Falr
Women. The general plan of the paper Is not IN
Ike that Of its existing rivals, and much ingenuity
has been spent the Of its departments, pot
lncs cening under the title st. Stephens; finance
under that OF Cape Court (the headquarters OF STOCK
gambling, while gossip is 70 be found IN the WINS
pering Gallery and good deal Of miscellaneous and
critical matter with the suggestive label, Bohemia
Meantime Mr. Laboucheres Truth has got to It's
mn number, and is more Figaro-sh than ever. The
ujle which blr. Labouchere has given to his paper
would imply belief in something which IS, pre-
sumo the reason Why he chose it; for you might
Eagr in for any