New-York tribune., 1877-08-04

diction i'm which il abounds. And 10 rs marked py -
pccnliarirg which becomes ludicFous from mere eA
cess. tn, speech fills about two columns III prin''
and IN the course of il Lord Braconsfed uses tue
phrase Nv Lords exactly thirty-nine times ms
is perhaps an example of that Oriental taste LOT
rhetorical pomp which disfgures so much oi MS
writing and speaking or perhaps il arises merely
from the novelty of hs position. When hc has been
another year or two the Upper House. he WI" TO.
Wy Lord his fellow peers so much IN Ear o'
Derby. who spoke shortly after, employed ms ior"
of address but once though his speech was nearly
half as long as Lord BeaconsiielPs
Ii is remarkable what pert flavor an ackho"i
edged PIN lse-maker give to a stale epig'an
Lori Beaconsfed declared he could not get per
son in the stationery business to take the Control
lership. Il shonld have had to appoint some per
son who had retired from business. or some person
from whom business had retircd.' This veteran
ioke if Joke it be- seems to have quite carried away
the House and has been quoted eyeryw lere SINCE as
if II settled the question Lord B aconseld himself
was so pleased with il that he repeated 1t, IN one
form or another three times turning into rdcnle
the recommendation of the Select Commltteei s"s
costing at one time that 1t involved the appoint
ment of a decayed stat0scr," and at another time
that was really impossible to put into such place
" a retired or unfortunate tradesman."
Ouc Of the weekly gossips quotes a member o1 the
limited States Legation i'm Paris-name not given
n saving of Paul Cassagnac, " Sir If CaSsaguac had
been in our country. should have gore Tor MN
long ago. II we had, we should have done very
foolish thing. Paul Cassagnac deserves to snare
with The Due de Broge the name which hunting
ton bestowed on the latter, Second Father oi the
public" His brutality and violence MS open
contempt for the popular verdict to when ne -
always pretending 10 appeal, his advice 10 tue MAT
sha to dismiss the new Chamber if 1t does not SUIT
him. his volleys of insult, addressed to most OF the
respectable men in France-thesc, and many other
performances of Pauls. are of klnd TO make daily
converts to the Republic aud cntle hIm to the sin-
cere gratitude of all true friends of France Inc
Republicans ought to vote hin a pension.
Ills said on the same authority, that Mr. Hep
worth Dixon is shortly to publish new work on
Lord Bacon and that he IS going in for the Bacohah
authorship of Shakespeare's plays. That IS as good
"A craze as another, aud peculiarly well adapted 10
be maintained by the method Mr.. Hepworth Dixon
has invented for the treatment of historical SUD
iocts. It is only to be hoped that nobody Will an
swcr nim Has not Mr.. George Wilkes demolished
thl, so-caled theory 1t is one of those whlms
which can ouly be kept alive by people who think II
worth attacking. Mr.. DiXOns performance, II let
alone. will 20 to Join his American and Russian and
Englishromaaces in some limbo OF their own
Among your many English visitors this year you
will have no one more distinguished than Slr Joseph
Hooker President of the Royal society of Great
Britain. aud director of the Botanical Gardens at
Kew, which he has made the most perfect as thry
are, suppose the most famous IN the world lie
,,oes ont mainly hear for botanical tour with
Prof. Asa Gray. of Cambridge But you VIII hardly
let slip the opportunity of welcominga a man whose
scientific titles to respect numerous and so Ia
milar to you. and whose personal qualities ms
Eng,isb frieud>-Nr Darwin and Prof Huxley, for
cxample-speak Of with enthusiasm and deep alice
tion IT, W. .