New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-14
ANGLO-AMERICAN TOPICS.

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! lFKoA THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBUSE.l
LONDON, Aug 1.-The death of Mr. Ward Hunt,
late First Lord Of the Admiralty has called forth
expressions Of regret and Of respect which might
surprise him If he could read them In his life time
he was more often spoken of loosely than reveren-
tialy not az all with contempt, but with kind Of
good-humored liking which implied no exalted notion
Of his intellectual powers. His physical bulk was
So prodigiOu that t required an effort 10 admit that
his brain could be big in proportion But it is need
less to say that he had good abilities as ne would
never have risen ~ he did rise IN political life 1t
may, however. be permissible to remark that his pro-
motion might have been less rapid had no
been Lberal-a supposition which would have
shocked him. He an intense Tory Whatever
policy the party leaders resolved he received
revelation, and he became its enthusiastic and un-
| questioning apostle. tie was not a good speaker;
indeed, he would have passed IN most countries for
dull speaker; but the young Tories liked nothing
/ better IN the midst of hot debate than 10 see
Mr. Speakers eye caught by the ponderous form of
| DIR. Ward Hunt slowly rising from the front bench.
10 strangers he was always pointed out as one of
/ tire sights Of the House l don't that the
Tories liked him solely because he was Of such hugo
size. but mainly because he was such thorough
| Tory-safe to go az far as the party went
aud no further. 1t is to be said to his credit
that no generally filled his Office better than he was
expected to, and not worse. He dld great thing
a. Chancellor of the Exchequer but he was pretty
clcar-headed and very Woodworking. As Parliamen
tary mead Of the Navy, he has Rad = rough time Of
/ it. Every FIRST Lord has a rough tiIno of it
/ partly, suppose because every Brit0n knows him-
self born to rule the waves, and feels bound to be
critic Of ships and ship-buiders. FIRST Lord must
carry on an incessant struggle with his professional
colleagues, with the naval constructor, with the
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the opposition and with nearly everybody who owns
yacht, or knovs dyingjib-boom when ~ sees it.
/ Mr.. Ward Hunts administration has not been
/ brilliant fortunate. but it has been a.
good as he knew how 10 make it, and Ae has killed
himself in trying to make it better To the ist Of
/ his enemies given above must be added the govt.
| lie endured torment from it, worked in spite OF 1t
! would not quit work even at Hamburg, where ho
had been ordered for rest and yielded IN the end
/ TO an accumulation of burdens greater than flesh
| could bear. Died in harness which he would not
/ put off; died bccause he would not put it Of. \
/ man ght have a worse epitaph chan that. Il
His post has, II is believed been offered 70 the
Duke Of Somerset, who has every qualification for
the place, except that he was Liberal or, at
/ least Wing He was Lord PaimerstOns Naval
/ Minister from 1859 to $3.50, and has held many
| other Offices. But he is, above all, free lance,
critic, and, his enemies say, loves mischief He has
! long been more in sympathy with the Tories than
! with the Liberals and he made of the btterest
attacks ever made on Mr. Gladstone. Lord Beacons-
/ field would be only too happy to attach him con-
spicuously 10 bis own party. A. q debater he ranks
very high except that when he rises there Is always
q good deal of doubt whether he will do more dam
age To his friends or to his opponents. Very likely
the Evangelical party, or whatever may be Che most
pious party the church. viii object 90 him as being
I ltff,La rshed A hook
which discussed very freely indeed some fundament-
al questions of Sious belief But he sa Duke, and
a degree ~ license is permitted to a Duke which a
less favored mortal might expect in vain. Mr. Ga
thorne Hardy urged strongly for the place; beyond
comparison the most popular Tory in tie House
most popular among the Tories themselves. lie Is
War Minister, and the Horse Guards would be ex-
ceedingy glad TO See him transferred 10 the Admi-
Iaty and more pliable man put IN his place. The
new scheme of retirement for old officers has made
him a fresh batch of enemies all the superannuated
Generals and Colonel5 who are shelyed being -
might be expected, friends. Mr. Hardys claims are
urged by the chief organ Of Torysm IL
the press which blurts ont the dissatisfaction Of lbs
supporters at the suggestion of such man /
as tho Duke of Somerset for such a post !
The Tories are like your Democrats IN one thing
They keep the good things for the old soldiers; not
for recruits There is undoubtedly a strong feeling
that the new Irish Lord should be member OF the |
House of Commons which may seem contradic- /
Ia terms but is not. 1t is long since any Cabinet /
has contained large a proportion of PeorS as the /
present: not since 1861. think, and 1t was NJ. |
D.racli himself as his friends kindly remind |
him who criticised that Cabinet very sharply on /
acrount Of the prepOnderance Of Peers IN H. Bat l
will do Lord Beaconsied tine justice 20 say that he
cares little rs any man what Mr. DIsrarH may
have said in times past. He will do what suits HIM
now, whatever he may have thought OF SAID thir-
teen years ago. William II. smith, NJ. T., was APP
pointed to succeed Sir. Ward Hunt, Aug o.-EdI
A boulevard weekly, with a particular knowledge
of Americans and America, tolls us that MI Sanuel
j. Tden Is now in London, and that on TUESDAY
nigbt he was "rcceycd at dinner by Lord Hough-
ton" The future historian viii be misied II he
trusts either statement Mr.. Tilden is not in Lon
dom and f)rti0ri did not dine with Lord Houghton
in Arlington-st ON Tuesday The boulevard weekly
so, b mist be regarded as the fought to be" Prcsi
dent Of the United States. Perhaps also he ought
- he in London but in fact he preferred 10 land at
Queenstown and visit tho lakes Of Killarney
Whether he branched Oft TO Castle Blarney or not,
lido not know His plans were not settled when he
,ritted AZ Queenstown the slow Cunarder which
brourht him across the ocean. Slow Cunarder Is,
bovevor a pleonastic expression; Cunarler would |
,ptfv inst the same thing He was to see Killarney,
t,e ever bsaufiful 70 thence to DubiI and thence
,,,silly 10 Belfast and TO Glasgow, OF possibly
direct from Dublin to London. He does not seed to
he in any great hurry 10 meet with that hearty re-
ceptiou which the boulevard gO5sip-monger promises
him on the strength of majority Of over halt |
million of the popular vote and majority Oh the
STATES (.cl also il fair play had been allowed to
nrevatlr IL Is however, true that he was e1- |