New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-30
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TOWN TALK IN LONDON.
THE FISHERIES, LoRNE, LEIGHTON.

on the Fishery dispute, its happy termination
making long Story superlluOus. There has been,
| indeed, during the week good deal of that kind OF
talk IN the English newspapers which American
newspapers sometimes speak of as tall. Some OF
them have proved to their own satisfaction that Mr.
! Evarts's dispatch was both unreasonable and
unreasonable Lord Salisbury, meantime, has
| conceded the essence of Mr.. Evariss claim
! that any regulations imposed upon American
fishermen in Newfoundland must be settled 10y JOINT
convention and not imposed by local legislature.
The fine writing, therefore, has been thrown away,
and that majestic animal, the British lion, has
wagged his tail to no purpose. Nothing would be
gained BY going the ground again. Ii Is hardly
worth while even to remark that The Saturday Re
rieC to-day surpasses itself in the fluent ignorance
which il brings to the handling of Che question. If,
however, matter of curiosity, you Will read me
SATURDAYS article, and underscOre each mistake ana
misstatement with your pencil your paper VIII
have very speckled appearance when you are DONE
IL you should it in this condition 10 the compos
ing-roOm. there wOuld be an immediate demand tot
IA fresh supply of italic type. But nothing can be
wondered at in this periodical since it held an cleo
ton in Massachusetts, last September. and chose
General Butler Governor We heard yesterday
that the Government at Washington is going to pay
the award, as it ought, without further ado, and
The decision puts our best friends IN good spirits.
and IS worth more to our credit and character than
the most conclusive proof Of the extravaganza and
Injustice of the award itself Mr.. Evarls's dispatch
on this part Of the business has not been published
That oH the Fortune Bay matter has been much
praised for ITS ability and moderation.
Lord Lornes departure has been signaliZed by tho
usual municipal sOemnlties at Liverpool. His own
speech in reply to the address presented him was a
gratifying improvement on his parting discourse TO
his former constituents III Argyllshire. They say
he is cold and unlikely to win the sort OF aifec-
tomato goodwill which Lord Duiferin excited
among the Canadians. 1t may be so; Dut
it must be remembered that he has held
difficult position ever since he married
the Queens daughter. 1t might be called an i'm
possible POSITION Now, for the first time, he has
chance TO show what is in him. 1t is 10 secret that
| the Princess goes with reluctance; nor ought the
Canadians to resent it, Not that she or her friends
doubt her fitness for the duties OF her new place.
! Our neighbors will good a specimen OF
Princess as England, or Europe, could furnish she
| has both distinction of manner and charm OF
manner and will adOrn ayice-regal thrUne-It there
! be such a thing--as few of her own family have
DONE Her sisters are remarkable for many virtues
and excellent points of character but not for those
! traits which lend grace and perfume to royal STA
! ton Probably the Canadians will find ont that
tbare are two Prncesses one all dignity and state
! illness: the other n woman of unusual gllts, OF
various culture, of a nature at once artistic and
sympathetic. The latter is not unnaturally 10th to
leave London; where her tastes have for many
wears found every means of development;
| where pictures and concerts and social life
| have offered her with full hands all she
cared for most. There can hardly be as much
of that in Toronto or Quebec don't know whether
the English papers have yentured to say So but the
truth is that the midnight scene at the Midland
Station on her departure of the saddest. Late
as the hour was, not few of the Princess friends
had assembled to say goodbye and she cried freely
as she shook hands with one and another should
think the mention of the fact mpertnent and 0Dtru'
sive were it not that it ought to win for her some
of the sympathy which surrounded her here. She
might have laughed few hours later, If she had
known that the mayor of a provincial town through
which she passed was waiting for her on the plat
form in his official robes, address in hand. But it
was 3 o'clock in the morning; the Princess and her
marty were fast asleep in their Pullman car. and the
MAYOR had 20 roll mp his address, pull eli his robes,
! and retire discounted. No doubt the local paper
printed the speech he would have made.
! II is safe to say that the Princess heard with
Measure of Nh Leighton's election President of
| the ROYAL Academy. He has long bccn-l hope
austere Republicans will not think the worse OF
| hm--a persona grdG at Court But that is nothing.
The whole world of English art has cause to reJoIce,
and most of il does rejoice. The opposition to Mr..
Leighton on the part Of conservative Academlclans,
! or which So much has been heard dwiudied away
when the decisive day came. He choSenpreSldent
| nv thirty-fve votes to five the whole body of
members being present Therswas no preliminary
| ballot. The process known as scratching began
with one mark for Mr. Millais and fodr for Mr..
Uorsley. when the latter rose and asked that no
more support might be given 10 him, as he himself
! meant 10 vote Tor Mr.. Leighton. Tins graceful
! withdrawal by Mr. Lclghtous plnclpaI COMPETITOR
| settled the question. Every other Vote was cast
| for Mr. Leighton. and he viii speedily have the APP
proyal of the Queen which 1t is the custom to ask
! ana his kuiChthu0d. equally custom, VIII follow
! in dur course We shall hear little more OF Mr.,
/ Frederick Leighton. He will disappear from the
! scene and Sir Frederick leighton will take his
! place.
1t is nothing 20 say that the choice of Mr.. Leigh
| ron il popular. From the moment of Sir Francis
Grants death he was marked out for the succession
! by the almost unanimous voice of the public which
! cares for art or the Academy. That there should
have been for time doubt about his election only
| moves how much out of gear the Academy has
! got with the public which II depends
! for its existence. However, tue moment when 1t
! has proved dOce to public opinion Is not the mo-
ment for insisting its previous stubbornness. l
have talked with men who belong to the most vari-
! ons schools of art-bclef and practicc-to critics
and painters and buyers of pictures, and many
Others whose interest in art is profound without
| being professional. Among them all never heard
a voice raised in defence OF the candldatures
opposed to Mr.. LeightOns. Such there were,
of course, but they represented, so far as can
find out, nothing but the umidity of men who dread
the reforms on which Mr. Leighton is believed to
he bent. or perhaps, IN some cases, those personal
iealousies which are not always absent from the
nure regions IN which art delights, or should de-