New-York tribune., 1879-01-20
ANGLO-AMERICAN TOPICS.
GENERAL GRANT IN IRELAND.

! ICAL PAINTING.
FROM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUSE.l
! LONDON, Jan. 4.-Geueral Grant slipped through
/ London IN the darkness and fog of Thursday even
! ing, on his way from Paris to Dublin. Considerable
efforts have been made to give ccat to his Irish
visit. IL has been announced for some time in adj
vance. Ingenious paragraphs-more ingenious than
! accurate-have been dispersed among the English
papers. One society journal had a column of them.
/ for the most part of an imaginative kind,
/ highly colored. 1t has been publicly stated, and
repeated over and again. that the United states
Minister 10 England would accompany General
Grant TO Ireland. A. he did not il Is now SAID that
il was his attack of bronchitis which prevented Mr..
! Welsh from making part of General Grants suite.
/ But the truth is that NJ. Welsh never promised TO
90, nor had the least intention of going, and the
statements about hun had no foundation whatever.
The General has, however. one Minister, his fellow
} warrior, General Noyes and the COnsul-Ceneral to
England, in attendance upon him. He-has also the
very versatile and fertile journalist who has acted
as sort Of civil and political ade-de-camp in his
recent journeys, and who works the press for him
/ with untlrng energy.
If the object Of this Irish visit be to promote Cen
eral Grant popularity among Irsh voters in Amer
lea, It will require a good deal of skilful yarnish.
The Dublin reception has been. official civIlitics
/ 'cpt'h, very colt lle DHDHn COTccpndtulH OF
/ the London papers, whose kilograms are published
thismorning, leave no doubt on that point " Cen
eral Grant IS not popular in Dublin" says one of
/ them bluntly. At the City Hal, says another,
there was a considerable crowd but no cheering"
On his landing d" there was not a solitary shout of
| welcome; there was not even crowd and so on.
There was no military display; " no guard of honor,
not a corporaps guard of volunteers" The
/ Lord Mayor drove him about TO what lie thought
places Of interest but they failed To interest Gen
eral Grant. Even the literary treasures exhibited
To hIm reused 10 enthusiasm IN his martial heart,
or no display Of il for it is hard 10 say what
/ wOntUd fires may not have been burning beneath
/ the surface. The rooms where once sat the Irish
/ House of Lords and the Irish House Of Commons
were visited but the General preserved the same
! icy indifference. He looked on them as If he had
never heard Of an Irish House of Commons. At the
City Hall, the freedom of Dublin was presented to
him with the usual ceremonies. General Grant then
made this speech:
Ny Lord Mayor. Gentlemen OF the Town Council OF
Dublin. Ladies and Gentlemen: feel very proud 70 be
made cuzen Of the great city which yOu represent,
and TO De rl OW-cltlZru with those whom around
! ne to-day. Hear. hear since my arrival tuls
side oI the Atlantic have had the pleasure OF oclng
made q cItlZeu OF quite number ~ towns and cities,
bur nothing has gwen more pleasure than tO be- a
cIuzen Of the principal city OF Ireland. Hear hear
am DJ bIth clt|eh oil country "herc mere are more
freshmen, either native born or the Descendants %
have therefore. had the honor and pleasure repre-
senting more lrishmen and descendant when IN
anri l o fhc eIoienre ~ r6n- Lord MaT0r sna saw
no more than simply thank you. lAppause
/ Later in the day there was a banquet at the Man
sion House. 10 the health OF the President of the
United States General Moves responded that the
President was hardly personality. He added that
tncy were always ready to welcome Irishmen in
America as practical men. He remarked casually
/ 10 ttafr to
traits or engage in he eegance- Of life; their dutles
were to level forests bridge rivers to bind con-
tinents together with telegraphs to delve into the
reccsscs of hills, To the magic wand and call
from the earth thousand towns and cities the busy
hum Of whose industries should form the music 10
which the prosperity and happiness of tie whole
world should move In America they meant to be
honest
This brilliant burst Of genuine eloquence reused
General Grant. In response to his own health he
made what is perhaps the most remarkable among
his many remarkable public addresses. | quote
what appears to be a verbatim report from Tie
lines. General Grant said:
Citizens: | SAID there was no saving with whom
might nto tition-periiaps for the office Of
Mayor perhaps for thar Of their reurescntayc IN
Parliament; nut not both an once IN my country be-
FORE uatural!zed In another. they have for some
years D,gh suneLnS VIZ "F4 c0 n mere %
poverty The civilized world feels also. In Ireland you
and great Msffrtu"tS IN America thry are gchg their
bonds aud promises pay; but they producing be-
yond real wants Of the world. But while you
getting fairly rO,perous, America j, getting very poor
though they honest. President Hayes. IN ms mes
Amerca and Lord Beacon-ied. Of the most far
seeing Of the age, has sand that American prosperity
evening Of European prosperity ana not merely OF Irish
prosperity. Hear, hear TINS is the longest speech
and il is not Isely viii 30 but perhaps The
looking Mr. Butt that has lu'p :rd me Hear near
Some newspaper admlrcr has compared Cen
eral Grant this week 10 the Duke of
wellington. But there is no aft'r-inner Of the
Dukes which can be lkened to this. and the COM
parison is clearly unjust to General Grant lis
perhaps pity that it could not have been made IN
season TO come to the knowledge Of the Cork
Corporation. lt might have softened their
hearts, had they understood how genial the
General could De, on occasion. Unhdppily
hi~ message announcing that lie proposed 10 visit
Cork was received and discussed on the very day Of
the speech. II sad TO have to say that the worthy
aldermen and c0uncilmen rejected motion to give
a public reception to him. But it can hardly be
true that General Grant means "a IL alleged, To
abandon his proposed visit on that account. He
surely was not going to Cork simply in order to en-
joy the Official hospltalites of the town. He was
going in order to inform his mind and enlarge his
experience. he wanted to the Irish IN their
homes, 10 shake hands with the men Of Minister a
their own capital to take i message from them VIA
Japan to their feow-countrymon IN the STATES.
He would have been able to deliver 1t just IN time
for the next Presidential nomination, and hope
tie Cor aldermen not toibe allowed 10 interfere
with that
It's pleasure 10 be able to say hat Mr. Welsh
is completely recovered from his attack of bron-
cLltls He has been confined to his house nearly a
month and for most Of the time to his bed. HIS ill-
ness was at first thought serious that his family
were teegraphed for from Philadelphia, and a.
rived last week happily 20 learn Of his being out of
danger when they landed. Bronchitis IN TINS eli
mate. at tins season, and with man of Mr..