New-York tribune., 1879-12-07

| For the sake OF those ten minutes pfopc "a"
accked in from all the towns and stretch oil coun-
| try hercabout, that when we came in sight OF
Calashies il looked like town of 10000 inhabit-
ants. Half that number, certainly, Of men, women
and children, in sight, and masses ot thein
We're packed together in spots whence they cond
| by no possibility see or hear the orator. All the
cheering we had heard before was faint murnur
10 that which poured up from the streets as we
ncared tho platform. The place was well suited
for a spectacle. aud the arrangements were ingehi-
ous 4 temporary bridge had been built, on one end
! Of which MI Gladstone stepped from The door OF
1 his saloon, and when he had reached the other ne
stood ut the angle of the road Just below, 80 that
to right and left and well within hearing, the
multitude stretched away on either mana.
IL was not a but river of faces
A church is at the corner around when
! the river flowed : factories, all silent, for All
their hands were out to have their part in tho re-
ception-were grouped about and a purpe-gray
/ hill its summit shrouded will iirs, rose dark
against the sky There flags, and music, ana
there was n multitude with thought IN their
hearts; and there tho parapet above, the central
figure of the scene, bareheaded stood the man whom
all these fellow-beings had assembled TO welcome
Uncovered he listened to the address offered him.
and uncovered he replied to it, thought 1t n piece
of wilful imprudence in a man seventy with such
weeks task before him thus to risk taking cold or
worse on that bleak November afternoon in north
ern latitude. Nor was it prudent to speak al all III
| the open ais but Mr.. Gladstone wears his seventy
years as lightly as another man his fifty, and he
faced his work CALAMITY. His voice if one may
| judge from the expression of faces, reached the
urthcst ed &C Of what lie rightly described as vast
assembiage. lie spoke quite for ten minutes, an ex-
equal to half an hour under roof, for the voice
here had walls to break against, and the waves Oh
sound flowed out into space with nothing 10 checN
them. Two or three times he picked mp bis bundle
of cloth and laid il down again; presently remark
ing that he had meant to address them holding their
gift in his hands but that he found the weight
affected his powers of speech that he less nm
able TO make them hear. Before he had ended the
engine-drver being out of hearing sgnifcd MS m
patience by q sharp whistle The worthy man
| knew that his train already "A quarter oi an
| hour behind time ard that line lmpendcu
over him. hope they did not make him pay II, put
the quarter of an hour was recovered. Ii had
| grown TO twenty minutcs before Mr.. Gladstone had
got back TO his and freed his hand from the last
grasp of his thusiasic admirers. Nor for some
minutes more did we get out of sound Of the cheers.
| The train reached Edinburgh at twenty minutes
! pastfive II was quite dark. The Wayerley sta
ton is nothing more than the proOngatlon of tnn-
nell confused aud gloomy beyond the generality OF
such places. The public as l afterward learned,
! had been excluded, and only a favored lcw-saY
! five or SIX thousand-admitted by ticket. But
| here again there had been no official arrange
ment for receiving Mr.. Gladstone, and the only
people who acted in The matter were the railway au-
tiIoritIes and their action limited to excluding
people from the station The people were quite
ready To constitute themselves masters OF ccfeno-
nies had they been permitted. They coiiectenab abOut
the station and along the streets through which M.
I ~. l.. q Nn
heard the roar OF this multitude outside the train
rolled slowly beneath the great castle and along the
wonderful natural ravnc now degraded TO railway
uses Once inside. the confusion complete.
The thrOng paid no heed to the police than at
Carlisle aud the turmoil all the greater because
of sundry constables mounted on sieeds they could
not manage. Lord ROsebcry's carrage-anG-iour.
with two outriders and small army of hvcrcd
footmen, was standing at the edge of the platform,
aud Mr. Gladstones saoon-car was stopped Just op-
po,ite this oquipage. Waiting to receive him were
| Lord Rosebery with whom Mr.. Gladstone stays
during this week, NJ. Adam, Sis David Wcddcrburn.
| and a number of local celebrities, together with
officers of various Liberal Associations to whom the
| railway company had been good enough
/ TO concede tickets of admission. As the
! train stopped and Mr. Gladstone seen
| at the door, the cheers rose louder than ever. Ii
was not cheering it was prolonged explosion OF
! iuarticulatc sound that filled this subterranean
| dungeon for some minutes without cessation. The
| iadies-fOr ladies there were in the midst OF this
! surging mOb-kcpt tn If handkerchicfs fntterng
| in tho air. aud the men had their that's off. l am
! told that somebody then and there handed MIR.
Gladstone an address, but if this ceremony were
really performed saw nothing Of il, and the al
dress in any case was not read II would have been
as easy to read an address at the mouth Of q VOL
| cano What saw was an unchecked and irTessti-
bic rush of the people from all quarters TO the spot
where Air. GlGds one was rush which bore down
before Il the OF police ia military arrav auN
upset one OF those cavaliers who were every min
ute putting lives in peril Rider and horse fell just
at MI Gladstonos fe-t, but speedily got oat OF
/ the way unhurt Then Lord Roschcry gave his arm
to Mrs. Gladstone and led her to Tho carriage.
| Mr. Adam took Miss Gladstone. aud Mr. Gladstone
! followed, nimbiy avoiding glay-hahcd lunatic,
| who rushed toward him with rug on wl:ch was
| inscribed the mystic word "Wclcome." J met The
luuatic a moment later "A dangerous fire still blaz-
ing in lis eyes. Il got ms rug down. shouted he.
'You did" SAID |. "and you nearly upset Mr. Glad
s.one.r He garcd at and He'd safely. csD apng
these and all other dauscra. Mr. Gladstone got in
with Lord Roscbery. aud stood for moment erect
II return the salutcs, winch poured IN upon him.
I H. "roar redoublcd. / saw the coachnan look
/ ncivously al his horses. They were as nervous
/ he was bus what weighed upon the mind OF THIS
per,onage was the rumor that lc horses were 10 be
taken cut and the carriage 10 h drawn through the
streets by the people, The coac man. in those CIR
cumsiancef. would have become % superilu0us orul-
me,i. and he plainly trembad for the loss of dig
/ nifty that might bcfal him. Hut there was 40 time
gwen for that sort of thing The scene passed with
| a dcnions rapidity. 1t could not have been five
minutes after the train came 10 . stand that Lord
Roscbcry's scarragc-and-four and ouiridcrs vanished
under The archway; his gncst still standing and
! bowing. Aud noble thing to look upon WAS the