New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-14

was in effect Budget speech had, at any rate.
those qualities which have made his Budget
speeches such marvellous feas of exposition.
have since met great dignitary in the financial
world man holding one of the highest oinclai
positions IN that world, and of great personal au-
thority on financial questions. asked him what
he thought of Mr.. Gladstoncs address. lie an
swercd 1T il perfect speech" asked,
." DO Won agree with the financial principles
he stated y with every word he uttered"
retorted my friend. | Oniy add, for
ought to be already i'll Waverley Market, that IL
abounded in humOr beyond any speech ever heard
from Mr. Gladstone; humor of LANGUAGE, OF voice.
of manner of gesture, which sent the audience re-
peatedly into roars of delight. But imagine that
when the Chancellor Of ihc Exchcqncr read 1t, de-
| light was not his uppcrinost sensation. SIT STAFFORD
Northcote had Dragged of finance in his speech al
the Lord Mayors dinner as the point OF All others on
which he should peter to the Government at
! tackled because there they were strong. Sir Stat
ford VIII have plenty of time for rcpcnting OF
| ms inprudence-an imprudence the mere surprising
because il was nothing less than direct challenge
TO Nh Gladstone. and Mr.. Gladstone by the comics
sion Of opponents az well as friends both as a
! fnancer and financial orator is without rival.
MEETING AT wAvrELrY MARKET.
! pass from this meeting, about winch so much
remains to be said, with reluctance, aud approach
NaNcfiCN Mifkel WIFI sui EIfdltl ~
| must condensc into few paragraphs an account
for which as many colnms would hardly suffice.
must not say n word of the glorious that was
about us as we drove hurricdy from thc Com Ex-
change To the Wavcrlcy Market, nor of the un-
ma ched lovelincss of EGmburgh on thab evening
with the full orb of the moon looking down on the
countless mutitudes that filed the street; ON
the castle; the towering twelve-storied
houses of the old town. on the turreted
roofs and piunaclcs ana spires and quaint
! gables and jutting windows from which sparkied
! nnumcrabc lights; or on any other OF the myriad
beauties which together make Edinburgh the most
pcturesquc of European cities, even IN its everyday
dress. While we had been hearing Mr. Gladstone
900 of us-in the Exchange, throng at least ten
! times as numerous was raging about Waverey Mar
! ket The speech in the Exchange fixed for 3
o'clock: the proceedings III the Market for >, and
the doors of the latter were 10 be open at ). Long
before the pressure of people about the barbados
had become so serions that the police notified the
committee they could not he responsible for the
consequences If the doors were not thrown open.
There was no rioting but there was popular
movement of a kind too energetic and emotional to
! be resisted. Many accidents occurred outside; not
n few also as people rushed in through narrow
gates and when they were once IN the matter be-
came still serious.
AN AUDIENCE OF 10000 PEOPLE WHO HAD WAITED
THREE HOUns
Arriving at 5:30-for the Exchange meeting
| lasted longer than was meant-what 1 saw was
| this: A covered space computed 10 hold 10000
people all standing, except those in the galleries.
denscy packed together over every part of tins I'M
mense space the galleries not less crowded than the
floor, and the mass of human beings surging hthcr
and thither in way that instantly struck yon "a
most dangerous Barriers had been put up, but
4 ~. fI.. 4
unconrollabc. There was no more tendency TO
riong here than ont of doors, but 10000 men can
not stand still for three hours, aud IT was
full three hours that they had been waiting for Mr.
Gladstone, with absolutely nothing TO do. They
had borne the delay, by all accounts with wonder
full good nature, but II is certain they could not
have borne it much longer AT every movement IN
one direction or another one of those currents.
which begin 10 one knows how, which are like the
movement of tide and just irresistible, passed
| through and along the hall. Men went down under
| the pressure, and picked up breathlcss. AT
every moment somebody with white face and
rigid body was handed over the heads of his COM
rades, aud deposited in some protected en-
closure. Water was eagerly called for Men
who had not suffered from the move
mrnt tainted FROM the heat and long ia
| tigue The roof was so low that the heat of the
| gas was oyerpowerng; and the light was ghastly
enough as il fell faces hagcard with eX-
! haustion. Ii was throughout an audience of work
| nemen: men of strong frame and much power OF
endurance; but their strength had been cruelty
tried. 1t was nobody's fault. The arrangements
were well conceived and carried ont, bat the expert
ment was too full of peril to be tried Often
Mr.. GIADsToNEs ARRIVAL.
| The peril was at its height when Mr. Gladstone
came, and il vanished with his .coming There
| q f,;u linz ri all oh
the proceedings Mrs. Gladstone and Lady Rose
| lery were handing down vinagrctes and tum-
blers but the worst was over. Pain ard WEAKNESS
were forgotten in tie JOY of the people at the sight
of their hero. 1t utterly useless to attempt TO
describe the explosion Of delight with which
he was greeted. IL not cheering; 1t
WAS n prolonged. hoarse cry taken M again and
again. immense vibrations of sound sweeping
through the mir, broken, naricuate, but full o! an
| eloouencc which surpassed the eloquence of the
| orator who had set this hurricane IN motion. IL
| certainly lasted five minutes, and 1t was much
more than that before anything like quiet fell upon
the assembly. Mr.. Gladstone stood as You may
fancy him standing at the first sight Of Niagara or
the Alps; with the attitude and expression that
| come TO a man upon the revelation of Natures
| greatest marvels or OF her most prodiglOus
| forces stirred suddenly TO action. He pro-
| foundly moved. and did not care to conceal that
| he was profoundly moved. So immense was the
audience that il lost almost its human character III
the furthest parts of the ball. You could not dis
tingush faces; you could not tell whether the dim
grounded substances which reflected the light from
the outer edges of this mass the heads of men,
or whetherthey were not heaps Of potatoes.
| There was a tedious ceremony of address-oferug;
iudiciously and mercifully abridged by Lord Rose
bery's firm refusal to allow these documents to he
read and then Mr.. Gladstone spoke. All the speak
| ing Heretofore had been dumb-show to most OF u.s.