New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-20

A
, Al a meeting Of the Prlvy Councii directions wcr
$ gwen t. prohibit all Land League meetings i
NUcens County.
Cavalry and infantry numbering 500 men an
900 soldiers ltI0ned at Currah have been sent I
QHeeas County Consequently the projected meet
ING at Cnl!ohill has not Uecn held.
The GREEK WAR MOVEMENT.
ATHENS. Dec 10. 1880.
A steamer has arrived hers VITA war material from
Krupps factory.
ROME Dee. 10 1880
letter from MeDotti Gariba!i is published deny
ing that he has authorized anybody 10 enter mt,
communication with the Greek Government.
LoNDOS. Monday. Dec. 90 $50
\ dispatch from Paris TO The Nc,rs states that NJ
Barthclcmy 81. Ililairc Minister of Foreign 4 fair-
iaycrs European ar5'uLtion OF the Greek question
LORD ROsEBERY AND GREECE
LORD EosEBEsY EECoGNizrp IS TIE LEADING
SPIRIT oF THE GREEK cOMNirTEE-,iGNIFi-
CAECE or HIS LrAuEEsHIP-HE RgCEIvEs 4
HEARTY GREErING ~ EDIHBURGH AND TWICE
DECLINfs "FFICF.
| lPRoy TIE RsGUL,R coRRHsrOyDeyr or THE TRIBUNE.l
LONDOV. Dee. 2.-It Is significant tnat The Times
heads ITS rcoort of the Greek Committee yesterday
g Lord Ro,eDery the Greek Question:" Per
haps it would be too much TO say that for most
pubic purposes Lord ROscbery is the Greek Com
mittee. But two things may he SAID that he il the
mos promnene figure in il and that hrs il the guid-
! ing spirit of its deliberations. Not long ago some
| body wrote IT, complain that the Committee no
! longer heard Of, albeit the Geek question
! was passing through an acutc stage.
Lord ROsebery. to whom the writer addressed his
impatient eDIsile. bonded rather curty Soon
after lie summoned q meeting OF the Committee. 1t
open 20 his correspondent to say that his appeal
had stirred uD the sluggish spirit of the English
friends of Greece. Yet. when he had read Lord
avtTa ho 81.
President of the Greek Committee vas still of the
same mind The meeting had really been held to
give L0rd Roaebery opportunity of saying that
10 meeting was necessary, and that the friends Of
Greece had nothing better 10 do for the moment
thar to adopt Lord BcaconsGeld's advice to their in
teresting client, and wait.
That is 30 bad illustration of the curiously sagn-
spirit which lies hid beneath the low OF Lord
Rosebery's passionate elOquencr. He is capable Of
enthusiasms, and capable of restraining his entbu-
siasms. lie is moreover an intimate and trusted
friend of Mr.. Gladstone and it is conceivable that
the prudence of yesterdays speech had Its source
in the gray head of the statesman who
PLAYS Mentor to tbis- young Telemachus of the
Liberal party year ago other we'll known
persons figured at a Greek meeting in the same
room, now missing; notably Sir Charles
Dilke. But Sir Charles Dixie, then in private life
aud The cold shade of opposition. has since become
Under Secretary OF Foreign Affairs a post which
Lord BeacoDsfed. who is fond of definitions has
described as Of power without responsi bilty |
1t ls at any rate, post which imposes upon its !
holder degree Of official discretion inconsistent
with the public championship OF a delicate dIplo-
matte question. Nobody doubts that Sir Charles !
Dixie is as warm friend to Greece. Ii he |
does not advocate her claims from the platform he
is steadily promoting them in less public aud still
more beneficial way. Mr.. G. A. Sala was another |
absentee He is not III office, nor likely to BE, and
had promised to be present but was unex pecedly |
detained. Among the speakers were Mr. Arthur
Arnold and half a dozen other members of PariIa-
ment. Letters of adherence were read also
from the Duke of Westminster and lesser
and the meeting. which. though
strictly private. was full, included not |
a few persons Of much social and political in
uence and it passed resolutions some hat stronger |
IN tone than the speech of its chairman. though |
still moderate and full of confidence in the present
Government. But it remains true that The Times
showed journalistic instinct only too in these
lays, when it indicated Lord Rosebery's presence
Is the salient feature of the demonstration. IL is
thing, but il is certain that the Earl Of
ROsebery is at this moment the leader. not only of
he Greek party i'll England. but of the Liberal |
party in Scotland. with prospect of becoming
Britain 1t is remarkable because of his youth be- |
ause of his keen interest in other things than poll
les because of the almost fierce rivalry he has TO
ncounrer. because there many able and
opuiar Liberals beside him, because of the
thickness with which he has conquered |
his position and the firmness with which
e holds 1t; because of many other ,
hings which have no time to Indicate Among
coch mobiles there not few Liberals Of older IL
e of closer hst)r cal connection with the country
( far greater estate than Lord Rosebery can boast
mere is at least who had the start of him by a
eneration whose intellectual powers are of high d
rdcr; whose political experience and political ser
ices-with one two signal exceptiOns-outweigh
ord Ros sbery's; whose family name was a name to |
,ujure with in Scotland before the PrImroses were
yer heard of; xho had unequalied opportunities ;,
r attracting to himself the loyal affection of great
irty. Yet it cannot be said that the Duke OF Ar
yll has been Ousted from his natural place by Lord
osebery il must be said that the Duke ne yer made
nod bis claim to leadership. and was ac- I
pted by Scottish Liberals as their representative
ertan qualities, Que or two fatal pecuarities, an
,treme austerity of character. haughtiness OF
caring, lack of close sympathy with his fellow
en-. too evident consciousness of superiority to
e rest of mankind, too ostentatious exclusive
sss made a barrier or rather desolate
ace, between him and the great body, d
his feIlow-countrymen who would I,