New-York tribune., 1880-02-17
DISCUSSION IN ENGLAND.

TACK on LORD CHELMSFORD.
IRON TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF rHE TRTBUNE.l
LONDON Jan 31.-The Tory dogs have been
lei loose upon Lord Derby. Not many days ago Sir
Stafford Northcote referred to him publicly as our
friend Lord Derby." Since then the ex-Foreign
Secretary has asked Lord Ramsay the Liberal can
didate for Liverpool. fo Knowsley and has author
zed Liberal speaker to say that he hoped for Lord
Ramsav's success. Up to that date the Tories bad
cherished faint hope that the chief OF The House OF
| Stanley wOuld AT least remain neutral IN the con-
test. They knew very well that they had no active
help to expect from him, but they ciung to the nope
that he would give open support to the Lib
| erals The last rag Of deusion having been
stripped of. they have begun series
of personal attacks on the man they have all their
lives long euIogzed. The Times was one of the first
to give tongue. It's the Journal to which the Tory
managers now hand over any particularly disagree
able work from which the avOwed organs OF the
PARTY shrink No speech Of Lord Derby has Afforded
! any pretext for attack He ha', indeed. spoken
| twice lately in public, but ne has spoken on such
subjects an thrift. and the advantages OF penny
savings banks He has not troubled himself to oher
any reply to the imputations upon his political char
| actef. That does not save him. 1t does not appear
that be cares TO be saved. or that be
Is distressed by the criticisms directed against
i
has been GOOD enough to advertise to all Liverpool
his wishes for Lord Ramsay's election. II was SAID
that Colonel Stanley, Lord Derbys brother was
1 going down to Liverpool TO do what he could to
| counteract the influence of bis brother. But
Colonel Stanley seems to have thought better of 1T.
| The Tory organ now announces that no Cabinet
Minister viii take part in the canvass. Lord Sandon
has already made long speech, to be sure but there
Is safety in the future tense. And Lord Sandon Is so
good young man that what might seem imDro-
prety in others of less pety. is positive virtue In
| him. He is sometimes called "Sster Sandon,'
which seems indecorous, and calculated TO offend
the advocates of the equality of the sexes.
Mr. Dana tells us in " Two Years Before the Mast'
that the sailors have expressive phrase for the
swift sailing of homeward- bound ship. They say
the girls at home have got hold of the tOw-rope.
This is what is happening in Liverpool Lady
Ramsay has got hold of the tow-rope 1t is no new
thing for a woman TO canvass for her husband in
this country-or sometimes for other women's
husbands. Who has not heard of the Duchess
of DevOnshlre and the butcher whom she
did-Or did not, for the fact Is disputed
kiss for bis vote for Fox But it is possibly
a new thing for the papers to take note OF the
services performed 10y women. Liverpool journal
tells us that the English as well as the IRISH
electors have been charmed by the grace and
! beauty of Lady Ramsay. Ii is not enough TO an
| nounce that she is good looking Her ancestors
were good looking also; if that helps. the father
is the Earl of Tankerville. the head Of the BE DDe
family. and her mother is the daughter
of that Duchess of Manchester whose
beauty was famous. have over and
over again asked ladies engaged upon this
business of soliciting votes whether they liked it,
Their answers vary IN explicltness, but on the
whole think they do. What a woman cares for.
saws cynic. Is conquest, and many man promises
hls vote to pretty woman for no better reason
than that she is pretty woman. heard story
the other day of lady widely known for herphilau
thropc efforts, and when ! say phlanthropic
mean DO joke. but tho word Ia its scientific
sense. She goes about among the rougher
cIasses navvies, coal-heavers, agricultural
Iaborers and the like. She has. among other at
fractions, remarkably beautiful hands When she
sets out upon q mission 20 her rough clients she
takes care that her hands shall be in the most per
feet order; soignGes TO the tips OF her nails No men,
she declares, are sensible TO feminine refine
ments than those whose own habits are the coarses
When have a convert to make, he may turn
deaf ear to all can say. But when ! lsy an un-
gloved hand on his arm, the greatest brute among
them thrills to the touch"
Mr. ParnelPs dongs continue to be reported by
cable with some particularly. aud the amounts sub
riven But some of the best friends OF the Irish
seem TO think that hls agitation Is doing more harm
than good even with respect to charitable efforts.
| Saws one writer the recent utteraDces of Mr..
| Parnell III America are creating much indignation
hero amongst all classes. He Is most efiectually
| checking the charity of many whose syInpathies
| bav. been sought in aid of the poverty
! strcken peasants in Ireland, whO poor
creatures. may well exclaim Save us
| from such friendsr letter received
| here from New-YOrk by well-known Irish Home
Ruler states that these two missionaries lMr. Dbl
lon being the other of the Land Lengue have been
| the means through their speeches Of preventing
thousands of dollars being contributed. fears being
entertained Of the purposes to which the money
| rould be appropriated" This last insnuatiOn.
mnst say. appears to me quite unsupported by any
| thing known here Of Mr. PATnen. He is not the
| man TO misapply money given him for charity, or
| 70 divert IL to purely political purpose
| Whether such charitable funds would be as
| wisely or as impartinlly expended by Mr.
Parnell as BY the managers OF tho Duchess
| of Marlborough fund is another question.
Mr. ParnePs accusations against the distributors OF
that fund have made bad impression. People ask.
Why should he suspect these gentlemen OF making
political determinations unless he himself had con-
ceyed the notion that his 2artisans had prior
| claim on the rund and would have preference In
| the gifts from money intrusted to hm'
| The Government has made Mr. Z. ID. J. Wilson
Senator of the Royal University of Ireland | be-
| lieye Mr. Wilson is Irlshman. He Is writer on
| Jlo T;mes and a contributor to The Pail Mall Ga
setts In both those Journals he does us the honor
70 discuss American affairs and his viows of Amer
Scan affairs seem to be borrowed for the most part
| from a certain New-York weekly which has lately
distinguished itself by apologlzng for the Demo
cratic attempt to steal the State OF Maine. There
| appeared not long ago in The Times
| long article on this question. OF which Mr..
Wilson may or may not have been the author.