Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-12
From Our Regular Correspondent
Our European Letter.
LoNDoy. Emo, April q. ISIS

LONDON, Eng, April %. 1880.
Great anxiety prevails in this ,ity with
respect to the safety of her majesty s
training ship Atlanta, Captain Stirling,
which left Portsmouth four moths ago,
on cruise in the West Indies, and is now
considerably overdue. The vessel was
last heard of from Bermuda on January
3lst. She had several cases OF yellow
fever on board, and her sailing orders
were extended to April 4th. Almost the
only ground of hope is that Captain Stir
ling may have put into some port from
which there is no Geographic communica-
ton. The Atlanta was an old wooden
frigate of nine hundred and fifty-eight tons
register. She was commissioned as train
ing ship for ordinary seamen in Septem-
Der, 1878, and is classed in the navy list as
fourth-rate. She is corvette exclusively
dependent upon her sailing capabilities.
and does not possess steam on board even
for condensing purposes. She is the sue
cessor to the unfortunate Eurydice, and
was formerly called the Juno when classed
as man-of-war. A singular circumstance
in connection with her is that her absence
began to create uneasiness on the anniver-
sary of the day on which the Eruydice
foundered. March 9th. In the first cruise,
after being converted into a training YES
sci, her captain reported to the admiralty
that she was overweightel in aer spars,
and that she rolled somewhat dangerously.
Her upper spars were consequently re-
duced, and changes were made in the tank
arrangements. She then proceeded on an
experimental cruise in the ch,nnel to
ascertain whether her stability hid been
improved, but the result, while not wholly
satisfactory, did not seem to warrant any
alarm.
A careful analysis of the returns of the
late parliamentary elections in the king
dom show that the conservatives were not
defeated by a falling off in their vote, but
by a remarkable increase in the voting
strength of the liberals. The conserva-
tives, in fact, increased their aggregate
vote over that of 1871 by nearly sixteen
per cent, while the liberal increase reached
nearly thrty-two per cent, or double that
Of their opponents. In fifty of the largest
boroughs which contributed most to the
liberal victory, the aggregate vote of the
highest liberal candidates shows an in
crease of thirty.nine per cent over their
vote of 1874, and in the same boroughs
the conservatives made gain of twelve
per cent over their vote of 1871. The
conclusion is that very large number of
liberals who refrained from voting in 1874
took part in the last election, and that a
majority of the young voters just coming
into the right Of suffrage went with the
liberal party.
American horses seem likely to play
prominent part in many of the big spring
handicaps in this country. Their numbers
have been increased greatly by the recent
arrival of well known Americ,n sports
man with fifteen thoroughbre1s, all of
whom will doubtless give gooG account
of themselves. Our horses are aot hand
some, but they have quality Parole, upon
his arrival in the island, was declared an
ugly wretch" by the English equine
connoisseurs, but this in no way hndered
him from winning the first race he ran in,
thus giving the Englishmen what they
called-pleasantly borrowing the express
sion from the idiom of their victorious
cousins AN eye opener. Let us hope
that this useful operation will be repeated
in the city and suburbs by the victory of
one or the other of Mr. Lorillard's two
representatives-Parole and Heried. The
former is one of the hvorites at 10 to 1,
having only Westbourne, Master Kildare
and Rosy Cross, the winner of the Lin
colnshire, quoted before him. The latter,
however, is a 100 TO l chance-a fact
which will not. it is TO be hoped, hinder
her from winning in the case of Parole
being beaten. The stable - that is, betting
on the pair jointly-s an excellent invest
ment. ALPHA