Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-05-19
From Our Regular Correspondent
Our European Letter.
LONDON. Enc. MAY & 1.

LONDON, Eng, May ., 1851.
The mystery of "How to live under
water" which has so long puzzled the
visitors to the polytechnic and driven our
savans almost to despair has at last been
solved. Briefly the facts are these, as
given by the inventor: He has a helmet
liks the ordinary diver. and in this is
packed compressed air just as an explorer
might take box of meat lozenges in his
pocket-which is supplied to him as he
wants it; his own breath, which would of
course be poison to him, is exhaled into a
receptacle filled with preparation of
soda, which absorbs and annihilates it.
There is practically no limit to the time
he can by this means exist under water;
and his system, while it dispenses with
expensive air-pumps and other gear, has
this immense advantage over the old ar
rangement, that there is no air-pipe to be
entangled or broken. so that he can move
in and about wreck like dry man about
a carcass Of house.
DIR. Kenealy. who died during the D asst
month, had painful experience at the close
of his career of the little dependence that
is to be placed on mob popularity. Elected
i've years ago for Stoke-upon-Trent, for
no apparent reason but that he was identi-
he'd with the cause of the claimant, he
was the other day as inexplicably rejected
by his tickle constituents, who at all events
could not complain that he had shown any
inconsistency of conduct during the time
that he represented them in parliament
For some years his influence with The
people y was sufficient to enable him to
draw together in Hyde Park on Easter
Monday many thousands of earnest sup.
porters Of the "Magna Charta" principles,
as he termed them, which formed the basis
OF his political creed, and which were
supposed TO have some occult affinity with
the Tichborne case. Few "eminent men"
of the present day have been followed
through the streets by more enthusiastic
crowds or have been greeted with louder
cheers than DR.. Kenealy, who was liter
ally mobbed by his admirers day after day
on his way home from Westminster Hall
during the trial of the unfortunate noble.
man whose cause he so warmly es.
poused. Had he lived another six years
the tide would perhaps have turned again
in his favor. The rejected of Stoke-upon-
Trent might even have found seat in
Midlothian.
For the last week people here have
scarcely been able to think of anything
but politics. Indeed, the situation at one
time became so critical that the olden
times seemed to be coming back when a
collision between the crown and the peo.
pie was not an uncommon event. 1t was
evident that the queen would not send
Mr.. Gladstone. 1t is useless blinking the
fact that her majesty personally objects to
Mr.. Gladstone as the leader of affairs.
Everything indicates this, but now that
the queen has wisely given way to the un-
doubted wish of the majority one cannot
help admiring her pluck in having Il bit
of a fight for it. Readers Of the life of the
prince consort cannot fail to see that she
is not the mere puppet that many people
suppose. She can express her opinion
strongly when the occasion serves. AL
though the return of Gladstone to the
premiership was inevitable as things now
stand, many, even among the liberals, are
doubtful as to the result. How these great
men must smile at the variableness of the
coz popui ! Two years ago the police had
to guard Mr.. Gladstone's house from n
Threatened attack. Now he is on the
crest of the very topmost wave of success.
ALPHA.