Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-06-16
From Our Regular Correspondent
Our European Letter.
LONDON, Eng, May 81, 1880.

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Right minded people are chatting dread
fully under the national humiliation, as
they call it, arising from Mr.. Gladstones
apology. As private individual he was
free to abuse Austria TO his hearts content,
but when it comes to an apology from the
prime minister of England. and for max
ing totally unfounded statements.it is quite
another thing. By this time, it is to be
hoped, he is moralizing on the unadvisa-
bility of vituperation in every form. The
new ministry has begun its official life
with a series of apologies. Mr.. Fawcetts
accusation against the late government of
concealng the state of midas finances
was equally groundless and had to be
withdrawn. The two apologies, coupled
with Sir w. V Harcourts defeat at Ok
ford, have already caused some uneasiness
in the liberal camp. Many knowing peo'
pie attach considerable Importance 10 the
Oxford and other liberal defeats. They
profess to see in them u sign that the
constituencies already repent the decision
of the late election. Mr.. Chamberlain in
the cabinet and Mr.. Bradaugh in the
House are facts which alarm moderate
men. 1t is somewhat amusing TO hear of
the conservative party being annihi-
lated, as they have never been more
compact and determined body than at
present. The defeclions have been all on
the part of the lower class of voters. The
thinking men have only drawn their ranks
more closely together and are quite pre-
pared for any emergency.
May is the month that brings countless
Numbers of our friends and relatives to
Gown, and really under their auspices Lon
don assumes quite IL new aspect. 1t is II
pleasant change to see number of fresh
faced, animated, healthy people, who all
look agreeably interested in the perform
ance of whatever they may be about. They
really listen to the music, and look at the
pictures, and enjoy the glories of the park.
They are evidently not merely killing
time, and their healthy earnestness is an
unintentional reproach to the faded and
weary notaries of pleasure and business,
the blaseS citizens, who 60 about looking as
if there is nothing new, and nothing
true" and what there is doesn't signify.
Doro,l1 ho of dow at nnhlIn
told a story of his American experience
which was loudly and enthusiastically
cheered. "While l was speaking at a
meeting" said the home rule dictator, "a
gentleman came on the platform and said,
Here is five dollars for bread and twenty
for lead What the Irish agitators expect
to gain by shooting the Saxon is not very
clear" Possibly their aim is plumber,
and that they have some wild dream oil
sacking Dublin or Belfast If so the gen
tleman's estimate of four parts of lead OF
one of bread would seem very much be-
low the proportion required-in fact, would
represent just the opposite of Falstaff's ha-
perth of bread and intolerable quantity of
" sack"
The fire iicnd has been abroad in Lon
don the past month. Nearly every night
the sky is lit up with the bright, fierce
glare of great contilgration. Captain
Shaw's brave brass-helmoted men have
had their work cut out for them, and the
liremen of late have been much discussed.
As BELTS corps mainly recruited from
the royal navy, the men of the metropolis
tan fire brigade are strong and alert, full
of courage. and never seen to better adj.
vantage than when fire RACES around them
They number four hundred and ffty-twt
of all ranks, and finer body of men never
served the public. ALPHA.