Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-03-03
From oar Regular Correspondent
our European Letter.
LONDON. Enr.. Feb. IS, Il


LONDON, Eng, Feb. IS, 1880.
Another spell of hard weather, and
everybody grumbIing hunters be-
cause their horses are eating their heads
Off the skaters because paternal govern
ment will not allow them to drown them
selves in the Serpantine. and the rest of
the people at the monstrous cold. Sports
men also complain because, if this con-
tinue. the partridge will become rdra
aUis. In Shropshire, where the thermom-
cter sank to 40 below freezing, hundreds
of binds are lying dead 10 the fields. Pol
iticians, however, manage to keep up their
flow Of mutual recrimnation and wallow
in warm flood of abusive rhetoric
They are girding up their loins for the
forthcoming general election, which, I
hear, was settled at the last cabinet coun-
ell to take place in April next, as in June
the new registration comes into force,
which, it is supposed, will prove favorable
to the liberals.
notice that the London weekl,S are
just now working themselves into Il lalher
of flattery over that arrant old humbug,
Sam Ward. The last Vanity FIR con-
tains full page colorei cartoon of the
old beau, and all the papers vie with each
other to say pleasant things over the fact
that he is going to make London his per-
manent residence. Probably no man in
America. not even Charley Dclmonico,
knew 50 much about wines and cookery
as Sam Ward. This enabled him to I'M
pose upon the cabinet and senatorial block
heads. lie could make them think that
the vim ordinairc he was giving them was
the finest of Burgundy and he could i'm
pose his lloch Ieimcr on them for the
finest Johannesbergcr cabinet. A change
of Il label sometimes works wonders.
A better experimentation that of james
Russell Lowell as minister TO England
could hardly haze been made, and | no.
tice that the London press is giving him Il
very cordial welcome in advance. The
new minister is Just the kind of man TO
please the better class Of Englishmen,
being gifted with rare talents, highly ac-
complished, and of refined and gentle
manners Mr.. Lowell has long been
known, on both sides of the Atlantic, as
an able writer, II clever poet, AMI what
may be crled Il literary philanthropist of
a high order. Considering the number of
hungry politicians and placo-seekers who
constantly bcsiege the White House for
appointments abroad, President Hayes
deserves great credit for filling the posts
CT London and Madrid with such high
toned men as Lowell and Fairchild, who,
in all their official duties and social inter-
course, will do honor to themselves and
to their country.
In Ireland, as in India, one of the
greatest difficulties which will have to be
mot when the period of severe pressure is
over is the providing of the people with
seed for the next harvest. Unless the poor
cottlcrS now on the verge of starvation
have the means provided of raising another
crop, OF are removed elsewhere, we shall
simply have another and still more acute
spell Of distress next year. In many
districts the landlords, partly from tnc
Instructions in the way Of obtaining loans,
and partly from indifference, are not tax
ing advantage of the opportunities afford
ed by the government. Better organize
ton, which does not mean the institution
of II machinery for pNuprrizltion, seems
much needed. There are men in England
who have had experience of distress and
famine beside which that now prevailing
in Ireland is riting; and it would surely
not be impossible to bring their knowl.
edge to bear with advantage on the pres
ent tate Of affairs.
There Is, b.li we. no end to British
snobbism, but in fact that the cX-Empress
Magenta Is to 90 to the cape, accom-
panied by Sir Evelyn and Lady Wood, aud
seven scrvlnts' thc plummot seems to
have reached almost the bottom of it,.
Because Il LAZY hts once spl upon throne
Obtained by her husband by one of the
greatest crimes and frauds on rccorD tn {.
services of the most eminent officers OF
the British army are, t seems, to be placed
ut her disposal What l,tonishes me even
more in this case, is that Sir Evelyn should
have accepted such Il position.
ALPHA.