New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-09
NOTES FROM ABROAD.
JOURNALISTIC. PERSONAL AND THEAr-
RICAL,

tbe great amount of work thrown upon them; con-
seouently Press messages have been aitoge'her
sacrificed and little or no efforts have Deeh hauo 10
get them away. Many have been destroyed, ana
we have no idea what messages have reached Eng
land" That may give the pubic some nouce VI
the vexaticns and hindrances which oeset INC
business of special correspondence with an army III
the field Very likely Captain Cameron does no.
know that his own dispatch from rel.elkebir dld
get through to London HIS colleague oil me f'"c'
NAV or NAV not be happy when he discovers MS
.cconnts arrived two DAYS late. Whether that ne
preferoble TO having ones manuscript destroyed ny
military censors is matter of taste. In helthei
case is il a satisfactory reward for rsklng one 'c
and undergoing every sort of hardship in the pro
cess.
Bnt this bit ofexperience has very different Nsue
and one which the authorities OF the War once VIII
do well TO consider seriously The telegraph service
broke down. as the railway service broke down. lot
want of trained experts to manage it. The Royal
Engineers are a very excellent body OF men, ana Vi
many attachments. But they are expected to know
evervthing and that Is precisely why, when the
pipch comes. they are found wanting 1t is the IN
possihle that is demanded Of them stan OF IN
snectors and traffic-managers, guards engine
drivers and the rest sent out from any great rail-
way would soon have put matters TO nights between
Ismalia and KaSsassln. So a stan might nave oeen
detached from the special department OF .he
Postal Telegraphs men used 10 going about the
country and dealing with voluminous speciai ais
matches on great occasions suppose red-tape pre-
vented But the army will not get Its mlscella-
neous work well done till 1t either organizes special
corps for each business or borrows them. fehapS
Won remember how long it was before the Post
Office Itself learned its new telegraph business al'er
buying up the old companies.
~,
The Standard publishes q certificate signed oy
Messrs Turquand, Youngs Co., leading account
ants in the city to the effect that the daily average
circulation during the last three months was
2S2 OS2. This, ii modestly observes, Will be read
with interest 1t is and it would be read with still
more interest if the manager would let us know how
much of this is morning and how much evening cir
culation And if he would kindly say how much 1t
has increased since the war began. Then II the
other papers would be equally frank, one might be-
gin 10 form more accurate notions OF the present
prosperity of English journalism.
ME- L. Godkin has now written two letters to
The Spectator in answer to it's criticisms on his
Nineteenh Century article upon Ireland. In the
first in reply the challenge for proof OF his aSSer
ton that the English hate the Irish, he AYERS thati
Is not susceptible of proof in which l agree with
him. In the second, he puts Mr.. A. V. Dicey on the
stand to prove his unprOvable proposition. Mr..
Dlcey's testimony amounts to little, but II 1t really
sustained Mr.. Godkln's original thesis 1t would
fatty contradict his subsequent admission. So
that ON the whole, not much seems 20 be
gained by the correspondence. With reference
TO the cartoons in PWnch Mr. Burnand, now the
Editor of that paper, gives precisely the same ac-
commits OF them that | gave some weeks ago.
Mr. Burnand however, is at the pains TO explain In
some detail Mr.. GOdkD's mistake, and the most
careless reader of Punch will hereafter have no ex-
cuse for quoting HIM instance of English hatred
for Ireland. To The SpectdtOr's charge that Mr.
Godkins title, 1.-THE American View of Ireland"
was misleading Mr.. GOdkin has not found 1t con-
yenient to offer answer. He can hardly deny
that he is an lrshman, and apparently finds 1t
troublesome to explain why, in addressing the
English public on The Irish question, he suppressed
the fact OF his lIlsh origin.
Whether you will see NJ. COqUen in America
this year is question to which the telegraph may
send an answer before this reaches you. But at
present it looks as if the lawyers would have to
answer it. and the Judge. These gentlemen are
more expeditions in France than in England, vet
even in France they do not settle disputes i'll day.
N. Coquelm did certainly write and sign letter
10 NJ MAYER with reference to an American visit |
NJ Mayer who is the manager of French plays I
the Gliety Theatre in London and elsewhere
happens to be in Dieppe. and has
been good enough to show me NJ
Coauelns letter. the whole of which is in the ac- |
tors handwriting. 81 undertake." writes NJ. Co |
ouelin " not to 60 to America with anybody but |
you and on the following conditions of which |
the two most important are payment of 5000 |
night and a stipulation that the performances are
TO be given in September aud October, 1882, thirty
Or thirty -tiye in all.
NJ. Coquelin meantime, appears to have forgotten |
Ill IL with NJ MAYER which is |
dated nearly two years ago, and is on the point of
starting for a two months tour in Russia and East
ern Europe with NJ. Dieudonu6. But NJ. Mayer is
not disposed to give up his claim. As Nj. GOquelin
negects his appeals, he has sent him legal sum-
nous TO fulfil what he considers legal contract.
Instead of suing HIM for damages, he applies to the
tribunal to enforce what we should call Il specific
performance of the contract. presume NJ. COquelin
will deny that his letter binds him to go with NJ.
Mayer. since terms, II only pledges him not TO go
with anyb,dy else. But if be dId not really mean
t. make the visit, why fix the terms and the date,
and the number of performances
Since wrote the foregoing. NJ. CoQuelin's
SIDE of the story has seen the
light 1t Is lons,-flls nearly col
unn of small print in Lo Figaro, but may be
condensed NJ. Coquelin admits that he made an
agreement whether legally binding or not, with NJ.
Mayer. He and Mime. Sarah Bernhardt were TO go
together u suitable company to be engaged, list of
plays settled. arrangements in America made and
800 900 paid down by NJ. Mayer before starting.
That was long ago. says the great comedian. Nine.
Sarah went alone and will certainly not 20 a2ain,
and he supposed the matter at an end. But never
mind, if you hold TO the bargain am ready to full
FL it as soon you let me know you are not only
90 but to call on you TO fulfil 1t y; and his sum-
mons is in due legal form, duly served by sheriff.
\ with hat not hIs
Is deposited and who the artists engaged to
MAY with N. Coauelin and Mme. Sarah Bemhardt.