New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-07
LORD BEACONSFIELD.
"-HTRF's FLOWERS FOR YOU,
..... PALE PRIMRO>ES
no MAKE Won (.AIgIANDS OF

of the deceasc of the leader 1t so lately followed
finds the disturbances in Catalonia the most urgent
topic Of the day and TO them dcyotcs its leading
editorial. The Standard makes the euogy OF Loru
Bcaconsfcld an occasion for a laborcd satire upon
MIR. Gladstone. Tie Daily News sinks the partisan
pretty completely and takes what may be called a
scientific view of the great adversary of Liberal
ism. or rather Of Lberals This is the more strik-
ing because tie Editor of that paper Mr.. Frank
Hill, has always been credited, and rightly
credited. with the authorship of those scrutini1ng
studies of Lord Beaconsfcd in The FortdGhHy
Reroc which the subject of them so far resented as
to pronounce them unmannorly. To-day the same
writer says pcturesquely enough:
Lord Bcaconsiieds statccraft flashed on Us.
glitterng, ever varying. tropical; even when some
of us were occasionally distracted; perpeXed or
offended, we still felt that we owed Inn someihhg
for the manner in which he had diversified the
familiar hues of our steady ptosac existence.
The Morning Post is extremely lyrical about the
primrose:
Z" 1t is certainly the sweetest Of all the oral
beauties OF the spring, full OF brightness anu promise
- token hat winter il past and a pledge oil sunny
days to come As such it may embOdy the patrl"Iic
hope that the winter Of our present discomfort may
soon be made glorious summer by the restoration
TO power OF the only men who can carry Out IN us
entirety and with success the grand English polt'y
of Conservatism AM progress which it was the SIN
gle aim of Lord BeaCOnslield5 lie 10 eAPouhu, W
illustrate and to promote"
In response to this clusIon The Pail Nal Gazette
rather grmy remarks that " a primrose by the
rivers brim is evidently in fair way of becoming
n sign and symbol of the invasion OF AishanistIn
and of the Zulu war, to say nothing of the SIX mil
ion war vote and the Cyprus Convention" And
the same journal reminds the Tory public that q
great many people will decorate themselves with
prmroses to-day who foI years dld al! they could
to keep Mr. Disrael ont OF power ana who never
spoke of him until the last three four years OF ms
long life except in the language of dislike and con-
tempt. There is no little truth, moreover. III the
remark of the same writer that the aim of tins puny
demonstration i, rather to iout the present Prime
Nil lister than to express any very deep feeling rs 10
his predecessor The measure OF Tory enthusiasm
for its departed chief was taken. ! should judge
when the subscription 10 his memorial closed with
oncfourth of the sum asked for. On the whole, the
tone OF the things said about Lord Bcacon-ied to-
day vas not much different from the tone % year
ago Mr. Gladstone proved in Parliament that 1t
was po,s.b for a man who abh,ued the principles
OF Lord Bcaconshcld's political action to compass a
sufficient euory upon his ecnns. But don't know
that any Liberal of position has ever retractcd OF
modified the Judgment delivered in his lifetime upon
his public career. LoId Beaconsheld sand Of Sn
Robert Peel lis name will be often appealed TO
IN that scene which he loved so well. and never
without homage of HIS opponents 1t would be
rash 10 say a much of Sir Robert Pcels successor
The puzzled admiration called forth BY his brill
liant eccenricities can hardly be called homa-c.
Homage ord Bcaconsfcd does get from one quar-
ter. homage which perhaps he would value more than
that OF his opponents. The Queen Is faithful even
touchngly faithful 10 the memory of the servant
whom rightly or wrongly she REGARDED as most faith
FIJI to her Al the world has read her public pane
gy1ic on her former Minister and, as she called him.
servant. Nobody doubted her MaJeStys absolute
sincerity. To-day she reviveS the memory OF her
attachment to the man whom she found so service
able by sending two wreaths, of imm0rielcS and
one of primroses to be laid his grave at Hughen
den.
OF the memorial service in IIughcnden Church per-
haps the less said the better. With the exception
OF Lord Darlington. it attended by no intimate
personal or political friend of Lord BeaconSlied;
unless Lord CarringtOn be another exception, and
Lord Darlington is a Liberal, neighbour and less
than forty years old Even Lord RowtOn sent an
excuse. The meagre list of those present include,
not one name OF the first or second rank in public
life. The people vino live hard by in High NycOmbc
filed the church. The sermon was a masterpiece of
taste The Rev. Canon Gregory, who preached
it, is of the church militant and il not precisely
with primroScs thai he decked his discourse. lie
referred to Lord BeacOnsield's opponents men
who we're rarely jIst To fee when alive. and who
rarely forgot when he dead the Limitations TO
which he had subjected them and the defeats they
had suffered from his ability and cloqucncc." The
Reverend Canon affirmed "A little later that his hero
was never tempted to grasp 1t power hy using
the arts of the demagoguc. or to cmbarrass the
duct of affairs by existing himself on the side Of
the foreigner against the Government OF hls own
country"
This is the sort of thing Tories used to say in the
heat OF battle and which a venerable Canon of st.
Paul's thinks 1t becoming to repeat in the compare
tive GOODNESS Of a lapidary sermon. lie is "Ina-
ment and oracle OF the High Church party. As such
he felt it his duty. after completing course of in
suit to Mr.. Gladstone, TO comment on Lord Bcacons-
fields lattudinarianism. For this he accounted
first By his Jewish BIRTH coupled with the pei iolm-
ance OF the initatory rite of the synagogue;
secondly by the lateness of his baptism into the
Church Inc then thirteen year of agci and The
carelessness with which tnat ceremony was carried
ont. II certain that no rains were expended
in preparing him for that holy rite. in insTuctiug
HIM concerning its privileges ana lis responsibilities,
IN assisting him to light against the word. the lcsh
and the devil with the new power intrGsted 10
him." Hence young Dsraci took DEGRADED
view Of Christianity regarded the Church rs a
great political institution, and fell into mistakes
about Church matters. In other words Canon
Gregory is Ritualist and Lord Bcaconsicld was
not: which seems strong argument for being born
a jew and not being baptized till thirteen if 1T
ALL
As to primroses, they abounded in Ilughondcn
and have been worn N London, bui not ,rhaps 30
generally as was expected Ii there he any quarter
of London where they ought t. have lourished TO-
day. il is certainly the West End. and that part Of
the West End through which pouIs ceasccssly the
tide of fashionable traffic. PIccadiily. Bond ST.
Pail Mall St. James's-st., with its celebrated emf
nence there if anywhere British Lutton-hoc
should have bloSsomed with Bcaconsield bouquets
They are to be seen, certainly but il would be hard