New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-16
NOTES FROM LONDON.
SIR GARNET woLsELEY AND OTHER CE'
LEBRiTlES.

| Duko ~ Cambridge. the Duke and Duchess "a ioo,
| tbo Secretary of state for war; L,uy
| Coutts ana some military officers OF hien i"""' w.
| him at Charing Cross station lheio "oi0
! gooi many of the public In the cour'S az" oo'o'
| ond info them Il was vouchsafed to cheer at Ian-
- - hrougbams and closed landaus as drove
-. &C.,, +ba station But the number of men ana
| woman who greeted Sir Garnet Wolseiey was ho'
~ an, "a n thousand of those who filled the All win
cbesrs Of welcome to his soldiers last SUNDAY S'
mucb the better. The General commonly ee'' Wv
much and the soldier too little credit ~ ' ~
Tho h,Ionce should be redessed, even az the cost w
n slight Injustice to tho General. IhJuS''oo III ms
casa for if ever there war winch was " '
eraIs WAT and not IA soldiers war. IL was 'n'' Do
davs WAR in Egypt. The troops dlu "oi """
they were asked to do. But II was won ny oi
much more than by muscle or valor' ~ Is no' " %
inferred that Sir Garnet is unpopular. Inc con-
go s ,rns And there was less opportunity for a
great gathering 1T rained moreover. sun IL 10 W
be said Though the newspapers carefully refrain
from saving i'll that compared with the generous
rerentiun given the troops, that accorded 10 OH
Garnet Wolseley betokened certain apathy
Mpnic;,al manifestations at Dover may count Tor
something but not much. The Mayor an' hiuoi
men of Dover have been said before now to add to
the terror of the Channel passage: nor wonlu they
be abolished if the tunnel were made tomorrow;
which IL will not be. They ought TO nave Deeil
mentioned by the military committee IN lts hs' vi
military safeguards against invasion IL Is unac-
couutable how they came to be forgotten They
would be a permanent precautlon. sentres might
nod on their ,pusts commanders might be brlped'
but England might confde absolutely In the I'M
sleeping and incorruptibe vigilance Of the Alder
men of Dover No French commander would ever
be allowed 10 land except under fire OF addresses
and speechcs Nobody escaped this ordeal. nor
did Sir Garnet Wolseley. IL surely must nave
occurred to him as he stood in the hotel the uhIe-
sisting captive Of these worthy burgesseS' 10"
fuuls and foolish were his merely military oblec-
| tions to a tunnel which would be forever under
| the eve of the Common Council of Dover
| ROYAL recognition may also count for something
| with the future Lord Wolseley Of Cairo Inc dis-
tiuqsbing note of royal courtesy, as we all Know
is a delicate consideration for the convenience OF
| others The Queen has 1t III high degree ono
| holds her court at Bamoral in the height OF the
| Parliamentary session. Radicals who are always
| prnmbleIs have complained that this was lncon'
yenient But criticisms upon the great are usually
| founded Oh imperfect knowledge of the iacis Ihe
! true reason for the Queens stay in Scotland Is 10
| ,nsnre to her Ministers, they succeed one an
| other in attendance on her royal person. leIieI
from the fatigues Of Parliament aud the oppressive
! air of London in summer. When the rOyal pleasure
has to he taken, what be more delightful 10 the
oyerworked Head of a great Department than
railway Journey of GOO miles. long drive over Tie
| hills a nights rest at the Castle. and the journey
| back again the next day and night to Londonf
| Sir Garnet Wolseley arrived in London. having
travelled with hardly break the 8 900 miles from
Cairo He had become Injured to fatigue. A fresh
start TO Balmoral the next night could be but a
prolongaton of the pleasure which, as DR.. johnson
taught us, is to be found in rapid and continued
locomotion. He had. it is true to leave Lazy
Wulseley, whom he had not seen tor some months,
behind HIM He had to decline an invitation for
her and himself to dine with the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales at Marlborough House that evening.
lie had to leave unfulhlled q multitude OF other
engagements. But these arc minor Inconvenience
and not to be weighed for moment againsr the
bouor of dining with his Sovereign on lonely hill
side in North Britain. The Queen moreover. is
not only military ruler but mother. What could
be more beautiful than her impotence to hear from
the commander of her forces in Egypt full nara
tive OF the admirable manner in which the Duke
of Connaught led his brigade to the attack" Sir
Garnet is far too accomplished courier to allow
his royal mistress suspect that the Duke never
led his brigade to the attack at all
II was on Tuesday afternoon about that Sir
Garnet Wolseley reached Banoral. lie had an
audience of Her Majesty and an early dinner, and
started the same afternoon back again. Twelve
hundred miles travel for two hours talk Who
shall say that it is not blessed thing to live under
a Sovereign and that Sovereign a woman 7 He
was in London yesterday morning at the War Office
| by noon and took charge Of his department as Ad
iutant Ceneral and last evening dined out aud was
| the lion of q small party afterward. He certainly
looked none the fol his journeys, nor much
altered by his Egyptian hardshlps. little
browner of course but the keen eye glitered as of
| wore from beneath the full brow, the thin face was
| no thinner the spare light figure as straight a.
| ever and he bowed easily and low before the Prin-
| cess Mary kissing her Gloyed and extended hand,
and recO gcring himself aS alerty as II his muscles
had never been stilened by bullets and sabre cuts,
| bv feyers and exposure 20 half the worst climates
| in the world.
| MIR Herbert Spencer is so considerable person
age that what he says about America has naturally
| occasloned some comment upon it's republication
in ENGLAND. OF the articles which have thus far
appeared the least sympathetic is perhaps that in
| The DAILY Aears When an English critic wishes to
he d,sagreoabe about America, he goes inevitably
| TO Dickens: whose apologies and recantations
never diminished in the least the evil influence Of
| his two worst books. So here we have candid
| Liberal friend quoting from the usual source.
| We must be cracked up, we must" as the
| American ruwdy said to Martin Chuzzlewit but
Mr.. Spencer does not crack the Americans up with
| ont qualifications. Then Mr.. SpeDcer's mild com
plants of fictitious interviewing aud false stories
about his health, his voyage. his sayings. are
| pushed into prominence. The victim frequently
denounced the American habit of dragging private
| people and their affairs into print" 1t is time l
answer. to stop calling this an American habit.
| The habit exists no doubt in America but
wherever it came from and however il grew, it is
to-day in its most developed and elaborate form an
| English habit 1t has long been French habit 1t
| Is to be found Germany. in Italy and other
European countries. Mors's the pity, but Mt Ieas.
/ Il has ceased to be an exclusively or pecnliarlY