New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-25
NOTES FROM LONDON.
MOSTLY PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

If ne could help it, that he was IN London at tnS
dead and empty season | begin, therefore, ny
saving that | am only passing through town.
Moreo rer nobody is here and nothing is golis on
This letter might az well be left unwrtten. l
vrite bccouse there ia nothing else TO do while
waiting over from one train TO another. anu ALSO
because | want to know who the g Mayor OF
Chicopor T.. about whpm | have been reading in
The >ahydqg Rerie,r No doubt ! ought to have
learned ALI about him in the daily papers but ala
moi am afraid have neglected the daily papers
for tie last fortnight When looked into them
thought them II possible cmptior than London
itself But now discover that Il is Chicago Mayor
has been entertained By the Lord Mayor OF Dub-
In, the immortal Dawson; he who on the il"or u
the House offered to Interpose his dead Douy ne
teen tbo tbrn Chief Secretary for Ireland and Mrs.
Dawson. Why Mr. Forster should have been sus-
pectcd of a wish to do bodily harm to Mrs. Dawson
has never been known. but the husband OF MIS-
Dawson has ever since been an object oil interest
TO the British public. Now he Is, or ought TO DO,
of interest to the American public "a tho most OF
this municipal maenate from Chicago, VINO himself
becomes a topic Of inquiry as, in the words OF me
SATURDAY. an ilustrous stranger VINO ehthu5lasuc-
ally drank his o Nn health, and then responded"
Two other things are remarkable IN the chicago
Mayor. First his reference to the war in Egypt as
"a dawn IN the tar East giving glimpse OF
chance OF Irish liberty" This beautiful sentiment
NAV have been suggested to him. must observe,
by the proceedings at the recent OCOnnoll celeora-
ton " hen Il green lag inscribed Arab wIeathcd
the base OF the monument TO the Irsh Lluerator'
Secondly, the ruler of Chicago informed has iehoW
banquete.s that in America there was but one sell
timent-that of sympathy with struggling Ireland
and J suppose with Ter Egyptian ally Surely
Il identity Ct Chicago Mayor who goes about
with these precious items of information cannot be
long concealed.
The version Won Published the other day Of NJ.
Gambettas epieram on The Times correspondent at
Paris NJ Blowitz Is an imperfect one. What NJ.
Gambetta said of VI. Blowitz was this: " I'm tons
Ies rccy Il est juC BohtnieR joHTd'stc, ct decor6
There is a story that NJ Blowitz's animo5lty to the
great Frenchman spIang from rebuff administered
to him by ~ Gambetta. NJ. BlowItz is a person OF
great enterprise and push. 1t does not occur TO
him that anybody whom he wishes to see can nave
any more urgent business than thatOt being seen Oy
NJ Blowitz NJ Uanbetta, though himself
journalist. was disposed to have moments oil phi
vacy 1t is probably pure gossip but Frenchmen
will tell you that NJ. Blowiz one morning, in his
extreme eaeerness for an immediate interview.
found his way into W. Gambetta's bathroom and
ont OF it, Whether for that or some better reason,
il is certain that GOODNESS arose between these
two great men. VI. Blowitl, who some years ago
was the culoeist Of NJ Gambctta, stopped prusIug
him. and began to attack and calnmuiate him' lie
has been allowed to i he Tunes to crafty WHAT
looks very like Il personal grudgc il thai paper
were edited " a man of the world this would not
be allowed Nr Chtnery. in the goodness OF his
heart has perhaps never suspected what was gong
en- Much OF NJ Blowitz's work is of very valid
able kind aud there to be nobody IN the oihce
who cares to discriminate between what Is Nalu-
able and what is worthless. or worse. And nobody
W no can be depended on to Translate VI. Blowltzs
French for IT is in French that he always writes.
NJ Gambctta's contempt for crosses and BITS of
ribbon Is well known. When he was Dictator OF
France one of nis friends remarked to him that he
wore no decorations. " N0H.' laughed he, "Wd8
fen doahc.r The passion has 50 grown IN France
that law has been found necessary to prevent
people from adjoining themselves with symbols OF
dignity to which they are not EMIT ed. Even Eng
lishmen do not disdaIn he Legion OF Honor which
from time To time has been bestowed on makers "a
mustard and bedroom furniture: and duly hung up
by them in their shop windows Tor advertising pur-
poses But after awhile the Chancellor Of the
order invited them TO discontinue this pra .ticc.
and believe it was discontinued.
The Mr.. A. Wilson who occupies halt SEN
deserves a fuller notice. His missing initial, at
least should be restored to him. A. j. II. b.,
think they are. bat hc is commonly AMI con-
ycpicutly known a. Alphabet Wilson. He may be
worth noting by Americans the author OF very
numerous articles on America. IN the journal To
which he is attached and in Some OF tile maya. mes.
lie has or had, more copious stock OF mi~iniorna-
ton about the United states than any other Eng
li,h journalist | can think of. At ST. some two
years ago his mistakes became so frequent, and
we're 80 merciles-y exposed by the course OF
event, that his editor cave Linn leave TO divert his
enrruie, into new channels 1t was observed. even
bv casual readers, that TIE Times which had been
nnhlisblne two or three articles week ou United
States politics. and tie certainty OF General Grants
nomination for the Presidency, all at once grew
dumb. in the very crisis of the struggle the oracle
ceased IFS ut erances and for some months hardly
voice from the tripod was heard. Alter awhile
note or two again went forth, but tentative ana
timid "a If new to the business of prophe>ying.
Sir. Wilson retains his connection with the paper,
but if he has ever resumed his American discourses
he breaches with something less of presumption.
read with interest the other day in a leading
provincial paper that His EXcellcncy the Right
Hon. j. r. Lowell, the American Minister, is stay
ing nj the Royal Hotel IN Whitby.' It's tue
that Nj Lowell WAS in Whtby but why call him
Right ncnoralIc"} Tho mistake is analogous TO
Ii at which thc American Is wont to make IN deal
Ing with English tiucs; predxine for example,
Hon" t. the name Of a political notabillty. An
English writer seldom speaks of an Arkansas
Senator rs the Hon. John Smith, because Hon
CRADLE in England is never political title. 1t Is
applied by courtesy To the son or daughter Of a
peer snpposing the son or daughter has no higher
courtesy title. Right Honorable which suppose
does not exist in America, is in y sense. political
designation. Membership of the Pryy Council
confer, it, Membership of Parliament does not.
Nj Bright Is the Right Hon. John Bright because