New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-22

know, refused By the Prime Minister in terms no
less distinct than deferential. And now comes this
suggestion of post for which his claims or qualif-
cations, other than royalty of blood, are utterly
undiscoverable. 1t says something for the cool
sense of the British public that the hint found no
support in any important quarter.
The Duke of Marlborough who died suddenly of
acute heart disease early Thursday morning was
not great man, but he was the descendant of
great man, and he was Duke. You may read. &C
cordingly to-day cUpious accounts of him, and
t is perhaps curious to note that the one journal
which gives him the foremost place in its leader
columns is the organ of Liberalism. He had two
three claims on the attention of those who sur
vive him. When Lord Blandford he passed an act
for strengthening the Established Church IN large
towns by the subdivision of big parishes. confess
read with soma establishment that this Act is what
will cause him TO be longest remembered. One must
be Of the Church. and devoted to the Church before
all things, IN order to be able to take such view
as that. The generality will remember the seventh
Duke of Marlborough as Lord Bcaconsfield's Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland He made very good Vice
roy in respect OF the ordinary functions falling to
the Queens representative. and he was made Ia
nous to all the world when Lord Beaconsheld adj
dressed to any Lord Duke" the manifesto which
preceded the general election of 1850. IL was lh
the time of his yjceroyalty that Home Rule grew
to strength which led Lord Beaconsield 10 do-
nounce it as ~ danger in its ultimate results
scarcely less disastrous than pestlence and famine
Mt. Parnells INSCRIPTIONS agitation had the
excuse and aid of two bad harvests and much coll
sequent distress The Duke. and more especially
the Duchess, herself Irish by birth, daughter Oh
the Duke Of Abercorn. undertook to relieve thls
distress by appeals to English generosity resulting
kl.s. Ia IN
whom Mr. Godkin holds up to pity as the object Oh
English hatred.
Perhaps in later DAYS the Duke Of Marlborough
has been not less widely known as the father oil
Lord Blandford and Of Lord Randolph Churchill
Lord Blapdford has attained distinction as the
extremely radical son of an extremely conserva-
tive father; with views on the land and some otner
questions which might go near to be Thought social
istlc. He has achieved an equal notorIety ss de-
tendant In divorce suit in epainful circumstances
on which this surely Is not the moment 10
dwell. Lord Randolph latterly has done MS
brother the service of eclipsing him In the puDnc
mind and him are in no present danger Oh DC
ing allowed to forget Add to these claims upon
the general attention the fact that the late Duke
brought to the hammer and dispersed over the
world the famous library collected by his ancestor
the third arl OF Sunderland Add finally that he
II was who moved and seconded the rejection on
the third reading in the House of Lords Of The De-
ceased Wifes Sister bill service for which there
are Churchmen who would checrfully csnonize
him.
The American Minister and the American Consul
General both announced afternoon receptions for
Jolly Fourth. At the Consulate it hmay be taken to
have been also sort Of ouse-warminR for the new
rooms, which are now moro BETTING the dignity OF
the Government and Nation to whose commercial
interests they are supposed to give shelter. Mr.
Lowell opened, not the Legation, which is too sual
for Inequalities but his house in Lowndes-sQuare'
and the rooms on two floors were filled from 8 10
6. Guests found themselves among throng OF ther
ON countrymen, with here and there an English
man who came to express his friendly respect Tor
the United States or for her representative. There
were believe. no celebrations or dinners. Not
few Americans accepted the Irving dinner as a
sufficient substitute for the exclusively national
festivals common on this day-the single day. as
Mr. Lowell remarked to which Americans. perhaps
alone among great communities. con:ine their
national s-lf-laudation. Lord Coleridge went 30
far as to say that the day was becoming more ana
more a British anniversary remark when may
induce our Irish American friends 10 sentence him
once more to death. o. W. .