New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-28
NOTES FROM LONDON.
,c.DEMCAL, SOCIAL, Personal, LlIEh-
AIRY

AIRY.
lfho LONDON, November I'll
| lord Rosebery upon his arrival In Aus'raiia
he met with the news that'the University VI u
hrrob of which he is Lord Rector mas ioOoH
| oganst him. By majority OF hfty-t"o VIZ 70. -
Mr. TreyeIyan Sir Stafford Northcote was eiece t %
Saturday TO succeed Lord Rosebery. Inc hl9t ,Ii,
Aection one has to make IN tho - nt
interest is that the students anu wv
side world have missed what wouid 'l'iion3
ho,,o been n most interesting ana oiil',
pnotorialaddress Mr. Trevelyan lisa schoiii' AN,
- ono He is also master Of style OF sinsui",
600 and finish; fit vehicle for the vigorous %n
irdonondent thinking which he haDltuaiiS "PP
IN his subject Sir Stafford Northco'c' en-
personal character and long service "ouiu 10
Giant titles 10 this sort of honor agalhs i.'
,rished opponent will not be likely 10 ul9dpPoNV
exncctation. because he will raise none no Is Ju'
q little dull the excellent man. Inc Cohsci '"'i''
i,o orc thankful for small mercies, are sounding
tho Tory trumpet pretty loudly over the triumph
Of Sir stafford Northcote They are entitled TO make
= 1;t+,e noise but not too much. Scotland is not
I;lolv IN rush bodily into the Conservative ranks
Locansc minority of the students of the University
of Edinburgh have sgniGed their preference Tor a
Conservative as Lord Rector over Liberal. lSay q
minority because in addition to the votes gwen
Mr.. Trevelyan some two or three hundred VIEW
.Iro,rn away on Professor Backie. 1t was known
90 o,orvbodv Int Professor Blackie himself that be
hod No chance Int he and his friends kept his name
nm and drew off votes enough from Mr. Treyelyan
IN defeat him Professor Baclie is man whom II
is rather the fashion to regard IN Ednbureh aS
harmless enthusiast. .But when his enthusiasm Is
turned upon himself, it may, as IN TINS case ITO
mischief He is eccentric, and delights in his own
eccentricities of what. Is due 10 o'heIS Is
| not to be reckOned among them.
But since writing this last paragraph find 1he
Scotsman saving plainly that Professor Blacke's
| condidature was trick. lie was supported by a
| bodv of studerts who think pOiitcs ought to nave
| notbino Ia do with the contest. This "lndepehd-
| ont - movement however was used by the COnser'-
otives ofwhom many Joined Professor BlacKie scol-
mittee ONLY to induce Liberals to do the Sahej ana
then deserted il when thevOtng day came PROFESSOR
Rlacke seems to have lent himself to Conservative
uses He made a speech after the election III whlch
| he said nobody reoiced more than he did IN tic
| election of Sir Stafford Northcote
The English papers, Conservative organs ex-
cented seek to belitte the electon-ony parcel OF
bovs voting they say. But the post of Lord Rector
| Of the University of Edinburgh is one OF dignity
and one which many eminent men have thought IT
| nm honor TO hold; Mr.. Gladstone and Mr.. Carlyle
| on,opg the number The Scottish Wow is that the
election of Lord Rector by the students completes
the due representation of all parts OF the university
in the University Court. Not n few OF the stu
dents look upon the whole thing as lark and there
is q good deal of horsepay and some violence some
of the wilder spirits came into collision WIN inc
polce and there were arrests. But arrests Dy INC
nolice have been known in connection with other
electoral contests. and never heard that it was
proposed to abolish popular suffrage in New-l OK
because a certain number Of Irishmcn turned an
election into free fight.
| Comment continues some of the social scandals
with which the Northern Pacific and Yellowstone
Park excursions have enriched the annals oil m'eT-
national friendships. "Sone OF those VINO went
West - saws The Uord. "as guests In the party OF
Mr. Hatch seem TO have outraged all decency; and
very severe reflections are made especially on two
Young descendants of lone of our eminent Flaw
! lords which they should surely, for their own
credit. refute if they can" And the old story OF
l Lord H. who went to dinner party IN Ncw-l DIX
in morning coat is repeated with one addition
| which TO me is new. "Ah!" said his host see
YOU don't know our ways. ] will wait with pleas
ure until you have changed your dress iha'
Lord Y. did the same thing at Newport we nave
heard. but who can Lord L. be- who gave check
Z for a considerable sum which was returned dshon-
ored ~ After another story or two, Atlas con-
cludes: {" 1t is really blessing when such men as
$ the Dukes of Buckingham and Sutherland, Lords
b Dunlaven, Elphinstone, and men OF that stamp
visit the United States as a set-O To the miserable
specimens of the Peerage and the sprigs of nobility
who bring dscrcdit on their order there EXPIRES
sions of this sort are, naturally more frequent ii
private than in public but they deserve attention
when they occur NOnotion could be further from Tho
truth than that Englshmen look with .complacencJ
OF indifference on English breaches OF good manner
in another country and above all III the United
States.
Il Lord Lorne it is said in reward of his service
G as Canadian Vceroy, is to be made Peer The
title by which he is to be called up before his TIM
- | to the House of Lords is not settled HIS lathe
= does not sit as Duke of Argyll; the Dukcdom
d being onlya Scotch Dukedom and comforting III
i other legislative right than that of being candi
; date to sit as a representative Peer. The Duk
~ sits and votes as Baron Snndridge of the United
n Kingdom. The Marquis of Lomc, therefore, can
- not well be turned into an English Marquis. III
ID would take precedence of his own father. TIN
J. most satisfactory and probable plan, says CORE
n spondent of much good information, would be 4
u make the illustriOus Dukcdom of Argyll a Pcrrag
- Of Great Britain, and permit the Marquis Of Lorn
To take his seat in virtue of the British Peerage q
- Snndridyc But that is a proposal which
apprehend existing Dukes in the British Pecrag
would have something to say. Lord Lornes poll
tics also are to be considered Is he supporter q
is Mr. GladstOnes Ministry or is he like his fatbcl
N a supporter at times and at times an opponents Nj
'r Gladstone would hardly to increase tn
N already overwhelming majority Of Conservatives il
q House which gives him quite trouble enough a
it is.
The Queen, however, will have even more voic
in this matter than the existing Dukes who
10 strictly speaking, have none Her Majesty Is uu
derstood to object strongly to the theory that he
Of royal prerogaye passes for such purposes into tn
n hands of the Prime Minister. Constitutional soy
e eroign yes, but also "A woman with a strong will
10 Of her own Only the other daY. in SLIGHT /;