The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-03
CABLE SPECIALS.

John Brown and the Oueen-The English
Army Uniform-Carlyle Again Shown to
Be Brute.
Mr.. Jennings Special to New York World.
AT present, truce prevails in political
circles. Mr. Gladstone has gone to Sandring-
ham as the guest of the Prince and Princess
of Wales, and the Earl and Countess of Rose
berry follow him thither tonight. The heir
apparent is entertaining as large party at
sandringham as that by no means colossal
mansion will accommodate.
Various rumors are afloat in different cir
Giles of society concerning the cause of the
death of the Queens personal servant"
John Brown. The doctors explanation that
his death ensued from an attack OF erysipeas
is may say, not credited. Whatever NAV
have been the cause of his DEATH tine loss of
her faithful servant has profoundly affected
the Queen. The tone of the press in noticing
Browns death and the friendship for him of
his royal mistress has been decidedly sympa-
thetic, except in radical qurters, where there
is good deal of sneering and innuendo. John
Browns younger brother succeeds to the post
of confidential servant so that the fortunes
of the family over which the Queen has
always watched very carefully will not suffer
by the death of her longtime and devoted
attendant
The decision to change the uniform of the
army from the time-honored scarlet to the
soberer gray, which is regarded as more in
keeping with the practical spirit of modern
war-naking, staggered the recruiting SER
geants, who feared that in the absence of the
scarlet their occupation, which had already
received severe blow when the Queens
shilling and such undesirable devices for in
ducng men to enlist as getting them drunk
we're discounteranced. and entering the army
became as matter-of-fact piece of business
as Joining the police, would be utterly gone
and forever 1t has, however been decided
to keep the scarlet in the garrison towns, in
order to lure the rustics, but to wear Confed-
crate gray whenever the soldiers are sent out
upon active service. The change, which will
begin soon, is another blow of the reforming
pick-ax in the structure of the old British
army, and by no means the least important
of the alterations begun by Lord Cardwell
and pressed on by Mr.. Cnilders.
The new volume of Mrs. Carlyle's letters,
it is very generally admitted, is another
heavy blow at her husbands reputation,
which had gained something by the publica-
ton of the correspondence with Emerson. 1t
looks very much as if Carlyles friend, Mr..
Froude did not intend to leave the great es-
sayist rag of reputation to cover him.
heard from friend, who is very likely to
be accurately informed, that two volumes of
the late Earl of Beaconsfeld's papers may be
late Premiers friend and trusted secretary,
Lord Rawton, has been decidedly stirred up
by tine recent attacks upon his chief and will
probably make such a selection from among
the stores of material at his command as will
not lack for actnality at this time.
Mr. smalley's Letter to New York Tribune.
John Browns decease ELECTS from the
Queen one OF the most extraordinary tributes
ever paid by mistress to servant. The Eng
fish public, long familiar with the exceptional
position occupied by John Brown, accept
with gravity whatever the Queen chooses to
say, the newspapers treating bis death as a
public event and publishing elaborate and
eulogistio biographies. The French press in
sisted that John Brown was the Queens ad-
wiser in domestic ana state affairs, and
indulge in some very equivocal and I'M
founded romancng reciting numerous anec-
dotes, presumably imaginary, illustrating
his behavior to French notabilities.
Mrs. Carlyle's letters provoke fresh out
burst in the Times Of bitter hatred toward
Carlyle, the writer accusing him of indiffer-
ence. neglect, extreme self-indulgence and
mean paIsimony TO her, and also of arousing
his wife's jealousy by protracted Irritation
with Lady Ashburton, The articles sum-
Marie the relations OF husband and wife in
the remark that Carlyle appreciated her
within the measure of a most miserable ma
ture. This review is apparently an effort to
neutralize the kindlier general feeling to Car
lyle, springing from the Emerson correspond
ence.
The Macmillans, in reference to Mr.. Julian
Hawthorne's statement in the Tribune of
March ~ repeat that he never supplied the
last two installments of Fortunes Fool"
but did receive pay for them, and was paid a
further sum for the right of publication in
book form. The novel remains incomplete.
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