New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-10
NOTES FROM LONDON.
RELATING MOSTLY TO PERSONS OF CELEB
RITY

RELATING MOSTLY To PERSONS OF CELIsD-
RITY.
IRON REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or The TRIBuSEl
LONDON May 90
The proposal of the Bar Association of New-York
TO make Lord Chief Justice Coleridg &c their guest
from the time Of his leaving Liverpool, is but Ill re-
ceiyed by some of the Lord Chief Justices country
men. There are Engllshmen, including SOME adj
dicted to the law, who say that great dignitary.
the head of great profession, should not allow his
passage across the Atlantic and back TO be paid by
foreigners or anybody else. They respect the large
sentiment of hospitality which dictates the New
York proposal but they would have respected still
morethe sentiment of professional and personal
dignity in Lord Coleridge which ought think these
cavaliers, to have led him to decline the
offer. Perhaps this scruple Is only
the corollory to the more general ono,
existing also in full force here. which would have
had him decline the invitation altogether. forget
whether have quoted remark heard which was
obviously made in order to be quoted that the Lord
Chief Justiceship Of England was never meant TO
be colported about in foreign lands Other remarks
also / might quote but will not Is not the Eng
Iishman by blrthrigbt grumber And why should
the wel-meant zeal of the New-York Bar be eX-
posed to this captiousness from abroadI
The very circumstantial and rather distressing
story that Mr. John Bright was about TO marry the
sister of his first wife is ut Last contradiced with
authority Oddly enough, Mr.. Bright, about the
time when this piece of gossip, long current pri-
yately, was flying about in public. became engaged
in arguing with some clergyman the questionable
thesis that an illegal marriage union is not. may
not be. immoral. He does regard the present state
of the law in England on that subject rs inquiious;
rightly SO and the Rev. Mr.. Tucker who challenged
him to say why did not cut beautiful figure at the
end of their brief correspondence. But all that IS
no reason why Mr. Bnghfs friends should see with
pleasure such an experiment as that imputedto him;
above ALL at-hi age, and at this moment II
he or an ybody else must marry his deceased wifcs
sister he has only to possess his soul his coal in
patience for, probably. few weeks more. Lord
Dalbousie's bill legaliznc such marriages comes on
in the House of Lords early next month-June ii,
think. There IS every probability that it Will be
passed. 1t was defeated last year by three votes
only, and by a series of mischances not likely TO
occur again Once through the Lords, it Is only
question of opportunity in the House of Commons.
where a similar measure has repeatedly been car
ried by enormous majorties-nore than 100 last
time. The combined forces of the Tories and the
Irish may of course pitch upon this or any othcr
disputed bill as a convenient means OF obstruction.
So long as Lord Randolph Churchill and Mr.. Warton
and Mr.. Bggar are in n position to unite against
common enemy it is idle to predict that tins that
bill will become law. The most say Is that
the deceased wife's sister has as good chance as
anybody can have this year, IN private hands
The majority Of Ministers favorable to 1T. but
il will not be made ministerial measure. Every
thing that the clergy of the Established Church can
do to defeat it will be done to the extent OF
accepting Mr.. Warrior champion of the faith,
and Mr. Biggar as the uphOlder of strict morality
between the sexes
Mr.. Leslie Stephens appointment to the Clark
Iectureship in English Literature lately founded at
TRINITY College, Cambridge, is welcomed by every
body who has at heart the interests OF English lit
erature and who cares to see the noble study res
cued from the neglect which is all that the uniyer-
sites have hitherto bestowed upon it. Dir. stephen
is scholar and student in the high sense OF those
words: critic. also, who can do something besides
find fault; writer Of excellent English, and deli
cate Judge of the English and OF the thoughts and
sp,rit of those who have gone before him. Lately
we all rejoced over his selection by Messrs Smith
4 Elder TO edit the new Geographic Britannica"
This lcctureship need not, and presume Will not.
interfere in the least with the due performance
that other far laborious task IL
ia not the habit of the English Univer-
sty TO oyertask its lecturers professors MI Leslie
stephen will DO expected to give courses OF lee
tures-perhaps two or three in each year. not more
The outer world may be permitted to hope that
these will ultimately be published. though not per-
haps. reported in the daily papers, as Mr. Ruskins
on contemporary art now The popularity OF
Mr. Ruskins discourses IT, however, due not only 10
Mr. Ruskin's immense fame and general brilliancy
of method but TO the other fact that be is at present
expressing his opinions sensations, prejudices, con-
yictions and judgments for the time being on living
artists and their work.
The death of NJ. Edouard Laboulaye. reported TO-
day from Paris, recalls TO mind the last time saw
him in public on the stage of the socalled Academy
of Music, Of NJ. Victor Hugo's Light City OF the
Worldr forget the date, perhaps 1T was the
Fourth of July. but the meeting ] can hardly DO
wrong in thinking had for its object the promotion
of subscriptions to the statue scheme OF NJ Bar
thold, for the benefit ofNew-York Hsrbor. M. La
bonlaye delivered address to large audience
which ipcIpded Mr.. washburne. then Minister OF
the limited States to France land an excellent one he
va., The address was what Is called historical
and dealt with tho American Revolution; gave an
account or outline of that struggle to the assembled
Freucnmsn. At times as II. Labouaye rounded MS
carsfuI periods. pincbed myself to make sure