New-York tribune., 1883-06-18
NOTES FROM LONDON.
,,oN,,- -MIscELLANEoUs-LITERARY.

49, ondon for afew days and starts for Madrid,
e.. Paris. on Thursday. He dined with Lord Gran
Si,,e on Saturday. This venture to mention only
because am sure none of the Aldermen OF newton
are among your readers, nor any OF the dynami'o
n.triots who were lately about to blow up the
Brooklyn Bridge. For thsdinnero OF Lord GranviIes
was an official dinner given by him as Foreign Secre
taryin celebration ofthe Queens Birthday NO lIish
man can think of food In such connection "i'hou'
gnashng his teeth. Mr. Lowell was present at 'ne
same banquet. but Mr. Lowells offences are already
an numerous that one more outrage upon tne pa'ir
otic sentiment of true Irishmen hardly matters
General Foster pushed his shameful neglect OF lrlsh
s.o,;nr so far as to attend the reception gwen py
T.dv Granville the same evening at the Foreign
Oascs.-be and Mrs Foster and the young ladies OF
.,oirnarty Nay they all going tomorrow 10 the
S,ots Rail- at Buckingham Palace to which neither
A." piccor nor the newest of Irish martyrs, Mr..
ruo,r;no oton. has been invited. Now General Foster
has but lust been appointed by President Arthur
annointed on the purely frivolous ground (such MI
Conkling must consider it that he is the best man
for the post, at moment when business ls 10 oe
dome recurring Minister who knows Spanish, ana
who is also trained and capable diplomatisi. Inc
.olect;on has clearly been made without any
reference whatever to the Irish vote If this be not
case for the exercise of the supervisory power of
tbe New-York Aldermen over foreign missions and
Ministers. those self-sacrihcng patriots might as
well abandon their jurisdiction at once and for
ever.
If the bill for reforming the municipality of Lon
don he sacrificed as everybody ynow believes then 1t
is for more reasons than are given publicly. want
of time is a perfectly sufficient excuse; so is want
of unanmity in the Cabinet as to important provl-
s;ons of the measure Now the report of those likely
to know Is that the bill has been kept back to thls
late day and will finally be shelved because there are
two parties in the Ministry with reference TO the
question of police. Shall the police OF London De
under the control of the new elective municipality,
or shall il remain as the Metropolitan Police now
is with the Home Secretary The two parties who
divide on this most grave matter consist Of hrst,
Mr. Gladstone. who is for handing thepoice over TO
the municipality secondly, the rest of the Cabinet
of whom every sin gle member, Mr. Gladstoneexcept-
ed is opposed to renQuishing the control over TINS
force which the Government now has. And so the
bill hangs fire. The existence of division SO curl
GUS as that shows may add, where the centre OF
power in the Cabinet must be sought Time has
been when a Prime Minister would have been con-
tent to he outyoted on such Question, and would
have given way If he had been. Not so Mr. Glad
stone.
What do you suppose the Cabinet Council of Sat
and some pressing subiects-the state of public busi
ness in the House, French aggression Ill Tonqun
and Madagascar, a new italian Ministry the immi-
nent possibility of disaster at Moscow,-which of
these took most time in discussngi No ono of
them hear The subject to which the Ministers of
the Crown devoted most of their valuable afternoon
aas the proposal to remove the statue of the Duke
Of Wellington. That gaunt and ghastly eihgy of
great man stands now on the ground opposite Hyde
Park corner hard by the road for the sake of
which the arch on Constitution Hill has been pulled
down and the statue which once crowned IL low
cred to earth. Everybody reoces that this master
piece has been displaced. Where 1t was, 1t dlsiig-
ured one of the finest mural views in the world that
from the bridge over the Scrpentine In Hyde Park,
looking to the west and south. A committee ap'
pointed to determine what should he done with the
monster voted with unanimity that he should be
established inside the ratings Of ST. James's Park,
inst opposite the Horse Guards Gladly no doubt,
would they have voted for burying or melting 1t
down, had they but had penary powers. To move
the Duke however, is job which formed no part OF
the contract for which Mr.. Shaw Lefevre cleverly
found the money. The Cabinet had therefore TO
consider whether they would ask Parliament for
money enough to effect the transfer. TO this, as to
most proposals for spending on anything but abso-
lute necessities. the Prime Minister opposed.
the monument would be a tolerabe thing In its new
Site Ultimately. it settled that wooden
model should first be made and set up to See how 1t
vould look, But il is doubtful whether the most
cunning copyist Will be able produce an imitation
so hIdeous the original
The iIl-uck of London in the matter of statues is
proyerbial and the newest Of them all is hardly an
exception to the rule. Lord Beaconsield indeed. is
Lace hon NJ ms nre0ecegSOrS
his immediate associates in the quarter where
Signor Raggi's presentment of hun stands. don't
know whether IL has been remarked that the statue
has been so placed as to allow Sir Robert Peel 10
turn his back on his enemy. That may be some
consolation to him for the singular honor offered by
this generation to the party leader who first sought
Office from his party chief ana when lie had been re-
fused deserted and rcvled him.
There ia An inconvenience in men who are not
warriors giving orders about war. Whether the
ceremony Of trOoping the colors on the Queen
birthday be an operation Of war may be question
Perhaps il is also "A question whether the Prince OF
Wales be "A man OF war, but certain 1t is that tho
postpopement of this military festivity was by the
Princes orders The inconvenience, hear, was
very considerable; was. in fact more than II the
troops who were already under arms. had been
permitted TO finish their review IN the rain. 10
make matters worse, tbs Prince ordered the parade
for Monday. and this order transmitted through
the Duke of Cambridge and the Adutant to the
commanding officers Of The troops. Ono OF them
hurried to Gloucester House to explain to the
Duke that what he had directed to be done was I'M
possible. The troops were already wet through.
They had been marched Oft for guard duty, they
would not be in barracks before night they could
not begin TO get themselves ready for fresh parade
before Sunday, they would have to be kept ia all
Sunday, to the general discomfort lof the whole
garrison of London; in short. the royal order could
4. olovaA v-ifbout couseOuenceg of the dlrest