New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-16

much excuse. IL our friendly words at such BAN
quets as that of yesterday mean anything, they
ought TO mean more. liberation for dynamite Is
not included in any definition of freedom or friend
ship.
If you really care, IN odd moments, for foreign
opinion, you may possibly read with interest the
following paragraph, which copy from London
journal reputed to have daily circulation OF
20, 900 copies:-
We noted that DR.. Tslmage's daughter was mar
red the other day at Brooklyn, and that the Dride
was adorned with pearls and diamonds. we nov
learn from an American contemporary that Dr. lal-
images church, which consists OF 27,77o persons
gave last year to Home Missions $l92, TO Foreign
Missions S112, and TO education $95. Dr. lalmage
expend all its money upon itself.
1t is to be noted, also that Dr. Talmage has been
in England, and that English opinion on him and
his charge is not wholly dependent on kilograms or
newspapers arriving from your side of the Atlantic
Assiduous readers of Court Intelligence must have
rubbed their eyes when they saw tho name Of Sir
Charles Dixie included in the list of Her Majesty's
dinner-party last evening at Windsor. Changed
indeed. are the times since those earlier and more
radical days when the baronet who sits for Chelsea
was Overhauling Her Maiesty's Civil List opposing
votes for grants of money to the young Princes and
Princesses and, in general way, making things
disagreeable for royalty. II is well-knOwn that the
Queen then and much later than then, expressed in
no measured terms her resentment at the course
which Sir Charles Dixie thought it his duty to take
How his father had place about the court, how he
had been made baronet by the personal nterces-
sion of Prince Albert, how he, and by consequence
his son, owed everything to royal and princely
favOrs and how unateful it was of the son to reno
the hand that had fed him-these aud other equal
ly sharp comments were heard not at the court only
but wherever court sunshine was diffused When
Mr. Gladstone present Administration was formed,
the gossip of London would have it that Sir Charles
had been excluded from the Cabinet by the express
personal command and prohibition of Her Majesty.
Never shall that man kiss hands while an Queen
duoth the Sovereign on one memorable occasion.
And vet circumstances proved stronger than
strong woman's will. Sir Charles became Cabinet
Minister spite of the protest of the Great Lady he
had offended. And now he is a guest at Windsor
Castle. Summoned, they say, because the Queen
wanted TO hear about those excursions among the
slums which the papers, some of them, have so
industriousy chroniced day by day. | heard a
man not long since offer to lay three to one that no
copy of the Tally Ners for three weeks past could be
produced which did not contain some account of Sir
Charles bikes movements, some reference to MN
as the future Prime Minister, some eulogy on his
abilities, % In me, SOME HetlOH VI HIS hdc' b"1
no man was found rash enough to take this bet.
Who is "Mr. Hancock of Pennsylvania ~ Not,
presume the distinguished General of that name.
This Mr. Hancock HIS written n Free Trade
| pamphlet under the catch-penny title Petroleum
| against Protection" and the Golden Club has
given him silver medal for it. The careful COM
mittee of that club warned him, so l read in an
English paper, that in accepting the testimonial
/ 4 hiu
trymen against his labors in behalf of Free Trade.
But the magnanimOus Mr.. Hancock asks to be per-
mitted to differ from the committee in their I'M
preston that any large amount of prejudice exists
| in America against the Golden Club" 1t is true,
signs ne that in America, as in every other demo-
cratic country, there are demagogues These dem
| agogues are they who differ from Mr. Hancock and
! the Golden Club on the subject of Protection; who
think it wiser to foster American industries than
! To omen American markets without restriction to
| British manufactures. The great majority of the
American people in short, according to MIR. Han
cock demagogues for they steadfasty opposed TO
! the creation of British monopolies in the United
| States silver medal does not seem = high price
for spreadng abroad belief of this sort. Mr.. Pot
ter and his associates will delight 20 be told by
an American that it is only from interest prejudice,
or mistaken Judgment that Americans arc hostile to
the work of the Golden Club. But what sort of a
figure does an American cut who, for single piece
of silver thus libels his cOuntrymen abroadf
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