New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-16
NOTES FROM LONDON.
POLITICAL, PERSONAL, MISCELLANEOUS.

ifEoS ih'' LONDON, Oct. 20.
foupd on returning TO London the other
dov that report was making its way In GER
tain circles that the movement for an Orleah-
ist restoration in France was likely soon to become
serious The story is not on the face OF II, very
credible but you may like to read what an eA-
tremelv wcll-infomed correspondent in Paris
whose note reaches me to-day, has TO say on the
subject.
"Itake this opportunity of remarking that think
tbe London clubs wrong in their estimate OF the
Connie de Pariss chances of restoring the monarchy
He is neither good enough, i'll the sense of mental
and goodness nor scoundrel enough to ascend
SO high as his ambition prompts him to mount For
what he has, he should, if he had sehknowledge
pray the Lord to III axe him truly thankful ana
satisfied"
The bestOwal Of Garter is not perhaps, matter
of supreme Importance to the world in general. Ii
il of some Importance to him who gets It, ana 10
the disapponed candidates who had hoped 10 get
+ and did not. But the one just given to the Dnke
of Argyll is said TO have history not without IT'S
political significance. RumOrs have for some TIME
been current that the Duke of Argyll would re-
enter the Cabinet, or would in some way resume
bisconnection with the Government which he quit
ted in 1881 on account of the Irish Land BILL
There has been talk of overtures from Mr. Glad
Duke 1t no longer matters much who made them
The Gift of the vacant Garter is understood TO sig
nify that the Duke of Argyll will not again
ioin Mr.. Gladstone's Ministry. 1t Is offered
and accepted i'll full satisfaction OF Oil the
Dukes claims if claims he have, and grievances II
grievances may be supposed to exist His neutral
ity Is henccforward to be benevolent neutrality
So has it, for that matter, on more than one occa-
sion since his retirement from Office.
| do not my self believe the Duke of Argyll to DE
the kind of man whose views of public questions
would be controlled by selfish considerations. Ills
views. whether right or wrong, arc at least sincere.
Glass prejudices may affect him. His notions OF
what is due to landlord may he colored 10y tho
fact that he is himself landlord, and one OH whom
the hardships of land-owning at one time bore
heavily. He passes in Scotland for being e&-
tremely stiff in his dealings with his ten
ants But with all that, he is high-mlnded'
honorable above the suspicion of traffic IN Offices OF
dignities He accepts the Garter, don't doubt as
a tribute due to his rank and personal distinction
So il is Another story makes the Queen the imnc-
diate author of this gift The Queen is sure to nave
had something to say i'll the matter, but MI Uiao-
stone is not tho man to abandon the prerogatlNcSol
his position as Prime Minister. There has been
thought TO be an incompatibiity between the Uar-
ter and the Thistle, and one man seldom wears
IL
the Garter is given him. But in the Duke of Ar
gyll's case the Queen as a mark of special favor
allows him to keep the Thistle also.
The most striking feature of the November num-
Der of Macman's The English Illustrated Magazine
Ia cumbrous title is series of illustrations by Mr
| X. W. Macbeth, A. X. A., of the Fens. These are
engraved on wood in close imitation of what |
supnose NAV here In, called the American manner
Tho effects of light and shade caught sharply
enough but the English work leaves much to he
desired in decacy and decision Of cutting MI.
Macbeth ! should say, has felt the fen country.
He has not tried TO reproduce the fat loneliness OF
IT, but TO suggest it, Mr. J. II. ShOrthouse, whom
it seems still necessary TO describe to the puDhc
AS the author of John lnglesant," contrib
utes to this number spiritual romance en-
titled The Little SchOolmaster Mark professor
Huxley concludes his paper on oysters and the
oyster question winding mp with characteristic
cally confident expression of his belief that means
Of breeding oysters will be discovered. Il have no
doubt SAYS he, "that when those who undertake
the business are provided with proper knowledge
of the conditions under which they have to work.
then the thing will be done. The words were hardly
in type whom English paper published an account
of the process recently discovered in America. Mr..
Bernard H. Becker writes Oh brass work at Biz
mingham an article which, Notwithstanding Ms
title, has nothing TO do with the "Celebrties at
Home" which he supplies weekly 10 n society Jour
nal for which Mr.. Becker fills the office of profess
sionaI intcrviewer-flls it, must say, with tact
and marked ability. and singuary few faults of
taste The circulation of this venture -, hear
very large, the first number having 10 be reprinted
more than once. Mr.. Comeyns Carr does his editing
with discretion, knowledge and enterprise lie
would obge his readers if he could indnce Me-srs.
Macmillan not to inter the table Of contents among
a rank overgrowth of advertisements.
The American illustrated magazines, still APP
prohcnd hold their own albeit the prlceOf them
remains in one case double and in the other (which
is a mistakel four pence more than double that
of this new English rival They everywhere
to lie met with or, if they not are in demand.
The other day in Scotland. was taken over a Work
ingman'- Institute by the benefcent founder of it,
There was pretty good supply Of books and papers
but room for more. 1t appeared, on inquiry, that
nothing was moro desired than HGrpo's and me Cea-
turn; tho former Of which had made its way even
into this remote hamlet of North Britain.
] receiyed last night letter bearing the postmark
San Francisco, October 10, l p. m..-fftccn days
from the Pacific coast TO the banks OF the Thames.
This. suppose, is better time than is commonly
made The letter left New-York last Wednesday,
October IT, and it certainly is not common for
Wednesdays Ncw-YOrk mails to be delivered in
London on lnuiSudS evening OI lnc WICK lOllOW-
ing as this was The North German Lloyd steam
ship Vera brought it, and the mails by the Arizona,
of the Onion Line, which left the day before, were
received that same Thursday morning. consort
of the Arizona-the Alaska-performed Il week or
two before the all but unprecedented feat of deliy-
erpg her mails in London tho morning Of the
eighth day from her departure from New-York.
1t was announced some time since that the Brit
sh Post Once had at last resolved TO break with its
time-honorod Tor dishOnored custom Of sending the
American mails by slow ships. Upon the expira-
ton of present contracts the American system to
bc adopted and the fastest ships will De selected