New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-28
NOTES FROM LONDON.
POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Of EdinbuIgh when it bee known that DR..
Clarke had forbidden Mr. Gladstone to pay bis long
Promised visit to his constituents next week OF
rVurse not, but WHEN one reads the rrcapltulaton
of he work cut out for the Prime Minister bv his
loo enthusiastic friends outside of Edinburgh, the
regret that such demands not TO be compiled
with may be mitigaed little. Consider the Edin-
burgh programme alone. Mr. Gladstone was 10 au-
dress meeting at Dakeith on Tuesday heAe' W
address a meeting at West Calder "n Wednesday,
TO receive all address from the RoseDery CiuD on
Tbursday afternoon; to attend banquei ana maAo
o speech that same evening at the Corn Exchanges
and on Friday evening to speak to @ great meeting
IN the same place. holding il recolleet rlehtiy,
some 1000 persons Each day he would nave
driven rerbaps fifteen miles to and from his meet
IDgs- AZ il all this, adds The Scotsman. were not
enough the Edinburgh Liberal Association were
pressing for q hearing the Chamber oil Agriculture
had maze like request; several other bodies were
anxious to get him among them Paisley offered
him the freedom of the burgh; Glasgow wanted him
,oI speech of some kind. And it does not appear
that MIR, Gladstone had definitely declined any of
these Cd ger invitations.
But then Lord Salisbury and Sir Stafford North
cote are to remain unanswered, cries some assion-
ate Tory. The Dual Chiefs of the Conservative
party were, il IL true, III Scotland not very long
ngo. and made speeches. But it pusses human ere
dulity TO believe that anybody now remembers
what either of them said Is in want OF an answer
to heir remarks from Mr.. Gladstone. Lord Rose
berry in ent brief and brilliant speech at Pee
bIes gave description of the jaunt of these eminent
tourists. There are visits aud VISITS. said he.
Sometimes you want to BEE man and lie wants to
eer you, and the visit means an interview. Somt-
times you only leave card. LORD Salisbury and
cir Stafford NOrthcote have left their cards in Scot
land. That witty account of the matter is per-
fecll, true one. The visit a fOrmalty. IL pro-
uuced no lasting impression. and only tie pure par
Esan cOuld foim grOtesque conception of Mr..
Glsdstone's purpose to suppose he felt called
npOn TO neutralize the effect of the Tory mission
which had preceded his.
The appointment OF Lord Edmond Fitzmaurce
Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs is a recognition
of exceptional abilities and independence of char
acier. Lord Edmond is one of the few members of
the House of Commons who have studied Continental
politics carefully. Nobody disputes his capacity OF
knowledge, but because be is not radical enough
ON a certain domestic question. the more intoer-
ant of the Radicals have raised an cutlery against
Mr. Gladstones choice Perhaps they would have
preferred Mr. Peter Rylands. The tnth is that
LOrd Edmond FitznaurIre is politician who takes
tie liberty of thinking for himself. He has more
than once opposed Mr.. Gladstone in matters which
the rlne Minister had very much at heart. Mr.
Gladstone able to forget this. Some of his SUP
pOrters, who are more royalist than the King. can
not With them. indeed. it is permissible to think
differently from the Liberal chef. to thwart hIGl
and TO intrigue against a Minister whom he has SO
lected But this is ON condition that if yon dGer
from Mr.. Gladstone you shall agree with MIR
Chamberlain. If the authority of Downng.st. is
til 81 hon, ha
accepted. The real offence of Lord Edmond Ftz
maurice is moi that he sometimes declined to fcllnw
the Liberal leader, but that he has steadily held
aoof from the Executive OF the Caucus. II would
be odd if be had not. The aim OF that sec: ion
of he Libei ais who recognize Mr.. Chamberlain ~
their captain is TO drive from public life every Lib
eral who aiIl not pronounce th~ir sh' bbUIeth
Even if Lord Edmond did that, he would not satisfy
everybody. Tie old complaint has beeu heard that
be is aristocrat Bat if man is born brother to
the Marquis OIL Iansdowne how is he TO help that
Perhaps it is not altogether a doubtful title TO
American regard TO I've the descendant of Lord Shell
burne. Of that distinguished statesman Lord tG-
mona Ftzmaurice has written an an pie aud excel
lent Life and he becomes Under Secretary for For
sign Affairs just hundred years after his ancestor
made peace with the United States Not q bad
wav of celebrating centennial
III appears tneIe Is "a singular OF PORTRAITS
Gambetts photographs excepted. 1 cannot hear
that during bis lifetime he sat to any hodg but NJ.
Legros who painted him for Sir Charles Dixie in
1877, the year in which Gambetta saved the Re
public from The Seize Mai conspiracy. NJ Legros
about the same time made an etching. partly from
the picture and partly from life, and this is the
only likeness of any artistic value procurable-at
any rate. the only Que procuTablc in London. rhe
etching in n. Leeros's well-knUwn manner
iearned free Ia handling, yet severe in It's selfm.
posed limitations of trealmeni, with q marked con
tempt for prettness OF popularity. NJ. Legros was
friend Of Gambetta, and ne has shown bis sympa-
Thy in the etching. not by hatteriug his subject
but by the subtle suggestion of energy and that
indefinabe stamp Df genius and innate largeness Of
character which DO eoarseness of mould cOuld hide
in tue real man. Tho pose Of the head upon the
shoulders is Gambetta to the lIfc always slightly
thrown back wbene yer he spoke IN the tribune or
talked. The look of restrained eaeerness Of power
Of capacity for command, Of nnquestiOned supe-
rOrity both Of intellect and character which struck
the most careless observer at first sight of Gam
beta, is reproduced in Legr, SIS portrait of him.
Take il as a whole, this etching will really tell
you how Gambetta appeared and how he bore him
self; suppOsIng you should be able to get q COPY.
Not more than SIXTY artists proofs were taken Of
and OF the prnts, which ale less satisfactory. the
number is not large. 1t a ms, of tn"
methods in use by the Ministry Of NJ de Brogie
that the proofs sent to Gambetta in October. 1877
we're seized. After NJ dc Broglie had been turned
out, NJ. Thibeandeau, the London publisher OF the
echin (, heard that his parcel haa never been
celved. Word was sent to Gambetta, search was
made, and the proofs found in the Ministry of
the Interior over hich he estiuablo NJ. Fourtou
had presided from May to November.
To the gossip about he Belt case there seems pos
itively no end. Much of it is at Baron tluddle-
soD's expense. and 1t is not quite clear that this
ornament of the hebcn has pandered successfully
as he believes to the presumed prejudices or the
whom he courts. | could tell him OF a
brief talk which occurred the other night at u
theatre, between lazy whose social position is Of