New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-19
NOTES FROM LONDON.

." =; tbe House. In the same paper Is report OF
parliamentary proceedings OF the day oeiore'
WV rnch It appears that MIR. Warton at the AFTER
rom ';.,,ro talked out the Local Government bill
no01 ss.t,ana This feat Is easily accomplished by
~. INCA by the rules of the House. all debate
.s N AN end at ten minutes to and no vote can
setotsn afterwArd during that sitting. Ii MI
. ~ complaint were well grounded, whatJo
~. xould be in the Commons. He once ap-
..lsd to the Speaker because somebody Calico nlih
~. champion blockhead of the House. The
'n' - forget who he was-admitted that he
ssss,;bed Mr.. Warrior as the champion blocker,
n "s chat this apt phrase had boon caught up and
~ ~N..,r modi6sd as above by the audience. Mr..
sys..on has. in fact, created @ new industry.
". - the House provides that no opposed bust
.. hal, be taken after half past ~ midnight A
IN, vhicb member has given notice he means TO
80. !. sad TO be blocked, and members used oc-
as;onsIlv to avail themselves OF the rule to make
.n,. that particular bill should not be rushed
.h,onoh in the small hours OF the morning. MT.
Wartou discovered that it could be used to prevent
- a.l,v all legislation whatever and 1t has been
h,s habit for some time past to block" every Dill
=. tne paper. In other ways also he takes consid-
.rable mart in tho business Of the House. The shril
,.sr NJ Mr.. Biggar from the front BEECH below the
)ppositiop gangway 10 echoed In deeper sones nom
Far bshnd the front bench above. Unmsnnerly In
.erruptons while Mr.. Gladstone IL speaking are
another form of Mr.. Wartons legislative activity.
Heavy spseches intcrspsrsed with snuff are third.
Altogether. he has made himself conspicuous per
coinage In this Parliament, into which ne found his
~.v nv Auke. The respect felt for him. whether
nv friends OF foes in inverse proportion to his
notoriety.
Mr.. Ashmsad Bartlett is another member who,
bks Mr.. Warrior, las habit of considering himself
,ussd by the House. He takes himself very seri-
ousiy but nobody else will take hum seriously. III
was think, in the lingo period that he hrst De-
rsms known. However that may be. he has during
the present session undertaken the conduct OF For
sien Affairs in general, and, in particular OF the
relations between England and Russia. Centrai
Asia, Turkey. and other remote parts OF the giope.
He was constantly to be heard last year with ref-
ereuce to Egypt. ana his voice snot yet hient on
that subject. He has been, not without reason un-
happy respecting tho Suez Canal. And only last
Friday, whom he was ready to save India from per
ishins he was counted out" Just as be wac
about to rss to expose the evils of Lord Rpons pol
icy and the Ilbert BILL an honorable member called
the Speakers attention to the fact that less than
tcrty members were present. aThe Speaker being
able to discover but twenty nine. the House stood
adjourned at five minutes past o. Mr.. Ashmcad
BARTLETT who has had to endure much poor man,
could not endure this. He had been deceived, mis-
led calolsd lulled INTO false serenity. Dy false rep
ssssntations Of the Ministerial Whips. They had
assured him, these guileful whips, him and others.
that House would be made and kept, and tho
trustful Ashmead had therefore taken no pains to
make or keep House himself. Would the Prime
Minister in these painful circumstances. queried
A,busad. tell his whips next Monday not to do this
thing gain and not to missad honorable members
nv dsositful assurancesf The Home Secretary,
NOT waiting for Monday and ths Prime Minister,
forthwith set his foot on Ashmead. Nobody had
ujulud anybody, declared Sir William in his most
Olympisn manner and such Imputations could not
be allowed; which is strong word. Mr.. Ash
mead Bartlett in strove to induce the speaker
u check the storm which ragged about his head.
And the House laughed, rs usual. And little
latsr there were rpars of laughter when this I'M
happy patriot denounced an innocent irish Regis
sstion bill, which the Government and the Parneil-
ties for once agreed in passing, as an attempt 70
rususc1tats the Kimainham compactI
Mr.. Froude remarks that Mr.. Jeafreson's Real
Lord Byron resembles description of Nesuvius
written by some one who did not know that Vesu-
yius was volcano. This occurs in an article In the
August Nineteenth Century which Mr.. Froude mas
devoted to refuting one Of Mr.. Jeaffreson's many
unreal realities. Mr. Jeaffreson has chosen to sup
pose that the mother of Allegro, Byron's natural
daughter, became subsequently, the mistress OF
Shelley, and gave birth to second child which
hs ssnt to u founding hospital This precious
story Mr. Froude tears to pieces. 1t is long busi-
nesA and cannot ask you to go into tho not too
pleasant details here, but the paper Is well worth
reading ~ an example of the way in which great
writer may deal with one who is not great. We
have positive evidence that he Is totally wrong"
ssys Mr.. Froude of Mr.. JeaffresOn. AMI he pub
hsbes the evidence, and the matter may be leu
there.
Mr. Jeafreson fills some columns in The AthenGam
with frst insralment of what is meant for reply
toM Hayward's review Of his book In The quar-
trls The reply is angry but contains as yet httie
70 lessen the force of Mr.. awards criticism MI
Gilbert Venables In The FortnigktIy taxes Dr.
Jeafreson to task other points. Altogether, the
: reviews and magazines are Ia this instance, as In
somc Others performing useful function In cor
rssipg the hasty eulogies of the daily press on
book which calmsr Judgment sets down as both pre-
tsntous and soveny. Mr. Froude will have to
reconsider hs remark about the critics.
Sir Henry Drummond Wolf declared In tbs
House Friday his belief that the bill for Local
Government Board in Scotland was designed 10
provide a place for Lord Rosebcry. Ii he nad
waited few hours he would have learned that
Lord Rcsebery Is going to Australia and would
have been able to infer that he is not to preside
over the new Ministry for Scotland. As much
might have been inferred from the speech which
Lord Rosebery made the other day Edinburgh In
hvcr Of the bill. presume he might have had the
post had he been willing to take 1t on its present
iooting. But LIE has long had in mind thin voyage
70 Australia, and the present seemed u good time 10
carry out his plan. Lady Rossbery goes with him.
and they sail from Plymouth August 20 In the
John Elder. of the Orient line. After visiting VIC
sssia. New South Wales aud Nsw-Zealsnd, they
AXE passage for San Francisco. whore they may DO