New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-18

no dispatches and if they had the last thing 10 nave
been mentioned would have been the dongs OF an
actor. 1t is startling to think what change mas
occurred in the interval and what different rank
the theatre now holds in the opinion OF great
classes of the community. Mr.. Irving has done
more than any man to bring about the change; and
has profted by it at least much as any OF his
many prosperous colleagues. o. W. g
POLITICAL. EDUCATIONAL, Personal
IRON THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUNE
! LONDON, April 30.
The Tories are enlivening their spirits by pointing
out that the Government majority of 100 for the
second reading of the Reform bill has already been
reduced to o.. 1t was by - only that Mr.. Raikes
amendment proposing to instruct the Committee OF
! the Whole House to include redistribution III the
bill was defeated They go on to say that the Gov
I eminent indebted even for this Majority 10
fifteen Parnetes and that if the fifteen Parnollltes
had gone into the Tory lobby there would have
| been a majority the other way. Quite true. What
the Tories forget to add that they brought about
this state of things by violating what the Liberal
! whips understood to he distinct agreement that
! no division whatever should be taken on Monday
| night Relying upon this agreement, Lord hIchalu
| GrosvenOr and Lord Kensington allowed the Lib
erals to 90 home. The Torres saw the emptiness OF
the Liberal benches. They were angry because Mr.
! Gladstone had rcfused-quite rIghtIy-to debate
at TINS Stage OF lnc MN lllt Iltotloh VI
redistribution They were even more angry because
Mr. Gladstones supporters followed his lead; or
perhaps because his supporters had leader whom
it was possible to follow. They thought an excuse
for breaking their promise might be found in the
collapse of the debate which ultimately cnsued from
the silence of the Mnsteriaiists Hence the division
and the narrow majority. Whether the eject be
worse for the Government or for the Opposition
time will show The Liberal whips are blamed as
usual. But the Tory whips who msled, no matter
how innocenty, their Liberal colleagues, have yet
TO give explanation.
Lord Harrington has stated, not moment too
soon that the charges upon the Egyptian exchequer
for the maintenance of British troops in Egypt ara
solely for the excess over what the same troops
would cost If kept at home. In other words, Eng
land pays all the ordinary charges of all the troops
she has in the Delta. The extraordinary charges
due to their presence in Egypt are borne by Egypt.
This fact Lord Harrington thought il sufficient to
mention in a sort of aside. a tag to answer 10
a question in the House of Commons. believe IL
would be found that most people hitherto have be-
lieved that Egypt was saddled with the entire cost
of the British army employed on her soil.
The victory won in oxford Univ ersity by the adj
vocates of the higher education of women il on
which that University may he congratulated 1t
opens to women the examinations for certain hOnors
not all, but including Mathematics. Modern His
tory and Natural Science. If they pass they will
hold certificates of success men-students do.
The women are to be tried hy the same standards as
men 1t remains to be seen what their proportion
of honors will be. They have done brilliantly at
Cambridge and elsewhere If Oxford had declined
to follow the lead of Cambridge, of the University
of London, of Edinburgh. and other leading uni
versties it would have been handicapped itself in
the race for knowledge at a time when competition
is keen in that in other efforts of the human
toward mental improy ement. The claim Of women
has been long argued. 1t has secured local APP
prevail. 1t now obtains the sanction of body |
which represents the'graduates of the University |
and the struggle may be regarded as mt an end. |
majority of l3 in total vote of 10 is decisive. |
1t can hardly be necessary TO add that the adj |
vocates of the higher education of women have !
nothing in common with the female fanatics who |
want TO level all barriers between the sexes.
Mr. Andrew Lang has been critcisinr In print IlT. |
Walter Bcsant's lecture on the Art of Fiction. ! |
am not going TO cTitciso the critic. Al care 20 do
IS to point ont thar Mr. Lang, who has often |
sncered anonymously at what is called the Aneri- |
can school Of fiction, more courageOusly sneers |
AZ il over his own name. TO this will add that |
Nj. Andrew Lang is of opinion that he may almost |
place Thackcray IA mOraliSt with Pascal There |
is some saving virtue in the almost Without 1t. |
the most surprising lately propounded by the cult
waited BritOn.
Is Bass" now "a household word in the United |
States? Should YOU be surprised to hear that with
possibly one or two exceptions the man who bore |
that name and who died yesterday the most
widely known of Engishmen2 So say the chron-
icers of to-day; said Thackeray generation |
ago and SIR Wnfrd Lawson gave him testimonial |
of a different kind when he christencd the great |
Burton brewer Archbishop Bass He had been a |
member of Parliament for thlrtyiyc years, sitting 1
during the whole OF THIS period for Derby. lie had
been offered and declined .Peerage. He had vast |
wealth. He was Of the first of business in |
England and one of her most generous public bcne-
factors. He was popular and respected in the |
House of Commons, the personal friend Of many of |
its best members. And with all this he vas better
known BY the label on his beer bottles than by all
his other titles to fame. 1t is odd celebrity. |
But / suppose he was prouder OF it than of all |
others. The fame of his beer due to the good
ness of his beer. lie has done more for the public |
health than all the temperance refoTmers for he
found the beer Of England bad and he left il good.
1t may interest some people to be reminded that |
the reputation of BASES beer in London itself is
hardly older than the great Exhibition of 1851.
Before that this precious fluid went mostly to
India The figures of the business are now enOr-
nous. ne LONDON stores OF Jne nrln, winch mas
been turned INTO a limited company hold six acres
of beer in barrels At Burton the brewery is a CON
siderable city, and the business of il amounts to
$4,000 600 yearly. The yearly issue of labels
ceeds hundred millions. The beer Of the company
pays to the internal revenue about 81 900 per day
The SUN they paid for carriage six years ago was
100000. The gifts of Mr. Bass to the public in
clude churches, an institute and reading rooms at
Burton which lie spent 100000 and he gave
half as much more to Derby. In private he was
simple, pleasant. bospitabe, and his place in the
Scottish Highlands Tulchan Lodge was the sum-