New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-09-15
NEw.yonK DAILY tribune, MONDAY SEPTEMBER 49, 1884,

Club. which hept on tie smart dress of Wednesday,
aud filled its balconies with the few members and
their wives who were moi at the meeting.
The crowds In the streets Of Edinburgh were
great but Thought not ~ great "a remembered
them n 1870. don't wsh ~ he forever recalling
those DAYS uf the frat Midlothian cam
pagn. or making comparisons. aud VIII
Try tu make them once Tor oil ~ the
proper place. Etill, my tecullectiohs 81 'iih'
stirring rpiiud ate too vivid tu hr kppt nndet alto
eehpt aud contrasts ain inevitable, " Ia enough ~
cay fui to-day that such comparisons air really idin
heeaHse the circumstances afn different ana ho
such piece of history ~ that ~ 1871 onhld " any
possibility rpeai itself, lhoie h quite enough ~
the appearance OF tho multitude of to-1a' to "oh'
der at There Is cheering Al every step a. lhe car
uapos Whhl past. Lord kosehaR has %" ldra OF
moderauug the pace 10 crafty the curiosity of
those vino stand there 10 gaze, and the cortege Il
moving at something like ten miles an hour !"
the disappointment of many spectatorywaltmg j"
princes-st, the process ION turned oil INTO LOTHIAN
Road aud made for the Council Chamber 10y Caste
Terrace Highest, and George Fourth image.
Bauicadcs had been put M and the middle OF the
street was kept clear. Police everywhere, but not
much for them 10 do. The cheering IS CONTINUOUS.
From the windows of the grim, not to say grlny.
houses of Highest. countless people looked down,
ter Of the old town is interesting. but squahd.
Dirt, however. does not depress the spirits OF the
populace and pllow-ca,e in holes produces quite
as much cifec whcn waved with energy from
sxth-storv Caret window rs if It Were lace
pocket handkerchief Lord Rosehery came IN Tor
MS fun share of popular greeting His name
was 10 be heard every moment above the an put
he chose to hear nothing. and to assume thai an
this artillery Of enthusiasm vas aimed at Mr. Olad-
stone and sat motlonles the front scat, his hat
solidiv planted on his forehead, with the AIR OF an
interested spectator.
This council chamber expedition being only
prelude to the chief business of the day had to be
briefly dispatched. Mr.. Gladstone and the whole
patty descended with agility, marched across
the courtyard of the building rapidly As dignity
would permit mounted 10 the frs, story, tarried a
moment in The room of Lord Provost Harrison. who
received his guests with his usual smiling face,
made their way into the Council Chamber. sat down
amid company of scaret-Tobed babies. listened TO
an address of welcome to Edinburgh, not to long
read by the city clerk in sufficient accent, and
then Mr.. Gladstone made his reply in that tone of
easy conversation which one 50 often hears from
him IN the House of Commons. Tie coiloquial
tone dcepcns now and then. as he touches some
topic which str~ him. and he Is never long without
doing that lie was not to talk politics bat he
adroitly connected the Franchise Blll with the ms
tory of Edinburgh as on, of tho scotch cities which
had proGt,db by the Reform Act of 1882 He talked
of her university of her anc'out fame. of her
share u Tie history Of scotland, much Of
"a hose destiny has been determined in other days
within Der walls: AND hc pronounced cuIogy ON
Fdubur,h AID scotland together such as sent
every ~ootmau. blood rushing along Dds veins.
Thcu with soout ceremony of leave taking. for tu"
bou off th. great mc.iIuc WAS already a' hand. of