New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-15
NOTES FROM LONDON.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Critics who do not like England nave oeen KNOWN
70 saw that she does not believe IN principles ana
that facts are the only things on whieh sne sets
much value. So long as policy is doubtful, or II
q fails IL is bad policy If il succeeds, everything
e hardened. So long. for example, as France
scanned likely to break down IN her schemes OF
colonial ACKNOWLEDGMENT she had to endure the
thunders of the English press daily and hourly. In
Tunis in Madagascar. in Tonquin she was aiiKe the
agcressor Her buccaneering exploits IN each OF
these countries were held up to execraton, and
most deservedly So OF Tuns il is long since any
thing has been heard. In TonQuin. France has had
her own way and China is nowhere. Whereupon
we read that the conquest of Tonquin was cred
itable performance and friends of civilization will
all be willing to hope that the pacihcaton OF the
cou ntry and the establishments beneficial order
.of government will speedily ensue.' This is from
the leading organ of Conservatism IN England
The same journal adds that, as for Madagascar even
those who sympathize with the Hovas must desire
that sharp struggle may put an end to the long
drawn misery 1t is the old story. Victory sets the
stamp of goodness the most wicked and wanton
war.
The affairs of the Duke of Marlborough and of his
family have lately been topics of general comment
quite as often as either the Duke or the family can
wish. The sales past and prospective, of personal
property gems books, pictures and the ike, have
gone to the point of leaving to Blenheim little be
yond the bare walls. The present Duke has been
divorced by his wife for reasons fully brought ont
at the trial and peculiarly dsgraeefult to him 30 IN
dicnant was the late Duke with the conduct OF his
son in this and other matters that he quarreIled
with him and left all the property of which he could
dispose TO Lord Randolph Churchill and his other
children. Lord Randolph himself has not escaped
ali censure and now that he has sown such wild
oats as he thought likely to bring forth good
crop on his private estate be is scattering fresh SEED
which may be called political In his want OF money
the Duke is at this moment bargaining for the sale
to the nation of twelve pictures, heirlooms IN the
family for the triAe of 81, 100000; which they
are richly worth.
For the same reason and from want of what your
tradesman calls Immediate cash. this needy Duke
has committed the perpetual pension OF -4,ooO
wear granted to the first Duke for lump sum
of El07 900. Thereupon mp starts MT Brad
laugh and asks to be heard IN opposition
He cannot be heard in the House OF COM
mons where The has seat but no
x-oice nor vote and he beseeches Mr.. Gladstone
to give him private audience Mr.. Gladstone
refers him TO Mr. Childers, and Mr.. Childers
by the pen of his private secretary that ne
sees no good in an interview, but that II MI Brad
laugh has anything to say he may say u 10 MI
Courtney who is Secretary 10 the Treasury MT
Bradlaugh publishes his reply. which cannot be
pleasant reading for the Churchlls. queen Anne
NAV be dead, but the scandal OF her days mas hoV
died with her. The original grantee of this pension
saws Mr. Bradlaugh. betrayed in writing to
foreign Power an expedition intended TO be Sc
cretly directed against that Power; IN consequence
of that BETRAYAL several hundred British soldiers
were with their commander slaughtered, ana the
Dnke of Marlborough thereafter received the money
Cor his treaehery from the foreign Power in ques-
ton. He was, further, bribed by the contractors
for his own army and his troops, from Oelng lI-leu
sckened and died Further still. he embezzied
public moneys amounting to more than 100000.
Whether Mr.. Bradlaugh, on whom the shade OF
Maeaulay perhaps looks down approvingly, has any
fresh evidence of these wholesale charges, he does
not saw Marlborough has been blackened enough
in his day and since his day to be allowed TO resi-
unless new and valid testimony TO his impurities De
forthcoming But true or false the letter cannot DIS
/ said be pleasant reading for ms descendants
,thouoh in these days it has been observed that de-
scendapts endure with eqUanlmity the casting Vi
rob obloouv on their ancestors. The Penn pen
- - also attacked by Mr.. Bradlaugh, to whom
favv things are sacred, and who IN this matter also
has been drinking of those troubled waters Whlch
Nacaulav let loose The proprietary rights OF IAe
Pepns he insists, fully paid Tor by a sum u
e13O 600 which his heirs received IN lhS'ailieh VI
et5 600 with interest and the pension was Ssahteu
,-r;r;noIlz, and has since been received in fraud
of the nation" while the present recipient is no'
the direct heir in blood of William Penn
Il il not likely that these protests will be Needed
nor vet the complaint that the Communication las
been fixed at too great sum Inc question: say
the apologists Of the Government Is one u Puoi'
faith 1t is too late to go INTO the origin auu CIT,
cumstance of the grant. To annuI II because Mar
borough or Penn had no claim 10 IL oiisiu'ii''
I'D he an act of population. And on the theory
h;cb prevails here in such matters 1t undoubtedly
o,Id he None the less is it true that the Duhe OF
,tIhoronyb has been urged to make the best terms
T. could now lest by and by more democratic raI-
Iooen+ sbouId get tired of voting money 10 pay MS
and other the like pensions The treasury mas os
statute full powers to deal with the whoie SUBJECT
H. decision has been taken and made pubhc an
-. .,,ro the money has not actually been pMd over
IN trustees In any case the bargain ll"oo 10 N0'
likely to be upset by Mr. BradIaugh
The baogline of the Treasury, or the Government,
- oornas IN the same thing, over the price OF
che Marlborough Raphaels and Van DycKS oniy Iol-
lows ont the policy of parsimony Wnlch pro- ',' "
The Treasury in all such matters. MI O'"uS'ou'
himself whose various culture ana oroau intoio''
in life would naturally dispose nm 10 Jake i'o'"
,ieeu,s seems to shrink into Treasury clerk "uen
49, - decide an n question of spending money lie
.noyved the Hamilton Manuscripts to go 10 Berlin
a. Asbbnrnbam Manuscripts IN great part 10 20
90 Pome and now he is willing to risA tlo iO9, "a
.be Rlenhem masterpieces rather thall pay we"
.~nerts tell the Duke the pictures VIII le'on oS
nrblic auction Mr. Gladstone, sara ono u ms
friends when it comes 10 spending puOio HUu'y
forexceptonal objects, is screw'-a reilaiA w
doubt he would deem a eulogy' ue 10 On- -.
sc ,ha Fxcheauer first and Prime Minister OF Oie@V
- w attoruard To the prosaic persons who
- that he has ceased TO be Chancellor OF the EA-
Pio-or no answer can be made. Said ahotheI
- = man of singular distinction ana coAh-
49, =; e,cb matters: " Mr.. Ga0stOues UoFerh-