New-York tribune., 1884-03-02
NOTES FROM LONDON.
OlITICAL - JOURNALISTIC - UN-ARTlsIIC
AND LITERARY.

p""" i'' IoNnoN. February g.
III, Cuov-inc s,ccimen of Irish rhetoric, headed
. speed the Mahdi." is worth quoting IN full;
an b,1 ac.sin to This most excellent Mosem
The more we hear of him the better we Hhg r n., ,
This time there falls 10 hS account ociu,e ma
@,000 slam, four krupp guns o"U iv H3S"rs train,
every camel and piece OF bagIaS" III Dam 49,.
Surely th.~ somewhat hcuSf tl'n 'll L. - ~ = :;
the impos>hhy of the EneINh nov l'l,CS o ft 90
hat or KhartCum besides the siN, !, I| ,s,-
Crcon ,ycimc at home. That the pairlo'le % tnl ~ ~
drive every whey faced invader lha' SSNa.Is Nm. III"
iuto the Red sea i the desire ol every VNCi va
dom We trust our next news may ' ihal EVIH"u'
vino Is advancing loaded WITH specie toward hllt1
touu has met the same haidllng a. BAKER; aho
notbing yyouh give MS greater satisfaction than 70
chronicle the complete triumph of the Mahdl M The
SonJan ana ms Vrtorious arriN al before the walls
of Cairo The Government are now rcapmg
thc harvest oC thcir unscrupuloue aggression, and
tic forcas tl,ot worked the downfall of Arab NAV
vet be potent enough 20 destroy the Liberal Cabinet
itself on the of It's most ambitious proposals Tor
reform.
THIS loyal humane, moderate language Is from
Mr Paruells organ. Ja.tcd Ireland. Tne editor OF
that paper Is Mr.. William O Brien. NJ I. for MalIow
Three OF is owucrs-rhe three in whose name II is
rcsi,tcrcd-arc Alr. Parnell, Mr.. Justin Mccarthy
and Mr. Biccar. 1t is from journal edited ana
owned bv members of the English House OF Com
mons that is TO be heard this yell OF endsh delight
over the massacre of English officers and OF troops
under English command The hope that General
Gordon may similar fate Il from the same
lzed world waits with s1lictude for news ot UeneIa
Gordops safety. But what Ireland, Mr. ParAelTs
ireland homes TO hear that General Gordon has an
Arab spear through his body.
II IS 10 De added however. that Mr.. OBTlen on
being challenged in the House OF Commons pro-
tcsscd his regret for the passage about General
Gordon He regrets il on the ground that General
Gordon sympathlzes with the woes of Ireland. Inc
rest of the article has Mr. OBlien's full approval
and presumably that OF MessTs. ParTell. Mccarthy
and Begar, who do not diSavow 1t.
The Freenoa's journal, of Dublin, edited by M
/. DIVER Gray VI. F.. advises Mr. Parnell t. refuse
10 support the proposed vote of censure Oh the Gov
ernmcnt Excellent advice. # Il only stopped there.
Bn+ why Is be to withhold hls cenSurc Upon the
Eyptian policy Of the Ministry Because he or his
adviser thinks il a right p,cy9 Because on the
whole he does not want the Government turned
out9 Nothing OF the sort. Mr.. Parnell is 10 vote
for Mr. Gladstone in order 10 teach SIR stafford
Northcotc that he and his associates cannot with
impunity give their support to the Tory landlord
faction in Ireland He Ii 10 state plainly and
openly that his refusal is on account of the Orange
propacanda initiated by the Tory chief in Ireland
This is Of piece with the resolution of the Parne
lie VI Ps on Monday in Dublin with reference TO
the London Municipality bill They will support
auv bill the Government may choose {" bring IN for
Lond n # they eau have bill Tor Dublin also. Ii
not they vii ,pyoSc it, no matter how wise. sound
and unobjecti0nable the measure may be. Every
thing with the Irish party 10 De matter Of bid and
bargain and every question TO be determined. not
on IL merits, but by the sole consideration how
much can be got out of 1t for Irish purposes
The Standard was the only London paper which
was able 10 publish on Wednesday morning an ac-
count Of rs Of the battle fought near Irinktat
on Monday. The narrative was a VIVID one, some
two columns IN length. and was from tine pen of
Captain Cameron. the foremost OF war CORE
sp0ndcuts in active service The too-famous Central
News Agency gave 10 the world in the afternoon
story OF a sortie from Snkat by TcWtik Pacha and
400 troops who annihllatcd to a man. Next
dav il appeared that there had been sortie. Jhc
Laily N1rs had dispatch about the Trinkitar
massacre which arrived too late for is regular Issue,
and which contained passages bearing "a curiousiv
close resemblance in phr@seoogy 70 others which
had previously appeared in tn NoRdTd. The story
of the capture Of General Gordon which agita,ed
London on Thursday afternoon came from the Alex
audra correspondent of IN, Doily Ntrs II was
stated last night in Parliament that the editor did
not attach Importance enOuGh 90 this story 10 pub
lieb IT, BuJ il reached the evening papers. and for
hours the streets were full of ncwsb1ys with con-
TENS bill, N gigantic characters. prOciamiug ne
CAPTURE Of General Gordon Nor il Till this
morning that most people knew there was no other
foundation for the painful rumor than the bazaar
gossip of Cairo and Alexandria. The Glo5c explains
how this false news became public. II was Not
printed in 2 special EDITION of the paper which had
tie honor of receiving il. but posted Il The
once window Wthou; intmatou that any doubt
rested upou IT, The action of IN, DC}g Ners con-
tnues this writer. not without asperity, resembles
that Of a man who con in- into possession of "a
picous shilling dares nor spend il himself but
kindly place, 1t his window-sin fol the first
pas~eI-by TO take and spend and be punished
Charitable and con>idcrate, very
Nr SLaw-Lcieyre has not had the courage of his
opinions about the Wellington statue. lie prom
sed last summer IN accordance with the report of
committee of artists and experts. including SIR
Frederick Leighton. president of the RC6 al
Academy. that the monStrouS thing should be-
melted down. lie has since become aware that a
very considerable number Of people object To the
statue being broken up and 50 he is not going 10
break il up. Ii may be safely saId that there is no
conceivable purpose or proposal on any concei yab.e
subject 70 which a very considerable number of
peop.e would not object. The main reason. says
Nj shaw lefevre, for not keeping statue on its
present site Is its colossal ~iZr. The main reason
last summer was its utter and udicrous hdcousness
and rs mbecty work of art. However the
thing is 10 Dee cartcl OF 10 Aldcrshot and the
soldiers al AldcrShOt Will perhaps regard from
military and not from artistic point of view.
The House listened without much audible protest
- Mr.. ShaW-LcfevTeS announcement. But when
De comes 10 unfold ms scheme for q railway under
the Parks he viii lind either his colleagues or
the pubUc quite patient. | hope somebody Will
ask HIM whether he would in any event, tolerate
the opening 0f veutlators commonly called blow
holes. in the Park. The truth is that Mr. shaw
Lefevre, one of the public-s spirited of men has
scheme in his head for improving the approaches
10 the Parliament Houses This nc thinks of more
consequence than the slight injury TO the Parks
Mhlch IS al he beIieyes Lkely 20 result from rur-