New-York tribune., 1884-12-07

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h,o" MY r,, Nav IL the Secretary of State had been
punctuai. and admitted Lord Nelson IN tho nrs'
quarter Of an hour should have hah ts f, o o,nn i
pression of light and trivial character tlat other
| n,ope have had, but luckily i saw enough 10 DO
satisfied that he was really very superior MAI MAI
| but certain ly more sudden ana compute "O'""'
( phosis never saw
| Mr. Jennings has not obtruded his personality
oyermnch and in many places he might have inter
ectcd fuller details of the contemporary history
without injury to the interest of the papers ~ S'
however, remarkable that Crokcrs correspondence
with literary men appears to have been so S'cnu',
Almost all his letters are to and from politicians ana
concerned with politics, and while these reh-
niscenccs may he of still fresh interest Ia MS own
country a rechaaDf of stale Tory politics OF 'no
ant trdevian type is not the iyeliest 0i reauhg ou
this side ot the water. Croker somewhere admits
that he read no fiction. He was the contemporary
of Thackeray, Dickens. Bulwor. Disracli. and hc
never read any of the works of those authors lie
sncers at O'C onncl because the Lborator was 10nd
| of good novels. Now there must be something
wrong about n man who never reads hction' All
the best men have been fond of it, But tro"er onIy
read politics. history and statistics and he had the
rcnrtaton certainly not dlspelcd by these yolumcs
Of beng the btterest and most vitrolic writer OF
his time.
The Queens declaration Of her intention to marry
was made before the Privy Council, OF Whlch
| Croker was n incmDor anu nc puts oh ioO"i" ''''
| pleasant little picture of the scene
| When we had assembled to the number oi,
! think seventy or eighty two to one Con'eryatiNc)
and a. many had taken their seats at could nc ong
table. Her Majesty was handed IN ny lnc l'oiu
! Chamberlain and bowling to us all round sat down
! saving, Your Lordshps' I'VE are all IordS at tine
! Council Boardl will hc seated She then IN
! folded paper and read her dccl1ratlon "hlCh You
| will bel lOte this can reach you have seen III thc
newspapers. | cannot describe 10 you WIN What
| a miytnio of sell possession ami feminine dccacy
] H.. .,.,Jt La. lpr
! bcantiful was clear and untronblcd; ana hrr eye
| was bright and calm neither bold nor doWhraSt,
| hut firm and soft. There was n blush on ner Chrek
which made her look both handsomer ana moirihirr1
csing; and certainly she did look ~ interesting ana
as hani'"m1 ~ any y9nnI nIt 49,, "i"r V,llino
| toms chair. and caught her eye tNire, ~ Sl!c ~
rrrtcl II toward him. which Lncci she did with
a coo naturrd interest
tftrr The Lord lirsi lent had asked her per
mi 4 on io puhli.h her declaration she hoWri con
s,nl. han ct him thr pantr i9tr, hoY9 aL lonnh
,o thu rn rr rou,n whrrr the attendants, who "rie
! npi ~ the uunril had wnitrl
There IL somr ntrir tine correspondence win
! inrls Aslhnfiun AMI SIS ''lrrn on tia Nni'h"rV
| runrlaiy uursiiun nrl thr sn.rhllrl A'hhnilnn
t.,,r rsrrriail, ~ iairn ~ thr al'r'rl dis
,,tr,t lt .ia,.l Sparks ~ q certain map 20 RATS
h,t ,h. lripis aip iuu bone iui rilaiiun ui tuni9r
o. this ,p,,ot pn,bp, nnl iis lrnla ail tuh ihr
in.i,sh titw, Nieiii hrrrtrii Nas h"i hp sH'"n 80
iLe ,.n,dnn {ipU ihpt thnN+ii ihn iNiipl
atatns had pia{et somewhat sh''r s"hhi hn'
neither Ahrinen uor Ashhu,ln Nnnil say 'l"t 'hn
Amsfie,u cnug,a had hurn uuiUstifahie lhrir real
loeljna seoms ~ have heon one at regret hdt lhtl
did not hold such good cards themselves
The ropeal 0l the am Law nearly broke tI"htI .
heart and separated him irom HIr Robert Reel IN a
very unnecessary way. on course this event cor
irmoi his belief that the country was doomed ana
tbat if was now to late even for Toryism to save IT,
II is only fair to Croker to let HIN put his own
| sI, of his case which he does in a letter to
Murray. the purpose of which is TO protest against
fine imputation of fossiliSm and to vndlcate his
liberal tendencies 1t will he seen before pointed
ont. that all his advances in other fields than
that of politics.
BOGNOR. October ~. 1Sjl
| My DEAR MURRAY | know that you may very
| naturally suspect me OF being somewhat old
| fashioned, if not Obsolete in nv notions hut !
think am not really more so than serves TO sleii
| have always advocated and pro rtT'duS advanced;
ali progress that thought rmnroyemcit, but
| always wished imprOrement to DO based on
I rrp,1lraeft When yet very Young. i was almost
at the head of the design tor the erection OF tle
Nelson pillar IN s,ares D%o Of IN" monumSnt s now
| so frequent. aud always, IN spte OF dclectN"
ta,to III the design ana execution oi & s"lio t oi
the individual objects. great anu apF opdiatc
| ornaments II was my idea, borrowed, "i course
| from tine Roman columns, but three or lour years
/ before the column Of the Place |end0lnc. | hdd
also an active snare the erection oi the London
,' az" ''n ti,,tv Years later The Admiralty front
to Whitehall was under my hHueu'oi ,no my :.
uuhlic b.,llding IN London lighted with gas. III
,y,s tbrourh my special persuasion that steam
uackcts we're tired between CALAIS ana IoNtr.
wa. believe the hrNt person " no III S'rr"iIt. I
ycuturcd 10 recommend uniformity OF Wc'eheS
and measures; and especially decimal system oil
coinage which produced cNcnthaliN Inc tioptiVi
of tho sovereign instead OF the guinea was ii9
",o,rr al the new Board of Longitude, and oi all
Tie measures for the Improvement OF chfohoneteIs;
/ tod |
| Couucll of the Royal society and lorWard'h as
far as my humble nuucnco ANA SIM hummer
knowledge went every cAPe! lnthl ~ lnPT" N'h'Hl,
One remarkable improvement ! attempted as
long rs WIS at the Council, hut never slo'e'uou
in inducing tng.nnd. France ana tho No'ln'ih
| Powers 10 adopt one common WfW1m""d' H.3'o,
Ia # not tine greatest ab,urdity III the woid th"l
thr element ol heat. common 10 all hahhihu' ana {"
| surh olrar ncrssnut and vital Importance. not
r',,,ir to irnrc but 10 everyday iilc. should be
measured in the three great classes o lie CIV ll'Ie
! world by three scales. keaumur, the l'nl igiido
and Fahrenheit merely different, hul Hbso
lu,,lN nrommr1sufAhlr-no integral huml'of oI
any ono being convertible into any integral ol cihr
of the two Othols and inns II mIlloI "'",'', , ~
ILlrd about nj the Congress of Vienna. probably
sInnld have III, s,cdcd but ioi Buohaparto return
from l.Iht
with this we must close our review Of very
,,t,r,s,inp and remarkable literary monument
bni one the chief value OF which IL to snow no"
utterly incompatible the Tory doctrine IL with AL
,h, tconrrr currents of human progress,
aud how even exceptional talents are rvaded
and nrrycrleh when devoted to the service oi
nhsolrte and dccaying views and principles
Aud croker was incapable of changing. lie never
,,,riliarilcd himself with that new Conservative
srhool which the late Lord Braconshe!h trained
,,,J disciplned, and which owed itS lease Ol iio
, mara ia its borrpvrl Liberalism than to the
ra,, traditions which at first received its cohesion
H.. J not know. or like or trust Disraeli He held
-, ,r r,,,r ,ll the modern infucnces and imported