New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-15
NOTES FROM LONDON.
RELATING TO POLITICS. BUT NOT OF
SERIOUS KIND.

1t will not answer fear, to be forever discours-
ing to American readers on English politics. Even
amid the turmoil prevailing here, one 10 aware that
there must he a limit to the amount thoy are able
to consume. Yet if one turns aside from politics
one is confronted with the difficulty that there is
at this moment nothing IN England which SO many
people care for 80 much. ANY true picture of
English life during these few weeks before the
election must be political ricture politics IN the
foreground, and pol ties the middle distance. and
everything else in the background The business of
EnAlish life is electOncerng. Country houses are
filled With candidates and the friends of candidates
who have gone down to canvass instead OF shooting
or hunting. The staple reading III the newspapers
10 speeches. The Eastern Crisis attracts some
attention. but l do not think the wcarled human
mind turns eagerly IRON wrangles at home 10
wranges abroad. If amusement is not to be had
FROM the orations of LORI Randolph Churchill Or
Lord Rosebery it will scarcely be sought In the
quaint communications OF MIR. Muatoyicli to the
public press, in the Constantimople dispatches
which describe at endless length ali the SUCCESSES
which Sir Drunnond Wolf has not achieved.
The Spanish Cierman dispute about tie Carolines
has however. never really PASSED out Of the
domain oil comedy aud WAS never 50 comic as since
the Madrid press discovered how much amusement
their shrieks against Prince Bismarck afforded the
rest of Europe. All of who seek relief from
serious things grateful to the Castlian VINO
procla med To the universe that the Spanish Mile
lister of Foreign Affairs had -trlturaied" the
Chancellor OF the German Empire. so we are 10
that other c0untryman OF SanehO fanza who
conhded TO the newspapers of his native land his
conviction that Prince Bismarck had not reached
tue intellectual level OF a clerk III the SPANS
Foreign Oficc. Berlin telegrams say that Prince
Bismarck is initiated by this sort Of language. do
not believe 1t. lie has far too keeE a SENSE OF the
ludicrous. Spain, however. has a monopoly of
humorists of Thu force No capital but Madrid
enlivens the other capitals Of Europe with similar
flashes of gcnius
Paris sends US, it is true, its usual miscellaneous
assortment OF items. but III Paris the elections are
only just over. here they ale just going To begn
aud the cloud from the recent past which hangs
over France IS as heavy as the shadow OF coming
events IN England. NJ. Rochelort has had another
epIleptc attack and out IN the midst oil 1t
that the English mean 10 hang the Canadian rebel
Rel only because lie IL trenchinan. VI do
BlowitL whose dispatches JOY forever, tells
checry what he felt Oh hearing the Comtessc ae
Poris tutoyr the Princess OF Wales At tho wedding
of Prince Waldemar. lie assured us that the Prince
OF Wales at thls same ceremony vas as aiaOle TO
French arstOcratic and fashionable iadIes,-
including two MdrcnlonosScs aud duchess whom
NJ. do BlowItL IS hoOd enough TO name AS TO the
Eu. We kLow, TOO. the hish authority, that
the Duchess of Cumberland wore lilac rOho,'
adorned with very large diamonds. Nor docs he
deny to us the proud privilege Ot hearing What the
Comte de Paris said hun, VI. de DiOwltz, after ms
FrohsdOrf journey; u w.t. that lie tthc Count and
not the correspondent holds III his hands a
principle which is part OF tic patilmony OF France.
aud may at u gwen moment bo her supreme
resource. Well may lie add That the Republicans
are not without Hnedsiness at this Spectacle 1
understand him to neau however. not the spectci
of the Count iIpartlng his opinions 10 NJ. do
YlowitZ OF of the Count holding III LIS hands
patrimOnal pr.ncIpie Dut the wedding Of tho
Counts daughter ~ Prince Wadeniar OF denmark.
Such passages these tie prosalc Brlton reads,
| douDt not, with deyout appreciation. TDey
impose, however, u STRAIN on LIS mental faculties
100 severe Tor the of pure relaxation. The
huuOr OF the domestic orator is really 70 Ms
mind, even though II Is, from the nature OF the
CASE political, and thou he has 10 slit grc.l.
deal OF sound wheat III search OF little chan. OF
tine domestic orators 20 whom he looks Tor ente-
taipment Lord Randolph Churchill Is perhaps most
often To DO depended Oh. l think the reading
Euplisluran has Grown little tired OF professional
icstcIs like Sir WIlnid Lawson. Mr. Chamberlain
ls certainly ono OF the most puugeLt speakers i'll
England; lie and Lord Salisbury may perhaps
tend th each other for supremacy III the political
prize-rlng But Mr.. Chamberlain is 81 terribly i'll
earnest that even Ills wit Is burdened with SERIOUS
ness OF thou sht lie hits almost too hard. and t.e
pleasure of the nearer the drecIness OF the blow
| IL mltigated by sympathy with the yictnn who
| goes down before it.
Lord Randolph IL ut times, no doubt, far more
| violent than Mr.. Chamberlain. lie uses the most
| dreadful LANGUAGE about his opponents. If he
d 1ers from them about foreign policy, lac calls them
| murderers II he disseuts from their views OF
domestic legislation. they are TRAITORS. But this
~ obviously pure lghtness OF heart aud play full
ness that neither the accused the jury take It
seriously. Mr. Gladstone has never attempted To
! deny that lac assassin, nor Mr.. Chamberlain
to cow his constituents that he does not intend
| to betray them. When Lord Randolph has
dsburdcned his mind of these vigorous vocables lie
| can deal with the matter ia hand IN u much
! more amusing way. He gives literary turn to his
sentences; sometimes too literary. Gordon. IN ono
OF those picturesque phrases which In HIM seemed
spontaneous defined the Egyptian policy of the
late Government as the policy oi log drifting out
to sea. Perhaps Lord Randolph had this uncon-
sciously in mind when he laboIiously hammered
| out his sentence about that variegatod vaciation
| which tue late Government dignied by tue name
of policy. The ALTERATION OF this Coinage - bat
| a poor substitute for the curt contempt which
| inspired Gordons words. But Lord Randolph
delights IN turning aud twisting conceit. The
best recent example of this occurs III his drst speech
Mt Brmin gEan where he il calamity lighting a
| hopeless contest against Mr.. Bright 1t 10 long
quotation, but respectfully offer it to you ms the
best piece of protracted pleasantly 10 be- met with
| in these talkatve times:
You have now before you three versions renewed
| interruption of the address Mr.. Gladstone has
placed before he country. You have the authorized
version llaughtorl as it lett the pen OF Mr. Glad
| stoue; then you have tho revised version renewed
| iaughter], according to Dir. Goschen and then you
| have the upocryphal, or the uninspirod, version
loud laughter and cheersl, which is promulg ted
by MT. Chamberlain and Sir Charles bike
IGroans and cheerA That Is q very battling aud