New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-25

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IF notifies makes strange bed-fellows, it also
makes strange antagonisms. The Duke OF
Marlborough, who is Liberal, has announced
his determination TO oppose the reelection of
his brother Lord Randolph Churchill, to Par
lament for Woodstock, petty pocket borough
of few hundred votes.
II is evident that the controversy over the
Dolphin is not to end with one or two chapters.
Ex-Secretary Chandler thinks that Secretary
Whitney is cunning for him and the Advisory
Board that designed the dispatch boat, and so
he has his say in a letter which may be found
in this issue of THE TRIBUNE.
The French naval officers who brought the
Bartboldi Statue to our shores continue 20 re-
celye courteous attentions here Yesterday
they were the guests of the COney Island Jockey
Club. and as a mark of honor the proceeds OF
the racing went to the Pedestal Fund. Last
night they were entertained at dinner by the
Chamber of Commerce. Incidents like these
attest the sincerity of New York's gratitude to
the great republic across the water which, like
ours, flies the red, white and blue.
James Russell LowelPs speech to the alumni
of Harvard College yesterday was a bit of grace
full pleasantly, such as an unaffected, refined
and courteous man might have been expected
TO make in reply to a demonstration in his
honor. Its happiest touch was the assertion
that the philosophers of England had told him
that the English workingmen received him with
so much warmth because he was the country
man of Emerson, who had spoken there before
HIM. Nobility of mind and modesty OF nature
could scarcely have found a neater vehicle for
a tribute to the Concord philosopher than these
few words.
We fear that Mint Director Burchard is going
to make himself offensive to the Administration
Mt Washington. He manifests a singularly per-
verse and reprehensible inclination to stay in
Office for the good of the country, notwith-
standing that Secretary Manning wants him out
for the good of the Democratic party, and all
because his appointment was made under law
which he thinks fixed his term of Office at five
years, before the expiration of which time he
can only be removed for cause with the consent
Of the Senate. @Offensive partisanship might
not strike the Senate rs good cause for removal
in this case, even if Secretary Manning should
adopt the simple and effective method of decap-
itation invented by Mr.. Villas. The President
should come to the rescue with that keen fac
ulty of his which discovered the stability Of the
subsoil of corn lands.
The great interest felt in the published jour
nal of Chinese Gordon need not be a cause OF
wonder. With all his contradictory qualities
as soldier and man, perhaps because OF them,
Gordon united in himself more of the elements
of popular hero than any man of his time.
His deeds were such as story-books are made
of and his fanatical devotion to his own stand
ard of duty was forever putting him
in positions in which his conduct
was bound to Go picturesque.
A record of his reflections while cooped up
doomed prisoner in Khartoum would be
read with eagerness at any time, but especially
now, when the Government whose dilatoriness