New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-05
NOTES FROM LONDON.
srw PEERS AND THEIR TITLES-EMERSON
IN ENGLAND-AM ORGANISMS.

" LONDON, Aug. 20.
The wits have been at work. as usual, manuiact-
wing new titles for the new peers. The only case
~ which they have been brilliantly successful is
that of Sir Henry Thrne. who waspromptlv dubbed
he one of bis future colleagues, Lord Ihring 'em
bob.
The promotion of Sir Henry Thring is very char
..,ar,s,,c of Nh Gladstone 1t is like the promo
An of Lord Lingeu who had been the permanent
had of the Treasury for fifty yeats or sc, aud the
latest screw on record. Sir Henry Thring has
ban for five and thirty years leading Parliament
.rv craftsman. don't know that any analogous
frnctiouaJy exists IN Washington. He is the man
,,ho nuts into form the legislative ideas OF the
u;n;strv-and such form! Like Sigismund be is
.v,,ra orammaticam. The rules of syntax the ordi-
rarr copcords of noun and verb. the strict tie be-
tween relative and antecedent, are not for him.
Did Won ever read an Act of Parliamentf There
exsts no other form of composition in what pur-
norris TO be the English language comparable to
this production. The mere laymau might pro-
noupce on such q matter with dlffidence, but the
sharpest critics of these Acts are Her MaJeSys
,udges who have to construe and interpret them.
sir Henry Thring did not invent TIE ja1gon which
he employed. | dare he used 1t with skill.
Nv long practice the judges have come to know that
an Act does not mean what IT appears to mean
Wo,ds and phrases are used In technical or rather
IN
nv accounting these when they are lucky enough to
find ont what they are. 1t IS familiar maxim
,hat the intention of the legislature must be IN
fe-red if at ALL from the words used to express It,
Pint inasmuch as the intention with which Sir
Uonrv Thring used certain words has also to he IN
frred from the previous of the same words In
similar circumstances, it is no matter Tor wonder
that the judges should so often be at SKIES ana
seyens (sx on one side and seven On the otner] as
10 the true meaning of a statute.
This matter of lew titles is one which affects dl-
recty and indirectly many people; anects the'r con-
ven,ence or their susceptibiItIes. Most new peers
il is true are political nonentiIes and me puolc
cares little what they call themselves When
orsat man chooses TO bedizen himself with new
dignity he is easily recognized. Nobody was ever
in distress about the identity of Mr.. Dlsraeli be-
cause if pleased him to be Iechristened Earl of
Roaconsfed. If Mr.. Gladstone had cared, as
people at one time insisted he would TO go
IA the Upper House, he too would
have been as well known by his new
stvle as by the old. But what is bewildered COM
mnnity 10 make of Lord Monk-Bretton. or Lord
Vantage or even Lord Gnmthorpef There Is an
interval between the creation OF new Peers ana the
publication of a new edition of what Is sometimes
called. perhaps profanely, the British Bible and
more accurately the British Peerage. The respect
able Mr. Dodson became Lord MoDkBre with
ont causing one sill gle ripple of excitement. Colonel
Loyd-Lndsay would have been quite as much re-
spected If he had not bOssomed Into LORD
Vantage. What does man with the VIC
toria Cross and the Grand Cross of the Legion OF
Honor and some millions of money, want with a
brand new title' Sir Edmund Beckett had fancy
for writing letters to the papers-very readable.
singing letters They gain nothing by being
signed Grmthorpe I think most people were
grateful to Macaulay for keeping to his own name
when Lord was put to it in front
When the world thrilled to the announoem ent
that the roll of English Vlscouuts was to be COM
pleted by the addition tsSr Richard Cross, G. G.
B. commonly called Grand Cross. we were told he
had chosen to style himself VscOunt Warrington
Now 1t appears he is to be Vscount Cross, which
has . slightly absurd sound. Why this change
Well, it appears that Lady Stamford objected to
Sir Richard Cross calling himself Lord Warning
ton. The present Earl of Stamford does not OBJ
iect il is the widow of the late Earl who put this
spoke In the wheel of Sir Richards fortune. al
most despair of explaining why with brevity
But there once was an Earl of Warrington, whose
title either fell into abeyance became extinct.
Then the fourth Earl of Stamford married the
heress of the last Earl of Warrington, and the son
of the fourth Earl of Stamford was granted the
honors the phrase goes, OF his
maternal grandfather. aud became Earl of
Stamford and Warrington. The double title duly
descended through two generations. But the
seventh Earl of Stamford died without ISSUE and
the earidom of Stamford thereupon reverted to the
grandson of the fourth Earl and as he had not been
Earl of WARM gton, this latter earldom once more
persisted off the face of the earth 1t survives how
ever in the memory and affections Of the lady who
(being herself the daughter of the late Mr.. Henry
Cocks had been privileged to marry the seventh
Earl of stamford and Warrington. By blood she has
no connection with the Warngtons. but She
none the less protested, and protested e1ectualy,
against the assumption of the name by Sir Richard
Gross 1t is a solemn world, and few things in it
are more solemn than such questions OF ran as
have been touching upon.
If Mr. Finery be correctly reported by
cable, he mas done q slight injustice to one of the
friends of Ireland He observed, according to the
version in The Daily Telegraph that if Ireland at
any time felt herself position resist the
brutal British the God of Battles would smile on
them IT, as Lord Salisbury had said manacles and
Manitoba the only remedies for Irish disaffec
ton" But 1t was not Lord Salisbury who CO ned
the phrase "manacles and Manitoba " IL was
Mr.. John Morley. He used it epigrammatc
summary of Lord Sasbury's policy at the time OF
the too famous speech about twenty years of reso-
lutte government for Ireland 1t was not here l.
sdered one of Mr. MOrley's happies efforts but he
Is entitled TO the credit OF 1t such IL Is.
How many years ut since Emerson became
known 10 the British Phlstnef Known lie was
In a sort, so long ago s4l when the ESSAYS +"
here reprinted. Thanks to Fraser, aud thanks
IN much less degree to CARLYLE, who rather
grumbliDgly consented 60 do a preface to Them
But II is easy to remember the time when if you
quoted OF mentioned IN ,rson his name brought
into your friends face the blank look of ignorance
or at best polite Indifference. And now he IS be-
come so familiar. even to the wspaper-readin
public. that the newspaper writer IN London cites
hun as te cites any other classic The Torres them
selves know him. The Tory organ dav or two
since began leading article on British sports WITH
Deedfu! TO explain TO Tory audience who Emerson
was nor TO apologize for him, nor to patropze him