New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-03-14
SUPPLEMENT.
PAGES 9 70 u.
NOTES FROM LONDON.
ruRFE ACRES AND A COw-THE POLICE
SIR CHARLES dixie.


l,ov Mr. Jesse Ceilings " no plays Pythlas to Mr'
CbanDerlaln's Damon, now admits that the loI-
uula WAS not invented by the Devil nor oy '"c
Tories. This was. and is, the title OF ie"uc'
issued by the Allotmeuts and Small HOLDINGS ASSo-
citation; a very Radical body indeel MS Io''i-
let wasD in the peculiar EnGhsh Oh W.
Pythias Couings's private secretary 'po
origin of the phrase" But 1t was an 'nno'oa'
phrase Mir. Ceilings cannot believe tlaV an'
else ever believed that either be OF MI Nn""''
lain every advocated giving the laDorerS ID"
nothing OF course they did not. The tune has "o'
come for 40 crude a policy as thai II Is n"V"
more prudcnt 10 issue " ieauet
lahorcrs VINO cannot read with tue eSS"S -
heated easily remembered. easily mlsunuel s'oou'
"a Cba,nlerla,n was not perhaps, directly I'M
plcaed IN tie fIst publication OF TINS ui",
,oaaot But il has now been republished
and he has written a PREDATORY note 10
~ The terms of the note are nsTuc-
- NJ Chamberlain is of opinion that
the elections Just over have shown that the agri-
oI.,ral l,borers appreciate the desire and lnten-
tn of the Liberal party to improve the POSITION OF
,loo ,yho cult1y tie the soil. The Liberal party
meaning Mr.. anon Chamberlain and MI Fy'nl%S
Co lincs I. edged themselves to do something lo'
uod,,a TO giye the earliest effect TO these pledges
ohsoryes MIR Chamberlain. ingenuOusly, Is now tne
cIosr interest aud duty of the Liberal party lie
proposes. Therefore the concession to represent
atiye local authorities elected under INC pi"-
lection Of the Ballot of powers for the coihpusoN
ACQUISITION OF land for artisans aud aborers awe"
ip- alotn,ents and small holdings. TINS proposal
might be stated more plainly. You own IeV u0
eav. O little country place on the HUDSON y"
which Won have built house. Probably you nave
land out a garden. and you do little iarmihe-ih
short, it is your rome, and you have spent some
money on II and a good deal of Your VIE
likes II and your children have been born there
and when you can get away from business that IS
10 YOU the Dleasanest spot the face OF the gooe
But all THIS weuld signify nothing If you had
Cbamberlain among you. The seectmen, or what
ever You call your municipal authorities. would
have mower 10 take your home and land. whether
YOU are willing to part with it or not. They would
not give you waat You asked nor what IL
would sell for. They would put "haI
they call a fair valuation on II, pay you, ana
turn you out neck and crop. Then your little farm
and garden would be cut up into lots, which wouid
he called small ho ngs, aud divided among the
labcrers who wanted them. The price they 1ald'
or agreed to pay like the price for which you were
forced to SELL would be less than the LAND was
worth to you to any private owner Inns Is
what is going to happen IN England If Mr. Cham
bPrlaIn has his way. luls II tuo hANN -ANA~7
The Cow" is to follow in due time.
The report Of Mr. Childerss committee on the
riots Of February has been published and fills
three columns II puts into an official narrative
the faets a ready well known which abstain from
repeating. 1t deals IN detail with the conduct Of
the police. and its Judgment 10 one of wholesale
contamination No censure which had been pro
nOunced in public or private Is so severe or so
9weepng as that of the committee over wien the
Home Secretary presided, and of which LORD
Xolseley was n member. No wonder tDat
Door Sir Edmund Henderson at once sent
in ms resignation as Chief commissioner
OF Police OF that II was ar once accepted
HIS conduct on that memorable day was consider
ably more comic than anything ever before seen
outside of a Christmas Pantomlme. He was IN
Trafalgar Square duTng most of the day, but IN
plain clothes, as was Mr. Superintendent Walker
with the natural result that neither OF them could
be found when wanted, and that both were SIMPLY
spectators OF the disturbance
Sir Edmund was not even a good spectator II Is
literally true that mob of from 5000 to 5000 men
were able TO leave Ira algar square and axe up
their march westward uuObserved by the Chiet
Commissioner. Half an hour after they had gone,
Sir Edmund sent an order for the dispatch
of 100 policemen to Pail Mall, which
The moo IdQ dT'duS NItChfi anu NAA''''
1t was a verbal order. The officer who received
II understood he was TO g the The Mall st.
james. PARK and protect Buckingham Palace
which be- accordingly did no mob being or even
coming within half mile of thai sacred building.
Sur Edmund had made no previous arrangement for
tie security Of the West End, because "A length
ened experience led him to believe hat crowds in
va-iablv went back by the routes they had come.
II the crowd tins occasion failed 10 observe tins
law of nature, can SIR Edmund be held responsible :
The committee appear to think he can. They
think the police arrangements were most unsatls-
factorv and very defective, even III their con-
ccDtlon There are it appears, no police
rcguat whatever for the management OF
mohs or none that have ever been published. The
damning fact that for two hours mob was in pos
session OF the best streets Of the best quarter OF
London and hat no police nterfered Is brought
out clearly. and Is more terrible condemnation
than word, can pronounce Nobody did anything.
The policeman IN front of the War Otice in Pail
Mall looked IN W i E the rioters marched past. He
dld NOT know that inside the War Office there was
a telephone to Scotland Yard and he made no
effort to communicate with his superiorS. AT the
bottom of -. James -st there Is tee-
rraph Office and there also were police
men who did not consider themselves authorized TO
uS4 the telegraph A superintendent with twenty
three men under him was in ArlIngton-st. when the
mob SWEPT past the head Of it, but he thought him.
self bound to remain where he was and protect
Lord Salisbury against the " ovation which he
had been old IN. ght be expected. The only man
who did anything was Inspector Cuthbert, IN Ok
iord-sr He raced 900 rioters with sixteen police
men and scattered them al once all honor 10 him.
Wei may tic committee saw that the state oi
things disclosed by the evidence before them IS
incouceiyable." Their report ls 10 be followed
bv general OverhaulIng If the system
a. well as by the appointment of a
new Chief. They could not, of course, make
observations on tue conduct Of the great official
who presided over their Investigations. But
Nj Childers. her Majesty's Secretary OF State toI
the HOuie Office Is perhaps ne most picturesque
There be was IN his big room at the Department
hard at work mis- papers and all unconscious
CITY for the order and safety of which he was re-