New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-08
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DEPARTURE OF MIR. CARNEGIES COACHING
PARTY FROM LONDON.
Mr. BLAINE LOOKING wELL-CURIoUs ENGLISH
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"THE SCARLET LETTER"
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Copyright 1885, Bp TAe Ne'c. York Tribune.
LONDON, June THE London papers publish
pretty full accounts of the delrious proceedings
,t St. Louis. The steady going Briton hardly
knows what to make Of the -ed bandannas the
laurel wrcaths the bust the portrait, the State
banners, the bunting the sixty wind instruments,
of brass and the other human wind instruments,
and the rest. lie reads with grin, but there is
as yet no serious comment. The Daily News
always comic on American topics surpasses itself.
Its knowledge of acts is only surpassed by its
power Of prophecy. AS" says this singular jour
nal there is an absence of any serious opposition
the Presidents reelection may be considered as
sured He is not less fortunate in his enemies
than in his friends The Republicans cannot
hope TO find any strong candidate. and the chances
are that Mr. Cleveland will sweep the country as
he has swept the convention, and that the Repub-
lican party, in the form in which it has hitherto
existed, will become a thing of the past
Punctually at IL this morning Mr.. Carnegie's
coach left the door Of the Hotel Metropole for
Cluny Castle, zoo miles toward the North Pole.
His party consists of Mrs. Carnegie, Mr. and Mrs
Blaine and their two daughters Miss Dodge, Mr.
and Mrs. Phipps, Mr.. Damrosch and Dr. Eaton
Between and / o'clock numbers of friends ap-
peared in Mr.. Carnegies parlor to them off, and
some hundreds of slightly astonished Englishmen
and women formed q sidewalk committee outside
Mr. Carnegie is good general that all prepara-
tions had been completed over night and he seemed
TO have nothing to do but to talk politics with his
friends Many Americans were present Lord
Rosebery, Mr.. Gourley, the Radical NJ. P for
Sunderland, and other Engshmen werc conversing
with Mr.. Blaine. bouquet of La France roses for
Mrs. Carnegie and basket OF fruit for MIS-
Blaine were on the table, both gifts from Mr. and
Mrs. Vidings, of New-York Mrs Carnegie dis
tributed other flowers among the company l
heard that both aorist and fruitercr had declined
TO undertake to deliver anything at the Hotel
Mctropole. We have tried it," said they, " in
vain They are not delivered, or are delivered to
the wrong persons On this occasion they came
safely by fair private hands.
Just before IL Lord Rosebery gave his arm
to Mrs. Carnegie, Mrs. Blaine was escorted by
her host, and the whole party with their friends
went down to the front door. The police cleared
the sidewalk. Everybody's place on the coach
had been fixed, and the party settled themselves
comfortably; Mr.. and Mrs. Carnegie on the back
seat and Mr. Blaine and Mrs. Phipps on the box
next the driver Tall white hats were the rule
for the men The coach smartly turned out, with
serviceable looking horses, the leaders gray and
sorrel with black bay wheelcrs; and so with
sharp turn away they went amid cheers from
the crowd Mr. Blaine, like all the rest OF the
party, looked we'll. The weather was all that
could be wished. Their first night will be spont
at HertSord On the Fourth of July they reach
Cluny. Carnegie Castle and the Stars and Stripes
will float from this Scottish stronghold-if 1T be
stronghold
new newspaper libel act is going through the
House. designed TO relieve the press from some OF
the hardshps of the present law. AS first drafted,
however it became in Mr. Justice Stephens view
something like bill to authorize free trade in
libel. The Journal which of all morning papers
pubIshcd in London deals most freely in abuse,
accuses Mr. Stephen of habitually violating the
honorable traditions of the bench, of grotesque
pedantrv. of quibbling and pettifogging. The
article altogether is violent enough to make the
House think twice whether further lmmumues
can really be necessary. However, the bill In lts
present amended form gives some needed reiei
from the penalties for publishing honest reports
of public meetings. A portion OF the Ehgnsh
press like the paper above quoted, naturaliy
discusses this question with sole reference 10
press interests More powerful and Independent
Journals either like The Times say nothing'
or. like The Standard" remember that they nave
a duty TO the public also. The better class Oh
journals have very little to fear in these mat1erS'
GAYS =" The Standard" most truly.
There are not perhaps, in all England two men
more remote from each other and more un!iNo
in all essential respects but one or two In"h
Lord Harrington and Mr.. Jesse Ceilings. When'
therefore vou see Lord Harrington presiding
at a dinner to Mr.. Ceilings, it means something
1t means in this case that the great wing hoole
recognizes in the plebeian champion OIL Tic agri-
cultural laborer man Of genuine sihcority VI
character who has done much useful Work "lVn-
Oil reward. 1t means also that the tle Oh
common faith in the Union and common dread
Of Home Rule is strong in these days as any
other political bond whatever. The occasion OF
this testimonial To Mr. Ceilings was his expulsion
by the Gladstonians from the presidency Oh the
Anotmcnts Association one more example OF that
ferocty which Mr. Godl1n admires In English
politics and practises in American. MIR. Chamber
lain supported his friend Mr.. Ceilings, and MADE
speech in the course of which he announced
that an American statesman was ABOUT 10 pupish
a book on Ireland. The American statcsmahs
name is William Henry Hurlbert olr Lepel
Griffin. too lent TO this occasion the ornament OF
his eloquence, Astounding, like Jefferson BrcK's'
in unconscious humor He praised Lord Hart
ington: but Lord harrington will survive Sir
Lepel's praise.
The Aveling dramatization OF The Scarlep
Letter. produced on Tuesday afternoon at the
Olympic Theatre, experimentally, proves 10 DC
but dreary thing long prologue mas oeen
thought necessary TO break the matter TO inc
British public Neither this nor the succeeding
acts are thought TO have much literary or dramatic
value, nor is the acting Of the piece in any way
remarkable. Miss Calhoun, therefore, has no rlvai
10 fear. She has only to alter the last act 10
insure success Alteration Of some sort there Will