New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-20


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Copyright, 1898, By The xsr York Trtbuns
. IoSpov. April l9.-Matthew Arnold was buried
this afternoon at Laleham Church. two miles
from Staines, on the Thames. Large numbers OF
friends went down from London BY train, arriving
at Staines just before and thence driving TO
Ialeham. Among them were Mr. Browning Lord
Chief-Justice Coleridge; the Master Of Balliol.
Dr Jowett: the historian, Mr.. LeclSy; Mr. Henry
lanes. the American; Mr. Mundella. Mr. Leonard
Courtney. Admiral Egerton, Sir George Russell.
Mr. and Mrs Humphry Ward, Mr. Lyulph Stanley,
and Sir Edwin Arnold Mr.. Frederick Macmillan
represented one firm of Mr.. Arnolds publishers,
and Mr. Arnold's stanch friend, Mr.. George Smith.
with his son. the other the firm Of Smith, Elder
& Co., who issued nearly all his prose works.
Many others came, but saw no representative OF
either the Government or the Court.
Laleham Church is a very small ana seemingly
very ancient building of extreme simplicity, with
picturesque red brick ivy-covered, square tower.
Here lie three of Mr.. Arnolds children in the
narrow churchyard. Houses crowd close up to 1T,
and the place quiet but not solitary The hearse
and carriages following with the family, arrived
lust after 2. The Dean Of Westminster and Arch
deacon Farrar went out from the church to meet
the body, which lay in plain oak coffin emoos-
omed in flowers 1t entered the low porch with
friends on either hand. The church was filed
and the service said. the coffin resting near
the entrance. The service at the grave was read
by the Dean of Westminster amid heavily falling
rain, and with two three hundred mourners
about the grave. Very solemn was this sorrowlng
company, and singularly impressive the scene in
IA. itr
was over before /, and the last goodbye said
to the great writer and beloved friend
Il mixed" said Mr. Chamberlain yesterday,
with representative men Of all parties, OF all
classes and of the different nationalities Of which
the people Of the United States is composed, and
with very few exceptions l could find hardly one
who approved the policy Of Mr. Gladstone or the
bills which he introduced" This is said Of Mr.
Gladstone's Irish policy, and creates some surprise
even among those Englishmen who would like 1t to
be true Mr. Chamberlain adds that the small
minority Of Americans who did approve Home
Rule did not understand it.
More important, perhaps, is Mr.. Chamberlain's
declaration that in this country old party lines
have entirely disappeared. There are no more
Liberals nor tories. There are Parnellites and
Unionists Interesting, also, is his remark that
act he would without the slightest hesitation
appeal TO the country in the certainty that the
Unionist majority would be as great or greater
than now The Home Rule answer to this takes
the form Of saying that Mr. Chamberlain's Fish
rries treaty has been rejected by the Senate and
The Unionist organs fall into the same error.
Everybody here seems to think that the ratif-
cation of the treaty is in the hands of the Foreign
Affairs Committee. The leading Home Rule organ
in Ireland we are told, exults in its rejection and
observes that Mr. Chamberlain is discarded
Bummagem ambassador, pinchback plenlpoten-
tiary paste publicist and diplomatist without
diplomacy.
In describing the Devonshire House dinner TO
Mr.. Chamberlain, mentioned the omission Of the
United States and Canada from the toast list, and
the failure TO recognize in any way either MIR.
White OF Mr. Colmer The matter was brought
TO the attention Of the committee, the mistake
made having been much commented on. Every
explanation has now been offered to both gentle
men by the chairman Of the committee, who called
on them for that purpose
Perflaps the most remarkable thing about the
presentation Of the Freedom of the City of London
to Lord Harrington is the general acquiescence In
the fitness Of the honor done the Liberal Unionist
Yet beyond doubt it is Lord Hartington's leader
ship of the UnioniSt wing of the Liberal party
which has brought him this distinction. He is,
however, q parsonage apart in politics He has
great abilities but what distinguishes him above
oil is his force of character his loyalty and honor
in every transaction. No English opponent ever
> imputed TO him q selfish motive or an unfair
method.
The verdict of fifteen hundred dollars against
Mr.. Bradlaugh is likely to curb for some little
lime to come the enthusiasm OF that eminent agl-
tator He had feud with Mr.. Peters. He had
heard somehow that Lord Salisbury had given q
cheque for some purpose either to Mr.. Peters or
to his friend Mr.. Kelly. He jumped at the con-
clusion that the Tory Prime Minister had been
subsidi1ing meetings Of the unemployed. He
thought TO make good point against the Gov
ernment with reference TO the Trafalgar Square
meeting He offered TO prove it before Parliament
He pursued Lord Salisbury with letters which
sundry Radical journals declared put Lord Sails
bury in the position of evading Mr.. Bradlaugh's
challenge. Mr.. Peters, however, brought an action
for libel and the end Of all this commotion is
that Mr. Bradlaugh had not scrap Of evidence
to prove his reckless charges The jury found a
verdict against him without leaving the box.
NJ Coquelin has brought out the newest Partisan
three-act farce, by NJ Besson, " Les Surprises du
Divorce This proves to b, one of the most anus
ing pieces lately produced NJ Coquelin plays the
hero might be expected, in q style totally
different from NJ Jolly, who created the part at
the Vaudeville Theatre, Paris In spite of his
own precepts, as recently expounded to the Ameri-
can public, this astonishing and admirable actor
applies to farce the methods Of comedy. lie has
fone il before. but never with such audacity as
now, and never with such success. One Of the
best audiences ever seen in London called and
recalled him before the curtain some dozen times
In the course of the evening.
Mr. Ienatius Donnelly has come seen, been seen,