New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-27

| he sacrifices much in again Undertaking duucS
which require nearly all his time but the desire
that he should remain is unanimous. lie has pre-
sided not merely over the public deliberations OF
this singular body but the whole public busi-
ness transacted in committees with TACT firmncSs,
| unfailing good sense and benign authority.
The socialstic agitations growing out of the
recent dock strike are spreading over England.
Mr. Burns has begun an attack on the railway com
panies attacking also the Railway Servants Union
! because it docs not attack the companies Strikes
| on n small scale and in many scrts of industries
| occur daily The oldest of all is the movement of
! London tradesmen against what they call rack
rents strike of their customers against rack
p,lces will be next in order.
"We have burst something writes Mr.. Lowell
from the Cephalonia at IIolyhead, and have put
| in here TO land five poor fellows who scalded
dreadfullv There was no danger to anybody
else and /, who opposite the seat of the en-
/ posion, knew nothing of it till l saw the steam
and cinders flying aft. There was fear of fire for
few minutes but as were in sight OF land no
panic" That is AS much anybody knows Of the
accident except that three of the poor fellows
have since died and the Cephalonia has returned 10
/ Liverpool This accident, with the wreck OF the
Malta does not improve the prestige of the Cunard
company, which continues to run its old ships.
The landing of the City of Rome's passengers at
Milford Haven has rather alarmed Liverpool
The event is discussed at length in the English
papers as if opening era in passenger traffic
across the Atlantic. Queenstown, much perturDed
before is in panic, and is not reassured by the
fact that the City of Rome this time stopped at
Queenstown That port is in fact, kept alive
by the calls of Atlantic steamships, and would
soon fall into decay, say its merchants. if these
i obi ried there longer STILL IL is
hardly expected outside of Ireland, that trailic
between Europe and America should continue to
be regulated with exclusive regard to the
interests of single Irish port. WHAT
people here their eyes slowly opening, are be
ginning to see and say, is that while LlNerpool
NAV and probably will remain the great port Tor
merchandise passengers and mails must eventually
choose the shortest and quickest route Whether
Milford Haven be one terminus of the route Is
not yet clear.
Mr.. Spencer Walpole's life Of Lord John Russell
is the book of the week good biography OF
a very able, if not a great man. MI Walpole
has had ample materials, and has used them
with fair judgment he has some II not much
skill, and he has produced readable book Inc
pages of these two large volumes most interesting
to Americans are those which contain compete
confession of the readiness of both LORD JOhh
Russell and Lord PalmerstOn TO acknowledge
the Rebel Confederacy in ls62 Lord Palmerston
| promised mediation, and we all know what that
meant in Lord Palmerston's mouth. Lord John
agreed. adding: SIN case of failure ought
ourselves TO recognize the Southern States
as an independent State" Lord Gran
| Vile was interviewed; he protested, and secured
delay Antietam followed, and when Napoleon
the Little proposed recognition the EngIsh CaDi-
net declined. The letters in which the instructive
episode Of history of those days is fully elucidated
are now given for the first time. They VIII MAKE
us more grateful, neither to Lord John Russell nor
to Lord Pamerston, but to Lord Granville. whose
services to the American Union have never been
sufficiently appreciated Mr.. Walpole's chapter on
the American Civil War is not as a whole salts
factory He writes too much in the spirit which
led Lord John Russell himself to cavl at every
thing done with reference to the Alabama Arbi-
tration nor does he think it worth while to quote
Lord Johns most remarkable confession, that
the object of his policy while Foreign Minister
was to preserve to England its legitimate and lucra
tive trade in shipbuilding. Messrs. Longmans pub
lish this book at a price which would almost pal
late piracy piracy of English books posi-
bic in England It is only American books which
may be piratcd here with impunity
The American actress, Miss Loie Fuller. has
taken the Globe Theatre in London, and made her
first appearance this week in a play called
!" Caprice" The play is unanimously voted weak
and dull The actress is thought clever, and
one critic ingenuously expresses his surprise that
Miss Fuller, though American, is not vulgar.
If there be any other theatrical item of interest
II is Mrs Langtry's decision to take the st. JameSs
Theatre for year. The Lily will open in January,
which is unusual both for lilies and for theatres
Mr. Barnum, however, is for the moment the most
conspicuous of Americans in England. The Eng
lish are impressed by him, by his show, by his
posters, by the arrival of his company in the
CITY of Rome and by special train, and by his
extraordinary skill in advertising, especially In
that kind which costs him nothing lie is inter
viewed and discussed, and the story of his life
retold Anecdotes about him circulate in the
press and in private Artists of illustrated papers
are on his trail and his caricature by MIR Leslie
Ward will appear next week in Vanity FAR,
with brief biography, probably not less carl
catured.
Mr. Depew is the subject of a cartoon in to-days
Vanity Fair which describes him as having
waxed great in a great country; cultured Amerl-
can who has principles; genial successful popu-
lar busy man, who knows all about railroads and
good deal about men and things; and ADDS; NO
one who knows him ever misses chance oil get
ting him on his legs after dinner. When he IS on
them he talks for time deliberately ana easily
but with much point and dry wit, so that MS
hearers are compelled to laugh. lie has beneVo-
lent appearance lie is one of the biggest trustees
in the world, friend of the Prince OF Wales, ana
the coming President of the United States This |
| biography, which fills column, is on the whole
more successful than the cartoon, which Ills
page q. WS.
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winnipeg Man. Oct 2G.--An extensive scheme by |
winch the customs have been dtfaudcd for years has
Just come to light here, is said that number
oi prominent people ars implicated. II appears that
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