New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-25

confidence in the administration Of justice by the
courts of law. The Home Secretary has had 10
face an outcry Of which argument and appear 10
reason formed the smallest part All the anu
hanging people joined in it of course. 90 uid
sentinentalsts who, while ready TO let men suner'
would let women go free because they are wonen'
Add another class who thought the verdict wrong
because Mrs. Maybrick was young ana rather
pretty and third with whom hostility 10 the
present Government was the real motive OF at-
tack For an attack 1t has peeh' anu
politics have had great deal TO do with the whoe
business There is, of course large and respect
able body who fully think the evidence against
Mrs. Maybrick incomplete, and urge that she WAS
entitled to the benefit of the doubt But they are
not the noisy band who wrote TO or IN the papers
Perhaps never has any Home Secretary nsd 10
meet sueh a pressure as was put upon Mr.. Mat
thews in this case. Some Of il came from some
Of his own colleagues. " If he hangs Mrs Maybrck
it. will cost us a hundred thousand votes" sald
one of them. Hanging is not Cabinet question: but
Mr. Matthews of course, knew what the Cabinet
thougbt. lie has done his best 20 decide accord
ing TO the law and the evidence but ne is. AFTER
all. human, and this decision not to hang nor to
nordon bnt 10 commute TO penal servitude for
lisc' is in truth compromise Mrs. Maybrlck
doubtful whether any Ministry any Home Secre-
tarv ever lived who would have had the courage
70 hang her in the presence of the angry oppo-
stion which this simple solution Of allowing justice
IN take its course would provoke. Mr.. Matthews
believes that Mrs Maybricll tried TO poison her
husband He is not quite sure whether she really
succeeded. and finds ground enough in the doctors
| differences to justify him in committing the sem
| tence.
| The dock laborers' strilxe,ghas lasted all the
| weel, and the end is not yet. 1t is remarkaoie
example of organization on the side OF the
men, and of the pressure which one body OF
laborers can enforce on another The regular
workmen in the employ of the dock companies
are not dissatisfied with wages or rules 1t is
the casuak, who are taken on when wanted, paid
by the hour and discharged when the Job is
completed who have started this strike and dragged
others in with them. They demand twelve in
stead of ten cents an hour minimum hiring Of
four hours and the abolition of piece work. The
companies reply that they not making money
and cannot afford an increase which would cost
them half million dollars a year. They concede
four hours minimum, but insist that the abolit on
of piece work is only another attempt TO compel
them 70 pay good and bad men the same wages.
Other points raised, conferences are held, pro-
ceSsions are tramping through the East End
and immense inconvenience to the shipping hns-
ness is caused, but order thus far has been OBJ
served
Lord Dunraven publishes long letter in The
Times" covering the dispatches and letters that
have passed respecting his challenge for the Amer
icas Cup The object of it all is TO prove that
the responsibility for the failure of the match
does not rest with him or the Royal Yacht Squad
ron. There were misunderstanding on both sides,
and the delay which enSued made the race impos-
sible this year. Lord Dunraven still hopes to
sail next year, whether for the Americas Cup or
other American prizes
The list Of Americans who have fitted through
London this week includes Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
Carnegie, who have been called suddenly home
from Moscow by illness in Mrs Carnege's family.
The grsat iron-master looked no worse for his
hurried Journey which has abated none of the
zeal with which he Superintends English politics.
His telegraphic intervention did not prevent the
Royal Grants bill from passing the House of Com
mons nor did the division which arose that
subject between him and Mr.. Gladstone shake his
ah glance 10 his leader. Perhaps it is equally i'm
portant to note that Mr.. Carnegie takes more
sanguine views than ever of the steel and iron
industry in America, and especially in Pittsburg
Accepting protection as a settled policy, he be-
leves America now well able to take care of her
self and TO supply her demand for iron and
steel fabrics. America has ceased 10 influence
prices in Great Britain, whose whole plant is now
none too large to supply the demand from the rest
of the world outside of America. There may,
therefore, be peace between them this vexed
question, and Mr.. Carnegie, whose buoyancy of
soul is at least great ever, even hopes for
peace with the American Free Traders. He in
sists that America and does make steel rails
as cheaply 10 within a fraction England. The
iron and steel business of the future is to be
Quoted on the basis of small profits but enormous
production, and two new Carnegie mills are build
ing in Pttsburg itself TO keep pace with the new
demand and still keep down the price.
Another American homeward bound is Mr.
Depew. He has left Homburg but got no further
at present than Paris. There one of your enter
prising contemporaries has interviewed him and
ELECTED the opinion that the London
edition of the enterprising contemporary
is big success and that Mr.. Depew
was not surprised having always believed that it
was bound to be. Mr. Depew himself was as
usual a big success in IIomburg. The Prince of
Wales gave him a lunch, with celebrities Ell
tirey unlike each other as the Duke OF Cambridge
and Sir Charles Russell to meet him Nothing was
said about Mrs. Maybrck lie dined with Earl
Spencer loafed with Lord Rosebery, sedulously
avoided all cures left IIomburg in extremely good
health, and has since been dining as fellow.
guest with Mr.. Edison in Paris, where that eminent
electrician has been received with extraordinary
honOrs and has been expressing unsound opinions
on the New-York newspapers. G. w. s.