New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-14
Mr' Elliot Lees, who came In second; and Mr..
Lees Is q Tory. YET Mr.. Parnen still perseveres.

Aoo Aes0s WHO came In second and Mr..
Lees is Tory. YET Mr.. Parnell still perseveres.
The Radical majority in the London County
council have carried a resolution demanding con-
uoi OF the London police Experience and argu-
ment are thrown away on these gentlemen
New-fork, Paris and other great capitals are as
nothing to them. They want to use the police
as political machine, capture Trafalgar Square
control Hyde Park, and, perhaps, menace Parlis-
ment itself. All the Socialists, Anarchists and
agltatcrs OF every sort are for this change In
vain did Lord Rosebery, in his diplomatic way,
suggest to his less wise colleagues that they had
not really debated the question on its merits
Thai is precisely what they wished to avoid.
The Council voted by two to one that they were
resolved to have the police under them, and that
1t was the business of Parliament to hand them
over The Metropolitan police force now numbers
fourteen thousand.
The funeral Of the Duchess of Cambridge has
been organized by the Queen herself with that
elaborate ceremony in which Her Majesty takes a
sombre delight The details fill two columns, in
advance Of the ceremony itself. The whole brigade
of the Guards Is ordered out, somewhat to their
surprise. The officers and men were rehearsing
yesterday in the barracks with dummy coffin.
Yester rday, also, there was kind of preliminary
funeral seance in the Chapel Royal Of ST. James's
Palace, numerously attended by the world OF
fashion, who might not care to journey this wet
morning all the way to Kew. The public MOURN
ing has been less day by day. nor has the Court
mourning been worn so strictly as was expected
Court officials have been seen without it, and even
at the Diplomatic dinner on Thursday ore lady
came in eolors, an act of courage for which the
rest OF the company were secretly grateful TO
her. There is, however, no lack of real respect
for the memory of the late Duchess, of whom
nothing but good is said
In recognition of his influence on art at home
and abroad, dinner is to be given TO Mr.
Whistler at the Criterion on May 1. Names
eminent in art appear on the coinmittee-Mr
Boehm, Mr.. OrchardSon, Mr.. Alfred Stevens,
Mr.. Shannon, Mr.. Sargent and Mr.. Alfred Gilbert
The chair is to be taken by Mr.. UnderdOwn, an
eminent Q. c. Many eminent persons will be
present. This is the regular way of signifying
that the treatment awarded to Mr.. Whistler by
the Royal Society of British Artists is not ap-
proved by the British public.
Mr.. Ffoude's IIish romance. The Two Chiefs Of
Dunboy," published this week. has been much
abused because il is MIR. Froudes. Mr.. Froude
is not Home Ruler. and sundry critics who are
attack him because they imagine his novel must
be a Government and Anti-Hom Rule pamphlet
II is not. however. but is a story Of Irish lfe
penetrated with sympathy for the Irish people
IL contains. curiously enough, exactly the same
excuse for Irish crime which Mr.. Gladstone Is
always urging-that English rule provoked IT,
Politics apart the book is deeply interesting often
power J. and written throughout with Mr.
Froude's incompatible charm OF style. G. w. s.