New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-14
NOTES FROM LONDON.
DIR. KIDD ON BEACONSFIELD-THE EAlI,
NENT EMIGRANT-THE SALVATION
ISTS-MR BIRREI.L AND MR.
FERGUSON.

London, June %.
DIR. Kids paper in the July Nineteenth Cent
ury- on the Last Illness of Lord Beaconsfeld re-
wives tho memory OF a bitter medical controversy.
DR. Kidd makes no direct alluson 10 it. but il is
possible here and there to read between his lines
lie was Lord Beaconsiehs physician during the
last three years Of his life. lie was not, and is
not, what is called regular practitioner | be-
Ncve he calls himself an Eclectic: choosing for
himself what he thinks best out of alopathy and
homocopathy, and for aught know, other 'pathies
as we'll Lord Beaconsfeld had confidence in him
The regulars hated him. Probably they called
him a quacl None the less DR. Kidd was sup
posed az that time 20 make the largest income in
his profession. great many thousand golden
guineas went into his pocket. which. according
20 the view Of the regulars ought 10 have gone
into theirs When il was known that he had been
tehgraphcd for 70 attend Lord Beaconsfed in Ber
lin the anger Of the profession deep, and 10
grew deeper when the great Tory leaders last
illness set in three years later, and DIR. Kidd was
still by his bedside.
They so influenced public opinion that demand
raised that some other doctor should be called
in, " If only for consultation Let him dismiss
DR.. Kidd said the regulars. and we will save him.
But Lord Beaconsiield, who had will OF iron,
entirely declined 10 dismiss DR.. Kidd. lie had
this irregular one was the one he preferred
Friends interviewed; believe a message came from
the Queen, whose regard for her faithful servant
was as profound MS any royal regard for mere
subject can we'll be. In the end DR.. Quain be-
came associated with DIR. Kidd in the treatment
Dr. Mitchell Bruce also. | use DR.. kidds phrase
Dr. Quain is one of the most eminent and popular
and successful of allopathic physicians lie was
none the less attacked for consenting to stand by
a dying mans bedside while homOcopath was III
the room. The etiquette of the profession rose
up against this outrage Better that Lord Bea-
cousfed should die than that he should live If
the traditions and interests of the profession were
10 be sacrificed. But Dr. Quain stuck 10 his post
The storm beat vaiuly about him. How he and
DIR. Kidd settled questions Of practice | never
heard. But the two men. the three, worked
Loyalty together and none of them has ever suffered
with the public for his devotion.
I resist the temptation Ia extract the good
stories from Dr. kdd's paper, or to give any sum
mary of it. If you still take an inter
est in Lord Bcaconslield-as the most
original figure of his time among Eng
hsh statesmen-you will find much in this
article 10 throw light on his character DIR. Kidd
has given us his "reminiscences simply and well
They are what might be expected from man who
whatever be the orthodox view, is known by the
public 10 be a physician of singular skill and
courage.
The Eminent Emigrant, hear is continuing
his researches into those administrative questions
which so much occupy his mind, and Is still full
Of admiration for the genius which can fill the
greatest quantity of foOlscap about a ten-ccnt
piece | met the other day with passage IN
Malouet's memoirs, which | respectfully offer him.
II describes his experience while he was naval
surveyor at Toulon i'll or about 1889, and was
drawn up in order TO show the new Assembly
how they did business in his department. lie
says;
Il have eighty clerks under my orders,
who work from morning TO night They
each work up yearly more than twenty reams OF
paper for the Minister They keep moro than
four hundred registers and more than eight hun
dred lists | sign whatever they ask for at Yer
sailes and / cannot imagine who can have time
60 read il after M. The carriage of my letters
costs the King besides parcels that are franked,
twelve 70 fifteen thousand lvres. and over and
above all that mass of writing the printing bills
for reports accounts etc. amount yearly TO 5000
hvres
Nevertheless, with all this superabundance OF
materials there are still no means Of rendering
accounts or of getting them sent in 10 Inc; of
assuring the supply of provisions Of providing for
the most urgent necessities of regulating
penses Of checking waste, of attending 10 what
is needful and preventing what is useless and in
iurious: in other words, what is essential TO the
administration is not done, and what actually do
might be suppressed as well my Office itself and
great part of the papers and clerks
Now Malouct was able man. who had in his
time transacted much business for the King, and
had filled this important naval Office of his for
eight years before the Revolution. You see what
bis opinion is on the great Ten Cent question II
differs from Mr.. Godllin's M0ouet had seen how
IL is done, the of paper on each ten-cent
piece had passed under his eye, he had signed and
countersined them. Not for moment do set
his experience his iud gment his capacity, against
those of our Eminent Emigrant, nor should think
of appealing from the Eminent Emigrant to any
other-higher there could not hc-auth0rity what
soever All / wish is 10 submit Malouct's tcstl-
mony 70 Mr.. GodlIin. and if might venture so far
as 70 put question 10 the latter il would be 10
ask him what he thinks OF IL.
One of the things which never dies is fallacy.
The right Of y certain number of people T. use
the streets 10 the exclusion or Inconvenience Of
people in general is one of these fa'laces. The
Trafalrar square rioters claimed it, The Saliva
ton Army claimed it-they have been claiming II
all over England with the result that some of Her
Najesty's jails have been at times inconveniently
crowded. They claimed il again this week in the
Strand in order 10 advertise the fact that they ha'i
been prosecuted for claiming il before, and con
yic,ed The police warned them IN vain, ana
their procession was accordingly stopped and
broken up The component items Of il made their
way 10 Exeter Hall, and General" Booth an
nonncel that they light have 10 march through
the Strnnd every day TO make good their claim to
annoy the rest OF the public. II they do we shall
soon 500 of what STAN the new Commissioner Of
Police is made. But the old Trafalgar Square cry
is as once raised raised by the mOuthpeceN OF the