New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-30
LONDON NOTES.

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TIES OF ARCHDEACON FAR. e.
RAR-JoHN INGLESANT
AND ROME
London. October 1s
There II at least ono Englisbman who takel !,
. sensible view Of the Mckinley Tariff; OF. H&
not Of the tariff itself-for don't wish to eou.s
NIT him to anything to which he has not CON-
mit&ed himself-of the relation Of English opinies
to the tariff. The nest Of this rare bird ID ncns
other than The Saturday Review review
not prone, - you well know, to take views
too favorable TO America or things American.
Nobody would think Of calling 1t partisan In the
sense Of being over-partial to U.s. But In notice
OF a brief condemnation Of the Mckinley Bill
by Mr. Gladstone occurs this startling paren.
thesis: by the way. what have Englishmea
uot TO do with that?" Among all the Other
hundreds or thoussnds Of English writers who
have poured forth anathemas on the Mckinley
bill TO not one other does this obvious reflection
seem TO have occurred. Let the one exception
have his due credit, and when we read the next
English diatribe against piece Of purely domestic
American legislation, let us calmly echo u
sensible query Of this one sensible Briton: What
has England to do with that?'
The late Professor Thorold Rogers was an od<
figure in English life and literature lie had
very considerable claims to respect An Oxford
professor of political economy is not likely to
hold economical opinions of which the American
public could approve, and Thorod Rogers was
no exception TO the rule Of uniformity In the
faith OF free-trade He did, nevertheless. much
useful work in his own department.. and his
- History OF Agriculture and Prices in England
ia a learned and standard work 1t may be
thought that he atoned for his economical views
nv his Radicalism. Radical he was, and his
radicaism was Of kind for which he had to
sufer. He was turned out Of the Oxford Chair
Of Political Economy for his Radicalism. This
was in 1858. But English radicalism Is not
always Of a kind to commend itself to Americans
It is often narrow. often violent often bitter.
7 am afraid it must be said that in Thorold
Rogers IL was oil three.
Reaten at Oxford, he turned to politics and
came into Parliament for Southwark In tho
general election OF 1880; borne on by the great
wave of Gladstonism which then submerged this
country. The retreat Of the wave In 1885, after
the Home Rule bill had been tried on and failed
in Parliament, left Rogers stranded with many
another Angli-Home-Ruler whom Mr.. Gladstone
had carried with him into the Parnelllte camp.
Il mattered the less to Rogers. because ne had
Jared Ill in tho House Of Commons lie and 'ha'
great assembly did not get on together IL may
have been the fault of the assembly; IL may
have been Rogers's misfortune; the fact, at any
rate, is undisputed. He was already an OLD man
and few indeed are they who can begin far"
iamentary career at near sixty and conduct
with success. man at that age IS no iohgee
flexible enough The House Of Commons conforms
to nobody: expects each new member no ma'
mr.
he. 10 submit himself to the Judgment OF ths
new tribunal. II he expects verdict In MS
favor. he must begin by accepting the cohds'
tons and canons
I doubt whether ThOrold Rogers ever accepted
n condition or canon or anything else from any.
bodv. lie was an aggressive creature; full OF
selfconidence with a taste for hostilities aganse
other selfconfident persons.@ He had sharn
tongue. and q certain gift for scurrilous cpigram
In which no man OF his time surpassed him. ie
published some Of these lampoons. They Licked
finish. and often lacked the true epigramnalo
quality. but never lacked scurrility. lie was.
in fact. one of those men TO whom It Is natural
TO indicate their dissent from any abstracs
proposition by reviling those who PROFOUND 1t %
assent to it.
With all this, he kept position. His range
was wide; he knew many things beside political
economy; was long one Of the formost men AZ
Oxford: q scholar Of the old school. ONford
took him back after twenty years, upon tho
death of his successful rival, the singular MI.
Bonamy Price. steam-engine without balances
wheel or any kind Of regulator. Lord SALISBURY
and Mr. Goschen were among his supporters all
Radical as he was. Many Americans VIII re'
member him as the editor Of Brights speeches.
We and the rest Of the English-speakng world
~, Ia fnr< hat lie
was not always well or wisely done. nor with
| good taste, of which lie had little; but it was
| done, and had he not been there to do it. ]
| know not whether to this day there would have
been an edition Of Brights speeches. So. for
that good service, let all his faults and foibes
| be forgotten.
Mr.. Froude was right about the Jamaica Mace.
| IT, is not the "bauble' which Cromwell ordered
| to la taken away: or rather, neither Of the two
Jamaica maces, since two there are, has any
claim to the distinction which rumor assigned to
| one Of them. Mr. Speaker Peel, who would natu-
rally have more interest in the matter than any
| one else has gone into the question and cleared
| up all doubts. The two existing Jamaica maces
are silver-glt One is stamped u. R. on the head.
with the date 1884; the other has the Kings
head and the date 1878 That, Of course. dis
poses Of them There was third mace, and
| to this it was that the Cromwell tradition at
tached itself Sir Henry Blake, present Gov.
| ernor Of Jamaica, writes home that in 1862 Lord
Windsor, the first Governor Of Jamaica. sent from
England by Charles II. brought with him mace.
supposed, by tradition. to have been the Bauble.
| But it Is recorded in the statistical papers OK
| 1871 that His Majesty has been pleased 10
favor this island with q mace that cost nearly
| ESQ, which is carried before the Governor on
solemn occasions as a mark Of his authority.
This clearly was not Cromwells Whether IL
was or not, it has disappeared from the face OF
the earth 1t was probably in Port Royal where
| the Council met, in 1872. and was swallowed
up, with the public buildings and all the records
| by the great earthquake Of that year 80 van
ishes one more pleasing illusion out OF distant