New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-26


seller the truth about what he buvs when he
knows he can judge for himself Of it's effect or
Importance If this knowledge is withheld, the
action of the seller is precisely what the
Lord Chief Justice described il. "ut-
terly dishonest Upon this point the
secretary of the Stock Exchange throws no light
offers no defence, and says nothing to restore the
public confidence shaken by the cynical admissions
Of his chief
The London County Council has asked Cap
tain Shaw to withdraw his resignation.
1t is not known whether he will dare say he
would if the Council would withdraw its Fire
Brigade Committee, one or two members of which
have made all the trouble and have made Captain
Shaws position intolerable.
Mr. Reed, who sailed On Wednesday for New
York, spent time enough in London TO discover
that London considers the Speaker of the American
House of Representatives considerable person.
age Ills colleague at Westminster welcomed him.
Many Others welcomed him, and at least one paper
made him the subject of a long editorial l be-
lieve he met at Liverpool another eminent Ameri-
can, Mr. Chauncey Depew, who stepped on shore
as Mr.. Reed was embarsng.
Mr.. Depews arrival in London, which ought
to coincide with the summer solstice when social
life is fullest has this year been delayed by
causes known at home Late or early, he Is well
come He has missed the German Emperor, but
is in time for Hatfield, whittier he went this
afternoon in time also for the Prince of Naples.
should the future King of Italy interest him.
The Prince does interest certain number Of
Englishmen, and, though he is here incognito, the
Prince of Wales and other hospitable persons are
dining him and showing him many sides of English
life lie is hardly known or noticed in tho streets.
The Prince of Wales, besides entertaining tho
Prince of Naples, has this week opened rather
more public buildings than usual and has been
well received. So cordial was his welcome at
Birmingham that he expressed some surprise. He
had always understood that Birmingham was
Radical and that Radicals did not like princes
but it appears that they do at least In Birming-
ham.
If there be any other personal intelligence
of high concern to this and other countries, it is
that Lord Cadogan, Her Maiesty's Privy Seal, has
been made Knight Of the Garter. The
Queen would have conferred this great
dignity on her grandson-n-law. the Duke
of Fife. but even Queens do not always have their
own way. Lord Cadogan is great landlord as
well as great officer of state, who conducts his
life with much social splendor, and he is not with
out political capacity and has as much popularity
as a great landlord can in these levelling days ex
pect TO have.
There is promotion for others than Lord Cado-
gam Precedent is the lord of this kingdom, and
Lord Salisbury had no choice but to recommend
Lord Mayor Savory to the Queen for
q baronetcy and the two Sherifs to
be knighted. Not much is said against con-
ferring this honor. Disraeli said that it was
TO honor-on the Lord Mayor. He did his En-
business very well, and not many
critics care to remind him of his borrowing
sermon from Mr.. Spurgeon without Mr.. Spurgeons
permission and delivering it without mentioning
its origin to his audience. That is a peccadillo
permissible, it seems, when practised from piety.
But one Of the SheriRs is Mr. Augustus Druriola-
nus Harris, d most enterprisng and successful
manager Of theatres and operas. What will the
Nonconformist conscience say to him? We shall
know presently what it says or whether
il says anything, for it is sometimes
silent when it might be expected
to speak Among the cynical the bestowal of this
dignity gives rise TO grils know not why.
The manager of the Aquarium was of the opinion
that curiosity to hear Miss Gladys Evelyn on Mr.
William Henry Ilurlbert would induce large num-
bcrs OF persons to pay so 30 for that privilege. lie
was too sanguine. The half-guinea seats were not
half filed nor those at half that price. Still there
was q large audience. Miss Evelyn denied that
before she knew Mr.. Hurlbert she had been disso
lutte woman, described her seduction by Mr.. Hur-
bert. quoted some Of his phrases which student
IF Mr. Hurberts acknowledged writings might
as like his in style. OF course she de-
MED the Wilfrid Murray story. Wifrid Murray is
MIR. Hurlbert, says Miss Gladys Evelyn, who ought
TO know, if anybody knows. The papers do not
report her very fully. She had little that was
new to offer, and people do not forget that ac-
,ording to Lord Asher there is still the legal or
technical doubt whether she or Mr.. llurlbeft be
the "audacious perjurer which one Of them must
,e. The English public will be alive TO anything
which tends TO throw light on that interesting ques-
ion. No week passes that some paper does not
,rod the public prosecutor but as yet he gives no
ign.
Mr.. Burnand has done daring thing in adapt
no Miss Helyett" to the English stage, but his
Miss Decima," produced on Thursday evening
# the Criterion Theatre, is entirely free from the
,oarsencss of motive and treatment which made
his clever French operetta seem impossible in
ENGLAND. True. in getting rid of the fundamental
dca of NJ Bouchcron's piece, he has sacrificed
With if pretty nearly all the plot or probability
be original had But that signifies little in
work of this nature, and TO an English audience
70 has given a sparkling text, full of quaint
,umor and Jest, and extremely amusing. The
english audience requires nothing more except
hat such work should be tOlerably we'll acted
;unO il is more than tOlerably well at the Cri- |
erion. Miss Nesvilc, a singer and actress trans
,lanted from Brussels to London, has method |
I,licate enough to palliate the indelicacy of the
ricinal She is refined, reserved, quaint, prlm, |
PRETTY. and an artist TO the tips of her fingers
Mr.. IIowells's views Of criticism and fiction are |
~ better liked here when collected into volume |
han they were when first issued in what the |
english critic hoped might he fugitive form |
ermons are preached against Mr.. Howells's here
los. some of them very good sermons lie is |
old that his theories Of novel-wrting are meant |
q convince the public that his own novels are an |
mbodiment of the perfect canon, and that his |
nloCies on Anthony Trolope and his contempt |
or 1.-THE caricaturist Thackeray' are but an |
noloqy for his own works. The preacher |
'ioht have added that canon OF
riticism the effect Of which was 10 put Ihackeray
Glow Trollope requires no further discussion.