New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-03
NOTES FROM LONDON.
PLAIN WORDS FROM RANDOLPH - LORD
SALISBURY - Mr.. BRADLAUGH-LORD
DUFFERIN - SIR HENRY WOLFE


in communicative mood. short time ago he
delivered to an interviewer from local paper
his frank opinion TO the prospects Of Lord
Salisbury's Government in the forthcoming gen.
eral election That, as recorded at the time pro-
duced maddening effect among his old associates
Only Lord Salisbury among tham seems TO have
kept his head. While in the press and on the
platform Conservatives have rallied at Lord Ran
dolph because he prophesed disaster at the polls,
the Premier gave no sign in public. But, II
report be true, he has in private made an exceed
ingly neat rejOinder. The familiar good-natured
friend, fearful lest he might miss Lord Randophs
soothing remarks sent him copy OF the report, to
which for all reply Lord Salisbury wrote: The
political grapes were sour for Mr.. Rigby
prophet of evil, he preached only modification and
repentance and despair TO his late colleagues
This is very neat, and has personal interest.
The quotation is from Conngsby," and it Is
pleasing to find that Lord Salisbury is so familiar
with the now little-read work that he has at his
ingerends quotation suitable for an event Of
the day.
Having disposed Of Her Maiesty's Government,
Lord Randolph incidentally has his attention
called to the late Mr. Bradaugh and is equally
frank in his Judgment. His interviewer having
expressed strictly modified approval Of Mr..
Bradlaugh Lord Randolph is reported TO have
said: Sorry l can't agree with you. Hope 10
will not hurt your feelings If l venture the
opinion that your estimabe friend died Just In
time. When people grew bit tender toward
him, finding that he was not quite such monster
shall / say monster PAS they had expected, the
poor man fooled himself into the belief that he
was heaven-sent statesman. The House Of Com
mons was just beginning to discover that he was
an awful bore. Better, by far, be an atheist
than that" This sounds ruthless, and Is bitterly
resented by 1.-THE National Reformer," weekly
paper with which the late Member for Northamp-
ton was long connected A little man made by
nature for an attorneys clerk is the retort OF
Mr.. Bradaughs champion, lacking, II VIII 10
seen, something of the finish Of Lord Salisburys
The writer then goes on to describe in detail
how, when Mr. Bradlaugh entered the House OF
Commons, Lord Randolph, fearing reprisals, per-
sistenty tried to secure an Introduction TO him.
and how at length his Lordship finding the two
members for Northampton in the smoke-room
forced himself into the conversation and paid
Mr.. Bradlaugh compliment whereat the lat
ter bowed and said nothing
am afraid il must be admitted that Lord Ram
dolph Churchill, with perhaps brutal franl1ness,
has gone directly TO the point and told the truth
about his ancient adversary. In later years Nh.
Bradlaugh came to be an entirely changed man
from the one who in the earliest days OF tina
Parliament Of 1880 stood at the Bar OF the House
of Commons and posed that august but angry
assembly with the question, What are you going
TO do with me" Then he was superb, fight
ing his battle with a skill and pertinacity that
extorted admiration from bitterly hostile House
There have been few finer Oratons than his
twenty-minute speech OIL the 23d OF June, 1884,
when he stood at the Par of the crowded House.
one against six hundred. He won in the unequal
u. and liza
bearing when at length he was permitted 10 take
his seat left nothing 10 be desired, except perhaps
that he was little SYSTEMATICALLY humble. The
Conservatives. who when in opposition had used
him as an Instrument to fout Mr. Gladstone, were
in of:ce. possibly touched with renorsc and re-
rret in recollection of their former fury. How
ever it be, they soon began to pay marked at
tention to Mr. Bradaugh when he Joined in debate,
sometimes enthusiastically cheering him, notably
when in the session Of 1890, he separated him.
self from colleagues below the gangway on the
labor question. Mr.. Bradlaugh would not have
been human if this state Of things had not hat
tered his vanity few years ago honoraoe
gentlemen opposite had howled and jeered at him.
had chevied him out of the House and watched
with delight his struggles with the policemen who
hustled him down the staircase. delivering him
breathless in Palace Yard with his coat torn
now listening with bated breath whilst he spoke,
and punotuating passages in his arguments Win
cheers was sweet revenge for ancient con-
tumely If Mr.. Bradlaugh had folbe, II was
that he "fancied himself" as a great judicial au'
thority The Attorney-General willy and
cO7rrtly man, took note of this and made point
whenever he discoursed nice points OF law Oh
being in his place listening with profound atten-
ton to what only infeXible professional etI-
ouette prevented him from abiding TO as remarks
Of his honorable and learned friend" VI late
there had come TO be no spectacle more famlllar
in the House of Commons than Mr.. Bradlaugh
standing in his place below the gangway, WIN
one foot set on the back Of the bench before him
for greater convenience and holding volume Oh
the statute law, talking across the floor straight at
his learned brother. the Attorney General, who
nodded approval as the argument advanced. IL
came TO be a standing joke that before many ses-
sons were over Mr. Bradaugh would, with MI
Chamberlain. have Joined the company OF the
gentlemen of England. He died before sucn
development was possible of completion, the shad-
oys of the Valley of Death closing round him on
the very night when the Conservative majority
albeit n little ungraciously, did public penance
for the original wrong and consented to the eA-
nunoing from the Journals Of the House OF the
resolution carried eleven years earlier when de-
c.arcd NM Bradlaugh's seat at Northampton
vacant, as if he were dead
Lord Dufferin, who has been good deal about
town this season, returns next month to resume
his duties at the Embassy at Rome. Before ne
scts forth he will pay visit TO the Queen at BAL
moral her Majesty sharing with commoner peopS
tbe delight felt in the society of this versatile ana
ACCOMPLISHED diplOmatst. Ii is many years aso
that Lord Dufrerin, not then having added Ava anu
IiS style Lord in WaltlES
10 the Queen. lie is, strange 10 say
IN Wow of his acceptability In the
ij,ost circles. a Liberal and began his o.
IL norr rntin1. in the pOl,tlCll