New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-02

character and gratitude for his glorious past, to
place once more upon Mr.. Gladstone's venerated
head the crown of final victory. II is sonOrous
| sentence and quite true, if for people you sub
| stitute Gladstonian party. Whether the word
| final will sound pleasantly in Mr.. Gadstone's ears,
| is another matter. But there can be no doubt
that great mutitudes of English people are per-
, fectly ready to follow Mr. Gladstone exactly as
! they followed him in 1886, trUstfully, devotedly,
blindly, no matter what he may propose, or
whittier he may lead them They follow Mr.
Gladstone because he is Mr.. Gladstone Sir
William Harcourt declared also that Mr. Glad
stone was rather better than ever physically and
mentally That also is doubtless perfectly true.
The story of President Harrison's successful ap-
peal TO the Gar in behalf of the Jews was cabed
here in the most positive form. 1t was so far
believed that The Times" made it the basis
of long editorial The Dalziel Agency sent it.
source of inaccuracy of which that usually ac-
curate paper will some day have enough. Reuter-
denied it, Dalzel reafrmed it, and this morning
Mr.. Wharton is quoted as saying that nothing is
known about the matter in the State Department.
The presence of the Chicago Commissioners in
England does attract certain amount of atten-
ton, though none too much. from the press. They
have been dined and otherwise made welcome.
Without dinners no good work in England reaches
its full fruiton. They have established most
cordial relations with the Royal Commission which
is 10 look after British interests in this great
exhibition of the future, which, for some deep
reason is not called an exhibition, but eypOsi-
ton. do not know whether it has been publicly
explained why it was thought proper to
give French name to an American celebration OF
the Italian discovery of America The Commits
sonerS have accomplished another feat hardly less
essential 10 publicity than dinners. They have IN
duced Mr. Gladstone to write them letter His
letter takes the form of certificate and OF snort
sermon on free trade The invalid of LowestOft
does not doubt that the Chicago exhibition will
| tend materially to advance commercial intercourse
between nations, and Herewith those sentiments
Of friendship which are its usual results That is
the certificate. The sermon which follows is, OF
course free-trade sermon. This scion OF a slave
trading family hopes that those who come after
him may see the industrial genius OF America
freed from every fetter. The Organ thinks this
remarkable letter, and perhaps 1t is, though the
ORGAN itself expresses view still more sanguine,
and thinks freedom of trade in America imminent
lust now" Ii quite time to say So Ihe Or
gan has expressed similar belief in the lmmedla'c
trhmph Of British free trade in America at least
once in every three months during the last twenty
yearsa Mr. Gadstone's letter was read at
q
by the Chicago Commissioners, on Tuesday. in
honor of the British Royal Commission. " this
luncheon the American Minister present and sat
ON the left Of Mr. Butterworth, who presided over
the festival Mr. Hurlbert's counsel sat on his
right. The Attorney-General has shown great IN
erest in Chicago, and is understood to have SAID
| that he would put the thing through. NOBODY
is better qualified to put things through. He has
great ability, great energy and an unrivaiied
power of belief in the virtue of his clients ana
their cause He made an excellent speech 80
did Mr.. Lincoln after him, for Sir Richard wen
ster had not only precedence in place over the
American Minister but that priority in time which
the law accepts as proof of superiority in right.
So did Mr.. Butterworth 1t would be hard to say
which of these three waved the Chicago flag most
vigorously All three speeches ought to have
been reported for the benefit of the British pub
lic but the British press took hardly any notice
of this festival. The Commissioners have departed
for Paris. Their work here, suppose, is
done for the present, and, should think, well
DONE
1t now appears that the London County Coun-
ell have driven ont of the Fire Brigade not only
Captain Shaw, but four out Of seven Of it's chief
officers. The fire committee Of this body were
not willing to let Captain Shaw do his own work
in his own way. They reprOved him for abb
Sence without leave, as if he had been a school
hoy or as if thirty years service counted tor
nothing. 1t is said that they even considered
whether they should not deduct something from
lis salary They forced him to accept apparatus |
which he thought unsuitable They ordered him
out on dress parade for the benefit Of French fire
men on tour They made new and foolish rules |
They rneddlcd everywhere and muddled wherever |
they mcddled Therefore ii Is that Captain ShaW |
in a dirniied letter has declined to withdraw his |
resignation saying that while he should he giad |
TO retain his post, he cannot under existing cir-
cumstances do his duty OF he OF use there; nor |
can any other man.
The German Emperor being gone, the attrac-
tions of the Prince of Naples we're not sufficient
to keep Mr. Dcpew in London. He started on
"Wednesday for Greece to join Mr. Cornelius Van
derbilt for fortnlghts tour on that CLASSIC SOIL
The London season is at an end Not even Mr.
Depew could keep it alive Goodwood ltsell is al
an end. which marks the end of the season. Inc
world Of politics, the world of fashion, and even
the world Of business, resolved itself into It's IN
dividual atoms. and the individual atoms are scat
tered A few members of Parliament, mostly Min
isters or inferior members of the Government, re-
main for few days only
The visit of the Prince of Naples has been varied
and full of incident but as he was here incOgnito,
there has been no ceremony or pageant ana fe"
people have noticed his coming or going. The
Queen was most amable to him at Osborne. 80
were the Lord Mayor and the City magnates, who
gave f11m dinner. So were the dOns at Oxford.
Even the theatres are closed, or most of them
are Actors and managers are taking we'll
earned holiday before beginning their autumn
tours in the provinces. The Lyceum closed last
with benefit TO Miss Ellen Terry, with
O speech from Mr.. Irving, and with the promise
Of reopening next December, when Henry the
Eighth" will be produced on a scale OF magnih-
cence unexampled, says rumoT, even at the
lIyceum. Mr. Irving has since done one of those
things which are most like hin. Asked to give