New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-05

Society, is remarkable. Asked to say what he
knew and not to take up the time Of the Com
mission with mere opinions, he continued to eN
press opinions. Again admonshed, he made another
speech. Finally Lord Derby, whose patience is
exemplary, said that really the evidence must be
condensed. Mr.. Ben" Tllctt followed, the
famous Ben" Tillett lie proceeded to read
lecture to the Commission from manuscript At
this, even patient Lord Derby became inpatient
lie told Mr.. Tillett that he was travelling over
weltrodden ground Thercupon, says a reporter
Mr. Tillctt abandoned his manuscript with ap-
parent regret Lord Derby and his fellow Com
missionerS will have to he considerably less patient
II they do not mean their committee room to be
turned into stump for professional agitators.
There are Commissioners who do little agta-
tion themselves Sir John Gorst is one-a pro-
fessional politician who is understood to covet
The succession TO Lord Randolph as a Tory Demo-
crat and TO Disraeli as to the education of his
party
The very latest thing in strikes is a strike of
stevedores at the Albert Docks They struck
! because the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship
! Company declined TO agree that the men should
| fin their own holiday. In order TO demand double
| pay for working on that day they chose a date
! which, as they thought would stop loading on the
! Mr2apore, which obliged to sail on July
| with the mails, or compel the company to pay the
double wages demanded. But the company there
upon engaged Shipping Federation men, and sent
the ship punctually to sea. The strikers took
their holiday, and when they returned the next
day found that they could then take another and
| longer holiday The general impression at the
docks is, says reporter, that the companies are
tired Of being coerced by the unionists. They
| feel strong enough to manage their own business
and are desrous to relieve the union leaders Of
the trouble Of managing it for them. Sometimes
| these unonist gentlemen fail in managing even
their own business.
There is at this moment a strike Of 5000 ship
builders the Clyde because they will not accept
the terms accepted by their own officials. The
employers we are told are looking on idly at this
dispute between the men and their leaders, per
haps with complacency also.
Mr.. Gladstones health has so much improved
at Lowestoft that it is now deemed discreet to
admit that he had been weaker than before
| There really was much anxiety about him, and
even some alarm. So Ill was he that a doctor
| from London in attendance and all effort
and excitement were forbidden. 1t is recorded
! in the most serious papers that not till Wedncs
day was be allowed to be even at luncheon with
his host and family 1t is recorded in papers
not less serious that two dinner engagements in
London, TO which he looked forward with much
| pleasure, one with Mr. Lockwood at the Gar1icll
Club and one with Mr.. AIather at the Devonshirc
Club, have to be broken.
Another considerable parsonage, Mr.. Spurgeon,
is rather seriously i'll. His malady is gout, of
kind which his doctor calls furious. The latest
bulletin represents Linn slightly better, hut his
general condition is such as 10 cause anxiety.
Captain Shaws resignation is almost public
calamity. lie has been chief of the London Fire
| Brigade for thirty years and he has made il the
first organization of rs kind in the world. None
other is equally we'll disciplined and equally eff
cient in proportion to its numbers no, not even
New-York. The London Fire Brigade is Captain
Shaw's creation. lie has had immense difficulties
10 overcome. He has been Unsupported the
| service half-Starved money doled out with mig
gardly hand, his small force asked to do more
than men can do. His skin, courage, and genius
even, trumphed over everything; but he leaves
no successor.
The Nautch Girl, words by Mr. George Dance
music by Mr.. Edward Solomon. was produced at
the Savoy on Tuesday by Mr.. D'Oyly Carte,
with more than usual splendor. 1t was felt to be
O critical moment. Mr.. Carte is the sole survivor
of that triple alliance which, with Mr. Gilbert and
| Sir Arthur Sullivan as the other powers, has for
so many years brought peace and prosperity to
their popular theatre. Mr.. Gilberts secession
was thought likely to compel Mr. Carte to attempt
| some novel experiment, but he has preferred 10
bring out an opera Son the old lines by new men.
| Mr. Dance has caught something OF Mr.. Gilbcrts
manner. Mr. Solomon has looked to Sir Arthur
Sullivan as his master. In neither case is the
success complete Yet the performance, as a
whole, was exceedingly well received, and is one
Of the prettiest spectacIes now to be seen in
| London.
The Fourth of July is celebrated in London as
usual by an afternoon party at Cromwell House,
where the American Minister and Mrs. Lincoln
receive some 500 guests. Cards have been sent
10 all Americans who have called on the Minister
or on Mrs Lincoln and have left their addresses.
This latter formaityAs one which the travelling
American sometimes omits The house is hand
somcly decorated with flags and flowers, and still
more handsomely by the presence of the American
| Girl. married and unmarried. II was intended to
| have the Fourth Of July dinner tonight at the
| Century Club the American Minister presiding ;
but this project has been abandoned, not un-
wisely.
President Harrisons copyright proclamation is
received in England with only too Characteristic
ngraciousness. Not Of much to rs after
all is the general tone. The conditions are
onerous groans one critic. The act is intenCed
for the protection of the American printer groWls
another ignoring the fact that the American
printer wac tolcrably welprotectcG before. Its
primary object says this wse and wemanncred
writer appears to be to protect the American au-
thor the American printer, and the American
! papcr-makcr" "Suppcsc it were, are British acts
Of Parliament designed as a rule % protect Brit
ish interest. or foreign interests? Seldom. indeed,
is the Briton capable Of seeing things from any
point of view but his own. Then there is plenty
If the old scoldins about piracy. Truly an
amiabe way Of welcoming law
which extinguishes piracy. Even The Times, 50
which ought to be above these petty views, is now
swing. d" If ten votes ont of a hundred were cor
| Il L.. considerations inSficn and cnnsninncc