New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-13

actual dispute about wages between the owners
and the miners. The Durham miners have, there
fore, an excuse which the Yorkshire miners have
not. They have rejected the employers atcrna-
| tive offer of an immediate reduction of 1-2 per
cent, or Of per cent now and per cent in May.
| So far as private consumers are concerned, the
strike took effect last week lis effect has con-
tinued all this week. House Goals went mp 40 per
cent and have stayed up. That matters, as I en-
planned last Saturday, very much to the poor, if
! not very much to the prosperous consumer But
| TO far as manufacturing industries concerned,
the effects Of the miners action Just beginning
| to I've felt Furnaces are being damped down, rail
way consumption reduced and the industries de-
pendent on coal threaten n collapse. Should the
strike continue, that means loss to capitalists,
! which they can bear, and distress to workmen
which they and their families will have 10 bear
II is still thought that the strike cannot last,
either in Durham or Yorkshire, more than a week
| or fortnight. There are funds 10 keep near
| half million men and their families in idleness.
Whether the period DC longer or shorter, the blame
rests chiefly the officials OF the Miners Fedora
| ton, who enter upon such n struggle with light
heartedncsS of ignorance and a perfect incapacty
| TO measure the foyces they let loose. They have
| chosen moment when experts think that the
| full capacity of the worlds markets has been
reached, and when without any help from strikes
England is likely to see check to her prosperity.
| 1t is desirable to say that Mr.. Secretary Eos
tcrs visit has been strictly limited to purposes
| Ct health If the exchange of visits between him
| and Mr.. Goschen gave rise 10 contrary impress
| sion, that impression has foundation In fact.
| When Mr.. Foster visited the House of Commons
| Mr.. Lincoln took him to Mr. Goschcn's room, in
order that the American Secretary OF the Treas
ury might make the acquaintance Of the British
| Chancellor of the EXchequer. Mr.. Goschen, of
| course, returned the visit. On neither occasion
was there any discussion between them of tie sill
yer question or Of bimctoSism. of any question
Of finance can imagine that Mr. Goscken may
have been surprised at Mr.. Fosters silence. for
which, however, there was sufficient reason in Mr..
Fosters state of health. There were other suf
icient reasons and the discretion of the Secretary
of the Treasury on this point admirable.
The movement for an English memorial TO
Lowell is thus far in the hands of those who were
| Lowells personal friends Mr. Leslie stephen. one
of the most intimate Of them, is at the head of
| it, The committee appointed at Mondays meet
| ing includes Others. This meeting, called by Mr.
Stephen, was however, held at the rooms of the
| Society of Authors, and that society, leading
members of il, have supported the proposal on the
ground of Lowell's advocacy Of international copy
right. Subscriptions are now invited. But II
does not seem clear whether on appeal is 10 be
| made to the English public or to he confined
TO Lowells associates. There has been some OPP
| position or criticism, but it comes from those to
whom everything American is odious.
The sentence on Mrs. Osborne is not here thought
to err in severity. Mr.. Justice Smith has struck
the mean between clemency and the purely legal
view 1t cannot be known whether he took into
account what people continue 10 consider the
sharp practice Of the Treasury in allowing her
! surrender on one charge and then trying her on
two Others much graver But, on the whole Mrs.
Osborne may he said TO have got of lightly with
nine months hard labor " suited to her condition"
She will in fact, spend the nine months in The
prison infirmary, with many alterations of ordi-
nary prison treatment. Mrs. Hargreavcs appeal
for mercy had the sympathy of the public, and
for CAPTAIN Osborne now as throughout tie
case. there is nothing but sympathy and praise
Mr. Edwsrdes, late Secretary of the British Le-
qatpn at Washington, and promoted thence 10
be Secretary Of Embassy at Madrid has again
been transferred by Lord Salisbury. from Madrid
70 Rome Promotions in such rapid succession
are unusual. They are in Mr. Edwardcss case
recognition Of diplomatic abilities also unusual.
Sir William Gregory. who died this week at
envcntv.6ye used to he known 10 MS
as an English rather Irish champion OF the
Southern Confcderacy. That WAS the only blot on
his life that | ever heard of. He was man Of
many gifts, many Of them uncommon. In Tins
country perhaps he was best known To the
general public for his knowledge of art, that be-
ing on the whole knowledge more rare than
any other among Her Maicsty's subjects. lie
really understood art. He had natural perccp-
tions of the beautiful and real sympathy win
| the ritht expression of il on canvas or "ther-
wise He hal been for quarter Of century one
If the trustees Of the National Gallery, ana the
collection in some respects unrivallcd, owe"
much TO his taste and wide experience. But Tor
| n Great mart of his career he had been concerned
in uoitics He was long q Member OF farlla-
mont Then he became Governor Of teylOn, whcTc
he won the affection and respect Of the people, VINO
90. nm statue to him Egypt interested
him. and Arabs movement found HIM
ON the side of what he thought to be an oppressed
nationality it then was. But Lohdoh k'Ic"
| him host of all as one Of the few survivors of
generation which seemed to possess all the social
riffs and all the personal charm which make
men most attractive. He was a delightful com
nanion full Of good talk Of kind now rare,
auiable enlightened, sympathetic, thinking niue
Of himself and much of others, with that Deauti-
ful manner which the younger generation IN Eng
land seem careless to acquire, and WIN INC "dIW
heart and generous impulses of his race.
g. w. S.
HE YIELDS TO TIE EMPEROR.
THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND GIVES ASSURANCE