New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-03

rumor of the week Is tIe SlIlctieIlt O""e i-'i"
Randolph Churchill is coming home prepared 10
exchange a parliamentary for a diplomatic career
II is true at least that he is coming home. Ills
shin is due neAt Tuesday. That he had some
notion of accepting diplomatic post, or that some
of his best friends hopcd.hc would, was true two
ycars ago Whether il be still true, we may
know on his arrival. This present rumOr ap-
reared in the leading Conservative organ, accom-
paned by the friendly comment that TO send lofo
Randolph to any important embassy would DC "
risky If not rash experiment. Inc organ H's
never shown him much goodwill Rome was
then vacant: perhaps the kind of place that would
suit Lord Randolph, were he disposed 10 DC
suited abroad. Next morning appeared the onclai
announcement that Sir Robert Morler, a strohS
man. had been transferred from ST. petersburg
20 Rome and Lord Vivian, a Respectable man, from
Brussels 10 ST. Petersburg.
That. then. was Lord Salisbury's reply to tie
proposal of Lord Randolphs nape. If the sudden
death Of Sir William White left Constantinop'e
also free that hardly improved the situation Tor
Lord Randolph His views on Egypt make MN
imnossible for Constantinople. So only brussels
remains and il is not easy to conceive or his ac-
cepting a third-rate place like Brussels 80 GEAR
was this that fresh suggestion IoAoweu' hV'N
Iansdowne was to come home, ana Lord hanuoip"
IN be sent TO India Niceroy. III does hoo seem
probable. None Of these schemes works out wen
in the face Of Lord SalisbuTys steadiast dlSllSe
of his former colleague
Yet something ought to be done some oecleion
taken Lord Randolph has chosen far zoo long
IN eface himself or to amuse himself Nelther
The turf nor South Africa can he deemed career
He is far too able man to pass out OF pnonc
Nfe Tho Tory party owes more 10 MN 'hdn
+o Utmost ANYBODY He supplied them with IDEAS
With nolicy. and with materials for majority.
az n time when they were in the sorest heeu oi
all three. The general election is near lneN arc
likely 10 require for the purposes oil 'hh' eocU''n
every recruit they can muster NO oo"o' ioiu
Randolph has lost touch with his party ana l'So
mart of his hold of the people lie has peeh ~ ouoe
with the Jnionst leaders on some VIAL quc'u'ii''
Prt local government for Ireland is his measure
and sucb differences as exist on other points
,.ood not he irreconcilabe. Still less need ms
a1;ono+jon from the platform he permanent lie
49, o,,,, IN anpear to be welcomed 10 suner
him IN con nue in secluson or to let nm drt' nuo
siolopacv. would be the act OF a commah"er "ho
ON the eve Of a great battle should decline a great
reinforcement
Sir William White is very oonsideraole loss
% ENGLAND He was emphatically as AmpaSs@-
dor TO Constantinople the right man Ill the ile"O
1ao. Uc knew the ms and outs OF the Eastern
question rs few men knew them-fcw OF any
nationality He had spent a great part OIL ND
life amid the labyrnthine entanglements Oh the
vast intrigue which envelopes Sou'he"e"in
Errone He understood the Oriental mind, ahkc
in its Russian and in it's Turkish 1orfh' anu IN
that somewhat confused and nondescripV Spc
which peoples the Balkan Peninsula. ne unu.,-
stood il well enough never 10 conform TO IT. ne
mot il in his own way, not in theirs Few al
,,,omatists were his equals in diplomatic crait or
81 COMPLETELY concealed their cunning under inc
bluff exterior of genuine John Bull "e n'"'
the true British conviction OF British superior"
10 other races and especially 10 those WIN whom
he had 10 deal. They used to say IN CONSTANT
pople that he buied even the Sutton III 1ac',
no bullird nobody, but he had masterlul man
ner as we'll as a strong Will, and they VINO "cn'
down before him in collision with this lauer
quality liked 70 attribute their retirement 10 DIS
loud voice and slightly clustering ways lie was
q SORT Of diplomatic locomotive. He had rapldlIy
and momentum. and that absence Of perfect re-
pose which marks the progress OF the railway en-
CINE toward its goal When he came 10 LONDON
he was TO be heard of and To be heard everywhere
"a most genuine individuality, with plenty oi
rood qualities and much appearance Of the frank
ness of which his profession compelled MN u DC
content with the appearance only. lie died IN a
Berlin hotel and went TO his grave, according 10
AN almost incredible Geographic account, IN
furniture van. The Queen sent message OF re-
pret for the loss Of faithful representative.
The best tribute 10 him is the invectivc of the
French press Again and again has Slr Wlliiam
White bafied the able dpomaists whom france
Eeeps at Cons.antino,le IN make mischlef III Egypt
and to maintain the prestige OF french influence
in tie East, now mostly historical lie kne"
every cabal The threads OF every conspiracy
we're i'm his hands before they had lett the weaver
"He addressed the Sultan's Ministers, says
only with MS lips,
lercely endeavoring 10 destroy French influence
when il stood in his way. Yes. pieci'eV d.
French Ambassadors fercey endeavor to destroy
every influence which stands in the way OF french
schemes The word menaccs IL rhe'orlcai
flourish Menace is the last resort OF gooo
diplornatist lie had what the French have NOT
pa.ience He had broad views. ana seldom sacri-
fced or tmperilled general purpose to snatch
SNOWY advantage. He was OF late years lhe IT,
carnation Of great policy no man was more
decplv impressed with the necessity Of the con
tinned occupation of Egypt by England. lie stood
AZ Constantinoplc y bulwark between Egypt ana
the Jealous cupidity Of France or course the
French hated him, and called him, as they call
every body who they find ~ an obstacle 10 FRENCH
ambition an enemy 10 France. lie was no enemy
N France But he sn Englishman, the servant
~ ,bc Queen. the undaunted champion OF Eng
lish interests the Nile.
There are Englishmen whose conceptions oil
natriotism lead them 10 axe a French view OF the
English position in Egypt. Mr.. Gladstone is one.
Ale has never yet disavowcd that disastrous
declaration at Newcastle, which France understood
and WAS meant to Understand, as suggestion that
his return 10 power would be the signal Tor re-
treat from the Delta. The policy Of scu''e Is as
dear 70 him now as il was from $50 10 1883, and
~, earlier dates than those lie would renew III
Ee,,nt tine bumlstions OF Central Asia, and OF the
TransvaaI and OF Egypt itself, stree the Sondan
:; I,,rntinr ord the bones of Gordon are mOuIder-