New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-17
NOTES FROM LONDON
MR. SPEAKERS sIxrY-rIrrH BIRTHDAY.
HIS PosITIoN-THE NEW LoRn ..
APPEAL-MR. sELous AND Mr.
LABoUcHERE-MR. HALL
: GAINES EXPERIMENT
IN ONE VOLUME -.

London. August
II is hard to believe that YESTERDAY
Peel's sixty-ffth birthday. The speak.. A
still young man. or. II not young. atm =.
prime Of manhood. and 1 suppose Their. A.. - ~
pie to whom sixty five may appear bevo.s w
| period. 1t Is hard also TO believe th., = w"
been ten years Sreake- 1t is but the o,s.. va
that Mr. Gladstone was proposing him :. ~
House Of Commons for that great office. ana 49,
Mr. Peel made the brief speech which IA -
bered and will long be remembered. as a ~.
OF dgnfied and noble oratory Of Its kind
| He has ever since been one Of the mos, to-.
esting and beautiful figures in this country =
takes part In no contests, and his name q. -.
1 fore less frequently mentioned than tho. J.
the gladiators Of politics who are forev., =.
scending into the arena. But he is never 49,.
| from the consciousness O. the House ana 49,.
absent from the House. He early won ia co.s
dence and its respect. His authority was 49,
nized. He showed himself master Of the ,u,s
| cacies Of Parliamentary law. His authority -
as It was seen that he made no mistakes ~.
personal ascendancy became more and mn.
manifest. The times of his Speakership h.-.
been stormy. The House has been under,na..
transforma tons and. to some extent. dexrA,'
p>~ai
in the chair were the two guardians and sr.m.
plars OF its best traditions. To them Il IA AM,
that the decadence has not been more rama
The statement remains true OF Mr. G!adsso,.
though more than once. and once above all !.
most deplorable scene has been the direct cons.
quence Of his policy and Of the passions Whit.
h, first aroused and then sought to st,a. :,
something like violence-violence in the par,..
tch
violence To the Speaker the obligations % N.
House are without any such unhappy Limitation.
1t was he whose mere arrival and presenn.
brought the House to iis senses on the meas.
choly occasion to which / refer. Never has A.
been appealed to in vain. and never has he an
pealed in vain to the House. The only criticism
| ever heard was that his authority was becom.
ing too great. The criticism came. for the m~
part, from those upon whom. or upon whoa
friends he had to exercise that authority They
felt that he was check upon every form Of Par.
liamentary license. and that his firmness stood n
the way OF many a Radical raid upon forms and
precedeHts and procedure.
They did him homage by the accusation They
do 1t now in the confession that since Mr. Glad
stone retired Mr. Peel is the greatest member Of
Parliament remaining; that he is great power
IN the state, dlncS-, on OCCASION the greatest
personal force known TO the Constitution It's
to their credit that they acknowledge this and
that they see IN him a very high-ninded very
characteristic Eng;ishmar. and figure as pictus.
esque as he is vigorous. Picturesque in the high
sense-the sense above all OF staeliness and Of
commanding presence. 1t is long since even the
most turbulent members Of the House have cared
TO resist him: they have all found on, sooner OF
later that it did not pay. There were stories the
other day Of his retrement-that his health was
10 longer equal TO the strain on g. The strain
is tremendous. Perhaps no other high post In The
State is arduous. But Mr.. Peels Is not tho
nature to yield so long as, at any cost to him
self, he can do his duty to the House
The new Lord OF Appeal in Ordins1 IN the
room OF Lord Russell of Kiowen. nos LORD
Chief Justice. is Lord Justice Davey. Mr. Nys,
or Sir Horace Davey. as ne afterward became
was long the undispu,ei leader OF the Chaneey
Bar Of England. He IS an exdmple-no uncon'
mon one-of that perversity Of fortune when
denies to the successful lawyer anything IKE
equal success In politics. His House OF Commons
experiences added little nothing 10 his mm&
lie was no luckier outside. where constituencies
so often looked askance at him and passed him
by on the other side
Mr.. Gladstone made him Socl,or-GeneraL HID
professional services as Land Officer OF Inc
Crown were invaluable. An opinion BY sir hor'
ace Davey dec!siva-an opinion TO lean W
against. Not SO the advice and opinions ne ten
dered to the House. The House did not ike M
manner He did not conform 10 It's manner nc
relied on his own merits little too OBVIOUSLY
which the House resents When he finally quiz
ted politics there was no general sense OF e'es'
loss. whereas his retirement from the bar 10 'ns
Bench was looked upon by many client ana
many solicitor az a disaster On the beh~
he has been great success. The new post !"
now accepts IL as much less arduous as I"
old post less arduous than the Bar 'mAS
Inc Lord Davey. as he now is or soon VIII w.
must be at some trouble to dispose OF ms WV
and energies. Presently he may succeed " m'.
not. TO another and greater judicial once "H"S
is expected shortly to become vacant.
Mr. I.abouchere is sometimes little dlsappo'n'
Ing and he has disappointed the sanguine fre"s'
who expected him To sow fight IN MS S''A
African libel case You can hardly have fort@,
ten the line he took on the Matabee war; {" was.
he said OF all and sundry concerned In that da."'
Ing enterprise The Company. It's ofic'aS -.
Cecil Rhodes. DR.. Jameson. the fighting fraoo.
men. ana others who risked theI' "'e'
and his savages.-all to MI I~
rhere were among the vilest OF manSinu' ~.
accused the soldiers. for example. of murdenns
the wounded and the epithets he bestowed "
them and on their conduct in general were s.
rs an Englishman unless he be a Little Ens.As
Radical. seldom applies to his countrymen NJ
ing under the English flag 80
Among the men concerned in these ana
Mr. ohn Sin o.
by name was Mr. F. c. Selous, the mighty nun"
whose book on the pursuit Of game IN 0o
Africa IL a worthy companion to Sir es~
Bakers and Sir Richard Buttons immortal cH''
Giles OF sport and adventure. the rui.' n,
Truth" brought a distinct charge asa'n''
selous which his advisers told him was h0e,
md others which may or may not have oee"'
which, being vague. were more dHcult e'