The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-08
MID-WEEK NOTES FROM LONDON.
The People and Parliament and the Birth
Of the Royal Baby-I; There Any Real
Democratic Feeling in Engiaudi-
G,adstoue's Farewell to Public
Life The Prince Of Wales
Hin Mufti,n
tsrcelal Correspondence OF The worli)

Life The Prince OF wales
in Multi"
Special Correspondence OF The world)
LONDON, June 29.-We in the United
States know well how soon and com
pletely an ex-President drops out Of
public sight or notice. 1t has become
a proverb, "Republlcs are ungrateful"
But neither Hayes nor Arthur-not even
Franklin Pierce--was os completely ig
nored by the public, as represented by
Its newspaper press, as has been the
greatest statesman England has pro-
duced in two centuries after he had laid
down Office. Even the operation upon
Nh. Gladstones eyes received not 50
much newspaper comment rs did any
exciting police-court case of the day,
and the announcement in yesterdays
papers that he had notified his Mid
lothian constituents of his final retire
ment from public life Is given in not
Sit gle journal, Liberal or Tory, more
than seven lines in the news columns
or above twenty in the editorial. The
birth Of "A boy baby three generations
removed from prODlematical throne
is a matter of infinitely more Importance
apparently than this official death of
England's greatest citizen. To-day Lib
eral leaders We'd in Parliament with
Tory in congratulating the nation upon
the frst-named event; neither Liberal
nor Tory has referred in Parliament to
the contemporary retirement of their
famous colleague from the scene of his
fifty years struggles and trinmphs-ser-
vices which have more improved the
,f IN,,,yl pt, "A
masses than all that had been done by
the statesmen of two centuries before
him.
1t Is curious people. To the casual
observer the demonstrating of the masses
Of England seems on the surface to be
almost complete. The cry Of mending
or ending the hereditary House of Lords
would seem to be almost the unanimous
voice Of the common" people. Perhaps
1t is; but there is not a single argument,
deduction, fact or prejudice against the
existence of a hereditary chamber which
is not, logically, as applicable to the
hereditary monarchy. When, however,
kier Hardie expressed this truism in
Parliament to-day he not only got not
another vote on his motion indirectly
expressing that idea, but he was howled
down not less vociferously by the Tory
benches than by his Liberal colleagues.
Not one of his fellow-labor members
voted with him. OF course he is n very
stupid and conceited demagogue, and
some of the terms of his speech were
brutal enough in connection with the
birth OF this royal infant.
| have recently heard an amusing
story which illustrates the regard which
the average English cockney pays to
mere rank as compared with any other
possible distinction of character or pub
lie service. Any afternoon that the
| Prince of Wales or the Princess Is in
residence In London you will see a con-
/ siderable crowd of men and women
, standing, sometimes for hours, on the
pavement opposite the gates OF Marl-
! borough House. They are waiting there
| for the chance that the Prince OF
| Princess or any of the royal children
VIII be coming out for a drive.
| 1t was some twenty years ago. SO the
| story goes, that a rather bumptious
/ fellow-cltizen of ours passed that way
Gen. Grant was President of the United
States and his name and fame as the
! greatest sc!CieF OF lne llIHe was pre-
sumably within every civilized mans
| knowledge. our countryman asked OF
one OF the crowd what they were wait.
ing for. He was told. why" said he
we wouldn't stanC waiting to see Gen
| Grant come out"
| And / shouldn't think you would
Why should you? He amt no Prince.
replied the loyal Britisher.
1t happens that l caught a glmps,
myself OF the Prince on the day hi
grandson was born, and / have to recorC
that his costume was such as would
have grievousy shocked any of our OWL
young arlstocrats who pattern them
selves upon the London clique, for which
Ills Royal Highness sets the fashion
In the New York Life OF year or S,
back there was a funny sketch of ;
fashionable gentleman with monocl
and a draw who had plunged into tn
sea to rescue the daughter of Chicag
| millionaire. AS he came out, dripping
with his fair and fainting burden, he
father rushed up and exclaimed: "Sir
you have saved my daughters life. l
there anything | can do for you in re
turnT The swell fixed his monocle
graVely surveyed his interlocutor from
head to foot, and said: Yes, my dea
man; never again appear in public wit
Il tail hat and sack coat"
Well, | was walking along Pail MAJ
with a distinguished New York lawyer
We had passed the waiting crowd 4
front OF Marlborough House, and h
had told me the story above recounted-
which was new to me whatever ii ma
be 10 your readers. We turned up 81
James's street and saw the Prime
alighting hurriedly from an ordlnar
hanson lie handed up his shilling an
almost ran around the corner toward
Marlborough House gates. Why ne dl
MOI drive quite up to them / do no
know; It could hardy have been fror
any mauvaise homie because of hi
p!eheian cQuipaEe. Howbeit, the cabma
pocketed his shilling with seemingly nc
the slightest interest in his passenge
and turned his horse up the stree
again. That was at just 3 45 in the after
noon The papers next morning an
nounced that the Prince had been sun
Ir1,Da1 from bis tprnnnrary- hDrnn ,1n