New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-08

impressed with the expediency OF securing as
large a share as possible of mutual trade between
the United Kingdom andthe colonies. The pres
mt Secretary will make up fine Blue BOOK pu'
- long as England has no tariff he will not be
able to form a British Zollveren or bring about
4 Imperial federation.
4 more practical measure is the new British
scheme for substituting twenty-knot mail service
with Canada. Sir Charles Topper who is one OF
Mr. Chamberlains advisers on colonial ques-
lions goes to Canada at once to arrange TINS SUD-
sidy business The free ship advocates In Amer
lea should make note of IT. and also OF sir john
Tenniei's cartoon in Punch, which deplcS a
British shipbuilder in the act of locking up MS
yard and a workman standing idle around the
corner while indignant Britannia asks whether
her feet Is TO be built in Germany. Reports that
the Belfast and Clyde builders were having en-
gnes made abroad have exhausted Enghsh pa
thence ana the lockout will probably end speed
ily Lord James having become chairman or the
Committee OF Conference. Friends of American
shipping who have favored mail subsidies ana OPP
posed foreign built navies and merchant meets
are not. after all so un-Engllsh as they have
been made out.
Military mer smile over the ardor OF Prince
Henry Of Battenberg for active service IN
Ashantee. They say that he VIII only De III
the way and will need a special guard to Keep
him out Of danger. He goes as volunteer
ana probably will have some nominal staff duty
70 perform. Much parade has been MADE over
his send-off He has a special cabin assigned
10 him. and a large assortment OF baggage a
modern Prince in search Of military adventure
cuts rather a sorry figure when he travels for
glory.
tiara
week was the centenary of Carlyle's birth. 1t
was observed a, Edinbdrgh and Ecclefechan'
but the main celebration was at Chelsea, where
a loan collection was opened in the famous house
in Cheyne Row and an admirable address was
made by John Morley at the meeting OF the Poly
technic Institute large audience heard IL
With delight. Sir George Grey, Frederic Harrl-
son and Mrs. Humphrey Ward had prominent
seats. and Arthur Balfour stood In corner or
the gallery. MIR. Morley. who spoke on his own
birthday was alike discriminating in his judg-
ment Of Carlyle's work and charitable IN the
gloss he put upon his eccentric character. lie
described Carlyle, not as a sage, but as stormy
tempestuous person. speaking habtually in hyper
bole: and referred TO his style as serious Cd
stacle to the retention of his hold upon the minds
of men, More sane in eulogy than the Carlyle
worshpper usually is. he said much to explain
fellow creatures The most frequent comment
upon the address is that painful disclosure of
the domestic relations of the Caryles would have
been softened and rendered ineligible if Mr.
Morley had been the literary executor.
Mr. Justin Mccarthy has told this week the
story Of George Ripey's visit to Carlyle with
Emersons letter of introduction. when the philos-
opher: did nothing but. seream at him. ana de-
nounce the conduct of the North in the civil
War. and everything, Amercapi .but Mr. Morley
proved in his address that Carlyle's heart SOFT
ened toward America and that he was not In
capable Of a just judgment. A Manchester paper
has a good story of English workman VINO
bought "Sartor Resartus" and returned 1t with
the remark that it was cheap, but not written in
a language he had ever met with before.
THERE'S. !al! in the publishing trade. now that
the O. rst11as market is stocked The authors
are all busy Mrs Ward is exploring the East
End for local color Sir Walter Besant is hard at
work on new survey Of London in ten volumes
Mr. Lecky has been elected to Parliament. after
refusing to accept religious test. He will share
with Mr. Morley the reproach of serving two
masters politics and letters.
4 splendid addition has been made to the Ma
tjonal Portrait Gallery by Mr.. G. F. Watts who
has presented TO II collection of fifteen oil
PAINTINGS and two drawings, including portraits
Of Carlyle Tennyson. Matthew Arnold, Rossetti
Lord Iytton Cardinal Manning and John Stuart
Mil. The fine portrait Of Gibbon by Sir Joshua
REYNOLDS has been purchased by Lord Rosebery
for his private collection. Sir Frederick Leigh
ton is sgain In London, after a long vacation in
excellent health.
The once OF Public Works has ordered the re-
moval Of several buildings in the old Palace Yard,
outside the Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey.
1t will be great improvement which lovers Of
the Abbey are certain to welcome.
Two African explorers are in London this week.
One Is an American. Mr.. Donaldson Smith, but,
being only man. he receives little attention, and
will be lucky ii ne has chance of speaking be-
fore the Royal. Geogra phcal Society The other
is a woman the daughter OF Henry Kingsley, and
the niece of Charles Kingsley. She has returned
from Africa with collection Of fresh water fish
for the British Museum after exploring Du
Chaillu's Gaboon District. ascending the Cam
Groom Range, living among cannibals and Killing
a big gorilla. whose two front teeth she wears
around her neck TO prove that her tale Is true.
Miss Kingsley can hardly wait long enough in
England to write book, eager is she to return
to goras and cannibals. She finds the London
climate very unpleasant and longs for the West
African junges and mountains, where she had
no fever and never took cold. although she often
slept on the ground and was drenched with rains.
A love Of adventure and strong taste for natu-
raj history took her to Africa, where she had
perilous escapes in canoes and was regarded by
the cannibals as a wild woman who might prove
tough eating.
Amos Parker is the fret bicyclist indicted and
condemned for manslaughter. Riding down hill
On dark night without lantern, he upset
waytarer and killed him. Justice Hawkins SEN
fenced the reckless rider four months hard
labor The penalty. though light, serves as
precedent and inspires many homilies. Some
moralists infer from the Justices learned dec-
sion that the bicycle is vehicle subject TO the
laws against furious driving, and that II ought
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