New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-28

were written he was within year Of his death
His style has lost none Of its vivid beauty.
The facts Of history-and about these facts.
NJ any rate there Is little or dispute
read like a romance: some Of them. in his own
phrase. like chapters of Monte Cristo." He has
no scruple in defending men who though they
sailed the seas without the Queens commission
and made private war on Spain, which spain
and the Inquistion called piracy, were English pa
triots and finally pluckcd victory out OF the great
est peril she ever had to encounter. II this he
Froude's last legacy TO his country. 1t is one FOR
which his country and lovers of freedom every
where may be grateful
Professor Huxley's condition during the week
shows less improvement than was hoped for. lie
remains extremely weak. and there Is much
anxiety n see a change fer the better.
The retiring Speaker receives the usual honors
and rewards-a peerage and pension OF $zoooo
wear The peerage Of course. is conferred by the
Queen on the advice Of her Ministers, SO tnat the
House Of Commons has nothing 10 say. The pen
sion has to be voted. and was voted. on motion or
the leader OF the House, unanimously. True Mr..
Keir Hardie opposed II the curious ground That
there were people more IN need of 900 than Mr..
Peel This foolish objection supported In
foolish speech. but not even the most advanced
cared to identify himself with Mr. Keir Hardie's
ungracious resistance to the uTbrOken sentiment
of the whole House Mr. Hardie could not find a
teller TO go into the lobby with him. and his at
tempt collapsed az II had begun. in ridicue. 1t is
remarked that this is the first peerage which Lord
Rosebery has recommended the Queen to grant
Mr. Gladstone made ten peers during his brlef
term but Lord Rosebery has sense of humor,
and sees that after his Bradford Outburst against
the House of Lords, he could hardly strengthen
the House he wants to pull down. Thus does he
disappoint some Radical ambitions with which he
presumably has little sympathy. It remains to
be seen what he will do when he leaves office. He
will probably leave the House Of Lords strong
as he found it, and he will have to weigh the value
of a theoretical consistency against those beseech-
ments for promotion which always beset an out
going Prime Minister.
Miss Peels marriage on Wednesday was made
the occasion of a kind of popular tribute to her
ia her and Of a tribute from other sources also.
The marriage took place at ST Margarets West
minister. a beautiful, church about which lie great
open spaces and broad streets. These were filed
by multitude of people who cheered the Speaker
and his daughter they drove through Palace
YARD to the door of the church. and cheered
again as the Speaker left this time without his
daughter who in the interval had become Mrs.
Mcguire and drove back with her husband to
her old home. the scene Of 50 many social
triumphs. This young lady since her mothers
death, has held a unique position in London so
ciety. presiding over the stately mansion which
the country provides in the precincts Of the
House Of Commons for the first Commoner OF
England. 1t has been a dficu,t position. very
brilliantly filed. Miss Peel had beauty and rare
social and intellectual gifts and accomplish
ments. and that still rarer thing called character
She rnarries a man whom 1t is the fashion to
speak of as a Home Ruler Mr.. Mcguire Is
about as much Of a Home Ruler as am. True,
he was formerly a Home Ruler and follower of
Mr.. Parnel: since Mr.. Parners death he has
seen that the cause lost. He is a practical
politician and does not care about dead issues.
His real place IT. public life is in connection
with the great Englshman who rules N the
Cape Mr. Cecil Rhodes his interests and duties
lie in South Africa not in l~riand He Is Mr..
Rhodes's trusted friend and representative in
England and is understood L have shared
largely in the wealth which has rewarded the
| business enterprises Of the Cape Prime Min
istcr / am far from saying that he might not
be popular and respected as a Home Ruler. but
II IS for thu other reasons have indicated that
Rochfort Mcguire has become the very con
siderable parsonage he is in London. His mar
riage with Miss Peel is a social er-it and some
thing more-an event. at any rate. which echpses
all others of the year in interest. II II were
merely social ii would require less notice. albeit
such a gathering OF celebrities as st. Margarets
and thea the Speakers house witnessed on
Wednesday has seldom. indeed, been seen in
London. perhaps never, since the celebrities were
not social merely, but belonged u the worlds If
public life Of literature. Of art science ana many
others The gifts t. the bride and bridegroom
were innumerable and invaluable. that
form Of tribute and the presence Of these hun
dreds q friends and admirers was a tribute more
remarkable and valuable still g. w. s.
INHABITANTS RETURNING TO LAIBACH
Vienna April 27.-No further shocks ~ earthquake
have been experien ed at Iabach. and the people
who have been camping IN the open fields
turning 10 their homes The work OF efn1ishng