Evening star., 1903-08-29
GREAT ORATORS GONE
Salisbury Was Last Of Notable
Group.
STYLE IN SPEAKIN G.
INTEREST CENTERS IN ARCH
BIsHoPRIC OF WESTMINSTER.
Expensive Navy Dress Uniforms
Charles Morton, Founder Of Music
Halls, Shll Active.
STYLE IN SPEAKIN G.
Correspondence of The Evening Star.

bpeC1di correspondence OF Inc Evening Star,
4 LONDON. August q. 1903.
The Marquis Of Salisbury Is slowly pass
Ing away. All the members OF his family.
Save one. are at Hatfield House. His lfes
work is done and he will soon have to
Journey to the great beyond. He is the
last of race OF oratorical giants whom
corn laws and reform bills brought to the
front forty or fifty years ago-Disraeh, Cob
Fen. Bright. RUSSELL Gladstone. Cairns. Sell
borne. Granville. Northcote and Claiborne
Hardy. These have all disappeared from
the scene except Claiborne Hardy who as
Lord Cranbrook. is still as blythe as a roe.
l A newer generation of statesmen rule in
their stead. Had the older men been alive
there would have been no half-penny pa
Pers bold enough to confine the report Of the
proceedings of parliament to fifty lines. But
we are on the eve OF another great crisis
euch as that which saw the sun of Sir Rob-
ert Peel eclipsed and the leap into fame Of
Benjamin Disraeli. Politics are changing
and perhaps parties. too.
For a long time before his retirement
from the premiership Lord Salisbury was
practically inaudible in the gallery of the
house of lords AS he was prime minister
and foreign secretary this inaudibiity was
p matter of concern to the reporters. who
mad to patch up speech after speech as best
hhey could.
bury. but they were quite Intellectual, and
recourse had to be had to Hansard's rep
cesentative. who sits at the table Of the
mousse and who although he sat only few
yards from Lord Salisbury often complain
ed that he could hardly hear him. We
now know that 1t was not carelessness on
t1is part, but feebleness, which made him
speak so low.
He never had strong voice. but he had
d singularly clear and musical voice. He
was one of the few great orators who
t.Aly v,nta
bate for hours speaker after speaker, and
when the time came. trusting solely to his
memory. replied without missing a single
salient point. Probably he owed this gift,
as he did his style. to the fact that he was
a writer on the stan of the Saturday Re-
view In fact some of his speeches read like
pungent leading articles. and none ever re-
.quired the alteration of a word.
| A demagogue he was not and could not
be His style was classical. scholarly and
sometimes bitter-so bitter at times that
Disraeli once described him as "a master
OF houts and gibes and sneers." He was
not the man to harangue mobs from rail-
way carriage windows. or the platforms of
railway stations. or on Blackheath, al
Though he did once address some thousands
pr people at Pomona Gardens, Manchester.
See of Westminster.
=, Not since the death of Cardinal Wise
man in 1865 has much general interest
been exhibited in the appointment of a
I4IOuldH SdtHOlC pToldt0 dS lneTo IS now
In connection with the vacant archbishopric
of Westminster. 1t happens that there is
no English Roman Catholic ecclesiastic Of
such commanding ability or general popu-
larity as to mark him out for the post.
When Cardinal Wiseman died all eyes
turned at once to Manning. Not only had
he the necessary ability. but there were in
dications that he had the organizing skill
which would at that time be an essential
qualification of archbishop of West
minister. He was. moreover, an English
man, brought up in tho English church.
On his death the popularity of DIR. Vaughan
was great that no other appointment
Seemed likely.
At present no one man stands out above
the others. In London. as is perhaps nat
Oral, there seems TO be a strong desire
that DIR. Bourne. bishop of Southwark.
should be translated, but Father Gasquet.
abbot president of the English Benedictine
Congregation, and DIR. Hedley. the bishop
of Newport have their friends.
1t is a matter for surprise that the chap
ter should have submitted to Rome in ad-
dition to these names that of Archbishop
Merry del Val. the Spanish prelate. The
Duke of Norfolk's strong protest against
the appointment of a foreigner is supported
generally by Roman Catholics. and is not
likely to be ignored at Rome.
Nothing Doing in Politics.
Things political are at a very low ebb
now that parliament has adjourned We
hear very little even of the fiscal question
at the moment, though every one knows
that it will soon loom large on the political
horizon. The topic. however. has been
Telegated for the moment to the corre-
spondence columns of the newspapers and
people are thinking more of the holidays
than of imports and exports and preferen-
tial tariffs.
/. The political clubs are almost denuded
of their usual habitues all but few of
the West End theaters have closed their
doors. and socially at least London is as
FfyrN rNr1ty 4S G q q
Where are arrivals. however. as well as de-
partures. for the streets are full of people
who have come to spend a holiday in the
metropolis
This summer experiencing q
French rather than an American invasion.
for though "Brether Jonathan is often
met with. his numbers do not equal that
of the French visitors President Loubet
visit. indeed. seems to have given London
IA veritable boom on the other side of the
channel.
Spring cleaning. when good housewives
turn their houses and their husbands out
tIondon clubs naturally are too busy to
Join in the general duSt-up. They. there
tfore. have their spring cleaning In the
autumn, rather in the last days of sum-
mer. Some of the great houses follow the
example.
1 Today l observed the pneumatic van
Standing in the forecOurt of Devonshire
house working several lengths of hose that
were sucking up the dust from the duke $
carpets in the clean and economical way
now in fashion.
! Meanwhile a score of the great clubs are
exchanging hospitalities. The Carlton has
taken in members of the Junior Carlton.
tThe Devonshire and the National Liberal
are finding room forf members of the Re-
lform. The Army and Navy is going to the
United Service and the Athenaeum. The
two latter are opposite each other at two
corners in Pail Mall. The Athenaeum is
sometimes called Bishopgate because near
ily all bishops belong to 1t and the United
Service Cripplegate because of the number
of wounded veterans who members
But not merely for its autumnal spring
cleaning is the Union Club closed. 1t Is
undergoing extensive alterations and re-
pairs. The Union is one of those clubs
which one does not hear much about, but
1t is not every one to whom the license Is
given to cross its threshold member. 1t
is the club at the southwestern corner of
Trafalgar square facing the fountains and
1t Is now hidden from basement to roof by
a forest of trim scaffolding. The Union is
having a new story. II is a dormer club.
and the extra floor will afford more Sleep
Ing accommodation for members.
: / am not conversant with the circum-
stances of the Union, which has a member
ship OF 1000 and subscription of 10
tguineas. with an entrance fee of 30 guneas
but the Athenaeum. up in Pail Mall. recent