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LONDON LETTER. Specially Wired. By Our Gaiiery Correspondent. Lo-NDox, Friday Night. The pertinacity with which Tory speakars bring unfounded accusation against the leading men of the Liberal party, is again illustrated hy the contents of the paDsrs to-day. Mr Bright, for by no means the first timo in hi; life, charges a Tory lec- turer with lyin;, and for the twentieth time a correction liai had to be made of a mis- statement respect ing the mode of conducting the business of Messrs Chamberlain at Bir- mingham manyyearsago. SirWatkinWilliams Wynn, M.P., who made this unfounded assertion, is a very young man, having suc- ceeded his uncle only a few months ago, and was at once elected a member of Parliament. He knows very little of the world and nothing of the amenities of public life. The lesson which has now been set hun ought to do him good. It occurs to many here that to-day's conference at St. James's-hall and to-mor- row's demonstration in Hyde-park are a trifle late. The Criminal Law Amendment Act has been passed, and if it is imagined that the question will be at once re-opened by the new Parliament on its reassembling, enthusiasm goes further than reason. Other r questions will arise to demand the attention ,f the new House of Commons. The con- duct of the Pall Mall ova? the Sir Charles Dilke incident, in the matter of its contents bill, indicated to what extent it tinds sensa- tions pay. It had better try its hand on a new one. For this purpose the navy is played out, and so is the condition of our loastin., stations. M. Henri Rochefort is no doubt mad, but ft madman of this incendiary kind at large amongst SCt. excitable a people as the French might do immense mischief. The licence of language under the Republic is cer- tainly a very wide one when it goes to the length of inciting the people :)f Paris to attack the British Embassy. Of course if the Embassy were assailed, Rochefort would hear of it, but it seems a pity that such a hopeless lunatic cannot be taken care of. The lies which Rochefort tells in his paper sufficiently indicate what manner of man he is, but he ought not to be permitted to menace the British Embassy with the fate of the house of Jason. Lord Salisbury leaves Hatfield to-morrow for the Chalet Cecil, Dieppe, where he will remain a little time. He exchanges the closo atmosphere of Arlington-street for the breezes of the Channel. He looks as though he had been in office two years instead of two months, and to require a holiday. If the outside public at the formation, of the Ministry wondered at the iccuracy with which political movements were recorded, it may be stated that directly 'opposite the entrance gates of the house in Arlington-street is an hotel, in the bar parlour of which the reporters took up their position, and knowing the men who went in and out were enabled to send in the details of the movements with which newspaper readers were made so familiar. There is not much of political activity in London just now. Even Mr George Russell, with every anxiety to enlighten the body politic by the frequent expression of his Iriew.s, cannot, it i. feared, much longer stand this stagnant atmosphere and the depressing influences of the gloomy weather. At the same time, he is a very energetic politician, and nothing could better attest this fact than his presidency of to-day's conference at St. James's Hall. He is often confounded with Mr Chas. Russell, the eminent Queen's Counsel, both in parliamentary debates and at public meetings. With the conference and demon- stration over, members of Parliament, like Ministers, may be expected to take wing, and, leaving London for a time, seek that recreation required for the autumn work. It will be heavier than any known during the past half century. The American Press is justly proud of the extraordinary and costly exertion made by some of the New York papers to get their Sunday editions about. These Sunday editions, more particularly the New York Tribune's, are marvels in themselves. Some of the English provincial weekly papers need not shrink from comparison with the Tribune in the matter of diversified and interesting reading. Certainly we have nothing like it in London. It is only of late years that this system of issuing seven daily papers in the week has obtained in New York, and has apparently proved so lucrative that no efforts are spared to make the Sunday edition attractive. The latest development is the special trains going at top speed to carry the papers to populous watering-places. Saratoga Springs and Newport are the two places where New Yorkers congregate on summer Sundays, aiiii- the Herald and the Tribune literally run a race to be there first with their papers. The Tribune has, every Sunday, a special train to Greenport, a distance of 95 miles, and thence a special steamer carries the precious bundles of papers to expectant Newport, which thinks itself ill-used if it has not its New York paper on its table at breakfast time. The train consists of an engine and a single car, which leaves the neighbourhood of New York at three in the morning, and does the 95 miles in an hour and forty-three minutes. Saratoga Springs is a much further distance, the railway trip at top speed being four hours and a half. But the papeis reach Saratoga at eight in the morning. 0 The great speed attained on these iour- neys is much more noticable in the United States than it is in England. The feat of 95 miles in an hour and 43 minutes, which is thought worthy of a paean a column long in the New ^ork press, is quietly done every day in the year by the Great Northern Railway, and is approached by half a score of the other English Railways. Every day a Great Northern train leaves Grantham at 4.17, reaching King's Cross two minutes under the two hours, having run IOSJ miles, maintaining a level speed of 532 miles an hour. The Tribune's Sunday express con- sists of only the engine and single carriage, with no other freight than the newspaper bundles. But the Great Northern, of course, performs the ordinary duty of a passenger train. Where the sensational feat of the A merican newspaper trains oeat the ordinary English railway service is in the matter of the long run. On the journey to Saratoga the newspaper trains run rom, New York to Albany without stopping, and Albany is just 147 miles from New York. The Great Northern run, already mentioned, of 105 miles, is the biggest, as it is the fastest thing done in the English railway service. The next most rapid run is the Great Western flight from Paddington to Swindon, the pace maintained being 53;t miles. The next longest run is from St. Pancras to Leicester, on the Midland Rail- way, a distance of ggi miles.

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