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WHAT BRITAIN HAS DONE, DELANE OF "THE TIMES.

A FRENCH WRITER'S APPRECIA

tion.

TION

ROLE THE NATION MUST-PLAY,

MEMOIR OF A GREAT UDITOR.

[REVIEWED BY DR. HENLY WAGE, DEAN OF CANTERBURY.]

THE RIMEAN WAR

Perhaps the most aritical, as it was cer- tainly one of the most important points in his carcer, was his action during the Crimean War. The letters of the first of war correspondents did now and then dischas military information to the

foraible.

war.”

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now;

The opinion has been expressed that our failure to stand by Danerk in tuat

but perhaps there was another reason, to Crisis is the ultimate cause of our having to defend another "scrap of paper

mined, Delane's decision against war of be mentioned later, which possibly cater that time. ing Mr. Gladstone's first Government There was one important measure das which deserved more attention than Sir Edward Cook has given to it-I mean the reorganization of the Army under Mr. afterwards Lord, Cardwell. Delano, took saw many of the communications between the deepest interest in the matter, and I him and Cardwell; and when the reor ganization was carried Cardwell wont him.

handsome letter of acknowledgment. It was just the subject to call out. Delane i co-operation, for he was essentially a ma of action, and was keen on all practical. measures of administrative improvement.

THE NEAR EAST,

to superintend its distribution, and Lord eraton, of the peace party through Lardig Aydney Godolphin Osborne volunteered Granville and Lord Clarendon, of the his servicos in the samSH CR150, How Court through his friends at Windsor, greatly Delane's fund contributed to the The Duke of Cambridge book seung for mocens of Miss Wightingnlo's work has passing on certain considers tions to been told by the present writer elsewhore. Dalace, and when the Queen talked poli When, later on, quarrels and recrimi

In reviewing a life of J. T Dolane, Aeded and Lord Stratford suggested that you, he wrote to the editor. pot me she nations have ceared it will be easier to the famous editor of The Times, written by The Times should devote its fund to an

According to the official view, nothing was tios to Lord Torrington, I it appreciate with equity the work of the Six ET. Cooko, Dr. Wase, who served English church at Pera. In fact it was declare itself

was talking to It segmed uncertain for statesmen who have in those tragic days The Times for many years, as a leader soon found to be needed for the supply of Lord Palmerston had remonstrated with

a time on which aido The Times would!

During the Conference the responsibility of the destinies of the writer ander Dolano, says: --- British Empire, says a French write in It is not the least of the remarkable pital comforts There was a like miscalcu June 21st and again on the 23rd be lead

linen, utensils, clothing, and various hos Delane on his too German tone." confidence in them, and it is thus that have been appointed Editor of The Times Nowostle listened to Delane's private re- the Daily Chronicle. The country puta points in Delave's career ant he should letion at the War Office. The Duke of ing article, though carefully guarded, a great democracy confronts the gravest at the age of 2 after no more than a year's prosentations, but heeded them not. When this was the fire of artillery covering

was on the whole bellicosa in tone; but perils.

apprenticeship in the office in subordinate Delane spoke out, he spoke not as a mere retreat. On June 24th, the day befor It is incontestable that France has re- capacities. He had taken his degree at journalist catering for curious appetites, but the fateful meeting of the Cabinet was to ceived on land the greatest weight of Gor Oxford, where however, be did not read as a public man mere than ever convinced be held, Delane, though again with some man aggression; it is the old France, fall hard, but rode hard," and it is very ohar- that the best, perhaps, the only, cure for incaution, oast his vote for peace. Hongkong & Naabboushond N.. to E. winds, of resouro and heroism as ever is the acteristic of him that "all his life he was competence and mismanagement was pub-days later he printed a pwerful argu Three gravest days of its existence, which has an eager rider; ho was a familiar figure in licity. To apply a remedy, to form a soundment in favour of on-intervention. Thi inflicted upon the Teutonic hordes the the Row and in the hunting held, and judgment, it was Lecesary, he held, to let attitude of The-Times did much to rally it remediable defeat which deprived the over walked or drove any where or at any the facts be genorally known. He acted the middle opinion of the nation in sup endmy of all hope of eventual victory time, if he could possibly rifle." Because Britain has generously of its own'

It always seemed to me that he edited this prescription. The Crimean war he inglorious, policy."

remorselessly, and sometimes unwisely, on port of the probably wise, but certainly, accord rendered this justice to France, the paper in the spirit of a bold rider, golongs to the period of the Whig oligarchy, it is the duty of Frenchmen to recognis exactly what Britain has done in a miling straight brow country, and shirking when the governing class required a good tary sense, though her strength was only Crabb Robinson that though the paper diatribes were at any rate aimed at de-

no folices,

It was observed by daal of battering to move them. Delane's in embryo.

Seventeen days after the declaration of vious editors, its style improved in the first were attained. He wanted to see greater had been vigorous and powerful under pre-finite, attainable objects, Bad they war against the butchers of Belgium years of Delane's editorship, and that in vigour infused into the command at the 70,800 men landed in France under Bir became better than it had ever been." front. He held that the defects in organi John French, with an admirable commis sariat and Red Cross service. A year Its importance was illustrated in the very nation and rasource which the earlier stages later Britain had raised an Army of year of his appointment by a public so of the war had disclosed could best be re- 3,000,000 men, of which a million were in knowledgment of its services being offered medied by some change of personnel at the trenches or livouacking in the camps by Louis Philippe at the Court of the Tui-home Russell's letters, with the conclu- of Flanders and Artois.

leries to Mr. Reeve who had exposed, in asions which Delune drew from them did For the first time in the history of Eng-ceedings of the Comte de Chambord, then part new vigour to the conduct of the

couple of articles, the pretensions and pro- in fuot destroy a Ministry, and thereby im land there is no party opposed to the war, as at the time of the French Revolu- an exile in London, Very soon, moreover, tion and Napoleon, and recently in the Delane made the acquaintance of Lord The cardinal point in the whole matter South African. War. When a section of Aberdeen, and a friendship grew up be is that Delane regarded The Times as the Welsh miners came out on strike for tween them which lasted fill Aberdeen's charged with a trust for the good of the a short time they provoked a feeling of death, in site of many disagreements in whole, aution and he did his best to full irritation and shame among the British their views.

chat national duty. It must be owned he public, but this short abrike was due to

made some mistakes, and committed some professional discontent, often justified,

faults. But they were slight in compari- whose worst feature was that it was act

on with the immense services he rendered;ing his later years to which, perhaps. I There is one interesting incident dur compatible with the gravity of the mo-

and the general principle of his action in ought to refer as I can add something ment. There was no idea of opposition

criticizing and stimulating & Government to Sir Edward's account of it which to the procention of the war tooth and

in the conduct of a great war must be ap-throw light upon Delane's action in other rail. The proof of that lies in the fact

plauded and followed. that the miners alone had sent 250,000

matters, such as the decision respecting THE PRUSSIAN DANGER, NE mon to the colours, and that the rest of euey; but a high military authority has

the Danish Duchies, Sir Edward relates the three million troops in training came maintained that "by telling the story of 1860 Delane foresaw and denounced the change of course on the part of The Times

It is very interesting to note that in the well-known circumstances for the most part from the powerful trade our men's sufferings to the public Russell danger which was threatened to Europe in 1876, when war was impending between. of the unions, whose leaders were trying to saved the remnant of our army." "Custom," by the Prussian Monarchy. solve an isoluble problem--how to give says Sir Evelyn Wood, and an acquired traveller named Macdonald had been been sent to Easika Bay, and Gladstone's A British Russia and Turkey, the British Fleet had. of their best to the defence of the country sentiment of reticence under privations, roughly treated by railway officials at Bulgarian agitation was on foot. Direct without abdicating in the beast their pri- tied the tongues and pens of our chiefs. Bonn, and was imprisoned for resisting ly opposite explanations have boon, given vileges acquired after a long struggle. William Howard Russell dared to tell his them. The Times took up the mattes hotly of the matter, but Sir Edward justly says employers, and through them the English- and called for redress, and the affair there is no room for doubt about it, He speaking peoples, that our little army was was the subject of long diplomatic cor- says:-. Now the whole of the nation realises perishing from want of proper food and respondence between the two Goverd Daring: September the paper took the role she must play in the fight against clothing. He probably made mistakon, as ments, and led to heated scenes in the what may be called an anti-Turk line the German empire, and the special re his statements often hurriedly written, several Parliaments." sons why she must belp to overthrow the were necessarily based on incomplete inlet the matter drop.

Delane would not Delane, as we have seen, was by no means. anding. The British Empire is an edities formation, He incurred much enmity, but with regard to the Italian question; but paper was tending more and more in the Later in the year philo-Turk, but neither was he Ruscophil which cannot go on without any one so few unprejudiced men who were in the for our part," said The Temer, we at latter direction. Delane hurried back to Prussia was soliciting English support and towards the end of September the Its exparse all over the world Crimes will now attempt to call in question orce declare that the ways of Prussia are helps to make it vulnerable, and that why Germany makes desperate efforts to

the fact that by awakening the conscience

steer his craft into a middle course. Ee was afraid that under the impulse of Mr. upset its equilibrium, in the hope of ghak of the British nation to the suffering of its at our ways; and that we will not follow

an inch on the road of despotism." troops, ho saved the remmat of those the Prince. Consort was then alive, and committing the paper too far towards ing it enough to bring it down.

But Gladstone's agitation his writers were The reasons why France resists her ag And so, too, with regard to the leading top wicked. In the next year, 1861, the vention. The goutle art of curvature was

grand battalions wo landed in 'September."

complained of this article ne gressors and is resolved to defeat them are articles in The Times. If they were often King of Prussia died, and was succeeded again called into play, and Delane was positively sympathy with the idea of Russian inter rather different. It is true that her rich over-violent, often also they were just and by his brother William, who became, 10 very pleased with the way in which it was colonial empire in Africa and the Far East has excited the greed of the Teuton peals were perhaps ever made," says King day before hig. Coronation the new King accomplished pen executed

"No more able, more cogent up years later, the first Gerinan Kaiser, The practised. A series of articles from an thief, but at home the invader has o lake, than those in which its great in addressing the members of the Prus-

a retreat pied the richest regions of her territory. writers insisted again and again that the sin Chambers, had spoken of the scarcely to have been pererived until the from false position, so skilfully as In the event of defeat thero would again

must be Divine right of the Lord's anointed in movement was completed, and the coveted. bo the anguish of annexation; a part of despatch of reinforcements French soil inhabited by the French achieved with an exertion of will strong terms which his grandson has made fami- position once attained has ever since bean. could remain in the power of the enough to overthrow every obstacle inter- liar to the present generation. The Tames most successfully defended. So Delano despoilers. It would be the diminution posed by mero customs and, forms When promptly fell upon the speech with allu wrote to Dr. Wace on October 20th; but of the Fatherland, the spoliation of a the story of Jukerman reached them, they sions to the Stuarts and the Revolution there was an eagle eye which had detected. part of the heritage from our ancestors, uttered, if so one may speak, the very soul of 1888. the humiliation of the nation. To repulse of a nation.

the progress of the movement. We have got into a pretty mess, wrote Mr, Glad And, agaís, when a few this menace all. Franée is in arms, days later, the further accounts from our

stone to Abraham Hayward on October Britain has not these reasons so near army showed the darkening of the prospect

10th. The Times appears to be thorough. so her heart, and if any explanation is before it, the great journal, using its

ly emasculated It does not pay to read of British opinion, one would find it in with opportune, resolute counsels, seemed

ought to be prohibited to change sides needed of the slowness of certain elemente leadership, and moving out to the front

what it has demonstrated this week. It a papon which next week is sure to refute the fact that Britain does not feel hereef clothed with a power to sponk, nay, almost solf on the subject, and suggested that she menaced in her own territory; her people one may say, to act in the name of a should communicate with the Prime Minis have not suffered the atrocities of Geran united people. During nearly five weekster. terrorism, and she feels absolutely shelter-The Times used its strength in the spirit accordingly wrote to Lord Palmerston, After the second letter, the Queen ed behind her redoubtable Navy.

of a Patriot King." Let us hope that believing him to be the only person who Because of this insular position, which every influential journal in our country could exercise any influence over Mr. fain, as in the days of Marlborough and tunity, be worthy of so stirring a panegy not be much it will be important that that gives ber such a feeling of security, Hri- will always, to the measure of its oppor- Delane, adding that, even if this should Wallington again gave battle in the ric. Kinglake thought, however, that evon gentleman should know the mischief bis plains of Flanders. But instead of the Delane afterwards fell from this high es- writings are doing and that the Govern lew tens of thousands of troops which tate, that in the later diatribes of The ment sincerely deplore it Lord Palm- sufficed her then, she has had for the first Times the Patriot King was swamped in graton wrote accordingly to Delane, and time to raise an Army of millions, and the Sensation-mongering Journalist; and in reply received the following inimitable to call to arms all men able to undergo a that, had the editor bean still alive when letter, which was in due course forwarded campaign. Any

the seventh volume of the "Invasion of the to the Castle- In answer to Lord Kitchener's appeal Crimea was published, he would in his

16, Serjeants' Inn, over four millions of volunteers presented own scher judgment have stood self-re-

29th October, 1801, themselves, of which three-quarters were buked. Delano, I am sure, would nover

My dear Lord, I shall be very glad passed for service. Then, when the pro- have kissed the rod of bis candid friend to give the Prussians a respite from that portion of enrolments began to fall off and there is something more, I think, Indeed, I would not have intruded any most cruel of all inflictions good advice, the Government got to work on a new sys-which may rightly be urged in his vindien thing so unwelcome during the splendid tem based upon the National Register.

tion: At the same time Lord Derby took over

soleranities of the coronation had not the A journalist who adopts what are call-King uttered those surprising anachron- the general direction of recruiting; thanksed sensational methods is naturally suspect. b. m. ft, in

isms upon Divine Right. Pray observe, 4.1m 3 32

to his patriote energy. his eloquence and 0..9 8 27 7 5 2 0 35 popularity, the new system operated with They are methods which are sometimes pro too, in extenuation of my offence that I 10 56 41m 48 out difficulty. The working of it was exfitable to the journal, and they are not the sent a faithful chronicler to Konigsberg, plained in postera and newspapers only methods by which a journalist of who has described all the splendours in throughout the United Kingdom Though fluence enn bring weight to hear upon the proper and reverent spirit, and done what man can do to render Buch or- both simple and ingenious, it necessitated course of affairs, the dopantage to the monies intelligible, and the recital of them motives which led to Delane's sudden ins But this does not fully express the a colossal organisation, the improvisation way, with incidental disadvantage of which gavours of a miracle. It is not public interest, when another and quieter Divine Right as little as your belongin tervention. Ho scut for me on his return the conscription of former times, by which would or might have attained the same very faithful servant,

from Dunrobin, and I have a vivid recole a man who drew a bad number in a lot end he must expect to find his motives

lection of our conversation in his house JOHN T. DELANE" tery was taken. It is not compulsory questioned: the Patriot King is likely to

in Serjeants' Inn. The consideration. sorvice. with its rigorous renaliies be accounted by many, whether rightly or

A PLAIN ENGLISHMAN,

which he impressed on me most seriously against those who try to escape from it, wrongly, as rather a Ring of Reclame. Delane throughout the whole volume than into war. He expressed a strong appre There is nothing more characteristic of was that on no account were we to drift It is truly voluntary national service such From this point of view. Delano has a clean that detter. as a great democracy would desire.

The Englishman's revolt tension that the country would be un record If he did not keep things back from the from the public, neither did he reserve the despotism, the humour of the gentle hint war would involve, No doubt he knew pretensions Prussian equal to the immense strain which a greaf fact for public use only. Your private to Palmerston, who had been the author that we were unprovided with such in letters to me," he had written to Russell of so much good advice" to foreign struments of warfare as the campaigns carly in the war, have made the round of countries, the cccl independence of the of 1606 and 1970 had shown were cssential the Cabicet." And similarly after Delane's Editor, and the literary sarcasm, exhibit to military success, The Duke of Cam return from the Crimea, what The Times Delane's powers at their best. He was a bridge was Commander-in-Chief, and the said in public the editor had already mid master of concentrated, graceful,, to Ministers privately. His native threw sigmficant letter-writing. It was his true Court itself might be dragged into a struggle in which the very Constitution ness combined with all that ho had learnt. Eglish instinct which realized at once might be endangered. from well-informed persons on the spot, the antagonism between the Prussian

fall at the first assault. He tried, in a

and the incident is almost prophetic personal interview; to convince the Duke the mortal struggle between the two which country must be kept out of the dungers of Newcastle that a winter campaign was as broker out with the present war. It which a great war at that time would have probable; he urged the supreme import Sir Edward Cook shows, that a few years very well have influenced him in 1864. was evidently with much reluctance, as entailed The same apprehension may ance of making preparations for it; he sug- afterwards, in 1884, be acquiesced in the Bismarck once said, I think, that the vested the provision of wooden huts for decision of the Government, against the Eastern Question to his day was not the troops, pointing out that these might view of Palmgraton, to abstain from in- worth the bones of a single Pomeranian be made both cheaply and quickly at Contervening against Prusain in the war of Grenadier, and Delane felt that even the stantinople, He was not merely critical the Danish Duchies. Sir Edward Cook Bulgarian atrocities were not worth . His paper was actively helpful. He was a pioneer in in the journalism which don In the fourth week of June the crisis things as well as says things. The Timer wes rapidly coming to a head and the organized a fucd for providing comforts rival force seemed for the sick and wounded. Mr. MacDonald, Delane was equally in the confidence of nearly balanced. a member of The Times staff, was sent out all; of the war party through Lord Palm

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It is significant, says Sir Edward, of the position which Delane had made for his paper, that Lord Clarendon, who re- pented the Queen at the coronation, at

The Times. He wrote to the Queen her international incident to the articles in tached all the important of an untoward

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sian, and the second still more decidedly changing rides more than once in twentye. four hours. The first article is anti-Bu anti-Turk, Quito to, Delane night hara said; the two articles together expressed his views, in the sense that he was resolutely set He was strongly anti-Turk, against a policy of intervention to balse ter up Turkish misgovernment; he was anti-Bassian, in the sense that ho mia trusted the policy of the Russian Govern ment thought that the Prime Minister's policy He was anti-Disrasli, when he was secretly tending in the former direc thought that Mr. Gladstone's agitation tion; he was anti-Gladstone, when he tended to encourage the development of the crisis in the latter direction. pinned his faith upon Lord Derby and Lord Salisbury, and hoped for a peaceful solution of the orisis which should recon cile British interests with me o release of oppressed nationalities from Turkish wisrule

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convinced him that Sebastopol would net spirit and that of British civ British, and be felt that at all costs the

stitution. The incident is really a con- convulsion in the English Army and Con spicuous illustration of the principle I determining element in his action was have previously dwelt upon, that the always the national interest as a whole.