England Twenty-five Years Ago

A correspondent of The London Spectator writes, rather wickedly: "1 can not share the Indication which I hear freely expressed on all ildes at the American subscrlptlons to the Parnell íuud. íueh Investraents are llttle cbickcns, wbich are surc to come homo to roost; and I, at any rate, can not forget the confedérate loan of twenty-live jears ago, against the subpcription of wbich by EngHshmcn, you, s!r, if I remember riglitlv, llfted up a solitary volee amoni; Loudon journals. Leaviug our mere 6peculntors who wcut in for a big pniflt, of irbom tborc is no quustion bere, the Enellh uligcribers to tlic confedate loan mu4 liave meant that tbiy thought the confcderatv States rU'ht In thcir effort to break upuniou, and wisheil tbcin fOccef. Now tluit, 1 apprebend, is preoltel; the meaning of the lubecribciij to tho Parnell funrl. Tbey, tliiuk the bome-rulera r glit, and Wlfeh them 8UCC0SS. If : sectlon of otir pcople, tbcrcfore, did jjri-riselv wbat a eection of tbc American people are Uoing liaci not we butUjr etop fumiuit, and leavo tuego llttle, cliukcns to come home to roost in ttie United títutes tweuty-live years henee, as ours are doingi"