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BLAINE IN ENGLAND.

What the English Papers Say about Our Country and Its Statesman.

From London papers which have just arrived, says W. H. Sivitor in Tid-Bits, we learn a great many fact about Mr. Blaine which have hitherto escaped the American biographers. Some extracts are appended.

The Right Hon. James G. Blaine and wife have just arrived in the city. Mr. Blaine is at present Governor General of Maine, a province on the southwestern coast of Lake Mississippi. In addition to this office he holds that of Vice President of the Republic, in accordance with the rule adopted by the Parliament at Washington, whcih gives the Vice Presidential position to the man who secnres the second highest vote for President. Mr. Blaine would have been elected President and Mr. Cleveland Vice President had not the Chinese delegates to the national convention opposed him on account of a previously expressed opinion that the immigration of Chinese should be stopped.

Mr. Blaine is a first cousin of Right Hon. William F. Cody, better known as "Buffalo Bill," and is expected to call upon him tomorrow to formulate governmental plans for action on the reassembling of the American Senate in November, Mr. Cody being, Senator from the Province of Key West, beyond the Mississippi river, and a strong supporter of the government.

Mr. Blaine's military title is Major-General, although he seldom uses it. He gained it by gallant action on the field at Lookout Mountain, where he commanded the Second Chicago Infantry under General Beaurogard. Besides receiving his commission of Brigadler General he was warmly conplimented in a personal letter from President Jefferson Davis and Secretary of War Stanton. Later he took a prominet part in the capture of New York and in the reduction of Port Du Queene.

While a member of President Garfield's cabinet he proposed the propibition measure known as the Maine law, which is in force throughout all the northwestern provinces with the single exception of Staten Island.

As a literary man Mr. Blaine is wellknown he having issued from the press in the last eighteen months a work entitled "Twenty Years in Parliament," which treats largely of his experiences in the National Assembly, which he have alluded to. Under the nom de plame of "Howells" he has written some very creditable verses for the magazines. He is also editor of the leading Washington newspaper, the Congressional Record.