Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 26, 1873, Page 6

6 . GREAT BRITAIN. Why It Is Not o Free Coun- tr 1ts Flagitious System of Lond- Monopoly. only Fifty Thousand Persons Inter- osted in iho Ownorship of British Soils Their Titles Founded Solely upon Robbery. Thirty-one. Hillions of Peoplo Practically . “Mowors of Wood and Drawors of Wator” for a Fow Aristoerats. Soven Hundred and Thirty Million Dol» lars Annually Extorted from tho Natlon in tho Shapo of Ground-Rents. How the Bravo Britons Cringe Boforo the Do soondants of Thelr Norman Conguorors. Speeiat Corvespondence of Th Chicago Tribune. y LoNpox, Oct, 8, 1873, Qrent Britain is claimed by ity orators, writors, . snd publicists, to bo & freo country, and it In- habitants o freo people. A newspapor can hard- “"1y ho opened without finding this sssortion or somo allasion to it; and, from its continual it- oration, it has come to bo bolioved by most of the populaco. In ono sonse the claim is trua: -Blavery does not oxist; sorfdom is abolished. Tho Feudal systom of tho Middlo Ages has so for been modified and smoliorated that most ' ‘Englishmen think it has wholly passed away. It 18 cortain thot thero is nothing of it visiblo which resombles the late system of chattol-slavery which disgraced and cursed tho Amorican Union. . But, for all that, Great Britaln is not & free country, in"the Amorican sonss of tho word, ‘which also ombracos the term equal, It s by no menng A "“FREE AND EQUAL" COUNTRY. Tho ‘orstors and domagogues, in addrossing masg-meotings of the poople, nevor call them * froa and oqual fellow-citizons.”' Thoy never point to tho squality of rights and tho political oquality of ono mau with another, of the poor- est with the ricbeat, of tho humblest with the proudest. What the American considors n self~ ovident proposition, that all mon are born froe and equal, is regarded hero as a # solf-ovident " delusion or picce of insufforablo egotism. Tho wholo structuro of English socioty i based on theidoa of ivequality of rights and priviloges. .Thero is ap equslity of justico professed to be ndministored in courts of lnw for tho adjust- ment of disputes smong parties litigant and for the punishmont of crime, sud it is claimed in goneral torms that all men aro equal before this judicial tribunal ; and I chiefly attribute to the prima facio or thooratical equality of men in the courta tho pationt acquicsconco of tho British magses n their gross inequality of political rights, and astouuding doprivation of proprictor- abip in tho land, An Amorican would hardly foel ke boasting ‘of tho froedom of his country, much less of the oquality of its citizons, if o fow thousand fam- ilios owned in foo simplo EVERY AORE OF LAND" -~between tho shores of the Pacific and Atlantle, and moro ospecially it tho real cstato of the * whole nation was ontsiled by law and Constitu- tion on tho oldost malo heirs of tho land-monop- olists ; and if thoso porsons held a monopoly also of all “lordly" titlos, and furthermore had consti- Iuted themselves tho Senato of the United States and claimod an oquality of logislative power with _ the Houso of Rieproscntatives olected by the wholo poople, and lad usurpod to thomselvos the powers and functions of the Bupromo Court of the United States, And if, to add tho desp- eat insult to tho greatest injury, this privilegod class of land-monopolists should ¢ grab® all the best-paying Foderal, Stato, and County of- fices, clutch oll the commisuions in the armyand navy and all tho largest ealarics in tho Oliurch aod confer them on their younger sons and poor relations, how could an Amorican eall a country which endured such practicos and abuses a free country 7 It would roguire AK AMAZING STRETON OF EFFEONTERY to look o man of & philosophical turn of mind in the face, and toll him that such a country was ® land of liberty, and its citizons wero a freo people. And yet this is my daily oxperionce, I am gravely and boastingly assured that this lsland of Groat Dritain -is populated by a fies peoplo ; that thoy are governed by free institu- tions, and enjoy porfect liborty and indopend- once, Whereas, a8 matter of cold fact, overy mother's gon of them, who is not an nctual pau- per, in recelpt of in-door or out-door parieh-ro- liof, is o tonant of a loreditary, forcordainod landlord, and does mot own land enough in which to bo buried when ho dlos, 1t 18 o stastling truth that the peoplo of Groat Britain and Iroland, numbering more then 31,000,000 of whites, of the proud and self-willed Anglo-Baxon race, ARE LANDLESS TENANTS, tilling the soi! by pormiseion, upon the payment of onerous ront, _Thoy own not an nero of tho Innd of their birth and of the country of thoir ancestors, What i truo of tho furmy is true of the lots in the cities. ‘Tho horeditary lordy claim the propriotorshiip of every lot undor ovory man's dwelling or placo of busitiess in every oity and villago in the * Throo Kingdoms,” aud oxact semi-unnual rent therefor with tho punctuslity of tho seasons, Tho fow oxceptions to tho rulo only mako it the moro astonishiug, Hero is this mighty City of London, the Oapital of the Brit- ish Empirs, numbering moro than 600,000 fami- lies, each roquiringa domicile, and containing cortainly 600,000 buildings, but overy one of them standing on leased ground, and every fam- ily occupying them puylug ront to tho horeditary lords - of = tho land. And what iy “thus true of mighty Lone don i slko aud equally = truo of tho oiher grent cities, such as Liverpool, Glnagos, Mauchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Dublin, Belfast, Bristol, Newenstlo, Loods, Shef- fleld, and of the thousand smallor cities, towna and villages; all tho inhalitants thorcof pay tributo to tho hydra-houded Cmsar. And this univorsal rontal i not » mere nominal sum or trifle, exnotad for form's ake, or to maintaiu #a good old custom” or,vouerable usage; but, on tho contrary, is TIHE MIGUPAT AMOUNT tho landlord ean wring out of the tounnt,—tho utmost, on pain of oviction, tho tonant cah pay. ‘Whore thoro aro long leases. in tho cities, tho ground-ront is not, of courdo, 0 opproksivoly felt by the tonauts as in the country, where the lenses aro usually short, and where thoy aro carefully ostirmatod upon the probablo proflts of the land a8 known by long past oxperience, I havo not boon able £ fnd an accurato report of tho aggregate of ronts annually paid by the British nation to the descondants of their Fronch conquorors ; but, from tho bost information T can got, it is womothing like the followlng sums 1 England snd Walos, annual rent pald Beolland, aunual rent paid, Trolaud, aunual rent paid, $550,000,000 £0,000,000 100,000,000 Total aonusl rent.. vee +$700,000,000 Bear in mind, this euormons sum is paid 1N BOLID GOLD, and not in deprociatod greonbaoka, Thesa ronts are distributod among about 60,000 landlorda in tho tbroo Klngdnmu which {vos an avorago to each of 814,600, gold. But 0,000 of the Iargout ownors recolve more than Lialf of the total suw, sud uyersgq ook far fromg THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, OCTUBER 26, 1873. ism,mm onah.. Vorlly, thoy enjoy a comfortablo neomo, Tho total taxes pald by tho pnople of tho Unitod Biates, for the malntonnncoof tho Fed- eral Govornmont, and all tho Btato,” Oonnty, and Muandoipal Govermnonts, Including intorest and sinking-tunds on all tholr debts, 6re lons than tho aggrogato rontaly paid by tho Britizh péopl to their Lioroditary Iandlords, And, after pay- Ing theso ronts, thoy still hava to raise the mmmiv for tho support of Lhoir own Goneral and T.ocal Qovornments, which fs-nok muoh, if noy, loss fél:nu thot pnhi by tho peoplo of tho "Unitod aton. ‘Tins amazing stato of things has Loon golng on for . HIOTT CENTORIES, Aftor Willinm the Conguoror snd his Norman han- ditsovorthrow the Britons in battlo, thoy procoad- od to confleeate the land aud pnrcu\ it out among thomsolves,—at loast tho grontor part of it,— and to establish themaelvos upon tho isiand as its landlords, Gradually tho unconflsontod laud hns boon acquired by marrisge, purclinse, and athiorwiso, and hold by primogonilure, unlil at last the whole Dritish peoplo are dispossesscd of thetr tonures, T'wo conturios ago, thore woro atill s considorablo number of small frosbolda in tho possossion of tho untitlod classou; but thoy have all beon sbsorbod in one way or an- other, uutil the Barons NOW OWX ‘' ALL ENGLAXD,” Not unfroquently somo ploboian bocomes onor- mously rich by trado aud commorco, manufac. turing, banking, or spoculation in stooks, and purolingos an incumboyed catato,andsottles down on it a8 ono of the parveuu gontry. Thoe hoight of his ambition thon is to unita his family by marrisgo with some scion or sprig of nobility’; and thoso of the nobility orippled by gambling and horse-racing, or othor spendthnit and dis- noluto practices, are always on tho lookont for Just such chances to replonish their exhaystod coffers. Bo, in n short time, tho oatate of the rich plobolan isabsorbed, with a son or danghter, back into the common monopoly of landlordism and primogoniture, ‘Ihat such o monopoly of the soil is tolorated }u the more remarlable from tho fact that thoro 8 A TASSTONATE FONDNESS among tho British paople for.oceupanoy and pos- sossion of n pieco of land,—of a bit of God's roou onrth, Tho Lnglishiman longs for laud lie wifo and childron love o little patch to cultivato and adorn. Wherover it is possible to have a rod or an noro of ground attached to any cottago, in city or village, you may bo suro of sooing {t tustofully and beanlifully ultivated. No mntter how poor the family, or high the rent, thio littlo spot will be found tiflod with flowors and shruby, vegotables and fruits, aud tho walls of tho cottage and garden covered with ivyor other climbing vine, If tho Inw of primogenituro and entail were abolished and forbidden, tens of thonsands of now landless_Englishmon would own land ina short time. Why is it not done? I'horo ssom: {o oxist ovorywhere ' A MYBTERIOUS DREAD of the powor or angor of tho titled, landed nobil- ity. They aro looked up to a8 somothing better than human,—a8 o spocies of domi-god, pos- sousing puror blood nud grostor rights than tho ‘“free-born Driton,” 'It" appoars to bo rogerdod 88 & kind of saoriloge to ques- tion the superiority of the Norman noble whose progenitor stole thoir land. Tho *froe prees” of this island discusses proity much overy subjoct exooyt tho wrong and opprossion of land- monopoly. Tho public spenkers who aro candi-~ datos for Parlinmont talk about & multitudo of popular griofa to b assuagod, and bardens to bo removed, but never lisp & word against tho giant ovil of tho nation. Thore is much waid in favor of freo trade and & freo bronkfast-table, reduc~ tion of poor rates and nbolition of the fncoma- tax, and kindrod subjects; but not a ayllablo in belalf of freo trade in_land, free fatma, frea ownership of tho soil. We hear of *‘lomo- Rule” in Irolsnd; disestablishment of the Stato Churches of Ingland and Beotland ig mildly pro- posed; but no Fubl.(u Journal or orator suggosts tho abolition of class-landlordism, or Fro 0808 nuy scheme for “ disestablishing "' tho Jand-mo- nopolists, and securing to the peoplo of Great Driinin somo ground on which they can placo their foot or Iay thoir heads, and call it thor own. The silonce is not beeauso the thought haa never ocowrrod to them. Ob tho contrary, IT 13 KEVER ADSENT from thoir minds ; bub 1o ono has the courago to montion it loud onough for tho ‘‘Norman" to hearit. Tho slaves on tho Southern planta- tious nover censed thinkiug of froodom, nnd often tallod it over in their cabins in the dark- noss of night, when the maslers could noithor 800 nor hear thom. But boyoud this thoy raroly ventured. So the En%llshmnn, tho Bcotchman, tho Irishman, tho Wolshman, in tho privacy of the family-circle, and in confidenco to frionds, may epeal in halting torms of {ho oppression thoy enduro from the system of land-monopoly. They will onorgetically grumblo and scold at tho Inst” incroaso of ront, and in Ireland, not unfro- quontly, shoot tho agent of tho absontoo land- lord when ho gcomes to collect it. Some- times farmors will meot and pass_resolutious against 8 proposed advauce, or sign & momo- rial to the Lord, humbly supplicating him to bo leniont and not squeezo the last drop of Dblood out of them. But thoy nover openly and boldly, in either Kingdom, denounce land- monopoly, assert the right of tho cultivators of tho soll to own it, condemn primogenituro and ontail, or romind the Lorda of the Yillngo and confiecation basis npon whioh their titlo to tho pnmmauy of tho Dritish people is founded. hoy have not the courage to talk oponly or think aloud about those most important of all snbjeots. Thero never was, in all history, ' 80 COMPLETELY CONQUERED A PEOFLE a5 those eame boastlul Britons. Every particle of resistance has boen beaten out of them. From land-ownors their fathers wero converted into porfs by tho Fronch invadors, and tho childron have tamely submittod fo the s:i antio usury, and acquiosced in the unparallel cfi out- Tago. %ru) Dritain ia the only civilized nation fn tho world in whick the cultivators of the soil do not owa it, but are a raco of tonants. Iiven in Rus- sia, tho emaucipated sorfs are now land-owners, onch family possossing o freohold, In Franco, the land ié ownod by 5,000,000 of men, or rathor familios. The greater portion-of Gormany bo- longs to tho poasantry who cultivate tho “soil. The somo is true of Beandinnyia, and even of Spain aud Turkoy. DBut, in these “froo and hn)llpy islon, " tho Ron of & Briton has not whero to loy his hend which be cau call his own. Thoy aro ‘' HEWRES OF WOOD AND DRAWERS OF WATER " foran aristocratio class;® and no Eunglishman can worship God **under his own vine and fig- troo,” boeauso he has no land on which to plant thom, This I8 not s figuro of speech, but & literal truth. Thore is no public record of - titlo to land in Oreat DBritain. There is no such ofticor o8 Tecorder of Doeds, which we bave in ovory coun- ty in tho United Btaton, whore tho title to evory oot of real estato in the wholo Union can ba found of record, und traced through all tho chnngos of ownorsbip, from Lhe original Govern= ment patent or Colonial grant down to tho presont momont, ¥ T'ho ron! reuson why thers is no public record of Innd-titlos in Great Britain is, that the land- titlo commoncos in LOBBERY AND CONFISOATION, Tho Iandlords dave not oxhibit thoir titlo, ng lhu{ Jnow thut It origin is forco and fraud, ‘and that might not tho descondants of tho rightfal ownora to Wiuking unpleasant and dangorous thoughts. Bapposo that Parliament should crento tho oflico of Hocorder of Doeds aund Convoynncers of lieal Eatato, and roquire every claimant to spread on the record tho Litle on which he founded his claim to ownexrship, in what condition would it place him? Ijunsiy old parchments could ho traced back, in an ab- stract of titlo, vory roadily, to tho patout from ‘Willinin the Counqueror, which might read some- thing liko thia s ‘¢ By the graco of CGod and the Bull of the Pope, Wo, William of Normandy, having invaded (roat Britain without causo or provocation, and, by Our mighty prowess, and the aid of Our valinnt nobles” and followers, ovorthrown (he DBritish Monarch snd his army, and ovorrun snd conquered tho country and conflscated and appropriated to Our uso lands of tho inhabltants, do, by these presouty, givo, grant, and_convoy tob uquarc loaguos Of coniliicatod lond, in tho Tavish of Loudon aud County of Middlosox, to my most valinut Lonchinau, Compte do Vilicrs, to him and his helrs malo, boing tho eldest sous, for all timo to como, upon this sole condition : {hat tho said party of tho #eeond part nud his_ Loirs malo shall defond by avma, at all thnos, the fumily and crown of Our Royal Highnens aud Our hoirs to tho Crown of %uxr!m‘nn ly und thie conquored provinces ot Groat titain, . Witnoss Oluuruonnynl signature, this mouth May, A, D, lfll;iuud] * WirLian e Ooxquenon.” Whllo this would not ba exuctly the phraseol- ogy of tho first deod or fountain of tho title, it aontaing THE GIST OR ESSENOR OF IT, Tor tha lundlords to sproad before thoir tene ants and tho publio & Litle so rotlen and indo- fensiblo as it nocessarily Is, would slmply Invite and provoke an sgitation which ~might ripon " futo revolution, The temants would porcotvo that o title which rost- ed on mothing sounder than conflscation might safoly bo u)mllon(,'udil and that what was takon from thelr ancostors by force might bo ro- covered by act of Parliamiout, or even bys shorves mothod o Bub, 80 Jongas fhe tilo Iy et mystorlous and invisiblo, and tho land mado to dencoud by 6 nooming divito right from father to ollest mom, tho original frand cannot bo proven by tho record, and tho sanclity of pro- prietorship s 1ts _own protoction, 'Thoro is romothing in the absolulo ownorship of realty Which inyoats tho propriotor with a specles of suporiority ovor his landloss noighbor, in all countrios and agon; and X nupposo” 16 bos il baso in the fudopendenco ngainst poverly, hun- gor, and want, with which It Invests him who Tossosaos Innd which produces erops, myj ports cattlo, and (urnishion food for man and bonat and, thomoro Inud n mau owns, the grentor aud moro indopondont ho sooms to ho, Aa tioro I no spoclod of praporty on this lttlo island so soouro or ugoful, bosutiful or iudostruotible, as laud, g0 no buman boing i 10 IMPONTANT AND AUGUAT In' tho sight of tho landloss inhabitants as the fow poraons who own it all. The Englislman ig 88 gowragoous as tho man of any other raco, and more proud and {usolont fn bLis dealings with othor races and pooplo, Mo takea the lion for his omblom, and clothoi himeelf in bloody sear- lot boforo golug tuta battle, Ito will choerfully dio in dofougo of a dogmn, or to Lold or conquor A distant colony. o will' sternly olose with' any fooman with bayonot or brondaword, nud fonrs not tho faco of cloy nor the power 'of tho olo- monta, But confrout him with & Norman Tiord whouo ancostor ojected his own from tho patris nionial homestead, and, fustead of o flush of i dignation or tho soowl of auger on his face, is soon only THE ONTNGT OF TIFE MENTAG and the humility of the sorf ; tho hat comes oft, and worda and Jools of ntmost doforoncs greok tho groat man,—the Lord of tho Manor, Hhig singular foeling of solf-conaclous inforlority in tho prosonce of ‘tho robbor-chief meems o con- nist of a mixture of roverouco, suporatition, sod mno-worship. The landed aristoceacy is s picred thing, It may ba ealled the DBritish Fotish, which ia blindly worshipad, The family pedigreo of the aristocracy i carefully studied, aud “constitutes & good” part of a fashionablo educntion. The rolation that exists botweon the Norman laud-monopolist and tho landless Englishmau fn #0rmo raapoata ig strikingly similar to that which oxists botwoon the mestor aud his dog. Tho untional emblom of the Briton ju tho lion, but IT BLOULD DE TIlZ MABTIFF, that is oqually a8 bravo, but is tamsblo by an ownor, whicli the Xing of thoToront isnot, whon uuncoged, Tha mastief will fight all foes or in- trudors, but it worshipe ita master and crouches undor hia frown. Bo of the Engliulman towards his Lord. Dut there are excoptions to all rules in gocial scionce. Johin Stuart Mill was an exception to tho Englishman's revoronco for s * land-grabe bor.” ila boldly advocated the proposition for tho Stato to givo the preunt land-monopolists o roagonable componsation for the land, and then £ rovell it to the nctunl cultivators, In ostimat- ing the price to bo paid therofor, ho struck out tho vnluo of the improvemonts put thoroon by iho tenents, and tho mtificial valuo attached to it by contiguity to citios, railroads, or manufactorics, and treated the land 'as in = stato of mature. DBut Mill fs doad and voicelees, and thero is no man to take uphis uttorauces aud shapo them into » national po- litieal ]znllcy. QGladstone and Bright, and all the Liboral lentors, shrink thorofrom ; and the ave orago Briton DOES NOT EVEN READ what Mill proposed, or talk about it to his near- o8t noighbor. ~ And this country of land-monopo- Iy, claga-leglelation,and epecial privilogenis called Dy its inhabitenta o frog country,—*the freest and bust governed on the faco of tho enrth.” Dor- finpa, whora ignornuca is bliss, it wero folly Lo be wiso, But, tow man who has lived in a really frao country, tho Briton's boast is caleulated to provoko his contempt, and, ot the samao timo, touch his compassion. J N LlTERATURE.‘_ The English Constitution. THE ENGLISU CONSTITUTION, By Warrzn BAaz~ noT, A New sud Rovised Ldition,” Boston: Little, Hrown & Co. ‘Whatever opinfons Americans may form in ro- gard to tho prinosplos snd the teachinga of this book, it is & work from which overy man who votes, and eopocially every citizen who makes any protonsion to Intolligonco and sngacity, can dorive most vsluable suggestions in rogard to conatitutional law, and most fwmportant loguons in statesmanship. Strange {hat a work from 8o able & writor on the English Constitution should not defino it, oxcopt 0o ho shows its principlos and Its workings, throughout his ontive book., Un- liko tho American, tho English Constitution is not written, but it consists of {ho usages and laws that havo grown up through sll the history of tho British Empire. Whenever Parlinment pasaes any gonera! law, a3 the Reform bills of 1832 and 1867, tho English Conatitution is changod to correspond to the principles of thosa laws. Honco it is pluin that it can be altered much moro rapidly to corrospond to tho opinfons of tho people at any par- tieular period {han the American, which requires tho submission of the proposod smondment to all the States, and its adoption by at lonst throe-fourths of thom. Ii is jdain that, in tho rapid changes ofton incident to tho best forme of government, somotimes the ono and somotimes tho othor would have the advautage. The author seems to bo thoroughly acquainted with both tho good and bad qualitios of the Ln- glish and American forms of governmont. Illo compures thom almost constantly with onch other. Tako thoe following specimens from pages 76 and 95 ‘Wo have made, or ratlior stumbled on, Constitu- tion which—thotig full of overy species'of incidontal defect, (hough of the worst workmianalisp, in ull oute of-theaway matters, of any Coustitution {it tho world— et hias, two copital morits: it contains a simple, ofll~ clent part, which on occasion, and whon wanted, cun work more aiinply, and cusily, and boltor, then any in- Alrumont of government (it s yet Leen tried (in £his hio rofors o tho case with which {he Miniutry can bo changed}; end it contalus, Mkowlse, bistorical, complex, augiat, and theatrical parts, which it o fu- lerited from a loug past; which take tho multitudo ; which guido by an inseusiblo butan omnipotent in- fluonca the associations of itu aubjects Its cseenco fs stroug with the strength of modern uhnplicity § it ex- terior is august Witk the Gothto grandour of ' a more fmposing age. Or our Coustitution Mr. Bugohat aaye: ‘Tlio Amorican Government calls iteolf a govern- mont of the supreme people 3 but, 0t a qulck crisi tho time when o soverelgn power fa most needed— you canot find tho supreine people, ¥ou have got s Uongress elacled for one fixed period, golng out, por- Lapa, by fized fnatallmouts, which cannot Lo accolerat~ ed or rotarded ; yon have u Presldent chosen forn fixod period, und immovable during thet perfod @ all tho arrangementa ave for stated tinics, ‘Ihicra {s no eluatic oloment ; overylhing i xigld, specified, dated, Como what oy, you can quicken nothing sud rotard nothiug. You linve beupokon your governmont in ad~ vinee ; and, whothier it sullo you or not, whother it works wall or workn ill, whethir it 18 whnt you waut or not, by Iaw you must Leep it Coming from an English writer, {his unfavor- ablo contrast was L0 b oxpocted; but it would not be difticult for an Amoricnn statesman to soizo upon tho oxcollences of our American Governmont, and the acknowledged dofouts of the Bnglivh, to make a comparison equally dam- aging to the English Constitution, In fact, it may bo contonded that the rigidity which tho nuthor condemus—and af times, it 18 admittod, its workiugs ara bad—is_ono 'of tho vory hos features of the Amorican Coustitution, It glves tho poaplo time to think; it prevents hasty end inconsiderate chango ; and, on tho whole, it pro- motes the stabllity sud goneral welfare of tho mation, In evory cnso, ox- cept the majority In ‘the Senate, our rulers know that thoy must go beforo the pooplo every tiro or four years, when, as & mlo, wrong-doing is uro to mcet itn reward, Our {nwt history has oflon contlrmed thin; and tho hioves and salary-grabbors will fiud thomuolves no exception {0 tho gonoral rule, As faut au tha pooplo ean got at Lthom, thoy will havo leave to stay at home, Tho tendenoy of the English Government ta univorsal sufffago Iy soverely haudled by the atilior. Tlo dock not boliovo that s man who, firo\\'ln;x up In ignovanca nud vico, gota a scanty viug by constant toil, or, what 1 often truo, by downright wiluiny, is 'fit to oxerclio 'tho oloctivo francliso. The law of 1807, by which tho franchiso s given 1o thoso who have a ten-pound incowne, ho bo- liovos to bo dungorous to tho welfure of the Em- pira, o tho Peors und priviloged classon ho re- gavds it =8 portentons of & coming storm, and Gounsols thom to yiold gracofully, If noed bo, somo of tholr (mo-bonarod social, and evon po: Titical, rights vather than to risk ovorything in & contost with tho pooplo, 1fo ays s If tho Joure of Peors ever goes, it will go in o storm, and that storm will not leave sll oles as it is, Tt ‘will uot destroy tho ouse of Yecrs aud loavo tho ricl oung Poers, with thulr wealth and their titles, to sit 1 the Louso of Commons, 34 probably will sweep nll titlos bofaro it,—at Joast ull legal titles,~and, somehow or othier 1t weld break up tho curlous, drtom by which the ex@Pea of great familica all go to tho eldest son, % The systom 18 a very artificial one; yon can make & firio argument for it, hut you cannot’ meko s loud ar~ umont,—uu argunient which would reach and ruls i‘hn multitudoe, “The thing looks like iujustice, and, in o time of popular passion, ft would not stand, 02 gourso not, and the yoouar It tulls tho Lot { tor for England, Its vast woalth in fow hands on tho ono nide, and its torrible pauperism sud orimo on the .other, cannot dwoll’ togotler 'in poaco muoh longor, Whother poacofully, b{ tho oxtonslon of the muffrnge, or whether it is quonchied in n soa of blood, tho law of primo- gonituro must go out, ]\nmhnuuo bofora tho closo of tho presout contury. As to tho Houso of Peors, it i evon now moroly n gl(llorhlg rolis of tho past. Ttonlly it has no_ohioiont powor, for both it and the Urown itsolf have beon forced to icld tho most radical roforma at tha domand of tha peoplo, An to wniversal suffrago, swhatover English= mon and othors may do or think of ita valio or of its dangoer to tho Stnto, in this country it is a fact with which our'statesmen and philanthro- Rla!n must deal, No palriot is bound to stultify fnolf -by claiming thnt, in ol casos, 1t hay suown itgolf bottor than o moro rostricted bal- ot, Twoeod and his infamons Ring in Now York, and tho carpot-bnggors of tho South, have foun tho suffrage the bost possible menus to earry out thoir stupondous villainics, That it may be 80 uvod should make’ every thoughttul patriot most earnost to apply tho anly cortein romady for much wrongs. ‘'ho ballot oannot bo ro- strictod, and at bost such rostriolion would bo n mensura of doubtful sxpedioncy ; but to eduento and moralizge tho lower strata at the Bouth, whito and_black, and to do the samo thing in Now York and all our large oltics, is our only eafogunrd against tho dangers and tho lnwlossnoss of an ignorant and a viclous abblo, Whon oxcited by Inet snd pussion, no despotism on oarth .is o romorseless and do- structive, But that mornlizing must bo dono, not by law, but by tho efiiciont nuss of those moral aud religious efforts that have, thus far at lonst, presorved our American inatitutions from dostruction by the gangrono of vice, It alono onn savo us from tho fato predioted by Lord Macaulay, In.a lottor to Honry 8, Iian- dall, in 1857, ho sald 1 I nover utterod & word nor wrote & line indlcating an aopinfon that the suprome suthority in the Stata ought to bo intrusted to the majority of citizons, told by tho hoad. 1 hava long boou convinced that juatitu- na purely Domocralls must, soonor or ler, do- atroy- liborfy or clvilization, or both, - Your 'Con- stituton fs" all-sall and no anchor. _Eithor somio r ot Nopoloon will acizo tho roins of government ‘With & sirong Lind, or your Republio will o ns foarful- lr plundered and Inid wasto by barbariaus in the twon- toth contury ss tho Romnn Empiro was in the fifll, ‘ith this differonco : that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged tho Roman Empire camo from without, and thut your Huns and Vaudala will have been ongondered within your own country by your own lustitutions, ‘When ho wroto this terrible prodiction, tho great English atatesman did not tako into ac- count an fully as ho ought to have dono the clo- vating influence of our schoola and' churchos, and tho controliug powor of the freo press of Amorics, Wero tho majority of our peoplo atoopod in ignorsuce and vice, it is ndmitted that nothing wonld save us from anaychy and pillago but the strong arm of somo Omaar or No- poleon. Whatover be the dangers of thofroo fran- chiuo, England is destined to bo on s par with us, Ern\mhly oforo the contury closes. It noeds ut a singlo Reform bill, ma\(infi‘na Enm an ad- ‘vanco 08 that of 1867 made on tho bill of 1832, to onfranchise—criminals, insane, aud imbecilos oxceptod—ovory man in’ Englnnd, It bocomes Euglioh statcsmon, thereforo, to use the ssmo moans to oducato and clevate: thoir massos s are employed in rogard to thoss of America, Christian patriots everywhere will not rogrot it. Mr, Dnsolmt rofors’ to tho impoaclunent of President Johneon to illustrato tho ovil offects of alooting our Prosidont, and with him having our Cabinet fixed for a certain poriod. Ho says this {rial went o8 far n8 possiblo within tho lwwv ; and ho fraukly adwits that ** Amorics is the ‘most law-loving of countries. The Logislaturo was 80 afraid of the Presidont's logal power that it unfairly accusod him of acting beyond the law. And tho biame thus cast on the American Consti~ tution s so much praiso to be givon to tho Amori- can political character. Few nations, porhaps scarcoly any nation, could have borue such s trial 80 casily aud 80 porfectly.” But, whilo Mr. Bagohot sees cloarly and de- seribos Xgrnphiu\“y what he considors the dofocts of the Amorican Coustitution, ha oriticisas, also, with unflinohing soverity, thoso of the Euglish Govornment. Who would bave expeclod such truthful and yet such scathing Ianguago as this in rogerd to “the monarchy from an Inglish Triter: . An hereditory King 1s but an ordinary person upon anaveiegeat beals o {4 nearly sure to ba budly cducated for buelness; ho vory little Hlely to Lave o (site for - businass; ho fa wolfclted from youth by cvery tomptation to pleas. ure ; bio probably passed the wholo of his youth in the wicious situation of helr-spparont, who caa do nothing, becauso he hea no sppofnted work, and who will bo considered simost 10 outstep his futiction If b undor- {ake optional work, For themost part,n Conalilii- tional King 1s & damaged common'man ; not forcod to Dusiness by necossity, aa s deapot often is; but yob spolled for busines by most of the tempiations which spoll 3 denpot, History, too, ssoms lo sbow thut orcd- itary Royal fainilies gather from tho repeated iufluence of their corrupling situation, somo dark taint in_{ho blood, some trausmitted and growing polson, which Liurts thelr Judgnenty, darkons ll their sorraw, sud I8 s cloud on half thelr ploasure, ‘Thon, an American would say, Why have any horeditary monareh at aliz \hy support i, idlaness a (with the singla cxantion of Queon YViotoria) debauched Royal family, whose vicos Biave over beeu s burning disgrace Lo our com- mon humenity? Why tax the poor, toiling mill- foun of Groal Britain down to the Yory vorgo of stervation to support o mers baublo of Royalty? Aftor the death of Queon Victoria, that ™ dark tnind in tho blood” of the Royal family will he almost sura to reappear, with the mout tarrible consequences. Blilliona upon millious, ground from the consuming toil of loyal Englishmen, aroaquandered upon the wortliloss sprigs of tho Houso of Hauovor. It is time that abomination of pant agos paseed away forevor. Koflooting on Lho defccts both of the English and tho Amorican Constitutions, and_cspocially when one knows how their bLest provisions muy Do pervortod by dishionost statosmon ordopravad charlataus, ono is tompiod to adopt tho sonti- mont For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'or fa best administerd i best, But, with an abiding faith in the powor of onr Oliristian civilization, and that a poople educatod and instructed in: tho principles of law and Justico, can and will govern thomaclves in e~ cordance with those principles, tho Amorican Republic can well afford tolot Monarohy abide its timo, whilo froemen dovote themaolves to the elovation and tho progress of the race. The Irish Hace. TIIEIRISHRACE : IN Tin PAeT AND PREAENT, By the Hev, AT, J, TnepavD, 8, J. New York: D, Ap pleton & Oo,” Chicago: 'W. B, Tecn, Cooke & Uo, This worl i8 writton by a thorough Cathélio, and in tho intorosts of that Church. Once hay- ing nccoptod the Roman Catholic religion, tho outlior ghows with how much devotion, through povorty glish ~ Governmont, the Irish raco have consciontiously adhored to their auclont faith, Cromwell nomly crushed it oub; but he did much towards the crushing out of the race as woll, and tho historiau declares that to bo the only moans by which tho great Champion of Puritanism could live offected his purpose. Whatovor ono's roligious convictions may Lo, tho stubborn adheronco of tho Irish raco to the dactrinos of tlioir Olurel, and tho sacrifices they havo always been ready to mako to maintuin it, ‘must commend our admiration and respact, The writor denouncos tho whole course of tho Englich towards Iroland with unmoasured sovorlty. Tho tyranuy, the systematic cruolty, tho unmitigated oppression, which England has inflictod upon Ireland, aro told with & specifla dotail which can scarcely fall to mako tho read- or's blood run cold. It muat tend to keep up the most bitter hatrod of all Irishmen to everylhing Inghieh, In so faran it doos that, ita intluonce fa to bo condemned, for it con dono good, and, ng illustrated in Fonian movements, it furnishes tho monus to knaves and charlatans to live and fation upon tho hard earningy of their mora ig- norant countrymon. Tho great ** exodus" of the Irish race, and its offccts, furnlnl the thomo for ono of {ho most intorasting chaptors of the book. To tho travels or through Iroland those effocts forco thomsolven upon tho aitention everywhers, You wiil 800 an fmposing monelon every fow miloy, sur- voundod by all the olegance and beauty ' that wonlth can command, “Tho persons tlm! como trom it, in thelr splendid establishments, to tha depot, you will at onca racognizo na smong tho ot Intolligont and oultivated peoplo you' over enw. ‘L'hoy ronlize all you bavo hoard, that on Irish lady aud fuullnmnn havo no suporiors in culturo and roilnemont anywhere on the faco of tho earth, Batwoen theso ologant country-yoats you will goe stone or mud hovels, and abont thom 21,0 palpablo ovidonoa of the most stolid igno- ranco and object poverly. Tho peopla nro, in fact and mppearsnco, the rosidunum of tho Irish * race. o must bo steeled againat the woos of humonity whose hoark doos not bow down in sorrow over tho hmrrowing upoctacle, But the quostion comes, Whore are tho middle-classes, —1Iu ovory country the bone aud tho slnow,—the lifo und tho hopo of evory nation ? Opprosslon has drlven thom brosleant over the faco of tho carth, They are not at home, They are in England, lu Australls, In Anerics,—evorywhora, Hero, in our awn land, they il our Presldential ohirg, and are found wiolding the spado and uuudfiug tho whiok-barsow sloug our railwsys, and the porsccution of tho En- and in all statfons botweon theso oxtremon, In tho Sonato, in bnnku, at the Bar, in nowspapors, —aovorywhera in life's uur{lng battle you lkus the witty, aprightly, frreprossiblo, onorgotioIrishman No thanks to Iingland's glmllng polloy that hing drivon them from Uroen Erin, confessodly ono,of tho most beantiful ppots on enrth ; but is it nos, 28 & wholo, vastly battor for the groat majority that Irishmon Liave been seattored nbrond mpong the nations, and cortainly for the natlons whose oitizenn thoy have become? Ircland will bo agaln tho homo of & noble and ponuluun paoplo, Can tho arislocracy be tho progonitors of thom ? ‘No. Can tho rosidunn ot Iveland restore lier glory? Somo may rigo; but tho gront mass, novor, Without treuching on ground too do- batable, would it not Im bottor for thoe millions of tho Irlsl raco—the vory beat portion of it— now _ecattored abrond “among the nations, to dovote thomeolves to tho ponco- ful dovelopmont of tho _countries whoro they dwoll, and losve Ircland to sbaro Provi- doutial movementa whick, in tho ond, aro sure to work out the highost wolfaro of mankind, whorever thoir lot mny be cast, Adolphe Monods THE PARTING \YORDS OF ADOLIITIZ MONOD TO S VUILNDS AND THE OIUNOIF, Oclobor, 1836, {0 March, 1850, New York: D, Apploton & ©Co, ' Ohicago: ' W, B, Koen, Gooks & Go, This is a colloction of the parling words of -onb of tho ablest divinoa lu our sgo to the ll. Uliuegu 108 glayen hundrod years, congoralug | with tho eyauls Church of which howas ono of tho brightont ornaments, nnllfilana peoplo everywhere will give this Jittlo book a moat cordial wolcomo, One oan gearcoly fuil to bo mado botter by reading it. Mecart of Midlothinn, HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN, By 8ir WALTER ScOTT. Pocket Ldition, Now York: Beribmor, Welford & Armstroug, - Chicaga : Hadley Bros. § Asmight be expected, the print of thia edition of ono of the groat Bcotchman'a most popular works is fino, butitis distinct snd good. Wo nood not commend it, for it will bo read with tho greatost avidity and admiration so long as tho English langusgo is spokon among men, Anccdotess ANEODOTES OF PUBLIO MEN, By Jouxn W, Fon- Nex, Now York: tarper Bros. A most ‘readable and intoresting book. No man in the nation could have beou bottor fittod to writo such n book ably nnd well than Col. Fornoy. 1Ilis long and intimate acquaintance with our public men, his gonial naturo and social babits, havo mado him familiar with tho best things tioy havo said and done, It will furnish politiciany with an inoxhaustible supply of shatp sayings and Xm;y auecdotes, nm}, of course, will hiave o wido sale. - Noew England. NEW ENGLAND: A HAXD-BOOX FOR TRAVELENA, Doaton ; Jamoa R, Osgood & Co, Chicago: W, I, Keon, Covke & Cou v To s man who wante *to do" Now England, this book is iuvaluable, Itia preparod after tho Dbest padtorn of Eurapean guide-books, sud is full of facts,—topographical, historical, and geograpbical,—of the groatest intorest o tho travoler. Arthur IZonnicastle. Tho appoarance among the Autumn-books of Dr. Hollaud's novel in book-form is, .to the ronders of Seribner's Monthly, ono of the pleas- ant fruitions of the sozson, To people who Live not yot bocome familinr with its pages, or watched tholr riponing through tho procoss of o werial, it is an autumual rovolation, 3 This opportuueness is notso much tomporal 84 cagontinl: The entiro concoption of the story placen it in that sonson which, both of Natare. and of Life, holds in consuinmation the dovelop~ mont of tho year, It is an autumn-story; o rotrogpectivo history of a life. Wo aro not sur~ prised that Acthur, tho sunny-haired and bright-: cyed hero of the romance, is made to oxclaim, in Lifs childhood's admiration of tho rich and dreamy Now England autumn, “1 was wondering if tho world wero not tado in tho fall” And tho opening sentonco of tho volmno broathoes the aurcoled atmosplicra of October, * Lifo Jooks beautiful from both oxtromitles} Pros- pect and retrospect shine allke in u light o divino s to suggeat that tho Gt calches soma radlanco from tbo gutew, not yot closed, Ly which tho soul Las enter- eds and that tho lnst I llumninated frous tha opening reaim fnto which it s 800w to pasd, Tho sceno of tho story is in Now_ Ingland, with one_episodo in tho City of How York; and tho characlers aro drawn with such warkod indi~ viduality that thoy scem to have boon taken from 4itho life.” This is 6aid actually to have been tho easo with the charactor of Dr. Bird, the bo- loved master of “‘Tho Bird's Noat,"—sn boy's school ordered upon au oppovite principlo “to “Dothoboys’ Hall, ‘'ho stylo i vigorous and explicit, aud although tho relation is in tho most natura mooner imaginable, thero is suflicient okill sliown in the balancing of characters, and in tho ““londing of light" upon passages that mark tho eventful phasos of caraor, to batray tho artist, ‘When a writer oxpresyca himsoll as boldly and decisively as Dr. Hollaud does, upon vital sub- jocts of tho day, the work is sire to givo xiso to discusuions 3 and, in the lifo of Arthur Bonni~ castlo, there is no shrinking from the arona. Tho evonts of his lifo are so ordered us to test {ruo manliness, Pride of wealth and of birth. tho spirit of luxurious worldlincss meot in stern opnosition Lo the actual duty of the man: tho story is admirably fitted to give iucidentul offact to those spirituul contests ; and tho portrayal of circumstanco and cheracter in the momonts of suprome trial creates the thrilling chaptors of the book. = Throughout, the doscriptionn of Naturo aro vivid ng those in “DBitterswoet;" and thoro is tho samo tendernoss of dovation to tho ideal of Woman {hat makes “Katrina" precioun, Tho following-oxtracts are choson from tho many pasuogos that sorve to exalt the influenco of Home, to dignify Work, and oncourago Hopo- fulnoss: . ‘fhank God for HMome and Woman! Thank God o thonpand times for that woman who makes Lomo her throns! When Iromember how bright and strong a naturo my young wifo poesesscd, Low kor gifts and acquirements, aud her whole personality iited Ler (o Shio. 0. Roclety aan contzo And o suth o (4R ror - call Lior effarta 10_serve, aud #olaco me, and trafn m children Intoa Christiah imankood and womanbood, until my bouso wau a Licaven, and Its presiding genius was regarded with o lovo int roso to tender adara- tion, Iturn with pity, not umminglod with disgust, from {hoso I £co uround mo now, Who chespen wmar= Tinge, {he motherly office, and home, and chonse aud sivacate’ courses Ani earoers of 1ifd indopendent of them ull, Why were you forover on {be watch {hat no fresk of untoward foriuna should estch you' unnwares? Why did you treal the Providence you' dovotodly tried to trust a3 #f you suppotcd He miznt to tviek you it Ho fouud youamoment off your muard? OBl tho twin charnin of hopofulncss ond {ruthfaluces ! What powar o they to strengthon weney_feat, ta aweoten slccp, to runke the carth grecn and tha heavena blue, eat misfortuuo of ila bitterucss, snd to quench even tha poison of death ituolf, Thod nevor befors felt a0 Ippy, aud Tlearned then, what tho world f slow to learn, (hnt thero can be ng truo Linppinesn that {8 not (16 veault of tha action of Larmonious powors ateadily bent upon pursufts that scok o warthy end. Comfort of a certaln sort thers Tuay be, pleanuro of a cortain quality thero may be, in eany, and in tha gratincation of that which i sersubus and sensual fn hingan naturo; but happineos 19 novor lazy man's dower, not a eountnlint'a privitege, That fa regerved for tl'worker, uni can_noves Ue grasped and hold wavo by triro manhood aud womanhood, (Beribnor, Armatrong & Co., Now York.) Modern Magic, The aim of tbis fact-collecting volume, by Prof. Beholo do Veto, is to clagsify gonerully, snd to subarrango for speoinl consideration, thoso powers of the mind that havo loast rolation to timo, matter, and spaco. Tho nuthor e choson to designato ocoult mentel attributes under tho gonersl term of Mogio Powers; and ho Las studied roliable au- thoritios from antiquity to tho present day, to dorivo an assomblage of oxporionces suggesting tho oxistenco of such powers, or affording to their peoulinr manifestntions & rensonablo proof, The work is a woll-mrranged presoutation of intercsting wources of inquiry, rathor than a philosophion! or theorohical eincidation of thosa gourcon, 'The suthor spready ths subjoct boforo us as o domain whero investiation is invited, not puraued, Heo' haa cleared the paths of {ho Tabysinth of Maglos but he leaves Lo the ronder tho task of furnishing hiwsel? with tho silkon clow, The order of subdivision s founded upon a prinviple of mornl progress; it commonoos with };fluflm;a{xfi. n:ll“lln‘:x\ i with Miraculous Curos and atielam, “Uudor tho titlo ot Dlack and Whito Maglo, thoro is a roviow of modern Bpiritualism; snd uumberloss examplos aro respeotively brought to {llustrate the nature and scopo of Dreawms, Visions, Qhosts, Divination, and Possession, Tu comiootion with Magnotisiu, a doscription is givon of tho varlous modes of inducing magnetlo sloop, usad by eminent physiclans and magnot~ izora; and of thoories based upon maguotic phonomena.—from that ontortained bv the e e e e e e ety tho Yu-Yang, or univerasl vital power, to thnt whioh, supported by many ourious mnrvols, has ocensloned fho recognition -of . the Bidorian or Astral -forco, Montion i mado of a singular symptom accompnnying mnglo pho- nomons of this clnes, obsorved by Dr. Hollor, In exmnining tho blood-corpusoules of a porson in magnotic nluaF Iio found that thoir shape waa ensoutlnlly moditfod; “thoy. wore raised and Bulutud 60 na to bear some resomblanco to mul- orrios § at tho eamo tlmo, they exhibiled o vibrotory motion." . Ilinstrations of tho varlons phonomena at- tributablo to thoe Magic Powers ara givou in ench chaptor ng noarly 88 possiblo..in chronological ordor, Amovg. tho oxamples of modorn mugiclons, thero in a bloxm}yhlenl skolch of «Homo, omplanalzlnfi his rocoption st the Qourt of Napoleon, and tho improgsion made upon tho Tmpresa Eugeulo by his proguostioations of 61, Emporour do 'avenir.” o followin, B graph supploments the story of 1lomo Wqfill exposition of pi;]chlq forco, a8 deducod from ox- poriments of Faraday snd’ Dabiuot, and appro- ondod by Baron Reichonbach : "Tho 04 ia, a8 far a3 wo kno magnotio forca ; for, angoon as cortaln pertony aro maguotizad, thoy bor como conecloun of peouliar sonsations,—heat or eld, headnclio o othor pains,—and, i¢ prodisposed, of & startling {norcaso of power fn'all tholr conses,* Thoy s00 lights of evory kind, can distinquish ovon minuty objosts inn dark room, snd behold beautiful white flumed . upon tho poles of magnels, Reichoubach obe taiued, s he Loleved, two remarkallo results from thedo firat phonomena; Ho concludod that polar lighte, aurora boroatle, ata,, wars {deatieal with tho maguotio ght of tho carth; and ho discaverod that sausitive, ulckly paruoun, who were pooullarly auscop- vl Lo magueile lnfiucrices, ought Lo o wilh the hoa to the north and tho feot to the south, in ordor fo ob- taln refroshilog sloep. ‘The next lluxllwwfl to idontify the Od with animal magnetism, ichenbach found tho cataloptia tionts, who percolved the- presouce of magneta with exquisite sccuracy, and followed tham Jike mesmer- 1zed poraons, wore affected alike by his own hands or those of otlioe sound but strongly-magnotis men, Ho couid attract such unfortunsio porsons by his out~ strotchod fingors, and force thom to follow him, in a stato of uncousciousncss, whorover ho lod them, Ace cording to hin theory, the two wides of man sre of op- posita eleotrio nature, and a magnetio current passes coutinually from ous side to the other; sonaitive per- sons, though blindfolded, know perfoctly woll on which 8ldo they approach othors, Gradually Baron Roichonbach oxtended the rangs of fa oxporiments, employing for that purposs, boatdsa his own daughler, & 'Aies Nowolseay, s ead nufferor from cataloptic ntlacks, She waa able to distingulah, by the ssusations which wers excited in hor whoie sys tom, than 000 chomicals, and stranged thom, under his guidance, sccording to thelr chemical forco, Auotlier sick wousy, Blsa Alnisa, folt a cool wind whenevr cortaln subituices wore brought oat or oud, by thoso and_ sirilar offorts, in which tho Dazan waa' alded ‘by muony friends, bo ascertained tho fact thot {hore 43 In Nature o force which pervades #ll gubstaucee, tho human body included, and i inboreut in tho wholo material world, This forco Do calls tho Od, Like Electriclly and Magnotism, this 0d 1s o polar forca; and horo, -alao, opposito poica attract, 1iko poles ropel, ench otliéf, The wholo sub- Ject, although as yot culy in its infanoy, is woll do- morviug of careful ‘study and thorough investigation. (G. P. Putnsm's Sons, Now York). The FPresent World—Sicetchoes from Na- turc and Art. A proface upon Sclenco and Religion, consid- erod as rociprocal supports, introduces two soo- tlons of study pursued by Willism Arnat, of Edinburgh, in the vacations of a professional: lifo: First, tho world croatd, fashioned, and furnishod by God; second, the world as it hns beon ccoupied, cultivated, and improved by tho induatry of man, « Tho first section embraces: From Chaos to Cosmos ; An Equilibrium Maintained by tho Action of Opposito Forcos; ‘Tho Earth, the Ocern, and tha Atmosphore; Tand and Water; Water in tho Mechanics of Croation ; A Wator- spout ; Wator in Rolation to Hoat; Rivors, and Springs. Tho socond soction includea disserta- tions upon Early Effort ; Discovery, Possossion, Boundaries ; Tho Electrio Telograph ; Railways; Canals; and the Drainage aud Water-Supply of Citios. Thoso chaptors, written in tho good cheer of vacation, are_doliberately planned * to supply o portion of light reading.” They avoid tho tochntenlities und Inborious contoxts of science, nud describo tho results of sciontific investiga- tion, and tho achicyomonts of modern mechan- ics, In o lively, fanciful, and froquontly, whoro human intercsts are touchod,—ns in the case of the drainago of_ citios,—in & vex{ im- pressivo stylo, Toflsctions of a religlous naturo sro intersporsed, and thoy partake of tho cheorful tomperament of tha book. o Tho moat oarnest passagos of doseription occur upon tha subject of Wator; and the keon appreciation of thia bleasing waa learned by tho author in a flve yours' residence upon tho bauks of tho Kolvin, where people who lived in clegant muupious and fared sumptuously ovory day lenrned tho-*'lethal consaquonces” of impor- fact drainagzo and empty wator-coursos. Obser- vations celected from dlfforont parta of the book, u;nu this ‘tople, will eervo to show tho modo of refleclivo treaiment charactoristio of the nuthor: T caught Nature once in the act of cloud-making, Dotatned two days nt Bricg, in tho Vatloy of the Upper Rione, T hiad no'other employment than to climb the 1mountains on the ono sido, sud thence gazo upon tho mouutalus on tho othor, A hugo baain on the summit was full of fco and #nos, #ud the sun of Septemnber boamed down might- ily on tho sccumuluted mass, From tho heatod cal- dron & smiall column of puro whito nifst rose to a cou- slderublo Lielght, and thow apread out like a flowar on dtastalk, nuti & puer of wind camosnd carvied the bun- dlo of tlie manufactured arliclo away through tho at- mosphero {0 o large bank of eloud that was # lying to {a thio nolghborhiaod, ke w sbip on the sos. o pro- ccan was repeated at intervals of ton minutes: and, sa oach portfon of nowly-made cloud wos turned out’ of the factory, 1t was sont on the wings of the wind di- Tectly to the storo, Lok up fo theso clouds,—these great wator-carriors v for o world,—how ' jojouely and _fwuulily they careor along! Tho lugo mossea skip, aud i, “and “clissa eacholer ko lambe at pluy, uoither wearled 31’ the weight they bear, nor dizzy with tho loug look-down, Hero for once Is pore fect engincering applied to water-supply, No rotuine ing walla aro nooded, and no windings to maintain (no Tovel, Mow sottly thoy lo; how quickly tho mova; how gently they full whers thoy aro needed, and whea! You are owakened out of your firet =leep by n rabtling ot tho casement snd a rumbling in tho chimuoy, You riseand look out on tho moonlit sky: tho cauto of {ho nocturnal commotion is discovore atn glinco. An intorminable lina of laden clouds, ko o luggnge-rain, overy wagon Leaped far abovo ita brim, is spinning castward thirough tho sky, from tho Alluitlo o the dry table lands, on 1bo confiues of Europo and Asia, Those' thirsty regions L felegraphod fo tlelr correspondent u- tho ‘Western waters thut {he Casplun and Dead Beas wero in dunger of bocoting dry, Lo correapondont, over watchful, and baving wilhal o largo utock in’ hand newly dlstilled from tho Atantic, immodistely dis- patelied nu extraordinnry night-traf, with ordera to vun exprees ull the way, " for tho King’s Lualuces re. quireth hasto,” Thero it goea frightfully quick, and with sn influity of imposing sound, But you moy percolvo it Ia running on tho main line ; the nxletreca aro well-grensod and (o switches aro all right, You fumblo 1to bod ngatn, by way of ehunting yoursolf futo o siding, and blocp gdundly till morning, conti- dent. that o collision will take placo, In 1819, Capf, Heoresby, In command of “whnllug- ship, whilo making exporiments on-ho temperaturo of water at difterent depths in the Northorn Ocenn, die- covered thut the Inw according to which water contracts 08 it cools, goca as far o8 & temperaturo of 39 dege, secs,, and thon caisca ; thoncoforward it s roverscd, Dueyond thut point, water oxpands, and #£0 grows lghtoer as it grows colder, Lehold tho arrsugement 1nude in the original constitution of Natuve, though unot diecoversd by us tiilthe yesr 1818, by whicha principlo waa pernidited to play a8 fur as it was Lene- Helul to Jifo, nnd then turned upaido down 1n ordor to provent it from doeolating the earth, Tho value of water ag au agent in humay art les not ol d it capacity of golng fnto o warcow place witl its Lurden, but partly, and oven maihly, in the edroftness with which it coused out sgalu, leaving the burden be- Lind. Tha water that {3 enployed i1 any procesn fs uot needed pormanently fn tho product, Ita pres- euc, fidced, would bo s blomish, It fs ‘accordingly lsnilasod 4’ quiokly a posslblo, "Lhe dyers who dip thelr wob fn a tub of colored liquid ot the comuonce auent of tho process hung it fun Kiluto dry at the close, Whoy cull tho waler 1n o help with the oper- ut, as goon: oa (ho oporation 14 comploted, thoy «smies )8, Nor is it, when o dismissed, cast nway ns waste, Itisall quicklypuriled aud gofherod ngan, and made ready for another {ask, a3 tho helpmato of man,. Nor 18 6ho datnty ‘in ber (astes, tiita exeature of God, {hia sorvant of man, She will Operato {n elewn placon or in unclean with cqual willinguess, Liko holy sugels sent o hannts of sin, water will swoop down lo grasp any ¥Ind or degroo of impurity that defiles tho earth + and, whon her tauk {s dono, sho hakes Lerself, and aueunds to Ueavon agafn, 08 Dure 88 £he camo, (tiobort Cartor & Bro., Now York.) A Pair of Bluc Eyes. This i the secoud novel by T, Hardy that has appenred in the ¥ Lofsurc-Hour Borles;” and the [ freshy weldiug churm of * Under tho Greenwood- I'reo " reapposrs 1 tho lator work, as accom- suimont {o a gomiowhat highor rango of charac~ erization, “I'ho horoine, Elfyide, Is a character so truly, warnily, and exquisitely fomiuino, that to da soribo hor roquired & pocullar gift of rundering, —o #ort of ovanishing touch, 1f g0 Wo may expross it, . Bho Is & oronture that captivates and oludos; and the dovotion that sho inspires iy g lightly insubsiantial, snd ae pathot- ically imuorta), nw loruelf, Her story iu a wtory of threa loved; and, Bince tho gamo of chess [apposrs significantly more than once in tho plot, we may call the throo lovors the Pawn, tho Iuight, aud tho King, Tho endiug of the gamo is in harmony g Bracq 0f tho hiergine and, . tho reador nooda no hotter guido t flvat Introduotion to Lior pair gl‘bl‘l‘m‘t&‘y‘h;‘: Pty Ono ofnt in hir, howevor, you ald notico; thit wra or cyod, In them was scen A nullimation of all ll::‘; t was 10t necoerdry to Jook farther (h‘:}(:lll':" Thoto oyen wore Lluo; heavenly biie, At Jeast heavenly biue fn high yl’nrlmnllln. Dut, at #ho risk of lnpaing Into that unpleasnuit sin, ealiung in narrativo art, lot 1t bo enfd, 1 sly proey, tint her oyes were, more (ruly, bltta na ' autumii-distance,—biug o Uh bluo o awe 'bolween tha ratreating mowtding of hilla and woody slopen on a unuy Boplombor morning. Amiaty and shady biue, that ‘had no begluning said o pulace anu was ook o Eator o, 0 {wo, indeod, porhs) carthly blio ta 4 most baautirul, phectem it (Honry Holt & Co., Now Yorl A Periodicals Recetved.' Allantio Aonthly tor November (James B, Onfiaqut Co,, Boston). * Contonts s (‘Gunnar; » Norso Rouiauco,” V., bly Hjalmar Hjorth Boyoson; ‘! Tho Homo-Lifo of Bnimon Port- Innd Ohase,” by Domarost Llo{/:.l- “The Bong- B;mrrow." by Colia Thaxter 5 * Lithlo Fountain of Bakanoshits,” by B, H. Houno; * Tho God of Poarl,” by Ellen Jrancos Ton'{‘ Intoreating Toopfo Whom I Mot in London,* by Robert Dala Owen; "'Tho Raturnory’ by H. E. Warner; ¢ Ionest John Vane," V., by J. W. DoForast 3 #Tho Rallronds and tho Farme," by W. M. Qrosvenog; * Marjorio Daw,” by Hunico B, Comatock 3 * Mr, DoForost's kovolu," by Olare ouco Gordon ¢ “Tooont Litoraturo " ¢ Ark 3" ** Musie;" ¢ DPolitics,” Zopular Bcience Monfhly for Novombor (D. A‘!‘:‘Y)nwu & Co., Now York). Contonts: *Libe oral Rducation of the Ninoteonth Century,” by Prof. Willlsm P, Atkinsons “The Growth of Balmon," by O.E. Fryor: “Paychology of tho Boxos," by Herbert Sponoor; ~*Tho Ringed Planot,” from tho Cornhill azine ; * The Phenomona ot Horedity,” by Fernan Papil. Ion; “Tho Bhiovol-Nosed Blark ™ by Taly Yornoy; ' Hoanlth and Comfort in Housa-Build= ing," by Dr. John W, Hayward; * Hyphotinm in Animals,” by Prof, Josoph Ozormai; “Tha Burvival of Instincts,” by Eliss Lowia, Jr. “Tho Primary Concopts of Modorn Physical Holonco,” by J. B, Btallo; *Sketch of Mr. J. N. Lockyer, F. 8,;" “Xditor's Tablo;" ** Lite nml;y Noticos ;" * Misoellany.” farper’s Magazine for Novembor (Harpor Brothers, Now York)., Contont, * Tho Boorot of the Btrait," preparod from Dr, G. A, Maack’s unpublinlied' roport by Holon . Conant (with sixtoen illustrations); “Tho Mystery of the Jowely* by January Soarlo; Tho lh’i’ounlnnm (VIOL), by Porto Crayon (with twolve illustra« tions);' “Hauntod,” by Novo Torry; “A Few Fronch Colobrities,” by Junius Hourl Browna ‘with thirteen portraits) ; **Bonnet,” by Paul 11, nyne; * Kouth-Const Hauntorings in Tnglond Sauntor VIIL)," by 3, D. Conway (with thron illustrations) ; ~'** Transition:® A" 'ala of Two Oitizons,” by Ruth Dana; “A Lono Woman in Ircland,”" by Mrs. J. Lizzie Cloud with < eleven illuatrations); “The Tiving ink,"” by the author of the * Dodge Olub,” ete. with threo illustrations); “Tho Lust of tho ‘hroo,” by 8. B. Couant 6wm‘ two portraite) ; 4*Two Plenics,” by Anna Warnor; * Bonnet,” by Paul H. Hayno; **Northorn Californin, (‘ll.) Tho Saoramonto Valley,” by Clisrles Nordhoir; “8ong—Tho Queation,” by Alfred I. Louia: “Tho Republican Movement in Luropo™ (Elavs enth Tapor), by Emilio Castolar ; r'a Easy Chair ;* *Tiditor's Litorary Rocord i tor's Bcientifio Record ;" ““Iiditor's Ilistorical Record ;** ¢ Lditor’s Drawor.” Seribner’s Alonthly for November (Scribnor & Co., New York), Contonts; #Tho Grent South: 0ld and Now Louisiana " silluszrnud)} by Ed- ward King; “Novomber Morniug™ (poom), b Colia Thaxtor; *Tor Insthne," by Louiso Cliand« lor Moulton; ' Sounots,” by Richard Watson Gilder; “Tho mor{,o: aToloscopo " (llustrated), by Simon Nowcomb; “A Bpiritusl Bong," froiq tho Gorman of Novalis, by ~Goorga MacDouald ; “Edmund __ Olaronco Sted~ mon,” by A, R Macdouough ' (with s portrait); “Alpenglow” (poom), by Margarot J. Proston; * Kathorine Rarle,”— Obaptors I and IL (illustrated), by Adeline Trafton ; “ Duly™ (voum), by John A, Dorgan 3 ¢ Eorthen Pitchors,"—Claptors I. and IL, by Robocea Harding Davis; * An Arctic Quest™ (poom), by IL. H.; “Only Half a Woman” illus trated), by Bdwerd King; * Annulsof an Bnglish Abboy,” Part L. (illustrated), by James Anthor:f Troudo ; Elizaboth Barrett Browning, by Ed- mund Claronce Stodman ; Topics of tho Timo 3 ‘I'ho Old Cabinet, Homo and Socicty ; Cultura - and Progress ; Nutura. sud Scioucd; © Etehs ingui—A Forlorn Hopo" (illustrated), by Bam Lytinge, z ¥Ihosaalazy for Novombor (Sheldon & co“ Now York), Conlenta: *‘Linloy Rochford,” Obaptors L., IL, and IIL, by Justin McCarthyy ““Au 01d Biory, by J." W. “DeForest; **Tha Btago as It Was,” Part IL, by Honry W. Frosts ‘¢ My Lake,” by Holen Barion Boabwick; ‘Tha Wotherel Afair” Chaptors XLVI, XIJ 1T, XLVIIL, and XLIX., by J. W. DoForost; * 'The Butterfly and tho Flowor," from the Frerch of Viotor Hugo, by OlmsloPunr D, Cranchy “Pun. ighing o Lundit,” by Nichard Grant White; $Ono Weok an Editor,” by Rebecea Harding Davis; “Lovo and Donth," by Lillis Dovoreux Blake; * Women na Tacticians,” by Juliua Honrf Browna; “Miss Gurnoy,” by Thoodors Gilts # TFrom v Roman Noto-Book,” by Houry Jumes, Jr.; “Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Soward—Romarks on the Momorial Address of Clarles Franeis Adnms on the late William II. Soward "—Becond I’nswr, vy QGidoon Wolles; *‘Drift Wood,” b; Philip Quilibet ; *Beiontific Miscollanys” ©Cur. rent Literature;” * Nobulm,” by the Iditor. Lippincott’s Magazine for November. (J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphin), Contents: *The Now Hyperion,—From P'aris to Maily by Way of the Rhino” (illustrated), by Ldward Btrahan ; “ Autumn-Voices "' (poom), by Mary B, Dodgo; *Bkelchos of Knstern Travel— Batavia ¥ (illustrated), va) Fanuie R, Foudgo ] *¢ London Balls,” by W. D, I.; “*The Livelios, by Barah Winter Kellogg; A Strayed Siugor,” by Kato Hillard; * Harvest * (poew), by Emma Lazarug;_ *Oreo," from tho Fronch of Georgo Band; “In tho Islo of Wight," by 8.F. ITop~ king; ‘“‘Bolaca” Srmbm), by Jomes Maurica Thompson; * A Princoss of ‘Thulo,” by Willizm Black ; *Lnko-Shoro Relice,” by Constance Feni moro Woolson ; **Ouur Mouthly Gossip ; " * Lit= oraturo of tho Day. Our Young Folks tor Novomber (J. 1. Osgood & Co., Boston), Coutouts: “Doing His Jout * gllustrnod), y J. L. Trowbridgo; *Tim Mes ormid ” (poein), by Masian Douglns ; * Hannela Colby's Chance," Dy Elizaboth Stuart Pholps 3 4i'Phio Rat-Hunlt” (poom—illustrated), by J. T Trowbridga; © Walor on a Sproo, by Holen O. Wooks: * Catehing; Butfalo-Calven'” (illustrat- ad), by Oliver Howard; *Tho Sad Fato of *Yolly Cologno’™ (illuatrated), by Mrs. Abby Morton Diaz; **Two Boys’ Ascent of Vosuviua'* illustrated), by Arthur Pember; * A Protest™ poom), - by Idgar Faweett; “Tiow Mattia Provod’ It (illustrated), by Amelin Fraucos ; Our Youug Contributors:” “'The Evenings Lamp;" ¢ Our Lottor-Box." Eclectio Magazine for Novomber (E. R. Polton, New York). “Contents: Embollishmont—J. G. Whittier; ** Johann Fiiederich Schiller,” Black= 1wo0d's Magazing ; * Physicul Education,” Corne hill Magazine ; Finding tho - Way at B, by Richard A, Prootor, I. R, G. B., §t. Paul's} * Bxtraota from Victor Hugo's ‘L'Annce Tere riblo, " trauslated by Marwood Tucker, Londo Saciety ; * 8pring Floods,” from tho Rusgian of Ivan urgonioft, Part IL, translated for the Lo« lectio ; ** Milton,” by Poter Bayno, Contemporary 2 10lo ‘Ringod Plauct,” Cornhill Alagas ne; ' Parallel Storios,” Chambers' Journal 5 Madamo do Maintouon, and the ILast Yoars of. Louls XIV.,” Zemple Bar; *Promicrea Amours,” Dby Austin Dobson, Sl Paulss “@rook' Bownty nud Modern Att,” Forinfghtly Revicw ; * How tho ‘Stabat Mater’ Was Writ.. ton,” Maomillan'’s Afagazine ; * Charms,” Cham.. bers' Journal; *In tho Bunshino,” London So-. ciety ; ** Whiltlor," by the Editor iternry, Notices ;" * Forolgm ~ Literary Notes;" *‘Sclw ougo and Art ;" ¢ Varicties,” Zillell's Living Age for Oct. 18 (Littoll & Gay;, Bouton)‘ conteutu: “The Btate of uglish Pootry,” Quarterly Revicw; *Willows;” A Blateh," Conclunion, Corniilt Magazine; '*The Lifo and Tenchings of Mohnmmed," I[irasers Magazine; ** A 1 imn!nflun Cnurtshl}e," Conolu- slon, Saint Panl's ; *"'ho Fourrloro,” by the [ thor of * Flomish Interiors,” Fraser's Magar' 2ing; “Tho Birds of Now Zoaland," Spectalgy . ; “Progross of lnd," Saturday Review; “u x Pieco of Spongo,” Once_ a Weck; “This poe }xguw'una Ago™ (poem); “Hymn;" 7,yiq0n1, any," Ilvery Saturday for Oct, 25 (Tames *fy, Y Contonta * B o Ogcod Book IiL, Ohaptors X.-XIL, AdV/auces Bhoots “Youvg ‘Brown," Book 1IT, Olyptern IIToV. Advanco Blioots'; "Imufilundvo adioino, A the Year Round; “‘Juck aud tho Boan-Stalk," Cornhill Magazine; * Coufo'doratod ITomes,” Saturday Ieview ; ** Robert Houthay,” Carnhill Aagazine; " Pondurang HAri, Dinies ; ¢ ore oigi Notes,” Qur Exchanges, Applelon's Journal tnrfimb. 18 (D, Apploton & Qo., Now York). Contonts.: ¢ Yastorn Long Taland * (with illustrations) ; % The Last Prince of Conde r’ ** Boutimont 82 Bon,” by Albort Wob- ster,Jr.; ' About Our L'rim to Colorado " (I.), by 0.1, Bunco; “Tho Corumto Atk, (L~ Lithun oled l’u“urp " (with _lll\lnh'mlolm? 4 * Inoidenty of Mining ¥ (L, by Dolvor ; With & Fan," hy Iarton Groy ; *¢ hscnlhm\':“ Y Rditor's Table;" “ Arl, Notos i" ** Muslo and the Drama ;* © Lit- erary Notos ;" #Soiontiflo Notos ;" * Bayiuga and Doings at Home and_ Abrond i ' The Reoord." Demorest's Ilustrated Monthly for Novembor . Jonnlnpu Domorost, New York). Demorest's Young America for Neyembor (We Jeuninga Demoroat, Now York) SR