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S . lmportant work. 76 Monroe-s._ The fraternity cordially ited. C. 1L CRANE, Secretars. CHICAGO LODGE, NO. . 0. meeting Monday evening. Sth inst., at the una 81 West Madison st. initiavons under new di tion. Visiting trethren welcome. OCCIDENTAL CCMMANDERY, NO. 1. ORDER OF THE RED CROSS—Aeets at 138 Clark-st, Tuesday eveniog, Feb.8 a1 § o'ciock. Kvery member expect- Tobe present. . ©AtoDEPICSERL o\ STEWART BEATTIE, Scrlbe. 5. L 0. 0. F.~Rerular elr Hall, 2 EREEDOM LODGE, NO. 14, LOTALOR. STITCTIQN~Tolds a rexular seasion 3 10¢ 8t 15 Clark-st. W. H. STAFFORD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1S5 Tae Irish Land League is nothing more than astrike—a sort of tenants’ union—to protect its members against destruction, and for their own personal existence. One-lalf the operatives of England and Scotland are banded in trsdes-unions for like pro- tection and for like existence. An attempt to suppress the Land Union or.League in Ire- land will appeal to every Englishmanas a blow aimed at himself and his trade, and he will resent it accordingly. Unless Mr. Glad- stone and John Bright prove false to all their professions, this agitation will not end until the landlords ot Ireland are stripped of their feudal powers, and the pecple of that afllicted country are given a peace and security such as they have not experienced for many cen- tugtes. JepoE TOURGEE, the author of the “Fool's Errand,” made one good point that has been generally overlooked in his answer to Mr. Royall. He gave the South a number of hard Xaps, but 2lso credited it with self-respect for its own traditins and institutions. * In this,” he says, *“the South is in strong and Tappy contrast with the North ™z Nothing can be more disgusting than the slav- imitntion of eversthing that §5 thought to be English in form or churacter in'the Eastern por- tion of Northern States at this time. Clothes, .Ornaments, horses, WEEONs. houees, paintings, 2nd even the miserable drawl of the cockney, his mutton-chop whiskers, his outrageously bad manners, and insuderable’ arrogance, are studi~ ously cultivated Dy the greater part of tho ‘outh of that portion of the country which most asts of its intcllizence. 1 this Anglican aplshness continucs murh longer we shall be iudedted to this vers spirlt of the South for pre- serving the Amerieds type from extinction. There is, indeed, something huiliating to Americans in the eacerness of youthful snobs to imitate even the faults and follies of the more frivolous clussesof English society. . —— THE debate on the Apportionment bill in the House vesterday served to show that the uthern sectionalism has not yet died out, and that the feeling against Northern men and against according the negroes the right to exercise the franchise is as strong s 1t was ten years ago. Aiken, a South Carofina Bourbon, referred to men born in the North who held politieal office in his State as * le- #galized robbers,” and Hooker referred to the Northern settlers in Mississippi as * aliens.” Mr. Goode, of Virginia, and Messrs, Speer " and Felton, of Gebrgia, when they speak of the loyalty of the South and of the determination of Southern men to accept the Tesults of the War, evidently speakonly fora pertion of the people of the sovereign States. AIr. Aiken was very emphatic in his expres- sion of abhorrence of negro and carpet-bag rule, and said Lis section would never again ~submit to such rule. The spirit of Calhoun- ism hasnot yetdied out in the Palmetto State, nor, notwithstanding the homilies of Lamar, has sectionalism died out in the sov- ercign State of Mississippi. THERE is no rest for England or for the Gladstone Ministry. There is war in the Transvaal, war in Basutoland, conspiracy in India, and rumors of mutiny; the Russians bave advanced almost to the gate of India, and the Afghan is restless and likely to be troublesome; Greece and Turkey are snarl- ing at each other aver a territorial bone, and if they get at each other's throats England wiil be compelled to take sides; the Fenians are supposed to bo concocting diabolical plots to blow up barracks and arsenals in England and the two Houses of Parliament, and to be meditating mischief against the lives and purswit of happiness of the English people; and England, " with its ¢06,000 soldiers, its 15000 policemen, and its 15,600 bailiffs and understrapyers, reversing the uatural order of things, is trailing its coat in Ireéland, asking the Land-Leaguers to Step.on it And now comes the King of money and thousands of lives to whip into submission some years ago, and declares war against England, and more millions of Brit- ish money will have to be spent, and more thousands of British soldiers will have to perishin the fever-breeding swamps of Af- rica before the barbaric monarch is again brought to terms. The Gladstone Ministry inherited much trouble froy the Beaconstield Adwinistration. Its cup of tribulation seems filled to the brim. ¥ Tue mortality report for this city for Jan- uary bears out the theory of an article prinfed elsewhere, that there have been peculiar atmospherie conditions of late which were highiy unfavorabie to good health. The deaths duringz the month were 976, against Si4 the preceding month, and 77l in Janyary of 1880. Of course the inerease of popuiation during the year will properly ac- count for a certain increase in mortality, but scarcely to the extent that has aetually oe- curred. Comparativestatistics in other cities and towns will undoubtedly exhibit a corre- sponding increase, because the unfavorable conditions have not been confined to Chicago or this scction of.the country. The only warning conveyed is to be found in the largo number of zymotic diseases, chicf among which were diphtheria, c¢roup, and scarlet- fever; and, this should impress upon all families the necessity for a strict regimen as to ventilation, cleanliness, and avoidance as far as possible of indiscriminate association among children of diiferent families. Mn. BICENELL’S concurrent resolution in refcrence to the Electoral count, greatly modified from the original druft, passed the Heuse yesterday. To the first part of the resolution, whiech gives the House and Senate the present right to count the vote, and which denics the President of the Senate any right.in the. matter, there was no objection. The LRepublicans had long ago stated their concurrenee in the doetrine enunciated by the resolution .as modiied. To the second part, which pro- vided for a declaration of the vote of Georgia, there was some objection. Many Republicans, however, voted for i that portion. The debate on the resolution was quite pleasant. The Democrats kept their temper and the Republicans were. face- tious, as well they might be, at the surrender of the Democrats. Speer, one of the three Democrats who voted against the orig- inal Bicknell resolution, congratulated the Democrats on their “good sense in coming over to his position. Mr. Robeson joked Mr. Springer, and Mr. Springer took it in good part. Even the Demioerats seem to be congratulating them- selves that Garfield and not Hancock was elected. TxE apparently needless harshness, not to say brutality, with which Michael Davitt ins been treated by the English prison author- ities since his arrest seems to haveled to a reaction, as far as his case is concerned, amoung the less prejudiced and better inten- tioned classes in Eugland. A convict's dress could never degrade Davitt'in the eyes of Lis countrymen, or in the ¢yes of the world, and probably he himself did not care about the evident insult sought to be offered to him by putting on hinc the dress worn by the stack- firer, the garroter, or the wife-beater of the English conviet prison. Mr. Labouchere and other English Liberal members of Par- liament are exerting themselves in the luud- able work of trylug to induce Sir Witliam Harcourt to have Mr. Davitt treated as polit- ical prisoners are treated in every civ- flized country in the world, It is strange that a Governwent: presided over by Mr. Glndstone, who made te world ring With the story of the sufferings and Indigni- ties with which Silvio Pellico and his fellow- prisoners were treated, should have toler- ated for 2 moment tha brutal treatment of AMr. Dayitt, who, though an enemny to Brit- ish ruie in Irelaud, is yet a gentleman of ed- ucation aud character. Itlsto be sincerely hoped that Mr. Labouchere’sefforts in his be- half may prove successful. ——— ETEEET-INPROVEMERT TAXATION. Tt is a singular fact that bad, objectionable, or mischievous legislation ean always secure more aclive, caruest, and effective support- ers in the Legisiature than are found advo- cating wmeasures intended to promote the vublic interest. 4 few weeks ago we cailed attention 10 a bill prepared in this city with aview to presentation to the Legislature, and pointed out the ruinous effects upon this city in case it should be enacted. In Tie Tnip- UNE's report of the legislative proccedings of Wednesday it appeared that the bill had pro- eressed so far in the Senate as to be ordered toathird reading. Sucha bill must have had some industrious supporter in order to have made such progress. This bill pro- vides; ‘That when any city shall by ordingnce provide for the improvement of any street by the filling, curbing, aud paving, or cither of them, of such strect, in. s permunent msuner, by special us- sessmeator special taxation of contiguaus proj erty, or_otherwise, it amty by tho same or Dilice provide that when the samo shull be in Dproved in the manncr und by the weans. pro- scribed in the ordinance. to the satisfuction of the proper officeror departmentof tho clty, 1t shall not thereafter be tilied, curbed, and paved, oreither of them, a3 the case muy Lo, oy means of special assessmient or special taxation. ‘The sqeond sectionrecites that the city may by ordinance provide for such improvement, ‘‘In a permanent manner,” at the expense of the owners of adjoining property, and there- after It shall not be so improved by special assessment. ‘The third section is as follows: gubstaatial and permunenc churacter; and when any street shuil be liled. curbed, and paved, or citber of them, in accordance with an ordinahes passed us aforesuid, such street sball not there- after be tilled, curbed, or paved. or either of :;Eeb‘?"s“e ::[1’ c?fi"n&%\;‘h% b;*spu_cl:nl assessment Buronly by goneral taraugn F10US PrOperts, The:e are certain radical defects in this Dill, which we have already discussed, but to wlifeh we must again call public attention, and especially the attention of the members of the Legislature who represent this city. What is street improvement in “a perma- nent manner,” and what Is “a permanent character”? Is a street puved with cobble- stones, stone blocks, pine bloaks, cedar blocks, asphalt, or pine boards paved n a vermanent wanner, or is such a pavenent ane of “a permauent character ”? All of these pavements have been in use in this citd, and have, whea once iried, been aban- doned. Isa pavement, when declared by the Council to be of a permanent character, act- ually permanent, no matter how soon it is wori out or abandoned? We began to pave streets in Chicago in 1835, and none of the original pavements are -now in use. Iow long must a pavement last in order to be *permament™® Is it five, ten, twen- 1y, or twenty-five years? A permanent pavement for streety is one of the _thi.ngs not yet discovered; and even in London and Paris thal question is dis: cussed just as it is here In Chicago. A pave inent that might be of a permanent eharacter in one street would not last 4 year onanother street, and what would suit one street would be 2 nuisance on other streets. ) ‘The bill proposes to exempt property once taxed Ly special assessment for paving a street with wooden blocks from ever being taxed thereafter for repaving that street i; any manner. 'his is considered by the ad- vocates of thi¥scheme to be economical Jus- tice. Isit? A man paysa special tax of 3 his ot abuts. e is told that, having paid this tax once, he is forever thereafter to be exempt.from paying 2 paving tax. Thisiga delusion and a suare. His lot, instead of being taxed once In ten years for paving the strect, ;m( the number of front feet, is to be taxed annually during the centuries that are to come for repaving the 1,000, or 5,000, or 10,000 miles of streets which may be in the City ot Chicago. If helive on n residence street which may not wear out rapidly, his lot will be taxed at the most only once in the lifetime of the pavement; while under this provosed law he will be called on annually to pay for repaving all the businessand other heavily-used streets, where the pavements are short-lived and costly. It is urged that the life of the pavements on the thoroughfares and business streets is short, and the biennial, triennial, and quadren- ninl renewal of those streets is costly and an unjust burden on the property now §pccl:\lly taxed for that purpose. This is not true in any sense. Men owning vroperty on strects where the business trafiie is so greatasto wear out the street-pavements rapidly have the value of that property and its annual rents magnified in far greater proportion than the mere cost of repeated paving. If theown- ers of property on Wabash avenue, State, Clark, Dearborn, Wells, Lale, Madison, ‘Washington, Randolph, Monroe, and other streets have to pay more frequently forstreet- paving than owners of property on other streets, they must remember that the same reason which makes this repaving necessary is the one which gives to their property its Lmmense value. Are they willing to be taxed upon the value of their lots, buildings, stocks of merchandise, and general business to pay for paving forall time hereafter the many thousands of other.streets which are to be paved and repaved in the years to’come? Would these pgople drive away this heavy traflic which wears out their street-pave- ments to save the cost of repaving as often as may be necessary ? . Ts not the present rule, by which everyman vays his own Dbill and pays the bills of no other,—vays for paving in front of hisown lots and not in frout of other people’s lots,— the wisest, best, and most satistactory way ? We have not vet discovered low to pave streets in ““a permanent manuet.” Until we do, there will be repavinz just asoften as the busiuess done on the street requires it. To adopt the proposed law would lead to interminable confusion and jobbery. The whole sum allowed now to be raised by tax- ation for general purvoses would not be suf- ficient for repaving in. “a permanent man- ner” the streets which wounld demand such improvewent. Each of the twenty-four wards would at least demand an equal pro- portion of street-pnying. At present the tax for repaving and paving street intersections, and In front of alleys and public proverty, is 2 largo annual charge; what will thatcharge beif the cost of repaving the entire streets of the city is added thereto ? This bill is general in- its character, and applies equally to all the other cities in the State, and we question whether the people ot those citieswish to be saddled with a system which provides for a general tax to improve private proverty. The present limit on clty taxation for gen- eral purposes is 2 per cent. 1f this law should pass, 2 per cent wouid not be suffi- cient to raise the revenue needéd for this “ permanent improvement ” of thostrects of this city. Beglnning perhaps at the rate of ones million of dollars a year, the annual revenue needed for this work of lmproving the streets in a * permanent ritauner” would soon exceeed ten millions of dollars, and still the streeis would wear out and have to be repaved as often as they do mow. The’ mere declaration by the Council that 2 street has been’paved “permanently ” will not make the street pavement last any longer or be any wore “permanent” than it would be in the absence of any such declaration. BAD WEATHER FOR HEALTH. Almost everybody has become Impressed with the fact that the present winter has been an exceptionally unhealthy season. This is not true of Chicago alone, but of nearly every region In the country. The vita statisties of the year will probably show that the death-rate in Chicago remains, as it has been in the past, lower than that of any other largo community in Enrope or America; but they will also be likely to show an inerease everywhere in the extent of disease and in the number of deaths. 'The conditions have been such as to devetop ailments of all kinds that affect the weakest partsin individual counstitutions, and to so.debilitate the system as to impair the power of physical resistance against the attack of disease. As cloth’ tears. at the weakest par, or -a boiler rents where there is an imperfection, so the man yields under certain intluences, such as cold or biliousness, at the frailest point. No specific character of disease has been de- veloped by the unusual condition, except it be what has been ealled “winter cholera,” and that seems to be no more nor less than aggravated biliousness which takes # dif- ferent form in differen$ persons. But all the diseases that are producéd or aggravated by unfavorable atwospheric conditions— such as colds, coughs, influenza, diphtherta, rheumatism, pneumonia, and the like—have been more general and troublesonte than usual. It has been the rule everywhere that people get sick more easily and recover more slowly than is their habit, und that those who have been threaténed with any constitu- tional premonition of disease have eitlier succumbed to it or had the warnlng em- phasized by worse'symptoms. The doctors do not seem to have given any satisfactory explanation of this abnormal condition of things. Perhaps they do not know. Dr. Blackburn, Governor of Ken- tucky, is reported as having said that there Wwas too much (more likely too little) ozone in the air during the fall, and attributed the epizodtic diseases among the horses and cat- tle to that fact; he Is also represented as having predicted a renction from this condi- tion, in which a lack of ozone will probably lead toan epidemic of cholera. But this theory is not very intelligivle to Iaymen, and daes not seem to account in any case for the extent of winter troubles. In a plain and cowmpreliensible way, we think that the explanation is to be found in the long stretch of cold ‘Wweather, which has been raw, damp, and chilling even when the thermometer did not register extreme cold, and to the continuous absence of sun- shiue. There have been weeks at a time during the past three montbs when the rays of the sun conld not venetrate through the dense mist that overhung the sky. During that period the swhole public was i the situa- tion of a fanily who live on the shaded side of a house, or in the shadow of Some neigh- boring wall where the sunshine does not,| reach them. The health-giving warmth of the sun’s rays have been withleld frowm the human system, aud the tendency has been to fungus-growth. The atmosphere has been dense and noisome as a consequence. There: were several nights, so cold that the weather ought to have been clear, when the fog in ‘this reglon as as thick as it ever is in Lon- don. Theé dampness and chill together have at times been so aggressive that the trees, and bushes, and fences, and ;telegraph wires have glistened for ‘days at: a streteh. with small jcicles that gave the avpearance which they oceasionally have for an hour in the early morning after o white | therefore, will have a hard struggle in its ef- frost. There have been'furious storms in all parts of the country, which, instead of carrying off the impurities of the atmosphere as they wsually do, seem to have brought with them and left behind them a new accu- mulation of dampness. People have been breathing frozen vapor and chilled air into their lungs all winter long. ‘There is a good hope for in early reledse from this condition. 1f the principle of re- action be admitted, then it may reasonably be expected that spring will bring more sun- shine with it this year than it usually does in this part of the continent. There have been within the past week two or three days of genial sunshine which served to brighten up people and give them a new interest in life and greater vitality to go on. More sunshine is-what is needed, and Nature, which appears to recognize the justice of the law of compensation, will probably sup~ ply itin full reindemnification of the lazck of it during the winter months, THE BEVISION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. ‘The forthcoming publication of the revised edition of the New Testanient is awaited with much curiosity and interest by a large element of all Christian denominations, and possibly with a feeling of apprehension by many who dread any change in the old Bible, which has been their companion from youthup. The work of revision was com- uenced ten years ago, and is the result of the deliberations of two Committees,—one of fit'y of tha best English scholars, and the othar of thirty of our own. Where there has been any disagrecment, the English ver- sion lias been used, but the American is given in the appendix, so that the reader can have the choice of either. : The changes which have been made per- tain rather to form of expression than to the substance of statement. All the funda- mental doctrines of Christianity remain as they were, Very little of the textis altered in meaning from that of the King James version. The principal changes are the recti- fication of genders to suit our modern forms of expression, the substitution of the definit for the indefinit article and vice versa, and of the present for the past tense of verbs where the sense evidently requires it. In some cuses entire verses have been omitted, but this is mainly where they involve repetitions and parts of vérses that do not apvear in the older mauuseripts, as in the Lord’s Prayer, for instance, where tha entire doxology Is owmitted, the prayer reading in the new version as follows: *Our Father which art in Ieaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come. ‘Thy will be done, as in Tieaven, so on earth. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one.” From a very long list of the changes, compiled by the New York Thmes, ‘we select the following as the most striking: Matthew, vi., 1—“Take heed that yo do not your tlms before men""—Iis made to read, ** Take ecd that ye do not your. righteousness’ beforo men,” which ig looked upon as u_much broader command, and more in accordance with tho whole spirit of Christ’s teachings. In Martbew, N1x., 1% the entlre meaning of the text ischnnged, but no new doctrine is put forth, and no old vne assuiled. In the King Jumes version the verse reads: “Why catlest thou me good? There is none good but one; that is God. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commundments.” In tho new version tho verse {3 ns follows: ** Why askest thou me concerniog that which i3 good? One there i3 who s good: but if thou wouldst enter into life, keep the command- meats.” The question in Mark, vifl., %, 87, * For what shall It profit a maa if be shall guin the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall n man give in_exchange for his soul?” is rendered: * For what doth it profit a man to gnin the whole world and forfelt ms lifer For what shouldz man give in exchange for his lite?” [n Luke, ix., 35, ** And there camne n voice oufof tho cloud, saymg. *This is My beloved Son; hear pitl * thie new Work reads, ** And thore came u volee out of tha-¢loud, saylng, * This 13 My Son, My chosen.” Luke, xvi., & 9, huve also been mauterially ohanged. In tho present version thoy read: “And the Lord commended the unjust steward because he had done wisely; for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. And I say unto you, mintice to sourseives friends of tho mutnmon of unrighteousuess, that when ye fail they may receive you Into overlssting babitations.” fn tho rovision these two verses rend ns foliows: * And the Lord commended the unjust steward beenuse he bad done wiscls. For the sous ot this world are, for their own generation, wiser than the sons of the light. And Lsay unto you, malketo yourself friends by incuns of tho mam- mon of unrighteousness, that when it shall fail, they may receive you into the eternal tob- ernncles.” The story of the Pool of Bethesda. ns told in Joha, v., IS materially changea by takinge from I¢ | that portion which relutes” to the iiraculous powers of the water of the pool. In verse 3— “1n these lay o grent multitude of impotent folk. of blind, bait, withered, walting for the moving of the water "—the last seven words are stricken out, und verse +— For an angel went down at u certain season futo the puol and troubled tno water: whosoever then first atter the troubling of tho water stepped. in was made whole of whutever discase hie hud,” is omitted altogether. Acts, x., 47, “And the Lord added to the Chureh ‘dally’ such ne should be saved,” is made to read, * And the Lord added to them dny by duy thoso that ywero being saved,” In Auts, vil., 37, * And Philip said, 1f thou bellovest with all thine heart thou maydst. And he answered and suid, I believe that Jesus Cbrist is the Son of God," comprising the eunuch’s profession of faith, s expunged, a8 is also the expression, ** Let us not flght against God,” in Acts, xxii.. 9. In Acta. xvif., %3, * For us { pussed by aud bencld your devotions I found an altar with this in- kcription: ‘To tho unknown God. Whom : there= fore ye isnorantly worship, Him dectaro I unto your the lutter part s mido to read, “foan unknown God. What, thercfore, Ye worship in iznorance, that declare I unto you. A curious change in the text, and one which may meet with considerable opposi~ tion, especially from the rigldly orthodox, is the substitution of the Greek Hades for Hell, 'The reason for the change has not yet been stated, but whatever {t may be the new term seems as incongruous as the other was harsh. It certainly does not convey any idea of the modern orthodox Iell, for the Greek Hades was in no sense correspondent with it. It was a place of imprisonment rather than of punishment, for the only punish- ment which the Greeks coneeived of was ap- plied to the unfortunate ghosts who wan- dered in Lethe. The Greek Hades was a land of shades, but there is no reason to sup- pose that the shades were undergoing tort- ure, a3 they would if they had been in the English or German orthodox Hell. ‘The general effect of the substitution seems tobe to expunge the modern idea of Hell from the Bible; and we doubt whether this will be refished by the orthodox or even ac- cepted kindly by those who are accustomed to use the old word, efther religiously or pro- fanely. The other change noted above— namely: in the Lord’s Prayer—will hardly commend itself to Christians in whom re- ligious sentiment Is very strong, for it OE"S the most beautiful passage in the whole prayer and ends it very abruptly. Unques- tionably the translators are right, for the doxology Is not found in the earlier manu- scripts, but they will hardly care to inquire curiously about that: In this instance, as in miany-others, sentiment will doubtless make & hard fight against utility and cor- rectuess, Tho -old Bible which peo- ple studled as children,—~which was . the heirloom in the family and held the sacred place of honor, which contained the record of the family, which has been a great rock in time of trouble, a sure guide in un- certainty, and a comforter in those dark hours when human help and sympathy were powerless,—has become sacred in every lineand verse and the most precious gift, which father ‘could give toson or mother; to daughter as the children started off in life’ upon roads whera no guide-boards could be trusted. ‘Chere is probably not a:family. Bible in the land around which do: not cluster the most,_sacred associations and hal- lowed reminiscences, and there,is, no house- hold so poor that it will not ¢ling;to- it untit eversthing else is gone. The new Bible, fort to'replace tho old; but, even should it succeed, «its new texts,. however correct they may be, will -not ‘readily be adopted. New generations may learn a new Lord’s Prayer, but the present gonerations wilfeling to the old, familiar words as if they were in- fallible in sanctity and the prayer were not aprayer without its stately and sonorous doxology. Still, in these practical and ana- Iytical days, when everything is undergoing revision, it is to be expected that even the Bible must be subjected to what some Chris- tlans may consider iconoclasm. The com- pensation niust be found in the fact that the revision is made from the oldest extant man- useripts, is made by Christian men and pro- found Biblical students, and is therefore not only morein consonance with modern forms, but in all probability more correct. ’ > THE IRISH SITUATION. Tho cable news from Europe is mainly oc- cupiedwith reports of.the exclting, revolu- tionary, and 1ost extraordinary proceedings in the British House of Commons, and re- vorts of the feverish and hardly-restrainable feeling among the whole Irish people, and the intense Interest among all classes of the English. Perhaps it may not be out of place to state again, briefly, such facts as may an-~ swer the question, * What is it all about 2 Inround numbers, there are five miilions of people in Ireland, who are, by reason of foreign rule, dependent exclusively for ex- istence on the products of the soll, nearly all manufacturing having been crushed out. If the farm products fail, or be destroyed, or be carried off to any considerable extent, then there are famine and death by the roadside, only aileviated by compulsory emigration or ‘charitable contributions by the Americans. The entire soil of Ireland upon which the five millions of native population are depend- ent for the ordinary means «f existence is owned by about 5,000 persons, whose titles rest on confiscation, and.who, with few ex- ceptions, nre non-residents, and are aliens to Ireland in- every sense. Their intcrest, as o a body, Is purely proprietary. The lands were taken from the native owners a couple of centuries since by foree, and couferred under feudal tenure upon English courtiers of the Crown. With slight exceptions no part of the land iy cultivated by the alleged owners, the proprietors dividing it 1nto small tracts, renting It to tenants at rates of ront which, even In the most prosperous seasons, afford the tenant, after paying his rent, bare- Iy food enough to maintain life. If the ¢crop fail or fall short, then there is of necessity a deficiency of food and an inability to pay the rack-rent, and evletion follows. ‘There is, therefore, a perpetual strugzle on the vart of the occupants between famine and the landlords. Thers are always more families to whom land is a necessity than there I3 land to be had in quantities equal to even a small farm in this country; soto meet this demund the land is cut up into holdings ranging from five to twenty-five acres, and, as these are essential to life, the landlord i3 able to exact any®rate of rent he may fix, The tenant hasno choice. If he have no land henust starve for wunt of food, 23 there is no other means to obtain it. &'he rack-rent has first to be paid out of the prod- uct of the land; the necessity for food is sub- ordinate to the payment of the rent, even if to discharge the latter take every potato, Dpig, chicken, and egy produced. ) The products of the land, whether they be cattle. pigs, sheep, poultry, grain, hay, or potatoes, are sold to ineet the Inexorable and enormous demand for rent, and of the pro- ceeds £60,000,000 are annually remitted to England to-the landlords.. Not one dollar of this money is expended in Ireland, and this drain of the substance of the land has been continuous for two hundred years. al Thé tenure by which land is held by the tenants, except in a few northern countles, is practically at the will of the owner. If the tenant fall to pay the rent at the time fixed, he is served with noticé, and fn briet thue is evieted,~that is, expelled from the farm he bas been occupying,—and this is done by armed force. An evicted tenant i3 with his family condemned to deuth or the Poor- House. Without land he cannot earn a liv- ing; an evicted tenant eannot obtain other land; and it is the landlord rule in Ireland that no tenant ean harbor, or shelter, or oth- erwise aid a tenant who has been evicted for non-payment of rack-reut without forfeiting his own lease. Aa eviction, therefore, means a denial of the means of existence, and an evicted family has no refuge but the rond- side, where in bad seasons they perish from starvation and exposure. If tho tenaut durlng his occupancy add uny hnprovements to tbe land, these im- provements are confiscated, As Mr. Glad- stone said a year ago, if the 15,000 evic- tions of which notice had been given in Iretand were executed, It would involve the denfal of the right of existence to 90,600 human beings, and the legal sacrifice of that wany human lives. ‘The crops of 1878 and31§79 were bad,—so bad that to pay the rents of those years swept the accunulations of the Isiand, leaving the great mass of the land occupants without food and without money. When 1850 opened there had to be an appeal to the charity of the world to avert a famihe. Money and food were sent for general relief, but from eyery village and town and city In the United States there were private remittances sent from sons and daughters and kindred nggre- gating millions of dollars, every penny of which was applied to paying overdue rack- rents in order to avert the death in the other form resulting from eviction. The Land League waszormed on the model of trades-unions, to ngitate for a redress of grievances by the British Parliament. They advised the farmers to pay no exorbitant rent: when it was a choice between pay- ing rack-rent and golng without food, to pay only a part of the demand; and they advised for the common good that noman should rent any land from which a tenant had been evicted, and to enforce all these suggestions, not by violence, but by common consent and general opinfon. The result was that tens of thousands of evictions were postponed: that an actual famine was averted; and that lana- lords were brought face to face with an agi- tation for the reform of the land tenures. The Liand League asked of the British Parliament 2 change in land Iaw that would secure to the people “Fixed terures, Free sale, and Fair rents.” Against thesy demands the whole Tory party in England, and the Whig-or landlord portion of the Liberal party, united. The discussion was carried Into England, and in every portion of England and Scotland the whole question has been discussed with great energy and vigor. The Radical party, and the Liberal press outside of London, have favored the Irish demands. The Land League has waintained the peace in Ireland. The attempt to convict the leaders of “sedi- tion” . has failed. At the same time the landed aristocracy thromghout the Kingdom, has sought every means to influence public sentiment in England and Scotland against the Irish, end especially agalnst the League. The Ministry of Mr. Gladstone has been placed between two opposing forces. The Liberal Whigs and the Tories have demanded the suppression of the League, and therefore iusisted on s coercive law which practically authorizes the Government to make arrests without the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus. This has been demanded as a pre- Vo4 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY;:FEBRUAKY ¢, 1881—EIGHTEEN PAGES. i ’ < o z ving the street ou which |- liminary to any bill for {and reform. The § been intended for the ministry by . Ashantee, whom it cost England millions of [ a front foot for pavin; Isistiches prontsed 4 Mierall bill, but | but, after teaching for a time, M{" 18 parenty, has insisted on the passage first of a coercive -bill enabling the Government to keep ordar. The Introduction of the latter bill has been resisted by 2 portion of the Irish representa- tives; on the ground that it is aimed at the suppression of the Land League and its law- ful agitation. 1 Ar. Gladstone, and even John Bright, has been forced to overcome this obstructive op- position by an appeal to parliamentary power rarely, if ever, invoked in the British House of Commovs. The Speaker of the House has made rulings which have never had a precedent in that body, and the thirty-four Irish obstructionisty have been overwhelmed by the numericelforce opposed to them. The House of Cofmons numbers 650 mem- bers. Of these the Ministerial party has a majority of 70, including the Irish members. If we are to understand the vote sustaining the rulings of the Speaker as a test one foror against any legislative relief for Ireland, then the Irish party is in a more hopeless minority than ever before. But this test is not in- dieated by the vote. It is evident that Mr. Gladstone proposes a deliberate and square- issued contest in favor of a ridical change of the Irish Land Iaw and a complete delandlordism of that country, and that this Coercion bill is a mere concession to English prejudices and a disarmament of tie Tory and Whig par- ties. Thisis confirmed by the fact that no less than sixty of the Irish members who fuvor land reform voted with the Ministry in iis efforts to enforce control of the House, and that John Bright, and Chamberlain, and all the Radicals voted with the Government. As the execution of the Coercion law is in the discretion of the Ministry, the Govern- ment can make it as harmless as it pleases. Nevertheless, all the Kingdom 'is exeited, agitated, and alarmed. 2 Noruiye ean bemore melancholy than the ’ last days of an American President’s term of oflice, However well he may have ac- quitted himseif in the discharge of his public duties, he is not much regarded when he is about to lay down his power. He glides back into private life almost unnoticed. Tho interest of the people centres about his sue- cessor. The value of the retiring President’s services to the country. is not known and cannot be estimated at such a time. Tils virtues and failings must be judzed in a caliner season, and his place in history fixed by a Iater generation. The ex-President’s conduct in his vetirement and the public ap- preciation he receives may go far to deter- mine what place he holds in the regard of his fellow-citizens. Sincere ezpressions of tecling concerning him are more apt to come when he has lost his power to reward or punish than when bhe possessed it ‘There have been Presidents whose influence has not perished with their rosignation of of- fice. Thomas Jefferson at Monticello and Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage wieldeda, great politieal authority long after they had left the White Iouse. Pilgrimages were made to their homes as to the shrine of some Greeian oracle, and their advice was eagerly sought and generally followed by the mem- Dbers of their own parties. Gen. Grant is an- other notable instunce of a President who has wot become obscure in retirement. He was received with almost Royal honors in all the Courts of Europe, and returned to his own countryapparently a greater man than when heleftit. That hestill has great politieal in- fldence was shown in the fast eampaign, when he made the strongest, most powerful, and most effective speech thut was produced by cither side. What will be the fate of President Iayes in his retirenient remains to be seen. WIll there be pilgrimagesto Fre- mont? Wil the whole Nation rise to do him honor and uuncover in his presence? Will Lis services be eagerly sought in the next campaign, and’ his advice demanded in critical emergency by his former party asso- ciates? Let us live and learn. Nothing can ‘e more certain than that his place In history cannot be determined now in the last days of his dyinz Administration. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Awtronomical. Chicago (TRIBUNE office), north latituda 41deg. f2m. 57s.; west longitude 42m, 185, from Washington, and 5h. 5tm. 30s. from Greenwich. The subjoined table shows the time of sot- ting of the moon's lower Kmb, and the officinl timefor lighting the irst stroet-lumpIn each cir- cuitin thiy city, during the comtng week, unless ordercd soouer on tecount of bad weather. Also_the following times for extinguishing the first lnmp: Day. Light. Extingutsn. Feb, 6. G0 u.m. 3 1:05 w.m. 5 Sl am. 5 Sxwm 5 EGam 5 The moon was in_her fitst quarter about 7 o'clock lust night. She will be fn npogee Thurs- dny moruing; and full nest Sundey night; or ruther nt 0:33 Monduy worning of next week. The sun's upper fimb will rise on- Monduy at %:053 0. m., South ut 14m. 2L6Js p. m., and set at 2342 p. m. The sun's upper limb rises Friday nest at 003 n. 1., souths at Hm. £5.675. p.1n., and sets Bt 5:283¢ p. m. The siderenl time Thursday mean nooa will be 21h, #3m. 45.66s. Mercury will south Thursday at 1:02 . m., and sef at 6:25 p. m., or about su hour after sunset. | e may be discerned low dowu in the evenlog twilight about the end of the weck if the western horizon be clear, : Mars will south Thursday at 10:05 2. m., rislog at5:30 4. m. He is now south from the conatel- Indon Aquila, passing from Sugittarius_into Capricorn. About nincteen-twentleths of his lluminated surface is turned towards us, ‘Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn now forma brill- fant lMue of stars, a' little more thinn 15 degrees fu length. Venus Is the most westerly nnd Baturn the most easterly of tho tarce. The middie of the Week they will be nenrly equi- alstant. Thursday next they will move 08 fol- lows: South. Set. Yenus 06 p.m. 9:2dp.m. Jupite! 9 p.m. 0:44 p. m. Saturn. 94 p.in. 10387 p. m. The 20th of this month Venus will be tho mid- Qleone of the three, nearly hult wuy between Jupiter and Saturn. These planets are not at present very near any prominent sters. They are not far from the the three prineipal stars in the western band of Plsces (the Fishes of the Zodinc). Jupiter is, however, nearly, on lioc with the dimgonal- running from the northwestern corner of the Syuarc of Pegasus through the south- castern corner Of the square. Venus at present {3, crescent-shaped, as seen through the telescope, lcoking mearly a3 the moon does when five days old. We cannot, however, see hills and valleys on her surface, a3 we can on the moon. The planet Jupiter, with his four moons, is &t present a fine telescoplc object. But far the most “{nteresting i3 Saturn, thouxh to the naked eye ho s thedall~ est "of the three. Elis rings are now opened out sutficiently to permit a good view, the ratlo of their upparent diamieters being nearly as one to four. The southern fuce of thorings is turned towaurds us. Uranus will south Thursday at 1:35 a. m., be- g then In right ascension 10 bours 57 minutes, and north declination 7 degrees 33 minutes. Neptune will south Thursday at p.m. Right ascension 3 hours 39 miuautes, and north. declination L3 degrees 39 minutes. : - —— Thomas Carlyle. Thomas Carlyle, essayist, biographer, and historian, {s dead. ' He pussed away yestorday, rich in fame und ripe fn yours, ana ready to go; § for his work, so far as this lifo is concerned, was Binished. ¥ Thomas Carlyle was born in Dumfriesshire in 1995, His father was o farmer, but gave him &, good education, which clused with his gradua- tlon from the University of Edinburg. He had eter devoto himeelf to literature, wnd in gy L ® as Georgo Eliot did, contributing to the zines 2nd to the Edinburg Encsclopedis, 1:3' surmo year he began those masterly transiationy. for which he has become 8o distlngy among them Legendrg’s Geometry ana Goathg, “Willolm Melster.” ~ HIs 1ove of tho Gory. languugo was intense, a8 woll ns Al adarayes « for tho two great German puets, Goetho apg Sciiilier, and out of it gre:¥ ono' of his fineg volumes,—the “Life of Schiller.”” He mg, 1in1$27 and retired to a secluded spot, wherg by continued his contributions to the magagiy, amony them his “Sartor Resurtus" wyy tirst gave the world a real glimpse of his geyg and which by the Way Was SISt recogaized o itsactunt worth in this country by ir. Eeq. son. Inls3ihe went to London toresige, 101897 published his graphic bistorical “The French Kevolution.” InlS9 be wrop work upon * Chartism,” and also published gy volumes of his “ Essays.” In1840 apoeareq yy lectures upon- “Hero Worship,” in 13 py “Past and Present,” and in 188 the “ Lattey, Day Pamphlets,” which were suggested by gy * political convulsions of that year. Between and 1860, appeared his threc greatest blog. phies—* John Stirling,” “ Oliver Cromweils Lgg. ters and Specches,” and “Frederick the Gregg» Profoundly versed in German lnnguage gy German thought, the last biography was st oneg recognized a8 &’ masterplece. 3r. Carlyle wyy by nafuro of u retiring und fonely. dispositioy, but he has nevertheless held some pblic among them those of Rector of the Edinby, Unlyersity and President of the London I brar; - Few men have been read more than Thomag Carlyle, and we might say few have been lezg understood. His style had nathing Englisy it, but was rather modeled after the Gergyg, which made it diieult reading for those wag adwire nsmooth and flowlng siyle. He didg well repuy the admiration with which Amer. cans regarded him, for in our Civil War he wes ono of thio bitterest haters of the Goveramea, though it may be said that Americans hagp never Inid it up agulust him, s bis delight gt the prospect of the destruction of our form ¢f goverament grew from his honest convictigny that it ought to be destroged. Thougha here worshiper, he was ulways honest, and ther wus nothing he bated so much us hypoerisy. Hy excrcised u great influcnce uoon the world of thought, and 0o writer hu3 ever had resdery Who bave striven more honestly to comprebeny his utterances thuu be. He wns a map of trong character who smote heasily, and hiy Dlows could be felt and their Intiuence markeq even if they were not ulways understood, ly which respect he resembles our own Em who was always in warm sympathy with hin, though sometimes more obscure In statement and more trenscendental in thought. Kuggeq as they aro, Mr. Carlyle’s works are always healtby and strong, and will hold 2 high placely Ecglish literature, e Trea health'reports show that.Chieazo hag the lowest death-rate of any large city (o the world. Some of ‘the Eastern tewspepers are inquirlng why this i3 so. There are several reasons. The climate is undoubtedly salye brious, and the supply of pure water abundant, But it has been too often overiooked In the coze sideration of this subject that Chicagohns,to some extent, & picked population. The forelpns born residents, coustituting at least ove-third of the whole population, areuss rule bealthy and vigorous, and came to this country becauz they had o superabundance of vitality, Tha same is true of many natives who moved from the Eastern States to grow up with tho West, There fsa larger probortion of males than ln most citfes, and the average nge IS considerably 1ower, possibly by eight or ten yeass, thanlg - older communlties. The Toledo Dlade alsg points out that the people of Chicago are buslly engaged in moncy-making pursults, and it it held by many authorities thst a reasonable e grecof activity conduces to longevity. Thers are, therefore, & number of reasons in addition to those o? locality and climate why Chiczgols the healthlest large city iu the world. — 3 GEX. SafryAX does not stand on ceres monious etiquet. Tho other night atarecep tion given iu his own house, when 3rs. Gea. J, R. Hawley arrived, he announced her to Ais daughter in this hearty wa; ‘What, Jo¢ Haw= ley's wife? Here, Lizzle, this is Joo Howleys wife” It seemed a particularly nice thing, all that etening, to be * Joe Hawley's wife,” for her husband's universal popularity bronght this Iady many congratulations on his recent elece tion from the stateliest dignitaries present. —— 5 WE can’t say that the Chicago public wers greatly impressed with the intellectual abiliyy with which the seven Scnators from Cook County bandled the Munn cuaal wherenses aud resolution. Adams did fairly well, but 25 the other six, * nix-cumarouse’) is about tha wize of it l ———— Tae idea sought to be impressed upon ths Springfield Solous by the tectotalors Is, thatif liquor ficenses are withkeid from saloonkeapers no more lquor will be deank in that townshipa® county. Whethor the folly or stupidity of thss notion {3 the more preposterous is bard 10 saf. et 1 VENNor's thaw was postponed *on & count of the weather.” T —— . PERSONALS. “ Does protection really protect?” asiksat old subscriber. We never give advice concersr 1og liver-puds. i Allchin is the name of a man in Detroit The geutleman should trove to Lilinios and bt elected to the Leglsluture, B iy A New York paper records the fact of # Pplumber belng shot throuzh the beart. Friendt of Chicago plumbers need fect no alarm. Nocs of them bus a heart. - Somebody in Boston hasissued 8 sobg el titied * Mooulight on the Whart.” Weare con=: fidently awating the appearance of * Buniigh in the Wharchouse,” and * Twidght it the Diy= Dock.” : “My con Is troubled with a weaknessin ane of bis legs; what shall I do forit2" fnquired - un -anxious parent in Berca, O. Perbaps the shortest way would be to see the girl and ask het tosit on the other kaee for awhile. Wiilinm Ferguson, aged S0, years, of Lat- caster County, Pennsylvunis, recently ma 3irs. Margurent B. Wilson, 20 sears old, .of Wik~ mington, Del. It is snid that they were en fifty years ugo, but a quarrel arose that % arated them. 5 e A society belle in Fort Wayne e Complaiued that ber shoes gave her paite .. - To unjouse choin she beat, ¥ When off her bang went, But she picked it up quickly again. —John W. Furney. . Edgar Allan Poe's death has nsnallybess: attributed to the results of drink, butDeddr Marar, who was ia charge of Tniversity e tal, Baltimore, when Poe died there, S8 8. - was no: drunk but stupefied by some poserf noreotic.” This is the st ntimation thst.t54 New York Poat's editorinls were read in Bat more twenty-flve years ngo. L Mrs, Erastus F. Gaylord is a Cleveland (0, lady of nute, now In her $lstyear. At hergrad Eon’s wedding, a few days nzo, Gen. Garfleld receivigg with family frieads. Waen Mrs- Q£ 7 lord made her ndicu to the President-elect o suld: My leave-taking to you is pax tidh, bot snppose many would suy Instead, * Remeg me when thou comest into thy kingdom." 0 give me back my bonny bride, Take not my fove awaz: Pg; ber mvneez ’:n't?‘l'n?{\:;‘-‘—, pride, suzshine sings Ge’érge W. Hendersou, of anfl County, in the first stanza of a poem whlchm“ rived yesterdny. You ure on the wrong t;” George.. There sn't such a thingasa bo e brido around this office. Probudly yours 18 075 inIndiana getting a divorce. Writetoond our estecmed contemporaries in Torre Hautd-- It was an April morning Yhena my true love went 0ut; The winds hud never a warning, The sky hnd never o doubt. Fair and fugitive lustres Fiitted o'cr thought and speects .~ Hopes were hunging In clusters ~ A little out of reach. ", He wandered, he and no otler, Down by tho little white brook; The storics sang one to anothor, ,* A King I8 coming! Look[” . . " b brook sitid, cootng and créaping - % Peep, and you shall seel” ; Through tho leaves by went, poeping: Ana then he saw—me. .- - —Gall Hamillon.