Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 12, 1881, Page 10

10 ariting upon he Trlsh Land Questlon.!” Edward Atkingon, having reeently madaa iour of the South, wil elve his hapressions of e “Solll Sonth” ilensy U. Addams will zlve an advanee elhapter from hiy forth roming ook upon ** Modern Publie Dolis, — 'l thivd number of the Critie, rendy the 1910 Inst., will contain o new legend it W nele Remus,'” by Joel Chandler Havrls apaper on London - soclety ns Hlustrated by "Xtmlymlnu " by itk Wakd Howes o sone nett hi'll. 1hy and o paper on Henrl Reg- by nault, minia Lazarug, with o portrait nf the tamous Freneh |mh|u'\r. Walt Whinnan aontributes o page uf charneteristic thoughts wn the death of Curl Thren volumes of tho * Modern Classles™ (Houghlow, Mifin & Co.) will bo 1eady neat week, Pwo of thea ane led by cirdy e 3 om Ganthe and Sehllter re- speetively, mid dohtnin A4 story aud poems Trom vach poet: - "Fhe thivd yolome embeaces Edwtind Cluvenep Stedmnn’s essay on l‘.llz:y Teth Ba ¢ Browndng, M Browning's sLady Geralding's Courtship,” and favorlt puems by Hobert Browning. ~-Mr, . 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Lippincott & Co, Prico §1. —0x CenTaly CoNmITIONs OF NERVOUS DE- iExT, Ty Willlim A, Hammond, Now G, Py Putnam's Sons.” Price $1.75, ART. ART NOTES, Dangor, Me,, has an art nssociation which feels strong enough to ngzitate for a Museumn of Avt. ~—Seribner's Monthlyhnsrenawod itsprizes I wood engraviyz for nmatenr engravers for the comling year. Thase who competod lust year wlll be offered n special prize, " —The Boston Art Club has voted to In- crease the appropriation for Its new club- houso from $75,000. tn £83,000, provided the consent of those who have subscribed to the former loan b obtalned. —Gustavo Dor¢ hng fllustrated an Itallan editon of Ariosto’s **Orlando Furjoso.” Tho subjeet Is one which must give wlde scopoe 1o his welwd nud romuntic faney. Tha numn- Ler of illustratlons is 616, of which elghty- four are full page. —At Washington the House has passed the* it for tho Sarutogn Monwment in commenns oratlon of the hattle of Sehuylerviile and the surrender of Burgoyne. ‘Thirty thousand ¢lollars Is the auount, and it 18 supposed that the Senate will coneur. =3 and Mue. -Enault have been com- missioned by ono of the French vublishers to pruceed to Jerusnlem and prepare o voluno of descriptions. llustrated by woodeuts and other plates, of the kind prepared by M. Yriarte on Venleo nnd Florence. - —At Donver- the Arctic painter, Mr. Will- fnm Bradford, hussold two_pictures. — Thoy are called *7The Aretic Whaler Working through tne Iee-Flelds under the Mudnigh Bun, nd *The Panther Fast In tho leoin Melville Bay During the Month of July.” ~T'he Boston Socletyof Decoratlye Art hns anited with the autherities of the Lowell In- stitute, of the Institute of 'Technology, nnd of the drawing school at the Museum of Fine Arts, fn estabilshing o serles of lectures for students nnd nnnteurs upon Loples related to the arts of design, —One of tho maost’ striking and artistle leces of work In the present Water-Color hibltion, suys tho New York Herald, is F, . Chureh’s strong rendition of u very slm, le motlve,~un upper sectlon of an open hedge and n strip of stormy sky, eatled ** A BIt froin Nature.,” 'This Iins been deservedly glven o irominent place on the line In the East toom. Mr, Chureh has also o charming fig- ure of n young girl on a by-path, —Tho following artists have aunounced thoir intention of contributing to the first ex- hibition of the recently formed Dritish So- clety of Pamtor-Etehers, which opens In Jaondon on the dth of April: I Swain Git- ford, "Thowmns Moran, A. ¥, Bellows, Stephen Parrish, Jumes 1, Smillie, K, S, Chureh, Ilenry Iarrer, Samuel Colman, M. Nlmmo Moran, Krnsemnn van Elten, and Peter Mo- Tan, Works must ba delivered free of charge ut the Hanover Gallery, New Bond street, on MMarch 14, EVENING, For The Chieagy Tribune, ‘Whnt 0 boautiful sotting the Sun has, Now molting away fin tho Westl “Its orye dhiy's WOPK 14 hapnily doiie, And It Inys Itself dowin to ita rest, Upo'er tho widened flelda It glows, And richens and ripens mugru!u: Thon glnks to 1ta peacelul and honored repose, Aud silence comes over tho plain, Ba sauk in tho vl,ulot and stlence of roat A dour, tuithtul pilgein 1 knew— His khlx,u. ||;xxlunt hunds folded down on his t— re Ta bo hidden awny from our view, But the Sun, In Its splondor of crimson and gold, Bltuks not to the 1o hus won; For tho fuco of the Futhor ho now may bohold, And the rmmm 18 his, ** Well donel AUSTIN, 11k, Jonunry, 1881, M 0. P 1'% Death, Londn Telegranh, During tho lust hours of Khnlil Efendl, the venerablo Bhoik-ul-lalum, who died a short tima ago at Constuntinuple, twelvo softas, stntionwd fu hls deathechaiber, woro fncessantly ens inmud fu chuntlng = chaptors from’ the Korun, with tho plous objoct of fucllitating tho pussngoe of hls soul trom this world to the noxt, As soon 08 ho had breathol bis Iust, bis slx wives were ndmitted 1o his bedsido, Ihero thoy set up u piteous ory i, beating thote brewsts tho while, and eontimied 10 glve oxpres- 8lon to thelr grief ut this dismal manner until removed by tho cunucehs In order that Khnlil's body might be propired for (ts intermont, which took plico within seven hours of his doath, Alter - belng - buthod 14 perfumed wator, tha nged dignitary’s corpee wis enwrappe du tho folds of . costly white turban which ha Lud worn upon his hend for thirty conseentive Yeurs previous to his docenso. ‘This, und this 1 |\lvnn Khutll's winding-sheot, tightly swuds £3 Khallt dle which his remains wero borno to the coemetery upon the shoulders of four youn, sott afler the ninety=nine virtues ol Altnh had heen duly recited over Wis bler by Lt beitlor Ulemas ‘of the Stumbonli clergy. When tho burlud “ceremony bhud boen cons eluded, u tuncral Teast wus beld i the house of Jthu depnrted Boetk-uleIsfam, at which all the reverend personuges who b taken part in o funeral were splondidly” reguied, Knaill, who biud Leld his high oflica for many yeard, and wus grently reverencod bi ho faithiul, left u hands sono tortune Lebind him to be equally divided oy hls wuoy child —— Bratu Welghts, Nuture, Tho welght of the humnau braln, according to a recently publishod work by tho einjuent Munich unutomist, Prof, Mischot, 18 on un uverago 1,463 grammes for man and L2119 grammes for wow- an. The ditorunce briween the uvornge brain- welght of mun and oniun thus gumounts to 143 grains or J0.60 per cent, The hrnlu-woight of nun oxceeds that of all nolmals except tho clo- phunt {0 pruing und tho lrger Cetneons (2700 rufns), THG brain-wolght of tho furest 4po is urdly o thivd of wun's, Prof. Hlscholf hus worked with o consldorublo amount of muterinl; bis duts compris 1ho welkbild of bruln of 5 suen und HY wowoen, IE CHICAGO RIBUNE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1881—SIXTEEN PAGES i AGRICULTURAL CGOLLEGE, The Illinois State Industrial Uni- versity at Champaign, Why Xt Does Not Attract a Larger Nums ber of General Students; And Why the Agricultural Course Espeoially Is 8o Poorly Attonded, The Whole Tendeney of Our Education Away from the Farex and Workshop, Both ol Which Aro Passing Almost Entirely inlo the Hands of Forolgners. Speetal Correapondence of The Chicago Tribune, Crutcaan, ¥eb, 1lL—In closing a recent communiention to 'Titrs TrintNE upon the Iltinols Industria) University at Champalgn, 1 promised in u subsequent number to give the reasons, ag presented to my mind, why the atlendanco of students was not greater In those departments for which tha fngtitu- tlon wns especially established,—viz.: those In which the courses of Instruction related rapeeinlly to Agrieulture and the Mechanie Arts; andalso why the University, ns lnrgely endowed and well equipped ns it s, did not kave n much larger nzgregate patronnge asn keneral edueationnl Institutlon,—the whole number of stiddents being only about 400 per annu, ad of these less than 25 per cent belng engaged upon spectal technienl studies, or courses which nre not found in thoso of most other colleges, Before glving reasons of my own, I will present thnse advanced BY MEMUERS OF THE FACULTY of the Industrial Uniyersity, to whom the above questlons were proposed, These nret L That, compared with other technleal schools, the number engaged In technical studles Is not few; that the number enganed in regular selentific courses Is not exceeded by any institutton west of the Allegheny Mountains, nor by any In the country, un- Iess it be the Massachusetts School of Tech- nology nt Boston, the Sheflleld at Yale, and possibly the 1tensselaer Polytechnic nt Troy, N. Y. 2 That technienl education ls compar- atlvely new in this country, and the mass of the people nre not yet convineed of its - portunce; and thore I8 as yet little demand for it, cither ih the depnrtment of Agricult- ural Selence or of Mechanieal Englneering., 4. The public Is misled by itsown ideas of what the institution is,—the popular iden being, that 1T I8 SIMPLY AN AGRICULTURAT, SCIOOI, and that little or nothing but Agrlculturs Is tuught there, A prominent member of the Chicago Judiclury sald to onn of the Facnlty whose specinlty has' nlways been the physi- cul selences, “So you are going to Cham-~ paizn to tench Farming 2’—implylng that nothing but * farming” was taught there, Ath, "That o great educatlonal institution cannot be built and equivped Jike o rallvond, and enter at once on lts full enreer, but mast grow, first in Its own character, and second in the estimation nud confidenceof the publie; and this requires o longer perfod of time thon that since tho University was estab- lished. 6. I'or some reason the press of the State, which corld have helped, hias done much to hinder, by unfriendly and often untalr erit- Ielsms. Some of this has come front men who have been rpmoved from salarled positions in connectlon with tho University, and from othiers who falled in their attemps to obtain suely posltions,—their opposition being evi- dently based npon purely personnl eauses. I'heso are the mal reasons, though brielly sinted , that are glven by inembers of the - Facalty, and pretty well cover the ground, so far ng the question of tho nggregate attend- ance Is concerned. Thero Is certainly A UREAT LACK OF DEFISIT INFORMATION Iu regard to this State Institution as to what i3 studiod and what courses of study mny bo vursued. - 1ts nume itself mlsleads_ many, who think it simply a - Manua Labor School, and that qf n low grade, Were 1t known that it wus so - well furnlshed and eunlp;xed in a1l its dopnrtmenta as a general edueation- al hmv,lluuun{ where thorough Instructlion | 11 could bo obtained In any eourse of colleglato edueatlon, 1 feel suro that tho number ot'stu- dents In attendance would be largely in- creased, and that many parents, who now sewd thelr children to Enstern colleges or thuse of othor States, would instend send them to our own State Unl\'urfllly. 1 coma now to the question of LACK OF PATHONAGE IN THR ** AGRICULT- URAL COURSE, In view of the lurizo expenditure, b?‘ the State in providing all necessary facilltles nnd np- pllanees for thoroughly eduenting the sons of {llinols furmers “In the sclence of Agrleufture, It 18 not a sufliclent an- swer to say that woet have large clnsses In other departnents,—in Anclent and Modern l.mlrumws Muthomatics, Chemistry, thie I'hysical and Natural Selences, Musfe, Palnting, ete. A Inrgo exponditure hias been mude to Turnish facilities for Instruction in Agricultural Sclence, in the expeetation that tho Agriculture of the Stnte would reap bene- fits from the uddition to Its ntumbers of thore vughly-educated sclentlilo furmers,—intro- ducing now and Improved mothods that woullamoly compgusate for the expendl- ture by tho State. But, ns shown by my last artleld, the whole number of studeits [n the Agrleultural Course, ns exhilbltod by the Inst catatog, wns but twenty-six, ‘I'ho number of eraduntes from this department Inst yoar wassix. This year the number WILL IR STILL 8MALLER, Let us seo If wo can get at the canses of this Inck of apprecintion by tho farmers and farmers'sons of Lllinols of this provision which has been mads by the State to furnish {fmllmus for thorvugh™ agricultural educa- on, ‘Tlie farmer, ns & rule, pursues his ealling, Mke thoso in “othor business pursuits, ns o menns to an end: 1, the support of his fam- 1lys und 3, the necunulation of property. All questions resolve themselves to this one: Wil it pay? Untli It can be shown that the farmer who hes been edu- cated ut an Agricultural College ean grow more bushels of corn or wheat to the nere rulse better anlmuls, make more pounds of nork or beef from a given nmount of feed, and has n declded advantage of his non- professionally-educated nelghibor, he Is NOT GOING TO INCUR THY EXIENSE of n four years' or ovon one yenar's courso for his son In an Agrieuitural College, Again: thera are. othor educationnl agen- eles Tu the present diy that nre making them- selves fell upon the agricultural community, and are slowly bug surely bringing In more correet {dens and better methods In agrl- eulture, Wo have at the present thme n largo number of first-clusy Journals dovoted to Agrieulture In general, or to Live Stock, Hortfeulture, Dalrylng, or other suectul des partments; and mnany others of o lesser grode, Bestdes these, nearly evory weekly paper throughont the couniry, secular and roliglous, nnd fneluding the \\'cu\(ly Isdles of the wrent city dallies, has Its * Agrieultural Department,” which s constantly bringin; outand discussing improved mothads, IICfi nlways tenching undorlyine sclentifle prin- ciples, but giving what is of more intorest to the furmer; METHODS AND THEIR BESULTS, Prof. Morrow, In Wis locture before the ro- cent Farmors® Institito nt Chmnpuhiu, snbd, fn substance: *The best mothods and results I any loeality mny be regarded as the best attainable.” ™ Through the varlous repree sentatives of tho press as above stated, therg are but few farmers who de not have each weok some now ngrienltury! roading matter, Lringlng to their notico these methods and results, Having theso for his ful:lnucu. ho I not particuturly concerned fin regurd to thy sefentific principles uvolved, so that ho euti adopt the measures and obtaln the res sults, 1le Is sathstied that deep plowtng and thorongh eulturo tnsnre hlm Inrger crops; that the upplication of manures or the plows Ing undor of clover, restores oxhausted and worn-out solls; und 18 NOT ESPECIALLY INTERESTED In knowing how many Puumlsut nltrogen he has restored to the soll by either operation, 1o knows that, In feeding corn to mnke beot or vork, the iixlmum product depends upon tie quullly ot the anbugl snd the conditiony under which 1t is fed; and does not fecl it n deprivation that he does not fully under- stand all the laws of untrition and nsshnlla- tion. Whlle we huve not many thoroughly ellueated farmers, we have n grest many thoroughly skilled, wha, by the mdoption of new ad improved methods, wronght ont in their experionea or that of others, are con- stuntly nnd steadily produeine bettor resuits, Through the agency of the press, nearly v new or fmproved method In hasbuidry, feeding, breeding, or improved Implements, i3 bronght to the attention and knowledge of the farmers of the country, But another, sl to my mind o chlef veas why Agricudtural Sehools are not hotter T is thls: "T'hat tho Young Amer- et 0l to-dny does nob hanker nitey any pur- suitIn Jife " which tuvolves manual Jabor, The whole tendeney of our morern ediien- Hon—anud 1 don't know but L might say mod- ern eivitizntlon—is AWAY FROM, INSTEAD OF TOWARDS, THE A AND WORKSHOP, ‘The ambition of thoboy In the country or village seliond, or the eity high-school, Is cither toward a professlon, or to get n elerk- shiy in some oflice, store, rallrond or tele- graph oillee, Even sltion on the liorsue cars 18 deemed prefoerably to farm-labor, ‘The attractions of eity lfe laro thowtsands of youmg men from the country, some fuw of whi attuin good positions and ultimnte sueeess; but the great majority are cither shtipy ed bt hnbiis and worals by the temptatlons there encountered, or lead a pre- carfous existence uruu slaties huulm}m\(e to the support of a family, laylng aside the question of nccumulntions for” support i old nge ‘T'he ranks of our skilled artisans and me- chanles, instend of betng reerulted by acees- slons from Ameriean-horn boys, are iilled nl- most entively by adult astisan lmmigrants ' l-:urnim. ‘I'he learning of trades has be- como in this country ALMOST A THING OF THE PAST. ‘The Aweriean farmer's boys leave the home- stond oy thoy grow up for employment asd lite in tho clity or town. By-and-by the old peoples are left afone, and, unable to earry on the farm, sell out to a German or Scandl- nuviau. This proeess Is coustantly going on, {113t seems ns IF the timo wonld” come” ere long when Agriculture, as well as Mechantes, wonld prss out of tho hands of our notlve- born Ameriean stock, It was In part, I think, to countoract these tendencles that our Agelcuitural Sehools were established s to ralse Ageelealtare In the sente of respectubtlity,—to give it o dignity and standing among other pursuits in lfe, so that the farmer’s boy would by content to follow the employtient of his fathor, but with o better outils in llfe 1o 3 th. But, as we have scen, no umrked resulty have yot been uttabied. It wo could hnve something to bridge the great distance that now separntes the farm from the University, such us engrafting upon our cowmon-sense cdueation INSTRUCTIONS IN THE TLEMENTARY PRINCI- PLLS OF AURICULTURE,— the growth of plants aud anhmals, and plant- nutritlon, and Kindred swbjects, it mbzht awaken an interest in our boys that woull i n measuro counteraet this tendeney to clty lite, and evente o demund for the higher ed- lll on furnished by onr Agricultiral Col- ezes. I know of one suclt school in this State, located In o purely furnng community, where just such instruetion iy given, und may at Some future thne give its history to the remlers of Ttk TRIDUNE, showing how elementary principles of Agtlenlturel Sci- ence ean be taught in - conuection with eur comuon sehools, 1n _conelusion, while 10 my mind the In- dustrlal University at Champnign I3 not ne- complishing what w; aexvl!clml of it by ity founders i these espeelnd departments of Agrleulturs and Mechanleal Selence, for wiant of appreclation and putronage, Iby no meuns undervalue it ns an educational institu- uon, I belleve ns such it ls SECOND ONLY TO ONE OTIER IN TII WEIT— tho Mlehigan State University at Ann Arbor -—in completeness ot equipnient; und that, were tho adyantages It offers fully known, it would be fillud with students ta its entlre capaeity. Why It Is not better known and apprectated, Ium at a loss to know, unless it be that its Incomo Is too well nssured. It the Income with which to mest oxponses and pdy the salarles of its corps of instruclors was dopendent. upon tultion-feey, it 13 probable that it would be better ndvertised and patron- zed, ‘The Agrleultural Department of tho Uni- versity, even it not Iurgely patronlzed by students, ean_do a valuablo work for tho farmers of the Slata through Its I mental Farm, provided the experiments and the results wrought out are glven to the farmers of the State through the press. Thy trouble with thom ls, thoy nre only pub- lished in the annual reports of the Depart- wment of Agriculture, and never come to the notice of ONE FARMER IN A THOUSAND In tho State. Some very valwable experi- mentul worle was done under the dlrection of tho Professor of Agrleulture the past spason, in the growth of sorghum-cano and Its manufacture into suear, But little ef- fort wus made to (f:ut the results wrought out to the knowledize of tho publle. “These reports wero presented ab conventions of sugar-makers at Springficld and St. Louls, amd T TrinuNe, having o roporter in at- tendance, published thet. ‘They should huve been turnished to every paper in the State for publication; amd so 0f tho results of all sclentltic exverlmnents, 1 the public iy 1o reap the benefit of them. 0. C. Ginbs, e ——rm—— THE PAVING QUESTION, o the Hditor of The Chicugo Tribune. CUIcAu0, 1L.—Tho objectiond that nro urged uguingt the bl on pnssngo betoro tho Leglaluture providiug for u change of tho method of assessing tho cost of the cire and re- paving of our streets, do not scom to be very woll consldered or valid, Tho present systom of specinl nssessments lovied on a loeal und Hmited portion of tho proporty of the eity 1or the pure Poso of public Improvements (8 ut onco ndverso o all constitutionnl prinviples and grossly pure tinl and unjust in fts operation. “Undor this method the ubutting realty 15 nade chirgeably for tho cutlre cost of canstruction und repalr ot tho streots In perpotulty, while tho pavemont vrovided I8 worn out exclusively by tho transit of personul proporty over it which pays not ono farthing townrds thu coustructlon or vepalr of §td own highway, I8 there any treason, nuces- slty, or equity in glving vxemption to 30,000,000 of “personal prulmrly Trom bearing at lonst its pro-rutu shiire of tho cost of providing suftably thoroughtures for tho better accommodation of this exclusivo and fuvored provorty? Tho ponding bl ut Springticld simply pro- vides that when the abitting renlty of a” street ahall gew fie to tax Itsolf and bulld'n permanent strevt linprovement that shall Le accoptod by tho city us such, thon the city shall assume tho cire and mlmlrur such strevt from tho funds lovied on ull clugses of property nlike, and the reul estato ahall thereufior bo dischurged trom the exclusive burden of nrovhlmni n grutultous streot for the exclusivo use and honetit of un- taxed personnd property, It thero bu any luvk of equity nud fair, sgiare dealiog tn the pro- vislons of this bill, itllesin nat requiring the ]wrcmml Droperty of the city to bulld und keep n ropiir its own roudways st its own exclusive cost. ‘That woult cover’ the exact eaulties of tho case. The bill, however, moroly provides that after the local renl estate “shill bave buflt at 8 own cost a *permungit jme provement” for the uxclusive use and trunsit of persounl proporty, that thereaftor thie pursonal vn)purlyul tho oity shall uot ho allowed Lo shirk 118 1iro ratu of cost of ropaira, It la objected that the 2 per cont Mmitation of taxitton will not admit of tho ussumption by tha olt ul'nolur;fu an fncrenso of oxpunditury from the General Fund without embarrassing tho regular elty service, But 18 this s0? We think niot, For n " pormanent tmprovemen i of a stroot lmplica, trét, o foundution that will' bo fndestructible, and not linble to full out of re- padr dn ull thuo to come; aud socond, & wearing surfuce of such materinl and form that very #light ropair wonld ba required for many yonrs, and ronewal only at tho oxpiration of” from twomy to fifty yonrs atfter being uceepted by tho clty, ILis fair to assumo that tha eureont chargy for ropalr of such "rbl’llll\l\nlll hnprove. mont " woulld hardly vxcoed, it indoud jt would cqual, the future cost to tha oity of the cons stnnt ropalrs und frequont revonstructions of the fntorseetions us shu would bo compolied to do overy threo to flve years Jf the prosent othod of paving be contlnuad, Tho nsserted (nereaso of burden on the City Trensury resulting from the vroposed just changa In equuitzing tuxation und’ seourlig i thorough systom of struet {mprovoments, kopt in porfect vepair, is thus suen ta bo u tutdon of vory livoly mnghitlon—a non sequitur, With such durublo Iniproveinonts to sturt olf with the elty would not bu called on forn generation to LMo to reconstriiet tho surfuco of n strevt, and the “ coming man™ ls quite llkely to huve wit and wealth otough to Lilld ks own walks ana ways ag ho will, “that the provisions ol the biil are emtnontly just und fmpartial, §s evidonerd I?' tho fuct that thero are Lo covrelve features ubout It, 1t {8 not mandutory {n any sense, but ultogetbor permissive nnd optional “in fts pro- posed elfeet, Poople wilt bo cauully ut Huorty: 1hon us now to puve thole stroots with sip, soupe Btone, or sycuite, us thoy muay vlect, and puy tho blll by spucial nssossiuent on abutting realty', It thoy ohooso still muxmu}y: puraonnl estute from contributing uny shure of the cost of providing sultable puthwiys for ts transit und oxolusive Lehouf, The measure voumy utterly destituty of wny quelity of Jobbory or partiallty whon it merely confers nn obtion on the people which thoy ure quite free to uceept or rejeet without munace to tho publio futerest. . 11 Kina, [AF 3Ir. King would retlees a llitls doeper he woutd not fall to discovor that * personnl prop erty ** pays all the ronts of businces blocks in frout of which streot pavemonts aroe most worn Ly vehloles and trutle, * Porsoual proporty - greater part of the population. now paya ty dollar of the taxes led an rented rend estate nod the structures theraon, ® Versonal property * pays all the Insranee, weer and tear, nud profita aceralng from the rentuls of bulldings, amd it paya all tho tuxea lovied on goods and ehniteld beskles, 1t 1s passe ing stranko that so natuto an obwerver an Mr, K, overlooked fucts ro potent and vbylous, S I n “permunent pavement ™ under tho proposed lnw (9 to mean ono that will last fifty years, it will bo no great inrdship fortho grand- children of the present genoration nlung about A DL HER-N0 to repave thelr frontage. From tho rentuls they will have recolved From persons of property In tho iuterventug half century thoy et wail nlford toda this, rathor thandisturb tho exlstingsyatem of every landlord to vavo in front of hls own prem for the nceommodatlon of tho trafllo which enables him to exnet high rents on * personel property,' @ But “permancat pavements,” ns tho Chi- eayo Couneil will understand it s whicly differ- ont from the oonception of Mr. K. "The former will dectara pretty mueh unything—woud or stone blocks, numeadam, or gravel—o * pering- nent puvement,” and with as little regard to substrusture ns heretofore, Any sort of slope shop paving will be prouounced vormanent by tho mujority of that honorable body after their palms have been lubrieated by tho paving-ring. The publie will understand tho puwer of tho Dummers in that body (o resist pecuninry argu- wmentss Mr. K., liviug boyond the eliy-limits, is ot supposed to gnow nuything of it. If tho sehino before the Legislntnro is en- neted, tho practical offeot will be that in o few yenrs thore will be nn enormous addivon to tho gouctal tax-levy to repave those nlleged “permanontly improved "' streets In tho heavy- travelod, high-rent, business portions of tho elty, The privato resldencs property which. is not ** permanontly haproved * will be made to swent for tho buncfit of tho proporty that re- celves annual yontals ranging from £200 to §500 per front foot. Tho general tnx-fund 18 now obllged to pave nll tho street andalley crossings, to keep the streets in- repnlr, and - to elean and swoep them, which, it scoms to us, la uboutas much a8 equity and justice domand from gen- eral taxatfon, 1t {2 hardly folr to nsscss tho 0,000 privato residonces soveril millions a yeor to pave tho high-rental bLusiness streets which aro 80 nbundantly ablo out uf thelr biyg rentals to pave in front of their owndepots, warchiouses, conl-yards, dock wurchouses, elovators, mills, stores, and manufuctorles,—E GERMANY. Blemarck!a Fconomic Councll—=Whnt the Schemno Is, Speztal to Loniton Times, Brrry, Jan. 25,—Tho main event of the day here was the opening of the much-tatked- of Economle Council, Iately erented by Princo Bismarck for the purpose of watehing over the agricultural and Industrial interests of the country nd exswnining all measures af- fecting these befure being submitted to the Prusslan Partlument. The members, who cach recelve 15 marks a day for cxponses during the period of thelr pubtte utility, and freo transit Into the burgain, comprlse wealthy and experienced merchantsiaud manufaetur- ers, landowners, gentlemen farners, and well-to«lo nuster tradesimen, whose appear- nies to-lay as thoy patraded before tho Refehstag Bullding lndicated a ° eurlous isture of patriotly pride and provine cinl nwlkwardness, Prines Blsmarck was among thém punctually at 2 and on his lega to spenk. Thanklug s hearers {lst, for tho sell-saeriticng readiness with which thoy Iad respuiuled to the uppeal of his Mujesty, the Chancellor folt fmpelled to Indieaty to thew the leading ften of the im- portant institutlon which they formed. In discussing the lmmontable retrogression In the econumle lifo of the natlon ubservable fur some years baclk, and in rmpuslng Toe- dieg for tlils, consideruble difference ot opin- fon had prevalled among the Government a8 to the of the ngrienltural and in- duatrial Ih and the snme thing had Iately n observable with respect to the gradual return to amore normal state n the ecoto- mic lletd, 'This, then, was the eircumstunco whieh deeided il to propose to his Majesty o plan—which ho now to his great ]luyunw renlizzd—otfering n guaranteo that those of thelr fellow-eltizens 'u*lnmrlly atfected by ,economic legistation should first bo heard as 10 the neeessity nud utllity of contomplated new laws, .t » ‘There liad hitherto been a Inck of the prop- er means of dplni this, and the Uoverniuent was therefore otten unablo to guin -that de- gree of convietlon In the adaptability of bills hecessnry 10 serve ns o bosis for the responsi- Lility to be undertaken by it ‘They, how- uver, would- furnish tha Government with npcc}nl experience from practical life and form a unlque and_central body for promot- Ing the interests of trude, industry, and ng- rleulture, It wis o miere seeldent, but the exlgencies of thelr oceupntions, which pre- thumw from belng represented In Par- limment to the same extent s the leavned professtons, aud cansing them to appear as o minority, withough in renlity forming the In Govern- ment elreles, where bills were prepared, It was In the nature of things that ofttelnis and lenrned men should predominut and It therefore scemed to be requlslt, not only for the parties themselves, that those should have un opportunity of balng heard who had wost 1o bear the effects o the laws. As with other institutlons, how- ever, 80 also with this, it would be needtul for them to chooss the proper path of wd- vanee, and the formation of the Economic Counell wns not to be regarded as nlready accomplished, The Prineg thon went on to spealic of tho community of economle Inter- ests all over Genmany, which of itself sug- #ested the crention of such n counel! for tho wlhole Lmplre (the vresent experlment ap- plylng muesnwhils only to Prussia), which would certalnly have already huppened had not the thne ot prepuration before the next Ltefehstag sesslon been too short, and thus, too, thero wonld have been no possibility of proviously submitting propused legislution 1o the experts, The Prusslan Economle Couneil would certainly not degenerate into uparticularist Iusututfon, but rathor divectly lend to the creatfon of such nonw for the whole Empire, aud he was of the firm lm['m that this aln would soon Lo rerchued, ‘The first subjects to bo submlitted to them for consideration would be n workingmoen's naccident Insur- anee billand o LI for the reconstitution of guilds, with the possibllity of otlior mens- ures before the elose of thelr session, and Wwith these the Permanent Commities wonld tnally have to deal. Tho Government wos well nware It could not clnlm thelr netivity ton long, but whenover the result of their deliherations In committer did not sufiice to enllghten the winds of the legislative bodies, it could not well help ealling for a plenary expression of opinlon from the = Coun- cil. To facilitate business, however, unid gparo the thme of tho Counell, the Government had allowed to each mem- bor of committes tho cholee of n fivst and see- ond substitute, and In future It would per- hips be recommendnbie to furnish thom nll with tho nmensures to bu submitted to then soma thne before thelr meum;g. With_the obenlng speeeh of the Prince, of which Ihave givel you the substance, the Counell seemed to be “highly pleased, ns, in- deed, could scurcely have been utherwlse, for 1t the new institution works and is allowed to work on the lines lald down for it, it will ]»ruvu that tho huporlal Chaucellor, with all his supposed leanings to absolutism, hng maude o larger und more generous concession to the prinelple of representative govein- mont than 13 enfoyed in somecountries which oist of Hlving under a parllamentary régime, yet ab the sune thne & concession” so skill- lull{ estowed as (o conter material ad- vantages while withholding political power, ——————— sz FLEEING AWAY, Tur The Chicaga Tribune, Mr thoughts sonr not ns they ought to soar, Tighor und blgber on soul-lent winge; Dut evor and ofien, and woro aid more Tho)" ary dragged down eartbward by littlo things, By little H‘oublea and littlo needs, Abn lurk might bo tangled among the weods. ME purposo 18 not what it ought to be, teady and tixed, like n star on bigh, Tut mure Jike u tishorman's likht ut soag Hithor und thither it seums to fiy—~ Howotimos feoble, and somutimes bright, “Then vuddenly lost fu the gloom of uight, “{ 1110 18 fur from my drentn of Hfo— ulmly contentod, Iuruuul" *lud: Dut, vexed and worrled by dally strifo, 1t { always worried, and ofttines sad - And tho hights I hud thought I should reach one duy . Grow Jlmmnr aud dimtor, ana farther away, MY heart finds nover the lonzed-for reaty 3 worldly striviug, its greod for gold, Cuilied anda Trightonod the oalin-cyod guest Wha sutnetinies soughl mo In duys of old; And ovor leoing away from mo 13 the higbur selt thug I loug ta be. LrtA WuzeLer, Tirown's Bronchial Trochos will instantly re- Huvo u cough, & cold, or boursencis. 25 cenl THE LONDON STAGE. Low Condition of the Drama in the World's Metrop- olis. Edwin Bootlt Servlng o Good Purpose by Turning Pnblic Attention to Lofty denls. Indeoont Farco and Burlesque the Rage, Owing to the Low Tone of * Baolety" Extellence Among Actors, but Tnal Excellenco Kot on e lligher Planes of ArL Bpeeial Correspondence of ‘The Chicago Tribune, Loxnox, Eng., Jan. 21.—A survey of the London theatres at tho present momoent s not calenlated to glve any one exalted idens of our stage, Ono of tha few things on which wo can congratulate ourselves s tho an- nouncement, just made, that Mr, Edwin Booth's engagement has been extendod to the end of Mareh. Mr. Booth perhaps rouses no great onthuslasm, but he continues to mako hiy mark fn n way which will keep him remembered long after what ure enlled the “*sensatlons of the hour” wre forgotten, 1ls performances stand out, a refreshing Intel loctual fonture, ainld the grossness and trivis wlity which form tho staple entertalnment offered at many of otir theatres, to suit tho prevalling taste of * Soclety,” and the tagrag and bobtall adhering to its skirts, ‘Ilio power, subtlety, and finlsh of Mr, Booth's Cardinal Richellcu dretv lnrge nudlences to tho Prin- cess Theatro for five weeks, and placed the Amerlenn nctor high In general estimation; and s Bertucelo,~in *“T'he Fool's Revenge,” which is now n Itg third weelk,—although it may not Mghten, will at least mnintaln, the reputation so well won by his Richellen, Most crltics hold that Mr. Bouth falls short of the predminence which is reached by the peeullarly-gifted few in cach generation; but none, so far ns [ am aware, dentes his titlo to HANK WITIL TIE BEST ENGLAND CAN SHOW ot the presont thme, To speak frankly, we hiave no actor, excepting Mr, Irving, who Iy ((uite In the same rank with Mr, Booth. But these twwo netors belong to entirely ditferent schools, and, when compared with each other in any partieular chnracter, will appear to better or worse advantage, nccording ns that character Jends and ndjusts itself to thelr pe- culiar methods, A8, howaover, we pessess in Shakspearo n drama ealling into oxorelse tha actor’s highest endowment of mind, tempera- ment, and vhysique, and constituting tha su- prewe test by which it 1s the ambition of the greatest to bo tried, tho Shakspearean stud- ies In Mr, Booth’s repertory aro thoso which naturally exelte tho moat purticular Interest; and his embodiments of Othello nnd Iago, which are to be presented next week, are looked forward to with perhaps an added zest from tho fret that he will assume the t0les on alternnto evenings,—thus Hlus- trating his concention of ench by his In- terpretation of the other, The “ultimato lin- pression here regarding Mr, Booth will no loubt largely depend on his success In these wnd his other studies of Shakspearean char- acter. But, whethor Mr. Booth succeed or not In shakine the supremacy of Ienry Irving (and In London, at least, it will not easily be shaken), nono the less nre his appearances BERVING A HIGH PURPOSE, fn turning public attentlon, by the superiori- ty of his art, to walks of ‘the drawa which fre not often venturod upon lu our thentres nowadays. Nonv but actors of command- ing ability can sccure a hearing for plays which have not been specinlly sensoned to sult the present taste for the lndecent, Thly taste, or rathor this ‘Insatiable appetite, hing beeone so rampant 08 to provoke n remon- strunce from the editor of the Theutre, n wonthly magazine devoted to tho Interests of the theatrlen! professlon. * Alas that it should be so "—so runs the editor’s lamenta- uon in the lnst number—*"but still it seoms truo that, with all our ‘bousted refinement, our revival of dramatie art, our, pros- pectlve schools and academles, our Church and Stage Guldes, less other Instances of mistaken en- thuslasm, there I3 mot In ull our mitlions of piaygoers a publle large enough to support the Incronsed and Inerensing num- bers of high-clnsg theatres, The absence of Imagination on the one hand, and tho hunger for vulgarity on the other, seem to paralyze tho energlos of managers who, besldes belng business-men, ure men of taste, 1t Is sad to confess that, if Mr. Ilare snd Mr. Kendnl wore to put up & roarlng nonsensieal farce, with every sentence 8o’ artfully contrived that It hadaninnocentos well ns a susplelous meaning, they would il thelr stalls with tho best people In London, refined womon wonld bo gigyling behind their fans, young girls would be subjecting tholr minds to undesir- ablasuggestions, and the theatre would echo to tho contented chucklo of the club-satyr.” But, not having a farce with nstroug enough infusionof | VULGARITY AND DOUDLE-ENTENTE, and belng [ compotition with n dozeu others who have, tho Kendnls nre now losing money a8 fast ns only theatrieal wmanngers and newspaper-publfshers can, ‘Uho fact 13 but ong, however, among abounding symptoms, not s0 much of the hnmorality of ‘the Stage a8 of the low tone of our fashlonable world, or at least of n prominent portion of the non- descript omuinnm gatherum which In London denotes itself by the olastle nune of *So- clety,” What one hears on the stago, and sees I the auditorium, of some of tho then- tres where *the best people in London ' go n|uhll(. carrics one's thoughts back to tho most issolute thmes In English history, I do not say that the state of things now s nearly so bad as It was then, but In more ways than one the eloso of the Victorian ern unplensnntly suggests the relgn of “tho Merry Monareh,” "Pho roystoring blades of the Restorntion laughed and shouted over tho obscenities of the Stage that Drydoen wrote for, and leered and ogled at the Nell Gwynnes and Moll Davises who postured thercon, Just as now the young swells ot the West End lnugh and shout, Teer and ogle, over the Indecencies which our mmfllm farce-writers, with cynical intentlon, put into tho mouths of the less squenmish of our actressed. In the daya of the Restoration, too, Indles wore mosks In tho thentre; NOWADAYS LANGE FANS ANSWEW PURPOSE, and, lot us hope, conceal tho blush which the daines of the Restoration were Incapubly of, But tha countenance glven by *‘reflned women to perforimances which are both in- uxrpn:ssibly vulgar and contemptibly silly offers no prospect of o change on our Staxe until there shull e first been o reformation in the nudivnce, A fow busybudies, Indewd, seom to hiave thought differently when they have formod themselves linto an association known a8 the *“Church und Stayxe Guild,” Tha Gulld had excellont jutentions: it wns to llberallzo the Church and regenerate the smsw and It nddressd ftsolf to the task with the sublimo devotion of i barnacls on & ship’s hull, Dot it was never mnde very clear huw it was to effect all this, and, 8o fur 18 enn be seen, it hing necomplislied nothing, heyond ullunllxui §0Ine people anoppartunity of suylng In publie, onco amonth: * Look ot ug,—whut real Christinns wo arel—we can shako hands with o ballet-glrl” The Guild uppears now to by in u morlbund condition, huving had smoll countenanco cither from the Uhurch ur fron the Stage, Actors like My, Lrviug and the Buncrofiy, who do mueh to win respect for thelr proi’esslon. may ba pardoned for declining to considor that pro- Teasion tho black sheep ot all the trades and oceupations, or tu admit that the work of reformation must begin within, and not ruther outslde, the theatre. There is one thing in the remarks quoted above from the Theatre to which I must take exception, and that §s the huplicatlon thut there 13 uny revival of drawatle art in Eu. Inlx‘:u. Tha state of the caso, as it appears 0 e, TUE 18 VERY DIFPELENT, and s moro aceurately represented, on the whole, Inan article o *The London Thea- tres” In thls month'sSortbner, 'Tho Writer— and count-| soni .whoso eritlelsms are by no uunssuilable—remarks that It fs gearcels feal to sy that there s no suel thing ns an English stage; and, nlso, that play-writing seets to be a logt art over here, Without pledgimg oneself absolutely fo these state- nents, (Lean nt teast bo nticmed that therg are reasonnble grounds for nmlmui’ thet, For yeirs tho stage in England hus heen in deentlence, —decadoneo visible enough to those who can look deoper than costiuniery, earpentry and upholstery, which, Indeet, are apt to bo mistaken for “siens of a revival of dramatle art, but whiel, being In the nnturo of ex| L eompensntiony that deci- dence renders ne vy Afe rather tho ver proots of 1. A deewdenes of the stace need not huul‘y that the theatrieal professlon ishe- coming Tesy profitable, L belleve 1L never was 0 prosperous all vonnd as it 1s now. 1t may be observed, however, that the prevail- Iz prosperity Is far from being spportioned aeconling to mevit, Many of_our nctressed keop broughnms, Miss Ellen Terry's broughiun I8 a luxury well earned; but the burlesquo aetresses—otis or Lo of them not out of thelr t e i attord, perhnps better than M v, to sed up broughums too,—a fne! :h puinits out tho divection in which the rownrds of the professlon are most likely to be found. ‘Take up any Lons don norniug paper and sean the theatrieal advertisemonts, and tho ASCENDENCY OF FARCE AND BURLESQUE will be still moro strikingly hnpressed on the notice. Ll in'thls morning's” paper, for exumple, nnder the little pleture of n elock which ndorns tho editorind pnge of our Lone don Journaly, the advertiseients of no fewer {han twenty-five theateess and, forthe Hght these mdvertisements throw on' the state of the Stage nud taste of the publie, I transeribo hetow both the naties of thosy theatres nmd the titles of thelr produetions, ‘Lliey are as fol- lows: Covent Garden, pantomlne—* Valen- thne and Orson "t Drury Lane,, pantomline— “ Mother Gopse”: Her Mnj Theatro onn: Y ey ;Ilnv rly's Minstrels), buirlesque—* T loodoo™ Queen”; 1laymarket, **Schaol 1 uw, ““The Cup” ‘nnd *“The Corslean 1 Bushes” :\l|l'|]¥|l'; “Qreen The Fool's Revenge; Strand, Ly ilobe, “Les Mousqueinires’ ; Galety, burlesque—*"The Forty Thlgves”s Vaudeville, farce—*The Guy'nor’; Pritce of Waled, A New 'lrial ”3 St J; (' The Money-Spiuner”; Cotrty ® Adrlennoe Lecouvreur?; Folly, faree—"The Upper Crost”; Opern Comlgue, *“I'he - Plrates of Penzance”; Criterlon, farce—" Where's the Cat?” Royalty, burlesque—**Don Juan Junfor”: " Lmperlal, burlesque-- “Billea Haylor”s - Connnught, *'Lan Fillo du Tambour-Major”: New Sad- ler's Wells, “Tho School ‘for —Scan- dal”s Standard, pnmom\mu—"Slcu(ilmz Beauty”; Albumbrs “ Melistofelo ILY3 Surrey, pantomine~*1Iop o' My Thumb?: Britannia, pantomime~** Love's Drenn,? ‘That 15 1o say, outof twenty-five theatres, five _are oceupled by pantonime, five with comle u\lum. four with burlesque, three with faree, five with pluys which are foveign or adapted from foreign sources, whife only three, or at wmost four—namely Sadler’s Wells, Adelphi, Lyceum, und St. James'— are presenting plays of native productlon,— these beine “CChe School for Scandal”; “Green Bushes™s Tennyson’s new two-act tragedy, ! Ihe Cupy"and a hew two-acteomedy, “The ~ Money-Spinner.” Surely,—to judge front *what we ses produced,~tho art of writing plays, othor than mere farces, has sunk to a very low ¢bb In England, It we turn now FROM THE PLAY TO TIE PLAYERS, what wo see wilt Bapdly conyinee us thab there Is nny revival in the histrionie branch of dramtle art. The f)lll)’ oxerts a great In- flugnes In molding anddetermining tho bent -of tho player, and hence the neting wo see in London now Is such s might be expected from the pluya which have been most jn yogue. ‘The cromn of English ncun{: Is here: it 1y, on tho whole, excellent: but Its oxcel- lence 13, a8 ono may tealy suy, on tho lower I.hums of the art. “Wa have lizht comedinns, ow comedians, nud hurlesque actors, gatore, We have even some Indles and_ gentienen of wueh swelghtler who are really not eneournged 18 they deserve. But, If walook about for a rival of Henry Irving, wo see nones or for o successor to flelen Faueit, still wo look fu valn: wo hive no tragedian, no emotionnlist, 1o head high enough’ to b fulrly seen above the crowd, Clara Morris would bo n revelation In London,—n revela- tion of what Intenslity, nbandon, in ncting, means. ‘The tendeney liere has been all In the othor dircetion,—towards n restrafned ex- pression. 'Tho elass of plays whicly In Inte years has tnken strongest hold oA popular aney nconragos In actors o demeanor on the stage which, Indeed, nlms at being nat- ural, but has i tendeney to be stmply tame and commonpluce, 'The lute My, Robertson —the writer of ** Caste,” * School,” *“ Iome,” ete.—founded THE " CUP-AND-SAUCED" BCIIOOL OF COM- DY, 80 _cnlled, perhaps, beenuso the action Is so gentlo as to allow ot the netor walking through it earrying a cup und saueer. * Cup- and-snucer” acting Is modeled on the theory that the essentlul perfeetion of acting s naturalness, and that tho surest way to ap- pear natura] on the stagels to beoi the stage a8 you are in real llfe; and the radieal mis- tnke of this has been made plansible h{ the diminutive size of tho theatres in which thy eup-and-spucor” comedies found n stage, With o plniw of tho “cup-and-saucer” sort, with n cozy Httls theatre, und with staze vet- erang whose naturaluess was the result of the most studled art, the ucllnfi]whlcll con- sists I aeting aglittle ns possible was wn- Aluuhledlf‘ telling, Unfortunately, it scemed S0 ritdieu ouslf lazy, tho trick of” It was sup- pused to be In evorybody’s possussion; and ienco much aeting now that Is eolorless, 1ife- less, nmateurish,—meant for the first row of the stalls only, < The brewdth of expresslon which the stage demunds does not seem to bo undersigod by the new tribe of pluvers, who seem not to bear In wind sufliclently that every neeessory to the stage, from tho language put Into the actor's mouth to the palnt put upon his fece, i3 deslgned oxr ressly Tor an atinosphers of gaslight andmusice; and that the actor’s whole urt—a diflicult one—is really tho mnstering of that faet, n all lts dotafls and entirety, 1t I8 not for want of models that our novl homines tail, At the Huymarket, St. James', and = Adelphl ‘Theatres there nre companies of excellent netors of nll kinds, But thelr excellence, ns 1 have nlready sald, 18 NOT ON TIlE MIGHER PLANES OF THEIR nr, Our best actresses nre Mrs, Kondal (Madgo Robertson), Mrs. Bancroft, and Mlss Ellen Terry, Tho first two aro admlrable tn a witla range, but only Miss Ttm;y glves promlso of further nchiovement, After Mr, Irving, porhaps Mr, Coghlan 13, all In all, our most capable actor, Hlsis o wlde rango niso. 1lg was one of the fivst ropresentatives of Cuptaln Huwiree In *“ Caates” and (nlthongh [ dare say the fuctls not genorally known in Lon- dom he played Lamict on” ong oceasion at the Fifth Avenuo ‘Thoatre, Now York, I happened to be prosent, and was surprised at the capaelty shown by the quondam Hawtree, ‘Theretore It Is that 1 think thero ls still promlise In dr, Coghlan. RanpoLri, CHARLEY ROSS, For The Chicugo Tribune, (Curistlan K, Hoss, the fathor of Charlev toss, 18 ‘quoted ag suylug; * Theonly tidings I have avor recolved of Charloy sinue ho was stolen wus tho domund for i runsom of ¥20,000, It I hud puld thet, [ would have had him long beforo this, Asitis, I have spent $60,000, and bave not got him, [ have oxaniiged more than 00 lost childron in tho search, somo of whom hud been stolous but none of them was Churloy, ames’, Churloy 18 lost, and the litle spurk of Bopo which ‘waa kufit allve tor muny yours Is ut luut oxtinguished, tho littlo lkiduaped boy Is wourned Y dead.”) ‘Whon tho sunlight's golden glory . Fades in bouaty o'er ¢thn plaln, Aund tho shudows tell thelr atory Of tho night that soon shall relgn, ¢ How wo witit, und wateh, and listen For n forin 80 bright and fuflr— Laughing oyes that falrly glluton, Cherry 1ps, and waving halr, 15 thero merry lauehter rloging. Through the opon parlor-door? Do wo hear i 8woot voleo singing, Wu so ot huve heard beforo? ARl the ruom 18 durkencd sotmohaw— Lonoly stands a vacant chalr; Gone our chitd with curly brow, Btolon after morulng-prayors Wuur{ waiting for his coming, Wo huve putour trust in Gods ‘While the sands of lifo arc running Wo must bow benenth s rod, Bo the guthering shudows fall, And we uiourn our boy s doad; Bo in Fanoy's ulutm‘l{ ball v Buve wroathod his youthful hoad, Curoaao, I, U, O, LaNTZ, Too Many Soldiers. Pall Mall Uasrite. Tho Gopman pross Is much engagod in roviow- | Ing the progross mude by the Futheriund sinco the estubllshmont of the :m\ilm tou youand ngo on tho 18th of Junuary, 1871, lu tho Hall of Louls X1IV. ut Vorsalllos, gront deul 18 natarally funde of the frevdom from disntTection—with the ustyuiticant exceeption of o fow followors of the dethroned Hunoverian dynusty—which Germany has l:n}u"ud durlu;{ this deconplil porlod in #plto of thae polley of annuxation which sho was compelled to adopt, A most slenltlcant erli- clsui i3 made by tha Cologne Gazetle, whlch tukea wu Altogothor now doparture, and bemoaus . fu bittor terms tho pressure nj direatly traved 1 o yngt o army, While ullowing thae o s S fomnred Ly Ui Nword myny's N Loy thin aword.® eghresslon gt 0 Dot thut hefare Tonge Germune wil o' o e Dier nrmaments. T polited g 10 o Iusshan Finuneo Minister g gl et necesslty of_ diminishing nxpopnioinc army. V1L Frunco,” adis ‘i miopt 0 Blmilar View, i erier, ¢ thotwhts o 1 War of relnifintion il 2t lead 1o endlesa contests, we shong ) ch oy proapsots. his 13 wntlsfoer nve in orgin which i lm"‘ With P'rinco 1}s: lllrml (] Imuumlln o ho Jong porio HOTVICE exneren whole male. population, “3cte NXxatian, Deilng"Hh f Mgl ,.{}a Fek, T TARIILS Wocndng g re e PARLIAMENTARY LAWY Bhiarp Critlclam of the & Akotino of Convmonn hy' e o thy of the Mowro of Reprosgn Bankw nnd Colfnx — oy S tngtand and the United yiieeh b teresting Oping of Emtaony \p fean Parlfamenturions, Antery The reeent actlon of the § healki Tlouse of Commons In shullluu‘:’v‘x}kfizbn( h the Irlsh question i freely and gy mented upim by some of our sy cl) |w Amerlean parlinmentarians i tho Jy i Uors gy interviews whiclt follow, M, (,‘nlrfwcx“"“ was Spenker of tho Housy of “L‘l’mle‘rxixl:‘ tives, and, ns Viee President, thy proi oflleer of the United S(:\I«M‘So!;lt::u;:flin Hon, . Gene Grant's first adminigg, I8 lafled that no “Amerlean Speaker Wouly have attempted such o ruling agalig minority.” Gen, Banks, who brecedo y, Colfax ns Spenker of the 1lonse of ey sentatives, lnclines to the onintoy Hm;b other course was open fo the Speaker of g, louso of Coumtons than the one he oy It wad an extreme and unprecedentoy !r; ure, but thero was practically no cliolee ta tween its adoption and parliamentary cha Mr. Jolm M. Barelay, whose views Mcnt glven, ls a high authorlty upon ulwslhms; this character. 110 was for many years tiy Jonrnal Clerk of the lHouse of Represugy, tives, and I3 the author of the volume Kiomy a8 *Uarelns’s Digest,” which was the y cepted parlinmentury manual of the lozy of Representatives until the IJumoemu.,) talned control of that braneh of Congrey Mr. John W, Foruey Is ono of our hest T Mumentary authorlties, 1y Clerk of the louse of Revrosen Ing the memornble Sherman-Cennligton e test_for the Spenkarship and Substiuenty the Seeretury ot the United Sufes Senate, sCHUY! KENDALLVILLE, 1 Editor v the Ierald: 1 fyo tefegram, which was 1 eannot, In answer o British or Awmerlean § ut urhl(rurr 01080 OF the 1rist debite by tho S er, Parliunentary vitles protuct mumLuq winorities us civil Inw protects the weakes| momber of the community in his rights, gy though filibusterlog I8 auioying toa innjority 1t 18 nlwa; rled on under the vales, Eveny| our fnton: XCIng WIr-thned ho Awerdey Bpeakor would buve attempted such gy g ogainst o minority, Ghdstond's m»‘ quunt motion to amend ‘the rules ¥ 1 cogrei to the Spenker's lack of Parlinmentary wuthoy. 1ty fur his net. Tho triu remedy £ 1o amend ity rules when o LIl fs pendig, so that, under s detinod Hmitntlons, two-thivds or three-foury of the membors themselves coula terminae debnte that wus ovideutly fuetions, senuyr, JOIN M. BARC WaAsmiNaTON, Feb. 8, I Herald: 1 answer to your telegeam, Just celved, nsklig my viows on thu power of by Spuitker of tho Huuse of Commons 1o close ¢ linte, ns on the Irish Litl, nt tion In expressmy tho opin elining to wlow tho debmte to contie Lo wis an arbitrary ones and this view woull « to bo confirmed by the subsequent winous mont by Mr. Gladstone of his pirpose to duee n propositlon vesting In tiespealter Just ey ad rocontly exereldcd, Intho Amn ean [louse of Represeintntives tho mafoity oy cun terminate debate, and {n no eise \mnfll 1ty Hpoaker attempt todo sv ess nuthorizad byl tho rules or the express order of the Hou Miuoritles sufliclent to call for the yensand nn or for tetlors froquently cause much time toly occupled in voting, but they have no power i continue a debute agalnst thd wishes of o maje! ity. Jons M, BARCLAT JOUN W, FORNEY, PUILADELPITEA, D, 7, 1851, —Tothe of the Herald; 1 can_ only sy n veply to question thit if tho Speaker of the louse d| tepresentatives” of tho United Stutes, or Vice-Uresident of tho United States, or th Spenker of h"{&m"m or House of Represest) atlves Inany Btute of this Republie, wers 4y usurp the rlcht of stopplog debute in gecork fineo with tho example of tho Speaker of (b 1oure of Commond of Great Deitaln, he ool not anly bo torelbly cleeted from his seat, bt \waould cortainly Lo Instuntly lmpenched, if ol killed on tho spot, for ks tyranny. | J. W, FORNER, | GEN, N. P\ BANES. Lx-Speaker Buanks, ln nn Interview with m?IBoswu correspondent of the Heruld, suld: S ** 1t Is the duty of 'the Speaker ta preserd order, so far a8-{o ennble tho Ilose lotrans et 1ts bushiess: . “Thils Is generadly provide for by rule, But if obstruction has wl been antleipated and no provision by on made to provent {t, fn any exi cuso where 1Eshatl oceur to sueh an asto nbsolutely prevent the Lvrxx|||'|'~‘ll<"",X business, It indenitly. contiumed, it will bo the duty of the Speaker, withot it autlority of nuy previons order, to sttt the obsfruction wWas wmwarranted: that it would ba fatal to the privl ol the Hotet, In the transpetion of bustiess, nd to dediy that, I his Judgnient, the euso requined sid deelsion to suppress the aetlon ol uny pers? or persons, whether members or otherviz until the jadgment of the House should tnken on the questlon,” © *This nuthovity,” he sald, In response i n question, * i tot vested In' the Speakerkt the purpuso of merely dlosing n deb nr(;; any purposa relatlng to tho “debate, butth presorve tho privileges of tho House for ‘I&! porformance of its duties, of which heis . guardinn and protector, untit It shatl hased | 1yes g it CoLrax, LAY, : V=T Ure: Editor of ty chance to oxpress [1s pleasure ind Judgise! on the fucts aul the case preseuted. ™ 3 1t not, in your judgment, a great of power to vest In olie man ol “AVell, ves; and it may be abused. A"’Q to It eamiot be Justiterl exvept in o rm whero the power'of the Houso to lmni’ Dusiness in tho regular order hias beed wd .solutely defented,” Provislon for sncl:o&m_ Tences na thoso (n the Dritish {onso of L= mons _should be mude by all lcp.'lsmlhc{ml les, Wao hiave done so by the Insuumm tho * previous guestion,! Only I ll"".m, can porsons offending know thelr rlull"‘q > tho Sperker iuve the suthority of the in declding what Is his duty.” e .. “For the past ten years tho Irlsh mu.um Iiave resorted toobstruction, nud Ul‘l‘) Jesk nover until now been so wrbitrarlly with.! it In ** L thint,” snld Gon, Danks, ¢ that I 0 nresent Instanee the obstructlon \vns‘\w determined and more plaln. ‘Tho II’l‘Nl W ciforts in_that direction were mnm"“u:“ wasting thno by divisions of .“"’ et which ean be ealled for by “'!fv ".’Tflm*" any subject under disenssion. hle cleared and the membors wre uu\mlrt e onter, This takes n tong thmo & L) the moembers. "T'ho obstrietion _mt! tm,k., by tho Irish members jn the lm!s“f'“. were mostly I the shape of debatesi talked agalnst time.” o “Isn't obstruction legltimate? s it “ Yes, Indeed, ‘I'ho 1louse lh‘c|fr",. r nishied precedents for this course Q! [ ] tury, ‘L'ho tirst authorlzed ml""”l“}!:f';:'fm{ debates of Parlinnient was foreed Pl o8 distingulshed mewbers of _the Ui g Commons under the lead of L«lu}fi".,,,.!.-rol whao compelled n divislon on Ntfd there the House, wd every question velating to, diveeting tho nrrest of |n-lnwr=filll\";1“‘h0, Iishers who had been engaged l“l uumun"‘ fzed and presumnbly unluw ful publ lirst e apecehes of membeis. This i3 the R g of obstruction by unneeessuvily "“,',m“x;- tho time of the 1fouse and deters )-m i cutlon of its busluess on record -E:ulll!i’ () 1sh Parllnment, and by its ot privilesd peoplo of England huve sinco th '3 of reading an nuthorized version v bates in Parllmmont.” ald o hado In conelusion, the General sald W doubt the Speaker felt that 1'“'“»”.10“" 1pon to assort thoe dignity and PrE o the 1louse, but whether tho ‘3‘-‘1“« count snstuln him [ such wirunprecede remadned to bo seen, AS UNTO DUST: For The Chicago Tritunde As unto dust Thy form wo truat, And lenve thou bidden, 23 WullfL our oyvd And ot theo futk, In nd greet thee, fir, OankosH, Wid., Jun, B0, 1531 womusly ;Mul i s 196 Clear bead and vojee, eusy’ ”!‘;“',“‘f.l-:{m&“ ; & breath, perfoct smoll, inste, & prodt Coughub letreas Thos ure w_m'“;“"’,:’r',u.hfl nbout 1n vatarsh by tha use of anl Cure, Complote treatinent for &