Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 7, 1881, Page 4

os a THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 188i—SIXTEEN PAGES have resources of which no one is cognizant, chairs, don their crumpled collars, coats, and Oke Triluune, will contest Chalmers’ seat. Mr. Chalmers’ ideas of political “honah* and consistency are not very elevated. nee TERMS OF SUBSCRIETION. Datiy and > ao 13:00 Suesday, ‘1 urday, per year, 6.CO Morte, day, and Friday, per year. 6.00 Bundas, edition, per year. 2.00 @LY EDITIO; ‘One copy, per yea Club AL tre. 7 €pecimen oo: Give Pusi-Ufice ederess in full, including County and Sta Remlitences may be mado cither by draft, express, Post-Oflice order, or ii ed letter, ut our risk. TO CITY SUBSCRIBERS. Datly, delivered, Sunday excepted, 25 centa per week, ally, delitered, Sunday included, 38 cents per week. Address THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Corner Madison and Dearborn-st., Chicago, IL ee POSTAG + Entered at the Post-Ofice at 9%, HL, as Secon t~ Class Matter. For the benefit of our patrons who desire to send tingle coples of THE TRILUN Rrouzh the mail, we give herewith the transient rate of posta Fureton and Damistic. Zient ang ute Paper. Sixteen I Per Com. 2 couts, Iaotey*« Then Tonfoiph sree won CE Engagement of J “The Danichette Grand Opera-Honn Clark street, 6; Court-House. “The Octuroon.* Olymple Thentre. Clark street, beiveen Lake and Handolph. “Un- cle Tom's Cabin.” M.cNuated Cin TL Important « present. Visit W. SL STA: Orear late brotier, cordially Invited tout 1 CHAS, A. MATTILAY, COPeLAT SS SU, 411 ited ALE. HESPERIA LOL inesutity ner of 3 nem ndulph and 1 bers of sister lod; CHAP! a: the Mark Dax cordially invited. | iy ENANT LODGE. Nv. munication G order ut the 31. WL cqicaco ce TES s SUNDAY, AUGUST the London Epuunp Yates’ paper, World, stated some tine ago that the infant son and heir of the Duke of Norfulk was blind. Now comes Vanity Fatr, which, by the way, is edited by a blueblooded person, the Earl of Desart, and flatly contradicts the World's statement, and says the child is nut blind. ASSISTANT Po says that 3314,656 were saved to the Nation during the munth of July by the discontinu- ance of the star roi and no doubt fraudulently esta ince the 4th of March there have been saved to the Nation, through the action of Postmaster- General James, $1,581,452. Brady"s work is being gradually undone. De month of July 259 “agrarian outrages”? were committed in Ireland. Of these 155 were cases of intimidation, that isto tening letters, and twenty-five cases of injury. to property. There were eleven. assaults, twenty arsons, seventeen cattle inaimings, and four eases of firing at the per- son, This record is not so very bad, not by any means as bad asthe London journals would have Jed persons to believe. —_— Mx Hear, the Chargé d’ Affaires of the United States Legation at Constantinople, has informed the State Department at Wash- ington that the order issued in the spring of this year against the importation of Amer- ican meat is practically a dead letter. The Turksrelish our hog products and want them, order or no order, and the Turkish Govern- ment officials have wisely coneiuded that it would be Worse than uscless io attempt tv enforce the ordinance. nian Tue President suffered ewhat yester- day from the extreme heat, and his fever in- creased towards evening, but subsided about so’clock. The temperature of the sick-roum could not be reduced below % without shut- ting the windows, and that was not deemed advisable, The appearance of the wound was good, and the discharge of the pus quite . Satisfactory. The physicians continue to State that “ the patient's condition is satis- factory,” aud to contidently prediet his re- covery. ‘Tne striking laborers of ihe South of Ire- Jand have triumphed. The farmers have been obliged to concede their demands. For the future the Ixborers will be paid two shillings (50 cents) per day during the har- vest time, and will be given half an aere of ground anda house “rent free’? Nothing . issaid about the wages to be given during the winter and spring, but it is probable that they will be as high, -proportionally to the season, as the harvest wages. The laborers + have been taught by the Land Leaguers the Value of organization. GEN. CHALMERS, Who has misrepresented the * Shoestring District ” of Mississippi, has iaken a new departure. . His Democracy has not been questioned heretofore, nor would it at this time but that he has announced him- self a Greenbacker and the Greenback candi- date for United States Senator from Mi vi, vice Lamar. It is not believed that Chalmers has changed his polities through uviction, In fact, it is broadly charged, generally believed, that he has becoine a _. «Teenbacker in order to influence the Green- back Congressmen to vote against the claims of Mr. Lyuch, the colored Republican, who i i { i i 1 i H | i t | fire-ordina trea ; Tenegade Democracy Reports of the condition of the French crops are not quite su favorable as they were some time ago. It is now certain that tho Yield will not be equal to that of last year, and may be below an average, while the crop should be considerably over the average to meet the consumption, ‘The supply to meet the deficiency, the Freneh journals say, will be received from Russia. The United States may be drawn on for this purpose also. Tne British Government is evidently rather badly scared at the muticrings of the lrish revulutionists. It is stated that the Prince of Wales has been advised not to give dinners on board his yacht at Osborne during his forthcoming visit tu the Isle of Wight, as has been his custom on such ocea- sions, lest the Fenians blow up the yacht or capture it, When the news of the secret conclave of Irish patriots at the Pahner House, Chicago, reaches the other side, there will be a greater scare. Tur present disturban: in Bohemia seem to indigate the purpose of the people to secure at no distant, day amore distinet recognition of their autonomy than they now. enjoy. The quarrels of the Czechs with the nuns of Bohemia have ted tore than years, and are now quite as virulent er were. One cause of disagree- between them—the University of Prazue—has been settled by cutting it in twain, not without considerable rioting, making one part Czech and the other Ge! man. Reeentiy another quarrel arose ove the inscriptions on the rerninenv’s paper money, Origmally the amount of each note was printed upon its face in German, S! un, Czeeh, and in haif a dozen Slavon leets, representing all the national di ions of this exccedinugly poly Of late, however, they have been issued with all the inscriptions erased except the Ger- nd Hungarian, whieh the Slavic people regarded in the light of an insult, as i their subjection to these two whont they regard as aliens. Ineensed omission, the Bohemians ment zlot_ Empire. ituted the Czeel, and the question is new raised whether the Austro-ILun ernment will recognize These are uifling matte yay the wind is blow of the Bohemians are growin demanding a tull recozn importance, and also of their i character. and insist that they will no longer iced and ignored to suit the German minority in their country. Itis a great ques- tion rapidly coming up for solution. vems to be no question that the nee is being openly and tagrantly ous parts of the city, and es- pecially in those sections which already offer the most serious menace of conflagration by on of having a large number of. pine buildings. ‘The apology is made on behalf of the clty authorities that the force ef inspret- not large cnough to discover and pre- Tur violated in va ors is vent the violations of the urdinance, There is evidence, however, that | repressive measures are not taken when Violations of the ordinance are brought to the attention of the auiboriiies, and that even the city itself sat the example of erecting fire-triaps in eof the law, The fact seems to be u nt Executive of the city is as different to the enforeement of the fire-ordi nance as he is to the enfurcement of varivus viher ordinances against public nuisances and public scandals. “If the head of the City Goy- ernment were intent upon preventing the ction of fire-traps prohibited by law, there would be no dificulty in doing so. He would only weed to instruct all the police and all the inspectors of the various departments to keep their eyes open and repert infractions of the ordinance, and then order prompt and vigorous prosecution, followed up from day today in all cases of stubborn resistance. But, pending the recent fire-bug agitation for the coutraction of the fire-limits, the Mayor ctually pointed to the very general viula- tion of the ordinance as a reason why it should be repealed or modified! Such a sentiment would seem to warrant the infer- nce that the Mayor is willing to wink at and even encourage violations of the fire-or- dinance as the means for ultimately aban- doning the fire-limits altogether. The license thus practically extended to the fire-bugs is as threatening to the safety of property as the toleration of the low State street and Clark street dives is to the safety of human life. POLITICS IN Hof WEATHER. Think-of holding State Conveniions—and Democratic Conventions at that—in Mi: sippi and Virginia, and an election in North Carulina, at this season of the year, when the thermometers even in a summer-resort like Chicago are cavorting around among the nineties! If any new evidence were needed thatihe South is hopelesly given over to polities these cireumsfances would supply the proof. Ifthe people of Rielmmond, Va and Jackson, Miss., were to devote them- selves exclusively to faus, mint-juleps, and other delusive devices for keeping cool, they would not be able to hold duwn their temper- ature to the normal condition. Lf they were simply to attend to their necessary business they would get a very good idea of the mean degree of heat in the revised edition of Hady But add to this the exciting elements of Southern polities, and they must suffer the torments of the good, old orthodox h—-1 And yet polities is regarded as a tropical luxury, and the people of the South seem 10 revel in it. The characteristic rhetoric of Southern polities flowed like Java in-the Richmond Convention, judging by the specimens whieh have been transmitted by telegraph. One old gentleman, in the simple pracess of nonunating a candidate, boiled over in these terms: “Itis a meretrizvivus progeny of a this prostitute read- the fever-heat required to throw off spark: ike that the newspapers of the ne would be compelled to report a death from prosiration. But nobody at Richmond seems to have been espe eeted by the super- heated conditions which such utierances in- e. It may be that Virginia Bourbons intended to chill the atmosphere by some of the cool things to which they gave expres- sion. For instance, nothing could be more re- freshing than ta hear the old, dyed-in-the-v, Bourbons talk about “eq uality of ri and eq justice to all men.” and about “eleciions by the people free from force or fraud.” When the Confederate Democracy of Virginia ean throw off light. cheerful nonsense of this Kintl in the dog-days the effect certainly ought to be couling. The) ppi Demoerats have a capac- ity for polities which exceeds that of any others. The Virginians did not prolong their conference beyond one d. It was hot while it lasted, but there was 2 manifest disposition to get through. ‘The Bourbons who assembled at Jackson, however, were intent upon drawing out their summer amusement to the longest stretch. . Hence the deadlock. Stone’s friends were stead- Sast and Darksdale’s friends aggressive, apparently agreed upon protonging the ses- sion of the Convention. The Mississippian cannot get too much polities at any .scason of the year. . It would be possible to understand these heated contests durfig the heated, termifany great danger threatenéd the Democratic eause in the South. But polities is sided in that section of the countr is not the smallest necessity for any demon- stration, preparation, or eampaign. Tho Democrats might just as well postpone their nominations til the day before election, and then designate Whom they propose to count in, But the Southern love of politi so great and so widespread that no season fs too warnt or too cold, no conditions too hazard- ous or forbidding, to prevent the indul- gence of thi illu: s sectional vice. Perhaps the best ration of tha overweenme and irrepressible devotion to polities may be found in the circumstance that North Caro- lina held an election day before yesterday— the hottest day of the year—to pass upon the aestion of prohibition. Of course, prohibi- tion voted down by 40,000 or 50,000 ma- jority. The result might have been foretold by anybody. ‘The thermometer at 120 would, not frighten the average Southerner into ab- stinence. ‘There was no need of an election lo.demonstrate that fact. But the North Carolina people w eager to vote just the same. The Southerners would gladly vote on the laws of Moses, or the Confederate Constitution, or any other relic of the past that might besubmitted to them, and neither freezing mereury nor melting mercury could induce them to forego the opportunity. Pol- ities in the Suuth recognizes no seasons, THS NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION: A brief explanation may be necessary to render clear the action of the people of North Carolina at the speent! election last Thursday, which resulted in the overwhelming defeat of the coercive temperance measure. Tho of that State, at its last session, Liil prohibltmg the manufacture or sale in that State of any spirituous or malt liquors, but providing that the act should be submitted to a ratification vote of the people on the 4th oof Au, it a jority voted against — ratifiea- thea the aet was to be null and ita majority voted in the aftirmative, to take effect Get. 1, Nol. The aggre- gate vote in the two Houses for the bill $ 14, and only L7 against it. Forty-nine mem- bers dodged or were absent. It was. not passed by a strictly party vote, as a number of Republicans voted for it, and several Dem- o opposed it; but, as the Leeistature Was Demoeratie by a nearly three-fourths majority, the responsibility was on tne Dem- the first time in the history of that it had passed a prohibitery liquor in any Stute, and it will probably be ime before itrepeats th ‘periment— in North Carolina or any other State, A hostile majority of 70,000 li piling efeet on the enthusi ts in behalf of swmptu: ‘The foliowing is as Carolina prohibitory avt, whieh was struck by lightning at the polls; it will be seen that modeled on the lines of the probivitory s law: By the terms of the first section it is made a misdemexnor punishable by a tine of not less than 8100 nor more than $1,008), and imprisonment, iu the discretion of ‘the Court, to manufacture, buy or sell, di- reetly ur indirectly, any spirituous or malt liquors, except wine and cider, or to sell by y shift, subterfuge, or device, spirituous liquors, or any liquors of which spirituous liquor is a material or constituent part, in any quautity, in the State, otherwise than as provided in the act. ‘Phe seeund section pro- vides that spirituous liquors shall-be sold only for medieal, chemical. and mechan- ical purposes, and only by a druggist or physician licensed to keep on hand not more than thirty gallons, and restricted’ to sales of not more than a gailoi ata time to aay person, The third section requires that the County Commissioner shall ascertain, before granting a druggist’s or physicians license, by the oath and examination of two or more sober and reputable citizens, that the applicant for license is a sober, reliable, and stwWorthy person, and requires justification ins to $5,000 for the faithful discharge of all the requirements of th Having ob- tained his license, the druggist must not sell any quantity unless the intending purehaser shall present the certificate of a sober and respectable practicing phys no not 2 licensed dealer under this act, given upon required for med- Like certificates are required from mechanics, and a physician or mechanic who makes a false certiticate ts to be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, fined $100 or $500, and imprisoned if the Court direets. Sec. 5 Tepeais the penalties already referred to; See. Gdeclares that the act shall effect Oct. 1, ISS1; andthe s nth and last section orders a special election to be held on the first ‘Thursday in Ausust to take the sense of the electors on the question of prohibition or no prohibition. HOW TO ABATE THE SHOEE-NUISANCE. At is not easy to belicve, but itis neverthe- Jess true, that there isan ordinanee in this city against the smoke-nuisanee, which is adequate in its terms to suppress t nui- sance if it were properly enforced. Nobody seems to pay any attention. to It It has been demonstrated by long experience that the people engaged in bi ss Which re- quires engines and furnaces would not, asa rule, take any voluntary measures for the consumption of smoke. When an ordinance proposed in the Council the railroads ad other corporations organized a lobby aginst it and succeeded: in defeating it, Finally the ordinance was included among the revised ordinances recently prepared, and it passed the Council in that shape. ‘It is time now that steps should be taken to abate the nuisance. The city law is as fol- low 0. The emission of dense smoke from the smoke-stack of any bout or locomo- ¢, OF from any chimney anywhere within the shall be deemed aud is herevy declared to vapublic nuisince: Provided, that chimneys of buikdings xetusively for private r deners shall not be deemed within the provis- fons of this ordinance. . 151, The owner or owner: e f any boat or n OF persons erwise in the work- ; Hes in satd bout or in caneuve, and. the proprictor, nt of aay building who shall ov iése or Le emit- uch bot or chimney of auy building porate li wil be deemed agd and shall fez ity a sum not le 0 Sees, 14K, LO, | tale effect and be in furee frou IL be the duty of the Commis- th an endent of Pow o M1 of this article conipiaint aatinst to be prosecuted all persons violating aaployed ing of th operating + lessee, and ov iz shall t fatter M. w te be enfore and cs ‘This law is comprehensive and fair. It in- clades within its. provisians all the smoke. stacks and chimneys which are daily and hourly blackening the buildings, ruining the goods, the furniture, and elothes of people, and filling the streets and byways with the soot and dirt which they throw out. There no hardship in the ordinance, for no one is required to 1ge particular stnoke-eon- stuner, or any appliance whatsoever, but only to prevent the emission of the deuse smoke which occasions the nuisance and destroys thousands of dollars’ worth of prop- Featherstone’s adherents hopeful, and Cal- houn’s determined. But all factions were- erty every year. It is known to a certainty that the smoke can be consumed to a degree ; nation of the proper method fo that will cut off the black blotches of carbon that fill the air. The ordinance requires that it shall be consumed. And yet we venture the assertion that not one of the Inspectors employed in the Tealth Office, and not a sin- gle member of the police force, feels the re- sponsibility which the ordinance specifically imposes upon those two departinents. At all events, the smoke nuisance remains un- abated, and we hear of no prosecutions. It now becomes a pertinent question, why Mayor Harrison does not issue orders to the police to take cognizance of this matter and enforce the law. ‘The patrelmen, in walking their beats, have abundant time and oppor- tunity to make a note of sueh chimneys, tugs, and locomotives as pour out volumes of dense smoke, Lot them be instructed to act partly as missionaries and partly a6 pros- ecutors. If every policeman had this duty on his mind, and were properly informed, much could be accomplished in the way of abating the nuisance without actual prose cution. A large part of the smoke now emitted from chimneys ean t voided and consumed simply by an intelligent process of “firing” or stoking. ‘The provess is as follows: Instead of shoveling in a mass of fresh coal at long intervals, which cov up the whole grate and cools off the fire and boilers, pro- ducing adense smoke, which rushes up tio chimneys, let the fresh coal be added fre~ quently and in sinaller quantity; place it in the front of the furnace, and there let it coke before itis pushed over uvon the glowing coals. If this simple rule were followed, the burners of coal in furniees would save 25 percentof their fuel, andit would be sufficient in most cases to avoid the emission of smoke in such measure and quality as to constitute annisance. In thelarger furn where it is necessary to employ a smoke-consumer in order to complete the work, the process described is still essential, for no appliance for the consumption of sinoke contemplates the impediment of a eold fire any more than it does that of a refrigerator. This process is so simple that every In- spectur and every policeman can be made to understand it from a single lesson. Onee understanding it and appreciating the duty of abating the nuisance, the police may remonstrate intelligently with the peopie who own furnaces and ran engin and re- auire from the engineers a strict observance of this plan for * tirin: Hf instruction and remonstranee fall, then let the offending engineers be prosecuted and fined as the law provides. The peaaity will not need to be a very often before C:e men who em- ploy engineers and firemen will conpel their employés to give proper attention to their fires, to supply them with fuel tre- quently, and to place the fresh «1 at the front where it can become heated before spreading it over the whole grate. ‘The Mayor mus this matterin charge if he would retain the guod will of the peo- ple of Chicago. | Mis instructions to the Superintendent of Police, it snitiviently plicit, and Imperative, will lead to proper in- spection, and assist in the general dissemi- ti the nuisance. ‘The City of Chivago is fast losing its beauty and attractions by reason of stub- born indiference to 2 “firing,” tir ordinance. s, comfort, and the all demand an abatement of the smoke-nuisance, and the Mayor has it in his power tu comply with the pupular demand. proper authorities fo enforee a Public health, eleantine: THE BRITISH PAXLIAMENTARY CRISIS. ‘The action of the British House of Lords in amending the Irish Land bill iy result in bringing about an excitement in England which will bode no good tu that body of hereditary tegisiators. The House of Lords has so amended the Land biil as passed by: the Commons that its whole etfect and our- pose been defeated, and in some vital particulars absolutely changed. ‘Co these amendments Mr. Gladstone and his Ministry will never submit, and: when the bill is re- turned to the Commons that body will promptly reject the amendinents, ‘The bill will be returned to the Lords, and thea the direct question will be presented, Will the Lords “adliere” toor “recede” from their amendments? ‘The landed interest, inelud- ing all the Tories and many of the Whigs. have, on these amendments, shown an aver- age inajority of 100 votes. How. many will brave public opinion by persistently refusing eoneurrence with the formally and repeat- edly declared will of the Commons re- mains to be seen, but that a majority will at first vote to “adhere” to the amend- ments is most probable. What then, in such ease, can the Minis do? {f defeated In he Commons the Ministry can resign, or they can dissolve Parliament and appeal to the people at a new election, as Disraeli did less than two years ago. But in ease of a defeat by the House of Lords other meas- ures must be resorted to in order to sceure to the Commons the right to govern. ‘The precedents in this tine of British par- liamentary coniliets are few, the Lords rare- ly pushing things tothe last extremity. A. memorable case oceurred during the reign of William UL The King had made a distri- bution of the Lrish estates forteited to him, and had granted them toseveral of his Duteh friends. ‘The Commons were indignant, and proceeded by law to change the d: This bill mended by the Lords; when it was returned tothe Commons the latter body unanimously rejected the amend- ments and then tacked to the dill the Supply bill, and sent the united Dills back to the Lords. ‘The Lords resented this proceeding because it compelled them tu accept the whole bill without any amend- ment. ‘The controversy lasted a long time, and the greatest excitement prevailed throughout England. At last the decisive hour arrived, Ma n his history al feeling was in favor of the bill. It was rumored that the majority which bud de- termined Lo stand by the amendments hud been 5 eral prelates, by several of the illegitimate sons of Charles {L. and several y and greedy courtiers. The cry public pltecs of resort was that the nation would be ruined by the three B's, lishops, Bastards, and Bexyars. On Wednesday, the 10th of April, there was a conference of tne two Houses, but it failed. ‘The King himself had weakened, and had suggested that it was best to pass the bill as the less of two evils. Fi Lords divided on the question that the House “adhere” to its amendments; the vote forty on each side, and, under the rules, what is not tied by a majority is los Another vote was taken on the question that the Lords agree to the bill without amend- ments. This was the decisive vote that was to announce a surrender on the part of the Lords, or perhaps a civil war. The Arch- Lishop and four otlier Bishops at the last mu- ent 3 from their seats and left the House; the Lords surrendered, and the bill Was passed. Another precedent of a conflict between the Lords and Commons grew out of the fall of Marlborough, by-the secret treaty of peace between france and Enyland. He returned to England and he-indueed the House of Lords to denoince the peace. ‘The Com- mons, the Queen, end the people, howey fe ired of. the The Whigs had t mdjority of the Lords, but q jority was overwhelined by the Tory Minis try creating twelve new ory Peers. That Was a notable instance of the power of the Ministry to’ control an adverse majority in the Lords. In 1720, the Whigs, being then in power, proposed a bill limiting the creation of fresh Peers, in order, as was stated, to se- cure the independence of the House of Lords, and die bill, veing opposed by Walpole, was defeated, thus leaving it conceded that the Crown imay ereate new Peers to override an adverse najority in the Lorus. ‘Lhe most important case was that, how- ever, of the contlict between the two Houses on the-passage of the Parliamentary Reform Dill in the reign of William 1V. In 1831 the bill reforming Parliamentary representation was ordered to a second reading in the Com- mons by a majozity of one in a total of 60s. Afterseveral weeks’ debate, on adivision the Ministry was defeated by a majority of eight. ‘The King thereupon dissolved Parliment. The appeal to the country by the Ministers was triumphantly answered, and in September the new House of Commons passed the bill by 345 to 230. The llouse of Lords rejected the bill by a majority of forty-one. The next day the Commons, by a resolution, reaflirmed its devotion to the principles of the bill; the session, however, closed without any further action. During the recess the country was. -greatly excited, and riots and tumults existed. in many parts of the Kingdom, At tho re- nbiing of Parliament a new bill was i troduced, and in March, 182, was pas: the Commons. in the Hou of Lords there was decided majority against the Ministry, and the debate was The next day. the adjourned for a weel Cabinet decided to ask the King for the per- lnission to create new Peers. The King re- fusca his assent, whereupon the Ministers resigned. Thecountry was in alarm, Meet- ings were held all over England, and peti- tions favoring the bill were forwarded. n efforts were made to form anew Ministry, and after several weeks’ delay the old Min- istry resumed ofiice on the following promise being given by the King: The King -grants_ permis: and to his Chanevilor, Brousham, to create such anumber of Peers 23 will be Ssufli¢ient to fusure we of the Reform vill, first calling up dest sons. (Signed) mi Say 17, ISB, Wits, I The King personatly urged the Peers to withdraw their opposition, A sufficient nuin- ber of the Tory Peers absented themselves from the House and allowed ube bill to pa: ‘fhe power to create new Peers was not ¢ ised, Dut that it would have been had the $ endered is known, pective conflict between the two Tlouses on the Irish Land bill will renew the struggle as to the supremacy of the Com- qmons. Mr. Gladstone, backed by the great popular sentiment of the Kingdom, is uct a nian to flinch in the presence of a hostile House of Lords, particularly when the depo- sition or abolition of the Lords as a branch of the Government is a measure strongly ad- vouated by a large mass ot the people. ‘The Lords are resolute in the defense of their order, and it is among the possibilities that outof the struggle on this Land bill may xrow some radical measures concerning suffrage, reformed representation, and spe- cial privileges, that may practically: render the House of Lords a comparatively impo- tent part of the British Legislature. fon to Earl Grey NEXT SEASON'S OPERA. ions of the recent imusieal syn- ‘ The opera dicate in London have an important beari upyn the operati next season. The scheme of this syndicate, ood is cumpleted, @ of Covel den and Her $. Wilh the view to the closing of the a has been under the direction of uni having but one Italian ity, under the charge of Mr. y be conceived that Cul. Maple- son readily accepted the scheme. for he has been an almpst continuous loser at [er Maj: esty’s since 1862, when he first took its man- agement, rnd his ventures in this country have not been largely remunerative, Indeed, at the time the syndicate was formed, he was ahout to lose the lease of Her Majesty's ‘Theatre. ‘Lhe scheme, therefore, rescued him from serious loss, It is. understood that he received something for his interest and all’ the material of the theatre, at least sufficient to meet his linbilities and ething over as capital stock upon which renew operations in this country. ‘The principal condition to which he binds himself is nut to give Italian ypera in London, which leaves him free for America. Meanwhile his theatre will be let to managers who will stipulate only to give concerts or English opera, which would open the doors tu Carl Rusa. Mr. Gye also agrees not te interfere with his ventures in this country, which is an ‘abandonment of his (Gye’s) origmat project to come here next season with a com- pany in competition with Mapleson, Healso stipulates to furnish him with artists, not in use at Covent Garden, and appears as the mi ing director of the new concern with wsalary and share in the profits. ‘The Lon- don correspondent of the American 2trt Journal, who is usually very well informed in these matters, says: Meauwhile let it be quite understood that the chief difticuities will come from the side artists. ‘The opera company, timited, tha about twenty years ago, and "the coalition set gon of I8sl, were bouh upset by the artists, Without ccmpetition salaries must yo down, and no sooner bis an attempt at coalition been made than the artists at once startin opposi- tion. ‘The xttempt is, it will bo seen, being made to obviate this hy bindiug down tho new lesece of Her Majesty’s not to. perform Italian tht no fear need exist save in the a of Drury Lane, which is the only re- inaining house in London suitavle for Italian opera, Next v however, Drury Lane is ken by the Itichter opera troupe. There are, however, more serious results to be considered with reference to the <American campaign than anything in the above extract. Col, Mapleson has not as yet secured any stars for this season. Patti, it is uow known, ifsheappears here in opera at all, willdo so under the management of Nicol- ini, Nilsson is under Mr. Jarrett’s manage nent, and Mr. Jarrett is not on the best of terms with Cul. Mapleson; besides, if Patti sings in opera, Nilsson will not come here under any onc’s management. Miss Cary has definitly decided to leave the operatic stage. Gerster has gone over to Strakoscl. Campanini and i are out. with Mapleson. This which it is now under: Was the pureh Majesi Tatter, whi Col. Mapleson, to is not avery pleasant outlook, and indicates that we are likely to have an ensemble rather than stars, and the same authority we have quoted abov “Mr. Mapleson at. pre; ent pins his faith on a change in the repet tory, and thinks the American people would prefer grand opera adequately rendered, in- stead of the ‘Sounambulas’ and ‘Lueias? sun would, but the discovery is no credit to Ma bleson’s foresight, for he was made aware of that fact all last season from one end of the country to the other, with so much itera- tion that “tthe wayfaring man though a fool?? might have comprehended it, Bus What sort of an ensemble shall we have if Weare to be dependent on the leavings of Covent Garden ? A change of this sort would be a delizhtful one, patrons in this country are tired of anything it is of the everlasting performance of a few of the lightest Italian operas which are chosen to set off the pretty vocal trickerics of bravura singers, But better that than srand operas inadequately performed. ‘The despair of the situation is that Mapleson Will be in the field substantially without compe- tition in his ensemble work, since the ap- pearance of Mme. Gerster at the head of the Strakosch troupe indicates that he will de- vote himself to the “Marthas,? “Sonnain- by petted stars.” Unquestionably they for if the operatic + or he way be intending to spring some sur- pris but the prospect does not luok very flattering. The syndicate will work well for London, but it threatens a monopaly in this. country that is not pleasant to comtemplate. BARBERS AND THR HUMAN RACE. A writer in the New York Times develops the theory that the professional barber is the responsible cause of the. gradual redue- tion in stature of certain classes of people. He finds, for example, that the young men of society who are. shaved by barbe short and squatty, while farmers who shave heir own beards are. tall and well formed; that Scotehmen, the men of Maine and Min- nesota, and of the rural districts generally, are long and lank, while the denizens of cities are, so to speak, zrowing shorter and shorter as time wears away. The Ties writer declares that, while scientific persons have made frequent allu- sion to this curious fact of metaphysics and attempted to account for it on various grounds, they have thrown no light upon the subject. Naturaliy, the writer feels a pro- found contempt for the bafiled scientists, who have burned the midnight ofl in a vain en- deaver to discover the occult cause of a palpable and undeniable eifect, while to the vision of genius the cause lies on the very surface of things, its it were, and needs only to be suggested to enforce conviction in the common mind. "fo him the cause is as plain asthe row of bald heads whieh adorn the orchestra seats of a theatre. He says Where men sbave tuemscives, in Scotland, nd outside of Londoa, in Lombardy, in and in the rural distriets of the United States, they are tall. Where it is the usual custom for men to be Bhaved by burbers, they are small, Years ago every New-Enzlander and every New-Yorker shaved himself, and their average sitiure Was the same ns that of the Maine backwoolsman woo bas never seen a barber's shup. ‘The decreuse in the stature of Americans of the.A ic States, of Frenehmen, sapolitans, las in every Ine ¢ begun soon after the introduction of the It would practice of being shaved by burhers. ¢ than folly to suppose that this isa mero cvincitence, und that the barbers are noi the real cause of the decrease in stiture of the euni- aunities in which the. No doubt the Times writer has hit the nail squarely on the head. Scientists may sneer and refuse to adopt his conclusion, but the world at large will aceept it, and, it is to be hoped, act upoa it, But wiat will become of the barbe! ‘Their occupation, like Uthello’s, will be “gone.” Short boys with an in- soft chi HL here- visible down upon thei after avoid the barber's shop as they would flee from th azU ure years, but of small stature, will abandon their daily pilgrimage to the barber's shop and hack way at their own fitces in the desperate hope of adding an inch ty the top of their heads, ety will buy a dozen of suap, The young men of soe. razors apiece, unlimited cakes camel’s-hair brushes, mugs, strop: tonics, perfume: -, ete, and each in his pri barber’s shop, over which he will personally presitle. The Thnes writer has ruined a great indu: trial aruck it aut uf existence, — and this without the smallest feeling of re- morse itt the ruin he has wrought. It would. have been more Kind, moré human in this ‘Vandal had he suggested some nictiiod of re forming barbers. He might gone ona siep further, and inquired, at least, why it i that barbers exert sucha baleful inthrence over the destiny of mankind. Bat he must need tnch his thunderbolt of destruction instantly upon its discovery, without wai to inquire whether the necessity of launching itatall might not peradventure have been o viated. He admits with too muel haste his utter inability to diseover the cause of the cause he has discovered, In a ‘helpless way he exclaim: Why barbers should hav curious and disastrous enfect is very Doubtless the Limes philosopher was, his youth, a tall, well-formed. man,—a_ six footer. In an evil moment—a moment of azy indolence—he seated himself ina bar Ly chair, to which chair he h nee re- turned daily for the lust forty or fifty years; and, alas! he is informea by his lor that he is only “four feet ten,” and by his mirror that he is bald, squatty, fat, and bow-legged. und in a fit of insensate rage resolves upon the remorseless destruc- tion of the entire razor-flourishing fraternity. He ought to have had himself measured be- fore. If, for instance, he had been measured at the end of the first year, assuming that he has been shaved fift years, or 20,440 times, he would have discovered the loss of a quarter of an inch of his stature. Upon making this dicovery he would havereflected as to thecxuse. He would have made a study of the barber's shop, and would prob- ably have gained some insight into its gen- eral effects upon habitués thereof. He might have noted the sheepish air which distin- suishes all men atthe moment of crossing the threshold of the barber-shop. ‘The man may be as proud as Lucifer as he walks the streets, but when he takes off his hat the ber’s shop he takes off his sovereignty with it. He may be as rich as Creasus, but he vows abjectly to the knight of the razor, and offers to take a “ehair But bavber cries out “next,” and haughtily repulses the neweomer. Dennded of his coat, necktie, and collar, he slinks into a corner, pretends to read a news wuper,, but watches furtively for the monotonous ery, “next,” looking all the while as abject as 2 peanut-peddler out of bus ie luoks perceptibly shorter as he rises to sneak into a ehair, and, once in the ebair, he resembles .2 bundle of old elothes, and appears to need up” like old Father Smallweed. ps several soiled towel! sussestively feeling of h crowds them down and covers them with a calico rag which looks likean apple-woman’ old apron, ‘Then the barber feels of the vic- tim’s chin, and runs his greasy tinge’ through his hair, tapping the bald Spot as be seover whether it had commenced to decay. Next he covers the poor wreteh’s ta ith scap, rubs it off, puts on another coat, inserts his fingers in the cor- ners of the mouth to remove the surplus lather, and leaves the subject looking tike a halt-disguised clown. ‘Then he seizes the razor and strops it violently, all the time regarding the man in the chair with an evil eye, much asa butcher regards calf he is about to kil, ‘The man in the eh sinks lower and lower, until he looks like a speck of lather in a mass of toweis. He stances round furtively, and sees other barbers stropping six other razors and gaz ing backwardly at their victims as if abont to bounce upon them and sever their several jucal ‘Then there is a resping sound, ag | of innumerable buzz-saws, that would shatter he nerves of a steam-engine, and after what svems to be an age the en fiends wipe their seven razorson the paims of their seven left hands, and seem reluctant to fold them, as they loo; lonately at the seven juzu- lar veins of their 1 helpless sg j sunk almost ont of 5) cht night an apple, to ¢ 7 in soiled towels and abplewomen’s aprons, ‘The seven vietins close h their eyes and open them with a start as thei faces are souzed With seven towels vaturated with a horr te | decoction of alcohol, ainmonia, and glycerine, dashed with a sickening perfume. ‘Then the | Seven heads are serupbed, and sponged, and greased, and brushed, and combed, and seven more or less rged towels are passed over the seven faces, jabbed Into the ears, inserted hats, and sneak out of the barber’s shop with the air and mien ot convicts emerging from the penitentiary. Onea on the street, they “straighten up and try to resume — the! Sovereignty with their hats. But they are shorter; they have left something of their stature in the shop behind. It is easier for their wives to henpeck them than it was before the awful ordeal of the barber. ‘This is the cause of the cause discovered by the Times writer, of the gradual short. ening in stature of urban people. Wrapved in soiled towels, intimidated with razors, drowned in bad alcohol, smothered in sour grease, punched iu the ear, jabbed in the eye, his mouth warped out of shape, his tose tweaked familiarly, if not insultingly, by a mere barber! ,The wonder is, not that the victitn loses something of his stature at each infliction, but that he does not finally ee: 8a tu stand erect, lose. the form of man, aud walk like a beast on all fours —— ee GUITEAU'S FRAUDULENT PETITION, It is stated that, since drawing his petition to be admitted to bail, Guiteau has been cone vinced that it would not be safe fur him to appear in public. It is very improbable that the murderous wretch required to be “con vineed” on this poiut. Frou the moment of the shooting he betray ive fear of lynching, Ie begged to’ be safely tocked in Jail away from the just indignation and raga ofan ontraged pudlic. And this faet is one of the strongest’ pieces of evidence in port of his sanity at the time of the e sion of the ¢ it is part of the res ges Guileau’s first retleetion was: “My purpusa i Muplished: my shots ye penetrated a vital part.—the President will die.” [is second reileetion. followed instantaneously and logically: “The crime I have committed so heinous that the crowds in the street will feel an instant, irresistible impulse to tear me in pieces,” and, white with fear, he pleaded to be taken to Having com. initted a monstrous crime against all law: human, moral, and divine,—with brazen effrontery he instantly invoked the protec tion of the ininisters of the law! ‘This is the immediate case, and it will tell powerfully: of iusanity i that theor Lasa defense, For itis equivalent toa demonstration, not merely that the would-be assasin reatizea fully the nature of his act immedi: fter its con jon, bat that he had previously contemplated it as a crime with all that such, xerlue would imply. Indeed, Guitean him elf claims that he had planned an DE Seatpe Lo the jail to the proteetion’yf the laws whieh shows that he grasped ation in advanee,—the popular verdiet as to the moustrous character of the crime, and the popular. desire to execute instant ven- nee upen the perpetratur of the blovdy cL. ow, there is not a particle of evidence that Guitegu has for one moment been free from the appailing fear of popular ven- geanee, Doudiless this fear has become less. active with the lapse ot time, but. doubtless it still exists. In the early stages of his cone finement the wretch itagined that he heard strange sounds-from beyond the walls of his prison,—shouts and the noise of bluws beat- ing upon the masonry of the jail building, He shuddered then at the thought of falling into the hands of a mob, and he no doubt SUI trembles at the same thought. For Guis teau knows that frecdoin and safety are not s nm his case. Ife knows bhorred of allmanking. He knows that, if free, no man would exll hi “friend,” no man would dare to shelter hiins pity for him has been drowned in the tears shed for his iHustrious vietim. ‘To pity Gui- tean would be inhuman; to sympathize with him would be to scorn justice. Knowing all this, why did Guitean pre bare a petition praying to be admitted to bail, and then request the Distriet-Attorney to lock the precious dozument upin his safe? Guiteau in fact don’t dare to leave the pro- tection of the jail. He has drawn a petition, the privileges of which, if granted,-he would not dare avail himseif of. Nothing but bri and stone masonry will protect Guitean, and the scoundrel knows it. ‘There are nog de thar he- is policemen enough in Washington or any other tve Guiteau, free, city of the country to from death. and he knows it and realizes it, llis petition to be admitted to bail Is a fraud, a lie, a miserable trick to place before the country his defense of ine sanity. He says “the ni:adus of ine sanity is playmg around his brain,’? and he fears that longer confinement will make him mad. But he is ¢: ul to re- quest the District-Attorney not to present his petition to the Court, not to let the Court know that he desires to be admitted to bail! This is of a piece with the tricks he for anerly played upon boarding-howse keepers. The “nimbus’ that is playing around Guise teau brain issuch a “disk of r: * of as plays around the head of a fiend, is entirely worthy of an incarnate fiend to Es regret, uiteau does, that the Presilent did not die immediate! ", but still Jives to suffer, It is in keeping with the dev= ilish duplicity and low cunning of Gultean’s eh to treat with scorn the insinuation that he is insane, and in the next line of his petition charze his dead tather with having been “a religions monomanine,” and to state et that two ot his relatives on the side are inmates of insane: INS, instincts are not evidence of insan tiness is nut evidence of insanity. As Guiteau has been il-treating his family all his life, it is perfectly natural that he K to eseape the penalty of his ring his dead father, but the fact is evidence 1: thag of insant Neither is inpudence evidence of insani In this petition which Guiteau prepared, but never intended to have pre sented to the Court to whieh it is addressed, he expresses a desire to be ed” In the conduct of his defense by -class legal talent.” dle has the eff; butery to sug> gest that the Hon. Emery A. Storrs be imported to Washington to “aasist? him, the villain Guitean, in conducting @ ease in court! There might be no linpro- priety in Mr. Storrs underta King the defense of such a wretch, for he entitled in law te be defended, but there would be manifest inpropriety in any reputable attorney “as sociating* himself with a miserable shyster and would-be assagin in any ease, in or out of court. ff Guiteau wants to try his own case he will no doubt be permitted to try it Without assistaneen, A great lawyer may unde tu defend Guiteau, but. it is exe tremely improbable that any lawyer, great or small, will consent to ‘assist’? the scoun- drel in defending himself, # Women in Richmond, or any other widowers ona brief wcquaint- ving seen credentials of charac= them, are no doubt very unfortunate, ¢ also extremely rash, ‘The same ‘ hi of ladies who set of for long tramps through the Adirondack wilderness xecompanied only by a guide. The Ludies themselves may not be so much to blame as heir natural guirdians and protectors, who stonld see that they have Snilicient guud a.ivice to keep them outot dau+ er, ‘ <a Uxrit, a new Sceret: nf the Senate Is elected, the meubers and employs of that body Will be Deid in aceordunce with the precedent set In the following order, issued by President Grant: re into the eyes, anu whisked about the neck, and the seven victims crawl out of the seyen Execovive MAnstox, WasniscTox, D. C+ Marek Uy 10%.—The Hon, BW. Dantor, Elst |