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THE UOCIIEFOttT EMEUTE IN PARIS.
rrvm the 8. T. World.
The easy snppresmon of thfl recent din
turbances and prompt restoration of order
and quiet without ncones of oarrmgo and hor
ror such at have often been enafltod in tha
Btreete of Paris, are creditable to the modera
tion which has, on thiocoanion, tempered the
fliuinesa of the Frenoh Government. It was
the determination of the authorities to shed
do blood, if bloodshed cor.ld be avoided; and
the anpprosHion of the riot without any "orion
Iom of life has caused the wave to pass under
the ship without straining iU timbers.
The Government was fully prepared for
this emergency, physioally and morally. The
time that nad elapsed since the assassination
of Victor Noir, which led to these tronblos,
has been suffloient for the adoption of pre
cautionary measures by quietly bringing
more troops to the vicinity of Taris, and
making suoh. military dispositions as would
enable the army to act with vigor and over
whelming efficiency, if an extreme emergency
ehoild arise. The feeling among the intelli
gent classes that the Government was irre
sistible against any immediate attempts
at revolution has spared the necessity of a
full exertion of its strength. In the proceed
ings against Rochofort, the care which it
took to fortify itself legally and morally
evinced solid wisdom. Uy introducing the
subject in the Corps Legislatif, and inviting
and tolerating full dobate upon it in advanoo
of the prosecution, the Government got on
opportunity to explain its motives and
answer objections to its proposed conrse in
the face of the nation; and M. Ollivier did this
with so much skill and success that he carried
the assembly with him by an overwhelming
majority the numbers being 222 votes for,
and only S4 against the proseoution. This
put it out of the power of the malcontents to
assert, with any color of plausibility, that the
Government was acting fey arbitrary caprice
or headlong resentment in the steps it was
taking. The prosecution was sanctioned in
advance by the great body of the elected re
presentatives of the people, and therefore
seemed undertaken purely in the interest of
order, and with the moral support of .the nation.
These precautions made theprooeedings against
llochefort seem in ostensible harmony with
the professed renunciation of personal and
the substitution of representative govern
ment. They were rendered necessary by the
f aot that Rochefort was himself a deputy, and
bis offense an abuse of the freedom of the
press both being points on whioh the whole
liberal part of the nation are extremely and
justly sensitive. All this precaution
ary preparation was adroitly planned,
and U justified by the result. The new Gov
ernment has passed, without a serious
shock, through an unexpected and most inop
portune crisis. . -
If a neeessity had arisen for wholesale
slaughter to put down the rioters, there is no
reason to doubt that the imperial troops
would have been victorious; but the reform
of the Government would have been arrested
and turned back, and the new liberal tenden
cies destroyed in the germ. If the Emperor
Napoleon were twenty years younger and in
the full vigor of health, perhaps he would
have gladly accepted such a result. But the
-Emperor is growing old, his health frail, the
heir to his throne a child, the Empress with
out talents to govern strongly as a regent,
and the stability of his dynasty is staked on
the success of his tardy attempt to inaugu
rate representative government. lie is
acting under the coercion of circumstances;
but the necessities of his position are a
guarantee of his good faith in the recent
change of system. Yet his interest in it is
only personal, and lie would withdraw every
.concession and fall back upon the army as
the sole instrument of authority, if he felt his
throne tottering under him during his life
time. . lie will not risk present power for the
chanoe of perpetuating his dynasty after his
decease. If, therefore, the recent riot had
grown to more formidable proportions, it
.would have been unflinchingly put down at
whatever coat, and followed by a sullen re
lapse into imperial absolutism. It is fortu
nate for the experiment that Paris was not
thrown into one of those wild deliriums of
violenoe to which its excitable population is
so prone.
If it is a misfortune to the Emperor to
have such an impetuous, hare-brained relative
as Prince Pierre Bonaparte, whose inurderouB
folly furnished the occasion for these disturb
ances, it has been, on the other hand, a great
'advantage that the loader who undertook to
turn the occasion to account is such a despi
cable fomenter of sedition as Henri Roche
fort. This uneasy miscreant lias not a single
title to respect. He has a vulgar, sinister
faoe; a repulsive bearing; an upstart insolence
of manner; no talent that tiu him for any
other trade than that of a libeller; no quality
. which can bind his associates to him by any
other tie than a common taste for violence
and rancor, or common hatred of tho impe
rial family. The liberal statestcen of Trance
scorn, despise, and shun him; thfly wash iheir
hands of all affiliation or complicity with him,
and would think themselves disgraced by con
senting to follow him as a lender. . The pru
dent moderation of SI. Ollivier, supported as
it was by the great body of the deputies, is
set off to great advantage by contrast with
'such a vulgar domngi;;ue aud reckless, vio
leut libeller as this luisommt Rochefort.
As things look at tbis distanee, the govern
ment of SI. Ollivier will not be weakened by
the recent outbreak, it arose out of an oc
currence which nobody conld have so much
regretted as the Goverment, and for which no
other member of the Imperial family is re
sponsible than the discHteemed perpetrator;
and he was surrendered without hesitation,
or any attempt at favoritism, to be dealt with
aooording to the law. r ranee tias, no doubt,
real grievances; but the assassination of
Yiotor Noir by a bully who happens to belong
to the Imperial family was not an occurrence
whioh justified an attempted revolution. The
sober publio judgment of Paris oould neither
approve of the cause nor tne raetnoas 01 me
revolutionists on this occasion; and as they
did not succeed in provoking the Government
into haste, violence, cruelty, or passion, but,
on the contrarv. led it to a display 01 wise
moderation, combined with steady, ummail
ing firmness, and followed by prompt and
almost bloodless success, the Imperial re
forms will probably command as much conft
dence as IT these untoward events had not
ooourred.
TIES KEl'UULICAN KTORM YlTICII IS
BREWING.
Frvn the y. r. Sun.
Three events have just oocurred in Wash
fngton whioh show how thoroughly the ad
ministration is demoralized, and how widely
- the Republicans in Congress are divided on
important questions. We refer to the deci
sion of the Supreme Court on the I.eal-
fonder not, ths feeling in th .Sonata on Genn. I
ral (jtrant nomination of Judge strong and
Slr. Bradley to fill the vacancies in that court.
and the vote in the House on Mr. Marshall's
resolutions against a protective tariff,
Of the seven judges who pronounced upon
the Legal-tender aot, five wore appointed by
Sir. Lincoln, and when they were olevatod to
the benth they were believed to be thorough
Republicans, and fully in accord with that
party on all the finanoial measures arising out
of the war, prominont among which stood the
aot now called in question. But whon this
measure is brought to the bar of the court,
two of these judges take one view of its
fundamental and vital provisions, and three
take another and totally different view. And
we have no doubt that their discordant
opinion's reflect the sentiments which the Re
publicans entertain on the same subject.
They differ as widely as the five judges.
The nomination by the President of Messrs.
Strong and Bradley has brought out, and will
probably yet develop in a more marked de
gree, the hostile feeling which exists between
General Grant and the Senate. This hostility
is largely due to the refusal of the Senate to
unite with the House in the repeal of the
Tennre-of -office act, a measure ( upon which
General Grant had set his heart ere he took
the Presidential oath. The Senate will seize
every opportunity afforded by nnf ortunate
nominations, like those of Messrs. Strong
and Bradley, to prove to General Grant that
they intend to keep the check upon him
whioh the Tenure aot has put in their hands.
Of course, he will grow restive under this;
but it will avail nothing, except to intensify
the hostility between the Executive and the
Senate.
Perhaps, however, the vote of the House
on Sir. Marshall's resolutions brings more
prominently into view the wide differences
of opinion in the Republican ranks on the
issues of tho future than either of the other
matters we have mentioned. The resolutions
aimed a blow at the long-cherished tariff
policy of the party. This is one of the
main issues on which sanguine members of
the party were relying to rally its forces,
now that the great controversies growing
out of the war are passing away. And yet,
on the question of tabling these resolutions,
thirty Republicans from the "West voted
with forty-seven Democrats against this in
direct and evasive mode of deposing of this
vital matter; and among those thirty were
such leading names as Allison, Judd, Law
rence, Julian, Benjamin, and Ingersoll, who
doubtless truly reflect the opinions of the
Western Republicans on the subject of pro
tection. The resolutions were sent to the
table by only twelve majority. If a direct
vote could have been obtained, at least ten
more Republicans would have taken side with
the Democrats, and Sir. Slarshall's resolu
tions in favor of a purely revenue tariff would
have been adopted.
These cales are forerunners of the storm
which is sure to shipwreck the Republican
eartv ere the next Presidential election, un
less it promptly drives from the helm the in
competent and inexperienced pilots who now
undertake to direct its affairs.
SENSE IN CENSUS MAKING.
From the Ifi Y. Tribune.
Upon the authority of the Congressional
Committee on the Ninth Census, we are an
thonzed to state that there is in existence a
distinct account of a census ordained by the
Emperor Yee of China in the year 2012. This
census antedates that of Sloses and the Israel
ites at the time of the exodus by half a dozen
centuries probably. It is curious that these
Chinese are found to have originated or dis
covered several centuries before anybody else
the things which pertain to civilization
Printing, gunpowder, the magnetio needle,
and innumerable inventions in the arts, must
be placed to their crodit, and now we seem to
find them the first census makers. Sinoe the
time of the Emperor Yee, it is to be supposed
that the art of census-making has advanced
somewhat. Statistics are now recognized as
a science. China made the first census in
2042 B. C, and the United States made the
best in 18C0 A. D. But there are few things
in the world that cannot be improved; and
while Emperor Yee deserves credit for esta
blishinc the first census, Mr. Garfield de
serves no less for a well-planned attempt to
better the last and best. Mr. Garfield and the
committee reported numerous and considera
ble objections to the present method of taking
the census.
An unknown census taker calls on a family
and spreads before them bis array of blanks,
which they see for the first time. They tear
it is not aU right that an unknown individual
with a lot of legal looking blanks should poke
all sorts of questions at them, and suspicion
of his inquisitorial character must be allayed,
fears that it is an assessment for purposes of
taxation must be quieted, and the subject
explained, and the memories of the families
stimulated, before anything like the proper
data can be ascertained. Under the present
law the operations of the census are not suffi
ciently connrjeruial, . tho citizen is not freed
from the approhension that his private
all airs, the secrets of hi family and bust
ness, will not be disclosed to his neighbors.
The facts civon by members of one family
will be seen by all those whoso record
succeeds theirs on the same blank, aud
the returns at uie central omce are
not properly guarded from observation. In
accuracy and wasto of tium are the resultant
of these objections, Moo lunch time is
allowed in taking and publishing the census.
The mam report ot lb. 4) wan not published
till leCiS, and the volume lolutnig to manufac
tures not till IhM. The preliminary report
of 18i;o was printed in 1SG2; full reports on
popidation and agriculture were delayed until
1804; and those on uiunufaclures and mor
tality till the end of INCO, when the reports
were sadly out of date. For these and other
defects in taking and issuing the census Mr.
Garfield's bill proposed reasonable remedies.
Smaller districts should be instituted, the
present Congressional districts being the
most convenient, probably, and small enough
for any man to intelligently arrange the work
therein, and put its carrying out iuto the
hands of intelligent men chosen for their
especial fitness for the work. Separate
schedules for the various topics of - inquiry
should be distributed before the visit of the
census oflioeiy and by this means it was
believed that muob greater correctness would
be attained in the reports, aud that the time
required for the enumeration might be
reduced to one month.
But Sir. Garfield's bill proposed not only to
remedy certain defects in tha taking and pub
lishing of the census, but also a thorough re
vision of the present schedules Jof inquiry.
That which had exclusive reference to slaves
can now happily be dropped; that to color
should include distinctively the Chinese, who
certainly deserve such recognition, if for
no other reuson than that of having been the
first census takers. Inqmiries as to the edu
cation of children were to be advantageously
increased. In accordance with the earnest
desire of Dr. Jarvii, the branch of vital
fcfj.imii was deservedly to receive more at
tention. The importance of inquiries as ta
putilio beilth, and the praleno of diMft,
ia cmtmnly
i great as to it or anv
other topic. The old schedule of ajr-
rieultnre, which contained SIR columns of
inquiries, was carefully compressed into less
than eighty in the new, and with the cutting
out of old lumber, and the introduction of
new and pertinent fealuras, the committee
considered that a great improvement had been
effected. The deficiencies of the old. thonih
so much larger than the new schedule, are
indicated in the addition of inquiries as ta
the value of farm buildings other than dwell,
ing houses, the average number of cows
milked during the year, and the value of
poultry and its products on the farm. Indus
trial statistics and those of internal commerce
were thoroughly revised. It is an almost
incredible fact that what may be termed
extractive industry, including the products
of our mines, our fisheries, and the petro
leum interest, has hitherto been whollv
neglected in the census. Fuller statistics in
regard to railroads were provided for, and the
business of life insurance, which sinoe the
year 18t!0 has grown from comparatively
nothing to its present proportions, insuring
the enormous amount of nearly $2,00,
000,000, was to be statistically investigated.
In the language of the committee, "Whether
these companies are sound or not, whether
the people may rely upon tho safe Investment
of the money which they have put into their
hands, will altogether depend upon the way
in which they are conducting their business;
and we propose by this bill t bring out the
facts so that the country may see what are
the operations of these great corporations "
cnaer the neau oi ociai statistics, the
committee told us that certain inquiries
proved practically worthless. They omitted
or reclassified them. In short, thev found
enough to do in the way of improvement to
justify the expectation of a better census for
the year 1870 than that or ten years ago. The
House of Representatives did its dutv well bv
the Census bill, making it before the recess a
subject of daily consideration. But since its
passage To the Senate it has not secured the
attention it deserves. The general features
of the bill had our hearty approval. The zeal
and labor bestowed upon it by General Gar
field and his committee were worthv of com
mendation, and so good a measure as they had
prouncea deserved at tne hands of the Senate
careful consideration and some amendment,
but not the cavalier treatment it has reoeived.
It was on Tuesday defeated, and, as we fear,
nopeiessiy.
THE
COLONIES AND THE
MOTHER
COUNTRY.
From tli PaU Hall Ga rettr,
for we moment, uoioniai affairs, after a
long step into the foreground, are thrust back
again. iut it is obvious that the relations of
the mother country and the colonies are soon
to form what is called a question; and there
fore are venture the contribution of a few
hints on the subject. Very much the best
suggestion ever made about it is contained in
a pamphlet published several years ago by Sir,
Henry Tliiine;, which attracted at the time
hardly any ot the notice which its conspicuous
merit unserved, air. Hiring is one of the
most intelligent and influential of our legis
lators, though fortunate I v, both for the conn
try and for himself, he has no soat ih Parlia
ment, and never will have one. Of conrse
no one man makes any important law, but
the person who draws up and puts into dis
tinct and categorical shape the views of
the tJabiuot, which are otten very
general and more or less crude, has more
to do with legislation practically than
any other individual man. At all
events, what he says is entitled to the utmost
respect and attention, aud nothing which
bears his name can safely be disregarded as
impracticable or visionary. Let us see, then,
what Mr. Thring has to say on this great
topic. The pamphlet to which we refer is
called "Suggestions on Colonial Reform." It
was published by Slessrs. Stevens and Haynes,
and its preface is dated January 11, 1M.
We earnestly reoommend it to all persons
interested in the subject. Mr. Thring s great
point is that whereas the,, colonies and the
mother country may be reciprocally or the
greatest use to each other, and whereas it is
necessary in order that they may be ot use
that their mutual obligations and the charac
ter of their relations to each other should be
definitely understood and clearly settled, it
woidd be well to pass an act to define them.
Such a definition as Sir. Thring points out
would remove numerous future possibilities
of quarrel, as to which he well remarks:
"More than half the heartburnings and bick
erings in the world arise from the absence of
a settled rule of conduct to meet a
possible contingency, from the impossibility
of parting without the pride or the one party
being hurt, or the dignity of the other
offended.' Mr. Thring embodied the scheme
by which he proposed to effect this object in
a draft bill, which forms an appendix to his
pamphlet, and on the provisions of which we
will proceed to make some remarks. Its fun
damental principle is as novel as it is just. It
is imply this: that the connection between
the mother country and the colony ought to
be regarded as an advantage to both parties,
but in particular to the colony; and that, on
the one hand, the colony should, if it
pleased, have a right, recognized by statute,
to withdraw from the connection; while, on
tho ether hand, the mother country should
kao a right, it the colony misbehaved itself,
to pumsu sucn misbehavior by ex
pulsion. As things stand at present
there is a feeling a diminishing feeling,
no doubt, but still a feeling that by pro
claiming its independence a colony would, as
it were, punish the mother country for any
misconduct on its part, and that the power to
no so constitutes a hold over the pride of the
United Kingdom which puts it to a certain
extent at the mercy of Us dependencies. Mr,
luring justly points out that this is quite a
mistake; that in most cases such conduct
would amount to cutting oft' your nose to
spite your face, and that if expulsion were
regarded as a punishment (which it really
would be), union would he regarded as a pri
vilege, wnicn u really is.
i he scheme of the bill by which Sir.
Thring hoped to accomplish these objects
was as follows: Ihe first part related to the
formation of new colonies; the second to the
constitutions to be provided for those which
as yet have no constitution; the third to
division between imperial and looal power.
and the fourth to the proceedings by which
colonies might, if they wished it, obtain inde
pendence, or, if they incurred such a penalty.
be visited by expulsion. Of these parts the
third and fourth are by far the most interest
ing and important. Ihe third, which draws
the line between local and imperial powers.
is justly described by Sir. Thring as the key
stone of his scheme. It reserves to the
Crown the right of declaring war, aud all
rights ineident thereto; as, for example, that
of establishing prize courts, carrying on diplo
matic relations with foreign countries, and
the like; and it declares that in the event
of foreign war the United Kingdom
will protect the colony, if the
colony will lender fur it owu defeu-ie
assistance by contributions of men and
money m proportion to Its wealth and cir
cumstances, ihe colony u to protect itself
agninst internal commotions and native tribes;
and if it requires assistance in doing so from
the United Kingdom, conditions may be im
jvosed in respect of such assistance. The
right to legislate upon various other sub
jects affecting the empire at large, such as
bankruptcy, insolvency, laws an to copyright,
naturalization, etc., is reserved to the crown,
and the powers of tha local legislatures are
defined, and in some respects extended. As
to independence, the colony is to have a
right to petition for it through its legislature,
and such petition may be granted by the
Crown. On the other hand, the Crown mny
by proclamation foroe independence on the
colony if H tans to mini its obligations.
Kuch is the general outline of Mr. Turin i s
scheme, and as far as it goes it appears to us
admirable. It is of the last importance to put
the relations between the diff erent parts of
the empire en a solid and genuine basis, and
to substitute, as far as possible, sentiment
based npon and limited by reason for a oon-
genes of sentiments which are very far from
being either reasonable or harmonious.
It may, indeed, be said that the soheme
tends rather to facilitate the disruption of
the empire than to consolidate it, inasmuch
as it provides a means by which that oould be
legalized which the law as it stands would de
scribe as nign treason. (Such a critioism, we
think, would be unjust. Every one knows
perfectly well that no earthly consideration
would induce this country in the present
day to embark upon another Amerioan war.
If Canada or Australia proclaimed her in
dependence, she wonld not have to fight
for it. Surely it is better to recognize by
law that which already exists in fact, and
to make arrangements now. when no
one's pride can be hurt by making them, the
want of which hereafter might load to the
alternative between national humiliation and
civil war. We are, however, of opinion that
there is a defect in the scheme which ought
to ie Buppnea oeiore u wouia operate to bind
together the different members of the em
pire. For this purpose there will be required
not only a clear detinition of existing powers,
but the creation of a machinery which does
not at present exist for investigating the com
mon wnuia uuu ;ivuig expression to tne com
mon feelings of the empire.
It would, of course, be difficult to frame
such a system, but we do not think the diffi
culty would be insuperable. The main diffi
culty of Bitch schemes arises from the fact
that those who frame them always aim at
providing a common legislation for the whole
empire; and beyond all doubt it is exceed
ingly difficult, not to say impossible, to deal
with all the questions which would be raised
by such an undertaking. V e do not see, for
instance, how the points raised by Burke in
his speeches as to the quarrel with America
could be disposed of in these days more
satisfactorily than in his. Surely, howevor.
we ought not to forget that in the eye of the
world in whioh we live counsel is at least as
important as law: and though it would be
exceedingly cumcult to establish a common
Legislature by which all the affairs
of the empire might be governed, it
would be easy to devise an Imperial
Council in which the different leg statures
might be represented, and by which they
might be advised. Mippose that the legisla
ture of every colony were empowered to elect
a certain number ot representatives who
should come to England, and there sit as
Privy Councillors in company with an equal
number of l'.uglisfi 1'rivy Councillors, pub
licly discuss dinereut schemos by which dif
ferent sections of the empire might be of
use to the whole, and approve of drafts of
bills by which in their opinion Parliament on
the one hand, and the different local legists
tures on the other, might cany out the
objects in view; would not their recommenda
tions have every chance of being accepted t
lbey would, of course, have no legal power
until they had been accepted and acted
upon by the local legislature; but if
recommended by such a body they would
be sure at all events to be discussed, and it is
eminently probable that they would be
carried. 11 the British Lmpire is to exist at
all, it must exist by the free consent and by
the hearty co-operation of the parties con
ctrued. We must assume good faith and
loyalty, for if they do not exist the whole
fabiio must, and most assuredly will, fall to
pieces sooner or later. But if we should make
that fundamental assumption, it must surely
be regarded as eminently likely that suoh a
body as the one which we have suggested
would make wise suggestions, and that those
sugget tions would be adopted by the parties
concerned. f early all the disputes which
have at any time arisen between the colonies
and the mother country have been more or
less the result of mutual ignorance, and
might have been avoided by the existence
ot any body which would really represent tne
views and interests of both parties. In
formally the colonies have often had repre
scntatives in England. Sir. Koebuek, it we
are not mistaken, acted at one time as agent
for Canada, and within the lost lew years
this country has been repeatedly visited by
gentlemen who, without any detinue official
position, did nevertheless act and were re
ceived as being in a very real sense indeed
tho representatives of Canadian opinion. But
if. mhtend of coining merely as private per
sons, and being received by the Secretary of
State or by members of Parliament on tho
footing of private friends, they had cume
as the publio accredited representatives of
their colony, with suitable dignity and proper
official salaries, if they had met with other
representatives of other colonies in an assem
blv like the House of .Lords or me rnvy
Council, there to explain the views of their
constituents, and to discuss the measures
which bv the united weight of the wholo em
pire should be submitted to the legislatures
of its different parts, their position wonld
have been far more dignified, and the results
nf their visit verv much more beneficial
The mere fact that such an institution would
give to the leading men of all the colonies
a high objeot of ambition, and a strong
rieisonal interest in the prosperity of the
empire at large, would be a great recommen
dation to it.
ME. GLADSTONE'S OPPO KTUNITY.
from the If. Y. Tmits.
If any outt wishes to appreciate the progres.
of liberal ideas ia England, it is only ueces-
narv to read the Oueou speeuu on tbe open-
inn of Parliament last Tuesday. The ballot
ia half promised, the land laws in Ireland are
to be completely modified, there is to be a
bill for the enlargement of the moans of na
tional education, the religious tests iu Uni
versities are to be abolished, new rating laws
are to .be introduced, and there is fore
shadowed the beginning of those measures
foe- the reform of the land system iu England
which tne ncn nave long dreaded, ana tne
noor long prayed for. This is a oomprehen-
ttive progianiiue for a minUtry to annonnoe
through the mouth of the mouarch. Times
have obanaed bince ntrn were transported for
fmuteeu ran for daring to recommend Par-
liamentarv reform, or were eont to prison for
presuming to suggest that the tsxe were
somewhat burdensome.
The most significant circumstance in con
nection with this advance of opinion and
principles is that radical measures are prof
fered not by the representative of a minority
in the nation, but by the most powerful
minister who has directed the affairs of Eng
land since the days of 1 itt. We doulo,
indeed, whether Pitt was ever actually so
strong as Sir. Gladstone is at this moment.
1 it t played a desperate gntne, and was always
liable to suffer the penalty of failure.
Bnt Mr. Gladstone is asked to do nothing
more than carry out certain internal reforms
which he has eagerly advocated for years
past. When a man's heart is sot upon a
great work, and the powr to accomplish
that work is suddenly ktced in his hands,
we have a right to look for groat results. Mr.
Gladstone is absolutely master at the present
time of the destinies of England. He has an
enormous majority in the House of Commons
at his back. The vast bnlk of the people are
cheering him on. The opposition party is
weak and disorganized. Even Sir. Disraeli a
genius can do nothing for tho Conservatives.
The day has gone by when the Prime Sinis
ter was little more than puppet in the hands
of the sovereign. Sir. Gladstone has more
power than the Queen, and it is diffioult to
say what measure he could not pass through
Parliament if he chose to bring all his strength
to bear upon it. He occupies the grandest
position which any man of his country haa
been able to boast of since Parliamentary
government was known.
A liberal programme a "tnuy liberal
programme is therefore no more than all
the world had a right to look for from his
hands. He has dwelt much upon the wrongs
of Ireland; in a certain sense, it may be said
that he has made much political capital out of
them. Now it is withm bis power to redress
those wrongs. But his hand must not pause
there. In England he will find want more
widely spread, and discontent more deeply
seated, than at any penod within the term of
his own life. By a strange oversight this
subject was not even alluded to in the speech
prepared for the Queen. It cannot be so
ignored in l'arliament. The abolition of
"religious tests will not put bread in the
mouths of the hungry. It may be a task of
great difficulty to provide a remedy for
the hardships under which tho English
laboring classes at present smart. But we
have been taught to believe that Air. uiad
stone is a very great man, and the people have
put unlimited power in his hands in order
that he may settle difficulties which weaker
ministries oould not attack. The cries of the
distressed operatives and mechanics of Eng
land re acq to every part of the world. W
seem to hear them in this country night and
day. It might inspire any statesman to per
form noble and memorable deeds to see these
thousands of helpless men before him, with
the knowledge that he bad the power to raise
them out of their misery if only he could find
out the way. To that problem Sir. Glad
stone muBt address himself, if he wonld save
the credit of his name, and retain the position
wtich was oonf erred upon him amid the ac-
chn ations of the people.
WINES AND LIQUORS.
H E
R MA J E S
T Y
CHAMPAGNE.
DUKTON cfc Z.US30W.
216 SOUTH FBONT STREET.
rpBK ATTENTION OF THE TRADE IS
JL Bolioitad to th foUowiiia Trr Olioioa Wins, ata..
for bf
UUR1VS IjUCHMJN,
IIS SOUTH FRONT BTRKKT.
CHAHPAnNRH.-Anmti for bar Maiaaf.. ThM da
Monteballo, Unrte Bleue, Carta blanch, and Oharlaa
Farre'a Grand Vln F.ugtmia, and Vm Imperial, M. K Inn
man a Co., of Majrence, buarkliiii afoaalia and MUNif
W 1N F8.
M A 1JKIKAS.-Old IaUnd, Booth Bids Reaerra.
KUFRK1K8. F. Hudolnhe. Amontillado. Tooaa. VmL.
lotta. Fa la and Goldra Bar, Oiowa. eto.
ruK in.-vinno veino itoai, Valletta, ana urowa.
ClARKTB. Promin Alna A Ola.. Montlarwid and Bar.
denui. Ola rata and Sauterna Winoa
litli. "Aloder bwan."
liRANDliOi. lianaenaoi, Otard, Dapaf Oa'i varioaa
rintaaoa. 4 A
c
A 11 STAIRS M 0 O A IvL,
Koa. IX WALNUT and 21 GRAJUTK Streets.
Iniuortm of
BKANDIF.S, WIN Kb, GIN, OLIVE OIL, KTO,
Atn
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
For tha eale of
PTJRK OLD RTF, WHFAT, AND BOURBON WHTJJ.
VI ta Cau .a..!
xv a ix. m ma arg
pAH STAIltS' OLIVE OIL-AN INVOICE
KJ oi
tha above for a&la br
OARSTAIRS MoOALL.
6 282p
Koe. 136 WALNUT and ai GRANITIC bb
WILLI AM ANDERSON & CO., DEALERS
f In Fuva Waiekloe. . .
Ma. I North HLKJiJIVD Street,
PbiUulelDb)
LUMBER.
1QTA 8PRTTCB JOIST. -t Q-rA
HEMLOCK.
BKMXOCK.
1 OTA hKAKONKD CLRAK BINS. OTA
10 SEASONED ('LEAK P1NR, 10 I U
CUOICK PATTERN PINK.
SPANIliU CKDAJL FOlt PATTKRNS.
IUCD CEDAR.
1i,ra FLORIDA FLOORING. -t Q 7A
10 i U FLORIDA FLOORING. 10 i U
CAROLINA FLOORING.
VIRGINIA FLOORING.
DELAWARE FLOORING.
ASH FLOORING.
WALNUT FI-OOK1NG.
FLORIDA STEP BOARDS.
RAIL PLANK.
itiri WALNUT BOARDS AND FLA INK. I OTA
10 i U WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANE. 10 I V
WALNUT BOAKDB,
WALNUT PLANK.
Ib70
UNDERTAKERS' LTJMBbK.
UNDERTAKERS' LUMiJKH,
RED CEDAR.
WALNUT AND PINK.
1870
-4 Q1 SEASONED POPLAR. 1 Q"A
10 i U SEASONED CUERair. 10 i V
ABU.
wnrrs oak plank and boards. ,
HICKORY.
1(jF"A C1GAK BOX MAJLKKn' IOTA
10 U CIGAR BOX MAKERS' 10 IV
BrAJtlSrl vavlJAA BUI OUA&Do.
FOR SALE LOW.
1870
CAROLINA SCANTLING.
CAROLINA H. T. 8 ILLS,
NORWAY C ANT LING.
1870
1870
CEDArf SHINGLES.
OTA
CYPKENS bUINULEA 10 4V
AtAULE. BROTHER CO.,
No. 8600 SOUTH Street.
TAEL PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES.
X 1 COMMON FLANK. A IX THIOKNttttKg.
1 COMMON BOARDS.
1 and 8 HIDK FHNUK BOARDS.
WtllTV PINK If T 1 UklM V4i HOARDS.
YrTJLOW AND BAP PINK KLOOKiNUn, IX aad 4 St.
UriUJUtt JOINT. ALL BIZKM.
HKMLOOK JOlHT, AIX MfKS.
PLAsmtoiNO Lath a HPicciALtY.
Together with a veneral aeaortmeat of Bulldinj 1Bm6
for aale low for aaab. T. W. BMAI.lt,
11 l" WrTKF-NTH and HTILKHHtrooia.
U M B I
R UNS IB
ALWAYS DRY.
O V X V
Walnut, White Yellow Plan, Hpruce, Ilea
leek, hlUnjlee, etc, aiwa oa haad at low rales,
WAThON UILLINOHAat,
Wt tie. W IUC11MOND Street, ltU warn.
SPECIAL. NOTIOE8.
fctf- OFKICR PENNSYLVANIA U.UOAD
COM r A JIT.
t rniT.oprT.rim, .H ts, trm,
FOTIflF TO VrcK'KHOl.DKItH.
Th A omul Mixrttnft m th SUckhMd.r f tlita Oaat-
rn will h hrld na Tl'KSOAY, th loth dr Febnmir.
IK7U, M 10 o'clock A. M., t Hid Hall of til AwmMy
Rulldiiwn. S. VT. carat af TKHT11 Md OUK&NUT
Burnt, PhlUdolfbia.
Th Aannal Plerttna for IMrvctnv WUI b held M
MONDAY, h 7th Amt of March, l to Ofiittaf tha
t'omptnr, Ko. SB8 5. TUItt 1) Ptrwt.
lKIw JOSKPll LKHI.KT, ftocraUry.
ttiT Or Kit F. Or THE I.F.HIUU CO.VL AND.
lua i tun wm rani.
TRrAtt'Rt PirrASTVTirr, I
Prm.AKKi.fni4, Jaonarr HI, IS7.
Cortiflcalxa of tha Mnriiua lu af ibia Ooinnanr.
dnaMarnb 1. IMTU. will ba paid to holders tliftreof, r
tbair bra) repramntativaa. on umaontatioa at till omo-i
on and alter I bat Oatv, lroia which tttna Itttarnat will
cro. a. hUarllKKD.
1 M ntwnm Tnwaaraf.
fy- PIIlLAUELrillA AND RRADINO RAIL
ROAD CO., Office, No. 837 S. FOUR TH Street.
PHit.4nKi.p1na, Dee. tt, IMS.
DrVTDF.ND NOT10K.
Ttie Trasafor Beoka of the Ootnpenr will be elneed em
FRIDAY, the Slat inataat, and reopened oa TUKttDAY
January 11, 1H79.
A dlndsnd of FTVR PKROKNT. haa beea dnelarad ea
tha Preferred aad Common Stock, clear of Natioaalaad
Btote taxea, parable ia CASH, oa and after January IT,
1870, to tha holder thereof aa- tbar aba II aland retrUtered
oa tha book, of the Company oa the tlst ltutant. AU
pajrabUat thia office. AU order for dividend Bitut be
wltntased and Itatuped. B. BRADFORD,
Ei a DUt Treiumrer.
fgj- NOTICE TO SHIPPERS.
TDK OIIKSAPRAKR AND DRLAWARR CANAL
will be cloaed, for repair to a lock, oa MONDAY MORN
ING, the 7th of February , 170, and opened lor narljretloa.
In a few day thareeftrr, doe notice of whioh will be ieo.
UF.NRY V. LKSLKY, Secretary.
Philadelphia. Jan. T, 1878. 1 27 dtUF
THE PARIIAM SEWING MACHINE
emphatically pronounced to b that great dMldnratam a
t rtiumau, rim n.raiH jnu nnmra n
i K ana anxioaxiy tookoa lor. ia wuiou all the eeeauueia
a perfect machine are combined.
Irf No. 704 CHItflNOT Street.
ST QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANI,
CAPITAL, J?l.().m.
BAB INK, All FN A DULLFVAaenta,
Fil'TU and WA1 A UT Strata.
tfir COLD WEATHER DOES NOT CIIAP
orronphea the akin alter nina- WRIGHT'S A L
CONA1D GLYOKRINK TABLKT OV BOUlHFIltD
GI.YOKRINK. IttdaiWnae uaktio the akin delicately
oft and beaniifni. bold bf all dragrtata.
R, A O. A. WRtGHT,
1 Wo. W84 OHKRNUT Street.
ray- COLTON DENTAL ASSOCIATION
artrinated the annethetia aee of
NITBOUH OX1DU, OH LAUGHING GAR,
And devote their whole time and practice to eiuxctlne;
teem wiwiouc pain.
Office, e-iml
1 1 11 a
and WALNTTT Street.
UK
J- DR. F. R. THOMAS, THE LATE OPB-
rator of the 'niton Dental Aaaociatlon, I now tba
eWiren in Phlladolphia who devote hi entire time and
practice U e it recti ua teeth, absolutely withoat pain, by
irean aitroua oxiue a a. umoe. mi y A.ms ur ot. i aot
4UT St. 1
ta- BATCnELOR'S HAIR DYE. THIS
eplendid Hair Dye lathe beat in the woJld. Uarm
lena, roliuble, inatsntaaeon, iloea not oentain lead, nor
any vilalie poiaon to produce paralysia or death. Avoid
the vaunted and delunive prmmrationa boast ng virtue
they do not poaaene. The gnntiine W. A. Batchnior'a (lair
Dye naa naa tnirty yeara imtnrnnnw reputation to up
hold ita integrity aa the only 1'er'ec' Hair lre Black or
Brown, hold br ail Dnueiata.
111 ni
Applied atNo. IttBUNU
mroel, new Xora.
4 Xfmwit
jgy II FJ.M HOLD'S EXTRACT BUCHU AND
Npp.ovkd Rosk Wash euro nil delicate diaordera
in all their ataaea, at little einenae, little or no cliaaxalo
diet, aad no inconvoaienoe. Itia (tleuaant in ta.te and
odor, immodiate in it action, and free trout alliujurioua
propertiea. . 1 M
y JJELMBOLivs CONCENTRATED EX-
TRACT BUOHfl hi tbe Oreat Diuretic. Hr.tM
boi.d'h t )N( r.MTHAiK.o kX'iHAtrr hMUMi'AKiu.A ia the
Uieat Hlood ft'utihtr. Iloth are prepared according to
rule of Pharmacy and Chemistry, una are the most entire
that can be made. 1 US
jjgy- FOR NON-RETENTION OR INC0N-
tinnnoe of Ul ioo, irritut Ion, Inflammation, or til dera
tion of the blnddur, or kidney, cliaeafiea of the prostate
Itlanda, atone la the bladder, oulmilna, rarl or brick-
o'iai arpoaiia, ana ail aiaeaaoa 01 tne Planner, kidney,
and dtopairal aweUin, use UKLM ISOLD'S FLUID K
TRACT HUOUU. 110
jgj- HELM BOLD S EXTRACT BUCnrj
Kiwi 11 on (i 11 tajjii viKur 10 me irnme ua Dioom i
th ri. lid cbeek. lMbiULy i aVctxruiibaiod b mtif
alAi-nun nyniptonia, and. if no treatment UMibmitivd to.
ooaHoinpuoD, iomoiij, vt tj.tiicpiio ma entitle. 1 ia
tSSr ENFEEBLED AND DELICATE CON-
Ktitntinm. of Imth aexea. nsa HKLMHOLD'H RK-
TRACT mil U10. It will give briak aud euerxetio feel,
infra, and enable yon to sleep well. 1 11
TnE GLORY OF MAN IS STRENGTH.
Therefore the nerrona and debilitated ehould ita
mediatoly use U Jti.Mitoui'a Kxtuaot Uuchu. 1 H
rosy MANHOOD AND YOUTHFUL VIGOR
are refrained by II KLM HOLD'S KXTRAOT
BUCHU I a
jjjgr HELMBOLD'8 FLUID EXTRACT
BUCHU ia pleaiutnt In taMnand odor, free from all
injurious propertie, and iuimmbate in ita action. 1 Ut
jjgy- TAKE NO MORF. UNFLEA8ANT AND
anaafe rentedie forunpleaH&nt and dangerou die
eaeea Uae IDujiuoui'a Kiiuaci Bucuo AND Lai'auvkni
Rm-k Wash. I as
ggjT SHATTERED CONSTITUTIONS
KK
lis MUiBU ! AlillIUFl,I It ri&Jl.ALl DUUUU,
FURNITURE.
FINE FURNITURE.
DANIEL M. KAECHIR,
N01. 30 and 2S8 South. SEC OB D St.
A LARUR and kplkndid stock oa HAND,
FOR WHICH KXAMIAATION IS RKHPHOTI'ULLr
BOLKJITRD SStb-Uttlmrp
rUCHMOPiD & CO
f
FIKST-CLASS
FURNITURE WAREROOMS.
Ko. 45 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
EA8T SIDE, ABOVK OHK8NUT,
Utf
PHILADELPHIA.
YUY YOUR FURNITURE
AND BUY YOUR
jj :
1 BEDDING.
Til U CiltliAX
AlWlilllCAN
ia without a rlral, ia wltbnot a riral, beina; the Piaeat,
Ob ea pent, and largest atotked Furniture and Heddiaar
Warrbouae in tbia o.tr, and ita price beiuc wholesale te
all. ou can rave at load Vi per cent, on any purvhaae
yon may niake at our oiitabMabnieat. And onrprtoea
beinx One Fiice, inak it Uie leiwling fctora in to boei
niwt. UKKAT AMRIUOAN LARGS NEW BUILDING
no.Jtl MAUaVr-T btreet. 1J
Q R U O t, PAIN T s. m T 6.
TOmUTSlIOUIIIAKlSU JL CO.,
N. E. Corner FOURTH and RACE Sto.,
' PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUCCIST8,
Importer and Manufacturer of
WHITS LEAD AND COLORED PAINTS, PUTTY,
VARNISHES, ETC.
AGENTS FOB THE CELEBRATED FRENCH
ZINC PAINTS.
Dealer and corummere auppUed at loweit price
for cahh. ' U
DRUGGIST A WD CHEMIST,
AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IS
PAINTS, OILS. GLASS. AND
PATENT MEDICINES,
Kos. 1301 and 130351AJiKET St.
fcllltbaVaaa