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London, England, 1870-04-16 00:00:00

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CONTRIBUTIONS for tho support of the Homes in 1888 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon
quet, Salt, and Co., 78, Lombard street, N.C.• Francis Nicholls
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, KO,
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A Bristol paper says itis authoritatively informed
that the members of the Conservative Working Men's
Association have determined to present a petition against
the return of Mr. Robinson for Bristol, on the ground of
improper and illegal practices.
The opinion is daily gaining rrround in all quarters
(says the English Churchmen) that Ministers will abandon
their Education Bill, as a peculiarly hopelvss endeavour
to dqA, ho elesS thing, n elyp4tch up ?Om,.
the V4ure t Diaenter.

nomic standpoint. It considers the decision calcu-
lated to damp the 'upholders of American credit in
Europe; to "dishearten those who had hopes of
the revival of commercial good faith and -sound
financial principles in the United States." It hopes
that at least one of the two Judges lately added
to the bench " may sustain the sound reasons of
public policy and constitutional law advanced by
Chief Justice CHASE, and may place upon a secure
basis the determination of the highest tribunal in the
United States that Congress has not thepower to de-
spoil creditors at home or abroad of their just rights,
or to
onpeptheer
payments
illusion
of
o le withh
t argumente is based
economic principle, and when viewed as a matter
inc;k
Its themw h
of credit oiily, the Times.ivight but we venture
..te art, wrthout kirbwinesiiy thing of what the..
Attorney-General advanced to reconsider the deci-
sion, that he viewed the matter from a totally differ-
ent aspect. The Government has an interest in
the decision altogether independent of its com-
mercial bearing, having a right to uphold, which it
may be the duty of the Executive notto forego with-
out a struggle. The Chief Justice was the author of
the Legal-Tender Act, which he pronounces to be
unconstitutional. As a lawyer, bound honestly to in-
terpret theConstitution,he decides adversely against
the very Bill he was instrumental in enacting as a
Cabinet Minister. When Secretary of the Treasury h e
felt the full force of the necessity, and, Constitu-
tional or not Constitutional, he took the course he
considered best calculated to save the Union. By
a singular freak of fortune, as Chief Justice, he is
compelled to pronounce that course to have been
illegal. Let us suppose another turn of Fortune's
wheel, that the country is again involved in ex-
treme danger, its main requirements being financial,
and Mr. CHASE a second time in the Cabinet, as Sec-
retary of the Treasury. How would he like to have
that course barred against him by his decision of
1870, which he so sensibly took to further the
Union cause in 1862 ? If the Legal-Tender Act be
unconstitutional, a statesman ought not to resort
to paper money ; and an impediment, the magni-
tude of which can hardly be over-rated, might
be thrown in the path of the National Government'
in any dangerous crisis. The Executive must of
course see this, and might regard it as a duty to have
the decision tested by its own legal adviser, and re-

considered, if in his mind the soundness of the law
laid down be questionable. It is evidently not the
great corporations or the State Governments con-
cerned which have originated this movement
against a judgment injurious to their financial in-
terests, but the Executive, on wholly different
grounds. We do not assert that the Corporations
and other bodies have n brought a pressure to
bearin the same direction; but we do with some con-
fidence assert that the Attorney.. General is mainly

influenced by the desire to clear the path of fu-

ture Governments for prompt action in perilous
extremities; and in upholding the nation's right
to an unshackled hand against the enemy who
strikes at its heart, he allows all commercial
considerations " to slide." From such a stand-
point the action of the PRESIDENT and his At-
torney-General are not only praiseworthy, but
sound in principle ; while viewed from the reverse
side, that action is injurious to the credit of the
United States, unsettling in a commercial sense,
and damaging to the high reputation of the Su-
preme Court. We cannot, however, pass the tone
of the remarks in the Times without comment. It
is insinuated that the Executive has been spurred
into action by the supporters of the paper cur-
rency, and that the two vacancies in the Court had
been filled by lawyers known to concur with the
dissenting minority. Those acquainted with the
character of the PRESIDENT and of the Attor-
ney-General are aware that no two men could be
found less likely to act under the influence of un-
worthy motives ; and Mr. HOAR is about the last
person a lobbyist would approach or to whom the
agent of any " ring" would dare to suggest a line
of conduct. In nominating the Judges it is a sin-
gular fact, and one worthy of our great contempo-
rary's attention, that the Attorney-General's name
was submitted to the Senate for a place on the
Bench at the same time as Judge STRONG'S against
whom the Radical Senators, as the Times says, pro-
tested, on the ground that during the war he was
a member of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
and consented to a decision which pronounced the
very Act now questioned, unconstitutional and in-
valid, while Judge HOAR'S opinions were known
to be the other way. Now what was the action of
the Radical Senate ? They confirmed the man who
had already
recorded his decision against the un-
constitutionality of the Act, and rejected him who
held the opposite opinion ; and we bring this for-
ward as conclusive proof that the Court has not
been packed as insinuated. The motion calling for
an additional issue of fifty million of dollars green-
backs carried in the House of Representatives
is said in Printing-house-square to have been in-
troduced to show the PRESIDENT the temper of his
supporters, and to urge prompt and thorough-
going action, as was the Senate Bill providing for
a " stay" of execution, varying from one to four
years, on all judgments relating to debts contracted
before July 11, 1862, and abrogating the tt stay'?
if the plaintiff would accept payment in green-
backs. We feel pretty confident that the intention
neither the one nor the other was as the Times
asserts, but both were the progeny of the Wes-
tern members, who consider that inflation is cal
culated to benefit their section. We would be
sorry if we had led our contemporary into a blun-
der, for into a blunder it has certainly fallen, in
asserting that the bill to " stay" execution had been
brought into the Senate, as it was Mr. M'CRARY,
Republican Representative from lowa, who moved
it in the House on the 19th of February, though
we, in a note of the Week in our issue of the 12th
March, alluded to it as a motion in the Senate. The
action is to be regretted, as injurious to the na-
tional credit, and not calculated to strengthen the
estimation abroad in which the Supreme Court is
held, though we deny that it has been brought by
other than pure motives. Doubtless should the late
ruling be reversed, the world will ascribe the result
to corruption ; for the world is ignorant, and does
not generally comprehend the difference between
the Supreme Court of New York State and the Su-
preme Court of the United States, while the for-
mer is a dog with a very bad name. The view for-
merly expressed in this paper is that to which we ad-
here. Regarded as an economic question, and as

expounding sound law, the decision of the ma-
jority of the Justices of the Supreme Court is gene-
rally held to have been right, and it is a thousand
pities that the Executive should have felt compelled
to challenge it, for the injury that will be wrought
should the Attorney-General be successful in
overthrowing the judgment will be great and im-
mediate, while the consideration for which he con-
tends is problematical and remote, and may never
occur. But should it occur, we repeat that it is
the duty of the statesman then at the helm of the
national craft to act on his own responsibility with
firmness and decision, almost regardleSs of any
considerations but those of the national welfare.
In a great peril, even the Constitution, plain as
may be its meaning, cannot be permitted to bar a
measure of absolute necessity, and the nation
must trust to the man it has placed in power, and
the strength of its own voice, to impel action when
the moment comes. At the same time it is highly
improbable that the Attorney-General will be suc-
cessful in upsetting the recent decision. The his-
tory of the U. S. Supreme Court records no successful
effort in over-ruling a solemn decision of that
'Court ; and its Judges pay the highest respect to
its own precedents. Were it otherwise, they would
quickly bring the Bench into contempt, which is the
last thing those seated on it are likely to do. To
be regarded as infallible is the essence of its strength,
and it is careful to lay down the soundest prece-
dents, and then rigidly to adhere to them. For, if a
judgment one month be given, and in the next re-
ealed by the same Court, the effect must be da-
Maging to its legal reputation at home.; while even
its honesty will be called in question abroad.—
Anglo-American 7imes.

ABOLITION OF THE FRANKISG SYSTEM

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

Before this article is published we may learn the
fate the Bill repealing the Franking Privilege, has
met in the Senate. It was to have come up for consi-
deration on the 22d of March, with as strong an
opinion pronounced by the public for the abolition
as any Bill, involving interests so small, could com-
mand. We have seldom seen the press so unani-
mous or more caustic in its attack on this cherished
abuse of the privileged three hundred ; for that is
about the number of those happy beings who may
send their shirts home to be washed through the Post-
office. That they must in some such way use it, is
clear from the sum postage costs the country. The
Treasury is burdened with fully $2,500,000 annually-,
which, divided by 300, makes the respectable ex-
penditure of $B,OOO for each of the privileged.
Imagine a man's postage costing the country £1,500
a year sterling ; while his whole salary is but
little more than half that amount. The way in
whichthe franking signatures are given, would have
made the hair of the English Postmaster-General
stand on end with horror, even in those palmy days
when the same privilege was accorded to members of
Parliament. One man distributes throughout the
countrycirculars recommending his quack medicines,
covered by his Representative's signature; another
Representative does a little business in the same way
for the benefit of his own firm ; a third carries on an
active interchange between Washington and his
home in Illinois or Louisiana, having reference to his
wardrobe and his personal comforts; while nearly
all the members indulge in a miscellaneous assort-
ment of transactions which would take away the
breath of some if they knew the sort of business
they were enabling persons to carry on at the ex-
pense of the nation. No sooner did Mr. R. R. B UT-
LER of Tenn( ssee escape from his very questionable
cadetship tram action with a mere vote of censure
than he figured in the columns of the Tribune after
the following fashion

"Wo have received under the frank of the ion. B. IL
BUTLER, still member of Congress from Tennessee, not-
withstanding his little cadetArip escapade, the following
Congressional Document, which we hasten to lay before
our readers:—

" Washington, March, 18, 1870.
"'Editor New York Tribune.

" ' Dear Sir,— I wish you would please insert in your
paper for one week the following :
CORRESPONDENCE.—A young lady of talent and
ability desires the love and correspondence of a nice young
gentleman. Address NELLIE MoNTROSE,
P. 0., Washington, D. C.' "
Considerable as would be the saving resulting from
the abolition of the privilege it would not represent
the whole gain. There is nothing more wasteful than
in thus endowing a few, and giving them the power
of getting matter printed, as an inducement to avail
themselves of the privilege, for the two act and
re-act on each other. The individual feels the ne-
cessity of extracting as much as possible from the
concession. If what he sent through the post was
confined to what he wrote, in a country of cheap
postage he would have very little advantage over
his fellow-citizens ; but if the member can write
an essay, calling it a speech, and obtain the sanction
of the House to printing it at public cost, though
unspoken, in the Congressional Globe, and then
can scatter the paper containing his " speech "
broadcast over the land for nothing, he may effec-
tually gratify his craving for notoriety at the ex-
pense of the people. The Franking Privilege
would in this way be comparatively useless without
the Printing-office, and the Printing-office would be
useless without the Franking Privilege, while it is
well known in Washington that should the latter be
abolished the cost of the former would very mate-
rially decrease. The usual " document number"
is 1,550 copies, but this is always exceeded unless
the subject matter be altogether without interest.
The case of the Reports of the Commissioner of
Patents, which, though well illustrated, are far from
being entertaining,furnishes one instance out of hun-
dreds. In addition to the usual " document num-
ber" of 1,550 copies, the House ordered 10,000
copies for members and 5,000 for the Commis-
sioners, while the Senate treated itself to 4,000,
making a total of 19,000 extra numbers, 76,000
extra volumes, or about sixty unnecessary sets--
240 volumes—for each member of Congress. The
postage chargeable on the set was $1.64. This,
then, was the total cost of the extra 19,000 vo-
lumes, which would not have been ordered if the
members had to pay the postage on them :

House's order, 10,000 copies $137,806 36
Commissioners' order-5,000 copies 68,903 19
Senate's order-4,000 copies 11,026 56
Postage-19,000 copies

Total 5249,59611

The Warrington Guardian states that Colonel
Patten has withdrawn his gift of a park to that town in
consequence of the parsimonious conduct of the town
council at their last meeting.
It is rumoured that an effort will be made to settle
the vexed question of inquiry into the religious houses of
Great Britain, and that a compromise will be suggested
by which a royal commission may be substituted for a
select committee of the House of Commons, and the terms
of the reference to be modified so as to embrace merely
the question of the trusts under which the property of
convents and monastic institutions is administered.
On arrival at Constantinople, the seamen of the
barque Pyrus, of Shields, brought
charges against their
master of habitual drunkenness, of leaving port without a
mate, and of a non-compliance with the regulations of the
Merdian Shipping Act relating to oilicianog-books. The
accused, Captain Robert Tenmbland, was tried in a naval
court, and the result was that a severe censure was
nassed upon his conduct. The court further decided that
ite barque Pyrus should not leave the port of Constanti-
no pie till a proper person had been appointed as mate.
The costs of the inquiry had to be
rittp4 Zoncs.
paid by the captait-7

Li ~erpool, it seems, has treated itself with a machine
which the Daily Courier of that town terms a " Demon
crusher " and a " local car of Juggernaut," "Does any
Liverpool merchant (asks our contemporary) want his
lawn roiled, or his avenues levelled, or the gravel of
his walks smoothed? If so, apply to the borough
engineer for the use of the Bowring, alias the
demon-crusher, alias the forty-ton steam roller.
Its s,irvices may be retained, stoker and all, at a charge
of £2 lOs per day (paid in advance), and for this moderate
sum the Corporation will undertake to break all the
sewers, flatten all the gaspipes, and otherwise crush
everything the Bowring passes over. The demon
with the innocent name is the local car of
Juggernaut, which demolishes all before it, from
macadam to drain-pipes. It costs the Corporation £5OO
a year to feed its voracious furnace, and as a means of re-
plenishing the exhausted treasury, the Health Committee
have agreed to let it out for hire. Who wants it ?
If the aristocracy of Aigburth desire its service,
will they guarantee to return it ? For if it was
taken across the river Jordan, or into Aigburth.
vale, it might get into a rut from which extrication would
be impossible, or the boiler might blow up, or the wheels
come off, or some other unforeseen emergency arise. The
demon has a taste for breaking down in critical places
—that was a sad plight when it fell into the sewers of
of Newsham-park—and unless the corporation are pre-
pared to find their white elephant dead lame in some
outlandish situation, they will keep it quietly at home—
languishing in all its beauty in a shed, as Mr. Harrison
d-oetically apostrophises, or wasting its sweetness on the
esert air as Mr. Campbell prefers ; though, for our part,
we have never observed either beauty or sweetness in the
" Bowring." _

THE TEMPORAL PODS ER OF THE POPE. —The
Memorial Diplonurtique says that the recent statement of
the Agence Havas concerning the text of the paragraph in,
the Schema relating to the Temporal Power, was calcu-
lated to give rise to apprehensions, and even to justify the
belief that a conflict might ensue between the Holy See
and Italy. At the same time it expresses great doubts as
to the authenticity of the paragraph in question, and
points out that the Schemata published by the Augsburg
Gazette contains no allusion to the intervention of the Papal
authority, and leave a wide latitude to the decisions of the
Council. The Pope was to remain in ignorance of these
decisions until they were sent to him for approval.

Cnisis IN AUSTRIA.—The Berlin Post says that
the Germans of Cis-Leithania are more satisfied now that
the Slays have completed their exodus from the Reichstag.
The Poles and Slavenians have been threatening to take
this step since 1869, and they can now pat their
professions to the proof, and see if they are
sufficiently strong to shake "German Centralisation." The
Czechs have declared against the Coalition Ministry of
Count Potocki because he holds to the German Constitu-
tion, and contributed in 1868 to placing Prague in a state
of Beige, as well as to the general oppression of the Czechs.
The Germans of Bohemia and Moravia are preparing to
exert themselves in defence of the Constitution.

THE DARIEN SURVEYING EXPEDITION.—We are
indebted to a gentleman in Aspinwall for the following
very gratifying news from the United States exploring
expedition at Caledonian Bay, from which it would appear
that all fears anticipated about the hostility of the Indians
have been found just the contrary :—" The news from
Caledonia Bay to the 13th of March. I take pleasure in
communicating the following items, which I glean from
a private letter. The United States steamer Nipsic left
Caledonia Bay on the 7th instant for Carthagena, to,
procure more labourers, and for the purpose of trans-
mitting the ma'ls to Aspinwall. The telegraph corps
have established a camp on Nipsic point, opened a main
office, put up instruments, batteries, &c„ and have cut
out a road about theee-quarters of a mile long, in order
to meet the surveyors' road. On the 14th they would .
commence moving and extending their lines up to
the surveyors' camp, and thence onward to the
Pacific as fast as the surveyors move. The surveyors
are hard at work, and have succeeded in securing a
fine map of the topography of the country, almost the
entire length of the Bay running back to the base of the .
mountains. All branches of the expedition are busily
engaged doing their best to find the object for which the
expedition was sent there. The Indians are peaceable,
and visit the various camps daily, without fear of being
molested. Large quantities of valuable woods have been
found. Mahogany and India rubber trees abound, and
there are many plantations of plaintains and sugar-cane of
a superior quality. The health of the entire party is
excellent, and all are in good spirits."—Panama Star,
March 21.

FIRE-PROOF FURNITURE.—Every now and then
loud noisings are heard about the importance of rendering
the ballet-girls incombustible, but no one seems to think
that there are other things to which it would be equally
important to apply a fire averter. Why should
we not make our houses uninflammable and our
furniture fire-proof ? It can easily be done—or
rather it could be, if there were some sort of com-
pulsion put upon builders and upholsterers. Timber is
the material that needs the preservative, and it may be
prevented from firing by simply impregnating it with a
concentrated solution of rock salt. The fact has just been
announced by a German chemist, who was commissioned
to solve the question by a fire insurance company. Water-
glass will act as well, but it is expensive ; rock salt is dirt
cheap. The salt, too, renders the wood proof against dry-
rot and the ravages of insects. Its antagonism to fire
might be turned to account in extinguishing flames, for a
solution of it pumped out of a fire engine upon burning
matter would be vastly more effective than plain water.
Our system of fire extinction needs revision. We now;
often do as much damage by indiscriminate watering as i
the fire would if it were left to burn itself out, only whq
will initiate improvements I)—Cassell's Magazine.

MUSICAL MATTERS.—The Scandinavian resident
of Paris are about to fête Ald Nilsson.—The Paris,
theatres are doing exee,edingly well. M. B?.,gier
has received £2,010 for the first three nights,'
of Madame Patti, and the Varidt6s pocketed £6OOl
for the first five nights 'of "Le Ver Rongeur."---
A Barcelona paper states that Tamberlik has contractelt,
engagements in St.. Petersburg and Moscow till January,
1871, so that he will not appear in the Teatro Real, Mad-
rid, next season, unless it be in the last quarter. It is
stated, in a Madrid letter, that a well-known writer is
about to produce a drama in three acts, with the ;
singular title of "Un Rey con Honra Queremos,9:
which may be translated "we wish to have a
king with honour," or "we wish to have a king 1
honourably." It is added that the object of the play?
is a political one—that of representing in a
favourable light the public and private virtues of the Duke
of Montpensier.—A. new universal Musical Lexicon is
being published in Berlin: edited by Hermann MendeL
It is to extend to about sixty numbers, and to include 4
explanations of all the terms used in music, of the prin-1
ciples of acoustics, harmony, orchestration, &0., as well as
biographies of musicians, notices of compositions, and an
historical review of the devolopment and progress of music
j
in all its branches. Its title is the " Musikalischgo Vicon%l
yersations L exicon."— Orchestra.

Through some mistake the Poor-law Board ap-
pointed Good Friday as the day for the election of guar-
dians in St. George's, Hanover-square. The fixture could.
not be altered, and the result is that the ratepayers were
virtually disfranchised.

A private meeting of the Waterford city magis-
trates was held on Wednesday for the purpose of consi-
dering the best means of preserving the peace of the city
during the hearing of the coming election petition. The
proceedings were very animated. After a long discussion
it was agreed to apply to the Government for extra troop,
and police.—. Dublin Express. _

Advices from New York state that the United'
States Government was to buy on Wednesday one million
dollars of Five-Twenty Bonds on the sinking fund
account. Another million dollars of the same bonds
will be purchased by Mr. Boutell on Thursday next on the
special fund account. A further million dollars of gold:
will, it is reported, be sold on Wednesday.

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Surrey Chapel, and settlement in the United States,
saying that he hopes, on his return to London, to
" preach the Gospel with greater power and more energy
than ever."
STEALING FROM LLOYDS.—A clerk, named Hart, has
been sentenced, at the Mansion House, to six months' im-
prisonment
for stealing several coats f.om the committee-
room at Lloyd's.
CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES.—A case of some importance
to small investors in co-operative societies has been heard ;
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a member, and could not withdraw without permission.
The judge held that to constitute the plaintiff a share-
holder it was necessary that he should have agreed to be
one, and have been registered as such. According to his
pass-book he was merely a depositor, and had power tv•
withdrawn at any time. Judgment for the plaintiff.
THE GAME LAWS.—A young man named Church has
been sentenced at Kidderminster to a fine of 14s. 6d. for
trespassing in search of game. The land trespassed on
belonged to the Earl of Dudley. The defendant said
that he was in his father's garden with his dog,
when the dog started a hare, and he followed to
stop it.
ACTION FOR COTTON.—At Manchester Mr. Hebden,
manufacturer, sued the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail-
way for damages for non-delivery of three bales
of cotton sent on by them to Rochdale instead of
Skipton. The plaintiff wanted the cotton at a particular
time, and was put to a great inconvenience. The judge
kkid the company were not liable unless they had pr.ior
notice of the time at which it was wanted. Telegraphmg
after the cotton had been delivered to the company woulq
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