The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRILLY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1869.

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LOADOLV, FRIDAY; APRIL 16, 1869.

The discussion provoked last evening upon the
Irish Church Bill by Mr. NEWDEGATE was alternately
dull and uproarious, tedious and effervescent, gran-
diloquent and ludicrously common-place, often
utterly nonsensical and, for the most part, weari-
some beyond all possible endurance. The result was
a majority more overwhelming than any that has
yet pronounced in favour of the immediate disesta-
blishment of the Irish Church. Instead of support-
ing the member for North Warwickshire's proposi-
tion, for the bill being committed that day six months,
or, in other words, for its being altogether shelved the
House by a clear majority of 126, out of a total of
589 members, Speaker and Tellers included, decided
upon the course of legislation in the matter being no
longer, in this frivolous and preposterous way, inter-
rupted. An air of the ridiculous was imparted from
lb: the
the grandiose
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determinationwith-
stand d
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sacrilegious of himself
onslaught and his
u followerspon
the
Establishment in Ireland by the Leaders
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JESTY'S Government. He wasso f t t"
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IA EIVDEGATE only the more i,rototewstiatnht-
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hearers,
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effectually appealed to their
sense of the ludicrous ; and instead of eliciting cheers
called forth occasional shouts of laughter. For one nour auo _ ...... Loy ,i. 00-osoo ........_____ - __ _ 1
Warwickshire trumpeted forth his' indignant
pro-
tests against the measure with the lungs of the
BOANERGES. By a fantastic contrast thegentle tones of
the gallant Colonel, the memberfor Dungannon, gave
out with an, if possible, droller effect, still, the hope-
less cry of No Surrender. Then followed the mem-
ber for Kirkcaldy with his previously baulked protest
in regard to the compensation proposed for Maynooth
College. This interpolated harangue, the House
could hardly muster patience enough to even
affect a disposition to tolerate. The House for a
while became, asthephrase is, as tumultuous as a Bear-
garden. It was a complication of noises, the hub-
bub excited by Mr. AYTOUN'S speech, amounting to
what is termed on the other side of the Channel
a charivari. The tumult at last became simply
intolerable. And having been still further enhanced
by the uncalled for interposition of the mem-
bers for Fermanagh and Shoreham, who were both of
them sharply rep.imanded by the Speaker as distinctly
out of order—the Bar had eventually to be cleared,
at a most unusual mandate from the chair, by the
noble lord the Sergeant-at-Arms. The continuation of
the debate assumed afterwards something like a show
of decorum up to the taking of the division. Fre-
quently-- there is no doubt of it—with a
sense of tediousness amounting to absolute
desolation. A maiden speech, that would have
otherwise been a success, was delivered at a great
deal too much length, though with considerable
fluency and self-possession, by Mr. 'lola-, the newly-
elected member for North-East Lancashire. So vio-
lently was Mr. GP.EENE, the member for Bury St.
Edmunds, opposed to the innovation sketched out by
the Government Bill, that in a sort of desperation, as
one may say, he frantically talked of the necessity for
another General Election being passed through be-
fore the matter under discussion were finally de-
cided. The fanatical member for Peterborough
indulged himself with unmeasured denunciations of
Maynooth, what though himself, as a Liberal repre-
sentative, numbered among the supporters of Mr.
GLADSTONE.S measure for the disestablishment of the
Protestant Church in Inland. A worthy contempo-
rary of Mr. WHALLEY, to wit Mr. CHARLEY, the
member for Salford endeavoured immediately after-
wards in what appeared to be, as one may say, a
foreshortened speech to fulfil his own extra Parlia-
mentary announcement, that he would himself carry
retribution home to Mr. GLADSTONE in the sight
and hearing of the assembled House of Commons.
Somehow in spite of all this Mr. GLADSTONE seems
to have weathered the storm of the member for Sal-
ford's wrath just as Mr. DISRAELI has failed to
be extinguished by the pitiless influence of
the new member for the city of Ox-
ford, Mr. VERNON HARCOURT, who Was supposed
by some people to have entered the House of Com-
mons for the express purpos.e of sweeping out of view
the political existence of the right hon. gentleman the
member for Buckinghamshire. About the only rational
speech last evening against the bill was the one de-
livered by the noble Iris cwcooauus7de ti,
ehoaenrimiyye trrneebtvoei
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no
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pLowi
nvheern t
thoseh pool,e
but the
memberffoorrcce
oolefrfaoilnley
who groaned under the infliction of his speech by
comparing theircries of " Oh, oh," to the like monosyl-
lables uttered years ago in Vauxhall-gardens on the
soaring and explosion of the fireworks. It was with
a profound sense of relief that the House became
aware at last that Mr. GLADSTONE had risen to his
feet for the purpose of rapidly winding up a singu-
larly discursive and perfunctory discussion upon a
measure about the eventual passing of which
through Committee, orindeed through the house,there
are not entertained seriously two opinions. Mr.
DISRAELI'S observations were still briefer than those
of the Prime Minister, the leader of the Opposition
plainly enough intimating his preparedness for a
result on the approaching division even worse than
that arrived at through the division on the second
reading. An anticipation fully justified by the clear
majority last night of 126 on the side of the Go-
vernment.

IN interesting scene was witnessed on Tuesday at
the London Terminus of the Midland Railway.
Three hundred and twenty-seven men, women, and
children, London artisans, labourers, and their fami-
lies quitted a capital which can furnish them no
subsistence, and started on the journey to Canada.
Their

passages will be paid, they will not be landed
penniless, and everything has been provided to give
them a fair start in the labour market of the New
World. The benevolent ladies and gentlemen who
are trying this experiment are applying a practical
remedy to a practical evil. The East-end of London
has for some time past been under a cloud. For
the idle and the drunken there is no hope, either in
the metropolis, in Canada, or elsewhere; but un-
doubtedly many thousands of the vast population
inhabiting the Tower Hamlets have suffered from
sheer want of employment, The late commercial
crisis injuriously affected the labour market. More
than this, the industry of East London has for some
time been in process of decay. It was only in the
nature of things that the shipbuilding and some of
the manufactures of the Tower Hamlets should dis-
appear from a district where coal is very dear,
and flourish only where the staple commodity is
cheap. The decline of manufacturing industry in
East London has of late been accelerated by strikes,
collapse in the money market, and the like ; but a
natural law beyond human control would have brought
it to pass in the end. A large surplus population,
desirous of work, but unable to find it, has been
thrown on the poor„rates. It is with this good labour
in the wrong place, and not with paupers proper,
that the emigration scheme proposes to deal. The'
movement is popular in East London. It is not un-
natural that the honest poor should prefer to live in
a strange land to starving in the mother country;
and hence the applicationa f9r a passage to the WW

have greatly exceecletthe number at the disposal of
the committee.. Glad, we- are told, have the poor
seized the opportunitand joyfully have they left
their overcrowded col
try for a land where there is,
at least, hope for all.
There is reason to I believe that these charitable
efforts will prove bericial, because the committee
have carefully attendi to the cardinal condition of
success. Much ofthe pauperism in England
is owing solely want of work, and
for this portion c the poor emigration is
the best resource. IT, as we have previously seen,
a great deal of poverr is to be attributed to other
causes. And as all >auperism is not the effect of
scarcity of labour, so a pauperism is not to be got rid
of by emigration. Thre is no probability that a man
whose failure is owing o his own vices will thrive in a
colony. There is no lason why lie should be trans-
ferred to a young coutry because he is an incum-
brance here. It is nither just nor practicable to
land our vagabonds, ciluinals, idlers, and drunkards
on the other side o the Atlantic because we
find them a sore brden in England. Chari-
table emigration, n. order to do good,
must be confined to workmen, whether skilled or
unskilled, who have suffered from causes over
which they have n) control. The emigrants
who left their old holies on Tuesday, and others
who have preceded
them, have been judi-
ciously selected on leis principle. Applications
from really unfortuna.D working-class families only
were considered ; and when a selection had to be
made, the best were elosen. Canada, in all proba-
bility, will receive a body of workmen who will
creditably fill some of the many places which are
now vacant. Conducted on this principle, charitable
emigration cannot fail to be useful, and may be advan-
tageously extended. When Rupert's Land is joined
to the Canadian Dominion the emigrant will find a
. . .
not much more distant than Canada, and surpasses
it in other respects; for whereas Canada is mostly
forest land, which must be cleared, the Fertile Belt•
consists largely of soil which is now waiting for the
husbandman. Australia, too, may receive some
attention. The great distance of this colony is a
serious objection ; but labour is sadly needed there
and the reward ought to be proportionate,

A NEW SYSTEM OF SHORTHAND. *
The increasing importance or shorthand as a practical
art is abundantly shewn Ly the multiplication of books
designed to teach it. Shorthand has for some time past
ceased to be a purely Professional acquirement. As a
means of recording the words of a speaker, whether for
newspaper or other prrposes, a vastly' abbreviated
mode of writing has long been indispensable. But
the usefulness of the art is now being extended to the
ordinary purposes of life ; it is becoming more and more an
aid to the student or the literary man. No one who is
much in the habit of writing can fail to observe the serious
inconvenience arising from the disparity between the
timerequired to invest thought with the form of language,
and the much longer period required to transform sounds
into written characters. To the professional reporter
some means of reducing this difference is absolutely
necessary, but to the general community the art
of shorthand cannot fail to prove of the highest
utility. The advanta
ins to be derived from the
power of recording sPee:h as fast as it is uttered are
palpable. But the art is difficult. Shorthand is nothing
more than a means of eapressing the complicated letters
of the alphabet in the simplest characters, such as strokes
and curves. These simple letters are joined together in
the same way as the ordinary manuscript characters.
Much practice is of coarse required before the hand
can be trained to trace these simple letters as
naturally as the familiar combinations of hooks and
curves. But the chief di%culty is to decipher the abbre-
viated writing after it has once been committed to paper.
The liability to error is great. If, in the hurry of writing,
a character which should be upright is sloped at an
angle, it represents something- quite different. If a dot
be accidentally converted into a dash, the result is the
same. Everybody has read the amusing account of David
Copperfield's experience as a shorthand writer who could
not read his not es ; and instances of laughable blunders
would fill a volume. The great aim of a shorthand system
should be to ensurelegibility without making the characters
so complex as to prevent rapid writing. This is the
object of Mr. Young's new system, and there can be no
doubt that so much yet remains to be done in this direc-
tion that no apology can be needed for the appearance of
another elementary work. Mr. Young does not aim
sr ecially at rapid writing ; indeed, his system may have
to yield the palm on this score to one or two others. Per-
fect legibility is Mr. Young's watchword, and it is one
which must sound grateful to all who have practically
realised the miseries of unreadable stenography. In one
or two systems of late years the principle of thick and
thin characters has been adopted, a stroke representing
one letter when thin and another when thick. But this
distinction is very difficult to keep up in practice ;
stroke which should be thin very often becomes thick, and
rice versci. Mr. Young has rejected this principle, and
has devised his characters regardless of their thickness. This,
though it reduces the avilable number of strokes, and ren.
ders the sign for the less common letters more complicated,
is yet a decided gain on the score of legibility, Mr. Young's
system possesses
another great merit, one which we have
long thought indispensable to perfect shorthand writing,
but which has never, to our knowledge, been adopted
before. The inventor of " Readable Shorthand " has so
devised his vowel symbols that they can be written con-
tinuously with the consonants. The general principle
has been to express the vowels by means of dots,
which are- placed side by side with the consonants.
Each vowel thus necessitated a lifting of the pen, and if,
as was generally the case, many were omitted, the legibility
of the writing became seriously impaired. By joining his
vowels to the consonants gr. Young saves time, increases
legibility, and yet is able to omit the vowels at pleasure.
Dots are used only to express entire words, when the
brevity of the symbol compensates for the lifting of the
pen. By reserving his dots for complete words, Mr.
Young secures a very full assortment of phraseograms.
Besides the dot words, every letter represents
a word also, so that abundant facilities for
contraction are provided. Affixes and suffixes
receive ample attention. Mr. Young's is a stenographic
system ; that is, he follows the English alphabet exactly
as it stands, whilst phonographic shorthand is based on
the principle of giving every articulate sound a separate
symbol. It is a decided improvement on many previous
systems in respect of legibility ; and, though one or two
swifter modes of writing might be named, there is no
reason to apprehend that Mr. Young's system is lacking
in this particular. Greater legibility is well worth having
at the cost of a little speed.

--------_______,
" " Readable Shorthand, Self-taught.„ BY Murdo Young. London;
E. Stanford, Charing-cross.

THE LORD CHANCELLORS I?.ECEPTION.

Thursday being the first day of Easter Term, the Lord
Chancellor (Lord Hatherley), according to the usual
custom, gave a breakfast at his private residence to the
Judges, Queen's Counsel, and Serjeants, previous to the
opening of the different equity and common law courts.
Afterwards the judges went in procession to Westmin-
ster Hall, the time occupied in the journey being much
shorter than usual, as the house of the Lord Chancellor
is in Great George-street, in the immediate neighbour.
hood of the courts. The hall Was filled with people who
had assembled to witness the judges pass along in their
full robes, and accompanied by their different officers and
attendants.
Nearly all the judges, both in law and equity, Were
present, and amongst the other gentlemen who assem.
bled, some of the earliest arrivals were Mr. Huddleston,
Q.C. ; the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals ; the Hon. G.
Denman, Q.C., M.P. ; Sir J. Karslake, Q.C. ; Mr. Kars.
lake, Q.C. ; Mr. Jesse], Q. 0., Mr. H. Palmer, Q. 0,,
M.P.; Serjeant Payne, Dr. Deane, Sir Travers Twiss, Mr,
Staveley Hill, Q.C., M.p, ;
Sir Richard Bagganay,
Q.C. ; Mr. O'Malley, Q.C. ; Dr. Stephens ; Mr. Montagu
Chambers, Q.C., M.P. ; AL.. T. Chambers, Q.C., bi.P. ;
Sir Roundell Palmer, Q.C., M.P. ; Mr. Digby Seymour,
Q.C., &c.

Dr. Petermann, of Gotha, has been informed that
two English expeditions will leave during the pressnt year
for the Polar regions.
The Blackburn Standard states that the cost of the
recent Parliamentary elections to the ratepayers of Black-
burn will amount to £1,119. This amount is exclusive of
the cost to the candidates, and of the election petition, and
the whole of the above amount will have to be chargeable
to the rates ! Thu Mayor (Mr. John Smith) was put to an
expense of £2OO in entertaining Mr. Justice Wiles..
Many parts of the North of England were visited on
Wednesday with a thunderstorm of unusual severity. Early
in the day it broke over the neighbourhood of Manchester,
and in the afternoon and evening Huddersfield, Leeds, and
the intervening and surrounding districts were similarly
visited. At Burton Salmon, between Leeds and York, the
lightning struck and did great damage to two 414130 the
=Mt, Phi NA Mimed Ohark.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,

PARIS, THURSDAY, April 15.
The Corps Legislatif has had an Algerian day. M.
Jules Favre proposed an amendment to promote the sub-
division of property amongst the natives as a means of
guarding against famine. This is considered by the best
authorities to be indispensible to the prosperity
of the colony. Amongst the Kabyles property
is subdivided to an indefinite extent, and the effect
is remarkable. Whilst the Arabs are sluggish, indo-
lent, and indifferent, the Kabyles are manly, intelligent,
and active. Whilst the former suffer dreadfully from
famine after a deficient harvest, the energy of the
latter preserves them from the worst consequences
of scarcity. The tenure of land, and not native
peculiarities, are held to be the cause of this
difference. The Algerian Chamber of Commerce hag
declared that the non-subdivision of property is the real
cause of the retrograde march of the Arabs and of the dis-
tress in the country. But Marshal Niel thinks differently.
He believes that the miserable failure of the Arabs and
the success of the Kabyles is entirely owing to differences
of race. The inhabitants of Kabylia differ entirely from
the Arabs in manners and physical constitution.
Amongst the latter woman is a slave ; with
the former she holds ler place and authority in
the tribe. The Kabyles cultivate the soil and
live on their own resources; their habits more nearly
resemble those of Frenchmen, and this was the cause
why they did not suffer from the famine. This is all very
well ; but it seems to me that the best plan is not to
refuse the Arab a better land tenure because he is inferior
to the Kabyle, but to grant a better land tenure, and
thus leave him a fair chance to equal the Kabyle. So
thought a great many deputies. The division which
followed, like some others of late, was remarkable for a
large defection of Imperialists. The Government got 129
votes, but:the Opposition presented an unusuallyforrnidable
minority of 80. Truly the palmy days of Imperialism—
majorities of two or three hundred, and minorities of a
score—are passing away. Forty members of the Right voted
with the Left. It seems, therefore, that the 400,000 Arabs
NifiePrOitie GovernMentfogmkave caused forty sup-
cessary in Algeria. The Libertd puts the followin ro
bi
If ten thousand Arabs killed by hunger convert one deputy,
how many must be killed before the Corps L6gislatif
presents a majority in favour of a good system of colonial
government?

M. Gassaud, a merchant of Nice, has become bankrupt
and fled. His liabilities would be nothing in England,
but they are deemed somewhat considerable in France.
The total is only £72,000.

THE VOLUNTEER CAPITATION GRANT.

Mr. Cardwell's answer to the memorial presented last
month by Lord Elcho in:the name of a number of peers and
members of Parliament who are volunteers on the subject of
the capitation grant is printed among the parliamentary
papers issued this morning. It is as follows:—" War
Office, March 17, 1863.—My Lord, —I am d'r.•cted by the
Secretary of State for War to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the 3d inst., enclosing a memorial on the sub-
ject of the capitation grant of the volunteer force, agreed to.
at a meeting of volunteer peers and members of Parliament,
and 1 am to request that you will have the goodness to in-
form the memorialists that the question, whether any
increase of the present grant ought to be asked
for from Parliament, shall receive the careful con-
sideration of her Majesty's Government, in connection with
the question, which is now also receiving their serious at.
tention, as to what measures it may be expedient to take for
the better organisation of the reserve force as a support
in
time of emergency to the regular forces of her Majesty.--4
have, dc. (signed) NORTUBROOK.—Tho Lord Elcho."

MANNERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

A correspondent who dates from the House of Com-
monP, and signs himself "A Bloated Aristocrat," sends
the following letter :-1 read with great interest yes-
terday your ingenious article on "Manners in England
and America." It pleased me so much that I shall take care
to send a copy of it to a gentleman, a member of the House
of Commons, who was lately seen, in the reading-room
of that assembly, to take his hoots off preliminary to the
enjoyment of his newspaper. Lounging in one chair,
with his feet reposing in their stockings upon another,
he made in the sunshine a very striking if not quite an
agreeable figure. To be suro, Tuesday was a very
warm day; but that, I venture to think, is no excuse
for this particular breach of good manners. Sir,
pray print my letter as a hint to the gentle-
man in question ; otherwise, when the dog days come in,
he may be encouraged to strip himself still further—and
that would really be offensive. Besides, bad manners are
contagious, even (though you might not think it) in so
august au atmosphere as ours.

-0.--
The Paris correspondent of the Post has obtained an
interesting document. The mandarins in Paris are
collecting valuable information, and being men of no
ordinary intelligence, it is curious and interesting to hear
their remarks cn what they see around them. Mr. and
Mrs. Burlingame and the natives of the Chinese mission
have given a grand ball, at which what is called " all Paris"
assembled. One of the mandarins has written home an
account of this fete, and the correspondent has been
favoured with a translation of the hieroglyphics, and is
permitted to publish the same. Some of the facts and
objects conveyed were drawings, the basis of the language,
the origin of those horizontal and perpendicular lines
with which we barbarians arc made familiar
by tea chests. The l4ter commences :—" To my
honoured and well-loving brother at Pekin, from
his affectionate Te-to-Tum,--My thoughts are borne
tracings.
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happy ! how shall I begin ? Our mission, all of us, have
been well received by the powerful Emperor, by the
Empress, by the mandarins of the bamboo stick or
Government." The eating characteristics of the French
nation first came under criticism. "We have dined," he
says, " at their tables, where the stomach is expected
to receive with pleasure some thirty different
objects of food, and perhaps ten different liquids.
The French and other foreigners eat until they feel very
uncomfortable, and require much medicine drugs, as may
be seen by the many chemists' shops of this city. They
have the same capacity as our pigs. Had you been here the
other night and observed how these people rudelyscrambled
for the food at the supper table when we gave our fête !
They put their hands violently on the dishes and disputed
with each other most roughly." This leads to some remarks
on European manners. "The civilisation of these Chris-
tians is far behind ours in manners. We shall have to teach
' the most polite people of the world,' the French,
the very elements of good breeding ; we shall also
have to correct their vanity and selfishness. I have
witnessed much rudeness at the palace of the Tein-tsye,
or Emperor's home, where balls and suppers are given
also. Our rooms would permit 500 men and women to
circulate with ease, but we invited 2,000, because to
make fashionable people in Paris happy you must make
them uncomfortable by crowding them thickly. They do
not wear fans, and look hot and sulky ; this originates, I
think, in their wearing light boots, and gluttony. The men
generally are very ignorant. The women look at each
other with envy and jealousy. The best-mannered
people are the waiters and the servants ; the
best dressed people the footmen. Heaven forbid
that we should import any French social habits."
The women, also, and the marriage system, come in for
great denunciation. "Oh ! if you had seen the women at
our ball. They came half undressed ; that is to say, the
upper part of the body was wholly exposed, but they are
jealous of shewing their feet, and seem to desire to hide
the floor also, as each woman drags about with her a long
robe, on which it is not etiquette to place your shoe, Their
eyes are painted round (not all of them), and they use
colouring for the lips and a pearl powder for various
exposed sections of the frame. They purchase the hair
of the dead, and artists work it into various designs;
then the women put it on their heads with flowers; and
yet they are not a dirty people. The high caste women
are allowed every license. At our kte they were clasped
round the waist by men they knew not, and danced with
painful vigour, for it was hot. These females go about
the streets alone, and at the age of 15 have lost all
modesty. The immorality of the men is deplorable.
Whereas we have the one mother wife and the two or three
`travelling wives,' these French have no limited number
of wit es. With us all the wives live together, but the
Frenchman's wives live in different houses, thus causing
great immorality and expense. Society is a puzzle
you can never put together and look at as a whole. The
travelling wives get all the jewels and best things," The
religion is criticised. " The religion of the Christians is
mainly used for form's sake ; few believe in its divinity in
the mandarin class, but no one dares express their
infidelity. Why should not their missionaries remain
at home and convert their own people. Never, I hope,
shall we import English and French commercial
immorality. Here great banking mandarins combine
and get together millions from the pockets of the people.
They then make the company bankrupt, and retire with
their riches without the bamboo correction. These robbers
are at Courts, wearing the Legion of Honour. Here in
England the small thief alone is punished. We have very
little to learn from the barbarians of Europe excepting
their mechanical inventions. God forbid that we should
import their manners and customs. They have much to learn
from us, especially in manners. I must finish my written
speech by telling you this civilisation is now mainly en-
gaged in inventing warlike instruments, which will enable
people to kill each other to extermination. Unhappy
men ! why are you not satisfied with frightening each
other ?"

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On Tuesday it became widely known in Birming-
ham that Mr. George Solomon, who has carried on business as
George Solomon and Sons, 61, Constitution-hill, in that city,
had absconded. Late last Friday ho was released from War.
wick Gaol, where ho had been confined for debt, and it is
believed that he sailed on Saturday from Liverpool fcr Ame-
rica. A large number of forged bills manufactured by Solo-
man have been put into circulation, to the amount, it is be-
lieved, of at least £1,500 or £2,000. The forgeries are on
several well-known Birmingham firms, thelogitkingpri4-
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THE YACHT RACE.—The New York Herald, which
writes with some authority on yachting matters, has some
comments on the hitch which has occurred in the proposed
Anglo-American yacht race across the Atlantic. The
point in dispute is this : By New York measurement the
Dauntless, which is to compete with Mr. Ashbury's
yacht, is about the same tonnage as the Cambria, whereas
by Thames measurement she is double the size. Mr. Ash-
bury, taking the measurement of his own country, is
therefore called upon to compete with a vessel which he
believes to be heavier in tonnage than his own. The two
modes of measurement ought to be equalised, but this
cannot be done in time for the proposed race,
and Mr. Ashbury has referred the whole dispute to the.
arbitrament of the yacht congress. The Herald—in other
ds, Mr. Bennett—admits that Mr. Ashbury puts
Imself handsomely in the attitude of a man who desires
only fair play." At the same time it warns American
yachtsmen not to expect easy victories this summer over
their English cousins. The English yacht is built on fine
lines, while the American yacht is broad and avoids depth.
The writer observes that both models may have been sug-
gested by different waters and different winds. " May
not our model be the best in our own broad rivers, or in
the long sweep of the ocean, and the English model beet
in such chopping seas as the Channel?" The forthcowiDg
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