The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-26 00:00:00

'THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1867.

Factory Bill, I venture to say this ; and if any '
one of you will undertake -to look back to those dis-
cussions you will find that no word escaped my lips
that was not friendly to the operative class of this
country, and that I was as anxious to defend them
as to defend their employers from the exaggerated
and calumnious statements of those to whom 1 was
opposed. Now, once more to the questions of public
life and politics. I am one of those who believe that
in a country people can't be happy, cannot have that
which is their own, cannot be really free and really
growing and improving, unless there be a wise legis-
lation and a just administration. of the laws. (Hear,
hear.) An unjust law wounds every house in the
country, and that most unjust of all laws, the
corn law, penetrated every town and every
parish and eTery village and every house, and it
wounded and injured every man in every house ;
and a just law, on the contrary, acts with universal
influence. It is like the life-giving sun ; it is like a
fertilising shower, it scatters good everywhere ; and
there is no district in the country so remote, no family
so humble, no occupation so unimportant, that it
cannot feel to some degree the influence of a wise
and of a just and beneficent law—(loud cheers)—
but still we must never forget this—that laws,
monarchs, Houses of Legislation, powers that be of
any kind cannot do everything for us ; there will
remain much for us to do ourselves, many duties to
perform, and many efforts to make. The founda-
tion of all abundance and comfort is industry. You
are, perhaps, about the most industrious people in
the world. Mr. Bright concluded by saying it was
not necessary that any people should work harder
than the people of England, but he did not think
they cultivated the virtue of frugality as those of
some other countries. He also iulpressed upon
them, besides saving, to take more pride, like the
middle classes, in educating their children.

Mr. T. B. POTTER and Mr. GOLDWIN S3IITII
briefly addressed the meeting.

THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION IN
PARIS.

OFFICIAL REGULATIONS FOR ADMITTANCES.
SECTION 1.
GENERAL RULES.

Art. 1. In accordance with the general regula-
tions, settled on the 7th of July, and sanctioned by
an Imperial decree on the 12th of July, 1865, the
Exhibition will be opened on the Ist of April,
1867, and closed on the 31st of October following.
Art. 2. The Exhibition comprehends three en-
closures.

The first, named the Park, encloses the Champ-
de-Mars Palace, the park which surrounds it, and
the bank of the Seine.
The second, called the Garden, situated at the
south-east of the Champ-de-Mars, encloses the
garden destined to be the horticultural exhibition. -
The third, called Billancourt, situated on the
Seine at five kilometres from the Champ-de-Mars,
encloses the agricultural exhibition and the experi-
ment ground in the isle of Billancourt.
Distinct tolls are established at every enclosure.
Art. 3. The entrances of the park enclosure are
situated and designated in the following manner :
No. 1. Grande Porte (principal entrance).—At
the d'Orsay Quai, opposite the Jena Bridge.

No. 2. Porte de l'Universitti (University en-
trance).—At the corner of the d'Orsay Quai and of
the Avenue la Bourdonnaye.
No. 3. Porte Rapp (Rapp entrance).
No. 4. Porte la Bourdonnaye (la Bourdonnaye
entrance).

No. 5. Porte Saint Dominique (Saint Dominique
entrance).—At la Bourdonnaye Avenue, and where
the Rapp Avenue emerges into the Rue Saint
Dominique.
No. 7. Porte del'Ecole Militaire (Military School
entrance).—Opposite the Pavillon de l'llorloge.
No. 8. Porte Dupleix (Dupleix entrance).—At
the corner of the Lamotte-Piquet and Suffren
Avenues.

No. 9. Porte Kleber (Kleber entrance).
No. 10. Porte Suffren (Suffren entrance).
No. 11. Porte D.:saix (Desaix entrance).—At
the centre of the Saffren Avenue.

No. 12. Porte de la Gare (Railway Station en-
trance). —At the &iffreu Avenue, and at the Branch
Station of the Metropolitan RAilway (Chemin de
Fer de Ceinture), near the d'Orsay Quai.
No. 13. Porte de Grenelle (Grenelle entrance).
—At the corner of the Suffren-avenue and of
d'Orsay quay.

No. 14. Porte de Billaucourt (Billaneourt en-
trance).—Ou the bank of the Seine and on the
right of the Jena bridge.
No. 15. Porte d'Orsay (d'Orsay entrance).—On
the bank of the Stine and ou the left of the Jena
bridge.

There is only one external entrance for the gar-

den enclosure—

No. 6. Porte de Tourville (Tourville entrance).
—At the corner of la Bourdonnaye and Lamotte-
Piquet avenues.
At the common enclosure there are four entrances,
communicating on the inside with the park and
garden enclosures.
Art. 4. A weekly notice, published in the Moni-
teur and placarded at the entrances, will make
known the hours at which will be opened and shut
the entrances; first, of the three enclosures; second,
of the palace, of the other Exhibition grounds, and
of the private establishments standing in each of the
enclosures. •

The same notice will make known the hour of
admittance specially reserved during the morning for
study, apart of the hours for general admittance.
Art. 5. The receipt of money for admittance,
without ticket, will be made by means of turnstiles
established at all the entrances of each enclosure.
No change will be given.
Art. 6. The bearers of tickets will be admitted
through wickets near the turnstiles, at those en-
trances which will be specially designated for each
class of tickets.
Art. 7. The admittance tickets of every class will
be strictly personal ; they will be signed by the
owners, who will be bound also to write their signa-
tures in a book for the purpose whenever required

to do so.
However, the ticket owners shall be exempted
from the verification by means of signature, by giv-
ing or sending two copies of their photographed
likeness, one of which will be affixed to the ticket.

Art. 8. Every owner of a ticket having lent

will forfeit it.

Every person having lent his ticket, and every
person having used a ticket not belonging to him,
will be prosecuted according to law.

SECTION 11.
ADMITTANCES WITHOUT TICKETS.

Art. 9. Conformably with the deliberations of the
Imperial Commission of the 4th of January, 6th of
April, and 18th of December, 1866, the prices of
admittance in the enclosures of the park and of the
garden
is fixed thus :
On Monday, April 1 (inaugural ceremony of the
Exhibition), for the two enclosures, 20 francs.
From the 2d to the 7th of April (from Tuesday
to Sunday) inclusive, for the two enclosures, 5
francs.

From Monday, April 8, and for every day-
1. Admittance in the park enclosure during the
general opening hour, 1 franc ; during the hours
reserved iu the morning, 2 francs.
2. Direct entrance in the garden enclosure
through the Tourville entrance, from the general
opening hour, 1 franc 50 cents ; during the hours
reser...Ll in the morning, 2 francs 50 cents.
3. A lmittance front the park enclosure into the
garden enclosure, at all times, 50 cents.
Art. 10. The prices of admittance in the Billan-
court enclosure will be settled ultimately.
Art. 11. The prices of the special tolls authorised
by the Imperial Commission for certain establish-
ments will be marked in the weekly notice, and
placarded at the entrances at every one of those
establishments.

Art. 12. Every person having left the enclosure
will have to pay again at the turnstiles to be re-
admitted.

SEC [ION 111.
ADMITTANCE WI ill SEASON TICKETS.

Art. 13. Season tickets, bearing the names of the
owner and not transferable, and valid for the whole

duration of the Exhibition, will be issued to the
public.
The price of the season tickets will be 60 francs
for ladies, 100 francs for gentlemen.

Art. 14. The subscriber who shall not show his

ticket will have to pay the admittance fee, the
amount of which will irrevocably belong to the Im-
perial Commission.

Art. 15. The season tickets entitle the owners to
assist at the inauguration ceremony, and to be ad-
mitted every day in the Champ de Mars Park, in
the Palace, and in the garden, at the hours of gene-
ral public attendance, and at the reserved hours.
To visit free the exhibitions with special tolls.
To visit the Agricultural Exhibition and the ex-
periment grounds at Billancourt.

Art. 16. The first subscribers will be entitled be-
sides to a numbered stall to assist at the ceremony
for distributing the awards which will take place at
the Industry Palace (in the Champs Elysees) on the
Ist of July, 1867.

The number of the stalls reserved to the subscri-
bers will not be under 5,000.

Art. 17. The season tickets will be numbered.
Articles 8 and 15, stipulating the municipal mutual
obligations of the subscriber and of the Imperial
commission, will be printed on the season tickets.
The subscriber, by signing his ticket, assumes
the obligation of fulfilling the stipulations thereon
mentioned, and generally all the articles of the
present regulation, which may concern him.
Art. 18. The wickets to specially admit the
subscribers will be established at all the entrances
with the exception of these :—No. 4, Le Bourdon-
nape ; No. 5, St. Dominique; No. 9, Kleber; No.
10, Suffren.

Conformably to Art. 7, the subscribers—bearers
of tickets to which their photographs are affixed—
shall be exempt from the verification by means of
signing their names, and shall be admitted at all
entrances without any exception.
Art. 19. The season-ticket office will be opened
at the Industry Palace (Champs Elysees) Gate, No.
10, from the 20th January, 1867 ; the plan of the
distribution of the stalls for the awards ceremony
will be exhibited there, in order to enable every one
to choose his seat when asking for his season ticket.
People not living in Paris can direct their de-
mands for season tickets to the general commis-
sioner ; the demands to be accompanied by the
amount in bank-notes or post-office orders. They
will receive in exchange a provisional receipt, indi-
cating the number of the season tickets and of the
stalls reserved for them.

Art. 20. Collective demands for season tickets,
made personally or by letter, will be attended to,
but every season ticket will be distinctly acknow-

ledged.
Art. 21. The definite ticket, in exchange of the
receipt, will be delivered only to the owner, who
will sign his name on the ticket.
Art. 22. The season tickets will be delivered only

from the Ist of March, 1867 ; up to that date only
provisional tickets will be delivered. The season-
ticket office will be opened from the 20th of January,
in order to insure to the persons who may wish for

tickets personally, or by letter, the advantage of
priority in choosing stalls.

SECTION IV.
WEEKLY TICKETS.

Art. 23. Weekly tickets will be issued to the

public.

These tickets bearing the name of the owner, and
not transferable, will entitle, during the week for
which they will be issued, to the same admittances
as the season tickets.
The week will begin from the day of issuing.
The price of a weekly ticket is fixed at 6 francs.
Art. 24. Weekly tickets will be issued only to
persons who may present themselves at the office
with their photographs.
The ticket will be affixed to those photographs.
Art. 25. The owner, by signing his ticket, assumes
the obligation of fulfilling the stipulations of Art. 8
thereon written, and generally all the stipulations
of the present regulations which can concern him.
Art. 26. The weekly tickets will be delivered at
an office to be established for the purpose at the
Champs de Mars, Pavillon of the General Commis-
sionership, iu la Bourdonnaye Avenue.

SECTION V.
EXHIBITORS' TICKETS.

Art. 27. In accordance with Arts. 58 and 59 of

the general regulations a gratis admittance ticket
will be given to every exhibitor, and also to the
agent whom the Imperial Commission admit to re-
present him or to watch over his goods.
These tickets, which are to be signed by the
owners, and not transferable, give admittance only
to the enclosure in which are'the articles exhibited
by the owners.
The tickets to exhibitors whose exhibitions are
only temporary are valid only during the time of
those exhibitions. •
Art. 28. Art. 8 will be printed on the exhibitors'
or exhibitors' agents' tickets. The owner, by sign-
ing his ticket, assumes the obligation of fulfilling
all the stipulations of the said article, and generally
all the stipulations of the present regulations which
may concern him.

Art. 29. The exhibitors in the park enclosure and
their agents will be admitted throught four wickets,
to be opened at the following entrances :—No. 2,
L'Universite ; No. 7, the Ecole Militaire ; No. 12,
the Railway Station ; No. 15, d'Orsay.
The exhibitors or their agents who avail them-
selves of the privileges conferred by Art. 7 will
have free access themselves on verification, by
means of signing their names, or by giving their
photographs, at all the entrances of the enclosure.

Art. SO. The exhibitors in the enclosure of the
garden and the agents of those exhibitors will be
admitted at a wicket for the purpose at the Tour-
\dile entrance.

Art. 31. The exhibitor-ticket will be delivered to
the exhibitors themselves.

The agent ticket will be delivered only at the
written request of the exhibitor, who will be re-
sponsible for any infringement.
Art. 32. The ticket to exhibitors or to exhibitors'
agents belonging to the French section will be
delivered at the offices of the General Commis-
sionership.
Art. 33. The tickets to the exhibitors or exhibit
tor-agents belonging to the foreign sections will be
delivered to the delegate commissioners, who will
bind themselvas to deliver them iu accordance with
the stipulations of Art. 31.

SECTION VI.

OFFICERS' TICKETS.

Art. 34. Tickets for general or restricted admit-
tance, valid for the whole duration of the exhibition,
or for a limited time, will be delivered according to
the nature of the duties and the necessities of the
service :-
Ist. To the members of the Imperial Commission,
and to the persons employed by it.
The tickets to the members of the Imperial Com-
mission have been delivered in the sole view of
making known their official rank, each of them
having taken a season ticket.
2d. To the president, vice-president, and secre-
tary of each foreign commission, to its commissioner
delegate at Paris, and to the persons belonging to
its staff, fulfilling active functions in the interior of
the exhibition.
3d. To the titular members of the international
jury and to the associate members, in accordance
with Art. 15 of the jury regulations; the tickets to
associate members of the jury for temporary ex-
hibitions are limited to the duration of their func-
tions.
Art. 35. Officers tickets for functions not belong.
ing to the classes mentioned in Art. 3.1 will be de-
livered only with the special authorisation of the
Imperial Commission.
Art. 36. The councillor of state general commis-
sioner is entrusted with the execution of these re-
gulations.
The Minister of State, Vice-President of the Im-
perial Commission, (Signed) RounEn.
The Councillor of State General Commissioner,
(Signed) F. LE PLAY.

I General Wood reports a general improvement in
the relations between employers and employed in
Mississippi. The negroes are exposed to much hard-
ship on account of the unfavourable crops, but are
preparing to work vigorously during the coming
year. The interest in education is growing among
both whites and blacks.

Miscellaneous American News,

There will be three public levees:at the White
House during the present session of Congress; the
first on Jan. 27, the second on Feb. 7, and the
third on Feb. 22.

The President has transmitted to Congress a
message covering additional correspondence bearing
upon the arrest of Surratt. It contains nothing of
special importance. It is shown that St. Marie, the
informer, is on his way to America, having been paid
for his services ; it covers also a letter from the
secretary of the authorities at Malta, declining to
arrest Surratt on the ground of insufficient proof of
identity.

The following are the concluding words of the
President's Message, vetoing negro suffrage in the
district of Columbia :--44 There is a limit, wisely
observed hitherto, which makes the ballot a privi-
lege and a trust, and which requires of some classes
a time suitable for probation and preparation. To
give it indiscriminately to a new class, wholly un-
prepared by previous habits and opportunities to
perform the trust which it demands, is to degrade
it, and finally to destroy its power, for it may be
safely assumed that no political truth is better esta-
blished than that such indiscriminate and all- embrac-
ing extension of popular suffrage must end at last
in its destruction."

The Storrs School is the name of a house just
erected for the education and religious instruction
of the freedmen in Atlanta, Georgia. It cost
$6,000, and is very complete in all its appointments.
The society of the Itev. Dr. Storrs, of Cincinnati,
were the chief contributors towards its erection.

The Philadelphia Inquirer states that the freed-
men throughout the Southern States celebrated the
Ist of January—the anniversary of emancipation—
by processions, with banners, music, and speeches.
It adds that it is to the credit of the Southern
people that they did not interfere with these demon-
strations, although they were in some particulars
fantastic.

The plan for the central monument for the Gettys-
burg National Cemetery has been agreed upon. It
is to be a white marble shaft 47 feet high, costing
$47,500, with one or more statues by Rogers.
A contemporary remarks :—" The letter-carriers
of New York are out for the fourth time with their
annual poetical address to the public, printed in a
neat little pamphlet, which contains besides the
verses a good deal of information on almost all
points relating to the mail service in this city. We
find, for instance, that, during the first nine months
of 1866, the total number of letters from abroad
delivered by carriers in this city was 7,683,222, and
of city letters the number was 2,926,507. To this
total of 10,609,729 letters must be added 1,008,778
of newspapers. For the same time, between January
1 and September 30, there were collected from the
lamp-post boxes 9,609,646 letters, a much larger
number than one would have expected.
The Iron Age informs us that the United States
Government is now having made at Hartford, Con-
necticut, 100 battery guns of a new invention.
Fifty of them will have a one-inch bore, awl
the balance one-half inch bore. This gunis
quite a curiosity tolook at. The main characteristics
of this terrible weapon are, that it has a series of
barrels, with a carrier and lock cylinder, rigidly fas-
tened to the main shaft, and rotating simultaneously
and continuously by means of a crank, the cartridges
being fed into the carrier from the feed-boxes, thence
driving end-wise into the rear ends of the barrels,
then exploded and the empty cartridge cases with-
drawn, without any pause in the operation. The
incessant loading and firing are produced by the
simplest kind of mechanism, there being less parts
about the gun than in the Springfield musket.
This gun can be discharged at the rate of 200 shots
per minute. One of its features is that there is no
recoil which can affect the accuracy of the aim.
When the gun is once sighted at a given object
the same aim can be maintained at the will
of the operator until thousands of discharges
take place. A lateral train motion of the gun may
be kept up if desired while the gun is being dis-
charged, so that a perfect sheet of balls can be made
to sweep a section of any circle within its range.
As there is no escape of gas at the breech all the
force of the powder is expended in giving velocity
from
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of the 28,574 muskets collected after the 'battle'
24,000 were found to be loaded, 12,000 of them
containing two loads each, and 6,000 being charged
with c arged
with from three to ten loads each, the cartridges
oftentimes being loaded without breaking them,
and many inserted with the ball down first. The
gun is light and easily transported. One of the
sizes now being made at the armoury discharges 58
100-inch calibre balls, weighs 225 pounds. The
other size discharges balls of one-inch calibre (nine
Ounces in weight), and weighs between 500 and 600
pounds. The first-named has a range of about one
mile, and the latter upwards of two miles.
The Senate Commission on Railroads, in the city
of New York, unanimously adopted a resolution in
favour of one line of underground road from the
Battery to the City Hall Park, under Broadway,
with one branch connection under Chatham-street,
Bowery, and Third avenue, to the Harlem River ;
another running on the west side, under Park place
(or Murray or Warren streets, or by the most
feasible route) to Hudson street, thence under llud-
son street to Eighth avenue, thence under Eighth
avenue to Broadway, thence under Broadway to
Ninth avenue, thence under Ninth avenue to Har-
lem River. The line under Broadway, between the
Battery and City Hall Park, to be constructed only
as part of one or more of the through lines.
The Commissioner of the General Land Office,
at IVashington, has received rich specimens of ar-
Igentiferous galena from newly discovered veins in
Colorado, within five miles of one of the finest coal
veins in the territory. The discovery (says the ln-
telligencer) is important, as it indicates a continua-
tion of the precious metallic veins in a north-
easterly direction nearly, if not quite, to the plains,
and in close proximity to the coal.
General Grant had a long interview with Secre-
tary Stanton on Jan. 2 upon the effect of the
recent decision of the Supreme Court upon
military commissions. It renders the Feeedmen's
Bureau and Civil Rights Bill nullities ; and while it
is allowed to stand, orders will be issued to prevent
any conflict of authority under it. Secretary
Stanton, General Geary, General Palmer, and all
other army officers who have been upon military
commissions, are hourly liable to criminal arrest
and trial. Senator Trumbull, who drew up both
the above bills, agrees with the Supreme Court.
This decision creates intense excitement, and it is
now claimed by the President that the Constitu-
tional Amendment, abolishing slavery, will yet be
declared a nullity.
We regret to add the following long list of fires
to those announced last week, which have entirely
or partially burned Winchester's petroleum refinery,
at Brooklyn, N
X.—loss, $30,000, while two men
were fatally burned ; a clothing establishment on
Church-street, New York—loss, $34,000 ; the pre-
mises on Pine-street New York, occupied by God-
dard and Edgarton—lnss, $15,000 ; Ivins' building at
Philadelphia, used for manufacturing purposes—loss,
$75,000; the paper-mills of Cole, Hall, and Denni-
son, at Bloomfield, N.J.—loss, $20,000 ; the
crockery warehouse of W. O. Farnsworth, at
Cleveland, Ohio—loss, $50,000 ; the slaughter-
house of Samuel W. Under, and several other
buildings at Cincinnati—loss., $15,000; the Caswell
Hotel and three livery stables at Honeyoye Falls,
near Rochester, x.y.-1033, $15,000; the Eagle
Iron Works, the repair and paint shops of the Mil-
waukee and Prairie due Chien Railroad, and several
other buildings at Milwaukee—loss, $50,000, with
$20,000 inniranee ; 22 buildings at Warrensburg,
Mo.—loss,s2oo,ooo; the wago n factory of Hebron and
Schraer, and an adjoining building of St. Louis,
Mo.—loss, $15,000 ; Williams' Hotel at Chicago—
loss, $40,000 ; the warehouse of Van Newman,
Reed, and Co., the Deyton and Western Rail-
road office and the office of the Western Union
Telegraph Company at Richmond, Ind.--loss,
over $lOO,OOO ; twelve buildings at Stillwater,
Minn.—loss, $25,000 ; and a hotel, storehouse, and
, other buildings At Hull, C.W., opposite Ottawa,:a

Mr. Mills probably perishing in the flames, as he
has' not been seen since. The infirmary building
near Lebanon, Ohio, has also been burned, all the
150 inmates escaping safely, and fires with smaller
loss than those mentioned have also been numerous.

During the year 1866 the number of permits
issued by the Building Inspectors of Philadelphia
far exceeded those of any previous year. The total
number of permits for new buildings was 2,752.
The number by month was—
January ... 76 IJuly 327

February
March ...
April ...
May

63
... 267
... 233
... 181

Juno

August ...
September ...
October ...
November ...

... 313
• 293
... 301
• 228

December

The character of the new buildings erected were
as follows :—Dwellings, 1,872 ; churches, 13 ;
school-houses, 17 ; factories, 65 ; stores, 97 ; shops,
154 ; stables, 182 ; breweries, 16 ; offices, 55 ;
store-hous?s, 21 ; foundries, 9 ; hotels, 2 ; bank, 1.
There were also numerous permits issued for -dye-
houses, sheds, bath-houses, coach-houses, saloons,
slaughter-houses, &c. The total permits for addi-
tions and alterations were 1,151. Ai one permit
sometimes covers several buildings, the probable
number of new structures erected was 5,000.

The $60,000 in securities recently stolen from the
Merchants' Insurance Company at Newark, New
Jersey, have all been recovered by negotiations with
the burglars at Montreal, and the securities stolen
from C. P. Bayard at Philadelphia have also all
been recovered except $ll,OOO.
A sharp and very interesting letter in the New
York Evening Post, in reply to some harsh stric-
tures of that journal on the management of the
great New England mills, contains a good deal of
novel information about these establishments. The
most important fact revealed by it is that the
workers are now nearly all foreigners, the native
Americans having gone into higher and lighter oc-
cupations, and that their " manners and customs"
are, therefore, very perceptibly lower than those of
their predecessors. As might have been expected,
the French Canadians are the best cooks, and have
the most varied bills of fare in their boaiding-
houses. Mr. Atkinson comments with deserved
severity on the ridiculous practice now so common,
both among Protectionists and Free-traders, of asso-
ciating particular opinions on the tariff with moral de-
pravity. Some of the best and purest men and deepest
thinkers in the world are Free-traders, and have
reached through deductions both from the prin-
ciples of human nature, and from the facts of
history, the conclusion that free trade is the
best thing for all the nations of the earth,
one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of civilisers
and enrichers ; and, nevertheless, it is the fashion
with the 7 ribune and a certain set in Congress to
treat all Free-traders as " scoundrels," " knaves,"
"cheats," " designing fellows," and, if Americans,
they are denounced as hired. with " British gold."
In like manner, some of the free-trade organs insist
upon it that all attempts to raise the tariff are the
result of a deep-laid scheme on the part of manu-
facturers, to live on the public and escape hard work
and competition and grind the faces of the poor.
It would, however, be impossible to show that there
is one whit more selfishness at the bottom of Pro-
tectionist arguments than at the bottom of Free-
trade ones. Of the millions in this country who
believe in protection only an infinitesimal fraction
have any direct interest in keeping out foreign pro-
ducts. But in the months of December, January,
and February, the debates in the newspapers
on this point are apt to be more amusing than in-
structive.

Now that the Bowery Theatre is burned down,
we find that it was always considered so unsafe
that it could not be insured. This fact will make
the public more anxious concerning the actual facts
with the Academy of Music, which has also been
reported as in the same condition.
According to a report just issued by a select
committee of the Canadian House of Assembly the
copper-bearing series on the north shore of Lake
Huron extends over a surface of 2,000 square miles,
and nearly the same extent of country on Lake
Superior is endowed in the same manner. Iron is
also found in considerable quantities.
The Nation says that " summaries of Mr. David
A. Wells' report on the Tariff arc finding their Way
into the newspapers, and from them it appears that
he takes very much the same ground as Mr. George
Walker in his recent letter : namely, that relief for
the troubles from which manufacturers are now
suffering is to be found not in higher duties, but in
the reform of the currency and the lowering of the
internal revenue taxes. In other words, he thinks
the true remedy for our present ills is to increase
the purchasing power of the community, while an
increase of duties would only cause a general rise of
prices, leaving everybody just as he is at present,
and leaving manufacturers just the same arguments
for more protection that they use now. There is a
point at which protective duties, on any theory
about them, cease to be a tonic, and become simply
an unhealthy stimulant. You give the patient a
dram to stiffen him up against the foreigners ; its
effects pass, and he feels weaker than before, and
calls for another ; and so he goes on, his craving
increasing as his strength and endurance decline."