The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-26

about - low one - can be formed Of any nation,
but, some allowance must be made for the feelings
ofprsjudce excited BY The recent insurrec tionsry
demonstration made By them in favor Of their CO.
rel'gionists. The following remarks on the work.
ing Of their constitution Of 1874 have good deal OF
truth In them -
The Greek constitution has been much lauded. Born
into the world on the 18th day OF September 1874 in
most bloodless way, amid innumerable hurrahs and
zetos, and liberal cougrs tulatons approved even by
violent tories and countersigned BY Lord Aberdeen
was appealed TO proof that Greeks
t for liberty and accepted the panacea
for all the evils that regenerated Heas had been heir to
since the battle Of Navarno. But indeed the who
spoke thus largely in the year 1874 had much faith
in paper and too little knowledge in human nature.
bloodess revolution doubt WE'LL looks well
too that crowd did Who at the date have just
mentioned encrcled the palace OF their monarch with
bland compusion and constrained him to agree TO their
demands But confess to have little faith in the
permanency Of results cheaply brought about. A
bloodess revolution only proves government and
people like the Greeks We have not heard that Greece
has become paradise Of content, garden Of pros
ushered into the world BY such rich hourshes of
constitutional trumpets. We say that the
stitution of 1874 misfortune and mistake. To
those OF our readers TO whom the subject be new,
we shall simply remark, that 1t is composed after the
approved French model king houses, the upper
versa suffrage. How such constitution would work in
Great Britain, not two sensible will agree most
people , mnG Mere not sold to party would Dc inclined to
to say-et well alone! How 1t must work in Greece is
more easy to say, partly from the nature of the thing,
partly from the experience of the last ten years The
great evil OF all popular governments is faction which
tends in itself not to good government but to waste OF
time and strength and TO the obstruction OF all useful
reforms for the sake OF talk brawlng and intrigue as
every day, in this country In order there
it ia necessary that there should be some strong central
power constantly tending TO make the state gravtate in
the direction OF useful improvement, despite the unsta-
BILE bufetings Of faction. Such power is supplied In
Britain, by the sobrety Of the public mind, By the
weight Of the law and custom by the influence Of rank
and property by the excellent political training Of the
people, by the whole habit Of social existence the
effect not OF constitution of yesterday but the
growth Of long centuries and the fruit hard struggles
But not Of these conditions Of prosperous consti
tuition" exists in Greece. The name of the "holy and
stamp blessing upon plan formed without considera-
ton Of any OF the conditions which, according to the
eternal laws Of Nature its success must depend The
great evil Of the public life OF Greece Is faction pre-
csely that for which your beautiful paper constitution
and your Magma Charta Of national palaver makes
may be seen early enough, even in the classic
pages OF Thucyddes, stands out with startling
ness in the record Of General Gordon; and any
history of Greece since it assumed separate existence
must have been aware of the fact. The Bavarans did
not succeed in exercising tins demon but despite such
blunders courty and centrasing, bureaucratic and
academical Germans could scarcely help committing,
they succeeded perhaps well, the whole, any
other strangers would have done. Misspending
money for erections more snowy than useful
to thep ana thcv I no in not eonts
Thoroughly appreciate the virtues the vices Of the
people whom they had to govern, this was blunder
which We English in dealings with foreigners too
often harsh arrogant and rash, just likely to
have committed as the Germans In fact, have
committed infinitely greater plumbers in the Ionian
islands, If the witness of public is to be
accepted The Bavarians too, unfortunate in
grown man, and strong man absolutely necessary
for such difficult position. An amiable and accom-
pished German youth, for we take 0tho as high as
Professor Mason is willing 10 put him, in strange:
wild country not the most proper person to quei
faction but rather signal for all sorts of ntrguers
of whom there is always a great army in Greece-to
commence weaving their plots. The Bavarans did not
establish constitutional form Of government, but pre-
way. by a Council of State We think they were quite
right What the Greeks, MS essentially factious
people, require, is not universal suffrage and talking
parliaments, but strong government. This is what
they have wanted from Capodisrias death until
now and much doubt whether the stout old Corfoe,
Greece las had since the revolution. No doubt he
acted despocally he did not govern by the frequent
convention Of free paraments he offended the best Of
the Greeks. the brave old Miaus and George Mauro-
ichae that brave OF stout old Spartan trunk.
hot he tyrant through the heart in al OF poetical
bercisn still matters we're not menaed, but made
great deal worse by his death; and who do not
hin that the whole philosophy of government lies in
Wrench phiosophsts Of 1882 win be Inclined to believe
that certain adnxturc of what liberals call despotsm
Is abo tey necessary ia The good government OF such
country as Greece.
BLACKwooD MAGAzINE.--American edition
Leonard Scott & Cold Ebony has an interest
ing article this month on Turkey and it's popula-
tion Its object is to show that unless such fiscal
and political reforms as are called for by the
changes that have beef silently working their way
TO- the last half century the public mini in that
country are promptly carried out, the Ottoman en-
pige, putting all extraneOus dangers out Of con-
sderation, must ere long fall to pieces from its own
want Of cohesion. The continuation Of the letters
on civilization discloses some startling facts re-
garding the Influence Of 10 anufacturing and trade
occupations on the duration of human life. The
suboined results sre deduced from the last English
census -
OF 100 o00 children born in Liverpool only A. 9T9 live
10 the Of 20 while in Surrey that age attained by
70Ss5 out OF the same number OF children born The
probable lifetime is about years in unheathest
towns, SO years in Surrey, and other comparatively
healthy parts In Manchester where the mortality high
100 600 annual births only sustain at the ages 2040
male population of IS 919; while in all England and
Wales where the mortality is now much lower, the
number Of births produces constant force Of 81, 25
al that age and at other ages similar dispares in
the numbers living exist Now, The mortality not
much less in all England formerly than II is now in Man
chester and the great diminution in the mortality of
England evidently took place at such period Of the last
and present centuries left proportonay survv
at the ages 40 in 1851 than at the corresponding
ages in 1871 for the dangers and loss of life incurred
the generations born in the 40 17S1-1S01,
in the years ls1131 In note appended, is extract
from the ReeistrarGenerals seventh report SIN Man
chester 600 children born reduced to about half
that number o910) in six years The probable life
time is about six years. 1t behoves the legislature
riousy TO lcoS TO this fact How expect Gods
pleasing upon our boosted manufactures, upon the
wealth they have accumulated If obtained at such cost
OF human ie Does this massacre OF childhood arise
from the debility Of overworked and perhaps too youth
full parents, from oyerheated and i'll manuac
tories or may not be unlikely from the tasked work
Of young mothers time when they should be chiefly
occupied in the Of their ospringS From whatever
state of things this great evil arises It ought not to be-
and surely the people as ono man should look to the
Legslaurceo provide proper sanitary and other means
10 check a national cruelty.
Died.