The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-23

THE DAILY DISPATCH.
TUESDAY IoKNiNd. JANUARY 5 isss.
DExocRAcr IN ENoLAkD.-The London
Times. in discussing the causes Of the late
disasters suffered by the allies before Sebas.
topol, gives utterance to the following senti.
ments,
We have purposeay neglected the single object
OF efficiency n the Management of our army for
We cannot Say how long. There are IN that army
the materials Of very eficieut army; there are
plenty Of god men and true n sll ranks ;s.here
lndian and other wars; there are men who have
distinpuished Themselves at Saudhurst; there are
mea who would diaingulsh themselves whenever
the opportunity was allowed them there are men
who must make the army their profession, and
who have nothing 70 retire to when khey leave h,
and no hope Of distinction or happiness out Of IL
yet oil this STUFF for field marshals b absolutely re-
jected 10 the management Of our army. Whom .
hts rough walls an inscription turned upside down.
. has relief with 10 face inwards statue detrun-
Gated and capital defoliated to Ct the accidental
vacancy. Such Y the rude masonry of the British
army. Inc military geniua or devotee. the poor
and has been 1t the pains study the victories Of
Marlborough and the dificulties Of Wellington, Is
soon built into his regiment, with bis corners
knocked of and his face turned inwards. There
he hes. TO rise. II Il may be- in the order Of senior
y and money; but no study. no courage. no promp
dtude, no soldierlike qualities whatever will ass
sist him 10 q competition where the battle b ex-
pfecsly mot 70 the strong, but to the wealthy and
to ioe-and 20 cdnfessed and proclaimed to sII the
worid-that II would be Ndiculous to slur over the
tsct that the Brish army 10 found 70 be no army at
al, 10 the general military sense OF the word II
MOO OF brave men, not more than . MOB, ana q
BY those who should not command It, and 20 de.
prived Of ito rude natural efficiency.
Most truly does the N. Y. Evening Post
remark that this is q virtual attack on the
whole scheme of British policy a direct af,
firmation of the inexpediency of allowing
the aristccratic principle to prevail in the
control Of affairs. For, as the Post justly
observes, the very same reasoning which de-
mics the propriety Of entrustlng the com
mand of companies. regiments, armies, to the
noble and the wealthy, to men merely distin-
guished by their birth or their possessions
would deny to the aristocratic class the pre-
eminence in the government of the country
for the science of government certainly re.
quires no less talent than the art Of war; and
wise legislation is as difficult task as the
wise conduct of an army. E.
But the Times can never convince the peo-
pie of Great Britain Of these truths. The
mobiles themselves would sooner yield to the
prevalence of the Democratic principle than
the common people, who are taught from the
cradle to venerate rank as something super
human and almost divine. The more vulgar
an Englishman, the more intense is his admi-
ration of nobility. We hope the Times, in
intoxicating Democracy in England, may
have good time of it, but we doubt it.
CONTAMINATION a lecture delivered
on this subject by DIR. Jones, physician of
New York, before the Mechanics Institute
of that city, it appears that four-ffths of all
who die of consumption are taken off be-
tween 20 and 40 years of age. DIR. Jones
\ states, from careful examination of statisti-
cal records of mortality. that taking New
York city and the New England States, about
one-fifth of the deaths from all causes, and
of all ages and sexes, occur from consump.
throat. From careful examination of the
records, kept for fifty years, in New York, it
is found that the disease is on the increase,
compared with the cities of Europe, and
even New England,a he statistics are against
New York.
DR.. Jones says that in Boston, the deaths
from consumption in thirty.nine years, from 1910
to l849, gave an annual average of l to about 254
of the living population. Since 1s49 has increas
Cd. In New York, in years, from 1888 to 1913,
there was an annual average Of death to le4 living
inhabitants. In Philadelphia. in 10 years, from
1886 to 1876, there was In 2s4 Of the population,
and In London, in years, from 1888 to 1874, l In
2O5 of the living inhabitants The following state
ment. gives the proportion Of deaths from con-
sumption, to the mortality, from all diseases at the
places named: Portsmouth, N. H., in 10 years, or
In lel0 TO 1890, in 502 do In ID years from 1920
70 1888 l In 4:5e. Providence, R. L, in years,
from 1e4l to 1896 In 4:22. New York. in IS years,
from 1911 to l645, first 10 years, in 427; second
l0years, in 5:34 In the third 10 years, in 5:14
New York, for 9 years. ls47 and ls4s. death in A.
Philadelphia ia IS years, from 1911 to l645 FIRST 10
years, N 6:49; second 10 years In CSC; third 10
years. 10 Too; and in years. 10 6:ss. Charles
ton, South Carolina 10 years, from 1922 to 1881,
1 In $50; do, from 1881 to 1910, In 6:44. Balti
moro, In 20 years. from 1921 to ls41 in from 6:44
20 In 5l5. England, for years, from 1888 to
1s4S. 10 go; London, in years, from 1910 to
500; In years of summer quarters, l in 664; in
years Of autumn quarters, in Sol; in years OF
winter quarters, In 7:3l. In Paris years. from
1916 to 1919, In 5:55. In Geneva. 2years, 1874
and 1876. In 522 In Hamburg, years, from
isS5 to 1889, 10 57l. In Berlin in 10 years, from
!sS0to 1910, In 5:7l Stuttgard, In 10 years from
ls2s to 1888, In An"
DIR. Jones remarks that, while the deaths of
females, in the United States, from conyump
ton, exceed the males from rs to 80 per Ct.
In Europe the deaths of both sexes from it
are nearly equal. He thinks that this is at
tributable to the habit of females in this coun
try taking less care of their feet, and being
less warmly clad, through the influence of
fashion, than those of Europe.
The VIENNA PRoTocoL.-The London
Times, of Jan. 2, thinks that the chief impor.
lance OF the demands lately made nv fbo