The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-09-02
EngIands March Towards Republican
Democracy.
PARIS DURING THE DULL SEASON
General Sickles' Mission and
the Cuban Question.
One Hundred and Eleven English
Love Letters i'm Court.

Our special correspondence and dies from Europe
supply the following important and interesting de-
tails OF cable telegrams TO the 2lst OF August
besides furnishing comprehensive and accurate re
view of the actual position OF AFFAIRS with the ten
denotes OF the people.
The London Spectator commences the publication
OF series OF papers on the prospects Of the
English abOrer in America. ''They are condensed
by their author from report made to the
Society Of Arts. who sent him out to examine the
question. His general opinion may be summed up
thus:-The English mechanic gains little or nothing
by emigration, except the chance Of a good gratis
education for his children. The unskilled laborer
gains, in addition great increase Of wages OF com.
fort. and OF liberty; while the agricultural laborer
may be said to gain everything. His report on the
free schools Is less favorable than usual to results
the grounding being he believes decidedly In
SUFFICIENT"
With respect to the amount Of city taxation In
London comes a statement Of the local rates an
nually paid by householder In the parish OF Cam
berwell. His house Il rated at f55. Poor rate,
p. 3D.. general purpose rate. H. I'd; water rate
about Is. Id; expenses OF Board OF Works, 3d..
lighting rate, 3D. local sewer rate 4d.; main drain
age rate, 3d.-total, O.. Sd. Even Camberwell Is
better or in this respect than some of the East End
parishes In 1852 the rates In st. George's-in-the-
East amounted to 7s 3d., and those in st. Nicholas,
Deptford, to o. I'd. In the pound. Thus the Incl
dence Of taxation In London affords an incentive to
the discharge Of the great duty Of getting When
aman grows richer and moves westward he finds
double improvement in his circumstances. He has
fewer rates to pay and more money wherewith to
pay them. II he goes to Tyburnia he will only
be liable for 2s. 3D. in the pound; he taxes still
higher hight and settles In Mayfair he will escape
with %. Id.
return Just issued relates to English Parliament
tary boroughs having population OF 20 900 or more
and to the poor rate made next after Christmas,
1867, when the Reform act OF 1857 had come into
full operation abolishing composition and requiring
that every householder be rated to the full rate The
return shows q rata to be collected amounting to
S2,21S,s5S There was actually collected e. s2s 325:
22l 81 was legally excused 600, LAT was, FOR other
cause not recoverable; the recoverable arrears are
stated at fl26 $780, In several instances no entry
appears under these last three heads, tue rate not
having been closed; 52,S43 persons, almost an
exactly equal number u men and women, were ex-
cused from payment OF the rate on the ground OF
poverty; lS7,s26 summonses were issued for re-
cOvery OF the rate and 29,442 distress warrants
The return shows 1855 2s1 tenants at weekly rents.
An instance Of attempted heavy cheating by tee-
graph Is related:-The agent Of the Commercial
SAouOh Doun III osiAAk LcOOisCu o tCic&Iaul, puI-
porting to be from the head office of the bank in
Glasgow, instrucing the agent to pay over to Mr..
John McKnay. Jr, the sum OF ESQ., Mr. Morrison. the
agent thinking this procedure unusual telegraphed
back to the Glasgow branch. and reply was re-
Ceived informing him that such instructions had
been given from the ofice. This fact aroused sus-
picion. About haif-past two O'Clock the same day
man presented himself at the bank and produced q
telegram, which he said he had received from the
head Office Of the bank in Glasgow and setting forth
that the agent in Stirling had been communicated
with regarding the payment OF f2s0. The bank
agent declined to pay the cash, notwithstand-
ing the appeal OF the individual that he must get
either the whole or part as his failure to do so
would put him TO great inconvenience In the
evening information was lodged with the county
constabuary, and after inquiries 1t learned that
q man answering the description given had taken
up his quarters at the Queens Hotel Stirling, for
the night About midnight CHIEF Constable Camp
bell and superintendent McNab, accompanied by
Mr.. Morrison, proceeded to the hotel In question,
and there found the object Of their search. He de-
clined to furnish any Information regarding himself
The London Saturday Reute,o holds that 1.-THE
causes which tend to diminish original power
whether In the nation or the Individual are faulty
education, o distracted mode OF life or too rapid
production
The London Herald observes that "had such letters
as those OF Baron Thiee aud the reply OF Count
Beust passed between governments which had any
serious Of quarrel they would have seemed Is
such dispatches often DO the prelude of war. 1t is
fortunate, then, that there longer any tangible
rivalry between these kindred nations. They have no
longer the same ambition and can afford, the
writer says, % let each other alone, and attend to
their own concerns without quarreng.n