The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-23
CURRENT NOTES.

ment has been published ut Jcddo. The object
appears TO be 10 help the first Japanese Parlil-
ment to an understanding Of its functions.
'Fhe work Is compiled from the hest English
authorities on the British Constitution, is pub
lshcd In two volumes, and contains several
good illustrations.
curious idea is started by Il correspondent
OF the English periodical, Land and Water
lie proposes that criminals be fed OIL horse
flesh for meat. The advantages would, ne
thinks, be numerous. The flesh is good,
wholesome and cheap. The criminals, as well
as most others, have great objection TO cat
ing It, however, and the restriction of the ami
mai diet 10 this meat would, therefore, he II
punishment and II modification OF the flesh,
without working any real injury TO The cul-
prit, while the prospect Of having to live upon
meat would 10 an excellent deterrent from
crime, and the use Of il would serve to utilize
what is now wholly wasted.
While independent and individual immi-
grafton does not appear TO BIZ diminishing ut
al, there is n large increase Of organized. colo
nizatiOn. II has become no uncommon thing
for great tract of land in IL chosen spot TO be
entered upon hy Il colony from Europe, Which,
comes in body and fills up Il village or Il
county in locality before uninhabItcd. The
latest instance is the purchase of thirty-tlirec
thousand acres Of land for u colony of twelve
hundred English families, who have built up
the Town Of Wakefield, and have established
an agricultural college aud school for the re-
ccption and education OF orphan boys from tic
llrdou School ar' lfsr:I,. 'rfer sl,! contro, OF
the Reform Society of London, of which Earl
Shailcsbury Is president.
At the recent half yearly meeting OF the
general c0uRcil OF the University OF Edinburgh,
the question Of the admission Of females TO
cusson of the subject, was decided III the
affirmative. The medical faculty had agreed
to separate classes for females, and the uni
vcrsity court, approving OF what the faculty
had done, deferred all proceedings TO thc gene
raj council. During the discussion Professor
Mason stated that in the examination which
had already taken place women had exhibited
greater knowledge of medicine and surgery
than the men. On taking the vote the general
council decided, by Il large majority, in favor
of admitting women. The regulations require
that women shall only attend classes entirely
composed Of females. This is the plan TO be
adopted, and speedily, in this country.
An ir0n-clad ship OF war, the Moyin Iafllr,
recently built in the Thames, for the Turkish
Government, has been exciting the attention
OF English engineers, who claim that an ci-
fectivc antagonist to The monitors has at lasi
been constructed. H. appears, however. that
the frame Of this new vessel can only sustain
arInor plates six inches thick, while the dou-
ble-Lurretcd monitors built in the United Sia
,-ilI 4.
and iron turrets with walls ilcen inches thick.
The cnscmatcs Of the Turkish ship will carry
only four Armstrong twelve ton riflcd guns,
while the American monitors can be mounted
with four twcnty-t0ur ton guns, and in fact,
with the heaviest guns that can be made. In
addition to imprcgnabilty and weight OF
guns, the monitors excel the Turkish iroIi-
clad in range. The turrets of the monitor
rcvolvc and the fonr guns can be trained to
any point in the horizon, while the Armstrong
guns In their rival arc limited TO 9S degrees.
Taking all these points into consideration, IL
is asserted that the actual efficiency of the two
turrcted monitor as compared with that of the
cascmate ship, Is as 408 10 l15 or ;s.5 to !. One
OF the main objections to the monitors that
"thc Joint between the iurrct and the deck
no foundation in fact.
Communications respecting the Suez Canal
fall thick md fast. IL Is only now that the
Importance Of the work appears in its full eX
tent To reduce the navigablc distance be-
tween the West and the East by nearly 5000
miles is acknowledged TO be y great under
taking. From England TO India, FOR example,
the distance by the Cape Of Good Hope is l5,-
600 miles, by the Sucz Canal IL will be $500.
Tho two hundred millions Of Europeans who
send their manufactured products 70 the East,
and the seven hundred millions Oi Orlcntas
who consume those products and send in cX-
change their raw materials TO the West, will
be brought into much more intimate relations.
Sh0riness OF time combined with chcapncss
md avoidance of trouble IL secured by
tho canal As compared with the cape route,
the saving Of time will considerably
more than compensate for tho expense of the
tolls, nnd as compared with tho land route
through Egypt, while the time is nearly the
Same, the trouble is nil, and the expense con,
sidcrably lcss-the railway charge for convey
Ing goods between Alexandria and Sucz being
more than double the ten francs per ton pro-
posed as the rate for the canal. Much time,
however, mrst inevitably clapsc before any
thing Ike full development OF the anticipa-
ted traffic can be realized; and many mo cJihcc-
tions and changes, oil involving great outlay,
will have to bo made. Tho sharp turns in the
canal must DO dono away with, and the
breadth and depth considerably increased.
England, meanwhile, begins to SEQ that tho
success of tho work deals much heavier
blow at the monopoly she has enjoyed OF the
tradc between the East and the West than any
hitherto experienced.