The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-12
FOREIGN NOTES.

There is nothing more puzzllng to ord1-
nary minds than bookkeeping by double
entry," and it is advisable that no one should
ever attempt to keep his accounts on this
system unless he fully understands it, A
well-meaning public accountant in India has,
il appears, lately come to trouble owing to
Misunderstanding the nature of this simple
process certain gentleman, says a Lahore
paper, was recently appointed to q station
not thousand miles from the capital of the
Punjaub. After a short time he submitted
his accounts according to rule to the head
Office, The various bills of receipts and ex-
penditure were being rapidly passed,
when clerk of unnatural brilliance
pounced on bill in VIII ch 90 900 bricks we're
charged for twice over. The question was
at once sent to the gentleman, whether he
had got altogether forty thousand bricks on
such date, and, if so, why he had divided
the item into two? "Oh, dear no, he said,
II only got twenty thousand bricks, but you
told me TO put everything down by double
entry, so put the bricks down twice. All
the other charges are the same." To the
horror of the whole department it was found
only too true. The receipt side was then ex-
amined, but it was consolipg to find that with
an instructive acumen worthy of higher
appointment, the gentleman had here limited
himself to single entry.
The Liberte of Brussels has published
bourgeoisie since 1889. The following are
extracts from it:-"After reigning eighty
wears the bourgeoisie is exhausted There
remains to it neither an institution nor an
idea nor man. We knew this since the I'd
of December, but the fresh proof is convinc-
ing. Of all that the bourgeoisie has created
nothing can last, because nothing has
vitality in itself. 1t is enough that the poor
be armed or the army be wanting in discipline
FORT tha adj tO at 10
no principle of resistance in the bourgeoisie
ITSELF its individual egotism has rendered it
so unsocial that it is not even one body. 1t
collects only to entrust others with its de-
fense. What would become of it in Germany
if feudal emperor did not protect it2
Where would it be in France at the end Of
two weeks if Charette and Cathelineau had
not flown to its assistance ? La Vendee pro-
tecting $50 is 'S2 apostatizing and abdicating.
And, indeed, what can come out of the present
crisis but the old monarchical, religious, and
feudal society, or revolutionary socialism
Between these two worlds the bourgeoisie
has not even found place to die worthily
While its destinies are accomplished it holds
aloof or utters miserable calumnies in its
journals against its conquerors. His
tory has nothing to compare with
this fall. Feudality perished nobly in its
crusades, and was extinguished on the
sepulchre of its God. The monarch
cal nobility died heroically on the scaffold,
but before it fell it had the night of the 4th
of August, wondrous testament in which
shone the greatness of its soul and its appre-
citation of the new time coming 1t was, in
short, the mobiles who took the bourgeoisie by
the hand to initiate it into the world it wished
to govern. What would the first middle-class
assemblies have been without the nobility
from nj. de Mirabeau to M. de Robespierre?"
One of the drawbacks of elevated public
position, says an English paper, is that its
possesser is always expected to be on his best
behavior. He is not allowed to indulge
even in pheasant faults" and in particular
is expected to be dismally select in the range
of his personal acquaintance The Governor
General of India has been lately compro-
mised-or was supposed to be so-by lapse
of the latter kind. According to accounts
received by the mail just arrived it seems
that Mr.. Seward, the American statesman.
who is on tour in India, called upon Lord
Mayo, and brought with him letter of in
PRODUCTION from a no less improbable
person than Brigham Young. Anglo-In-
dian society, like society elsewhere, does
not require much to set it talking; and
a very small opening affords room for a
great deal of scandal Could it be that this
blameless nobleman had been corrupted by
reading MIR. Dixons Spiritual Wives, and
that he was in communication with the Nor
mon chief with view of going over to Utah
in the sense in which we speak of going over
to Rome? The scandal, as far as Lord Mayo
is concerned, was, however, set at rest by a
very simple discovery-that the letter was
not intended for Lord Mayo, but for another
person. This other person is lord also, and
there is some excuse for Mr.. Seward, in his
severe republican simplicity, failing to dis
tinguish sufficiently between one lord and
another, especially when the names have the
came number of syllables accented in the
same manner. However that may be, the
missive was intended for Lord Milton instead
of Lord Mayo, who will now have to explain,
instead of the Viceroy, how it was that he got
into cette gGlere.