New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-23

OuecU In guilty Of the malvestion Of pubc Nsoueys
by SHOWING sDe S%S fser in public In the character which
has chosen to Jasmine he deliberately challcngrs not
it, II he spsais AZ pnoie MEETING. there can be but one
result and It IN result which, for our part, We wee no
reason 70 deprecate"
1t 10 not mSeh the fashion here for newspapers 70
sit in judgment on each Others efenses but here 10
case where their rule would have been honorel in
the breach. RE %andard Is conGdered suppose, .
respectable paper II it, at any rate, the leading
Tory Journal of England The next time il reads ns
Americans lecture the superior pOliteness ind
moderation Of English journalism, the above en-
tract will lie good text for an answer. Cont
think papers even in the old Abolition mob
days ever pointed out it's victim to mob more
clearly than The Standard now does.
A response of "a very different kind has been made
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to portion Of
SIR CHARLES bikes speech-that about the payment
OF Income Tax by the Queen. Mr.. Lowe. like MIR.
Gladstone ut the Guildhall Banquet, takes pains to
Old anything like personal attack Sir Charee.
fe cewures him for having brought his charges
against the Crown before q popular audience In
stead of reservng them for the House Of Com
mODs--as if any great reform ever began in the
House, AZ if the People had DO business to know
what is done with the taxes they pay. Mr. Lowe
promises however that in the proper place" he will
he prepared to answer and meantime he violates his
own of proprety far as to explain that the
Queen does pay Income Tax in accordance with her
promise. The sums she has paid since 1912 may be
"cOunted in hundreds and thousands" All which
may be quite true; yet it does not prove that the
Queen has paid the tax on the amount Of her privy
purse the half million she il said to have laid
mp yearly in addition. Doubtless we shall have it
all out when Parliament meets.
A telegraph strike is now to be added to those
blessings under which We have been suffering ever
since the Position took possession Of the wires.
have space to go into the history of 1T in this
letter. Enough for the moment TO say that when
the clerks Of the old companies became Government
employees, certain pledges were made TO them which
have not been fulfilled To secure their rights, and
TO protect themselves against arbitrary acts
on the part Of the Post-Offce authorities,
| a large number of clerks formed an association.
| No very great crime. one would suppose. but Mr..
| S.u,amore is an official of type probably unknown
NJ America. of the maitnets of red-tapf. with
| taste for tyrannying in his own. department. and
| practically unlimited power. For the Oiltnse OF
| belonging to this Association, he snmmariIy dis
| missed nine clerks in Manchester on Thursday.
| When that became known. about POO Others struck
| work Their example was followed iU Liverpool by
seventy others and in the of the day the clerks
| in Dublin. Belfast. Leeds. Bradford Hnddelsleld
Glasgow, Newcastle. and other places struck either
in whole or i'll part, and most Of these offices were
closed. and all business temporarily stopped. The
deay and loss tO the public have been very great.
Some clerks sent down from London III anti"l-
patton of the strike and business has been patty I-
sllmcd, but we hardly know what the real
| state of affairs is For now comes the most
| amazing part of the story. Mr.. Scndalnorr sup
pressed the news of the strike! A telegram sent by
/ no Du;L from fen
would have appeared says that paper, IN yesterday Is
issue had not its delivery been Intentionally de-
layed bv order of the telegraphlc authorities in
London Stating the substance of the dispatch, The
| Daily Necs adds -.
| "such il the information we should have conmuni-
Gated cat t" nr mn d mo, ao ou aIs rr.rd m
Their excuse for nus acting Is the fxifcnry 81 tue pun
lars which may be altogether accurate. The defense
is az untenabe the original act When the Govern
stated by the opponents Of the transfer that on"r,
tutes would be created for the exercise OF an "e ai
censorship news Judging from this case. these
vaticnatiGns appear to hsvt neGn too w @ %
the press and Of the Geographic authorities themselves,
| We most cmphatically protest"
So that in addition to blunders and neficiencv Of
| various eAaspelating kinds, We are now to have q
censorship, and Mr.. Scudmnore for censor. il is the
French Empire over again. The public is to have
only such news as Mr.. ScudamoIe considers the ext
IeDricS III Service Is'iDlt IL Is ia
discretion for il he may stop n dispatch for one
reason he may for another. The thing is so inOlera-
be and the protest of The Daily NerS prompt that
| don't think even Mr.. S.;udamorc will persist If
| Parliament were sitting. his swift dismissal wonld
be the least eXpiation the Postmaster General would
probably he called oil 10 offer IL W. :.
| OPENING OF THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT.
| ENTHUSIASM OF THE PEOPLE-ARRIvtL OF THE
EMPEROR OF BRAZlL-TiE OPENING ClRE-
MONIES.
pROH An OCC iSoSAL CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUNE
| ROME, Nov 2S-VictOr Emanuel has opened
Parliament IN the City ~ Rome and The ancient mis-
trrss Of the world is again the center If the POLITICAL
she has hitherto been Of the religious, life Of the nation"
The enthusiasm Yesterday, when The King commence cd
his inaugural speech work ~ which We have con-
scraed our life H. accomplishments great and pro-
Ioncpd The royal words still pass from mouth 10 mouth,
and the King honOrcd who Tor the lat twenty years,
from the Battle Of NOvara until the historic 27fh Of No
yember lsr1 haa worked steadily ana unfinehngly for
the constitutional liberty Of Italy, especially since his
education and religious tendencies made him dislike
running counter TO the Sacred Pontif, and his love of
unostentatos freedom him to hate the pomp aud
parade attendant monarchy. was On this account
that he wished to arrive icognto On the morning Of
Tuesday q. The loyalty, however of the Romans
refused to be frustrated No was known that His
Majesty would arrive by special train from Florence at
~ A. H. than the National Guard turned out and lined
the route from the railway station to he QurnaL flags
waved from the windows, and the enthusiastic crowd
which had rapidly gathered evnced their delight az the
King with Prince Humbert dashed past in an Open car
rage followed by "a long line OF vehicles from those NJ
princes 10 that Of facchno all actated y one
end. the ZANE feeling Of loyalty.
During the remainder Of the week the royal party ap
pearcd little In public, which rise IT, the 'e report
that His Majesty, who was the most miserable man III
Rome next the Pope had quietly posted an t" Naples
TO stay there until the opening Of Parliament Although
this was false there happened truth In another state
mcnt namely that Victor Emanuel was suffering from