New-York tribune., 1875-11-26

trouble next year.
| saw the Sultan last week as he returned from
the ceremony Of kissing the Prophets mantle in the
Treasury. In appearance he has become consider
ably OLD r within the last two years He has good
reason to look cnreworn, If be realizes what is hap
peuing He rode in carriage drawn by four ilne
horses, and the authorities hid, is the CUSTOM
covered up the pitfalls of the pavement along his
route with six inches of sand well watered and
rolled. His Majesty enioyed comfortable ride over
well-made roads but after he had passed, the sand
was all swept mp and moved in carts for use next
time and the pitfalls returned. This incident makes
one surlnise if the Sutan's Ministers have not like
wise some device for coneealing from him greater
abusee than the neglected streets Of ConstaDtnople
THE NEW PENAL CODE OF GERMANY.
ANOTHER STEP TOWARD LEGAL UNIFoRMIH-rHE
LIBERALS DIssATIsIIED-FEEED0M OF THE PRESS
RfsTRlCTED-PoPUIAR RIGHTS lNFIaNCiD-
REvoLUu0NARY TEACHINGS FEARrD.
lFRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT o. TIE r3IErNE.l
BERLIN, Oct G.-The draft of penal code, which
has inst been completed by Committee OF the
Federal Council Burdcsrath is an important step
i'm German national consolidation, regarded even as
"A rroasute OF political unity. The laws Of the Ger
man states are irregular and iDharnonious IN style
capricious and arbitrary in operation. Under them
security. Next To the Ioilyercn, therefore, and
the National Parliament the friends of the Empire
placed judica, unity ar of vital importance civil
code. as the Grst STEP was drafted by the Bundles
rath, and was finally accepted year ago, and was
tt once succeeded by the question of criminal law
:odifcation.
The basis of such code already existed in tie old
North German Confederation, and this with all its
lefects Is substantially embodied Ia the new code
Will this fact the Liberals. rather the Radicals
are not well pleased. One Of their journals COM
plains ;hat this course violates the promises that
we're made at the time of the constitute iOnal debates
under the North German Confederation. Al that
time leading Liberals pretended that II was of II"
use to incorporate bill OF rights in She Constitution
nasmrch as they would appear later in more pre-
else form in the statutes. But il adds, the press
laws show that this has not been done, nor bas the
light of association yet been conceded. The Lib
rals are not wholly wrong in this logic The Pr,ls-
sian Constitution Of 1851 was formal enough IN
most of its guarantee but those not carried
into effect by efficient laws they proved IN the time
Of conflict to be of little account. On the other
hand. the Liberals have certainly permitted the
omission from subsequent statutes Of rights on
which they once insisted. This holds true
# fine new code which has just been COMPLETED. II
is .,ahora.elv precise and intehgblc. ithcges the
rltso of subjects such they are, most letlnnsiy
from personal infringement. 1t Is all very well TIL
he political element appears and then the dovon
foot of reaction shows Itself The laws against the
nress association. platform, and pulpit
stringent aud ilhberal as ia the woist days OF Fred
eric william l. Especially Chis true of soclaiisic
nr workingmeR's" aetati0ns. The orators OF that
rlque generally preach such vopd heresY that II
would seom that society. property, religion. and
"the familvn can suffer no harm from them. What
,sonId he said in America for instance if anybody
,hanld propose 70 suppress by law the Reputation
sneeches of sam Cary or Gov. Allen' The Prussian
laws forbid lust suoh demonstrations, and prussian
credit stands much higher than American In fact,
the anxiety about such demagOgucs III a country
which has 100 900 soldiers constantly under arms
il extraordinary if not udcrous. better logician
than poitician would argue a lack OF cOnhdcnce
i, the army; vet he would he ia eITO"
The army contains thousands of youth born
in the Roman Catholic Church, and faith
fnl to her precepts, as well as numbers
who hate the upper classes with all the fervor Of
fanatics. But such is the force Of military dis
..plne. of acouired sentiments of honor, that the
army is but as "a single man. do not believe the
Catbolc element among TIE soldiers has cost the
authorities a moments thought ia the conflict win
the Papacy The sociaiistic element is more I'M
nnrtaut hat scarcely IS faithful and trustworthy
In Germany, moreover, there is not. or I'll recently
was not great center of agitation, holding the
~el,tion which Paris does 10 France or Londcn TO
England There were few large towns where
occasional outbursts of revolutionary violence were
made. hut the body of the poorer peope were peas
,nts. who possessed tie habitual sluggishncss of
their order. and conli not make their influence fell
Finally, the control of afirs military and civil ara
IN the hands Of a privileged clasa, who inspire
r.spect even by the traditions OF them order.
Neverthele,s there is no country III the world
hare tn. SYMPTOMS of s0cialistic rcYolt are more
los,lv watch d ard more vigorously SUPPRESS lhe
faintest utteranccs of labor Journal the most iin".
c,,t aftcr-dnner speech Of Radical are enough 20
proyoke the telrors of the law. The right 10 hold
eetinss which the letter OF The law accoros, IS in
practice more crcumscfbei than in France Az
Liberals could not keep obnoxious Restrictions oi
his nature out of the Code of 1870, nor out OF the
rass law of SIS. there il reason Ia Tear ihey VIII
he el,u,ly powerless when the new Code comes De
C,ro the Rochsag. Some of the journals here hope
L will be rejected, but see but httie encourage
Dent
The legal arg1n Of Germany contains a smaller
.fson Of foreign terms than almost any other pro-
fs.snna! vocabulary The military terms are almost
yholly French, and pronounced with ihe native
,ocent Commerce and sport, on the other han l.
,orrow largely their phrases from the Eng sh. Bui
the language of law il more purely the language "i
,e country. German hold that, ~ the sources
If III. peoples law are 10 be found III the primitive
,.titufi.ns uf the county, Instead oI beng hor-
rowed fro tlie records of pagan Rome or imported
rross tl, Canuel by an invading foe II retains the
.aroe national character in its vocabulary Fhere
IT, of course rnneh truth behind all this The Ger
man people have never recognized the Roman law ~