, 1875-08-11

1870, about th~ree-quarters (750,00O) have
been provided in voluntary schools, and
one-quarter (250,000) in School Board
Schools. Mr.. Forster, in congratulatlng
Lord Sandon on the general features OF
his statement, commented on the great
deficiency in regular attendances, and said
that he believed that if a plebiscite were
now taken in England on the subject,
it would issue in a vote favourable to
compulsion. To the discussion on the vote,
Mr.. Rodwell, the charlottesville tenant
farmers representative, was the only
member of weight who resisted warmly
the proposal of compulsion. Mr.. RodweIl
is a great opponent Of the Agricultural
Labourers' Union and its dele gates, and
evidently thinks that hey would be moe
formidable, if they were more educated,
as no doubt they would be, SO far as they
were also more reasonable. But does not
education tend to increase their reasonable
ness as much as their power7 And is it not
bad policy, as we'll as bad sentiment, to
show something like dread of the growing
culture of a great classf
It is affirmed that the German Budget
will show a deficit of nearly 9I, 600, 900
sterling, which is expected to be perma-
nent for some years, and will be met by
an increase in the excise on beer and q
tax on operations on Change The lat
ter proposal will be very %strenuously resist
ed, and probably with success, as a produc-
tive tax would only transfer business to
Paris, London, and Vienna, SO that the
weight of the deficit will probably fall
on beer. That is a good thing. A fine
of q penny an evening on every adult Ger
man will bring home to him the cost of
military organisation, and disabuse him of
the notion that war has only to be sue
cessful to be. Inexpensive. A very little
direct annoyance often impresses men
much more strongly than larger losses,
switch they can attribute to any cause
they please
Ferdinand, the dethroned and retired
Emperor of Austria, died on Tuesday at
Prague, where he had lived in privacy for
many years. A German correspondent
of the Pail Mall Gazette tells one or two
very amusing stories of his peculiar and
sometimes humorous, Obstinacy and i'm
70 :.Ssiveness. Taking shelter once from
a storm at a Syrian farmers, he found
the farmers wife just putting on the to-
BILE a good dinner of dumplinga, made Of
rather coarse -four, and the Emperor was
invited to partake, which he not only
did heartily, to the horror of his atten-
dants, but insisted ever afterwards on
having similar dumpiinGs of coarse -four
brought up to his own table. His ply
sicians prohibited this, and he was cold
he should not and could not have these
dumplings, to which he simply replied
that in that case the machinery of State
must stand still, for nothing should be
done until he received his dumplings.
Again, at a Council of Ministers, when
a long report of great moment was being
read, ethe Emperor, who was sitting at
an open window, appeared to give the
most earnest attention for hours, but when
the Minister had at length flushed he on
ly said, "Four hundred and twenty five
facres and one hundred and eighty omni-
buses have passed through the Hofburg
during the last two hours.' He was pro-
badly incapable of any sustained intellec-
tual effort more severe than counting, but
he was not incapable of CLEANS of hu-
mour, and his remark when he heard of
his nephew's surrender of Lombardy,
"Even l could have done that" was