, 1877-09-29

AhN Al~0 y - kOkN'AA FORS
an individual.
We must not CO he formation Of a new
political party 10 America, because it may
become important, though we do not
think it will, This is the Union Of Work.
ing men which has been established in the
West, with branches in New York and
New England, aud which proposes to re-
turn workmen TO Congress, to abolish all
laws pressing on Iabour," and to make
laws tending to protect it's interests. It's
real objects, we see, ara explained to DO
to apply pressure to G ,ngruss AMI The State
Legislatures to establish a legll maximum
for hours Of work and q legal minimum
f. wages, objects dec ared to be lmpract ca
Bile in the States, though already secured
in this country by the factory Acts 0ad
the operation Of the Poor Law, which does
in a rough way fix a minimum tor wages.
The new organisation will not, wethlnk.
prove very strong. Enp|oysrsin America
arc very hard in resisting al such demands
because they know that thero IL danger
from the ascsp !Ancy Of numbers, and
they ar, backe IA tAa iong-run by the
freeholders. VIVA are sixty six per cent. OF
al PISCIOIHs 4 us JStl iGtAs Pih IVA"
inclined to traternlSe with ths work'nsn,
but the unanimous, hostility of the Press
shows witch way opinion stlit goes.
About 220 impartial glllona Of rose.oil
are produced at KesanlIk every year. 1t
is supposed that the industry. which yields
about ESQ, 900 a year, has been destroyed
by the war, anil will be transferred to
some other spot. perhaps to Sicily, where
the rose could bt cul waited az ensiiy 80
on the slopes OF the Balkans. The chance
would bs an excellent one, for any one who
owned, say, a bit cf u Greek island but
we suppose India Wi supply the dchclen-
cv, with its lets 20 wertui nrIcle, as 10
would if nIl Turkish Poppirs werH plough.
ed up. India can Sappya al dehcl'ncIeS'
be they in cotton. VIII nj, hemp. Opium or
rose.oil-but thero il always some faint
infe iority about The new supply, the snly
exception wo remember being tea.
Tie fight between ths small Rusaisn
steamer 'Vpsta' and the Turkish ironclad
which she bsat OF in the Black Sea seems
to have been as interesting an aff'lf as
that between the 'Hauscar' and the Shah
Tho 'Vesta' "a converted wooden trading
steamer, armed with five G-inch mOrtars
and two 9 Founders, was, Of course, no
match at close quarters for o tuiret IRON
cad, armed with IO-inch or 11lnch gun.
She could not steam more than twelve
knots an hour, and the irOnclad sailed
much faster. The latter had every a1van-
tage. Her shells set ffe to the 'Vesta's'
hull, and prevented the use Of lance torpe-
does. The captain and mast Of his officers
we re woundrd-one in II places--the
engines were o.lv savel from destruction
by an improviSed tnrtiication Of hammocks
and mattresses, and the rudder became un-
workable. Ia u few minutes the 'Vcsta'
would have been ranmcd and sunk. had
not a lucky shell from u mortar burst in
eide the turret OF the iron clad. Tbs shell
must have done much damage, for shs gave
up the contest and steamed away. Had tbs
'Vesta' bad more powerful engines and one
heavy gun, "tbe little cargo boat" might
have been too much fortheironclad. The al
vantage Of speed and a~rmour-pisrcing guns
for wooden vesssls seems the amosal u
Abis brisk 6ght. W.