New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-07

course to send company OF students 10
mining region for actual work in all the de-
partments of that industry. BY this means q
very valuable experience is gained at tie
same time that the college boy. who is always
happy where there is a crowd Of him, Is having
a good vacation frOlic. An equally service
able course is afforded to engineering stu
dents. The charge against our colleges or
med Rvalism will have much less weight II
this practical tendency is allowed to take its
own course.
The defniteness with which the law requires
that no Indian revenues shall be used to de-
fray the expenses Of any war beyond the from
tiers of India without Parliamentary sanction
has left Lord BeacOnsfeld no alternative
but to ask the required permission. The
Liberals have been accorded priority for a
resolution censuring the Afghan policy of the
Government, but the fate Of one motion will
practically decide that Of the other. The Min
Istry may count on large majority. The
Liberals betraY already that yacillation
which was fatal to them during the
Anglo Russian contentious. Most of them
believe the war to BE- unjust and incxpediCrt,
but few are ready to carry that opinion 10 its
Logical conclusion, and withhold supplies from
the army in the field. When it comes to a
question of saddng the war expenses on
the Indian revenue, the opposition viii be
limited TO Mr. Fawcett and a few others, the
British taxpayer Of every party being quite
ready to shift his burdens to HindOstan,
although its finances are in q Crpnlcd
cOuditiOn.-The rumOrs of an Anglo-RuS-
sian agreement regarding Central Asia
seem to be based on the significant interviews
which Count Schouval0f has had with Lord
Salisbury, and the reputation which the Min
istry has acquired for secret understandings
As Russia does not contemplate an Indian
invasion at present, it is quite possible that
she Will accept any reason BILE arrangement
that Lord Salisbury may propose.
We are used to seeing ideas of enlightened
public policy introduced into COngreasmcn's
beads by means of surgical operations; but
now, 1t seems, the country must under
go the operation i'll the hope that 1t
may react upon the Con ressional mind. The
Postmaster General has again and again
called attention to the necessity of
making sufficient provision for the postal
car service, by means Of which mai,s are
handled and distributed during their flight,
and letters travel as rapidly as pas
sengers; but Congress invariably pares
down his estimates so far as to involve
him in constant controversy with the rail
roads, and to force HIM to Ike his choice
between mourning deficiency and throwing
the whole business world into confusion by
suspending the service. Matters lave at last
been brought to such pass that Mr.. Kew has
decided to Withdraw the pnstal cars on the
first of January, unless an appropriation is
made for them before Congress adjouIns for
the holiday recess. If Mr. Key is forced to do
this as rom the Indifference manifested by
the committees it seems likely that he
will be, the whole postal system will
be thrown back ten years in its methods;
letters will take on the average twelve hours
longer to reach their destinations; and bust
ness men will be driven to the telegraph as
their means of correspondence. Then there
will be general outcry, and the frightened
Congressman will huddle together and pass
the bill. 1t would be much better and easier
to pass it now. 1t would also be good OPP
pOrtunity for somebody to move to abolish
the franlling privilege.