Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-30
[Fr ON Our Regular Correspondent
Our European Letter.
LONDON, Eng, July 16. 1870

since weighed and found wanting in the
political balance, is now about to be
judged by the more memorable standard Of
economic science. The operation Of eco.
Eomic laws is slow and silent, but sure.
Not SO political agitation. The farmers OF
Englandhave for many generations had
but one policy in the affairs of state-to
please their landlords. They have acted
with implicit confidence on the teaching OF
that proverbial philosophy which incul-
Gates the impollcy of staying ut Rome and
quarreling with the pope. They have not
quarreled with the aristocracy of land,
they have been servile in their subiection
to their yoke as men possessed of some
civil rights never before were. And yet
events are every day forcing them into an
attitude of inevitable opposition TO those
whose political livery they have so long
meekly worn. They are all threatened all
round with bankruptcy. The slow, bucolic
mind, unaccuStomed to think for itself,
and still overawed by landlord terrors, is
uneasily tossed about.
The farmers meetings that are being
held in many parts of the country to con-
slider the existing depression as yet indi-
cate little more than the severity Of the
distress from which the agricultural inter-
est is suffering. They are purposeless.
because the sufferers, SO long accustomed
to put their faith in others, have neither
the courage nor the intelligence to strike at
the real root of their grievances. Friends
and foes are as yet undistingushable. The
heaviest burden on the land is the land
owners. They have a whole branch of
the legislature to themselves, and royalty,
with which they dazzle the unthinking
multiIudes, is their puppet. The House
of Commons is overrun with their repre-.
sentatives. Politically they are all-power-
full; nevertheless, by the operation of
purely economic laws, their authority was
never in greater jeopardy than at present
The repeal of the corn laws, supplemented
by recent heavy importations of meat sup
plies, are at last telling their tale. Teudal
England cannot compete with freehold
America. The farmer of Illinois or of
California has no landlord. He DAYS a
heavy price for his labor, it is true, but he
can afford it; and, what is still more grat
flying, lie can afford to send his produce
into the English market at cheaper rate
than the English farmer can contrive to
do. The English agriculturist is beaten
by the American, even with the Atlantic
to impede the operations Of the latter. No
wonder that the landlords have begun TO
pose as Lords Bountiful, and to remit ten.
twenty, aye, thirty per cent of their rents.
They are making virtue of necessity.
and only soft-headed people will be found
apostrophizing their benevolence. They
are shrcwd enough TO perceive how impos.
sible it is to take, as Scotsmen say, the
breeches of Highlaudman." A writer
in the Times the other day gave chapter
and verse to show that on II farm Of six
hundred acres the normal loss of the
farmer, apart from household expenditure
is four hundred pounds per annum. Such
state Of things cannot of course last A
revolution in the agricultural economy Of
England is inevitable.
Sarah Bernhardt! Admirable erich.
toness power of doing u little, or more cor.
rectly, a good deal of everything-acting
painting, sculping, writing, balloonng,
ETC., is making her final preparations tc
visit the United States. SIZE will bring
along her celebrated skeleton. With it,
assistance she proposes to get up an after.
noon entertainment of the "Spritualisnl
Exposed order. Book your seats tc
see Sarah's skeleton float in the air, llay.
ing the while a tune of Sarah's own COM
position, on the tambourine. Stalls. TWEEN.
ty dollars. Sarah's equally well known
collin-in which, when at home, it is slid
she used to sleep-has been cut up into
tooth-picks! The price list has been fixed
New York will be charged two dollar.
each, Boston one and half, Chicago one
and San Francisco five. Early application
will be necessary, as the number of tooth
picks is limited. Sarah is also prepared
to write novel in broken English in tire,
volumes. 1t is expected that publishes il
want OF novelty will snap at this work
especially rs Sarah will undertake to learl
wood engraving in five minutes, in olde
that she may contribute wood cuts for tn
book from her own graver. Sarah also
intends doing little business with dress
makers, jewelers. and others, which will
be to their mutual advantage. She ha
invented several very novel costumes
bonnets, etc, and will introduce the Bern
hardt brooch, which will be guarantee,
genuine) dab y of her own modein,
clay, set in eighteen-carat gold. Right t.
manufacture and sell this ornament, coin,
cheap, at ten thousand dollars.
IL is extremely interesting to watch th
thousand matters that attract the eve n
well rs the ear of the looker-on in Lon
don over passing events relating to III
late Prince Napoleon. To convey II tin
OF these events by the medium of pen O
print is difficult if not impossible. TIL
scenes in the modern European drama DIS
quickly. One oblterates the other rapidly
and forgetful of the outlines of yesterday
we are students of the entire details q
to-day's picture. In my time have see
the heads of the house of Orleans unde
the hospitality of England, and the publ
voice was loud against the root an
branches Of I" the Corsican usurper." re
day witness paroXysms of fury against
Bourbon or Orleanist, a legitimist or re
publican, but who dares to decry Bon;
partist? take it that the boosted ''lov
of fair play in England is the solutio
of this seeming enigma. can remembc
when the late Emperor Napoleon took h
place as n Especial constable" with