The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-08-01
OUR EUROPEAN LETTER.

| ana fuTmefS.-1He american OtuI
and Stripes take their Course East
eoard. The Actress ,cho has mad
LondonerS Crazy coming to Ameri
ca.-England the Place Of refug
|. for unfortunate rulers.
LONDON, ENG, July 1G, 1879.
A positive crisis has at last set i'm il
English agriculture. Feudalism, lou!
since weighed and found wanting in tn,
political balance, is now about to b,
Judged by the more ilexorable STANDARD
Of economic science. The operation o
economic lave is slow and Silent, bu
sure. Not so political agitation. Th,
farmers of England have for many gen
erations had but one policy in affairs o
state-to please their landlords. The,
have acted with implicit confidence il
the teaching of that proverbial philoso
ply which inculcates the impOlicy o
staying at Rome and quarrelling will
the Pope. They have not quarrelled
with the aristocracy of land, they have
been servile in their subsection to their
yoke as men possessed of 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 meckly
worn. They are all threatened all
round with bankruptcy. The slow, bu-
collie 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 consider
the existing depression as yet indicate
little more than the severity of the dis
tress from which the agricultural inter-
est is suffering. They are purposeless,
because the sufferers, SO long accustom-
ed TO put their faith in others, have nei-
ther the courage nor the intelligence TO
strike at the real root OF their grievan-
ces. Friends and foes are as yet undis-
tinguishable. The heaviest burden on
the land is the landowners. They have
whole branch of the legislature to
themselves, and Royalty, with which
they dazzle the unthinking multitude,
is their puppet. The House of Com
mons is overrun with their representa-
tives. Politically they are all-poweriul :;
nevertheless by the operation of purely
economic laws, the authority was never
i'll greater jeopardy than at present. The
repeal of the Corn Laws, supplemented
by recent heavy importations of meat
supplies are at last telling their tale
Feudal England cannot compete with
freehold America. The farmer of Hi
nois and of California has no landlord
lie pays heavy price for his labor, it
is true, but he can afford it; and, what
is still more gratifying, he can afford to
send his produce into the English mar
ket at cheaper rate than the English
farmer can contrive to do. The Eng
lish agriculturalist is beaten by the Am
erican 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 ne
cessity and only soft-headed people will
be found apostrophizing their Denevo-
lence. They are shrewd enough to per-
ceiye how impossible it is to take, as
Scotsmen say, the "breeches off a High
landman." A writer in the Times the
other day gave chapter and verse to
show that on farm of six hundred
acres the normal loss of the farmer,
apart from household expenditure, is
f400 per amman. Such a state of things
cannot, of course, last. A revolution
in the agricultural economy of England
is inevitable.
Sarah Bernhardtl Admirable Crish-
tones power of doing little, or more
correctly, good deal of everything,
acting, yainting, sculping, writing, bal
looming, &C., is making her final prep
arations to visit the United States. She
will bring along her celebrated skele-
ton. With its assistance she proposes
to get up an afternoon entertainmet OF
the "Spiritualism Exposed" order.
Book your seats to Sarah's skeleton
float in the air, playing the while tune
of Sarah's own composition, on the
tambourine. Stalls forty dollars.
Sarah's equally well-known cofiin min
which, when at home, it is said she
used to sleep-has been cut up into
tooth picks! The price list has been
fixed. New York will be charged two
dollars each, Boston one and half,
Chicago one, and San Francisco five.
Early application will be necessary as
the number of Iooth-picks is limited.
Sarah is also prepared to write novel
in broken English in three vols. 1t is
expected that publishers in want of a
novelty will snap at this work-especi-
ally as Sarah will undertake to leave
wood engravings in five minutes, in
order that she may contribute wood
cuts from the book for her own grave
Sarah also intends doing little busi-
ness with dressmakers, jewellers, and
others, which will be to their mutual
advantage. She has invented several
novel customes, bonnets, &C., and will
introduce the Bernhardt brooch, which
will be guaranteed genuine) "dob''
of her own moddelling-day, set in
eighteen-carat gold. Right TO manu-
facture, and sell this ornament, going
cheap, at ten thousand dollars.
1t Is extremely interesting TO watch
the thousand matters that attract the
eye as well as the car of the looker-on
in London over passing events relating
to the late Prince Napoleon. To con-
vey tithe of these passing events by
the medium of pen or print is difficult
if not impossible. The scenes in the
modern European drama pass quickly
One obliterates the other rapidly and
| forgetful of the outlines of yesterdays,
we are students of the entire details of
to-day's picture. In my time l have
seen the heads of the house of Orlea ,s
under the hospitality of England, and
the public voice was loud against
the root and branches of "the Corsican
Usurper." To-day / witness parox-
ysms of fury against Bourbon or Or
leanist, legitimist or republican, but
who dares to decoy Bonapartism2
take it that the boasted "loye of fail
play" in England is the solution of this
enigma. Iscan remember when the late
Emperor Napoleon took his place as q
especial constable" with white badge
ON his arm, and volunteered to defend
the threatened bank of England, witt
its warlike sand-bags ON the parapets
and its military guard with glitterine
fixed bayonets, in the fiery days O
Fergus O'Connor and "Chartists."
recall seeing King Louis Philippe
coming to 20 the welcome shores o
England, fugitive, in the garb of
seafaring man, under the name of "JohI