Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-12-15
IFrom our Regular Corresponaeutl
European Letter.

The coffee tsverns, wdieh " 5eing
established all over London ar prTin
very successful. The noNn1e sup
ported by some of the highest>teoEe' In
the land and its success up to the present
time is undoubted. The prices charged
are remarkably low. A plate of ham oil
excellent quality. cup of very good
coffee and a roll and butter are supplied
for eight cents At Spier's and Ponds
refreshment room, at Victoria station,
thirty-two cents-three hundred per cent
more-is charged for precisely the same
articles, the quality being little better and
the quantity less. The success of the
taverns is awakening the publicans to the
necessity of providing non-intexisa'
sale. Several public houses ~s.hnt
forth the announcement that tea and pbfee
are always ready. 1t is sinHsrstF M We
hoped that ere long these senSiplet relqr@s
will have marked effect insg44tinE dtbe
greatest curse of the country hraf4Eehl
ness which is undoubtedly ule~ e<I,1e sfpf
more misery and crime thafo aaF cher
vice. aessise ael1als
Lord Beaconsfeld's novel, Andg mlohs
is the topic of the hour. The AEed stAies-
man is going over the steps ofp hlss dasipg
and brilliant youth, with the qld4loWers ef
rhetoric, the gorgeous easteths eolPeing,
the happily concerted epgraznsthe gseer-
osity to distinguished opponents, the i'll
concealed scorn of English methods and
the heart whole admiration of England's
power that have always distinguished
him, with the Christening influence of
growing years and the aftermath of ripe
experience. 1t will now be in order for
Mr. Gladstone to give another Homeric
strain, since he has recoled from the
diocese of the council of Trent. 1t looks
as though Dulcigno had at last got into
somebody's hands, although it is little
difficult as yet to determine into whose.
The rumors of Lord Derby accepting a
seat in the liberal cabinet are again
renewed, and are not unlikely to have
some foundation in fact, more especially
since Mr.. Gladstone's sojourn with the
earl.
The recent importation of American rye
into some of the Baltic ports has created an
alarm all over Russia, and elaborate arti-
Giles on the comparative agricultural re-
sources of the two countries have appeared
in almost every Russian paper. The unan
imous conclusion is that the cause of the
unfavorable result of Russian farming lies
not in the soil, but in the ignorance and
laziness of the Russian peasant. The
wages of the laborer in Russia are lower
than in any other country, but it takes
three Russian naonjiss to do the work OF
one farm hand in France, Great Britain oil
the United States.
The situation in Ireland is still practi
cally unchanged. The rumor regarding
the governments action are of the mos
contradictory nature. One well Informed
authority gives assurances that the gov
eminent is at last proceeding to act; tina
the law must be maintained and seditior
put down. Another equally well Informed
authority states beyond possibility OF
contradiction that such rumors are all the
purest fiction; that the government has
not the remotest intention of adopting
coercion in Ireland; that parliament
would meet about the usual time, and tina
the government had in careful consider
alton a brand new land bill. One day
landlord or agent is shot, or tarred anC
feathered; the next day the sam elandlort
Indignantly repudiates the calumny thai
he was even 80 much as winged, or even
came within sniff of tar, let alone a feath
er. And so the same goes on. The fact
are that the land league is strengthening
its hold ON the people; that the govern
ment is as whole, in favor of amending
the land laws in a sense more favorable t.
the tenants, and that it is averse t
adopting extreme and expensive means 70
the purpose of qdelling what, in the main
Hooks like legal enough political agita
ition.
: j. j. O'Kelly, who was reporter o
the New York Herald, is now membc
of the English house of commons. p. J
Smyth. who was also a New York news
paper man, is member of parliament
: and Justin Mccarthy, who wrote politica
leaders for the New York Times, sits o
, the cross benches at Westminster.
AUGUST