, 1881-07-17
4 BOY LIKE THEY RAISE IN BOSTON.

4 BOT LIKE THEY RAISE: IN BOSTON.
Special Cnbe.
PARIS, July 1C.-The Court of Assizes met
yesterday to try one Of the most horrible and
remarkable murder cases on record,
The murderer, named Le1natre, is a
mere lad Of Is, and the victim little
boy Of u, called Scl1aonch, without any
other apparent motive than hdcousty NOR
bid wish to get talked Of in the papers. lie
maitre, one day last February, inveiglcd
Scf1aOnch, whom he had never seen before, into
bedroom, and there ripped open his stom-
acll and cut his throat. lie then gave him
self up to the police. Lcmaitre, in
his defense, asserted that he committed the
crime under tile influence Of all
Irresistible impulse, but the Court refused
to take Ills statement into consideration, and
sentenced him to twenty years hard labor
and ten years surveillance by the police, the
maximum punishment for criminals un-
der u.
GREAT HEAT.
To the Western Issoctuted prtss.
PARIS, July 1G.-At i o'clock yesterday
afternoon the temperature Indicated o. III
the shade.
ELECTION OF 4 SENATOR.
IAl.1s, july lG,-At an election to-day for
life Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Dufaure, Republican,, Pierre Der
thelot, the eminent chemist and member of
the Institute, the candidate of the Pure Left,
was elected.
THE SENATE:
passed the bill granting liberty to the press.
THE ECONOMIC WAR
BETWEEN FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION
1t1ts
an EDITORIAL directs attention*o all article in
The Quarterly Rcuic,u, Intended to show that
British manufactures are declining, and tor
elgners are competing successfully i'll Eli
gllsh markets in consequence Of the system
Of free trade. r
TILE POST
concludes as follows: 1.-THE Quartcrlu Re-
UieaU's array of facts deserves most consider
ate attention OF every man having the future
prosperity OF the country ut heart. The
UNITED States, under i system Of protection
described by some of our political ccono-
lnlsts as 'suicldal,' has paid, during sixteen
years, over 9150, ,000, 900 Of their debt and paid
4SG, ,ooooo0 last year. Under it the United
States have passed by leaps and bounds into
a condition OF prosperity which before long
VIII enable them to cancel the enormous
et~o" aAtutACu Vl 1ECOuHt- u LEH L1f1i war.
is by no means in the same hopeful
condition. We grant that free trade has
done much to benefit the country, but we
doubt whether it has not been pressed too
far,-whether it has not become imperative
that solne resort to Tetaliatory duties shall
be made iii order to show that tie adyant-
ages we offer to foreign States should be met
BY equivalent concessions OH their part"
THE "TIMEs"
says the figures most prominently relied on
II the Quarterly Rcuic,o's article arc alto
sether erroneous. The reviewer, it says,
''erstates the excess Of Imports over exports
y 63.0oo.00o, and it points cut the fallacy
which regards an excess of imports as sign
II weakness. Even with all excess Of exports |
to *124,o ,000 England is doing !
10 more than getting all income OIL her in-,E
'estnlent. When the excess dinlinisllcs, it il |
sign that she is again investing largely |
broad. ~
THE ECONOMIST" Ii
his week says: 1.-THE unliQuidated tI:aade |
alanCe due the United Stares is nfrar1v !