New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-02

that the same claim might be made with equal
prOpriety because the Joint Assembly was
few minutes later than moon, meridian" in
meeting. We ventured to think that even
Spinola might see his folly reflected in sue
preposterous technicality. But Mr. Spinola Is
one of those people who, on the autho.ty of
Scripture can be ground in mortar and yet
retain their identity. Yesterday he actually
adopted THE TRIBUNEs satirical suggestion as
serious objection to the ballot, and raised The
point that, inasmuch as the Joint Assem- bly,
was several minutes late in meeting, the law
had been violated, and the ballot could not
proceed. The Leutenant-G Governor very justly
refused to regard this as a point of order, on
the ground that there was no point in it.
The excitement in England over the murder
of Mr.. Gold in one of the cars of the Brighton
Railway continues. 1t has naturally revived
the discussion in favor of American cars
which do not, it is true, afford the same de-
gree of privacy as the compartment carriages,
but have the slight compensating advantage
that murder and other forms of criminal viO-
lence are impossible, whereas in England they
| are not only not impossible, but their prob
ability depends much more upon the character
of the passengers than upon the safeguards
| afforded by their surroundings. The readmis-
| sion of Colonel Baker, few days ago, to the
| Army and Navy Club of London, from which
| he was expelled for an infamous offence must
| have reminded the British public of one dan
ger to which unprotected persons riding in the
| compartment carriages are liable; and this
murder came only one day later. The state
| ment is now made that when it was proposed
some years ago to introduce the American
cars on this very railway, the directors found
the feeling in favor of the English carriages
so strong that the project was abandoned. A
| few more episodes of the Baker and Gold
classes may remove this insular prejudice and
| convince the unsociable Englisbman that there
| are times and places in which the presence of a
reasonable number of his fellow beings may
be rather agreeable than otherwise
| The immigration of 1881 is thus far at the
| rate of half a million year. The total num-
| Der since January 1 is 243,925-an increase of
| $4,000 over the same period last year. The
month of June alone showed nearly one-third
| of this increase, bringing 10000 more immi-
grants than June of last year. Nearly one
half of the June arrivals were Germans, the
Irish and Swedes making about one-sixtll
| each of the whole number. As rule the i'm
migrants continue to bear oat the character
already given them-that of an excellent class
of population, many of them skilled laborers
| and many of them already provided with
| homes in the Far West. Some of the German
| immigrants during June were of high order
of intelligence and, in some cases, of profess
sional training. The ease with which even
the unskilled labOrers obtain employment in the
West is sufficient to dsprove the necessity OF
any apprehension to the effect of this great
inrushlng tide of strange peoples upon the
country. There is no indication, certainly
that any more than the average number may
become public burdens, and almost the whole
number will quite as certainly become public
helps in adding to the frugal and industrious
| classes.