Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-04

Revolution, were paying as much as Sc, 400.
600 per annum for their privileges. The
State at that period, however, abolished its
own exclusive privilege, and the manufsc-
ture and sale of tobacco accordingly be-
came free. During twenty years a tax was
| imposed; 1t fell as low as 81 SOC, 600, bnt in
| 1910 Napoleon revived the monopoly of the
State, which still exists ss he established it.
Since $40 the revenue has steadily in
creased. In 1852 it was $25, 600, 900, in 1862
It was $35, O00, 600, and now it is $50, 900 600
| For the last five years the quantity of to-
bacco consumed In France is reckoned to
have been 33, 900 tons per annum, which is
| somewhat more than three times as much
as was consumed half century earlier.
The Vicomte de la Panouse, husband Of
Nine. Heilbron, the actress, has adroitly
managed to get the better of his Bourse
the couple were supposed to be utterly
| ruined. The vscount had lost $500, 900, and
owed $500, 900 to two stock brokers. He at
once gave out his departure for the Cape,
while the Viscountess was TO return to the
stage during his absence. But she had no
sooner sold their hotel to pay off some of
| their debts than q rat was smelt, and the
viscount, who made over everything to his
wife, was found to be living like fight
ing cock In quiet little village In Auvergne.
| The stock brokers forthwith sued him. His
| counsel, however, took advantage Of the
code, which admits certain Bourse specula.
tions to be illegal. and the court has non
suited the plaintiffs on that ground.
1t is not likely that the movement to Sc
cure free admission to all parts of st. Paul's
Cathedral, in London, will succeed at pres
ent. The Dean has just written to the
Lord Mayor In reference to the agitation,
that the case of the cathedral is
not the same as the case Of
the labbey. At Westminster, he says, the
chapels for which free day is given are all
on the floor Of the church, with open spaces
about them, and people 90 in one way and
come out at the other end, whereas at St.
Paul's, "the places for which free day is
asked are the crypt, with it's dark corners
and @ecesses, and the up stairs portions OF
the building, to which access is by long,
narrow, winding staircsses and passages,
without any possibility OF separate en-
trance or exit, and where q block and
crush-not unlikely In the case of the ex
ceptional crowds Of free dsy-would be
very dangerous" ''This," he adds, 'is a
matter of cubic feet which we cannot alter"
SO far as the cathedral authorities are able,
they wish to keep the fees as low as they
which prevent this. Recently the fees have
been revised, and the Dean says they will
probable be again revised.
The cavalry charge which decided the
battle of Kassassin is noteworthy as very
bold and successful accomplishment Of
what might well have been thought i'm
possible. The use of heavy cavalry In q
sandy country, broken by irregular ridges,
with such effect as literally to sweep the
opposing force from the field would have
been laughed at as an absurdity had any
one predicted It a month ago. But such
use Of horsemen in war is by no means I'M
precedented At Borodine, in 1912, the
Great Redoubt, forming the key OF the
Russian position, was carried by the
cuirassiers of the French Imperial
Guard, who charged up hill into the
work, leaped their horses over the para
pet, and sabred the artilleTymen at their
guns. In Algeria the French mounted
chasseurs repeatedly dashed up ascents
which even q foot soldier would have found
trying. These daring riders afterward dis
tinguished themselves under d'Allonville at
Balaklava. where they greatly lessened the
havoc Inflicted upon the famous slight
Brigade" by charging up one of the fanking
ridges and driving the Russians from the
batteries which were Strengthening the British
cavalry. Such feats, however, must be re-
garded as brilliant exceptions rather than as
established presidents, and the verdict of
the great German strategist still holds good,
that ''war is now TO the infantry and the
artillery"
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