Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-13

or peace they can i've 1n the trad1Ilonal sIyle 1 of the German bunker.
 Robert Brown Elliott, who died at New
 Orleans Saturday, was an illustration of what
 the negro may do under favorable conditions.
 Mir. Elliott was born in Boston and died one
 day before the completion of his 42d year.
 He received education in England, enter 1 ing High Holborn academy in London in l 1853, and being graduated with high honors 1 in 1859. He became printer, journalist and lawyer, and went South after the war, l becoming influential in the politics of South l Carolina, member of its constitutional con-
 vention in 1868, and speaker of it's House of Representatives from 1868 to 1870. He was l 8 member of the 42d and 43d Congresses, re- Izsigaing from the latter to become attorney general of the State. He was a man of good presence and of singular ability as speaker. His address in the memorial services to Charles Sumner will always rank among the masterpieces of English oratory.
 A curious article has appeared in Lloyd's
 Weekly, London, the chief organ of the l working classes, on the politics of the Prince of Wales. The writer says the Prince of Wales has no belief in the policy of the eff facernent of the empire, and will not shrink when necessary from the assertion of the ex- tension of the imperial responsibilities though opposed to aggression. He is there fore drawn to the Radicals, who have broken from the traditions of the Manchester peace party. The article further recites that the
 heir-apparent to the throne of England is a free-trader on principle, and regrets the ex-
 istence of protection policy in other coun-
 tries on the ground that hostile tariffs beget
 other forms of international hostility
 He considers that many of the ideas and
 plans now identified with socialism are thor oughly practical, Christian, and constitu-
 tional respecting forms of government. The
 Prince believes the English monarchy will
 endure because it has the nucleus of 8 real
 republic, and having what other republics
 need, center of gravity apart from all, and
 yet allied to all
 One of Henry Georges theories is being
 tested in New South Wales. Forty millions
 of acres in that colony have become private
 property, but 16O,O0O,OOO acres are still
 public domain. As nearly all of it is valu- . able for pasturage the government rents it.
 The landlord and the tenants the same
 people, self governing and making their own
 laws. But some of them are more interested
 as tenants while others are more interested in swelling the public revenue from leases, and an element of discord is thus introduced into politics that could hardly have been dreamed of before the event. One party complains that the government gets too much, the oth- CT party is sure it gets too little, and no means of determining what constitutes fair rent has been devised. Assessment by indiv- idual assessors and assessment by arbitration have both been tried but neither has proved satisfactory Every year the difficulties of the situation are multiplying and there is ap- parently but one way out. The vested inter ests of tenants are increasing and those mean votes, and the votes will one day sweep away the public claim, leaving the holdings the private property of their oceupiers .
 The alarm caused by the appearance of cholera in the south of France has been inten- sifed in the Spanish capital by the dangers arising from the condition of the cemeteries in that city After the French occupation of Madrid at the beginning of the century two cemeteries were opened, one to the north and the other to the south of the city, but the collins, instead of being buried in the earth, were placed inside of walls built for the pur- pose of receiving them. In 1881 religious as- sociations called Sacramentales were formed for opening fresh cemeteries, where the cof- fins were also deposited in walls above ground and these cemeteries are now nine in number, exclusive of one reserved entirely for Protest ants. Many of these cemeteries which, when first opened, were isolated from all buildings, are now surrounded by dwelling houses, and for some time past the Municipality has been anxious to open large metropolis at some distance from the city. The ecclesiastical however, which derive large profits from the existing cemeteries, have op- posed the scheme in the most uncompromis- ing manner, and, though the decree for closing l the latter was signed year ago by the King, | it has not yet been put in force.