Omaha daily bee., 1884-02-01
NOTES FROM ENGLAND.
NOTES FROM ENGLAND.
Fhe Poverty Of Royalty Illustrated by
The QlGGDS Daughters.
Married to a Prioce, but in Needy
Circumstances.
The Sale of Drinks-Kniycs Displacc
Fists-The Making Of books
Running and Skating.
rom our English Correspondent.


Railway King" Sir Edward Watkir
has not given up his idea of getting par
liamentary sanction for his channel tun.
mel scheme, to connect England and
France. 1t has, however, been made
known that the government would op.
pose his bill, and he must be aware that
it will be extremely detrimental to its
future prospects to bring it forward to
certain defeat. He should learn to wait,
for ever if he had the combined influence
of all the railway members he would be
unable to dictate to parliament. There
was a story which was widely circulated
to the effect that Sir Edward contem-
plated setting up pillar at the Folkes-
tone shaft with IN inscription attributing
his failure last year to Mr.. Chamberlain,
who insisted upon his obedience to the
decision of the legislature.
Danish farmers, having tasted the
sweets of trade with this country, are
taking action to increase and extend their
operations. On Saturday last a meeting
was held at Aalborg, attended by a thou
sand agriculturists at which it was decid-
cd to form a friendship company
with the special effort in view of sending
cattle to England. The farmers OF
England are meanwhile at all even 6 in a
good position to hold their own, 'ieeding
stuff" being abundant and cheap. The
immense import of Indian corn, unsur.
passable for fattening cattle, and the
price of which is 50 remarkably low, con.
fers great advantages upon home produ.
GERS OF wheat.
The drink trade, which seven yearsago
"Aourished in its pride with buds on
every bough," is experiencing a reverse
of fortune which is making glad the
hearts of the temperance reformers. The
| population has increased, but the drink
bill has gone back EGO, 900, 900 as com
pared with that of 1876. This falling of
must cut deeply into the margin for
profits of the drink sellers, whose estab.
lishments and expenses have not been
diminished in a corresponding rate, if al
all. 1t is stated that in recent years az
many as 10, 900 clubs in which drink is
supplied to the members have been sci
up, and the business done in them has
also to be subtractsd from that
beforetime transacted by the re-
tailers. These clubs and THE gro.
Gers licenses are as much authorized
by the publicans as by the temperance
party and ''extremes meet" when teeto-
talers and groggsellers are of one mind.
Then out of decreasing profits Mr.. Glad
stoae has exacted increased payments for
the enjoyment of the privilege of max
ing men drunk by ''act of parliament. +"
That the imperial revenue suffers from
the greater sobriety of the people fol-
lows as a matter of course. 1t is not
yet apparent that the assertion of Sir
Stafford Northcote in introducing his
first budget as chancellor of the ex-
chequer in Disraeli's cabinet is correct,
that a decrease of revenue from the i'm
ports on intoxicating liquors by reason
of a dimunition in the consumption
would mean increase of ven by rea-
son of the consequent greater prosperity
of trade in general. The amount of
money spent in drink in this country is
still enormous, being almost equal to all
the rental of the lana in the kingdom
with the price of all the bread added.
Our outlay ON bread is about seventy
millions sterling and the rental of oul
land reaches the same total, nearly, anc
we expend e135, DOC, 600 annually on
drink.
A London publisher is of the opinion
that too many novels are being writer
to one of the papers in support of hi
views. 1t would appear that in 1883 thu
number of works of fiction actually pub
lished was $40, and of these 120 are pre-
sumed to have paid EXPENSES, but thu
total number of novels written and of
fered for publication is said to be nj
fewer than 5000. Whether he include
stories published in installments in mag
azines and weekly newspapers is no
clear. Many of these are ~stereotype'
and after appearing in the ''to be contin
ued" form, are again sent forth to tn
public as complete book novels. TIL
great circulating libraries have, it is be
lieved, seen their best days, the maya
zines having to a great extent supersede'
them as purveyors of fiction by the bes
authors.
The use of the knife is increasing I
an alarming extent in Liverpool. Form
erly the fists were used in the settlemen
of disputes amongst the lower orders @
Englishmen, and the knife was deeme'
cowardly as well as vile and only suite
for foreigners who lacked the courage t
stand up and slight like a man." Now
however, the spirit of fair play and man
illness which characterized quarrel
amongst the rougher element of tn
the towns, SO far as manliness can b
said to characterize street fighrs, has al
most altogether departed, and tn
first weapon to hand is freely used
Presumably the change may be account
ed for by the presence in Liverpool of 8
many foreign sailors, who, unaccustome,
to the naked fist as the arbiter of a quar-
rel, and Impractical in It's use, make n
scruple in drawing the knife, and tn
English rough has imbibed all too easil
the bloodthirsty spirit. One of IT,
house surgeons at the hospital at tn
north end of the city has written tina
since the middle of December last Their
have been admitted no less than to-
stabbing and wounding cases of a YER
serious nature and the records of tn
hospital do not show such a number dun
ing a like period for very many years
And all these cases come from the dir
trict in the neighborhood of the hospi
tai.
Tbs following from a writer in "Ashor
and Ahoat; or, English and America
Skaters" may perhaps interest some c
the readers of The BEE:
81 have been much amused at tn