Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-01

! loud tone to irritate in no small degree the | nerves of the great master. Liszt suddenly ! stopped and the Emperor, noticing the gene ! ral silence, requested the executant to go on. | Liszt rose from his seat, and making pro- I found bow to the Emperor, said, "Sire, when kings speak all should be silent" The Czar, whe was quick to catch witty sally, 5 felt the sting-snd the great musician was handed his passport the following morning, the meaning of which implied a courteous request to cross the frontier at once.
 1 am not quite sure that I ought not to feel penitent for having once written book "John Bull and His Island,'' considering the l books on England (over twenty in number) which have appeared in Paris since the pro- duction of mine. l extract the following from the last venture on the subject. The London policeman acts as referee in all cases of street fights between husband and wife, These fights are officially winked at 'as no magistrate would dare to punish either of the combatants in these encoun- ters." The author also affirms that it is the custom of the religious youth of London to go to St. Paul's cathedral Westminster Ab- bey, the Tabernacle land other conventi- cles" every Sunday afternoon, and there play at kiss in the ring" and other such games. He lmparts the not less amazing information that the Blue Ribbon is an English decora- tion intended to rival the French Legion of Honor, and is in the gift of the Salvation army. English girls have ''but one sport, husbaEd-hunting, which they carry on even in railway carriages and tram-cars, and the favorite sport of young Englishmen is 8 sort of imprompt hurdle race through the streets of the city, the place of the hurdles
 being taken by the bodies of the men and
 women who lie dead drunk across the Lon
 don pavement" But what of all that con-
 pared with the statement once made by an
 author on the subject of England, to the eff
 feet that English boys are more respectful
 towards their fathers than French boys, a
 statement illustrated by the fact that Gin
 aristecratic, and indeed in all the good fami-
 lies in England, the son invariably calls his
 father Governor (pronounced Guv'nor.V
 It is a never-ending source of amusement
 to me to watch the formation of fresh socie-
 ties in. England. The latest thing of the
 kind is the Society for the Propagation of
 the Gospel among Landlords. In it's pro-
 spectus it sets forth that 'sall previous efforts
 having proved of no avail in inducing land
 owners to restore to the public those values
 which the natural necessities of the public
 give to the land, and which values are
 commonly known as ground-rents, this
 clety has been formed for the purpose of
 appealing to the landlords conscience by
 means of gospel truth. The attention of
 landlords is respectfully called to the fact
 that they have become rich without labor,
 through laws made by their class, whereby
 the State earned increment upon land, in
 stead of being voted for taxes and public
 purposes, as it should have been, thus do-
 ing away with all other taxes, has slipped
 (probably by acciden) into the landowners
 pockets. It is now hoped that the appeals
 of this society, and it's efforts to propagate
 the gospel truths of justice and equity,
 will so awaken the landlord conscience that
 it may come to understand what so many
 enlightened Christians already apprehend,
 that their appropriation of the common
 wealth is the cause of most of the lack of
 work and starvation amongst workers, and
 the enrichment of the idle so prevalent all
 over the world at the present time'' If
 the English landlords would only take the
 hint and get converted to Christianity it would greatly facilitate matters for Mr.
 Gladstone, and smooth the way for the
 passing of the land bill. MAX O'RELL