New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-29

steamer, charged with coming TO replace Amer-
can labor, and finally was sent back. If there is
better American version of this story. it would
do no harm TO make it public here. Some other
cases also would bear explanation. Meanwhile
| The Times" remarks that the real nature of
protectionist and rade-union legislation has sell
dom been shown in a more forbidding aspect.
| Russia has now something to explain. The
| early and brief reports Of the recent tragedy in
| Siberia are confirmed by circumstantal account
| three columns long, with documents apparently
authentic, published in THE Times" 4 party
| of eXles came into collision with soldiers and
police The collision due, in the first place TO
a petition by the eXies against the new regua-
tions of the Vice-Governor. NJ. Ostashine respect
ing their journey to Eastern Siberia which they
| regarded as equivalent 10 a sentence of 2eath.
The Governor considered the presence of the exies
in body at the public office, to present the
petition, as insubordinate, and directed them TO
assemble at specified house. The police then
appeared and ordered them TO repair to the Gov.
ernor's Office. They said that this was what the
Governor had forbidden The police, in anger.
departed, and returned with troops. Firing be-
gan, apparently from both sides. Six exiles were
! killed and nine wounded, and one policeman
was killed and three officials wounded. NJ. Osta-
shine ordered a court-martial on the survivors.
and hanged three-One of whom had TO be
red to the gallows on bed-and sentenced all
the rest except one, to long terms of penal seryi
tude "The Tines appeals to the Gar TO bring
NJ. Ostashine to justice, TO reverse the sentences
| on the exics, and TO put an end once for all
TO the system of ferocous cruelty which disgraces
his Government and his religion
An elaborate protest against so-callcd Christian
Socialism, by the Bishop of Peterborough, is the
literary event-or perhaps the political evcnt-of
| the week. DR.. Magee provoked criticism by an
! nouncing some time since in a diocesan confer
ence that it not the business of the State to
| enforce Christianity. He repeats it more fully,
| explaining that for any Government to attempt
to lcgislate on the basis of the Sermon on the
| Mount or the doctrines of the New Testament
would be impossible, and would if possible, be
intolerable tyranny. His article in The Fort
! nightly Review" like everything that this re-
markabe Bishop says or writes is outspoken,
! courageous, full of vigor of thought and lnde-
pendence and the whole, admirable But
the Socialists Christian and otherwise, fall foul
of him, and better people than they behold with
surprise this spectacle of Episcopal good sense.
The Church of England laments perhaps its
| foremost man in the Bishop of Durham; certainly
| its best scholar the Episcopal bench. Bishop
| LightfOot dies, they say, from overwork. lie
| would not spare himself He ioied at his the
illogical studies just as devotedly after he became
| Bishop as before though he worked hard at
the administration of his great diocese if he
never opened book. lie leaves great name,
with no serious mistake in long, active and ad-
mirable life, except his connection with that un-
happy failure called the Revision of the New
| Testament
The landlord party in Ireland have lost one
| of their best men in Mr. Kavanagh. From birth
| without arms or legs, he had a heart and head
alike remarkable, and plenty of that civic courage
| and clear, good in which men of his own
| class in Ireland often deficient. lie rode
| and shot, and went where he would. lie q
| Member of Parliament, and spoke we'll and gave
| money and counsel to his own party. lie managed
| his great estates Justly, and stood out from the
very first against those so-called reforms which
had for their basis the idea that property in land
| is not property. Few men saw SO carly where
| things were drifting.
Robert Brownings body is lying in kind of
state at his former residence, % Devere Gardens.
| The house is filed with beautiful flowers, sent
by friends and admirers from many parts of the
| world Friends are admitted TO him, but not
| the public He will be buried at noon on Tues
| day. between Chaucer and COwley, In the east
| aisle of the south transept of the Abbey, com
| monty known as the Poets Corner
| Mr.. Gladstone's eightieth birthday, which oc-
cuw tomorrow, is celebrated to-day by editorial
| panegyrics and other equally interesting mani
festations. 1t provolIes expressions of genuine
| goodwill even from his political opponents, all
the best of whom are proud of him. He himself
fha nf fhp
versary by planning public library for Hawar
| den which is expected to number is ,00' vaumes.
His pen is never idle. An article appears in the
January Merry England" THE Religious
Novel;" with Lady GeOrgana FullertOns Ellen
Middleton" as a text lie appears says one reader.
10 favor revival of the practice of confession,
statement almost incredible.
Mr.. Howells's Hazard of New Fortunes is re-
viewed in to-days Athenaeum, which blows hot
and cold upon the book He is in this critics
opinion, always trying to tell a story, but cannot
get the knack of it; he is ftfully dramatic and
never touches the highest success OF the novelist
as an artist but short of that, he is so often ad-
mirable that, on the whole, his achievements
have rightly won for him the high place which
he occupies - Hazard of New Fortunes is full
Of his characteristic brlaDcy, his neat, epigram
matte phrases, and his deH9htul huihOI'
Another article on Carlyle would not ordinarily
call for notice, but that which The Fortnlghty
Review" publishes is by Professor Iyndall, who
knew Carlyle intimately, visited him on terms
such as lev attained to, travelled with him, and
acknowledged his influence on his own very diff
ferent work as full of inspiration. Professor 1yn-
dali does full Justice TO that more humane and
tender side of Carye's character which since his
death has been less clearly brought out than it
might be. lie does justice also to Mrs. Carlyle,
and throws new light on her relations to her hus-
band, with whom her differences were, in Pro-
fessor Tyndals opinion, but superficial, while
their mutual regard and pride in each other went
on strengthening to the last.
Doctors are debating whether the influenza