The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-07

could bring suit in a county court against
J tenant farmer, for the recovery of the
1.-THE when more than month in areas
, and judgment could be executed against
: any personal property of the tenant,
making the process of recovery per-
sonal action against the farmer tenant,
instead of as under the present law a
proceeding against the thing (the crop
ralsed) and now collectable by distress if
there be any produce Or crop TO levy on.
Now as the tenant farmers are already
seriously embarrassed all over the United
Kingdom, aud many 1.-THE payers are in
default, this proposition of the Govern
ment to make all personal property liable
for debt not the tenants own, but one
growing out of the present system of
contracts between landlord and tenants.
you can readily see that it gave the oppo-
sition members beautiful opportunity
to prove themselves farmers friends"
And right royalty they used the oppor-
tunlty too. l could, of course, from the
running debate only get a general idea of
the subject, which l have | know but
imperfectly stated, but enough to show
you the drift of the debate. Now an
English parliamentary debate is a very
different affairs from that in our lower
House of Congress. There is here little
or no attempt at oratorial display. No
'spread Eagle" defamation, addressed
to the members constituency either or
ally or in print, often of speeches that
were really never delivered at Washing
ton but which are printed in pamphlets,
and paid for by the people all the same.
Here the debate is made up of statements
Of facts and dry arguments, put plainly,
but logically, as the lawyer addresses the
court upon point of law. All done, not
in an impassioned style of speaking, but
done colloquially. Members talk at each
other, and address the speaker more con-
versationally, and in more courteous
| phrase than we do. confess there is not
| as much excitement raised here over
what would be termed popular debate,
as at Washington when a rough and
tumble fight takes place between our
party leaders. The English debater puts
| his points sharply, he gets off sarcasms
that are keen and cutting but always
with restraint of manner, and an appar-
ent difference for the place and the occa-
sion. The Englishman is evidently not
as good an extempore speaker as his
| American kinsman. He doesn't command
as ready vocabulary of words, he STAN
mers, hesitates, repeats, and has nothing
like the ease and ready command of lam
guage of his trans Atlantic prototype.
But | have already taken more space
than intended in telling you of my visit
to the House of Commons, and | end it
by saying that the Government made
several narrow escapes from defeat on d.
visions called amendments put in the
shape of instructions to the House acting
as committee, and finally as have since
noticed in the papers withdrawn the bill
So the big fight over this measure in
which all the tenant farmers are so
deeply interested. and which involves
many millions Of dollars, is for the time
postponed. AS so many of the English
clergy q mean of the established churoh) |
miss their tithes, and the present means
of collecting them by distress has grown
so unpopular, the question has become a |
difficult one with the Government as to |
the best means to meet it, with the least
offense to this large class of bread win |
ners.
The transition, from the refined and |
elevatlng associations of Westminster,
to the notorious purlieus of Whitechapel |
and Spitalfields is l am free to confess |
rather violent, but contrasts of localities |
are sometimes beneficial in their teach |
inns, and on leaving the Houses of Par
lament at nine O'clock, took an under. |
ground ride to Aldgate station, to keep |
an appointment made with an obliging |
and trustworthy policeman, to make an
excursion through the districts, so much |
read about in America, as the locality of |
the mysterious murders so recently com,
mitted by that mythical murderer Jack |
the Ripper" and which up to this hour |
have confused and confouLded all the |
wisdom of the assembled Metropolitan |
police at Scotland Yard that world famed |
center of the English detective force. |
Nine disreputable but peaceahle women
we're found in succession murdered on |
different nights within period ofsthree
months last fall, having been brutdly |
slain and afterwards horribly mutilated.
1t is not necessary at all to repeat theJ
horrible particulars of these unusual and !
mysterious crimes, although the friendly |
policeman just referred to, has furnished |
them, upon which | could if l desired
draw. Suffice it to say, that these mys
FERROUS murders apparently without mo-
tive, since their abject victims were in
all charity greater enemies to themselves
than to society even, are apparently with
out parallel even in this great metropolis |
whose crimes like everything else about
it, are on so colossal a scale. The crime |
of London with its immense population
Of over four and quarter millions of
people, generally amounts to one third Of
all the crime of the United Kingdom.
The notorious murders and mutllations
of the nine women IN different portions
Of Whitechapel and Spitalfelds, are be-
lieved to have been committed by one
and the same man. The police of the
city believe the "Whitechapel Fiend,"
to be either man in measure at least
familiar with surgery, or sailor skill
full in the use of knife The wounds
and mutilations were all done apparently
with the same instrument. The localities
were equally well chosen as to ready
means of escape. The first locality l in
spected was Mitre Square. 1t can be
approached by four different blind allies.
But few steps from a we'll lighted street,
| back il, 4 dark corner. with which-tba
| ity are familiar, the first woman was
| found. Not far away is Castle alley the
scene of the second killing. Then Der.
ner street equally we'll located for the
fiendish work. A short walk brings you
to Georges Yard. Here almost within
the limit of light shed by gas lamp the
fourth victim was found. In Bucks Row
a black and forbidding retreat, where no
man in his senses would dare go alone,