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Show L0.VD0X LETTER. FJectrl Railroading. Telephonic Communication with the Coatl-neat, Coatl-neat, English "Justice." "Alcoholic "Al-coholic Ooaa." The liarop ileai Tragedy, Etc. ISpeclal CorrespOBdesce Dxssbst Xxvs.J The English newspapers announce an-nounce that there has beeu taken "one more step towards the Americanizing Ameri-canizing of our institutions." This is the inaugurating of a train ser vice on the City and Bouth IonJon Electric Railway, which was formally for-mally opened yesterday, the Prince of Wales.belng master of tho ceremonies. cere-monies. The new venture presents a number of Innovations on tho present system of railroading In tho metropolis which evoke both favorable favor-able and unfavorable comments. Probably the most Important of these at tbe present time to the British public Is the matter or fares. On street cars and steam railways it is a penny a mile, and you pay for tbe distance traveled. On the electric line, which is threo miles in length, tho fare is two pence, whether you ride half a mile or the full distance. Another cliange from the present underground system is that the new road will bo smokeless smoke-less In operation. At present, passengers pas-sengers are greatly annoyed by the sulphurous fumes from the locomotives locomo-tives in the subterranean passages, while tho cars are far from being well lighted. On the South London road snioko is done away with entirely, en-tirely, as the motive power is electricity, elec-tricity, which also illuminates both the stations and thncars. The lino is from Stockwell to thu Monument, near London Bridge, and is double track, tbe tunnels passing under the Thames parallel with the bridge. The averagedepth below tbe surface is fifty feel,nnd the line is run under streets, except at the Hibernla Wharf, wbicli is directly ever it. Tbe construction lias been accomplished accom-plished without any disturbance with the surface. Tbe electric current is to bo generated gen-erated at Stockwell, and from there is conducted through the two tunnels. tun-nels. The working conductor, or trolley wire, is placed on the line between the rail, and shoes will collect the current. Tlicmechankm by which tho power Is applied or closed oir is similar in its general features to that on the electric railway rail-way iu Salt Lake City, and is quite a aovelty here. The cars can be entered from the sides, and one can walk from one end of the train to the other by an aisle through the centre. This Is alio a new feature here. Each train is calculated to carry 100 pas.eug.rs. The commencement com-mencement lias been with a five minutes' service, anJ trains run at the average rate of twelve ruilis per hour, Including stops. This is three miles lier hour faster than tho speed on the Metrolitau, or t team underground under-ground railway. Tramway and omnibus proprietors proprie-tors regard tbe new system as a most ol jcctionable rival, and have male a steady contest against it. They succeeded in stopping, ror the present pres-ent at least, the Central London Railway, whicit was intended to be operated undergrouud,by electricity, from the Monument terminui of the South London line to various parts of central and north London. Rut the objectors have received a set back in the opening of the new line, and if it is successfully operated, tho Central London scheme will soon be permitted to be earned out. Its promoters have not tho slightest Idea of ceasing their etlorts, but Hi continue in their plan to share iu the upwards of forty million fares collected annually from the trait) lug public in London. Another new-fangled notion from America Is to be presented for public pub-lic patronage early iu January. This is tbe opening ,of telephonic communication com-munication with tho Continent. The wires connected with the French coast are to be connected at St. Margaret's tRay, on tbe English side, and from there the line will be run to Loudon. The work is now almost completed, and tho opening ceremonies will be held about the commencement ol the new year. One of the great enter. ritts to bo started this month is the construction, construc-tion, by the Great Northern and Great Eastern railway companies, of a line of railroad from King's Lymi on the east coast to Liverpool on thu west- Tho route is surveyed and passes through Lincoln-litre, Derbyshire, Cheshire and Lancashire. Lanca-shire. The London press expresses great surprise at the action of a Jury in Paris, recently, iu acquitting cf thu charge of murder a wifo who followed fol-lowed her husband to tho house of bis paramour, discovered him in his conjugal infidelity, anJ stabbed lilm to tbe heart. But it nfialns from comment on the action of juries on tbe 1st insU in two cases tried in London. Wm. G. Newell and Sarah Purdey were married in 1S77. Newell became the husband of a woman whom bo afterwards left. Miss Purdey also left her husband, and about IbSl sheand Newell began living together. About n year ago they :vere married, though their former partners were both living and undivorced. Miss Purdey admitted ad-mitted both marriages, but said she entered into tbe second one so that she might have a greater claim on Newell for her children, of whom lie was the father. She was tried for bigamy, and out of sympathy with her the Jury found her not guilty. Neweli was then placed on trial, tbe same circumstances were shown, and ho was convicted and sentenced to three months in jail. There is much of boastinz about the Justice that is meted out in English courts. Whatever it may be In tbe higher courts, in those courts which have most to do with the masses or tho people there Is the grossest of Injustice. A veruict on the (art ot tbe magistrates Is as likely to be against the evidence as with it. They appear to follow their inclinations in-clinations rather thau the merits of the cast; for they know that with four-fifths of tho defendants an appeal ap-peal is Impossible, because the defendants de-fendants cannot go to such an ex-aense. ex-aense. Willi those who have means the justices arc more careful, but even with these the record for ISS9, of cases appealed, shows an astounding proportion of unjut verdicts. There were 23 a pjals, and in only 100, or 41 9 per cint, were the convictions afilrmed. The case of "alcoholic .coma" which occurred on tho Cm&rta, which arrived on Sunday, presents a lesson. Three days out from New York a four-year-old child was lelt with a bottle of wine, motof which ho drank, tbe ultimate result bring death. This is tbe ttull that Is so freely pouted down the throats of men, women and children in this country, but doubtless those who claim to have reached tbe maturity of manhood and womanhood will claim the exclusive right to inject tho poisonous stuff into their sys-1 terns till it accomplish! 8 thu same I result as in thn msa natmnl. I The "nude In art" Is considered In rather an unfavorable lUiit Ju;t now by the constabulary of London, and yesterday the Rabelais art gallery was raided and the objectionable objec-tionable features taken possession of by tbe police. Tho proprietors am charged with exhibiting indecent pictures. There are many defenders defend-ers of such exhibitions who urgo that there is co reason why they should have an injurious effect. But the facts are against them, and there is no doubt that, w Ith the present pres-ent moral tone of humanity, the exposition ex-position of such pictures tends only to an increase of sensualism. The two great days of November arc Guv Faux day, the5tb, and Lord Mayor's day, which Hits year will be celebrated on the 10th. as the 9th falls on Sunday. The latter event will be celebrated by a grand procession, proces-sion, which is Intended to equal, if not surpass, that of last year, nnd will pais through the principal streets. The observance of Guy Faux day is In full progress, with efilgle, baWorks, IxmflreVJ mquersdea and with after pieces, cuuimemora-tlvcf cuuimemora-tlvcf tbe day,at the theatres. But In London tbe protection or property has required tbacntbese wild proceedings pro-ceedings be restricted by law, and It iscnly outside or tbe metropolis that the people have full swing of theltobseryanca of tbe event which defeated the "Gunpowder riot." Tho list of murders, robberies and other crimes Isaiotgrowinglesswlth tbe march of time, and casualties by sea and by land arc being augmented aug-mented annually in numbers and magnitude. The deed which for the present has obscured tbe butcheries of Jack tbc,RIpper is known as tbe HampetcaJ tragedy. It is a story of the unfaithfulness ot the busbaad, a quarrel between the paramour and the wife, and the horriblo murder of the wronged wlfo aud tho eighteen months old babe. On Sunday morning tbe lisp-less lisp-less victlmsof theiragedy were conveyed con-veyed to their last resting-place. The husband, who is under arrest, followed tbe hearse in a closed carriage, car-riage, guarded by mounted policemen. police-men. Rut tills guard was not to prevent his escape; it was rather to protect him from the infuriated mob. About 3000 people had gathered around the undertaker's establishment where tho bodies had been prepared for burial, ani when the funeral precession started, and agiimpso was caught of the husband, hus-band, who had confessed his undue intimacy with thu supposed murderess, mur-deress, the crowd surged forward ith hootsr and yells. Some of the expressions were of the most vulgar and indecent character, and the mob angrily demanded that the object ob-ject ot their wrath be handed over to them to be summarily dealt with. The scene at tho cemetery 'was even more riotous, and it took all the endeavors en-deavors of a detachment of 150 police po-lice to Keep the crowd back and protect thehusband from violence. Commentingontheoccurrence next day, the Afar and Pott said: The Pharisees of tortb Xondoa ci.tln rainea themselves vesterday by a display 57 that cheap enthusluni Jor moralliy which?! w ditty rracwed when Ihe tins of otner people eaw onler observation. It w..crirtoi.ly Impropriate that the llo y Uav or Christianity ihould bare been made ibo oecailon tor an outburst of r.ellni so eironptlyakln to thai of the Jewish moo of old who led to chnst the woman taaen tn Iduitery. To thera the IMIne wisdom aniwerid. -Ut him that Is without lis amonjst joo entitle first .tone." and to the Bowline cw who yesterday made riotous b lid.y round the corpo ot the poor vieum of whit l! tnown as the Hmpeid Insedr." we can but repeat with ail nverence this lesion In ood like charity. Uia.aadmultor nineteen centuries cen-turies ot Cnrhuanlly that London In this . -r h nld nrodnce the exact connterparttothat Pharisaical mob. We have nnlnr to lay In pa nation ot Inat ln wnlch icemi to bare been Ihe proximate ciu-eollt.e murder ot Airs. Hot-- and ber cbLd: but ure'y III unworthy of a country coun-try hitherto described as 'ChruUaa that 1 lacuaiceueas thu of ycterday should still be poeuble. Hare we learned so Julie j of the truoiwritotChrliiUnlty? Or la It I that yterday"s onlraz u the outcome of that Jru-ade of atxreMlve -morality" which hai led iti prnneoi profeior lo play neh itranxe pranks of recent yeari!" The writer of tueloregolug knows well the prevailing evil among the people from whoso ranks the mob was drawn, and when he suggests that they aru tho counterpart to the Pharisaical mob in not being without with-out the sin of which the object of attack had been guilty, he strikes a nail squarely on the head. Rut the fact that such tilings occur In the midst of a professedly Christian nation Is a proof tliat the Christianity Christi-anity boasted of Is a mockery ot God, and that its devotees are as rar Ironi the. Gospel or the Divine Master Mas-ter as were those which composed tho Jewi-di mob. Instead ol Imbibing Imbib-ing the true spirit or Christianity, their hearts are fir from the Lord, though with their mouths they approach ap-proach in tho empty forms. Surely tbe condition tbey present is one that invites thu impcuding wrath of a righteous God, who shall cleanu the earth or the wicked by His lirrible Judgments. J. II. A. LoNDOK, Nov. 5, 1S00. |