| Show LETTER FROM LONDON the english newspapers announce that there has been taken one more step towards the amerl ameri caniz can izing lug of our institutions f this is the inaugurating of a train service on the city and south london londo D electric railway which was formally opened yesterday the prince of wales being master of the ceremonies the new venture presents a number of innovations on the present system of railroading in the metropolis which evoke both favorable and unfavorable comments probably the most important of these at the present time to the british public is the matter of fares on street cars and steam railways it is a penny a mile and you pay for the distance traveled on the electric line which is three miles in length the fare is two pence whether you ride half a mile or the full distance another change from the present underground system is that the new road will be smoke less lees in operation at present pas are greatly annoyed by the sulphurous fumes from the locomotives in the subterranean passages while the cars are far from being well lighted on the south london road smoke is 18 done away with entirely as the motive power is electricity tri city which also illuminates both the stations and the cars the line is from stockwell to the monument near london bridge and is double track the tunnels passing under the thames haralm with the bridge the average depth below the surface to is fifty feet and the line is ru run a under streets except at the hibernia wharf which is directly ever it the construction has been accomplished without any disturbance with the surface the electric current is to be generated at stockwell Sl and from there to is conducted through the two tunnels the working conductor or 1 trolley wire is placed on the line between the rails and shoes will collect the current the mechanism by which the power is applied or closed off is similar in its general features to that on the electric railway in i n salt lake city and is quite a novelty 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 18 also a new feature here each train is calculated to carry passengers the commencement men cement has been with a five minutes service and trains run at the average rate of twelve miles per hour including stops this is three miles per hour faster than the speed on the metropolitan or steam underground railway tramway and omnibus tors regard the new system as a most objectionable rival and have made a steady contest against it they succeeded in stopping for the present at least the central london railway which was intended to be operated underground by electricity from the monument ter terminus minum nun of the south london line to various parts of central and north london but the objectors have received a set back in the opening of the new line and if it is successfully operated the central london scheme will soon be permitted to be carried out its promoters have not the slightest idea of ceasing their efforts but will continue in their plan to share in the upwards of forty million fares collected annually from the travel lug public in london another newfangled new notion from america is to be presented for pub lie lic patronage early in january this is the opening jf telephonic communication muni cation with the Conti continent neut the wires connected with the french coast are to be connected at st margarets bay on the E english side and and from there the line will be run to london the work io now almost completed and the opening ceremonies will be held about the commencement of the new year oneff one of the great enterprises enter prizes tobe to be started this month is the construction by the great northern and great eastern railway companies of a line of railroad from kings lynu on the east coast to liverpool on anthe the west the route is surveyed anti afat passes through lincolnshire Lincoln shire derbyshire cheshire and lancashire the london press presa expresses great surprise at the action of a j jury u ry I 1 in n paris recently in ia acquitting aN of the charge of murder a wife who f I 1 lowed her husband to the house bouse of hla his paramour discovered him in his conjugal infidelity and stabbed him to the heart but it refrains from comment on the action of juries j u ries on the lot ansti in two cases tried in pr jondon Jj 11 ondon cwm vm G newell and sarah were married in 1877 newell became the husband of a woman whom he afterwards left miss also left her husband and about 1881 sheana she and newell began living together about a year ago they were married though their former partners were both living and miss admitted both marriages but said she entered into the second one so that she might have a greater claim on nowell newell for her children of whom he was the father she was tried for bigamy and out of sympathy with her the jury found her not guilty newell was then placed on trial the same circumstances were shown and he was convicted and feint sentenced priced to three months in jail there is much of boasting about the justice that is meted out in english ienglish courts whatever it may be in the higher coarts in those courts which have most moat to do with the masses of the people there is the grossest of injustice A verdict on the part of the magistrates is as likely to be against the evi evidence delAce as with it they appear to follow their inclinations cli nations rather than the merits of the case fur for they know that with four fifths of the defendants an appeal is impossible because the defendants fend ants cannot go to such an ex with those who have means the justices are more careful but ever even with these the record for 1889 or of cases appealed shows an astounding proportion of unjust verdicts ghere were appeals and in iii only or per cent were the convictions aff limed i med the case of alcoholic coma which occurred on the umbria which arrived on sunday presents present alesson a lesson three days out from new york a four year old child was left with a bottle of wine most of which he drank the ultimate result being death this is the stuff that is so freely poured down the throats of men women and children in this hue but doubtless those who claim to have reached the maturity of manhood and womanhood will claim the exclusive right to inject the poisonous auff into their systems till it accomplishes the same result as in the caw case named the nude in art is considered in rather an unfavorable feicht just now by the constabulary of london and yesterday the rabe rabelais lais art gallery was raided and the objectionable tio features taken POSSeS possession ISIOn of by the police the proprietors are charged with exhibiting indecent pictures there are mapy many defend ore ere of such exhibition who urge that there is no reason why th they ey should have an injurious effie effect ct but the facts facto are against them and there them is no doubt that with the present moral tone of humanity the exposition of such pictures tends only tu to an increase of the two great days of november are guy pau faux x day the ath and lord mayors day dan which this year will be celebrated on the as the ath falls on sunday the latter event will be celebrated by a grand procession which is intended to equal if not surpass that of last year and will pass through the principal streets the observance of guy faux day is in full progress with effigies effi gies fireworks bonfires masquerades and with after pieces commemorative of the day at the theatres theartres the atres but in london the protection of property has required that these wild proceedings ce edings be stricter strict ed by law and it is ib only outside of the metropolis that the people have full swing of their observance of the event which defeated the gunpowder plot the list of murders robberies and other crimes is with the march of time aud casualties by sea and by land are being augmented annually in numbers and magnitude the deed which for the present has obscured the butcheries but cheries of jack the Ripper is known as the hampsten 1 tragedy it is a story of the unfaithfulness ot of the husband hus baad a quarrel between the paramour and the wife and the horrible murder of the wronged wife aud and the eighteen months sold old babe on sunday sandly morning the hapless victims of the were conveyed to their last lasi resting place the husband who is under arrest followed the hearse in a closed carriage guarded by mounted policemen but vita guard was not to prevent his escape it was rather to protect him from the infura infuriated ted mob about people had gathered around the undertakers undertaker establishment where the bodies had bad been prepared for burial and when the funeral procession started and a glimpse was caught of the husband who had confessed his bis undue intimacy with the supposed murderess the crowd surged forward with hoots and yells some of the expressions were of the most vulgar and indecent character and the mob angrily demanded that the object of their wrath be handed over to them to be summarily dealt with rho fhe scene at the cemetery was even more riotous and it took all the endeavors of a detachment of police to keep the crowd back and protect the husband from violence commenting on the occurrence next day the news and post said the pharisees Pharis ees of north london dist distinguished themselves yesterday by a of that cheap enthusiasm for morality which Is so easily practised practiced when the sins sine of other people aeme under observation it was curiously inappropriate that the holy day of christianity should have been made I 1 the occasion for an outburst of feeling so strongly akin to that of the jewish mob of old who led to christ the woman taken in adultery to them the divine wisdom answered let him that is without sin am amongst you cast the first stone and to the howling crew who yesterday made riotous i holiday round the corpse of the poor victim of what is known as the hampstead tragedy we can but repeat with all ali reverence this lesson in godlike god like charity it is a sad result of nineteen centuries of christianity that london in this year of grace should produce the exact counterpart to that pharisaical mob we have nothing p t say in ta pa I 1 bation of that sin which seems to have been een the proximate cause ot of the murder of mrs hogg and her child but surely it is ia unworthy of a country hitherto described as christian that uch such a scene as that of yesterday should till still be possible ha hare a we learned so little of the true spirit of christianity or is it that yesterdays outrage is the outcome of that crusade of aggressive morality which has led its prurient professors to play such strange pranks of recent years the writer of the foregoing knows well the prevailing evil among the people from whose ranks the mob was drawn and when he suggests that they are the counterpart to the pharisaical mob in not bein being without the sin of which the object object of attack had been guilty he strikes a nail squarely on the head but the fact that such things occur in the midst of a professedly christian nation is 18 a proof that the christianity boasted of is a mockery ot of god and that its devotees are as far from the gospel of the divine master as were those which composed the jewish mob instead of imbibing the true spirit of christianity their hearts are far from the lord though with their mouths months they approach roach in the empty forms surety surely the condition they present is one that invites the impending wrath of a righteous god who shall cleanse the earth of the wicked by his terrible judgments J H A LONDON nov 5 1890 |
