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NOTE4 AND OOMMENTS.
In our Third Edition last evoalag a para
graph appears etatiug that it was reported
. that n quarrel h.'.d taken plaoe between the
Commissioner of CuBtorae and Mr Tyler, and
tnat blows succeeded words. We are glad to
learu that not only ts the report unfounded,
but that oordial rotations exist between
the two gentlemen named. The rumor
was all over the olty, and reached us
late in the afternoon, a few moments beforo
The Herald went to press. Our informant
further assured us of its correctness, otherwise
the statement would not have been pub
lished.
Once more angry threats eddy round the
House of Lords. It is put to a strain over
the rejection of the Irish Tennnt Right Bill.
Mr. Gladstone's last brnBh with their Lord
ships was over the Bill for the Abolition
of Army Purohase, whioh was passed by
royal warrant, Tbo first Reform Bill,
nearly fifty years ago, was carried
through the Lords under the throat of
oreating a fresh batch of peers, Tho Duke of -
Wellington and other Tory peers thereupon
absented themselves, and suffered tho bill to go
by default. After swallowing Bnoh a pill as the
Disestablishment of the Church In Iroland
it ie probable that the Lords will see a way
to acquleoce In Tenant Right. This, how
ever, tenches tbem more nearly. Their
opposition to Ohuroh Disestablishment was
mainly sentimental. It did not directly
affect their revenues. They merely fought
as rallied by the bishops, nnder the
cry that tho English Churah would
be attacked next in logical sequenos.
The same line of reasoning may bo applied to
Irish Tenant Right, for Lord Hartington has
expressed himself in favor of a re-adjustment
of the English land laws. Hero the direct
financial interests of tho lords of the soil are
involved.
The Adrairal-in-Chief of the Chilian fleet
has announced that should his terms of peace
be refused by the Peruvians he Intends to
burn and destroy every port on their ooaet.
Considering that this act would materially
affect the commerce of the world, it may be
reflected whether commercial nations have
not a moral right of " modiation." Eng
land, the United States, and Franoe
have all a large trade with Peru.
The shipments of gnano to England in
1878 were valned at fonr millions sterling, and
to other countries almost double that amount.
Tho retail trade in Lima and other (important
towns is almost entirely in the hands of the
French. The English and Americans are the
chief merchants. This petty, yet angry strag
gle, then, seriously affects other natione; and as
the cause was of a most puerile character, " a
friendly interference," bnsod upon a
friendly interest, would perhaps serve all
parties. It is certain, at anyrate,
that tha quarrel cannot be justified, unless one
admits greed to be a moral factor in jnstlfioa-
tion. The deeire of one State to take more
than its share of a joint property has led to
this fierce contention ; and when one ascer
tains that tho Imports from the United
Kingdom average three millions of money,
nnd the exports into the United Kingdom
amount in valuejto five millions— these facts,
taken into consideration with the eiroam-
stance tbnt the amount of public debt secured
by the gnano deposits - is a trifle under
L15,000,000, (the bondholders of which are
snug mlddlo class people in England)— it will
be seen that something more than sentiment
is involved by the present war— to the old
country, at any rate.
The " Politloal Orphan" in the Bombay
Gazette cannot explain why the Indian Go
vernment were determined to atop the great
hoise-raciug sweep called the Umballa Lottery
espeaially when it is well - known that they
issued " A bogus budget," and had to confess
to a deficiency of three millions, He then
goes on : — " But while all the simple old sins
mentioned in the Decalogue are assiduously
cultivated with the genoral approbation of
society, little derelictions of prudence
suah as loo, cock - fighting, thimble
rigging, and marrying for love, are
universally snorted at, If I absoond
with a surplus, I shall be patted on the hack
and smiled at bb a very "knowing oard;" but if
I elope with the girl I love, all my cousius
and my eisters and my annts will shy at me,
as if I were a travelling menagerie.
The sweetest thoughts, as I often think, bave
been uttered in sweetest language by authors
whom, nowadays, we little esteem, "Who
reads Chancer, or Bacon, or Spenser, or Bean
mont and Fletcher, or Sackville, or Erasmus
—(oh 1 read his Praise of Folly, as a chief
dish, and wind up with a dessert of Rabelais),
Nay, who roads(Sbaksponre,save to subject him
to commentary ! Have fifty per cent of our ris
ing youth— nathless their university acquire
ments— saturnted themselves with the daintiest
fancy tbnt ever had birth in man's brain — the
Arcadia? Of this says Harvey Pierce, "Live
ever, sweete booke; the aimplo image of his
gentle witt, and the golden pillar of bis noble
courage ; atal ever notify unto the world that
thy writer was the'aeoretary of oloqnence, the
breath of the muses, tho honey bee of the
daintyest flowers of wltt and arte, the pith of
morale and intellectual virtue, tho arme of Bel-
lonn in the field, tha tonge of Saada in the
chamber, the sprite of practise in esse,
and the paragon of excellenoy in point." Of
what book or author shall we write the like
in onr timeB, when literature is donB by
machinery, and every fool who can jingle bis
ideas together in a briefjpaBsago may tell us as
many lies as he pleases, lacking the thought
to deal with truth. I would indeed that the
words of the person who wrote "Form." in
the Victorian Review were digested. They
imply much In little. But I am reminded of
the mutability of all things by Irving's
utterance — " 1 declare," added he, with eoma
emotion, "when I contemplate a modern
library, filled with new works, in all the
bravery of rich gilding and binding, I feel in
clined to ait down and weep, like Xerxes, when
he surveyed his army praaked out in
all the Bplendor of military array, and
reflected that within one hundred
years not ono of them jwould be in existence."
But there is ono comfort— fashion moves in
oyoles ; and I am muoh mistaken
if the old style will (not soon be the new
style. Art la very well; hut art which
sacrifices strength to veneer, Is a fraud ; nnd
this is just what is the matter with the lite
rary artizans who lluuriah in our times. It is
an age of quackery without question,
and Irving was right, evon so far back
as his lime, when he declared "many
a mnu of passable information, at the
present day, rrnds scarcely anything but
reviews; and before long a man will be little
better than a walking oatalngue." Skimmed
milk, sir, for the million. It is very funny,
but it is vsry true, and an tho oritics, — God
save us— thrive. But, ofoourse, bo long as we
are content to take our milk without cream,
who shall blame the milkman?
notion-ay's OIntmont and Fills offoot wondorfol
urce of bad legs and old wonnds. If thoso modlctnos
bo used according to tbo dlroctlons which aro
wrapped round oach pot and box, thero 1b no wonnd,
yud log, or ulcorous noro, howovor obstlnato, but wlli
bit-Id to their curative proportios. Numbers oi per
sons who had beon patterns In largo hospitals, nnd
under the oaro of omlnont surgeons, without deriving
tlio least benefit, havo boon cured bv Hollowaj's
OIntmont nnd Fills, whoa othor romodles had Blgnally
fatlod. For Glandular Bwolllngs, tumors, scurvy, and
diseases of tho skin tlioro la no medlclno that can bo
used with so good nu oltoct. Though potont for good
It IB powcrloss for harm ; and though tho euro It
effects le rapid, It Is also comploto and pormanont.
Hall's Vcgotablo Livor Pills, (pr bilious complaints
costlvcness indigestion, norvona debility, woakness
or sinking sensation of tho stomach, loss of appetite,
headache, 4i0. Is and 2s 3d per box. Bout any wboro on
rocolpt of stamps. Addroes, K. Hall, 308 bmlth street,
Oollingwood,
YESTERDAY'S RAILWAY ACCIDENT
The official report of yesterday's railway
accident at Lara has been received, but oan-
not be published, as the Commissioner of Rail
ways has determined to proceed criminally
against Donald M'Donald, the driver of the
engine, nnd Adam Stevenson, the fire
man. The former is the man who
drove through the Moorabool gates three
monthB ago, ' Yesterday it seems the looomo-
tive loft Geeiong seven minutes after tho
ordinary train, and at Goelong West had
gained fonr minutes on it. It is not surpris
ing, therefore, that the collision occurred 'at
Lara.
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