The first step, however, which ought to be taken by our legislatures is the repeal of all laws hindering the sale of tickets on Sunday to exhibitions of pictures or curiosities, concerts, stereopticon lectures, or other instructive entertainments which are acknowledged inoffensive during the rest of the week. How far dramatic performances and other very attractive forms of public amusement should be permitted to take place on Sunday is a question which ought to be settled by municipal authorities, with due reference to each special case. The people whose feelings ought to be considered are not those who wish to stay away from such places. They can easily do that without help from the police. The people who ought to be heard, first and last, are those who wish to get innocent amusement on their one day of leisure; and the only thing which the police need do is to see that they do get it without being defrauded or tempted into vice. Only the actual existence of such temptation can justify interference with dancing or card-playing in a private house. The Sunday reforms most needed, however, are those which will promote out-door exercise and mental culture. LIST OF DATES 1776. Declaration of American independence, July 4th. 1780. Emancipation in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. 1783. Peace between IL S. A. and Great Britain, September 3d. 1785. Great prosperity of British factories about this time. 1787. Slavery prohibited north of Ohio River; slave-trade opposed in England; Bentham's Principles of Morals and Legislation published. 1788. Constitution of U. S. A. ratified by a sufficient number of States, June 21st. 1789. Bastille taken, July 14th. 1791. Paine's Rights of Man, Part L, published, March 13th; Louis XVI. accepts the new constitution, September 14th. 1792. France a republic, September 21st. 1793. Slavery abolished in French colonies, February 4th. 1795. Insurrection in Paris crushed by Bonaparte, October 5th; free public schools founded throughout France. 1796. Bonaparte commander of army of Italy, March 4th. 1797. French Directory makes itself absolute, September 4th; Venice ceded by France to Austria. 1798. Irish rebellion, May 23d. 1799. Usurpation by Bonaparte, November 10th. 1800. Election of Jefferson; Schelling's Transcendental Idealism published. 1801. Inauguration of Jefferson, March 4th. 1802. Birth of Victor Hugo, February 26th; Lamarck's Recherches published. 1803. Hayti declares herself independent, January 2d; death of Toussaint in prison, April 27th; birth of Emerson, May 25th; Emmet's insurrection in Ireland, July 23d. 1804. The Code Napoleon announced, January; Napoleon pro-Liberty in the Nineteenth Century claimed Emperor, May 18th; crowned, December 2d; Schiller's William Tell published. 1805. Battle of Austerlitz, December 2d.