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‘ ) 'Kddltional * Bilsmarck’s Itecord Reviewed to " Parlinmentary Disciplino bill yosterday, . fico, i considerad authority on tho subject, "{roated the bill sharply. . freedom of spoech, He related how Bismarck " bad once pravented him from spoaking in the . Roichatag, and when he subsequontly pub. " night. The Russian headquarters have been * Powors aro disposed to insist upon the com- . FOREIGN. Points in the Debate in ' the German Reichstag. & the Advantago ot the Oppofitlon. ) A Plot to Release Many Nihilist Prisoners in Russia. Iteported Serions Dissensions Detween tho Czar and Czarewitch, War Botween tho Adherents of the Sov- : eral Afghan Protondors, GERMANY. THE GAG DILL. Beataw, March 6.—In tho debate on the Baron Stauflenburg, Vice-President of tho Roichatag, who, in consequence of his of- Ho criticised the Government’s arguments, and appealed lo 1be Homuso to rejoct tho bill. | Herr Bebel declared his party considered the bill aimed at oxcluding them from the Relchstag as much as possible, even beforo the election, nud destvoying nll parliamentary lished o pamphlet to explain his viewshe was sent to prison. He ironically suggested a a law depriving oll Gormans of their fran. ohigo whom the polica suspected of revolu- tionary tendoncics. Such a law as is pro- posed by tho Government was possible in no other country, Tho Budget Committea of the Reichstog reduced the navy estimates 2,000,000 marke, GERMANY AND THE VATICAN, Beruy, March: 6.—The Germania an-’ nounces thot Bismnrck recently sent n reply to_the represontations of tha Vatican, Its tono is concilintory, although it by no means justifies tho expeetation of o speedy and fa- vorable fssue, . MUCH OFFESDED, Lozpoy, March G.—A Berlin dispatch states that Horr Von Torkenbeck, President of the Reichatag, was offended at Bismarck’s Inte spacch, and resolved to resign, Ho was only induced to remain by all the party- leaders declaring they would immediately ro- eloct him, | RUSSIA. IMPERIAL DISSENBIONS. Loxnooy, Maroh G.—Special dispntchies from Borlin montion various rumors. of dis. scusions between tho Czar and Ozarewitoh, Tho Vienna Z'agblatt even publishes n sonsn- tional story that the Ozarewitch hns been charged with subversivo political tondoncies, and forbidden to quit the Palace, NINILIST PLOT. Toxnox, March 6,—A Vienna dispatch says tho Russion Governmont has discovered 'n plot for forcibly liberating imprisoned Nihil- ists, and that it has proofs of the ravolu- tonary designs of the prisoners, TURKEY. LOOKING QUT FOI NUMBER ONE, Coxsranrmorry, March 6.-—Princo Lo- bonoff, the. Russian Ambassador, lins de- clared to tho Porte thnt Russia only wishes to safeguard her rights and not to provent Turkey from concluding a loan. TURKEY AND GREECH, : ConsTANTINOPLE, March G,—''io Porto hins sent n circular to the Powers declaring that the delay in the negotiations rolative to tho Greok frontior is attributable to the unace commodating attitude of Greeco. THE EVACUATION, Apniavorre, March 6.—Gon, 8kobeloff has informed the Turlkish authorities that Adrinn- oplo and Thrace will bo ovaouated in a fort-. romoved to the Slivno. i THE BERLIN TREATY. Loxpox, March 6.—A dispatch from Con- atantinople saya an officlal communication reccived by tho Porta states that the Wostern pleto eoxcoution of tho Treaty of Borlin ns - rogards tho ' oceupation of the DBaolkaus, and on other: A points, and in tho ovent of resistanco to sllow {ho Turkish troops to” onter Enstorn Roume- lin. Tho Powers consider that tho Russinn officials who ‘encouraged tho agitation will bo principally responsible for any bloodshed that may onsue. DENMARK. ° WANTS TO KNOW. Corrxmacen, March G.—The Dagblad vo- ports that Denwmark, in a very modorately worded note, has inquired of tho Horliu Government tho moaning of the recont Austro-Prussian Conwvention, snying that she doea not beliove it was intended ns n donial of tho continued existonco of considerations which determined Prussia to consent to the retrocession of a portion of North Schleswig, Thero hag boon an oxchauge of views, but there is no resson to supposa that the relp.. tions botween Gormany and Denmark will be affected. I"RANCE, NATIONAL POLITICS, Paus, March ¢.—The Doputies of tho Pure Left yosterdsy discussed the propriety of forming themselves imto aore distinct group to the oxclusion of the Centrists aud Txtremists, No decieion was reached, but tho discusalen is siguificant, PROTOBITION FOR INDEMNITY, Pams, March 6.—Louis Blanc, and Olem- encenu, and other Rndieal Doputies have submitted o proposal for indemnifying the wvictims of the coup d'etat of 1853, , ? ROME. NEW CARDINALS, Loxpox, March 0,—The list of Oardinals ¢o bo created at the next consistory includea Dir. Hergenroetker, Professor of Ecolosiasticnl Istory at Wurzburg; Dr, Nowman, the Archbishop of Toulouss, tho Biskop of Poie- tiers, tho Papn! Nuncios at Paris and Lisbon, ond some Italian Prelatos, GREECH. s TRANSFERUED, Loxpoy, March ¢.—'The Ceutral Govern. ‘ment of the vilayet of the Greek Archipela. go hos been transferrod from Rhodes to Belo.” . CONTRADICYED. Pants, March 6..-I'he roport of the Frenoh. occupation of Nhodes is contrae dicted. y : “ AFGHHANISTAN. . VIGHTING YOR THE BUCCESSION, 81, Prreaspuro, Maroh 0,—A *tolegram’ from Tashkend statos that, aftor the death of Blere Al at Muzar-I-8herlf, a blocdy confliot broke ot among tho followera of tho varioua protenders to the Afghan throne, and tho parliaans of Ynkoob Khnn wore victorious, It was reported that Ynkoob Khan and two other pretenders had takon refuge nt Ilerat. GREAT BRITAIN. RECALL URGED, Loxpoy, March 6,—Tho newspapers urgo tho recall of Lord Clolmsford, conthanding tho forces in Zululand. FAILURE. Lonpon, March G,—Southern, Quilty & Co. have failod. Linbilitics eatimnted at 465,000, IUNGARY. OVERFLOW. 2 Pesta, March 6,—The Thoiss River is still rising, aud 200,000 acres of land will bo sub- merged. Many doms have burst, SPAIN,. THE CUDAY GQOVERNOMSRIP. Mapnip, March 6.—The Jmparcial pub- lishies a roport that Gen, Blanco will becomo Governor nf Quba, — BY MAIL. THE CZAR'S PEACE JUBILEE PROCLAMATION. BenuiN, Feb, 10,—The follewing ia the Rus- sian peace manifesto on the oceaslon of the sig- unture of the defluitive treaty: ¢ We, Alexan- der 11, by the grace of God, Emperorand Auto- crat of ail the Rusalas, ete., proclaim to all vur loyal subjects the following: The final treaty of veace, concluded with our consent between our Ambassador ag Constantinople and the Otto- man Porte on Jan, 27, has been ratifled by us. In consequence of this,wa have ordered our troops in the Balkan Penfosula to retun to Russin, In secordauce, however, with the stip- ulations of the Berlin Congress, the force ocen~ pying Bulgaria snd Eastern Roumelia will tem- porarlly remain there to insuro the cstablish- ment of the new order of things to Le intro- duced Into those parts. “ By our manifesto of Aprll 12, 1877, our loyal subjects wero acqualnted with the motives actuating us Yo taking up arms. Flrmty con- vinced of the justico of the cause adopted by ug, we teusted fu the gallantry of our victorious troops, and humbly relied upon the gracluus countenanca of the Divinity. “Thanks to the Almighty, our arduous strug- glewas crowned with a number of brilllant victories, reflecting eternal glory upon our tri- umphant arms and securing soma csacutial in- rovements fn the condition of the Christian nhabitants of Turkey. ‘The achicvements ot our valiant troops in Europe and Asla,—the nssago of the Danube, the herolc defense of Ehlpkn and Bayazid, the eapture of cutlrs Turk 18l armics, the oceupation of Kurs, the crossing of the Balkan Mountains, and the successiul march from Sofla to Phillppupolls and Adrla- nople {n mid-winter—wlll "be recorded as so many imperishable cpisodes in the. mihtary annals of the world, By the m{xm advance of our troops upon Constantinople the Turkish Government were compelled to apply to us for an [mmedlate armistice and _the communica- tion of the terins of peace. These terns were aceepted by the Porte ns preseribed by ur, #Internatlonal obilgations required n com- mon arrangencut with the’ Powers respecting several cinnses {n the preliminary treaty of Sun Stefuno, To séeurs this arraugement, to avoid freah troubles, and, above oli, to put a stop to bloodshed aud sbridge the miseries of war op- pressing onr beloved cotintry, we cansented to 1he convention of the Berlin Congress and the final sctttement by it of those clauses of the preliminary treaty subject to tho approval of the Powers, 4 As o proof of the sincerity of our wishes for the restoration of peace, and algo beeatso we constdered the enactineuts of+ the Lerlin Con- gzress compatible with the amelloration of the condition of the Iiastern Christiuns,—the object steadily pursucd by us,—we thought fit to con- firm tlie international treaty drawn up by the Congrers, nid to bage upon this compact the fiual trenty of peace now coneluded with the Ot- tomsan Parte. “ Hencoforth the complets Independence of Roumanta, Servia, and Montenegro 18 an ge- knowledged fact. . The territory of these Prin- civallties fs enlarged, Northwin Bulgaria'(s con- verted into an ndependent Princlpality, the ‘Turkian fortresscs of which wilt be ruzed, dud the greater part of Southern Bulgarfa, under the name of Enstern Roumelts, is uceorded nutonomny under the adwlinistration of a Christian Governor-General, Turkey has also proiised to confer n now administration upon ler remaining provinees in Europe; Russia hus had restored to her the portlon of Bessarabia allenated undor the Parls treaty of 1850, whtle 1 Asln our possessions have been extended by the annexation of Kars, Ardahan, sud Batoum, with the adjacent districta, “ Such arv the results of the war undortaken and now finlshed by us, While acquainting our beloved sublects with the auanicious restoration of peace, we nro convineed that they will join theie pravers with ours in thauking the "Al- mighty for the fresh victorles, the fresh glur%: and the grateful acknowledement ol the 1] crated Christians secured to us. “Qiven at St. Poterabure, Feb, 8 (old stylc), 1870, in the twonty-fourth ‘year of our reign.— ALEXANDER,' GREECH INSISTS ON THE TERRITORY ALLOWED JIER DY THE BERLIN TREATY—TIE TURKS RE- FUSE TO SURRENDER IT—A DEADLOCK. Viexsa, Feb, 10,—The account given regard- Ings the recent Intervention of Frauce in the mat- ter of the delimitation [new boundary] between Turkey und Greece s that the Turco-Greek Commisslon, at ita last altting on the 13th {nst., recorded In the protocol that it was unabie to como to an understunding aa to the busis on which the uccotintions were to be carried on. The line indicated in the 13th protocol us em- bodying the wish of the Powers {n this respect micht, and, indeed, would, be taken into con- sideration, but could scarcely be accepted by the Porte as the unalterable bosls on which thess negotintions must be carried on, Mukhur Tashn, while maintaining this view, expressed bis readiness to ftake futo consideration oany positive line of delimitation which tho Greek Commissloners night propose, discussing it falrly on its own mer- its, According to Mukhtar ITasha, in judgine of any Jine to bo proposed by the Greek Commlssioners, the cthnographical conditions of the territory claimed would demand the first und foremost conslderation, Un the Turkish slde of the presont frontler Hne the poputation was a mixed onv ot Grecks, Albanfuns, and Wallachs, Mohammudans and Christiuns, Not the Greeks nlone, but all of these, hud a right 10 be considered in uny eventual cession of ter- ritory to Greeeo, In'reply to all this, the Greek Commissioners eald thut” they, couid propose no other lue but that indieated {n the i8th protocol, thejr nstructions forbiddis thele entering uto uego- tiatlons on any other basis, and much less themns seives proposing nnother, ‘Fhe protocol recording these two antaonistic views having been sigued, both sldes reported to thelr Goveruments, the next siteing of the Comumtasion belng deferred il the arrival of fresh instructions, : Mintster Delyanuis, on recelving the report of the Ureck \.‘ummlnfunurl, had recoursu to M, Waddington, {uforming bim ol the state of the tases wheroupon the jatter sent the note to the Torte, expressing the regret of the French Gov- ernment at the slow progress of the negotla- tlons, und supporting " the view of the Greok Govermnent that tho basis of negotiations could ouly bs that laid down fu the 18th pro- tocol, The Commisslon not huving since met, the expected Instructions scem ot 10 have rrived, Cons{derablo as the cession of territory would bo und very muchas the Joss of the porta of Artn und Provesa would be folu if the line fu- dicated by the 18th protocol were adapted, the 'Turks micht, perbops, be Induced to act quieses more n:mlli)‘ 1o the proposal were they ugrantoed that thils territorial cession would inally sctele the question between Turkey and Greeco, Without some euch guaranteo ar bledgo from Greeeo indorsed by the slguntory Poweras, the Turka can gearcoly be blamed if they sco {n this sacrillce demanded of them, not the vnd, but only tho beginnlyg of territorjal losses in mwrr of QGreece, und, accorafngly, opposy stoutly what they deem o danger. ous precedent.. On the ~other hand, it might not bo casy to obtaln such a pledge ur declatation froin the reck Goverument, which would be tantamouat to_ opeuly renounct dngg the grea Hellonle idea, Practically, how- ever, such u declaration might not have too sacred o valuo for anation which feels ftecll bound to moke fts way and enlarge its borders, uud 109y always find some mods of explaining away, or, if thut secem lmpossible, forcibly set- ting uside restrictions to its prosress, Btill, fu the eyes of the Greck .Y":',‘“'““"“ of ‘Turkey, such o declaration would be projudicial to tha restige of the Hellenls Government, as it would U gomo measure be renounclng ber part to lead tho wuy towards the reallzation of Urevk usplira- THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, MARCH tlone, Neverihclesg, without somo such de- vive to reassura the Turks rogarding the future, 1t will not bu casy to overcoma the opposition of the Intter, A BCIENTIPIC PRONTIER—INDIA NOW A NRITISIE ISLAND—ASSSILADLEE BY RUSSIA AT N0 TOINT—RROAD HINT THAT THE NATIVE STATR ARMIES MUST IE NROFCED, Lendon TimeXVE:D, 20, The Afghan war and fts results depend for thelr Justificntion upon the possibility of thelr belug treated as o fresh scarting point In the history of our Empire. The war arosu froma convletlon that so long as our frontier was fixed on the castern slde of ggreat passes into Afghan- {atan our tnititary security was dependent upon the degree in which “weo could rely upon thy friendlineas of the Ameer of Cabul, This mil- ance was at the best precarlous, and ut a eritical moment it broke down, nud it consequently be- came necessary that we ehould rectify our fron- tler fn mich n inannor aa to moko {ta security Indepeudent of anytbing so capricious as tlic will of on Asintie Prince, This ‘bas now been done. - Peace, Indced, has not yeb been made with Afghanistan, and the disorganization of the country presents nolitieal problems which It may need some tino tosolve. But, whatever the solutlons of such queations, one great result hus already been ob- talned, Indis is henceforth placed fua mill- tary position entirely different from that which she has hitherto oceupled, For the first time sinco wo have been coucerned in - her affalrs ahe 1 peefeetly eccure against Invasion from with- out. Regarding the country as a triangle, it {s on two shies currounded by the sea, atd (8 con- sequently safe agalnst all attack so long as our unval lmwer Is, ns at present, unfirumc. The third side is formed by the lmpassable rango of the Hunnlayas, and thie only points at which the FEmpire 1 upen to attack are at its nerthenst wil northwest corners, But on the northeast corner wo have uons but decaying Powers to deal with, and no danger can be considered to exist {n this dircetion, 'Ihe nogthwest frontler was the only vuluerable: point 1n our posi- tun, mml we were here exposed to that which, untll lntely, might at any moment bave become a formidable perll, Dlrcetly or ludirectly, it was n the power of Russla to put us to great difli- culty and expeunse in order to protect ourselves azainst an invasion or raids through the Afghan passcs. 'Those passes liave, however, now bicen solzed by us, and we shall not rellnquisn them, Vo have thua secured what was deseribed be- forchand'as a “sclentific frontler,” and military men are agreed that o nioderate force in the strongholds thus ocenpled witl suflics to fnsure us agninst oll external danger from Ceutenl Asia. This state of things, it inust be reoented, is entlrely new, Tromn the moment we com- meneed our weatward advance In India, we have had restless enemics or doubtful Iricads in front of us, who could at any timo occasion us reat inconvenience, und whoin we could . not eave out of account, We lave now, nce cordinir to the best opinlons ond on the showiug of the Uovernment, reached the extremo lmit of our advance, and uo Power, lowever ag- gresslve or domineering, which lfes beyond vur new frontior cun cauge us scrious anxiety. Iodin heucoforth {s wore than a peninsule, It g, o pluin Boglish, all but an island, With the ex- ception of the limited force necessary to guavd the new Afghan frontfer, we muy regard our. selves ns concernad slinply with the people aud the Princes of Indla ftself At would be very unrcasonable {f this rreat change fn the military positions of Indin did not prepare the way for same proportionate coange i1 the milltary organization which has hitherto been catablislied o the country. That system has crown upunder the presaiire of conditions which lave now, as _we have shown, comg¢ to - an end. Our European and na- tive armics were created with a view to continuul dovger of war, both within and with- gut the lmits of our nomiual Empire. ‘The foundations of the syatem were laid ot r timg when we were not the acly European' Power In Indla; and treaties with native States stitl sub- eist by which they are bound to asalat us sgninst the Freneh. 1t Isonly a gencration since wo were liable to encounter very formldable ena:mies in the warllke States of the Northwest. Wiien this danger was over, and we had safely estublished ourselves o the Punjab, the muting shook the existing system to its foundations, and for some time alter that calamity itawas In- disponsable to take exceptional precautions In order to sccure our position, But by s more udicfous disoosltlon of the native unrmy, by ceping in our own hands the artillery and the command of the great _milltary centres, not to mentlon the iocreascd gatistaction with our rulo which rovalls, we Dhavo rendered it impracileable for any internal danger of slmilar character ~ aml ' mamnitude to rceur. ‘I'he onty milltary force, therelore, which 18 now mulntained in indin hos, as a mat- ter of fact, been vrested in order to meet elr- cunstances nnd to avert dangers which now no langer exist. ‘The miMtary forces of any mag- uitude which coufront us fi Indlu aro furnished by a few of tho votlve States, und even If (heso were to be regarded a8 permanently established, they gould not demand any such precsutions os were Yequisite In former dbys, ‘Taken altogeth- | er. ind they consist of rather mure than 800,000 men. But these are broken up into n number of gmall forces amonz nf least forty States and little princivalitics, which have never been ablo to unite, und by thelr very geogeaph- leal pusition are unable to do so. Hyderabad with an army of nearly 50,000 men, Gwallor with a regular army of 5,000 men aud au {rregular foreo of ahout 17,000, aud Iudore with' loss than 10,000 men, ore the only States which could zive us trouble, and past experienco shows thut vyon these could oceasion no scrlous auxiety, But the couslderations we have just mentioned suggest a further question respecting these nae tive armies, If India has been placed lu a po- sition of milltary seeurity, for what purpose can it be nceessary for the nutlve Princes to main- tain these conslderable foreus! They will cer- tatoly never be needed agninst o foo outside lu- dfa, nnd we shall fnsure their keeplng the peace as againet each other, It would appuas that, in their preseut uumbers, they can serve no prue- tieal purpose whatever, tinless they are de- signed os o protection pzainst ourselves. Dut in the latter eapacity they cannot be regarded as cither requisite or “tolerable, and conse- uently, cxeept 80 far s they mny par- tially serve for the purposes of police, the forces of the native Princes wust ba considered g8 wholly out of proportion to the necessities of their position. These various considerations may, perhaps, best be appreclated when presented In one broad conslderation. Indla s now, o8 we liave seen, In the position of an falund, complotely rrotected from external dunger, 1ts population, though targe, is toa great extent unwarlike, and any ctvil wars nmong the natlve Princes could at once be ropressed by 1he Britlsh Power. Yetin this country there nro maointoined at the present moment” more than half o mtlion _troops,—210,000 under the Britisn flag andd 800,000 under native ruters. 1t may bo confldently usked whother such o disproportion of means to cuds can by uny possibility be Justitied. 2 RESISTANCE TO THE GERMAN UAG-DILL. BeRLIN, Feb, 19.~To-day in tho Refchstag [German Patllament], after a bravo and briiliant defense of Parliamentary freedom on the part of Dr. Lasker, it was ull but unonimously resolved to refuse the Goverument pernission to imprisou and erlminally prosccute the Sochul- st Deputios,—Ilerren Fritzsche und Ilussol- maniy—who had returned to Berlin in obe- dience to the Emperor's genernl convoention of Parliument, in deflunce® of the police _decreo agalnst theie further resldence In the_Capltal, 1t was furtherniore declared (the two Couserva- tive parties, however, withholdlng their voles) that the Relchstug, wm framing the law of Octo- ber, never meant that 4 member might be pre- vonted by police decros of expulsion from ak- g ll‘lt due shore in the proceedings of Parlla- ment. TILB ZULY WAR, Landon Tuines, Feb, 18, The extrome gravity,” from every point of view, of the recent news from (he seat of war fu Zuiuluud must not bo for a moment denfed or duepreciated, ‘The defeat, and still more the re- treat, of the Britlsl/forees beforo the army. of tho Zulu King uvolves conscquonces which i Is important that the couutry should fully and in- stantly understuud, ‘Ihe war has vecn changed at once from an offensive to o defensive war, and untit the relnforcements ordered to bo dis- patched for service agalnst the Zulus have reachicd Natal wo cannot be sure thot either that colony or any other of the South African colovies I8 sccure agafust o wative luvasion or fusurrection.’ ‘The ll-8ucee with which Lord Chelmsford's operations were begun has shorn our power fn Bouth Afrlea of balt its strength, 'The npative nuxlliarics, of which the value was alwaya doubtful, have now probably becomo altogether uscless. e vol- untcers ratsed In Natal will conslider it thelr fArst duty to guard thelr homes und farinsteads, aud verhaps will refuse, a3 many of them did during the Caltrarfan campalgy, to oboy the orders of the Quesu's oflieers, ‘The British troops, 1f they wora of the sawo material that flled the ranks of vur urmy,in the days whou'even joalous Frenchmen ~ declared our infuntry to tho tuest fo the world, would he less sffected by & revorsd, however galling; but those who kuow the quality of our unseasoned aliort-servico soldlers ure not certaiy * that ’ af - thelr “moral ¥ will bo unaffected by tha vietory of the Zulus, The'ldtter, ot any rate, will bo cmboldened and onconrazed, s the task of re- duching them to sthntission will, o conreqitence, beeomo more diglicwlt. With the fuereasa of ditlicaity thero must be neorresponding fuerease of coste” “I'ic Inanees of the countyy, whicli, ns wu Intely showed, had begun to give oromise of mproveinent, will be welithed down by heavy charges, from which, notwitbstanding, wo must not shrink. ‘I'he subjurntton of the Zulu power and the destruction of ‘the military vreavieation must bo accomplished at any cost, aud with the st cofllnlent mesns at our command. It would be cowardly, aud, in truth, danzerons also, (o hesltate; 1t would ba unmanly to vent ou {rritation upon dividis nlg, ur to prek out ervors in judenient for cluso seruttny wnd angry censure, Hut, without ylelding eithier to panfe or anger, wo are boumd to gee that this war, which baa grown to sudden and unexpected finporiances, (s carried to its conclusion by the energadle cployment of thy Imperial resources, wind under 1tie condact of e best milltary enpucity which the Govern- ment can comntind, No tenderness for indi- vidual ruseeptibllities, no reluctauce to nppeac unnecessarily harsh, should be permitted to impede the discharge of this plaln and iwpera- tive duty. A TRANSAFRICAN TRLEGRAPIL. ‘The following Is from the * Proceedings of the Royal Geographleal Socloty " for February: The profect of o line of telecranh through Africa, connccting the Bouth African colonfes with the Egyotiarddines ot Khurtoum, hus re- contly heen the subjeet of muceh discussion ut the Cape, and Is likely to stteact further atton- Uon n this country. The following summary narrative will explain the poart taken by the Ttoyal Geographleal Soclety In the matter. The schoenio was first mooted at the Conference of Geographers on African Exploration and Cleili- zatlon, which mot by the invitation of the King of the Beleians in Scptember, 1870, It formed one of fhe muggestions submitted to the Kmg, the llea belng sketehed out nnd shown to bo feasible In A pumphlet drawn up by Mr. Edwin Arnold, C. 8. I, Col. 8, A, Griamt, C. B,, C. 8, L., und Mr, Kerry Nictiolls, Although nothing further was done {n Bulglum, the subject was not allowed to rest Ly its English proposers; und, after a short time hod clapsed, n conference waus. arranged between a number of the members of the Councll of the Royal Geographical Boclety and the well-known telegraph englucere, Sir 8. Can- ning and Mr. Snbine, to ascertaln whether the practicabllity ot the schieme wos sufliciently as- sured 1o encourage the proposers to collect and make pubile Information on the subject, The result of the firat conferenco was favorable to the project, aud & minute In accordance with this was drawn up and published in the * Pro- ceedings of the soctety,—volune 21, page 616, Copiesof the minute were sent to the Sceretar: of Htate for the Colonles, to the Khedive, un to 8ir Bartle Frere, Governor of Cape Colony, und the overlund telegraph scheme was soon ofter publicly advoeated by high ties oi’ the Cape, where, as also at Natal, o strong desire exists for telegraphic com- munieation with Europe, und large subsidies have been voted for efthier o submarine or over- Inud Hue. Col. Grant meantime continued to pather by correapondence the oplnions of Afri- can travelers, Egyptian telegraph employes und others, untll a considerable mass of informn- tlan wud testimony in fuvor of the practicabll- ity of the telezraph wus got tomether, inde- pendently of the Eoch:tf. ‘The Councll, how- eyer, were at length applled to by the Colonlal Oftice, by letter of Oct, 28 Inst, for information 08 to the nature of the country und the practi- cability of a Jine of teleeraph between Protorin and Gondokoro; nud *thiey have recently, after eiving the subject much consideration, sent, in reply, certaln docinents stating that it was be- yond thielr proviuce to offer auy opinion, the re- port beluge submitted fn the beltef thut it con- tatued mueh of the Information which the Bee- rotary of Stato desired toobtaln, ‘e mnss of valunble Informatlon contalned tn these reports, which has been vollazted with much paine, wilk uo doubt eventually be published, THE FRENCH VINTAGE. What the Phyllioxern 1las Dunc—Some Of- flelal Statistics—A IMint to Branuy-Drink- ers, . 1a Rochelle Corresnandence New Tork 4ribune, “Awmerlean connolsseurs in French wines and brandles will be sorry to learn that the statistics gathiered und Just now publishod by the Minlstry of Finauce, in referenca to the vintage of 1875, shiows a very conslderhble diminution in the quantity of Inst year's Yuous protduct through- out Franco; Auil notably fn such departmentsas Charonte (Cognac) and Herault, which have heretofore been wore particularty known throughout the comuiertial world for the execl- lenco of the wines uud Hyuors they prodace. To the ravages, real and prospective, of the phyl- loxern, and the consequent substitution of wheat culture {n many districts, may be attributed this alarming dlmmution, which, in the Depart- ment of Heruult alone, has roduced the vintage from an average of 14,000,000 hectolltres annu- ally, between 1890 and 1675, to only 4,000,000 in 1878, ‘The hectolitre coutains twenty-two gal- lona. A glanco af the figures showing the total wine product for all France tn 1873, a3 compared with that of previous years, shows unmistakably how busy the pliylloxera has wveen, ‘The aver- ace annual production for ten years past has been 50,813,553 heetolitres, yot last year it foll to 48,720,553, a deerease of over 8,000,000 hecto- Ittres, The aren planted in vincs In 1874 was 6,000,000 neros, o fizura never attalued previous to thut yeur, Slnee 1hen thy phylloxera’s en- croachuionts have necessitated the clearing of 475,000 more acres, The Httle bug, it will be seen, hus kept the Frenelt furmers busy with their uxes, as well as with thelr hocs. ‘Lho uverage vleld per acre, which was formerly from ten to twelve heetolitres, has now fullen to rom 8lx to eight. In_some departinents, such us Vur,” Gard, and Bouches-du-1thone, the pro- autbori- ductlon Is ouly onetenth of = what It formerly wns. ‘The phylloxera has, how- ever, ~been wartll - and discriminat- ing in his attentions. Some dlstricts, such ns that sround Coguac, for instauce, have heen almost totally ravaced, while ia this vicinity the caso I3 entirely dilferent, ulthough tho wo de- partments adjoin each vther. This department (Charente-Inferloure), with 835,720 acres under viue enitivation, produced 4,031,510 buctolitros 113 1878, avainst 4,050,838 (u_ 1877, a dimiuution of only ubout 10 per cunt. In ather words, this department, which in 1877 ranked second on the 118t of those in France producing wine, now zoes up ahead, while Ierault, which stooa flrst in 1877, with a showing of 6,000,000 lectolitres, now passes to the second place, having anly 4,000,000 to shiow. Next in order comu I'Aude, dlmudu. uud Charente, each producing upwnrd of 2,000,000; then Yonue, Lolret, Coto d'Or, Vienie, Ssouc-ct-Loire, Lotre, Indre-et-Loire, Meurtne-ot-Mosclle, Uers, Puy-ae-Dome, Aube, Rthone, and Haute-Marne, each producing over ong und Icss than tvo mifiion hectos, At Cognae the outlook, to epeale mildly, Is not promising, In that departiment (Charente) the sveraze nnnual yield Letween 1865 und 1875 Wwaa 4,000,000 hectolfires; in 1677 1t fell to 3,505,- A4, und Tast year, under efrcimstances other- Wwise most fuvoravle, to 2,034,774, or about 60 per cent of the fornler averato crop, At such ashowing as this, our New York brandy-drinkers, whn love to simack thele lps_ over "Pnnlw“ of Fin Cunpaine at the Windsor or Branswick, moy well stand nghasts yot, for varlous reasons, the' danger fa not timmediate, Pho phylloxera may rui its course und disnppear s it came; many entertuln o belfef that it will, Even it it does not, soure successful means af resisting s encronachinents muy be discovered, the French Uoveriment baving appuinted n Commisalon for that oblect, And oven this fafling, the stock now on lund 18 Jurge, und futurs crops, even though diminished, tun to sume extent he kept up by cleuring new lund, so that brandv-drinkers need not s yet stawd in immedfate terror of thut malady wileh gonerally enstes upon the abrupt dlscontinusnce of thelr fuvorito bover- age, - Aud oven In easo France shuuld tall them, there stlll vemain Italy, nrudnuhwxszul.rm,ow. Austrin 23,010,000, Spufn 20,000,000, Germuuv, 500,000, nnd Purtugul 5,000,000 hectolitres an- nually, ‘Fhe yearly wine product of Europe, Frauce Included, (3 estimated at 146,131, beetolitres., _In this connection 1t may be added, that Now Yorkk imoorts wost of the brundy sent trom France to the Unlted States, Next in order come Boston, Philadelphia, Ban Frauclsco, Baltl- more, und New Orleans, in the order named, During December last, Cognae sent $183,000 worth of braudics tu New York alone, e —— DIt Kuow Who to Apalogize to, David Crockott once visited a menagerie at Washingion, and pausing s moment before a partieularly hldeous monkyy, exelaimed: * What 4 vesemblance to the Hon. Mr, X, 1" The words were searcely svoken when he turned aud, to his greog ustonishment, saw standing ut hiy sldo the very man whom he bad complimeuted, * 1 beg vour pardon,’’ swid the zallant Colonel; 4 I would not bave inada tho remark bad 1 Lnown - you were near me, und I am ready to moko the inost bumbie apology for my uupardonable rudeness; but "—lookhys first at the Insulted mewmber of Congress, whose face was aoyiulng but lovely, and then at tlie auimal compared to him—* baug it it I can tell whother I ought to avalogize to you or to thy maukey ! ‘. 1879 TWELVE PAGES - PARIS. A New Reign of Terrors-=Extraor dinary Increase of Crime. Nocturnal Violonce--Where Are the Sorgents-Je-Ville %.--L'he Frenoh Police Systom on Its Trinl. Strange Revelations of the **Lanterno "--Folice Uficlals Accused. of Corruption and Violenee---The Return of the Cowmunists from Konmea, Death of Two Parieian Oolobrities, Olair ville the Playwright and Dan- mier tho Oaricaturiat: Now Plays, Snecial Corresponidence of The Tribune. Pants, Feb. 14,—For & weck post Parfs has been ringing with toles of nocturoal crime. Hardly o vight goes by without cootributing to nlong list of violeut anssnults, roblerles, und nssassinations, so awdaclous, so startling und alurming, that they threaten, unless soon put o slap to by the police, to create ns much scnsa- tion as the warroting vplsodes of a dozen years ago in London, when matters came to such a paes that peaveable citizews went about st nighits armed to the teeth, and Inoffensive ums’ brellns were repluced by fron kuuckle-dusters, leaded life-preservers, and sword-sticks, and it was found necessary to revive the almost oh- soleto pructice of flogging in the prisons, The papers this morning contain reports of tlve or six fresh crimes, committed {n varlous parts of thecity, They are cooflned to no particular quarter, and they have s family resemblance sbout them which would scem to indicate that they wero planoed by same OKUANIZED NAND OP MALEFACTORS, having etronghiolds to rotreat to oll over Paris und the districts 1ying just without the fortifi- eatlons. fn most of the cases reported, the vietims have been attacked when returnfug homao alono late fn the evenlug from thetheatres or their work, by vodies of threcor four ruf- flans, armed with hoavy sticks nnd knives, who hava fallen upon them from behind, and, nfter stunnfug them, have proceeded to empty thelr poukets of all vatuables in the shape of gold or sllyer they contained, 1t the stunning process is insuiliclent, cold steel i8 trled. And, so far, not o singlc one of the offenders hins been cap- tured, Wa wero wont to boast of our pollca; but, it things continue as they have done lately, people will begin to distrust the very sergents-de-ville, It s not only that they arc dolug little or noth- ing to protect us from daneer to life, Himv, and\ property; the would be Lad enough, but it falls shortof the actual facts bya long way. Recent disclosures, first made fn the columnus of o wnspish littlo print, the Lanterns (which, by-the-by, asusual pald the penalty of indis- creet frankness Ly being beavily fined), have glven the public only too good reasona to suspeet that 3 ALL 18 NOT RiGnT $ In the French police system. Sirange stories of high-handed violetice, of summary punishnient infllicted on innozent people, amd of corruption, have crept futo the papers. Our so-called de- fenders aro even taxed (and overy ono outsido the olllelal world believes fn the truth of the charge) with haviug, on inany oceaslons, actually applied forture to prlsoners when thelr self-- Inerimination was thought desicable. They have uot employed exactly thesame fustruments of torture ns the Inquisition, to bo sure. The rack and thumb-screws are too brutal for so polite a natlon as this. No. According to the Lanterne, the pollee officials stnply tied tho ‘hands of their prisoncers so tightly that the blood gushed from them, or playfully beat them with sticks till they wers black and blue. The wverson chiefly imolicated {n_ this unsty business Is M. Ansart, the Load of the Muuictoat Polive, a Bonapartist. It is asserted of this gentleman that o waa not attoputhier rullticss of having ordered the exceution of one Vaillant, shot futhe tatter duys of the Com- mune, under susoiclon—say the apoloxists of the execution—of haviye tired a hotsw near the 1lotel de Vilte, Bome, howover, have ventured to hint that Valllant was 1n_uosseasion of facts and doctments thut would have scriously com- romised sundry individusls tu bieh pluces, nnd have suzgested thut bis death might not Im- probably have somo councction with this clr- cumstanee. ‘Though the Lanterne was CONDEMNED FOR LILEL for its temerlty In elylug form to the vague rumors here mentloned, publie opinion has not viewed matters fn the same Hght us the Judizes. 3t has even been poluted out that the sudden Iucrense in crime which {s the talk of the day here dates fram just after the perlod at which the {inpeccability of the polico was called in :luusuuu. Certainly I {8 odd that the sergents- le-ville should nlwuys bo out of the way when they aro wanted now, ‘Chey are a good deal too ready when they buve to do with unhiappy fe- malca gulley, or supposed to by ity, of hay- Ingz contravened the laws rulnuut, to” the class called justly ‘‘unfortunnte.’* But, whon any hard knocks are to Lo got, they becomo sud- denly Invisible. Lust night, Mile. Alics Lu- vigne, o pretty actress of the Athence, was stopped by three ruflians In the very centre of Paris (in the Itue Mnunengc}‘ as she was driving home from the theatre. ller conchmau got off the box to dufend hor, und a frea fight en- sued, which nust have ended badly for Jehu liad vot somo pussers-dy luckily canie to his us- slstance, ‘Thauks to them, he drove olt his ns- snllants, but hiey wero not captured. About the samo hour M, Worms, the celebrated actor of tho Comedlo Fraucalee, had a similur adven- ture near the Church of the Trintte, T'wo men made an onslauizht on sa elderly gentloman in another quarter_und sumatoned” him to deliver up his purse. He feigned compliunce and put E(& I:uml Into his pocket as it to get his money; ut g 00T OUT A BIX-BARRELED REVOLVER instead, and the two blackguards **cleared out™ “gb fast a8 Aleir heels would carry them. The sams night another rentleman, beset by u gang of vitlains, had to use his rovolver (n_self-protection. One of the gang was wounded, Yet lie und hts friends escaped and are still at larce. Anat- tempt ot nurder wos committed in broad dayllght yesterday In the train going from QGaré 8L Lazare to the Hols' do DBoulogue, A youug work-giel, who had resisted the amorous importunitivs of o man [ ahe train, 18 the vietin, -~ As for the as- 8asain, hio s not yev arrested, A brutal fellow gouged out the eyes of 4 tram-car conductor, yeaterday, close to the Jurtitleations, because e latter had fusisted on befng pald tha few cents duo for the lutter's fare, ‘This rulll too, escaped,, Huve you had enough of this gort of thing? Wa huve, 1 assure you, Matters uulm‘ in thls pleasant stuto at pres- ent, ft is hordly astonfsblng that wuny timld wouls shoutd bo hurrifled at the thought that soveral thousand of the exiled Cominunists from ‘Noumea have been pardoned, and will shortly bu buck in Purle, Penulless and dis- graced, they have small Lopo of geiting ewploy- ment to supnort themselves by on - their returi, uuless chinritnble hands be scretehed out to nelp thems aud atarving men are dungerous, These, a3 el aa eroly political considerations, have fuduced o number of fulluentlal Radicals~head- ud by Victor Hugo, Luuts Blune, aud M, Thulle, :lw Preatdont of the Parls lluuiclpnl Uounell— 0 OVEN A SUDSCHIPTION LIST for the temporary relief of the liberated con- viets. ‘Tho Muanicipal Council has voted a sum 0l 100,000 {5 for this purvose; und L liear thut, fu many of the provinels! towns, the examule will be followed, unless the Qovernmeut fnter- ferea, Cominunlets, generaliy epeaking, sre not fnteresting subjucts; but, aaa mera matter of poticy, It wkizht be well to help them to live, us they bhave been helped Lo Liberty,—or liverty will bu worso thau a mockery o them, and muy Jead to lleense, Itisunhupplly evident that tho moral of thulast Lon years has not beva learnt by imany hot-icaded Rudfcals here, 1 the third Frouch Republie talls, It will be from the fault of the extremy Redsy—~iheorlsts, doctriualres, visious aries,~houest lu many cases, und dishouest In many Qhers, ‘Phoy are dolug thelr best to ruln thielr own causo by overhasto once nore, Luck- fly, they are a very small part of the natlon, Freuchimon hove but Lo be true to themselives, uud the Kepublic will stasd, TWO FUENCIL CHLEBRITIES bave goue the way of all flesh this week. Clair- ville, the morry author of & hoat of eprightly pluys, is dead.” He was, on the whole, lookuys 8t tho mere quantity ot work hedid, b wos prolific dramntic writer since the tinfe of Lope de Vegn; for it Is eatlinated that, efther alone or With tie all ot collaborateurs, hewrots no fewer than 600 plays, The quallty, however, often left mueh to bu desfred. ~ Many of lils * plays ¥ ure mero librettt of luslenificant operottas, or one-act vaudevilles of trifing value, Theywerg rarely without wit, though, il many havo had great suceese, Clalrvilio was one of the nuthors of “ Ln Fille de Madame Aogot " and of " Lea Cloches do Cornevilie.” Ho waa also for some time President of the ** Caveaw,' an cceentric club_formed for the purposs of porpotuatiin the glory of the French chansonette. Severa thousand persons attended is funcral. A morning paper reminds us that there wora not thirty ut the funeral of Alfred do Mussét, Wy liave also lost the ercat carlcaturist, Daumier,—a man as famous {n Lis day as Cruik- shank, O Into his nama has been seldom men- tluned but, duriug the relen of Louls Pallippe, his witty und talented pen-and-ink satires were in everybody’s hands, ‘Uhey mave the Cilizen- Kinz a3 much trouble os ilenrl Rochefort's Lanlerne, Inter on, gave Louls Nupoleon, Dau- mler wos one of the founders ot Lhat clever_pa- pery the Charivard, Ile haa beon Luried at Val- mnndols. Y THEATRICAL. Adimirers of that fine drama, * Patrle,” will learn with sntiafaction thut Vietorien Sardon contemplates writing a play for the Porte 8t, Martin (or mayba the Ambigu), on a auh}ecl connected with the French Revolution, M, Hen- nequin's ** Nounou ¥ will be the next comedy b the Gymnase, Hanrry Mevrzen, BRINLEY'S COLLECTION. The Famous Bibllotheca Americnna Which 1a to Ilo Sold at Auction In Now York Noxt Wook, New Tork World, ‘The famous ** American {fbrary™ of the late George Brinley, of Hortford, Coon., the firat part of which Is to be sold by the Leavitts next week, {8 boyond doubt the completest Bibll- otheea Amerleana ever collected by any person, und its distribution will afford Libllophlics the rarest opvortunity they have bhd in years to enrich their own collections,—the raroat of the kind, in fact, without exception that they have over had. Just now the baoks are on view to any ono who has more thav au kile curiosity in secing them, and the most prominent of the booksellers and private collectors are to be found examining the treasures exposed to a quasi-public now for the first time, And thecir- cumstanco that the purcly lterary enthusiast will find less here {0 ils tasto than inalmost any lbrary of anything like simitar size does vot of courso prevent the enthusiasm of tha bibilo- phite. " It never docs, it 18 well known, and five of the first almanacs ever fssued fn Amerlea will undouttedly excito bis envy to a keener pltch than something which is considerably more interestiug as literature. With the true blblo- manis Mr. Brinley devoted himself exclusively to Amerien, with the result that Mr. Sobln can sny of the catalogue that it “describes more rare nnd important books relative to American history than all the suctions made in, New;York during the lost fifteen years,” The catalogue begins with works devated to Amerlea in -gen- eral, and then proceeds in order with Cannda, {ncluding Newfoundland, Nova Scotla, the Red River Country, the British colonies in North America to 1376, cte.; then New England, with an immense amount of Indian ana and Purltan literature, bouks printed nt Cambridge und Ios- ton from 1610 to 1709 (Including the Bay Psulm- Book, which was the first book printed in the British colonles, of which o grenufi' inferior cony sold receutly for $1,000), and bouks relating to witcheraft; ‘then colunfal und State history. ‘Iiere {s material hiere for n history of America down to {ts smallest details, one may say, but the collection’s chief point 15 its material re- intlng to the bistory in any partleular of the State of Conueetleut, about which there Las probably nothing been written that it does not contain, And o notuble subdivision of this are the works of the Mathers, which extend to about 450 titles, exclusive of duplicates, from Richard Mather's anouymously publisted ¢ Church-Gov- crnment and. Church-Covenant discussed, In nu Auswerof the Elders of the severall Churches in New ugland To two-and-thirty Questions sent over to’_them by divers Ministers In En- gl:mu," to Manuscript Letters fromn Samucl ather, D, D., son of the famous Cotion Mather, to ils son Samuel, from 1769 to 175, These manuscripts inake fudeed one of the most inter- esting lots in the vollection, not only to bibll | optilles, but to students -of “thutr colon- ' il literaturo with whose worth Prof, Moses Colt ‘I'yler bas recently been making the general rinder familiar fn his * Ulstory of American Literature,” ‘Ihey include alson letier by Cotton Mather scut with the MS, of bis Neliemlah to Judea Sewall, and unother of still greater fnterest Lo historlans from the samy liand, which {8 the orlginal draft of u letter dated Meren 8, 1708, mnd wrltten concernlng the “Whcelrlgbt Deed matter. Aslde from thess tliere ure a number of books from the Mather Hbrary, contafuing autogranhis of Jucrease, Cot- ton, und Swinuel Mather, with occastounl notus. Possibly the cema of the whale collection are two little volumes estimated fabulously und re- lating to the discovery of Virginlp. The firat peara the fmprint, *"London, Geor. Bishop, 1003, and Is Jobu Brereton's A Briefo und ‘Irue Relutlon of the Discovuria of the North Part of Virginfa; being a most pleasant, fruit- full, and commodious solle. Made this present yoere of 1002, Capalng Bartholomew Uosnold, Captaine Bartholomew _ Gilbert, and divers other wentlemen, thelr na- sociates, by the perintssion of the Honourable Knight, 8t~ Walter Ralelgh, ete. Written,” the antique title-pago concludes, vy M. Ioln Dreretop, unc of thy voyaze—Wherg- untolsanuexed a ‘Treatise of M. Edward Hayes," It is of but forty-elght pages, bound in dork- green gros-grain’levans moroceo, with broad in- side bosders eleggantly tooled und gilt un pol- fahed re:d morneco, with elit edges, 'The comie fl:mlun yolute also bears the Imprint of * Geor. tstiop,'* printed three years Iater, nid writton by # Tumes Roaler, . Geutloman employed In the voyage " too. e calls his work, which fs only of twenty small quarto pages, * A True Relatlon of the most prosperous vovage thils present veero 1605 by Cuptaine George Way- mouth iu the Discovery of the land of Virginin, whero he dlscovered sixty miles of n most Ex- cellent Rlver,. toguther "with o most fertlls land Mr, Rosler’s s bound shmilarly with the other. only that the outside vinding 48 red levaut,” and the two wro inclosed fn an ollyu-green pull-off case, gilt snd lettered, “The Verle Two Eyes of New Tanglad Historle, Gosnold’s und Waymouth's Voyages,” o fanciful ttle applied by ths woll- known 1oney Stovens, of Loudon. ~ Euch vol- ume Is extremely rare; the two united are stitl rarer, of course, ubd Ifley are attired In u gurb than which the tmoss Juxurfous of bitliophiles could desire nothinz more superb. At any rate, If this case dues vot coutain the rarest uinl richest work of the collectlon, a large one of duri-blue gralued morovco does. This Iy tha dediention copy of Binith's general history, Ita full_titte I8 'The Generul Historts of Vie- ginis, New England and the Summier-Isles: With the names of the Adventurers, Planters and Governoura from thelr trst beglnnlug, Auos 1381, to this present 1024 With the Proceed. inws of these Beverall Colonies and _the Acel- deuts thut beféll them In all thelr Journayes undd Diseovecles, Also the Maps aud tiescrip- tions of all those Countryus, thelr Commodl- tles, People, Govermment, Cuslomes und Religlon vet knowue, Divided into sixe Bookes. By Captalue lohn Smith, sometymes Governour of those Countryes, and Adiniral of Now Eveland The work ls, of course, unique and of curious interest fu ftsell aside trow this, It is, as above meutloned, the Dedis cation Copy uf the flrst edition (1624) and lu the orlzinal binding of dark blue morocco, gilt cdizes, sides paneled, wide elit borders, the patiol seten of flcurs-de-lls und corners richly gilt, baving in the centre on one sidu the Royul arma of James L und on the othier those of the Duchess of Richmond uid Lenox, to whom the work was dadicated, und whose portralt, by the way, was {nserted In some later coples,” Ex. perts will rumemaber that Mr, Menzle's copy of e edition of 1633 measured 74¢ by 113{ fuches; this fs 14 Inchies wider und 134 Tochies i uied should of couras be valueil aecording| plates ure to the full as entertaining as the text, which It ueed not e sad {a saylug a good deal, ‘Thelr quaint naivele 18 extremely charming, and they represent Capt. Sinith's vncouutor with Dattations of Inalans, his rescus by Pocahiontas, Indlan priests und conjurors, and varlous maps und plans, with an cxcellence of engraving— these are oxcellent lnpressions evidently—und u crudity of dualgn which aro perpluxiug, and suggest that the expert workers on steel und copper of fhe day wust have been amused ot what were probably druwings by Capt. Smith's *artlst ou the spot.”? Among olhier treasures are scveral almanacs, —or ruther almunacks,—~ol which the five from 809 to 708 cost §1,000. "The Hrst is for 1010, pun- lished at Cambridze by Stephen Day; the seee ond for 1847, urinted "by Matthew Day, which “are to by sokd by Hez. Usher at Boston, was reoared by Samuel Danforil, of Harvard Col- ewe, und the other thres were by the same writer, und publlshed at Cambridee. *No. GU7 18 auv of the rurest of tho Yolumes, und ts by T, Bhepard, eotitled “Tho Parable of the Ten Virzius Opunca und Apolied,” *reprinted and curefully corrected ¥ from the first Londou cdi- tion of 16605 the biodiug (s old aud the tmprint 1s 1843, " No: 700 is probably the first privatelv- yrinted Awmerican book. It s Jobn' Elivt's “ Communion of Churches; or, % uncv!mnl ot Gt‘uqiel Churvhes: 'h‘y’“fi.‘fl’“’,‘?‘ Man. of Councile, Constituted in Griay e rilanee the Beriptures etec 1t s uneqt, ol to Tedtard ' Heht-brawr levape iy AL and pancled, ceutro nnd corner Othame ekt side borders, und gll-top. The onty aapaents i gopy was (o the Menzlcs Livrary, uug, s (e belleved by Mr. Sabin to’ bo b "2t thin exceedlogly zare Ellot i The Indfup [ it uemm'\ ory An Essay to Bring the lmllnl\"i‘,n" wuogo Into Rales, ete.; thiar ton, fy oud Lan- vound in levant morucco, i, Ay by Bedlord, A cessively rare if not uniaue " volume, ..t tlo is not mentloned fn any n'r"u'n‘.'.?'fil-l‘u"f‘“ 4 catalogues, and which wag privately Mm*fllflm 1lkely, is by Roger Bherman, nuumnnnmudm his autogritph, und printed’n New Yorw O Ilenry Do Forrest, in King streat, 175 mm,h’ man was then inbisiness 18 0 COUntEy merehacr but was Atudying Inw at the sanie time, ikt full title Ia “A Caveat againat, Tnjuetfin: o, 1 Inquiry fnto the Evll Consequen ' tunting Medium of Exchange, W) sidered, \Whother the Bills of (. Neighlioring Governments are 2 Le, fn Payments_of Monoy, it necticut, for Debta D Where the Contract Money." A SWISS TOWN BURNED, Ono_af the Mast Pleturesque o Villugos Atmost Wholly Dfltr«'yel,}lw“ Geneva Corresonitence Landon Tympy. - ‘The village, or rather the smalf town, of Melringzen, situated in one of the most rnma;m districts of the Dernese Oberland, g m: brated for its contingency to the Falys of Releh. enhach, the Rosenlau glacler, nd the Finsters Behlauche, has alinost ceaged to exist, the grest, erpart of b having been destroyed in the con. flagration of the oceurrence of which 1 hayy Informed you. The firs broke out |g [ baker's shop wext to the Wild Map Hotel, and, a strong south wind blowing at the tim, tho flames quickly selzed the hotel, which wu sneedily consuined, and the eotire street, cop. sisting mostly of wooden, shinglo.roofed bygg. ings, taking tira shortly afterward, burned ke Under. The blazing embers, carrled by the wind, sct’ firo to the mclznboring hamiet of Eleenbolgen; which, with its quaint tarm boyg. ings, s well known 1o visitors, fa NOW a lieap ol ruing, not n single wall baving been lefy stangd. Ing. Hausen, though o zoud mile fram Melrin. get, shared the same fates the terribly fobp, walting thither flaming particles of paoer, and wood, “andhot cliders, kindled & fire’ tha Qil not cease until the last Peasant’y cottage ned been congumed, The emburs, ndeed, were borne many ifes down thie vallev: people nt Interlnken conld res Dlalnly the reflection of the flames on the whe tlanks of the Brienzer-rothhorn, and the smoks was driven as far ns the Lake of 8nrnen, Thousy the work of dostruction was coniplete In s fo houra, the lire continued 1o smoulder on until § o'clack In_the ovoning, when {t was finally ex- tlugutshied by a heavy downfall of raln, “Tie power of the wind was 80 great that all ording tneans of quenching the conflnaration, thougt promptly aud energetically npplicd, proved un.s avallng, ‘The only part of Meirinzen not buraed down {8 thut to the southof the Witd Man Hotel, fucludlnz the cliurch, the Poyt- Oltice, the Town Hall, and the prisun. One thousand of fts 2,800 fubabitants have Jost Tedit on the 2l Tende, in the Colony 4 'y Book und Ohere Slentions Only Ol-ens all they possessed, nnd the majordty of them arc houscless and home Iess. Bubseriptions nre being ralsed for thefr relfef througbuut 8witzerland, snd a mem- ber of the Federal Couucll hus been depnted by the Governient to take promot tneasures for providing food and teinporary slielter for the ourned-out and the destitute. The calawiyy, how- ever, could scarcely have bappened ut o more unfortunato time, for,the chiel fudusiry of the valley—wuod-carvin a8 nlrend; i und the peaple of Melringen have de great sacriflees Lo preveut the overflusing of the mountuin torrents above Lhe vitlage, which have aore: thian onee nhnost swept st away, Anotler disustrous fire oceurred Saturday at Grandeoar, o Vaud, by which tifteen houses amd a cousid: erable quantity of cattle nud forming stock wers destroyed. et PLEURO-PNEUNONIA, The ntorforence with the American Catils Trade with England Condemned. Landon Netos, Feb. 12, The Government bas acted with needles hnate and severity n resolving to put (he United Stutes in the achedule-of infected countries, Tho outbreak of pleuro-pucumonta u a corzo ol cattle landed at Liverpool nearly a fortnicht azo madp it desirable that & etrict watch should be kept over the trade Lotk at the purt of embarkation aud af that of landing; but_ watehiutness might base given acomplete und offcctual guarantec agslost the fmportation of the dizeasv. It seems to exist 1o somo ports of the Unlied States pretiv much us it docs at home, whero isolated oute breuks have been reported within the last fex days ot plices ns wide opart ns Shecrness and Bottle, in Laucashire, und In_November st Wiganthorpe, near Maldon, The Americad Government, however, deny that plcuro-pocds monia exists nt all n the Western States, lrom which the cattle sent to Liverpool come. To schedule the wlole country (rum the Gulf to the Caundian border becauss discase has been dotected I s siogle cargo, 18 thercfore, a most sweeplng measute, an explanation of which will, wo lope, o asked o8 soon_as Parliament assembles. Ab3 Tate meoting of the Council vt the Royal Azrl- cultural Soclety, o report (romn the Veterinars Committes waa ndopzed, which urgeit this ||ux1[ mensitre on the Uovernment. In the courso 0 the discussion on the motlon anc of the mem: bers expressed s belief that the restrictions sl * rendy existing were sufllelent to prevent the spread of \h{: dlsease even from wfeeted (lsr- woes, and warned the Counell thut, it the nr' elen eattle trado were so humpered that med was forced up 1o famine price, #n outery ml“: bo ralsed throuwhout the country, aud l;! vear's act would be repealed. It '”""Amfl.. gencralty admitted that the trade in va‘d & fean cattle will bo greatly dlsmuml.‘:‘; if it is not destroyed, by the nl:uuf ; of &the anfmais ot the port of la e ing." It Is guncrally believed " that the rnln“l growth of thie American trade, which mun'"ls 10 86,680 live cattly last year, 04 -umlnnI st in tho year befure, aloue prevonts a url I"hm in the price of ment, Whatever "."".’.‘ dlvllh‘ may he in these opinfons, it 8 hc)nn‘ =4 that the'chiel hope of a reduction in hI he 81: + of beef and mutton fs derived from the e can Imnortations. ‘The Canadinn uurlé:n e ian fneluded fn the rulo of slaughter, sud i cattle moy therelore stitl be sent to the e market, but for the present the laree "“)lw Lot g trado tn American livo cattle Is paralszed, not destroyed, und some rise (n the prce tneat seems to bo mora than probuble. Tho Grand Caual of China. Sclentifie dmerican. For six or eight Y;umlrcd years :h‘:ng{:‘.‘;‘: Cunal, crosslngz” the great plily oll‘ i Chinu, from Pokin, fn the north, 1o rm"mum in the south, has been the chiaf tine o “é:ul“ uleation and cotnmerce between llmEm‘im alud vouthern portious of the Lnlucs‘}m ey ‘The canal proper {8 mworo than 600 W ielbts naudl, with its branches, fs auld Lo suorly S, milles of water-way, s the medns (o oc ing ami reclalming wany thousaud u||: e of thickly peopled country. Dumrg‘m for years, however, the vost sums .ww‘bmml 1 e management oud ropalr of the et nal have Leon go largely absorbed by e olllctals thut the vansl has become v‘ i unlit for commerca fn wany var ; condk tho estimated cost of putting i Lu:f"’_ pries tion fe 8o helplesly buyun lhcc:l[’: S ol Emplire impoverished by wm-l hn{'[l':mw we clal rapacity, that the liperis! Uo\_tr{ abaudos serlously constuering thu_ propriety LAt {nig the canak eotlrely, For the flrls[ £ from the the cana) was built the fuod supplle ad forthe south for the support of "‘“c“""".'(l.f::,. to the reifel of the famished-stricken FeSOP oy north and west) bave this year b““cmnom by sea,—g much specaier and murlu‘ fain and route, no doubt; still, for the ;mlll] [gu its wiliions of inhavitauts, the cousl 8 Ve cal necessity, au, to let ft o o furl mpr-‘fl'fi“ tlon, will scriously endangs thelr p uot thelr Hye e ; vetloms. ho sacred right of petition uc ra;l;ld 1 T oxtentof 10,167 mllnaunl:#l‘m,‘ o iu the House uf Represci ‘.lllvrlla b present c«»:i;rcu. ’u:eynlntu“ subjects, an volmu "‘]Jllll-:. rsgya 3 alieus, corporatiune, craryy 865 Ilhur-}olonfi soclutits, Boards uf‘;lt_&l e 2l und Terrltorial Legislaturesi hal T most every brench of trade um‘l n"w“u - der therrulo of tha Houso peltOBSEe, oy ie, scuted in opca_sesalun, but ore ;e A uud 8s a general thioyg are never Guxxva, Bwitzerland, a mulubcr"vl( éha d\:ll'-lz';:l ! cliwal W :l.lififlufi H:wl:*. In the Enuw-llu:“l :I]I((u e of 15 50 10ild thut all thy snow below S5, 4,000 feot bos disappesred. :‘ha forw Sl from the BULLSALS lvcnnts avaiunc 3 ov . A Wild antmals pressgo su early WwF <)