The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1874, Page 6

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Money advanced to five per cent on call loans. Yzsterpay Wz Hap onr first snow. 8 timid effort, and rapidly faded away. It was Mayor Vance is very busy. People ask, “What will he do?” It is something to be a great man even for thirty days. Tae Kixe or tee Sanpwicx Isnanps still Femains in Ualifornia. He will probably reach Washington in time to help the Presi- dent at his New Year’s reception. Limurenant Governor Donsnemer is eaid to believe that the best interests of the State would be served by the election of Tilden to the Senate. Ir Is Sam that the Secretary of the Treas- ury hesitates about the appointment of a supervising architect. Is there any use in | such an office? Tuerz 1s A Cheap Transportation Conven- tion now in session at Richmond. To give such a convention point Mr. Vanderbilt, Mr. Garrett, Mr. Scott and Mr. Jewett should be made members. These gentlemen would be a convention with power to act. Honors 10 THE New Mayor.—The old vol- | unteer Fire Department, or forty of its mem- bers, have given Mayor Wickham one of those enjoyable entertainments, a Delmonico ban- quet. Ofcourse none of the old “‘fire-lad- | dies” are candidates tor office under the new Mayor. Certainly not. We Garner from what our correspondent at Little Rock says that the Arkansas question is about to come before Congress. A delegation of precious statesmen, headed by ‘Governor’ Brooks, has left Little Rock for Washington. In the meantime “Garland militia,” who should be at work in the fields earning an hon- est living, are under arms, Reporrsp Iutness or THE Czan.—By cable ; ‘we are informed that the unwelcome news has been received at London of the illness of the Czar of Russia, with the rnmor that he is insane. This rumor may be a canard, but if to any extent founded upon truth the misfortune to Russia will be regarded as a general misfortune throughout the civilized world ; for this enlightened Alexander in his admirable goverament of his great Empire has fairly won the grateful affection of his | ban | The Mistakes President Grant Avoid. We desire to warn President Grant that he is in danger of making two capital mistakes— one at the beginning, the other after the close of the approaching session. His friends may urge him over the brink of the precipice on which he stands. The error he will be most strongly tempted to commit in his Message at the opening of the session is the recommenda- tiou of a specious quack remedy for the rehef of the country. What he ought to do is to in- sist on the immediate withdrawal by Congress of the twenty-six millions of legal tender notes and a further law for the cautious funding of an additional quantity of greenbacks in five per cent bonds, with a change | in the banking law making bank issues free on a pledge of government securities, three per cent of the interest on the bonds to be withheld while they are so pledged. When money was in active demand and the rate of interest Ligh the banks could make more by loaning their notes than they | would lose by the diminished interest on their bonds; but as soon as the demand for money became slack they would have a strong mo- tive for retiring a part of their circulation, in order to recover the iull interest on their gov- which the Treasury put out during the panic, | NEW YORK HER Shoald | | lative which the republican majority may agree to pass at this session, and if they bend their policy in compliance with the popular will they have a chance of recovering a large part of their deserters who swelled the ranks of the victorious democrats in the late elections, Besides possessing the legis- power for the ensuing three months the power of appointment and removal and the direction of our foreign relations until the ex- piration of General Grant’s term of office. The republican President and Senate have a long period before them for purifying and in- vigorating the public service by displacing bad officers and installing honesty, capa- city and public zeal in every branch and grade of the Executive Department. The whole | machinery of the government is in the hands of the republicans, and they lack | republicans will hold the | China, Japan and the East. We print this morning later despatches from China, which come by way of San Fran- cisco. The news regarding the settlement of the difficulty between China and Jupan is confirmed. The indemnity is fixed at about seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which, by the convention of 1858, they paid us for a long continuity of wrongs. So we may regard the difficulty as at an end, leaving no trace, except, perhaps, what may be termed an ugly and unpropitious one on the domestic politics of China, This we deem exaggerated. In all these m#ters wo are compelled to take our views from the British press, distrustful as we are of it. That government keeps in its Oriental diplo- matic service a staff of experienced men, at the head of which is the most accomplished linguist who speaks the English language, nothing but the skill to run it. In- finitely more depends on the President than | on any other officer during this crisis in ernment securities. This, or something like | this, is what the President ought to recommend. But what we fear he will recommend is a gigantic seheme of internal improvements at the expense of the Treasury. The advantages offered by such a scheme are snperticial and | deceptive. True, employment would be given | to many laborers, but the public debt would be increased, the burden of ‘taxes en- hanced = and a great amount of capital consumed without any return | within the next ten or twenty years. The completion of the Northern Pacific and Texas Pacific railroads by a government guarantee | of their bonds and the construction of a grand system of canals by government aid, would be as useless, for the next ten years, as would a vast increase of the regular army, which would also furnish pay to many men who now earn nothing and lead to the consump- ABRY DELL, tion of much food and clothing. It would be ridiculous to increase the army for the pur- pose of giving relief, and the employment of labor in unproductive enterprises at the pub- | lic expense would be hardly less preposterous. To be sure, the Pacific railroads would be of some ultimate value; but when they are wanted they will be built by private capital. To complete them now at government expense | would be as absurd as for the government to spend the same amount of money in building ten or fitteen years before finding tenants. It would be absurd to do this at all, | and doubly absurd to do it with borrowed money. We warn President Grant against committing his reputation to so wild a pro- ject of relief, to which crazy theorists and interested schemers are urging him. the fortunes of the republican party. The President's power in shaping the policy of the government has always been practically ac- knowledged by the supreme importance our | people have attached to the Presiden- tial elections. The President is a great deal more than a mere officer charged with the | execution of the laws. The most tremen- | dous power possessed by the government, that of declaring war, is, indeed, vested in Con- | gress; but the President has constant | opportunity to so embroil our foreign | relations as to render war inevitable and | leave Congress no choice. President Polk | began the Mexican war on his own responsi. bility by ordering General Taylor and his | ‘army to the Rio Grande, thereby provoking | hostilities which led Congress to declare that | war existed by the act of Mexico. Our do- | | mestic policy is not so fully in the control of the President, but he has nevertheless great | power to influence and mould it when his own party form a majority of Congress. Our strong Presidents have seldom failed to pro- cure such legislation as they wished when | they had a party majority in both houses and were supported by an able Cabinet. Ata time when party confidence isso much shaken as at present there will be a disposition to lean on the President if he should evince courage and sagacity, and it will be | the fault of General Grant if no re- | | deeming measures are passed at this | | session. It is true that he cannot command | | houses which would have to stand unoccupied | | The second danger and temptation to | | which a military President like General Grant New York, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1874. | | is exposed of a stil! more alarming charac- ter than the other. He holds constantly in PAU wee. M.; closesat | his hand a card which might be played in the | last resort as a means of retrieving the politi- \ cal fortunes of the republican party and his own. If he should fail to recommend or Con- gress to adopt a wise and sagacious policy, and if the internal improvement project should not be adopted or should disappoint his expectations, there remains the desperate resource of a foreign war, which he could easily bring about. Our relations with Spain or our relations with Mexico could easily be so worked as to furnish a pretext, and when he had provoked insults or injustice from those irascible Powers he might fan the flame of popular indignation up to the war pitch. His Spanish and Mexican policy has heretofore been more than conservative— it has been tame and pusillanimous. One rea- son is that his firmest supporters have been the moneyed classes, who are habitually conserva- tive, as all people are who have a great deal to lose. The same motive operated on his own mind so long as the republican party seemed in secure possession of the government, But | if the coming session ends without sound measures of relief the republican party will have little left to risk or to lose, and Grant’s motives for conservativism will be as weak as those of the rabble or of demagogues out of power. He has witnessed the potency of the war feeling in rallying the people to the sup- port of the government. He has seen how | easily and victoriously Mr. Lincoln's re- nomination and re-election were secured by the supposed danger of changing the President in the midst of a great war. If he were to plunge the country into foreign war he might ‘count on putting such a _ strain | upon the sentiment of loyalty as would not only revive the sinking fortunes of his party, but his own hopes of a | third term. But the day is past for playing | this game with success. The prosecution of @ war requires not only men but money, and the conservative classes, who alone can fur- nish the money, would utterly abandon the desperate game. We warn him against medi- tating it even asa project to be taken up in the last resort. If the country had not so recently experienced the evils of war—its appalling destruction of life and property, its | derangement of the currency, its fearful in- crease of the public debt, its oppressive addi- tion to the crushing weight of taxes—the ex- periment might be tried with success. But this generation has had enough of war, with its wrenching effect on our institutions and its perils to public liberty. There is only one road open for rehabilitating the republican party, and that lies through wise action by Congress at this session and the introdution of honesty in the public service by the power over appointments, which will remain in the hands of President Grant and the republican Senate. For it must be remembered that, notwith- standing the recent popular verdict, the republican party still retains the same ir- resistible control of every department of the government which it possessed at the second inauguration of General Grant after his tri- umphant re-election. If the President and Congress could act in vigorous concert throughout the approaching session, with sa- gacity enough to make the most of their ad- vantages, they might sct their party on its legs again and make it a formidable antago- people and the respect of all the nations of | nist in the gront political battle of 1876. No the earth. enccessful ovvosition can be made to laws | President if he should attempt to play this | Congress, nor does the hydrographic engineer | who prepares the chart of a difficult chanrel | command a ship, but if the chart be truly drawn according to correct surveys every sea | captain is constrained to sail by it. The President’s Message should be a chart by which Congress can be safely governed, and by whieh the ship of State can be brought out of dangerous seas into a prosperous and peaceful port. William M. Tweed. To-day William M. Tweed will emerge from his prison upona writ of habeas corpus to appear in court and appeal for his liberation. It would be cruel to recall in detail the offences for which Mr. Tweed was convicted, or to contrast with tne degradation of his fall the splendors of his almost imperial rule, nor do we wish to rake up the past. But as he was exalied to an eminence which perhaps no citizen of New York had reached betore him, so he fell, not like an ordinary man, but as one on whom the whole world looked with wonder and re- gret. For four or five years the press of America and England, and indeed of all civilized nations, has been filled with the muddy story of the Tammany Ring. Its glory has passed into eclipse be- fore the eyes of all men, from the wretched palace of the new Court House to the more respectable wards of Blackwell’s Island. Everywhere the American people have been complimented for the way in which they executed justice. The value of a repub- | lican form of government has been do- monstrated by the way we have punished officers’ who betrayed their trust, and of this impartial justice William M. Tweed is the chief example. Yet to-day the press of this country is silent; it is satisfied ; it does not wish to pursue Mr. Tweed to his prison, and has a regret for the sorrows of his family. But there is something far higher than the sympathy of the public for an old man who has exchanged the diamonds of Tammany for the striped uniform of a convict. The reputation of the American people is concerned in this matter. Con- nolly, Fields, Genet and others bowed their heads tothe dignity of the law and public opinion by flying from their united wrath. These men honored American justice by evading it. But Tweed has remained to defy it. Even yet, prob- ably, the credit of his country is not indifferent to him; but it is impossible for us not to see that his present course en- dangers our honor. With all the pity that exists for Tweed it is certain that the people feel that his liberation now, on any technical point of law, would be, in the opinion of the civilized world, evidence that there is no crime that the American na- tion is not willing to condone. ‘he ex- ample of the overthrow of Tammany is noth- ing if Tammany at last can, by the aid of the law, triumph over the broad, imperishable principles of justice. We admit that his friends may plausibly say that | he was the scapegoat of the Ring, and we regret that he should bo personally made to suffer not only for his own deeds, but for the crimes of others. But the principle is higher than the man. If Tweed is to be set at liberty let it be the act of mercy, for it cannot be that of justice. The public can pardon this poor old man, but in justice to Htself it cannot formally vindicate him by the act of the law. Our New Onveans Corresponpeyt tele- graphs us that he docs not know whethér Kellogg will fight the new government that comes with the New Year or not. We do not think it makes any essential difference, President Grant has had his fingers burned in Louisiana, and even Presidents who have had such experiences dread the fire. Tur OConcerss which meets on Monday could do worse things than appoint a com- mittee to examine into the circumstances at- tending the sale of the Emma Mine, and whether the credit of the American govern | no Mr. Wade. He, fifteen or less years ago, was a mere interpreter, and is now Minister Pleni- potentiary. It is part of English diplomacy, when dealing with the East, to keep the home -press Guly advised at least of its opinions, if not of its designs. We are chang- ing our representatives all the while, having had thirty ministers to China in fifteen years, and what they see and think and write is only known when, months and years after their dates, their despatches are printed at | Washington, The foreign press, and, we may infer, the British Embassy, are sorely puzzled at what has just occurred, taken in connection with the sudden degradation and quite as sudden restora- tion to office of Prince Kung, whom it ‘suits Occidental fancy to regard as a liberal and progressive statesman. We, for our part, im- agive him to be of the same Oriental type— better, no worse—as Keying, who boasted how he had cheated Sir Henry Pottinger and Mr. Cushing in 1844, and who, being despatched to cajole the advancing | allies in 1858, and failing, was ordered to cut his own throat, and did it. We have no jaith in liberal Chinese statesmanship, not a jot, but we have faith in the peculiar sagacity of the Chinese administrators of every class and shade of prejudice, which teaches them at the right time to yield to pressure. The greatquestion now is, What exactly is that pressure? Is it from without or in a certain sense from within—in theological phrase, exoteric or esoteric? The London press believes, or pretends to believe, that this war with Japan has been forbidden and stopped by one of the European Powers accredited to Pekin, and, disavowing any agency on the part of Great Britain, sees in the sudden back down of the Chinese, a submis- sion to the mailed hand of Russia raised in warning. ae These London views of theso matters are too subtle for us, and we are free to say that a simpler solution seems reasonable and justi- fied by all past experience ; that the Chinese authorities, with all their ‘faithlessness and cruelty and arrogant foibles,’’ are, when their material interests are made palpable, exceed- ingly and practically intelligent. We hardly think they would have gone to war for the defence or rescue of what is materially of so little value to them as Formosa; but when they found that the difficulty could be adjusted by the payment of a round sum out of their abundant customs they were only too glad to pay it. They know that whatever may be their military strength they could not just now cope with the Japanese at sea ; that at certain seasons an effective blockade of all the main ports could be effected and maintained and all imports cease, and hence the pacification. To us of this country, only interested in com- merce, it ought, let the remote future be as dismal as English alarmists paint it, to be matter of rejoicing that this useless, distant strife is stayed. We do not share the apprehension ag to ultimate wars with the West. 3 Count Arnim. The London Spectator, one of the most pru- dent and conservative of the London journals, in speaking of the rearrest of Count Arnim, says :—‘‘ There is something restless and even feverish in the action of the Prussian govern- ment in the matter which, at present, it is quite impossible to understand." This seems to be the general opinion of European jour- nals, so far ascan be understood from the expressions of the independent press. We should like Mr. Bancroft, Mr. Medill or some other eloquent American friends, who have been preaching to us recently about ‘German liberty’’ and the similarity between German institutions and those of the United States, to explain how it is possible fora free govern- ment to deal with a distinguished citizen as Germany has dealt with Count Arnim. Bis- marck is also pursuing his policy and making war upon the women. A recent despatch from Miinster describes the trial of certain Westphalian ladies for the offence of presenting an ‘address to the Bishop.’’ These ladies were members of the Catholie faith. The Bishop had incurred the punishment of the law, ond they sent him an address expressing their sympathy. The result was that the Court condemned one of these ladies—a Countess Reichtenstein—to a fine of two hun- dred thalers, or six weeks’ imprisonment, and the other thirty ladies to a fine of thirty thalers, or three weeks’ imprisonment. In other words, fora Prussian Catholic lady to say to a bishop that she is sorry he has been | sent to jail is to expose herself to six weeks’ imprisonment. A good deal was said during the war, and a good deal more has been written since, about the manner in which General Butler treated the ladies of New Orleans, Even if the worst said about General Butler were true Bismarck’s course toward the ladies of Westphalia is more severe and brutal. Mr. Sranuey’s Expzprtion.—We print this morning the first letter from Mr. H. M. Stan- ley, the celebrated African explorer, who, as our readers know, is now again in Africa, in command of the joint expedition sent out by the London Telegraph and the New York Heratp. Mr. Stanley simply gives us the outlines of his first experiences, but we gather enough from what he writes to enable us to form the highest anticipations as to his suc- cess, In the meantime it is o pleasant thing | to see the journalism of England and America | laboring hand in hand to solve the problem of this mysterious and wondertul land and an American correspondent carrying the flags ment was directly or indirectly used to effect | of the two nations into the hidden regions of that aele en unknown co! ie Alsace and Lorraine. The address of Prince Bismarck in the Ges i este Echoes of the Gladstone Pamphlet. It seems that the story that His Holiness the man Reichsiag on Monday on a bill concern-»| Pope denounced Mr. Gladstone as “a viper” ing the government of Alsace and Lorraine contains some of the most important declara- tions that Minister has made since the close of the war. It has been the policy of Germany to endeavor to coax the inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine to accept with cheerfulness the German rule. A university has been re-estab- lished in Strasbourg and largely endowed. People who were injured by the bombardment have been reimbursed for the losses, Money has been applied for the repair of the beauti- tul and unique Strasbourg Cathedral. Every effort—like gentle administration, appeals to local pride, reminiscences of ancient German glories—has been made by Prince Bismarck in the hope that the conquered provinces would become contented members of the German Empire. Our reports from these provinces, as well as the correspondence published in the Lon- don newspapers, have shown, from time to time, that every effort to bind the new prov- inces to Germany has ouly deepened the affection for France. This conclusion Prince Bismarck publicly states in a speech marked with his usual frankness and with more than his accustomed severity. He did not propose, he said in so many words, to legislate for Alsace and Lorraine. If he established a university in Strasbourg it was not in the interests of Alsace, but in those of Germany. German soldiers had shed their blood for Germany, not for the provinces. They had conquered those provinces and meant to keep them, and their action, as a government, would be controlled by other interests than to desire to gratify people ‘“‘whose past leads to Parisand whose present leads to Rome.’’ He admitted he had cherished ‘sanguine hopes’ as to the amalgamation of these provinces to Germany. These hopes, however, had been disappointed, and it would be necessary to take more rigor- ous steps in dealing with the people, especially in the matter of education. ‘My action,” he said, in his proudest, most scornful way, ‘is guided by imperial interest, Ishall not be frightened from my course by reproaches, threats or persuasions.’’ In other words, because the inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine, who for centuries have been French, just as the people of New Eng- land have for one century been American, and who have given France some of the most illus- trious names in her history, and who in the time of the Revolution were extreme and al- most pitiless in their devotion to liberty, be- cause they do not immediately change their convictions, their hopes, their passions, af- fections, instincts, their very nature, as it were, and accept the rule of the for- eigner instead of remembering their patriotic devotion for France, are to be treated as Russia treats the Poles or as England in former times treated Ireland. Children will be compelled to talk German, and not French, in their schools, The _seyerest_measure of Prussian discipline will be visited upon the people. It remains to be seen what success the Prussians will achieve in this new policy. Prussia has shown in the past—mainly in the annexation of Silesia, during the reign of Frederick the Great, and in the more recent acquirement of duchies like Nassau, kingdoms like Han- over and cities like Frankfort, Hamburg and Lubeck—that she has the faculty of mak- ing community once inimical to her rule acquiescent and loyal But Silesia, Hanover and the other annexed provinces were German. It was not a change of nationality, only a change of princes. The difference between the rule of the King of Hanover and that of the King of Prussia was little more than the difference between the government of New York and that of Penn- sylvania would be to an American. But Prussia has not succeeded so well with her Polish provinces. Fora hundred years she has been endeavoring to coax loyal obedience to her rule. Posen is now the hot- bed of ultramontane rebellion against the German crown. In other words, the inhab- itants of the “annexed” fragment of Poland adopt the ultramontane party as a means of annoying Bismarck. The same may be said of Alsace and Lorraine. These people are French to every intent and purpose, just as the people of Posen are Polish. The mistake which Bismarck has made is to attempt to overcome the law of nationality—a law as strongly grounded as that of nature. So long as he added German provinces to Germany he had a united kingdom. When he at- tempted to ‘‘annex”’ Poles and Frenchmen he tound disturbing elements, and it is now necessary to deal with these elements in the harsh, absolute and cruel manner with which Russia governs her Turcomans and Circas- sians and wild tribes of Asia. But how long will Germans submit to Russian policy in Germany ? Bazarxz.—‘‘An Alphonsist’’ writes a letter to the London Globe in reference to the journey ot Marshal Bazaine to Madrid. He writes that in former days Bazaine served for six years under Isabella, and reached the rank of colonel in the Spanish army. At this time he has two objects in going to Spain. The first is to rejoin the family of his wife, who are resi- dent in Madrid. The second is to offer his sword to Marshal Serrano, ‘‘not as an ad- venturer and soldier of tortune, but in his quality as a colonel of the Spanish army anxious to aid the legitimate government in restoring order to the country of his adoption.” Bazaine is certainly a soldier of great ability. If he will serve any government in Spain with sincerity he will do much toward the establish- ment of peace. ‘Tux Brecuzn-Tu.row Case has reached the Court of Appeals, and was heard yesterday on a motion made by the counsel of Beecher to reverse the decision of the Court in Brook- | lyn denying Beecher a bill of particulars, The counsel for Beecher made an elaborate argu- | ment, which was replied to briefly by the counsel tor Tilton. The logic of the Tilton case is that the demand of Beecher is the first | instance of a demand of the times and places of an imaginary fact. If the thing took place the complainant knows all about it. If it did not, then the time or place could not be men- tioned, As it is, the Court would not be jus- tified in loading a suitor with the infamy of meditated fraud and perjury. The Court took the papers and will announce the decision in a day or two, Wasurxcton Bars to assume its winter gayotn is without foundation. The Catholic organg in Rome, however, are violent in their criti- cisms of the Premier. One of the journals says, “It is not Catholic Rome that alarms Mr. Gladstone, but Anglican London, which is about to return to the Holy Father’ after an absence of three centuries. At Turin a religious society has announced a novena for the conversion of the English nation. In the meantime the controversialists show temper. At Liverpool, at a recent meeting of priosts, there was much indignation wgainst Gladstone. The senior priest of the mission, a Father Hennessy, made an impassioned speech, announcing that Catho lics “put their God and their Church above every temporal government, ‘They were Catholics first and then any nationality afterward. He hoped no one would beashamed to say he was a Catholic first.” This cer- tainly repeated the ‘higher law” doctrine denounced by Seward and the abolitionists before the war, and it will be interesting as such to ‘‘Prudentius” and others of our es- teemed correspondents who do not agree with us in this view of Dr. Manning’s letter, A Rev. Canon Walworth was very angry with Gladstone. He meant afterward to openly and candidly vote for the Conservative party, for Gladstone knew that what he said wasa lie, and “‘lying lips are an abomination to the Lord.” In Germany, as our readers may well suppose, the ex-Minister’s manifesto was re- ceived with great satisfaction, and the journals print long and elaborate accounts of it. Asan evidence of the religious zeal now permeating England it is announced that the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl Marshal of England, the head of one of the proudest houses in the peerage, is about to join one of the orders of Rome. This will compel His Grace to give up his estates, which are en- tailed apon his title and cannot be taken inte the revenues of a monastery. But the question arises, Should the Duke join the Oratorians of St. Philip Neri, who will execute the office of Earl Marshal of the Realm, which is heredi- tary in the dukedom? For, while the Duke may give up his estates, he cannot abandon his titles, Altogether, the sea of religious feeling seems to be rising higher and higher in Eng- land, and we do not see where the agitation will end. Taz Lossy forces, earlier than usual, have been this season gathering at Washington, in. advance of the two houses. But as the ap- proaching session will be short the lobby is only taking time by the forelock. Nor Moucu, sur Berrer THan AN INcREASE— The decrease of the national debt to the amount of $123,427 for the month of Novem- ber last. Aw, Taar Is Remempenep of Havemeyer is the integrity of his life. Character is in the end the best conservator of fame. FERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Bishop Huntington, of Central New York, ts at the Brevoort House. Senator Roscoe Conkling 18 sojourning at the Stevens Apartment House. I Congressman Ellis 8. Roberts, of Utica, is stay- ing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Ex-Governor William Bigler, of Pennsylvania, ts residing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Rev. Dr. Carmody, of New Haven, is among the latest arrivals at the Astor House, Ex-Congressman James S, Pike, of Maine, is quartered at the Westmoreland Hotel. Ldentenant Governor John 0. Robinson, arrived last evening at the Metropolitan Hotel. State Senator John A, King, of Long Island, has taken up his residence at the Brevoort House. Mr. Moss K. Platt, Inspector of New York State Prisons, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Congressman Clinton L. Merriam, of Locust Grove, N. Y., ts registered at the Filth Avenue Ho- tel. No foreigner whatever will be permitted to enter the forts in course of construction around Paris. Mr. Robert G. Watson, of the British Legation at Washington, has arrived at the Westmorelana Hotel. Ex-Govenor William B. Lawrence and family, of Rhode Island, have apartments at the Brevoort House. The Chinese pirate captain who seized the shtp Shark was executed in Hong Kong on the 10th of October. Admiral or General Dot, called an American dwar, died at the Hoel des Etrangers, Paris, No vember 13. Colonel Fitzwygram and Lieutenant Colonel the Hon. W. R. Trefusis, of England, are at the Bre- voort House. Lieutenant Commander Cassel has returned to Yokahama with health much improved by his so- journ in Formosa. Sefior Elmore, Peruvian Chargé d’Affaires, ar- rived at Yeddo, Japan, and presented his creden- tials November 2, Bisnop James F, Wood and Rev. A. McConomy, of Philadelphia, arrived in this city last evening, and are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. M, Gaffray, the French Minister in China, is about to retarn home, Count Rochecourt will act as Chargé d’ Affaires in the absence of the Minister. A Chinese contractor, convicted of swindling by making false estimates in repairing the imperial summer palace, has been sentenced to decapi- tation, Sir A. E. Kennedy, Governor of Hong Kong, sailed for England October 15. I. G. Austin, Coiontal Secretary, administers the government in his absence. Mr. Avery, United States Minister, left Shanghat, China, October 14, for Pekin. He arrived at Tien- tsin on the 18th and resumed his journey on the | 2ist of the month. Takaki and Tomtta, the Japanese Consuls for San Francisco and New York, are sull detained by public business in Japan, but will probably take the next steamer from Yokohama@or America, The Japanese Consulate at Shanghai received hgh praise irom American shipmasters for prompt and satisiactory settlement of a collision case be- tween o Japanese steamer and the ship Worcester, A Mohammedan Chinese general from the distant province of Yannon, where he served in the im- pertal army during the rebellion, is now one of the lions of Pekin, He fought on the side of the Budd- hists and Confuciusists against his coreligionists, ‘There is, it 18 said, serious general complaint against the United States Consul at New Change, China, for having sentenced a pilot, named Hait- day, convicted of &® murderous assault apon @ Chinese woman, to only fourteea days’ imprison- ment. The Russian government hag determined to trp the experiment of ‘compulsory education” in the case of children between eight and twelve years of age in the city of St. Petersburg. There are 28,000 of these children and 15,000 of those at prem ent receive no instruction whatever. Prince Kung’s disgrace and sudden restoration to honor and favor turned on differences of opinion as tothe propriety of China’s making war oa Japan at this time, Prince Kung advocated Peace, and on the day he was disgraced the Em- peror had determined on war; but wiser counsels came twenty-iour hours ‘atwr, and Kung arese JWith taac.