The New York Herald Newspaper, November 4, 1875, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK ILERALD BROADWAY AND ANN SYREET. —— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —- NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Henatp will be sent free of postage. ees * ‘HE DAILY HERALD, published every | day in the year, Four cents per copy: | ‘Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage, to subscribers. AH business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx | Hyena. Letters and packages should be properly ealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. sll LONDON OFFICE OF THE EW YORK Electoral Projects in France. Within a few days the French Assembly— which meets to-day—will be in the full flict. in that body, but it is not often so legiti- mately divided on a point of principle as now ; neither has it often so definite a policy on either side in its debates. It is, indeed, very prone to drift ; apt to see the vote for or against on measures vary greatly under usnalty due to the absence of settled politi- eal convictions on points where the applica- tion of party theories is not clearly seen. In the mediately prominent the Ministry is on one fessedly republicans are on the other. There are therefore, forthe moment, distinct par- ties as to a certain measure—a government party and an opposition party—and it seems probable that the government will notify its supporters that it deems the conflict so important that it will stake its retention of office on the result. The measure on which the division is thus made is an electoral law, and the issue HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. gfurns on the preference of the respec- PARIS OFFICE—AVENUE DE LOPERA. |"tive sides for the scrutin de liste or the serutin d'arrondissement—that is to Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms | as in New York. ooo AMERICAN INSTITUTE, Phird avenue and Sisty-third street.—Day and evening, * SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Now Opera House, Broadway, corner of Twenty-ninth street, as P.M. BOOTH’S THEATRE, fwonty-thtrd street aud Sixth avenue.—l’ANTOMIME, at 8 POM. G. L. Fox, E, Broadway THE MIGHTY DOL- co. LAR, ats Pd v,at8 P.M. TRE, —OTHELLO, at 8 Ewenty-etg! ar eM Mr. Edwin Booth, 2} closes at 10 BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—JUSTINA, atS P.M. 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M. & REED'S NEW YORK MINSTRELS, hird street and Sixth avenue, at COTTO! —— z — a From our reports this morning the probabilities wre that the weather to-day will be warmer end cloudy, with rain. Tse Herrarp sy Fast Mau, Trarss.—News- dealers ani the public throughout the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as in the West, the Pacific Coast, the North, he South und Southwest, also along the lines of the Hudson River, New York Central and Pennsylvania Central Railroads and their con- nections, will be supplied with Tur Hera, free of postey Extraordinery inducements offered to ver vs ly sending their orders direct to th Watt S Yestenpay.—Gold after sell- Ingat 115 7-8 closed at 1151-8. Money on pall suddenly advanced to 7 per cent, but tlosed easy at 5 per cent. Stocks were irreg- alar. Rag paper is worth 86.86. Camprsar, McCzosxey leaves London for Dublin on Friday, apparently on his way bome. Joun Kexix Mave one fatal mistake in the late canvass. He left the voting to the people. we Moopy anp Sankey continue their exhor- tations at the Rink, and the burden of the story last night was ‘the danger of delay.” Tue Paxpona.—Elsewhere will be found an account full of interest of part of the voyage of the Pandora and of the causes that led to her early return. Tuncey.—At last the great Powers are drawn into the difficulty between Turkey and her Christian subjects. It appears to be recognized that Turkey cannot suppress the insurrection, and that she must have assistance; but as the condition of this assistance the Sultan will be required to guarantee certain reforms in the administra- tion of the provinces peopled by Christians. Austria has been invited by the other Pow- ers to draw up ascheme of the reforms that are to be demanded. ‘Tue Hoxonaste Jouy’s last victory was not | the least brilliant of the many he has won. He was a non-resident in the Fourth Sena- torial district. He was a candidate only for | eleven days prior to the election. His oppo- | nent was born in the district, had been elected to the Senate two years before, was the pet candidate of John Kelly, and started on the race with a democratic majority of some sixteen thousand in his favor; but, as the Honorable John remarked on the opening of the canvass, he had never before been defeated in a single.handed encounter, | and the result shows that he may aontime to make the same assertion. say, for election by a general ticket or by dis- tricts. In the election by general ticket, or scrutin de liste, as many representatives as a department is entitled to are voted for by every voter. One man may thus vote for eight or ten members. This is the system now in operation, and the republicans wish to continue it. By the other system it is proposed to divide the departments into electoral districts, and to restrict the voters ofeach district to the tight to vote for their own member. This is the system the Min- istry favors. Readers can readily compre- hend the points of distinction between these two methods by the comparison of the French departments to our States. If the whole thirty-three representatives of this State were voted for on a State ticket, and we should send to Congress a solid representa- tion of republicans or democrats, as one or another of these parties was dominant in the count of the whole State, this would be the same as the French scrutin de liste. But our present system, by which the State is divided into Congressional districts, and by which a defined portion of the people elect their own representative, is the same as the re- form which the French government wishes to introduce into their present clumsy sys- tem. . It is evident ata glance which of these two systems is honestly and justly repre- sentative. No doubt it is possible to carry too far the principle of electoral division in representative government ; but within rea- sonable limits its application is the only tieans by which a legislative chamber can be kept in sympathy with the public mind or remain the real exponent of popular aspi- rations or impulses. If every neighborhood sends its man, and these men, coming to- gether, find themselves spontaneously in ac- ‘ cord upon a public policy, that policy is the will of the people ; but no such certainty as to the state of the public mind can ever be reached where representation is practically submitted to a committee of distinguished men, formally named at the polls—mere perfunctory representatives. An incalcula- ble advantage of the district system is that it practically gives a substantial represen- tation to the minority. Throughout the years in which the democrats have been in a minority in this country they have, through this system, retained a good representation in Congress. At one period, but for this ve should have seen the House of tives absolutely in possession of n party, without a dissentient To what extremes of political mad- ness that party might have gone if left with- out restraint may be judged by the wild views of its more ‘extravagant leaders, who were muzzied in all parliamentary emergen- cies. Apparently, however, it is not from a strict view of the excellences of one or the other of these systems that the French repre- sentatives are divided on this issue. It is rather from notions of party expediency. Republicans wish to retain the election by general ticket becanse all the great cities are republican strongholds, and will in many cases give a sufliciently large majority for their party to overwhelm the vote of the rural districts that are in the same depart- ment with them, Here again our own case illustrates the result sought to be secured. Ifin the whole of this State outside of our own city there were republican majorities in all the Congressional districts that party would secure twenty-seven Representatives ; voice. while the democratic vote in this city, no 2 how large the demo- cratic majority might be, would give that party but five members. But now suppose the election were by general ticket, as in France; then, thongh the whole State outside this city should still be carried by the republicans-—even though the republicans should carry the State by forty thousand majority—the voters of this city, giving forty- three thousand democratic majority, as in 1874, would step in and determine the repre- sentation for the whole State. In other words, eighty-seven thousand persons, the number which last year voted the democratic ticket inthis city, would then determine who should represent in Congress seven hundred and forty-nine thousand voters, From our view of representative government this would be a monstrous iniquity. It would be the dis- franchisement by political machinery of six hundred thousand men whose votes are now effective in the choice of members. New York once chose her Congressional delega- tion in this way, but the palpable injus- tice of the method necessarily led to amend- ment; and it is not too much to say that | our government could not be peaceably | carried on if its electoral machinery in- volved any such glaring wrong. But this | system operates in France ; and the repub- | lican party is committed to its support and | retention, not because they do not compre- | hend its injustice and inequality, but be- cause it chains the rural voters tm alliance with city constituencies that ovérwhelm | them by republican majorities. ip’ In speaking of the republican party as Op: | posed to a government party in the present issues of French politios we must be under- . i ardor of a very earnest parliamentary con- | There is always plenty of animation , the influences of the moment—a result, division that is to become im- | side and all those Deputies who are pro- | stood as referring to those who more espec- ially style themselves republicans. In fact, the existence of the Republic is now so estab- lished in the consent of the people at large that any opposition which proposes its over- | throw may rather be regarded as an intrigue and a conspiracy than one of the “great | political forces, As Talleyrand said that the monarchy was a principle and the re- public was a principal and everything else | was intrigue, so now there is a nearly sim- ilar division. There is a Chambord intrigue and a Bonaparte intrigue, each of which | | watches its opportunity to seize the nation ; | |and the only principle that lives in the | | broad daylight of political debate is the Re- public, more or less conservative. Thus the | government is as republican as the repub- | | licans who oppose it ; only its conception of | | the Republic is not precisely the same as | that of the more liberal gentlemen of the | | Left. Indeed, the Republic, for the first time in the history of France, may be re- garded as so definitely accepted by the na- | tion that the parliamentary battle is not for | or against its existence as a form, but for or | against one or another theory of administra- tion, and for or against the possession of the places of power by certain persons. In this state of the case the attitude of the professed republicans on the electoral law seems tous a grave mistake on their part. For party expediency they oppose a measure of real republican justice. They oppose an honest representation of the people in order to secure a representation in favor of their party. They are not the advocates of the people and of the popular cause as real republicans should be, but rather of some theories which seem to them at the moment to be pure republicanism. By this course they rush toward the precipice; for every party that asserts and enforces its views be- yond the readiness of the country to meet and sustain them prepares its own ruin. It was the extremity of republican fury that ruined the first Republic and made the Cor- sican possible; it was the social democracy of the Republic of '48 that led to the 2d of December, and such lessons should not be lost. If the Left cannot win with the coun- try fairly consulted by a just electoral law it would do better for its cause to give way to more moderate successors, which it may safely do with the Republic in its present condition and in the hands of MacMahon, A Waste of Money. We have read with interest the report sent to us from Washington of Rear Admiral Worden, ‘commanding the naval forces on the European station.” Admiral Worden in- forms the government of his experiences and the achievements of his squadron in the Mediterranean Sea. He was at Villafranca on October 15. He had a pleasant visit to Lisbon, where “the usual official courtesies were exchanged between himself and the civil and military authorities ashore and afloat.” On the 6th of September two’of his vessels, the Franklin and the Juniata, ‘‘were dressed with the Portuguese flag at the main,” joining in honors to the King, ‘‘who was that day afloat.” They also celebrated the King’s birthday. ‘hey visited Algiers and found some French iron-clads. One of the ships, the Juniata, has gone to sail along the coasts of Egypt and Syria. Another visited Barcelona. The American taxpayer will be charmed to hear that upon the arrival at Barcelona this ship ‘was dressed and fired a salute at sunrise in honor of the anniversary of the birthday of the King’s father.” This illustrious prince, in whose honor we burned our powder, is that mighty Prince Frangois d’Assise Marie Fer- dinand, formes King of Spain, husband to Isabella, whose life has been a royal scandal for the last thirty years and who has never yet succeeded in winning the respect of any one who knew him. The Alaska, another of our Mediterranean squadron, has been on a visit to Cartagena, and the taxpayers will be rejoiced to learn that the captain discovered ‘‘a very uneasy political feeling” in that city. Information of this startling character is valuable enough to justify sending a ship all the way to Spain, especially when we consider that for the last fifty years Cartagena has been in a “very uneasy political” condition, and bids fair to continue so fora generation or two. The truth is, this Mediterranean squadron busi- ness is a frightful waste of money. The’ pet service in the Navy Department is the Mediterranean. We send our ships around those shores, favorite officers commanding, on what might be called a series of pleasure excursions. There is no work to be done, no information to be gained, nothing absolutely for sailors and officers to do but to dress the ship and fire salutes in honor of royalty. It would be well if some of our reformers were to investigate this Mediterranean squadron business. It is one of the abuses that has grown up in our Navy Department. If these ships, with their gallant commanders, who are sailing from Barcelona to Villafranca and from Lisbon to Suez were only brought home and stationed around the Cuban coast, where they could protect American commerce, the people would feel that their money was not altogether spent in vain. But Cuba is nota desirable place for easy going officers. Ser- vice in Havana or Santiago de Cuba is more exciting than in the Mediterranean, and there is the apprehension of fever. The Mediter- ranean squadron business is a waste of money and should not be encouraged by a thrifty Seeretary of the Navy. “I Have Triep to give you good govern- ment,” says Kellytto the people. Who ap- pointed him to give the people a government, is a subject to which he does not refer. Prompr.—Sweden will start a cargo of goods for the Centennial about the Ist of De- cember. The State Senate and the Governor. | The republican majority in the next State | Senate will seriously cripple and embarrass Governor Tilden in the last year of his ad- ministration, and will paralyze for one year | the efforts of his suecessor if he should be of | the same political faith, The patronage in the gift of the Governor is subject to the | confirmation of his appointees by the Senate. Last session the Harbor Masters, Port War- dens and other public officers appointed by Governor Dix, whose terms had expired, would have been superseded but for the fact that the republicans had a majority in the Senate. Next year a similar condition of affairs will exist, and the Governor will be powerless to make any changes in these offices. This, however, will be but a trifling annoyance as compared with the fact that the Governor's canal policy, upon which his heart is set, will be likely to meet with ob- struction in a hostile Senate, There is already some indication among the opposi- tion of a disposition to repeal or modify the laws passed at the last session of the Legislature, giving extraordinary powers to State officers in the prosecution of suits against dishonest or suspected public officers, and as the republican candidates for the Senate and Assembly appear to have gener- ally received the support of the canal con- tractors and their friends, it is not improb- able that such a policy may prevail. At all events, it will be well to keep a close watch on the next Senate, for the people will scarcely sanction any partisan attempt to cripple the efforts of Governor Tilden in the direction of administrative retorm. It might have been desirable that a Senate friendly to the Governor should have been sent to Albany next session. Divided re- sponsibility is seldom promotive of the pub- lic interests, and ifthe people have confi- dence in the honesty of Governor Tilden’s professions it might have been well to give him the opportunity to carry them out by the co-operation of a friendly Legislature. The result of the election renders this im- possible, and for such result the self-consti- tuted dictators of'the New York and Brook- lyn democracy are mainly responsible. Nevertheless, the people of New York will not sanction any factious opposition to the Governor's policy by the next Legislature, and an attempt on the part of the republi- cans to obstruct the prosecution of the Canal Ring and the reform of our canal manage- ment will be properly resented. John Kelly’s Responsibility. The defeated ruler of Tammany has incur- red a heavy responsibility by his course in the canvass which has just closed. He has dragged into nomination estimable citizens and burdened them with a heavy expendi- ture for election expenses while his ill-ad- vised and stubborn policy rendered their de- feat inevitable. The citizens of New York would have been proud to have voted for such nominees as Freedman, Loew, Olney, Smyth and Spencer if they had not felt that | the election of these candidates would have been an indorsement of the ‘one-man power” attempted to be exercised by John Kelly over the politics of the city. The Tammany county ticket was entirely ac- ceptable so far as its personnel was con- cerned, and its defeat by such a large ma- jority is on that account a more significant rebuke of John Kelly’s unwarrantable as- sumption. But the evil influence of the Tammany ruler's policy has extended be- yond the local contest. In the State the reverse experienced by a party which last year secured so splendid a majority is attributable mainly, if not solely, to the load imposed on the State ticket by the “bosses” in New York and Brooklyn. All the damage that Governor Tilden has suf- fered in the result of the election he may justly lay at John Kelly's door. Tue ALDERMEN AND THE Maron.—The next Board of Aldermen will contain a suf- ficient number of republicans to hold a check upon the city government. If this power is used intelligently and discreetly it will be conducive to the public interests. If it should be used obstructively, as it has been recently in the defeat of the water sup- ply ordinances, it will be a public evil. The opposition should remember that they are now on probation and their future success depends on the record they now make, When the Mayor is right he should receive the support of the Aldermen without regard to partisan feelings or interests. What the people of New York now require is an effi- cient, honest and harmonious municipal gov- ernment, and if the Mayor will throw off the trammels of Tammany and the chains of Kelly and put himself in accord with the Board of Aldermen he may redeem in the last year of his rule the errors for which the first year has, unfortunately, been distin- guished. Tue Last Porrrican Conunprum.—Q. ‘Now, in the name of all the gods at once, upon what meat doth this our Cmsar feed that he is grown so fat?” A. Humble pie. Smxo Stva.—Three more men have just escaped from Sing Sing Prison, Inthe mul- titude of subjects that have been investi- | gated lately by committees of inquiry, &c., no one seems to have taken up the subject of the many escapes from Sing Sing—so that there is something left for future Legisla- tures. Jax Govt once returned to the Erie Rail- way Company. on a claim for ten million dollars, much valuable property, and “agreed” to return more, but, as alleged, did not keep his agreement. The company now calls upon him to inform the Supreme Court as to the cause of this neglect. Tux Crry Estmares,—Pending tho elec- tion the assertion was made for political effect that the city estimates for next year Fme.—South America follows us closely in | great enterprises of this sort, for scarcely is | | what is left of Virginia City cool before we j get the news of the partial destruction of | Iquique, in Peru. Twenty-four blocks of | | houses are reported burned, and as it is not | avery large town there can be but little of | | it left. Has Anybopy seen a stray mummy? If they have it would be a mercy to a poor man named Moller to mention it, for the owners | are pushing him shockingly in the courts be- | | cause it is lost. +had been reduced one million dollars, The fact is that the estimates, with the amount to be raised for the Fourth avenue improve- ment added, are increased by about three hundred thousand dollars, At the same time the State tax of next year will be eight hun- dred thousand dollars less than the present year, making the real increase in the city ex- penditures about one million dollars. Pawxama, by the latest news from there, would seem to bid fair to revive the good old days when all that part of the world was the prey of armed freebooters and buccaneers, Centennial Accommodations, One of the principal difficulties which must be overcome, if the Centennial Exhibi- tion is to be made such a success as we hope it will be, is the accommodation at reasona- ble rates and in a satisfactory manner, with- out confusion, of the hundreds of thousands who will desire to visit Philadelphia between April and October of next year. There is no longer any doubt of the success of the Exhi- bition. The interest in it has rapidly in- creased during the summer and fall months, not only in this country, but also in Europe. In this country the great event and celebra- tion of next year is already one of the fav- orite topics of interest among the people of even the most distant West and South. Peo- ple of moderate means are saving money ‘to attend the Centennial;” heads of families are laying plans to bring wives and children to Philadelphia; everywhere one meets in- quiries about reduced fares, and fears that the numbers who would like to attend will not be able to find proper shelter and sup- plies in Philadelphia at reasonable charged. Inquiry on this last head has been so fre- quent among our correspondents from West- ern and Southern States, that we have taken some pains to make investigations on the subject, and with the following results :— 1. The managers of the railroads which run into Philadelphia are engaged in confer- ences, with a view to the establishment of excursion rates of fare, and will probably be able to make public a programme, which will include all parts of the country, in time to allow people everywhere to make their prep- arations. 2. With the consent and encouragement of the managers of leading railroads, and of the heads of the Centennial Commission, a company calling itself the ‘Centennial Lodging House Agency” is now engaged in making arrangements with boarding house keepers and the occupants of private houses in Philadelphia, by which a great deal of house room will be definitely engaged before- hand, at specified prices, for the accommoda- tion of visitors; and itis intended to perfect this system so far as to enable railroad com- panies in all parts of the country to sell to those who wish them, with their railroad tickets, coupons entitling the hold- ers to specified accommodations—lodging and food—in Philadelphia at fixed rates, and for such periods as may be desired. Agents of the company will then be placed on every incoming train to direct the holders of such coupons to the places where lodgings have been engaged for them, and by hand maps of the city and other means to explain to strangers how most cheaply and conveniently to reach the Centennial grounds and see the other remarkable and historic points of the city. We print elsewhere some details show- ing how this plan is to be carried out. 3. It is proposed to run Exhibition trains between New York and Philadelphia at such times and rates as to make a day at the Ex- hibition an easy achievement for the popula- tion of New York and its suburbs. Between Jersey City and the Exhibition ground the time of these trains is, we hear, not to ex- ceed two hours. 4, Almost every town and village near Philadelphia is making preparations to re- ceive strangers, and there is reason to believe that in a number of them some organized effort will be made to make known at a dis- tance the style and price of accommodations that can be obtained. 5. The fruit and vegetable gardeners within fifty miles of Philadelphia began already last year to make preparations for the extraordinary demand which they anticipate for their products in 1876, and the amount available in the city will bo very greatly in- creased over previous years, so that prices of these kinds of food will not probably rise. Moreover, many of the villages in New Jersey where truck farming and garden-. ing are pursued, such as Vineland, have hotels and houses capable of accommodating strangers at reasonable rates, and have such frequent access to the city as is convenient to visitors. On the whole it is safe to assure the thou- sands who desire to attend the Centennial Exhibition from a distance,-and the greater number of whom must necessarily be people of moderate and limited means, that they may count upon doing so at an expense which they will be able pretty accurately to calculate beforehand, and without being an- noyed by confusion or needless trouble, Tae Mississwrrt Exection.—Contrary to various fears, hopes and expectations, election day appears to have been as quiet in Mississippi as any one, even a Quaker, could have wished. The democrats have carried the State, and this puts an end to thescandalous misrule of Governor Ames, which was as hateful to the honest republi- cans of Mississippi as to the democrats, Yesterday showed that Attorney General Pierrepont was wise in refusing to interfere in Mississippi at the demand of the Gov- ernor, and that such republicans as ex-Sena- tor Pease, District Attorney Wells and United States Marshal Lake were right in ad- vising that the federal government should keep its hands off. The responsibility for peace and good government will rest after the Legislature meets upon the democrats, and the country will watch’ their conduct with some curiosity and a lively hope that they will prove just and honest rulers. It is probable that the new Legislature will im- peach and remove Governor Ames, which | will be a disappointment to him, as he hoped | that it would be of a complexion to elect him to the United States Senate. Bow1es Brornersy* American bankers, whose failure in London occurred two or three years ago, are applicants in the Court of Bankruptcy for arrangements that may permit them to resume business under bonds to meet all the liabilities of their failure. * Neornanrry.—The Uruguay, supposed to be loaded with supplies for the Cubans, can | only get out of Kingston under bonds to | come straight to a port of the United States, | which seems to indicate that the $15,000,000 paid on account of the Alabama has had a wholesome effect on British opinions as to neutrality. Spain may be congratulated on the actual success against the Carlists if, as reported, Catalonia is at last free of those troublesome persons, Navarre remains, and the King, it is reported, will take command in the North. The New Legislature. There is no longer any reason to doubt that the republicans have elected a majority of the Assembly as well as of the Senate, but they do not claim a two-thirds majority in either. In Governor Tilden’s speeches in various parts of the State, and notably in his vigorous speech at Buffalo, he insisted on the importance of electing honest men to the Legislature, and besought citizens to look to the primary qualification of integ- rity rather than to the party connections of candidates. From this point of view Governor Tilden has no reason to regret the party complexion of the new Legislature if it comprises a majority of honest men. Most of the republicans elected from this city are not only unimpeachable on this cardinal point, but stand high in public confidence, as, for example, Dr. Hayes, who was so tri- umphantly elected in the Seventh Assembly district; Mr. A. J, Campbell, in the Ninth district, and Mr. Booth and Mr. Baaden, elected to the Senate from the Fifth and Sixth districts. A large proportion of the republicans elected to the Legislature from the interior of the State are also upright men. Of course Governor Tilden would have preferred a democratic majority, but he ought to be glad that there is at least a majority of honest men. On this Legislature will devolve the duty of redistricting the State for Senators and Assemblymen on the basis of the lute census, and there are guarantees that this will be done with entire fairness, which seldom happens when the Governor and both branches of the Legislature belong to the same @litical party. But there can be no gerrymandering when each party holds » complete check on the action of the other, which will be the case next winter. If the republican majority pass a bill giving unjust advantages to their own party for the next ten years, the democratic Governor will, of course, veto it, and in order to escape a veto the Legislature will try to be fair. Itis always conducive to political equity for the next Legislature which follows the decennial State census to act under such checks that neither party can gain any unjust advantage in laying out the new Senatorial and Assem- bly districts. Exaianp anv Ecypt.—‘‘The English occu- pation of Egypt,” says the Pall Mall Gazette, “is only a question of time, as that step is necessary for the preservation of our Indian Empire.” Perhaps, then, the loss of the Indian Empire is only a question of time, Also, if Russia does not consent to the Egyp- tian occupation and Prussia waits on Russia’s will in this case, as she seems likely to, it will not bea pleasant trip; for if England’ goes to Egypt on this errand no French army will go with her. She will hardly cut a handsome figure going out alone to whip Egypt, Russia and Prussia; and it might prove that another question of time would be some fighting nearer home, But is the Pall Mall Gazette throwing out a feeler to see if the British public will snap at the notion of acquiring Egypt? Russia once offered that country as the price of England's consent to the dismemberment of Turkey. Perhaps she has offered it again, though the consent is scarcely worth so much now. ‘Twerep's Case goes over till December, and the ciphers of that six million dollars grow dimmer and di: ..er to the eye that regards them from the s.andpoint of the city treasury. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, eal etapa A woman starved to death in Passaic county, N. J., where there is 600 republican majority. Nashville, Tenn., has grinning contests at its socia- bles, the rule being let those laugh who win. Mr. Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, arrived in this city yesterday, and is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, General Logan has just sold to ex-Grain Inspector Harper a piece of Chicago dirt for $25,000 in cash, Itis reported that Know-Nothing lodges are being organized in New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania. A correspondent of the Baltimore Bulletin says that the Philadelphians stare worse than any other Amer- jeans, In London, with 3,500,000 inhabitants, there wore threo births to two deaths to every quarter of an hour in 1874 Dr. Hunter is busily engaged, on behalf of the Indias government, in compiling a statistical survey of the whole of india. ‘The Philadelphia Press says the “schoolhouse” is taking almost as prominent a part in politics now as the “log cabin’’ did once of yore. Uut of 8,000 prostitutes in Paris, according to Duchm telet, only thirty-five had an occupation previous to their fall which would support them. The Louisville Courier-Journal got tired of receiving election returns and said that General Butler was tired of silver spoons and had bought a gold mine. Messrs, Macmillan & Co. will publish this fall an aa count of a journey round the world, which does not fol- low in the beaten track, It is written by Mr. J. F. Campbell. Baron Blane, the newly sppointed Italian Minister te this country, arrived from Europe in the steamship Scythia yesterday, and took up his residence at the Brevoort House. . Gounod, the composer, tell down stairs. At the seventh stair he yelled ‘Fortissimo!” and as he struck the last octave he looked like one man trying to play a duet. Ulinois, which is principally Chicago in this instanoa, proudly ranks fifth in business failures for the three quarters of the year previous, They number 2q7, amounting to $6,013,970. “Household Elegancies,’” by Henry ‘T, Williams and Mrs. C. S. Jones, is a. forthcoming illustrated book om house furnishing and decoration—subjects now produc- ing considerable literature, Mr. E. T. M. Derrick, an accomplished architect of Paterson, N. J., has finished a designof a framein oak and black walnut, 48x32 inside, for a portrait of | Cardinal McCloskey which is to be presented to the lat- ter on his return from Europe, The style is of the twelfth century Gothic. A male egg, one that will hatch out a rooster, has at its pointed end small folds and wrinkles, while a female egg has no wrinkles and 13 perfectly smooth at both ends and well rounded. Itis evident that the demo- crats laid in a good many smooth oggs on Tuesday, for they didn’t bring out any roosters. The will of the late Frederic Hudson, which has been submitted to probate, gives to Mra. Hudson his residence in Concord, with the lote opposite, and to his son Woodward a farm of twenty-two acres and his books and manuscripts. The residue of the property is left to wife and gon share and share alike. A correspondent writes on the authority of a Con. federate staff officer that Stonewall Jackson got hia sobriquet from General Bee, who said in the heat of contest:—‘‘Men, we have got to win this battle alone, There stands Jackson like a stono wall, and will not help us, Let every man that is a man follow me,” A “Study of Hamlet,” by Mr. F. A. Marshall, will shortly be published. In this the character of Hamlet will be regarded from a new standpoint. The early life of Hamlet, the origin of the intrigue between Claudius and Gertrude, and other like matters, will be discussed; the character of Opholia will be vindicated from tha aspersions of Goethe andGervinus, and the perform. ances of Hamlet by Ernesto Rossi, Salvini and Me Irving will be oriticieea,