The New York Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1876, Page 5

0 RL ied 5 RA NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1876--QUADRUPLE SHEET. ~ JONDON GLEAMINGS "The Warlike Outlook on the Eastern Question, pa PEACE PRESERVED BY JEALOUSIES, ‘The Liberal Rout in the Suez | Canal Debate. "SEASICK OF THE SILVER STREAK.” Queen Victoria Holds a Court--- Elegant Costumes. aber" THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S JOKE pe Sa Othello Lunacy in the Theatres---**Queen Mary” Getting Stage Clothes. ages A MUNICH ART FESTIVAL a Weston’s Whiskey—The Doctors and Mother Stewart. ihe ipetal SCHENCK TO. SPBICK. The Verdict in the Franconia Collision— | Heartless Englishmen. i jeder lareticnesechaetn TYPERNATIONAL ROWING PROSPECTS. United States Bonds Depressed, but Rail- way Securities Strong. ENGLISH STOCKS HEAVY. LONDON, Feb, 26, 1876, ‘The approach of spring sees the Eastern question &s unsettled as ever. The information which 1 re- cetve from the European correspondents of the MERALD stil) points to the probability of @ general outbreak, TURKEY'S DANGER. ‘Me partition of European Turkey by the three reat Powers—Ruseia, Germany and Austria—is only postponed by their mutual jealousies, NOT RIPE YET. Onur'Berlin correspondent, who is exceedingly well infermed, says the three Powers above named have ixsued warnings to the Princes of Montenegro and Servia to refrain from extending any support to the insurgents in Bognia and Herzegovina, all seeming to believe that the question is not yet ripe fora forcible solution. Since the greatest discord and ‘want of understanding reign respecting the ultimate “division of ‘the spall, a general war will be avoided ‘until all are ready for it. GERMANY AS PACIFICATOR. ermany, which of all the three is least interested, 4s at present principally engaged in the endeavor to preserve a good understanding. between Russia and Austria. RUSSIA CHECKED. Prince Oharies of Roumanta, having been ordered by Germany to pay the Turkish tribute, will comply This consequently leaves Russia without any pre- text for occupying Roumanian territory or claiming tts lost slip of Bessarabia. RUSSIA'S STRENGTH. Itmust be remembered that the vitality of Russia has not been impaired by her conquests in Central Asia. On the contrary, she but holds it in reserve for the more momentous Eastern question, which, once engaged in vi et armis, may tax her to the utmost. AUSTRIA GETTING READY. The Cologne Gazette’s correspondent in the Tyrol ptates that Austria is seriously preparing for war- like emergencies. She is mobilizing a large body of mountain troops for action in Turkey. The lines of railway are being examined and the supply of SERVIA’S ALTERNATIVE. Our Italian correspondent says that the President -of the Servian Senate, who is now in Rome, states ‘that he regards war to be inevitable. The participa- tion of Servia in the insurrection he emphatically Pronourjces to be a matter of life or death for Prince Milan. THE GORDIAN KNOT. On the whole, therefore, there 4s an incredsing probability that the Gordian knot of the Eastern question will be cut by the march of battalions rather than by the intervention of dipiomatists. ENGLISH AFFAIRS, Regarding English Parliamentary and home affairs, ‘1 may begin by stating that the elections during the ‘week have been very unfavorable for the liberals, LOSING LIBERALS. 4 The liberal party in the House of Commons is steadily losing ground. THE SUEZ CANAL DEBATE. Mesers. Lowe and Gladstone injured their reputa- tion and that of their party by the line of opposition ‘which they pursued in the Suez Canal debate. The feeling of the House of Commons is strongly in favor of the extension, or rather the resumption, of Eng- Jand’s infuence in foreign politics ; the country be- | ing, to use 'Disraeli’s expression, “seasick of the “silver streak.” Even the liberal press ts mercilessly critical Op Gladstone and Lowe for their course on the Suez question. | THE YOGITIVE SLAVE CIRCULAR—ANOTHER DEFEAT. | ‘The fugitive slave move fell fat in the House, and the opposition was saved from a crushing defeat only by the Irish vote. THE NATION GENERALLY CONSERVATIVE. Evidently the country is not ripe for a revolt against conservatism. This is a great disappoint- ment to Gladstone, who recently emerged from his shell of seclusion, thinking that the people were ‘weary of tory rule; and it would not surprise us if he again retired to his study of old china ware, the | «Scarlet Woman” and to wood chopping. LOWE CHBERS UP BY RINKING. Lowe's defeat does not apparently affect him. He may be seen every Saturday afternoon rinking at Prince's, His fellow rinkers give him a wide berth, Doweves. hecouge he Je shorvpighted. Te fact js, 18 actually obliged to use microscopic glasses to read the papers, and appears to regard politics in the same manner—thes quite losing the advantages of perspective. VBE LONDON SEASON INAUGURATED BY THE QUBEN. | The London season was fairly inaugurated this week by a court held by the Queen in Buckingham Palace. Vast crowds gathered to greet Her Majesty and the Princess of Wales, as they drove from Paddington station wo the palace. AMERICA REPRESENTED. Minister Schenk and the Misses Schenck were present at court. TRE COSTUMES AND ORNAMENTS. It may interest your lady readers to describe the dresses which were consilered the most elegant. ‘They were:—A rich black poult de soie, en (rain, trimined with brecaded ganze and Spanish lace; a @iamond necklaée, veil and plume. Another, Was @ black taffeta, en train, over a black tulle dress trimmed with white hyacinths, a wreath of hyacinths, tnile veil and plume. Another was rich poult de sole’ train of pale | snanas, a tulie dress of the same tint trimmed with acorns and birds, & headdress of Oak leaves, a tulle vei! and plume. TRE QUEEN AT 4 CONCERT. On Friday Ber Majesty attended a concert at Al- bert Hal, As a spectacie it was a failure. The vast area Of the hall was tirown into gioom by unpro- pitious weather and the usual sombre attire of a British andience. The royal party was in mourning for the Grand Duchess Marie, of Russia, THE MUSIC. The musical programme, which was chiefty by for- eign composers, gave umbrage to the Anglomaniacs, and the British Orchestral Society declined to take part in what a paper calls “the Duke of Edinburgh’s practical joke.” The early departure of Her Majesty before the conclusion dampened the enthusiasm of the audi- ence. THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Speaking of music and royalty reminds me that attention has been directed to a recent meeting held at the Mansion House under the auspices of the Lord Mayor and the Duke of Edinburgh for the pur- pose of founding a schoolof music to the exclusion of the Royal Academy of Music, in Tenterden street, which has for a long period been quietly but steadily promoting musical culture. This new national music movement has apparently been taken under the Duke’s protection, while the Royal Academy's claims have been overlooked. WHAT IS THOUGHT OF IT. ‘The Concordia hardly believes in such a phenome- non as the Lord Mayor advocating music culture, the Common Council founding ten scholarships and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex following suit. CARNIVAL SPORTS. The HERALD correspondence from the Continent is full of reports of the Carnival /?tes. AN ART FESTIVAL IN MUNICH. The Munich artists have just celebrated a grand art festival, at which the wedding of the Emperor Charles V. was represented in costume. There were 400 participants in the proceseion and 1,000 persons altogether took part in the performance. Kaulbach’s son represented the Emperor and Mine. Piloty the Empress. THE COSTUMES, The costumes were made from sketches supplied by artists. No costumes were. itted without hav- ing been first approved: committee. “THE cH Among the historical personages who were called to life were Albrecht Durer, Holbein, Hans Sachs, Ulrich Von Hutten, Goetz Von Berlichingen, Tetzel, electors, princes, warriors, prelates, monks, citi- zens, ladies and maidens of the sixteenth century. “A MONK WOULD BE.” King Ludwig himself was supposed to have been present in a monk’s garb. The American colony put ina full appearance. It was a true art festival, such as Manich has not seen since the days of Ludwig I. THE TRES OTHELLO STRICKEN. ‘The directors and actors of the London theatres have apparently gone Othello mad. Irving started the ‘mania, aided by & tolerably good cast. Last ‘Thursday Herr Bandmann played Othello and Miss Genevieve Ward Emilia at the Gaiety. On Monday Creswick will play Othello at the same theatre. On Thursday Hermann Vezin will play Othello at the Alexandra Palace, and, to cap the folly, Byron's dramatic skit, entitled “The Rival Othellos,” written when. G. V. Brooke and Fechter were creating a similar furor over ten years ago, is to be revived at the Strand. . Irving, we hear, is shortly to play Iago, when Mr. Swinburne will take the part of Othello, The Lon- don dramatic people hope soon to see the end of the Othello mania, “QUBEN MARY.” They are longing for “Queen Mary,” about which Irving and Tennyson are in constant communication, cutting and fashioning it for the stage. “BLEAK HOUSE.” A great theatrical surprise has been te success of Jennie Lee in Burnet’s new adaptation of Dickens’ “Bleak House,” in the character of Jo. Miss Lee, who has hitherto been performing the part of Jack the Giant Killer in the Surrey Theatre pantomime, suddenly becomes famous, and all London is talking of her. THE LENNIE MUTINEERS. ‘The eleven mutineers of the British ship Lennie were given up to the British authorities yesterday at Calais, They were brought up at Bow street to- day and charged with the wilful murder of Captain Hatfield, the mate and boatewain. They were re- manded for a week. Their respective governments are to be advised of the proceedings. HELD POR MANSLAUGHTER. ‘The verdict of manslaughter which has been ren- dered by the Coroner's jury against the captain of the steamer Franconia for his conduct in the collision with the Strath-Clyde is generally commended by the journals. WANT OF HUMANITY. The extraordinary apathy which was shown by the inhabitants of Dover in the work of rescuing the susvivors of the disaster is strongly condemned. The English tug Palmerston, which was close to the wreck, failed to attempt @ rescue, preferring the chance of salvage from the Franconia to the work of saving human life. Nearly all the people on board could have been saved had the Palmerston gone to the rescue and assisted the luggers. ‘This is another Harwich case, which no Board of Trade inguiry can smooth over. BOUCICAULT'S NEW GRIEF, Dion Boucicault lost @ relative on the Strath- Clyde—Mrs. Green, a stepdaughter of his brother George. MINISTER SCHENCK'S POSITION, ment this morning;—“We are informed that General | Schenck is not likely to retire from the office of H United States Minister to this country.’ The Presi | dent has not required his resignation, and General | Schenck is, it is said, prepared to defend his conduct | in the Emma mine affair before both the English courts and the American Congress,” ! WESTON'S WALKIST FUKOR. | Weston has managed to wake up considerable en- thusiasm here. The papers are full of classic lore | on the subject of pedestrianism. ‘The doctors and the Lancet, a professional organ, | are discussing Weston, from a hygienic point of view, | while “Mother” Stewart is proudly claiming him as | “an inflexible repudiator of the maddening wine cup,” | forgetting, as the Standara reminds her, that Weston absorbs his whiskey from his boote upward. ABOUT THE CENTENNIAL. | In relation to the Centennial Liearn that three- | fourths of the objects of art and one-sixth of the other articles which are to bevexhibited by Germany | have already been sent from that country, and that the remainder will follow in the middie of March. GERMAN ART, | One bundred and fifty-four German artists will ex- | hibit their works, but many others have abstained from forwarding contributions on account of sea Tisks. A @REAT GUN. Herr Kropp bas finished a giant gun for the Ex- hibition. THR ROWING CLUB BALL. The grand ball of the London Rowing Club came off last evening. All the prominent English oarsmen were present. Commodore Brady, of New York, was among the guests. A WILL THEY COME TO AMERICA? Having canvassed the probability of the English } clubs participating in the Centennial Regatta, Com- modore Brady says:— i “No definite action will be taken by any of the Thames clubs until after the Henley Regatta in June. ‘The winning four at Henley may go to America as a representative English crew, but there 1s no pros- pect whatever of the London Rowing Club going. Englishmen must be beaten on their own ground if at all. A SCULLER’S HOPE. “Chambers, of the. Leander Club, anticipates taking over a four and pair and sculling himself, THE ’VARSITIES’ CREWS. “There is not the slightest prospect of either Oxford or Cambridge sending a representative crew. NEWCASTLE PLUCK. “In professional circles it is stated that Boyd, Bag- nall, Nicholson and Chambers, of Newcastle, will cer- tainly go to America; Boyd and Bagnall to rowa < Ang. Schenck is a group pair. A CHALLENGE—WHAT MAY RESULT, “A Thames crew, composed of Green, Higgins, ‘Thomas and Spencer, have challenged Sadler, Tay- lor, Winship and Lumsden, a Newcastle four, and | Astray in a ‘will sign articles of agreement this week. If the ‘Thomas to row a pair, and all to row single. Sadier desires to meet Evan Morris, SLIGHTLY ANXIOUS. “The English professionals are anxious to know who they are to mect and what purses are offered them. They can get sufficient matches here.” THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MEN. ‘The HERALD correspondent in Dublin telegraphs that the Trinity College rowing clubs held a meeting last night, at which it was resolved to decline all American invitations so far as the college is con- cerned. But some of the members resolved to form a crew to proceed to America in the end of July. This crew, if it goes, will row under the name of the Lady Elizabeth Boat Club, referring com- plimentarily to the royal foundress of the Irish uni- versity. FINANCIAL. In the financial world theré are no important features to record. ‘The price of money is tending downward owing to the umpending payment by the government of the Suez money, and the shipments of gold from New York. THE STOCK MARKET. A gloomy atmosphere has surrounded the stock market for several days, first, because of the failures that have occurred in commercial circles, which {l- lustrate a weakness in directions that has not been anticipated, and secondly because of the French elections. The depression of rentes has exerted a sympathetic influence on this side of the Channel, and securities of all kinds for the moment were lower. A reaction, however, has followed, and to- day the feeling is more hopeful. TURKISH BONDHOLDERS, At a meeting of the Turkish bondholders, held on Thursday, Mr. Hammond, M, P., made a report and offered resolutions concerning the ople mission, which gave rise to a sharp debate. The proceedings were stormy; but after many interrup- tions and much excitement a resolution was adopted authorizing Mr. Hammond to continue farther exer- tions in behalf of the bondholders. The gentleman apparently weakened his cause and the public conf- dence by indulging in violent personalities. AMERICAN SECURITIES, United States government bonds have declined, owing to the prospect of new funding operations. The bonds affected thus far are chiefly six per cents, and the exchange of the present fives for four and a half per cent bonds is not regarded with equanimity. In time, however, with the now established credit of the United States, there is little question that the new bonds proposed will become favorites on this and other European markets. ? RAILWAY BONDS, American railway bonds are quiet and generally steady. Pennsylvania, New York Central and Mili- nois Central are strong. } | WHAT “BELL'S LIFE” SaYs. Loxnom, Feb. 26, 1876. Bas Life says that Robert Watson Boyd has com. | '2 pleted negotiations for a four-oared crew to go to | the America during the ensuing regatta season, The crew will be composed as follows:—Robert bow; W. Nicholson, Robert Chambers and Boyd himeelf as stroke. ‘THE CHAMPIONSHIP, over the championship course on the Thames or Tyne. Ifthis challenge is not accepted he will assume the title of champion, The four will then proceed to America as the representative English crew. MINCING LANE MARKETS—THE LATEST QUOTA- ‘210N8. Loxpox, Feb, 26, 1874 Continued duiness prevails in the Mincing lane market. Prices have again receded without leading to rather lower rates for common brown East India sorte and crystallized West Indies. Refining qualities of the Jatter have been steady, owing to the reduced supply. downward. In the coffee market good to fine planta tion Ceylon supports the recent improvements, but or- dinary descriptions generally show some decline, espo- { . the Village former crew wins it goes to Americ&; Green and Firs ane if L will not Boyd has challenged any créw in England to row aaa pour you out io benion Havanas are quotably unchanged, with @ tendency | paj) atthe Tentonia lf ITALY. | 4 DAKING AXD ENORMOUE FRAUD IN THE CIEL FORGED TO 4 118ST—THE KING'S sIGNATULB | LARGE BILI—A MARQUIS THE GUILTY ONE— OTHER FORGERIES IN CIRCULATION. [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE. } § Roms, Feb, 26, 1876. We have here the discovery of the commission of @ great {rand upon the civil list. The King’s signa- ture has been forged to a bill for 200,000 francs, or $40,000, | TEE GUILTY ONE. Several arrests have been made, but the guilty one is, confessedly, the Marquis Mantegazza, of Milan, who added that other forged bills, for a greater amount, are in circulation, This has caused a great sensation, SHEEWD Af DARING. ‘The forger showed great smartnes# in getting the false signature attested. FINE ARTS. NEW COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS BY ADOLPHE KOHN AT KURT2Z'S GALLERY. A private view wae given on Friday and Saturday of a collection of paintings numbering 142, which have duripg the past six months been collected by Adolph Kobi from the studios of artists in Paris, Rome, &e. ‘The principal picture in the collection is ‘The Slave,” by Louis Leloir, A Moor, seated among the cushions, bas become partially unconscious from the fumes of opium from the nargileh beside him, the stem of which is wound in snake-like coils around hie body. Hie tur- | baned head has fallen back and rests against the-wall, Bis thick lips are parted in an idiotic smile, bis arms have falien on the cushions on each side and the powerless banda are half open, the one holding the stem had dropped it, and the other has loosened its grasp from small flexible whip which still hangs from his wrist, At his feet, on the bare floor, site a young whité woman crouching over a lute on which © plays, evidently expecting every moment feelthe whip of her master on her baré shoulders, as she is turned partly from him, and still plays on, un- conscious that her tormenter has fallen asleep. Near this pictu: ich makes you wonder if such scenes really exist in this civilized age, is one representing sweet domestic sccne, merely two children asleep amid white and delicate rose-vined draperies, The mother has gently lifted the curtain, which causes a flood of | light to fall upon them with exquisite effect, This is by Ernest Khatelin, and is called “Tho Twing” A. Zamacois, which is guaranteed to be genuine, is called “The Violin Player.’ ‘La Sentinelie de Louie XV.” is a fair Specimen of the palette knife school of painting by Romaka An interior with figures is by Garcia Mencia. ‘Com- ing eftrom a Festival,” represents a | a 4 of children in a village street. ‘Snow Bells,” by Otto Baich, represents a peasant woman seated on a fallen tree with a bi tied up in an old handkerchief and a pitcher beside her and a bunch of snow bells in her band. ‘A Hunting Party,” by John Lewis Brown, shows this artist’s skill in painting this class of sub- jects. Horses, dogs, men and landscapes are al! good, ‘the animals especially gu. A highly finished picture is the ‘Golden Wedding of one of the Medician Dukes,” He ts seated in his palace with his family and receiving the congratulations of the peasants. An example of sbeep, hud- together inasnow storm. A girl crying over a dead bird, with a wise-looking cat stiowing its head over the gate behind her, is by August Lejeune. “The Interfupted Picnic” is by Iguacio Spiridon; “On the » by Pecrus; “AB Alsacian Flower’ Girl,”” by Emil Pabst; “Louise,” by Toulmouche; “Eugénte,”” by Palmarolli; “Valeria,” by Coomang; “Chilaren Forest”? small picture, fal) of senti- ent, by Edouard Costar; an interior, by Brillouin, represents ‘A Book Pedler and the Learned Men o! “A Lady in the Costume of the Promenading,” is by Victor Tortez; “What the Flower Says,” by Bonifazi, con- tains some brilliant drapery; “Driving | Home the Flock”’ is by Brissot de Warville; ‘‘An Ox Team in Normandy” is by Van Marche, a pupil of Troyan, who ds worthy of his master. A Spanish scene by Cadina Langlin je called ‘Flirting versus Gambling.” “Will You Buy My Birds,” py A. Moreau; “Italian Instruct. ing Her Daughter,” by Schreiber; “Sheep,” by Wauderverlens and Simler; ‘The Confidence,”’ by Ver- haas; two portraits by Knaus, ‘‘A Sleeping Friar,”’ by Hillemacher; ‘Winter in the Black Forost,’’ by Kaufl- man, ‘and several examples of Lasalle, Lejeune, L’Enfant de Mets, Goupil, Chavet, Garcia Marcia and Pascutti; water colors by Lambert, the famous cat painter; Romako and millet; a charcoal sketch by Fe and peo and ink sketches by Vibert, Gaiofré, Smmonetti The pictures will be on ex: atthe hartz Art Gallery, Twenty-third street, wre id after Tuesday, Fobruary 29, and yout the 6th of March. PICTURES EXHIBITED 1. ARTIST MEMBERS AT THE LOTOS CLUB RECEPTION LAST EVENING. Among the paintings exhibited at the Lotos Club last evening were “Daybreak,” a powerful piece of paint- ing, but requiring “a yery strong light; ‘A Group of Mareh Millows,” as delicate in treatment as ‘‘Day- break” is strongy by Robert ©. Minor; New York Bay by Moonlight”? and a small “Marine,” by Ea. Mora; “Deer,” by Tait; “Old Beauchurch,” by Crop- tey; “Westward the Starof Empire Takes Its Way,” by Colonel T. B. Thorpe, This picture represents an entirely new field in American = showing the primitive forest mm the with fields of mpening grain on the land which been cleared, with the square iog cabin, and all through the landscape, especially in the fore- ground, the trees which have been girdied and burned vo hasten are seen with their branches stripped from them. Colonel Thorpe’s early experience in the backwoods bas enabled him to produce @ scene which fully illustrates the struggles of pioneers who have “gone West” and a few of the diff. culties which have to be encountered in prises J a State. This pictare is imtended for exhibition at the Centennial and is of the class of subjects which should be represented by our artiste at that exhibition, ag it represents American progress. A in York in 1861 gives a portrait rtrait painter, and Colonel Thorpe, seated ata i earnest conversation. They were classmates in studying art and were in the habit of lecturing ope another, so the action in the figures is immediate! recogni ized by their confrere. A copy of this is in a galle in Washington and another in the Boston Atheneum. “Remin: "? is the title. A pias | seene is by Joseph Beard; an autumn scene ‘iliam Hart; ‘‘Salt Meadows” anda “Long Island by Charles Miller; “Sunset,” by J. Ly- man; @ buton the seashore, with three fishermen a net, and ‘The Antiquarian,” by J. H. Dolph ; cig by Percival de Luce; “Contempla- tion,”* by ge Shory, representing two young women looking froma mountain over the valley be- neath them; "The Last Nig by Heary Bacon, aud & pretty little’ figure by J. v. B. Inman; “Romola,” by Bush. On an easal is a portrait, draped in black, of Charlotte Cushman. But few works in clay are ex- hibited. Among them are “The Town Pump” and “Mail Day,’ by Rogers. ° NOONDAY SERVICES AT ASSOCIATION HALL. The noonday revival services were held at Associa- tion Hall yesterday morning, Mr, William E. Dodge presiding. Mr. Ralph opened the proceedings by in- viting the members of the Hippodrome choir and any ministers of religion to take seats on the platiorm. This appeal was responded to by ten young ladies and some three or four ministers. Mr. Wells then gave out the twenty-fourth hymn, “Rejoice and be Glad” After the singing of the hymn Mr. Wells read nameronus requests for -prayer from im sisters and brothers. Mr. iyer Whee th reading was concluded, red that God woald the requests, for the of our dear Saviou Christ. For ‘whatever hall ask the Father in my name, that shall ye receive.” May we be strong in faith, giving to God. ue ‘Wilham & promise made whe camel ne toanie LY whom she 8 said:—While the nests ng A morning, I fortes to to a jad, The twent e fers wi rarhen as all He A together now, Pg e _ = we wal i ‘with our Braver and await our blessings Mr. Kilpatrick, Mr, Holme and then indulged in the prescribed two minutes and a balf Prayer, and the meeting concluded with the singing of the last verse of the sixty-third hyma:— Thear — For gin Ts preeions blood, | ‘1 L'UNION ALSACIENNE. The Alsacian Union, formed at the close of the any increase of business. Sugar is again flat, closing st | pranco.German war in aid of the Alsacian and Lorraine immigrants, who eince the annexation have left their native country In consequence of having ‘‘opted” for French nationality, celebrated its fifth anniversary by a ve Very succesful tn eaabling tte Seen to this country to obtain a living. Womtmetes ties the ‘somber of natives of Alsons asa oe | A COMPREHENSIV£ PARISIAN SPARKLES. | wciptti adie low the French Republi- cans Rejoice. PROGRAMME. The Dance of the Doomed Officials--- New Amusements. LAW ,.AND LYRIC European Music and Art Notes—American Singers—Mapleson and Opera for New York, NO. 61 AVENUE DE L/OPERA, Panis, Feb. 26, 187d. The jubllation of the republicans is very great over their eweeping success in the Assembly elec- tions, which outleaps the anticipations of all but the most enthusiastic partisans, whose calculations are HERALD BURBAU, | | always taken in every country with a large discount before the elections. For once these prophets are justified, and in their joy they proceed to forecast the political future with an alarming circumstan- tiality which the events will not justify. THE REPUBLICAN PROGRAMME. The programme of the unconstitutional republl- cans, or those not to be confounded with the violent radicals or converted monarchists, includes general amnesty to the prisoners of the Commune, the lib- erty of the press, the right of public meeting, raising the state of siege now existing in Paris, Lyons and Marseilles and other innocent things. e NEW AMUSEMENTS. M. Dufaure, with his two portfolios, is performing | the part of acting Premier and leading the depart- mental officials a wild dance, for the result of the elections is likely to cost many a prefect and sub- prefect his head. Conscripts are moving about singing the Marseillaise and shouting “Vive lq République /? amusements which were unknown last week. THE REPUBLICAN LEADERS. Amid all this excitement M. Léon Gambetta, the real master of the situation, is acting with rare cleverness and caution. M. Thiers thoughtfully elects to sit in the Assembly and not in the Senate, the former body being more in sympathy with him, more direct in its influence, possessing more tnitia- tive, and, in a word, more popular. THE ROUTED FACTIONS. ‘The Bonapartists, Orleanists and legitimists are thoroughly discomfited. THE AMERICAN PRIZE PLAYS. Of the two French prize plays written in honor of the American Centenary one, ‘Le Nouveau Monde,” will be brought out, splendidly mounted, at the Am- bigu Theatre. The other, “Un Grand Citoyen,” will be produced at the Odéon. MINNIE HAUCE. Mr. Strakosch has edgaged Minnie Hauck, the Baltimore prima donna, for one hundred nights in America, TOOKERISM. ‘ Harry Palmer has returned from Milan, where he engaged a fine troupe of forty-eight daneers, three | of whom -are stars, for the ballet to be introduced into “Sardanapalas.” MAPLESON ON AMERICA. A letter received here from Mr. Mapleson, the im- presario of Her Majesty's, London, says he is de- lighted with America, and considers it one of the finest countries in the world for opera. He thinks it likely that he will return to America with a full company next fall. THE LITIGIOUS LYRISTS. Legal proceedings have been commenced this week for breach of contract by Gye, of Covent Gar- den, London, against the wilful little Pauline Lucca ; by Merelli, of St. Petersburg, against the Mephisto- phelian M. Faure, and by Ullmann against Mme. Christine Nilsson, AMERICAN SINGERS ABROAD, Laura Harris, of New York, is singing at the La Scala, Milan, with great success. Adams, the American tenor, has just signed an engagement to sing at Hamburg. Mrs. Florence Knox appears this evening at: the Rossi benefit under the name of Mile. Ricini. SEWARD’? sTATUR. The statue of the late Secretary Seward, by Rogers, the artist, will arrive in the United States at the end of May or beginning of Jane. ¢ A NEW BOOK. Klaczko's new book, “Leg Deux Chanceliers,” is exciting great interest in the literary world. WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY. The 22d of February was celebrated in the Ameri- can colony here by a few dinners and balls. THE ASSEMBLY CAMPAIGN—GAMBETTA, THIERS, AD VICTOR HUGO—LEON RENAULT AxD THE PREFECTSHIP OF POLICE—THE BoNA- PARTIST SQUABBLES—M, HAUSSMANN'S CAN- | DIDATURE. Panis, Fob. 11, 1876, The most important ‘tem of news in Paris is the resignation of the Prefect of Police, It is polite to call it a resignation; but, in fact, M. Léon Renault was dismissed for lack ofsubserviency to M. Buffet, Mar- shal MacMahon’s present Prime Minister is a cold, ar. | rogant who thought that the Prefect of Police | was bidding too bighly for the support of the radicals, M. Buffet consequently desired M. Léon Renault to write and to publish such a letter as would break off all connection between him and that party, M. Renaalt, placed im this dilemma, abruptly revolted against that exercise of M. Buffet’s superior authority, sent for @ “a one-horse van" to cart away bis books and papers, and left his official residence without more ado, M. Buffet having insisted that he should either write the objectionable letter dictated to him or go about his business. His loss will be sorely felt by the government, which is already much weak- | ened, and the general belief among lookers-on is that | tue dismissed Prefect of Police will be the new Minister | of the Interior in the break-up of M. Buffet's Cabinet, | which will probably now follow immediately after the | elections for the Assembly, M. Léon Renault is not | only a very able bata very popular man, He is in the prime of life, and would not have been at all likely to give up high politiesl post yniess he had seen his way clearly to something better. Perhaps it is as well, too, that he has left the Prefecture of Police if he is to | become within @ short. while Minister of | the Interior, because the ‘“‘servico of public safety” has just been transferred to the Ministry of the Interior, and the office of Prefect of Police is thas shorn of one of its most important attributes, For the reat, if Paris was to part fora time from M. Léon Renault bis successor could hardly have been better chosen, the new Prefect being M. Félix Voisin, aman of great energy and decision, who is moreover polite and accessible. Poniieaninion Ja sania OUiCiQUAINR A YeAh GeAat aay !. 5 tivity to M. Thiers, amd considering the manner im which he is abused by the semi-official priute it is cer- tain that the President of the Republic is at least some- what afraid of him. M. Thiers indeed is said to boast that he has MACMAHON AT H18 MERCY, and can either turn him out of power or allow him to exist on sufferance. lt is even whispered that the eminent man of the Place St, Georges is the moet im- patient member of the opposition because he cannot afford to wait on Providence at his age in the same manner as M. Gampetta and the younger politicians who surround him, 1 am not disposed, however, to attach much impor. tance to these rumors; for M. Thiers himself assured me that he had no desire to return to power, and that, were office forced upon him, he should only accept it on compulsion and with extre: relutance, There is ‘no reason to doubt the perfect sincerity of thie arser+ tion on the part of a statesman who has so far out- Stripped all his contemporaries in the race for fame and honors, In England Rarl Russell, though scarcely older than M, Thiers, has long since retired from ac- tive life, and the late Lord Lansdowne passed many years in repose before his useful career ended. Such patriarchs become the philosophers and counsellors of and in that capacity their wisdom ana ex- invaluable; for they guide their followers only the more surely to success when they have them- selves neither private interests nor personal ambition to serve. M. THIRRS 18 CHILDLESS AND VERY RICH, it 18 impossible to under: d that he should have any~ object in secking for office, and should it be urged that old men, often love authority unreasonably it may be answered with perfeot truth that M. Thiers ie unques- tionably more powerful and more influential as chief of the opposition than he could ever be as Chie of the State. No great measure could now be carried by MacMahon or his Ministers without the sanction, either expressed or implied, of M. Thiers, whereas if M. Thiers were in place he would bave to do many things both against bis will aud against bis convictions, M. VICTOR HUGO has already inangurated his new Senatorship by stands ing forward as ‘‘counsel for hamanity against political vengeance," and has addressed a solemn protest to tho President of the Republic against further punishments being directed against the Communists, Moreover, he demands that a convict ship ordered to sail for New Caledonia with political prisoners on the Ist of March next may be delayed till the meeting of Parliament, because he is convinced that one of the firat acts of the Legislature will be to Frant A GENBRAL AMNESTY, Indeed, persons who lay far behind M, Victor Hugo in their ideas of political philanthropy and who hold that a certain amount of wholesome severity is neces- sary toward the vanquished party in a civil war, if merely to secure the safety of their conquerors, will nevertheless be disposed to thtnk that after five @pars of bitter and persistent revenge it is bigh time that there should be an end of active proceedings tending to the execution or banishment into penal servitude of the rank and file of a revolution whose leaders bave escaped. M, ROUMER, after a moderately successful campaign im the prov- inoes, has returned to Paris, and has now decided that he need not go to Corsica, the msurgent members of the Bonaparte family having been already sufficiently discomfited without regular hostilities, The imperialist leader is far too wise to court scandal, and has no doubt urged upon his more hot-headed subordinates that the less public attention is called to the family quarrels of Prangin and Chiselhurst the better. Probably even M. Rouher might have been trusted to make up the squabble with Prince Napoleon if the Empress did not persist in printing so many bitter things about the Prince in her newspapers; and also, perhaps if Prince Napoleon could find sometning to Go which would sat- isfy his restless and ambitious nature as well as lead- ing aseparate band of Bonapartists toward a Cave of Aduilum, whither no sane creature at present wishes to follow them. One of the greatest hits which the Empress and her ton have made for a long time is their having per- suaded Baron Haussmann to come forward as a candi- date for election in the First circumscription of Paris. His presence in the new Parliament would be of great advantage to his party. Indeed the services rendered by Baron Haussmann to Paris are go brilliant and conspicuous that the most angry re- publican is unable to deny the lustre which they con forred on the late reign, because they could hardly ha’ been performed under any other form of govern- ment save an absolutism, considering the exceptional powers with which M. Haussmann was invested and the enormous sums of money placed at his disposal to adorn and purify Paris, It must also be admitted by every one who was familiar with the Paris of thirty years ago that the end has fully justitied the means which were employed, however they were condemned under the Empire, and, there- fore, the voice of M. Haussmann would carry great weight in the Versailles Assembly. Moreover, there is this to be noted, that M. Haussmann is very well off, some folks even declare that he is extremely wealthy, and that he will have a very powerful follow- | ing, not only of comtracters and expoctant contractors for public works, out of which great fortancs may always be made, but he will enjoy also the energetio support of the house owners and landlords who own property in the numerous districts which he had marked out for improvement both in Paris and in other large cities, and which are now condemned to ogliness and commercial ruin in consequence of the abrupt. abandonment of his plans when just on the point of completion. Itis estimated that the lodgers in the Rue Louis le Grand alone lost more than $1,000,000 by the sudden term'nation of the works which now end at this street, and which make it one of the eyerores of Paris instead of a chief part of its beauty. OBITUARY. JAMES R, DOWELL. A despatch from Richmond, Va, dated onthe 26th inst, announces that James R. Dowell, saperintendent of the first district, Southern division, of the Western Union Telegraph Company, died last night, aged Safty} three years. He had been for many years connected with the telegraph service of the country, holding various high positions of trust. He was well known throughout the State and South as an eminent Free Mason, At the time of his death he was a member ot Richmond Commandery No. 2, K. T, and of Lafayette Royal Arch, chapter 43, and Doré Lodge, 51, A. F. and A.M. ; also an hono} member of other lodges, and was Grand Lecturer of Virginia. HON, JOHN L. CLARK. Hon. Joba L. Clark, United States Pension Agent for Rhode Island, died at his residence in Valley Falls yes- terday morning. He was a prominent citizen and one ‘that will be locally missed, 7. He RAWLINS, J. H. Rawlins, @ member of the Pennsylvania Hovee of Representatives, from Blair county, died at Holli- daysburg yesterday. MALPRACTICE IN BROOKLYN. The fact has just come to light that a young Jady, aresident of South Brooklyn, who died some time since, was the victim of malpractice, Tho detectives are now working on the case with the hope of finding afl the guilty parties counected with the trangaction, It is alleged that the young lady was persuaded by ber seducer, who, itis said, is respectably connected, t visit the house of an abortionist, or midwife, in New York, and only a short time after the visit she died, death being caused by the rough treatment she received, Chief of Police Campbell, when the facts were told him, did not think it was his duty to investigate the case, as the crime was committed in New York. Last night, however, he do cided to take action in the matter, ' arrest Enik Friteh at his residence in Pacific and will bold him as an important witness, ‘The police think, as be been a great friend to both parties, he must certainly know something concerning claimed that he knew nothing about the the case. He parties; but im it letters some light on this strange ir were fo in trunk, The parents positively refuse to say herp 1 about the Further fact matter, feeling the misfortane keenly, will be developed jn a short time, BROOKLYN'S BAD POLICY, The war against ““tiger’’ inzthe arena of chance, with the odas against all players of “policy,” is pro gressing with awakened vigor and energy in Brooklyn To-morrow Judge Moore, of the Kings County Court o Sessions, will sentence Thomas Pi of No. 60 Park avenue; Frank Watson, of No. street, and Charles of selling The police slLalar ed Oub Ak TOK