The New York Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1877, Page 6

¢ - NEW YORK HERALD *.. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. , 0 JAMES CORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Se ontvess, news letters or telegraphic and peal anton be properly sealed. comm jons will not be returned. pci ahaa PRERERT ra OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH N OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— (0. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions ang advertisements will be recetved and for- warded of the and term New ¥ VOLUME XLII. LYCEUM THEATR! PARK THEATKE.—Z: BOOTH 8 TREATRE.—Da»’t Daven, NEW YORK AQUARIU. TIVOLI THEATRE,—V ani BAGLE THEATRE.—Paxto FAN FRANCISCO MINSTR KELLY & LEON'S MINST BGYPTIAN HALL.—Sxx: TRIPLE SHEET NOTICE TO COUNTRY D ‘The Adams Express Company runa special news- paper train over the Pennsylvania Ratlroad and its ronnections, leaving Jersoy City at a quarter past four & M, daily and Sunday, carrying the regular edition of the Hxeaxp as far West as Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter past six A. M. and Washington at one P. M. From our reports’ this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be decidedly warmer and cloudy, with rain or snow. onal VARimtr. cee EALERS, Wau Srreet Yesterpay.—Stocks were gen- erally lower under the influence of a bear pressure. Money on call loaned at 6 and 7 per cent. Gold declined to 1063g, after an opening at 10619. Government and railway bonds were firm. The bank statement shows an increase of _ $3,500,000. Reap “Pictures or Poverty” if you want to forget your own troubles. Tne Asrorta Burcrars declare their inno- cence as fluently as if they ran a carpet-bagz government. if Tue Srory of the wrecked Scotia’s crew ex- eels any novel or play in thrilling incidents and protracted agonies. f A Prominent Cuvrcn Memper is implicated ‘nan attempt to defraud a bank. What is his church going to do about it? AccorDING To JupGe Van Vorst even credit- ors have some righis which assignees are bound to respect. This is strange news. ‘Tue Cootness of the Whiskey Ring is beyond the power of any thermometer to indicate. Note the grounds upon which they attempted to quash some indictments y Ir THe Reaw Estate piracy case will warn sroperty-holders against their usual carelessness with their papers the sufferers will have at least the consolation of being public benefactors. Jack Frost Has Bren long and favorably known as an artist in window panes, but last week he suddenly became an imitator of Doré and executed a wonderful ‘Sea of Ice” at Hell Gate. | Mr. Hiwi’s Forman Statement about steel wire, however it may discdmpose the Bridge Company, will be read with interest by every one who expects to risk his life on the Brooklyn Bridge. ee Mr. Tiwpex Suourp Pray to be delivered from his friends. Some of them have taken pains to declare that their candidate will coun- tenance no revolutionary uprising in his favor, as if this country were Mexico and contained people who could suspect a statesman of such villany. How To Resv We print elsewhere an open letter from Edward Atkinson, of Bos- ton, to the He |. G. Abbott, democratic mem- ber of Congress from Massachusetts, on the con- dition of the currenc mil the ease with which we have in the last t ars accumulated gold. Mr. Atkinson shows that resumption need not be a bugbear. We invite the attention of bankers and merchants to his letter. A Comepy Tneatre Neepep.—The stagna- | tion in theatricals is to he regretted, but there is | good cause for it. People see and hear too many | tragedies and dramas by i | stage for artificial sorrows. | to make us laugh and forget the world fo | evening, md a company which could be relied | upon for this sort of diversion would seldom | play to any empty seats. | | | | » need somebody | Tux Weatnen.—Ou last Thursday morning we warned our readers of the approach of two | storm areas—one from the Gulf of Mexico, bring ing heavy rain and risi perature, the other | * from the Northwest, b x snow. Both dis- | turbances are now completely within the | sphere of actual observation, and ave hurry- ing toward us with their attendant gales | and heavy precipitation, — Present indications go to show that the two storms may unite within the Middle and Eastern States, and | that we may look for very heavy + snow, followed by strong westerly As it is, the Northwestern storm is now central over Lake Superior, with a gale of sixty-eight miles | per hour at Pembina. The Gulf storm is cen- tral in the South Atlantic States, with heavy rains and slect from Shreveport, Texas, to the Atlantic, and from Key West to Baltimore. In the Northeast cloudiness and threatening weather prevail, and in the Middle Mississippi Valley rain and snow. The temperature las risen de- cidedly eastward and northward of the storm centres, but is low on their western mar The highest pressure is now off New England coast and the lowest in the tipper Inke region. Shipwasters in this and ad- jacent ports had letter prepare for stormy ‘weather. Ample preparation should also be made for freshets anil ice gorges in the rivers. Reservoirs should be carefully watched, as frozen embankments are liable to give way under , of heavy rain and thaw, Alto- our readers to prepare for bad us and | Making Life Safe in the Theatres. tween this third division of the edifice and The Resistance to R pid Transit, Some commendable steps have been taken with a view to increase the facilities for egress from theatres in the city. From the nature of the case improvements thus made are sfibject to so many conditions of con- despatches must | venience and possibility that they do not give the desired remedy in its most com- plete form; but they make very ample ad- ditions to the chance for life in cases in which it is seriously imperilled. ‘There are two sorts of remedies for such calamities as that which recently occurred in Brooklyn—the one involving radical and absolute measures which should be made part of the law with regard to theatres that may be constructed in the future, the other involving architectural expe- dients aimed to secure the best re- sult possible with what we have. Donbtless this second species of remedy, so far as relates to architectural changes, has already been applied as fully as possible by the directions given under the authority of the Department of Buildings and carried out by the proprietors of the theatres. There are old houses to which additions have been made from generation to genera- tion, without any regard to the original plan, and in which the original architecture becomes, as it were, completely overgrown by new series and sets of chambers and pas- sages, where one comes against a blank wall when he expected a door, and tumbles into the trap of some surprising door where he thought to find a wall. To change theatres by the addition of stairways and passages, where such were not involved in the original plan, tends obviously to the production of a similar labyrinthine edifice ; but in case of fire it is clear that the public cannot fall into too many traps if every trap opens out of doors, : But it is evident that architectural ex- pedients are not the only needs of the occasion. There are the extensive chapters of provisions for the prevention of the occurrence of fire, provisions for effec- tively and rapidly extinguishing it if it occurs, and provisions for the removal of those lesser impediments to the move- ment of the andience that are not in- volved in the architecture of the theatre. In Wallack’s Theatre the plan proposed by Mr. Boucicault for making scenery in- combustible has, we believe, been adopted. This is the addition of tungstate of soda to the paint—an expedient so ready and so inexpensive that the refusal to employ it would be utterly inexcusable and would justly expose the establishment to the charge of indifference to the safety of its patrons. All the theatres have, we believe, signified their purpose to act on this excellent sug- gestion, but whether they have really done so the public is not yet informed. Another measure, as to the universal application of which there should be no doubt whatever, is the supply of water and hose. These are found everywhere; but what is specially requisite in this case is that they shall be put in condition for use every night as a reg- ular part of the preparation fora performance, They should be in sucha state that it is only necessary to turn on the water in order to have the means of extinguishing a fire in its first stage. This provision alone would render it impossible for any fire to originate onthe stage. The provision in regard to keeping the aisles and passageways clear of additional seats is one that has been lately violated, and it should be part of the duty of the police to prevent this. How can the obligation of the proprietors of theatres to organize a system of precau- tionary measures for the prevention of fire be constantly kept before them? Some of these precautionary measures are merely moral, as between the managers and their | patrons, without the force of law therefore ; and even a public inspection, if it were not an ineffective process for other reasons, would fail for this reason. Perhaps the severe scrutiny that the insurance com- panies maintain in their own interest might be made publicly useful in this regard. Theatres are, wesuppose, not regarded with high favor as insurabie property, but a thor- ough system would doubtless secure this favor; and the statement in a conspicuous place in tho lobby of the theatre of the rate at which it is insured would give the public the opinion of experts as to the relative safety ofthe place. ‘To secure a favorable statement of this nature would be a great | advantage. But it should never be forgotten that all measures of the sort indicated are in the na- ture of expedients. There is no radical safety against calamity save in the applica- tion in the construction of the theatre of | the theory that provision against the com- mon consequences of fire is a primary ne- | y. Witha people possessing the sort | of reckless temerity and disregard for pre- cautions that are constitutional with us it may be taken for a certainty that, despite all conceivable care, fire will occur some day in every theatre; and what is absolutely de- manded, therefore, is that theatres shall be so constructed that when the fire occurs it shall be possible to pass the andience rapidly beyond its reach, and obviously and unmistakably beyond its reach ina time proportioned to the period it will take for the fire to reach a part of the edifice where it can menace the lives of the persons in the | audience. Theatres to be safe in virtue of their structure should be planned in three divi- sions, so far distinct from one another that each might be regarded as a practically separate edifice. should inelude all that part of the theatre behind the curtain, the part that the ancient architects called the proscenium ; the second should include the auditorium, and the third all corridors and stairways. These separate shells might be so placed that they would be in line with one another, ways might be placed at either side of the auditorium, extending or not across the end of the division behind the scenes. Every tier should have on the same level a corridor capable of holding at least half as many persons as could be seated on that tier, and the stairways from each level should reach the street by separate is- sues. All stairways and the floors and sup- porting structure of the corridors should be "In, New York to-day the weather will edly warmer and cloudy, with rain or in solid masonry, There should be sliding iron doors to close the communication be- One of these divisions | the auditorium, With the audience passed through the openings to the corridors and | stairways and the jron doors shut behind them the time taken to reach the street would be of no consequence. Some plan based on the principles involved in this division of the structure should be required by legis!a- tion in any theatre to be constructed here- after in any city in the State. ° i With all proper attention given to the theatres to make them safe it is to be hoped that the public authorities will not neglect the churches, the public schools and other places where many persons are commonly gathered together. These are not, except the schools, so constantly occupied as the theatres, nor stored in the same way with inflammable material; but a rigid inspec- tion made now would probably disclose un- known dangers to the community. The Doubtful Attitude of Russia. Ottoman obstinacy seems likely to carry the dayin the negotiations at Constanti- nople, through default of the Power that has been relied upon to apply the pressure of an immediate war. When it was regarded as certain that the failure of the negotiations would be followed by the movement of the Russian army the points of reform that are the basis of the schedule made by the Con- ference were discussed with respect and consideration; but the Sultan's Min- istry have changed tone from day to day in this respect in proportion as the evidences have multiplied that Russia was not prepared to carry out the declara- tions made in the autumn. But if all the endeavor of Europe to secure reform in ! Turkey is now rejected because it is be- | lieved that Russia cannot occupy Bulgaria and exact the measures demanded there may be some astonished Turks before the summer comes, There is no reason why Russia should go to war immediately, though the negotiation end in rupture. War between nations is not a necessary consequence of their failure ~to agree on specific projects. Russia, therefore, may continue ev Povsvasslists quietly, unless Turkey shall be tempted, which is very un- likely, to precipitate events by some act of war. By March the armistice will expire and the Moslems will then recommence their operations in Servia. Russia cannot fail to act then; but by that time it is very likely she may be fully ready to act, and on both the probable theatres of war, in Bulgaria and beyond the Caucasus. Dead Yet Living. The funeral of the great financier to-day will be the occasion of a good deal of talk— some of it sensible, about the mistakgs and failures of the deceased; buta great op- portunity will be lost if talking and think- ing about Vanderbilt ends with this. The career of.any man of great achievements may in some way serve as a warning, but it cannot help having in it much that is val- uable by way of example. That which a man fails todo often depends upon circum- stances and limitations over which he has no control; that which he does is generally the result of his own effort. The life of a man who, without a single special advan- tage of any kind, distanced. every one in callings where the shrewdest of intellects are engaged, deserves more attention, in public and in private, than feeble moral- izingsand dolefal retrospects ever amount to. Energy, application, painstaking, pa- tience and persistence, made the dead Com- modore what he was, and they constitute a set of virtues of which the best man alive might be proud. Their occa- sional misapplication by the deceased is to be deplored, but their existence and their results should never be forgotten. The men who most severely criticise the failiigs of the old financier will leave the greater part of their duty undone if they fail to recognize, extol and emulate the leading qualitics of the dead man’s character. Great enterprises, benevolences and reforms Jan- guish everywhere to-day because there is not behind them the intensified manliness by which Cornelius Vanderbilt compelled victory, and an appreciative study of this quality is the best manner in which the best men can consider the character of one who in this respect surpassed them all, The Old Story. Another case of dishonesty in a trustee is added to those recently brought to light. | ; What was a rumor a few days ago is now a | certainty. A member of the legal profes- sion, hitherto bearing a good reputation, is | found to have yielded to the temptation of | misappropriating trust funds confided to his | hands to the amount, as the rumor goes, of nearly half a million of dollars, There are the usual expressions of astonishment on the part of his friends, the usual singular protestations of belief in his integrity and | the usual tributes to his exemplary conduct in all his domestic relations. In this in- | stance there comes in addition a claim of a mild species of insanity, and the offender's associates in business declare that “his mind is unable to work beyond a certain point.” What that point is does not appear. It may be the point when he commenced to abuse the trust confided to him or the point | at which his rascality was discovered, But | he seems, at all events, to have been sane enough to conceal his crime until conceal- | ment was no longer possible. | The pléas in extenuation put in by the friends of dishonest trustees only point the necessity of stringent legislation imposing severe punishment for such offences, Of course men into whoso hands are confided the pecuniary interests of others to the ex- tent of hundreds of thousands of dollars are supposed to be honest and enjoy excel- lent reputations for morality and integrity. Thoy would not otherwise be selected tor | such important trusts. “ When they rob | those whom they are bound to protect their cant have aided them in its consummation, Our laws here in relation to breaches of trust are dangerously Inx, a8 aleo are the | provisions for security on the part of trus- | tees. In England the courts are exacting in the matter of sureties, especially when the interests of minors are concerned, nnd dishonest trustees are severely and surely punished. We needa similar system here, | and the multiplication of such cases shows that the remedy cannot be too promptly or too rigorously applied | seded The | Hepworth will evolve’ strength from the or the division with the corridors and stair- | offence is the greater since hypocrisy and | promises of God; Mr. Giles will demon- A city of the population, wealth and pecu- liar topography of New York should be par- ticularly distinguished for its rapid transit facilities, Its poverty in this respect would seem incredible to a foreigner who should first be made acquainted with the circum- stances of its position, wealth, the vicissi- tudes of its climate, and the impetuous, pro- gressive spirit of its people. It would be difficult to explain to such an intelligent visitor the reasons why this metropolis has been so long under the control of a com- bination of mercenary street car managers. The present methods of city travel are, with the exception of the New York Elevated Railroad, inadequate and barbarous. They are slow, uncertain, and utterly uncom- fortable. Within six months the street car nuisance might be partially super- Gilbert Elevated Railroad Company has 60 far completed its preparations that the material for build- ing the roadway, the rolling stock ond all: the paraphernalia can be made to take shape like the fabrications of Aladdin the moment that legal opposition is removed. How much longer the Sixth Avenue Company and its allies may continue to obstruct the public convenience we are unable to say, but it is very evident that the hindrance cannot be of any great duration, Legal weapons are as likely to find vulnerable points in their armor asin that of the champions of the rapid transit movement. The abolition of the Sixth avenue line would be of little con- sequence as compared with the establish- mentof such a public improvement as the Gilbert Elevated Road, The Mayor and Board of Aldermen have some jurisdiction in this matter, and we do not despair of see- ing it used in case the foolish resistance is maintained, Heating the Stfeet Cars. If the people of New York are to have any reliet this winter from the danger and discomfort of cold, draughty street cars, it must come through the prompt and de- cisive action of the Board of Aldermen and the Mayor. The railroad companies, through their responsible officers, have treated the popular demand for warm cars with indifference, and have announced that whatever may hereafter be done it is not their intention to try any experiments this year. Indeed, so independent of public sentiment have these corporations grown that they make it a matter of special favor to’ spread a little straw in the bottom of a few of their night cars, and do not renew this until its wot, filthy condition renders it worse than the bare flooring. The con- ductors, emulating the example of their employers, seldom take the trouble to avail themselves of the money trap in the doors, but swing open the front door to collect fare or chat with the driver, until the inside passengers are thoroughly chilled. It is useless to complain of this to the com- panies. Thoy care nothing for the comfort of the passengers. The people must ride, they argue; so why bother about anything but the collection of the fares? There are plenty of simple methods by which the street cars, if not thoroughly heated, could be made much more comfort- able and less hazardous to health during the winter months than they now are. No per- son proposes the use of stoves, be@ause the crowded condition of the carson the long lines, where the cold is most severely felt, makes stoves unavailable. Water in chauf- feretes running the length of the cars would be practicable. But even without any such appliances the cars might be made endurable by the use of weather strips on all the doors and windows, by a thorough stoppage of cracks and holes in the sides and floors, and by the liberal use of good, dry straw, to be changed every round trip if necessary, or oftener in very wet weat@er. Of course this would be attended with a trifling expense, to which the companies, although ready to spend thousands to defeat rapid transit or in lobby jobs, would object. But the power given to the Common Council over the roads and cars should be used in such » manner as to extort at least as much concession as | this from the fav Dea At the time of the first introduction of anmsthetics deaths such as that just reported in Rahway were not of infrequent occur- rence, but the acquirement of a more ace curate knowledge of the precise operation of these agents and the perception of the class of cases in which their use is improper have almost removed these accidents from the category of events. They seem to occur now with dentists only, and probably an examination of the statistics would show that a very large proportion of the deaths in the whole history of anesthetics have oc- curred in dental practice. y Dentistry. the upright position of the body that is maintained in the ‘extraction of teeth, while in surgical operations generally the patient is prostrate. In the upright position the heart, operating feebly under the medicine, does not supply to the brain enough blood to enable it to continue its function, and without this essential parts ot the vital machinery are necessarily arrested. In the case at Rahway this effect was per- haps exaggerated because, as the patient was only half anwsthetized, he was sufli- ciently conscious to be sensitive of pain, and coincided with an enfeebled action of the heart. This being the opening of the universal Week of Prayer very many of our city pul- pits wiil discuss Christian fellowship—the theme suggested by the Evangelical Alliance for this day. But, aside from this, -Mr, strate that the conjunction of man with God is the measure of man’s life, and Dr. Rylance will give us some thoughts appropriate to‘ the new year, Dr. Eddy has some intel- ligent idea of what should be done with the | beggars that infest our streets, and he will convince us that every man should be in his own plfce—a proposition so plain that no argument should be needed to This may be due | to the fact that in these cases the medicines | are used with Jess skill, or it may be due to | in this state an enforced activity of the brain | enforce it. Father Bjerring will dis- cuss the doctrines of the Greek Church, will the and Mr, Rawson present NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. ancient and modern ideas concerning the Messiah. The pulpit has responsibilities which will be set forth by Mr. Lightbourn, and Christianity exercises an influence upon social questions and on the foreign relations of the Republic, but how it will do so in the future Dr. Smith will tell us to-day. Dr. Talmage has some sage words for newspaper men, and of course the profession will turn ont to hear him; and, as if the ladies did not already sufficiently control men, Dr, Landis purposes to give them a few ideas which shall increase their controlling power. Tho deceased Commodore will receive an obituary notice from Mr. Searles, and Mr. Johns will apply certain lessons suggested by the burned theatre in Brooklyn and the broken bridge in Ohio. Our London and Paris Cable Letters. It seems to be agreed by our London and Paris correspondents that affairs in the East are very critical, and that Ignatieff, the Russian, has hoodwinked Salisbury, the Englishman. The reason given in our Paris letter for the bold front of Turkey is suggestfve one to those who study the past of Europe. When we glance back at the feudal chieftains drawing the teeth of rich Jews to draw their money bags after them, and then turn to the spectacle of the great Hebrew money kings of to-day drawing the teeth of the Christian Powers of Europe in asolemn Con- ference, the sight may well give us pause. Happily, however great the pressure of the Eastern question may be in the two capitals of Europe, there is enough interest left in other matters to make a lively page. Whether it be the Londoners trooping out to look at ao little more mud and water in the submerged suburbs than they have nine months of the year in Cheapside, or the Parisians try- ing to rival Old Probabilities by prog- nosticating from the overcoats in a pawn- shop, we see that the times find their remedy in men’s good humor. We would suggest to the latter as an appropriate motto for their “Indications” what Hamlet said to the ghost, “Oh, my prophetic soul, my uncle!” From both cities we have oa variety of dramatic and operatic announcements of interest. Literary, social and artistic gossip will be found in each letter. At every turn of the kaleidoscope a fresh subject glitters into clear shape, but we must confess to an inability to determine what garment our Paris correspondent describes so vaguely. With our present light it would be foulardy in the extreme to waste space guessing. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Russtan caviar 1s made of sturgeon. Refined petroleum mends bald hoads, St. Louis has twenty-six kindergartens, Forty English towns take thelr names from the elm, Florida and Alabama have been flooded by recent rains, Matthow Arnold says, ‘let the mind play freely round.’ A Scotch critic says that learned persons joke with difficulty. Mr. Jacob Thompson, of Tennessee, is at the Now York Hotel. The Bishop of Manchester docs not think that dancing ts a damning sin. Is not the solution of the telegraphic case before Congress to be found in a Circuit, Court? Burglars dislike platea ware und prefer solid silver. Moral :—Buy plated ware; though our advice is super- flous. “Give us a rest,’? said tho «irl who sat down in Broadway and ploughed up the brown sugar with her merry soles, In Rhode Island, the other day, aman tried to put two stamps on a letter; but there was room enough in the State for . The Scandinavians in Gaul became Frenchmen in language and in manuers without losing their ancient vigor and Jove of adventure, James Russell Lowell isa treo trader; but what we would like to know is, 1f there bad been no protection to American ice cream, how he could ever have writ- ten bis poems and mado anything? A man was yesterday looking at an immovable truck that was stuck m tho snow, and when ho said there wasn’t any budge about it, another smarty saa, “Want she whcels go wound. ? Donald G. Mitchell made his reputation years ago in his *Reveries of a Bachelor’? (vy Ik Marvel); he has long been leading a quiet farmer's life; and now bis first book 1s being translated into Italian, Tbe riva:ry between the horse car companies con- tinues; and ‘when a lady gots on any line the con- ductor immediately hugs ber up the steps and through the door, while her husband dare not hug her in public, When a subordinate musical artist comes to America with a greater one the critics all say, as they said of Vivien, who came with Essipoff, ‘Hereafter wo eball have sometbing to say of him.’ But they never say it. ‘There is arumor that Chief Justice Shea, of New York city, is the author of a historical study of Alex- ander Hamilton which is now impress. It is certain that such a work, purporting to be from his pen, 18 being translated for publication in Paris by a public man and jitterateur of note, A Broad street man who acoused his clerk of taking a great interest in bis daughter was astonished to hear him ray, with tears in bis eyes, that it was compound interest, Then he subtracted the young man’s salary, and, dividing his feet, added to tho inverse rativ of the young man’s progression by a square root. Mile, Gaimard, a French dancer of great fame, had the portrait of herself parted, in the full loveliness of her youth, upon her dressing table, and made herself up toi, When the time came for imitation to be manifestly impossible she recognized the fact and met {t courageously. Her last -porformance was with her face and shoulders concealed. The Brooklyn Eagle announces that to-day and henceforth a Sunday edition of that paper will be pubs hished. This will be a boon to the citizens of Brook- lyn. The Kagle is so excellent a nowspaper shat its ab- sence on ono day of the week has Jong becn deplored by its patrons, and as the Sunday edition is to be devoted to reading matter it will be doubly welcome in the family circle, Conundrum for children:—In what respect does Postmaster Hewitt differ from the Father of His Coun- try?—Graphic, Can’t imagine. Because he collected a lot ot bad eggs and tried to hatchet ?—Philadelphia Bulletin, No, no, child; that is not the right answer, Recause, when his correspondents tore open their letters to add a P. S, avout mules, Hewitt couldn't tell a lie, and said Postinaster James did it, —Norris- town Herald, No, lad, It is that he does not like poos ple who steam it, A Yale graduate, who married a Now Haven gir! re- cently, was informed atthe commencement of their honeymoon that she made it an invariable practice to read one chapter fromghe Greek Testament on rising and before retiring—it was, in fact, the very Alpha and Omega of her daily existence. He replied he didn’t care one lota if it was, and saying he'd Bota, he promptly Lawbda on the spot.—Commercial. If ho Nua wile was Kappa Pt on Greck, and Delta blow with- outa Psi, or even a Mu, he'd Eta Gamma, Evening Telegram:—"*Alé der Hi, Stephens says that he fears nothing more will ever bo got by they swindled depositors of the Freedman’s Bank at Wash- ington, [tis not generally known in this ety that the trustees of that institution comprised soveral very ominent citizens of New York, who suffered their names to be used as decoys for deposfts and nover paid the slightest personal attention to the affairs of the bank,, We perceive the names of some of them ov the list of nominations for officers of tho Union League Club for this yoar.” LONDON'S KALEIDOSCOPE. PRS, A Lurid Turn to the Oriental Outlook. THE OLD OSMANLI FIRE Salisbury Hoodwinked, Russia Backing Down, Turkey Arrogant. WHAT WILL THE NEXT TURN REVEAL? Preparing for a Brilliant May- fair Season. Aristocrats to Joust in Jest, but Soldiering in Earnest, DRAMATIC DOINGS. Literary, Musical, Royal, Social and Via- tory Jottings. THE PALESTINE EXPLORATION. A Week of Storms—Father Thames Breaking Banks. Plehinebahs Cokie (BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.) Lonpon, Jan. 6, 1877, Europe awaits the Ottoman reply to the propo- sals of the Conference with great anxiety and the moment is one of supreme tension. The general opinion now is that the Turks have gained a diplo- matic victory over the European plenipotentiaries, and that the result so far Is a decided improvement in the Turkish position, THE TURKS ASSUME A BOLD ATTITUDE. Midhat Pacha and his colleagues, encouraged by General Ignatieff’s concessions and taking them as an evidence of Russian weakness, became despe- rate and resolved to terminate the European pressure on Turkey by bold and decided action. Believing war to be preferable to dependance on the great Powers of Europe, and hoping. that divi- sions between those Powers might enable them to get rid of foreign dictation forever, they made up their minds to act with firmness -and provoke @ conflict. TURKISH CONFIDENCE. Encouraged by the repeated reports of the break down of the Russian preparations and the bad state of the mobilized Russian army they have become convinced of their ability to beat Russia in the field, even should they have to dispense with English assistance. THE OLD OSMANLI SPIRIT REVIVED. This new and haughty attitude of Turkey will ree sult ina demand for the withdrawal of the Euro- pean influence over the councils of the Porte and the abrogation of all treaties which are humiliating to Turkish pride. It isa spark of the .old Osmanit fire which Europe erroneously supposed to have, been extinguished a century ago, and if the rac; must once more betake itself to the other side the Bosphorus it is evident it will make a desperat resistance. RUSSIA'S ALTERNATIVE. The Russian military preparations have certainly broken down in certain departments, but neverthe- less Russia cannot afférd to stand confessed before the world as a second rate Power. She is in such a | position now that she must either abandon the Turkish Slavs forever or make up her mind to fight SALISBURY HOODWINKED BY IGNATIEFF. The mission of the Marquis of Salisbury is consid- ered in some quarters to have proved an egregious failure. It is freely said that General Ignatieff ca- joled him into compliance with his designs by fate tering his amour-propre, and so succeeded in making a tool of him. The Turks are unable to read Lord Salisbury’a action by the light of Lord Beacons fleld’s Guildhall speech, and it is generally under stood that England's action has decided them t¢ accept battle, . A TIMES CORRESPONDENT'S OPINION. “The Pera correspondent of the Times, heretofore strongly anti-Turkish and pro-Russian, writes under date of January 1:—I am still of the opinion that the Turks will ultimately give in, but there is no doubt that the great trump card, intended to be played as a last resource—that decla- ration of war by Russia—has suddenly turned out to be no trump at all, for every: thing in the attitude of the St. Petersburg Cabinet, and the conduct of General Ignatieff, the Russian Plenipotentiary here, contributes to con- firm the belief that Russia is afraid to go to war. The Russian Ambassador, in fact, throws out clear hints that the amair could only be settled by joint European execntion, thus reverting to the pro posal made by the Czar two months age, D TURKISH OBSTINACY. T@ Turks have not fatled to perceive the advan. tage accruing to their cause from this irresolution of Russa and Europe, and are not unlikely to con. tinue unmanageabie and stubborn as long as they can flatter themselves that the Conference will break up without any other result than leaving them masters of the situation, DOUBT AND UNCERTAINTY, The Patt Malt Gazette of this afternoon in an edi- torial note says the telegrams and news letters about the Conference, the attitude of the Turks and the disposion of the Russians only deepen the ob- scuritics of the whole question. It seems doubtful of CONTE whether at any time more uncertainty or confusion has prevailed’ than at this moment, It is clear that the Committee of foreign statesmen assembled in Constantinopie has itself fallen nto much disorder, and that if the Turks are only resolute enough at this hour and are thereatter truly solicitous and specding in estab. lishing the reforms of their own new constitution, they may boast of having defeated and silenced all Europe. STILL NEGOTIATING, Negotiations continue among tho Plenipoten- taries at Constantinople and between them and the Turks with @ view of inducing the Turks not to formally retuse certatn of the formulated Proposals, which, however, the plenipotentiaries appear dis posed to modify somewhat from their origimal shapes, Avis hoped that the discussion of these proposals: