The New York Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1877, Page 8

\ ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. cvellias t>-alldwcstal JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ecllinast M fe tches must 1 H business, news letters or telegrapal despa: ters kayes should be properly sealed. pp eicarentccne ‘will nos be revurned. —__--—__—_ bets ELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH 1ONDON JOEVICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— ARIS. FICK—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. Pua 7 STRADA PACE. advertisements will be recelved and for- wtded onthe same vr or yw Yor! VOLUME XL. NO. 14 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW, NIBLO'S GARDEN.—. BOOTH'S THEATRE. GRAND OPERA HOUS! LYCEUM THEATRE. PARK THEATRE.—Tius Manave | Rate HEART. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.—Le WALLACK'S THEATRI! UNION SQUARE THEATKE. FAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. 8 THEATRE COMIQU OLYMPIC THEATRE. TONY PASTOR'S THAT! — "tO COUNTRY DEALERS, The Adams Express Company run a special news- paper train over the Pennsylvania Railroad and its _ Connections, leaving Jersoy City at a quarter past four A. M. daily and Sunday, carrying the regular edition of the Hxraxp as tar West as Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter past six A. M. and Washington at ono P. M. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be warmer and partly elowly, or cloudy, possibly with rain or light snot high wind. Wap Street ie 10 stock mar- ket was active and strong, the principal dealings being in Western Union, Lake Shore and Michi- gan Central. Gold opened at 1063, and closed at 1065s. Money on call loaned at 6 and 5 per cent. Government bonds were active and higher and railway mortgages firm. The bank state- ment for the week is favorable, Tue Crercy will find some useful hints in our religious colun Tar Goopwr lees and holders of trust fund: A Great Many mean business—for their For a Goop Diacecr Srory consult “The Trish Castaways” in to-day’s Heranp. Srreets begins to-day, tions of Scriptural language will at once become Points For Sus hurches are as warm as rum shops, not so expensive, and are unpro- ductive of morning he wlaches. can spoil things by being in n jailbirds expeet freedom tried too soon. Even Justi a hurry; twenty: because they w AyotHer Surcmr.—Cause, frouble and no friends. A little o1 y humanity may pre- vent many impending ‘3 of the same sort. Dr. Gorrietc’ Emanuel, on chav be protitably Sermon, in the Temple y and good example, might Ovr “Picrunes or Poverty” are absolutely true to life, as the tender hearted may learn by personal inspection of the tenement districts. + Tar Nemper or PLans submitted for heating the cars should nind the Railroad Committee of the adage. many cooks spoil the broth.” Some Prec nr Orrrations which prominent financiers have recognized as business-like are suggested by our report of the Duncan-Sherman bankruptcy case. “Tne Daniscnerrs” was put upon the stage of thé Germania Theatre last night, with an inei- dent not in the original play—to wit, an appear: ance of the manager to acknowledge submission to an injunction obtained by Messrs. Shook & Palmer. Ose or Our € s 3 complains to- day of a street which he found too open and filthy to prove effective even as a chicken coop, but if all such cars were removed from the streets how many city travellers would find even standing room ? Asotuer Ixpucemest to Goon Saiors.—On the burning ship Harry Mills two men were ordered into the ¢ locker, though their officers must have known that death would cer- tainly result, yet a coroner's jury returned a ver- dict of accidental death! Tue Weatnen.—The metric trough which axtended along the line of the Alleghanies yes- terday morning moved eastward into the Atlan- tic, off Now England, with a ished area, The usual clearing weather followed, with a fall of temperature. The high pressure that had de- ascended from the Northwest and threatened to involve the entire of the United States cast of +the Rocky Mountains in an area of intense cold, moved away to the castward without affecting the temperature of the Southern States to ‘any degree, ‘The conditions now pre- vailing are the reverse of those of Fri day. A large area of low pressure, accom- farcu Case will interest lega- | panied by high and stormy winds, extends over | the lake region, and an urea of high barometer is moving eastward from Texas. Yesterday morning snow fell in the northeastern districts, but last evening the precipitation was very limited throughout the country. the lake region is seve’ ond may prove dangerous when it reaches the Atlantic const. We, therefore, warn east-bound sels of its movement. The temperature the Northwest has undergone some rapid tions since Friday and is falling in Man In the South it is very unequal, there being ves- in The storm in | } tion? | general term, viewing the facts apart from a difference of thirty-two degrees between Shreve- | port and New Orleans. The changes on the Atlantic coust have been slight. A Guif depression is decidedly among the proba- bilities for the coming week. A movement of the iow on all the great rs may be looked for during the next few days. Exposed floating property should be secured against damage. ‘The weather in New York to-day will be warmer and m, partly cloudy, or cloudy, possibly with rain or snow and high winds, rn NEW YORK BKRALD, SUNDAY, JAN UARY 14, 1877—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Aspects or the Eastern Fi As the reports from one direction record the expiring efforts of the Conference to overcome the difficulties in the way of a peaceful solution of the problems discussed at Constantinople we receive from another side the report of a significant utterance at St. Petersburg. His Majesty the Emperor distributes his thanks to the persons con- cerned for their efficient assistance in the mobilization of the army. As no one is thanked for his share in agreat labor while that labor is still in progress or only half done, it is to be inferred from this imperial act that the mobilization of the armies called for is completed and that there are three hundred thousand Russian troops ready for service in the southern provinces cf the Em- pire. This is not precisely what the news filtered through Vienna and London has led us to anticipate, but it was scarcely possible that news should not be colored by the way. The likelihood that the Russian army is ready gives interest to the newest aspect of the Eastern question. Some months since the Eastern question, if reduced to its sim- plest form, would have been, How can the existence of the Ottoman Empire in Europe be reconeiled with the maintenance of civil- ization and the progress of political im- provement in the part subject to its domina- This would have been its most preconceptions inspired by particular na- tional interests. From the London stand- point it might have been, How can we limit, in the interest of England, the prog- ress of Russia toward Constantinople; or how shall we prevent the exclusion of the Moslems, who buy from us annually sixty- five million dollars’ worth, by the Russians, who only buy from us fifteen million dol- lars’ worth ; or how shall we maintain the Balkan Peninsula and Asia Minor in their present condition of efficiency as barriers and buffers between our line of communi- cation with India and the restless endeavors of the Muscovites in the same direction? From the Russian standpoint the ques- tion would have been framed with charac- teristic differences. In its naked rudeness it would be, How shall we reach and pos- sess ourselves of Constantinople? But the first envelope of the question would be, How shall we do this with least alarm to the susceptibilities of others equally in- terested in the ownership of the greatest seat of commerce in the world? And there would have heen considerations of the Slavic and Christian grounds of agitation as essential helps to the diversion of attention from the great, ever present purpose. It seems to be resented as an injustice to the Emperors of Russia that they should be suspected of a wish to acquire Constantino- ple, and the present Emperor has declared that no such ambition is involved in his policy toward the Ottoman Empire. If it is to suspect the Czars of disingenuousness to believe that in the midst of other apparent purposes their eyes are really turned to the Bosphorus, it is to suspect them of politi- cal imbecility to believe that the hope to acquire Constantinople is not the basis of all their acts and plans with regard to Tur- key. No doubt the present Czar has a gene- rous sentiment for the oppressed of the same race with his own people who are crushed by Turkish tyranny, and no doubt a profound religious impulse affects the whole Russian nation as it has affected other nationsin Europe, when the story is told of the butcheries of Bulgaria ; and neither this sentiment nor this religious impulse may conceive of any policy nor of anything else butan immediate satisfaction of its wrath against the Moslems. But the policy in regard to Constantinople is beyond all that, That policy, derived frdm the time of Peter the Great, and de- fined in his will, has taken a hold upon the very constitution of the Russian mind and character, and is unconsciously behind all temporary and occasional purposes. It is said that the will of Peter is apocryphal, and that the imputation of this policy is a slander. If so, he who invented it slan- dered very wisely. As to the authenticity of the will, it is not a matter of the slightest consequence in regard to a document of this nature who it was written by; and if Peter did not dictate it the belief that he did and the document itself have had just os much influence upon Russian ideas, “Make the nearest approaches possible,” says the will, ‘to Constantinople and the Indies. He who shall reign there will be the true sovereign of the world. Pro- voke, therefore, constant wars, with Turkey now, and now with Persia; set up arsenals and factories on the Black Sea; seize that sea little by little, as well as the Bultic; hasten the decadence of Persia; advance by the Per- sian Gulf; reach the Indies, and once there you can do without the gold of England, Attach and unite to you the Greeks through- out Turkey, become their centre and sup- port by sacerdotal supremacy, and you will have all these as friends in the house of your enemy.” The nation whese policy has grown for a century on inculeations like this will not be affected the less by them though told that it has been in error as to their authorship. If the State of Louisiana were possessed by a foreign Power, which interdicted the navigation of the Mississippi River, and if | not capable of sustaining its prohibition were supported by several other Powers, and the fertile and splendid Mississippi Valley, thus prevented from using its nat- ural channel of communication with the world was hampered, limited and re- strained in its growth by Powers directly in- terested in suppressing its industries and its commerce, how long would the American people be ashamed of a policy for taking the mouth of that river from any foe on any | pretext and at any price? With such a state of facts we would be able to compre- hend the position of Russia with regard | to Constantinople, though we should not be in so bad a position as she is; for other great lines of communication make the At- lantic seaboard accessible to the great pro- ducing districts of the West all the year round, while Russia for six months is her- metically sealed by every outlet save that which the Turk and his allies in Europe guard against her, All the splendid produc. ing dictricts of Russia are drained by mighty rivers that empty into the Black Sea, and the Black Sea is a Inke on Russia's way to whenever it shall please the commercial policy of Great Britain. But what England or Russia respectively saw in the Eastern question constituted its older aspects. The newest form of this in- evitable question is this:—Are we to witness a revived vitality in the Moslem power? This is the Eastern question of primary in- terest just now. Is the resolute spirit with which the Grand Vizier deals with the case before him—refuses to accept the will of Europe and throws himself into the last ditch of Ottoman obstinacy—is all this but the expression of a renewed and revived con- fidence in Moslem arms, and is it possible that such a confidence may be well founded? Europe would not have the right to be alto- gether surprised if it should turn out in the present war that the Ottoman army is a much more formidable force than it has ap- peared tobe in any war waged since the extirpation of the old system and the adop- tion of European military principles. Turkey is as fruitful a nurse of vigorous men now as she was in the days of hergreat- est power. When the original national sys- tem of recruiting her armies was rooted out her military capacity was destroyed for a time. No nation that grew in feudal forms ever reached the administrative system without a cataclysm, and Turkey was like the rest. But it has always been foreseen that if the administrative system in the for- mation of an army should become in any degree naturalized’ in Turkey, her an- cient magnificent armies might reappear, bettered with all the strength that organiza- tion gives. Is the world likely to witness this spectacle now? A Christian Fold. In a four story brown stone house on East Sixtieth street, between Third and Lexing- ton avenues, a number of poor children of different ages, mostly orphans, are lodged and fed at the expense, partly of charitable individuals and partly of the public. It is a ‘fold.” Atits head is a minister of the Protestant Episcopalian faith and the min- ister's wife. Rumor whispers something of a handsome young widow who sometimes takes a hand in the management of the gray- dressed little ones; but Rumor is as unrelia- ble as she is wicked, and it is always well to doubt her word when a pretty widow is in question. Recently it has been asserted that the shepherd of the “fold” is a wolf among the lambs, and that the poor children who are under the guardianship of his crook are not only lodged and fed, but are subjected to the forcible discipline of the slippers of the shepherd, the hair ‘brushes of his shep- herdess and tye gymnastic exercises of the pretty widow. Stories are told of the little lambs being occasionally kicked down stairs or tied up to the ceiling by the one, cuffed and strapped by the other, and danced upon, after the negro minstrel breakdown fashion, by the third. Of course these may all be wicked fibs, invented in malice and told with an evil intent. The reverend shepherd of the fold so designates them, and as their truth or falsity is now in the course of establishment through an investi- gation by the Board of Charities, his story is entitled to credit until it is proved to be unreliable. But whether the poor little lame of the fold are treated in a kindly manner or are really subjected to the alleged brutalities, it is certain that these charities which re- ceive liberal support from the public treas- ury should be more closely looked after than they are. We have to-day a singular statement from the reverend head of the fold. He certainly indulges in very irrev- erent charges against his assailants, ranging all the way from wicked malice to con- structive forgery. According to his ac- count there is a deep laid and Satanic plot against the fold growing out of High Church and Low Church quarrels. It is not very encouraging to those whose money is appro- | priated to such a charity to discover that underlying it is a very unchristian, undig- nified and disgraceful quarrel among the Christians who appeal to the people for aid in a supposed benevolent work. An Unsatisfactory Request, A well established life insurance company in this city has invited nine well known and reputable citizens to make a thorough ex- amination of its assets and liabilities, and the invitation has been accepted. The com- pany in question makes the request ‘in view of the distrust which exists in the pub- lic mind in consequence of the mismanage- ment and failure of certain life insurance companies” and because it desires ‘to show that it fully appreciates the importance of an early establishment of the confidence in the system of American life insurance which it deserves when properly conducted.” We have no doubt that the proposed examina- tion will be entirely satisfactory so far as the respectable company desiring it is concerned, but we do not think that the company has hit upon the best means of establishing con- fidence in our insurance system. The people are not satisfied in such mat- ters with private investigations made at the request of the investigated, however re- spectable the investigators may be. Such kid-gloved handling seldom turns up rough facts or drags forth unsavory secrets. We do not say this to reflect on the reputable company requesting the examination or on the excellent examiners it has selected, We speak only in general terms. If the com- pany had made a public demand for a re- vision of the life insurance laws, for a thorongh reform in the Insurance Depart- ment by the appointment of an honest and efficient superintendent, for*an immediate and searching investigation into its own af- fairs and the affairs of all other companies by such superintendent, and for an act making it a misdemeanor for the officers of any insurance company to refuse informa- tion to or scrutiny into its affairs by any policy holder, it would, indeed, have done something to establish confidence in our in- surance system. There are, no doubt, to-day many companies which an honest investiga- tion by a capable public officer would close atonce. We wanta deeper reform than a mere frifndly examination into a single com- | pany's condition before confidence can be | established, Indeed, the very request made by this company implies that the official ex- | amination required by the law is insuf- | ficient, untrustworthy and undeserving of the ovcan the issue of which is to be shut | public confidence, Certainty Against Economy. It is to be hoped that the question as to what description of wire shall be used in making the great cables of the Brooklyn Bridge will be decided by the trustees only after a very thorough understanding of the subject has been reached and without any regard to individual interests or friendships. The attendance of nineteen out of the twenty trustees at the meeting on Thursday last proves that the importance of the pend- ing discussion is properly understood and gives hopes that a wise decision will be reached. The character and the cost of the work forbid the incurring of the slightest risk of its failure either through a false idea of economy or from any other cause. The points of the present situation are readily explained. The cables are the support of the structure, and their soundness and the suffi- ciency of their strength must be assured beyond a peradventure. A defect in any portion of them is practically the destruc- tion of the whole. The trusteos are called upon to decide as to the description of steel of which these cables are to be made. The Trenton firm of Roebling’s Sons puts in a bid for Bessemer steel wire, which will cost something less than half a million dollars. Other manufacturers, in- cluding some foreign firms, offer other de- scriptions of steel at higher rates, On the application of the required tests an English wire was found to possess more strength and flexibility than the Bessemer wire, but its cost would be double, and it is said thut the Bessemer wire test was satisfactory to the engineers. ‘The question for the trustees to decide is whether they will adopt the Besse- mer wire, which is reported to have stood the test well enough, and which will cost half » million dollars, or the English wire, which'will cost a million dollars, but the superior strength of which is unquestion- able. There is some disposition to discounte- nance the adoption of the Roebling Bes- semer wire, because the chief engineer of the bridge is one of the Roebling brothers, and was until recently a member of the firm. We do not think any suchireason should cause the rejection of the wire, since Mr. Roebling would scarcely risk the loss of his high reputation by indorsing a wire that would be likely to fail. But the ques- tion is whether it is not better to make assurance doubly sure by using a wire which, while it will cost half a million dollars more than the Bessemer, is decidedly its superior in strength and flexibility. In a work which is to cost thirteen million dollars is it worth while to take even the slightest risk of failure for the purpose of saving half a million? The people would be better satisfied if a committee of compe- tent, independent engineers, to be selected by the Mayors of the two cities, should be called in to decide the question. Pinchback Yields. Tho situation at New Orleans-has under- gone very little change during the past twenty-four hours, but such events as have transpired are favorable to the Nicholls side. The principal feature of the news is the final determination of Pinchback to attach himself to the fortunes of the Nicholls gov- ernment. Before reaching this decision Pinchback is said to have required and re- ceived from General Nicholls a public as- surance that his administration in its course toward the colored race shall be in faithful accordance with the principles laid down in his speech at Baton Rouge, on the occasion of the acceptance of the nomination for Governor. The imme- diate result of Pinchback’s action yesterday was the addition to the democratic Senate of three Senators and the defection of two others from the republican Senate. This gives the democratic Senate within one of a “quorum of members bearing the certificates of the Returning Board ; and, what is of equal importance, hopelessly breaks the re- publican quorum. The movement on the part of Pinchback was doubtless accelerated by the attempt of the Packard officers to arrest his Senatorial friends on the precod- ing day, but it is possible that he may have received some personal promises from the democrats in addition. It is said that Pinchback and his party, who have much influence with the colored race, declare that this action obliterates the color line in Louisiana. If so it will have an importance beyond its effect on the exist- ing struggle. Meanwhile, although the Nicholls party seems now to be in ao fair way of success, it must not be forgotten that the President holds the future in his hands, and that, if on the report of the two Congressional committees he should think proper to accept the story of his own politi- cal friends and to recognize the Packard government, the situation would be in- stantly and decidedly changed. Palpit Topics To-Day. To-day Dr. Smith will complete his series of Sabbath lectures on the past and future of the Republic by showing how Christianity in the coming century will influence the social evils and the foreign relations of this nation. ‘Che theatrical profession will be instructed by Dr. Talmage out of the abun- dance of his experience on the stage. The realities of and the struggle for life will be vividly set forth by Messrs. Sweetser and Kennard. The great gulf between Lazarus and the rich man will not be bridged by Mr. Eddy nor the speechless guest be given the power of utterance by Mr. Johns. The King’s banquet will be spread by Mr. Colcord, but Mr. Lloyd's mad fellow will have no right to the feast. The great de- cision of Dr, Graham and the Christian's aim—courage for God—of Mr. Swain cannot lesson. tht apostle’s anxiety as Mr, Herr sees it, Those who are fond of stories can listen to Mr. Bell tell one about alittle maid, or to Mr. Martyn recite the story of Naaman the Syrian, or to Mr. Lightbourn describe the journeyings of Israel. Among the higher ministries of life which Mr. Pullman may announce will probably be that of trouble, which will serve Mr. Love’s purpose to en- force Gospel lessons to-day. Mr. Bell will entertain, if he does not instruct, singing Christians this morning, ond while Dr. Boynton is illustrating the relation between religion and science Mrs. Schertz will explain how Israel’s body, soul and spirit is to be | redeemed and gathered into oternal life. Our Lundon and Paris Cable Letters. Fogs are not new to London nor is sunshine a novelty in Paris, but the British metropolis has just had a brumous experience of which it is doubtless proud, for although simply announced yesterday it is the subject of what we take to be subtle panegyric to-day—that kind of artful appreciation with which a father details the rascally doings of his darling son. Paris may be tickled with a straw, but it has a whole flood of unseasonable sunshine to draw up the corners of its mouth withal. Such are the two cities now and always—the one lovable in spite of her gloominess, and full of strong move- ment in her thickest fog; the other in- viting and fascinating and only likely to tire through excess of dazzle. From London whata budget of diverse jottings comes to us! Church and State, stage and altar, science and sham, health and disease, American beef cutting the throats of Eng- lish butchers, English bandsmen re- fusing to play an accompaniment to the treason (!), they found in the “Shaughraun,” royalists building monument to a good natured semi-lunatic lord of the Commonwealth wars and English radicals asking the Prince of Wales to pay his debts. ‘This and much more under a sort of universal shiver that Britannia’s trident is about to be turned into an icicle by the departure from her vernal shores of the Gulf Stream. They have societies for everything in London; so we shall probably soon hear of a ‘Gulf Stream Directing and Britannic Anti- Polarization Association” with a brass door plate, a salaried secretary and a board of old men in ulsters in an office in St. Martin's lane, From France we have many characteristic bits of news, such as Buloz’s next world joke and the tragedy of Herr Strauss and the patriotic fiddlers of the bal masqué. Offenbach should write an opéra bouffe on it and laugh such catgut-scraping patriotism out of France, where ridicule, above all places in the world, is quick to kill, Her Majesty’s Lord Chamberlain. It is one of the curiosities of English law that actors in London have not the same right to pursue their avocations that other men have, but are subject to the autocratic authority of the Lord Chamberlain—a func- tionary of the’ royal household. This is, perhaps, a vestige of the days when all the actors were ‘Her Majesty's servants ;” but it has resulted occasionally of late in some rather tyrannical censorship of the stage. But there “is a soul of goodness in things evil,” and even the Lord Chamberlain's absolute authority is seen to be advan- tageous tothe public when it is exercised to compel the observance in theatres of proper precautions for the prevention of great calamities as the result of fire. With us the Board of Health, the Department of Buildings, the police, the Asylum for Juvenile Delinquents and several other queer bodies are clothed with more or less authority over the theatres, and it is always found to be more than is pleasant to the munager and often less than is necessary for an efficient control. This is one case in which an indi- vidual authority that is absolute seems to be more satisfactory than the other sort, and when the LordsChamberlain says that he will punish ‘‘flagrant” violations of his orders it is evident that his tyranny is tem- pered with discretion. Half a dozen killed to each theatre he will not grumble at, but woe to any one who makes it a hundred. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Sam Pard is in New Orleans. Mr, Hewitt’s taco is careworn. In California hogs cre fed on grapes, President Porter, of Yalo, is very iif. Australia has a population of 2,000,000, Extreme cold drives the smelt out to sea, ‘The post office sometimes curries infectious digeases, Many German cigars are made of dried cherry leaves. Ustrich eggs are quoted at $10 euch at the Cupo of Good Hope. Amateur theatricais no doubt keep many young men from barrooms. Turks use toothbrushes of olive wood, which aro purchased in bundles. Rustem Effendi, ot the Turkish Legation at Wash- ington, 1s at the Albemarle Hotel. AGerman writer advises American girls to marry American men, for true happiness, Hon, William A. Wheeler, the republican candidate for Vice President, is in Washington. In Slavonic gallantry the expressions ‘‘goul’’ and “male inhabitant”? mean the samo thing, Sir Alexander T. Galt, of Montreal, arrived from Liverpool in the steamship Britannic yesterday, and 18 at the Gilsey House. “Nothing would more conduce to the good service of tho public and to the welfare of the railway sbare- holders than the universal adoption of tho rule that equal distances should command equal fares.” The recent Polish address to the Czar was written by Marquis Wielopolski, the Instigator of the proscrip- tion which let to the Polish insurrection of 1863. In | Warsaw only afew were brave enough to sign it, Hyacinth leaves cut off close to the bulb, and coy- ered by loaf mould in a saucer placed close to tho glass will in ten weeks develop bulbs of theirown, Mr. Hooibrenk produces new varioties by crossing ¢ Ecening Telegram:—Mr. Chatfee, of Colorado, to abolish the use of stoves in railroad cars, discount- ing the certain accident, and arguing that it is all ono to the passengers whether they are frozen or burned to death.” “Mr, Goldwin Smith and one or two other political writers of ominence consider that Clive and Hastin,:s and Wellesley greviously blundered in raising that Anglo-Asiatic empire which 1s the wonder and envy of rival Powers.’” M, Ste, Claire Deville was discussing the question of the advance of knowletge with « famous anatomist, “After all,’’ ho said, “you have mado great advances; but don’t you think you are very much hke the hack- men, who know all tbe streets, but baven’t the re- motest idea of what 1s going on in the houses?” Among the most recently discovered population of savoges, the cannibals of New Ireland, in the South Seas, there is a custom which requires that a chiefs | daughter shall be kept in a cago within her father's house until ber introduction into society. The cage scarcely gives her room to move, and ste cannot leave it during any part of the day, though she is allowed to take a stroll with near relat:ves afier nightfall, Mr. Parnell, a member of the International Gun and Polo Cluv, has periormed, at Brighton, the extraordi- nary feat of shooting 106 penny proces successively in fifty minutes, thereby winning a heavy wager—it 1s said £300 to £16, The thrower up” of the coin isan old so.dier. The arrangements were that he should stand eight yards trom the shooter, and that he should not throw a plece more than threo feet above his head, For the English royal mince pie the ingredients aro mixed one montn before wanted, and are as follows :— 240 pounds of raisins, 460 pounds of currants, 290 pounds of lump sugar, 3 pounds of eianamon, 3 pounds of nutmeg, 3 pounds of cloves, 3 poands of ground all spice, 2 pounds of ginger, 300 pounds of bee, 350 pounds of suet, 24 bushels of apples, 240 lemons, 30 pounds of co votiles of brandy, 3 pounds of LONDON FOG. Descent of the Bramous Blanket on the British Metropolis. A GULF STREAM PANIC. The Turkish Conference in a Haze---Roumania Demands Reparation. MIST DRIFTS IN BRITISH POLITICS. Religious Jottings, Catholic Marriages, Angli- can Bishoprics, Anti-Ritualism. SMALLPOX, SCURVY, DRUNKENNESS Theatrical Doings---"'Star” Transits, New Plays, Old Faces. VICTORIA TO LEAD LONDON SOCIETY. we English Opinion on American Politics and Finance. EE Ee aa ART NOTES---A ROYALIST MEMORIAL, clap eis [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Lonpow, Jan. 13, 1877, We have been visited by one of the heaviest fogs that ever enveloped this great metropolis, London’s experience in the matter of fogshave been exceed. ingly fuli and varied. The latest, and, as it {s said, the greatest vigitation of that curious mixture of mist and smoke fairly astonished the natives and seriously interrupted business while it lasted. It is a very dangerous experiment to venture on the London streets wiile the day is turned into night, ahd the night so created one thick darkness. All the famiilar landmarks vanish in the brown cloud, and the belated wanderer cannot tell whether he is walking to Charing Cross or toward St. Paut’s, through Chancery lane or along Pall Mall, ashe stumbles along. But the longest lane has @ turning and the thickest fog a lighten- ing, so when the fog had hung long enough a bright sun shone upon the recently durkened thoroughfures, and many a Londoner, to say nothing of many a stranger, found himself out of his reckoning. If a Cockney prides himself on anything it is his knowledge of town. He rattles off the names of streets, lanes, rows and crescents with the facility that familiarity with the several quarters’can alone impart, and is, therefore, much put about when he wanders from his course during a fog. PHENOMENAL WEATHER. ‘The season of unexampled severity which we are now passing through has been marked by a series of disasters such as has not been recorded for @ long period of years. Deluging rains have saturated the country districts and swelled the rivers with destructive floods and over: spread the low valley lands with extraordinary inundations. Gales have swept the coasts and strewn them with wrecks. The utmost anxiety prevails in the agricultural districts regarding the planting of crops, for if the season continues bad to its end the consequences to the farming interests wili be very serious. The state of the weather has caused even the Conference at Constantinople to be forgotten in a great measure, and yesterday it wat lost sight of altogether in the fog. THE PRESS ON METEOROLOGY. A'llthe papers are discussing the extraordinary manifestations of nature. Some insist that a per- manent change has taken place in the meteorologi- cal conditions of the British Islands, and the theory that this has been brought about by the deflection of the course of the Gulf Stream from the English coast is gravely advanced and seriously entertained. Public opinion on the subject is gradually growing panicky, and the most absurd statements receive weight in the leading papers. A COMPULSORY EMIGRATION. It is gravely Suggested that if the present phen. omenai conditions continue to prevail England will soon become as uninhabitaole as Labrador or Nova Zembla, In this event a compulsory and wholesale migration of the great English nation to America must occur. The idea of an abandonment of the “tight little island” on account of bad weather must awaken the gloomiest feclings in the breasts of her people, but I don’t think there is any immediate danger that such a movement will be necessary. ‘The “Mistress of the Seas” should not be afraid of a little extra supply of rain water. THE TROUBLED EAST. The latest inteiligence received here from Cons stantinople indicates that the anxiety felt in conse- quence of Prince Bismarck's sudden coup 1s increas ing, and speculation is rife as to what the German Chancellor proposes to do next. The Times, the Daily News and the liberal journals generally sup- port the Marquis of Salisbury and commend him for forcing the government into an attitude of coalitior with Russia, SALASRURY'S OPPONENTS. ‘The conservative papers, on the other hand, at tack him and: charge that he is endeavoring to | neutralize England or throw her influence in favor of Russia. In Constantinople it is openly charged that Sir Henry G. Elliott was antagonized by the Marquis. 18 TURKEY PLAYING WITH THE CONFERENCE? ‘The Golos of St. Petersburg says:—“It is believe that the Porte is simply playing with the Conference. Further concessions by the Powers will only in, crease Turkish arrogance. Russia's self-respect de- mands that negotiations be prolonged no further, but energetic measures, such as General Ignatiet™s recall, be adopted, as the more determined Russia's attitude the sooner peace will be secured.” THE CZAR THANKS HIS OFFICERS, The Czar has written to the Grand Duke Nich® las, Minister of War, and various Generals, thamk+ ing them for th ir suceessfal exertions to promptly mobilize and concentrate the ariny. ROUMANIA DEMANDS REPARATION, mace, 60 pounds of lemon peel, and 60 pounds of orange neal, The Roumanian government hax demanded thas b