The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1877, Page 4

NEW YORK HERAL Plan of the Joint Committee—Dawn of Brighter Hopes. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1877. possible that they should not prefer law and | justice to partisan wrong, from which they, at least, have absolutely nothing to gain. is said that a man on whom the eruption of smallpox had already appeared lay three nights and two days helpless in a cow yard, assumed character of one of the President’s commissioners, when he was all the while the secret “counsel” of the republican TELEGRAPHIC NEWS BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. “4JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. a We have strong confidence that the judicious plan of the joint committee for counting the electoral votes will be indorsed by the American people, and that its few partisan opponents will become as odious as the small body of Northern copperheads were during the civil The adoption of this plan will get the country safely out of the turmoil in which it has been forced to live since last June, and especially since November, and which has depressed all industry and enormously increased poverty and pauperism everywhere. eiectors, Governor and Congressmen? Sec- retary Chandler pleads his privilege as a Cabinet Minister to avoid answering the committee's questions. But did he act in | his capacity as Minister while managing the republican Presidential campaign? Both and that when he came out on the morning ofthe third day and was washed every pus- tule had disappeared. One of the most cer- tain facts in nature is the period required for the evolution of a smallpox pustule, and it cannot be less than eight days, so that From All Parts of the World. 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Gold opened at 1061 and closed at 1063g, selling meanwhile at 10614. Govern- “ment und railway bonds were active and firm. Goop Lorn, Detiver Us.—Another theological discnssion between Catholics and Protestants is | proposed. Unmarrrep Laptes with souls not above busi- ness will be interested in “Marrying for Money” in our Court reporta. In “A Srartiinc Story,” published to-day, thero is material for a strong romance and a heavy legal sentence. ‘Tne Poor. rs’ Estate of grand juries today in terribly depressing to those who regard these bodies as guardians of society’s welfare. Packarn, or Lovistana, will hardly write an- other letter to General Augur; he is not the first man who has found a soldier's pen as sharp as his sword. Ir Is Opp that a jury is unable to agree promptly on a iet in the Jersey ferry con- spiracy case. Were the case their own, coming in the ordinary course of business, there would searcely be two opinions. Commissioner Camrbert Onsects to the throwing of snow into sewer manholes, on the ground that but little of it would it. If the Board of Public Works were a private corpora- tion it would overcome that difficulty within twenty-four hours, Tne § ution of Cruelty to Children is exerting a reformatory influence upon parents, T her of one set of juvenile acro- bate wants to take his children out of business— and the custody of the society—and send them abrowl to be educated. Ir Doss Si Ratner ber hinted to a committee of the Connect Legislature yesterday, that although th of certain policy holders for the Charter Oak Life Insw fairs was pre} y yésterday. is No Exp to the sneceasion of | y in institutions | ! duty in a spirit of justice and conciliation and with a degree of practical wisdom which specious grounds of cavil are also removed by a wise modification of the process for selecting the five Supreme Court judges who are to serve on the commission. There is an excellent prospect that Congress will pass the bill and the President promptly ap- prove it; and from the moment that it re- ceives his signature the country will be per- fectly safe, as it is already greatly reassnred. In framing their plan the committee had before them these, among other elements, to be met:—First, to devise a scheme which should really and finally decide the election within a brief time, say two or three days, after the meeting of the two houses to count the vote, so that neither Congress nor the country should be too long exposed to au unnatural and injurious excitement; second, to form such a plan as should ‘hot by its mere adoption declare the President in advance, for it is evident that no plan doing this could hope to pass both | houses—one democratic, the other republi- can; third, to remit the decision to such @ commission as would command the con- fidence of the’country, whatever its decision might be, and thus secure a prepon- derating public sentiment in favor of con- tentment with the result; and, finally, to propose something clearly constitutional. Comparing these elements of the problem with the solution attained it is our opinion that the committee have done wisely, and have been extremely fortunate in their plan. | Take, first, the last of the conditions we have recited above, and it is clear that the plan is entirely constitutional. ‘There are abundant precedents for such a committee as is proposed, composed in part of mem- bers of both houses and in part of experts. The last session of Congress furnished such a precedent in the appointment of the well-known Silver Commission, which was composed in part of members of both houses and in partof experts. It would have been a mistake to pnt upon this committee the duty of actually and finally deciding the questions submitted to it. That might seem to give into other hands questions which, as everybody is now agreed, belong to the two houses or to the lawmaking power. Hence it is wisely required that disputed questions shall be referred to the committee and its decision shall be re- ported to the two houses ; but the decision is to stand unless the two houses concur in reversing it. Of course if one House could reverse the decision of the committee the settlement would not be advanced an iota by the com- mittee’s labors. Hence the concurrence of the two houses is required to reverse the commission's decision of any, case; but this power of réversal not only keeps the whole matter within the power of the two houses, but is also a safeguard against any decision ofthe committee which should be plainly repugnant to justice. It would be competent for Congress, in forming such a commission, to select any persons it chose to act as ex- perts; and the selection of judges of the Supreme Court is the wisest that could be made, because they are experts, and for other reasons. ‘These high officers are perhaps the most independent men in the world. ‘They hold their places for life; they are entirely independent of Congress and of political parties, removed from the strife and turmoil of partisan politics, members of the most august tribunal known to this continent, and all men of — blame- less and exalted character. In the general and progressive degradation of our undiminished, the affectionate confidence and veneration of the people. placed the responsibility of a decision upon error; it was generally felt to be so when it was suggested, for, as was said, ‘it would unfortunate. The ease of Mrs. Norton is | still fresh in the public memory, the Children’s Fold is only just rid of its wolf, and now come details of abuses of the immates of the Westchester Poor House. An investigation is con, of course, but, as in the pther cases mentioned, no one explains why the brutality was not prevented by vigilant inspec- | tion, Autocrats are not tolerated elsew the e. Why should they be allowed to work their own will upon the poor beings who most deserve 6 ful protection! Tun Weatice Kouth few changes have occurred in the river Jevels to attract much notice, but in the Middle and Eastern States, and particularly in the Ohio Valley region, the variations have been decide The following char oceurred within the twenty-four hew At Pittsburg the Ohio has fallen seven feet six inches, | fourteen fect seven inches above low water; danger line feet. At Cincinnati the ri vet ten inches, being now ¢ ng now er hus risen well as matters of law i} - i} Phroughout the West and | y-two fect | seven inches above low water, or two f seven inches above the rline, At Louisville the | rise has been three fect four inches, the present ix inches, or one height being twent sissippi at Cairo has visen six and is now twenty-two At Vicksbur danger line. seven inches, with a pres eight inches, the danger line being forty The Cumberland River at Nashville has risen two | fect one inch and is now thirty-six feet seven inches high; danger line forty-two Rain lias fable at. Knoxville, Washi mand Baltimore, and on the Gulf and South Atlantic coasts, and snow at Milwaukee and Grand Haven.’ The temperature in the Middle and Southern States continues comparatively high, but is low in the West, Northwest and Northeast. The prevailing pressure is consider- ably above the mean in the regions south of the Jukes and the 8t. Lawrence, and is very high in the Northwest. On the Pacilie eoast the barom- eter is low. Fogs prevail over the Guif and the South At!untic States and in the Ohio and Upper Mississippi valleys. The winds are very moder- ate throughout the country, drag the Court into polities.” But to choose certain members of the Court to act as experts in helping to cide questions which involve the just interpretation of the constitution, as and evidence, is a Vo this the judges de- lifferent thing entirely. | can consent, and their high and venerable cheracter and indépendent position, as well | as their technical abilities as the highest ex- soun= pounders of constitutional Jaw in the try, will secure for any decision in which they take part a degree of confidence and satisfaction among the people at large which | could not otherwise be obtained. The int committee's plan has the crowning merit of being so framed that its ndoption does not of itself decide the elec tion, itis ueither a “jury to acquit” nora “court to convict.” It appeals thus to the sense of fairness of even honest partisans. Suppose the plan adopted, the commission formed and the day of counting arrived, can any one foretell upon whom the election will fall? Plainly not. Jt may be said that decide every question, right or wrong, for Mr. Tilden, and that the five republicans | will as dishonorably decide, right or wrong, | for Governor Hayes. * | this. may say ordo in the heat of discyssion, come | smallpox; and as this disease has been ex- | tremely prevalent this winter at Detroit it We do not believe We believe that, whatever partisans when American public men face to face with so grave a ques- tion, which they will be solemnly sworn to decide according to law and protects their plan from every species of | criticism except captious partisan cavils, All politics the Supreme Court has maintained | unspotted its high character, and retains, | ‘To have | the Supreme Courtas such, as was proposed | at the last session, would have been an | all apprehensions of a stormy 4th of March and of the vague dangers which every man feels may easily become but too real. It provides for a settlement which all honest citizens of whatever party would consider final, and immediate and cheerful acquiescence in which will be imperatively demanded by public opinion. What more can be asked? Men may shout and asseverate ‘Hayes is elected,” ‘Tilden is elected,” to the end of time; but mere assertion amounts to nothing and convinces no one of the opposite belief. Almost any way of getting a decision would have becn better than continued uncertainty and tur- moil. Here is a method all the elements of which are constitutional and promise an honest and legal result. If this plan should be rejected by Congress no other can be contrived, for there is not time. ‘The country would then be left to a fate we donot like to contemplate—to a wrangling and fu- rious Congress ; to the secret intrigues and bolder strokes of demagogues; to an in- creasing excitement among the people, ail ending probably in violence and perhaps in civil war, orat the best in lasting discon- tent on one side or the other. Is that a de- sirable prospect? Turkey Rejects the Ultimatam, But for the doubt that has recently been thrown upon the possible conduct of Rus- sia immediate war in Europe would now seem imminent, since Turkey is in the way to prepare that condition of facts which it was at one time declared would compel the movement of the Russian army across the Danube. ‘The decision of the grand coun- cil against the final demand of the governments represented in the Con- ference is of course only a formal preliminary to the rojection of that demand; for in the sudden assumption of the character of a constitutional sovereign the Sultan puts upon the shoulders of ad- visory bodies the responsibility for all those acts that were before constructively his own, and it would not be constitutional for him to adopt in an emergency like the present a course contrary to the one advised. As this is a constitutional era in Constantinople this reasoning is, doubtless, to be ap- plied to the judgment of the grand coun- cil, though no such body is known to the Tutkish constitution recently pro- mulgated. All that Europe has proposed as wise and expedient in the present cir- cumstances is rejected as ‘‘contrary to the dignity, integrity and independence of the Ottoman Empire.” Turkey, therefore, as- sumes an attitude of defiance. She is with regard to the other nations, her neigh- bors, in the position of a man who keeps dangerous combustibles on his premises, and, being remonstrated with by the occupants of adjoining houses, declares that it is impertinent for them to pretend to dictate what he shall keep in his house, and contrary to his dignity to listen to their propositions for making the com- bustibles less dangerous. Meantime they live in hourly peril of explosions more or less ruinous, Evidently their only recourse is to the police. Willan analogous step be taken with regard to the Sultan? There seems a little doubt of this, and yet it is difficult to see how Europe can admit that it was prepared to intervene in the Ottoman affairs until forced by the cir- cumstances, or that, being forced by the cir- cumstances, it can relinquish the case without having secured a remedy. Russia is the Power depended upon to move, and the doubt as to her intentions will be solved in a few days. Steadying the Price of” Silver. If, as seems probable, silver is to forma considerable portion of‘our metallic cur- rency after the resumption of specie pay- ments, a large coinage of silver will be neces- sary within the ensuing two years, and it secms important that its mint value and its market value should not materially differ, | Its market value has undergone such violent fluctuations within the last ten months as to supply the opponents of silver money with their strongest argument. M. Allard, the Director of the Belgian Royal Mint for along period, has addressed a letter to Dr. | We | to-day. | far below its average value, | Mint at Brussels is ready to chai " | into American coins at a cheaper rate than it the five democrats on the committee will | | ery has been made there. Linderman, in which he sketches an in- genious plan for rendering the market value of silver more uniform and keeping it always very nearly at par with gold. direct attention to his letter, which is first published in our columns His leading idea is to establish the coinage of American dollars and sub- sidiary coins in Furope. The consequence, 8 he thinks, would be to furnish a steady | market for silver in that quarter of the | world, since it could never tall below the price paid for it ot the mint ; where it is received for coinage, whereas at present a great quantity is | poured into the market whencvor there is a temporary demand, and a glut immediately ensues, which depresses the price of silver The Royal ye silver costs at ourown mints, and M, Allard’s prop. | osition deserves the examination of Dr, Lin- | derman. Smallpox Cares. It is not uncommon for people to discover specitic remedies that will infullibly cure carcely surprising that the latest discov- An account of it is + the evidence, they will do justice. But sup- | will be found in another part of the paper. pose we are over-confident in this, and that the committee shall really contain ten men so lost to all sense of right and patriotism as to be moved only by narrow partisan con- siderations, then at jeast the country rests | world in the assurance that there are five other ‘This discovery is deemed of so much conse- quence in Michigan that the chronicler feels justified in a defiant reference to Jenner as not the only man who could help the in to this scourge. are, some points in respect There however, men on the commission whose lives and char- | his narrative over which the judicious will acter, whose exalted position and legal at- | grieve as indications that the rest is not LE | foinments make it, humanly speaking, im- | worthy the highest possible confidence, It |a panic stricken Pole, patient had not disappeared in sixty hours, or it was an error to suppose they were smallpox pustules. There appears to be no evidence that they were except the story of frightened half to death with fear of the disease. The Proposed Mass Meeting. Mayor Ely disapproves of the proposed mass meeting to give expression to the sen- timents of the people of New York on the question of counting the electoral vote: first, because he does not think such a meet- ing necessary; and, next, because he fears it might obstruct an amicable settlement of the difficulty. The movement was commenced before the satisfactory conclusion of the joint Congressional committees had been reached. If both the Senate and House of Representatives accept the plan submitted by the committee there certainly will be no occasion for the proposed demon- stration. But if either the republican Sen- ate or the democratic House should en- denyor to defeat the settlement or to throw obstructions in its way in the shape of mis- chievous amendments the people cannot too promptly or too emphatically condemn the act, In such a case and for such a pur- pose public meetings all over the country, and especially in the great commer- cial metropolis, might be desirable. But to make them _ effective they should be held, not under the auspices of the Democratic National Committee or of any other political organization, but at the call of prominent citizens of all parties. It is to be hoped that both the Senate and the House will so significantly foreshadow their approval of the joint committee’s plan of settlement that no such demonstrations will be needed, and we agree with the Mayor that at this time any purely political mass meeting here or elsewhere would be ill-ad- vised. Another Freezing Week. No official action regarding car-heating can now be expected until next Thursday, by which time midwinter will have passed. This delay suits the car companies exactly, and promises plenty of business to doctors and gravediggers; but the fact remains that society does not exist for the sole benefit of these three classes, The request for an opinion from the Board of Health will, un- less persistently followed up, be made the excuse for still further delay, and for more ventilation of the peculiar sanitary ideas which entitle the street car autocrats to the highest places on the roll of great American humorists. All this delay may be perfectly legal, but it is at the same time utterly in- excusable, nonsensical and dangerous. No sane and unprejudiced. person can doubt for a moment that the only real objection to warming the cars has its source in the ava- rice of the companies upon whom tho ex- pense would fall. The cage is that of the many against the few and the suffering against the heartless, and all such cases demand instant attention. All talk about possible danger to health by the use of warmed cars is utter nonsense while the real dangers of the present system are so apparent to every one who rides over the rails in our city strects. Further delibera- tion is uncalled for; prompt action is de- manded by the facts which every one but car owners ndmit; the Aldermanic commit- tee has ample power, and the whole body of the people will refuse to accept any ex- cuse for further delay. Senatorial Honors. The elections thus far decided send to the Senate of the United States for the new terms Governor A. H. Garland, from Ar- kansas; James G. Blaine, from Maine; cx- Governor Alvin Saunders, from Nebraska, and Ferry and Windom, the present Sen- ators from Michigan and Minnesota. Mr. Blaine is the most valuable acquisition on the republican side, so far as legis- lative ability and partisan zeal are con- cerned, whilo the democrats gain a point in securing the services of Governor Gar- land. In Massechusetts and Illinois no re- sult has yet been reached. In the former State Mr. Hoar, who commenced with ninety-three votes, has run up to one hun- dred and four, lacking still thirty-four to elect, while Mr. Boutwell, commencing with ninety-cight votes, has run down to eighty. The chances therefore favor Mr. Hoar's success. In Illinois Logan leads, and lacks only three of an election, which he expects to gain from the so-called “independents.” As the ‘independents” were elected in opposition to Logan and the principles he represents their action draws forth unenviable comment, and they certainly occupy a suspicious position, con- sidering that probably not one of them could have been elected as an avowed sup: porter of Logan for United States Senator. Questions of Privilege. The refusal of the two Chandlers to answer questions put to them by the Investigating Committee is stated to have excited much dissati: on among republicans, Mr. W. E. Chandler states that while in Florida he became counsel for Governor Stearns and for the republican electors and candidates for Congress, and that any information he possesses came to him in the shape of privi- leged communications betweén attorney and clients. Mr. Chandler went to Florida as one of a number of gentlemen selected by the President to see that there was o fair and honest count of the electoral votes netually east. Was he in a position to act as counsel to the republican electors? If he really accepted that position was not the act of itself a condemnation of the Presi- dent’s commission—a reflection on the mo- tives that prompted its appointment and on the work it was expected to do? Was Mr. Chandler justified in send. ing out before the world protesta- tion after protestation of the success of the republicans in Florida, and of the unassailable honesty of the count, in the | which is also St. Crime or Folly—Which ? A singular story is related in our columns this morning of the disappearance and sup- posed murder of a Brooklyn drug clerk named Jousset, As regards the murder of this young man the supposition may be dis- missed as improbable. The reasons for Jousset’s disappearance are in themselves sufficiently strong, but it is not easy to un- derstand why he should invent such a re- markable story as that of the impend- ing duel to account for an act which needed no explanation. If it was for the purpose of deluding his wife he was committing the extreme folly of in- viting police investigation into every act of his life. The newspapers, too, he was well aware, would give all these stories the widest publicity, and yet he even asks his wife to learn his fate from the public prints. Take it as we may his action was illogical, for it is not to be supposed that he took both his wife and her brother into his confi- dence and induced them to assist him in perpetrating a stupendous which, in any event, would make his ruin irretriovable. The question, then, is whether there waéathird party in this case and who was the mysterious French- man with whom Jousset once fought a duel. If there was such a person there may have been a conflict in which it was the mask who was made to suffer. In such a case the device would be a French masterpiece, but what motive even a Frenchman could have to put the police on his tracks when his only purpose was to run away is one of those things to which Dundreary refers as beyond the power of the philosophical vision. It.is not impossible, however, that, as has been reported, the whole thing is a hoax. But, then, again, the motive which could in- duce a man to commit such an offence is not so much a subject of wonder as the readi- ness of his wife and her brother to enter into his plans. The whole thing, evidently, in some way is a trick ; but as a trick it is clumsy, and without adequate motive in any direction. The police theory, that it is adevice aimed at the wife, is even more puerile than the folly itself. Unjust Attacks. It ought not to impair tho satisfaction felt by the members of the joint committee at the happy result of their responsible labors to discover that the extreme men of both parties are dissatisfied with their proposed method of counting the electoral vote, since it is the best evidence that could be offered of the fairness and impartiality of their plan. Itappears from our special despatches that the wrath of inconsiderate repub- licans is mainly directed toward Senator Conkling, who is credited at Columbus with being ‘‘the leading spirit in bringing about this result.” This is a high compliment to Mr. Conkling, who is thus distinguished in his own party above statesmen of riper years and longer experience. He may well feel gratified at the distinction accorded him, especially as he can afford to smile at attempts to impeach his motives while he acts in harmony with such republicans as Senators Edmunds and Frelinghuysen and Congressmen McCrary, Hoar ond Willard. Mr. Conkling was aot appointed on the joint committee until the retirement of Mr. Logan, and was only one of seven republican members five of whom voted with him in favor of the proposed settle- ment. The earnest republicanism of his five associates and of Mr. Ferry, from whom he received his appointment, cannot be questioned; hence these malicious attacks upon him are as absurd as they are unjust. Indeed, all the members of the committee who unite in the report may well rest satis- fied with the conclusion of the fair men of both partics in Washington, who say, “If we believe we have a case we cannot refuse to submit it to sucha tribunal as the ono proposed by the joint committee.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Alexis is twenty-seven. Mr, Chandler will not tell 0? grams, Mills, the pianist, is steighing at Paterson, N. J, Macaulay likea the sincere sociability of breakfast parties, ‘A Philadelphia politician never works for glory; he works for oflice, What Talinage really needs is a map of bimself, with descriptive notes, Mr. Burner ts a stump orator in Missour!—in fact, a sort of gas Burner. Charles Kingsley advised workingmen to study, not history, but science. Charles Francis Adams’ daughter, Mary, is to marry Dr. Henry 1, Quincy. Captain Glazior rode horscback from Boston to San Francisco in 144 days. Rear Admiral A. Crown, of the Russian Navy, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Captain Luiz de Saldanha, of the Brazilian Navy, is t the Buckingham Hotel. Major General Joseph Hooker, United States Army, is at the Sturtevant House, has been ordered by his physician to winter In tho South, ¥ In Montana the winter is nine months long, and it jg there that churches are built from the proceeds of public dances. Heinrich Heine declares that had he been consulted about the creation of flowers be would have advised the omission of the tulip. Ligat is tall, swarthy and ascetic, breakfasts on oys- tersand ham, has a fine, fantastic style of penman- ship and is coldly mystical, Danbury News:--"Competition is the life of trade. Since Professor Tice started in the business out West weather ts becoming more plentiful and much cheaper.” ‘Ash Wednesday this year fallson the 14th February, Vulontine’s Vay and the date fixed for counting the Electoral vote, Religion, love and politics all mixed up on the same day. Evening Uelegram:—“A Memphis (Tona.) telegraph operator, who has been making New Year's calls ever since the Ist of January, wires over the country an ac- count of a shower of snakes beheld by him.” It is claimed that if you cut off the spray of a lilac bush and patit into warm water, eo us to force it, there will be a perfect bloom, This is probably another election He, Don’t spoil your bushes, ‘The Boston Glove, in the regular Boston style, says that tho balloting for United States Sonator was ‘a tentative process’? We begin to understand now why | peoplo are refreshed by having Ben Bavier craw) under the tentative process. folly, | Governor Fa:rbanks, of Vermont, is so ill that he | THE MENACING EAST The Turkish Grand Council Rejects the Proposals of the Conference. |*DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR” Defiant Attitude of the Turks—Strange Action of the Christians. HOW WAR RUMORS AFFECT ENGLISH TRADE Troubles in Spain—The Basques Ex- cited Over the Fueros, — {BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Loxpow, Jan, 19, 1877, A decisive point in the Eastern negotiations bas at last been reached, and the most enthusiastic advocate of peace must now give up all hope of averting war, The Turkish Grand Council has met, and aftera full discussion of the modified proposals of the Conference unanimously decided to reject them. Warned by Midhat Pacha of the conseqhences of a rejection of the European domands, and of the impossibility of raising fands to meet the expenses of a war, the Council voted the rejection amid cries of ‘Death before dishonor,”” and thus destroyed the last chance of a peaceful settlo- ment of the difficulty. STRANGE ACTION OF THE CHRISTIANS, The most unaccountable part of the whole affair is the reported action of the Christians present at the Counvil, Whother or not their action was dictated by tear of massacres by the infuriated Turkish popu- Jace on the outbreak of war remains yet to bo seen; bat few who know Turkey can beliove that the Greck and Armenian patriarchs expressed the real sentt- ments of the Christian population when they voted for the rejection of the proposals of the Conterence. THR GRAND COUNCIL REJECTS THE PROPOSALS, ‘A despatch from Constantinople announces that the grand council yesterday, after an animated debate, unanimously rejected tho last proposals ot the European Powers as contrary to the dignity, intogrity and independence of the Empire, Several speeches were made, but porfect agreement prevailed. PRCIDED ACTION. Another despatch says sixty Christians participated in the grand council, After the proposals of the European Powers had been unanimously rejected Midhat Pacha asked whether tho Porte might not, nevertheless, enter upon negotiations with the Powers respecting the rejected points. The council answered no, and declared that tho Turkisn countor proposals were the only subject upon which tho discussions of the Conference couid be further carried on, THK PROCKRVINGS AT THY GRAND COUNCIL, A third despatch gives the following account of the proceedings of the grand council:—Tho first three hours of the sitting were occupied by the reading of a giatement of the events which have occurred since the outbreak of the insurrection in Herzegovina, Midhat Pacha then mado along speech, in the course of which he gave an account of the Turkish counter proposals and the concessions which the Porte, in a spirit. of conciliation, had made apon points where tho constitution would not thereby be infringed. He dwelt on the gravity of the situation, He spoke of the departure of the Plen- ipotentiaries, tho possibility of war, the horrors at- tending it, the injury it woeld do to the internal affairs of the country, the impossibility of procuring funds for a war and the fact that Turkey could not rely upon any alliance, UNANIMOUS DECISION, Several speeches followed, tho most noteworthy be- Ing made by the Greek and Armenian Patriarchs, Ail the speakers repetied tho idea of accepting the Euro- pean proposals, Midhat Pacha again pointed out the ity of the crisis and the distress which would ro. sult from a war, The council, alter hearing all the speakers, unanimously rejected the proposals amid shouts of “Death before dishonor,’ TUK FRENCH RECRESENTATIVE ABOUT TO LRAVR, ‘The French man-of-war Chateau Renaud will arnve on Friday to take on board Court Chandordy, the Tenipotentiary of Franco. TURKISH PATRR MONET. AConstantinople despatch says:—lt is understood that 1,000,000 or 2,000,000 Turkish pounds paper money will be issued. ROUMANIA TO REMAIN NUOTRAL, A Vienna correspondent telegraphs that advices have been received from Bucharest tha, the Roumanian government has resolved to declaro that it will remat neutral in the event of a war between iussia ‘Turkey. AN TMPROBARLE RUMOR, Atelegram trom Berlin says that Prince Gortscba- koff has sued acircular to the Rustian representa- tives abroad expressing his belief thatTurkoy will ree Joct the Conierence proposals and declaring that Russia, cannot unuertake a warlike policy because Karope would not support her and might form a coalition against her, MOW THE WAR RUMORS APPECT ENGLIM TRADE. The Times in its financial article says:—Private ade vices from Russia continuo to afford strmg evidence of the injary already done the mercantile community by the apprehensions of war. Ono firm of cotton apine ners, employing 12,000 hands, thas lost so heavily since Russia assumed a warlike attitude that the establishe ment would have been compelled to close had not the firm obtained assistance, it is said, faomthe governs ment, which was unwilling to suffer such a catastropne to involve so large a number of employés.”” GERMAN ELECTION. ‘A telegram from Frankfort says that Herr Woithof, the candidate of the national liberals, was yeuerday | elected to the Reichstag by 4,000 majority. TROUBLES IN THE COTTON TRADE. Ata meeting of the Mastors’ and Operatives’ come mitteos of the Laneashire Cotton Trado, yesterday, the | masters unconditionally rejected all tho operatives? | conditions because they would result In a general at. | vanee of wages, A meeting of tho oporatives will & held, A rapture 1s expected. THK PURROS QURSTION IN SPAIN. A despatch from Bilbao tars that the Governor hae forbidden the Biscayan journals from discussing the | question of the fucros under pain of saspeusion. It is probable that the municipality of this city will re- sign In a body. STRONG PRELING IN THK BASQUE PROVINGRS, A Madrid despateh reports adeop sensation through. out the Basque provinces In consequence of the pros mulgation of orders appointing tho 1st of March ag the date for the beginning of military conscription in euch Basque province, Goncral Quesada remains Vittoria, Tho occupying army of 30,000 men will support the civil authorities, Perfect tranquillity pres vails up to the present hour, THE RUROPRAN RANKS, The bullion in the Bunk of England has decreased £643,000 during the past week, The specie in the Bank of France bas increased 26,103,000 tranes duriwg, the past week, The weokly Statement of the Impertal Bank of Germany shows au increase in specie of 18,458,000 marks, THE PRICE OF SILVER, Silver was quoted yesterday at 68d, per ounce,