The New York Herald Newspaper, January 30, 1877, Page 6

P ) freaiot wave in the latter river will soon have |” passed into the Gulf. Stormy weather may be NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. * JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tm the year, ‘Three cents per copy (Sunday excluded). ‘Ten dollart per Bett. oF At rate of one dollar per month for an period less ‘six muntha, or five dollars for six months, Sunday edition included, tree of postage. ‘All business, news letters or telographic despatebes must sddrensed New Your Hxnatp. sr, ould be properly seat nx will not be returned, Se PHILADELPHIA OFFICK—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE SEW YORK HERALD— FLEET STREET. DE: UE DE L'OPERA. (0, 7 STRADA PACE, bscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS _TO-NIGHT. cape eat abi BOWERY THEATRE.—Tux Two Onruans, GILMORE'S GARDEN.—tiranp Equestaian Fesrivac. OLYMPIC THEATRE.—Tue Big Bonanza, PARISIAN VARIETILS. COLUMBIA OPERA PARISIAN SKATING D TONY PASTOR'S THEA’ TIVOLI THRATRE—Val THIRD AVENUE THEATR. BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE KELLY 4 LEON'S MINSTi BEAGLE THEATRE—Aimrx, EGYPTIAN MALL.—Sxxsationat, Vantery. TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 90, NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS, Tbe Adams Express Company run a special news- Paper train over the Penusylvania Kailroad and its connections, leaving Jersey City at a quarter past four A. M, daily and Sunday, carrying tho rogular edition of the Hxxavp as far West as Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia ata quarter-past six A. M. and Washington at one P. M. 1877, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy, possibly with fog or rain to-night. Reaction from ‘the lowest prices occurred at the close. Gold receded from 106 to 1055s. Money on call was supplied at 3 and 4 per cent. Govern- i » but generally lower. ment and railway bo iteady. How To Gro ic untry post office is explained in “Spec or Peculation” to-day. Pavinc Contracts are not the only means | of making money out of stones; read “Those Diamonds.” Tur Tiarp Districr Court House f-vesti- gation appears to amount to a vindication of the architects. Tur Brokers’ Prayer Mui G was crowded yesterday, for a very natural reason—there was a woman in the or Com” ‘THe CHAMBE B wants no stone Piers, and any one who wishes to know how nig: gardly is the soul of the New York business man should interview to-day some contractor in the heavy masonry li Erour Trovsaxp Do.ars were yesterday appropriated for the repairs of the Macomb’s Dam Bridge, though that venerablo | structure conld be most appropriately treated at the trifling expense of uw barrel or two of kerosene and a box of matches. AvotHen Atrempr at train-wrecking almost suceeeded on Saturday night. If passengers upon such occasions would only promptly consti- tute themselves a lively skirmish line this form of outrage would soon become unpopular; the per- petrators are never at any distance from the scene of their a Ir Is Uxpoustepy true higher prices than any one else for whatever they buy, but there is no reason why all that is bought for them by benevolent societies should come under the same rule; there will therefore be some curiosity to see the reply to our corre- spondent, who asks why St. John’s Guild pays more for coal than any one else. tective Association will succeed in its efforts to prevent those exactions from sailors which are very properly termed “blood money.” Among outrageous swindles practised in secret there is none more vicious than this one, which has be- come almost a recognized business. Why can not tho sailors take the wind out of their enemies’ sails by forming a co-operative shipping association 1 Wr Gtve To-Day some particulars about the silities which have lately been extended to the deserving but homeless poor for obtaining shel- ter by night. It will readily be seen that great additional good may be effected by those in charge of these institutions if the benevolent will grant them only o little money and ma- terials. The most that can be done at any such place amounts to so much less than the com- forts of the simplest home that no one need fear that pauperism will be encouraged by the utmost charity thus bestowed. Tur Weatner yesterday was marked by o decided fall of temperature to below freczing in Nova Scotian, Maine, Canada, the upper lake rogion and Dakota. All points southward of the districts named wero affected, but only in a slight degree. Clondiness, with occasional rain, prevailed westward of the Mississippi, the Lower Ohio Valley, and in the Northeast. A very light precipitation occurred in New England, but heavy rains have fallen on the Pacitic const attending a storm centre eastward of that line. Tho pressure has been above the mean at all points of observation except at San Francisco and in the rogionof the far Northwest, where disturbances are cvidently moving cast- ward. Tho highest barometer is reported from the Southern States and off Nova Scotih; the lowest, as already stated, in tho western re- gions and in tho Gulf. Fogs prevailed yesterday through the Southern States and Missouri Val- ley, and may be expected at New York within a day two. Tho Ohio and Cumberland rivers oro still falling steadily and tho Lower Mississippi is rising slowly. Tho in the West after to-day and threaten- ing weather on the Gulf coast. We repeat our warning abont the probable freshots and ice movements in the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. The weather in Now York today will, be warmer ead partly cloudy or choudy, possibly The Closing Weeks of President Grant’s Administration. ‘The President has borne himself so well during this stormy agitation over the elec- tion of his successor that the country will be disposed to attribute his occasional short- comings during the eight years he has been in power rather to the influence of bad advisers thap to his personal impulses. He ends as he began, in a self-reliant spirit of superiority to party politicians. All his natural promptings carry him in this direction, and had he possessed at the beginning of his first term the knowledge and experience he has since acquired his administration would have ranked among the most independent in our history. His West Point education and army associations had infused into his mind » contempt of party politicians, and | he set out with a determination to conduct the government withont their aid. He con- sulted none of the recognized party chiefs respecting the composition of his first Cabi- net, and took everybody by surprise when he sent in the names for confirmation on the 4th of March, 1869. Nobody can have forgotten the surprise and consternation of the republican party chiefs when a Cabi- net was announced which had been silently made up in defiance of ordinary rules. It was too bold an experiment for a President so new to civil affairs, The appointment of Alexander T. Stewart for Secretary of the Treasury had a strong appearance of fitness and was intended to be the trump card in the bold game of the new President ; but when it was discovered that that seemingly good appointment merely betrayed General Gront’s ignorance of the laws and that Mr. Stewart could not hold the office a mortify- ing check was given to his purpose of con- ducting the government without the aid of men trained to official life. The nomina- tion of Mr. Borie was equally unfor- tunate, though on different grounds. President Grant's self-confidence was thus fatally shaken during the first months of his administration, and, as it is the tendency of one extreme to beget its opposite, he not only had recourse to politicians, but took the advice of men who were mere politicians and not statesmen. Most of the faults of his administration are attributable to the failure of his first attempt to be entirely independent ‘of party chiefs and the subsequent confidence he gave to backstairs advisers. His original impulse was not discreditable, but he lacked experi- ence to guide it. He is acting on a similar impulse now, with better qualifications for making it effective. No course of conduct could be more nobly non-partisan ‘than that which President Grant has pursued in the recent crisis. He gave prompt and steady support to the plan for referring the Presidential dispute toa proper'tribunal. His aid has been in- valuable in smoothing the way for the tri- ni, hant passage of the bill. It was im- portunt that it should pass by such over- whelming majorities as to break down and discourage subsequent opposition. The President's early and repeated declarations that he would sign it emboldened all its friends and dispirited its republican adver- sarics. Had he given the faintest intima- tions of disapproval this great measure of pence and justice might have been defeated. But when the vehement re- publicans who had determined to count in and inaugurate Hayes at all hazards found that the President was not of their mind asudden change came o’er the spirit of their dream. The main prop of their hopes and endeavors was their expectation that President Grant would employ the army to secure the instalment of Hayes if the President of the Senate should declare him elected. When they found that the President desired an impartial counting of the votes and that he would support the inauguration of Tilden with as much vigor as he would that of Hayes if a legal count should give him the office, there was a great abatement. of partisan confidence. The splendid success of the Electoral bill is largely due to the strong moral and political support given it by President Grant while it was pending in Congress. His ele- vated patriotism and firm devotion to the public welfare in this great crisis will always be remembered to his advantage and reflects unfading lustre on his name. Like the best men in Congress he has risen above partisan views and has donea greater service than any of therh. The country must not be misled by the idea that the President's veto’ would have amounted to nothing since the bill passed both houses by majorities of more than two-thirds. In the first place, it was owing to the knowledge of President Grant’s position that the majority for the bill was so large. Inthe next place, had there been a two-thirds majority against his opposition he could easily have defeated the bill by ‘‘musterly inactivity.” It did not reach him till Monday, and he might have kept it ten days before it could become a law. This would have carried it a week be- yond the date assigned for tho beginning of the count and have necessitated the passage of another bill fixing o different day. The President could have kept this supplemen- tary bill another ten days before it could be- come a law, and by that time it would be “too late.” It is plain, therefore, that the plan could not have succoeded against the President's opposition and that he deserves a large share of the credit, Moreover, the President has increased the value of this great service by the patriotic message he sent to Congress yesterday, stat- ing his reasons for signing the bill. His ap- proval would have been made plain enough by a mere signature, but on so important an occasion he deemed it fit to reinforce the performance of his duty by o display of helpful zeal. He has. superadded the weight of his personal influence and cordial moral support to the official au- thority of his great position for the purpose of securing confidence and acquiescence in the judgment of the tri- bunal, whatever that judgment may be, This is one of the best and wisest acts of his long career as Chief Magistrate of the Re- public. His early and fervent aspiration, “Let us havo peace !” is at last crowned with fulfilment by his noble and disinterested course on this momentous occasion. j The President otteste, bis faith by. works in sending away the troops from Washington and announcing his intention to send in an early message urging the im- mediate resumption of specie payments. We would fain hope that this timely message may be heeded by Congress. Whether it is heeded or not nobody can deny President Grant the credit of arresting the inflation craze by his memorable veto, and saving the business of the country from incalculable evils. We shall rejoice, both for his fame and for the public weal, if he succeeds in convincing Congress that sound finance should tread close on the steps of the great political set- tlement. Chinese Gordon for Bulgaria. All the possibilities of peace or war in Europe and the future of Turkey, of Rus- sia, of Austria, and in some degree of Eng- land, turn upon the theoretically insignifi- cant, yet practically important point— what man shall be made Governor of Bulgaria ; for this Governor may determine that those projects of reform which Turkey has declared her purpose to apply, and which the opponents of Tur- key scout at as farcical illusions, shall be visible and effective realities. The Conference had no other purpose than to endeavor to secure from Turkey, on behalf of the people of Bulgaria, just what, unser the new constitution, would be guaranteed to them by a Governor of the right sort; and thus the ground on which Russia stands, and in virtue of which she has the sympa- thy of a great portion of Europe, would be taken from under her feet by a good appointment to this post. Not only might a good Governor practically de- cide the issue open between Turkey and Europe, but the mere exhibition of a fair purpose in the appointment of the Fight kind of man would gain the Porte the good opinions and moral support of many of those who now believe with the Russians generally that the Ottoman constitution is but an impudent pretenceand asham. Nubar Pacha, named for the place, is respected for his talents and is a Christian by origin, and this was deemed a guarantee ; but the Lon- don Times proposes the name of a man emi- nently fitted tor the place. This is Chinese Gordon, who, having just reached England from Africa, has been hastily summoned to return by the Khedive; and there seems to be a fancy that this summons has reference to the service of the Sultan. It would be unlike the Turks to make such an appoint- ment, and it would be a happy stroke of ad- ministrative tact. Au Abduction Case. The story told in the Hxrnazp to-day of the temporary abduction of a little boy six years of age from the school situated in Elm street, near Leonard, ought to admonish parents of the danger of allowing children ofa tender age to go on the streets unpro- tected. In this case the boy attended school with his sister, a girl of thirteen or fourteen, and no doubt capable of taking proper care of him. He was standing with some other scholars in front of the schoolhouse dur- ing the morning recess, when he was ap- proached by a man who, after talking kindly with him, gave him a twenty-five cent piece and enticed him away to spend it. For- tunately the rascal, after the commission of the crime, satisfied himself with stealing the poor child’s overcoat, and then left him on the streets to find his way home. But the anguish of the parents and family during the three or four hours their darling was away from them must have been intense. No criminal should be more remorse- lessly punished than the abductor of a child, for no anguish can be more acute than that which such a cruel crime inflicts. A few hours of such a bereavement might, in some cases, be fatal. Fortunately the offence hag heretofore been a rare one in the United States; but there is the more necessity for making an example of the wretches who introduce it among us, even when their object is only the larceny of a child’s clothes, The Jaw says that every person who shall maliciously or forcibly decoy or entice away any child under the age of twelve years with intent to detain and conceal such child from its parent or guardian shall, on conviction, be punished by imprisonment in a State prison, or in a county jail, or by fine, It is to be hoped that the villain who committed the offence yesterday may be discovered and punished severely. Every person will re- joice that the child has been restored to its parents, but the arrest and conviction of the kidnapper is, nevertheless, most desira- ble, Revenue on the Half Shell, Between the American eagle and the American oyster there is the greatest possi- ble contrast on several important points, There has been a noise made over the eagle out of all proportion to his usefulness or commercial importance, while with regard to the sapid and earnest oyster thero has been an uncommon reticence on the part of patriotic orators inexcusable in view of his value, For the statistics put forth by Gov- ernor Kemper will exhibit at a glance that the gallant mollusk does more for the country than has ever been done by all the eagles, hawks, falcons, ospreys or other birds of that feather that have sailed with supreme dominion in any part of the azure deeps of the atmosphere between the crest of the Rocky Mountains and a line drawn at one marine league from the Atlan- tic coast. Twenty millions of dollars per annum is the declared value of the Virginia oyster fisheries. This is a nice little sum. If there were a pearl fishery anywhere on our const that yielded such a return we would perhaps make a great fuss over it; yet we let this sum in the form of oysters slip quietly down our thronts, and take it as a matter of course. They fancy it is a very great affair when the pearl fish- eries in the Persian Gulf yield a million and ao half dollars ao year. Now that the oyster’s commercial reputation is made ‘it is a pity his moral character could not be improved. His associations are over gay. There is an air of dissipation about his very name. Parsons, Quakers, members of tract societies and Sunday school teachers never eat oysters, or if they do it is on the sly, emphasizing by the very fact of secrecy their consciousness of the offence. Cannot some philanthropist or . remedy this? Sou! * Insurance Corporations. It is unfortunate for the well being of the community that it treats fraud with leniency in exact proportion to its magnitude and disastrous effects. Thieves have come to be regarded with something akin to admiration, if not respect, when their peculations amount to millions, while the half-starved outcast who steals an overcoat and the poor hireling who embezzles a few dollars are hurried from the police cell to the criminal court and thence to the State Prison with unpitying celerity. The reaction of this mischievous sentimentality on the class of persons who are law-abiding only so long as they are forced by circumstances to operate within the danger limit fixed by public opinion is producing deplorable results every day. The honest and hard earned money of the over-confiding victim of the insurance company beeomes changed by the manipulations of experts at fraud into worthless paper, and the resources of the widow and orphan are swallowed in the vortex of a prodigious but high-toned swindle. The root of the whole evil lies in the laxity of our laws relating to insurance and savings bank corporations that live upon the confidence of the public in their stability and honest management, and in the apathy of the community when gigantic frauds are exposed by investigation. ‘True, inves- tigations, such as those prosecuted by the Henarp, may develop a state of things which, when stripped of its quasi-respect- able surroundings, should send all the operators to lodge with pickpockets and burglars in the State Prison. We publish to-day full particulars of the affairs of the wrecked Continental Insurance Company, with the receiver's report. The latter is a document well worth perusal, illustrating, as it does, the rottenness of the concern on which so many relied for security. In the effort to expose this shameless system of plunder the Henarp has been fully successful, and it now rests with the people to say whether such shall be permitted to exist in other companies. One Side of the Florida Case. The majority of the Senate committee on the Florida election reported yesterday. Tho conclusions, are of course such as are roached from a strictly republican process of investigation and reasoning, just as the report of the majority of the House com- mittee will be framed from a democratic point of view. The republican re- port alleges that the Hayes electors in Florida had a small majority on the face of the returns originally, which was increased by a process of pruning en- tirely within the power of the State Canvass- ing Board, and argues that Congress cannot go behind the certificate of the Board, al- though they may go behind the certificate of a Governor who is not a returning board, In other words, they cannot go be- hind the certificate which gives Florida and Louisiana to Hayes, but may go behind the certificate that gives one Oregon vote to Til- den, The democratic report will declare the black of the republican report to be white and the white black. The exclusive partisan- ship of these reports illustrates the wisdom and expediency of the creation of an im- partial, trustworthy tribunal which will ex- amine both sides and decide fairly between the two. It is aot’ worth while to criticise the committee reports, since they are only the arguments of counsel, as it were, each supporting its own side and leaving the judgment to be rendered by the court in accordance with the law and the evi- dence, A Short Navigable Pacific. Ifwe measure the advantages that must accrue to commerce from the construction of aship canal across the isthmus by those that have been created by the opening of the Suez Canal a very satisfactory result will be obtained. The saving of time and distance between the Straits of Gibraltar and Cape Guardafui by the route via Suez over that around the Cape of Good Hope is in itself one of the crowning features of De Lesseps’ great undertaking. This is proved by the constantly increasing traffic that is taking place over the short route and the diminish- ing trade olong the other. As we stated recently in connection with this subject, commerce seeks the shortest practicable lines of intermovement as water seeks the lowest levels. If, therefore, the narrow bar- tier of the American isthmus is rendered passable for ships, the current of trado will inevitably flow toward itas the newest and shortest channel, Were New York and Hong Kong brought nearer to each other in the matter of time by twenty or thirty days, and vessels enabled to pass between these ports without breaking bulk, an extraor- dinary impetus would be given to trade and general revival of the business interests of this country would follow. Our relations with Asiatic nations are not hampered by treaties of commerce extorted by hombardments of their ports, nor do we seek to force upon them conditions injurious to their interests how- ever beneficial to our own. We look to their territories as the legitimate markets for our productions, and deal with them as with European peoples. Therefore everything that tends to facilitate this friendly inter- change of trade must redound largely to our benefit as a commercial and manufacturing people. Nothing would accomplish this desirable result better than the open- ing of a short navigable route to the Pa- cific, and such is only possible by construct- ing a ship canal across the isthmus. That projected via Lake Nicaragua will prove to be the most desirable and economical, and no hesitation should delay the negotiations having in view its early completion. The difficulties which will attend the work are great, but surmountable if the necessary capital is forthcoming. The cost of the canal will be considerable, but will bear a small proportion to the value of the benefits secured. With money and engineering skill, urged on by the pressure of commer- cial necessity, few years should pass away before the tall masts of the American merchant ships, en route to China, be- come familiar objects on the waters of Lake icaragua, Route to the NEW YORK MAERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. Shakespeare in London. Our despatch by cable gives a happy glimpse of # theatrical festival which Lon- don enjoyed last night in the reproduction of Shakespeare's “Richard III,” with Mr. Henry Irving in the leading part. Mr. Irving is an actor who has grown upon Lon- don within the four or five years past and who is highly appreciated there as an exponent of lending parts in high comedy and in the less intense moods of the tragic muse ; and by his person, his style and the quality of his clocution he is fitted to render with great success the lighter phases of Gloster’s character, without ever being tempted by independent thought, as some better actors have been, into presenting Richard as almost a buffoon. But it will be scarcely a surprise to those who have noted the superficiality of Mr. Irving's concep- tions generally to hear that he failed in the really serious portions of this great part. Escapes. vl Slade has escaped from an English prison through a very small hole. He should have been charged, it seems, with committing fraud “by palmistry, or otherwise ;” for these are the words of the statute. But this important phrase was omitted from the committal. In its place were the’ words “by subtle craft, means and devices.” These be fine words also, but not equal to the others as a charm of powerful trouble; and through the difference between these two phrases, as through the space between prison bars, Slade slips out to liberty. He got in by his own jugglery, and ho gets out by the jugglery of the lawyers. Samoa’s Supplication, Samoa insists upon being Americanized, There can be no doubt as to her sincerity, for she remains steadfast in her desires although she experienced months of Stein- berger and had an inkling of what might be expeoted in the line of taxes, custom houses and carpet-baggers. There may be some reasons why her request should not be granted, but the arguments in the affirmative are numerous and weighty. The island con- tains but fifty thousand inhabitants, ond would always remain a territory; it would, therefore, be a perpetual city of refuge for those faithful party wheel horses who be- tween campaigns are most useful when furthest from the national capital. The island is so far from our coast that the dele- gate to Congress would have to spend a large portion of each year en route, and would thus be kept out of a great deal of mischief both in Washington and at home. No other real estate ever offered us would afford such delightful excursions for Congressmen ostensibly serving upon inves- tigating committees or conventions. Samoa would add a new language to the many in which our citizens communicate with each other, and would thus keep philologists too busy to write abusive letters about each other. She has a fine list of nobles, so that in the event of annexation no American belle would need to go upon foreign soil to marry a title. Last and greatest, Samoa will need a full set of new public buildings, and the architectural abortions which are at present likely to be inflicted upon the long suffering people of the States may all be safely tucked out of sight in Samoa, By all means let us annex the island. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Sothern is in Calitornia, ‘Wondell Phillips is in St. Louis, Captain Eads used to peddlo apples. England gets canned salmon from Oregon. Jim Mace is giving exhibitions in Lower California, Australian agents are trying to get emigrants from Mississipp\. Dr. is holding spiritual seances among the no- bility of Eagland. Stew raisins, add a little orange juice and sugar, and cool in the open air, The Russian smokes cigarettes and drinks cham- pagne while he plays with politics, Carlyle:—“Simple seomest thou, ob! solid, Dutch- built Petion—if solid, syrely dull,’” There aro 175 applicants forthe first vacancy that may occar in the police force of Richmond, Va. Since the ice blockade began sevoral schooners of lager havo been unable to get out of the Bowery. A Kentucky man skated thirty-six miles in six hours on an icy public road, beating all the horses on the route. Julia Rive, the pianist, over whom the ablo critic of the Chicago Times justly gushes, will go (to live?) in that city. Mrs, Pomeroy apologizes in print for having spoken disparngipgly of her ex-husband, ‘Brick, She almost calls him Bricky. Tho young Prince-Imperial-who-might-be of France {a taciturn ond ill-posted, and, as the Englishmen would say, he 11 cad, The cold weather in New England bas driven the quatis to farmers’ barns. We hope the New England peopie will feed them on tonst. After all the republicans may win if they cling to- gether; and porhaps Edmunds and Conkling were sharper politicians than Sherman and Sargent, Tennyson :— A doubtful In a etill wat Rain, formerly v rare in Lower Egypt, has be- come frequent in Alexandria and Cairo, in consequence of the extensive planting of the mulberry in that vi- cinity. The average Virginia beau is described as genteel and lazy, loving to dance the German when not lean- ing against a post, and able to fight, but not willing to work, The whale at the aquarium has turned tatl on this world and has gone where there is no more sneczing and blubboring afid wailing and whero it will play on its little harpoon. , Pascal has said somewhere that tho moro mind a man has the more ho finds out original people, It i your commonplace porson who sees no difference be- tween one man and another. It was a New Jersoy boy who, having done some wicked thing and being asked whether he did not want to go to heaven, roplied:—‘No; I don’t want to got sore play:ng on an old barp.’” jood morning, Donelly! I hear a baby; in it a boy or a girl?’’ “Shure, Miss, aud it’s meselt as doesn’t yot know for the Ifo of mo if I’m a grandtather or a granamothor bedad,”” Said a Spanish boatman, speaking of a fast woman who was passing:—‘‘Well, sho’ll tiro of lace and jew- ols at last, and sicken of it all, and then tho last thing will be she'll want to soc her poor old mother, who is but a peasant,” The Mongolians bare a prophecy that at somo futuro timo all tho followors of the Buddhist religion wil emigrate from Thibet to Shambaling, which is sup- posed to be an island im the Northern Sea. A traveller thinks it 1s England, ‘The Arab foot is proverbial for its high arch; “a stream con run under tho hollow of !t.'? The foot of the Scotch is Jargo and thick; that of the Irish flat and square; English, stort and flesby, but un- doubtedly well shaped and proportioned. The San Antonio (Texas) Herald blandty remarks tha js unreasonable to expect that gontiemen of re- finement, culture and intellect from the North will settle for health in that State if there is no ive to take with their drinks, An too company will be Immediately formed And on her mouth lo dwelt like a clouded moon TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the *. World. THE EASTERN WAR CLOUD, Servia Making Direct Overtures to the Porte for Peace. RUSSTA’S FORTHCOMING CIRCULAR, \ Dr. Slade Liberated on @ Techuicality. THE POPE’S HEALTH, —_———+ Colonel Gordon and the Governorship of Bulgaria. (Bx CABLE TO THE HERALD.1 Loxpon, Jan, 30, 1877. A correspondent at Semlin telegraphs that the situation 18 so complicated that it 1s impossible to form any opinion as to the probable result of the crisis in Servia, A Turkish envoy will shortly arrive in Belgrade to open peaco negotiations there, ‘The Cabinet 1s in session daily, under the peesidoncy of Prince Milan, The Committee of Soventeen members of the Jast Skuptschina demand the ime mediate convocation of the Chamber to decide finally for peace or war. The Prince favors the meeting of the Chamber, but is understood to be opposed to making @ separate treaty of peace with the Porte, either on account of secret advice of Russia or from fear that Montenegro will refuso the proposals of Turkey, and thus become the futuro leader of the Slava, OPPOSITION AT HOME, Tho Ministry oppose the convocation ot the, Skuptschina because they fear they will be called ta strict account for their administration. SERVIA’S OVRRTURES FOR PEACE. A despatch trom Constantivoplo sa’ “A despatch from the Servian government requests the Porte to instruct the Ottoman Ambassador at Vienna to enter into nogotintions with the Servian diplomatic agent there, Servia having no representative at Constantt, bople. ‘THE PRINCE OF MONTENEGRO SILENT. The Prince of Montenogro has not yet replied to the: despatch inviting him to treat for peace directly with: the Porte, i A despatch from Vienna says negotiations betweem, the Ottoman Ambassador and the Servian diplomatio: agent there have already commenced, Gonoral Igna-! tteff has arrived at Athens. RUSSIA'S FORTHCOMING CIRCULAR. The Montags Revue (semi-official), of Vienna, says 1% has reason to believe that the expected Russian circe. lar will open an entirely new phase of tho Eastern question. Tho note will reduce the present situation to one of the following arternatives:—Will the Powers attribute a mero platonic character to the views they expressed at the Conference, or will they bring more rigorous pressure upon the Porte? The former would: probably result in procrastination, the latter in farthor” independent action oy Russia, In either caso the Porto must hasten its movements if it intends, by carrying out its constitution and by the conclusion of: peace with Servia and Montenogro, to deprive Russia: of all grounds for intervention. The articlo concludes, as follows:—‘Altbough danger of war is not immedia diately threatening 1t can only be banished from thay political horizon by great exertions.” COLONEL GORDON AND THE GOVERNORSHIP OF BULGARIA. ; The Times editorially reviews Colonel Gordon’s' Chinese and African oxperiences and the proofs he hag given of high administrative capacity and military: genius:—It says:—‘*Can it bo that Midhat Pacha, in his searct for a Governor of Bulgaria, bas made no overtures to Colonel Gordon? We should be surprise@ to hear tbat he has overlooked the very man in ally Europe who would satisfy the personal conditiogs ime plied in the demands of the Conterence, The choica, it made atall, must be mado soon. Turkey has n@ time to loge, now that a great army is massed on her fronticr, Perbaps her last chance of peacefully tiding over the next few critical years hos in the selection of a born raler of men to govern Bulgarta,’” THK PORTE AND THK PROVINCES, A telegram from Constantinople pronounces un-. founded the report that Midhat Pacha had issued an edict for the disarmament of: the population, The same dcespateh says, it is stated, that the Porte intends’ to appoint five Christians to bo governors of provinces, DR. SLADE’S CONVICTION QUASHKD, Tho appeal of Slade, the American Spiritualist, who was prosecuted under the Vagrant net and sentenced by Magistrate Homers to three months confinement at hard labor in the Houso of Correction, came up for argument to-day, and his conviction was quashed om a purely tegal technicality, THE ARGUMENT IN THE CASE, Sorgeant Ballantine ted for Slado and Mr, Alexander Staveley Hill, Q CG, forthe government. The court ‘was crowded with well-known Spiritualists and syr- pathizers. Mr. P, H. Edlin,Q C., Assistant Judge, presided. Sergeant Ballantine objected that the offence for which Slade was convicted was not within the Vagrant act, because it did not declare or charge that a fraud ‘was accomplished ‘by palmistry or otherwise,” these four words of the act being omitted from tho charge, Mr, Hill said theso words wero advisedly omitted, the offence having been more spocifically described by saying that Slado used subtle craft, means or device, THE JUDGE'S OPINION. Judge Edlin said that summary convictions must show upon their faces the words of the statute giving magistrates jurisdiction. The conviction, therefore, wos bad on its face,and as counsel for the crown stood by and declined to ask the Court to amena it they must quash the conviction. A CASE DENIED, Mr. Hill asked for n case to the Superior Court to dee cule whother those words wore necossary to a convice tion. Tho Cvurt rofused and the appellant was dise charged. COLONEL GORDON, THE EXPLORER, Colonel Gordon, the explorer, who returned from bis expedition into the interior of Africa, under the auspices of the Khedivo, and who arrived in England alow days ago, bas already rece'ved an urgent sume mons from the Knedive to return to Egypt, He bag Presented tho Royal Geographical Society with value able original maps, which he brought back from Equatorial Africa, and has promised to contribute @ paper of great interest, AUSTHIA AND THE RXPOSITION OF 1878, The Budget Committee, by a vote of 15 to 11, bag rejected, chiefly on economical grounds, the grant of 600,000 florins to defray the expense of the participa. tion of Austria inthe Paris Exhibition of 1878 The minority of the committce, however, propose to ape peal to the Reichsrath against the decision, FRANCK AND RUSSIA, A Berlin despatch says a scnsational report isin circulation that Russia has refused to receive Count Chaudordy as Ambassador of Franco, YRENCH MAYORS DISMISgED, The government has dismissed several mayors for ate tending masses in memory of Napoloon I1l., and has decided to treat severely alt officials participating ia Bonapartist demonstrations, A LIVEKAL GRANT, The Chamber of Deputies at Versailles to-day voted the grant of $20,000 for expenses incurred by the colonial government in consequence of the famine in Pondicherry, TH POPR'S HRALTH, A dospateh from Rome, dated Sunday, says the Pope gavoan audience on Sunday and bus almost entirely recovered from his recent iliness, i THR SUCCRSSOR OF PETER, A im correspondent says it is reported in semt, oMcial quartors that the Powors. have recently eq,