The New York Herald Newspaper, February 8, 1877, Page 6

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TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE The Adams Express Company run a special news- paper train over the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections, leaving Jersey City at a quarter past four A. Mdaily and Sunday, carrying tho regular edition of the Henasn as far West as Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter-past tix A. M. and Washington at one P. M. Wa. Srreer Yrsterpay.—The feature of the day was renewed speculation anda decline in Ne lersey Central. Weakness in Lake Shore ; and Western Union was also developed, although , the latter rallied. ‘The market was active. Gold opened and closed at 1055g, with sales mean- | while at 1051). Government and railway bonds were generally steady. Money on call was sup- plied at 3 and 31g 1 Tur Brokers’ Prarer Meetine is steadily | getting upon a business basis; one man yesterday prayed that they all might mean what they said. As Re.ier for the over light dition of mind induced by reading the proceeding» of the Wash- ington tribunal we conumend ‘Union Hill's Dog- berrys” in the Hi ” TWENTY-THRE rifted out of New ¢ Broys hay York Harbor with the ice, and such of them as may be encountered off shore in a fog will induce sudden stoppages of vessels and much subse- quent misapplications of devotional Janguage. How Traxsatiantic TELeGRAPHY became virtually a monopoly, and may do so again, is clearly explained by one of our correspondents today. This letter will increase public interest in the prospects of amalgamation of home com- panies. Present Kyu ‘3 remarks upon dividends, at the ‘ing of the New Jersey Central stock- holders yesterday, should be read by investors as well as railway officials. Paying your own dividends out of your own stock may be amuse- ment, but there is no money in it. St. Jon's Guitp gives to the Comptroller a detailed statement of the uses made of the city appropriation; a similar statement of receipts and expenditures given to the public, which sup- plies the remainder of the money, could easily be made, and it would enable the Guild to silence its critics. Tne American Boy is losing his character. Once he was the model truant of the world; but according to the statement of the city Superin- tendent of Truancy only about one in ten of the runaways of the year were of American parent- age. Are the publishers of yellow covered liter- ature asleep ! He Meaxperep into a Jamaica dooryard, Juneched sy yY upon a hunting dog, hurried down st asted another animal, compelled the killing of five others on suspicion, and all be- cause he was Spitz dog in the condition peculiar to his family. Fortunately he met with a fatal accident before he could be caught and sent to New York to b Tne Cua sensibly advises that the streets on the river fronts and the piers also shall be alt 1 to suit the demands of trade. Whoever doubts the wisdom of such advice should stand on South street or West street for afew minutes during business hours, or, better yet, should start, via the cars on either of these streets, on a hurried journey. Tue Mempens or THE House Comsurrin Rrvers axp Hanwors, by reducing by t thirds the estimates for the complete opening of Hell Gate, seem of the opinion that this danger- ons water way is as easy of passage as the un- popular portal from which it borrowed its name. | The cases wre not parallel, nor is New York Hades, even though many Congressmen have made their homes therein. Tue ~Wratr lake depression has moved into Nova Scotia, inducing brisk winds over the lower lakes and Middle and Eastern States during its progress. The attendant area of precipitation was limited to the Southern lake shores and the St. Lawrence Valley. In no case was the rainfall remarkable. In the Gulf a de- pression moved eastward over the South Atlantic and Eastern Gulf States, causing high winds over Florida and heavy rains as far south as Key West. The low area which we an- nounced as being developed in Northern Texas aud New Mexico has not yet extended its influx » to the Mississippi Valley, but may be looked for during tonight or to-morrow morning. The pressure is high in the northwest, north and over the Alleghanies, with slight changes of temper ] may have inclined the tribunal thus to re- | object to this; but its applications go beyond NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1877—TRIPLE SHEET. The Presidential Commission. An important point in the Presidential in- quest was determined by the judgment of the commission rendered yesterday. In the immediate eagerness to know the practical consequence of any decision in this case opinions of that consequence are reached by very hasty processes, and opinions of this sort already contemplate this judgment as a point gained for the republican can- didate, and we hear consequently of the discouragement of the democrats, Evidently this interpretation is assisted by the fact that all the known demo- crats on the commission were against the decision made and all the known repub- licans in favor. But the consideration of the party affiliations of the members should not be deemed important when other good reasons than those of party faith may be given for the judgment, and when, indeed, it is not certain that the final effect will be such as thus hastily conceived. It is not certain that the decision given, viewed in all its possible applications, will be advan- tageous to Hayes. f This decision is that the commission will Perhaps this lesson may be lost on the peo- ple of those States that have not the power to install the authorities they have chosen— where the false counting of returning boards is supported by United States judges ap- pointed for the purpose or United States troops in the State House. Although the full effect and operation of the order of the tribunal is not yet apparent, and must be derived from the action it is yet to take on the documents before it, the fact that it limits its inquiry to the record made by State authorities, or alleged State authorities, is significant, at lenst, of such a recognition as we describe of the supreme importance in the case of the acts of these authorities; and if it pursues that idea as the principle governing the case its further inquiry will merely be, not for what might be equitably called the justice of the case, but into the formalities of the several certificates. It will simply determine which is legally the act of the authorized State officers, But this recognition of the invio- lability of the State record will evidently cut both ways. It will give great prom- inence to that piece of sharp practice in determine the case of Florida on the certifi- cates laid before it by Congress with what- ever evidence accompanying these certifi- cates may tend to determine which one is the regularly authenticated document ; con- sequently that the tribunal will not travel peyend the record. on this point made up ter it by the action in Congress—will not go into an inquiry that might be made interminable os to the actual facts of the election “in that State. It will, however, investigate the facts where an objection to on individual elector rests on the allegation that he is ineligible under the constitution, One of the reasons which strict the field of its labors is the imperative necessity that those labors, if they are not to fail altogether, must be concluded before the 4th of March—that is to say, intwenty- four days, Some memorable recent trials will occur to every mind as: indications of the degree to which time may be consumed in apparently very simple inquiries. Nearly a year was lately consumed in England in the investigation of a point of personal iden- tity—the effort to prove on one hand or dis- prove on the other that a certain adventurer was the heir to extensive estates. In Brook- lyn six months were consumed in the inves- tigation of an even simpler matter of fact. If so much time can be consumed in the courts on points so susceptible of definite limitation how much time could probably be consumed by counsel determined on de- lay in the examination of all the facts in- volved in an election in several States? If it be trne, as is alleged by the democrats, that an inquiry into the facts of the election would demonstrate that Mr, Tilden car- ried both Florida and Louisiana, this would be apparent to the republi- can advocates as early as to any one else, and os the case has assumed the form of a trial these gentlemen would perhaps regard their obligation to the republican party—that of lawyer to client— as superior to any other obligation. They might, therefore, naturally endeavor to make a delay which would insure the ac- cession of a republican to the Presidency even if this were not Mr. Hayes, This con- sideration should be kept in mind by those who are of opinion that the present judg- ment favors the republican claim. There are three Florida certificates. One of these was given by Governor Stearns to the republican electors. The other two are held by tke democratic electors; the first having been given by the Attorney General of the State on the ground that those electors had received the majority of votes even as ascertained by the first count; the second by the democratic Governor upon a recount of the vote. In accord- ance with the judgment given yesterday the tribunal must ascertain and determine which one of these documents is the valid certificate of the action of the people at the polls. This inquiry will involve much of the evidence already before the public as to the election in Florida—an extensive ex- hibition of the case of each party as to alleged fraudulent practices. It may ap- pear, therefore, that in order to determine which is the true certificate the tribunal launches upon that very discursive investigation behind the returns which, as stated above, it declined to undertake. But the distinction between this inquiry and a general investigation of the election was happily made by Mr. Evarts in the ar- gument that the examination as to what was the Governor's certificate did not go behind the certificate but before it, and wassimply aimed to explode the claims of pretended certificates. An obvious inference from this conse- quence of the decision is that the supremely important fact in any Presidential count is the regularly certified return of the electoral vote of a State. In its brondest application this allows the fullest force to the view of the constitution that the choice of electors is a function of the States; one of which the Legislature of the States and no other power has _ control; a function which is an attribute of the States as sovereignties, and into the ex- amination of which, theretore, Congress cannot go except to be sure of what the State has done. For general and for specific reasons the supporters of Mr. Tilden cannot the case of any particular candidate. If, for instance, the action of the recognized State authorities must be accepted from Louisiana in face of the shame- tul revelations recently made; if the vote that was huckstered about the country in search of a purchaser must be counted for Mr. Hayes with the best possible reasons before the country for believing that Mr. Hayes did not carry that State, it will be recognized as an unfortu- nate condition of the law which results in a defiance of the will of the people as ex« stare in the regions named. A_ general Gloudiness prevails throughout the country, except on the Middle Atlantic and Western Gulf coaste. The river levels have altered slightly exeept at Cincinnati, where the Ohio rose thirty-cight inches within the past twenty- four hours. The weather in New York to-day neomises to be colder and partly cloudy or clear. pressed at the polls, Although such a judgment seems a direct proffer of o premium to future frauds, it must at least arouse the people to the necessity of surrounding this func- tion of the State authorities with such ef- fective guarantees that scoundrels in office will not have it in their power thus to tamper with the very life of the nation. Oregon for which no section of the people has hitherto had ony respect. If a known defiance of the popular will is of no conse- quence and the Governor's certificate is of all consequence, and if the only point that gives to. Congress an original right to The Metropolis and Its Component Cities. ‘ The interests of the several cities em- braced within the metropolitan district of New York are oBnflicting to some extent at present becatise of the absence of any means of intercommunication except by the ferries. This state of things should not be permitted to exist much longer ; for it mate- rially affects the interests of the metropolis as a centre of commerce. It must be remembered that New York is the parent city, under whose fostering influence the others have grown to their present proportions. ‘Yo show that a location on the mainland did not necessarily bring development and prosperity, but that both were due to the influence and proximity of New York, we need only point to the relative growths of Jersey City and Brooklyn. The first is sit- uated on the mainland and at the tegnini of the great railroads, and yet has grown but slowly, while the latter is located on anisland separated from the mainland by the wide Hudson and East rivers and New York Bay, and yet it has grown in a surprising manner. We have again an example in Astorin—a village of small size; that has existed for over a century, Yet the swamp at Hunter's Point is becoming the site of a modern city which has already grown to twice the size and importance of Astoria, simply because itis nearer to the centre of New York, In order to perfect any grand scheme of inquiry is the doubt of an_ elector's eligibility under the constitution, the course of the Governor of Oregon cannot be reviewed by the commission. For, as there is no disputed authority in Oregon—and it is, under the State law, the Governor's duty to certify—the republican elector who, it is alleged, is disqualified, cannot even get his case before the commis- sion for want of the Governor's certificate, and the appointed elector cannot, because he possesses that certificate, be ignored. 1t does not seem possible under this ruling for the excluded man to.show that he is not disqualified. Engiand’s Course at Constantinople. Some confirmation comes from London of reports made a few weeks ago that were not creditable to English diplomacy. There is apparently open war, or nearly that, be- tween the Marquis of Salisbury on one side and the Premier, Lord Derby, and the British Ambassador at Constantinople, Sir Henry Elliot, on the other side, At the time when Turkey rejected ab- solutely all the propositions made by Europe, and when Lord Salisbury meta- phorically washed the hands of England over her ancient ally and gave that ally up to her fate, the aforesaid ally did not seem to be troubled at this proceeding, had no qualms of conscience, and ‘didn’t scare worth a cent.” It was then observed by some of the old stagers at the Conference that some Power’ was se- cretly encouraging Turkey to resist Europe and reject the propositions, It was thought this might be Austria, in whose diplomacy Metternich had established this sort of tactics as a traditionally legitimate means of circumventing anenomy. It was also thought it might be Bismarck, for sooner or later the Prussian Premier is accused of every piece of trickery for which no othér author can be found. There were not wanting persons to hint that even the astute Ignatieff himself was deep enough to tempt the ‘Turks by underhand encouragement into sepa- rating themselves from Europe by rejecting its advice. Nobody accused straight- forward John Bull of such a piece of duplic- ity—-at least none of the diplomats. But an English newspaper had less respect for him, and openly maintained that Sir Henry El- liot, under secret instructions from Downing street, encouraged the resistance of Midhat Pacha, and that at the very moment that England was dramatically declaring herself no longer responsible for the malignant Turk the same England was encouraging the same old Turk to defy everybody and rely on London for support to any extent. It turns out that this was substantially true. All the facts will probably come out within a few days in Parliament, and they cannot but make a scandal throughout Europe. Doubtless this attitude of England is the real explana- tion of the course of Russian, which was aware of England's real position and un- derstood that the Premier's speech at the Mansion House in November last was a nearer indication of England's attitude than Lord Salisbury’s declarations. Young Man, Go West. Among the unemployed in New York there are thousands of unmarried men, with no one but themselves to care for, who might obtain employment, property and additional self-respect by making their way to the newer countries of the far West and becoming land owners in the inexpensive manner devised by Uncle Sam. A great deal of nonsense has been talked and printed on this subject, but the truth re- mains that hundreds of thousands of ordi- nary men, ignorantofagriculture, have found homes and competence in the West, and that the chances of others doing so are as good as ever they were. The young unmarried man is peculiarly fitted for this sort of en- terprise; no amount of blundering can bring him to nakedness or starvation, and only the most unpardonable carelessness can prevent him from having the value of his homestead increase until he finds him- self in comfortable circumstances. No new country yields o living to the man who does not work, but neither does New York city to any one but politicians and burglars. Half of the successful farmers in the new West started with nothing but rifle, axe and frying pan, and many of them declare that they could not afford even these; but the industry and spirit that make good laborers and able salesmen what they are achieve success. Even a tramp across tbo continent is not an unheard of thing. Many an unemployed mechanic has within a year done as much walking in search of work as would have transported lim to the good lands of the Northwest, Texas or California. Atthe worst no labor and privation peculiar to new countries con be as hard as wait- ing, rusting and starving to death in New York. enabled the pioneers to! improvement for New York it must be ar- ranged on a scale suitable to the necessities of the metropolis, We mean that its in- fluence must be felt with beneficial effect in each of the cities of the metropolitan dis- trict, A grand system of water front im- provements along the Hudson and Enst rivers should be designed, with a view to a reciprocity of benefit between Brooklyn, Jer- sey City and New York. The extension of the Hudson River Railroad around the water front of New York would bring the railroad track within easy distance of the Brooklyn stores for tho transfer of loaded freight cars by ferry. In like manner it would establish a communication with the New Jersey side which does not exist at present. By bridging the channel between Randall’s Island and Port Morris and filling up Little Heil Gate another railroad extension into Ward's Island and toward Long Island at Astorin can be secured. Now, by the construction of a shore railroad along the Long Island front on the East River from Astoria to South Brooklyn, the facili- ties for transferring freight to. any point along the water fronts of New York, Brooklyn, Long Island City and Jersey City would be practically complete. Repairing Streets. Mr. Banden introduced a bill in the State Senate yesterday providing for the repay- ing or repair of all streets in the city be- low the line of Fourteenth street. The con- dition of many of the downtown streets is deplorable, and is at once disgraceful to the city and damaging to business interests. A stranger who lands in Jersey City or at any of our own docks, and receives his first im- pression of New York from a ride in a street hack up or across town, must form a very poor opinion of the great Western metropo- lis, Our own citizens who return home after travelling the well kept roads of Euro- pean cities must feel a sense of shame at the miserable condition of our own streets, There can, indeed, be no question as to the necessity of repaving and repairing the downtown streets, Business is blocked during the most important hours of the day through the obstruc- tions caused by bad pavements. Street cleaning is rendered more difficult and more expensive and disease is engendered where the streets are full of holes, which form receptacles for the mud and slush, or have rotten, spongy wood for a roadbed. Health, comfort, trade and profit all demand that the streets shall be pyt in proper con- dition. The only question is the expense, Our people are already overburdened and prop- erty is crushed beneath the weight of taxa- tion. If we are to have any such jobs in street repaving and repairing as we have heretofore had then we cannot afford to make the improvement at this time. But if the much needed work can be placed in the hands and under the control of the present Commissioner of Public Works, and can be done with judgment and by degrees, so as not to press too heavily on the taxpayers, it is very desirable that it should be under- taken. Money expended honestly in this direction would be the best investment that could be made for the interests of the busi- ness, health and comfort of the city. A Significant Office. We learn with surprise that the advance of Anglo-Saxon civilization in India de- mands the appointment of government offi- cinls whose duties become important only when the population is steeped in the deep- est misery. Among tho items of news from famine-stricken Madras we find a statement that “Sir Richard Temple went straight from Delhi to the Deccan, taking with him as secretary Mr. Bernard, who was famine secretary in Bengal three years ago.” The office of ‘famine secretary” to an Indian Presidency has, then, become one of the very important features of the Indian civil ser- vice, ranking, in fact, quite high in the list of government rewards. When we consider that the poor Hindoo has been rescued from the barbarism that surrounded him in the days when the cruel oppressors of his own race allowed him the privilege of getting enough to eat, and even furnished him with canals and aqueducts for the irrigation of his fields during tho dry sen- sons, we aro lost in amazement at his in- gratitude in not appreciating as he ought the transcendent blessings that are em- bodied in the person of a British ‘famine secretary.” If the iron of discontent can auter his soul through the void created in his stomach there remains to him one crownjng relief for his pangs—the knowl- edge that the government has appointed another famine secretary, The gentlemen who are called on to fill this significant office are always chosen on account of their experience in dealing with Indian famines. Unfortunately for the Hindoos the num- ber of competent candidates is rapidly increasing, ond os it. always happens that the government finds work for such qualified persons it may be ne- cessary after a while to organize famines in order to secur> employment for this large and deserving class, To sccomplish this with success it is only necessary to neglect ‘the useful works for those that are necessary to the military supremacy of the ‘“Kaiser-i- Hind.” The extortion of additional taxes will also work well, especially when the revenues are devoted to the building of iron-clads in Europe or the support of an army of younger sons and poor relations generally in India, A Sensible Governor. Governor Bedle, of New Jersey, has done asensible and graceful thing in granting a brief respite to Ryan and Oschwald, the Newark burglars, now under sentence of death. By this action he has shown a desire to preserve the dignity of his high office and at the same time afford the people, through their representatives, an oppor- tunity to express their will, The people of New Jersey, speaking through o very large majority of their representatives inthe State Senate and Assembly, have declared their desire that the doomed men should be accorded the privilege of applying for a new trial, it being believed by them that at least one of the condemned does not deserve death on the gallows, and it is only right that this desire should have full scope. ‘Tho Governor grants a respite to the con- demned, but will veto the bill, thus leaving the Legislature to assume the responsibility of making it a law of the State. It can do no injury to the administration of justice to give these men an opportunity to be heard, and as they were condemned on circum- stantial evidence it is better to act discreetly and with caution. Once executed no amends can be made, and asa serious doubt exists, especially in Ryan’s case, he at least is en- titled to fair play. It is quite evideni that Ryan is not deserving of death, and it is gratifying to know that, though under the shadow of the gallows, he will be accorded a chance to establish that fact. Tea and Toxicology. As everybody takes tea everybody will be interested in the fact thatasuit has been brought to restrain a man from ‘‘continuing the business” of preparing old tea leaves with various poisonous substances, to be sold to the public as good new tea. An en- thusiastic person might, indeed, applaud the public spirit and high moral purpose of the citizen who had brought the suit; but this enthusiasm, like enthusiasm generally, would be mistaken ; for the suit is brought simply because the plaintiff wishes to pre- sérve for himself ® monopoly more or less absolute of this lucrative dispen- sation of palatable poisons. He defends the public against a rival in order to preserve the profitable privilege of killing them himself. It illustrates some of the peculiarities of the trade in cheap tea to find that the injunction is partially aimed to ‘prevent o publication of the précious secret of poisoning tea, and the answer is that this secret is published in all the cy- clopedias. Inveterate tea topers will, per- haps, enjoy their tea all the more if in- formed that the principal substances they take with it are plumbago, China clay, Prus- sion blue, turmeric, gypsum and indigo. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Pat salt into the water in which eggs are poached. The Emperor of Russia does not live on Czar-crout, Blackburn wears a scowl, even in pleasant Washing- ton. Europoan colleges are being gradually oponed to women. Punshon is in good health and is again punching his pulpit. When you sec two men arm in arm yoa may be sure that ono of them is sober. Vassar bas a political club, in which Richelieu is outdone by Dolly Varden. Carlyle does not believe that the affairs of this world can be settled by talk. The English sparrow is the greatest nuisance ever introduced tnto this country. The United States government has expendea $500,000,000 tn its Indian wars, : The Scottish poets have seldom beon well educntod and their works aro usually lyrical in form. From the news nowadays it would seem that mar- ringes begin with a court and end #ith a court, Tom King, the 70 fighter, has become a florist in England. He al was a sweot-scented ‘yora- nium. » The Germans kave more,and better works on logisla- tion and jurisprudence than are possessed by tho Eng- sb. Randolph Tucker is going to play tho clown to Dr. Mary Watker’s pantaloon im the forthcoming panto- mime. Dr. Mary Walker continues to wear man’s clothes, and they get her so out of breath that she often takes Jn pants. It {s surprising how many composers’ names begin with “Schu."" The rest of the names aro pedal ex- tremitios, ‘Turncr’s painting of “Tho Slavo Ship,” which looks like a palm leaf fan with tomato sauce, ts being ex- hibited tn Boston, Buloz, the founder of the Revue des Deux Mondes, used to quarrel savagoly with bis subordinates, bat they all hked him, Rev. Mr. Swing skates, and it makes a man feel all over like the long metre doxology when he sees tho parson swinging round tho circle, Zachariah Chandier ivsists that he isa pure, good man, and to prove it he has ordereda tombstono for himself spattered all over with wings. A Division street. girl complained to a Fair street vesu that he was making game of her; and he replied that she was only a little wild duck, Sam Bowles does not think that, after all, opéra bouffe is so dirty, for in the performance he saw none of the ladies seemed to trail their dresses in the mud. Rev. & Miller Hageman, who nover keeps quict long enough for anybody to understand what he says, hus written a whole book full of verses called ‘‘Silence.”” The Cincinnati Commercial announces that men are of all shades of opinion. Pengo tell us what shado of pink Sidney Lanter’s opinion is when his girl blushes at him. . Sit Georgo Campbell thinks that tho Turk has do- teriorated in energy by mingling with the old popula- tions of Asia Minor—interior to the Greeks and given to vices. Rev. John Henry Nowman’s favorite authors in light Hterature aro Thackeray, Scott, Trollope, Gaekell, Austen, Wordsworth, Southoy and Cravbe. He plays tho violin, A nowspapor gives a calculation of the mean tomper- ature of tho winter, and puts it somewhere in the forties, Forty is probably the meanest temperature they had left over. Tbe trident is employed by Mr. Vaughan as the sym- bol of Hindeotsin, for the three-pronged fork appears on every Siva temple in India, and probably indicates the later Hindoo triad. Burlington Hawk Eye:—'Mr. Talmage bas preached about Jawyers and editors and doctors, and his con- gregation is confident that if he lives long enough he bout religion,”’ London Quarterly:—"No observer of the present day eq Mr. Darwin in either the wideness of his knowledge of different branches of physiology or in the skill with which ho deduces from them results,” TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. —_—— THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT. Rumorod Dissensions in the Pres- ent Ministry, Salisbury, Beaconsfield and the Late Commis- sioner to the Conference About to Resign from the Cabinet. AUSTRIA SNUBS RUSSIA. Germany and Austria Decline to Admit the Dictation of Gortschakoff. THE ATLANTIC CABLE WAR. The Dircet Cable Company's Stockholders Bull-Dozed in London, [BY CABLE To THE HERALD. Loxvox, Feb, 6, 1877, Tho alr of London w heavy this cold, raw morning With grave rumors about the evemts which the day is to bring forth, What the Queen's speech will contain is matter of grave surmise, All Europe seems roady to spring to arma Thero is a most portentous silence in allthe European capitals except Vienna, The HknaLp’s correspondvatin thatecity telegraphs that Germany and Austria are im perect accord on the future of the Kustere question, and together they administer a mild savb to Prince Gortecbakoff. They decline to acknowledge that Russia bas any right to act as though she were au. thorized to speak for the other Powers. Germany and Austria do not want Russia to speak torthem, There iano necessity for such a course. In short, Austria fails to seo the reason why Russia bas sad- denly become the. spokesman of the three great Powers. The Russian ovortures to secure the asain. ance of Austria in the event of war appear to have Decn hopelessly unsuccessful. Russia is now endeav- oring to obtain from Austria a promise of bow neutrality. Tho mobilization of the Russian Imperial Guard is expected every day. YORKSHADOWINGS OF THE QUREN'A SPRECH. “We may be sure the Queen’s specch will be more than usually guarded,’”” says the Times in its leading editorial. “Its references to the Kastera question will bo brief as possible and almost exclusively ofan historical character. The Queen will express the satisfaction with which she joined the ailies in pro- curing an armistice, She will accord to Lord Salis- bury the meed of well merited praise, and will express deep regret that the Porte dectined proposals which were not prejudicial to the interests of Turkey and which would have restored peaco to Europe. Her Majesty will state that she has with- drawn her Ambassador as a mark ot high dissatisfac- tion. “Tho speech would naturally bave gone on to ex- press hope that the Sultan would spontaneously agroe to terms of peace with Servia and Montenegro such as could be sanctioned by the Powers and iptroduco reforms into the disturbed provinces which would make further interference neither necessary nor justifiable, Theevents ot this week, -however, have necossarily modified the concluding phrases .relative to the Eastern Ques- tion without specially roferring to the fate of Midbat Pacha, the speech will express the hope that what has happened will prove favorable to conciliatory counsels and the restoration of diplomatic intercourse; but nothing will be said as to the courso of the fut Gortschakoff’s circular will not be mentioned waless 1t has been alroady officially communicated to the gov- ernment. “The other subjects touched upon in the speech will be the Delhi proclamation, the Indian famine and the African troubles, and various bills of purely internal interest, which were loft over from the last scesion, will be enumerated as again to be brought forward.” ” DISRAELL WILL A TALE UNFOLIK At the opening of Parliament to-morrow two blue books will bo Iaid on the tables of the houses, one con- taining the papers on the Eastern question up to the time of the assembling of the Conlerence, and the other including the Conference proceedings. Copies of the first volume for distribution to members of Parlia- ment and the press will not be ready until Friday, and the second volume next week. Debate on the question will probably begin after tho distribution of the second volume. HOW ABOUT 8ST. COLUMB-KILLE? A general Impression prevails that the opposition will not make a direct attack on the government’ Eastern policy, even the liberal organs admitting it te be impossible to do so successfully in the face of cir cumstences now known. Rumors, however, are cir- cufating mn liberal circles of grave differences between tho Marquis of Salisbury and his colleagues, and the probable resignation of Lord Salis- bury. These reports assert that Earls Beaconsfield and Dorby are net only pleased by the Marquis of Salisbury’s fatlare, but that they largely contributed to it through the instrai lity of Sir Henry Elliet, the British Ambassador at Constantinople. The rumors of differences of opinion are doubtless well founded, as the proceedings of the Conference show that Lord Salisbury’s spoeches went far beyond the views ot Earls Beaconsfield and Derby. With this ex- ception the reports in circulation are probably mere inferences, “THERE'S GOIXG TO BR A ROW.’? Public rumor attaches so mach importance to diver. een the Marquis of Salisbury and Earl that it 1 stated to-night that Lord Salis. bury has resigned. Says the Manchester Guardian's London special of yesterday:—‘“To say tho least, this 1 premature, though people well informed consides that the, danger to the government respecting the Eastern question is quite as great within the Cabinet ag onthe opposition side of the House. A singular iocident oceurred to-day in connection with Lord Salisbury’s return. He crossed from Boulogne in the tidal steamer, on board of which he found Sir Henry Elliot. Instead of the two coming to London to. gether, Lord Salisbury camo alono on a special trata and Mr. Elliot came by the ordinary tidal train throe quarters of an hour afterward.” RUSSIA TO EXFORCE THE REFORMS, ‘The Times of yosterday, in a leading article com- menting upon tho full text of the Russian circular, uses the following remarkable language :— There is no suggestion of be ay that can properly be called a threat. The circular docs not seom tv seck a protoxt for backing out, Its object seems rather te ascertain how tur Europe would continue to co-operate with the Czar, he not being bouod by any special course, but prepared to modily tho plans of action he might javor if be could thereby prolong European con- cert without neglecting the purpose | which that concert was constituted. ut under no ciroum- stances could this purposo be Inid = aside, The circular is a continrstion of General [gnaticf’s policy during the Conference. Tho Russian $ determined that Russia spall not be wrong. We, for ourselves, may declare Sees re hat beige oc done, but we can. jot blamo Russia if she Bo ac ‘wo all joined in desiring. rer Sone en nae Tho Times advises that England should await the result of tho change at Constantinople before replying to Russia, and if it be the {naw guration of a policy of deference to Buropean counsels it will cut away the ground from under the Russian circular. England might, mea. time, inquire what course Russia favored, Tho Pal’ Mall Gazette fails to discover a pacific tendency in the Russian circular, and believes it 8a confirmation of tho Czar’s Moscow specch in the polite phrases of diplomacy, and intended to cut off the Russian retreat {fom the fulfilment of the pledgos given last November, Count Adlerborg 1s mentioned as most likely to sue