The New York Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1877, Page 4

‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIATOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published ccory dey tn the year, cont Sunday excluded). Ten dollars Jrartor at rate of ue, dol.nr per menth ior ny period ees ivan trix months, cr five dollars tor six mont! Sunday tievn lexiate or telegraphic despatches rust inel Lesddressed New Vout i paeki properiy seaied, Wadested comes toma will pat be revorved. 2 sett hs aR PIULADELPUIA OFFICE—NO. 112\ SOUTH SIXTH LONDON OFFICE OF THE KEW YORK HERALD- ‘0, 46 FLEET STREET. DE OPERA, ‘ms aa in New Yors, KOOTIVS THEATRE. NEW YORK AQUARTU GERWANTA THEAT PARK THEATE FIFTH AVESC UNICKERING Nail. WALLACR’S THEATRE, THIRD AVENUE TIBATRE. BROADWAY THEATR! KELLY & LEON'S MIN EAGLE THEATRE-—A EGY YA AN VARIETIE: COLUMBIA OPERA I THEATEE COMIQUE. TONY PasTOR's THEATH FIVOLE THEATRE- BAN FRANCISCO M ACADEMY OF XUS BTEIN UPPLEMENT. FEBRUARY 9 TO COUNTRY DEALERS, ~ NOTICH The Adams Express Company run a special news- Poper train over the Pennsylvania Kailroad and its connections, leaving Jersey City at a quarter past four A.M. daily and Sunday, carrying the regular edition of the Hera as far West as Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia ata quarter-past six A. M. and Washington at one P. M. From our reports this morning the probabilities arc that the weather in New York to-lay will be slightly warmer and clear or partly cloudy. Way Srreet Yesterpay.—The stock specu- lation was feverish and attended with consider- able fluctuations in the direction of a decline. Gold opened at 1055, and closed at 105%. Money on call was supplied at 2 a 21g per cent. _ Government and railway bonds were in the main steady. Interest was again renewed in an unex- pected bear movement which involved North- wostern stocks. Western Union was also weaker. Asoruer Ixsutt To PoticeMEN.—A young ruf- fian, who brutally clubbed a policeman.some weeks ago, was sentenced to only ten months’ imprisonment. “Recorper Hackett sat heavily down upon sentimental scoundrels yesterday by declaring that intemperance is no excuse for the commis- sion of crime. Scorr One for the Atlantic and Pacific Tele- graph Company—it has gained right of way along the Baltimore and Obio Railway, with the business of that company. He Was Seventy and she was seventeen, and their courtship lasted only a fortnight, so, as a matter of course, they want to be divorced though married but a month. A Srrance Attempt at suicide, which is re- corded to-day, awakens wonder as to what the poor are to do when a wealthy citizen is driven to self-destruction by imaginary financial diffi- culties. Jcpce Cortis YesTerDay fixed the responsi- bility for the law’s delay upon those who are usually to blame for it—the lawyers. Thirty-five cases were called, and in no one of them were the lawyers ready to proceed. Dipw’r THat Partisan SQuansry in the House over the quarters assigned to Wells and Anderson cost altogether too much for that sort of work? As the public will have to pay the bill it has a right to the information asked. Tue ALDERMEN Sranrtep for the Dock Depart- ment yesterday, and if they move as rapidly as they have done in the car-warming matter they may reach the Dock Commissioners in Greenwood before the inscriptions on their tombstones be- come illegible. Tue Street Car Orprn. NCE Passep by the Aldermen last week reached the Board of Health six days later. An indisposed turtle would have made the trip in a quarter of the time and still ~had ample opportunity to examine the shop win- dows en route. . However Mucn the unemployed workingmen may have erred yesterday in asking the city to give them work, they were perfectly justified in complaining of the manner in which the city’s money is lavished apon officeholders who do Ax Ovorovs TALe, dimly foreshadowed today in “Water Front Damages,” is wbout to be told fmeourt, and then unsuspecting citizens will learn Low onsily » single man can distribute malaria with strict impartiality throughout » Jarge ward, and how an incapable city government allows him to do it and complains only when individ. nals set it an example. Dee Scesrcrion or Hrsnaxvs is st lost complete, icgally as well as morally, The de- fondant in tho celebrated Nichols divorces case atternpted to avoid paying a dry yoods bill con- tracted by his wife on the gronni that the pur- chase was made withot:t his consent, but the Court directed a verdict tor the firm which sued | for payment. Who says that woman's rights is a dead isane ? * ‘Tue Weatiticn.—A slight fail in, temperature occurred yesterday in the Middle and Northern States of the Union. The depreasion in the East- ern Gulf has passed into the Atlantic, cmusing light rain at Punta Rassa, Fla. The nortieasteru depression has also moved into the ocean off Nova Scotia, causing light rains on the const. | The highest pressure is nuw over the Lower Missouri und Upper Mississippi valleys avd wancing toward the Jakes. It is followed by a depression in Dakota which is at- by high winds, The westher throughout try is generally fine. Veryslight altera- occurred in the river levels within the mty-four hours. The ico gorge in the y at Leavenworth, has commenced to e and clear or partly cloudy. | record. By far the most exciting topic j garded as savory by beliovers in the tradition- The Opening of the British Par- lament. It has become so uncommon an occur- rence for the Qneen to open Parliament in person that this bit of picturesque pageantry makes.a festival occasion for our cousins across the water, and this festival they en- joyed at'its best yesterday. In Her Majes- ty’s speech will be found the usual mere ref- erence to the great topics of the time that are deemed worthy royal attention. It was aptly pointed out by the liberal leader that the negotiations with tho United States on the subject of ex- tradition was not one of these honored topics. Perhaps this was not a mere lapse of the royal memory. That was @ negotiation not brilliant in its legal as- pects, certainly, for Her Majesty's constitu- tioral advisers, and they may not care to invite any consideration of that part of their touched by Her Majesty was that of the re- lations with Turkey. Ont of the considera- tion of the Conference and the Bulgarian butcherics there is evidently to come a storm. In both houses the keynote is already given. In the Lords, although Earl Granville declared he would not touch this topic till the papers were before Parlia- ment, yet he seems to have drifted involun- tarily into sharp criticism of the Premier. In almost any country in Europe save England so sharp a conflict as is now im- minent in the British Parliament would be looked forward to with uneasy apprehen- sion, Thero is to be exploded within a few days all the pent-up wrath of hostile par- ties—wrath that has accumulated in the months in which one has controlled the course of the government in a grent crisis of international polities, and the other has been compelled to look on, excited by the spectacle to the last syllable of endnrance. And there is also apparently to be venti- lated the ins and outs of some peculiar diplomatic proceedings that cannot be re- ally straightforward character of John Bull. In what other country in Europe can a case that passionately stirs the sympathies of half the nation be with impunity brought forth and made the subject of the fierce declamation that will rage in the House of Commons over the Bulgarian butcheries, or wheré else dare any one parade a Minis- terial scandal? In the only countries where freedom to assail the government in this style exists revolution is the possible con- sequence of every Parliamentary battle as resolute as this one may be, the coming of which they contemplate in England with equanimity. On the occasion when it was objected to. the apartments of the placid Mr. Dick, that they were not large enough to swing a cat around in, that philosopher replied that he did not J wish to indulge in that kind of exercise ; and it may be thought that other govern- ments in Europe are none the worse for not affording an opportunity for the scene that is in preparation in London, But in free countries the primary objections to parlia- mentary government are not listened to, much less answered. It is a spectacle for the admiration of the world that in a government where there is so much of the feudal fabric left, as there still is in England, the principle of popular sovereignty is so vigorous and so effective that the ‘grievances of opinion may change the government in a night, and one for the especial admiration of the politician that in such a case all the machinery of the State will move on in uninterrupted tranquillity. John Milton’s great words:— Revenge, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold, will still move the soul with indignation against that political slaughter of a Chris- tian people which they denounce; and in the country in which these lines were written a slaughter a hundredfold worse, with cir- cumstances especially fitted to intensify the horror, must necessarily excite the deepest emotions of pity and indignation ; while if itcan be shown that the government of that very country was indifferent to so ter- rible a crime, or paltered with the human passion of the people on that subject, these emotions of the nation become of great consequence as a political force. Mr. Glad- stone, Mr. Bright and some other prominent men who lead the liberal onset are fully in sympathy with the fervid spirit behind this movement ; and we believe less than justice was done them when it was charged by the Premier that they were making an agitation injurious to the country only in order to get into office. That the events referred to constituted a case of terribly aggravated in- humanity there cannot be any doubt; that the Ottoman government ordered the butcheries is no less certain, for this was in- sultingly declared to the Conference by Safvet Pacha; and the. government which thus commanded acts which shocked the civilized world was at the time in such com- munication and on such terms with the British Ministry as to make the latter almost a party to the transaction. In view of these facts the British people wonld be reczeant to their own his- tory and to that sense of humanity which is one of tho finer elements of their character if they did not seize the first op- portunity to make a protest in Parliament with all the vigor of which they are capable. On a former occasion, when these facts, then not known in their full proportion, were re- ferred to in Parliament, tho reference was discharged with a sneer. It is clear that the Premier is too adroit to treat the subject in that style now. It is not altogether clear, however, that ho will go satisfactorily through the conflict, whatever tone may be chosen. Indeed, the position of the government is not clear to the government itself, since there is a division of the Ministry. Between the ground taken by Earl Beaconsfield in his famous address at the Lord Mayor's dinner last November and the ground to which | England seemed committed by the course of the Marquis of Salisbury at Constantinople there was a wide difference; and it is apparently yet to be fully made known whether this difference was due to a modifi- | cation of his views on the part of the Premier, | or whether # policy was carried out at Con. | stantinople under the instructions of the them. There occurred, at all events, at Constantinople a collision of forces not common in the British service. An Envoy, with special instructions, acted in full sympathy with Russia in the en- deavor to exact the Sultan's consent to certain reforms; while a resident Am- bassador, also it is to be supposed under instructions, ravelled the threads of the other's web as fast asthey were woven. It has been held that the special envoy was in possession of the viewsof the government and that the acts of the Ambassador were parts ofan underhand intrigue ; but itis part of the policy of the government, apparently to as-. sume that if there was a collision at Con- stantinople it must have been the fault of the special envoy. All this will be food for great debates. Perbaps the debate in the British Parlia- ment, while it will certainly open up all this scandal, will enlighten the world some- what as to sudden variations in Russia's temper with regard to war against Turkey. Bussia was certainly well informed with regard tothe real attitude of the English government toward the Sultan, and appar- ently bad more faith in the purpose of that government to support Turkey than in the appearance of its co-operation with the Conference, It is perhaps a little significant that coincidently with the meeting of Parliament, which will, it is to be supposed, give the Premicr plenty of occupation, there are re- newed reports of events which seem to con- template an early resort to hostilities, Four more corps of the Russian army, it is said, are to be mobilized, and the headquarters of that army are to be transferred to Jassy. And the contemplation of measures like this, although the peace negotiations with Servia are in satisfactory progress, certainly indi- cates that Russia has more faith in Eng- Innd’s pacific demeanor when Parliament is in session than at other times. A Rapid Transit Decision, Chief Justice Curtis, of the Superior Court, rendered a decision yesterday im the ease of Jeremiah V. Spader against the New York Elevated Railroad Company. The plaintiff had sued for an injunction to. re- strain the defendants from continuing their road across the Battery, on considerations ; dng up from ancient charters and old acts of the Legislature. Judge Curtis decides against the applicant and in favor of the right of the company to construct their road through the Battery. Tho ancient restrictions merely opernte against the erection ot private buildings or the con- version of that tract of land to private uses, They are no bar to utilizing it for public purposes, and the extension of a rapid transit road to the South ferry is for the manifest accommodation of the public. The present Southern terminus of the Green- wich Street Elevated road is extremely in- convenient for a great portion of the people who make use of it. The distance from the ferries is too long to be walked over without discomfort even in dry, pleasant weather, and in bad weather it subjects passengers, especially women, to needless exposure and suffering. The extension of the road will take but little space from that ample pleas- ure ground, and the people dwelling in that part of the city are not so fastidious in their taste that they would be. very sensitive to so slight a diminution of the beauty of the Battery. Judge Curtis finds that the use of the Battery fora purpose so conducive tothe general accommodation of the public is entirely consistent with all rights secured by the State constitution, and that the Legislature really possesses the power which it exer- cised in the thirty-sixth section of the Rapid Transit act so far as it authorizes the com- pany to make a depot and ferry connection across the Battery. Thus one by one the legal obstructions interposed by the selfish enemies of rapid transit are in the course of removal by enlightened judicial action. General Miles’ Operations. Some hypercritical people are complain- ing that General Miles fails to kill enough Indians in his frequent conflicts with the hostiles. If the value of a military opera- tion depended on the amount of blood shed the critics would no doubt be justified in thinking that too much importance has been given to combats in which relatively few men fell on cither side. But the truth of the matter is that the value of General Miles’ operations lies not in the killing of a hundred Indians, moro or less, put in rendering it impossible for the hostiles to refit during the win- ter for ® new campaign. Were the hostiles allowed to rest in peace during the winter nonths the spring would find them ready and eager for a new campaign; but, thanks to the energy displayed by General Miies, spring will probably find the bands under Sitting Ball and Crazy Horse crippled by the fatigues and exposuro of o winter campaign. It must be remembered that General Miles has no cavalry at his disposul, and is coequently unable to reap the full fruit of his victories. With his limited com- mand of infantry, however, he has managed to accomplish more than did tho combined columns of Crook and Terry during the summer, This is sufficient answer to all hostile criticism. Letter Miller. In another column will be found a state- | ment from Mr. Ballinger, to whom it was re- ported Judgo Miller, of the United States Su- preme Court, had written a letter commenting with some acrimony upon the condition of our politics und the course of the govern- ment. Mr. Ballinger denies explicitly that any such letter is in existence or was ever received by him from Judge Miller. Ho makes an explanation of facts upon which it | is possible an erroneous impression in re- gard to the letter may have arisen. He states that a letter substantially like theone referred to was written by him to Judge Miller at the time referred to and was read | aloud in his office, and that this, if any, is the letter that was heard read by our in- formant. This, at all events, plausibly accounts for the story, and, taken in connec- The Reported from Judge held as exploding the report. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1877—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Premier, was at least widely dissimilar from | The Blectoral Commission. The proceedings which immediately fol- lowed the opening of yesterday's session of the commission fixed beyond doubt the sweeping exclusion of evidence implied in the decision of the preceding day. The commission had decided that no evidence is admissible beyond the certificates and papers submitted to it by the President of the Senate. But it so happened that among these papers was a statement relating to the writ of quo warranto served on the Hayes electors on the 6th of December, and the democrats consoled themselves with the idea that the quo warranto proceedings were already in evidence, and that the commission, even under its own order, would have to considerthem. The democratic counsel did not feel quite snre of this point, and seized the earliest opportunity to bring it toa test. They accordingly introduced the Attorney General of Florida as a witness yesterday morning and attempted to prove by him the hour of the day at which the writ of quo tear- ranto was served on the Hayes electors, Mr. Evarts promptly objected to the question as excluded by the order of the commis- sion. The objection was sustained. It is too obvious that the ruling out of this testimony is fatal to democratic hopes founded on the writ. Mr, O'’Conor and his associates had Inid special stress on the fact that the writ was served on the Hayes elec- tors before they had organized as an elec- toral college. The bour of serving the writ was the very hinge of that part of their case, and the exclusion of testimony on that vital point is in effect an exclusion of the whole quo warranto proceedings as a part of the Florida case, The consequence is that the democratic case, so far as that State is concerned, has completely broken down by the inadmissibility of all the proofs which have been so elaborately pre- pared during the last two months, The great mass of testimony collected and digested with so much labor by committees of Congress, and thought by the democrats to form the main pillar of their case, turns out to be of no more consequence than if that vast machinery of investigation had not been set in motion. The democratic strong- hold, fortified with such infinite pains and labor, has been flanked by their opponents, who march safely past without find- ing an obstruction. Such hopes as remain to the supporters of Mr. Tilden must rest on quite other grounds than those on which they have heretofore relied. The herculean work done by their committees and the wonderful cross-examinations of Mr. David Dudley Field will be treated as so much irrelevant rubbish, which the com- mission brushes aside as having no bearing on the case, Mr. Tilden has no longer any- thing to stand upon excepting the certifi- cates sent to the President of the Senate and such testimony as may be offered to prove that particular clectors were ineligible. This is aslender reliance. In the case of Humphreys, the contested Florida elector, it rests upon a wire-drawn legal technicality. The objection to the Oregon elector, Watt is not quite so un- substantial; but the democrats must Wo very sanguine if they expect to succeed when their hopes hang on so slender a thread as a dispute over the meaning of the word “vacancy,” which is the turning point of the Oregon dispute. The eight republicans who form the majcrity of the commission are not very likely to award the Presidency to Mr. Tilden on a mere refinement as to whether there was a vacancy which the two undoubted Hayes electors were empowered to fill. University Racing in 1877. Harvard and Yale, by again making their ‘annual contest in eights, have very effectu- ally shut out the other New England col- leges and so done much to discourage row- ing among them. On the other hand, the Rowing Association of American Colleges has shrewdly taken a step which will draw much from the interest of the Harvard-Yale race and centre it more than ever in the really national event in which the majority of the colleges are represented. Henceforth the Association races will be rowed by fours, By at last adopting this plan, which for three years has been steadily urged in these columns, all our colleges—poor and rich—in men or money, are able to meet on terms more nearly equal than when six good men had to be found, or eight, as the Connecticut race demands. The perfection of rowing so nearly reached in the magnificent perform- ance of the London rowing four last senson at Philadelphia, and the superb execution of the Yale four, which plainly outrowed them, no doubt did much to bring about this desira- ble end, and it is highly probable that six- oared racing is already a thing of the past, likely soon to be almost unknowr here asin England. Let Cornell and Columbia, the famons winners of recent years, now invite to their meeting Dartmouth and Wesleyan. These two—-the latter with her short dis- | tance to come and her splendid row- ing spirit, and tho formg: with her steady and marked advance year after year until she has reached the front ranks — will alone furnish all that is neoded to in- | sure a capital race even with the best stn- dent oarsmen in the Middle and Western States, while the prospect at last of hav- ing the meeting so near New York city os Greenwood Lake will be sufficient guarantee of the largest assembly ever gathered in America to witness manly sport. But now let one more step be taken. Be- canse the Yale and Harvard men wanted to be out of the associntion last year it does not | follow that they wish to remain out. From | their eights each can ensily select an excel- lent four, good substitutes will be plenty, boats they doubtless have already, the dates of the two races are not far apart, so that a few days more of training would be but a trifle, and, best of all, they will have the chance of meeting one crew which can prob. ably beat them both. Let tho invitation he sent to them at once to come and try who really are the best student oarsmen in America. If their home contest on the Connecticut proves again ns tame and one- sided an affair as it did Inst year, they will be glad, while in condition for very fast work, of an opportunity to show conclu. ather in New York to-day will be | Forcign Secretary, which, if not in open | tion with Judge Miller's denial, may be | sively how they compaie with the best men | defiance with the known views of the | t of their day, Sanitary Security in the Schoolroom, One bill of the many introduced at Albany during the first fow woeks of the session de- serves the earnest support of every member of the Legislature, It is that introduced by Mr. Gerard and which provides for the appointment of a competent sanitamy in- spector whose duty shall be to protect the children attending the public schools from the evils arising from bad sewerage and insufficient ventilation. In their sanitary arrangements nearly all our school buildings are sadly defective. Being constructed after very much the same plans no account seems to have been taken of the special requirements of the several sites as created by their character and sur- roundings. An almost total ignorance of the primary laws of sanitary science kas characterized the local boards of trustees who have the management of the public schools, and. it is high time that the State government should interpose its authority in a matter affecting so closely the public welfare. In many cases the school buildings are erected in the centres of districts noted for bad sewerage and an overcrowded population, The very air breathed in the open street is loaded with the noxious emanations from the sewers and the accumulations of filth that encumber the thoroughfares. When to these evils are added the overcrowding and want of proper ventilation in the schools the consequences cannot fail to be highly. dangerous to public health. When it is remembered that the majority of the children who attend the public schools are already exposed in their homes to all the evil influences of bad drainage and foul air, and that they are of an age when the devel- oping constitution is peculiarly susceptible to injury from such causes, the importance of securing for them, during school hours, at least, pure air and healthy surroundings, can- not be denied. The Sanitary Inspector of Schools—and we hope that his powers will be extended over all schools, public and pri- vate—can investigate and remedy every de- fect in the buildings occupied by: our children. If he will be, as he ought to be, an expert in sanitary matters, and is cheerfully sustained by the Commission- ers of Education and the local boards of trustees, we’can look forward to reforma- tion in the present sanitary system in the schools which will result in much benefit to the public health, The St. John’s Guild Marketing. We are nfraid that the excellent Master of that noble charity—the St. John’s Guild— is not a good housekeeper on a large scale, He has been paying six dollars ond twenty-five cents per ton for coal, and because one wholesale company informs him that it. does not mine red ash—the description of coal he has been distributang among the poor—and another wholesale company states that it cannot undertake to deliver coal in quarter-ton lots at any designated place below Fifty- ninth street, he despairs of buying the article at a lower rate. But there is no particular necessity for the Master of the Guild to confine himself to ‘‘red ash,” and as he can buy very excellent coal by the cargo at three dollars and a halt a ton he might hire carts and distribute it all over the city in any quantities pt desire at a vastly less expense thin ‘tWo* dollars’ snd seventy-five cents per ton. Of course this has not occurred to him in the multiplicity of his charitable duties, but we believe he might easily save from one dollar to ten shillings a ton by such an arrangement. Then, again, we fear that the dealers im- pose on the Master of the Guild in the mat- ter of flour. in reporting to the Comptroller how he has expended fifteen thousand dol- lars given to the Guild by the cifyY during the last month he states that he has paid $3,578 66 of the amount for 461 barrels of flour, or a fractio&t over $7 75 per barrel. Now, the quotations yesterday were :—Su- perfine..State and Western, $5 759 $5 85; No. 2, $4 pity $5; common to good extra State, $6 05 a $6 20, make excellent bread, if not of the very whitest color. Take the highest quota- tion, $6 20, and the Master of the Guild might have saved $1 55 barrel, or $720 on the number of barrels purchased with the city’s money last month. The prices we have quoted are wholesale; but the flour is not carted over the city in quar- ter barréf lots, and the Master of the Guild can buy fifty barrels at a time in the market at wholesale rates. He will no doubt thank us for this information, as it will enable the Guild to save money and extend the area of its useful charity. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mr. Wendell Phillips, of Boston, is atthe St. Dente. Murtagh was not smoked out, and so bis bacon was saved, ‘The republicans are aot 60 anxious to go back of the Loutsiana revurns as they aro to go back on them, M. Offenbach while in America failed to notice qne peculiarity of seubourd civilization, A bachelor in Now York will go mad’ over ono girl; but a married map 1 usually smashed on at least filteen yollow headed actresses. Norristown Herald:-—'‘A Kentucky lady has asked for adivorce on the ground that ber husband is nota Christian, If the poor man can’t become a Christian except by a separation from his wife let her haves divorce, by all incans,”” It fs claimed by the lovors of constitutional law that when Justice Bradley lays down a book of black-letter literature be can put the back of a red herring between his tocth, take hold of its tail with his left hand and pull the confounded thing ail to pieces, Even if sou are going to keop the house you hivo in for another year there 1s no reason why you shoula not yo to your neighbor's house, which has a dill on, and look through {t, soon alter breakfast, so as to catch her when the beds are not made, St. Louis Republican;—“There had been a discussion avout the cost of adress, and she was wrathy, ‘It's | all vory well,’ she pouted, ‘for youto expect a woman to be an angel; bat I’d bave youto know, sir, that I wouldn't be even au angel unless my wings could be cut goring, There, now!) "? Jongtollow 18 authority for the statement that some days must bo dark und dreary, Fow will doubt this. There aromen who having piwned their ove:conts during the warm snap see tho weathercock going round to N. W., and they wish they were a time- painted shinglo on @ country schoolhouse, patched with moss, ‘Thero are sad moments in every man’s life, especially round St Valentine's Day, Well do we remomber that ) first exquisite valentine, all worked with angels and | hearts pierced with urrows, nnd roses climbing up a | stick, and drawer ruffles cut beautifully into tbe paper edge. It cost five cents to the girl that cent it; and the nextday her mothor came over to tho houso and bor- rowed a dima, All these brands | THR BRITISH PARLIAMENT, The Session Opened by the Queen in Person. . SPEECH FROM THE THRONE Programme of the- Ministerial Policy for the Coming Session. EASTERN NEGOTIATIONS. Efforts to Ameliorate the Condition of the Christians in Turkey. SOLICITTDE FOR OTTOMAN “INTEGRITY. The Porte’s Rejection of the Con- ference Proposals. VICTORIA’S IMPERIAL TITLE, A Fierce Onslaught on the Min- istry Expected. raat) ciso RIS sey [By caBLE TO THE HERALD. Lonpoy, Feb. 9, 1877, The opening of Parliament is always an event of great importance in England, and the Queen's speech is looked forward to with interest as fore- shadowing the matin features of the Ministerial Policy for the ensuing session. But the session which opened yesterday has been expected with almost feverish interest by the people here, and everything combined to make the event one of un- usual importance. The present threatening aspect of affairs in the East, the possibility of England becoming involved in’a great European war, the attitude of the Indian Mussulmans in regard to British policy toward Turkey and the vigorous onslaught made on the Ministry during the recess: by Mr. Gladstone and the other liberal jeaders make the position of the Cabinet one of peculiar dificulty and embarrassment. A MEMORABLE SESSION EXPECTED, It is felt by every thinking man in England that the present session will be one of the most memo- rable that has taken place for many years. ‘The at- tacks on the Ministerial policy commenced outside of Parliament will naturally be followed up in the House itself, and it is thought that the formidable array of talent on the liberal side will tax the power, influence and ability of Lord Beaconsfield’ and his colleagues to the very utmdst, DANGERS OF THE MINISTRY. * Then there are rumors which day by day assume ° ® more definite shape of serious differences of opinion between the members of the Cabinet and of & split in the conservative majority, which seem to lessen the chances of Lord Beaconsfield’s final suc- cess in the line of policy he has adopted tn connece tion with the Eastern diMiculty. ATTACK ON THE MINISTRY BXPEOTED, ‘The Marquis of Saiisbury's report from the Confer. ence Is expected with some impatience, and the iaying of the papers in regard to the Eastern {| negotiations will certainly be the signal for a ferce onslaught on the government. For these and many other reasons the imposing ceremony of the open: ing of Parliament by the Queen in person yesterday Possessed more than ordinary interest, AN IMPOSING CEREMONY, The session was opened by Her Majesty the Queen, in person, yesterday. The weather was fair and mild. Her Majesty left Buckingham Palace shortly after one o’ciock, in the royal state carriage, at- tended by a brilliant suite. The royal escort was composed of a detachment of the household troops, Her Majesty alighted at the Peers’ entrance of the Parliament building, where she was received by the Deputy Lord Great Chamberlain (Lord Aveland) and the great officers of state, and conducted inte the House of Lords. A BRILLIANT ASSEMBLAGE, The Prince and Princess of Wales were present, and there was a brilliant assemblage of ladies. All the foreign Ministers and the Chinese and Jap- anese Embassies: were also present, The Eari of Beaconsfield carried the sword of State before the Queen. The Marquis of Salisbury was not present, After Her Majesty had taken her place on the throne the Lord High Chancellor (Lord Cairns) read the royal speech. THE SPEECH FROM THE THRONE. My Lorps AND GENTLEMEX—With much satis. faction I again resort to the advice and assistance of my Parliament. THE BASTERN DIFFICULTY, The hostilities which before the close of last session of Parliament had broken out between Turkey on the one hand and Servia and Montenegro onthe other engaged my most sertous attention, and1 anxiously waited for the opportunity whes my good ofices, together with those of my allies, might be usefully interposed. This opportunity presented itself by the solicitation of Servia for our mediation, the offer of which was uluumately enter. tained by the Porte. THE NEGOTIATIONS. In the course of negotiations 1 deemed it ex. pedient to lay down and, in concert with the other Powers, submit to the Porte certain bases upon which [held that not only peace might be brought about with the Principalittes, but @ permanent pacification of the disturbed provinces, including Bulgaria, and the amelioration of their condition might bé effected. Agreed to by the Powers they required to be expanded and worked out by nego- tiation or by @ conference, accompanied by an armistice. The Porte, though not accepting the bases, and proposing other terms, was willing to submit them to the equitable consideration of the Powers. BULGARIAN HORRORS, While proceeding to act in tiis mediation I thougit it right, after an inquiry into the facts, to denounce to the Porte the ex-esses asvertained to have been committed in Buigariv, and to express my reprobation of their perpetrators, OPENING OF THE CONFRABNOR, An armistice being arranged the Conference metat Constantinople for the consideration of exe tended terms in accordance with the original bases, in which Conference I was represented by &