The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1877, Page 6

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From our reports this morning the probabilities ure thal the weather in New York to-day will be cold aud clear or partly cloudy, probably with high winds, Watt Streer Yesterpay.—The stock market was active and feverish. There was u further decline in New Jersey Central and in almost all the leading stocks, Government bonds were stepdy, while there was but little business in railway bonds. Money was easy at from 31g to 21g per cent, with the last price at 242, Gold opened at 1055, declined to 1051, rallied to 1055, and closed at 10512. How a Trirui QuarreL Espen is told in “A Murderer’s Death.” yesterday in Jers 's great libel suit. Loxpon Desratcurs bring the cheering an- ocean tele- nouncement that a monopoly in graphy seems at pre: mands more judges on, account of the immense amount of business on hand. What are the churches about ? Tun Coxre IMMITTEES on the New York Docks cannot agree that the piers should he sold." Why not give them away? ‘There's millions in it”—for the taxp: Governor Be! veto of the Magic bill de- stroys ull hopes of Oschwald and Ryan except in the Governor's own clemency, Many who have given careful attention to the evidence will join the condemned men in this last hope. Now We Suacs Hvar all about it. The lady prine “of inflieting corporeal punish- ment upon a pupil hints that another lady prin- | tipal instigated the charge. If both are true to the traditional reputation of their sex there will be no chan Tue Arrenpants of the Methodist ministers’ meeting yesterday were informed that ten years would he required to complete the new transla- tion of the Bible, It is well enough for scholars to be leisurely, but when a business man finds the Se ures interfering with trade he can wake a new translation inside of ten seconds, Tne Acpermastc Reso.ution requiring clean straw in the street cars having received the yor's signature the public will to-day enjoy the opportunity to test this newly discovered source of ¢: Of course Mesars. Von Reilly and O'Gunster, of the Railroad Committee, will rome down town on the cars, and without gloves or overcoats. Aw Intenestine ‘Tow PECTED com- plication in Canadian affairs is described in our Ottawa despatches this morning. It is to be hoped that all causes of dissatisfaction may yield to the efforts of statesmanship and loyalty, and that our northern neighbors may emerge from their troubles with increased fraternal spirit and strength. _ | isl th terete | Where Is Tuar Crock }—The architect of | the new Post Office building devised a place for a clock; the hole in the wall is complete accord- ing to specification, but there is no more time there than in a Third avenue car horse. The people whose money is to pay for the clock have long enough gazed in vain for it, and they would | like to know the reason why the government | does vot supply it? i} | Tus Weaturr.—The depression in the St. Lawrence Valley has moved castward over the northern portion of the New England States into Nova Scotia, attended by an area of snow in the | southern part of the lower lake region and very high winds. At Aibany an extraordinary gale prevailed, the wind velocity being fifty-one miles per hour, At points on the coast the velocity ranged from thirty-six to twenty-two miles per hour, and over the lakes and in the St. Lawrence Valley from eighteen to thirty iniles perhour. An area of very high pressare, | 30.79 inches, follows closely on the storm centre, and is in turn followed by falling barometer. In the Southwest another storm centre is ad- vancing, as we predicted yesterday, with strong NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRU The Electoral Commission. The country awaits in profound peace, and with the certainty that peace will con- tinue, the action of the Electoral Commis- sion and of Congress in counting the vote and declaring the next President. We call the attention of those of our contemporaries, and those people who so eagerly and per- tinaciously opposed the Electoral bill, to this fact. No American can consider with- out a shudder what would to-day have been the condition of the country had the oppo- nents of the Electoral bill succeeded in de- feating it. No other measure could have been adopted, for there was not time, and the two houses would have met to-morrow without agreement, without the possibility of agreement, and in the midst of a whirl- wind of excitement, not only in Washington, but all over the country. It would have been too late then for the counsels of wise and conservative mento make themselves felt on either side; and there isnot the least donbt that we should have been in a state of revolution. Fortunately the good sense and patriot- ism of the best men of both parties in Con- fress and elsewhere have averted so dire and disgraceful a catastrophe; but the people will not forget that they do not owe this es- cape, this safety from the greatest of calami- ties, to the partisans of gither side, either in Washington or elsewhere. The country ought not to forget the men who, as mem- bers of the Joint Committee, sank their party feelings and wishes and united upon this wise and necessary measure. They and all who voted for the bill deserve to be held in honor. ‘They guarded the nation from an ignominious disgrace and a calamity which might have been fatal to our institutions and which would have inflicted incalculable losses on the country. ‘At any rate, whether Hayes or Tilden becomes President, the country will have peace,” the President is reported to have said some days ago to a friend. He was right, and he, too, deserves credit and honor for the support he gave to the bill in all its stages, The commission has decided one of the disputed cases and has taken up another. | The democrats, who have lost Florida, are naturally disappointed ; and here and there we see signs of irritation’ and discontent. We advise them to remember that the repub- licans would have suffered a much more grievous disappointment had the commis- sion decided against them. For if Florida had been given to Mr. Tilden, or if it had only been thrown out, the republicans would have there and then lost the election. Somebody is to be disappointed ; and we are glad to hear that in Washington the democrats take their defeat coolly, like men and Americans, and do not give up their hopes of Louisiana or their intention to acquiesce with such good nature as they can command, but with absolute loyalty and good faith. We are glad, too, to hear that the members of the commission are in good temperand believe in each other's upright intentions. We do not doubt that the dis- cussions in the commission have been lively and earnest, and we regret that they have resulted in what seems a partisan division ; but wo do not believe that any member has voted contrary to his honest belief, and we still cherish the hope that in the cases still to be considered we shall find at least the judges of the Supreme Court uniting upon conclusions, whatever they may be. When this matter is settled and the next President, be he Hayes or Tilden, is installed, the American people will have a right to be proud of themselves and proud of the states- men whose wisdom and moderation will have carried the country safely through per- haps the greatest peril which a free nation can encounter, Since the 7th of November the people of this country have undergone a test of their good sense and temper which has attracted the admiration of the world, and justly so. There is no doubt that deep and dangerous irritation has been felt all over the country. When the history of the present crisis is searched out here- alter it will be found that the danger of an outbreak was greater than most quiet peoje imagined. Happily‘all this is now past. We are settling the trouble in the American fashion, in the way in which a people pro- fessing to be Christian onght to settle it; we have been able to discover ways of peace where other nations have fallen into civil war. The present period will be accounted the proudest in our history; for no achieve- ments of war, no victories on land or sea, of which we may boast, can ever equal, in their beneficent effect--not only on our own for- tunes, but on the cause of liberty and civili- zation all over the world—this peaceful triumph over our own exasperated passions, There are, we suppose, men in the country wicked and base enough, even yet, to hope that the great arbitration will in some way fail, and, perhaps, even to attempt to make it fail, We warn such partisans, to what- ever side they may belong, not to show their heads or their hands too plainly, One side or the other must suffer defeat in the end, and that end must come in a few days. Let both parties keep their hotheads and knaves well under subjection ; for the country will stand no nonsense. Whoever is defeated must bear the loss with immediate and absolute submission, and if the leaders of shall prove to be beaten are they will lose not a moment, after the result is known, in giving, the most con- spicuous and cheerful assent to that result. When Mr. Lincoln was making his in- augural address his great rival and opponent, Douglas, calmly stood behind him and good-naturedly held his hat, Trifling as the incident seems it is one of the most sig- nificant and honorable in our history ; and the country demands an equally cheerful and loyal acquiescence from whatever party may now prove to be beaten. It wiil tole- rate no opposition, and it will express its contempt for grumblers, A disputed elec- tion is a grave calamity, a sense of injustice suffered is not a slight matter; but this winds and heavy rains in the Western Gulf | great question has been submitted to the States. Dangerous gales are probable for the | arbitration of wise and honorable men, who Atlautic and Gulf coasts. The temperature has fulien very low in the Northwest, but will rise rapidly with the approaching storms. At Pem- bina @ temperature was 21 and 16 degrees below ero respectively, The Missouri has risen slightly at Leavenworth. The weather in New York today will be cold and clear or partly cloudy, probably with high winds. will, we believe, conscientiously do the sol- emn duty imposed on them; and when 4. Breckootldge jeaterday ing the they have done it, and when Congress has done its share under the law, whatever the result may be, that is finnl—until the next election. Two years hence thoss who may think themselves aggrieved, be they demo- orate or republicans, can appeal to the peo~ em plo; but until-then all men are bound—sa- eredly bound—to accept the result, as we have no doubt they will. The “What Is It.” From the fair land of Florida, that mys- terious region in the sunny South, the home of Presidential uncertainties, extraordinary allegations and immense alligators, there come to us new tales of wonder as puzzling as any election return that ever addled the brains of an investigating committee. Florida has always been a doubtful State, even before the prospects of Mr. Tilden became enveloped by haze. Although sub- divided by county lines and still again by a State survey into sections, the surveyors were content to project their meridian lines into unknown spaces with- out venturing to follow them up by actual measurement. In this way a romantic un- certainty surrounds the selection of a quar- ter section in the interior of Florida; for the pre-emptor and would-be settler is always in doubt as to whether he will need a steam- boat or a steam plough to break the surface of his claim. In the pursuit of positive information regarding. the character of the interior our special correspondent and explorer finds himself at the start face to face with a ‘what is it” of the first magni- tude. That singular column of smoke which he describes must mean something really extraordinary; for Floridian speculation has exhausted itself in devising theories as to its nature and cause, The peculiarities of politics in the State have become familiar to us through the columns of figures that prove the positive success of the Tilden and Hayes electors, but which varied from day to day like the changing forms of the smoke col- pitch barrels. Key West supplies cigars by the million to the smokers of the United States, and the popula- tion of the State seem to pass the greater part of their time smoking; so that really we must not be surprised if the very | State ‘itself, lying lazily on its coral bed within the warm embraces of the Gulf Stream, should indulge in an occasional whiff ortwo. ‘The mystery lies, however, in the manner in which this terrestrial fuming is accomplished, and also in ‘the nature of the ‘‘what is it” whence arise the dense clouds of smoke that periodically surround an undiscovered centre of combustion. To reach this point our special correspondent and explorer is directing all his efforts, and, judging from the description of his sur- roundings which we print to-day, his task is one of perilous adventure. New York a Clean City. Being convinced that we must rely on the ability and energy of Mayor Ely for clean streets in New York city we will persistently oppose any plan that means the perpetu- ation of the present defective system under any form or pretended reform. The Police Department, through its Street Cleaning Bureau, has proved itself utterly inefficient in cleaning the streets; so that we must now make a clean sweep of this use- less and costly encumbrance, on which abuses have grown like barnacles on a ship’s bottom. But a duty will devolve on our citizens in the strict performance of which they can aid the Mayor in securing the desired results. If, as it should, the city is to be subdivided into districts for the purpose of facilitating the regulation of the new street-cleaning system by contract, then we must have a rigid inspection of the work. The residents of each district should organize inspection committees who would report promptly to the Mayor any neg- lect of duty on the part of the street-cleaning contractor. The interests of the people are so closely related to a proper carrying out of the new system that unless they are as vigilant as they wish their officials to be they cannot justly com- plain if the public service is sometimos neglected. Every resident of a block can, without any trouble, see that his street is properly cleaned or not. If thirty residents ofa block will take this duty of volunteer inspector by turns, say each for a week, and report by postal card tothe Mayor's office when any cause of complaint arises, then we ean have a complete supervision of the street cleaning throughout the city. No resident of New York éan object to such a trifling tax on his attention—for it will not be on his time—while walking to the cars or toward hia place’ of business, and the beneficial effects on the health of the city and on the administration of its affairs would be immense. With the Mayor responsible to the people and the contract- ors responsible to the Mayor we would wit- ness in a few days such an improvement in the appearance of the streets that people would wonder why such a simple and effective system was not adopted long ago. How to Make Liitle Children as Fire Brigades, A correspondent mentions an instance where serious injury resuited toa number of children in one of our public schools while they were being drilled in the art and mys- tery of escaping from the building in case of a sudden alarm of fire. This attempt to make a miniature fire brigade out of a mass of little school children is a piece of sheer nonsense. No one can expect coolness or judgment among a body of juveniles in an emergency like that supposed. Such mo- ments require the exercise of the clearest sagacity and the utmost self-possession, and it is rarely these qualities are found in adults of mature age and experience. What are needed in tho first place are ample and con- venient modes of egress from the school buildings, and, in the second place, teach- ers who have personally sufficient control over their charges to command their confi- dence, and, while keeping them as unex- cited as possible, effect their exit with as little confasion and delay as possible, Mardi Gra “Sweet recreation barred what doth en- sue?” Bad sport, bad digestion, bad sleep, and generally an “infections sort of pale distemperatures and foes to life.” This was the opinion of the poet, and this is the opin- | ion, evidently, of the gentlemen who wish to enliven our streets with a display Of car- nival festivities on Mardi Gras. In our news columns will be found an account seen umns that rise from a couple of burning ant suitable remedies. of the commencement of the annual frolic at New Orleans, There is no reason why the sports should not be success- ful with us, for fun is without nationality and has no creed. hero is but one ele- ment of doubt. Success would finally turn upon the management of the display as to taste, discretion and some other qualities, They who may be likely to be compromised by any mishap should be sure that the affair is in good hands, The Mayor and the Municipality The two conferences which have been held at the Mayor's office on municipal affairs have been of some use in calling public attention to an important subject, although of little consequence otherwise. The call- ing of these meetings by Mayor Ely is at least a recognition on his part of the great importance of putting the city government on a new tack, The public sentiment of the whole body of our taxpayers will strongly support him in every well- meant endeavor to alleviate their bur- dens. But he makes a mistake, as the result of his conferences has proved, in sup- posing that citizens and heads of depart- ments who assemble on his invitation can supply him with useful ideas. ‘What is everybody’s business is nobody's business,” and itis futile to expect that wise plans of municipal reform can be invented all of a sudden by o miscellancous gathering of people who have no particular motive or ob- ligation to study the subject. ‘lhe Mayor himself is bound by his official position to make himself thoroughly acquainted with our municipal system, and he, of all men in the city, should be the best qualified to detect its faults and point Aconference might be useful in judging of plans which he had framed for its consideration ; but it is as absurd to expect that such a meeting could supply him with ideas as it would be to expect a jury to supply the legal arguments on which its verdict is to rest. If Mayor Ely had a definite plan of his own it would be wise to submit it to the criticism of citi- zens ; there are hundreds of men who can judge for one who cun invent. Our well in- tentioned Mayor has taken hold of the prob- lem at the wrong end, Itis his business to furnish ideas for the citizens to judge of, but not the business of citizens to supersede his mental activity and furnish plans for him to adopt. When he invites another conference we trust he will have some definite and com- prehensive proposal to submit for its judg- ment. Besides being the fountain of sound ideas it is the duty of the Mayor to be a great, stimulating and restraining force in the city government. His energy of character should be felt through all the departments, com- pelling them to do their duty when they are lax, and checking abuses by his vigilance. as soon as any abuse appears. His power for these purposes is much broader than his mere legal authority, if ho is competent for his place. No head of a department would dare to proceed in wrong courses against the rebuke and re- monstrance of a courageous, efficient Mayor; nor would the subordinates in a de- partment slight or evade their duties under a vigilant Mayor disposed to report them to their chief and insist on their remgval. An active, strong-willed Mayor who had made up his mind to stand no nonsense could make it very hot for any subordinate city officer who either abused his position or did not come up to the mark of his duties. The charter makes it the business of the Mayor to practise this kind of energetic super- vision:—‘‘To be vigilant and active in caus- ing the ordinances of the city and laws of the State to be enforced.” His position puts him above red tape restraints. He is not bound to tolerate humbugs nor to turn a blind eye to the shortcomings of any department or officer. If he has the requi- sile force of character he can compel the removal of nuisances without waiting for the procrastinating proceedings of an inefficient Board of Health, sheltering itself behind pretended scientific inquiries, He can enforce the city ordinances which the horse car companies so habitually evade, and infuse energy and efficiency into all the minor officials. It only needs that our Mayor be a man of active mind and resolute courage to put an entirely new face on city affairs. To be sure, he cannot consolidate depart- ments and abolish useless offices in pursu- ance of the sound suggestion of Senator Morrissey ; but he could give a powerful lift to such a reform by advocating it with bold- ness and decision, We do not want a board in direction of any department, but one efficient, responsible head, A great man has said, ‘‘Boards are screens,” und a truer word was never spoken, At the head of every department there should be one man who can be made accountable, and the Mayor should then hold him to his respon- sibility. Love and Lent. The coming in of Lent upon Valentine's Day this year promises to mix devotions heavenly and earthly in a manner most con- fusing to the average intellect. Between post- men and priests the saints celestial will be brought face to face with the tricky earthly saint who once a year sets the world won- dering, and in many a maiden's heart St. Valentine will put his heavenly compeers to flight. Valentines and prayer books will go to church in the same pocket, and the gos- pel of love will frequently find an unwritten imitation striving against it. Countless prayers will be mere lip service, while the petitionérs’ hearts will play apostate and go out after the little blind god of the heathen. Of what avail will fasting be, while lovers’ food is being distributed in such delightful profusion? Nobody can say that it is the lover's fault, nor St. Valentine’s either ; the moon is to blame for the whole trouble. ‘The moon has been the lover's own planet from time immemorial, and the Church should have considered this fact before it laid upon that inconstant orb the solemn duty of determining when Lent should begin. [f this evil cannot be remedied St. Valentine himself should have his par- ticular day determined by the moon ; he would not feel a bit hurt about it, for all days are alike to the god under whom he Berens. ARY 13, 1877.—-TRIPLE SHEET. ° Ladies in Street Cars. Touching the matter of surrendering seats to ladies in our street cars a correspondent suggests that American ladies, with very few exceptions, think they have a right to seats occupied by the other sex, and generally do not even thank the gentlemen who are kind enough to give them their places. He also recalls a curious circumstance that happened the other day in a street car, wherein a man dressed in female attire had his sex diseov- ered because he thanked a gentleman who offered him a seat. All this is rather severe upon American ladies, and is not very cred- itable to American gentlemen. But the fact is, in the language of Sir Roger de Cover- ley, ‘a great deal can be said upon both sides.” If it be an established rule that gentlemen, no matter how weary they may be, ‘shall rise and stand in a crowded car in order that a Indy may be seated, why not carry the rule still further, and have it, expected that gentlemen will yield their berths in ocean or river steamers to such matrons or damsels as may be so unfortu- nate as to be counted out on the berth or stateroom question? The “piggish” point in this controversy may be put in the one instance as in the other. In the case of the horse cars, however, the courtesy point sinks into a plaief matter of fact proposition—viz., the want of sufficient accommodations for pas- sengers. ‘This fault rests entirely with the car companies, At certain hours of the day the cars are so overcrowded as to render travelling extremely uncomfortable, even if one is provided with a seat. This has been a crying evil for along time, and one for which a remedy is imperatively demanded. That remedy can be reached by adopting the London plan (a8 another correspondent proposes and as common sense indorses), and that is, when the seats of a car or omni- bus are occupied the conductor refuses to take up any more passengers. But we sup- pose our citizens must be obliged to submit to the present annoyances in local travel, all of which arise from the littleness and avarice of the car companies, and await the incoming of the elevated railway system, when it is hoped that a spirit of liberality and a desire to properly accommodate the travelling public will animate those who will have the subject in charge. Smoke. smoke should have broken out in two States at thesame time, In Florida the source of and enshrouded in mystery, but in Mary- land the cloud issued from the unhidden lips of a naval cadet, and its nature and origin were accurately determined by the critical olfactories of tobacco-hating profes- sors. In the Maryland case the general government promptly disposed of the smoke by expelling its source, and hundreds of thousands of patriots are wishing that smoke might be made an excuse for the ex- pulsion of Florida too, for the smokiness of the Alligator State is perceptible even in Washington, and bas succeeded in befog- ging some of the most prominent intellects in the land. It is not improbable that Louisiana will soon emulate the example of Florida and fill the eyes of the Washington It is curious that an excitement about | the smoke is surrounded by dense forests |: tribunal with smoke; but it is to be devoutly hoped that the members will endure the agony like men, rub their eyes indus- triously and prevent the great electoral compromise itself from ending in smoke, The Washington Lobby. We hear that the Pacific Railroad lobbies have appeared in great force and with even more than their customary brazen impu- dence of late in the Capitol at Washington. Only a few days ago Speaker Randall found the floor of the Hall of Representatives so crowded and members so annoyed by lobby- ists that he summarily and angrily cleared the floor of all strangers and ordered that nobody be admitted. We trust he will maintain this order in force, and wish he would add to it another excluding all per- sons who have no proper and honest business there from the lobby hall, We call the attention of Vice President Ferry to this matter. The Senate lobby, and even the floor, has been, we are told, crowded on several occasions of late when a Pacific railroad question was up. Senators have complained of annoyance, and one or two attempts to drive away the lobbyists appear to have had but little effect. We advise Mz. Ferry not to be good natured or careless in this matter. If the doorkeepers are lax in their vigilance let him appoint others ; but let him by any means prevent the scandal of lobbyists crowding the passages to the Senate, and even the floor itself, to influence public questions in which their voice has no right to be heard, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mrs. President Grant wears a silver comb. Mrs, Congressman Eugene Hale wears sulphur green silk, Mr, Samuel Bowles, of Springfield, Mass., Brevoort, Walking dresses for spring wear will be light and short, and not looped, The Russians are Alling up their towns with peasants who wish to become artisans, When Wendell Phillips wants to abuse a newspaper he pitches into the Boston Advertiser. A military critic says that giants, altogether, have had therr best day as instruments for killing. ‘The opponents ot the Paragraphers’ Association have started a Scissors Soctety. Their motto, “cold steal,” Sixty-thousand Chinamen live in “Peru, Most of them are held in unlawful siavery on sugar plantations, Mrs, Secretary Chandler, who hasa kaleidoscopic clothes closet full of toilets, wears bronze green for 5 change. Beethoven was always poor, melancholy, sensitive, critical, quarrelsomo, bypochondriacal; that is, he was a genius. Tho daughter of the late Gencral Robert Anderson, fresh from Paris, is in Washington, whero she dress@ with Parisian taste, The St. Louis Globe-Democrat thinks that if Tilden is elected business will be immediately resumed on Beauregard principles. Breckinridge’s elegant ‘houge in Washington was bought by Alfred Lee, a negro, who deals in feed, ard who paid $40,000 for it, Mrs. Washington McLean, of Cincinnati, wears plum color silk tor walking costume, with velvét bonnet of the samo shade, Evening Telegram ‘Mr. Evarts is reported by tho Tribune as saying about Sam Bowles’ proposal to make Tilden President, with Hayes tor Secretary of State, that “tls well enough for Governor Hayos to give away his own office if he wants to, but 1 would like to know what right bo has to take mine.’ Iq it at the indeed true that he 18 arguing tho case for Mr. Hayes to the Electoral Commission with such a personal in- terest in the result? Has hé undertaken Hayos’ aso on speculation”? TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the- World. THE ENGLISIT POSITION, The Startling Policy on Which the Liberal Party Intend to Make an Issue. LOOKING FOR AN ALLY. Shall England Fight Both Turkey and Russia? THE INDIAN FAMINE. {6¥ CABLE TO THE HERALD.) Loxpon, Feb. 13, 1877. ‘The programme of the Liberal party’s attack on the government ts now tully disclosed. ~The leaders of that party held along and secret caucus at Sia Statford Northcote’s residence on Saturday night. Mr. Gladstone was not present in person, but his views were laid before fhe meeting by a conf- dant and coadjutor. The morlesty of the ex-Premier in absenting himself, because of the em- + barrassment which his presence would cause the new leader, is remarkable. The Hon. W, E, Fostet spoke for Mr. Gladstone. His policy was only indi- cated, not urged upon the conference. Indeed, © Mr. Gladstone has throughout the discussion of the * Eastern question shown a disinclination to insist upon his policy. His views were declared tobe . that in the mixed state of European alliances England could not afford to cast about any longer for support. She must grapple with the Turkish bugbear at once. Temporizing had already placed Englaud in a false position betor¢e the world. An alliance even with Russia would not be without a precedent in diplomati¢ history. Germany could not be relied upon Austria’s promisos are delusory and dangerous, Turkey will not keep her pledges of co-operation any better than her promises to pay. France caret nothing for the Kastern riddle, and don’t care whe is the first to guess it, Where, then, is England te look for either enemy or friend ? A STARTLING FACT. Turkey haa deserted England, not England Turkey. Never was so good an opportunity given for carrying out a new policy. The last hope of ‘aiding Turkey as an ally must have vanished, even a to the moxt frantic tory, when the Porte defied all the Powers tn the Conference assembled. [t showed even more repng. nance to the line of policy propounded by Lord Salistury, than to that laid down by Generai Ignatieff. What would be the result if Turkey should cut loose from England altogether? It might ve very possible to come to an understanding with Russia by which tne freedom of the Bosphorus and the Black Sea would be guaranteed to Russia, to- gether with minor concessions in the shape of a sea port on the southeast coast as a basis of supplies for the Central Asian advance. Through such a port the vast Russian army at Teflis, in Georgia, could be reimforced and provisioned. In Russia's present condition—for tt is not so certain that the Czar desires war, alter all—such a settlement would very probably prove a temporary relief. EXACTLY 80. What real interest can Turkey be supposed to’ feel in British rule in India? If England is to be snubbed it might at an early day become a pleasure forthe Porte to give England’s traditional enemy a foothold at Trebizonde, for instance, from which Rassia could threaten the northern provinces or India in a manner that would make the warm bloo¢ a@f every Englishman run cold. THE RESULT OF THE DELIBERATIONS. It was finally determined to draw up a motion, to be offered in Parliament at an early day, declar- ing that it is the duty of England in concert with European powers—or, failing this, with Russia alone—to enforce upon Turkey the adoption of necessary provisions for the security of Chris- tians in the disturbed provinces. This question, if brought before the House of Commons, will become one of the gravest importance. It will become @ test question, as the policy is so radically at variance with that marked out by the tory party. On its defeat will rest the continuance in, power of the present Ministry Nothing more revolutionary in the shape of Parlia mentary measures has been proposed for years. No paper since that famous memorandum prepared for the guidance of Sir Stafford Redcliffe in 1854 and sanctioned by @ Ministry that had slept while ft was read, has been brought to public notice, Therefore the introduction of the motion will be the signal fora general debate of great vigor and acrimony. THR RUSSIAN CIRCULAR, It 18 stated in Vienna that the Powers will probably not answer the Russian circular at all. If an identical | answer were given tho five Powers would tacitly ao knowledge Russia’s claim for heraclf of tree dom to withdraw from common action when- ever pleased, while separate an- destroy tho effect on the Czar's —sresolutions §=which an enunciation ot allthe Powers might have, The circular itself did not ask or require an answer. It simply instructed _ the Russian representatives to ascertain the views of the Cabinets to which they aro accredited. Curiously she swers would enough, Russia doos not seom vory anxious to know the viows of the Cabinots, forthe Russian representa. tives have not yet taken any steps toward ascertaining them. RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS, Russian advices in Vienna confirm the reports that tho number of arrests made of Communist and Nibilist conspirators in Moscow and neighborhood is increas. ing daily. The Russians aro distributing notices in Poland threatening with severe punishment all por- sons who juin the Turkish army. SERVIA AND TURKEY, A despatch from Belgrade reports that M. Christica, who has been appointed Envoy to Constanti+ nople and is empowered to sign a treaty of peace, is expected to start = for that city 40-day, Servia naving 80 tar accepted all’ the Turkish conditions except that relative to Jews, and having appointed a Turkish commissary to reside in Belgrade, The appointment of M. Christies would ordinarily be very reassuring, a8 ho is one of the most Prominont advocates of peace; but extraneous ins situation, The Servi barrassed because A Russian government have net answered their