The New York Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1877, Page 6

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COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE TRIPLE SHEET. NOTICE 0 ‘The Adams Express Company ran a speci train over the Menusylvania Railroad and leaving Jersey City at a quarter past fo Sunday, carrying the rezular edition of West ax Harrisburg and South to Washington. reaching Vhitadelpliia at » quarter past six A.M. and Washington at one I. Me From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be told. ani clear or partly cloudy, followed to-night dy rising temperature, increasing cloudiness and | possibly rain. Wart Str market opened weak and feverish—symptoms which continued throughout the day. Western Union was again weak, owing to the same causes and to the strengthened position of the Atlantic and Pacific line. Goverment bonds were steady, | while there was a slight decline in railway | bonds. Money was easy at 31g and 21, per cent. Gold opened and closed at 1 ji How many Valentines? Tus Is Asn Wr pay, and Lent begins. What is the price of fish? QUARANTINE paid its own expenses last year. | Cannot the Commissioners lend a haud on the | State prisons now! | GENERAL Smith Promises clean streets be- fore warm weather. If he keeps his promise he will perform « greater feat of generalship than any now on record. Tue Emma Mie Buns e, like everything else connected with that famous hole in the ,round, is tough. It outlasted fifty-two days of legal abuse before its friends were enabled to take it in charge. | report gf the General Inspector of Ritle Practice | shows increased efficiency of the militia marks- | men to the extent of three hundred and fifty per cent, Poots are not what they used to be. When the pool of Bethesda was troubled somebody was always comforted and nobody was hurt; but the stirring up of the old Chicago and Northwestern “pool” makes happy nobody but lawyers. A Hist to Rerormers.—The complaints | against the management of the Westchester | Poorhouse were not sustained on examination, | yet the committee say in their report that the | investigation will have a tendency to improve the conduct of the institution. O'™an at last, not as the armed conqueror which his friends once hoped he might have been, yet conquering even his bitterest enemies by reminding them of their own impending and unavoidable defeat by the arch enemy of all men. posed canses of “s death call for a prompt and | There is unfortunately son to susp on oft great. deal of difficulty the convict C search pn. of brutality and taining evi a case in wh proofs are v' Ex-Sexator Creamer’s Lerren toComptroller Kelly is full of startling revelations about mat- ters which have Jong excited suspicion, but which appear of greater magnitude densed into cold figures. is, What are we going todo about it? It is a pity that the answer cannot be given that th grieved will—as very cheaply they might "t ize a private detective force to bring the of- fenders to justic when con- ‘Tae Weratuer.—Monday evening and yester- day's storm proved extreme! through the St. Lawrence Valley and in “« Scotia. The wind at New York attained its highest velocity at half-past elev on Monday night, when it was forty-eight miles per hour. It gradually moderated during yesterday to twenty-five miles an hour, and blew steadi from the northwest. Heavy snow fell in N Scotia, especially at Chatham, where its w: mensure amounted to 1.20 inches. The ve high pressure that follows the storm centre is now entering the St. Lawrence Valle l we shall soon experience a shifting of the wind to owe oele e r northerly theasterly, possibly with snow orrain, In WE far Northwest another depres. sion is if slowly toward the lakes with high and partial cloudiness over the Upper Missouri and Upper Mississippi vall The disturbance in the Southwest has moved over the Gulf States, causing heavy rain at southerly points and in the Lower Mississippi Valley. High winds may be expected on the South Atlantic coast when the storm centre reaches that line. The temperature in the North- westohas risen, but continues low over the lakes, the Middle and New England States and Canada. ‘The Ohio continues to fall and the Upper Missis- sippi has risen somewhat. The weather in New York today will be cold and clear or partly clomly, followed to-night by rising temperature, increasing cloudiness aud possibly rain. | the committees or it possesses any powers at all. | commission perfectly free to interpret for The natural question | ly | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY William Beach Lawrence on the " Situation. The eminence of Mr. Lawrence as a jurist, and his reputation both in this country and Europe asa writer on public law, give his opinions a claim to attention, even when they are biussed by his prejudices. If he happens to be on the wrong side of an im- portant question the breadth of his knowl- edge and his gras of legal questions make it pretty certain that he will put the arguments for that side in their strongest form. Without knowing what his views were on the great topic which engages public attention, but learning that | he had just returned from Washington, our = | correspondent at Newport sought an inter- view with Mr. Lawrence, who expressed his * | opinions with entire frankness in the con- versation which we print in other columns, Notwithstanding our total dissent from Mr. Lawrence we think it useful to publish o ! report of the interview. There is a mi- nority of democrats—not large, we hope—in Washington and elsewhere who are 50 stung with disappointment that they would gladly break up the commission. As yet Mr. Lawrence is the only man of ability and distinction who has espoused their views; and if it shall be foand that his arguments are easily refuted there will be no necessity for wasting space onthe democratic Hotspurs who rave but cannot reason. Mr. Lawrence holds that the Electoral Commission is unconstitutional; but this is not the ground on which he advises that it be broken up by the withdrawal of its democratic members. He avers that it has to perform the duties required of it by Con- gress. If this allegation could be sustained , Mr. Lawrence's advice to break up the com- mission would be specious. But has the | commission, in fact, disobeyed or evaded the mandate of Congress? We are constrained to believe that this charge is made with- j out any valid foundation, The arguments of Mr. Lawrence show that he has not exam- imed the law with any care. He says: “When the reference was made to the com- mission they were vested by the very terms of the law with all the powers necessary to come to a correct conclusion which Con- | gress, or either house of Congress, had pos- sessed. ‘The creation of the tribunal was in itself a legislative declaration of the right of Congress to go behind the returns, that the investigations which had been made by otherwise were before them and might be referred to by any of the parties interested.” It is apparent from | these remarks that Mr. Lawrence has be- stowed no exact attention on the phraseology of the Electoral act. Its language is scrupulously guarded. It stndionsly abstains from any expression or even any intimation as to what evidence it would be proper for the commission to consider. ‘To be sure, the law authorizes it to consider the cases with the same powers possessed by Congress for that purpose, but it is careful to intimate a doubt whether Congress or either house possesses any such powers atall. It says that the commission may exercise such powers, “if any,” as are possessed by Congress in determining such questions. Why was this cautious condi- tion, ‘if any,” inserted in the act? These words upset and demolish the theory of Mr. Lawrence by striking away the foundation on which it rests. These significant quali- fying words are so important that we will give them with their context, that the reader may have a clear perception of their modifying effect:--‘All such certificates, votes and papers so objected to, and all papers accompanying the same, together with such objections, shall be forthwith submitted to said commission, which shall proceed to consider the same, with the same powers, if any, now possessed by the ‘two honses acting separately or together.” And further on, in referring to the kind of evidence the commission may consider, the act says that the com- | mission ‘may take into view such peti- tions, depositions, or other papers, if any, as shall, by the constitution and now exist- | ing law, be competent and pertinent in such consideration.” Now, Mr. Lawrence seems to have read the law without attending to the repeated use of these important modify- ing words, “if any.” Why were they so carefully inserted in connection with every | species of evidence? The purpose is plain. Congress meant to disclaim any expression of opinion as to what its own powers in such a case really are, and even an expression of opinion as to whether It left the | itself that part of the constitution, binding it by noinstructions whatever. The charge made by Mr. Lawrence that the commission has violated the law and abdicated the functions with which Congress clothed it if the words “‘if any” had been left out, * | although their employment fixes the inter- pretation of the act and gives the commis- | sion plenary power to define the extent of | its own jurisdiction, cratic commissioners is impossible without aplain violation both of law and of good faith, The law declares explicitly that “when the commission shall have been thus | organized it shall not bein the power of | either house to dissolve the same or to with- | draw any of its members.” This part of | the act is a wise provision against the break- ing up of the commission by the republican | Senate or the democratic House in conse- quence of dissatisfaction with its decisions. The law is well guarded on that side, and | voluntary resignations were not contem- plated as possible. No member, who has | consented to serve and taken the oath, could yn without personal dishonor. The law provides for filling vacancies, but only vacancies arising from the death or physical disability of A resignation for mere party reasons would be simply disgrace- ful, and as all the members are men of honor there is not a man of the fifteen who would not scorn Mr. Lawrence's inconsider- ate advice. It may not be out of place to say a word on the apparent partisanship of the com- ' mission, The Electoral act presupposed {, that the members would, or at least might, resi H | members. abdicated its functions ; that it has refused | —— is, therefore, not merely untenable but absurd. Mr. Lawrence has read the act as | Moreover, the withdrawal of the demo- | | act as partisans. It provided for the ap- pointment of five republicans and five dem- ocrats by Congress, and selected two republican and two democratic Judges of the Supreme Court. It was not expected | that the first fourteen members would di- vest themselves of all partisan bias, and it was accordingly arranged that the bias on one side should balance the bias on the other. It is idle to exclaim agaiast a thing which was so clearly contemplated. The fifth Judge was left to be selected by the other four, but as two of the four belonged to each political party, neither had any advantage in selecting the odd member. In a commission so composed a bolt would violate every principle of good faith and personal honor. Justice requires os to say that the preponderance of democratic sentiment in Washington frowns down all such coun- sels of dishonor. The democrats may have a bitter pill to swallow in the Louisiana case, as they have had in the Florida case ; but they will not reject it. They may make wry faces, but they will, nevertheless, gulp down the dose. Honor and interest alike require this manly course. We are confi- dent that there will be no flinching. Carnival Capers. The long and delightful story of our cor- respondent at the Court of the Carnival King will make. many a man, no matter what his politics, wish that, in spite of returning bonrds and bulldozers, he had’ been yesterday a citizen of Louis- iana and a visitor at the State cap- ital. Fun reigned supreme, and governors and legislatures ceased for the day to tor- | ment the public mind. Even Jupiter Plu- vins was vanquished by Rex of the Car- nival when the jealous old god tried to intimidate his rival by dropping cold water upon ‘him. His Majesty was pleased to be followed by representations of the arms of all ages, but -with the ex- quisite taste born of true royalty he spared his admirers the infliction of any re- presentatives of the Louisiana militia among his armed followers. As night approached His Royal Highness went off duty and con- isibiliti to his cousin Comus, with what brilliant success our despatches attest. ‘The humorous youth did not for an instant forget that true fun always rests upon shrewd sense, so in rapid succession he displayed to admiring eyes a history of the world, written in char- acters that even the wayfaring man and the fool could read. Like all great historians his record abounded in surprises; his tab- leaux of “the Dark Ages” did not present the figure of a single carpet-bagger; *‘Venus and the Satyrs” gave no hint of a modest lady stared upon by hotel loungers; none of his “Crusaders” prayed in barrooms and broke the heads of liquor barrels ; ‘‘Science” and “Religion” dominated over ‘‘War,” instead of having war between them, and a partisan electoral tribunal did not appear in the tableau of “Our Follies.” Like a wise prophet, Comus regarded the signs of all times and concluded his display with an “Apotheosis of Woman,” emphasizing the same by presenting it in a ballroom. If, after perusing the story, the delighted reader cannot about the next carnival breathe in faith John Gilpin’s prayer, ‘May I be there to see,” he can, at least, hope that Rex may display himself another year in our own fun-loving city. War of the Cable Companies. Only a strict adherence to the rules as in- terpreted by the chairman at the late meet- ing of the directors of the Direct Cable Com- pany saved that corporation from being overwhelmed in the interest of the amal- gamation scheme. By these rules the friends of that scheme could not use the power they really possessed to vote down their oppo- nents. They have, therefore, resorted to the courts for an order compelling the chairman to count their votes in defiance of the rules of the company. This is resisted by the directors on the ground not only that the yotes are shut out by the rules of the com- pany, but that the persons in regard to whom it is claimed that they must vote as the holders of certain shares are not the actual or bond fide owners of these shares, or have not given such evidence of their ownership as the protection of other owners requires, Thus the case is fairly launched in the courts, and that war against the Direct United States Company, whigh was threatened in the interest of the great amal- gamation has actually begun ; for a litigation of this sort is a desperate trial who has the longest purse. Bribery. Somebody has undertaken to bribe the Secretary of the Interior. by the proffer of the small sum of three hundred dollars, and is to be prosecuted for it by the United States authorities. If this man is found guilty his punishment under the statute will be a fine of not more than nine hun- i dred dollars and imprisonment for nct more than three years, and he will deserve all this if he gets it; for it is shocking that a man | should believe a Cabinet officer would be corrupt, and worse still for him to suppose | he would be dirt cheap. It will be an event of importance in the history of this administration if it closes with the im- | prisonment of a man for the. attempt to i bribe a Secretary. In the London Times there are published from time to time by the authorities of the British Treasury ac- | knowledgments of the receipt of what is called ‘conscience money.” Some ;}man or woman who has defranded the governrMent, made miserable by the pangs of conscience, sends the | money to the Chancellor of the Exchequer | and requests a public acknowledgment of ! the fact. It has been observed that the sum in these cases is generally about one pound or thirty shillings. It is a tremendous effect of conscience for it to reach five pounds, | These facts have given rise to a great deal of regret that conscience does not sometimes ‘ trouble a man who has stolen a thousand pounds or fifty thousand pounds. It may in the same way be deeply regretted that some United States officer did not take up the case of bribery against a vile scoundrel who had offered hima hundred thousand But the three hundred dollar man dollars. is certainly better than none, 1 Lord Derby on the Extradition. Somebody is mistaken as to the precise source of the misunderstanding that re- cently arose between England and this country in regard to the surrender of fugi- tive criminals and the consequent suspen- sion of the Extradition Treaty. Lord Derby made a statement on the subject yesterday in the House of Lords in answer to a ques- tion, and put it in a way which seems to present the United States as reced- ing from ao false position, and thus opening the way for England to revive the operation of the treaty. On this side the ocean it is not understood in that way. It appears in this country that Her Majesty's government unwarrantably refused to continue to surrender criminals because the United States refused to make, with re- gard toa certain criminul, a pledge that had never been-mnde or required under the law; and that England, after deliberate examina- tion, concluded she had made a mistake, and revived the operation of the law. It may not be a matter of the greatest conse- quence how this is understood in different countries, but if a perversion of the facts is necessary to protect the dignity of one gov- ernment a correction is perhaps due to the dignity of the other. The Staten Island Mystery. The story that a fair woman was found dead in a field on Staten Island excited at once a great deal of curiosity in minds other- wise careless, and aroused intense and tender feeling among people who are society's true jewels. The continuance of the mystery which enshrouds the case will greatly stim- ulate the wonder of the one and the sen- sibility of the other class allnded to. Even vulgar curiosity must unconsciously merge itself in sentiments more noble as the known facts of the case make their mute appeal to human sympathies, The mystery of death is great enough under ordinary circum- stances, greater when man is found dead without apparent cause, but greatest when womanhood, youth and beauty become the prey of fate or crime. More touching and pathetic than the circumstances of her dis- covery and condition is the fact that the dead woman remains unrecognized and apparently unsought. This truth speaks vol- umes about the isolation and the friendless- ness which in large cities may befall even persons who by nature are attractive. It seems impossible that the case can remain a mystery. Ordinary means of identification, mately bring about a solution of the puzzle ; but until then poor humanity will tempo- rarily mise superior to itself through the exercise of those sentiments which are always brought into action by sorrow and misfortune, no matter what the cause may be. Trouble in the Dominion. It is held by the people of British Colum- bia—if correctly represented in the Cana- dian Parliament—that the terms of their union with the Dominion are violated in a way so practical and extreme as to absolve them from all further allegiance to the Do- minion, and they declare unless a remedy is soon found that they will secede, It will be remembered that the condition of their union with Canada—the price of their adhe- sion, in fact—was the pledge on the part of the Dominion to build with- in ten years the Canada . Pacific Railway, by which the Eastern provinces were to be connected with the Pacific. This road was to be about two thousand five hun- dred miles in length. As only four years remain of the period within which the road was to be built, and as the project seems to have ceased to be even an ambitious dream with the Northern authorities the people of Columbia feel themselves the victims of a great breach of faith and are indignant ac- cordingly. But there does not seem any likelihood that this demeanor on their part will make the construction of the road less impossible to the Canada authorities. A Salary Grab Failure. The Court of Appeals has decided against the claim of the New York Aldermen to draw a double salary, one of four thousand dollars a year as Alderman, an office still in existence, and another of two thousand dol- lars a year as Supervisor, an office which, except as to one or two technical duties, has been abolished. No person has supposed that the services of an Alderman are worth more than four thousand dollars per annum, or that there was any justification for the salary grab attempted by the ‘City Fathers” in their assumed character of Supervisors, The charter provides that they shall be elected as Aldermen, shall receive their pay as such officers, and shall when required act as Supervisors for certain constitutional pur- poses, and the decision of the Court of Ap- peals is in conformity with the clear intent of the law. Mr. Purroy and his associates will, therefore, have to look elsewhere than to the hoped: for salary asSupervisors for the means of defraying their election expenses without infringing on their Aldermanic in- come. Charity Going Astray. The revelations. regarding the Juvenile Guardian Society cannot be contemplated without pain. The people of New York give nobly to charitable institutions, both from the public treasury and from their pri- vate purses, and it is discouraging to learn that the money they intend for the poor is pocketed on the way by those to whom it is intrusted. The secretary of this society in- forms a Hxnaxn reporter that out of twelve hundred dollars collected and paid out on orders ina single month ‘only sixty-seven dollars and sixty cents went to actual charity,” the rest being consumed in the expenses of distribution. Of course this must be an exceptional month ; yet it is abominable that there should be room for any such ‘statement to be made. He further alleges that in November last out of nearly one thousand dollars collected only one hundred and thirteen dollars ‘was spent in the attainment of the ends for which the society was organized, The balance was credited to ‘expenses,’ ‘com- missions,’” &e. It certainly will not encour- age our citizens to aid these organized charities when they read such statements and when they find the dispensers of the money they give to the poor paying uwnnec- essary high prices for flour, coal and other particularly that of photography, will ulti- | | residue of time after the 14, 1877.—TKIPLE- SHEET. $$ — articl@. Is out of every five dollars given for charity the poor are only to get one the people had better be their own almoners and run the risk of occasional imposition. Shepherd Cowley Sticks. The Rev. Mr. Cowley, the late shepherd of the Children’s Fold, who retired from the immediate management of that charity a short time since, still claims the privilege of ruling over its interests in the character of a trustee and refuses to yield his posi- tion in the Board. If the charges made against Mr. Cowley were sufficiently well established to authorize his removal from the resident management of the institution they ought certainly to disqualify him from acting in the capacity of trustee, and as the city of New York mainly supports the char- ity the people have a right to insist that Mr. Cowley shall have nothing to do with it. The management of the Fold requires to be completely reformed, and this must be done through the trustees. Mr. Cowley thought proper to rent a four story brown stone house on one of the best streets up town, where the rents range from eighteen hundred to two thousand dollars a year. It made a handsome residence for the shepherd of the Fold, but is not in any manner fitted for the accommodation of his flock, A much more roomy and convenient house for the purpose could be hired further up town on the east or west side for five hundred or six hundred dollars a year, where the children would have ao play ground for air and recreation and where | the Fold would not be aserious injury to the adjoining property. ‘There are other evils of Mr. Cowley’s management that re- quire to be broken up; and it is not de- sirable that their author should be allowed as trustee to pass upon his own acts. Specie Payments. We begin to despair of any action by this Congress on the important Message of Presi- dent Grant. The counting of the electoral votes so monopolizes attention and interest, and is consuming so much time, that it will be difficult to get the appropriation bills through previous to the final adjournment on the 3d of March. Night sessions will be necessary for this purpose during the short Presidential There are good however, that even under existing legislation early resumption is practicable if the new administration should be courageous enough to make the attempt. The Secre-~ tary of the Treasury has full power, under the act of 1875, to sell any amount of four and ahalf per cent bonds at not less than par in coin which may be necessary for re- deeming the greenbacks. The four anda half per cent bonds are slightly above par, and it is contended, with a considerable show of reason, that he could dispose of them for greenbacks provided the green- backs were taken at their coin value. What the President recommended was a law decided. thinking. question is reasons for authorizing their exchange for four per cent bonds without regard to the premium on_ gold. It would answer almost equally well to take them at their gold value in exchange for four and a half per cent bonds. This would, indeed, swell the interest account somewhat, but not to any large extent, because a very mod- erate withdrawal of greenbacks would bring them to par. The withdrawal of fifty mill- ions would probably suffice, and half of one per cent interest on that amount would be a_ bagatelle in comparison with the incalculable ad- vantages of a sound currency. But it is useless to disouss the subject in detail at present ; for the outgoing Secretary of the Treasury cannot be expected to take the subject in hand. But when the new admin- istration comes into power it will be its duty to examine its powers under the Re- sumption act and determine whether it can- not restore the currency to the specie stand- ard without new legislation. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Moody is just forty. And he holds his forty, well, Wagner wears a stove-pipe hat and quietly looks into picture windows, ’ Mr. Wilham Beach Lawrence, of Rhode Island, is at the Albemarle, Many ot these paragraphs are mucilated tn the St. Louis Globe- Democrat. Rear Admiral J. R. M. Mullaney, United States Navy, is at the Filth avenue. Cigarettes are very unhealthy, but there are a great many men who still borrow them. Secrotary J. Donald Cameron and Lieutenant Colone Frederick D. Grant are at the Brevoort. ‘There is in Nicaragua a plant which when touched gives a shock like that of the electrical cel, Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, promises to redeem that grand old State trom charges of mediocrity. Philadelphia Bulletin:—“Love may vo a pére and holy passion, but still thero is a good deal of Cupidity about 1t.’” To the ordinary Baker’s chocolate add a very little vanilla with sugar, and it will be as good as tho higher priced kinds. Tho United States troops are coming East, They hope ‘that if they can surround a cigar store Indian they may catch one. Colonel R. M. Laffan, commanding the Royal Engi- neers at Gibraltar, will succeed Major General Leiroy as Governor of Bermuda in April next, The man who invented the steam whistle was Adrian Stovens, who recently died, He 18 not to ve compared with the man who imvented the Kolian harp, The Prussian Socialisis, who believe that property onght to he held by the government for the fair benefit of all, havo won a great advance in the parliamentary election. ‘At the last Harvard examination forty-tive per cont failed in algebra, and filty-two per cent in English com- position, though but sixtcen per cent were lacking in Greek grammar, thero aro no warm jndtcations of domestic life or of the beauties of landscape, The sea, be says, was always a sign of torror and not of beauty. ‘The Rov, James Martineau, who some time ago was compelled to resign bis pulpit because of failing health, seems to have recovered his strength to a large extent since limiting himself to purely scholastic and literary duties, Oliver Wendell Holmes, | Breakfast Table,’’ lays down the theory that ‘‘mem- ory, imagination, old sentiments and associations aro more readily reached through the sense of smell than by any Other channel,”’ A philosopher says that astronomy te the earliest of the sciences; but from the way that a baby gets into short dresses and immediately goes to work poking into the mica windows of the stove we thoggnt that the earliest of the sciences was mineralogy. Goneral Wiliam T, Sherman and Senator Jobn Sherman, of Ohio, arrived at the Fifth Avenuo Hotel yesterday from Washington, Last evening they called on the Mexican ex-President Lerdo, Tejada, at tho Windsor, and to-vay, accompantoa by Seeretary Caml eron aud Li¢utepant Cotonel Grant, will pay an official ‘vient to the fortifications jo the harbor, Mr. J. Knight suys that in early dramatic Nterature | his “Autocrat of the TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. , THE DIPLOMATIC REBUS, The Instructions Given to the Various Commissioners. HOW PARLIAMENT WILL ACT, Have the Tories Been Caught’ Napping? WHAT THE TIMES THINKS, [By CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Lonpon, Feb, 14, 1877. Startling as it may appear to American readers, the liberal policy gains ground with the people. Every hour seems to dissipate one or other of its incongruities, The reaction that set in against the liberals after “the Bulgarian horror policy” had exhausted itself has been checked within the past twenty-four hours by the new scheme of Mr. Gladstone., The simple truth is that the English peopie—the solid, thinking portion of the population—are tired of mystery. The “policy of mystery and inaction” has run itself out, Even moderate conserva tives have tired of the stereo- typed announcement of Cabinet meetings in Downing street which they find in the news- papers side by side with the declaration that the British fleet stili rides at anchor in Besika Bay. 16 may be remembered that the most zealous support- ers of the North, during our “unpleasantness,” grew indifferent to the tamiliar phrase, “All quiet on the Potomac.” THE ERA OF ACTIVITY, Whatever of inconsistency or vagueness there may, oe in the liberal policy it has in it much of the true ring of action, To the masses it seems to imply that if England's inter. ests cannot be protected in one way they may be just as effectively guarded in another. The caucus of the liberals, held at the Marquis of Hartington’s residence—by a mistake of the copyist made to read Sir Stafford Northcote’s, in yesterday’s cable—has firmly united the leaders ofthe party. They will enter upon the forthcoming debate in Parliament with a perfectly concerted plan, which, it is safe to say, is more than the con- servatives possess at this moment. WHAT WILL HE DO? The strange attitude of the Marquis of Salisbury is still the subject of much idle conjecture. The opinion of those whose views are worth having ig that if any real differences do exist they will not+be allowed to appear again before the public, It is an awkward fact that even the report that the discomfiture of the Mar- quis had been brought about by the direct interfer- ence of the Premier has had the effect of concentrating a vast amount of sym: pathy in fayor of the late Commissioner. If he were to come out in a speech openly as- sailing Sir Henry Elliott, or were even to resign from the Cabinet, such an act would carry conster- nation into the ranks of the conservatives. This is fully realized by both parties. WHY HE CAME HOME. In order to be prepared for such an emergency it was deemed wise to command Sir Henry Elliotta presence in London. The shock, if it comes at all, cannot be long postponed. The liberals can afford to walt a few days, in the hope that events may throw success bodily into their hands. Sir Stafford Northcote, as the leader of the conservatives in the House of Commons, will not prove the match for his opponents that they had in the redoubtable “Dizzy.” it will be found quite inconvenient to step over into the cor- ridor or cloak rooms of the Lords to consult with the First Lord of the Treasury upon every knotty question of tact or expediency that may be sprung by the liberals. GENERAL IGNATIEFF'S POWERS. Apropos of the alleged unsatistactory instructions given to the Marquis of Salisbury upon his departure for Constantinople, and the authoritative manner in which the Russian Envoy spoke, as contrasted with the ancertain policy pursued by the English representative, it is interesting to read a sum- mary of the instructions gtven to General Ignatieff by the Czar. General Ignatieff, the Times of this morn- ing declares, was instructed to press three points :— First—The occupation of Bulgaria by a Russian force. Second—The autonomy of the Christian provinces, Third—Tho disarmament of the Mohammedans therein. He had the widest discretionary powers, being even authorized to order an advance of the Russian army. HOW FRANCE INSTRUCTED. MM. de Chandordy and Burgoing, the French repre. sentatives, were instructed not to agree to the occupa- tion of Bulgaria by any regular army, to concur with any design intended to prevent or modify an occupation so as to render it inoffensive, to try to prevent any rupture between Russia and England, to maintain constant accord with all the neutral Powers, and to agree to no proposa: which would conflict with the will of Germany. IPALY AND AUSTRIA, The instructions of Count Corti, the Italian delegate, were almost identical with those to the French dole gates Count Zichy, the Austrian Ambassador, was in- structed to refuse any proposal for occupation by Austria in order to be able to oppose Russian occupa tion; to join the neutral Powers in any proposal de- signed to prevent war; and to sound Baron Von Wer- ther’s decisions as far as possible, GERMANY WITH RUSSIA. Baron Von Werther, the German Ambassador, was directed to associate himself with Russia and Austria in all questions on which they agreed, The above aro the open, as distinguished trom the scctret Instructions to the plenipotentiaries, VERY SURPRISING, ‘On the heels of this comes a charming specimen of “the bluff by insinuation’” which Russia and Russian diplomacy 80 much affects, The anniversary of General Ignatiefl’s ‘name day” is made the excuse for sonding hot in cipher but in such a manner that the Porte could know its contents as soon ag the rest of the world the following remarkable telegram :— The Gonera! of the Army of the Sout generals unders bis orders, and His Imperial Majesty’s \roops, address the sincorest congratulations to General Iqnatielf on the occasion of bis fete, and im- patiently await his order to begin their march, THE THUNDERER'S PLATITUOKS, Tho Times, in a leading article of yesterday, discus- sing the momentary lull in the Kastern dispute says:— “The opening of Parliament has shown the direction in which English influence will be exerted. There is HO radical difference between the views the Ministry and the opposition, Thus @