The New York Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ia Se RS JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘Suara ee al etal THE DAILY UERALD, published every day tn the year. Three cents per copy (Sunday excluded), Ten dollars per at fone doliar per month ior any period lesa five dollars tor six months, Sunday jegraphic despatches must properly seaiéi be returned, pausciiscnteliclitdanat di be aateoaad OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET, LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEET SIREET. PARIS OFFIGE—AVENUE DE L'OPEKA, NAPLES OFFICE—NO. 7 STRADA PACE, ‘Kul fons and advertisements will be received and Jorwarded on the same t orl VOLUME XII. . AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. NEW YORK AQUARIU GERMANIA THEATRE.—Kor? oxp Kornas. PARK THEATRE.—Oor Boanpixc House FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, — Le WALLACK’S THEATRE—Witp Oats. THIRD AVENUE THEATRE- UNION SQUARE THEAT! ACADEMY OF DESIGN—Warter Covors. STADT THEATRE—Unpe: G SIBLO'S GARDEN—Anoun OLYMPIC THEATRE. BOWERY THEATRE. BROADWAY TIHEATR' GRAND OPERA HOUS! BOOTHS THEATRE, ACADEMY OF MU manwonic Coxcen SAN FRANCISCO MINS’ KELLY & LEON’S M NEW AMERICAN MU HELLER'S THEATER! * EGYPTIAN HALL.—Se: PARISIAN VAKIETIES. COLUMBIA OPERA 110U: BROOKLYN RINK.—Patix 5 THEATRE COMIQUE— TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE. GILMORE'S GARDE) CLINTON HALL.—Stariany ann Paitinas. weeial newspaper its connections, A. M., daily and, The Adama Expross train over the Venn leaving Jersey City on rrying the r Harrisburg uth to Washington, reaching 2 and Washington at From our reports this morning the probabilities are’ that the weather in New York to-day wil be colder and cloudy, probably with high westerly winds and possibly with light rain, and followed by cvol, clearing weather. i Wate Street Y! DAY.—The stock market was dull and weak. coal stocks were gen- erally weak. Delaware and Hudson and Morris and Essex declined respectively 3 and’ 219. Gov- ernment securities were firm, while railway bonds were somewhat lower. Gold opened at 1055, strengthened up to 10534 and closed firm at the latter figure. Money was easy on call at 3 and 21g per cent, i latter price. For Descrivtion AND PepiGrEr of the only strong-kneed monarch among us read ‘King Calico.” How Some Natives oF Fiorrpa got into trouble with each other in New York, yesterday, is graphically told in “An Alligator Battle.” Newtown asp W 1ELD have organized an association to see that the town officials perform their duties properly, and New Yorkers would save moncy by doing likewise. Tur Free Donmtory For Women is closed, and, as usual, the innocent will suffer for the stupid. Will other charitable institutions take the hint and secure capable managers? ‘THe Circumstances of another Molly Maguire murder, related to-day, show the brutality which seems inseparable from anything at- tempted or accomplished by this organization. AmoxG Puivapecruia’s CENTENNIAL RELICS appears a fraud of magnificent dimensions, for which the patriotic citizens paid full price. We publish the particulars under an appropriate title. Tux Max who was a looker on in Wall street yesterday and remembered how he had no money with which to buy the coveted coal stocks during their first decline last summer is the right person to preach upon “special providences.” Two Houpers or Lire Insurance Poricres ve sued their company for the remainder of div- hi idends which are alleged to have been insufli- cient. Ifa legal ventilation of these cases will give some general idea of what policy holders’ ly amount to the complainants will ConstDEn against it the Juvenile Guardian Society exhib- its a marvellous reluctance to present evidence in self-defe: » managers may be trying to obey the Sec junction to turn the un- smitten ¢ fi ive State committee; Dut unless they do more than this the cheek which they have will soon be a thing of the past. Tue Loss or THE Gron CromMWELL pre- sents a chain of the strangest and saddest of voincidences. She was a sister ship to the lost Washington, both having always belonged to the same line. She was, like her companion, making ber last trip for the season; she, like the Wash- ington, was sailing between New York and St. John’s, and she was dashed to pieces on the same rocky const which destroyed the Washington, yesterday underwent many the United States and Canada. The slow eastward movement of the low barometer in the lake region at 1 wn im- mense area of territory and was marked by Tue Wearue changes throughout rain and snow falis at several points. A general cloudiness prevailed over the lower lakes, the Middle and Kastern States, but decreased = westward toward =the — Upper Mississippi Valley. The depression which left the South Atlantic coast on Thursday evening still continued to influence the weather of that region during yesterday, an heavy Charleston and Wilmington. The wi cloudy from the const westward to and southward of Tennessee. ‘The highest press- ore now extends through the Mississippi Valley to Manitoba. A depression is, however, moving eastward from Montana, and may de- velop into a storm centre when it reaches the Juke region. Another low barome is evidently developing in the Gulf. High winds prevail on the ‘Texas coast, and may be looked for along the Atlantic coast during today. The tem- has fallen in the Northwest, but will rise again rapidly. Colder weather may be expected over the middle and coast districts of the United States, east of the Rocky Moun- tains. ‘The weather in Now York to-day will be colder and cloudy, probably with high westerly winds and possibly with light rain, and followed by cool, clearing weather. ‘Texas NEW YORK HERALD, SATUR The Political a Industrial Future. What is the reason for the extraordinary anxiety of the party leaders on both sides to gain the present election? It is a remark- able phenomenon in our history. American politicians have generally accepted defeat with equanimity and a certain amount of good nature; but the struggle for suprem- acy has been conducted of late with an eagerness which is almost ferocious and for whieh the terms reckless and unscrupulous are not exaggerations. What is the matter? We have not come to the end of the world. Whoever is beaten will be able to appeal to the country next year. It cannot be said that the safety of the country, or even its welfare, depends on the success of either party. We do hear occasionally of some democrat who believes that if Mr. Tilden is beaten our liberties will be ruined, or some republican, who solemnly asserts that if Mr. Hayes does not go in chaos will come again. But, happily, these sentiments are the exclusive property of a few over anxious and excitable people whoare quietly laughed at by their friends. The eagerness of the politicians of which we speak, which makes the republican lead- ers willing to accept success on terms almost certain to bring them into public odium and which makes some democrats despair of the Republic if they should be beaten—this spirit, so unusual among American or among English speaking politicians in recent times, comes, we believe, from the fact that the leaders of both parties see that a general dis- integration of parties is at hand and inevi- table, and each side wishes to have posses- sion of theadministration during the critical period when new parties are forming and new issues are to come up. ‘The republican leaders see that they have blundered through twelve years since the peace, and they want four years more in which to attempt ««vorks meet for repentance.” They think they see before them an opportunity under Mr. Hayes to pacify the South, to win it over with generous appropriations for internal improvements, to draw out the old whigs and incorporate them and their followers into the new party, which will be whig in nature whatever it may choose to call itself in its next national convention. Seeing plainly that a reorganization of par- ties is inevitable, and that they must lose a part of their following in the North, they want the more eagerly a chance to intrench themselves in some of the Southern States by helping to oust the carpet-baggers, pro- moting reforms and winning favor by levee and other internal improvement appropria- tions. The democrats, on the other hand, besides their strong and natural aversion to seeing a long-deferred victory snatched from their hands, fear lest the inevitable whig reorgan- ization, if it takes place under the auspices ofa party possessing the federal administra- tion, may become too strong for them. Lhey acknowledge freely, as well as their oppo- nents, that party lines are melting away— that a reorganization of parties is imminent. They, like the republicans, would like, for the sake of their own future hopes, to be in power while this great popular change is taking place. They would like it to crys- tallize under their hands. Defeat now seems hence—precisely as it does to the republi- cans. We speak of this partly as what we be- lieve the true explanation of the unusual eagerness for success shown by the party leaders of both sides in this election struggle; but partly also because aside from the hopes and fears of the gentlemen who are s0 anxious to do our politics for us, and immensely more important, is the question, What is the real interest of the {people in this matter? The men who labor, who produce, who earn, who support their families, who pay the taxes and do not hold the offices, how are their interests to be affected? As in a very few days the.country will have anew President we propose here to give byjefly to that great multitude, whose organ the Hznaxp is, our conclusions as to the future. 1. In the first place, whoever becomes President, peace is assured. That is a very great gain—the greatest possible for those who pay the taxes. 2. Next, it is certain that whether we are to have President Hayes or President Tilden misgovernment in the Southern States, per- petuated by federal interference, will cease. The reign of the carpet-bagger is over; no republican politician, no matter how ex- treme his views may have been, will be able to persuade his party to hazard its own fu- ture and the peace of the country by any longer interference in the local affairs of the Southern States. ‘Thus a great element of danger and industrial depression will dis- appear. 3. As to the reforms necessary to purify the government and liberate the wheels of industry, while it is probably true that a new broom sweeps cleaner than an old one reforms are now s0 im- peratively demanded by the country that no party can afford to refuse or delay them. Noone pretends that any possible Cabinet, under either of the pos- sible Presidents, will be other than for hard money, for economy and for a re- form of the civil service. Whichever party comes in on the 4th of March will greatly disappoint its mere partisan adherents; politicians will fall out, the independent voters will greatly increase in numbers and the people will be able to make better bar- gains with their politicians. 4. The country stands at the threshold of a period of great prosperity, and it will grow rich, no matter who becomes Presi- dent. During the next four years it would require very extraordinary efforts indeed in a federal administration to prevent the American people from making up the losses of the past and becoming once more the most prosperous and the happiest nation in the world. With the inauguration of the next Presiddnt, whoever he may be, confi- dence will be restored, and industry and commerce, already reviving, will fully awaken to life. While the political leaders will be striving in vain to keep their parties together, and will lead troubled lives, the people will be at rest and will discover once more, what has been too long forgotten, that | the federal government has comparatively to them to mean possible defeat four years’ little to do with their happiness, except to keep its hands off. ‘ 5. Hence, whoever shall become Presi- dent on the 4th of March is a matter of com- paratively little importance to the men who pay the taxes, The Henaxp, as their organ, promises in advance to support the next administration in all that is beneficial to the country, and to oppose it wherever it falls short of or exceeds its duty to the people. ‘That is our platform in the future, as it has been in the past. And whatever may be the result of the commission’s labors we advise the independent voter to take courage; he has no need for anxiety, because next year he will go to the polls, stronger than ever before, to elect a new Congress. Turkey in Parliament. In response to inquiry the British govern- ment has declared in the House of Com- mons that it does not intend to adopt any measures for the coercion of Turkey nor to draw the sword in her defence ; it further holds that if Turkey is bound by the treaties of 1856 and 1870—as England seems to believe she is—then other gov- ernments are not absolved from the obligation of those treaties. Here are two points that exhibit the remarkable weakness of the position of the government, and as the inquiry referred to was made by Mr. Gladstone it is probable that an assault on the government's position will be made at these points. Turkey's offence— the act which will stand historically as the immediate cause of war if war follows—was the rejection of the law laid down by the Powers—and by Eng- Jand with tho rest; yet so uncertain and contradictory is the British policy that it needs to be declared in the House of Commons that England will not draw the sword to defend Turkey in her rejection of Eugland’s demand, Another indefensi- ble point is that with regard to the treaties. All the relations of the governments of Europe to the Porte stand on the fact that Turkey is in a species of tutelage to the common international will. In 1853, for instance, Russia was ready to put the fin- ishing stroke to the history of the Ottoman Turks in Europe ; but the nations interfered and saved Turkey from Russia on the con- dition that the feebler Power would reform its administration on the plan required by Europe. The Treaty of Paris was the formal record of that compact. That treaty, there- fore, has fox, its corner stone this principle of the guardianship of Europe over Turkey, claimed on one hand and assented to on the other for twenty years. But now Turkey repudiates that relation, and yet the English Ministry holds that thero is still some validity in the Treaty of Paris. Sergeant Thompson and Joe Coburn. The public would like to see the same promptness displayed by police justices in dealing with members of the police force who are guilty of outrages against citizens which they show in dealing with citizens who happen to come in conflict with police- men. Inthe case of Joe Coburn, pugilist, charged with a murderous attack on mem- bers of the force, we see the machinery of the law set in motion with celerity and effect. The accused is sent to prison and all bail refused, with a certainty, let us hope, of a speedy conviction and punish- ment. That is one side of the picture; the other is not so pleasant to look upon. Ser- geant Thompson, who is accused, on most respectable testimony, of a brutal and un- provoked assault on a poor man, is treated with every consideration by Justice Kil- breth and allowed to leave the court on the promise of giving bail in the miserable sum of five hundred dollars, as though the charge against him was trivial and unimportant. His subordinate, who confessed to perjury in court, is allowed to go free, the magis- trate merely thinking that this model officer should be called before the Commissioners of Police to be talked to in a paternal fash- ion. Now, the contrast in the treatment of these cases suggests to the mere taxpaying citizens anything but pleasant reflections. Are the police privileged to commit assault and battery and to indulge in perjury at their good pleasure? If the police jus- tices think so chey would confer a boon on the public by giving general notice, so that peaceful citizens may be ablo to take measures to avoid the pres- ence of the irresponsible policeman, But it is satisfactory to learn that the doctrine of immunity to policemen does not extend beyond: the sphere of the police justice. Before the Grand Jury Thompson has been dealt with without favor and indicted as any other person would have been, and the declaration of the District Attorney that he will press the case to immediate trial is re- assuring. ‘Thompson was guilty of a great outrage, and his punishment should be swift and severe if it is to serve as a warning to others of his class that they cannot with impunity break the law they are paid to pre- serve. The sooner this lesson is enforced the better it will be for the safety of life and limb in this city. Kuight Errantry in the Streets. In the good old days of Amadis de Gaul and Palmerin of England, and the other famous gentlemen & that stripe, all persons in distress, dismayed, oppressed and wronged by tyrannical foes, were rescued and relieved by a gentleman in an iron jacket mounted on a fiery steed and hold- inga sapling under his arm for a lance. Wandering gentlemen of that sort have left brilliant and romantic impressions on the common mind of humanity, and the impres- sion is so deep and sharp that it is difficult to dissociate that kind of gallantry from the figure of the armor-plated soldier of other days, and more difficult still to sepa- rate it from his name. Yet that oa chivalric and generous rescue may be made without the armor, the lance or the fiery steed was evidenced the other day in our streets. All the moral elements of knight errantry wore there, but instead of the mounted knight the hero was only a plain gentleman learned in the law, resolute for fair play and filled with the generous devotion that serves at any cost of immediate convenience a feebler fellow creature in distress. He saw a helpless man grossly misused by the police; he con- stituted himself the champion of distress and came out handsomely the victor. Un- fortunately there is plenty of occasion for this sort of rescue, and if this kind of cham- pionship were more common the world ' would get over the habit of using a man in the garb of another age as a type of chivalric courtesy. Louisiana To Be Count: for Hayes The Presidential Question Virtu- ally Decided. ~ Mr. Tilden has reason to feel grateful to his supporters for the strenuous battle they have fought in his behalf, and we trust that his disappointment and chagrin will not prevent a manly and chivalric acknowledg- ment of their devotion to his interests. He is now brought into a position which will test his character and show whether he de- serves the affectionate respect and admira- tion'of a great and gallant political party. If he has been impelled by sordid personal ambition his mortification will swallow up all other sentiments, and he will fail to recognize the generous attachment which has borne his friends so unflinchingly through the discouragements of the recent contest. But if his temper is magnanimous and his sense of obligation strong he will be easily reconciled to his personal disap- pointment by the high honor and splendid devotion accorded him by a political party which comprises a majority of the citizens of the United States. We trust that he has not only the strength of character to bear up bravely under his defeat, but the hopeful patriotism and largeness of soul which scorn to identify the personal interests of one citizen or the political interests of o party with the fortunes of the Reptblic. Our country is too great, its destiny is too well assured, to justify despondency on the ground of a transient personal or ‘political disappointment. It will continue to grow and prosper under President Hayes as it would have prospered under Mr, Tilden had he been elected. The chief source of our national greatness and renown is the energy, enterprise, free spirit and elastic hopetulness of the great body of our people, and it really makes but little difference who happens to be President for any’ period of four years. We take it that there can be no substan- tial difference of opinion among intelligent men of good judgment as to the effect of the decision reached by the Electoral Commis- sion yesterday. It foreshadows the election of Mr. Hayes. Indeed, Mr. Tilden’s chances have hardly been worth the trouble of a contest since a majority of the commission refused ta go behind the certificates in the ease of Florida, It was not to have been expected that the commission would stultify itself by applying to Louisiana a different rule from that which it deliber- ately adopted respecting Florida. In Florida the State itself had protested, through its Legislature, its Governor, and its courts, against the title of the Hayes electors to cast its vote. The reversal of the guberna- torial majority by a recanvass of the votes, and the submission of Governor Stearns to the result of the new canvass, seemed to make it probable that a new count would be equally fatal to the title to the Hayes elec- tors. When it turned ont that these great advantages were of no avail, and the com- mission decided to count Florida for Hayes, it became apparent to cool judges that the democrats would thenceforward lead a forlorn hope and fight with all the odds against them. The Louisiana decision verifies the soundness of this judg- ment. Mr. Tilden’s hopes were staked on the ability of his counsel to convince the commission that it should receive and con- sider evidence which goes. behind and im- peaches the certificates. The ruling out of such evidence in the case of Florida was the sure precursor of a similar decision in the case of Louisiana, Nobody can be much disappointed at the vote yesterday. No clear-headed man can fail to see its neces- sary logical consequence. It gives the coup de grace to Mr. Tilden’s chances, which all dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric ofa vision, * * * Leave not a rack behind, It will be futile to contest South Carolina, from which there is also a double set of cer- tificates, for the democragic House commit- tee unanimously admitted that that State was carried for Hayes. For the democrats to rest any hopes on Oregon would be pre- posterous, especially since the publication of the scandalous deciphered despatches, which expose that stupendous and disgrace- ful trick. Certain it is that Mr. Tilden will remain a private citizen and that Mr. Hayes will be called to assume the responsi- bilities, trials, difficulties and anxieties which attend the administration of the gov- ernment. Medical and Surgical Service. There are upward of a hundred physi- cians or surgeons in the pay of the city government. Some are in the Police De- partment, and, consequently, subject to the orders of the Police Commissioners. Some aro in the Fire Department, and under the Fire Commissioners. Others are on duty at the Coroners’ office ; others at various points subject to the supervision, more or less spe- cific, of the Commissioness of Charities and Correction, and there are a goodly number in the Health Department. Only these last are under the control of an authority in any degree fitted to comprehend the scope of a scientific service. All the rest are either under no direction at all or under a direction that distinguishes but little between a man with a club and a man with a scalpel. It is now proposed at Albany to organize here a public surgical and medical service that shall group to- gether all the medical officers now distrib- uted in several departments, make them responsible to one capable head and require of them the performance of all service in the line of their professions wherever this has to be performed in the county. As the enforcement of a meagure like this will probably disturb a great many men in some- what easy places it will be roundly de. nounced; but if the subject is deliberately weighed on rational principles we are in- clined to believe the proposition would be sustained. It would almost necessarily be aconsiderable economy, The New Orleans As The endeavor to make party capital out of the attempted assassination of Packard is not very successful, From all thus far learned the assassin is a poor creature whose DAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. | hagen with the Daarsh royal family. | tigation further tn Spain, where important evidence ts | Frelinghuysen vy hoping that the Judge would bo ani- head was turned, whose capacity to focus facts to the intellectual vision was deranged by whiskey and absinthe. Bhang in Hin- doostan and hashish in Arabia have in- spired attempts like this for ages, and it is hardly necessary to go beyond whiskey and absinthe for an explanation of the present case. Both political parties have crimes enough to their score, as the evidence from every quarter shows, with- out loading them in addition with the re- sponsibility for acts originating in drunken frenzy and mistaken conceptions of patriotic obligation. Although it has been shown that some very important democratic inter- ests were committed to persons sadly want- ing in good judgment it is not conceivable that those managers were foolish enough to believe that it was worth while to murder Mr. Packard or imbecile enough, if they even decided on such a course, to employ a man likely to talk about it to all the persons he encountered while in his cups. Circumstantial Evidence. The evidence that convicted Oschwald and Ryan, and sent both of them to miserable deaths, was purely circumstantial. No person saw the crime committed. One witness saw two men leave Mr. Bedell’s house on the night of the murder, and recognized the ac- cused as these persons; but they were strangers to him, were only seen by him for amoment, and he might have been mis- taken as to the identity. Others testified te having seen the prisoners in a suloon and elsewhere, and to the fact that they carried a black bag, which the men who left the Be- dell house were said to have had in their possession; but every one knows what treacherous tricks memory will sometimes play, even shortly after an occurrence sought to be recalled with accuracy. The dead men, standing on the verge of the grave, accused some of those who had given evidence against them of wilful misrepresentation. This charge may be unfounded, and yet the excitement of giv- ing testimony in a case of murder, the sug- gestions or remarks of others, the desire to bring somebody to punishment for ,a cruel crime, may have had their influence on some of the witnesses and have caused them to unwittingly color their statements. Atall events the evidence was, as we have said, circumstantial, and it has frequently been shown how unreliable apparently con- vincing proof of this character may be. Not many years ago an Italian was mur- dered in Hatton Garden, London. A fel- low countryman of the victim was arrested for the crime. The police worked up the case against the accused with an energy rarely witnessed outside the men who feel bound to convict somebody in such cases. The evidence was circumstantial, but it was dovetailed and jointed and made to fit so nicely by the efforts of the police that the jury returned a vérdict of guilty and the accused was sentenced to die on the gallows. Mr. Negretti, a well known and wealthy Italian manufacturer in London, knew the prisoner, conversed with him and became satisfied of his innocence. After great exer- tion Mr. Negretti got on the track of the real assassin, traced him to a provincial town, followed him, and by the force of persuasion induced him to confess the crime, The man accompanied Mr: Negretti to London and gave himself up to justice only just in time to save an innocent man from the gallows. We published the letter which appeared in yesterday's Hrraxp'in’ relation to the New Jersey case because the evidence against Ryan and Oschwald was circum- stantial and because doubt is felt as to their guilt, We at first hesitated to do so in the suspicion that it might be a trick of friends of the two condemned men to stop the execution of the sentence, for we could scarcely believe it to be a cruel hoax; but as it was too late to be of any use should such be its design we concluded to give it to the public for what it was worth. Should the “confession,” stated to have been found in Ryan’s cell, and of which we have only a brief telegraphic summary, prove authentic and contain anything that would lead toa belief in his actual complicity in the crime, it would be a great relief to many who are harassed by the fear that justice was not done in the case, fortified as it was on the trial only by circumstantial evidence. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Shellabarger talks like lightning jerked by thunder, Senator William Sharon, of Nevada, is at the New York, What Stoughton really needs {is a rollingpin to keep his hair down. Captain Boyton has been receiving ovations for swimming in the Tiber. Stoughton has returned to Now York and has had his hair cut pompadour. Ex-Senator Matt Carpenter made an eloquent pero- ration and took several drinks. The Empress Eugénie and tho Prince Imperial will return to England next month, Rochester Democrat:—‘Piu@bo Couzzins is a bigger man than old Dr. Mary Walker.”’ Chicago Times:—“Wells isn’t a vassal; he’s a pier, and a mighty rotten one at that.” Moody has received a note asking bim to offer up prayers for ‘‘a young married wife.” Chicago Times: —“Bradley’s the man instead of Ferry, and that’s about the only difference,” Boston Advertiser;—“Litue Wheat, the Sioux chief, has reap-peared. He has not been threshed yet,” Tho Prince and Princess of Wales, with the roya, children, will spend a part of the summer at Copen- M. Max Outrey, the recently appointed French Min- ister at Washington, arrived trom Europe in the steam- ship Canada, and 1s at the Brevoort. Atlanta Constitulion:—A Savannab man has in- vented a glass oye that will not water when the voico of the mother-in-law is heard in the entry way,” Boston Globe. Blink’s dog, most wonderful to tell,” Has music in his soul, For every night the quadruped Performs a barky-réle, Dr. Kenealy bas been informed by the farl of Derby that if he wishes to pursue the Tichborne inves- said to exist, there will be no trouble im obtaining assistance, When Stanley Matthews was arguing before the commission he appealed especially to Bradley and mated by the Holy Spirit, If he had been a democrat he would havo asked them out to take a drink. Prince Frederick William, the eldest son of tho Crown Prince, has passed his examination of maturity at the public gymnasium ot Cassel, to the greatest sat- isfaction of the professors. He will, from April next, ationd a university, probably that at Bonn, New York Commercial:— ‘A Schoharie county wood- chopper, after chasing ap a supposed fox to his lair the other day, found it wasa black bear, Ho ran in one direction and the bear in another, and we trust the cable operators in China will promptly tell us which arrives thore first,’” | TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the : World. ENGLAND AND THE EAST. The Liberals Arraign the Government, but Mask Their Future Plans. THE GORTSCHAKOFF NOTE, Each of the Powers Waiting for the Othere to Answer It. [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.1 Loxpoy, Fob, 17, 187%. It is tho opinion of many prominont persons at St Petersburg, who-agree with the Czar, that war is needs less because the fall of Midbat Pacha marks the com- mencement of a state of anarehy which will eventus ally compel Europe to interfere, Jt is said that Gen- eral Ignatieff, who bas arrived at St Petersburg and conferred with the Czar and Prince Gortschakof, sup. ports this view. ‘The idea among the peace party seems to be that the Powers in answering the Russiay circular might enable Russia to withdraw and awail tho result of the Turkish efforts at reform by publicly recognizing the sacrifices which she bas made on be. half of the Eastern Christians, ‘THE GORTSCHAKOFY NOTE, It was stated in Berlin yesterday that negotiations between the Powers about answering Prince Gortscha- kofs circular are concluded. It is expected that the replies will be sont next week, Tho Powers have agreed that the answers shall not be identical, but similar in sense. They will decline to participate in any measures of coercion against the Porte, and also decline constituting Russia their mandatory, butsome of them appear to have intimated their willingness to observe a benevolent neutrality as long as Russia tulfila her assurance to pursue no selfish ends, to leave the territorial arrangements of tho Balkan Peninsula un- changed and the baiance of power in Europe unim- paired, ENGLAND’S ANSWER TO THE NOTE In the House of Commons, yesterday afternoon, Hon. Robert Bourke, Under Secretary tor the Foreiga Department, in reply to a question by Sir Charles Dilke, Bart. (radical), member tor Cholsea, said the government intends answering Prince Gortschakof’s circular, but the time of answering depends upon the course of events, The effect of the change of govern- ment at Constantinople and tho result of the negotin- tions between the Porte and Servia and Montenegro must be awaited. It 1s also desirable, before express. ing our views, to know those of the other Powers, 18 THE TREATY OF PARIS BINDING? In the House of Commons, yesterday afternoon, Mr, Gladstone asked the government’s opinion regarding treaty engagements. Mr. Gathorne Hardy, Secretary of State for War, replied that the goverrfment did not consider itself free trom the obligations of the treatios of 1856 and 1871. He could not agree that Turkey be loft in the cold, yet saddled with all tho obligations of those treaties; ‘If Turkey is bound by them,” he openly, loudly and peremptorily declared, ‘‘the reat of Europe must also be bound by them.”” ‘We do not at present,”? hi d, ‘intend to uso material, coorcive measures against Turkey, nor draw the sword for her, BP MOW VAR 18 ENGLAND BOUND? Mr. Gladstone, on questioning the government about tho treaties, cited the despatch of Lord Derby to Sir Henry Elliott, datea September 5, 1876, in which tho former declared that English sympathy was completely alienated from’ Turkey by the atrocities committea, and Her Majesty’s government, even in the evont of Rus- sian attack, would find it practically impossible to pro- tect Turkey, War between Russia and Turkey would thus placo England in a humiliating position, as it would bring her sympathies into direct opposition te her treaty engagements, HOW FAR ARK THE TREATIES BINDING? Mr, Gladstone argued that England’s treaty engage: ments did not bind her to support Turkey under all circumstances, He particularly urged that the guar- antecing Powers were completely freed from their obli« gations if Turkey, on her part, had not fuldiled the expectations of reform which she held out at the time the treaty was signed. He wished to know whethor the government now considered themselves absolved from the obligations which Lord Derby had asserted were binding upon them in his September despatch? ARRAIGNING THK GLADSTONE ADMINISTRATION. Mr. Gathot ardy, after replying that the govern- ment dia not consider themselves free from tho obliga- tions of the treatrios of 1856 and 1871, sald he was sur- prised that Mr, Gladstone had not complained of misgovernment in Turkey when the Treaty of Paris was revised m 1871, and he had no right to say tho present Cabinet ought to fulfill obligations which nis Cabinet negtectea in 1871. Mr. Hardy domonstrated that none of the contracting Powers bad a right under tho treaty to act without consulting the others. Ho wanted ta know whether the bad conduct of a party to the treaty toward its ewn subjects was sufficient cause for ex- cluding it from European advantages, and for exclud+ fg Europo from the advantages of the treaty. If this was answered in tho affirmative Turkey was en« titled to be freed from her engagements, As to the question whether England was bound under the treaty to go to war for Turkey ho would say no. The basis of the Conference was the integrity and indepen. dence of the Ottoman Empire. Having, with the other Powers, adhered to that principle at the Confer ence England was bound to support it in the sense ia which these words were omployed. It would be an entirely unjustifiable action to draw the sword to cons strain Turkey, It ought to make us blush with shamo, for we should theroby violate promises and treaties, Mr. Hardy refused to enter into any engagement relative to the future, He hoped that the moral preseure of England and tho other Powers would not be wichout result, England was not obliged to make war, but she was obliged to maintain treaties, An animated debate tollowed, THE LIBERALS DECLINE TO TELL THEIR PLANS, Mr. Chaptin, conservative, declared that Mr, Glad~ stone as an honorable man should withdraw his charges agaist the government or test their truth by a definite motion. Mr, Gladstone complained bitterly of having for the first time in his lite been accused of disinclinaton to meet his opponents fairly, but he declined to reveal his plans. Sir Stafford Northcote, Chancollor of the Exchequer, urged that the opposition were bound either to chal- Jonge the government’s couduct or admit that their charges had been made’fn ignorance, ‘The Marquis ot Hartington, without absolutely prom- {sing to introduce such motion, would not admit that | the liberal accusations were made under a false ims pression. If they retrained from challenging the gov- ernment’s policy 16 was because that policy had under- gone a change, ‘Tho debate on the subject was adjourned until Friday next. THE ROUMANIAN ROMORS DENIED, It is stated, by telegraph from Bucharest, on good authority, that the recent reports declaring that the Roumanian Ministry is divided into two parties, one Javoring active co-operation with Russia in the event of war and the other advovating tho definition of a neutral zone as aficld for belligeronts, are absolutely entire Ministry Nas taken steps to obtain & cacious sanction of Roumania’s neutrality, and in accord with the country has opposed all idea of war or any combinations likely to aifect existing trea tics and the collective guarantee of the Powers. ASKING POR MORH TIMK, A despatch from Constantinople says Montenegro has asked for two months’ extension of the armistice fo afford time for the consideration of her claims, 16 18 not probable that Larkey will grant the request OMINOUS, The Vienna correspondent reports that the Central Society at St, Potorsburg jor assisting the wounded