The New York Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ee souk THE DAILY UERALD, pudlished every day én the year. ‘Iiiee cents per copy Manale cncladea): 7%, doliars per peKr, OF AL Fate of one doliar per month for any period loss than’ six months, or five dollurs for six months, Sunday edition included, Ys All business, Le addressed New Letters and pack: Rejected commun UE DE OPERA. STRADA PACK, isements will be received and me terms as in New York. forw arde VOLUME XLIL... ; = = es 0. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. WALLACK’S THEATRE— UNION SQUARE THEATRE. 1% DANICHErrs. EAGLE THEATRE—Ature ACADEMY OF DESI NIBLO'S GARDEN—Ano OLYMPIC THEATRE—RooxD BOWERY THEATRE—Divo! BROADWAY THEATRE—Ovn Bors. GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Two Onruanm BOOTH'S THEATRE—Firtn Avenue. GERMANIA THEATR PARK THEATRE--Our Boar HELLER'S THEATRE— FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE: EGYPTIAN HALL—Sexsatiow a: Vaniztt , PARISIAN VARIETIES. e COLUMBIA OPERA HO THEATRE COMIQUE—1 NEW YORK AQUARI TIVOLI THEATRE—Vaniety. BROOKLYN PARK THE SAN FRANCISCO MLNS CHICKERING HALL.—Ca GILMORE'S GARDEN,—E. KELLY & LEON’S MIN: TRIPLE NOTICE TO COUNIR The Adams Express Company rin a ‘over the Peunsylvania Railroad a1 Jersey city at n quarter past four wspaper ection Inily an Y. carrying the regular edition of the xiALD at tar West as Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelnh}s at » quarter past six A. M. and Washington at one P.M, Fromour reports thismorning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy or clear. Wart Srreer Yesterpay.—The market opened something lower, but improved during the day. There was a decline in Western Union, from which it afterward partially recovered. The coal stocks were weaker after the publica- tion of their reports. Gold opened at 10519, fell to 10533, and closed at the opening price. Government stocks were generally steady, while railroad bonds were weaker. Money was easy at 3, 31g and 4 per cent on call. Ovr SrectaL Despatcn from Ottawa states clearly the financial programme of the Dominion government. Tne Livery Story of Captain Johnson’s trip across the ocean in a dory should assure fair- weather yachtsmen that the open sca is not 80 Tue Exrcraxt Commission defends the head money tax, gives Boston a sly rap and blows its own trumpet gently ina letter to the Produce Exchange, published to-day. Whar Ane You Goinc to Do Anour Irt— A large consignment of wheat reached New York on Sunday from Liverpool because wheat Wings more money here than in England. Tue Acest of a prominent French liquor manufacturer is prosecuting imitators of his liquors. Should all other responsible houses fol- low suit the stock of imported liquors in the country would seldom average one bottle per town. AxotneR Larce Cnurcn Society is bank- rupt. Cause: too much building. Why not adopt the apostolic style and worship in *‘an upper chamber” until hard times are over? Something is certainly wrong when it costs as much to be- long to a church as to ac Vintve Is Its Own Rewarv.—The cigar smuggling business is being investigated by the principal losers—to wit, the owners of the steamships whose crews turn a penny or two by private importations of the fragrant weed, and they discover that the safety of their own ves- sels has been imperilled by the smugglers. Tue Earsest Letrer of the chaplain of the Clinton Prison deserves attention, but so does the charge made by the friends of the dead convict Clancy. An examination of the remains of the deceased would disprove one statement or the other, and the examination could be made speedily, thoroughly and cheaply. Bras Ratner THan Bopres have been un- favorably affected by the weather of the past week. Although the mortality was less than in any other week in similar seasons for five years, disease of the brain and nervous system, with their correlatives, were unusually fatal. Another sad though familiar statement appears in the records of vital statistics—more than half the deaths of the weck occurred in tenement houses. Ovn Srecta, Corresronpest tm Fronipa describes in a letter which we print to-day his final preparations for the exploration of the great Wacissa swamp in his search for the mys- tery of the smoke. After establishing a con- venient observatory on a lofty pine tree and tak- ing the necessary magnetic bearings by compass of the distant column of smoke, the party boidly plunged into the gloomy depths of the morass and hacked their way through tangled wood and matted canebrakes. Thus has our correspond- ent commenced his perilous task. The deadly moceasin snakes dispute the way like the guardian genii of the place, but they are made to succumb by the persuasive eloquence of the shot- gun. Tue WeaTuER.—A great area of low pressure | extends over the western part of the Atlantic Ocean between latitudes thirty-ti and sixty degrees north. It is due to the union of two areas of low barometer immediately off the coast. We have already announced tho probability of bad weather over the west of Europe during the last days of the present week, the indica- tions warranting that conclusion, An exten- sive area of high pressure is now moving enst- ward and southward over the Gulf, South Atlantic and Lower Middle States, in which regions cool and generally clear weather prevails. In | the northern sections, and particularly in Minne- sota, the barometer is falling with a re- markable rise in temperature, while on the Atlantic coast the weather is cool and partly cloudy. A sharp “norther” prevailed on the Texas coast during yesterday and is now abuting. Rain has fallen on the South Atlantic coast and light snow ata few points in the British provinces. The Western rivers have generally fallen, ‘The weather in New York today will be warmer and partly dowdy or clear, j NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1877.—TRIPLK SHEET. The Democracy as Party. That piquant phrase, “Her Majesty's opposition,” invented by Lord Beaconsfield many years ago, when he was plain Mr. Disraeli, fixed itself in the public recollec- | tion as a humorous expression of a saga- cious political idea. A vigilant and power- ful opposition is essential to the purity of free governments. It is an in- dispensable part of the machinery of popular institutions. The responsibilty of rulers is best enforced by subjecting them to the criticism of sleepless rivals on a keen watch for opportunities to trip them up and get their places. An organized op- position conducted by skilful leaders makes rulers cautious and circumspect, forces them to study public opinion and is the best protection the people can have against maladministration. The notorious corruption which has infected American public life since the close of the civil war is a natural conse- quence of the overwhelming prepon- derance of one political party. The republicans had control of the federal government and nearly all the State governments, and the democratic party seemed so feeble that its opponents were accustomed to deride it as an unburied corpse. The party in power was em- boldened to do slmost anything, by a feel- ing that it was too strongly intrenched to be dislodged by the apparently moribund opposition. Within the last few years the 1 democratic party has become strong and formidable, and with its revival there has arisen a vigorous reforming element in the republican organization. In the late Presi- dential election the two parties were so evenly balanced that, whichever had succeeded, the government would have been restrained by a powerful and salutary opposition, The country would have been safe under Mr. Tilden, not be- cause democrats would be less disposed to abuse power than their opponents, but be- cause the republicans would have been strong enough to hold them incheck, ‘Lhe country will be safe under President Hayes, not because the reform element will be pre- dominant in the republican party, but be- cause the party as a whole will be restrained by constant sense of insecurity after an election which has proved that the demo- crats outnumber them by something like a quarter of a million in the country at large. The administration of President Hoyes will be put on its good behavior from the very start. It cannot afford to make mistakes. It will set out with every advan- tage, except the mere possession of office, in the hands of its adversaries. The demo- crats are not only superior in numbers but are armed with weapons of singular potency for attack and accusation. Unless they commit some egregious blunder they can keep the administration perpetually on the defensive. They can force it either to vin- dicate its questioned title by conspicuous re- forms or to exhibit itselfas a mark for shatter- ing assaults, The battering rams of a pow- erful opposition will tumble it into ruins unless it fortifies itself by a thorough reno- vation of our existing public life. The democratic party must not lose sight of its great advantages in its bitter chagrin and indignation at the result of the Presi- dential election. The democracy occupy a commanding position if they are wise and skilfal enough to improve it. They may extort reforms as an opposition which they would have been unable to carry as a party in power. They can hold Mr. Hayes to the strict letter of his pledges, although they would have been unable to make the same reforms themselves. If the democrats had come into power the civil service reform, for example, would have cost them more than they might have been willing to pay. But they will sacrifice nothing which it is in their power to gain by insisting that Mr. Hayes shall keep his unequivocal pledges on that subject. The hard money demo- crats will be free to support all wise meas- ures for an early return to specie payments, whereas had their party gotten possession of the government a great deal would have been yielded to the soft money wing for the sake of party unity. It will be for the obvious interest of the democracy to have this question settled and got out of the way and not remain as an apple of discord when they come into power, Even on the Southern question, so vital to the tranquillity of the country, the democratic party can exert more real power by forcing Mr. Hayes to keep his pledges than it could have done if clothed with the immediate responsibility of tranquillizing the South. The republicans will be pre- cluded from raising an outcry against Mr. an Opposition but everything done in this direction would have been assailed with the utmost party rancor, have been distorted and misrepre- scnted to the ignorant negro mind, and the South would have had justice without peace. But a healing policy by President Hayes cannot be traduced for the purpose of exciting negro jealousies and mutiny. The flaw in Mr. Hayes’ title nnd the totter- ing condition of his party will enable the democrats to force him to keep his pledges or bring his administration into discredit during the years of its existence. The democratic party will have an immense {lever under the new administration, with power enough to work it. present juncture of affairs they can benefit the country far more as an opposition than | they could in power, with a hostile Senate | to thwart them, a split among themselves on the currency question, a host of spoils- hunters insisting on the offices, and a lia- bility to have all acts of justice to the South misrepresefited as hostility to the rights of the colored race. To desire possession of the government for the mere sake of its patronage is a sordid and ignoble aspiration; but to exert real for the power benefit of the coun- try is the noblest exhibition of pa- triotism when done from disinterested motives. The democratic party can establish a solid claim to the confidence of the country within the next two years by forcing Mr. Hayes to keep his pledges and giving him an honorable support in weil meant endeavors to do so. But if he yields to evil influences, if he falters, if he jng- gles with promised reforms, their power to Hayes’ measures of justice and conciliation; | In the in| with them to the place where her dead body | demolish his administration will be in- creased by a manifest disposition to give him fair play and encourage him to act for the public good. . Our Weather Predictions for Europe. Fecling convinced that itis possible to make accurate predictions of the weather for Europe, based upon the conditions that pre- yailon this side of the Atlantic, and our knowledge of the course of storms across the ocean, we have given the subject considera- ble attention. After a series of predictions, the passage of severe storms over Northern Europe within a day of the time an- nounced in these columns, we decided to warn our London and Paris bureaus by eable of the approach of all dangerous storms to the British and French coasts. On the 15th we predicted in the Henaup a heavy gale on the above named consts for the 19th, and duly informed the Henatp Bureau in London by cable on the evening of the 14th. We printed yesterday morning a special cable despatch announcing that s furious gale had burst over Queenstown on the evening of the 19th and that the storm had ex- tended to England, causing heavy gales at London and Liverpool. We publish in to-day’s Hxnatp special despatches from London and Paris giving details of the Tavages of the storm in England and France and informing us of a distressing loss of life and property. This complete and remark- able fulfilment of our weather prediction made five days in advance of the arrival of thestorm on the British coasts encourages us in the work we have undertaken, which is one in the interest of international com- merce, The Hznatp announced overa month in advance of their occurrence the probability of destructive storms and floods in England and France, and warned the authorities of both countries to make proper preparation therefor. The enormous damage caused by these terrible visitations has justi- fied our timely warnings. The science of meteorology is yet only in its infancy and is capable of being made one of the most im- portant and useful branches of human know!l- edge. We trust that a complete system of international storm warnings will soon be perfected. We have initiated the work and will lend our best efforts to make it thor- oughly effective for the protection of com- merce and the limiting of the number o those disasters which involve such terrible losses of life and property. Hydrophobia, or Spitz Poison. Another case of death by hydrophobia was reported yesterday, and one the day before. Doubtless the attention now given to this disease secures the report of every case ; but it is certain also that at no period has the disease been so common a cause of death. In the case reported from Rhode Island the kind of dog by which the bite was given is not stated ; but in the previous case reported it was the inevitable Spitz. Authority is loosely organized. with us, and is slow to act on points that relate to the private tastes of people except with regard to the traffic in liquor; otherwise steps would have been taken in some quar- ter to subject this species of dog to the especial supervision of the police. But surely persons who keep dogs owe it to their own families and to their neighbors to exercise this supervision privately as far os is pos- sible. 1t seems to be a well established fact that this dog is far more liable to cause this malady by his bite than any other dog kept by the people. There seems abundant reason why this should be so if disease in the dog is a nesessary condition of the com- munication of hydrophobia; for the change of climate to which this animal has been sub- jected is sufficient to account for such dis- ease. But if it be true, as is maintained by some, that the virus of hydrophobia is se- creted in the glands of the dog’s mouth as the virus of a serpent is under the mere in- fluence of excitement and without disease, then the known irritable character of the Spitz is a fact greatly against him. One Mo From the medical examination of the body of Katie Riedel, made at the time it was found, the physicians were satisfied that the girl's death was caused by prussic acid, but were disposed to regard the cir- cumstances as indicating that it was nota case of suicide. It was possible that she might have gone to the place where she was found, there swallowed the poison and died; but it was thought that if she had swal- lowed as much of this very active poison as the size of the vial indicated she must have died instantly with the uncorked vial in her hand. On the contrary, the bottle was care- fully corked and in her pocket, and this care seemed to indicate the presence of some person after her death. Who was that person? Weilspiel, now discovered, was with the girl the afternoon before her death by his own admission, but gives irrecon- cilable accounts of where and when he left her. He had the same motives to murder her that induced Rubenstein to murder Sara Alexander. They had been improperly in- timate and she had become an embarrass- ment to him socially and perhaps finan- cially. In addition he was in the dilemma of a jealous lover. It becomes a very natural suspicion, therefore, that this man gave the girl the poison, perhaps ina drink carried Unfortunate. was found, Crty Drranturnts. —Senator Bixby's bill jis a substantial and practical men isure of reform in the government of | the city, It makes the terms of the | heads of departments coincide with the term appointnient, and reduces their number to one tor each department, except in the case | of the Police and the Health departments, though in the, latter case the additional holding other offices, We believe the pas- sage of this bill will goa great way toward securing in the departments that sense of immediate responsibility to the executive without which it docs not seem possible to get any duty effectively performed. All the begun with a great flourish of trumpets, will not do so much, for us as this simple law, duly published in the Henarp, and which | have been in every instance fulfilled by | The Electoral Count—Another Recess. The counting of the electoral votes made less progress yesterday than was to have been hoped, but the day's work was, on the whole, satisfactory. It has re-established vonfidence in the purpose of the democrats to act in good faith and make no attempt to prevent a choice: by dilatory expedients or factious opposition, After a warm debate in the House, followed by a strong vote against the last decision of the commission, notice was sent to the Senate that the House was rendy to continue the counting. The joint convention imme- diately met, and the votes of Louisiana were quietly counted for Hayes and Wheeler. Thereupon the opening of the other certifi- cates proceeded in regular order, with the usual tedious formalities. Maine was counted for Hayes, Maryland for Tilden, Massachusetts for Hayes ; but when Michi- gan was reached and its certificate opened an objection was made on the ground of the ineligibility of one of its electors. The Senate accordingly retired, and a motion was made in the House for o re- cess until ten o'clock this morning. That seemed the most critical moment in the whole proceedings, for had the recess been carried it would have been a clear indica- tion that the democrats intended to defeat any election by protracting the contest until after the 4th of March. Hap- pily, the anxiety which arose was but momentary, The proposed recess was re- jected by the triumphant vote of 194 to 54. A discussion then ensued on tho -point of eligibility, but the objection was so mani- festly weak and so unsupported by evidence thatnot more than half a dozen members voted to sustain it. In the Senate the vote was unanimous, all the democrats voting with therepublicans. By this time confidence and good feeling had been restored and the count- ‘of the Mayor, from whom they receive their | commissioners are only such in virtue of | labors of the Committee on Cities, which has | ing went on with wearisome smoothness through the successive letters of the alphabet, including Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri and Nebraska, but was again inter- rupted on the opening of the Nevada certifi- cate. Here also the objection was to the eli- gibility of an elector and the two houses sep- arated to discuss and consider it. Then came another motion for a recess. It was at first rejected by a majority of twenty in a thin house, the hour being past six. But republicans enough changed their votes to carry the recess, neither party desir- ing to go without their dinner and enter on atwo hours’ debate with empty stomachs. The recess had no political significance, being a mere matter of convenience to mem- bers, who were fatigued witha continuous session since ten o'clock. Oregon will doubtless be reached at an early hour to- day and its certificates submitted for the judgment of the commission. Justice for the Dend. Our evening contemporary, the Commer- cial Advertiser, says in reference to the New Jersey executions:—‘‘Has the murder of Officer Brock, in Newark, been supple- mented by the official murder of Ryan and Oschwald? Should it prove that two inno- cent men have been executed what could stay the outburst of popular indignation agninst the theory of capital punishment?” If the prevailing doubt as to the guilt of Ryan and Oschwald should prove to be well founded it will certainly be a terrible re- flection that a very brief delay in the vindi- cation of ‘Jersey justice” would have saved the lives of two innocent men. At the samo time it would be deplorable should any desire on the part of the Jersey authorities to save themselves from censure induce them to discourage the discovery of the truth. All that could now be done for the poor fellows who are in their graves, should they have really perished unjustly, would be to clear their names of the stain of their conviction. They should not, for the sake of the friends they have left behind them, be left with the brand of murder on them. Besides, the real murderer of Officer Brock should not escape unpunished to laugh at Jorsey justice. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the Jersey authorities will cast off their apathy and make some effort to discover whether they have killed two innocent men and suffered a murderer to go at large. Death in the Many hard things have been said about the holders of civil offices, and the crown- ing reproach, the indication of their most heinous offence against good manners and the claims of other men to their places, was put in those words of Thomas Jefferson, which have assumed the epigrammatic form of “few die and none resign.” However trne this may still be of the ordinary office- holder, it cannot be said of the gallant men of our navy, as is pointedly exhibited in the deaths of six rear admirals within o few weeks, This is certainly a remarkable mortality, None of these men were young, however, for Admiral Alden, the least aged of the number, entered the navy in 1828, His death from an acute inflammatory dis- ease was an indication that his system was little spent by age; for morbid processes themselves have not such vigor and rapidity in the systems of the feeble. Admiral Wilkes, however, was seventy-five, Bailey seventy-three, Goldsborough seventy-one and Davis seventy. This is a tolerably ripe age where men have not passed a lifetime in taking care of themselves. All of these officers had seen agreat deal of service, and much of it hard service, They had all passed throngh two wars, Altogethor, therefore, though it seems strange at a first glance that so many admirals should fall out at once, it will not be far astray to regard them ns an accumulated number whose days had reached their natural limit, }and whose sudden decease at this time rather than another is to be attributed to | the ocenrrence of the great variations of spring weather, Navy. The Biues for a Cure, It is now about a year since the Hznarp brought General Pleasonton’s experiments with blue glass before the public and ex- amined the theory of its influence upon plants and animals, The discovery which was then seen through a glass darkly is | now everywhere known. Newspapers have copied our articles, and colleges and physicians have given the matter their seri- ous attention. Blue glass is now one of the great topics of discussion ; we hear of it in the street cars; Indies speak of it in their | parlors. ‘Blue glass for sale” is not an un- common sign in our shop windows, and everybody seems anxious to test the effect of the new remedy for all kinds of afflictions. We have not had so many blue lights since the Fourth of July. Blue glass windows are recommended to cure all kinds of panes, and the lights are said to be particularly fine for the livers. All the other colors of the rainbow are fading away, as Professor Tyn- dall says, ‘into the infinite azure of the past.” Red, yellow and orange are popular no more, and cochineal and Tyrian purples would be bad investments fora merchant. The sky itself has got a corner in blue, and the market is flooded with light goods of all shades. Blue, which was once expressive of grief, has now become the synonyme of joy, and when ao person says he has got ‘the blues” he means that he is in perfect health and the highest spirits. The Red Sea is nothing now to the beautiful blue Danube, and the world will soon be all of one color, like the army of the boys in blue. In short, the blue glass theory is universally read, and he must be green who would doubt that it will long remain inviolate. The All the points of the foreign news have a peculiar suggestiveness, From Constanti- nople we learn of the arrival of the heavy cargo of armsand ammunition recently ship- ped from New Haven; but with this report comes the ominous statement that the ship has been sadly knocked about on the stormy seas and*that the cargo is ‘‘damaged.” Arms are not ensily hurt, but a very little damage will hurt a great deal of am- munition, and asthe Turks counted greatly on that cargo it may bo that the effect of the storms on the Atlantic will be felt on the Danube. With this bit of news comes a confirmation from Vienna of our cable let- ter of Sunday last on the force the Russians have ready to take the field. Six hun- dred thousand is given by this report as the force now actually with the colors in the several departments likely to be involved in the operations, Half of this force can march at a moment's notice. With such a force in motion and the other half organized as a reserve to support the first line and keep it full as to numbers the safe way for the Ottoman Empire out of a Eastern Question. war with Russia is not visible. Yet another fact of the news is one of the many that have already made war between those Powers well nigh in- evitable. Twenty Bulgarians, accused of complicity in the insurrectionary movement of last year, are sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment each, and the Turkish officer who was the author of the Bulgarian butcheries is promoted. Thus does the government assume all the odium of those acts. In the British House of Lords Earl Derby denies the position taken by the Duke of Argyle as to tho changes in British policy toward Turkey. If the English policy toward Turkey was not changed in the course of last year how is it that England united finally with all the other Powers in demanding that Turkey should concede those very reforms which were demanded in the Berlin memorandum, the failure of which England brought about? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Rome {s full of foreigners, Poached eges ate nice in beef eoup. Rice should be cooked tn salt waver. Californians aro eating ripe tomatoes, In rolling puff pasto use very cold butter. Summer silks will be mm black and white checks. Sacramento lads and lassies organize mushroom bunts. Old Joseph Holt reminds one of Carlyle’s Dr. Francia. Doré willexhibit bis first large Swiss painting in England. American colleges teach everything but the English Janguare, Young ladiee ot Washington wear velvet for visiting costumes. Mathews used to say that next to abstraction he loved sleep. Canada and Norway ship poultry in large quantities to London, lvy keeps a houso.not only warm in winter but cool in summer. Some one says that the dramatic {s distinct from the literary faculty. Scotch songs are becoming fashionable in the best London society. Speaker Randall bas thin lips, which are pressed tightly together. ‘A Harttord man’s rheumatism has been cured by the blue glass treatment. General Butler appears contented, and lots his thin hair grow long behind. The Japanese make waterproof boots of paper, and Londoners hke them. ‘The toss of Sunset Cox's head comes from his look- ing up into men's faces, Senator Sharon !s said to be engaged to a Miss Riley, who is his guest in Washington, When a tond mother turns ber boy over her knee she gets the upper hand of nim, New York carries a pink rose on her Senatorial robo, but Arkansas wears a whole Garland, “Belknap, Babcock, Bradley, Beecher, Blaino."’— Chicago Times. Y Samson, Solomon, Socrates, Savonarola, Storey. There wore two mon hanged in Missouri the other day. They made « dead heat and came under the string neck and neck, Some of the membors of Congress complain that State prisoners aro fed luxuriously, as if one could get anything to eat in Washington. Evening Telegram:—'Mrs, Elizaveth Cady Stanton Ja lecturing on the *Kights of Children,’ and Susan B, Jooks on with ineffable disdain.” Dr. Lushington being told a story said, “Since you woro an eye witness Lam bound to believe It; but L would not believe it if 1 bad seen 1 myself.” Dun “Husband—I say, Ligzie, what on earth did you make this mint sauce of? Young Wite (who has been ‘helping’ cook—Varsiey, to be sure!" The Jate Henry Drummond said to Disraoli in 1862 that the fault of his style of politics was that the social feeling of the party was not sustained by incessant soirdes, Since the new style of stationery, exhibiting a rebus instead of a monogram, has come tuto fashion, Ben Butler sends his notes to Cox with a picture of a shoe and a fly, Judy:—" Mistress (to new servant)—You kaow, Mary, 1 don’t allow any followers, Mary—Goot gracious, mum, then what's to become of all the cold meat and pics ?”? A correspondont wishes to know what ‘classical musio’ 1s, Stainer's Dictionary does uot tell, Yor country teachers, says our correspondent, are always talking about classicul music," “Peace” should utter never a wor, “Peaco’’ shoald be lke a summer rill; 1c" should be seen and never board— “Peace,’’ be still, General of Division Yon José Lopes Uraga, for- merly commander-in-chtet of the Mextean Army and presently tn the service of the Republic of Guatemala, 1s sojourning In this erty for a tow days. General Uraga 19 on his way back to Goasemala from France, where he has been in commission. He has invented a ELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE. The Duke of Argyll Arraigns the Ministry, SALISBURY STANDS FIRM, The Present Difficulties Brought About by the Defective Treaty of Paris. HOW TURKEY WORKS REFORM. [sx CABLE To THE HERALD.] Lonpoy, Feb. 21, 1877. The great debate in Parliament has now begun. We have heard yesterday, in the House of Lords, only the mutterings of the political storm which is to burst ont with all its vehemence in the Commons. The speech of the Duke of Argyll was for the most part exccedingly calm and delib- erate, but the direct manner in which he charged the Ministry with vacillation and temporizing had @ marked effect. The charge that the Marquis of Salisbury had made a lamentable failure of his ms sion was a thrust which the Duke of Argyll knew could not be parried by the conservatives, The present doubtinl position in which the Marquis of Salisbury allows himself to be placed by the public press and the West End gossips cannot be understood any better alter reading his speech of last evening. The liberals claim to have found 1n the Marquis’ failure a great handle to hang a rumpus upon, but whether they are so sure of their ground as they claim to be cannot be conclu- sively settled. The evasive reply of the Earl of Derby to that point of the Duke's speech attracted especial notice. It can scarcely be characterized ag anything more than a revised edition of Lord Beaconsfeld's Mansion House dinner specch. When the Marquis of Salisbury took up the cudgel in his own behalf he was listened to with great interest and his arraignment of the framers of the Treaty of Paris was scarcely expected. TUE DUKE OF ARGYLL’S ATTACK. In the debate in the House of Lords to-day on the Eastern question the Duke of Argy!l pointed out that the object of the Marquis of Salisbury’s mis sion had been to secure peace in Europe and re form in Turkey. Neither of these objects had been obtained. Turkey was not reformed and there was no prospect of peace in Europe. He dep Tecated the unreasonable suspicion of Russia whieh actuated English policy up to August last He admitted that England bad a great interost in the neutrality of Egypt and in preventing Constantinople from falling into the bands of any great European Power. But except on these points he could conceive of no injury to Great Britain by any transfer of powes from the Turkish Empire, He pointed te the various instances where Europoan Powers, while professing to respeot the independence guarantee® to Turkey by the Treaty ot Paris, had interteted in Turkish affairs in a way that showed they regardea | Turkish justice as utterly unworthy of confidence. It was necessary to carry this argument further in the sense indicated by the Marquis of Salisbury whoa bo declared the independence of Turkey might at the present time he interpreted so a8 to be consis ent'with the joint military and diplomatic action o the guaranteeing powers, The speaker concluded with an eloquent appeal to the Earl of Boaconsfeld to mark the close of his career by procuring some mem sare of liberty for Christians tn Turkey. AS THB CONFERENCE PROVED A PAILUHE? The Earl of Dorby asked if it was not premature te say the Conference had failed. He could not yet say the peace of Furope was to bo broken, and relative te internal roforms it must be remembered that Turkey » had lately introduced very comprehensive. rojorma 4 Wo wore not justified in concluding because ¢ particular more of effecting reforms was not adopted that Turkey, therefore, had a fixed purpose of rejech ing all reforms, He pointed to the fact that the gow ernment had never been willing to fight for Tarkey, aod bad informed the Turks so as far bact as last Day. He admitted that althougt the government bad never changed iw policy they had in one respoct changed their course a action—that !s to say, that, having to deal with tht danger of a European war, which at one time ap peared Imminent, they havo done and accepted many things which they would have thought it impossible to door rccept if more had not been at stake than the sappression of a petty insurreciton. JUST 80, The government had sald all along, tho Earl cone tinued, that the Turkish government could be main- tained only by tho amelioration of their internal administration, He agreed with the Duke of Argyll that Independence was a very clastic term, There in all parts of tho world States which by their weakness wero exposod to measurot on tho part of stronger noighbors which thos¢ adopt toward mofo pow. erful «= States. In answer to the charge of undue euspicion of Russia he said it was not his duty or wish to say anything of the Rus, sian government, But it was perfectly well knows that oilictal personages, personages connected with the Russian government, were among tho most active agents in stirriug up the disturbance in Herzegovina, BLUK STOKIRG FROM BLACK NOOKS, Lord Derby etted passages from formor Bluo Books, showing that in one case a Russian Consulate was the headquarters of the Insurgents, Tho Bulgarian out. rages had only secondary icfuenco on the change of the government's courso of action. The principal cause was that Servia entered a fight with ag army of whieh the fighting clement was almosi enurely Russian, Russia was in the fleldin fact thoug? not in name. Russian fecling was so oxcited tha there was very great fear of war. Lord perby gavet detailed account of the efforts to procure an armistice, He was never so much surprised in his life as when Russia refused the five months’ armistice, If the Duke of Argyll or any other membor of the opposition dusired to raise the question of tho advisability of coercion he (the speaker) would undertake to show that cocrcion was unreasonable unless it meant war, and war would be fraught with every possible danger to Kurope. wero neighbors would not LATER RPPORTS FOR PACK, Sineo the Conterence the government had been un- remitting in pressing the expediency of peace on Servia, Montenegro and Turkey—a few days would show with what success, If they were successiul halt the work of the Conference would be done. There now style ot cannon for mounted service, which is now being manufactured in Franco, would, of course, remain the question of internal reform, He was not preparcd to givo a dodnite