The New York Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1877, Page 8

% sihennane "BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. or telegraphic dewpatehes ust AI. uid ve properly sealed, not be returned, OW SOUTH KIXTH OF THE NEW YORK MERALD— ‘TREE Y, ENUE DE L/OPERA, PACK, GRAND OFERA HOUS KOOTIVS THEATRE—F FARK TUSATRE -O} NELLER'S THBATR OLYMPIC THEATRE—Jo UNION SQUARE THEAT Orwna BAGLE THEATRE—Aiae GERMANIA THEATRE: STADT THEATRE—A: BOWERY THEATRE Dem FH BROADWAY THEATRE—[xsnavocus, THEATRE COMIQUE. BROOKLYN KINK—Patin. TONY PASTOR'S THE MARCH 4, COUNTRY DEALE + Company run w special new tania Railroad and stecon % M. autly and nt one From our reports this morning the probabilities are thatthe weather in New York to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy, vud Followed | by colder and clearin weather and anercasing winds. Wau Srreer Yestenvay, be market was inactive, and there was a general decline in prices, from which Western Union, Burlington and Quincy und New Jersey Ceutral were tho principal sufferers. Gold opened at 1045, and ated between that and 104%, the closing throughout the day. Governnvent stocks strong, and railrowl bonds wen irregular, but closed firm. Money on call was«asy at 21g 33 per cent. To Drive Business out of your “mind read “Chat by the Way.” We Prenicr fair und warm weather*for Wash- ington to-morrow. Tho haze will smile in spite of the sun. Juperp by our crowded advertising columns this morning that promised revivalof business has begun in carnest. Spectra. Errorts in the direction of specie payment were made by the United States at Richmond yesterday, to the intense disgust of the persons most concerned. Ovr Boston Lerrer on Narrict Martineau should be carefully preserved by ladies tor the perusal of such of their gentlemen friends as are fond of demonstrating that women can never master political problems and instruct men in the duties of citizenship. Tue Usion st Comrany shouldered yes- terday the loss by the great forgery of New York Life Insurance paper; but persons who contem- plate presenting at that institution checks which are in any respect irregular would do well to first reinforce the seats of their trousers. Comrtrouirn Keiiy shrewdly demands a full bill of particulars concerning the cost of the pro. posed new bridge across the Harlem River. Such au nnusual proceeding seems to indicate that the tity is to pay only for what it gets, and that still another custom of the good old times is to slip out of sight. A Poriceman has at last succeeded in being on the ground during the perpetration of a rob- bery. He could not have very well done other- wise, for he was himself the victim. The case is so thrilling in its details that the public, and per- haps the Police Commissioners, will be curious to know more about it. Ay Errort 18 BeinG Mape to secure a pardon for the ruffian Caramonti, sent last year to the ‘Kings County Penitentiary for stabbing a man. If the attempt succeeds there will be an imme- | diate increase in the demand for arms for self- protection and a further lowering of the small | esteem in which the binding force of criminal sentences is held. Next!—Coburn, the prize fighter, has been “found guilty of firing a pistol at Officer Tobias with intent to kill him. The punishment of the ernme is imprisonment in a State Proson fora term of not more than ten years. Now let us in- sist that the uniformed brutes who have recently committed necdless and murderous assaults on The storm ceutre of Thursday Tue Weatuen. and Friday has passed off the Nova Scotia coast, ‘attended by very heavy rains at Bangor, Me., Halifax and Sydney. Stormy and rainy weather may be expected in the British Islands about the middle of the week. <A depression has moved from New Mexico castward to the Ohio Valley, which it now traverses, attended by an extensive area of rain and snow, which | embraces the lake region, the Upper Mississippi | Valley and all southward to Tennessee. Heavy snow fell yesterday at Chicago. Strong south- | erly winds prevail in the Western Gulf States, | An area of bigh pressure passed off the South Atlantic coast yesterday morning. It is possible that the influence of this high barometer may | assist in developing # disturbance cast of St. Thomas aml Martinique, W. I. Another high area follows tho Obio Valley depression, ing strong northwesterly winds the pper Missouri region. A very high tempera tuce prevails in the South and Southwest, corre- ondlingly low temperature in the North and hwest and phenomenal variations in’ the Valley. These thermometric differences, to- with the rapid: variations of pressure now encring in the West, may combine to develop ttornade in the Mississippi or Ohio Villey re- A “norther” is among the probabilities F the Texas const today. The weather in New York will be warmer and parfly cloudy orcloudy, f by colder and clearing weather and in- W YORK HERALD] | Mississippi and the vast President Grant in History. Whatever of praise or censure may here- after be awarded to the distinguished citizen who to-day passes ont of politics into his- tory, future times will at least regard him as one of the most remarkable products of our institutions and one of the most extraor- dinary examples they have yet furnished of asudden ascent to the highest honors of the Republic. When President Lincoln was inaugurated the cx-captain of infantry, who was then pursning x humble but respectable — calling at Galena, seemed the most unlikely person to occupy the largest share of the attention of his countrymen during the ensning six- teen years. President Lincoln's rise was indeed more rapid, but there was more in his antecedents to justity expectation, and | his public career was not so long and varied. Of our two military Presidents before Grant, who served a donble term, both made their way more slowly, though starting with better advantages. Washington was a wealthy planter and one of the most con- siderable meu in the colonies when made commander-in-chiet in 1775, and between that date and his retirement from the Presi- dency was a period of twenty-two years, Jackson had been a United States Senator auda Judge of the Supreme Conrt of his State long before he won his brilliant vic- tory at New Orleans, and twenty-iwo years passed from the date of that battle previous to his retirement from the Presidency. But less than sixteen years have elapsed since President Grant was an obscure clerk in a small establishment for tanning hides. This was an unpromising starting point for agreat career begun and accomplished in less than sixteen years. It hns no parallel in the history of thisand few in the his- tory of any country. President Grant’s sudden rise to power and firm grasp of it when obtained were not due to any kind of adventitions aid. With- out family advantages or powerful connec- tions, he had nothing to depend on but his talents, and these are not of the kind that usually leads to suddensuccess. The strne- ture of his faculties is the reverse of brilliant orshowy. He has neither eloquence, nor wit, nor talents for conversation, nor social ac- complishinents, and no man ever had less of the ordinary arts of popularity, and yet no mau was ever more truly tho architect of his own fortune. He rose by no vulgar means; he forced his way by qualities as genuine as they were solid. There was no self-assertion, no bumptionsness, no attempt to get promotion in the army by intrigue, no tricks to belittle and supplant rivals, only a simple, straightforward, efficient discharge of such military duties as were lnid upon him by the unsolicited orders of his superiors. A man who steadily rises by such means must possess extraordinary force of mind, and the small critics who have disparaged Genera! Grant's talents only make themselves ridiculous. Even apart from any study of his campaigns, which in the estimation of competent mili- tary judges fully justify his reputation, it is to the last degree absurd to imagine that an obscure young officer could have steadily risen through a succession of commands of constantly increasing responsibility until he reached the very highest, growing all the while in the confidence of the army, the government and the country, without a robustness of intellect and force of char- acter which belong only to tho foremost rank of able men. Those who deny him the possession of ordinary mental accom- plishments unwittingly pay him the highest compliment; for a man who has risen so high and stood so secure without their aid must needs be very strong in compensating qualities. General Grant's namo is in- dissolubly connected with the greatest events of our history, and no man since Washington has retired from the Presidency to private liie with a better guarantee that posterity will not torget him. His military carecr may be lett safely enough to the impartial judgment of his- tory ; but it is not so easy to anticipate the final verdict on his merits as a chief magis- trate. He is not likely, however, to be judged hereafter by the ephemeral party in- vectives of his time. Jefferson and Jackson were assailed with as much vehemence and bitterness as Grant has ever been, and yet their memory is held in respect. Our people treat their Pres- idents as a wife with a heart better than her temper would treat a suc- cession of husbands. Each of them: gets pretty well acquainted with her termagant tongue during his administration of family affairs, but she thinks him a saint in heaven when his term is cnded. “But die and she'll adore you,” says the satirical poet ; and the American people have the same tender fondness for their departed Presi- dents, of which tho republican culogies on Andrew Johnson furnished the most remarkable of recent instances. It is safe to assume that President Grant will not suffer in the estimation of posterity by the extreme license of partisan libels during the period while he has held office. Some one speculating on literary fame has said that it is tho aim of criticism to display the beauties of the ancients and the faults of the moderns; that dead writers are estimated by their best works and living writers by their worst. However this may be in litera- ture, it is the ordinary rule in judging of our American Presidents. Jefferson's ab- surd embargo and his foolish gunboat sys- tem are forgotten, or at least forgiven, and the crowning glory of his administra- tion, the acquisition of the mouths of the regions which stretch beyond its western bank will al- ways be remembered as the greatest stroke | of statesmanlike promptitude and sagacity | which has given lustre to any administra- tion. Inlike manner the Eaton seandal, the spoils system, and the removal of the de- posits have gradually faded out of the pop- | ular recollection of Jackson's administra. | tion, while his vigorous action against the | South Carolina nullifiers has consecrated his name in the heart of every lover | of the Union, The real greatness | of President Grant's character and services render it probable that a similar generous discrimination will be practised in his favor, | and that such faults ashe may have com- mitted in his Presidency will be still more wroneneciemeneenat tin | served, country owes him as the successful com- mander of its armies. His occasional bad | appointments, his favoritism to personal | friends, his long absences from the enpital, will be thought trivial enough, if thonght of at all, two generations hence; and even his gravest fault—too much military interference in the South—will be attributed rather to the spirit of the party that elected him and his education as a soldier than to con- tempt of constitutional restraints. Among the things that will be remembered to his advantage the most conspicuous are the Alabama claims treaty, one of the greatest triumphs of American diplomacy, and his courageous veto of the Inflation bill when it had passed Congress with a strong popu- lar support from the country. It is chiefly owing to that veto that he retires with gold at 1041-2 and that we are within .» short step of resumption. The minor acts of his administration, like the mere routine of all administrations, will be lost sight of in the hurry and bustle of new events; but these two conspicuous things will always be re- membered to the credit of President Grant's administration. In which administration of his long line of predecessors can more than two acts be found which transcend these in real importance? Mistakes President Grant has certainly committed, and perhaps no administration has been more fruitful in mistakes ; but it is a solid proof of the great strength of his character that, in spite of many mistakes of inexperience and some of waywardness, he has been the strongest and most influen- tial man of his party from the day of his inauguration up to this day of his retire- ment. Such mistakes as he has committed would have ruined and prostrated an ordi- nary man, The fact that he sur- yived them, that so long as was doubted whether he would not be again a candidate for tho Presidency no republican statesmen dared to come into the ficld as his avowed rival, 1s the most remarkable negative testimony ever given in this country since the time of Washing- ton to the personal ascendancy of one man. It may be worth whileon some {nture occasion to analyze and explain the singular personal endowments which have made President Grant so potent a force in Ameri- can political life. Two years ago he scemed too strong for the safety of our institutions ; he made intelligible to modern minds the practice of the ancicnt Greeks in ostracizing public men, when their influence, though acquired by merit, had become too great. At twelve o'clock to-day President Grant becomes a mere citizen like the rest of us, and with the sincere tribute we have now paid to his great qualitics we cordially wish him a tranquil, pleasant and pro- longed, as we are certain that he will enjoy an honored, old age. Oar London and Paris Cable Letters. They have decided in both capitals— and even Berlin is said to acquiesce in the belief—that Europe is not to treat her carrion crows this spring to a quarter of a million assorted Muscovite and Moslem corpses. Certainly this is cause for rejoicing, 2s there is no telling whether, if the ball was once set roll- ing, England, Germany, and even Frence, would not be obliged to feed these same voracious birds with the plump boitliesof the brave boys in their choicest battalions. It plucked, even if peace is maintained ; tor all the evil spirits of fatalist despotism seem to be hovering over the pal- aca of the Sultan, while famine be- gins to stalk through the land, and the poor Osmanlis in the Balkans are perishing by their guns. France, not having any wholesale bloodlettings on hand, is practising upon private throats in a variety of acts which an_ illogical wor!d will call crimes, while, it the process was on alarge scale, all the world would call it glory. Then Paris has its Patti scandal, and since Mme. Nicoliniis about to enter the field, we are likely to hear “Robert, toi que j'aime” sung by the prima donna to an accompaniment calen- lated to make the fur fly. The elegant cynics of the cafés and salons are rejoicing that their distrust in hu- manity seems likely to be contirmed in this case; but surely it would be gal- lant to wait until it is known whether there is more than smoke in the wrongs of the incensed Marquis. Paris, however, has its great gencrosities, as reported, and London can claim a kindliness of its own in its sterling tribute to the genius of poor old Compton, theactor, From Dublin comes word of the nationalist honor tothe dust of O'Mahony, with its broken harp-strings and patriotic names in white on a black curtain--the light-hearted nation with its sombre background. The English newspapers are wagging their heads wisely, and it seems cynically too, over the result of our Presidential problem; but English opinion is not of so much consequence to us now as when Dickens stung us with artistic pin pricks in our foibles. ‘The national epi- dermis is thicker and the body stronger than then. the pleasant things and sad things in our letters, but we are assured that all will be found interesting. Mr. Evarts for Secretary of State. New York's share in the new administra- tion, if the report that Mr. Evarts is to be Secretary of State shall prove trne, will bo important and honorable. It bids fair to become recognized in the divisions of power the property of the Empire State. For eight years under Grant it has been filled by a New Yorker. preceded Grant's accession it was also filled by a New Yorker. If it now falls again to our share in the per- son of the distinguished New Yorker who has been designated rather by events in the recent conflict of great wits than by any party favor the country will be well It will indeed be that rare event, a nomination not made by the politicians— not especially palatable to them —which yet puts in office a profound and capable poli- tician, using tho word in its larger and leniently judged in tho licht of what the better sensa it| | appropriateness, averred that if the mother | is to be feared that Turkey will be badly | we see in the case of the grand charity ball | We cannot here outline one-tenth of | throughout the nation that this office is | For the eight years that | | t NEW YORK H#KALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 4,- 18717.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Woman in the Pulpit. On Monday morning the Methodist minis- ters of this city and vicinity met to discuss the general interests of their Church. They | are a mild-mannered body of gentlemen, but are susceptible of unusual excitement and | able to use some of the prohibited adjectives of their mother tongue when unduly pro- yoked. The provocation was not absent from this particular meeting, neither was the hot temper nor those robust expressions which show that the blood is at fever heat. ‘The cause of the volcanic but ecclesiastical eruption was, ofcourse, a woman. Miss Oli- ver had been invited to preach a sermon be- fore tho clergymen constituting this assem- bly. Serious second thoughts trod on the heels of this impuisive invitation, however, and it was determined on the part of some to sacrifice their gallantry and to refuse to listen to this maidof divinity. The dilemma | was a serious one. Miss Oliver was a regu- lar graduate of the Boston Theological School, was possessed of a degree conferred by a distingnishéd company of Methodist | divines, and had a license in her pocket which gave her the right to talk to sinners | wherever she might find them. | The decision of the meeting to recall the invitation may have been just, but the way in which it was done was scarcely defensible. | The whole question of the propriety of feminine preachers was evaded in the most ignoble way. A large proportion of the gentlemen present failed to vote at all, fearing to commit themselves to either side of the vexed question. Those who did vote preceded it with a controversy so pugilistic and extravagant that the result is regarded | as the effect of prejudice rather than good judgment. Rey. Mr. Buckley, whose language is more remarkable for its strength than its of our Lord were to preach he would op- pose it. As an exposition of the depths which can be reached by a persistent bad taste the expression is to be commended, but for nothing else. Only a mind carnal to the last degree could allow itself to con- jure up an expression which can serve no better purpose than to startle by its audacity. Sneh sensationalism, at once gross and use- less, makes one feel that if there were more of feminine tact and good sense in the pul- pit, whether the women theinselves are allowed to enterit or not, there would be less reason for the sneers tu which the cause of religion ig sometimes treated. The same gentleman is credited with say- ing in effect that the popularity of certain women preachers among young men is due to “an, aberration of amativeness.” The language was not claimed as original, but attributed to Finney. That Mr. Buckley should not be anxious to be known as the originator of the statement is not strange. It does little credit to the man who coined it and none at all to his successor who per- petuated it. The only reply is, of course, that to the amorous all things are amorous. If, however, the statement be true, why is not the counter statement also true? When young women are converted by a preacher of the masculine gender and flock to hear the popular discourse of one of the sterner sex, why are they not all affected in the same way by an ‘aberration of amative- ness?” This is not one of those rules which refuse to work both ways. We shall be glad to have this woman ques- tion settled, either on the basis of Scripture or expediency; but the Methodist ministers, in their Monday meeting, had _ better have let it alone. Good temper and good judgment are both necessary to the solution of a problem so intricate. In the meantime Miss Oliver and- Mrs. Van Cott and the score of lesser lights may shine upon a naughty world and show the path to tem- perance and virtue to any who happen to be caught in the brambles. If Mr. Buckley is in danger of ‘‘aberration” he can very ensily confine himself to the narrow sphere of his uncertain usefulness. As for the rest of the world, it will probably go to hear the proncher it likes best, whether it be a man orawoman. And so mote it be, Music by Lightning. When it was firstannounced that Professor Gray, of Chicago, had invented 1 method by which sounds could be telegraphed and music played in one city be made audible in another the public was sceptical, The tact has been demonstrated beyond doubt and another wonder of electricity revealed. The Boston experiment has been recently re- peated successfully in Chiengo by Professor Gray, and airs played on the instrument in Milwaukee were telegraphed in sound to the former city, a distance of more than eighty miles. An account of this strange performance is published in another column, We are glad to learn that New York will soon have an opportunity of listening to this electrical harp. Mr. Maurice Strakosch announces that “the powers of the telephone, as the instrament is named, will be tested between Philadel- phia and this city, so that persons sitting in our Academy of Music will hear the sweet strains played ninc#y miles away. The date and the particulars will be soon made known. The invention is so recent that its future uses cannot bo predicted, but we may safely believe that it is something more than o scientific toy. When sounds can be transmitted by electricity over vast dis- tances there is a basis for the most astound- ing development. The time may come when we can talk by lightning and swear by thunder, and even that will not be | stranger than practical telegraphy itself would have been a hundred years ago. When the voltaic pile was discovered no it, and it may be that in the control of a Wagner yet unknown the telephone may be the instrument by which the music of the future may be telegraphed simultaneously around the whole world. Mrs. Joe Gurgery in Congress. The resolution adopted by the democratic majority of the House of Representatives yesterday, declaring Mr, Tilden duly elected President, wand Mr. Hendricks Vice Pres- ident of the United States, cannot possibly do any harm and is not likely to do any good, unless it should happily operate as a safety valve for the escape of superfinous democratic anger. It may, indeed, have been wisoly devised by Mr. Wood and his conservative associates ns a means of relieving the overcharged bosoms of the filibustering phalanx. It would, of course, be unreasonable to expect democrats either in or out of Congress to feel satisfied and happy over the result of the electoral count; but having submitted their case to a tri- bunal they helped to create it is idle to fret over the result. However, the country can well afford to take a lesson from big Joo Gargery’s philosophy in his married life. “At such times as when your sister is on the rampage, Pip,” says Joe, ‘‘cander compels fur to admit that she’s a buster. Why don’t Irise? Well, your sister's a master mind. A master mind! Then, ayain, it don’t do me no harm and it seems to do her a deal of good.” Praying for the President. In every part of the country there will, no doubt, be made to-day an carnest re- sponse to the request of the new President that the people shall join in an appeal for Divine assistance to him in the discharge | of his duties, As this is a simple religious observance, not only appropriate to the day but appropriate by traditional usage to any occasion in the nation’s history that may be regarded as critical, and as tie people, however they vary as to creeds and parties, are, as a whole, possessed of deep religious convictions, it is not to be doubted that this request, made ina sincere and simple spirit, as we believe it to be, will have their sym- pathy. This is a ground, therefore, on which men of the most diverse creeds and parties may meet to-day in a common aspira- tion, In all countries it 1s © common formality to pray for the ruler of the land, and in this country the designation of days | of public prayer on great occasions has be- come an institution. It is apparently in the spirit of that designation that this request has been made, and though it may provoke asneer from those who doubt Mr. Hayes’ | title to his office, it will obtain for him the moral support of that important body of the people which is always ready to sustain the man who means to do right oulsiana. The carpet-bnaggers and their friends at Washington die hard. Those mean who, in the Senate and the House and in the Cab- inet, have maintained that the great scheme of villany on which the Louisiana usurpa- tion was built up was all virtue and honesty and justice cannot contemplate with patience the sudden recognition by the President of the true nature of the case, while his just action in pursuit of that recognition fills them with dismay, because it stamps their past conduct and endangers their hopes for the future. These men kept up their game almost till the last minute with Grant, who threw them over in time. They will begin their assault on Mr. Hayes very promptly, and the character of his administration will be determined very early by his action toward them. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Mrs. Hayes loves light biue, Dot your 1's with blue glass, Blue glass slippers cure coras. ‘The storm last night blew giass, Heayon put a blue glass sky over us Scott Lord has an awlul white mustache, Starr King died thirteon years azo to-day. ‘The bu-inees man now.a-day's syd; “Help me, ¢ash- fers, or I sink.” Congressman Cutler, of New Jersey, has a bara on his pluce, and that fs all bo bas, A Mr. Pale, of Boston, Is making a reputation as a carver and colorer of game birds. Donaid G. Mitchell (Ik Marvel) is making a great hit lecture on *llousobold Art.’’ the Yale basebail catcher, has been forbid- den by his physicians to pla; Philadelphia Bulletin:—“When W was reached Hewitt remarked to Tilden, *fhis will vouble you up? Old man Vanderbilt once said of young Corneil that “That boy would spend a million a yevr it he could got it.’” Beceber is receiving audiences in tho West that are surprising tor their numbers and even for their en- thasiasm. The cola-blooded Ferry conducted himself with nico gentility; and wo hope he will keep his blue cuat but- toned around bim, Miss Von Hillern, the walkor, cate rare beef, pota- toes, oatmeal, eggs and stale bread, and no dessert; wears a loose corset and a broad toed shoe. If Lamar were put into the Cabinet tho Senate might refuse to receive his successor on xecount of the shadow that hangs over the Mississippi Legislature, Tho cditor of the Contemporary Review asks what Chartos Kingsley neant by the retrain ““borum, boree, He meant that if you dou’t borum you won't get on a Jamborce. Speaker Randall {s not always suave, and bo is sometimes likely to snub people; but he is a resolute follow, of vim, and of a carclessly scientific manner that wins respect. In case Mr. Evarts becomes Sceretary of State, his despatciies to foreign ministers may be tn. volved. Mr. Haycs should be economical, even with his cable despatches, As sprivg parts from winter and light lingers in the evening sky tho suuscts are exceedingly beautiful, The golden rays mingle with tho reseate, like the dreams ot two lovers, The Heravp bkes Jim Garfield for many things that ho does; but be entered into a great mistake when ho mado that brief tor a five thousand dollar ice, Better to have been poor, Jim, Evening Telegram:—"A very energetic, lively and in- dustrivus Spr dog, living at Paterson, succeeded yes- terday in errculumg hydrophobia among six other unoffending dogs and ove call, the latter belunging to the leg of a cit iti The Graphic has reached its fourth anniversury, and, being one of tho very best enterprises that have been started in this couutry, gives a fine illustration of tho Goodseils playing a duet on a violin und cornet, of Croly taiking to two doves and of Crofut fanning a girl Hoa, ©. D, MeDuugall, one of the seventeen who favored Grant for athird term, has, to the regret of the Washington people, been appointed United States Marshal for the Northeru District of New York. It is unnecessary to say that this regret is because what Now York gains Washington loses, Norristown Herald:—""A mau in Ansonia, Conn, bad atooth drawn, The chargo was iilty cente, and he tendered a two-dollar bill, The dentist having only | $1 im change the obliging customer doliberately sat one dreamed of what Morse would do with | down and had a sound molar exiracted to mako the change even. Here is achance for some one to say that this (coth-out story is too thin,” Evening Telegram:--"Iv appears that neither Mr. Hayes nor Mr. Tilden sat up to get the news of the completion of the electoral count. The former went to bed in a sleeping car on the Pennsylvania Railroad just after leaving Altoona, and gave orders that ho should not be waked till morning. The latter went to bed carly, at his own house, gaving the sume direc. tions.” E. L. Blanchard, the distinguished London theatrical critic, suys:—'The odd caprices of fastiion are of course utterly beyond the range of thes column, bat it should certainly be borne in mind that If the femate leadors of society believe they render themselves more attractive by curtailing their garments to tho lowest possible LONDON LIGHTNINGS, Growing Assurances of Peace in the Orient. ENGLAND AND THE TMPERTAL THREB. Tarkey’s Internal Dangers---Palace Schemers-— Exhaustion and Famine Ahead. THE MOSLEMS IN THE BALKANS Varied Views of the English Press on the Presidency.: O'MAHONY IN STATE IN DUBLIN. The Prince of Waies and the Coming Medizeval Tournament. NG ROOM THE QUEEN'S DRAV A Theatrical Festival for an Old Actor’s Benefit. AMERICAN VS, ENGLISH INDUSTRIES, Operatic, Dramatic, Social, Aquatic and Obituary Notes, ANOTHER STORM PREDICTION FULFILLED. ARE {ey CABLE TO THE HERAT. 1 Lonpon, March 3, 1877, The week has been a calm, politically, but the hopes of peace are materially strengthened. Lven Berlin shares a belict in the brighter prospects growing out of General Ignatici’s mission to the capitals Berlin and Vienna, and probably London. The British courier bearing England's reply to the fussian note arrived in Berliz to«lay. The tenor of the note is the same that } sent you last night. From all that can be gathered here a disarmament by Kussia 1s probable. The Eastern question will, in all likelihood, be shelved for another year, Tarkey being meanwhile left to work out her own salvation or destruction, with long odus in favor of the latter. TUE IMPELCAL THREE. The three Emperors—Germany, Russia and Aus- | tria—will meet again this year ty explain all nieun- derstandings ana repair any partial breaches of friendship, Which events may have brought about. It ts shrewdly suspected that the Czar Alexander und his uncle Kaiser Wilhelm will take advantage of the meeting to give Franz Joseph a good talking to. ENGLAND'S ATTITUDE CHANGING, England, 1t must be admitted, 1s gradually swerving toward a better ynderstanding with Russia. Asa consequence Mr. Gladstone, who has been foremoat in, advocating such a change of pole ley, 1$ recovering public favor rapidly. In ald of this change of poltcy Mr, Grant Dat M P., in his ¢ontribution wo the Nineteenth Century urges the English to banish all prejudices and suspicions of Russia's ac- tion. The Nourse shows a buoyant tendency. From these central poiuts of information the earnest hopes of apeaccful year are entertained. The de- talls of the news all point the same way. TOW RUSSIA MAY RETIRE HONORABLY. A despatch from Berlin say “The replies o1 the Powers to the Russian circular will be presented next week. The Powers have agreed to acknowl- edge the meritorious zeal of Russia on behalf of the Christians in Turkey. ‘The replies will be carefully worded to make Russia's retreat from her threatening position casy. It is understood the Powers will also propose that the Porte be granted a term for the execution of re- forms. It is believed here that Russian will accept the suggestions of the Powers, though probably en- deavoring to fasten on them some responsibility for the future, and will speedily demobilize her army.” WHAT THE PORTE WILL ASK. Another Berlin despatch states that the Porte contemplates addressing the Powers on pending questions. It will provably promise to realize Mid- hat Pacha’s reform programme within two years provided the present cxcitement be allayed by the withdrawal of Russian troops and cessation of rev. olutionary intrigues. SERVIA AND MONTESEGRO. The Grand Vizier tc-day received a telegram at Constantinople from Prince Milan ratifying the con- ditions of peace. Diplomatic relations b:tween Servia and the Porte are thus restored. The Mon- tenegriu delegates have visited the Grand Vizter and the Foreign Minister, and negotiations com- mence to-day. A conciliatory disposition appears to prevail on both sides. It 18 stated that after the conclusion of peace with Montenegro a Turkish official of high rank will be despatched on an extraordinary mission to the foreign cabinets. To.day's conlerences between the Montenegrin del egates and the Turkish Foreign Minister were only preliminary. Virtual negotiations vegir on Monday, It is difficult yet to foretell the result of the negotiations between Montenegzre and the Porte, but the first conversations show that both parties are desirous of peace. Orders have been issued to the Turks to evacuate Servian territory in twelve d: TUE CON TION OF TURKEY. The prospect of another year of peace with Russia will not bring unqualified bicssings to the Ottomans. Allaccounts received here trom Constan- tinople, whether from sources friendly or un+ frendly to the Turks, the con dition of the Empire desperate. A correspondent, who may be sald to be thoroughly pro-Turkish, writes, under date of February 23, as follows :—Ouly = dis- armament cau avert Turkey's ruin. At the Palace things have got back to the old groove. The cone represent as very point, it 18 not surprising that theatrical managers imagine that the attractiveness of a spectacle is largely incroased by the brevity of the skirts of tho ballet,’” stitution is ahead of the wants and the compre. hension of the people. The reforms the country requires are elementary, lying best in the scoge of CO re