The New York Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1877, Page 6

eee ree NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD. every day in Taree cents per copy (Sunday excluded), Jeae or at rate of ous dollar per month inctuded, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yorx Hrnatp. ‘Letters and packages should be properly sealed, Rejected communications wil! not be returned. ———_>—_—_—— PEEL Denrats OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— N' FLEET 5T! t. NO, 46 i a KIS OFFICE-—AVENUE DE L'OPERA, ganige OFFICE NO. 7TSTRADA PACE. Subseri forward tions and advertisements will be received and ‘on the sume terms 4s in VOLUME XLII AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. F¥IFTH AVENUE THEATRE—Lexons. WALLACK'S THEATRE! OLYMPIC THEATRE—Jevesice UNION SQUARE THEATH NEW YORK AQUARI EAGLE THEATRE—Avw GERMANIA THEATR STADT THEATRE—Azut NIBLO'S GARDEN—Axc BROOKLYN PARK TH BOOTH'’S THEATRE—| u Ave BTEINWAY HALL—Concent, — COLUMBIA OPBRA HOUSE—Vanietr. TIVOLI THEATRE—V. NEW AMERICAN MU SAN FRANCISCO MIN KELLY & LEON’S MI : EGYPTIAN HALL—Sxxsationat Vantery. PARISIAN VARIETIES, BROOKLYN RINK—Fetx pes Parunevns. HELLER’S THEATRE—Paxsti TRIPLE ARCH 8, 1877. DEALERS, NOTICE 10 COUNTRY The Adams Exp train over the Pen leaving Jersey City Sunday, carrying the West ns Harrisburg und South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia abn quarter past six A. M. and Washington at one P.M. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be cool and cloudy, followed by warm and threatening weather, probably with rain and increasing east- erly to southerly and westerly winds. « Company run a special newspaper ivania Railroad and its Ear mon ee ta quarter past four A, M. dally an regular edition of the HimRaLp us tar Wau. Srreet Yesterpay.—The stock market was fairly active during the day, without any great change in values. There was an advance in the coal stocks and in New York Central, while telegraphs fell off slightly. Gold opened at 1053, and advanced to 1054, at which price it closed firm. Government and railroad bonds were stronger, and the former were active. Money was easy at 2 a 3 per cent on call, closing very easy at 215 0 3. Jupce Durry, who usually hits the nail on the head, missed it by several feet yesterday. Tue Sense AND NONSENS! of the blue glass manin are impartially indicated in the HeraLp to-day. Tue Senate Yestenpay witnessed another attempt to displace the national standard by the Dloody shirt. Harry Om1o.—She has the President and a Cabinet officer, and is now promised a glorious Senatorial fight. Tue Manise Count is the subject of a fine conundrum proposed by Sznator Bixby. See Albany despatch. ‘Tne Deraits which a correspondent gives to- day of a little affair with a policeman are calcu- lated to make the timid citizen avoid the blue- coated guardian of the peace as carefully as if that vilicial were a professional bruiser. Avsorner Great Rairoap Srecunator has gone into bankruptcy and the list of his unse- cured creditors will give the general reader some idea of the confidence which business men and institutions repose in apparently successful op- erators. Tur Heravy’s Srectat Rerorr of Colonel Pelton’s own version of the Oregon despatches and checks enables the reader to make his own estituate of the value of campaign rumors. Such estimates every one should make a note of for use in 1580. Ovr Specra, Desratcu From Mexico, of yery late date, reports the existence of a small war cloud, which has excellent facilities for growing, particularly as the national treasury— which is the only influence that pretends to con- trol Mexican political storms—is in a sadly en- fecbled condition. Axotier Heratp Storm Warnine in Ev- nore.—On Saturday, March 3, we sent the fol- lowing storm warning by cable to our London bureau for the benefit of international com- merce:—“‘Probable weather disturbance, with gales and rain on the British and French coasts. by the middle of the week,” and published the prediction in the Heratp of the 4th for the in- formation of our readers, The despatches from London, published elsewhere in this morning’s Hexatp, show that our warning was warranted and well timed. The snow fall in London prob- ably turned into rain during yesterday afternoon and last night. Tue Weatner.—The storm vhich has Deen traversing the lake region since Tuesday morning has moved to the coast of Nova Scotia, and will leave our continent during to-day. A considerable aren of snow and rain, extend- ing from the Atlantic to the lower lakes, attends the depression, and high winds, which have been experienced as far to the southward as Philadelphia, marked its progress eastward. Following the disturbance an area of high press- ure extends from Manitoba southeastward over the lake region to the Middle Atlantie coast. An extensive storm area has moved from the south- west into the Missouri avi Mississippi valleys. Snow has fallen along the northern margin of the elongated depression, and rain southward of St. Louis. Very high winds fevail around the storm centre, and particu- larly in the Northwest. This storm is likely to prove @ very severe one on our const, and ship- masters will do well to provide for its coming during to-night or to-morrow. The pressure is high off the South Atlantic const. ‘The tempera- | ture is high in the South and Central districts, but very low in the North, Northwest and Northeast. ‘The Missouri has risen at Leavenworth. All the other rivers have fallen. Stormy weather is probable for the consts of Great Britain and Nor- after Sunday next. The weather in New York to-day will be cool and cloudy, followed by weather, possibly with and President Hayes Does Not Flinch. “Be sure you are right,” said Davy Crockett, “and then go ahead.” President Hayes has gone ahead with steady, quiet steps, which is a pretty good proof that he feels sure that he is right, considering the opposition he has been so suddenly called to confront. In spite of the formidable dem- onstration of the bull-dozers he sent to the Senate yesterday the completed list of his Cabinet nominations, not withdrawing o single one of the names which are ‘‘a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence” to the belligerent party chiefs. This evidence of firmness and pluck makes an excellent im- pression. If the President maintains his attitude of quiet, invincible determination he will find the bellicose party chiefs sub- missive enough before the end of the month. He must convince them at the outset that nothing can be extorted from him by men- aces. If he gives an inch they will take an ell. He will never have a moment’s peace nor any real authority if men like Blaine once find that he can be bull-dozed. Thus far his steadiness of purpose cannot be im- peached, and it is all the more satisfactory by the entire absence of bluster, self-asser- tion or any form of incivility. We should deeply regret to see the new President lose his temper or give any symptom that his equanimity is disturbed by opposition from republican leaders. It does not suit with the dignity or the authority of the Chief Magistrate to act in a spirit of petulance even under the most provoking circumstan- ces. He should never descend into thearena, as Andrew Johnson so foolishly did, and bandy recriminations with members of the legislative department. A President who is sure that he is right can afford to movo straight onward and leave the vindication of his course to the enlightened public opinion of the country. We vouch for President Hayes no further than he has gone; but up to this time he deserves approval alike for his steadiness and his dignity. “Be sure you are right and then go ahead.” The whole body of judicious citi- zens will think that President Hayes can afford to go ahead on this safe basis, His proposed Cabinet is right if his inaugural address was right. The one must be judged by the other. Nobody has attempted to show that the proposed Cabinet is not in harmony with the address. Indeed the fact that President Hayes’ selections so strongly attest the deep sincerity of his inaugural is the moving cause of disgust and opposition. If it was a wise inaugural it is a wise Cabi- net, because the latter is a faithful reflection of the former. President Hayes has every reason to feel sure that he was right in the address. It is the distilled essence of the two party platforms, his own letter of accept- ance, Vice President Wheeler's letter of ac- ceptance and the two letters of acceptance on the democratic side. Those party documents, three in number on each side, may be vulnerable enough on the ground of insincerity; but, being bids for popularity, they are pretty good evi- dence of what the politicians thought the great body of the people demanded. The fact that both platforms and the letters of ac- ceptance on both sides made substantially the same professions is a very striking evi- dence of the unity of popular sentiment as it was then understood by the politicians of both parties. President Hayes’ inaugural cannot be wrong unless republicans and democrats alike misinterpreted the wishes of the people at the opening of the Presidential canvass; and, we re- peat again, the composition of the Cabi- net cannot be wrong if the declarations of policy in the inaugural are right. Ifever any President could, on good grounds, feel sure that he was right and be justified in going ahead on that assumption it is Presi- dent Hayes, who is as fully justified by the letters of acceptance of Messrs. Tilden and Hendricks as he is by his own. The democratic Senators will stultify themselves and desert their principles if they permit the Cabinet nominations to be beaten, The democrats are strong enough in this Senate to give Mr. Hayes a victory over his republican op- ponents in every trial of strength, and they will lower themselves and their party in public estimation if they do not come to his rescue when he is assailed for his patriotic desire to do justice to the South. The democratic Senators will stultify themselves if they do not support President Hayes against the bull-dozers who assail him for his disposition to con- cede local self-government to the Southern States. They may find in Mr, Tilden’s let- ter of acceptance a just and indignant de- nunciation of the idea that officers and functionaries exist for any other purpose than the good of the country, of which they are mere instruments so long as they do their duty. Mr. ‘Tilden, in his letter of ac- ceptance, scouted the idea that the machin- ery of official life exists for any other pur- pose than the public interest. When President Hayes offers to do for the South and for the civil service the very things which Mr, Tilden, in his letter of accept- ance, pledged himself to promote, the demo- cratic Senators must either support the republican President or make an implied confession that they do not accept Mr. Til- den’s doctrine that “the public service exists for the busiaess and benefit of the whole people and not for the interest of the office-holders, who are in truth but the servants of the pecple.” What real difference does it make whether the south is emancipated and its local rights restored by a democratic or a republican President? It is only the thing that is im- | portant. Whether this or the other party | gets the credit of itis of no real conse- quence provided the thing is done. If the country existed for the sake of the office- holders and not the officesholders for the sake of the country, it might make a differ- ence whether the South gets its rights from one party or the other; but if Mr. Tilden was correct, the all-important thing is the end and the means are subordinate. We do not see how any honest democratic Senator can refuse to take the side of Mr. Hayes against his assailants in his own party when they de- nounce and bull-doze him for his intention to give the South the inestimable blessing of local self-government. It is the plain duty of the democratic Senators to vote as a unit for the confirmation of Mr. Hayes’ Cabinet when its members have so obviously been selected to carry out a policy to which their own party is pledged. If they allow Mr. Hayes’ nominations to be defeated they will be false to their own avowed principles on the Southern question and the civil service question. In a republican division over the Cabinet the democratic Senators hold the game in their own hands. Will they be so insane, will they so give the lie to their professions of friendship to the South, as to support Blaine against the President? If they do it will be on irretrievable blunder. We are confident that the public senti- ment of the country strongly approves of the nomination of Mr. Evarts and a body of associates with whom he will find no diffi- culty in acting. It was not President Hayes, but the country, that designated Mr. Evarts for Secretary of State. Long before Mr. Hayes had any authority to tender the nomination public opinion had made a spontaneous and unanimous selection of Mr. Evarts as the fittest man for Secretary of State. We think it impossible that the democratic Senators can be so blind or churlish as to vote against the confirmation of Mr. Evarts. If they should they will ‘‘go further and fare worse.” There is no mem- ber of the proposed Cabinet who should be especially objectionable to the democratic party. We trust the democratic Senators will treat the new President with candor and magnanimity and strengthen him in his purpose to carry out a policy to which their own candidate was committed. Mr. Bergh and Poor Doggy. We thought it was about time for Mr. Henry Bergh to take part in the Spitz dog controversy, and we were not wrong, as he appears to-day in a communication else- where published as counsel for the defend- ant. With his usual skill he compares Cesarism with hydrophobia, and seems to consider these both very rare if not, indeed, wholly imaginary diseases. The recent cases, well authenticated, in which persons have died of hydrophobia from the bites of Spitz dogs he does not deign to notice, but ably argues that as the saliva of excited men is as poisonous as that of mad dogs it is the duty of the press to advocate the muzzling of angry politicians. Few persons, it is true, would like to be bitten just now by a democrat, but we ven- ture to suggest to Mr. Bergh that men sel- dom use their teeth as weapons of attack, except on food; while dogs, according to Dr. Watts, delight to bark and bite because it is their nature. Therefore we must mildly dissent from his opinions on this subject and hold to our firm belief that a Spitz dog is more dangerous than even a Tam- many politician. Mr. Bergh himself is occa- sionally excited, yet we should not on that account advise that he should be muzzled, but would even leave his pen free in his mo- ments of greatest rage. We are surprised that so devoted a friend of the canines should admit that in three years he has as- sisted at the deaths of two thousand five hundred dogs, even if he was cruel only to be kind... Fifteen of these martyred animals: were Spitz dogs, and not one of them, Mr. Bergh says, was mad, but all were suffering from nervous excitement, superinduced by tin kettles and boys. Why they were killed instead of being cured Mr. Bergh does not explain. It is to be hoped, however, if his own theory of the develupment of poison in men by anger be true, that he will never be bitten by a Spitz dog, for he might then be obliged to mourn for the loss of a pet. There would be great danger then of a new illustration of the following well known lines of Goldsmith :— But soon a wonder came to sight Which proved the knaves had lied; The man recovered of the bite, The Health of New York. From a recent publication it appears that the death rate in Paris is 25.8 per cent of the population ; in London, 21.6 per cent; in New York, 21.7 per cent; in Brooklyn, 21.1 per cent, and in Philadelphia, 19.7 per cent, Paris is well cleaned and well drained, but many parts of the city are closely built and densely populated, and the “flat” system necessitates high houses, crowds severul families into one building, with their separate fires, and generally confines each family to the air of a single floor. In London the bills of mortality are swelled from the low tenement house localities which the Society for Improving the Dwell- ings of the Poor are doing their best to sweep away. The city is well drained and clean, but in parts has bad water, while the river does not help the public health. Brooklyn has space, but is crowded in parts, while some of the new districts through which the city is stretch- ing are defective in drainage, swampy and malarious. Philadelphia covers ao large space of ground for her population, and probably in no city in the world aro the poorer classes so well housed as there, while good drainage and cleanliness help to reduce the death rate below that of other cities. New York ought to exhibit a death rate lower than that of any other large city in the world. We have a large river on each side of us, with strong tides, and every breath of air comes to us purified over their surface or from the bay. We have an admirable natural system of drainage, if we choose to avail ourselves of it ; but ignorance and cor- ruption made our drainage in parts shame- fully defective when its construction was in such hands as those to which our honest Aldermen desire to reconsign the work, and it will take time and money to remedy the evil. ‘The conformation of the city compels the laboring classes to crowd into tenement houses within the reach of the business quarter. If we were like London or Philadelphia we could stretch out on either side. As we are—long and narrow and held between the arms of our two rivers—we must find space in the upper part of the island and away over the Harlem River for the laboring and poorer classes. This we cannot do until we get rapid transit with full capacity for the travel and with rates of fare within the reach of laboring men, Our great necessities, then, for improved health are improved drainage and rapid transit. In the train of these would necessarily follow cleaner streets and purer air in localities that are now poison- ousin their filth and closeness and crowd- ing humanity, and we should then show & death rate lower than any other city in the world, The Museum of Natural History. The American Museum of Natural History in Central Park has attained such an emi- nence among the cognate institutions of this country, and the purposes of its founders are so extensive and important, that it is well the citizens of New York should have their attention directed to its recent growth, to the national character it is about to as- sume and to the possibilities of its future life, During these two years the museum has silently been gathering strength, enlarging its field of application, extending its in- struction to greater and greater numbers, and slowly organizing plans which will make it a national ornament and the ex- ponent of scientific development and thought throughout the United States. The new museum, or rather that portion which is about completed, will in a few months be entered, and its turnishment, which is of unparalleled beauty and adaptability, crowded with treasures of natural science and ethnological research, will be opened to the public of sightseers, to students and societies for their free and constant service. In the old Arsenal in Central Park, of cramped and inadequate accommodations, half of its great collections are concealed, packed and stored away, unavailable for ex- amination, while those on exhibition are imperfectly seen, only partially classified and improperly mounted. But in the new building, whose halls are models of conven- ience and beauty, flooded with light through immense windows and provided with the most perfect cases ingenuity and experi- ence combined could produce, these pre- cious stores will be exhibited in o manner befitting their rarity and loveliness, Here, exposed up and down these spa- cious corridors, through plates of the finest glass, the plumage and colors of birds will be reflected -with a glory rivalling that of their native haunts; the shells of southern seas will gleam with their exquisite tints be- neath the general radiance, as though they lay in their limpid element, while one of the most complete collections of American palwontology yet gathered together will mi- nutely relate the rise and development of life from the first dawn through its subse- quent development in paleozoic eras, and in part finish the story to modern times. There, also, affected by the great modern agitation over the origin of man, his past history and his present relations, the mu- seum Will also dwell upon this prodigious theme, and by means of a great quantity and variety of material illustrate man’s primitive and modern condition. The his- tory of man is to cap the pyramid of sci- ences which the museum expects to rear within her walls. The great cities of Europe have their un- rivalled museums, crowded with all that modern exploration has exhumed in the past or revealed in present time. They are mon- uments of indefatigable exertion, zeal and enlightened effort. Through them science speaks to audiences she would otherwise never reach, and encourages her devotees through the enthusiasm her phenomena thus gathered together inspire. New York city, the metropolis of America, before 1869 had no such home of learning, and the gentle- men who then inaugurated the present in- stitution expected that in time it would rise to an eminence commensurate with the importance of the city it ropresented. They undertook to erect a building devoted to the classification and exhibition of the natural objects of this and all countries. Their plan was as broad as nature could make it. Such an institution was to bea schoolhouse of natural knowledge. It was free to all, and all were expected to assist in its growth and completion, That plan has steadily developed, its various details have become more definite, and it itself even enlarged beyond its original scope. The new museum will comprise a series of rooms devoted to the use and elucidation of science. Here will be collected together, as the institution matures, libraries upon the subjects illus- trated by exhaustive cabinets in the halls, Each room will be assigned its appropriate use; a room for conchology, paleontology, ichthyology, will here be found, where the students of these branches may freely confer and study. The museum is to be a court of appeal where vexed questions of identity and nomenclature are to be set- tled on the evidence of her cabinots and the authority of her libraries. A Chatr of State. “Now amI seated as my soul delights.” This must evidently be the comfortable ejaculation of Senator Davis when ho gets himself fairly down into that chair in the Senate that is said to measure thirty-three by twenty-five inches. There was no chair in the Senate to fit this representative of a great State, and we are not astonished at it, for they have not had a man of these Panta- gruelian proportions in that body this many a day. Once they had, however—in the good old times—as is evidenced by the fact that this great chair has been produced from the lumber department, having for- merly accommodated a man even larger than Judge Davis. It ‘is conceivable that the presence of a member who fills such a chair may add to the weight of the Senate, and equally conceivable that the other men who sit on the ‘Supreme Bench” may be glad to get rid of a member who could tip them all up in a case of emergency. The Theatres and the Newspapers. We publish elsewhere a somewhat lengthy communication from Mr. Fiske, of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, commenting severely on the recent decision of Justice Flammer, that the attempt to obtain a free ticket to a place of amusement by forging an order on the management is not a legal offence. We have nothing to say at present of Judge Flammer's decision except that it may be good law ; but the general subject of which Mr. Fiske treats is of much more impor- tance and deserves attention. The free list system has grown to be a gigantic nuisance, and the theatres suffer greatly by it. All that is said in the letter of deadheads, ’ NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1877.-TRIPLF SHEET. spondent paints the evil in colors which need no darker tint. But it appears to us that all our managers fail to see the real remedy, which is not to be found in decis- ions by the courts in single instances, but in the action of managers themselves. Why should not they combine to suppress the intolerable evil of which they continually complain? Why do not they abolish the free list system in tolo and put the axe to the root of the tree? Then they would not be required to lop off the ever renewed fruits; for as soon as all persons are required to pay for admission black- mailing and forgery wonld cease. With the practice of giving free passes to billboard posters, storekeepers, and the distribution of tickets to fill the house we have nothing to do. That is the busi- ness of the theatres, and we suggest that it might be better if they should wash their dirty linen in private. If they are willing to submit they must also endure. Tho same truth applies to the freedom extended to the press. All the leading newspapers of this city have long been opposed to the sys- tem und would be glad to have it abolished, and no respectable journal permits its at- tachés to beg for tickets. Our advice to the managers is, therefore, that they should combine for the annihilation of the free list system, and so place the theatres, the press and thewhole public in their proper rela- tions. ‘Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.” Inspiration Vindicated. We invite the thoughtful attention of the honest sceptic to the thoroughness with which recent occurrences have established the literal accuracy of the inspired apostle’s saying, ‘Lhe law was made for sinners.” It is not only possible but very probable that Paul did not intend that the significance of the passage should be what it unavoidably seems just now, but tho letter of the expres- sion is nevertheless fully sustained. There is the case of the Northampton Bank robbers, who hope to save themselves through the law which they have offended ; the notori- ous ‘John Garabaldi” is being earnestly looked out for in asimilar manner ; the Whis- key Ring believe the law is doing far better by them than it is by the community, and a host of minor cases swell tho list. Looking backward at the records of courts of all degrees, the respectable citizen is lack- ing in spirit and the impulse to take the best possible care of himself if he does not find himself inclined to rob a bank, run a gambling house or killa man, for the sim- ple satisfuction of feeling how handsomely the law can be made to protect the criminal. After contemplating the quoted passage in this aspect, however, an agonizing doubt occurs as to the authenticity of that other saying, ‘The letter killeth.” Perhaps it does; but in New York its principal victims are the hopes of the virtuous. Were it lit- erally in operation there would be less killing done by the wicked. —<—$ PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Waters will paint Whitman. Gontie-spring gots up and dusts, Have you decided to take that house? Moody 18 very egotistical and ungrammatical, Senator Boutwell will practise law in Boston. The first fly has come. He nas been caught out, Joo Coburn is not likely to be Secretary of War. Ico will bo cheap next summer, unless Talmage molts it. Washington cannot support s considerable morning paper. England isto have a gymnasium for every military station. Springer, of Ilinols, is like a trap that snaps and lets tho rat go. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe will go to Europe with her daughter Maud, Tom Murphy is the man who led General Grant into financial trouble. Senator McCreery has black hair in tufts alongside his big bad head, Protessor Marsh, of Yale, is receiving plenty of pipes from Indian chiels, Vice President Whecler seems a bit self-conscious and over important, The New York correspondent of the out-of-town newspapers knows everything. ‘The Pitesburg (Pa.) Commercial and Gasette, both good papers, have consolidated. Judge Devens, the newly appointed Attorney Gene- ral, started for Wash‘ngton last night, Chicago, the most American of American cities, should bo represented in Congress by a gentioman. The original name of potatoes was *‘batatas,’? That ig ns batatas the namo of a Chicago base bail nine, If thore is a change in the techuic of parties it will be possible for many old republicans to become demo- crats. Signor Operts has written an opera on the subject of “Dan'l Drace, biackamith,’? Must it not be played on the hammer-clavier, Mr. R. W. C. Mitchell, formeriyastenographer to the Alabama Claims Court, has been commended by the New York delegation for stenographic secretary to President Hayes; and the New York delegation shows good sense. “Farmer”—No; the telephone was uot discovered by the weather prophet of the Heraup, It wus ine vented by the mother-in-law of a Massachusetts edi- tor, whom she wanted to keep in communication with so that she could make music for him wherever he goes. LITERARY CHAT. ” Tho autborsbip of the new novel ‘All tor Her’ is attributed to a prominent clergyman of this city. After a careful reading we are inclined to attribute it to a well known New York journalist, The novels of Ernest Daudet are all to be translated and published by Estes & Lauriat, whose edition, “gidonie,” has had a great ran, A new history ot Cambridge, Masa, by Lucius R, Paige, 8 in the press of Hurd & Houghton. Curtis Guild, of the Boston Commercial Bulletin, whose volume of travels, “Over the Ocean,” is per- haps the brightest and best transcontinental book yet written, has a new volume in Lee & Shepard's press, entitled “Abroad Again.” Harvard College Library now has 200,000 volumes. A splendidly illustrared book on Venice, by Charles Yriarte, is being iseued ta Paris in a series of num- bers. Jsrnest Daudet's latest book is entitied, ‘Henriette; Fragments du Journal du Marquis de Boisguernier.”’ John Ruskin’s monthly letters to the workmen and Jaborers of Great Britain have rexched the seventy- fourth number, In it he tells his readers;—""You must Joarn the Lord's Prayer and pray it; if you would not be fed with stones by a father devil you must ask for bread {rom a Father God,’’ Mr. Hepworth Dixon’s new novel, ‘Diana, Lady Lyle,” 1s pronounced by the London Athenqum un- doubtedly original. It is a roaming story, the scene being laid in Virginia, New York, Canada, London, Yorkshire, France, Egypt, tne Kast and the Southern Seus. Michel Chevalier has published a fresh pamphlet on the silver question—"La Nouvelle Dépréciauion do VArgeut.” Mr. John Burroughs, whose bright and breezy vol- umes, ‘Winter Sunshine’ and ‘Wake Rovin,’’ have charmed many readers, bas in Hurd & Houghtou’s press a now buok called ‘Birds and Poets, with Ocher Papers." blackmailers, impostors and forgers is no doubt substantially true, and our corre. ‘The second volume of Mr, Pike's “History of Crime | the Porte, even for a short time. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. RUSSIA AND EUROPE Still Speculating on Muscovite Inténe tions in the East. IGNATIEFR’S = TOUR = THROUGH = EURO; Russia Accused of Instigating Insurrece tion in Turkey. FROUDE AND GLADSTONE Trouble in the English Sugar Trade—A Papal Consistory. [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Loxpow, March 8, 1877. Public attention bere is still directed to the move: ments of General Ignatieff, the Russian envoy to the great Powers, and the London journals and their correspondents in the European capitals are still speculating on the object of his mission. Notwith- standing the recent talk about Russia’s wish to with- draw from the position she had assumed toward Tur. key, and to offer the Sultan a year’s grace for the carrying out the proposed reforms, there is still an uneasy feeling hero, and # vague belief that, atter all, Russia may be only throwing dust in our eyes to gain time It would not be politic for Russia to go to war with Turkey without knowing exactly what action the otnor great Powers would be likely to take in tho emergency, and she can- not afford to shock the moral sense of Europe by a too Precipitate deciaration of war without having first apparently exhausted every possible chance of a peacts ful solution of the Eastern question, RUSSIA’S STANDING IN BUROPE, It is apparent to all who have watched the progress of events during the past year that Russia, through her sxilful diplomacy, has succeeded in raising her standing immensely as one of the Powers of Europe, and that she now 0c cupies a position and yields an influence in European politics that she could scarcely have hoped for after the close of the Crimean war. Russian diplomacy has ever been inscrutablo and fare reaching, and the consciousness that all her present protessions and all her recent action have been intended simply as a means of bringing about such a state of things as would ex- actly suit her projects, has doubticss much to do with the uncertainty which prevails regarding her policy and the anxiety with which General Ignaticf’s mover ments are watched. URGING ENGLANQ TO REPLY. A despatch from Vienna says:—The Political Corre spondence of this city publishes a letter from St, Peters. burg stating that the Chancellor of the Empire, Prince Gortschakof, has istructed Count Schouvalof, the Russian Minister to Great Britain, to urge the British Cabinet to reply to the Russian circuiar of the Sist of January last. Count Schouvaloff is simultaneously instructed to explain Russia’s views ag follows :—! er of the Powers, and especially Eng- land, is to consider the treaty of 1856 as binding, not- withstanding the Porte’s rejection ot the decisions of the Conference, or Russia will regard the Porte’s rights derived from the treaty as annulled. RUSSIA'S POSITION In the first case, Russia claims that the Powers must co-operate to briug about the Porte’s complete accept- ance of the resolutions in the original form in which they were adopted at the preliminary confer. ences at Coustantinople, and thus every moans be afforded Russia of avoiding warlike compli- cations. It, however, the signitary Powers still remain inactive Russia will consider that they renounce, insisting upon the obligations of Tur- key and also Turkish rights, Russia wiil, accordingly, declare the treaty of Paris null and void as affecting herself, and reserve to herself the right of independent action, Similar instructious have been sent the Ruse sian Ambassadors at Vienna, Berlin, Paris and Rome. RUSSIA WILL NOT DRAW BACK, The Journal de St. Petersbourg, alluding to reports in the foreign pross concerning Russia’s policy, partice ularly the rumor that Russia, remembering tho failure of the Gonference, will draw back, says such a course 1s Impossible as the Conference was nota solution of the Eastern question. The Powers must endeavor to obtain those guarantees for the amelioration of the condition of the Christian subjects of the Porte, on the necessity of which they agreed, their views only differing regarding the means of obtaining them. The first object of Russia is to prevent the continuance of the present undecided po- titical situation, and this is imperatively necossary, ‘The Golos calls the attoution of the Porte to tho forma- tion of Russian army corps, and points out that although this 18 pot a general mobilization, it is sully an important action. ENGLISH DISAPPROVAL OF RUSSIAN POLICY. The English press is nearly unanimous in disap. provai of the project which is Velieved to be tho basi¢ of General Ignatief’s mission The prevailing senti ment 14 that 1t would bo unwigo to purchase tho dee mobilization of the Raxsian army by a practical sur, render of tho Treaty of Paris and the concession to Russia of a future right to establish a protectorate over Turkey’s European provinces, Even if Turkey were able to work out satisfactory reforms, Russia or Rus sian societies would not give ber the opportunity to do 80. GENERAL IGNATIEFF’S MISSION. A despatch from Berlin says:—General Ignatieff throughout his stay here has in conversation with diplomats held out strong hopes of a peaceable solution, and Intimated the willingness of Rus: to disarm as soon a8 @ means of escape have been found out of the present dilemma, His principal secretary, Princo Tzerteleff, has in pri- vate conversation stated war to be inevitable, and that the object of his chiei’s mission is to obtain for Russie authority from the Powers to intervene in Turkey. DONS RUSSIA MEAN WAR? “Russia,” says Prince Tzortelef, “is still continuing her preparations for war. The theatre of war will be circumseribed and localized. Parts have been allot- ted to the States surrounding Turkey who are to join in the ight as the allies of Russia.” The Prince is reported to have stated that the proposal of aterm of grace to be granted to the Porte is wholly inadmissi- vie. The position of the Christians in Turkey is too precarious for Russia to trust them to the mercy of Thero is a gradual dissolution in progress in Turkey, but Russia cannot wait for that, Peace with Servia was intended to sate isfy Austria, WHAT THE SLAVS WANT, ‘The Slavs in Turkey aspire to no new political privi- leges, 10 No revolution in the organization of the State, but they claim and will not be denied security for their wives aud families. Tue Prince says:—It is impose sible to understand the suspicion entertained in Kage land, Russia bas abandoned her intention of carrying on the warin Asia, She has made sure of tho support of Greece and Roumanta, Greece wiil assist by organe izing Iresh insurrections, and Roumania is bound to take part openly with Russia,” 18 RUSSIA INSTIGATING INSURRECTION? in Evgland”’ has Just appeared in London, A corrospondent in Faris says he is assured thas