The New York Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1877, Page 6

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Gold opened at 10514 and de- clined to 105g. Government bonds were slightly lower, but at the close they were finn. Railroad bonds were irregular. Money con- ASSAULTING Potice Orricers continues to be quite an inexpensive amusement. The negro ruflian who knocked down and otherwise abused Captain McDounell yesterday was held to bail in the sum of five hundred dollars anly. Tue Vintuat Transren of the rapid transit fight to the Legislature by means of the Selkreg and Wagstaff bills enables tho people to in- dividualize their enemies and punish them by means of that occasional terror of evil-doers— the ballot box. Tus Mo..y Macciues have been inspired with new hope by the courts, the notorious Donohue having been reprieved upon a writ of Is there net enough of courage and ability in Pennsylvania to hang # single one of these scoundrels ? Tur Work or tHe Acrnt or Truancy, who is ny establishments where minors are cannot be teo vigorously prosecuted. There is a terrible significance in the fact of the youth and ignorance of a majority of the prison- ers with whom the police courts have to do, Tux Unton League came handsomely to the support of the President Jast night, and other associations inside the republican party will save themselves from dishonor by following its exam- ple. A y or clique which cannot be national in its fecling is worse than a faction—it is a dis- loyal mob. Tun New Jersey Lecisvaturr is after the striking railway engineers, with an excellent chance of reaching them. The engineers should be grateful ; for if the public ever takes upon itself the duty of punishing men who, to better their own affairs, rob whole trains full of people of time and peace, it will not be so merciful as the law. Tne Be ING OF ANOTHER dreary story of madhouse abuses appears in our columns to-day, However the case may finally result it seems already proved that in the essentials of personal care and sal the asylum is inferior to the howe, and the unavoidable deduction from this fact is that the attendants of the Flatbush Our Revorr of the Massachusetts legislative examination of the Spitz dog will not quiet the public apprehensions of harm from this beau- titul Arctic immigrant. One fatal case was tinue public, in which the dog was not mal—a fact which increases a hundred fold the possi- bilities of danger, while almost every one who defended tho dog admitted that he was given to biting. Tur Weatien.—A great storm raged through- ont yesterday in the region westward of the Alleghanies and extending from the Gulf north- easterly into Canada. In the Northwest and over the entire lake region heavy snow has Zallen, while at all points southward of the lakes, with the exception of in the New England States and Eastern Now York, rains have been general. Vho depression, as it approached the St. Law- rence Valley, shortencd considerably, having been in the forenoon quite clongated. High winds have encircled the storm centre, but areas of culm were frequent within the space embraced by tho isobar of thirty inches. ‘As the storm adyanced in a northeasterly dire tion the pressure at its centre decreased consi erably, attended by a decided increase of the | wind velocity. The quantity of rain that fell in the Ohio Valley yesterday cannot fail to pro- duce heavy freshets in that ri taries, and later in the Mississippi. | | sallauts Waver. There is no quality which commands so much respect fora public man as decision of character, especially if it be conjoined with a cool head and sound views. It is wonderful how space is cleared around a man and how impertinent opposition stands back as soon as‘it is found that he perfectly knows his own mind and adheres to it with inflexible determination. Mr. Hayes already begins to reap the advantage of his steadiness. He has only” to per- severe until it is seen that the fortress of his mind is bomb-proof, when the siege will be raised, never to be renewed ina similar form. Mr. Blaine has under- taken more than he can accomplish. It is the usual fate of his bold, dashing displays to fail of their object. His greatest theatrical coup was exhibited something more than a year ago, when his vaulting ambition made a desperate leap for the Cincinnati nomina- tion by on infuriate arraignment of the South. That desperate spring did not put him in the saddlo then, and as little will its repetition make him tho leader of the Senate now. .The poisoned shafts which he has aimed at President Hayes will not reach their destination, because, to borrow a phrase from a great orator, ‘‘there was not, as it happened, quite strength enough in the bow to bring them to their mark.” This is the ordinary fortune of Mr. Blaine’s arrows, which he is so careful to dip in venom—there is not strength enougb in his bow to carry them quite to the mark. This disappointed demagogue cherishes an ignoble grudge against President Hayes for bearing off the prize at Cincinnati and for repudiating Blaine’s rancor toward the South in his letter of acceptance, This ungenerons grudge and a demagogue’s ambition to overtop and eclipse Conkling and Morton as the republican leader of the Senate account for the extraordinary dis- play of virulence, bumptiousness, bad tem- per and bad manners with which he has been regaling the Senate. It isa new ex- hibition of the old “vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on t’other side.” We hope Senator Conkling will now as- sume the position of leadership which naturally belongs to him, and that he will lay, not Mr. Hayes, but the country, under obligations by coming forward as the cham- | pion of a policy which is right in itself and which the people of the United States stand ready to indorse. ‘This is a great opportunity for a statesman of Mr. Conkling’s abilities, If he has per- sonal grievances of any kind he must prac- tise magnanimity, or at least philosophy, and forget them. There is nothing which would so well become him as to present a noble contrast to the vulgar personal ani- mosities of Senator Blaine. The country will appreciate and applaud a statesman who, in a spirit of generous self-abnegation, is blind to every minor consideration and devotes himself to the public interest. There is no way in which Senator Conkling could so strengthen himself in the confi- dence and admiration of the country as by giving the vigorous support of his great fac- ulties to the wise policy of the President. It is in his power to bear away the chief share of the honor next to that which be- longs to the President himself. President Hayes is giving authentic proofs that he is quite in earnest in his determina- tion to uproot abuses and put the govern- ment on a new course. He has taken upon himself a formidable task, requiring more courage, firmness and persistence than were ever needed by any former President. Opposition was to have been expected, as a matter of course, It is not in the nature of demagogyes and spoilsmen to stand still and see their nest broken up without raising agreat commotion. It is fortunate for President Hayes that they meet him on the frontier afid openly oppose his advance, in- stead of waiting and trying to circumvent and undermine him by insidious attacks in the rear. ‘The effect of this open, undisguised war will be to rally the country around the President and give him an energetic sup- port at the outset. His opponents have done him an unintended service, the great- est service possible, by advertising to all the world that the spoils system is in dan- ger, that the bloody shirt policy is in dan- ger, that the administration will not shelter corruptionists—in short, that President Hayes was thoroughly sincere in the pro- fessions which he made in his letter of acceptance. They were liable to be’ under- stood as an electioneering juggle, like other documents of the kind; and had they been false and hollow this great outcry wonld not have been raised. Blaine, Cameron & Co. have given the new President the best certificate ot character which men of their stamp could give to anybody. ‘Their hostility is a badge of merit. They would not have made this violent war on the President if they had not discovered that he is not one of their sort. We congratulate him on their vehement anger and prompt opposition. They know where they are hurt and who has hurt them. The way these unclean birds flop and flutter | is a splendid proof of the skill of the marks- man. Nothing could have done so mach to establish President Hayes in the good opinion of the country. It is now plain to everybody that he does not belong to their set. Senator Conkling’s judicious and dis- criminating remarks on the case of Kellogg yesterday give us great hopes that he will come forth boldly as the champion of the President. He can easily riddle the op- posing arguments to shreds if he chooses. We do not see how he could render a greater service to the country. Even at the risk of disrupting the republican party we think it the duty of Mr. Conkling to stand by the President, If Mr. Hayes is subdued the republican party will not be worth saving. nd its tribu- | It is on the high road to ruin if the Blaines, The Alle- the Camerons and the Chandlers get the ghany range governed the divectionof the storm's | upper hand. Its only chance of salvation | advance ag far north as Pittsburg. We may therefore, look for # liberal share of its fa during this morning in this ¢ We have rs lies in a cordial adoption of the policy of the new President and of a regen- erating republican party. Mr. Conkling | warned shipmasters to Oe oY hh Pen is the natural and predestined leader, un- and we hopo they will heed the notice. Intense | 1.4.9 blindly throws away a magnificent oold follows the storm from the westward, and we will experience » rapidly falling pon ie with | policy of the President, which the country if the President him- | has any chance to be recognized as Governor. New York when it passes our meridian. bs and cloudy, possibly followed by, ale. is certain to indorse opportunity. His chief rivals, Blaine and Morton, are hostile to the excellent self stands firm; and if Mr. Conkling comes to the rescue and gives it the vigorous sup- port of his peerless talents and eloquence he will not only doa great service to the country, but will dwarf all his envious, aspiring rivals. He ought to have the sa- gacity to see that the political old clothes cast off by President Grant previous to his retirement will be very much out of date in- deed four years hence, and that a« statesman of his stature and dimensions cannot afford to put them on, The coun- try demands that the policy of President Hayes be sustained. Its adoption may save, but its rejection will inevitably destroy the republican party. Now is the time for the most skilful pilot to take the helm. ‘The country will rally around Hayes as it rallied around Lincoln in 1861. The issue then was national life ; the issue now is national | regeneration. The pride of New York in its great Senator would be gratified beyond expression at seeing him take the lead which properly belongs to him in this emergency. Whether the republican party is disrupted or redeemed there can be no hazard to him if he boldly asserts his claim to leadership in this important crisis. Who is the Criminal? Several dead bodies, many persons severely injured and a number of desolated homes are the partial results of a single cry of ‘Fire !” in St. Francis Xavier's Church last night. The alarm was utterly without cause ; the trouble it has occasioned is almost without end. Whether the cry was raised from fright or from viciousness the person.who uttered it should be searched for as diligently as if he were a murderer, and should be made by the law a terrible example to ras- eals and to persons with uncontrollable | tongues. The cry of “Fire!” seems to be always on the lips of some peopie, and awaits only the slightest cause for excite- ment to bring it forth. Nothing could have been less called for in a church in which | even an actual fire would have occasioned but slight risk, and no person with a knowledge of recent terrible events could, unless vicious or otherwise dangerous to the community, have created such an alarm, This new and terrible calamity should impress upon every one the necessity for self-control in times of alarm. Excepting | theatres, and seldom even in them, there are no public buildings in which an au- dience is in imminent danger in case of actual fire. Had either entire side of St. Francis Xavier's Church been in flames last night the whole congregation could have made safe and speedy exit had even half n dozen persons exhibited ordinary sense, It is the duty of men and women ot character to assume authority on all occa- sions of alarm, and-by word and act prevent the timid and the excited from ruling only toruin. The wise and prudent should take warning from the calamity, which might have been so ensily avoided, and prepare themselves for individual action in cases where official control is not exerted. Big Indians. Simon, the Big Indian of the Winnebagoes, was the man who arose at the grand pow- wow and declared himself not satisfied with the nominations for the Cabinet and moved that they be referred. This was right, tor it is necessary in all cases that the Big Indians should be satisfied. Many moons since it was proposed that a very capable man named Dana should be sent to London. In that case also the Winnebago heart was heavy. Simon had a Little Indian of his own that ho wanted to put intothe Cabinet. In order to get him in some one must go out. There was a man who was content to go out if he could go to London; but he could not go to London if Dana went. Vheretore fn enormous row was made in the Senate that seemed to start from superior virtyp and respect for copy- right law, but which, in fact, started from the Little Indian of the Winnebagoes. In that campaign the Winnebagoes won— Dana did not gé to London and Pierre- pont did; Taft went into Pierrepont's place and Don Cameron into Taft's. With the tenacity of his race he wishes to remain there. Consequently the Winnebagoes are once more in war paint. Will they win this time? Perhaps not. And yet why should they not? It is true that the coun- try likes the Cabinet as Hayes has made it. It is abundantly satisfactory to the Amer- ican people. But what are the American people when the big and little Indians of the Winnebagoes wanta place? Let the American people stand aside. If they don’t stand aside for the Winnebagoes who will? There is another Big Indian in the path who wants one of these places in the Cabinet for a person named Frye. This Indian is Mulligan's Mr. Blaine. He has in his time raised many scalps, but he will find that Hayes’ hair is very short. acetate aaah i Hayes to Packard. The short despatch from our correspond- ent at New Orleans will attract attention. Its purport is that the Presiaent telegraphed yesterday to Packard offering him the Col- lectorship of the Port on condition that he would step down and out as a claimant to gubernatorial honors, Packard is reported to have replied that he would be Governor or nothing. We rather like this spirited answer, but we are better pleased with the evidence the President's despatch affords that he has made up his mind that Packard has no recognizable claim to the Governorship. Most assuredly President Hayes would not have made such an offer to Packard to ‘let him down easy” if he were not convinced that Packard has no valid title to the office which he now pretends tohold. Packard has doubtless been seduced by Blaine's prepos- terous splurge and his own wishes. Blajne cannot help him. If the President sent him such o despatch as our New Orleans correspondent describes his case is past praying for. The offer ot the Collector- ship is a significant rejection of his guber- natorial claims. Packard is probably cred- ulons enough to expect that Blaine and the bull-dozers will triumph over and cow the President. We imagine he will get some new light on this point before the week ends, ‘he action of the President shows that he is as considerate and conciliatory as he is firm and resolute ; but after such a despatch Packard is a fool if he thinks he NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. HERALD The President Stands Firm—His As- ‘The Disasters Near Cape Race. Happily it is seldom that we are called on to record disasters at sea which are the cen- tres of such melancholy mystery as those that are now known to have overtaken two steamers of the Gromwell line. It és not that the vessels have been lost, for that mis- fortune has oceurred to many others, even during the first two months of the present — year, or that many lives were sacrificed, for such has been the fate of the bravest and best seamen. But, like the ship leaving port and disappearing forever from human ken, the George Washington and her) sister ship, the George Cromwell, vanish in the depths of the ocean and leave no trace except the dismembered corpses of some of their passengers and crews. How thoy met their fate will never be known. | The marks of burning or sealding om the | bodies of the lost trom the George Washing- ton would indicate that either the vessel foundered and exploded her boilers when | going down, or burst them while on her voyage. If she struck on Mistaken Point while going at fall speed the shock may have caused the boilers to explode and com | plete her destruction. The theory that one or both vessels may have been destroyed by a Thomassen plot is really too dreadful for contempla'iou. It could only happen if some fiend was in- censed against the steamship company and sacrificed a large number of innocent per sons in accomplishing his diabolical re- | venge. Anyhow, there are a sufficient num- ber of natural causes for both disasters to account for them as being among the casual: ties of coast navigation, In the case of both vessels the weather was stormy, the littoral currents strong and setting toward the shore, and the coast perhaps the most dan- gerous on the American continent. The position of Cape Race, although well known to mariners, is such that it is liable to be frequently surrounded by fogs and the storms that prevail in that re- gion. The very name “Mistaken Point,” given to the headland at the scene of the first disaster, implies that it has been many times a cause of shipwreck, and | it does not even need the list of disasters which we print to-day in our correspond- ence from St. Johns to impress us with a belief in its dangerous character. So far the Hxraxp has spared no pains in present- ing all the facts connected with these dread- ful shipwrecks. We furnish our readers to- day with a sketch of the scene of the loss of the George Washington, prepared on the spot by our special artist. It conveys in a striking manner the appearance of the storm-lashed coast line and the gloomy, pre- cipitous cliffs that surround the gulch whereif the bodies were found. The de- scription accompanying the sketch leaves nothing to be desired by the reader. Edward Atkinson on Specie Pay- ments. We print a copious synopsis of a lecture delivered before the Free ‘'rade Club of Bos- ton last evening on the question of specie payments and the means and methods of resumption. Mr. Atkinson is no mere theorist, but one of the foremost business men of Massachusetts. He has long been the directing head of one of the largest manufacturing establishments of the State. He is an acute thinker as well os an able man of business, and with the single exception of Senator Sherman—Secretary Sherman we must hereafter call him, as he was confirmed yesterday—Mr. Atkinson has perhaps dsvoted more atten- tion and study to our monetary difficulties than any other man in the country. Mr. Atkinson thinks it practicable to return to the specie basis at once under existing laws, without further legislation. He is careful, however, to make a distinction be- tween the specie basis and specie payments, Specie payments, that is, the actual redemp- tion of our paper ourrency on demand at the pleasure of the holder, is obviously im- possible until the Treasury and the banks shall have accumulated ample coin reserves. This will require time. But the legal tender notes, and with them the bank notes, may easily be brought to par without actual redemption, like the notes of the Bank of France for the last three years, This would give us all the substantial advantages of the specie standard. If our currency can be brought to par, and maintained steadily at par, the subsequent part of the problem will be easily solved. We commend the views of Mr. Atkinson to the new Secretary of the Treasury. Cremating the City Garbage. Weare glad to notice that at lenst one member of the Common Council is gifted with common sense, and is willing to inves- tigate and adopt the Hznatp’s plan for dis- posing of the city garbage by cremation. The resolution introduced yesterday by Alderman Simonson, requesting Mayor Ely to consult the Health Board on the crema- tion question, did not, however, escape the keen-scented members of the majority, who, like turkey buzzards, are ever on the look- out for garbage., It was referred to the Police Board, but for what purpose no one but an Alderman can tell, Although the Street Cleaning Bureau of the Police De- partment established rules for the separa- tion of ashes and garbage it was the first to break them through its own employés, and the most abominable nuisances were created in the centre of the city when tho foul mixture was sold by the bureau to grade strects and sunken lots. Now, however, our Aldermen refer the question of remedying the evil that srises from a breach of the law to the law breakers themselves, and we are expected to await in patience the decision of that august body. ‘The truth is that the Al- dermen suspect that there are “bones” in the city garbage, and that it would be a burning shame to be in a hurry to cremate it. We hope that the people will not fail to an- ticipate our “lightning” city legislators in this matter of cremating the garbage. By following out the instructions recently pub- lished in the Hxnatp, and burning in the stoves and ranges every particle of com- bustible refuse, garbage cremation will be in successful operation in New York before the Police Board decides on its merits or the | service in the war, and when it was over | pets, satisfied with the approval of their General Devens. Presidents have often nominated for Cabinet positions men that the whole coun- try did not know, and it has commonly turned ont in such cases that the men were persons with whom the country did not greatly care to improve its acquaintance. Bat the nomination by President Hayes of the gentleman whose pame is printed above is & surprise of just the other kind. It might, in feet, be called an ideal appoint- ment in one important aspect. The people will never believe, they cannot believe, that the conspicuous and well known politicians of any party are the men most fit to fill great offices, and they always anticipate that the President will discover new men who are better types of the genius and culture and capacity of the nation. Commonly, as we have said, they are disap- pointed in this; for Presidents have gone out of the list of conspicuous politicians hitherto only to find failures. But Devens will not fail. His gallantry as the comman- der of the Fifteenth Massachusetts at Ball's Bluff; his splendid reeord as the commander of the famous old Second brigade in the Biue division of the Sixth corps, conjoined with his success as a capable lawyer, attest that he possesses all the kinds of talent necessary as an administrative officer. His appointment is a conspicuous recognition by Hayes of the kind of officer of which Hayes himself was a type—the quiet, cultured, brave and capable men who did splendid went home withoat any flourish of tram- consciences. Mayes in Wall Street. By the resolutions and short speeches of the meeting held yesterday afternoon in front of the Sub Treasury, the politicians who have any curiosity on the subject may | discover that President Hayes in his words and his acts has gauged the sentiment of the country very happily and is in sympathy with it, and that any attempt to obstruct that policy for the sake of foisting into the Cabinet men not wanted there will provoke an amount of public indignation that the | politicians will not care to face, The spon- taneous response of the people to what the | President has said; their instant recogni- tion that the names in the Cabinet are a guarantee that he means to do what he has promised, if it is within the limits of politi- cal possibility, have already rallied in sup- | port of the new President a moral force of | public opinion that extends beyond the | limits of the republican party, and the attempt to subordinate the good purposes | of national policy to mere office hunting | intrigues will not do just now. Wall street only leads in a protest which will be reit- erated, if necessary, by every other street in the United States, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Hayes does not smoke. Oliver Ames is very Wl. Mr. Patti says he woke up the wrong woman, The new teiephone will carry the news to Mary. At Los Angeles, Cal., limes are routing by the ton, ‘The Spitz and Bergh do vot get along weil together, Herschel V. Johnson, of Georgia, ts a practising physician. Millais’ last picture, a Scotch river scene, brought him $15,000, Senator Spencer, of Alabama, seems to be afllicted with spiral McGinals, “ys, T. E.°—Your suggestion, like some cases of vaccinaation, docsn’t take, ‘Tom Fiteb, who was the Tom Marshall of Sao Fran- cisco, hus gone to live in Arizona, Some of the hillsides of California are covered with wild flowers and some with bammers, Protessor Jubn Fiske, the philosopher of Barvard, is delivering a course of Iectures on ‘Our Aryan Ances- tors.’? It was Senator Spencer who asked Vionie Ream where hs could buy a good statue of the mival of Venus. Signor £. Marzo, the organist of St. Agnes’ church, in East Forty-third street, sailed for Italy yesterday, Raw-chester Democrat:—‘“The best telephone we know of is a venerable maiden lady who goes around drinking tea.’” Easton (Pa) has burned Justice Bradley tn efigy. The Justico thinks he does uot care an f-i-g whether be was burned or not, From the way that San Francisco papers speak of the water the people of that city drink one would think that they were eating chowd ‘The verse which President Ha; the oath was the cleventh of the 118th psalm “They compassed me about—yea, they compassed mo about; but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.’’ Norristown Herald:—*'Robocca Anderson is sald to be the oldest ‘old maid’ in the United States, Sho is 112 years of age, and her chances of ever getting a husband aro uot much better than Tilden’s for getting a wile.” St. Louis Republican:—"It is belteved that the Naw Youk Hxkap man secking the origin of the smoke in the Florida swamps 18 a direct descendant of Annanias, It he isn’t, he’s a great journalist, His snake stories are beauties.”” In a New Jersey house the other morning there was an echo like that ofa hand gently mick ng a boy with pain, and another echo which spoke of a mouth stretched from ear to car and iwo legs paddling we air, When the fond mother was asked why this was thus sho simply replied that she wag teaching bor dar- ling the mysteries of the telephone, Evening Telegram:—“‘The visit of Secretary Jobn Sherman to Jay Gould in this city Jast week is preity well authenticated and needs explanation, The tn- ternal improvement policy avowed in the President's inaugural address cannot fail to bring the adminis. tration into relations which the public will do weil to watch jealously. Kternaf vigilance is necessary | against all railroad men, "* Sydney Smith once wont tocognite to Devilie, the phrenologist, to have his head examined. **T'hus geu- tleman’s case,” satd Deville, “8 clear enough. Mins faculties are those of a naturalist, and 1 see that be gratifies them, This geati is always happy | among his collections of birds and fishes.” “xir,"" | said Smith, turning round apon him solemnly, with wideopen eyes, ‘‘I dontt know a fish from a bird.” LITERARY CHIT-CHAT, | * 1, L. Hinton & Co.’s monthly journal, The Library | Table, will become a weekly literury review ai paper with the April number, and will be edi Porter C. Bliss, A general catalogue of French publications, from | 1865 to 1875, by Otto Lorenz, 1s appearing in Paris in two volumes, ‘Yhomas Frost's historical work, “The Secret Socie- ties of the European Revolution, 1776 to 1876," has appeared in London In two volumes, A new book on the Dead Sea, containing the results of the French geological exploration, written by M. Lattet, is just out in Paris. Mr, Edward A. Freeman’s prolific pen will shortly give birth toa small voiume entitied “Tne Ottoman Power 1m Europe.”” ‘Tho removal of Clespatra’s needle from Alexandria | to England ts giving occasion to much literature on the | history and statistics of obolisks aud monuments, ‘An tlustrated edition of that highly intere: popular book of the Baron Hubne and Aldermen discover whether ‘there's any- thing in it.’’ TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE DRIFT OF THE CLOUDS. Ignatieff Within Ten Hours of London. HOPES FOR INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT ————E [2¥ caBLE TO THE HERALD.] « Loxpoy, March 9, 1877. Soon after the arrival of Gencra! Ignatieff in Paris, yesterday morning, be bad a conference with Count Schouvaloff and an interview with the Duke Decazes, It ts authoritatively stated that General Ignatieff, tn conversations with foreign statesmen, will demon- strate that Ruvsia aims, not at pursuing a separate Eastern policy, but at obtaining declarations trom the Powers that it is the Porto’s duty to execute the Conference program: 4 unless the Porte tulfils the duty any European Powor will be at liberty to claim its fulf!ment, The 7'imes’ despatch from Berlin states that Prince Gortschakoff will soon hand over the direction of foreign affairs to Privy Councillor Valuyeff or General Ignatieff. WHAT RUSSIA 13 DOIXG, A Viewna correspondent explains that the organiza- tien ye new Russian army corps is not equivalent to mobilization,g but merely preparatory to it. Such organization cntalls the appointment of the different staffs and preparation of all the stores required for taking the field, The cost will be heavy, so it may be supposed, with somo reason, that Ruesia does not consider it improbable that sho may eventually be obliged to mobilize these now corps. Their formation, without being cause for immediate alarm, is nota reassuring symptom for the future, The weather on ‘the borders of Roumania and Bessarabia bas been such os ts almost certain to keop the roada impassable for another month, The majority of the Russian officers attached to tho Servian regolars and volunteers have been discharged by the Servian War Department, as their services are xo longer required, WHEN WILL ENGLAND REPLY. In the House of Commons yesterday afternoon Mr. Bourke, Under Secretary for the Foroiga Department, in reply question by Sir Charles Dilke, said Kogland as yet bad not sent a reply to the Russian pote, A reply was intended to have beon sorwarded last week, bat, owing to Kussia's request to await a further Communication, it was deferred, The further communication has not yet been received. THE “TICKLISH TREATY OF PARIS”? The Times ecdiuorialiy modifics its opinion about surrendering the Treaty of Paris, It argues that treaties are only coexistent with the cesentiat conditions under which they | ate framed. Lord Derby denies the treaty obli- of the Powers to defeod Turkey. Their ity and independenco or that of France, Gerny taly, or Russia herself exists without the sanction of asolefin treaty. But Lord Derby bas declared that Turkey cannot expect help from England, Thus the final result of the Treaty of Paris is a superfivons affirmation of a right which we do not intend to use. TURRET AND WER COLONIES, The Khedive of Egypt bas promised to place $0,000 troops and four men-ol-war st the disposal ot the Sultan im the event of war ‘Teregrams from Ragusa and Cettioje represent that the imsurrectioé in Herzegovina is again becoming serious because of Turkish oppression, THK MONTENEGRIN ENVOYS. The Montenogria and Turkish representatives now im Constautinople conferred again on Thursday, Both sides presented their views: in detail, ‘There will be avother meeting to-morrow, The correspondent adds:—‘“l understand the Montenegrins and the Porte aro udable to agree, The Mculty is «ad to be serious, Its exact newwre is unkoown. An earlier telegram says the Montenegrins assert that their demands have already been reduced toa minimum. The Porte pronounces them exaggerated and impracticable. It ‘6 thought bkely, however, that tho Montonegrins will ultimately waive their claims to Nicsica and the fortified isiands on Lake Scutari, and the Porte will make arrangements to cede Spizza. THY GREEK MINISTRY KNOCKED INTO PI, A despatch irom Athens says the Mintatry bas ree signed in consequence of the vote of censure passed upon it by the Chamber for granting an illegal pen- sion, The King bas sammoned M. B Deligeorgis to form a new Cabinet ANGLO-AMRRICAN COPTRIGHT, ‘The Copyright Commission will shortly adjourn over the Euster bohdays preparatory to considering its ree port, Mr. Daldy, whose knowledge of the question bas been of groat advantage im elucidating points of miernational practice, will visit che United States after the adjourument of the present sittiug. Two repro, sentatives of American publishing houses have ap. peared betore the commission. Several English authors have been examined and a fow of the leading London publishers, ‘Ibo greatest help which tho commission can hope fur from tb ited States," saya the Standard, ‘must, under the prescat condition of things, come trem tho Association of American Authors." CAPTAIN MARES CENSURED, The Sanitary Record says:—"'Tho preliminary report of the committee appointed Lo tuvestigate the outoreak of scurvy in the late Arctic expedition bas been trana- mitted to the Admiralty, The commitioe is unani+ mous that the outbrovk was due to the omission of lime juice from the sledge parties’ rations, and that Captain Nares had not suflicient reasons for departing from tho instructions of the Medical Department for supplying lime juice to sleage parties, In bis evidence before the committee Captain Nares accepted the entire responsibility for the course adopted, cided not to send lime juree on account of the of carrying and meting it, but on any futare oxpedi- tion he would certatuly eo modify arrangoments as to permit sending it." THR Paral sme It is believed that the Pops at the approaching Con- sistory at Komo wil! read encyeucal upon the cop. dition of the Charca in Europe and America, The Frauctsoans are pressing the claims for the cagoniza- tion of Columbus. TUK FATAL DUBL, The duel in which the Marquis de Comptegne was killed, at Cairo, was coused by M. Moyer, a person cuonected with the Kgyptian Geographical Society. He accused (he Marquis of having supplanted the Ger. man geographer, Sebweinlurt, in the secrotaryship of that society, Durneg altercation Shieh lolowed Meyer struck the Marq A challenge Was seot and accepted, and the duel was foaght wilh the fesult pre- viously reportea. TERRIBLE COLLIERY RXPLORON, 0 explosion took place today tn the Worcester A | colliery, near Swaneea, All the tminers were at work he time, The pumber lost ts not yot known, Six- | teen bodies have already been taken out. It us thoughe that mx more are in the pi THE ROOLOO IRLARO®, A despatch from Madrid says the Engliah and Ger man Mivisiers Will present to morrow loriber daims tor liberty Of trade with the Suvioe Islands seearsntens ve fue " st. . It ts ramored aris that the Prince Impertal about (o issue a manifesto io the Freack peopie, ” -* RACING IN ENGLAND, THE SECOND DAY OF THE CROYDON ManCH MEETING—A STEEPLECHASE WALKED OVER BY¥ SPECTRE, Loxpox, Mareb 8, 18TT. At the Croydoo March meeting today the race tor the United Kingdom (rand Haedieap Steeplecbase re sulted ia a wolk over for Specie, The following a suman The United Xincdom Grand Handicap Steeplechase of 20 s9Va. each, Je. (1B Case Of acceptance), With U0 sows, added; ony Winer OL & Jechase, Vara 100 sovs., aller the pubtication of hte to carry 7 Ws, ext winner of the Invernaveual Hurdle race a this meeting to carry 1Otbe extra, but Bo beeps the owner of the second heres to re- ovive 40 sova out of the stakes, and the third to save tour du Monde,”’ bas beon bronght out at Pari sumptuous quarto, “ bis stake; about four miles (27 sues.) Mr. J. B. Biddoll’s Spectre, aged. ......sceeeeee We & ~~