The New York Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1877, Page 8

'W YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. MES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. business, news letters or telegraphic despatches mast ‘New Yore Huratn. rs and packages shouid be properly se: cted communications will not be retarn 4. nae Pecans HIA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH INDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO: 48 FLEET STREET. PAKIS OFFICE—AVENCE DE L'OPERA. NAP! OFFICE—NO. 7 STRADA PACE. ‘Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and on the same terms us in Now York. AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. ON SQUARE THEATRE—Tue Danicurrrs. BW YORK AQUARI GLE THEATRE—Ainx ERMANIA THEATRE—Dirse MAxsser. PPARK THEATRE—Ovn IWALLACK’S THEATR OLYMPIC THEATRE (CEUM THEATRE: DOLEY’S THEATR TIVOLI THEATRE SEW AMERICAN M BAN FRANCISCO WM EGYPTIAN HALL— PARISIAN VARIETL COLUMBIA OPERA HOU THEATRE COMIQUE— QUADRUPLE SHEET. YAY, MARCH I, 1 By NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS, The Adams Express Company run a spocial newspaper Wain over the Pennsylvania Kailrond and its connections, Ing Jersey City at aquurter pust four A: M. daily nd ay ad Ay the regular edition of the F fest ws Harrisvure and South to W: Philadelphia at » quarter past six A Mone P.M. reaching ‘ashington From our reports this morning the probabilities tre that the weather in New Yorl: to-day will be tightly warmer and partly cloudy or clear, with fresh winds from the southwest. 4 Watt Srreer Y: he stock mar- ket was fairly active, the principal business being done in Lake Shore and the coal stocks. Therd was a general ¢ » in values, the ¢ Bocks being the principal sufferers. Gold ppened at 1051, and closed at 104%, business being done at the intermediate prices. Goyern- ment bonds were weak and lower, as were also ilroad bonds. Money was easy at 21 a 3 per ent on call, and closed easy at 2 per cent on call, Distincuisnep Cri 1 find some acecu- te information about themselves in our “Per gnal Intelligence.” ‘Tne Opsections of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., fo the integrity of the will of his father, pub- lished in full to-lay, promise to keep witnesses and jurymen from grumbling about lack of “business. Wie A Cuemisr charged with distilling C\ @ Whiskey claims in defence that the liquids seized Jere poisonous spirits. As if there was any sort f liquor which did not come under the same signation ! i crooked Our or THe Fryixc Pan Intro THe Fine swalked a number of lottery dealers yester¢ ( and their opinion of the United States govern- | ment this morning makes the most abandoned Blibuster seem loyal by comparison. Tue Famous Joe Goss, of pugilistic fame, tontinues to demand admiration on account of pis magnificent physical development. Events jn court within the past two or three days show that his is no unbalanced body, but that his eek is in as fine condition as his muscles. y ’ Tur Crrcerr Court or tHe Unirep Srates, fitting at Hartford, Conn., decided yesterday tbat the steamer Maryland, which transports “yailway passenger cars and their occupants from Sone set of rails ending at Morrisania to another J} which begins in New Jersey, is not a ferryboat, _ but a part or prolongation of a railroa 1 that therefore the city of New York, which is the Jaintiff in the suit, has no rightful claim upon ¢ boat's owners forMerry rentals, J pas Nec EN ) Wer1-To-Do Rr 8 OF THE HERALD, who _ eathe a sympathetic sigh over the statements workingmen to the Mayor, may be of great rvice to humanity by remembering that indi- iduals may do that which the city is powerless accomplish, by helping the discouraged work- Ingmen to find employment, and by relieving to Bome extent the pressing necessities of this worthy class. The gratitude of the poor is not a ad permanent investment for one’s surplus funds; it may not yield interest at present, but the principal can be retained by the investor phen he leaves his other possessions behind him. Sanrrany Inspectors For TH fenate bill 175, introduced by; provides for a thorough inspection by competent tnedical men of all tools and school build- Ings in the city of New York. We called atten- | tion to the necessi this measure on the 9th of February, and pointed out how vitally im- vortant it was to the sanitary welfare of the thousands of children who attend our public whools, It is only by a rigid inspection of both schools and scholars that a proper idea can be formned of the sanitary abuses that now threaten the young in close, ill ventilated schoolhouses situated in ill drained and filthy districts, We | hope, for the sake of the children, who are at the mercy of the Legislature in this instance, that Senator Gerard's bill will become a law. . Tar Weatuer.—The cold wave that followed Ahe recent greut rainstorm will be succeeded by ‘gp rapidly rising temperature during the first days | ‘of the coming week. A depression has advanced | from Dakota eastward over the upper lakes, and | ral set of the air currents has commenced | toward it. The highest pressure is now on the | Carolina coast and is moving in a southeasterly -direction. In the Southwest the barometer is | falling, with indications of increasing cloudiness, | and itis probable that # disturbance from the Western Gulf or New Mexico will soon present {itself in that quarter. Small areas of snow and rain follow the receding storm centre that has passed off the Nova Scotia coast into the tic, and the winds in the St. Lawrence y still continue high from the west. the weather throughout the country east of the Rocky Mountains is generally fair, “phe indications on the Pacific coast are unfayor- et and promise a recurrence of storms from ‘that direction. The weather in New York to-lay his capital, secured the monopoly of the passage of a_ river, could pre- \'vent any man going to his home | would govern the railroads or the railroads qill be slightly warmer aud partly cloudy or with fresh winds from the southwest. | their insane warfare for through traffic, as itis D Public Highways—The Supreme Court Decision. On January 31, 1872, the Hznaup warned the public against the measures then on foot for the organization of what has since become known as the coal combination. We then said:—‘Railroads are really public highways. ‘The corporations to which these highways are intrusted take the property, land, or whatever may come in their way, of private individuals, under the pretence that it is for the public good. The owners who give up this property only relinquish its immediate control to the corpora- tions. The public also has rights in this property, these public highways. Among these rights are equal privileges in their use after they are prepared for travel and the regulation of charges for the traffic over them. * * * The people have an inherent right to travel over these public highways, called railroads, with their own cars and locomotives if they choose; but this right is held in abeyance, because pub- lic policy and safety require that the dan- gerous engines of travel shall be under one control,” Ina later reference to the same coal question it was said in these columns:— “The whole scheme stands on an illegal foundation. ‘These corporations were not chartered to buy land. They were privileged by the Legislatures of their respective States to hold in trust for the use of the people certain pub- lic highways, over which highways all coal operators were and are entitled tosend their coal produce on equal and fair terms. The Legislature which gave privileges to these corporations did not part with the xight of the people to say through their representatives what tolls shall be charged for the use of these public highways.” All this subject of the rights of the public in the control of railways, of the relations of the people to great corporations that re- ceive charters and franchises from the State, and the principles that underlie these rela- tions, have just been reviewed and declared by the Supreme Court of the United States in its decision on what are called the granger cases. In this judgment the Supreme Court emphasizes the declarations made by us five years ago as quoted above, It is in general terms the theory of this decision that every great instrument of com- merce the operation of which becomes a monopoly from the nature of the case, and which is, therefore, removed from the effect of competition, must, for the protection and safety of the people, be subject to the super- vision and control of the authorities that act in the name of the people. In the cases in which the judgment was actually given the issue arose with regard tothe use of grain elevators in Chicago. These are pri- vate property—as ferryboats are—but they hold a relation to the grain trade that gives every farmer and merchant an interest in them as immediate as that which every citizen who is com- pelled to cross the ferry has in a ferryboat. Indeed, they bridge the space over which grain has to pass in its transmission from the railway car in which it arrives to the ship in which it is to be carried away. They are an indispensable part of the machinery of this traffic; and if the owners were per- mitted to charge what they might choose for their uso it would be just such an oppres- sion as if a ferryman, having, by the use of or on his journey until he had paid him a ransom rather than a fee. In what seemed to many an extreme assertion of the right of the people the Legislature of Illinois made laws to limit the charges which might be imposed for the storage of grain in ele- vators, and the owners opposed these stat- utes as unconstitutional, their strongest point of argument being that by such legis- lation they were deprived of their property without due process of law. In the courts the legislative regulation of charges was sus- tained, and on appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States it is held that it is not a deprivation of property, but a legitimate act of authority, for the representatives of the people to prescribe what charges shall be made for the use of even private prop- erty in which the public interest is con- cerned—as legitimate to limit the charge which may be made for the use of a grain elevator as to limit the price that an owner may demand for his land when it is forcibly taken from him for any public purpose whatever. On the occasion on which we touched this topic we dealt with the principle in the phase in which it was of most interest to the people of this neighborhood—the immoral and mischievous combinations of railroads and other lines of transportation to abuse the franchises they had acquired in order to oppress, by raising the price of coal, the people whom it was intended the franchises should benefit. But the coal conspirators, disregarding the Hunap warn- ings and the rights of the people, went on to make their unholy combination, which was against the laws of trade, against the laws of the Jand and against public policy. This combination came to terrible grief, falling to pieces by its own weight and dashing its fragments too far asunder to be ever again gathered together. And now the Supreme Court of the United States confirms the correctness of the Herap’s views and clearly fixes forever the rights of the highways called. railroads and the rights of the people; for the decision involves the rights of the people in railroads far more strongly than in grain elevators, The absolute control of these roads of the people rests in the hands of their represen- tatives, the Legislatures, And this is right. The time had arrived when either the people would govern the people. The Supreme Court has come to the rescue and now both the public and the railroads are safe. This decision has increased the value of | every railroad in the United States and will soon be as satisfactory to shareholders as to the public. It takes the control of tie high- ways of the country, which have cost thou- sands of millions of dollars, out of the hands of half a dozen ambitious, very able men, who, in their struggle for supremacy, have brought their great corporations to the verge of destruction. They must now cease called, and turn their attention to their true source of strength and profit—their local business. The people, having learned their power, will not submit to being charged fifty cents per one hundred pounds for one hundred miles, while the same carrier transports goods nine hundred miles beyond their doors for fifteen cents per one hundred pounds. ‘The States will make laws regulating the tolls on these highways. Doubtless the charge of a less rate per mile will be permitted on freight carried a thousand miles than on that trans- ported only ten miles, the latter being sub- jected to just as great terminal expenses as the former. But railroads will no longer be allowed to charge more for the shorter than for the longer distance. There is no danger that the people will oppress the railroads. The latter are still strong enough to take good care of themselves. The public is always just in the longrun. Any unfair treatment of roads by legislation will be fought against by the press and eventually remedied by the people. This decision is equivalent toa revolution in the railroad business. It is said that one of the ablest of the railroad mag- nates has long foreseen that the right of the people to use these highways with their own cars, and engines even, would soon be recognized, and admitted this right as a reason for furnishing extraordinary facili- ties in the way of ‘‘sidings,” rates and ac- ccmmodations to manufacturers and other shippers along his lines, upon the ground that when this right should be acknowl- edged they would have no tempta- tion for its enforcement. Whatever may have been his or any other railroad ofticer’s opinion, it is now certain that the rights and powers of the people are acknowledged. What they may prove in all their details to be is too much for imme- diate consideration or present space. In the meantime the appearance is that the de- cision of the Supreme Court has brought safety to the country and salvation to the railroads. Our London and Paris Cable Letters. General Ignatieff, who is not wanted in Paris, where he is, or in London, where he is not, has, nevertheless, something to say concerning the im- mediate future of Europe which both capitals are anxious to hear. Paris, however, has its own troubles with Germany to talk about, and, like our own democ- racy, to grin and bear. But it has some choice bits of operatic scandal too. There is one impresario knocked on the head, a second thrown out of his car- riage, while a third takes flight in a manner which the defaulting clerk of a Podunk gro- cery would regard with contempt—namely, having only three dollars of other people's money in his pockets. It has a banker on trial for arson, which will gratify the ex- leaders of the Commune, whether in New Caledonia or Montmartre—that branch of reform being generally confined hitherto to gentlemen wearing blue blouses. Then the prime donne are in trouble, Little Patti, having left her husband, finds but poor wel- come from the haughty matrons of Vienna, who turn the cold side of their shapely shoulders to her at the opera house. Little Lucca, who has had much experience in the husband business, finds herself in a lawsuit with one of them for half the money she earned in this country be- fore she snapped the marital cord. When we remember that this same Baron wants to have the divorce set aside we may imagine the hasty manner with which the sprightly little singer will put her earnings, since they were parted by law, out of the way. From London Punch we have a description of a cartoon on American beef, which is accompanied by some complimentary verses, which are beefy also. While it may be im- polite to look the gift horse in the mouth, it is hard to forbear a laugh at the spavined Pegasus which our British cousins exhibit after they have ridden him over the powlders of what they are pleased to call the Yankee vernacular. Paris is puzzled over our weather predictions for that city, and London invokes the Hzraup prophet to give it a fine day for the Ox- ford and Cambridge boat race. It may here be quietly hinted that England would have had fewer tempests this season if a certain London prophet, hight Row- land, had not ventured last year to predict a storm for New York when it was a well established fact that we grew our own storms and had a monopoly in the British hurricane market. American beef and American cottons in England are also, we may confidentially add, some of the results of his temerity. With another orig- inal Uncle Tom on a visit to Queen Victoria, anda batch of lively fashion items from Paris, we leave our cable letters to our readers, The Funeral of an Actress. When an actor dies it is not only himself that the world loses, but all those characters which he has embodied. Lear, Richelieu and Virginius thus perished with Edwin Forrest to find their palingenesis in Edwin Booth. A long train of tragic queens descended with Charlotte Cushman into the grave. To-day, when the remains of one of the most passionate and famous of American actresses are carried away to the tomb they will not pass away unattended. Bianca, whose sorrows were not greater than those of this woman, will share her rest, and Ca- mille will lay her cross of white camellias upon the grave. Matilda Heron greatly suffered and greatly triumphed in her dra- matic career. She possessed genius in a high degree, and at one period of her life had no rival in her own realm. But she who had simulated painful death ao thonsand times expired peacefully at last, perfectly contented to leave the mimic stage and the real stage of the world. She be- queaths to rer profession not onfy her own | fame, but a child whose future it will watch over with the tenderest care. It was the dying request of Matilda Heron that her | funeral services should be conducted in “The Little Church Around the Corner,” and many who admired and a few who loved the great actress will not fail to pay the last tribute of respect to her memory. The curtain falls, the lights are extinguished and the spectators depart, Confirmation of the Cabinet. President Hayes’ first collision with the obstructive elements of his party has re- sulted in a handsome victory and the con- firmation ef his whole Cabinet by a vote that may be regarded as unanimous, the only adverse votes having very much the character of expressions of personal chagrin and spite. Upon this result the country is to be congratulated as much as the Presi- dent. From the sudden collapse of the opposition to the President’s policy, as indi- cated in the composition of his Cabinet, this collision will be belittled and may pres- ently appear to have been only a trivial skir- mish; but it was, nevertheless, an important battle, on which were at stake issues of the greatest consequence to the country. Our greatest misfortune is to have in the Exec- utive Mansion a man whose personality is a mere cover for governinent by an intrigue, by this or that conspiracy of officeholders and jobbers. This has been conspicuously geen on several occasions ; and it has even made itself flagrantly felt in cases where the Executive was a man of very positive and even indomitable will. In such cases of course the factions do not openly lead the President by the nose, but they play upon his known weakness and are not the less successful for the adoption of devious courses. Every function of govern- ment where that kind of influence is dominant in the State is perverted to corrupt purposes; and the State itself be- comes only a great scheme for the protec- tion of robbers and the oppression of the people. ‘The battle just fought was to determine whether we should huve that kind of government for the next four years, or plain, honest, straightforward government as the people understand it; whether one set of men should filch the money of the people through the Navy De- partment, another through the War De- partment, another through the Interior, and so on, or whether the honest, upright | men appointed to those offices by the Presi- dent should administer them simply for the purposes for which they were created. This was the undoubted nature of the issue, and the fact that victory has fallen to the side of honest government is of good augury, as it shows that jobbery, which lately seemed so shameless at the capital, is yet so little con- fident that it loses heart when looked fairly in the face. Now that the President has his Cabinet as he has named it we anticipate | confidently the immediate initiation of meas- ures that will ultimately pacify the South. The City Charter. There are so many good points in the proposed charter for this city, which has the sanction of the joint Committee on Cities of the Legislature, that we are not surprised to find that the friends of good government are not without apprehensionsas to its ultimate fate. It willat once put out of office up- ward of a dozen commissioners, gentlemen who are many of them doubtless in a high degree ornamental, but not necessary to the government of the city. | With many of these gentlemen will disappear the superfluous departments over which they preside. Four departments will by this process of consoli- dation become merely bureaus in other de- partments. These are the Excise Depart- ment, whose duties will -go to the Police, where they belong; the Department of Buildings, which will become a _bu- reau in the Fire Department, and the Dock Department, which will go to the Public Works Department. The duties now performed by the Public Administrator will go to the office of the Corporation Counsel. It will be a further reform in the city’s legal machinery to abolish the useless office of Cor- poration Attorney. Many of the departments not abolished will be subordinated to one head. The Department of Parks will be treated thus, and will be relieved from the control it now has over certain streets, but will retain its other functions, There is a disposition to extend these positive econo- mies in expenditure to the abolition of the Marine Court, not that that tribunal is un- necessary, but because it is believed a more efficient tribunal can be organized to cost but little more than half the money. It is further proposed that the elections shall be held in the spring. There is not one of these propositions that is not in itself a good measure of reform. ‘Taken altogether they will constitute an immediate and important practical reconstruction of our city govern- ment, and we trust, therefore, the measure will becomealaw, Our Last Disasters. If the alarm of fire that was raised at St. Francis Xavier's Church had been really warranted we fear that the results would have been even more disastrous than those arising from a mere groundless panic, There is no doubt that the church was over- crowded. Father Langcake says, substan- tially, ‘‘the seating capacity of the building would accommodate only fourteen hundred persons, and, allowing the widest margin, no more than eleven hundred persons could be provided with standing room.” Now, it is clear that the church must have held nearly one half as many more persons as was consistent with safety, Therefore it was dangerously overcrowded, and disaster was possible even if the exits were more nu- merous and the stairways wide and com- modious. The passages must have been thronged with worshippers, and, although the people in the aisles did not suffer from the frantic rush from the west gallery, they aided in rendering the crush at the foot of the stairway more deadly by cutting off the outlet of escape. ‘Too much credit cannot be given to the good priests of St. Francis Xavier's for their cool and brave efforts to calm the excited multitude. If it had not been for them the panic would have seized every person pres- ent. The appeals to those in the hody of the church, coupled with the singing of the “Tantum Ergo” by the choir, had the effect | of arresting many in their headlong flight perhaps to death. The story of this disas- | ter brings the question of unsafe buildings again into prominence, What might have been a deplorable catastrophe in Washington street, by the fall, all of a heap, of a large Warehouse, was providentially prevented by the time of its occurrence and the absence of the em- ployés, This building was evidently badly constructed. The floor beams failed in NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH ll, 1877—QUADRUPLE SHEET. their carrying capacity, and either deflected and drew from their bearings on the walls or broke under the load that was placed upon them, Overloading storehouse floors is as dangerous to public safety as over- crowding theatres and churches, and differs only in degree. If we can regulate the number of passengers that a ship shall carry, the strength of her hull und the size of her boats, why not the number of persons to be admitted to a public building? It is wisdom to provide against the possibilities of danger, even though they be very remote. We hope that the lesson of the recent dis- asters will bear fruit in greater caution and safer buildings. The Spring Freshets. An enormous quantity of rain has fallen during the past week over the watersheds of the rivers between the Atlantic coast and the Missouri. But in the ‘western country the drainage gradients are low, and there- fore the flow of the water from the surround. ing territory into the rivers is gradual. In the Ohio Valley, however, as well as in the watersheds of the rivers that flow from the Alleghany system to the At- lantic, the drainage gradients are steep, and ccnsequently the volume of water precipitated into the rivers.during a heavy rain storm, such as that just passed, from the slopes of a hilly region, is immense, Many of the rivers, such as the Ohio, Sus- quehanna, Mohawk and Delaware, were fro- zen over when the storm came on. Even the great Hudson was filled with floating ice and its upper waters closed to naviga- tion, The high temperature and the warm rain broke up these ice masses, while filling the rivers with prodigious volumes of water, and the results are heavy freshets. According to our latest despatches the Mohawk has risen twelve feet six inches during less than twenty-four hours. The Susquehanna has already over- flowed its banks at Wilkesbarre, Pa, The Ohio has risen nine feet at Pittsburg, thir- teen feet at Cincinnati and five feet at Louis- ville during the past two days. The Upper Hudson, though filled with running ice, is in danger of being closed by thé present cold snap, and the New England rivers give indications of damaging floods, Alto- gether the exceptional condition of the rivers must be attributed to the recent storm and the cold that follows it, The | present freshets will subside during the next few days, but a rise may be expected in the Lower Mississippi. Pulpit Topics To-Day. Considering that there is no foundation in Scripture fora belief in hell or eternal punishments the Universalists expend a great deal of argument, protest and expostu- lation with those who profess belief in these doctrines, and Mr. Pullman will increase the amount to-day. Mr. McCarthy, too, will discuss the existence of heaven and hell and their relation to humanity, while Dr. Armitage will look after Judas Iscariot, who went ‘“‘to his own place;” and the orthodox and liberal Christians have been trying for eighteen centuries to find out his abode. Mr. Martyn may be able to settle the ques- tion in his talk about the devil—a myth- ical personage in the creeds of many, but a living reality in their experi- ences and lives. It is a little strange, too, that while some ministers disprove the existence of hell altogether, others, notably Mr. Alger, will demonstrate to-day that there are two hells—a mythological and a true one. | A dead man will speak through Mr. Mo- ment—not a very strange phenomena, how- ever, in these days—and Mr. Frothingham will utilize the discord that exists between dreams and duties, The office of the mod- ern priest, as illustrated by Professor Adler, is to abolish the priesthood and religion generally and rear up an organization based on ethical culture. Mr. Hepworth’s quota- tion of Nathan’s charge to David, ‘‘Thou art the man,” is pertinent to such destruction- ists. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ex-Governor Washburn, of Massachusetts, is recov- ering. New Vermont maple sugar {s sold inthe Vermont market at twenty cents a pound. The purchase of American boof by England Js burt- ing the Dutch and French trade. Prosident Eliot, of Harvard, rejects all women appli- cants without consultation with the faculty. London Fun :—‘‘The French President has invented a new sauce for salmon, The great dish is now Saumon, sauce Macmahonaise.”’ James Fisk, Sr., of Vermont, bas beon driving a | flourishing trade in family Bibles, having sold noarly one hundred since the middie of January, and prom- ises to dispose of one hundred more betoro the year is out, London Fun :—"Little Girl, looking at old Iady’s jewelry—‘Please, grannie, give mo those earrings?’ Grannie—‘No, dear, I can’t apare them now, but when Idie all my rings and money willbe yours,’ Little Girl—Well, grannio, but how soon will you die??? Kruseman Van Elten, artist, of tho Tenth Street Stu- dio Building, who represented his native country (Hol- land) as a commissioner at the Centennial Exhibition, has been made a knight of the ordor of the “Lion of the Netherlands’? by the King of tho Notherlands, This is the highest distinction that can bo bestowea on a civilian by tho government. Rev. J. 8. ©. Abbott, formerly @ notable American writer, is very feoble, at Hartford, Conn. He writes to atriend:—'*My cup is fall. When I contemplate my passage through the stars, guided by a celestial escort, my arrival in Heaven—wonderful, wonderful Heaven—tny personal presentation to my Heavenly Father, the revelation which will ve mado to me of Josus Christ, my Saviour, and of ail the mysteries of the incarnation and of tho spirit world, my joy ascends to rapture. I am very happy to remain here as long as God would have me, but no language can toll the joy 1 experience in view of the arrival of tho chariot of Israei, tha horsemen thereol to convey me. J shall probably never see you again in the world, my dear brother, but I shall be indeed glad to greet you when you enter the golden gates, and that timo will soon come.” London Spectator:—“At tho next vacancy of the Tiara thero will probably be two English Cardinals, the Pope having announced to Mgr. Howard that he will receive the ‘hat?onthe 12th of March, Mgr. Howard is a member of the Norfolk family, forty-eight years of | age, and personally a favorite at tho Vatican, where ho holds the post of Vicar of St. Peter's, He 1s said to be @ man of sweet and stately character and of consider. able learning, and he has once or twice been employed on missions of some delicacy, but he has never ob- tained any of the higher offices of the Church, though formally styled the ‘suffragan Bishop of Frascati? and Archbishop im partibus of Neo-Cwsarea, His appoint- ment is rather a remarkable one, as there are three English-speaking Cardin ady—Cullen, Manning and McCloskey—and the English Catholics will, after his nomination, be over represented, and it gives riso toa surmive that a new English candidate might not be unwelcome to the conclave, Tho Cardinals may step outside Italy, and it they do may preter an Eng- lisbman, id if an Englishman then a hereditary Catholic belonging to one of the few English families ‘which are reragnized on the Continent as arcat? LONDON'S LOOKING CLASS. Will Ignatieff Tear Up the Treaty of Paris? THE BOATING BATTLE OF THE BLUES, Our Verified Weather Pre- dictions. COMPLIMENT FROM THE ASTRONOMER ROYAL - American Meat in British Metre. Hayes, Grant and Fish, as Seen by Foreign Critics. ONE OF THE ORIGINAL UNCLE TOMS. ny Literary, Musical, Dramatic and Religions Gossip Lime-Juice vs. Rum. [py caBLE TO THE HERALD,] Lonpon, March 10, 1837. The political horizon is foggy. The object of Gen eval Ignatiefi’s mission 18 unrevealed. The dread that he would be beset by the Russomaniacs of the Uberal opposition and so cause embarrassment tc the government has led toa quiet hint that nego tiations, if any were desirable, could be car nied on like the game of chess that Tennyson mentions in “Queen Mary’’—by messengers between Paris and London, reporting the moves in succes- sion. It is thought in certain quarters here that the approaching diplomatic game will most prob- ably end in the abrogation of the Treaty of Paris. ‘The question, indeed, is agitated through England, “Shall this collection of diplomatic rags and tatters be offered as a sop to the Russian Cerberus?” Count Schouvaloff arrived in London to-day, bearing Russia’s definite proposals. A despatch from Berlin says the mission of Ignatieff is pacific. There will be no demand for a pledge of future ac- tion. A final protocol is to be signed by the Powers collectively, reviewing previous diplomatic pro- ceedings, recognizing the good offices of Russia on behalf of the Christians, and recommending the Porte toexecute the reforms proposed by the Con- ference, and protect 1ts Christian subjects against their Mohammedan neighbors. RUSSIA AND DEMOBILIZATION. Aletter from St. Petersburg, touching an impe- rial council held there about a fortnight since, says:— “I am told on the best authority that the whole question having been gone into in the presence of General Ignatieff, the members of the Council, over which the Emperor presided, were \\nanimous in the conclusion that, in the present « cumstances, peace is of the greatest necessity to Russia. 1am also informed that, owing to these considera- tions, ideas of a peaceful policy were accepted dur- ing that Council, and that the only point on which the members differed was the time at which the demobilization of the army should be ordered. Ac- cording to my informant, it was decided that the order for demobilization should be issued as soon as peace was signed between the Porte and Servia and Montenegrv.” ANARCHY IN CONSTANTIOPLE. Advices from Constantinople give a gloomy pio ture of the condition of government affairs. Oné letter says:— “Under former Sultans there were instances of tyrannical, improvdent and rapacious govern- ment, but under Sultan Abdul Hamid we are in full anarchy, the Palace issuing orders without consulting the Porte, the Porte transacting bust ness without guidance from or communication witt the Palace. Such a combination of tyranny wit? anarchy—of absolutism with impotence—the worl¢ never witnessed.” TURKEY AND AUSTRIA. There is quitea scare among the Mussulmang concerning the possible irruption of Austrian troops into Bosnia in case of Russia declaring war A despatch from Belgrade says that, in view of such @ movement. the Governor of the Tuch Prov- inces has been ordered to send 625,000 pounds of bread and 30,000 pairs of sandals for the army. A NEW GREEK CABINET. M. Deligeorgis has formed @ new Cabinet. in place of that resigned, in consequence of a vote of cen- sure for the granting of an illegal pension being passed upon it by the Chamber. PROSPECTIVE PEACE IN JAPAN. A private telegram trom Japan says the rebellion in that country will probably soon be finished, HAYES AND HIS FORBIGN CRITICS. The dailies have all commented upon the result of the Eiectoral Commission's decision. Now the weeklies are discussing the subject. The Saturdag Review expresses confidence in Hayes, aud prom: ises to follow Mr. Grant's future destiny with lively interest. It pays a parting compliment to Secre. tury Fish, who, during eight years, maintained ali the traditions of his office by vigor and astuteness never impaired by undue regard for the suscepti- bilities of foreign States. He had the satisfaction of imposing upon England the Washington Treaty, and, as a consequence, the Alabama arbitration, SOCIETY AND THE GREAT BOAT RACE. The town js filling up, now that Easter is near at hand, and with every day’s arrivals Regent street puts on a gayer appearance. The shop windows are now dressed with cerulean rosettes and blue silk stockings. The annual boat race craze 18 now upon us, Universal dissatisfaction is found with the committee of arrangements for the earliness of the hour—half-past eight—fixed upon for the starting of the race. The London half-holiday makers claim that the race should be rowed from Mortlake to Putney—down stream witb the ebb instead of up stream with the flood tide, Tins would throw the race into the early part of the afternoon: But the university men are fool- ishly disinclined to alter the time or to change the direction of the race, thereby ignoring London's appreciation of their conduct or their performance, BRITISH BEEF AND BROTHER JONATHAN'S, American beef has been honored this week with a cartoon in Punch, entitled “ios Americanus; or, Yankee Beef and English Butcher.” The picture 18 exceedingly clever in conception, It portrays a well fed ox, the various joints of which are marked in trae cookery book fashion, at prices ranging from five to nine and a half pence per pound. The head is spotted with stars, like the fleld of the American flag, and the creases of the neck