The New York Herald Newspaper, March 12, 1877, Page 4

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Washington, reaching x A.M. and Washingtoy From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York: to-day will be warmer and cloudy or partly cloudy, followed by a shifting of the wind to easterly points and possibly light rain. “Marcuinc Turovcn Georcia” has begun again in Ben Hill's old district just now, and the conqueror will, as before, make the national capital his final halting plac Ir 1s PLEASANT to read of a place where every one is so well off that the real estate agent hears no grumbling about high rents. article we publish to-day it would seem that Newport is such a place. Mcrper Micur Become Porvunar as a civil- izing agency if it always resulted, as it did a few days ago in the Black Hills, where a miner who shot another “becamo remorseful” and went back to his legitim: i Tue Anirry of the captains of the two steam- ers lost lately on the Newfoundland coast is fully conceded, but a correspondent this morning calls attention to certain conditions of danger which no commander could have overcome. Matitpa Heron's last public appearance was made on yesterday before an audience composed largely of professionals; but criticism gave full place to sympathy, for the part she played is one which every actor must some gay assume for one time only. Weanrrxe an Impertan Crown no longer excuses a rulcr fron¢ taking an interest in the daily affairs of his people. The Emperor Will- jam’s address to the German Parliament js as full of unromantic business as if it had been written by an American President. A Great Revivat is in progress in the Eigh- teenth Street Methodist Church. It is reported that several actors are among the penitents ; but not until machine politicians and horse car directors are found on the anxious seat will the public be startled into the belief that the mil- lTennium is at hand. Tue Luplow Fine shows that the provisions for the protection of life in tenement houses are still incomplete. Twodeaths occurred from suffocation by smoke, yet the cheap pre- caution of a spring door at the foot of each stair- way would have made such a disaster impossible, Tho stairways proved means of escape, us they must always do where fires break out on the lower floors of tall buildings, yet they afforded as good conduits for smoke as if they had been devised for the purpose. useless a8 Rewicious TEACHINGS YESTERDAY were more practical than theoretical in their nature. The miracle of the loaves and fishes was in several Catholic churches the subject: from which were drawn some noteworthy deductions of general personal application. The endless influence: of good example, the only unfailing giver of good advice, the necessity to mankind of the direction of business affairs according to the moral prin- ciples enunciated in the Bible, and the nature of the factors of human pr were topics of ser- mons of which we give excellent résumés this morning. War ann Lire RockeTs.—A series of experiments will be made during the present month at Sandy Hook of some improved rockets, adapted for the double purpose of war and the saving of the lives of shipwrecked mi: i These destructive projectiles are fully described elsewhere; but naturally the greatest interest attaches to their use for the saving of life on our During the recent Indian ca coasts. paign we suggested the use of rockets for the dispersion of the hostile Sioux and the destruction of their villages. It is possible the approaching experi ments may result in the adoption of some such engine for use in the spring camy Tne Weatuer.—The depression which was eentral in the upper lake region on Sa by a remarkable transposition of the high and low pressure, moved southwestward into the Missouri Valley, and is now advancing toward the lower lake region and Ohio Val- ley. Immediately to the north of the disturb- auce the pressure rises rapidly, with a thermometric decline, The area | of highest pressure, which was on Saturday on the South Atlantic coast, has moved north- eastward to the Middle Atlantic, with an in- crease of pressure at the centre, An area of snow and rain, extending to the St. Lawrence Valley, attends the advancing depression, and high winds prevail on its western margin. The temperature along the Atlantic coast is still low, but will gradually rise during to-day. The rise in the rivers has ceused for the present, and @ general fall is reported from the Upper Ohio, The weather in New York to-day will be warmer and cloudy or partly cloudy, followed by # shifting of the wind to easterly points and possibly light rain. From an | rntres of | ' wet Us End the Southern Question— But No Bargain: ‘The importance of speedily settling the Southern question is seen in the tact that it has occupied nearly the whole time of the new Senate. Like an evil conscience, it glad to hear from Washington that Presi- dent Hayes has determined to make its set- tlement the first object of his first Cabinet meeting. The longer it is made to last the more trouble it will give to the President, the more opportunity it will give to gentlemen like Senator Blaine for attempts to make, at the expense of the peace and security of the country, political capital, as the phrase goes, tor themselves, and the more muddled it will become through the efforts of the carpet baggers and their helpers. of the country to the inaugural message, show that the President and the people are. | at one on all the subjects he there touched, and on none more than on the Southern | question. General Grant's remark, in the last days of his administration, that the people were tired of seeing troops used to maintain State governments, and that if a republican government could not maintain itself in Louisiana or will not rest. It cannot rest; and we are | The whole spirit of the public, the answer | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1877.-WITH _STPPLEMENT. the duties of a local police, but to act the same harmless part which they play in New York and Ohio, then at last we shall have returned safely to constitutional govern- ment. We confess that we are impatient for the good day to come. Cha: ler on the City Garbage. If the professor of chemistry who is also President of our Health Department an- nounced that for the future all his learned statements pertaining to his office are in- tended to be published in a comic almanac, for the amusement of our fun loving com- munity, we would believe it on the strength of his first effort. tomfoolery Professor Chandler’s plan for dealing with the city garbage cannot be ex- celled. But while we are willing to pay halt a dollar to witness the antics and contortions : of a circus clown, for the sake of the healthy, hearty laugh they provoke, we think that twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars is rather too much to pay for the very ridic- ulous spectacle of Professor Chandler, President of the Board of Health, ‘fairly and honestly testing” the practicability of cremating the Doubtless the effect on the risibilities of the South Carolina it must go—this sententious statement met with general assent. It is the simple truth, and even those repub- lican extremists who are most zealous in the support of Packard and Chamberlain ac- knowledge, reluctantly, that the country de- mands a new policy, and say they are will- ing to see a change tried. But we see not only that Senator Blaine— remarkable sometimes for prudence rather than boldness—at once not only defended Packard and Chamberlain, but took the extraordinary course of opening an attack on the President almost before he entered the White House; we seo also various | schemes and intrigues begun by the carpet baggers and their allies having for their object to delay the settlement of the ques- tion and to gain for themselves some per- sonal and political advantages out of it. There is, for instance, the scheme of a com- promise in Louisiana, by which, in ex- change for the recognition of the Nicholls government, Mr. Kellogg is to be admitted as United States Senator. That is to say, the wholesome and just policy which Gen- eral Grant, at the end of a long and cruel experiment, declared to be the only one, which President Hayes strongly favored in his message, and which the country has at once adopted, is to be soiled with a bar- gain, Justice, these intriguers insist, | should be sold to the people of Louisiana. Of course we know that the President would favor no such arrangement or ‘‘com- promise,” as it is called, whether it in- cluded Kellogg or some other perhaps less odious person. But we know that it is urged with pertinacity by adroit and in- fluential men; that it has the favor not only of that class of politicians who see wonderful virtues in a bargain if only you call it a compromise, but it has the zealous support of the other class who mean to keep Packard and Chamberlain in. These men see that, if only such a plan of settle- ment can gain the consent of some of the President’s advisers, and can thus be pro- posed to Governor Nicholls and the Legisla- ture as by authority, as it is sure of rejec- tion, there will come a new deadlock, out of which they hope for delay at any rate, and perhaps some act or incident in the South which would give them a pretext for de- manding Packard's recognition. We give warning of this intrigue, because nothing could be more fatal to the real and great end which we suppose the President has in view, which is not only the pacifica- tion of Louisiana and South Carolina, but the breaking of the political color line and the drawing into the republican party ofa mass of respectable, intelligent and prop- erty-owning voters, men of influence in their States. This object, disliked as it naturally is by democratic politicians, is yet one of the most essential to the welfare of the coun- try, as everybody understands. When it is done we shall no longer have a political South. But it cannot be done by a bargain ; by forcing upon the Legislature and the peo- ple, either in South Carolina or Louisiana, a man they would not naturally take, a man odious to them, of the type of Mr. Kellogg. There are now less than five thousand white republican voters in Louisiana, most of them either State or federal office-holders. A very great benefit will be conferred upon the State if a considerable number of respecta- ble and influential white voters can be drawn away from the democratic ranks and into the republican. But what hope would there be of doing this if Mr. Kellogg, or some one like him, any one, in fact, who is tainted by connection with the misrule of the lasageven years, should misrepresent the State in the Senate and be the official head of the party in the State? Such a scheme, if it could be accomplished, would only consolidate the white vote in the democratic party and per- petuate the mischievous color line. No conditions are necessary to the libera- tion of South Carolina and Louisiana, and we believe none can justly be made. Sena- tor Saulsbury said, the other day, that if the federal troops in New Orleans were or- dered not to interfere the women of the city would expel Packard from the State House. Mr. Pinchback himself, chairman of the Republican State Committee, says that Packard has no hold on the State; that the constant presence of an army would be necessary to maintain him in power; that troops would have to be - quartered in every parish to hold his officers in their places ; and he advises the recog- nition of Nicholls as the att which is most demanded for the good of the colored people of the State. We hope, therefore, not only to see all intrigues, bargains*and schemes for © compromise defeated, because they would defeat the most important result of an honorable settlement, but we hope sin- | cerely that an end of the Southern diftienlty willbe made without delay. When Nicholls and Hampton are recognized as Governors men like Mr. Blaine will no longer have a | pretext for attacking the President in the Senate, nor a ground for their attempts to renew strife. With Packard and Cham- berlain will disappear the whole crew of public of the Professor learnedly inspect- ing a sauté of tomcat, with lyonnaise potato skins, would be immense, but it would not be worth the money it would cost. It is possible that the Health Board cook would compose strange enirées and serve us curious broils from his experimental and expensive kitchen; but we fear that the people of New York would be treated to ‘‘roast” that would spoil their temper and render them unfit to digest the dish that would follow— namely, Chandler’s gammon. Seriously, the utterly shallow nonsense which the Health Board President calls ‘‘his views” on the disposal of the city garbage must excite the disgnst and anger of every sensible person. He does not hesitate to tell us that the garbage cannot be separated from the ashes, when he knows, or at least ought to be aware of the fact, that, while the people effect the separation the employés of the Street Cleaning Bureau do nearly all the mixing. As to the pretence that the cre- mation of the garbage involves both the laws of ‘‘chemistry and engineering,” that is pure and simple ‘‘bosh,” and un- worthy even of the man who declared that the putrid filling on the Harlem Flats was not a nuisance. The laws of chemistry, of ebullition and all the scientific theories of heat are also involved in the tremendous operation of boiling eggs for breakfast or preparing pap for the baby. We do not believe that it is necessary for the solution of a very simple problem of burn- ing up the refuse of our kitchens that Pro- fessor Chandler and perhaps the President of the Police Board should get thirty thous- and dollars for experimental purposes. Any kitchen maid can instruct the Professor on the philosophy of cremation. Any ‘dock rat” can give him points on the specific gravity of dead dogs and old boots. Our en- gineers can build a couple of furnaces on the water front and settle the question of cre- mating the city refuse in a month. Under the circumstances we advise the Board of Aldermen to decline Professor “Chandler's services as thirty thousand dollar experi- mentalist and garbage charrer, and, above all, not to give the learned gentleman the thirty thousand dollars. The “Who Is It?” in Florida, We publish to-day another interesting letter from our special correspondent in Florida, in which he gives an amusing de- scription of the adventures of the Hzratp exploring party on Baal Island. The idol discovered in the depths of the forest has aroused the superstitious fears of the colored element of the expedition. No inducement that our correspondent held out could tempt his dusky attendants to move it to the Herarp camp. They preferred to brave panthers, moccasins and alligators and all the uncanny things that haunt the woods and swamps rather than attempt to disturb this grim sentinel of the waste. However, a natural cupidity and a belief that whoever set up this strange object in such a strange place must have buried treasure near it caused the negroes to forget for the nonce the terrors of night in its company, and they began to dig by the light of their pine torches for the hidden prize. The ludicrous scene that followed is graphically described by our correspondent, and cannot fail to amuse the reader. We commend the subject of the idol to scientific investigators. It furnishes, perhaps, a missing link be- tween the history of the present and that of the dim past in Florida. The more we con- sider it ourselves the deeper we are im- pressed with the theory that it is the petri- fied body of a prehistoric carpet-bagger who had lost his way in the woods while looking for a nomination for Governor of the region. As a piece of scientific ; garbage of New York. ! It would be doing the figure a gross injus-, tice to insist that it was an official of the Street Cleaning Bureau who had gone to Florida to avoid the dirt and smells of New York, and had been turned into stone at the sight of such familiar scenes os may be witnessed in the middle of the swamp dis- trict. Besides, the figure described by our correspondent is not in the least degree dumpy, although a scowl may be traced on its ashy countenance. Tuz New Hamrsamre Exectioy.-—The an- nual election in New Hampshire, which takes place to-morrow, is of interest else- where only because members of Congress are to be chosen in that State. The new House of Representatives will bo so evenly divided that the three members to be elected from New Hampshire are important. All the other States have chosen their Congressmen, and, leaving ont New Hampshire, the numbers are one hun- dred and , forty-eight democrats and one hundred forty-two republicans. If the republicans should elect all the New Hampshire members the democratic major- ity in the new House would be reduced to three, a majority too slender to be very effi- cient. New Hampshire is a close State. It was carried by Hayes in November by a ma- jority of three thousand. In the last House Northern bloody shirt demagogues who the State was represented by two democrats | have so long kept the country in turmoil. | and one republican, but there will probably And when the troops in Louisiana and South | be two and perhaps three republican mem- Carolina are ordered no longer to perform | | Minister for Foreign Affairs for as long a bers elected to-morrow. Retirement of Secretary Fish. Mr. Evarts, who was confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of State on Saturday, will take the oath of office to-day, and Mr. Fish, another eminent and honored citizen of New York, retires from public life, probably for- ever. Secretary Fish, born in 1808, has reached the ripe age of sixty-nine, and hav- ing remained so Jong in the Cabinet only in compliance with the urgent entreaties of President Grant, it is quite unlikely that he H will ever accept another important public trust. His fellow-townsmen, who know him | so welland honor him so highly, will wel- come him back to his home, always the abode of taste, culture, hospitality and every virtue that can give dignity and charm to domestic life, Mr. Fish has been one of the most dis- tinguished and useful of our long line of able and eminent Secretaries of State. When he came into office the country had on its hands a difficult and perplexing dispute with Great Britain, which Mr. Seward had | been unable to bring to a settlement during the four years he was in office after the close of the war; but the problem which had baffled Mr. Seward was successfully and honorably solved by | Mr. Fish. The Alabama claims treaty will | always hold a distinguished place in the diplomatic history of the country, and the credit of the negotiation belongs entirely to Mr. Fish. But this is not his sole praise as | Secretary of State. Our foreign affairs have never been managed with greater success than during the last eight years, Peace has | been preserved, friendly relations with all countries maintained and strengthened, and our national honor kept unsullied under the wise, prudent, firm and yet conciliatory management of Sec- retary Fish. When the unfortunate Virginius affair occurred Spain was com- pelled to make due reparation without at all disturbing the cordial and friendly rela- tions between the two countries. The for- eign relations of the government were never in safer hands than those of the only mem- ber of President Grant’s Cabinet who re- mained in office during the whole of his two terms. We say the whole of the two terms because the few weeks that Mr. Washburne held the office before Mr. Fish’s appoint- ment hardly deserve to be counted. Mr. Fish is the one member of the Cabinet who has steadily kept the confidence of the Presi- dent and the country from the beginning of the administration to the end. After the many important trusts he has discharged, as a member of both branches of our Legis- lature, as a member of both houses of Con- gress, as Governor of the State and as period as that great office was ever held by one man, Mr. Fish is entitled to exemption from further public cares. The good wishes of the whole country will follow him in his honorable retreat. The Book of the Season. During a winter which has not been every- thing that publishers could have wished there has been issued a book which has ! attained a success unparaMeled in the annals of literature. First published only two or three months ago, it reached at oncea circu- lation such as not even the most industrious advertising ever gained for the most popu- lar novel. Its construction was in many respects remarkable. It set at naught nearly every literary canon. Many writers took part in its preparation, and their methods differed so from each. other that it was never difficult to ascertain where one writer left off and another began. It lacked continuity. As for-art, that darling ideal and infrequent realization of authors, the book. barely glanced at it. Although it had a leading motive which was never lost sight of, it was as discursive as a novel by Victor Hugo ora medium’s revelation from the spirit world. Its merits, however, were distinctive and absolute. Its writers never indulged in exquisite or fine drawn abstractions, nor did they ever ring changes upon the oft-analyzed passions of mankind. Of love, indeed, that mainstay of the popular books of all ages, it was as desti- tute as the heart of the male flirt or that of the woman who marries for money. But it dealt bravely, often bluntly, sometimes in- dignantly, with the feelings and needs of society as it is. It idealized nothing, but spoke the plain truth without fear or favor. In it every reader found some one of his own sentiments or sorrows reflected, and a fellow feeling makes us deeply interested as well as wondrous kind. The popularity of this book does not decrease in the least; it is still sold daily in quantities that almost stagger belief, and it somehow finds its way into portions of the country where the book- seller is as rare as the man who is satisfied with the condition of his own pocketbook. Need we say that we refer to the Hzzaxp's “Complaint Book ?” The Use of Steam on West Street. Some months ago the Common Council adopted a resolution granting permission for the use of dummy engines to draw freight trains on West street below Canal. The Mayor interposed his veto, and in conse- quence of the strong and unanimous pro- test of the large body of persons doing busi- ness on that street, as well as of all the residents, the Aldermen felt constrained to sustain the veto. The proposition now comes up in another shape, Application has been made to the Commissioners of Docks for the privilege of running rails on to the docks, connecting with the Belt Railroad, and under such a concession, with the aid of the Belt Company, it is proposed to use steam on that line. The Commissioners of Docks have no authority whatever to grant any such privilege. They can control the use of the docks, but only for legitimate dock purposes, and haye no more right to allow dummy engines to be used in connec- tion with the Belt line, or rail connections to be made with that line, than have the Commissioners of Excise, We need a wide river street on each side of the city on which steam freight cars might be run, The West street proposition, if carried out, would destroy the business of the street and afford a very partial and | intelligent ideas as to the value of the Italian | tions, too, under which the audience will wholly insufficient aid in the movement of freight. At the hearing before the Dock | Commission only the railroad companies appear, some being in favor and some op- posed to the concession, But the market men and the thousands of business people | whose interests are involved are entitled to | be heard. The busiest hours of the twenty- four on West street are from three to seven in the morning, and to block up that street with long freight trains and dummy en- gines between those hours would be the destruction of all the important business done in that locality. It would be well to inquire where the Dock Commission finds the authority to act at all in the matter. The Wagner Festival. Admirers of Wagner's music will be afforded to-night an opportunity of forming a correct idea of the theories of that musical revolutionist as applied to opera. Under the direction of Messrs. Fryer and Neuen- dorff a series of carefully prepared per- formances after the true Wagnerian method will be inaugurated, and the New York public will be able to realize the innovations which the musician of Bai- reuth * seeks to impose on _ operatic representations, This experiment is de- serving of the most generous support from the American public, because, however it may turn out for the impresarii, it must help to educate the musical taste of our people and enable them to form clear and and German or Wagnerian schools of opera. In undertaking to reproduce Wagner's |. works in this country on the plan adopted | at Baireuth Messrs. Fryer and Neuendorff have assumed .a grave financial risk and have established a well-founded claim to & generous public support. Whatever may be the verdict in reference to the op- posing musical theories, there can be no doubt of the interest attaching to the series of performances which will be inaugurated to-night by the production of the “Flying Dutchman” according to the canons and rules laid down by Wagner himself. Everything about the peformance of this opera will, it is said, be so novel that the public will regard it more as a new work than as an old favorite. The condi- listen to the musical numbers are to be | changed. In place of a brilliantly lighted auditorium the house will be kept in dark- ness while the performers are on the stage. Another innovation will be that more attention will be paid to the general effect than to the rendering of the chief réles. There will be no very great singers, but in compensation we are promised the best orchestra and chorus ever presented in the Academy of Music. Both Mr. Fryer and Mr. Neuendorff have worked very hard to render the Wagnerian festival & great artistic success, and they are en- titled to the credit of having called to their aid the best musical talent within reach. It now remains for the public to mark their appreciation of this effort by rallying to the support of the enterprising managers. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ohio runs this country. + Ex-Senator Pomeroy is in Washington. Black net dotted with gold is used for veils, Gray, in all shades, will be very much used, Chandler says he 1s glad to get out of school. General Butler is a constant visitor to the Senate. Navy blue and dark brown are a new combination. Page, of California, called Morrison, of Illinois, a liar, if Fringe is tho fashionable trimming for dresses and wraps. General Hancock is getting fat, and he will nover be President. Senator William Sharon, of Nevada, is at the Windsor. bf Senator Bruce, who is not a white man, wears a white vest. Senator Theodore F, Randolph, of New Jersey, is at the New York. Dainiy little parasols are to take the place of the sensible sun umbrella, Sam Bowles has put a new hingo on his chicken coop; but he likes Schurz. Three-cornered handkerchiefs, mado of soft laco, are worn around the neck. Mr. W. K. Rogers, President Hayes’ private secro- tary, was formerly an Episcopalian preacher. ‘Tne democrats ought to be satisiled with Bradley, for they bave got Key. Even Tilden might have appointed Key. Gentlemen, do not make a mistake, isags much of a republican as Ben Butler i: crat, It is not necessary that a doorkeoper of Congress should have much dignity when so many Congressmen havo so little, The London Times insists that the admission of foreign horses to English racecourses has improved English stock. Great men are not, after all, so very great in their minor habits. Carlyle smokes a clay pipe and Eugene Hale nourishes his nice hair. Smyrna lace is much used for trimming musiin, it being quite as cheap and a great deal more durablo than the Hambarg embroideries, A Southern Methodist preachor writes to Mr. Koy, saying:—‘l would prefer one of the following Consu- lates:—Laiverpool, London, Rio Janeiro or Jerusalem.” The Treasury girls are not over well dressed, They are much like New York shop girls, and if the men would not leer at them perhaps they would mind their own business. The bonnot shapes for spring are very much like those worn during the winter. The change in trim- ming will be more decided, new hats boing almost entirely covered with flowers, Either Conkling or Blaine will be leader of the Senate, Blaine has challenged Conkling. Who will win? Conkiing wants Tom Platt, of New York, for As- sistant Postmaster General, President Hayes may snub Grant’s policy ; but, after all, with the brilliancy of Fort Donelson not yet dead in history it might be well to remembor that Grant was something better than a Colonel. Examiner:—"Gitls who consciously go to work to get married know very well that a well placed sigh is worth fifty sonatas, and that no amount of mayor and minor prestidigitation can win a triumph over the rival who, though a dunce at the music book, is an expert in smiles and dropped eyelids. Chicago Journal:—"Said a fond mother, at the table of a fashionable Chicago hotel the other day, ‘Do you know, my little son, that the word menu is French for bill of fare?’ ‘Oh, yee, mamma,’ was the assuring re- ply, ‘menu it!’ The mother fainted right there. She was afraid her boy would grow up to bea paragraph editor,’” During e hard times several Boston girls have de- cided to accept honest housework, Said one of them to a Nowark lady the other evening, ‘Sada, I shall be obliged to you If you will bo so good asto bring down tho atlas, so that 1 may trace the war in the East; and, if you please, where is the telephone?” They telephoney story about this, Evening Telegram:—The trained interviewer is ho who sees his way clear among all these humbugs and impositions, and knows instinctively what to retain and what to rejeut amid all that is said to him, Then there 1s the skilful way of approaching the interviewee, Sometimes the parallels have to be drawn a good way off, Thus, if the British interviewer had comprehended this art he would not bave set out at once for Ignaticfl, and been summarily reduced to the ignominy of intor- Judge Davis jomo- TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. EUROPE WATCHING RUSS.A, The International Protocol Sought for by Ignatieff. THE PORTE’S DIFFICULTIES, Significant Warning from Germany ‘to France, SPAIN AND TIE AMERICAN CABINET An Egyptian War Ship Burned—The Indian Famine. [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD. ] Loxpow, March 12, 1877, The policy which Russia may finally adopt with re gard to the Eastern question is still a subject of con- siderable anxiety, and tno movements of General Igna- tieff aro watched with growing interest. It is felt that on the result of his mission to the European Powers depends im a great measure the decision of the Czar and bis advisers, and therefore, no matter how little talk there may bo of a resort to hostilities just now, It is felt that the question of peace or war is stil; unsetticd. The state of aflairs at Constantinople is of trouble, and the outbreak that would precipitate Russian interference, and, as a consequence, an Aus. trian occupation of Bosnia, would surprise no one who is aware of tho chaos which reigns inthe Turkish capital. The uncertainty as to what would foliow 1s the great source of trouble, for a war breaking out under such conditions might array the greater part of Europe into two hostile camps and end in a considerable “rectification of frontiers,’? also a source of a revolution RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC ACTION, Count Schouvalof left Paris on Saturday for this city. The Observer says he brings a note which he is ordered to communicate to Lord Derby immediately, proposing that the European Powers and the Porte sign a pro- tocol guaranteeing the reforms and placing the rayahs ander the protection of the Powers. A telegram from Paris states that President MacMahon will entertain General Ignatieff ata banquet on Tuesday. An in- terview reports that General Ignatief igg:mated that he had not wholly relinquishsd his idea of going to London. AN “INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING COMMISSION. ’? A correspondent at Paris telegraphs as fullows:— General Tchernayeff hag suddenly arrived here to con- fer with Genoral Ignatieff, Itis asserted that Russia has asked, or is about to ask the Powers to propose to tho Porte the establishment of an International Consulte ing Commission for one year at Constantinople to advise the Porte, and watch and report on the application of tbe reforms. There is no chance of Turkey accepting this plan, THE GIST OF THE RUSSIAN PROPOSALS, The Vienna correspondent of tho 7mes says the In- formation that the negotiations now proceeding turn on tho signing of an international protocol is now confirmed irom #o many sides that it can no longer be doubted. The Porte is te pledge itself in a protocol countersignead by the Powers that it will carry out the reforms agreed upon by the Powers in the preliminary conference, This may be taken as the essenco of the Rus- sian proposals. Russia does not seem to have abandoned the hope of finding a form for this international document which will overcome British objections. Count Schouvaloff’s return to Lon- don indicates that 1+ is thought somo such form’ has been found, A correspondent alleges he has good information that Russia is ready to make great concessions as regards form, provided tho real essonce of her proposal is accepted. Notonly doesthere seem to bo no intention to insist upon an agreement about eventual measures of coercion, but everything is to be avoided beyond present assent to and signa. ture by the Powers of the protocol which might entat) obligations for the future. In this way it is thought the assent of England may be secured. TURKEY’S DIFFICULTIES. A dospatch from Constantinople, published in Paris, says:—‘‘According to letters from the Provinces, tht Christian population everywhere is molested, espe cially in Armenia, The Armenian Patriarch, finding his representation to the Porte of no avail, has ten. dored his nation, A great slackening in the work ofcarrying out the reforms 1s observable. The telegraph operators threaten a strike because the government has decided to pay their salaries in paper, which involves areduction of forty per cent, A despatch from Con- stantinople says the Council of Ministers yesterday raised objections to several of Montenegro’s demands, particularly to the cession of Nicsics, The Monte- negring have resolved to maintain all their demands.’ A despatch from Pesth says it is confidently stated that Russia has advised the Prince of Montenegro to considerably moderato his demands for tho cossion of territory ond a seaport. The Herzegovinian insurgents have petitioned the Porto for amnesty and permission to retwrn to their homes, TURKISH PREPARATIONS, A Vienna despatch reports that the Turks are foitify- ing the banks of the Save and Unna on the Bosman and Austrian frontior, A Rustchuk despatch to the Cologne Gazelle says the greater part of the Turkish floulla on the Danube, which numbors seventeen vos. sels, with sixty guns, havo left Sulina Harbor and been stationed at various points on the Danube, FRANCE WARNED. ‘The Observer in an editorial article says:—“We have reason to believe that whon a proposal was recently made in the French Chamber of Deputies for the ex. tension of the fortifications of Paris, the scheme was dropped in deference to peremptory doclaratiors from Berlin that any addition to the defences of Paris would be considered a casus belli”? A Paris despatch says that pardons or commutations of sentence have been granted to 224 commanist convicts, SPAIN AND THK AMERICAN CABINET. ‘A despatch from Madrid says the journals of that city express marked displeasure at the appointment of Messrs. Evarts and Schurz to positions in the new Cabinet, They say both have supported tho Cuban filibusters in the United States, and they entortain fears of the result of their accession to power, THE 800100 ISLANDS, A Madria telegram reports that the British and Gor- man Ministers have had an intorview with the Minis- ter of Foreign Affairs on the subject of improved com. merce with the Sooloo Islands. It is understood that liberty of trade with these islands will probably be conceded beforo long, ‘THK INDIAN FAMINE, A dospatch from Calcutta says the number of natives on the rehef works in the Madras Presi- dency bas decreased 47.500 in 1 part week, while there has been «a small increase in Bengal. The spring crop is coming on in the moat distressed districts of Madras, The Mysoro goverm ment reports that nearly two-thirds of the area and half tho population of Mysoro are affected by the famine, and water is scarce. Full reports from tho local viewing his privute secretary. officials on the recent cyclone show that tne total loss ‘ il aia A od Ue ll aaa a Ti le len el