The New York Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1877, Page 6

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TRIPLE SHEET YORK, WEDNESDAY, “MARCH NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS, The Adams Express Company run a special newspaper train over the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections, ty ab a quarver past fou dally and dition o Lo as far th to MV . reaching AM. and Washington at r bi iad ata quart one P.M. From our reports this morning the probabitities are that the weather in New York to-day will be warm and cloudy or parily cloudy, possibly with rain or snow. Watt. v7 Yestervay.—The market was active, pu®ticularly in the dealings in the coal stocks, which were higher than yesterday. Gold was steady at 104 10453 a 1044, opening and closing at the samo fignre. Investment securities were quiet, with but little doing. Moncey opened easy at 2% 21g per cent on call, rose to 3ly and closed at 2 a 3 per cent on call. Worper or Wonpens.—Worcester (Muss.) bas a mad dog which is not of the Spitz family. THanks TO THE Law Northampton is still de- prived of the presence of a suspected bank rob- ber whom she wishes to try according to law. Tre Newcomp-Butie ends in a general acquittal by a coroner's jury. A threatened deluge of scandal is thereby averted, for which deliverance Heaven be devontly praised. SENATORS resolved in caucus ig! 4 the nomination of General McClellan as Superintendent of Public Works, which action works utter ruin to a large amount ! LE yesterday exhibited a further decline in anthracite, and set the curious to wondering anew how the companies succeeded in getting rid of the profits they must have de- rived at old time Tue Weekty Mortaury Tap marked improvement of the public that of the corresponding week of then the public health is not subj ment control or L lative enactment. p shows a War at the Custom House nd, to the great disgust of x8 who fondly hoped the 1 by the government until or ladies take a sudden Tue Great Sir is practically at an those heads of famil goods might be rets times should improv fancy for cheaper Tue Per tion within tl in divorce litiga- ks suggests the ques- tion whether the much-abused Continental sys- tem of long courtships and rigid inquiries as to the reputation of the contracting partics has not ita good points after all, Certainly no plan could yield results much worse than that which is fill- ing the papers with unsavory court reports at present. Ay Otp Mrrnop 0’ aining character and capabilities was applied yesterday in the case of the Rev. Phwbe Hanaford, and if the satisfac- tion rendered was as great as reported we may Yet see the civil service reformed by a hitherto unemployed ag ‘The President of the United Btates, instead of crazing his brain over the com- parative value of the recommendations of rivals for any desirable office, need only tap his bell for his private phrenologist and straight- way the best man will be designated. If all postmasters and collectors have phrenologistsas- signed to them for duty the unscrupulous will know better than to apply for positions. Slate makers in local politics will find the same plan useful ; for, in spite of their expericnce, they do | not always nominate as incompetent and dis- honest men as a careful phrenological re: her might discover. In New York, however, the system would be doomed to failure; for the club of the policeman, like the rain from heaven, falls upon the just and the unjust and creates or protuberances which would d entious phrenologist to the lun wsylum, Tur Wearnen.—Tho rapid succession of de- pressions that is now occurring in the United States renders the weather very variable. On Monday we had cold, clouds and snow. Yester- day comparative warmth and clear skies. To- day wo age likely to have a rising temperature, cloudiness, and possibly rain or snow again. ‘The transitions are due to the movements of areas of high and low pressure over the continent. Yes- terday the area of high pressure which ex- tended over tho lake region and the MiddloStates moved southeastwardly to the coast, bringing us clear weather and warmer winds from south- erly points. To-day the depression which has been in the Missonri and Mississippi valleys will have advanced to the Alleghanies and over tho Ohio Valley and lower Jake region. Tho attendant areas of precipitation extend to the northward and northwestward, and, to some extent, on the southerly margin of the depression. High winds prevail west of the Missouri, while a general rise of temperature throughout the conntry hs taken place. In the South it is very warin. The storms that have passed off the coast are now moving in a northoastwardly direction over the Atlantic, and will strike the Norwegian coast of Europe by Thursday or Friday next. , The Lower Mississippi and Missouri rivers have risen some- what. All others have fallen. The dovelop- ment of storms in the southern latitudes of the NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. et hen perme letter ht rear oh ea RE TT TE TTT, Machine Politics. When President Hayes, in his inaugural message, declared his intention to reform the civil service, the republican politicians at once exclaimed, “He is going to break the machine ;” and some of them now assert that he has already ‘destroyed the party.” Now, there are several hundred thousand republicans in the country who probably do not regard their party and ‘the machine” as synonymous; and there are even people who believe that a party may be the stronger for not being controlled, managed and used as a “machine” by ‘machine politicians.” There has been a good deal of talk for sev- eral years among republicans about ‘reform within the party.” Thoughtful republicans confessed that such reform was needed, but they did not quite know how to get it; and a good many, after waiting until Secretary Chandler made himself chairman of the National Committee and Attorney Gencral Taft became commander in chief of the troops in the South without a word of pro- test from leading republicans, serenely abandoned their party and voted last No- vember with the democrats. Inour judg- ment they did wisely. They took the true way tocompel ‘reform within the party,” by leaving it in a minority in one and, per- haps, in both houses of Congress, Reform within the party means getting rid of “the machine,” and that is what President Hayes has promised to do, If he succeeds in reconstructing the civil service according to the ideas he has developed he will certainly have ‘‘broken the machine,” but it may happen that he will have strengthened and reinvigorated his party at the same time. What is ‘the machine?” Under the constitution the President nomi- nates and the Senate confirms a consider- able number of the chief officers of the government—collectors of revenue, mar- shals, postmasters, Indian agents, district attorneys and others. The President se- lects these, according to the theory of the constitution, and the Senate has a veto power on the selection ; it may, by refusing to confirm, say tothe President, ‘‘Not this man, give us another ;” but it has no con- stitutional power of nomination. In point of fact, howevor, the practice has been fora good many years very different. Senators and Representatives have actually selected their favorites for these positions ; they have given the names to the President, and they have come to feel themselves offended and insulted if he did not obe- diently appoint their men. Thus Congress had come to be mainly an immense oftice- seeking body, and the patronage of the administration was systematically divided between the Senators and Representatives in each State—or rather those belonging to the party in power—like so much plunder, the Senators claiming a right to certain appoint- ments and the Representatives taking the rest, Simple-hearted people wonder why Congressmen should want to perpetu- ate a system which is not only injurious to the public service, but, as they imagine, troublesome to the Senators and Representatives. To a man of real ability, who is worthy of serving in Congress, this business is no doubt an unmitigated nui- sance, and such men scorn to trouble them- selvesaboutit. But this political machinery is absolutely indispensable to the machine politicians, They make their political careers by its help.. Their sole anxiety when they get into Congress is to secure offices for their allies and supporters, and when a machine Congressman has stuffed all the federal places in his district with his own adherents then he feels sure of a re- nomination. It would ruin him if he could not doso. Thus, a Western Senator com- plained the other day that President Hayes had not appointed a single friend of his to office—had not even consultedhim about the appointments in his State ; ‘‘And how am I to be re-elected, I'd like to know?” he ex- claimed. Congress is supposed to be a representa- tive body—members of the lower Honso rep- resenting the people by districts, Senators the people by States. But when the party in power has once fallen into possession of the machine politicians the case is altered. Jongress is still representative body, but it represents no longer the people, but the members of the machine. It is to the in- terest of these to crush out every inde- pendent member—every one having natural ability and genius for public life enough to stand alone and to win votes by the value of his public services. Such men are of no use to the machine. In their places and in all the places, so far as possible, the machine puts men of small ability, who will bo sure to vote right and will pertinaciously secure their share of the patronage to the ‘‘workers” of the party at home, and “push the claims” of the machine’s men. Hence, when the machine gets con- trol the party ceases to be usefnl to the people. Its object is not to serve the coun- try, not to bring able men into public life, but to maintain the ascendancy of a limited number of men who form a ‘‘Ring.” There- fore public questions are trifled with or evaded; there is promise of reform, but no performance, because to do anything would be to ‘disturb the harmony of the part: and if the machine can elect to the Presi- dency a man who is too ignorant or timid to grasp public questions and to carry out a policy it is happy and secure, becanse then everything except office-secking is safely put off, and from one four years’ end to the other the whole power of the machine can be de- voted to the single object of perpetuating itself. It is not surprising that the course of President Hayes has struck terror into the hearts of the machine politicians. He has defied all their commands and precedents, The grand maxim of the machive men is that “it is the hay at the end of the pole which makes the horse pull.” But the President has taken away the hay from the end of the pole. He has not rewarded the “workers.” He does not favor the men who have ‘‘claims.” He is not afraid of delega- | tions nor respectful toward deputations. He does not remove and appoint place- holders at the request or demand of Con- gressmen. He has not asked Senators whom they would like to have put ont orin, He has kept in faithful officers, even where they were not political workers; and, in short, he has shown a contempt for patronage and a dislike of patronage-mongers which, while it is delightful to the country, is of course very hatetul to the machine men, who see him treat carelessly the things which are most sacred to them. To introduce permanence into the civil service; to make appointments only to fill vacancies, and only for character and merit; to refuse to reward the “workers” and to regard “claims” and delegations with con- tempt—what can be more awful or embar- rassing to the machine men? We see it stated as part of the outrageous conduct of the President that he has not put into the Cabinet or sent to a foreign mission a singlo member of the Republican National Com- mittee. Evidently it was the hay at the end of the pole which made these horses pull; and alas ! they see the hay now disappearing around the corner. The Cabinet actnally does not contain a single representative of the ‘workers,” unless Mr. Sherman be counted one. It is truly awful, but the country looks with pleased amusement at the disappointment of the machine men, and it will support the President if only he will stand firm and resolutely break the machine. Ho has engaged himself to the people to reform the civil service. He can- not do this without “breaking the machine,” and he cannot do a better thing for the country. “My Awful Dad. Something like a year and a half ago that pre-eminent English comedian, Mr. Mathews, wrote and produced a light and amusing | play which he christened ‘My Awful Dad.” By the perfection of his own acting in the title réle and the happy adaptation of the | piece to the requirements of the stage Mr. | Mathews succeeded in making ‘My Awful Dad” the reigning favorite in London, and now the Mathews of our own stage has un- dertaken to introduce the terrible papa to New York, where he promises to establish himself in as great favor as he did on his natal soil. In his latest character Mr. Wal- lack has made something of a new depart- ure. He has been identified hitherto with the young heroes of romance and comedy, but in “My Awful Dad” he shows that he can be not less effective and at the same time true to nature in depicting a rather elderly beau. The thorough train- ing which the old school of actors received gave them a versatility to which the modern never attain. In the old days, known to the general publicas ‘‘palmy,” the best actor was the man who could most completely sink his own individuality and assume with ease and trath a number of distinctly different characters, At the pres- ent time tho best young actors are special- ists who must have parts written to fit them. During the present season Mr. Wallack has shown us how admirably he can play such diverse réles as the rollicking Rover, the alternately bashful and impudent Young Marlowe, tho modern English swell, Sir Edward Ardent, and the reckless, earnest, passionate and self-sacrificing Hugh Trevor. Now he offers, in Adonis Evergreen, some- thing distinct from all these, and from any- thing in which we can remember him. His triumph, which has been ungrudgingly recorded by all the critics, is the best proof of the efficacy of the old system of profes- sional training. The lesson is one that may with advantage be taken to heart by thoso who value their art and hope to retain their hold of the public up to the last day of their appearance upon the mimic stage. Making Rome Howl. ; It is a queer story that is telegraphed from Rome and has somewhat the aspect of a discovery of one of those famous curiosi- ties known as mare's nests. By this report it appears that several Jesuits have just rushed to Rome from Florence with the inten- tion of restoring the temporal power of the Pope. They are instructed to avoid collision with the civil authorities, but have “lists of volunteers pre- pared to serve under the Papal fing,” which would seem to imply that they are not to avoid collision with the military au- thorities. Large sums of money have been collected ; everybody has been written to and has promised to co-operate, and finally “there is no doubt that steps in this direc- tion have long been preparing.” One is tempted to wonder why, if the restoration of the temporal power is so easy as all this, somebody did not restore it several months since, In _ this country when anybody proposes a new Fenian campaign we know precisely what it means, All the bands are to play “The Wearing of the Green,” the boys are to drink to the downfall of England, and the girls are to come out with their little subscription. If we could believe that this wretched kind of plunder had made its way so faras the Eternal City we might fancy the story reported covered an assault on the pockets of the faithful rather than on the Italian army. But we incline to the opinion that the head of the Order of Jesuits is not a man of so little sense as pictured by tho despatch, and in short that the despatch has not many facts in it. Revenue on Tap, It is proposed in Virginia that the thirsty citizens of that old Commonwealth shall drink the State out of debt. This isa sublime fancy and will give great impetus to the consumption of ardent spirits ; for there breathes not a man in that com- munity who, finding that it has become a sort of patriotic duty to indulge the fre- quent tipple, will not lend his throat and bend his elbow for the salvation of the old State. Two cents and a half to the State every time a man takes his whiskey at the bar, and half a cont every time he takes beer. That is the proposed form of the law. Its first effect will be on tho language, Men will invite one another to “pay the State debt,” or to ‘contribute to the reve- nue,” or to “swell the burden of the tax collector.” Fifty more or less pic- turesque phrases of this sort will take the place immediately of tho prosy “take something” of other days. But its financial effect will be substantial. It is estimated that there are now just three | hundred thousand tumblers in that State, | and that these are in constant use at all the bars, moving forever from the counters to the mouths of thirsty citizens. Between beer State o dollar a day, and at the end of the year the Virginia treasury will own all the money there is in the United States. It is proposed to keep the accounts with the bell punch, and we observe that it is said the making of these instruments will be thrown open to competition. Are they not aware in Virginia that the manufacture of that great instrument of civilization is covered by letters patent? President Hayes and the South. The country will regret the failure of the Cabinet to reach any definite conclusion yesterday respecting the unfortunate polit- ical condition of Louisiana and South Caro- lina. We trust this appearance of vacilla- tion will not continue much longer, because it tends to undermine confidence, not in- deed in the sincerity, but in the steadiness, of President Hayes. It will not do for him to let the country get the impression that, having decided on ao course of action as right, he quails before ob- stacles, “letting I dare not wait upon I would.” The easiest way to dispose of opposition is to meet it on the frontier and annihilate it beforo it has time to gather recruits. The Southern problem is simple enough. ‘The President has only to withdraw the federal troops from Columbia and New Orleans on the engagements of Governors Hampton and Nicholls that they will preserve the peace and maintain order. They have every motive to keep their pledges, and thé President has no good reason to doubt their ability. The more promptly he acts the less formidable will be the preparations of the recalcitrants, Cham- berlain and Packard are making an indus- trious use of this period of delay. They are marshalling and combining their abettors both at home and in Washington. They are able to diffuse an impression that the Presi- dent wavers and that a resolute onset may cause him to abandon, or at least modify, his declared policy. All this delay gives them hope and courage and assists them in organ- izing a body of allies. They think they have accomplished « great deal in getting him to consult and deliberate on a ques- tion upon which his mind was made up before he came to Washington and pro- claimed to the country in his inaugural address, Politicians are too apt to reason like adventurous lovers, and think their suit is substantially gained when the object of their importunities begins to hesitate. As the lady says in the play:—- When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of ail the virtue we may boast ‘The woman that deliberates is lost. ‘Lhe true sentiment of a virtuous woman is, ‘He comes too near that comes to be de- nied ;” in other words, the true course is to listen to no proposals. We think President Hayes would have done better had he turned a deaf ear to Packard and Chamberlain after the public declarations in his inaugural. If his mind was not fully made up he should not have made so public a pledge; if his mind was fully made up on this most im- portant of all the questions which met him atthe threshold, he should not have strength- ened the opponents of his policy by signs of vacillation. The menace of Packard to precipitate a conflict with the Nicholls government isa natural frvit of the President’s delay and indecision. Had the President ‘taken time by the forelock” and acted at once the trouble would have been all over more than a week ago. Kvery day’s procrastination will increase the difficulties of the situation. “There is a tide in the affairs of men,” and it behooves Mr. Hayes to take advantage of the great flood tido of popularity which sets so strongly in his favor to‘ float him over obstacles on which he will get aground if he waits for it to recede. Packard acts on the maxim that while there is life there is hope; but when the troops are once withdrawn he will subside, Defeat of Canadian Protectionists. The question of a bigh tariff for the sup- posed ‘‘protection” of Canadian manufac- tures was brought to an issue in the Lower House of the Dominion Parliament last week, and the ‘‘isolationists”—if we may invent a title for them—suffered a signal defeat. The policy of the present administration is a tariff for revenue purposes, and an amend- ment favoring an increase of the duties on manufactures was lost by a vote of seventy- eight in its favor to one hundred and nino against it—an adverse majority of thirty- one. This result is gratifying enough; but the Toronto Globe, in analyzing the vote, taking into account and classifying the ab- sentees, states that it shows tho total minis- terial strength to be one hundred and twenty-nine and the total opposition sey- enty-five, ora ministerial majority of fifty- four. Eight ministerialists who represent strong protection districts voted for the amendment, but will be with the govern- ment in the final support of its revenue policy. There are other amendments yet to be disposed of, but it is not thought that ony of them will fare even os well as that which was killed on ‘Lhursday last. Our Canadian neighbors are suffering, as we are suffering on this side of the dividing line, from the general depression of all kinds of business. The Inmber, shipping, manufacturing, mining and agricultural in- terests all feel the effect of the temporary stagnation which paralyzes the industries on both sides of the Atlantic. Every cir- cumstance tends to encourage the belicf that the worst of the trouble is now over and that a more cheering prospect opens before us. Letter times aro approaching, Tho dangers which seemed to threaten our own peace have been happily averted. The prosperity of the Sonthern States is about to be restored. Gold is at so low a premium as to prom- ise a speedy and natural resumption. The war cloud in Europe is less dark and threatening than it was a few months ago, Canada will share in tho general revival, provided her people are sensible enough to adopt a broad, liberal policy. They could not look for the growth of their splendid country if they should tear up all their rail- roads, destroy their telegraph lines and re- turn to the old stage coaches and the slow mails. They cannot hope to share in the returning business activity and to become prosperous and wealthy if they creep back into the old “protection” errors and shut and whiskey evory tumbler will net (ho | themselves out from the rest of the world. Let them meet the United States ana friendl ally and not as a jealous rival, and the two countries will pursue, side by side, their onward progress, each an aid and encour- agement to the other. Not Petrified. We are glad that the Father of His Coun- try is not petrified os it was reported that he was; glad that the report to that effect is contradicted on the authority of a man whose word may be taken as to a cadaver, but who may not be a Inpidary. There have, no doubt, been facts in our recent history that would have justified the sponta- neous conversicn into stone of anything that was left of George Washington, but it would have been an undigni- fied proceeding on George's part to have taken any such notice of them; and George was never found wanting on the side of dignity. Moreover, it would have been unworthy of George's character and his name for anything to have been left of him at this time to turn into stone, One of the first duties of a well conducted corpse, once buried, is to resolve itself into the original elements. Any other line of condnet is ill bred and vulgar. ‘‘A tanner,” it is true, “will last you nine year,” and that is the extreme limit to which ultimate dissolution may be deferred—even for a tanner. But, then, who and what is a tanner that the grandest gentleman of the New World should imitate him? Extravaganco is always avoided by modest men who regard their dignity as George did, and the indulgence in petrifaction is an extravagance of de- meanor of which he could never have been guilty. This turning into stone is a kind of post-mortem unquiet—an eager grasping at the retention of the semblance of life by which the corpse, so to speak, “gives himself away,” and proves that he loved life more than a hero should, and that he would not have died if he could have helped it. We rejoice that George has not been found guilty of such weakness. It is with great satisfaction that we find ourselves fully relieved from the apprehension that we should some day or another have met George Washington in an anatomical mu- seum. Temperance and the Drama. The influence of the stage has been always on the side of temperance; for although the elder Kean, the elder Booth, George Fred- erick Cooke and many other great actors occasionally yielded to those temptations which seem to beset fiery and impassionate genius, they are but exceptions to the rule, The actor's profession is one which requires hard and constant study, and good habits are indispensable to success. The result is that on the modern stage inebriety is almost en- tirely unknown. Yet the theatre, wo think, is responsible for much of the hilarity of its warmest admirers. ‘he complaint is made that between the acts of plays young men, and indeed their awful dads, leave the thea- tre to indulge in beer, brandy, whiskey, cloves, crackers, apple-jack and other intox- icating beverages. The example, however, is set them on the stage. Bacchus and the vine have been celebrated in the English comedies ever since Autolycus sang their praise in the ‘‘Winter's Tale.” Who but an anchorite could fail to appreciate the spirit with which, in “She Stoops to Conquer,” Messrs. Gil- bert, Wallack and Stevenson drain among themselves a tankard, one foot deep, and supposed to contain hot water, sugar, Ja- maica rum and nutmeg? In the ‘School for Scandal” our old friend Mr. Careless carols a song, of which the moral is that a toast to any woman, young or old, is a good enough excuse for a glass. When Mlle. Aimée in “Giroflé-Girofla” sings her enchanting song and brews her Circean flaming bowl of punch every one who listens has an im- mediate desire to drink, Then we have Falstaff, the great intellectual drinker, who sanctified sack and gave to English litera- ture the flavor of cakes and ale, The op- eras are also full of drinking songs from the “Don Juan” of Mozart to the “Traviata” of Verdi. It is true that drama- tists are more responsible than the actors for this apotheosis of wine, but the effect upon the public is the same. Mr. Gilbert and Mr. Coghlan, no doubt, quaff goblets of air and enjoy imaginary Barmecide ban- quets; but the results of these illusions are seductive to the spectator, and who can blame him if sometimes he attempts to real- ize for himself the pleasures he sees upon the stago? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, San Francisco poople are eating strawberries, Pale blue is trimmed with flowers of pale pink. There are trimmings of cherry for brilliant white. 1t 18 predicted that ladies’ boots this spring will, in color, match their costumes. Farmers in Bergen county, N. J., aro informed that now isthe time to sot mosquitovs, Outside pockets are still declurcd fashionable, They are too convenient to be dispensed with. Senator Latayetto F, Grover, of Oregon, arrived at the St. Nicholas yesterday, from Washington, Mr. Moody denies that ho was born in Illinois; but they havo discovered the very windmill that he used to blow round. Among the new parusols ts ono of black silk, trim- med with a deep floance of lace, and having a gayly colored butterfly embrotdered on tt, Light blue crepe vails, having long ends tied around the neck and fastened in front with a pin or a rosebud, are particularly becoming to blondes. St. Louis Republican :—*Monograms on garters are going out of style, and it’s just as well, The coun- try is boing flooded with too much light Iterature any- how.” Josh Billings says:—"The mow! is alarger bird than tho guse or turkey. It hastwo legs to walk with, and two more to kick with, and wears its wings on the sido of its hed.’” When streamers are worn on bonnets they will be Jongor than ever, Although long streamers are tho more gracoful, by being carried to tho extreme thoy aro often made to appear ridiculous. The furnitare of the House ot Reprosentutives ts in bright yellow oak and cane, very much the color of pulled taffy; while that of the Senate ism dark ma, hogany and black horso hair, like burnt caramels. The Grecian knot at tho back of the bead is seidom secon now, The hair is rolled in many pulls high on the head, The Grecian was astyle beceming to few, making pretty girls look plain and plain ones pori- tively ugly. Evening Telegram:—*Mr, Beechor approves the Cab- inet. He says that Mr, Evarts is a delightful talker, but talks too much about himself, This is not quite kind, considering that ho once talked about Beecher the larger part of a fortnight.’ Now purses, very useful for carrying the trouble. some sliver coins, aro made of smail rings of steel or vered wire, They have long chains and may bo either suspended from the belt or held in the: band. ‘The prico of them varies, according to the size, from Any conts to $2 TELEGRAPHIC NEWS | From All Parts of the World. THE EASTERN SYLLOGISM, All Negotiations Subordinate to a Settlement of the Montenegrin Question. RUSSIA’S MYSTERIOUS POWER. London in Suspenss Over New War Mutterings. THE APPEAL OF THE POPE. [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Lonpon, March 21, 1877, The general opinion in the best informed circles is that the signing of the protocol by England will not alter the situation unless Russia at once dis- bands her armies; but she cannot demobilize until Turkey disarms, Turkey cannot disarm until the conclusion of peace with Montenegro. Montenegro does not intend to conclude peace, and if she did Russia would not permit her. Eng- land finds that Montenegrois a condition which she had not before taken into account. Everything de- pends on Montenegro; Montenegro depends on Russia, Thus we get back to firat principles. There will be a Cabinet meeting in Downing street to-day. The business immediately before it Is the consideration of tle latest edition of the protocol. This document originally spoke of action tn the event of the Porte not carrying out feforms. The word ‘action’? was altered, however, to more vague and gencral terms, But these terms have not found favor at St. Petersburg. Gortechakoff now suggests a new wording—viz., ‘That the Powers shall consult togethor to Insist,” &a It will be for the Cabinet to determine whether the word ‘insist’? impiles pledges which they don’t mean toincar. If they see no danger in it and some other trifling variations tho next protocol may be con- sidered accepted as a proposition. If England objects to the phraseology there is no reason to believe that Ruesia will raise any serious difficulty. But the important matter which now prevents tho signing of the protocol is the question of demobilization. Our government !s understood to require an assurance from Russia that she will demobilize, Russia main. tains that it is contrary to her dignity to give such aesurance, Sho asserts she is bound by honor and ine torest to demobilize; but sho declines to give a positive pledge, and, moreover, requires that the protocol be signed, peace concluded with Montenegro and the dis. armament of Turkey begun bofore she will demobilize, The Post points out this morning that if England sigos the protocol, her first duty will bo toask the Porte to disarm, The Turks would certainly refuse to do so whilo the Russian troops remain on the frontier, England would thus be placed iu a paintally ridiculous position. ORIFT OF OPINION IN THE CAPITALS, It now seems certain that the protocol will bo signed on Thursday. It is reported in Paris that a courior bas started for London with a despatch rela- live to demobilization. The demobilization can be carried out very speedily, as the mobilized regiments are mostly stationed at post constituting their usual garrison quarters, A Berlin despatch says a settlement is thought to_bo at hand. A Vienna correspondent notices the reaction {rom recent confidence, and says fear is expressed that after all the protecol will prove deceptive, He alludes to the disarmament difficuity, and to gravo doubts which aro curront, that the Porte will agree to the protocol in any shape, This opinion finds startling strength in a special despatch to the Daily News trom its correspondent at Pesth which says:—"I hear by tolegraph from Constantinople that the Porte is determined not to accept the {nternational protocol in any form whatever.” The Yelegraph’s Vienna special, on the other hand, says that according to advices from Russian Poland all traneportation of troops southward has been suse ‘pended by ordera from St, Petersburg, NOT SO VERY PEACKFUL. The outlook has not been so hopeful during the paet twenty-four hours, Tho Jatt Mall Gazetle of last even- ing in a leading article says:—“Tho silent testimony of events scems to point more and more directly te war, or at any rate to the evor progressing acoumula- tion of material of which wars ure made There 18 no pause in military preparations on either side, Tho disturbances in Bosnia ure spreading, the Montenegrin envoys have their answer from tho Porte, difficulty has arisen with Servia about presenting a firman and from all sides comes grave news of discontent in tho Turkish capital, Whilo diptomacy thinks only of the necessity of making concessions to the Czar to enable bim-to ree strain bis people, it may suddenly find all its calcula. tions overthrown by being confronted with a counter necessity of making concession to tho Porte to enable it, too, to hold its subjects in check. ”? TURKKY AND HER CAMINET, According to accounts from Constantinople the despondency caused by Midhat Pacha’s fall nas been succeeded by exasperation, which seems almost ready for anything. The hope in Midhat Pacha’s ability to save Turkey might have proved illusory, but it cer. tainly was exceedingly strong. Edhem Pacha and his colicagues vainly endeavor to do the best according to their abilities, No one believes in them; they cannot carry popular feoling with them; discontent grows daily; the police are kept constantly searching after the authors of the placards, which are posted by night, even on public buildings guarded by sentinels, and anonymous letters to the Minister full of invectives against the “incapable gov- ernment which takes all able bodied Mohammedans for soldiers, grinds down the people by war taxes and yet makes humiliating peace with Servia and even talks of ceding territory to the Montenegrin robbers,” Ulomas and Softas are transported to St. Jean d’Acre, but that does little good, as the same language that appears on the p'acards is current among the people, being openly | spoken 1a every café and even in tho government offices and military schools. Arrests aro made, houses soarched and conspiracies sought which do not exist, as all except those actually im possession of power are moro or less of tho same mind, THE MONTENRGRIN: pIVFICULTY. In this condition of tho popular mind the prospects of negotiations with Montenegro chuse great anxiety; but what 1s feared above all by all reflecting persons at Constantinople 1s tho eventual disbanding of the army. The people have been disturbed from their normal avocations throughout the Empire to defend their country and religion, and now these thousanda of Albanians, Circassians, Arabs und Kurds aro to go home again, probably unpaid, to find their lands un tilled and bomes destitute, Every letter from the outlying provinces is fuil of apprehensions of the possible consequences of a wholesale disbandment of this kind, The diMeulty of communicating with the Prince at Cettinjo renders the position of the Montenogrin delegates a very une pleasant one, Having telegraphed from Constantinople on Sunday for a repetition of tho Vrince’a despateh, which was undecipherable, thoy received yesterday a fresh teiogram, which was likewise unintelligible, They havo ngain asked for a repetition, The Turkish and Moptenogrin armies will remain on the defensive, Lene negotiations not having been ruptured. The Sul- j i