The New York Herald Newspaper, March 23, 1877, Page 6

EW YORK HERALD | BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ished ccery day in the year, excluded). Ten doliars per er month for any period Vess *. Sunday THE DAILY HERALD, year, or at rate of one dotla than six months, or five dollars for six mont edition included, free of postuxe. aE er News letters or telegraphic despatches must ‘Letters and packages should Le properly * Rejected communications will not be returned, Parepaats OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH RTRELT. LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO, 46 FLEET STREET. PAKIS OFFIC VENUE DE L/OPERA, NAPLES OFF! 7 STRADA PACE. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the sume terms ax in New York, VOLUME XL... aie AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE—LoNpoN Assumancy PARK THEATRE—Ovr Boarnino House, WALLACK’S THEATR: OLYMPIC THEATRE—! 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Gold opened and closed at 1047, business being done at that figure and at 10434, Government and railroad bonds were quiet and steady. Money on call loaned at 2 a3 per cent, the former being the closing price. Tue Besr Sicy or Tur Tomes—The increasing demand ‘for labor. TWELVE Rat-roavs are to be sold under the hammer within twomonths. Holders of the stock of these roads have already been sold. Tue Orricers or THe Law are determined that oureitizensshall have pure water. Six of the men who have been adultering water with milk and selling it under the name of the latter bever- age were yesterday fined by Judge Sutherland. REMEMBERING THE RABLE COMPANY and tinal end to which the ptures assign cx- tortioners it is not strange that some good peo- ple on the east end of Long Island suy uncom- plimentary things about the owners of “A Saintly Ferr, Meister Maynarp’s Descrirtion of the Tur- kish navy, which we publish to-day, is quite inter esting, but if it were to contain all the stories that are told on the Continent about the incapa- city of the Turkish naval officers it would be the funniest State paper on re Crookep Whiskey was made atraight in Judge Blatehford’s court yesterday, and the government has Jearned from the course of the great case, w inst it, that even a pardot a convict give damagi s ANT has been killed. Every traveller knows of many that deserve sudden death, and it is to be regretted that the victim in this case was guilty only of doing his duty, when so many could be found whose only attention to their duties is of the nature of neglect. Our Mexican Apvices of different dates and from different sources agree that the army is the principal hindrance to peace and prosperity. The conqueror Diaz has been shamefully beaten in council by his own officers, and the probabilities are that the government will be run in the inter- est of a set of uniformed robbers. Ovr Comparative Statement of imports from the United Kingdom during the earlier months of this year and 1576 gives new evidence of the growing intelligence of the people on the remedy for hard times. The average decrease is very great, and with one exception the increases gre on articles of absolute nevessity. Tuene Is a § st10N abroad that the city officers should accept smaller salaries, so that money may be obtained with which to pay for lighting the lamps around the statues of Frank- lin and Lincoln. ‘The originals of the statues were patriots and statesmen, so our local poli- ticians are utterly incompetent in any way to Man Arproves Of divided re- ity affairs. He owns a fat ren- sponsibility in dering establishment on the west side, and is in- tidentally the manufacturer of odors which arise do the great disgust and alleged ill-health of his seighbors. Complaints to the Health Board brought the afflicted no relief, and the Board of Aldermen are without power to act in the matter, | vo the happy fat boiler is undisturbed except by vague rumors trom Albany, and the smoke of the torment ascendeth. ‘Tue wharmer.—A storm centre from the | West Indian region has approached the South Atlantic coust, touching it in the vicinity of Hat- teras, and is now moving away over the Atlantic toward the British Islands. It will reach Europe probably on or before Monday next, and | will carry with it heavy rains and gales. Another depression—one already noted in the Hxratp—bas advanced over the lakes and the Ohio Valley from the region of the Lower Missouri, Brisk winds, but little precipitation, attend this disturbance. Rains bave fallen on the South Atlantic coast, and also on the Nova Scotia coust. Very high temperature prey the Southwestern States and the Lower Missis- sippi Valleyanda moderately hightemperature on | the Atlantic coast, but it is very cold in the North and Northwest. A tornado is possible during to-day in Iowa, where remarkable dilfer- enves of temperature and pressure prevail, ‘The weather in New York today will be warm and }, probably with rain. The Lower Missis- :etppi and Ugver Obio have risen. . in | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. Confession and Execution of John D. Lee—Was Brigham’ Young #n Accomplice? One of the most noted of the Mormon “Saints” will to-day pay the tardy penalty of the most atrocious crime it is possible for a human being to commit. The forfeiture of one life by the painless death of shooting seems a miserably inadequate punishment for the indescribable treachery and cruelty which consigned one hundred and twenty- seven innocent men, women and children to afate which fills the imagination with horror, even when recollected at the dis- tance of twenty years. The shudder sent through the country by the Mountain Meadows massacre at the time of its occur- rence Wa rather physical than moral. It was given out by the Mormons, and for a long time believed, that it was merely an Indian massacre. We have long been wont to regard these savage hell-hounds as a more cunning species of wild beasts, or blood- thirsty wolves in human shape. We do not hold them to the responsibilities of civilized men, When we get a chance to chis- tise them for their barbarities we do it rather from a sense of ex- pediency than the prompting of outraged justice. But when it came to be known that the Indians who participated in the Mountain Meadows massacre were the hired tools of Mormon assassins; that fifty or sixty Mormons were present at the scene, and, besides directing the Indians, took an active part in the butchery; that the diabolical treachery was all theirs, the plan theirs, the command theirs, and their own hands were as deeply imbrued in innocent blood as those of their savage instruments, a very different feeling was aroused from that which had been excited by the lying tale of a mere Indian massacre. Hor- ror deepened into indignant execration, and justice will not be appeased by the execu- tion of one of the fifty-six Mormon mur- derers. All who consented to that inhuman butchery or assisted in its perpetration ought to share the fate of Lee. If, as Lee charges in his confession, the head of the Mormon Church was an accomplice, he, above all others, should not escape. The execution of Lee, although inade- quate, is an impressive spectacle of retribu- tion. The general interests of justice re- quire that punishment should tread close upon the heels of crime; but there is some- thing truly awful, almost appalling, in the visitation which overtakes a criminal after so long a period of impunity. It gives usa lively sense of the moral government which is supreme in human affairs, which does not sleep when it seems inactive, which, when it postpones, does not forget, which re- serves the vengeance it does not inflict, and leaves offenders to “treasure up wrath against the day of wrath.” Transgressors are admonished and warned both by the Providence which visits swift retribution and by the delay of justice which is all the more signal when it comes. ‘‘When Thy judgments ore abroad in the earth the people will learn righteousness;” and the tardy as well as the swift judgments con- tribute to the same impressive lesson. The mere physical pain suffered by this atrocious Mormon miscreant is but a small part of his punishment. He has endured the agony of a hundred deaths in his fearful looking for this day’s scene. His con- science, which slumbered so long, awoke after his detection and has scourged him with a whip of scorpions. It has tor- tured him into making a full disclosure of his treacherous and butcherly crime, and the burden of guilt and infamy being tvo great for him to bear alone he has sought to share it with his accomplices, If his confession is to be believed Brigham Young is as guilty as himself, for although Young took no part in the actual butchery it was done at his instigation and with his connivance. Whether Lee’s accusation of Brigham Young is true is a question which will be decided by the public judgment after weigh- ing all the circumstances and probabilities of the case in connection with the statements made in the confession. But whether Brigham Young was the arch-instigator of the massacre or not makes little difference in the guilt ofLee, He had no right to stain his hands with those treacherous and bloody butcheries even if ho had been commanded by a thousand Brigham Youngs. A man who betrays and murders the innocent because others bid him is not the less a villain but only the more a slave. Every Mormon who shared in the massacre is alike guilty and ought to share the fate of Lee, Every one of .the fifty-six whose names are given in the confession should pay the penalty of the law without regard to their degree of command or subordination, onthe plain principle of criminal law that a confederacy in crime excuses none of the participants. In the eye of the law they are all equally guilty, whatever might be tho nature of the part they acted, and if Brig- ham Young planned, directed, connived at and concealed the whole, if, as Lee charges, he was an accomplice both before and after the fact, neither his gray hairs nor his tot- tering old age, with one foot in the grave, should exempt him from the ignominy of a | murderer's death. After receiving Lee's confession, which | we printed yesterday, we telegraphed to Brigham Young stating the substance of that part of it which implicates him, and offering to publish whatever he might choose to say in reply. He accord- ingly sends the brief despatch which we print this morning. It is a broad, emphatic contradiction supported only by an appeal to his character as known to those best acquainted with him, A denial was to have been expected in any case, for no man who had contrived or instigated so horrible o crime would confess it except under circum- stances like those which have extorted the confession of Lee, As the matter stands it isa question of veracity between the Mormon prophet and the Mormon bishop. The motive of Brigham’s denial, if he is guilty, is sufficiently obvioys ; and the motive of Lee's accusation is also ob- vious if Young is innocent. But whether it is more probable that a dying man would make a false charge for the sake of revenge than that his alleged accomplice would make o talso denial for self-protection is a | question on which opinions will differ ac- cording to the estimate which has been formed of the character of Brigham Young. Lee's statements are a great deal more ex- plicit and specific as to Brigham Young's guilty knowledge immediately after the fact, his approval of the deed, and efforts to shield it, than in respect to his having insti- gated it. As to Brigham Young's part in planning the crime Lee’s statements are so vague as to amountto mere innuendo. If he could have madea definite charge the whole animus of his confession proves that he ; would have done so, Lee's evidence on that head must, therefore, be regarded as worth- less. But as to what followed the massacre his statements are precise, and the fact that he deals in mere innuendons to the grave part of the accusation would seem to indicate that his story is not an invention where he professes to’ relate specific facts; for if he meant to ruin Young by falsehoods there is no reason why he should not accuse him as strongly of complicity before the fact as of complicity after the fact. Lee avers that he went to Young ten days after the massacre and told him the whole story in all its sick- ening details. Young said he would ‘‘com- municate with God.” The next day he told Lee that he ‘shad gone to God in prayer. Brother Lee, not a drop of innocent blood has been shed. God has shown me that it was a just act,” Soon afterward Brigham Young preached a public sermon at Cedar City in which he denounced tke emigrants in the most ferocious and abusive language and proclaimed damnation on all who should inform on those who took part in the massa- cre. If these facts are true Brigham Young was at least an accomplice after the fact, by his guilty knowledge of the massacre, by his wholesale justification of the perpetrators, and by his resolute fury in protecting them from exposure and punishment. The Kaiser’s Birthday. A century ago Prussia was one of the smaller kingdoms of Europe in extent, yet one of the greatest in ambition. Her career of conquest began when Frederick the Great invaded Silesia and laid the foundations of the present German Empire. Since the days of that great ruler no German sovereign rivals in fame the venerable Emperor whose birthday was honored yesterday. William I. military and political career was crowned King of Prussia in 1861, He used the op- portunity to proclaim the divine right of kings, a theory which the liberal policy of Prince Bismarck compelled him to modify. His reign is full of important events and has changed the map of Europe. In the north he made successful war upon Den- mark, and turning to the south, in 1866, crushed Austria with the needle gun at Sadowa. Looking to the west he wrested Alsatia and Lorraine from France, and destroyed, at Sedan and Metz, the third Empire of the Na- poleons. He had before this formed the North German Confederation, but this was followed by the infinitely greater work of uniting all Germany under a single head. The King of what was only a petty State scarcely a hundred years ago was crowned Emperor of Germany Jahuary 18, 1871, in the ancestral halls of the French kings at Versailles, His policy since that great conquest has been one of civil construction rather than military aggression. Religion has become a principal issue in Europe, and the Pope of Rome seems now to be the most dreaded foe of Germany. The Em- peror William is now eighty years of ago and can look back upon a life of almost un- interrupted victory. His great achievement was the unification of the German States and the creation of a central empire in Europe. Yesterday his birthday was cele- brated wherever the German language is spoken, and in no city with more enthusi- asm than in New York. Fair Incapables at Washington. The Third Assistant Postmaster General, who has charge of the Dead Letter Office at Washington, has found it necessary to pro- test against the appointment of female clerks in that department without subject- ing the appointees to a civil service test. “There seems to be a prevailing impression among some Senators and members of Con- gress,” he says to the Postmaster General, “that intelligence is. not an essential prerequisite for a (female) clerkship in the Dead Letter Office,” and he asks that the ladies who seek such appointments shall undergo the same examination as to qualifications as is applied to males. An order to that effect has there- fore been issued, and as it is tg apply.to those already in the, office as well as to new comers it will no doubt occasion a flutter among the fair employés. It is probable that some of the Senators and Congressmen to whom the Assistant Postmaster General alludes will have some of their encum- brances returned to then. The Washington offices have been quite a convenience of late years to those grave law-makers and Cabinet officers who have had fair friends to provide for, and it 1s about time that the civil ser- vice test should be applied to both sexes in the public service. It is alloged that some female clerks in tho Washington. depart- ments receiving good salaries can scarcely write their names, Their qualifications cannot be discovered by any save those whose influence procures them their posi- tions. Sitting Bull’s Campaign. Our old friend Sitting Bull seems re- solved to make matters lively in the Yellow- stone region this spring. In another col- | umn will be found an interesting letter from our Bozeman correspondent giving the latest details of the movements of the hostile bands. The winter operations carried on against them seem, to have had the result of bringing the bands together for the pur- pose of mutual protection. They do notscem to have suffered any loss of morale and are certainly as much dreaded as ever by their hereditary enemies, the Crows. It is warriors are assembled on the Big Horn under Sitting Bull, Dull Knife and Crazy Horse, three of their boldest and ablest leaders, and the demonstration they have already made against the Crow Agency shows that they are not inclined to act on tho de- fensive. Active preparations are on foot for | Southern policy would be a contrast to that was born in 1797, and after an eventful | Boney osha Bcd | said that two thousand five hundred Sioux | the spring campaign against them, and no doubt there are honorably dangerous enter- prises awaiting the Army of the North. We hope the lessons of last year will not be for- | gotten, and that the Sioux will be so! handled that they will be glad to accept peace at the price of total disarmament. How Does Hay: Southern Policy Differ from Grant's? It is mortifying enough to be compelled to ask this question after our strong and ; warm indorsements of the new President's | Southern policy given on our faith in his declarations, But it is acts, not words, performance, not mere promises, that must control our judgment of the conduct of ® public functionary when he has had time to translate his good words and fine promises into acts and performance. We do not yet despair of President Hayes ; and if it shall turn out that he suc- | ceeds in accomplishing circuitously what | we should have preferred to see him do directly, we will not withhold a just meed of praise, But the time is past for judging | him by his words. We await his acts and hold our judgment in suspense. He cannot very well afford to disregard our opinion and advice. Our columns aim to express, | and more or less succeed in expressing, the average judgment of the country. We are freo from, any temptation to indulge in the snarling, captious invec- tives of the opposition press, and have no motive for chiming in with the adulation of administration organs. Wo think we have some skill in estimating and interpreting the drift of public sentiment, following its changes, and judging how far it rests upon reasons which are likely to make it steady. We tell the President, with the frankness of honest friendship, that the first flush of popularity which attended his ' accession to office will be as transient as the moving cloud and the early dew if he disappoints the expectations raised by his admirable promises and declarations in the inaugural address, This great | tide of popularity, these ‘blushing honors ; thick upon him,” are a tribute paid by an eager country which seeks repose, to the supposed sincerity of his declarations, The people understood him to mean that his of his predecessor, and their joy at the ex- pected change sprang up like favoring winds to waft him on his projected voynge. But if they find, after all, that he does nothing | different from what President Grant would have done had he remained in power, all the flattering applause and marks of encourage- ment with which the new President has been greeted will give way to a feeling of pro- found discouragement. Judged by actual measures and not by mere promises, what is President Hayes doing which would not be equay in char- acter if done by President Grant? He is maintaining the status quo precisely as Grant maintained the status quo. He does it with professions ot reluctance, but Grant’s profes- sions of regret and reluctance were never wanting. He even falls behind Grant in one respect, for before Grant went out of office he publicly said that State governments which cannot sustain themselves ought to be abandoned, and he continued the troops in New Orleans and Columbia merely not to embarrass his successor or deprive him of the credit of his policy by anticipating it. Why should President Hayes hesitate at a point where President Grant was prepared toact? Had Grant remained in office he would have withdrawn the troops before now, for he was not a man to shrink from doing a thing to which he had once made up his mind, What, then, have we gained by the exchange? As yet, nothing. We walk by faith | and not by sight ; and our faith, too, exactly corresponds to the description that it is ‘the substance of things hoped for and the evi- dence of things not seen.” Do let us have some visible evidence that there is a change in Southern policy and that our etuberant rejoicing has not been in vain. A Timely Hint. In his circular to charitable institutions Comptroller Kelly calls attention to the tact that the managers of certain private charities are neglecting the proper source of their in- come and depending almost wholly upon the public purse. The same fact has been the cause of much individual comment. Tho object of any private charitable enter- prise is supposed to be the doing of some particular benevolence which the city is un- able or unwilling to attend to. ‘The fact that the movers of the enterprise prove their sincerity by their generosity is the only reason why they receive any assistance at all from the public treasury. When the private pocket ceases to contribute there is reason to suspect incompetency on the part of the managers or lukewarmness among the patrons, in either of which events the pub- lic authorities are justified in being sus- picious. It would be well for the Board of Apportionment to go still further and grade the allowances from the public treasury according to the receipts of the societies from private sources, and withhold aid en- tirely from all associations which do not seem to be practically regarded with con- fidence by the community. This whole matter of organized private charities needs to stand upon:a broader footing than it does at present. Either these associations are doing a needed work or they are not. Such of them as compete with the public charities have, in the ab- stract, excellent cause for existence, They have not, in the way of their usefulness, the exfkperating obstacles which politics pro- vides for public benevolences. Nothing but Inck of money need attaining the ideal standard of excellence, All this being conceded it should be more than a good-natured, generous habit to con- tribute to their support; it should be re- garded as a humane, moral and Christian duty. But before such a sense of duty can be aroused in the minds of the community these societies must show themselves worthy of that highest form of confidence which alone prompts the giving of considerable money. That some of them have not done this is, unfortunately, well known, and the | result is discouraging to the benevolent mind and tends to keep down tho standard | of the public management of similar chari- | the promptings of humanity to send them ‘and protect the ravaged districts. prevent their | 80 apparent as to secure ample funds from private sources they should, at least, allow out of existence instead of depleting the public treasury to attain results no better or cheaper than those which are brought about by the imperfect systems which are under the curse of political management. Indian Massacres in Arizona. We publish in another column a remark- able appeal to the American people which comes to us from the fay-off trontier of Southern Arizona, The charges made in it against General Kautz, commanding the military department, are so serious that we would not undertake to publish them did they not seem to be supported by public docn- ments signed by the Governor of the Terri- tory. The state of affairs depicted in the Gov- ernor's message to the Territorial Legisla- ture, and repeated in brief in the letter of our correspondent, calls for instant and energetic action on the part of the government at Washington. It deserves and will no doubt receive the attention of Congress, A con- siderable band of Indians belonging to the Apnche tribe has been raid- ing into the Valley of the Sonoita, robbing and murdering the inhabitants, without meeting with any resistance trom the troops which are posted in Southern Arizona for the defence ot the settlers. It is alleged that the Governor of the Terri- tory has called in vain on General Kautz to send troops to punish the marauders For some reason, which the public will want explained, General Kautz not only tailed to afford the. protection sought, but undertook to reply to the Gov- ernor of the Territory in an offensive man- ner. Asa result the people have been com- pelled to organize » company of scouts to do the work which General Kautz and his subordinates are paid for doing. It is charged that the General keeps close to his headquarters in Prescott, some two hun- | dred and fifty miles from the scene of hos- tilities, preterring the distractions of barrack life to the danger of his duty against the marauding Indians. If the charges are well founded General Kautz must be unfitted for the command of a frontier exposed to attack from murderous Indians, and the Secretary of War should find some energetic officer to relieve him. Arizona wants a General who prefers the honorable discharge of his duty to the enjoyments of garrison life. When such a man is placed in command there will be an end to Indian massacres in Arizona, The Miners’ Sorrows. It has been the fashion, and with consid- erable excuse, to lay upon the great coal companies the blame for whatever troublo existed in the mining regions, but a very in- tereting letter from our correspondent at Pottsvilie shows that the responsibility for the trouble is to be divided and that a con- siderable share belongs to the miners them- selves, The villanies of the Molly Ma- guires have been too’ generally con- sidered os affecting employers alone, but the fact appears that the principal sufferers aro the honest, hard-working colliers who have allowed these scoundrels to assume authority over them and dictate action to which much of the present suffering of the miners’ families may be traced. Assuring by threats and violence their own competence and comparative ease the Molly Maguires have, in the affairs of their brother work- men, acted from mere, caprice instead of being guided by that sense of prudence which should control all action by trade societies, and the results have been uncertain labor and certain destitution. The moral may be found without searching, and all workingmen’s unions will find it worth keeping in mind ; it is that leaders who are filling their own pockets are always to be suspected and to be abandoned at any cost. Men in every call- ing have gone through the same experience and with the same result. In politics and religion as well as in business it has always been found unsafe to be led by men who were finding leadership profitable, The very fact that workingmen often need to take associated action to secure protection and fair treatment should make them as careful as men in any other business are to select leaders who can command respect by their character and ability. Mere brute courage and daring always fail at the critical point, and the principal sufferers are sure to be | the men who are behind the leaders, not those in front of them. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Law suits are now cat goring and deep In tho bia- dere. Flies may bo easily caught by old maids on biue giass windows. Mr. Theodore D. Woolsey, of New Haven, ts at the Everett. Senator Jerome B. Chaffee, of Colorado, ts at the Fifth Avenuo. Miss Florence Tilton has gone to Tennesseo to meet her father. Has any one made the original remark tnat this ts March weather? Senator Theodore F, Randolph, of New Jersey, ts at the New York, In many places the straw ulsters aro being taken from the rose bushes, It may be well for us to warn the foreign nations that they will experience a storm. Tennessce has bad three ostmasters Genera!—Cave Jobnson, Aaron V, Brown and Davia M. Kiy. Owing to the depression of the times many of the | English Jockeys arc becoming sailors, They will | probab'y be known as Epsom salts. Tho sweet shad fly, beautiful harbinger of spring, | comes forth from his terrestrial loophoie, puts bis an- tonne on his noso, balances to partners and waltzes | back again. An exchange proposes to atilize the drunken old tramps by sending them to join the Cubans, with guns and whiskey. The whiskey, at least, would be good to fill a baster with, Professor Ware, of Boston, is doing good service ag | a lecturer on architecture, New York Herat, | | Ware is he doing it !— Detroit Bree Press. At the apex | of the untverse—Boston—domey. Haritord Jost:— We had a little Spitz pup once We gave our tears und prayers, Bat a policeman tit him 19 the back of the neck, And now ve 18 closed for repairs, Gone to merge with the spring sausage. “Teen” parties are among the lavest social innova. | tions, Noneare allowed to attend except those ‘in | their teons.""—Yonkers Gazetle, Then if.a mon 18 in | his “eanteens’? he can, of course, fall 1n,—Whitenail | | 7imes. Not if he took just a teeny bit, The Key of the Gulf say The sponge fleet, under the direction of the aam © returned into port | with afuil cargo of the best sponge seen for years. | | Some $6,000 was paid out last week, and perhops | double that amount is nearly ready for snie, Admiral ties. If they cannot make their excellences | among sponges.” Skelton wthe oaly master who can detect the sex | TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. EUROPE’S DIFFICULTY. Prolorgation of the Armistice with Montenegro, THE DEMOBJLIZATION QUESTION, Debate in the House of Lords on England's Eastern Poliey. KAISER WILHELM’S — BIRTHDAY, Distress in Germany—English ‘Consuls in America. [BY CALLE To THE HERALD.] Loxpox, March 23, 1877, The protocol ts still occupying public attention heré and {s the subject of discussion in the pross and in Parliament. What its final terms may be ts a matter of no little speculation, for until ithas taken definite shape the prospects of peace must be regarded not very bright. The Montenegrin danger seems bave passed for the moment, the armistice been prolonged, but then, if Montenegro intends to keep the peace, or rather if Russia intends her to do so, what is the meaning of Russia sending large quantities of storcs to Montenegro, as if providing for o long campaign f The renewed activity of tho insurgents in Bosnia and Herzegovina is also an indication that some influence aa to 1g at work to make the establishment of peace a dificult task, Then that delicate question of demobilization is still unsettled, though the Times takes a hopeful view of it, and until Goneral ignaneff returns to St. Potersburg it cap hardly be Know whether Russia will consent to withe draw her troops from tho frontier or not, If Russia will not demobilize, neither will Turkey, and the Porte cannot afford to keep a large army on tho {frontier ready to move without danger of utterly crippling its resources, so that, no matter how hopeful a view we may be inclined to take of tho situation, it cannot be denied that it is still full of peril of the gravest kind, MONTENEGRO AND TURKEY. The armistice between Montenegro and the Porte is officially prolonged until the Ist of April. It ts reported from Vienna that the Moscow committee have sent 20,000 roubles to the Russian consul general at Ragusa to ald refugees in caso of tho resumption of hostilities between Montenegro and Turkey, and that the Russian government has sent Montenegro pro- visions sufficient fora year, Nine steamers ladenwith provisions havo already arrived at Cattaro. INSURGENT ACTIVITY. There is evidently a prospect of trouble in Herze- govina and Bosnia. It is anpounced from Ragusa that the Turks are preparing to attack Grahowatz Peko Paplovitch, the insurgent leader, is encamped at the mouth of the Duga Pass, Vucalovitch is at Zalzi, and another boty of insurgents is murching toward the Albanian frontier. From Belgrade comes the inteill- gence that the insurgents from other provinces who bave been with the Servian army are retarning to their homes, They express their determination to stir up new disturbances in their native places, DIPLOMATIC MOVEMENTS, General Ignatieff leit this city by the early morniay train for Paris, It is stated that he will goimme diately to Vieuna and thence, atter a short stay, to St Petersburg. Itis not believed the present suspenst will be terminated until bis arrival at St. Petersburg Itis rnmored that it is not intended to send Sir Henry Elliot to Constantinople again. He will probably bi retired with a peerage and pension. It is said there is reason to believe that if the prot ocol is signed the meeting of the three Emperors wil shortly follow, General Ignatieff had no difficulty i arranging this at Berlin and js now going to Vienns for a similar purpose. THE QUESTION OF DEMODILIZATION. Tho Pall Mal! Gazette, in a leading article says: “That Lord Derby was thoroughly justitied—more than justified—in his determination that a clear unaen taking on Russm’s purt to recall ber armies from the fronticr is an indispensable condition of accepting any such engagements as the protocol implies, will be the universal opinion in England, and it may be taken for certain by all whom it con- cerns that the government will abide by ite decision,” A spectal despatch from Paris tothe Times says:—"“When Russian demobilization i once ordered, Europe will bo surprised at the speed with which it will be effected. Numerous regiments arc already encamped away trom the frontier and the protocol! once signed the Czar will address a proclama- tion ordering demobiiization to an almost empty camp, The Czai ware of the bad fnancial and social condition of Rugsia, 1m connection with recent socialist trials it is asserted that startling discoveries have boon: made, showing that tho ramifications of socialism have been unexpectedly wide, reaching even to high pere sonages and tho army.’? The Times correspondent telegraphs from Paris at follows:—Notwithstanding contradictions 1 adhere with tho atmost positivencss to the trath of the in formation that it was arranged Russia wat to declare by means of .a despatch tha she was = ready to disarm immediately after the signing of the protocol. A courier with thr despatch arrived in London from St. Petersburg, bw it was then found that the tenor of the dospatel was not such as had been expected, according to the understanding between the English and Russian negotiators,” * Tho St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily News say#:—"I believe, unless peace 1s mad with Monte- nexro and Turkey demobilizes her army by tho middle of April, the Russians will cross the Pruth.”” THE PROTOCOL IN PARLIAMENT. In the Honse of Lords inst night the Earl of Dudley asked for information respecting the state of the East orn question, Ho said that aithough the signing of the protocol would secure the peaco of Europe, tf would provide no guarantee for the better treatment of Christians.» Ho sirongly attacked Sir Henry Elliot for his course toward the Porte, Lord Derby censured the Earlof Dudley for his mode of raising, Without formal notice, a question ot impe rial magnitude. Le said:—"Tho noble Lord protests against an understanding which he says wo are on the eve of concluding. 11 he knows this, he know reat doal more than L do.” Lord Derby maintained that a European war would produce far greater horrors than those which occurred jo Batgaria, He continued :—*Tbe wording as wellas the condition under which the protocol shall be signed, if signed at all, are still under the consideration ot the government, The Ministers aro acting on their re apousibility as advisers of the Crown, and when stept have been taken will submit them to Parliamens with out one hour’s unnecessary delay.’ Lord Derby con demned language calculated to irritate tho Russias people against a policy which ths Russie government, to its honor, was disposed te adopt--language caleulated to increase Russia's diflicuities and postpone, it not defeat altogether, @ solution of the problem, He concluded by warmly de- fending and praising Sir Henry Kihot, challenging bis assailants to bring the question forward in a form which would enable Parliament’ to express its opinion, KAIZER WILIELIUS BIRTHDAY, Great festivities were held yesterday at Berlin tm ation of the birthday of ine Emperor William ee a ee a NNN NO NEEn ON SNK AMONEOS ANNO