The New York Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1877, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, petones every in the year, ‘Three cents per copy (Sunday excluded). oy dollars per . OF at Tate of one dollar per month for any period less iat ax soonthe, or five dollars for six months ‘Sunday edition of postage, All cea, Hews letters or telegraphic despatches must Addressed New Youre Hxnaup. Letters and packages should be proper Rejected communications will not be ret wealed. urned, —_—_-__——_. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH bs ig OFFICE, OF, THE NEW YORK HEBRALD— pauis OFFICE~AVENUE BE L'OPERA, JAPLES OFFICE—NO. 7 STRADA PACE, Bubscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms xs in New York. VOLUME XLII......+- AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, PARK THEATRE—Ovr Boaurixa House, WALLACK’S THEATRE—My AwroL Dan OLYMPIC THEATRE—Pasroxrmn. ‘Tux Danicnerrs, HELLER'S THEATRE. 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This improvement began early in the worning and lasted throughout the day, the closing prices being asa rule some of the highest of the day. Gold opened at 1047, and declined to 104%, Government and railroad bonds were quiet and firm. Money was easy on call at 21, a 3 per cent. At Last We Have Gor the Russians just where we want them, as they themselves will speedily learn. Tue REASONS FOR THE ADJouRNMENT of the case of Peter B. Sweeny are given in tull in another column. Tue Latest Important ComrPLamnt against the Post Oflice employés resulted in the usual way—the thicf was an emptoyé of the com- plainant. Tur Sorrows or THE Poor are bad enough, but those of the rich are sometimes the more ex- pensive of the two, as our leading court report will explain. Dr. Hatz’s Derixrrion of the word “cap- it” should be carefully read by the working- and every one else who imagines that the word is of limited application. Puivantnrorists who believe that suffering is decreasing among the poor of New York will find in our Scranton letter some information of a promising new field for benevolence. Tuere Can Be No Dovst of the insanity of the Brooklyn Bank’s bookkeeper who was yes- terday arrested for peculiar operations with the bank’s property. A lottery ticket was found in his possession. Anoturr Man Has Been Founp who does not read the papers. The brother of Mr. Noyes, of New Jersey Mutual fame, testified before a referee yesterday that he did not know of the whereabouts of the custodian of that elusive tin box full of securities. Tue Loss or Lire at the Brooklyn Sheltgring Arms Nursery prompts considerable curiosity as to what the physicians of that institution are paid todo. Defective sewers and poisonous ex- halations should certainly be discovered before death calls attention to them. Tue Comrrroiirr’s STaTemMENT of the con- dition of the ferry leases and the ferries, which should at least make a pretence of payment for privileges enjoyed, will teach the overburdened taxpayer that in city finances as in the manage- ment of criminals the many must suffer for the fow. Tue Snow or Vintve which the Order of Cau- casians is making in California will forcibly re- imilar attempts on the No religious society can ever succeed in assuming virtue so speedily and enthusiastically as a gang of cowardly mur- derers. A Locicat Ovtcomr of the great Erie Ring of other years is reported to-day. The profits may not have been so large in the caso of the lions, compared with whom the present culprits are mere jackals, but the animating spirit shows how prompt men are to follow the examplo of successful teachers. Tue Wrxter’s Work of the Connecticut Legislature makes a handsome appearance on paper. To have established the right of married women to their own property and carnings and tohaveprovided fora general investigation of tho affairs of life insurance companies is to have pro- vided misery for o great many scamps. Tae wea or Tuy Brooxixn Temrenance people té have a convention composed of pastors end from all the churches is a good ‘one, but it would be better if an equal number of physicians and custodians of the unfortunate were to be invited. Drunkards have bodies as well as souls—o fact which is most persistently disregarded everywhere. THe Weatnen.—A high pressure prevails west of the Alleghanics, while eastward the barom- eter is low, owing to the proximity of a de- pression on the North Atlantic coast. Heavy rains have fallen on the Nova Scotia const and now in the Missouri and Mississippi valleys. ‘The temperature is high along the Atlantic and Gulf cousts, but low in the interior and the Northwest. The Cumberland, the Mississippi and Upper Ohio have risen somewhat. ‘Tho ‘weather in New York to-day will be colder and ‘qloudy or partly cloudy, possibly.with light rain ae nO , NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Delay in the South. We are not of those who doubt the Presi- dent’s sincerity, and we would fain trust his firmness of purpose. We believe that he is entirely sincere ; that he meant and means to do precisely what he promised the coun- try in his Message, and that so far as re- storing local self-government in the two Southern States goes he does not waver in his purpose to re-establish it. But we be- lieve he is losing one of the great opportu- nities of his life by the delay in doing this. We mean to give the most zealous support to his policy, believing that if it is success- fully carried out it will mark one of the most important eras in our national history, and we cannot see this policy put in hazard, at the very beginning of the new adminis- tration, without a pang at the danger need- lessly invited, For the invitation to Gov- ernors Chamberlain and Hampton to come to Washington for consultation, though it has the aspect of action, is in fact only a new form taken by the policy of delay. Do these men know anything whatever—can they present on either side a single fact in thecase—that is not already as well known in Washington as in South Carolina? Is it not plain, under any view whatever of the attri- putes of the United States authorities, that the troops of the general goveinment are where they are by a gross abuse of powerand brutal disregard to the law? Can Chamber- lain show any reason why the present gov- ernment should maintain them in that position? For the first ten days after he took the oath of office Mr. Hayes carried everything before him. The policy announced in his inaugural Message excited the most bitter opposition among a large*army of machine politicians, but the country approved it so instantly and decidedly that the op- ponents were silenced almost before they could speak. The Cabinet fitted to the policy, and the republican file leaders, now wrought to fury, deter- mined it should not be confirmed. They “hung it up” in committees; but the President was not, alarmed ; the country once more spoke, and the Senators were cowed into confirming the Cabinet. Then Senator Blaine raised his voice and de- manded the installation of Kellogg as a means of making Packard Governor of Louisiana, But once more the President’s wishes triumphed ; Kellogg slumbered in the Elections Committee, and the Senate re- fused to settle the Louisiana question. Meantime office-seeking delegations had been calmly repulsed, the claims of the political workers were utterly disregarded, the Senate went home in disgust and Wash- ington became as quiet as a graveyard. Mr, Hayes had won his first success, and it was natural to suppose that he would push on. On the contrary, he stopped. The coun- try expected a settlement of the Southern question. Everbody understood that this bars the way to all other reforms now as it has done for the last eight years. It is through that gate the President must pass to all the fields he has laid out for con- quest. He can neither reform the currency, nor reform the civil service, nor reform parties, until he has brought the country back to constitutional government. And yet he delays. Ten daysago he had vanquished all opposition. The carpet-baggers were demoralized ; Mr. Blaine was silenced ; the country was at his back, regardless of party lines. Then was his time to withdraw tho troops; to tell the country that hereafter the constitution should rule, and Louisiana and South Carolina should govern them- selves as New York and Ohio do, To-day this work probably seems to him more diffi- cult, but the difficulties aro of his own making. Ten days hence they will be greater yet. Every day's delay increases his em- barrassments and gives his bitterest enemies and most unscrupulous opponents more time to complete their organization for de- feating all his purposes. It is urged by some of his friends that the President thinks it necessary to act slowly and with care in this Southern matter in order not to offend the extreme wing of his party. But what has he to do with parties? He is the President of the whole country. And suppose he does break up parties? That is precisely what every man sincerely anxious for the country’s good wants to see done, Both political parties are ready to break up; they ought to be broken ; it is for his own good fame and success that they shall be broken. The reforms he is pledged to will never be carried out by his own or either of the present parties. Hoe needs the assistance of the best men of both parties, and he must act without regard to party lines, or else he will break his own head in disgrace against the opposition he will encounter. To hesi- tate, therefore, on a measure which has the consent of the whole country ; which even his predecessor acknowledged to be neces- sary; which he solemnly promised, and which delay can only defeat—to hesitate in order to conciliate the extreme politicians of his own party is surely a mistake. If he must now conciliate them about Louisiana he must by and by concilinte them about civil service reform, and again about cur- rency reform ; that is to say, he is entering ona slavery which can close only with his term of office. Mr. Hayes surprised and routed the en- emy in brilliant style. The country ap- plauded tothe echo—and then waited for the next step, for the real advance move- ment. And it waits still, Everybody be- lieved that he would at last settle the interminable Southern muddle and relieve an anxiety which has tortured not only the South but the North for too many long years. And what has he done? By decid- ing fora commission he has plunged us all back into the dolorous uncertainty in which we lived under General Grant. His dila- tory and wavering policy inflicts daily and very serious losses upon every industry in the Union. Southern men plead fora settle- ment, because the uncertainty interferes with their planting operations, We hear of rice and sugar plantations abandoned for the year, the stock sold and the laborers sent away, because factors prudently refase to make advances to planters to pay their hands until they live under a settled and Jnawful government. Everywhere in the two States labor is demoralized, enterprise is at a standstill, capital is|and not Northern industry and enterprise are checked and embarrassed as well. No one, North or South, feels certain of the future while a State can be held by federal bayonets; while violence takes the place of law and the popular will; while the country lives outside of the constitution and ina condition of quasi war; while, any day, un- scrupulous’ demagogues may goad an exas- perated people to an outbreak in order to provoke a new military occupation, The Hzraup approves and means to de- fend the President’ policy, We should lament to have to defend it against its author. Nor dowe apprehend that wo shall have so melancholy a task ; for we believe Mr. Hayes to be a sincere man, neither self- seeking nor weak. But we speak only the sentiments of his best friends and most earnest supporters, of the very men on whom, by and by, he will have to rely for support in his policy of reform, when we warn him ,that this delay in the settlement of the Southern question exposes not only the country but the policy to which he is devoted to many needless perils; that action is necessary for his own salvation, and that he cannot hope to succeed against the ele- ments which are arraying themselves for his overthrow and humiliation, unless he is prompt as well as determined. Beyond all his predecessors he is bound to fulfil his promises, for he has voluntarily made very definite engagements; he has appealed to the best and wisest men of both parties to help him; he is under no obligations to any party which can tie his hands; he is in a peculiar and solemn manner bound to be the President of the whole people and to seek only the good of all, But when he de- cided to send a commission to Louisiana instead of withdrawing the troops he did not act on the advice of the men who believe in his policy, but on that of men who are secretly or openly hostile to it and deter- mined to defeat it; and the same is true of the proposition now made with regard to South Carolina. That in itself ought to put him on his guard. Disappearance of A. Onkey Hall. The absence of Mr. Hall from his home, from his office, the courts and his usual places of resort, and the failure of all at- tempts to trace or discover him, begin to wear a serious and even an alarming aspect. At first, until two or three'days had passed, there seemed nothing very re- markable in the fact that o gentleman had left the city without informing any- body of his intention. It is supposable enough that Mr. Hall or any other citizen might have affairs of so private a nature that he did not choose to take anybody into his confidence, and that he preferred to avoid troublesome inquiries by making no mention of his imtended absence. So long as there was no reason for disbelieving this to be the real state of the case a dosent respect for the privacy of a gentloman and for his right to control his movements ac- cording to his own discretion should have precluded impertinent scrutiny by the public. But a full week having elapsed since the mysterious disappearance, and all attempts to obtain inferma- tion respecting his whereabouts having proved fruitless, there are now good grounds for serious apprehension. It may be, after all, that the considerate theory which naturally suggested itself at first may turn out to be correct, and that some accidental cause of detention has prevented Mr. Hall’s return as soon as he anticipated when he left. But every day's further delay weakens this ground of hope, and unless he should reappear to-day or to-morrow it will not be easy to resist the conclusion that he has been foully dealt with. Every other theory which has been broached seems inconsistent with what we know of Mr. Hall’s character if we are compelled to abandon the hope that it is a temporary absence on some affair too private for communication with friends. The theory of suicide is generally dis- credited and by none with so much empha- sis as by those who have known the ex-Mayor longest and most intimately. The other theory which has been most discussed in the press and private circles is that Mr. Hall suddenly sailed for Europe in one of last Saturday's steamers. ‘The only tangible mo- tive assigned for his absconding from the country was Mr. Hall's reluctance to testify in the suit against Mr. Sweeny. This seems aweak conjecture. In the first place, Mr. Hall had no reason to fear any ill conse- quences to himself from the Sweeny trial, having been honorably acquitted some years ago and being exempt by law from answer- ing questions tending to criminate himself. In the next place, he can have no more to tell about Sweeny than about Tweed, and he found no reason to fly from that ordeal. In thesthird place, Mr. Hall, being a lawyer of quick intelligence, must have foreseen the postponement of the Sweeny trial, which was actually ordered yesterday to the month of June. He knew that the application for a postponement would be made; he knew the grounds on which it would be urged, and that an application on such grounds is seldom or never refused by a court. It is improbable that he would make a precipi- tate flight from o danger which he was so capable of measuring. It is altogether more likely that he has suffered violence from un- known hands, if he did not leave the city on private business and find himself detuined beyond his expectation. Life in Georgia. It is nota pleasant picture that is pre- sented this morning in the story ‘of the murder of a negro by thirty men at Waynes- boro, in Georgia. For this crime there is not even the excuse that a carpet-bag gov- ernment has so perverted all the machinery of the law that justice cannot be done in tho ordinary way. In some States that plea would go far tojustify the act of acom- munity that rises to inflict a summary pun- ishment upon a murderer. But in Georgia the people have been able to help them- selves more effectively than elsewhere, and the State isin theirown hands, ‘Their pres- ent conduct seems to indicate that it might bein better hands. Undoubtedly the crime of the negro was such as justly forteited his life ; but in civilized countries a life in such circumstances is forfeited to the laws to the first comer. This is wasted and poverty and vice increase; but j,one of the cardinal differences.-botwa *| soon life in barbarous countries and in countries governed undere fixed systems of law. If thirty men may go out and kill a murderer summarily they will sometimes fall into grievous errors as to his guilt ; they will kill on grounds of suspicion, and ultimately on mere opinion, and the end of that is mutual massacre, as the world has often seen, No measure likely to bring the lynchers to jus- tice should be neglected. The Execution of lL: é Yesterday at eleven o'clock, Utah time, and just as clerks in New York were hurrying to the banks to make deposits before the hour of closing, John D. Lee, the convicted mur- derer, sat on his coffin at Mountain Meadows awaiting the death volley that was to consummate the vengeance of the law. The time and place of his execution were well selected. It was at eleven o'clock on a Friday morning, twenty years ago, that Lee stained his hands with innocent blood, and his eye closed in death yesterday on the very scene of his crime. Thus the brutal massacre has been partly avenged. We say partly, because it cannot be fully so until every living actor or abettor in and of that frightful atrocity meets the same fate on the same ground. If the dreadful charges made by Lee against Brigham Young and the high dignitaries of the Mormon Church are true not a day should be lost in commencing the legal pro- ceedings that should end only in the con- viction and punishment of every partici- pator in the Mountain Meadows massacre. We publish elsewhere to-day a graphic ac- count of the last moments of Lee, from the pen of our special correspondent, who ac- companied the party, composed of the law officers, the executioners and the con- demned, from Beaver City to the place of the massacre and the execution, This will be read with deep interest, for it gives the details of a most impressive scene. We publish also what is represented to be another confession by Lee, intrusted to District Attorney Howard by the prisoner after the death sentence was passed upon him at Salt Lake City. This so-called confession is such a@ curious document and differs so widely in some important points from the confession intrasted by Lee to his confidential friend and lawyer, Mr. W. W. Bishop, of Pioche, Nev., that we feel compelled to doubt that it is genuine. On the authority of Leo himself wo are enabled to state that Mr. Bishop was charged by him with the preparation of his biography, and that his statement, in connection with his share in the Mountain Meadows massacre, was handed by him to that gentleman, It is not supposed that anything conflicting with the points given to Mr. Bishop can have emanated from Lee. ‘Lhis second confession reads more like a story constructed on speculation out of the points of Lee’s defence, and pre- pared by officials who meditate the publica- tion of a book on the subject. However, we give it for what it is worth. Leo felt embittered against the Church author- ities for their desertion of him .during his trial. It is possible he may have given some paper to the District Attorney calculated to implicate the Mormon priest- hood; but the story, or second confession, as presented to-day, does not bear the stamp of reliability. It isa matter worthy of the investigation of the government whether the officials are or are not speculating on this matter. They certainly took pains to ex- clude representatives of the press from all communication with the prisoner, in order, probably, that no other statement but their own should receive currency. Between the two confessions the authorities must choose, and may select either as it suits their pur- poses, Scenting the Spoils. While public sentiment in New York is manifesting itself strongly in favor of sim- plifying and economizing tho city govern- ment by abolishing all unnecessary depart- ments and bureaus and placing such as may be left under single heads, Assemblyman Healy distinguishes himself by proposing to lop off from the Public Works Department the business of repairing the streets and to place it under the control of a separate and independent department which he proposes tocreate. The billis, in plain language, a transparent job. A large amount of money is to be expended in putting our downtown streets in proper repair. The work has long been needed. The condition of the strects is disgraceful to the city and injurious to our business interests. It is scandalous that they should havo been so long left in their present state, Butas soon as the political birds of prey scent the job in the air they set to work to discover what can be made out of it. The Com- missioner of Public Works has signified his intention to do the work by con- tract. He will accept only honest bids and contract for none but good pnve- ment. There will be under his supervision no day labor for political ward loafers, no margins for supplies and no pinching of contracts. Hence every political jobber who hopes to get a ‘‘rake,” in the language of the City Hall, out of the work, wishes to take it out of the hands of the Public Works Department. This is all there is of Mr. Healy’s bill, which, if passed, would be very profitable to political strikers but very bad for the city. eeeretnaninpsenmnnceelan Take Your. Choice, An evening contemporary suggests that the people are likely to grow impatient at the persistent attempts of interested parties to prevent the construction of a rapid tran- sit road in the city, and to insist at last, as the shortest road out of the difficulty, that steam cars shall be run on surface roads, This is not at all improbable. Two-thirds of the population of the city want and de- mand rapid transit. A few horse car rnil- road corporations which have made large fortunes out of charters bestowed on them by the city use the money they have made out of the people to obstruct this great pub- lic improvement. Legislators and Alder- men elected by the people lend themselves to the work of obstruction in the service of these corporations and betray their mblic trusts, erty owners who are afraid that rapid transit may take a few dollars out of their own pockets aid in the opposition. Meanwhile the people suffer. The poorer classes are left to huddle together in un- healthy tenement houses, Men who make their livings here are driven from the city and from the State to find residences at rea- sonable rents. The valne of property in the city is kept down, progress is checked and all business suffers. The question, as our contemporary says, is, How long will the people allow themselves to be balked and checked and injured by a handful of selfish interests without retaliating? When they are once thoroughly aroused they will elect legislators and Aldermen who will make short work with the selfish obstructionists of the city’s progress and of the people's convenience and prosperity. The Water Supply Up Town. A correspondent sends a complaint of the insufficiency of the water supply up town and makes some pertinent suggestions as to its probable cause. Great inconvenience is experienced by the residents of the upper part of the city through the lack of force in the supply, which leaves houses, especially in elevated localities, without an adequate flow on the second story and frequently without any water on the third story. This scarcity is an intolerable inconvenience, and is the more aggravating since it is believed thay it might be averted by proper care and management on the part of the Public Works Department, There must be fault somewhere, and if our correspondent is correct in his assertions he points out one very probable source of waste which can- not be stopped too speedily. We no doubt need an improved water supply and better means of distribution. Itis the most. ill-judged economy not to make all the ex- penditures necessary to put us beyond any possible danger even of an insufficiency of water, much less of a water famine. At the same time, with our present supply and our present mains, there can be no good reason why there should be an insufficiency at this time of the year, and there must be fault somewhere or the complaints of uptown residents would not be heard. It is to be hoped the Commissioner of Public Works will look into the matter. fe aa ie ee IE ae PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Sutro is in San Francisco. Sunset Cox bas gone South. Farmers get healthy who wear bluo glass ploughs. Fernando Wood is fighting Randall for tho Speaker- ship. ‘The elder son of the Prince of Wales will enter the army. Princess Bentrice wears mauve with Neapolitan violets, Dr. Slade is advised not to visit St, Petersburg until next autumn. An Englishman says that an oyster should never be touched by a fork. ¥ Senator Henry B, Anthony, of Rhode Island, is at the Fifth Avenue, You will bo jn tashion this year 1f you have hair to match your carrot colored dross. It wasa Sixty-third street boy who said he ‘‘regu- lated” his father on his birthday. Chiet Judge Sanford E. Churoh, of the New York Court of Appeals, is at the Metropolitan. Roscoe Conkling, liko most other intellecf¥al giants, ‘wears a hat with the crown smashed In. Mr. Gregoire de Willamov, Secretary of the Russian Legation at Washington, is at the Everett. The hoar frost still comes out in the mornings, to re- mind us that old winter had white hairs on his head, Thurman's manner is so much like the “anvil chorus” that he makes you suro he is an honest map. ‘No woman is pleased,’’ asserts Octave Feuillet, “at being told by a man that he loves her like a sister.” When a crowd of people going down Broaqway take a basty peep at the ready made clothing stores be sure that the old pair will soon be made over for the boys. “G, S.”—It is said that Prosident Hayes drinks white wine, Wo do not know whether or not he would refuse a drink of whiskey. We never invited him. Rutherford B, Hayes, Jr., of Cornell College, is visit- ing his father, who is a President, in Washington. And, by the way, Waspington is not much of a place to go to, Mme. Schumann is called the queen of classical pianists and the bost ‘objective interpreter of Beethoven. Probably, thon, Bulow is the best “subjec- tive’? interpreter. ; Mediterranean oranges have come to compcto with the Floridas, The real diMferenco {s that the skin of tho former sends you on your nos, and the latter sends you on your coat collar. Danbury News:—“A Danbury man who went to Chi- cago ten years ago had to borrow the money for his fare, Now he has his own sbaving cup in ono of the best barber shops in that city.”” ‘There is a girl of twolvo in Iowa who 1s supposed to bo a spiritual medinm. Dishes bounce round in her presenco and broomsticks dance, This may be said of maay familios where tho lady !s usually moro than twelve yoars old, In the rotanda at Washington is a picture (where Washington resigns his commission) in which one gir! clasps another with three hands, The observer does not object to clasping the girl with three hands; ho is crazy because ho hasn’t a miilion. Stanloy Matthews is not the President’s brotber-in- law, but be is Henry Watterson’s unclo. Thus, Presi- dent Hayes married Miss Webb, Miss Webb’s brother married Miss Matthows. Her brother Stanley married a sister of Henry Watterson’s mother. Q, E. D. ‘po-day,”” says Wendell Phillips, ‘we are passing through somo of the most critical moments of a great national epoch, and at least one-third, perhaps one- half, of the mon whose votes are to determine the pohey of that epoch are profoundly ignorant of the great facts which enable one to understand it,” LITERARY CHAT, R, Worthington & Co, announce the publication of the “Prince of Wales in India,” by J. Drow Gay, Esq., the correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, who accompanied the Prince’s party, The volumo is fully illustrated, and is ald to be graphic and racy. There fg every reason that it should be, for Mr. Gay had abundant material to make an entertaining work. Tho Magazine of American History for April 1s just issued. The leading article ts a sketch of tho first sea fight of the Revolution, by Commodore Parker, fol- lowed by an account of the massacro at Falling Creek, Va.; a biographical sketch of Jobn Alsop, by tho edi. tor; the diary of Major Beatty and the narrative of tho Prince de Broglie and other interesting matter, T. B. Vetersun announces for early publication *'The Cardinal’s Daughter,’ « sequel to “‘Ferne Fleming.” Tho London Jublishers’ Circular says that tho Cax- ton celebration in London has had a successful launch. The positive fact boing established that the dato of the first book printed tn England was 1477 justifies tho col- ebration, and tho great printer’s books are to boex- hibited, as many as can be assembled at a distance of 300 years, the proceeds to go to « printers’ charity, ‘There aro now published 320 newspapers in London, 991 in England outside of London, 164 in Scotland, 141 in Ireland and 56 in Wales. Total, 1,672, against somo 7,000 in the United States, Tho great work of Gregorovius on Lucretia Borgia has reached three editions, and has just been repro- duced at Paris in French in two volumes, Alphonse Karr’s latest work is entitled “On Dé- mande un Tyran.” e y8 that a book is in press entitled “H*** Upon Earth; or, Tho Modern In- ferno,’? by the authors of ‘The Coming K——.” Sir C. W. Dilke will contribute a little work on “Par. Namentary Reform" to tho new Political Library tor A--vhandfal, of .prop-_| the Peonla, TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. : THE RIDDLE UNSOLVED, Hopes of an Agreement on the, Protocol Almost Gone. A STORM AMONG THE COMMONS, Suspicions of Austria Regarding Double- Dealing by Russia. HERALD WEATHER FOR EUROPE. A New French Cable, Backed by a Strong Syndicate, dex cantz ro THE BERALD.] Loxpos, March 24, 1877, The startling nows of to-day comes from tho Aus trian capital, Tho Political Correspondence, of Vienna, this morning has a telegram from St. Petersburg stating that ‘the protocol negotiations may almost be regarded as having failed, Russia will never agree to insert the paragraph in respect to demobilization. A bint to that effect, thrown out by England, was de. cisively rojected. If England adheres to tho demand ali further nogotiations are purposeless, England’s attitude again brings the alliance of tho three Empere ors to the fore, Nogotiations in reference to this subject are imminent.’”’ General Ignatieff left Paris last night for Vienna direct, A report is current in Odessa that if England rejects the protocol the Czar will immediatoly call out the entire forces of the Em; pire. In Berlin it is stated that Russia proposes to mvite the other Powers to mediate between herself and the British Cabinot on the question of dise armament. It is said that ‘Austria supports England in hor demand for Russian disarmament, The im- pression prevails in ‘Berlin that Mussia wilt persist in tho rofusal to disarm. Indeed, it 1s hoped that the hitch im the peace negotiations will be surmounted by Turkey declaring her readiness to begin disarming if Russia promises to follow eult immediately. Although some Russian journals object to the contemplated settlement, the majority of thom regard it as another proof of the wisdom and moderation of their rulers, MONTENEGRO’S IMPORTANCS, Tho Montenegrin War Minister, who has been visiting Italy, departed from Venice last night because of an urgent summons from Nikita, Tho decision of peace or war really rests with Montenegro and Turkey. The Russian government cannot influence the Prince of Montenegro beyond a certain point, be- cause he can appeal to a greater power than the government—namely, the Russian people, The Montenegrin delegates now in Constaa tinople had interviews with Edhem Pacha, Grand Vizier, and Safvet Pacha, Foreign Mipister, yesterday, The latter repeated the Porte’s objections to Mon- tonegro’s demands, particularly the cession of Niesic, Tho Montenegrins repliod they could make no abate- ment from the last conditions, of which they consid- ered the cession of Nicsic the most infportant, BULGARIA IN PARLIAMENT, In the Houso of Commons last evening Professor Fawcett, one of tho metropolitan members, moved :— That, inthe opinion of the House, any promisca of reform made by the Porte without guarantees will bo fraitiess, and that tho Powers, in the interest of the peace of Europe, have tho right to demand™ade- quate securities for tho better government of Turkey, and that the misrule which has brought such misery on Christian Turkey will continue unless the Powers obtain some sach guarantees for an Improved administration as thoy agreed on at the Conference. Mr. Faweott spoke in support of his proposition, Alter justifying his coarse in introducing the motion, ho drew attention to the admirable declaration made by both Lord Salisbury and Lord Derby concerning Turkish misgovernment, and asked it they considered Turkey’s promises of reform were futile. If without guarantees three months ago what had since occurred to make them change their minds? If, alter the loud talk and tho expressed de- termination to bring tho Bulgarian atrocity perpetrators to justice, the government were now going to shrink back into inactivity it would constitute not only a crisis im the Eastern question, but a crisis.in the history of Engiand, which future generations would look back to asa poriod of humiliation and discredit, . 1t was absolutely necessary that prompt steps bo taken to obtain security to the Christians in Turkey. The Turks wero distributing largo supplies of arms among tho very men who had perpetrated tho recent mazsacro, The Marquis of Hartington, the leader of tho liberal party, declarod the motion inopportune, and he herefore could not support it, though beyond this he saw nothing ojectionabie in its terms. He pointed out that ie ay would not be in a position to form a judgmenfon tho policy of the governinent until the additional papers on the Eustern question wero pro- sented, NOT OPPORTUXE, Mr. Gladstone said be could not vote for Mr. Fawe cott’s motion for the reasons mentioned by the Marquia ot Hartington, aud also because {t did not touch the only question on which he should have to join issuo— namely, whether the words of Europe were to remain mere words or whether thoy were to be followed by acts, Mr. Gladstone entered into long historical argu. ment to prove that the Powers bad the right to demand tho better government of Christians, and pointed out that the present stato of excitement and fanaticism tn Turkey was such that we may bo approaching a crisig worse than thatat the time of the Salonica murders, He urgently asked for information relative to tho distribu. tion of arms to Monammedans und whether the gov- ernment was taking measures to protect tho Christians south of the Balkans, who would inovitably suffer foar- fully in the event of an outoreak, THROWING NOT WATER, Sir Stafford Northcote, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said the government never departed from tho Policy of striving for better government for the Christians in Torkey, but he could not speak out in the midst of a delicate nogotiation so firmly as ho might at a fature time, He had boen struck with the injustice displayed toward Turkey during the debate, Turkey could not disarm or proceed with her reforms, nor could Eng. Jand ask her to disarm while a war cloud was lowering on her frontier, Mr. Fawcett notified tho House of hia willingness to withdraw his motion, but Sir Stafford Northcote ree fused assont to this course. An adjournment of the debate was moved by the libs erals, and it was rejocted :—Nays, 242; yens, 71. The government finally agreed to an adjournment of the debate, AUSTRIA SUSPICIOS, The Inst Austrian military budget included an item for the fortification of Trent, which, however, Parlia« mont disallowed. A short time ago tho Kmperor ine formed tho Finance Minister that the works must im J modiately be undertakgn for reasons of State, During