The New York Herald Newspaper, March 29, 1877, Page 6

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K, THURSDAY, MARCH 2 NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS, ‘The Adams Express 1 newspaper train over the Pennsy! connections, lenving Jersey City at a quarter M. daily and Sunday, carrying the regular eaition of the lixratp as fur West as Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Poltedephie ‘at a quarter past six A. M. and Washington at ‘sue P. M. are that the weather in New York to-day will be cold and partly cloudy or cloudy, followed by clear- ing weather and brisk winds. Watv Srreer Yesterpay.—The stock market ‘was very active, the most business being done in Lake Shore and the coal stocks. It was, however, a little weaker than on Tuesday, a de- cline being noticeable in most of the active stocks. Gold was steady at 104%, and closed atgadvance. Investment securities were gen- erally lower. Money on call was easy at 212 a 8 per cent, the former being the closing price. Tre Story of the Tarrytown Land Company, its ups and downs, is told in our law reports. _ Emigrant STATistics are interesting reading, ‘as will be seen by the article printed to-day. A Mutzion Dotrars’ worth of prints at a single auction sale is a rare occurrence, yet this | is what our merchants are enjoying just now. Fatner Woop, w Methodist patriarch, gave | his younger brethren in the ministry some excel- lent advice yesterday at the Newark Conference, Trus Is aN Imvortant Wi in the calendar of the churches, and much activity is noticeable among all denominations in this city and Brook- lyn. Tue Irens of a milliner’s bill formed the basis of a suit in the courts yesterday. The'testimony reads like another Flora McFlimsy story, but in literal prose. ‘THe Recent Storms show bad temper on the pert of blustering March, and our weather expe- rience of the past few days will make us weleome tearful April all the readier. i Ir Cost THE Owners of the steamship August André seventy thousand dollars to break her rudder at sea. Rather an interesting item for marine insurance companies. Tue Apvocates of female suffrage are hard at it in Boston convincing each other that suc- vess is near at hand. When they do succeed we may expect to see a political millennium. Queens County rejoices in a new court house. The New York one is still unfinished: a contrast humiliating to our taxpayers, for they paid out money enough to build four court houses. Cnear Coat and a resumption of work at the mines is pleasant news. The manufacturer and the householder are alike benefited, while specu- laters deservedly go to the wall. They should be kept there in future. AsotHer VETenan of the to his rest yesterday. The number of these vet- erans is so rapidly decreasing that we shall soon be able to count them on our fingers. After all are gone the Mexican veterans will be in order. Our “Compiaint Book” is becoming a bulky volume, yet it has more readers than ever. Con- tributors should study brevity in writing letters, | 60 that all that ure of general interest may be used. As an exchange of ideas the book is un- rivalled by any other publicatic ‘ar of 1812 went Heroism at Si the part of American sailors frequently receives official recognition from foreign governments. Four officers of our mercantile marine have been awarded suitable testimonials for services rendered shipwrecked British sailors. It is quite clear that Anglo Saxon blood is thicker than water. All honors to our brave heroes of the sea. ‘Tne Emparnassment of the Board of Eduea- tion touching the school teachers’ salaries may be got over by robbing Peter to pay Paul. At | all events, that is the view taken by at least one member of the Board of Apportionment. Mean- while the teachers find their pay reduced. Our schools should be liberally supported, no matter what it costs, for free education is one of the safeguards of Republi ey ‘Tor WeaTner.—The storm centre still moves slowly toward the northeast along the New Eng- land coust, with rain on its eastern and snow on its western margin. The central pressure has fallen to twenty-nine inches, but owing, as we anticipated, to the dissipation of the high press- ure in advance of the disturbance the wind velocity from the northeast has decreased, while the afterwinds from the west are brisk and cold. ‘The area of precipitation now extends from Lake Erie to Newfoundland and southward to New London. The snowfall was limited to west of the Hudson River during yesterday. The pressure is high over the upper lakes, but is falling in the West and Southwest, where the temperature continues remarkably high. Another disturbance from the Southwest may be expected. The Ohio has risen decidedty at Cincinnati and moderately at other points; the Mississippi lightly at Vicksburg. The other rivers are un- ehanged, except the Cumberland, which has fallen somewhat. The weather in New York to-day ‘will be cold and partly cloudy. or clondy, followed ly clearing weather and brisk winds. | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1877.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Louisiana Commission. After much delay, many tenders to dis- tinguished men and many refusals, the President has at last succeeded in com- pleting his Louisiana Commission. The un- willingness of citizens of national reputation to serve in this capacity is easily explained. Every prominent, active democrat and every prominent, active republican had already made up his mind and expressed his judg- ment on the merits of the Louisiana con- troversy. Pronounced democrats would seé nothing but the case of Nicholls; pronounced republicans would share more or less the view so strongly put by Senator Blaine that to question the title of Packard was equivalent to impeaching the title of President;Hayes, Statesmen of neither party could afford to impair their party standing by serving on a commission where any yielding would damage their political prospects, and where a stiff asser- tion of their personal views would be incon- sistent with the object for which the com- mission was appointed. Had President Hayes taken the full measure of these diffi- culties before he decided to have a commis- sion it may be doubted whether he would have thought a commission expedient. It was his original in- tention and expectation that the Vice Presi- dent would be the head and soul of the Louisiana Commission, When Mr. Hayes came to Washington to be inaugurated his mind was full of this idea, and he accord- ingly courted and petted Mr. Wheeler as no other Vice President has been courted and petted since the organization of the govern- ment. It was given out that Vice President Wheeler was to be one of the President’s most intimate advisers and a sort of quasi member of the Cabinet. This dexterous flattery did not capture Mr. Wheeler. He declined on courteous pretexts to be a member of the commission. He isa shrewd politician, and we think he declined wisely. Had he accepted he would have overshadowed all the other members and have been held responsible for whatever the commission might decide or advise. We think he wisely declined a responsibility from which he had nothing to gain, and which might have embroiled him with his own political party” Mr. Wheeler's refusal to serve was ombarrassing to the President, who afterward sent his invitations a-begging, and has not succeeded in organizing such a commission as he would have preferred. It was an additional obstacle to the Presi- dent’s plan that his commission must serve at its own expense. ‘There is no fund or appropriation from which its members can be paid, and for voluntary service of this kind they would naturally expect somecom- | pensation in honer for their pecuniary sacri- fice. But what honor can either republicans or democrats gain in a service which would compromise their standing in their respec- tive parties? The President had, therefore, to send positions on this commission a-begging. Under the circumstances he is fortunate in securing s0 good a commission as he has actually appointed. It is by no means a strong and imposing body of men. It is perhaps all the better on this account, because its mem- bers will be more pliable to the known views and wishes of the President. ‘The Louisiana Commission, as announced, consists of the following gentlemen:—Judge Charles B. Lawrenée, of Illinois; ex-Governor J. C. Brown, of Tennessee; General Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut; General John M. Harlan, of Kentucky; Mr. Wayne Mc- Veigh, of Pennsylvania. In the whole list there is but one man who has been conspicuous in our recent politics. Ex-Governor Hawley is well known and has an excellent reputation for moderation, good sense and fairness. The others, though good enough men, are of no account in national politics. Mr. Brown was the whig Governor of Tennessee from 1841 to 1843. Mr. McVeigh is a son-in-law of ex- Senator Cameron, but a politician of an entirely different type. General Harlan is views he may be supposed to share. Judge Lawrence is quite unknown out- side of his own State. We never- theless think that the composition of the commission is fortunate. It consists, in the main, of men who derive all their importance from their selection for this duty, and who will aim to satisfy the wishes of the President. Opinionated men might have caused him embarrassment; but the President has every reason to expect that the actual commission as he has composed it will echo his own views and carry out his purposes. If he is sure of his own mind there is no danger that such a com- mission as he has appointed will thwart him. We do not change our opinion that the idea of this commission is at best a harmless whimsey. Under no circumstances could it do any good, but its negative composition encourages the belief that it can do no harm. The really controlling consideration in relation to Louisiana is the loss of the Amny Appropriation bill, which necessitates an extra session of Congress. If the President should recognize Packard the call of the extra session will be vain. In the new Congress the dem- ocrats will still control the House, and if anything may be deemed certain respect- ing its action at the extra session it is cer- tain that the Army bill cannot pass if the President recognizes Packard. No intelli- gent man in Louisiana or out of Louisiana | believes that the Packard government could stand a day without the support of federal | troops. The certainty that the President will have no troops to use for that purpose or any purpose if he recog- nizes Packard decides the Louisiana question in advance. Whatever the Lousi- ana Commission may do or fail to do, it is certain that Nicholls will maintain his posi- tion as Governor of the State, because it is certain that Congress will not give the President any troops to oust him. The force of circumstances and logic of events will compel the President either to recognize Nicholls or submit to ahumiliation ; and it is incredible that he will pursue a course which will deprive him of an army for any purpose. Without an army the President is powor- less to maintain Packard in his seat, and will refuse appropriations for the army if it is to be used against them in Louisiana there is, as we said before, of course scarcely any doubt, Without money there can be no army large enough to spare troops for duty in the Pelican State, and without troops Packard's authority as Governor is at an end. With -these facts before us it is difficult to see what real the new commission can accom- plish. If they decide for Packard and Congress refuses to appropriate money for ‘the army Packard will be turned out by Nicholls. If the Commissioners de- cide for Nicholls there will be no need for troops, and Congress will not care to cripple the army. Therefore Congress holds the vantage ground. The Value of Staniley’s Work. Even when judged by the standard of utility the results of Stanley's arduous labors in Central Africa must be recognized as of the highest importance. The chance dis- covery by Columbus of a continent which he was not in search of and presumably did not believe to exist has been fraught with the mightiest measure of good to the human race. So, also, may we not conceive that the region which our gallant explorer is now traversing may contain within its vast soli- tudes that which will add immensely to the welfare of mortals. Lake Superior, with its great copper mines; Michigan, with its nume- rous, thriving coast cities; Erie and Ontario, with their valuable water communications, were at one time the Niyanzas, the ‘l'angan- ikas of the New World, as the ‘Father of Waters” was its Nile. The hardy explorers who penetrated the then wilderness of the North and West, the missionaries and the hunters, were in their day the Livingstones, Stanleys, Spekes and Grants of America, who, by their daring and self-sacrifice, wrested from nature her closest secrets and opened the vast continent to the white man’s occupation. Although the climatic conditions of Cen- tral Africa may represent the opposite ex- treme to those of our northwestern regions, still that does not preclude the probability of the occupation of the country by a race which will in time besome thoroughly adapted to its character. To stay the foot- steps of the explorer on the plea that his labors are of no value to the dominant race is to ignore history and its records of the migration of peoples. Tropical America, British India and other warm regions are now occupied by the descendants of races coming trom cold climates; why, then, should we ques- tion the probability of an early occupation of the shores of Victoria Niyanza by a race of men who would convert its solitary islands and bays into scenes of active in- dustry. As a geographical triumph -Stan- ley’s work is a grand success. The pursuit of knowledge must always redound to the benefit of mankind. We cannot estimate the value of the good at our command until we know its nature and extent. The unknown regions of Cen- tral Africa offered to the explorer the magni- ficent temptation to penetrate and unravel their mysteries. The grand problem of the geographical era which may be said to have commenced with the days of Ptolemy has been the discovery of the sources of the Nile. Tosolve it many explorers have es- sayed and failed, leaving to Henry M. Stan- ley the palm of the victor, the glorious prize of success. Ingenious Roguery. Two ingenious young gentlemen were ar- rested and lodged in jail yesterday charged with disregarding the well known school proverb:— He who takes what isn’t his’p, When he’s catched will go to pris’n, These promising youths had hit on an artful scheme ofrobbery. One would stand near the door of a store while the other, from the other side of the street, would ployfully throw stone through the win- a law partner of ex-Secretary Bristow, whose | dow. While the indignant proprietor would rush out to give chase to the mis- chievous marksman the latter's associate would walk into the vacant store and lighten it of its till and other portable valu- ables. The trick has been successfully played in several instances and the police have been on the track of the speculative young men for some weeks. Some of these robberies show enough genius to be amus- ing. A well.dressed individual once walked into a shoe store and fitted on a handsome pair of new boots, his old ones being very much dilapidated. The customer walked to the ‘door to admire the fit in the full light, while apparently feeling in his pocket for his money, A stranger in passing stumbled against the newly booted man, and, drawing back, hit him a blow in the face and ran away. ‘‘You villain!” shouted the customer, starting af- ter his assailant. ‘The ruffian!—catch him! catch him!” exclaimed the indignant shoemaker, following up his customer. The shoemaker was fat. The customer and his assailant were both in good condition, They outran the shoemaker—and the new boots have never to this day returned to their original proprietor. Scnvrz’s Honsy.—If Secretary Schurz can carry his ideas of civil service reform into practical operation the country will no doubt be greatly benefited. If he should be as successful in improving the public service as he is sincere in his wish to do so he will be a model head of a department. But we fear that he will not find his road macadamized all the way. In our city gov- ernment we have a surfeit of reformers, yet we find every head of a de- partment anxious to economize and reform everybody except himself. The Su- perintendent of the Bureau of Patents, General Spear, writes an interesting report to the Secretary, shows how much he has done to make his bureau effective, suggests other improvements and sympathizes ear- nestly with his chief in his civil service theories. Bunt we notice that the General does not see how his force can be cut down with advantage to the public service, ex- cept, perhaps, a trifle in the clerical branch. Will not Secretary Schurz find this same difficulty wherever he tries to diminish expenses in the easy-going Washington that the democratic majority in Congress | offices ? Ee Governor Robin: Canal System. Governor Robinson's veto of the bill in relation to the office of Superintendent of Public Works, after the rejection of General McClellan's name for that position by the Senate, was entirely proper, and demanded in the publicinterest. The bill, as origin- ally sent tothe Executive Chamber, swept superintendents of repairs and of all engineers, division, resident and assistant If this bill had been suffered to become a day it could remain in the Governor's hands. and a Superintendent of Public Works should not have been firmed by the Senate before the second or third week of April, nothing could have been done on the cagals in the interim, and they could not have been put in readiness for navigation by the lst of May. If General McClellan had been promptly confirmed the case would have been different, since he would have had ample time in which to rearrange the engineering machinery and to remedy other defects in the law withant delaying the opening of the canals. The Legislature has, however, recognized the justice of the Governor's position, and bas happily remedied its former mistake by promptly passing another bill which omits all those portions of the first bill which destroyed the present engi- neering force. Under this now bill it will not matter at what moment of time the new system supersedes the old, since the change will only be in the responsible manage- ment, and such reforms in the subordinate machinery as may be found desirable can be made leisurely and without throwing all the work on the canals into con- fusion. It will, of course, be thre duty of the Governor to approve this new bill, and then to promptly send to the Senate another nomination for Superintendent. There will be no difficulty in finding demo- erats in the State fully qualified to fill the position, and whose familiarity with our canal system and with the canal interests generally will enable them to take hold of the old machinery and work it to the ad- vantage of the State and of those who use the canals. It is essential that the new sys- tem, inaugurated by the constitutional amendment, which received nearly half a million majority in the last elec- tion, should go into operation at once. The present Canal Commission- ers, holding on an uncertain tenure, can scarcely be expected to give their ear- nest attention to the management of the canals, The object of the new system is to make the Governor directly responsible to the people for the efficiency and fidelity of the future canal management. He has the absolute power to remove the Superintend- ent of Public Works, and hence will hold supreme control over that officer. For this reason the Senate will scarcely venture to reject any unobjectionable nominee the Gov- ernor may now select. At all events, it is clearly the Governor's duty to approve the new bill, to nominate a Superintendent of Public Works from among the many men of his own party who are well qualified by capacity, character and experience to fill the position, and to allow the newsystem so em- phatically indorsed by the people to super- sede that which has long been stamped with popular disapproval. How to Deal with the Bank Su- perintendent. It is stated that Governor Robinson will soon send tothe Senate a message in rela- tion to the office of Bank Superintendent. The proper step to take in the matter is to suspend the present hold-over Superin- tendent, whose retention in office is for some reason desired by the republican leaders in Albany, and to suffer the charges against that official to be tried by the Senate. The people will then have an opportunity to judge whether the duties of the Bank Department are or are not honestly and efficiently performed. It is notorious that as soon as receivers have taken possession of bankrupt savings banks they have had no difficulty in ascertaining the fact that perjury has been committed by their officers in their annual state- ments to the department; that fictitious values have been put on worthless assets ; that false entries have been made of bonds and cash which have never been in the pos- session of the institutions; that the em- ployés have robbed the banks with impu- nity ; that securities have been mysteriously spirited away, and that the depositors have been defrauded in a variety of ways. Why have not these facts been discovered by the Bank Superintendent, who is required by law to make quite as thorough an investi- gation into a bank's affairs ns would be made by any receiver? Why, in some instances, has the present Superintendent suffered aswindling bank to continue its business for months after its rottenness has been offi- cially brought to his knowledge, and then connived at the secret appointment of one of the implicated officials of the institution as its receiver without the knowledge of the depositors? Let Governor Robinson arraign the Superintendent on these charges and then see if the Senate will venture to retain him in office. Two Knaves of Clubs. Two knaves of clubs in the police pack turned up yesterday morning, one beforo the New York and the other before the Brooklyn Police Commissioners. The New York case was that of Roundsman Lewis. This bully of the button became highly offended at the remarks of a well known citi- zen, Mr. Robert C. Brown, who, while riding on a Fourth Avenue Railroad car, had ex- pressed to some friends his opinion that the pay of the police ought to be re- duced. Meeting Mr. Brown subsequently on Broadway Lewis addressed him in an abusive manner, and then arrested him and took him through the public streets to the Tombs. The defence of the ruffian was that he ‘merely asked Mr. Brown a ques- tion,” when the latter abused him, and “he could not sce the uniform he wore disgraced by permitting such abusive language.” Ifthe uniform of the police can be more disgraced than it is by being buttoned over the indig- entirely away the whole machinery of the | canal management, abolishing the offices of | law on the 26th inst., which was the last | con- | anda the -New| in an unfortunate plight. The Brooklyn | case is that of a patrolman named Cleary, i } who amused himself with what he called “a little fan” by knocking down and club- bing nearly to death an inoffensive, harm- | less citizen. The Brooklyn brute narrowly ' escaped lynching. It is to be hoped that j the Police Commissioners will make short work with both the indignantand the sport- ive ruffian. Street Cle the Public and Health. The Assembly has ordered the Street Clean- ing bill toa third reading, The republican majority was indisposed to separate the business of street cleaning from the Police Department and to place it under control of the Mayor, because of the political division of the Police Commission. There is, how- ever, a general conviction among the citi- zens of New York that the police should not have anything to do with the street cleaning other than to be required to report all cases of neglect or illegal acts, either on the part of householders or contractors. The bill empowers the Police Board to contract ‘for the sale of street manure, dirt, sweepings, ashes and garbage, on condition that the same be promptly removed,” and to enter into con- tracts with responsible parties for cleaning | the streets in small, separate districts, not | exceedipg a police precinct in area. This { latter provision is one for which we have Jong contended, and will, we believe, under proper management and superintendence, insure us cleaner streets than we have here- tofore enjoyed. Certainly we can have noth- ing worse than our present extravagant pre- | tence at street cleaning, and any change is therefore likely to be an improvement. In one important point the bill is de- ficient. It should require, under heavy penalties for neglect, that both by the po- | lice authorities and contractors, in the col- lection and dumping of the dirt, there should be an entire separation of the gnr- bage from the ashes and sweepings. Housekeepers are required to keep their ashes in one receptacle and their garbage in another, but after this has been done the street cleaning carts come round and col- lect them indiscriminately, they are dumped together and then used to create plague spots in crowded localities, to spread disease among the people, and to threaten the city in the summer months with pestilence. The Police Commissioners have shown so much ignorance on the sub- ject, and have displayed such entire indiffer- ence as to where aud how they dump the dirt and get rid of it, that if the business of street cleaning is to be continued in their hands the public health should at least be protected from their vagaries by some stringent provision of law in regard to the final disposition of the garbage. The bill at least needs amendment in this respect. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Kilpatrick ie little and thin. Evarts has not a sinall nose. Mr. Louis Gilltus is in Denver, Bon Butler ts no longer beautiful. Mr, Wendell Phillips is at the St. Denis. Baron de Pierrea, of France, is at the New York. Dr. Mary Walker is prqud since ke won that victory, Veils for ladies who love to kiss are now made puck- ering. Lamar {sa solid man who puts bis whole weight on the floor. Give Brigham Young a cholee of being banged or being shot. Adirondack Murray condemns Moody for using “trast” for ‘faith.’ Adirondack Murray has been roused by Moody, aud Addy wants a church to hold, ob! so many. ‘The Chicago hotel clerk flatters you into the belief that he bas kcown you for a thousand years. Chicago Zimes:—‘simon Cameron bas no further present use for the Logislature of Pennsylvania. "’ ‘the whito people have done more harm to the ne- groes of this country than the negroes hai ir done to them. Six-year-old:—"‘Mamma, what are twins made for?” Precocious older brother, quickly :—'‘So that cannibals may eat philopenus.”” General Grant will spend a week in Chicago with Colonel Fred Grant, and a week at Ithaca with the younger son, who is at Cornell, Puck, the new cartoon weekly under the pencil of Keppler, 1s briihant, but to be the American Punch it must be epidermically American, Dr. R. V. Kedflold says :—“A fair election In all the Southern States and Tilden would have been without a majority of the popular vote,’ A lady at Woodstock, Ontario, Can., thinks she has succeeded im keeping curth worms and insects from plants by burying a rusty nail in the earth. If you havo a law sult, and have moncy enough, you may retain Mr. Evarts, the Secretary of State of a great nation, who will continue his law practice. Brigham Young put himself beyond the regard of otber than Mormon people, thereby showed indic- ative enmity to “outsiders,” when he refused the emigrants of 1857 any patd-for food within his empire, Now let him have, not mercy, but Justice, If the Southern idea is thas of accurately recognizing the separate rights of the States, and of each Stato minding its own business, why does the Governor of North Carolina take so much interest in tho Governor of South Carolina, and ask him how long 1+ is betweon drinks? Norwich Bulletin:—“An English paper remarked some time ago that, in the constant development and progresston of nature, the time woulda surely come when the mule would try to emulate the nightingale. And people were foolish enough not to beliovo it wil they heard the tenor in one of tho city churches the other evening.” Parry tells of an Eequimaux boy who ate eight and ‘a balf pounds of seal meat, a pound and a halt of bread, a pint and a half of soup, and drank three wine glasses of gin, @ tumbler of hot whiskey and water and tive pints of water, consuming the whole between intervals of rest in one day. He had proba- bly served as a reporter on a Chicago newspaper, Murat Halstead, in the Cincinnat! Commercial:— “Grant is the ex-President of the United States, a pri- vato citizen in @ plain coat, but one whose name is clear cut in history as that of Turenne or Marlborough, the Archduke Charles or Weilington; and now that bis period as a politican and his terms in the Prostdency are over, we again make our respectful salutations to Goneral Grant, ot Vicksburg and Appomattox.” Boston Globe:~-"'The advive of the Globe to the young man who hang around the chomber window of the fair girl with the scarlet iips, was:— Pray coaso your senseless gushing Avoui the gitl so far, And don’t go hanging round her, Bot court her ou the square. “And to this an anonymous correspondent, writing from Cineimnati, thus makes reply :-- I followed your suggestion, And stood on Court square all day, But the lovely gitl, with the scarlet lips, Sho wever came that way.”’ In England and Wales, in the year 1851, thero was ono blind person to every 979; in Ireland, one to 878 ; ia Scot- land, one to every 960; making a common ratio of one in every 950. In Belgium the proportion of blind to the other population is one in every 1,316; in France, one in every 1,357; in the lower parts of Germany, one in 950; Prussia, one in every 1,401; Saxony, one in 1,606; Switzerland, one in 1,570; in Sweden, one in 1,091, Tho population in 1850 of blind, of deat, of TRLECRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. EUROPEAN COMPLICATIONS, The Situation Becoming Clearer, but Less Peaceful, IGNATIEFP ON ENGLISH POLICY, Immense Russian Preparations— Austria Mobilizing. ENGLISH REVENUE DEFICIT. Pon SN That Marriage of King Alfonso—Rinderpess and Smallpox in England. (bY CaDLE TO THE wenALD.) Loypox, March 29, 1677 and once more ¥ ‘hough trained of his native country and Raving passed so many years of we life tp despotic Turkey, has shown bility to mal sc of Lhe independent press for the purpose of infu ing European epision ia favor of Russian policy. The candor with whieh he gives bis views on the policy of the British Ministry te & striking feature of tho interview and would seem to confirm the opinion which bas begun to prevail ia diplomatic circles on the Continent that Russie com siders tho diplomatic co-opcration of England im- possible, und that the necessity of conciliation is hardly necessary any longer, That Russie has gained morally by the mission of Ig. natie’ to the great Powers cannot be doubted, and these utterances of his in Viegua would almost justify the conciusion that Russia and England, io Ignatief's opinion, will be found at opposite sides in the coming war, even from the outset. It must not be forgotten that during all these negotiations the mobilization ot the Russian army has proceeded with the greatest possi. ble vigor, and that a really formidable force is now ready to pour at very short notico into the Sultan's dominions, The military preparations of Austria have a peculiar significance at this juncture, and taken in conjunction with Ignatieff’s recent visit to Vienna, and his almost scornful strictures on the policy o! Disraeli’s Cabinet, gives small comfort to those who have been hoping, almost against hope, for a peaceiul settlement. * IGNATIEFF'S VIEW OF ENGLISH POLICY, Arepresentative of the Presse bad an ioterview with Genoral Ignatieff before bis departure for Berlin. ‘rh General said bis mission was to submit to the variout Cabinets whether the Eastern question is to be a European or exclusively a Russian ques tion, Russia must havo binding and effectual guarantees from Turkey. Recent events there showed the urgency of a decisive settlement, | did not find the viows entertained in London conducive to the os- tablishment of real peace, English policy pursues an object, namely :—The peace of Europe, which it has, in point of fact, no will to obtain, Most of the Eng lish statesmen live from band to mouth, from day to day, and few comprehend the historical impor- tance of the Eastern question. The policy pursued in London is not the policy of the English people. Every: thing 1s made dependent upon problematical Parla mentary debates and chance majorities of a few votes, Should there be war tke heaviest share of the rosponsibility for its consequence would rest upon England, According to a dospatc) from Berlin General Ignatieff remained tu conferenc: with Prince Bismarck an hour and in the evening dined with him. Later he received visits from the Russian and Italian Ambassadors and at a quarter te eleven P. M. left for St. Petersburg. ENGLISH PRESS COMMENTS, The Post says this morning:—‘‘We are glad to soy the prospects of a pacific solution are at least tavor. ablo to this degree, that negotiations are tc be continued. We may thus gather that the fresh suggestions placed before the Cabinel are deemed worthy of consideration and that a way is still thought to be open to a satisfactory arrangement of all differences,’’ The Times’ Vienna despatch says all that has transpired leads to the supposition that General Ignatief, far from despairing of a solution, has set to work with fi ardor, and bas left Vienna with the hope of having found the lost thread of negotiations, which is to be followed up in Berlin and later in St. Petersburg. ‘This, however, woula not soem to exclude the con tinuance of direct negotiations between London and St. Petersburg. HOW RUAS(A IS GETTING READY, ‘Tne Fremdenbdlatt, of Vienna, publishes the follow. ing, dated Woloczysk, March 11:—“The pencetul voices in Kurope find no echo in Russia in the face of the coustant reinforcements of the southern army. The rumors about demobilization are only smiled at. Four regiments of the newly mobilized corps are to be at their destination within ten days, Tho transport of troops trom Russian Poland has toa great extent ceased, Instead of troops, howev he Kiew and Brest Railway brings heavy siego materis! from Brest. On the Moscow and Koursk Railway the transport of troops is to begin again shortly. The Military Governor of Moscow has informed the railway oficials that within the next week 40,000 infantry will arrive in Moscow, and must be conveyed to Zitomir, Besides the concentrations io the cantonments, which have already been made io Soatn Bessarabia, the last reserves from the frontier tortresses of Krementz, Kaminietz-Podolsk and Chotin have began to movo to the bank of the Pruth, By these reinforcements and the last reserves from Kiew it is thought the Southern army already numbers 300,000 combataats, supported by a reserve of 120,000, It is belioved the latter force will not full tho ordinary functions of areserve, but when it bas attained a normal strength of 200,000 men will be sent after tho operating army, As thia may take two months many think a2 advance will not be made till the middlo of May, The prevalent opinion in the whole Empire is that demobilization without somo tangible success is a sheer impossibility, In Kiew, Podolia and Volbynia every one, doubtless, for peace, but Little Russia has never decided Russian policy. What has always decidot, Russian policy is the opinion at Moscow, and Moscow aud Great Russia are in a feverish agitation. Papers in Vienna, Berlin or Paris would not be permitted ta use such language as is ased by the Russian press on Eastern affairs, the meaning of which is we want war, SIGNIFICANT AUSTRIAN PREPARATIONS, Austria’s intentions may be best judged by the fol lowing intelligence which comes from Vienna thit morning:—“‘All measures are being taken here to mobilize, in case of need, 220,000 men on the frontier in a fortnight, to be followed by another 220,000 in a fortnight afterward, The military site uation {4 in every respect satisfactory. How far these facts will influence Russia’s decision it is impossible to say, but | ain able to state that je oral Iynatiof has been greatly impressed by the decid attitude of the goverument supported by such powerful means of action.’” THR SITUATION VIEWED PROM VIKNNA, Tho Catholic and Greek Kasters, writes a Viemm correspondent, although falling on two succes sive weeks, bid fair to become, by tacit cons sent, a period of a fortnight’s political lull, during which, howover, time wi!l not be lost, bat the solution of the disarmament qu on is to be tought, Tho tfirst task which the Powers seem to propose during this lull is the removal of the deadlock between Turkey and Montenogro, Tho same corre dumb, of insane, of tdtotic, in inited States, num. bored 50,094—being one blind person in every 2,368; in nant breast of Roundsman Lewis it must be | 1360, one in 2,519, spondent confirms the report that the Turks refuwe te profong the armistice beyond April 12, Saloiman Pacha, } commander of the Turkish forces in Herzegovina, 9