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_ the workmen at the Brooklyn Navy Yard t ‘NEW YORK HERALD _ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD. ‘Three ceuts per copy (Sunday rowiee oF ab rate of une dollar per inonth for nny peri pS six months, or five dollars for six months, jon inctuded, free postage. by bnsiness, pews letters or “telegraphic despatches must Re addressed New Yorx Hxrann. ‘and packages should be properly se ‘communications will not be returned. HIA OFFIC) 0, 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON POEFICE OF, THE NEW YORK HERALD— TENUE DE L'OPERA, FAR ORICA NES 7 STRADA PACK, ions and advertirements will be received and the same terms us in New York. or A lla ‘per less ‘Sunday ireioteton AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, FAGLE THEATRE—Aixnr. GERMANIA THLATRE—E BOWERY THEATRE: BROADWAY THEATRE—Oun ( GRAND OPBRA HOUSE—Miss Muttox, NEW YORK AQUARIUM, PARK THEATRE—Ovn WALLAGK’S THEATRE—S UNON SQUARE THEATRE TONY PASTOR'S THEATE TIVOLI THRATRE—Vani 8AN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, EGYPTIAN HALL—Vani PARISIAN VARIETIES. COLUMBIA OPERA HO! GILMORE!S GARDEN—Si100 OLYMPIC THEATRE—Paxtoxnn The Adams Express Company ran a sp train over the Penusylvania Kailroad and leaving Jersey Cit; eis # quarter past tour Bunday, onreying. a int edition of the Mareiaburg and South £0 Washington, rouchiing his at a quarter pust six A. M. and Wasbington wt ext From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the tweather in New York today will be cold and clearing, followed to-night by winds shift. ing from west to north and east, slowly rising tem- perature and increasing cloudiness, Wart SrREE YesterpDar- —The stock mar- ket was active, with the most business being done in the coal stocks and Lake Shore. There was a considerable decline in these stocks, and the whole market was generally weaker. Gold was stronger, the price being 1047g during the day and closing at 105. Government stocks were firm and in good demand and railroad bonds dull. Money loaned at 2 a 3 per cent on call, then at 4 per cent, and closed at 3 per cent on call. Ay Iuportant Wieev within other wheels is explained to-day in ‘Insurance Revelations.” Tue Farner or His Country appears in a new réle this morning. Read his letter to an old swectheart, “Fast on Loose,” the most amusing new drama, may be seen in the Heraxp to-day for three cents. “A Rovine Seamany” will set school girls to mourning over the unequal distribution of edu- ‘cational advantages. Tue Testimony ix tur Rou Case should be read by young ladies who contemplate marriage with gentlemen of uncertain temper. Tue Extra Firty Cents per ton which the coal roal magnates want will of course bo divided among the operatives, if the people can be made to pay it. Tne CANADIAN GOVERNMENT expects to adopt some plan of national representation at the Paris Exposition next year. We wish we could say as much for our own. eT Wit. has been sus- Disappointed relatives may yet be made AnotTuER Cow’ tained. to understand that the devising of charities does not prove that the maker of a will is of unsound mind, N@ TO Dinarory Destors.—An irate tor who used violence toward a debtor of anding got off with a fine of one cent yes- and the Court remitted even that. This will be good ne pr collectors. Asorien Gas Company Has Repentep under the knock-down argument of competition. Being in New Jersey it cannot comfort the bleeding pockets of New Yorkers, but the manner of its reformation contains a hint too good to be lost. Jcpen Van Vorsr’s Decision in the Brown ease will gratify every friend of morality and discourage some of the trickery with which men are secking to set aside that contract which law and religion combine in pronouncing most sa Is of the West- to turn a lot of boro (Mass.) Reform School wild boys into hardened villains they are on the high road to success, It is rather an odd service, however, to be paid for out of the public treas- ury. Tuy Cnamper or Commence very naturally {ndorses the constitutional amendments sug- Kested by Governor Tilden’s commission on the government of cities, for its members pay a large proportion of the taxes which misgovern- ment necessitates, Tne Sree Fresuvts have re owners of any present fears of insutl t water, Damming is the operation usnally followed to secure plenty of this inexpensive motive power; yet now that the streams are over full this same method is vigorously pursued by such manutie- turers as aro not religious, ed mill Our Appayy Corresronpent writes that heaven and earth are to be set in motion to de- feat the reform bills in the Senate. The oppo- "nents of the bills must go still further for help; it is from a locality lower than carth and the very antipodes of heaven that men generally get assistance:to defeat reform measures, Usiox Savina Is a Nospe Occupation when pursued by properly qualified persons, but when it prevents the payment of just debts it sw somowhat of humbug. ‘The inability of som pay dno them is disgraceful to a nation whick bas plenty of money and hires men at large salaries ¢ to proonre and bernie the same. Ax miiears PRISING NEWSBOY is in limbo for sell- ing a bogus “extra,” but nothing was said by the complainant of the additional offence which the youth committed by howling the anuorneement of his wares. Before final decision is given in the ease the judge and jury should stand between the Henaxp ottice and St. Paul's Church some Sun- day evening when a worthless “extra” is being placed on the market, Municipal Reform—Action of the Chamber of Commerce. ‘We earnestly indorse tho resolutions adopted by the Chamber of Commerce at its special meeting yesterday. We hope the whole press of the city and the State will take up this important subject and aid our merchants in pressing it upon the attention of the Legislature, The necessity for im- mediate vigorous action grows ont of the prescribed method of amending the State constitution, All amendments must be acted on by two entirely different legislatures before they can be submitted to a vote of the people. An entire change of the Legislature does not take place every year, but only once in two years, the Senators being elected for that period. The present Senate is serving its last year. A new election of Senators is to take place next fall; so that an amendment | passed this session could be repassed next winter and adopted by the people in the election of 1878, whereas an amendment passed for the first time by the Legislaturo of 1878 could not be repassed before 1880, when another Senatorial election will have intervened. If, therefore, the work of the Municipal Commission is of any value the necessity is urgent for action by this Legis- lature, which would secure a clear gain of two years’ time in achieving a very impor- tant reform, The Chamber of Commerce | deserves credit for taking this subject in hand and appointing a committee to visit Albany and press it. In our judgment it is altogether the most important subject that can engage the attention of the Legislature. We need not recite in detail the history of so well known a measure. Governor Tilden, in 1875, sent to the Legislature a very able and striking message, explaining the neces- sity of a thorough reconstruction of the municipal governments of the State, and asking authority to appoint a competent commission to investigate the subject and frame o new system. The authority was promptly granted, but the Governor was dilatory in organizing the commission. But when he at last selected its members even his enemies were constrained to admit that it could not have been composed of fitter men. Mr. Evarts’ was the most distinguished name in the list, but he had no reason to complain of being yoked with unworthy associates. It was a very able commission, as remarkable for the varicty of talents and experience it combined as for the personal respectability of its members. This body of picked and trained men did not go through their tasks in a hasty, slovenly or perfunctory manner. They deliberately gave their best energies to the problem, and the solution they reached, the iruit of so much thought and labor, cannot reasonably be put aside with- out examination. Of course nobody main- tains that the Legislature should take the plan of the commission on trust and adopt it on a blind faith in the ability of its au- thors, It is their manifest duty to scruti- nize and discuss it. If they discover flaws and objections let them be pointed out, But unless the Legislature can show that the plan of the commission is mis- taken or defective it is their clear duty to put it on the way toward a submission to the judgment of the people, who should be permitted to render a final decision on its merits. It would be inexcusable for the men at Albany to ignore and treat with silent contempt the conscien- tious labors of one of theablest commissions ever appointed in this State to examine any subject. It will not do to say that the Legislature is excused from taking any action on the plan of the commission by the bills now in progress for improving the government of this city. We have watched these bills with lively interest, and concede their merits, We sincerely hope they may pass. But we are constrained to say that we think them inadequate. They do not go deep enough. They are mere patch- work—sewing new cloth on an old garment that is constantly liable to be rent in other places. Even these patches are exposed to be ripped off by any subsequent Legislature, whereas the plan of the Municipal Commis- sion would imbed the fundamental princi- ples of reform in the constitution itself, and put them beyond the reach of legislative caprice or political exigencies. Moreover, the thorough-going reforms proposed by the commission apply to all the cities of the State, and not merely to this metropolis. If tho viows of the commission are fallacions let their fallacy be exposed. But it would be discreditable to the Legislature to ignore its labors altogether, when nobody at Albany, either in tho Senate or Assembly, would think of challenging a comparison between his own abilities and competency and those of Mr. Evarts and his associates in the com- mission. The commission gavo a full year of deliberate investigation to their task, while no member of the Legislature can truly pretend that he has given more than a fitful and casual attention to this great subject. We have no hesitation in indorsing the plan of the Municipal Commission as excel- lent. Our opportunities for learning the opinions of the best informed and most competent judges ought to give some weight to our views, But we ask no deference to our mere opinion on this ground or on any ground, All we insist on is that it is the plain duty of the Legislature to examine the plan of the commission, discarding it, of course, if it finds tangible and solid reasons for rejection, but sub- mitting it to the judgment of the next Legislature if it discovers no strong reasons for dissent, The sanction of this Legislature would be a mero preliminary step. Even if it should passa hasty judgment in favor of the plan no harm would be done, because the next Legisla- ture would have to review its action, and all that oven the next Legislature could do would be to submit the question to the people of the State for their decision, There con be no reasonable exense for refusing to put so important a qnestion on its way toward a final and authoritative decision by the people. The plan was explained to the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, with remarkable clear- neas and force, by Mr. William Allen Butler and Mr. Simon Stern, who were members of the commission and speak with authority, | It puts an efficient check on the power of the municipal governments to create debts. It enforces the responsibility of all mayors of cities by giving them the sole power to ap- point and remove their subordinates. More important than all, it seeks to create a Board of Finance to be elected by the tax- payers, which will prevent people who pay no taxes from voting away other people's money. This plan courts discussion in the Legislature and is entitled to it, If it is wrong let its errors be exposed, If it has even a color of reason let it be handed on to the next Legislature for more mature con- sideration. To treat it with mere con- temptuous neglect and give it the go-by without deigning to consider it, would be quite indefensible. Promising Peace and Preparing for War. By the latest aspect of the news from Europe it appears that England and Russio have exchanged promises, and each appar- ently with a conviction that the other is insincere and does not mean to keep its promise. England agrees to sign a protocol ot the relations of the European Powers to Turkey on condition that Russia promises todemobilize and dismantle the enormous army that she hasbeen so many months in getting ready for active service; but if Russia should fail to demobilize then Eng- land's action on the protocol is to be-re- garded as void. This is the news. Thero may be some foundation for the report that England has on some conditions agreed to sign the protocol. That report is credible, because it would bea blunder for England not to sign it, and the British Cabinet has blundered so persistently in these negotia- tions that it is fair to suppose they may some time or another exhaust their capacity to blunder. Russia could not desire that the nations would do otherwise than leave: the case of her differences with her neigh- bor to her and that neighbor; but England insists that it is a case for Europe at large. That declaration is formalized by the pro- tocol; and the refusal to sign the protocol would be to declare that England regards the Eastern question as general in its rela- tions whenever it is agreeable to her that it shall be so regarded and local in its nature when it is of no advantage to her that it shall be general. It is possible, therefore, that England may make some guarded assent to the position assumed by Russia in the construction of a protocol of the rela- tions of Europe to this issue; but it is certainly not true that the condi- tion of that assent is a pledge on the part of Russia to demobilize her south- ernarmy. At that point the story is erro- neous. We do not believe that Russia has promised to demobilize her army; but if she has promised, then we do not wonder that the British negotiators have provided for. the possible failure of the promise, for if made it cannot be kept. It would be insan- ity for Russia to demobilize the great army she now has ready without as good a guar- antee for the future as that army would give by midsummer; and from whom is such a guarantee tocome? England would not give it if she could ; and it is not in her power to give it if she would; for the Conference showed how little the Turks care for any- thing that comes from England, except the troops and money with which John Bull from time to time sustains the Turkish ‘‘in- tegrity.” Russia has her guarantees in Bessarabia, and at the right moment she will movo them to the Danube, She is ready, and no one else is, and it is not credible that in such a position she will lay down her arms for a few fair promises made in Lon- don. Austria’s preparations indicate the tendency of events in Europe more accu- rately than the report of England's prom- ises. The Foster-Matthews Correspondence. We do not seo that anybody is hurt by the publication of those letters. President Hiayes is not damaged, for he neither authorized the correspondence nor had any knowledge of it. Messrs. Foster and Matthews have no cause for regret, for the opinions they expressed as to the purposes of Mr. Hayes were amply justified by the language of his inaugural address. The Squthern members of Congress to whom their assurances were made cannot suffer cither in the estimation of their own party or the country, for it is evident that they had no desire to bind Mr. Hayes or his friends by a bargain, but merely sought au- thentic information from persons whom they supposed competent to give it. Messrs, Foster and Matthews on one side and Messrs. Brown and Gordon on the other appear with unstained honor in the whole transaction; and as for President Hayes, the communications do not touch him, for he had no knowledge of them at the time they took place. Important Litigation. Three interesting and highly important cases were before the courts yesterday. In one, an action for assault was brought by a sailor against the captain of a vessel for hanging him up by the arms because he was unwiliing to work, and the captain was fined fifty dollars. In another, a sailor sued the mate and steward of a brig for beating him because he mado free with a pie which he found in the forecastle, and the plaintiff recovered forty dollars damages. Ina third, a quarrel occurred between a landlord and his lodger rbout a broom, in which the son of the former took an active part, and was called on to pay fifty dollars for his pains, In these cases half a dozen or more law- yers were engaged; a day's time was con- sumed in their trial; the Judge, deputy sheriffs, seventeen witnesses, clerks, court officers and stenographers were all occupied on them; Sheriff's fees, court fees, witnesses’ fees and lawyers’ fees, bosides the awarded damages, had to be paid. It would be an interesting calculation to ascertain just what they cost the city and what they cost the litigants. ‘Che information would probably deter some sensible people from seeking the expensive uncertainties of the law on such trivial causes of quarrel, Not long agoa suit involving less that fifty dollars occa- pied one of our courts nearly three dhys. It is to be regretted that such litigants can- not be made to fight out their disputes without expense and trouble to the people and the courts, Governor Hampton’s Wayside Speech We see no reason for the hullabaloo made in Washington and elsewhere about the speeches made by Governor Hampton to the admiring crowds that greeted him at the rail- way stations on his journey to Washington. The nincompoops raise a cry that he has put the settlement of the Southern quesiion in jeopardy. We have nothing to say as to the prudence or good taste of General Hamp- ton's speeches. But we deem it pertinent to say this, that the South Carolina difficulty is not o question of the good taste or strict decorum of Governor Hamp- ton’s speeches, but a question as to whether he was legally elected to the office he fills. The only question for President Hayes to consider is whether General Hampton had a majority of the legal votes in the South Carolina election. If he had, he might out- vie Wendell Phillips in intemperance of speech and extravagant rhetoric without in- validating or in any way affecting his title. The President is in no way called to pass a judgment on the decorum of General Hamp- ton’s official manners or the taste of his speeches to a crowd, but only on the ques- tion whether he was elected. If he was le- gally chosen Governor neither the President nor even the impeaching power in his own State can remove him for mere intemperance’ of language. The head and front of his offending at Wilmington was only ao strong assertion of his own title and of a purpose not to compromise it. It would have been a weakness for him to have held any other view, although the good taste of expressing it so strongly may admit of question. What we insist on is that his speeches on the way to Washington have no bearing whatever on the legality of his election in November, and that it is an insult to the intelligence and sound judgment of President Hayes to suggest that Hampton injured his chances of recognition by his frank speech at Wilmington. If his claims suffer in consequence of that speech it can be only because the President is glad of a protext for backing out of the policy of his inaugural address. We have too much respect for Mr. Hayes’ sincerity to beliove anything of the kind. Rapid Transit’s Trials. The Legislature is still engaged in mysti- fying the question of rapid transit for the city of New York. It is difficult to con- ceive what legitimate object can be subserved by the continued meeting of committees and hearing of witnesses on the point as to whether rapid transit is or is not a necessity for the metropolis, That matter has been settled long ago. The Legislature of 1875, after a strenuous opposition by the inter- ests opposed to this great public im- provement, passed a law which was believed to be honestly designed to ac- complish the much desired object. Since then every device that cunning can invent, or the corrupt expenditure of money can se- cure, has been resorted to for the purpose of obstructing the operation of that law. The courts have been appealed to and injunc- tions have been obtained against the prose- cutors of the work on the most trivial pre- tences. The Common Council has been “fixed” for the purpose of throwing such difficulties in the way of the construction of on elevated road as the limited power of the Aldermen will permit. The Legislaturo was assailed as soon as it assembled, and not without effect if we are to judge from the numerous insidious attempts that have been made this session to damage the prospects of rapid transit under the false mask of friend- ship for the enterprise. The people of New York have much pa- tience. They are distinguished for submit- ting to outrages for a long time without ris- ing against them. But when they are fairly incensed they are likely to treat the public enemies with some severity. The sudden and complete overthrow of the old Tam- many Ring is a proof of this peculiarity of our population. It will be an act of wisdom on the part of the horse railroad corpora- tions, the ‘‘property owners” in their inter- est, and the Aldermen and representatives in their service, if they cease their undue opposition to this great public work before the people are thus aroused. The law of 1875 will be eventually carried out. Of that there is no doubt. A bill before the Legis- lature provides that the work shall be re- lieved from the embarrassment caused by perpetual stoppages through temporary and trumpery injunctions. This law does in- justice to no one, since it leaves all legal questions to be decided on their merits, and holds the constructors of the road account- able finally for any damages they may have illegally occasioned. But it prevents fac- tious delays of the work; and this is just what the people demand. This bill should be passed, and the poople will mark all those Scnators and Assemblymen who op- pose it, The legislators must now choose between the money of interested corpora- tions and the continued support of their constituents. Tho Weather. The storm centre has now reached Nova Scotia, but with increased central pressure. Tho area of precipitation has diminished and recoded with the storm toward the north- east, Snow fell yesterday morning over a portion of the lako region, the St. Lawrence Valley, the British Atlantic provinces and the Middle and Fastern States, but in the afternoon changed in some districts to rain, The westerly winds have also decreased |} in velocity except on the Middle At- Jantic coast. The temperature within the arca of the depression has fallen, especially on its southern and western margins. An- other disturbance noticed in yesterday's Henarp is moving toward the Mississippi Valley, and, from present indications, prom- ises to be attended with heavy rains, Al- ready much rain has fallen in the Upper Missouri Valley, with brisk southeasterly winds and rising temperature. An crea of high pressure is now traversing the lake region, Inthe South the barometer is falling, with very high temperature, but as yet fair weather. Fogs are frequent on the Gulf coast and may prevail at New York during the next few mornings. The Lower Ohio and the Red River have risen, but the Upper Ohio has fallen and the other rivers are unchanged. It is probable, how- ever, that a rise will occur in the Upper -' NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAKCH 30, 1877—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. . Loe Missouri and Mississippi rivers with the ad- vancing storm. The weather in New York to-day will be cold and clearing, probably followed to-night by winds shifting from west to north and east, slowly rising tem- perature and increasing cloudiness, A Neglected Statute. A Brooklyn bank has recently been robbed by two of its officers. One has re- stored the amount of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, which the president is satisfied is all that he stole, while the other is alleged to have limited his plunder to the modest sum of ten thousand dollars. The latter is said to have compromised with the bank by paying back a portion of the miss- ing money and giving a deed of his house to cover the remainder. This is a very com- fortable arrangement for all parties, but especially for the two thieves, Those precious rascals escape the fate of other felons, and are at liberty to enjoy at their ease at least a portion of their plunder; for the tale that the restored amounts are all that have been siolen from the bank is one to be told to the marines, The people of the United States are grow- ing altogether too familiar with this story, It is told in the papers almost every week. Dishonest tellers, cashiers, bookkeepers and other bank employés promise soon to be the rulo instead of the exception. The reason is clear. Not one of the robbers fears pun- ishment, A thievish bank clerk has only to steal asum sufficiently large to induce the officers of the institution to compromise on the return of half the amount and he is safe from State prison. Bank presidents and directors are in a tremor on the discovery of a robbery lest the credit of the concern should be injured, and probably in many instances lest their own careless misman- agement should be exposed. The dishonest employés therefore find no difficulty in “settling,” and their success encourages oth- ers to commit similar crimes. If every bank robber could be made certain of the State prison the offence would be less common than it is. There is a statute of the State which snys, “Eivery person having the knowledge of the actual commission of any offeace punish- able by imprisonment in a State prison for any other term than for life, who shall take any money or property of another, or any gratuity or reward, or any engagement or promise therefor, upon any agreement or understanding, express or implied, to com- pound or conceal any such crime, or to ab- stain from any prosecution therefor, or to withhold any evidence thereof, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in a State prison not exceeding three years, or in a county jail not exceeding six months,” Probably the enforcement of this law in some case in which a bank felony is com- pounded would tend to put a stop to a crime which is gradually undermining the popular confidence in all banking institu- tions. Is It Charity? The report of a committee of the Grand Jury on the Charity Hospital on Blackwell's Island is anything but pleasant reading to people who are mulcted by the tax-gatherer of moneys for the support of public chari- ties, Insufficient ventilation and the air poisoned by filthy water closets, baths unfit for use and insufficient culinary ar- rangements combine to make this nominal sanitarium a more dangerous place than the cellars and attics from which many of the patients come. It is sometimes said of the sick poor that if they were dead they would be better off. Judged by this saying the Charity Hospital is doing its best. But if, as appears from official documents, the hospital is intended to exemplify the old fashioned idea that the suffering poor need and deserve assistance from so- ciety at large, the Charity Hospital needs either a thorough overhauling or an effec- tive conflagration. The Female Lunatic Asylum is another institution which the committee found in a condition dangerous to its inmates and disgraceful to the officials who are charged with its management. One resident physician, with fourteen hundred patients, can give to each unfortunate his attention for about half a minute per day. The value of such service can readily be estimated by any one who has had experi- ence with lunatics, To dignify such neg- lect and abuse by the holy name of charity is one of those bits of sarcasm which are too horrible to provoke a smile and too full of meaning to admit of any excuse from the officials to whom the people have contided this sacred trust. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Dr, Slade is in Holland. Wagacr’s music pays in Boston. Ben Hill ts not working for Foster Blodgett, Sir William Verner, of England, is at tho Windsor. Count KR. de Chotseul, ot Parts, ts at the Brunswick, Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, is at the St James, Migs Amy Fay will compete with Miss Juha Rivé in Chicago. Esquimaux Joe has a situation at the Smithsonian Institute, Strawberries are seven cents apicco, while ipecac is oaly ten conts a bottle, Exebange:—‘*A frothy-mouthed Spitz dog will frighten more women than fifty wicked mep.’’ Mr. O'Connor Power, Member of Parliament for Mayo, Iroland, is at tho Fifth Avonue. Women who sometimes smuzglo things through the Custom House frequently havo pullbacks. “Vignette,’? who writes for tho public, says that “Jadies carry their burdens on their heads,” Senator Sargenty at tho solicitation of California friends, has consented to be a candidato fer re-election to the United States Senate, t Mr, Thomas Russell, United States Mivistor to Venezuela, arrived from Havava in the steamship Vera Cruz yesterday, and is at tho Astor, Weexty Herain:—“Measure three tablespoonfuls of rice with a light hand and do not heap them, Wash tho rico twice in warm water, letting it stand in the water halfan hour; then drain off the wator, put tho rico ina large pudding dish, pour over it a quart of milk, add four tablespoonfuls of white sugar, with but- ter tho size of a walnut, and a saltspoonful of salt. Grato nutmeg over the top and placo in a moderate oven, Now, the excellence of this pudding depends upon the baking. If your oven is right tt will toke about two hours. After the first half hour open the door and etir tho pudding, Several times in the course of baking a rich creamy brown crust comes upon the surface and should be broken, allowing the milk to cover it, when another crust will form. Tho pudding should be quito thin when taken from the oven, Lot it get very cold by putting it on ico, if you havo it, When cold tt should be of the consistency of boiled custard. A pleasant change can be mado by adding a large bandful of raisins, It will bo uecossary thon to allow another cup of milk,’” A TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts-of the World. THE EASTERN SEE-SAW. Yesterday "T'was Peace: To+ Day ’Tis War. “ENGLAND HAS FAILED." The Demobilization Schemes Abortive— Russia Will Not Consent. ' THE POPE AS WELL AS USUAL [py cavLz To THE HERALD.) Loxpox, March 80, 1877. Lord Loftus, tho British Ambassador to the Court of the Czar, bad @ stormy interview wits Prince Gortschakoff In St. Petersburg on Mone day last. The Russian Minister used very energetic language relative to England’s refusal to make any advances toward a poaceable solution, This intere view, it was thought, would destroy hopes of peaca, However, by Wednesday morning othor counsels seem to havo prevailed, for a telogram was then sent to Count Schouvaloff, in which Russia made another step toward concession, The telegram authorized Schouvaloff to embody Russia's promise to disarm in a memorandum, which memorandum may, if necessary, be read in Parliament. The following are the conditions attached to the promise :—That tho Porte make peace with Mons+ tenegro, accept the protocol and) send an Ambassador to St, Petersburg to arrange the matter of domobilizas tion, Schouvaloft communicated tho foregoing to Lord Derby on Wodnesday. BRAVING THE STORM, Inthe Turkish Chamber of Deputies, in. session at Constantinople, yesterday, scvoral speakers opposed the cession of territory to Montenegro. A sentence ‘was Inserted in the uddross to the “Sultan exprossing confidence that in this matter the government will act conformably with the interests and dignity of the Em- pire, Anothor paragraph ot the address approves the rejection of the proposals of the Conference, Ti d= dress was almost unanimously adopted. Yesterday’s Telegraph’s Pora special, dated five minutes to seven o’ciock Wednesday evening (twenty-four hours after the recall of the fleet was known), says the feeling to- day is buoyant and hopos are entertaiacd of the pros. ervation of peace in consequence of the favorable news from the various European capitals, LOOKS WARLIKE, Belgrade is now thronged with wild looking volun- teers, who went there originally {rom Bulgaria, Bosuia and Austrian Croatia, It is asserted thut the Russian Committee there are furnishing them sufliciont funds te enable them to join the Bosnian insurgonts, It ia stated, from Bucharest, that the Turkish Minister of War has ordered tne immediate mobilization of the territorial army of the Vilayet of the Danube. It num- vers about 25,000. The Turkish fleet has beon recalled from the Sea of Marmora to the Bosphorus, but no reason has boon assigued, “WE MAVE BAILED,” \ The Zimes, in a leading article, takes a very gloomy view of the situation. It si —*'It is really idle talk of inquiries, trials, amnestics, constitutions and otber acts thinly dressed in phrases of logal significance. In word, we have failod, We have had our turn, and it ts over, Whether we were simply aimingat tho retorma- tion of tho Turkish Empire, with duo regard to ite ine tegrity and independence, or whether we bad also an eyo to British interests at stake, we have had our innings and have scored nil, Of course, in dealing with a power like Turkey we always did talk of material guarantees as tho only possible meaus of control, but it makes the greatest difference iu the world whether material operations, or the introduc, tion of force in one form or another, shall be the means. or the end, In other words, whether the object shall bo material as wellas tho means, How does the ques- tion stand now? Material guarantecs can only mean occupation, and occupation of Turkish territory by neighbors on the plea that Turkey is incapable of governing herse!f means something which we do not call annexation, because we do pot like to 1aco that contingency. Whatever it is and whatever it designs it puts us out of the question. England certainly bas no slight interest in the disposal of such acountry as Turkoy, or at least of its provinces and tributaries, But the respective interests of those nearer the scene of contention are a common calvulae tion. Itis quite plain that the failuro of negotiations ‘and inflation of opposite armaments points either to war or to that solution which too generally ts not found tll after the day of battle, Material guarantees are but a coarse topic for tne early stages of negotiation, but they aro the very currency of war, Germany a fow years ago set un example of something more than a guarantee—an actual conquest. Let hes see she does not find an imitator improving on the Jesson, Bulgarian gaarantees js only another word fot Rossian occupation, Statesmen avert their gaze from this too possible interpretation, It ts, however, an in. cident of war and {bo probablo issue of war. If we should distike it, stil! more would other Powers withia sight of tho catastrophe. Tho occasion hag arrived for the neighboring Powers to sponk out, it, indeed, they speak beforo they act, The tine has come if not to act, at least to speak, They are much better qualified than England for problema of a territorial character and bearing om the balance of power, These problems, itis plain, England couid nover settle for thom, If they take their part in the Eastern question they will do this for themselves,” RUSSIA MUST MAKE THE FIRST MOVE, The Vienna Nieue Freie Presse intimates thas it ie possible the question of the protocol will be separated from that of demobilization, In rofers enco to the latter Russia would formally point out that she had already given a promise ta dicarm. England would declare horself satisfied with this = declaration, Actual = disarmament would ve postponed until the Porte would likewise = disarm, Meantime i 18 believed that peace between Montenegro and Turkey would be concluded in consequence of the signing of the protocol, The Daily Telegraph's dospatch from Pera, dated Mareh 29, states that to-day the Montenegrin dolegates will visit Safvet Pacha for the last time to ask it Turkey will cedo Nicsios, A satisfactory yeply is pos sible, 8 tho foreign representatives havo boon doing thor utmost to bring about an arrange. ment, It 19 also bolicved that Russia hag advised Montenegro to make peace. The expression of opinion in the Turkish Chamber against a cossion of territory to Montenegro it is thought will not aflect the question of Nicsics, as the debate referred entirely to tho Albanian district, tS ENGLAND SIGNED? It {s reported in Paris that the pending negotiations boar upon tho question of the simultancous disarmas mentof Russia and Turkey. Yesterday afternoon’s Pall Mall Gazette announces very prominently that England has consented to eign the protocol, Russia having agreed to mako ao formal agreement to domobilizs, but (probably in view of the fact that pence between Montenegro and Tarkoy is still 1n suspense, and that a renowal of hostik ittes might enlarge tho theatre of war), England proposes that the protocol become void, should thore be any failure to fulfil the eogagemont to demobilize, The Political Correspondence, ot Vienna, publi tho following spectal despatch which requires coutir- mation:— “St, Perensnurc, March 29, 187%. “In consequonce of an earnest request from Russia for adecisive answer upon tho protocol question, the Enghsb Ministers, after yesterday’s council, expressed their willingnoss to sign the protocol as draftea by

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