The New York Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1877, Page 4

vee NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIE WOR. R. . rave cont per ea dollar y can ga wn} vil pr manne ot five dainra ior atx on onthe Sanday All business, news ace iociers ‘or telegraphic despatches must Ye addressed Kew YORK Hxnaume Letters and packages should be reoper'y nealed. Hiejected communientions will not be’ weather sah nla DELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH OSDON rh pron On THE se YORK HERALD— yeas Mf) ENE Di ERA. er ei astheemnente bing be paPecotves and mie terme as iu New York, BROADWAY THEATRE— GRAND OPERA HOUSE: BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, EGYPTIAN HALL—Vanuery. PARISIAN VARIETIES. COLUMBIA OPERA HOUSE. WITH SUPPLEMENT. __NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 31,1877, NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS, ‘The Adams Express Company ran s special newspaper train over the Fennsytveal road and its connection. leaving Jersey Ci or pust four A. M. daily and Sunday, carrying the a tion of the ItmuaLp ne far West as Hureisbur; South to Washington, reu. ing Philudeiphin at quarter past six A. M. and Washingtou we one P. From our reports this morning the probabilities ave thatthe weather in New York to-day will be cool and clear or partly cloudy, followed in the afternoon by rising temperature and increasing cloudiness. Some Sonrp sense is applied to the proposed coal combination in our financial column. A Traty has at last passed over the Elevated Railroad to the river terminus. None of the ap- plicants for injunctions participated in the ex- cursion. Ay Unrrvary Notice of a famous “princess,” who never gave cause for scandal, and whose descendants are held in high honor among hard- hended Americans, is published to-day. Sirx 1s Berxa Wownp in red tape again at the Custom House, to the great disgust of im- porters, the cause apparently being a feud among dealers instead of the proper require- ments of the service. WITH SU: Ture 18 A Rerresuinc Unanriry of senti- ment in the newspapers on the subject of Mormon polygamy. It is not-the first time that the press has found it necessary to take up some topic of vital importance because Congress has let it alone. Tue Latest Specian Service of the gallant policeman Bleil, who has a faculty for saving men from drowning, was oflicially recognized yesterday. The more officers of this kind the Police Commissioners discover the better the public will be pleased. One or THE Most DevicutFut of a reader's experiences is to find exactly his own ideas ex- pressed on paper by some one else. Many of our own readers have this pleasure offered them in our report of the opinions of come of our city As Micut Have Bren Exrectep the case of the arrest of the American Consul at Acapulco looks bad for the Mexicans. The Consul’s offence was the protection of an American citizen against robbery in the form of a government levy. To oppose robbery of any sort seems always to be a grave offence in Mexico. Ir Freigut Warns Continue the grangers’ oc- eupation, so far as it consists of fighting railway companies, will be gone. The newest fight promises to reduce freight rates to a degree which will make certificates of railway stocks more valuable as kindling paper than as invest- ments. Tuene Appears A New Cramant for the honor of having kept tho country from violence and disorder during the late Presidential excite- ment. It is the common school, whose far-reach- ing influence was not overestimated in the ad- diress to the School Commissioners of the State yesterday. Tue Brocrarnica, Sketcn or Jones, the murdered Spiritualist, is instructive as showing how little personal ability has to do with personal character. Intellectual though the dead seducer was his mind secms never to have controlled his passions, and his private life was as brutish and his death as disgraceful as if he had never writ- ten a line or read a word, Tue Trvry Reticrovs should read “Badly Ventilated Churches” in “Our Complaint Book” and learn the principal cause of somnolence in church before Sunday comes again. According to Scripture “There is nothing from without a man that, entering into him, can detile him,” but St is certain that bad air entering into men has in countless instances made it impossible for the preacher to remove such defilement as already “existed. Tue Wrarurr.—The low area which pre- sented itself on Thursday morning in the North- sweat has entered the Upper Mississippi Valley and moves in a@ southeasterly direction. The rain area attendant on it is extensive and the precipitation at some points excessive. At Leavenworth, on the Missouri, the fall in sixteen hours has been over two inches. The depression is extending southward, and it is probable that all the territory from Mani- toba to Texas will be involved. The high press- ure is now over the lower lakes and Middle States, and is making slow progress castward. The wind at New York, however, indicates that uge to easterly and southerly points is at hand. The storm centre of the early part of the week is moving off the const of Nova Scotia, with brisk to high winds at various points, The temperature throughout the United States east of the Rocky Mountains haa risen and continnes very high in the South and Southwest. The Missouri, Cumberland and Mississippi have risen slightly. The Red River and tl® Ohio, execpt on the lower goction of the latter, have fallen. The weather ig New York to-day ‘Will be cool and clear or partly cloudy, followed in the afternoon by rising temperature and in- ereasing cloudiness. The Next Congress and the Extra Session. ‘When Congress assembles in extra session on the 4th of next June both houses will be more nearly matched politically than they have been for many years. In the Senate the republicans will have a majority of only three or four. In the House the democrats will have, on the organization, a majority of at least nine, and perhaps fifteen, This closeness of party strength is in itself a se- curity for wise and against hasty legislation. Where parties are so nearly evenly balanced the abler members of a legislative body can and do exercise a wholesome control over measures ; they hold the balance of power, and the party caucus and the previous ques- tion lose their demoralizing force. There is reason, therefore, for believing that the next. Congress will be more strictly under the control of its brains and less affected by the ignorant and the designing among its mem- bers than any Congress which has sat since the beginning of the war. Needed reforms will have an unusual opportunity to get a hearing, and a vote, too ; and as the ever- lasting Southern question will be out of the way there is.a solid ground of hope that the country will be benefited by the next Con- gress. This hope is strengthened by a glance at the list of new Senators. Garland, of Ar- kansas; Hoar, of Massachusetts; Morgan, of Alabama; Kirkwood, of Iowa; Lamar, of Mississippi; Davis, of Illinois, and Hill, of Georgia, all men of real ability and states- manship, take the places of Clayton, Bout- well, Goldthwaite, Wright, Alcorn, Logan and Norwood.» No one can fail to see in these changes agreat improvement. Stanley Matthews, who takes Secretary Sherman's seat, and Mr. Beck, who succeeds Mr. Ste- venson, are both positive characters, and as able men as their predecessors. There has, indeed, been a sensible and continual im- provement in the character of the Senate since 1872, In that period have disappeared, besides those we have named above, Ames, of Mississippi; Chandler, Cooper, of Ten- nessee; Flannagan, of Texas; Gilbert, of Florida; Ramsey, Scott, of Pennsylvania; Sprague, Stewart, of Nevada; Stockton, and West, of Louisiana, all men who could easily be spared from the Senate, and they have been replaced, in many cases, by better men, for in the same period the Senate has received Kernan, Randolph, Booth, Chris- tiancy, McMillan, Jones, ot Florida; Coke, of Texas. Mr. Blaine, who succeeded Mr. Mor- rill, though not an abler, is a more brilliant man. Mr. Grover, who takes the place of Mr. Kelly, from Oregon, is reputed to be a sound lawyer and intelligent man. Ferry, of Connecticut, Sumner and Schurz are men whose loss was keenly felt in the Sen- ate; but the new men give the promise of replacing even these, and the number of Senators who are either extreme partisans or persons of little or no ability has been hand- somely decreased in the last five or six years. The new House of Representatives suffers by the loss of some of the ablest of the old members. Mr. Kerr is dead; Blaine, Hill, Hoar and Lamer have gone to the Senate ; Pierce, of Massachusetts; Kasson, of Iowa; Elijah Ward, Charles J. Faulkner; Abbott, Seelye and Thompson, of Massachu- setts; Willard, of Michigan; Jenks, of Pennsylvania; Scott Lord, Hancock, of Texas, and Holman, of Indiana, do not reappear, All these will be missed. We trust among the new members there will be some chronic and stiff-backed objector to take the place of Mr. Holman, whose ‘‘I ob- ject” was a terror to jobbers in the last House. Of men of note and power in Congresses before the last the new House regains only Clarkson Potter and General Butler. Of the new mem- bers General Ewing, of Ohio, is the only one we now remember who is pretty sure tomake his mark, But of the men who served with more or less distinction in the last House, and reappear in the next, there is a considerable list. On the repub- lican side there will be Foster, Garfield, Hale, Chittenden, Kelley, Townsend, Crapo, Burchard and Frye, and some others, prob- ably, whom we do not nowremember. The democratic list is longer, and includes Ran- dall, Wood, Cox, Schleicher, Knott, Ran- dolph Tucker, Swann, Randall Gibson, Reagan, Clymer, Lynde, Hewitt, Eppa Hun- ton, Bright, Sayler, Gilbert, Walker and Waddell, of North Carolina. A good many journals express the hope that Congress at the extra session will do nothing but pass the Army bill. We do not agree with them. There is no reason why the extra session should not do some good work for the country. In the first place we hope it will adopt a constitutional amend- ment in consonance with the President's inaugural Message, making a Presi- dent ineligible to re-clection and pre- scribing o term of six years. Mr. Hayes rightly urged this as a necessary means toward a reform of the civil service; the country demands it; and the amend- ment, if adopted at the extra session, can become a part of the constitution early next winter. 'There is no good reason why the month of June should not see the country at last put fairly on the way to specie payments by the passage of either Mr. Chittenden’s or Mr. Sherman’s Funding bill. Both partios are pledged to such a measure; not only the President, but we understand also Secretary Sherman is very anxious for the passage of a proper measure; and if the friends of re- sumption in both houses will use only ordi- nary zeal they can confer this great benefit on the country before the Fourth of July. It seems to us certain that they can do it more easily in June than at the regular ses- sion, because later there will be a pressure of other legislation which will be used by the opponents of resumption to obstruct this object. Congress would do wisely, we think, if it should, at its June meeting, establish a commission of experts to examine the inter- nal and foreign commerce of the country and the condition of industry, and report from time to time. The Revenue Commission, of which, during Mr. Johnson's administration, 4 Mr. David A. Wells was the head, was an extremely useful body. It gave to Congress agreat body of facts, well digested, upon which a good deal of important legislation | based. If such a commission were now re- vived it would be a very important help to the next Congress ; and it ought not only to report upon the condition of our various industries and the obstacles to their pros- perity, but to examine our commercial trea- ties with foreign nations, with a view to the | revision of many of them. Such a commis- sion, appointed by the President, and con- sisting of well known experts, could make an extremely important report to Congress after the Christmas holidays. The Mormon Probiem. The execution of John D. Lee, the confes- sion he made when confronting an igno- minious death, the implication’of Brigham Young and other Mormon magnates as ac- complices in the Mountain Meadows mas- sacre and the new sense of indignant hos- tility to the bloody, beastly, law-defying hieratchy on the borders of the Great Salt Lake contribute to make this the most im- portant occasion which has yet arisen for effacing the foul blot on American life which has so long existed in the re- gion of the Rocky Mountains. It is to be regretted that this great oppor- tunity is presented when the public mind is so much engrossed with other ex- citing questions, If President Hayes were in the middle of his term instead of at its beginning the Mormon question, as now freshly presented, would occupy a chief share of his attention, Unfortunately, the South Carolina question and the Louisiana question eclipse all other subjects and ex- clude any deliberate consideration of a question which has hitherto proved more difficult and unmanageable than any other in our national affairs. Utah has popula- tion enough for admission as a State, but Congress has been forced to exclude her because it would be unsafe to con- cede the independence and local self- control which belong to our States to a community which outrages the moral sense of the country. In our system the States have exclusive control of their marriage laws, and Congress has felt a just repug- nance to admitting to State privileges a community whose marriage laws would sub- vert a fundamental principle of Christian morals. It has been wisely thought better to keep Utah in federal leading strings and refuse its admission as a State while its do- mestic institutions are repugnant to the marriage code cf all Christian communities. The moral sense of the country revolts against its admission as a State so long as it upholds that ‘twin relic of bar- barism,” polygamy. While it remains a Territory the authority of the federal gov- ernment over its domestic concerns is supreme, and Congress has hitherto been greatly at fault in not taking efficient meas- ures to extinguish. the immoral and de- moralizing institution which all Christian communities regard as a foul abomination. The time has at length come for vigorous action, and it would be unwise to let so favorable an opportunity slip. The first and most urgent thing to be done is to bring all the accomplices in the Mountain Meadows massacre to justice. Their trial, condemnation and execution would be a great step toward putting the public mind in a proper temper for dealing finally and ef- fectually with the troublesome Mormon question. The next great step will be the passage by Congress of such laws as will thoroughly uproot polygamy and the abject slavery of women which it involves. It will not be difficult to pass laws on this sub- ject which will be quite cffective whenever Congress is disposed to take hold of the question in earnest. We are prepared to offer suggestions on this point whenever Congress is ready to act, but for the present we only insist on the vigorous execution of the criminal laws against John D. Lee's bloodstained accomplices. Railway Engineers. One of the companies that has lately been a victim to the combined action of the locomotive engineers under the direction of the Brotherhood of Engineers has in- itiated against that organization hostilities which are likely to prove memorable. It has announced that within a few days every engineer in its employment will be called upon to choose whether he will re- main with the company or discon- tinue his connection with the engi- neers’ society, and it intimates that it will itself create a substitute for the bene- ficiary fentures of the socicty. Action of this sort was an inevitable consequence of what has been done by the Brotherhood of Engineers on several memorable occasions lately, for railroad companies are entities too highly organized not to fight in their own defence. The issue of this conflict will turn upon whether the Reading company is lett by other companies to fight out this battle alone, supported. Common Sense. It is recorded that on a memorable occa- sion in French history the watchmen in the streets called out at night, ‘Frenchmen, it is our duty to communicate the most melan- choly news ever heard: the good King Louis is dead.” In the solemn spirit of that an- nouncement we desire to pass on to the pubiic the chronicle of what a police justice said to Mr. Bergh—awful words! words startling, outrageous, unreasonable and im- pudent. He said, ‘‘We must use some common sense in these matters.” This was in regard to the enforcement of the law for the prevention of cruelty to animals. It has been believed for some centuries that the devil has an aversion to holy water, and fancy, therefore, how he would feel if a police justice should require him to em- ploy that sort of fluid in some of his impor. tant operations. It is not less impertinent, absurd and ridiculous for a justice to talk thus to Mr. Bergh about common sense. Of course if the Judge could enforce his declara- | tion the operations of the society would come toa standstill. If it did not act until its oceasicns were measured by the rule of common sense it would never be heard of and would never come into court as the op- pressor of poor wretches like the car driver who was fined; and, never being heard of in that way, the philanthropic haters of hu- manity would not subscribe to its funds and the bottom would fall out of the whole ma- | zesarding the collection of the revenue was I chine, That would never do, Probably it will be strongly | The Fature of New York, The Henarp has never belonged to the order of cronkers, It has always believed that courage, hopefulness and the spirit of enterprise which they foster are the main- spring of success in all prosperous com- munities, and that no people ever became great or continued to be great after indulg- ing in misgivings respecting their destiny. We have never despaired of the country in its darkest hours, and, even in this period of commercial depression, we entertain no doubts as to the ever expanding greatness of New York city. We suffer now because the business of the whole country suffers and the business gf the whole world suffers. Whenever general prosperity re- vives the prosperity of New York will revive with it, When but little blood circulates in the veins and arteries but little can pass through the heart ; but as soon as general health is restored the heart will again beat with energy and send a full pulsating tide to the extremities of the system. New York will always remain the commercial heart of the continent and one of the great centres of exchanges of the whole world. When the country again becomes prosperous, and when Eng- land, Germany and other ps ah foreign countries with which we have hitherto had a large trade once more become prosperous, New York, as the great centre of our foreign and domestic trade, will take a fresh and vigorous start in a new march toward its magnificent destiny. Wo are as sure of this as we can be of anything. But, notwithstanding this strong confi- dence in the majestic future of the city, we have a keen and anxious appreciation of the obstacles which stand in our way, and which the present stagnation of business tends to magnify. If the city overestimates them now it absurdly underrated them while our trade was flowing in full channels. Itis one of the compensations which attend misfor- tune that we are brought to a full sense of how much we need to rectify in order to reap the advantages of our unequalled situ- ation. In failing health we learn which are our weak organs. ‘The three or four years of adversity under which we still suffer have taught us the indispensable necessity of certain reforms. But the reforms which attract most attention are not the ones which are really most important. The public mind has been strongly fixed on the diversion of the grain trade to rival cities in consequence of the exorbitant charges for handling and transshipment here. This complaint is real; but we wish that all our errors could be as easily corrected as this one, Another great impediment to our prosperity is our wasteful municipal expenditures and enor- mous taxes. It will not be very difficult to apply a remedy to this evil. It will be pretty effectually cured if the people of the State shall ratify the excellent constitu- tional amendments recommended by the Constitutional Commission, which were so strongly indorsed by the Chamber of Com- merce at its meeting on Thursday. But there is another evil—a more gigantic and witherng evil than either of these—which saps the very foundations of our prosperity, and which can be remedied only by con- quering a vast mass of traditional prejudice, We refer to our utterly preposterous tax laws, which are steadily driving commercial capital out of the city. The very life of the city is the active capital employed here as the foundation of various kinds of business which extend their ramifications to every part of the country. Our utterly absurd tax laws are steadily driving busi- ness out of the State into New Jersey, Con- necticut and other neighboring States and depressing the value of real estate in every part of this island, Our tax laws are be- hind the age. They were passed more than fifty years ago, when agriculture was the chief interest of the State, and they are ab- surdly out of relation with the present con- dition of things when commerce has be- come the main pillar of our prosperity. A very able pamphlet which has just been published by Tax Commissioner Andrews, goes tu the pith of this great subject and deserves the thoughtful attention of every resident of the city and every inhabitant of the State. Perhaps no citizen of the State is so well qualified to discuss this impor- tant subject as Mr. Andrews. Many years ago he was one of the most important jour+ nalists of the city. When he retired from journalism he purchased a large farm in Otsego county and was immediately elected to the State Senate, of which he was a very distinguished member. For the last seven or eight years he has been one of the Tax Commissioners of the city, and has probably a more intelligent appreciation of the operation of our tax system than any other man among us. His pamphlet shows with remarkable clearness that our preposterous tax laws are driving capital out of the city and cutting the sinows of our prosperity by blind ad- herence to a system which was suited only to an agricultural community, and which the growth of commerce has rendered ob- solete. Unless this absurd system is re- vised there will be a long farewell to all our greatness. On some future occasion we will attempt to explain how hide-bound notions at Albany are slowly undermining the prosperity of this metropolis. The Spring. It may in fact be admitted that spring is here. Somebody has paid five dollars, more or less, for the first North River shad, Somebody has taken the first boat through from this city to Albany. These have been from time immemorial evidences to the Indians and foreigners of these parts of the arrival of the gentle catarrhal season. Everybody has a cold in the head or a bronchitis or pleurisy or rheumatism—all of which are further evidences that spring is here. Crocuses are gay on little lawns exposed to the sun, and croup sports in tho air nearby and takes the unwary infant by the throat. Deep in the city sewers the stir and thrill of the spring is felt, and the deadly gases rise and creep nimbly up the waste pipes, and those three sprites, Typhoid Fever, Scarlet sever and Diphtheria, with garlands of immortelles and pansies, dance thvir festive rounds with “equal feet” in the high-ceiled chambers l the slums, In short, the spring is evidently of airy Murray Hill or in the tenements of NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCR’ $1, 1877--WITH SUPPLEMENT. here, and the Btreet Cleaning Bureau con- templates with dismay the thawing out of the streets, and G. W. B. snuffeth afar off the chance to get at the worst of all his windmills—the shad poles in the North River. Oriental Issues.- Some doubts are now cast upon the accu- racy of the statement that Russia had prom- ised to demobilize her army on condition of England’s adhesion to the protocol; and the Times comments on the appearance of a new word in the negotiations—deconcentra- tion, That Russia has promised to change the disposition of her military forces is very, probable; that she has promised to disband any portion of her army orto reduce the equipment of other parts toa peace standard; that, in short, she has promised to undoat a stroke the labor of six arduous months with- out a more substantial guarantee for the future than any government can give, is alto- gether unlikely. One of the elements of the mobilization of an army is certainly the presence of its parts at some one point where they are subject in effective masses to a common will; and an army not thus disposed is not fully mobilized, But it is tolerably clear that this element of mobilization is one of the least essential. Every attribute of military vitality is possible without it ex- cept that supreme element of unity and ac- quaintance with itself which makes an army really great. Russia’s armies have been assembled in great camps for some months, and she may have promised to march the regiments: to the districts in which they were raised or otherwise to break up the unity of these great bodies. This would be to demobilize ; but it would be astep toward demobilization that could be readily retraced, and it would be unwise in the St. Petersburg government to take any other. Rose colored views provailed some time since of Turkey’s capacity to make war ; but the picture of the condition of the Asiatic dominions of the Sultan that is pre- sented in the despatches was clearly not drawn by the author of the rose colored views. Our Easter Amusements. Spring and the Easter festival come hand in hand and seem to blend their pleasures, Lent, which is the most solemn period of the year, was made more gloomy by the almost intolerable March weather, but in a little while April will paint the trees with delicate green and deepen the blue of the skies. Our spring amusement season sym- pathizes with the revival of nature. Easter Monday will begin a series of dramatic and musical entertainments which in number and variety have been seldom rivalled in New York. Tragedy, melodrama, comedy, farce, pantomime, magic, minstrelsy and opera will occupy the stages of more than twenty theatres, and the only trouble of the public will be which of them to choose. One of the important events will be the first appearance in this city of Miss Anna Dickinson in her own play entitled “A Crown of Thorns.” Another interesting novelty is the engagement of Mr. John McCullough, who will give the ‘complete round of his Shakespearian and .. Roman characters, and this fine actor wih doubtless receive an earnest welcome. “Antony and Cleopatra,” one of the noblest tragedies of Shakespeare, and almost un- known to our stage, is to be revived, it is said, with all the splendor to which its his- torical prestige entitles it. After ‘(Henry V.,” ‘Julius Cesar,” “King Lear,” ‘As You Like It,” “Henry IV.” and the engagement of Edwin Booth, the two latter events com- plete one of the most notable Shakespearian seasons in the history of the American stage. “My Awful Dad” furnishes she finest comedy, ‘Our Boarding House” is full of fun, ‘The Danichefls” is a strong play, admirably acted, and “The Princess Royal” illustrates an incident in the singular career of Christina of Swe- den. In music the coming week will be equally important. Wagner's grandest work, ‘‘Die Walkiire,” is to be sung for the first time here, after months of preparation, ‘The telephone will reveal the wonderful re- lations between sound and electricity, trans- mitting music from Philadelphia to New York, and Italian opera will be presented to us by the Havana Company, introducing Mlle. Di Murska and other eminent artists. To go through the entire list of Easter amusemonts would be difficult, but we have indicated their brilliancy and extent. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Holland 1s not musical. Shawis are once more coming mto favor, Senator Sharon has returned to California, Count Fe is the Benjamin Franklin of Japan, Wigs are now fashtonable for ladies 1n Parts Mrs, David G. Croty will spend the summer in Europe. Cut jet 1s used not only Jor mourning, but for fancy Jewels. Wendell Phillips speaks brilliantly, notwithstanding the facts. Bright red tints are quite out of fashion, yellow and orange being preferre’. Miss Leouora J. Smith, of Rhode Island, has been i presented to Queen Victoria, ‘The more irregularly you cut and slash your polonaiso the more fashionable it will be, Mozart died tn Vienna in 1792 and was buried in tho common burial ground of the poor, Daggers, pomards and arrows are worn in the hair, giving one quite a flerce appearance The Courier-Journal thinks that Oakey Hall bas sought obscurity by joining tne Paragraphers’ Associa. tion. Cobweb cloth is a novelty this season, This lace. like fabrie is made of thronds of loose zephyr wool tied in diamond Ogures with silk. Travellers irom the north of England rush about the Continent, sleeping as littlo as possible, and getting all they can get for the time and the money, Tho poct Heine, standing by the side of Chopin's piano listening to his dreamy nocturnes, asked “if the trecs at moonlight cang always so barmontously.”” Colorado Sphing:—“1f you aro not sure of yourself use violet ink and French note, If that don't give you away, Wear your bat on one side of your head and put a brass horseshoe on your cravat.” ‘The man who is noted as a speaker is seldom a great writer, and vice versa, Addison, the writes, tailed as a speaker no less ridiculously than Oliver woldsmith did, Fox, the debater, failed as a writer, as meu in American political life—Stanley Matthews for ex. ample—usnally do. Norwich Bulletin:—*As a piece of journalistic enter. priso the New York Ilwratp’s report of tho Univer sity race in their late edition of Saturday deserves notice, Tne race ended at $:51, London time, which is five hours ahead of New York. Yetthe result was telegraphed across the ocean, put Into type and stere- otyped, and the plates put om the presses by 4:30, just TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE EASTERN DISCORD, Much Talk of Demobilization, but Ac- tive Preparations for War. ASIATIC TURKEY WILD WITH TERROR, England’s New Minister to Constantinople. FRENCH LAW AND THE CLERGY, (BY caBLE To THE RERALD.] Lowpox, March 31\a¥& It ts stated in St. Petersburg that the protocol will: be signed in London on Saturday, The Post in its leade ing editorial says:--'‘We may look for the immediate signature of the protocol, Tho English government understands that it will receive soch sufficiont assur, anco of the Czar’s intention, to demobilize as will war- rant Europe in looking for a respite of the threatening storm unless some upforseen accident should happen. _ ‘A letter from Vienna, which comes from an author ized source, announces that General Ignatieff, during his stay in Vienna, informod the Turkish Ambas sador that Russia understood very well that Turkey could not abandon Nicsics, and that the Russian gov- ernment was going to make strong representutions to Montenegro in tbat sense, Tho Ambassa- dor immediately officially notitied the Aus trian Cabinet of this declaration. Austria de, clared she would take part in the pressure promisod by Russia, and notified tne Borlin govern- ment of General Ignatioff’s declaration. It is ex- pected that the German and Austrian governments will also notify all the Cabinets, especially that of England. TERRORISM IN ASIATIC TURKEY. “Lotters received at Pera from Erzeroum, Astati¢ Turkoy, state that there is great agitation among the Kurds. Tho truops who were stationed upon the plain of Moush-Bitlis were recently ordered to Erzo- roum, Immediately on their departure some of the Kurdish tribes rose and burned the barracks to ashes and commenced to plunder the Christian villages. The inhabitants fied to Bitlis, The Kurds have now been scattered over the country for three weeks, robbing cgravans of travellers, The cavairy which has been se2t against them are too few to drive them back, The movement of troops between Trebizond and Krzeroum is more active than ever. The weuthor is severe, With a beavy continuous snowfall. All necessaries are at famine prices, Cummerce no longer exists, The distress is extreme, The pay of the troops is thirty, or evon thirty-five months ia arrears, and they are 111 fod and poorly clad,’ DEMOBILIZATION TALK, The National Gazette, of Berlin, states that the Khedive of Egypt has sent 2,000,000 cartridges to Tur key and has promised to send troops, The Bey of ‘Tunis has sent four complete mitrailleuse batteries and a large sum of money. The Times, ina leading article, says. According to the prevalent notion, disarma- ment is to be accomplished by demobilization, but now we hear another word, ‘deconcen: tration,’ which we must take to mean @ lest complete resolution of the army into its elements, But if the protocol be signed the responsibility for the fu- ture will rest on tho Russian government. It will dis- arm, demobilize, decongentrate or refrain from dog 80 according as it has already made up its mind; but no one will be able to pervert events 80 as to represent. England as the wrongdoer. ’? LAYARD’S TURKISI. PROCLIVITING, Tho Daily News, in a leading article commenting ou the appointment of Mr, Layard to be Ambassador at Constantinople during the absence of sir Hepry Elitot, says:—‘‘As faras Europe can know or recollect Mr. Layard is a still more thorough admirer of the ‘Turks than Sir Henry Elhot, lt would need a great many special advantages te counterbalaoces this onc great disadvantage in such an appointment just now, and wo do not see the peculiar conditious which reuder it need{ul or desirable.” The Times also mentions Mr. Layard’s former Turkish pro- clivities, but approves the appointment. Mr. Layard will leave Madrid for Constantinople on Tuesday next, THE HOLY SKE The Pope was carried to the small gallery of St, Peter's yesterday to witness the Good Friday sorvices, In consequence of the polemics about the Pope’s allocu- tion the Vatioun bas resolved to send to the Nunciog at foreign courts a memorandum explaining the situation of the Holy Seo, The Papal Nuncio at Vienna has sent to the Vatican a report of a converna- tion with Count Andrassy. Upon handing bim the pa- pers containing the recent allocution Count An- drassy informed the Nuncio that the Austr! government, while deeply interested in the wol- fare of the Holy See, desired to avoid any internal embarrassmenis, and, thereforo, confided in the Nuncio’s prudence. The professed summary of a letter fram Prosident MacMahon, which recently ap> peared in the Daily News, promising support to the Pope if Italy should attempt any turther encroachments upon tho authority of the Huly See, is declared to be entircly false. ‘THR CLERGY MUST OBEY FRENCH LAW. Areport on the French Public Worship estimates has been read beforo the Fivance Committee of thet Chamber. It sets forth the necessity of enforcing obedience of the clergy to the civil law, and declares it 1s high ume to bring tho clergy back to tho strict obsorvatice of the Concordat, DROUGHT IN AUSTRALIA. A telegram from Adclatde, dated the 28th inst., an- nounces that the drought 1n South Australia 1s broken, There has been a heavy rainfall over all the agricul. tural and pastoral districts, extending into the inte rior and right across the continent, SOUTH AFRICAN NEWS, Advices trom the Travsvaal Republic, dated Cape Town, March 13, say the idea of union with the British colonies is regarded more favorably. Other accounts even say that annexation isinevitabie, President Bur- gers 1s coo-perating with Sir T, Shepstone, The open- ing of the South Alrican Exhibition is postponed until Mareh 29. THE CEYLON COFFER TRADE, Mail advices from Ceylon say the aspect of affairs in regard to tho threatened scarcity of tho coffees trade is becoming daily moro grave, By the end of March 25,000 laborers will be paid off from the coffee estates, and {9 @ month or two thero will bo some sixty thou. sand to provide for, Moantime gangs of starving men, women and children are coming over from India, THY SUPPLEMENTARY ELRCTION. M. Steeg (moderate radical) has retired from the wandidacy for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies from Bordeaux. Unless, which 18 highly Improbable, @ new candidate can bo found hkely to command the supportof the moderates M. Mie (irreconcilable rad- teal) will have a walk over. THE RECTORSHTP OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY, A majority of the stad at Glasgow University have signed a declaration that they desire Mr. Glade | Stoue’s clection to the rectorship, GONK TO THE COUNTRY. Lord Beaconsfield and a majority of the Minister lett town again alter Wednesday's Cabinet council THE TRENTON DAMAGKD. The arrival in the Tagus of the now United States steamer Trenton, {rom New York, with ber machinery damaged, 18 announced, SPANISH FRIGATE DAMAGED. Ianivax, N. S., March 30, 18:7. The Spanish frigate Ville de Madrid, from Hi a for Spain, arrived hero this evening, She re] forty minutes from the time the finishing gua rever- borated along the Thames.” Oxperionced a severe gale, lasting from until (hursday. She fe com aerably dant ‘Will ropair before proceeding