The New York Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1877, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, pullished coery day tm the year, eee eA EY, nupy Sunday excluded). ‘Ten dollars eet Sear. er at rate of we dollar per month for any period than six sponta, or Bee dollars for six mont! pupday dition inciudes ree of postage. cari business, News letters or telegraphic despatches must Le addressed New Youx Henarp. ‘Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be returned, ee PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO, 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEET STREET. FFICESAVENUE DE L'OPERA. $6, TSTRADA PACE, advertixements, will de received and e terme as in New York. VOLUME XLT AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. BROADWAY THEATRE—Ovk Gin, GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Miss MuLtom. SEW YORK AQUARIUM. PARK THEATRE—Ovn WALLACK'S THEATRE UNION SQUARE THEATI ‘ux DaNicuerrs, ue Prixcess Royal FIFTH AVENUE THEATR STEINWAY HALL—Trixrnoxn Coxcent. ACADEMY OF DESIG: iS BOWERY THEATRE. OLYMPIC THEATRE. THEATRE COMIQUE—V. EULER'S THEATRE NEW AMERICAN M TONY PASTOR'S TH TIVOLI THLATRE— SAN FRANCISCO M EGYPTIAN WALL—Vaniery. TRIPLE SHEET. pk fe Adams Express Company run a special aper ain over the Penusylvania Railroad aud its o ous, at a quarter past four A. M. datiy and x the regular edition of the Hekaup as tar as Ph adelphia at a quarter past six A. M. and Washington at From our reports this morning the probabilitics are that the weather in New York to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy or cloudy, possibly followed by rain. Watt Srreer Yesrerpay.—The stock mar- ket was very active, and prices were lower all round. Panama fell 40 per cent—from 120 to 80, and Pacitic Mail declined trom 1814 to 127g, with a recovery later to 141g. Gold declined 1g to 104%. Government stocks were lower, in sympathy with gold, and railroad bonds were irregular. Money loaned up to 6 and down to 3 per cent on call, closing at 5 per cent on call. THe Numper or Vicrims of railroad ac cidents over whom inquests were held in this city yesterday would call for a tremendous out- burst of public indignation were the cause of death any other than what it was. Is death on the rail in New York city becoming justifiable homicide ? Many Scrrenenrs will be glad to learn that what is well known among the poor as “a sewing machine case” has been decided against the company selling the machine. The Court probably held that previous payment by defend- ant of nearly or quite the wholesale price of a machine niade it unnecessary that the full retail price should be paid in addition, and every one but those who sell machines on the instalment plan will agree with the Court. re Is Smoke there's sure ving, the persistence with which people write to newspapers about the sur- render valve of life insurance policies means that what should be as clear as water is only as clear as mud. It certainly is strange that whilo men can invest money in many ether ways and know toa certainty what they will receive in return a life insurance policy is of about as un- certain value as a South Carolina unclassified bond. Perhaps the companies can explain the matter clearly. It is quite certain that their agents are unequal to the task. Ir Is At Very Wei For Citizens to remon- strate against slative corruption and munici- pai mismanagement, but. they sign peti- tions and hold mass me it will be well for each of them to question himself and ascertain whether be is most interested in the welfare of the community or the suecess of those of his own friends who are trying to retain such hold as they h: upon the city treasury or reaching for something newer and more profitable. Reform was never inaugurated elsewhere until men worked for their principles instead of their y that this universal ng to be broken in the case of New York city. Tr Is nur Serpom that an official document proves inte: ~ to the general reader, but Sanitary Superintendent Day's report on the adulteration of milk claims attention by its manner as well as its matter. When the pub- lie comprehends the truth that men who water | milk are sometimes murderers, in addition to being always swindlers and thieves, perhaps private enterprise will come to the assistance of that branch of the public service in detecting adulteration, When there is considered the number of infants that subsist—or die—upon what is sold for pure milk the importance of this subject becomes evident, as does also the unmitigated rascality of the adulterators. Tun Westie After the preceding unpleaa- ant days of incessant rain yesterday's bright sun- shine and mild breezes were very welcome har- bingers of springtime. But at this season we must be prepared for frequent and sudden changes. ‘The April showers will quickly follow the April sunshine to nourish vegetation. The area of high pressure that followed the disturbance of Monday has now reached the const line and extends as n barometric ridge along the line of the St. Law- rence. Light rains have occurred at detached points along the Atlantic coast from Eastport to Savannah and also along the Gulf east of New Orleans. Light to brisk winds prevailed through- out the coast regions, with temperatures ranging from 68 to 37 degrees, according to latitude, in the morning and afternoon, The barometer southward of the lakes and eastward of the Mis- sissippi has ranged between 30. ches and the mean. Westward of the Mississippi thedepression extends from Manitoba to Texas, with general zains in the Missouri and Upper Mississippi val- leys, and local rains in Lonisiana and Mississippi. The re in the Northwest islow. The " and Upper Ohio have risen. ag weather in New York to-day will be warmer ‘and partly cloudy-r cloudy, possibly followed ’ rrisburg and South to Washington. reaching | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1877.-TRIPLF SHEET. Charter Legislation at Albany. A full dozen different bills—counting the joint resolution for amending the State con- atftution as one—relating to the government of this city are now pending in the Senate or Assembly. Two or three of the many ought to pass. Although our charter has been constantly tinkered by the Legislature for the last seven years it is about as bada| Of the framework of municipal government as could be imagined. rious Tweed charter passed by wholesale bribery in 1870. The constant tinkering since has left the Tweed charter substantially un- changed. ‘The chief purpose of the many trivial alterations made in it from time to Assembly, r | Will give us the advantage of several of the time has been merely to displace this o1 that or the other officer and install some- body else in his place. Several of the numerous bills now pending are promp' by a similar motive. This, kind of legis! tion is always to be deprecated. If the amendment proposed by the Municipal Commission shall be adopted our city gov- ernment will no longer be the football of in- terested political schemers here operating through the State Legislature, which is “a consummation devoutly to be wished.” Our present municipal system is sub- stantially the Tweed charter, which was bribed through the Legislature in the last year of the infamous Tammany Ring, when its power culminated and passed to a speedy, signal overthrow. The purpose of that charter was to make the city govern- ment independent of the people. It estab- lished a municipal executive without sub- stantial executive power and a municipal legislature without legislative power. The Tweed charter, which is, in allits essential } features, our present city charter, made it |impossible for the people of the city to change the personnel of their government by !anelection. While the Mayor is chosen for two years the heads of departments whom he appoints hold for varying terms of three, four, five and six years. The consequence is that each Mayor inherits his subordinates from the preceding administration and ap- points those of his successor. Under so ab- surd a system the Mayor has no real power, and however dissatisfied or outraged the people of the city may be they cannot change | their government by an election. Such a system is unrepublican and absurd. Gov- ernment by the people is a pretence, a farce, an insult, when they cannot change their servants by a new election. If the people cannot be trusted the honest thing to do is to confess that popular gov- ernment isa failure. What sense is there in continuing to hold elections by which nothing can be decided? We go through | the form of elections and pretend to respect the will of the people; but it is preposterous to make periodical appeals to the ballot box by which nothing is decided beyond the fact that powerless Mayor A ‘is to be succeeded by powerless Mayor B. The true system, the common sense system, the republican system, requires that the people be enabled to make a complete change of municipal administration in every electign if they think a complete change necessary, All the heads of departments should come in and go out with the Mayor. How can the Mayor be held responsible if he has not the choice of his own agents? How can he correct abuses so long as his subordinates are independent gf him and able to defy him? When he has fall authority to appoint them, and power to dismiss them for good reasons, of which he is the sole judge, the responsibility of the Mayor will be real and the people will- regain control of their own affairs. In the government of a great city any other system is absurd, be- cause by no other can responsibility to the people be concentrated and enforced. Another great evil, an evil with which the Tweed charter is not especially charge- able, is the incongruous blending of our municipal affairs with State and national politics. The interests of this city are too important to be a mere makeweight for | turning the scale in elections which have no relation to the city government. Our municipal affairs are great enough to deserve and demand separate considera- tion. They ought tobe decided on their own proper nicrits, free from entanglements with irrelevant outside questions. The local government ofa city should concern itself with but two capital objects. On» of these is the utmost efficiency in promoting order, cleanliness, health and comfort ; the other, to accomplish these with the least expense. These are matters which have no connection with the canal system of the State or any question of State policy, and just as little with the tariff, the currency, or any other question of federal politics. Still more irrelevant is the solidarity of the office-holding interest, which is the real motive for mixing up our city affairs with general politics. While our municipal elections and the State and national elec- tions are held on the same day the nomina- | tion of city officers is nsnally the result of a bargain by which the friends of candidates for the Legislature, for State offices and for | Congress engage to support municipal can- didates who will in turn support them. The consequence is that our municipal | affairs are engulfed in the vortex of gen- eral politics, with which they have no proper connection. The interests of this great city are made a mere tail to the kite of aspiring State and federal office-seekers, The simple and easy remedy for this gross abase | is o separate municipal election in the spring—a reform for which the Hensip has | been strenuously battling for many years, and which now at last seems to have a toler- able chance of success, Our views on the questions now pending | at Albany may be very briefly given. First | of ali, we strenuonsly favor the amendment of the State constitution recommended by Mr. Evarts and his associate members of Governor Tilden’s very able municipal commission, Whatever else is done or left undone, we beseech, nay im- plore, this Legislature to take the pro- | liminary steps for handing this ques- tion on to its successor with view to | its ultimate submission to the people. The points embraced in the plan of the Municipal Commission are few in number, but every one is of cardinal importance. Spring elections; Its basis is the noto- | P*ramount, ted | Possible ratification by the people, and | In. | Of the extension of its benefits to all the absolute responsibility of mayors by | making the terms of the heads of depart- J ments begin ond end with their own, and givipg them the sole power of appointment and removal; the enforcement of the “pay as you go” policy by efficient restrictions on the power of the municipalities to create debts, and, to crown all, putting city taxes and expenditures in control of a Board of Finance to be elected by the taxpayers. These are the essential features of the plan Municipal Commission. While approving these, while regarding them as we favor the passage of every bill now pending in the Legislature which aims to anticipate these reforms. The so- called “Omnibus bill,” which has passed the Senate and is about to be taken up by the is of this character. If passed it best features of the plan of the Municipal Commission two years in advance of its the cities of the State. John Kelly andj Tammany Hall oppose the ‘‘Omnibus bill” for the same reasons which impelled Tweed and his confederates in the old Tam- many Ring to push the charter of 1870—our present charter, substantially—through the ; Legislature by wholesale bribery, The present Assembly cannot do the city a better service than the passage of the so-called “Omnibus charter." Mr. Fish, who is to be its leading champion in the Assembly, de- serves the cordial support of all our citizens, | ‘War Trade in in Europe and America. Europe still agitates the great doubt whether the peace will be preserved by the protocol just signed; and the burden of | opinion certainly is that it will not. It will be remembered that even the speculation that the protocol would operate peacefully was based upon the theory that Turkey would be well inclined toward its purposes. If Tur- key did not regard favorably the assumption of the protocol that she would disarm ; if she did not favor now the reforms she so fiercely opposed last January; if she did not make peace with Montenegro—in any of these contingencies Russian would not de- mobilize her army; and if she did not demobilize the protocol would become mere waste paper. But now comes the news of the view taken in Turkey of the protocol. The Ottoman statesmen re- gard its assumptions and pretences | as an infringement upon the dignity of their | government. They intend to reply and protest; and this does not encourage the | prospect of peace, which, indeed, was never | brilliant. In fact, the probability of war | deepens with the energy of the endeavors to make peace, because the elements of the situation are irreconcilable. With the early summer will be seen o drain toward | Europe from this country of all | the supplies needed by nations at war. Already the Turks have drawn heavily on our shops for arms and ammuni- tion, and the Russian armies are in great part armed with guns of American manu- facture. But the waste of war will give the tide of regular supplies an enormous force. The demand for breadstuffs, preserved meat, whiskey, clothing, as well as the reg- ular supply of ammunition, will fill the pockets of our farmers with money ‘and set our mills and workshops in motion, Tweed’s Story On another page will be found a de- tailed chronicle of that occurrence so startling in its time—the escape of Tweed, with the minute recital of his movements from the moment he left his house in Fifth avenue on that December night until his final return to Ludlow street prison, Few stories of actual life teem with so many ele- ments of romantic interest. It is a pecu- liarly American feature of the story that his escape was ‘done on contract;” he did not touch the details personally, but merely put himself into the hands of men who had contracted to effect his escape and put him in a place of safety beyond the reach of the authorities. It must be acknowledged, moreover, that, unlike a great deal of con- tract work, this job was thoroughly well done by the contractors, and no mishaps occurred while the case was in their hands. None would have occurred, perhaps, if they had not been prematurely dispensed with. No romantic pictures of the operation of the criminal classes give a precise parallel to the quiet, intelligent, methodical, well. conceived steps of these contractors who sim- ply put Tweed on the Jersey side, behind Wechawken, and kept him quiet there for three months, when the scent was cold and the hunt had lost its spirit, and then as quietly slipped him down the bay in a schooner. All the clumsy escape from Florida to Cuba and thence to Spain was managed by ‘I'weed himself, and the men who put him over the North River would have done all that very differently. But the document with which the story closes is the part of greatest present interest forthe pub- | lic. This is a letter from Tweed to Charles O’Conor, which proposes an uncondi- tional surrender. Tweed therein pro- poses to give up mt once and for- ever the battle he has hitherto waged partly on his own account, partly on ac- count of others; to give up to Justice all he has and to tell her all he knows; to make a clean breast and a clean pocket and throw himself entirely on the clemency and gen- erosity of the authorities for leave to go at liberty in peace. His proffer seems to have been accepted and his release arranged for, and when the story of the documents he surrenders is told we shall understand many facts at which we now only gness, Louistan a How absolutely the so-called Packard government is a mere intrigue and small conspiracy is shown by our despatches, which depict the relative position in the State organization of Packard and Nicholls, Packard, it is there shown, has no moral support worthy the name in any part of the State; while his physical force is so small and poor that its component parts are treated when occasion arises with pity and contempt by the Nicholls authorities, It is not possible to exaggerate the state- ment of his relation, and Packard's pretence that he has any authority which the govern- ment could protect is @ mere piece of im- pertinence. This is the condition that the Louisiana Commission will find, and they cannot but return to the President such a report as will make his duty in Louisiana even clearer than it was in South Carolina, Stanley, Petermann and the Critics. It is the fortune of every successful man to have captious critics as well as en- thusiastic admirers, and Henry M. Stanley is no exception to the rule. When he an- nounced the rescue of Livingstone the news was greeted with expressions of abusive incredulity which were not silenced until the letters of the man whom he had res- cued from a barbarons isolation arrived to verify his statements. On undertaking to clear up the uncertainty that surrounded the geography of Central Africa, by reason of the conflicting opinions and statements of his predecessors in that field of exploration, Stanley has not only verified those that were correct and demonstrated the incorrectness of others, but he has given us detail surveys of the regions in dispute, thus settling for- ever all questions regarding them. It seems, however, that the critics are unsatis- fied. One party in England abuses him for not winning the palm of scientific martyr- dom by allowing the Bambirehs to cut his throat, and another party in America en- deavors to show that he is unworthy of the applause his achievements deserve, because he gave a great lake a name before seeing it, and that he insists on differing with certain fallible explorers as to what constitute the sources of the Nile. As to the ultra-human- itarians we have nothing to say. They are not worth wasting comment on. Neither do we propose to defend Stanley against un- just criticism founded on a perversion of facts, but we will adhere to the facts unper- verted. Stanley discovered the Shimeeyu River flowing into the Victoria Niyanza with con- siderable volume. It therefore represented a water supply from a region southward of the lake and indicated a source whence that great'reservoir of the Nile derived a consid- erable share of its waters, What was more reasonable, then, than that Stanley should call the Shimeeyu one of the sources of the Nile? Again, he finds a river, the Kageera, also flowing into the Victoria Niyanza with great force and volume. British explorers had previously crossed this river, but failed to recognize it as other than a very ordinary affluent of the lake. They learn from the na- tives that a lake exists to the westward, of | which the Kageera or Kitangule is the drainer. They fail again to appfeciate the size of this lake from the character of the | river, and set it down hypothetically any- where to the westward, asasmall and un- important body of water, and mark it on the map with the native name Akanyura, Stanley follows this river a considerable dis- tance, recognizes its magnitude, deduces | correctly the nature and extent of its water- shed, learns from the natives of the existence of a great lake, of which the Kageera is the outlet, concludes at once, and correctly, that this river and lake are supplied from another source of the Nile, and announces the fact in his letters. He changes the name of the lake, however, to Alex- andra Niyanza, and that of the river to the Alexandra Nile, because English ex- plorers had happened to hear of the one and cross the other some time before. And yet his generous action is characterized as pre- sumptuous and indecent, The eminent scientific geographer, Dr. Petermann, re- gards the matter differently, and as his opinion amounts to a great deal, while that of the captious critics amounts to nothing at all, we feel convinced that Stanley's reputa- tion will not suffer. Dr. Petermann fully indorses the work of our explorer. and regards it as completely successful. Ho goes further, and dates the commencement of the scientific exploration of Central Africa only three years back, the really useful work being done while Stanley has been practically alone in the field. What a Joke It Would Be. Although the 1st of April is past this year, with its time-honored license to play all sorts of practical jokes, still a joke is always in season, provided it is a goodone. Be- sides, we must not forget that when the next 1st of April comes around we should have a series of really first rate jokes in readiness for the occasion—-jokes that would tickle never excited before. In order to arrive at this desirable and mirth provoking state of things we would suggest several subjects and objects for solid practical joking. For instance, what a complete ‘‘sell” it would be on a tired passenger on the Third Avenne Railroad if, on some damp and gloomy evening, he entered a car and found that he could get a seat up town for his fare. The ringing shout of laughter that would greet his confusion would be simply im- mense. He might even lose his temper if he found that the car had clean straw on the floor and did not smell like a pigstye. Just imagine how New Yorkers would roar with mirth at the appearance of Houston street clear of mud and garbage from end to end, or the exeruciating agony of laughter that would shake the frame of a Sixty-fourth or Ninety-second street householder at the ludicrous appearance of Croton water flow- ing on the third and fourth floors, But even this kind of joking might be carried too far. Suppose some facetious policeman should slyly march a staggering prisoner to the station house without battering his skull. We fear ruptured blood vessels or apoplexy might result to many spectaters of the absurd but mischievous joke. “Langh and grow fat” is an old adage, put obesity is dangerous, and a too rapid development of adipose tissue is almost invariably fatal. We must be cautious there- fore in provoking uncontrollable mirth. Indeed, it is a question whether the amica- ble settlement of the Southern question by President Hayes would not be carrying things too far. But what a superb practical joke it would be, How the Samboian sweet potato trap would yawn with cestasy, The fact is the country would never forgive the President for such a trick, but would not cease to laugh at it for the four years of his term of office, Then there is another joke that would make the great West get up on its hind legs and howl with an ecstatic appreciation of the fun of the thing, if Brigham Young and all the Mor- | mon murderers were arrested, tried | and executed at the Mountain Meadows for their share in the massacre, We have innumerable opportunities for real practical jokes, worthy of the lst of April, and none of them would lose point by being; perpetrated on any day in the year. Indeed, the earlier the funnier they would be. Now, let us try some, Why not begin with rapid transit in New York? That would prove an immense hit, for it would take every one by surprise. Then dismiss a bloodthirsty po- lice captain or two, and keep up the fun by compelling the owners and managers of pub- lic buildings to provide ample and safe exits for crowded audiences. Prosecute and punish those guilty of railroad and in- surance frauds. Pass the amended city charter abolishing superfluous commissions. Give the workingmen employment. Crush corruption in public affairs, and round off the roaring fun of the year by sending only honest and capable men to Congress and the Legislature, Governor Chamberiain Yields to the Logic of Evonts. According to the latest intelligence Mr. Chamberlain has decided to act like a man of sense and discretion and make no show of resistance to Governor Hampton when the troops are withdrawn. We have no doubt that this statement will be justified by the event. Nearly a week is to inter- vene before the troops are removed, although the order has been already given. ‘The putting of such an interval between the President's decision and its execu- tion is a mark of wisdom. The impulsive ebullition of feeling which at- tends the disappointment of Mr. Chamber- lain and his friends will cool down and subside after the lapse of a little time. They know well enough that resistance would be futile. In spite of their first impulse to take counsel of their anger instead of their judgment they will reconcile themselves to the situation after the lapse of a little time. It is an act of prudence on the part of the President to allow a sufficient period for their passions to cool before withdrawing the troops. In the meantime the South Caro. lina republicans will: have accommodated their feelings and expectations to the actual state of the case, and the obstacles to Gov- ernor Hampton’s full assumption of author- ity will have been smoothed away before he demands submission. The President has taken extreme pains to render Governor Hampton's task easy by treating his rival with the utmost courtesy and soothing his feelings into acquiescence. The wisdom and considerateness of sush a course deserve recognition and praise. Will It Impair Navigation? In treating of the question of filling up Little Hell Gate channel the Hrnarp has taken the ground that, if city garbage and other refuse subject to decomposition are used, a monstrous nuisance will be created. Of this there cannot be any reasonable donbt. But there is another point involved which deserves the consideration of the au- thorities and which presents itself in the query, Will the filling of Little Hell Gate impair the navigation of eg care and East rivers? The arguments i@Mavor of the affirmative presented to-day in our adver- tising columns by the Society for the Retor- mation of Juvenile Delinquents, in charge of the House of Retuge on Randall's Island, are well founded, 80 far as they refer to the dangers of a nuisance. But where they refer to the question of navigation they are not so clear or satis- factory. The comparison made between the actual effects of filling in a portion of Bos- ton Bay and those likely to follow the clos- ing of Little Hell Gate is not justified, be- cause there is no parallel between the two cases. At Boston a tidal reservoir was dimin- ished in area; consequently the channel scour was decreased in energy and a shoal- ing has occurred. At Hell Gate a channel would be closed which is at present not navigable, but the scour will beincreased in the remaining passages, which must tend to improve them. As to the apprehended accumulations of ice in the upper Harlem River in case Little Hell Gate is closed, we desire to have some more convincing evidence on that point than that of Captain Longstreet, who naturally views it from the pilot house of a racing steam- boat. General Newton hesitates very prop- erly in giving an opinion on this ice ques- tion until he determines by an observation of the currents whether the change would not really help to remove the ice that ac- cumulates under the present system of flow. Asthe main flood current in the Harlem would be carried with increased velocity through the Kills instead of being, as now, divided between that channel and Little Hell Gate, it is a question if the Harlem would not be benefited by the change. Let all these points be carefully investigated, but under no circumstance let Little Hell Gate be filled with city garbage. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Theodore Tilton is in Chicago. The telephone retuses to sing in tights, Now js the time to transplant winter hats. Slade, the medium, will remain at the Hague for sev- eral months. Mr. William B. Astor has taken a summer houso at Beverly, Mass. A Springfield girl asked her brother why he hada humpbacked nose, As soon as the season’s mad becomes deep tramps patronize the front door, The pumps are thawing out, and milk no longer sees the cream of the joke. Reverdy Jonnson said that Governor Chamberlain is one of the best lawyers in the country, Senators Theodore F, Randolph and John R, Me. Pherson, of New Jorsey, are at tho New York, ‘phe seagon of the year approaches when rifle bullets intes targets and hitchildrea who stand in adjoining townships. . It {s claimed that most of the diabolical crimes com- mitted by negroes in Kentocky aro by men who mnt- grato from Virginia, Sutro 1s in Nevada, and from his operations there | soetns to be no ground for the rumor that Sharon and Keene have bought the Sutro Tunoel, Mrs Hayes and ber children will spend part of tho summer at her old home at Fremont, Ohio, and the President will remain in Washington. principal owner of the Cincinnati Anquirer, has loss influence in that paper than any other living man. Evening Teegram:—lo the Bowen-Juwel case, In which the Supreme Court of the United States ordered a perpetual injunction against Bowen yesterday, the counsel for Wat citizen was not tor George F. Hoar, but his brother, ex-Attorney General E. Rock. wood Hoar, Bowen claimed to be an illegitimate soo of Mme. Jumel and George Washington, and the Court apparently decided that ho was Washington’s son in no other way than as G, W, was tho father of his country. Murat Halstead enys that Washington McLean, tho | TRLEGRAPHIC. NBWS From All Parts of the World ° THE BISMARCK SENSATION; A Growing Suspicion That the Emperor is Delighted, NO FAITH IN THE PROTOCOL. England, Turkey and Russia J Alike Unsatisfied. FRANCE’S POLICY TOWARD GERMANY, REO {BY CABLE TO THE RERALD,] Lonpox, April 4, 1877. Prince Bismarck’s resignation ts the sensation of the aay throughout all Europe. There is nothing, however, to add {to the story which wag sont to the Heraup yestorday. Every de- tail- bas been confirmed. Prince Bismarck 13 now busily engaged in preparing for his departure, | first to Lauenburg and then to Kissingen, As was ninted at in yesterday’s letter, it is now clear that the Emperor ts tired ot Bismarck, and that he is willing to sanction his resignation. The Crown Prince knows Bismarck’s value, however, has delayed the storm, A panic burst in the Bourse yesterday and its only causes gre traceable to the rotipement of Bismarck. As to the next Chancellor, the names ot Prince Reuss, Prince Hohenloho and General Von Moltke are mene toned. VARIOUS THEORIES. Tho ‘Times’ Berlin special. declares that Bis- marck bas resigned aud asked permis. sion to retire immediately. The news trans. pired on Monday, but was nut credited, even in official circles; but to-day there can be no doubt as tothe reality of the fact. The Emperor has ree quested Bismarck to withdraw his resignation aod ac- cept ayear’s furlough, but Bismarck ts believed to insist upon absolute ratirement. As Bismarck ie anxious to leave Berlin :mmediately there is ne time to appoint successors to his sevoral offices, Herr Camphausen will provisionally assumo the Prus- sian Premiership, while Von Bitow and Hofman will take the absolute direction respectively of Ger- many’s foreign and domestic affuirs, The Times’ correspondent mentions the samo names as those already given as probable Fuccessors to the Chanceliorship if Prince Bismarck cannot be in- duced to return. General Von Stosch seems to intend publishing the substance of bis report to the Hmpe- ror, in which he answerod Prince Bismarck’s strictures, The Post’s Berlin despatch says Prince Bismarck persists in his request to be per- mitted to rotire on the plea of impaired health. The Emperor has not yet announced his decision. It is believed that he will consent, but not so as to dobar Prince Bismarck from re-entering the service, The Pall Mall Gazette published a special telegram from Berlin as follows :— “Prince Bismarck’s resignation ts to-day generally and engerly discussed. His resignation refers solely to the Chancellorship and not to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which Prince Bismarck desires to retain. Several statesmen are named as the Prince’s successor, either for good or for the year of his leave, At first Herr Camphausen appeared to have the best chanco, but now Prince Reuss, Prince Honentobo and Count Stolberg are named as the most likely candidates,”” DISASTER DANGEROUSLY NEAR, There was great uneasiness in Constantinople yeaters day. ach day the appearances grow less pa- cific, It is almost certain that the Porte will entertain a protest against the protocol as soon as it is officially communicated. The chief obstacio to the conclusion of poace between Montenegro and ‘Turkey is removed. Russia has advised Montenegro to renounce her demand for Niesies and content her. self with the cession of Kuczi or Koloschin. The Porte in recognition of this advance sends Reouf Pacha as special Ambassador to St. Petersburg to try and removo any further difficulties, The protocol only records those demands of tho Conference which had not been previously rejected by the Porte, and the despatch of Reout Pacha to St, Petersburg is regarded almost as a guarantee of an arrangement, It is certain that tho Montenegrins will make no difl- culties if Russia is willing to ‘come to terme, The Standard’s St, Petersburg despatch says a peaceful solution of the present difficulties is not expected despite the protocol. NO FAITH 1N TIE PROTOCOL. Tho Times, in a loading article, remarks the lack of elation in public feeling at the signature of the proto. col, and wolghing the various influences which might incline Ruesia to peace or war, says:—‘‘It is doubtiess true that war ean only be carried on at am immense sacrifice, and that those with anything to lose know this, and pormit their zeal to cool accordingly. All intelligence from St Petersburg and the chief cities of the Empire confirmed this opinion, but at the same time accounts of Russian war preparations are too numerous and consistent to be fictitious, Our Bel- grade correspondent telegraphs to-day that a Russian officer of rank, who has arrived from Kischineff, says the army on the Pruth is in fine condition, fully equipped, ready for action, and numbers 400,000 men, Of course this statement ought to be rocoived with caution, but testimony in this direction 18 too uniform for us not to perceive the difficulties of any form ot retreat when such a host has been collected filled with such expectations, At the same time noth- ing remains Dut for Russia to carry out the engage ment assumed on Saturday, or faco tho impatience and ill will of Europe expressed more emphatically than at any previous period, If the Russian govern- ment is po sincere, it would bave been better to let Genera) Ignatic® stay at home and have used the rejection of the conference programme by Turkey as a pretext for war. As it is, Europe is weary of what seems like cratt and mystification. It nego tiations, now trausferred to St. Petersburg and Con stantinople, do not produce a settlement, it will per haps be possible to prove the fault is Turkey’s, but in the absence of very strong proof to this effect the be lief wil! be that Rassia never intended them to suceced Ifthe Russians desire to avoid this condemnation they willcome to an understanding—as they know how—~ with the Porte.” STATE OF FEELING IN RUSSIA, It is thought that the greater part of tho Russian Journals are endeavoring to persuade their readers that the protocol really means nothing, and that, whether it Is signed or not, war is sure to ensue, unless the demands of the Conference are com. plied with, The Russian padlic no longer be lieve in the probability of these announcemenu being acted on, There isan impression that the Rus sian government bas been acting inciscreotly, and that | the ministers are no less disappointed thaa tho people, | ‘The resuit is considerable dissatiglaction. Encouraged | by the prevalent feeling, the counsel i tne new So cialist trial have just charged the governmew with driving ignorant people into conspiracios yy arbitrary aud injudicious administration. The bold hess of this style of dofonce is remarkable, as a fow months ago a lawyer was b: id for attocking thr government in court, In the present inatanna na end