The New York Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1877, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day én the year, Threo cents per copy (Sunday excluded), Ton dollars per ar. oF at Tate of one dollar per month for any period les Than six'months, or five dollars for six wonths, Sunday inciuded, free of All business, Jegraphic despatches must RK HERALD. addressed Naw Meiters and pecknges shonid be properiy rented, Rejected communications will not be returned. re P aida OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON “OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— 46. T ST! N FL¥! KERT. ih OFFICEL—AVENUE DE L'OPERA. JAPLES OFFICE—NO. 7 STRADA PACE. Lo be recelved and or ions and advertisements ‘on the same terms as in torw: AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT, GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Miss Mutton. WALLACK’S THEATRE—My Awrut Dap. UNION SQUARE THEATRE—Tux Danicuvers, HILDREN'S CARNIVAL. ONY AND CLKOPATRA, PELTER Berur, BOWERY THEATR?. PARISIAN VARIETIES. COLUMBIA OPERA UC OLYMPIC THEATRE—Paxtomiax. THEATRE COMIQUE—V HELLER'S THEATRES TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE—Vanmry. TIVOLI THEATRE—Vannery. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE EGYPTIAN HALL—Vantr BROADWAY THEATRE—Oui TRIPLE APRIL 5, 1877, NOTICE TO COUNTRY DEALERS, ‘The Adams Fxpress Company run a special newspaper train over the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections, leaving Jersey City at u quarter past four A.M nd Sunday, earrying tho regular edition of the ar fest ax Harrisburg and South to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter pass six A. M. and Washington at one P, M. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather at New York to-day will be warm ment in all the principal active stocks with the exception of the coal fanci Panama advanced 20 per cent and Pacifie Mail recovered almost all its loss of Tuesday. Gold opened at 10434, mlvanced to 105 and closed at 10473. Govern- ment and railroad bonds were generally lower. Money loaned at 4 a 5 per cent on call and closed at the latter quotation. W. M. T. Is Sri “at home” at his old quar- 3 is made that the City Chamberlain has paid in a large sum due as Interest on city deposits. Orricen Naytor was evidently nailed yester- day when on trial for clubbing a citizen. His own head may be hit this ti Tur Conuece ATuLEeTic Association is ac- tively preparing for the ensuing season, which is expected to be a very int ‘ting one. Hovse AGENTS may learn a Frofitable lesson from the proceedings before Judge Daly yester- day. It was a new way to collect bad debts. Tue Conruston or Time, as occasioned by the different public clocks in this city, is to be cor- rected in future, and by a very simple process, How Decertive Arr Arrranances is clearly shown by an article in our law reports to-day. Itis hothing new, however, that thieves often look like honest m id Firreen Downs is the Brooklyn price for clubbing a citizen; at least that is about the sum that Patrolman Ryan will have to pay for his Becavse A Hoxse Is Lame is no good reason for the arrest of the person having the animal in sharge. At least this is the opinion of some eminent jurists whose views we publish to-day. STEALING Mo: Letrens to maintain ap- pearances in a militia regiment is the latest phase of embezzlement. False pride is bound to have a fall, and young men should profit by the lesson taught by the facts in this case. Trart “Gannett,” the passenger on the steam- ship Victoria, is really Mr. A. Oakey Hall there can now be no question. He has been seen by the London correspondent of the World and admitted his identity. Mr. Hall is described as being broken down in mind and body, a state- ment his many friends will receive with deep regret. Our Savinas Ba in the Heravp to-d. K System is fully explained y. It will interest all classes to learn how these institutions are managed, mismanaged and ruine This is one of those cases where a little knowledge is nota dan- gerous thing. The more we know about, the in- ternal economy of our savings institutions the better it will be for everybody. Tue Weatuer.—Th h barometer in the St. Lawrence Valley on Tues has moved eastward over Nova Seotia and is rapidly fol- lowed by the depression referred to in yester- day's Herasp, and which is now central in the Jake region. This disturb: } ses to be a peculiar one, inasmuch as it pre 8 novel variations of pressure and temperature in and around its area. It world seem to be a twin dis- turbance, the division between the pressure being a slight barome area of considerable extent ac pression, which will cause the Upper Mississippi to rise. The thermometrie gradient descends sharply from St. Louis north- westward, and this, with the prenees of press- ure in the Lower Missouri V ‘y and central districts, indientes the possibility of local tor- nadoes in that region, The same may be the Eastern Gulf and South Atlantic States, where the atmospheric equilibrium is also much | @isturbed. Heavy rains prevailed erday from Texis along the cousts to North over ‘Tennessee and Georg’ The were very variable within comparatively small areas, and indicated in connection with the ther- ist winds t+ of local disturbances. We will therefore await with some interest reports from the regions referred to. The Mississippi, upper and lower, and the Missouri have risen, The Obio and Camberland have fallen. The weather in New York to-day will be warm and cloudy, yeobebly with rain. of low | naand | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. Financial Policy of the New Ad- ministration. The Southern question, which met Presi- dent Hayes at the threshold, and has thus far engrossed both his own attention and that of the public, is in a fair way toward an early and satisfactory settlement. The really great question on which the success or failure of this administration is staked remains to be grappled with. The Southern problem would have been in any event transient. It would have solved itself if the President had not wisely solved it. It was not in the nature of things that the local governments of the Southern States should continue to be controlled by military inter- ference from Washington. General Grant did all that any President could do in that direction. In spite of his persistent efforts every State government in the’ South, with only two doubtful exceptions, passed out of republican control during his administra- tion. It is so obvious that South Carolina and Louisiana would have followed suit, even if President Grant had remained in power, that he explicitly gave them up before his retirement from office. It is‘ to his credit that, instructed by his own unfortunate experience, he tried to smooth the path of his successor by publishing to the country his impression that the policy of military interference in the South is disapproved by the people and played ont. President Hayes has wisely decided to keep himself out of the Southern entanglements which gave his predecessor so much trouble and annoyance. It was inevitable that South Carolina and Louis- iana would have slipped tho noose of Hayes as all the other Southern States slipped the military noose of Grant. The new President has prudently spared him- self the mortification of his prede- cessor by a voluntary relinquishment of what it was impossible for him to hold. But he has done nothing which General Grant would not have done had he remained in office for another four years. It would have been absurd ‘and suicidal for the new President to have persisted in a policy which his predecessor on retiring from office was constrained to acknowledge as a mistake. The Southern question having been vir- tually disposed of before Mr. Hayes has been a month in office, his attention and the attention of the country will henceforth be directed to a paramount question of greater difficulty and complexity. The financial condition of the country is simply deplorable. All our business interests have languished since the great panic of Septem- ber, 1873. It is the chief duty of the govern- ment to redeem the country from this de- pressing stagnation. This isthe one great problem to which Mr. Hayes and his advisers should direct all their sagacity and energy. If thoy fail to solve it his administration, despite secondary merits, will be a deplor- able failure. To rectify the finances and revive business is the formidable and mighty task laid upon this administration. If it fails in this Mr. Hayes is a failure. If it succeeds in this Mr. Hayes will rank as one of the most important benefactors of his country. In any just estimate the Southern ques- tion and the civil service question are in- significant in presence of the overshadowing financial question, which comes home to the pecuniary interest of every citizen. The great object of hope is a revival of business prosperity. Ifthe administration of President Hayes does nothing to promote this it will be condemned for the greatest fault with which a government can be charge- able—failure to ‘‘understand its epoch.” The one paramount need of the country is a revival of business. If the new adminis- tration cannot contribute to this it will prove an utter failure. We would fain hope that the financial question may be pressed upon the attention of Congress at tho ap- proaching extra session, with an urgent rec- ommendation by the President for imme- diate action. On this important class of subjects the Secretary of the Treasury has a responsibil- ity almost as great as that of the President himself. The President's attention is neces- sarily distributed through the whole wide range of administrative questions. He cannot be expected to have the same vigorous grasp of foreign affairs as the Secre- tary of State, the same minute knowledge of the army and navy as the heads of those departments, nor the same complete mas- tery of financial questions which is justly expected of the Secretary of the Treasury. All that we can ask of the President is that he put competent experts at the head of each department. In forming his Cabinet there is no selection which should have given him so much solicitude as that of the Secretary of the Treasury. With the exception of the Secretary of State the other heads of de- partments perform routine duties. In the present state of our foreign relations the Secretary of State is not an important officer. The exigencies of the government | ave very different now from what they were | during the civil war, when the Secretary of | State and the Secretary of the Treasury | were the two main pillars of the govern- ment. In that dark period we were in con- stant danger of a foreign war, which would | have been fatal to the preservation of the ; Union. The able and dexterous manage- | ment of Mr. Seward, which spared us that | ruinous calamity, is even more worthy of present the Secretary of State has no dangerous channels to navigate, whereas the Secre of the 'l'reasury is confronted with problems as difficult as those which met Mr. Chase. Unless there should be a change in our foreign relations, of which | there is no prospect, the Secretary of the Treasury will be, next to the President, al- | together the most important officer in this | administration, If the President has made a mistake in selecting this officer it is the greatest of possible blunders. If Mr. Sher- | reputation and the public welfare. No ques: grateful commemoration than the ser- vices of Mr. Chase in finding resources | for paying our vast armies. But at | | man is equal to the demands of the situation | mometric differences conditions favorable to the | | it will be a great thing both for his own | cost. | tion with which this administration will | of have to deal is so important as the finances, | be permitted or practised. Is Mr. John Sherman equal to this posi- | possess no initiative whatever. tion? If his courage and decision were as | like wasteful machines that require winding have no doubt. If ho fails he cannot plead the baby act. No man in public life has had Mr. Sherman's opportunities for master- ing the fiscal questions with which he is now called to deal. He has been Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate for sixteen years. The corresponding officer of the Honse of Representatives has been changed again and again dur- ing that period. While Mr. Sherman has been serving as Chairman of the Finance Committee there have been seven different Secretaries of the Treasury. It was tho duty of each of these to study our national finances during the brief period while he was in office. But it has been the duty of Mr. Sherman to study these questions con- tinuously while so many Secretaries of the Treasury, of whom he has been the most important adviser, have come in and gone out. Who can be expected to understand our fiscal questions if Mr. Sherman does not? Measured by mere time he has be- stowed five times as much attention upon them as Secretary Chase, the ablest finance Minister of whom he has been a contemporary. If Mr, Sherman fails it will not be for lack of opportunities. He has been in one of the most important financial positions for a longer period than any other man since the organization of the government, If there be any reason to dis- trust him it is from doubts of his energy and courage rather than his want of expe- rience and opportunities. We sincerely hope that Mr. Hayes has not made a mis- take in selecting the most important officer of his administration. Secretary Sherman must deal efficiently with two problems—resumption of spe- cie payments and refanding the public debt at a lower rate of interest. Neither subject is new to him. He should be as fully prepared to develop his policy at the extra session of Congress as he can ever be. We have very distinct ideas of what he ought to do; but it is not our province, but his, to devise a financial scheme suited to the present exigency. If he thinks he needs further legislation either for refunding the public debt or for hastening specie pay- ments, let him ask it of Congress at the approaching extra session. It is the plain duty of the new President and his Secretary of the Treasury to give the country some idea of what it is to expect of the new administration on the most important sub- ject within the province of the federal government. The Manicipal Amendment to the State Constitution. The call of citizens for a meeting in Stein- way Hall on Saturday to urge the passage of the constitutional amendment is so respectably and numerously signed that we expect a large attendance. It is the plain duty of this Legislature to pass the nmend- ment and thus submit it to a thorough public scrutiny. ‘The responsibility of pro- posing a question for discussion is very dif- ferent from the responsibility of finally de- ciding it. Ifthe present Legislature indorses the constitutional amendment the only effect will be to bring it up for more mature discussion and deliberation in the Legisla- ture which meets next winter. Even an approval of the amendment by the next Legislature will not make it a part of the constitution. The effect of indorsing a con- stitutional amendment by two successive Legislatures is merely to submit it to the people of the State for their ratification or rejection. The first Legislature which acts upon it should therefore be very liberal and tolerant, especially when the proposed amendment has been recommended by a commission of such pre-eminent ability and character as that of which Mr. Evarts was a member. We regard their plan for the government of cities as excellent. At any rate there is so much to be suid in its favor that the people of the State should be allowed to pass their judgment upon it. The points of the plan are—first, spring elections ; second, making mayors responsi- ble by allowing them to appoint and remove their subordinates ; third, an efficient re- striction on the power of cities to contract debts ; and, fourth, putting the authorityjto raise taxes and make expenditures under the direct control of the taxpayers. We agree with the Municipal Commission that these changes would be salutary. If the people of the Stato shall think otherwise we will bow to their judgment; but we insist that the Legislature shall give them an opportunity to decide the question. We hope, therefore, that the Steinway Hall meeting on Saturday may be imposing enough to command the attention of the Legislature. Where In the Money Dumped? The Street Cleaning Burean officials as- sign as a reason for the filthiness of the streets and the accumulations of decom- posing garbage that taint the air in every part of the city the want of a dumping ground—that is, unless the Legislature or the Common Council will secure a suitable place for the deposit of the city refuse, the streets must remain as they are, a disgrace to New York and her people. But the pub- lic is getting curious about this Street Cleaning Bureau, and desires to know where it dumps three-quarters of a million per ane num while leaving the streets in their pres- ent horrible condition. No matter what difficulties beset the officials in disposing of the ashes and garbage, we have never heard from them any complaint about inability to spend the people's money. They must have a rpacious dumping ground for dollars, whatever they may have for dirt. Now, we have already pointed out to this money dumping bureau a plan for getting rid of the garbage by cremation. ‘Their only re- sponse is a request that some twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars be placed in the hands of ‘om, Dick or Harry for scientific ex- periments, or, in other words, to be dumped somewhere for somebody's benefit. ‘The kitchen maids of New York and Brooklyn have made all the experiments necessary. We therefore do not need any at the public Truly, in no other city in the Union would such o scandalous disregard duty on the part of its officials These men They ate unquestionable as his experience we sh@uld | up every day to make them perform any duty. They are the creators instead of the abaters of nuisances, and should-be dealt with as such. If with the dumping of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year we cannot get rid of the city dirt mere economy should prompt the Board of Ap- portionment to withhold an appropriation that serves no useful purpose, but instead fosters a system that is only another ex- pression for donothingism, dirt and dis- honesty combined. Oustivg Bismarck. There is every likelihood that opinions and sentiments in Berlin adverse to Prince Bismarck have so far prevailed with the Kaiser as to excite him on the point whether the imperial will was his own or his Chan- cellor’s; as to which of the two, in fact, is Em- peror, All that is known of the Kuiser’s mind fully supports the notion that be is not superior to this kind of vanity; that he believes himself, and means that the world shall believe, that he mainly is the author of the great successes of his government. Princes of mediocre capacity have always been the victims of this sort of pique; this has always been the ‘‘bee in the bonnet” of crowned men who have barely had sense enough to stand stilland permit the great geniuses gathered about a throne to go ahead and do great things. In the coincidence of the two great men, Bismarck and Von Moltke—the one even greater in diplo- macy than the other in war—there is seen a repetition of what occurred’ in France when Talleyrand and Napoleon Bonaparte wero on the scene at the same time. Bona- parte was the great soldier of the age, and there was no man in Europe who could cope with Talleyrand in those mere devices of diplomacy with which his name is most as- sociated, or who was so clear and so strong in his perception of the principles that sets the house in order. If the restoration of the supremacy of the law over facts that only the law should control is the betrayal of any party the sooner that party is be- trayed the better for all reasons. Is There a Nigger in the Woodpile? We have indorsed the proposal to abolish the Department of Docks and make it a bureau of the Department of Public Works. But an examination of Senator Morrissey’s bill looking to this object leads us to suspect that it is a mask intended to conceal a juggle. Be its purpose what it may, it is one of the most illogical and incongruous bills introduced during this session. In sailor's phrase, ‘it looks one way and rows another.” The people of the city have been under the impression that the merg- ing of the Department of Docks in that of Public Works, making tke former a bureau of the latter, would put the docks under the direction and control of the Com- missioner of Public Works. Mr, Morris- sey’s bill does nothing of the kind. It looks too much like a deceitful and misleading pretence, Its real drift and whole effect is to transfer the powers of the Dock Depart- ment to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. This may be a good measure or a bad measure, but it is a measure disguis- ing itself under a cloak. Its proper and fitting title would be, “A Bill for Making the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund Commissioners of Docks.” We detest crooked legislation. Lhe bill in question, while professing to reduce the Dock De- partment toa bureau in the Department of Public Works, and while giving the ap- pointment of its chief officer to the Com- missioner of Public Works, makes that officer @ mere servant of the Commis- sioners of the Sinking Fund. It underlie all polities. If these two men had been nominally in the service of any dull hereditary prince of the line of Bourbon that sovereign would have been the analogue of the Emperor William, and the cases as to the personal elements would have been precisely parallel. But it would have been the tradition of the monarchy to assume that all the genius was the King’s, as it is now the tradition in Prussia; and it is highly probable that the King might have believed it as the Emperor does. From this relation of the Emperor to the Prince it is not difficult for the elements inimical to the great Chancellor to inspire the sover- eign with an idea that any repetition of the Von Arnim story in the case of Von Stosch would be more than unfortunate ; to represent the Prince's savage assertion of his dignity as a mere explosion of irritabil- ity—a result of a failing perception of the proportions of things—an evidence that he is overworked and needs rest. In this train of ideas the assumption that his conduct is due tothe invalidity of his intellectual oper- ations would, perhaps, be resented by the Prince as an addition to the indignity, and if he consented to put his withdrawal from public life in that form it would be an ad- mission that he regarded the adverse ele- ments as too potent even forhisstrong grasp. Against Bismarck there is, doubtless, in Court and Cabinet, the spirit of jealousy and hidden antipathy generally that is commonly felt by people of fair and average capacity against one whose genius belittles them. They will be glad to have him ont of the way, and the Emperor will assent because not disposed to attach its real importance to Bismarck's ser- vices, But Bismarck’s work is less than half done. It is not question who will continue it, for the inimical elements are committed to the policy of undoing it; and the calamities and confusions that will fol- low may fill the mind of the Emperor, if he lives a few years longer, with some doubts as to who created the present German unity, Cutting Down Salaries. The bill in regard to the courts of this city, which is a sort of court omnibus bill, may be all right in its general provisions for the reduction of court expenditures, but we are of opinion that the reduction of the salaries of judges is not a good measure of economy. It is one of those economical steps that imply a panic on the subject of public expenditures—steps that defeat their own purpose and make no progress to- ward the right end, but defeat such prog- ress by raising new difficulties and discred- iting the movement toward economy. Any man who is a good enough lawyer to occupy a place on the Bench in this community is worth all the salary he gets. Judges have never been paid too much in this country. If there is any economy to be effected in the administration of our courts, as we believe there is, that economy must consist in cut- ting away the superfluous parasitic growths which form about the courts, which swell the aggregate figure of the cost of a court to such a point that the salary of the judge becomes by comparison a small item. It is the “patronage” that we want cut down, not the pay of the judges, And this is a good principle in all measures toward public economy, not to cut down the salaries of necessary officers, but to dispense alto- gether with such as are unnecessary. Betraying His Party. It appears, on the authority of several grave and reverend signors, that President Hayes is ‘betraying the republican party ;” that he is not applying in the government the principles of those who chose him for his office, but the contrary principles; that he is | | giving effect not to the will or the aspirations of the party that supported him, but has practically * gone over to the other party. All this is said particularly with reference does not permit him to perform a single act of any importance with- out their approval, ond it exempts him completely from supervision or con- trol by the department of which his office is nominally made a bureau. The Commissioner of Public Works will have no more authority over him after his appoint- ment than the Police Commissioners or the Commissioners of Charities. What a pre- posterous farce it is to pretend to create a bureau in one department of the city gov- ernment, and, at the same time, give the whole control of that bureau to an outside body! It is natural to suspect that such an absurdity in legislation conceals a job. As an accompaniment of this strange Dill another is offered which passed the Senate on Monday, reconstituting the Com- missioners of the Sinking Fund who are to be really a Department of Docks under another name. The Mayor and Comptroller are to be two members, and the City Judge, the Chief Justice of the Superior Court and the Recorder are each to appoint one. If two of these latter three should be opposed tothe Mayor and Comptroller the other one would be really Commissioner of Docks in virtue of his casting vote. Has the bill some individual in view whom it aims to clothe with this power? If there is such ‘‘a nigger in the woodpile” he will be dragged forth and exposed before this juggling bill can pass. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Bull’s horus are now cut goring. Bustles are now made with hinges, Dr. Mary Walker does not wear cotton in the knees, This is tho best season of the year to examine mouse traps. Baron Franz von Podewels, of Germany, is at the Hoffman. We sball soon nave April showers not unaccom- panied by thunder, The Swiss aro importing American boots, probably for interviewing interviewers, Mr. Francis G. E. Denys, Third Secretary of the British Legation at Washington, is at the Everett. A hard moncy journal saya that the policy of the government should be to pay up. Wo like paid up policies, In London helplessly drunken people are called ‘‘in- fants’? by the police. Why not call the police baby jumpers? “Gath”? says that the humorous paragrapher tsa moral and mental dwarf, that his mind is an asb-heag and his language poppycock. The bilious youngster now struggles under his mother’s jolt arm as she tries to jab the sulphur spoon into his mouth, and says, ‘The dose take it.”” Beecher weighs 180 pounds, without any silver in his pocket, and he ought to sing:— To the spirit its splendid conjectures; To the flesh its sweet despan, In Berlin there is a movement to place a certain number of cows in doiries and under supervision of hygiente authorities, for supplying selected milk to babies. ‘The buds on the peach trees begin to laugh and grow fat with vernal pleasure, and the time fs only five months distant when a boy may crack 400 peach stones in a week and sell them for a cent. Louisville Courier-Journal:—“When a man of the name of Edmunas goes to Boston to live ho becomes Edmands, What becomes of the more familiar Jones is not known.’’? Sometimes he becomes Jane's. This is noble weather; and as the gentle housewife sits looking at the grass which stretches its tiny green fingers into the soft sunshine, she occasionally dulls her scissors by trying to saw off a gob ot maple sugar, Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain, of South Carolina, arrived at the Astor yesterday morning, In the after noun he paid a visit toa friend in the upper part of the city, and, after dining, took the evening train for Washington. Mrs. Governor Chamberlain, of South Carolina although a Iady of elegant accomplishments, 1s not | socially received by tho old native families of that State, because theso familics feel that if they should really practise reconciliation they might hot have time to taik about it, Says an English critic, “The most magnificent pie- ture that Tintoret ever painted was painted to measure, to fill the end of the great Council Chamber in the Dogo’s Palace at Venice, and the picture is of an awk- wardly irregular shape, to allow space for the two doorways at the end of the hail,’? | Dr GW. Frost hadadream in whieh he saw the Jocation, near Springfield, Mass, ofa gold mine, The dream returned to him, A handred-foot shaft nas | been sank, and a small streak of gold has been struck, The spirit which is working through Dr. Frost calle to the President’s course on the cases of South Carolina and Louisiana; and it is a point upon which some democratic journals agree with some republi- | can journals; while both fully agree with Wendell Phillips. If what is said in this yein 18° true it is not to the honor of the republican party. toward South Carolina and Louisiana the Executive restores the law to the authority the people have always intended it should have. Intrigue and corruption, indifference to the law, defiance of the right, had pro- duced in those States a condition for which there was not only no warrant in the law, but which was in open, flagrant, recognized violation of the law of the land. The Presi- dent simply reverses that a‘ate of facts and In his course | itself Old Hill,” formerly « California miner, ‘The paragraph has its enemies as weil as its trionds; | | | but surely the light, frivolous and sometimes wise | squibs, that one may seo at a glance over his fork and | #eonse—aro casior to read aud to digest at breakfast than | a three-colamn State paper or the frightful de is of a i | | murder, ‘The elephants of journalism should not | utterly despise the humming birds that fly from flower to flower; because the humming birds do Lot always | despise the elophante, wning Telegras Mr. Martin Forquhar Tupper d toeday tor I without having been inter viewed upon a certain important partioular, which we are surprised the literary papers should have over. looked. Mr, Tupper is nothing more than a good oid man, with a passion—if a man at once so good and old form of verso cortain words which he conceives to represent thoughts and sentiments, Ho ts a romark- able instance of the success of incompetence, the tri- umph of platitudinaria over his coffée—iittle bites and sips of sense antl non- | can be said to have a passion—for putting into the | TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of tne World. - BISMARCK’S RETIREMENT. All Europe Discussing Its Causes and Consequences. a ——__.—__—_ RESTING FOR THE HOUR OF TRIAL The Eastern Situation and the Prospects of Peace. AN ENGLISH MINISTER ON THE PROTOCOL, Eng'ish Iron in America—The Pope's Health Improving, (7 CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Lonpoy, April 5, 1877. The retirement of Prince Bismarck is still the subject of discussion here and on the Continent, and the newspapers are all full of it, It has thrown the Eastern question for the moment into the shade, and people at least feel a sense of relief to find that one remarkable event has occurred im Europe to break the wearying monctony of those endless and apparently result- less negotiations between the Powers on the sub- ject of Turkey and her discontented subjects, What the final results of the great Chancellor's temporary retirement—for it can be only tempo- rary—may be it is impossible now to foresee, but as no German statesman can by any possl- Dility be set up as a rival to him, it is admitted that, in or out of ofice, his influence in Germany and in Europe will be still paramount, The leading organs ot public opinion in the various European capitals have each their version of the affair, but they all agree as to the main facts. PRESS COMMENTS ON THE RESIGNATION. Tho Provincial Correspondence, of Berlin, a semle official journal, states that Prince Bismarck asked to be rolieved from bis official position because bis health was seriously impaired. The Emperor’s decision has not been given, but a prolonged leave of absence will probably be granted, which will relieve the Prince of all participation in public affairs, The Paris Temps asserts that Bismarck will content himself with a six months’ furlough. He wishes to leayo to others the responsibility of dev ciding the Eastern question, should Russia determine to have war. A Berlin despatch sa, At tho Em. peror’s request, Prince Hismarck leaves his resignae tion In aboy: during his year’s absence. Prince Bismarck declares thut his present health incapaci- tates him for work, and that neo feels attendance at Parliament an intolerable burden. General Von Stosch, Chief of the German Admiralty, and Prince Bismarck are on good terms. It seems that tho Von Stosch in- cident was not the cause of the Prince’s retirement. ‘The provocation is supposed to be of an earlier date— something which occurred at court. It 18 understood Prince Bismarck will visit England during his retire- ment. According to another despatch it has been de- cided that tho heads of departments will provisionally discharge the duties of the Imperial Chancelierie dur. ing Prince Bismarck’s absonce. THE CAUSKS DISCUSSED, A despatch from Berlin to tho Times, discussing Prince Bismarck’s resignation, says:—“Prince Bie marck’s motive was probably complex. His health t by no means good, and his influence on Prussian do- mestic affairs very limited, owing to the traditional independence of each Cabinet Minister, while tho con- centration of affairs in the hands of an imperial ad- ministration is impeded, not only by tho resistanor of the minor governments, but also by opposition pro ceedings from the chiefs of the various Prussian de partments. As, for instance, two gentlemen appointed by Prince Bismarck to the direction of the new Cen tral Railway Department havo successively resigned because their communications were slighted by the railway departments of individual States, As was con- cluded from Prince Bismarck’s languago on the oc. casion, the Von Stosch affair made a deep impression upon him. General Von Stosch is a German, nots Prussian Minister, and as Prince Bismarck has always endeavored to break Prussian traditions in the organ: ization of German bureaus and to assign the chiefs of the German departments to a stric:ly subordipate po- sition under the absolute control of the Chancellor, General Von Stosch’s independent bearing must appeared like an attempt to transfer the deprecated Prussian system to German imstitutions, Whether the Prince’s withdrawal was directly occasioned by this affair or not, there 18 little doubt it has been indl- rectly occasioned by his unwillingness to endure official friction greater than his health could well support.” ‘THE TIMES ON BISMARCK. ‘The Times, in a loading article, alter commenting on Prince Bismarck’s well known difficalties relative to i+ ternal affairs, says:—'It cannot be overlooked that Princo Bismarck’s retirement 1s simultaneous with the acceptance of the protocnl, Prince Bismarck’s powor naturally prompts mento connect his retirement with the greatest evont in contemporary history.’! 1h» Times considers the idea of separating the | various offices hitherto held by Prince Bismark will tend to strengthen the e!ementa of particularist opposition. It war breaks out in Europe Prince Bismarck must return tothe helm, as we have no evillence that there 1s any othor statesman in Germany. The proposed distribution of offices 18, indeed, described as provisiotal, which may mean that it 18 to take effect until Prince Bismarck | returns to take care of the Empire, and there is, indis- | putably, a danger that « struggle of independent de- partments, each claiming freedom from the control of any other, may provoke administrative anarchy re- quiring bis presence for its cure, SPARING IIMSELP FOR THH HOUR OF TRIAL. ‘The Standard's Berlin correspondent says the Em- peror must decide in regard to Prince Bismarck's ap- pheation within a few days, Tho Reichstag reas- sembles on tho 10th, and its assent must be obtained to arrangements which the Chanestlor’s absence for ayear would render necessary, Such a Jong furlough must produco many inconveniences and difficulties. On this account Prince Bismarck 1nsists upon being | retieved of all his duties, wishing to sparo his powers for tho time when Europe may be im danger, The correspondent refers to an articlo In the Berlin Poste on this subject, which is considered to have been inspired, This article con- cludes:—“We believe the Empire will still have to stand the severest test, and that the nour of trial may be nearer than is generally beieved, 1t is Bismarck’s auty to spare himself for that hour.’” A Berlin despatch to the Post says tho consent ot the Reichstag is necessary for the year’s leavo asked by Bismarck, for without the would remain reponsi- ble for the act of bis substitute, No detinitive answer, therefore, has been made to tho request, but an appli- cation will be laid before the Reichstag immediately on its reassemblin, THR PORTH'S EMBARRASSMENTS, - A correspondent at Pera, writing on March 30, says:— “Amidst all the fluctuations between hope and fear ono thing is becoming clear that the mon who aro ree sponsible for peace or war, such as the Sultan, Mahmoud Damad and d Pacha, aro earnestly and even anxiously desirous for peace. They have good reasons for this, The government duro not issue moro than 3,000,000 Turkish pounds’ worth of paper money lest it shoald becomo utterly | Worthless, Provisions for tho army, although thew