The New York Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1877, Page 6

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R NOTICE TO COUNTRY ‘The Adams Express Company ran a train over the Pennsylvania Railroad and its connections, Jeaving Jersoy City at a quarter four A. M. daily and Sunday, ca-rying the rezular edition of the HxiatD as far West as Harrisburg and Sonth to Washington, reaching Philadelphia at a quarter past six A, M. and Washington at one P. M. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be warm and partly cloudy or clear, followed, perhaps, to-night, by increasing cloudiness. Wars Street Yesterpay.—Yesterday was a day of great excitement in Wall street, and there was a general decline in all the active stocks. The coal stocks and Northwest were the chief sufferers. Gold opened at 10519 and advanced to 10573, at which price it closed. Government stocks were firm. Money loaned at 3a 31g at the opening and then advanced to 6a7 per cent, closing at the latter figure. DEALERS, cial newspaper Man Was*Mape ror tux Law, not the law for man, is the gist of Judge Larremore’s decision on rapid transit. Tne Scrciwe THxory is the most merciful of the many suggestions about the cause of Mr. Orville Jewett’s death. Turret APPEAR THIS MORNING some moro of those explanations about street cleaning which are so wonderfully funny—to out-of-town read- ers. The city treasury is to blame this time. A New Metnop of settling divorce cases is alluded to in one of our court reports to-day. It is simple, prompt and inexpensive; yet it would seem that the unsympathetic natures of modern juries and judges will prevent its general application. Mystery Increases in the Scanlon murder case, the only fact made perfectly clear being that all the associates and neighbors of the de- ceased were of that utterly depraved class from which the utmost brutality is expected as a matter of course. Tue Nuwper of New York city violators of the Excise laws is estimated by one of the Commissioners at tive thousand, and the tions continue because the Bourd has no funds. ‘Why do not the licensed dealers present a hand- some purse to the Board! There would be mill- ions in it for tlemselve: Ayornen Discra Arrair, that of the burning of Lucy Freeman, is passed from sight by the convenient verdict, “nobody to blame.” Moralists wili not accept such a decision, how- ever, and the suggestions which the case in- evitably offers should have the effect of dis- couraging that form of vice which is above all | others repulsive and destructive. Some Porxts AnovT THE Cost or MILK are distinctly made by correspondents to-day, and the railroad companies come in for the principal blame. We cannot see, however, but that the railroads and the milkmen make their money in the same manner. One waters stock, the other waters milk; an innocent and confiding public Dears the entire expense of both operations. +4 the Assembly tabled Mr. Cowdin’s suggestion that bank stock should pay amaller taxes and that some way should be de- vised for putting the bulk of other taxable property upon the assessors’ lists. Legislators like ours do not save money enough to invest in bank stocks; but then, and when there is an ex- ception to this rule, the surplus goes to tailors and jewellers. Amoyoe THE CHEERING SiGNs of the season must be reckoned the almost entire cessation of applications for free lodgings. Whether the late lodgers have found work or prefer to sleep on doorsteps in the milder weather of spring it | is certain that the members of this class of bene ficiaries have enough character to decline chat as soon as they are able to shift for themsely and, therefore, thit charitable institutions have not been supporting many professional paupers during tho winter. % yessmure is now high over the lake region and lowest off the Nova Scotia coast, where the influence of the recent storm in the south is being felt. As announced in the Hrravp this disturbance took a norti- easterly course as soon as it cleared the conti- nent, and is now moving rapidly across the At- {antio toward the western coast of Europe and the British islands. A depression trom the Gulf has developed to some extent in the Southwest, with brisk winds on the Texas coast. It is probable that another rain storm will result from the advance of tho disturbance, which brings with it | ‘an immense volume of vapor-laden atmosphere, ‘The temperaturo continues high at all points east of the Rocky Mountains except at the mouth of the St. Lawrence. Clear weather prevails in the lake, Middle and New England regions, but is cloudy and threatening in all others. ‘The Mississippi, Cumberland, Tennessee and Lower Obio have risen. The other rivers have fallen. ‘The weather in New York today will be warm and partly cloudy or clear, followed, perhaps, to- night, by iucreasing cloudincss. The War Cloud in Europe. Turkey's response to the protocol seems to make war inevitable, Some vague hope is held out, it is true, that the answer may not be so absolute as to prevent further en- deavors to secure a reconsideration by dip- lomatic pressure, and it appears also to be \ | is to be regarded as an absolute rejection of the measures of the protocol it may yet be possible to induce the Sultan to withdraw it and substitute one more in consonance with the wishes of the Western Powers. England in this seems to grasp at a straw. Sultans and Turkish statesmen act with the obstinacy of their race on somewhat irra- tional views, perhaps, as to the important facts of their position, but certainly with very intelligent conceptions of what it is they have to fear and how best to pro- vide for immediate if not ultimate safety. They have commonly been amenable to English advice when England had armies to send or was disposed to give financial aid, for these were the conditions of defence from stronger armies, Now they are menaced by great armies, and England does not propose to take the field in their be- half. Their danger on the one hand is the Russian, whom they seem to believe they can whip, and on the other hand the fanatical elements that give strength and activity to the intrigues and revolts that are behind the throne, From this danger England cannot sawe them; from the other she will not. Why, then, should they heed what England says? Why imperil the possession of a crown and the dearer possession of life? Why put these in danger at the hands of the Moslem zealots in order to give way and make a peace that is to be not so much their gain as England’s? This seems to be their reasoning, and we believe it will pre- vent further negotiation. In order to see why war appears to be a necessary consequence of the rejection of the protocol at Constantinople we must contemplate this act in its relation to all that has preceded it in the history of this now extended negotiation. All the steps of this negotiation have been so many en- deavors to prevent the rupture of European peace. As one step after another failed the effort did not appear hopeless, because each opened the way to some new attempt, and thus the case was led on from month to month. But the miscarriage of an endeavor that leaves no step to be taken beyond it, that shyts the door to further parley, is, of course, the ultimate failure of the whole effort, and war follows as the consequence that was from the first regarded as im- minent—an event, the occurrence of which was retarded by these many endeavors to preserve the peace by diplomacy. Why war between Russia and Turkey, and the allies either might secure, suddenly be- NEW YORK thought in London that even if the answer ; i in that way the one now imminent it may be j said that we on this sidq the ocean have no reason to regret its vocur- rence. It will, in fact, be of at least as great advantage to us ag our war was to certain of the nations of E and ! its beneficial effects may even extend fur- ther. If it should involve other nations than Russia and Turkey it must necessarily stimulate every avenue of trade in this coun- try. It is speculated in some quarters that the opportunities a great war will give for the use of capital in Europe will put an enormous quantity of our bonds now held abroad on the market and send them home at depreciated prices. Perhaps it may; but we believe that for every bond thus sold in order to make speculation possible on the decreased prices of European securities an- other bond of the United States will he bought to hold by the investor who cannot tell what is to become of any European security when a goneral war comes. However that may be, the advantage we will derive from stimulated commerce and industry will greatly outweigh any disadvantage that is possible, For four years we have suffered from facts that were consequent upon the waste of war in our own country. Now we shall have the waste of war on the other side of the slate. Whole populations with- drawn from the fields and the workshops will make a market for our grain and other products and for our manufactures, espe- cially of war material. Hence must come good prices, plenty of money and solid prosperity to the whole people such as they have not seen for half a lifetime, Another Smash-up in Wall Street. The decided tumble in several leading stocks yesterday gives us as good an occa- sion as we are likely to have for explaining to the uninitiated the extremely artificial character of the Wall street movements and excitements. Northwestern fell yesterday in the course of a few hours from 27 to 18 3-8 in the price of common stock, and from 46 3-4 to 41 1-4 in preferred stock; Rock Island from 95 1-8 to 91 1-2; Delaware and Lackawanna from 56 7-8 to 50, Several other stocks declined con- siderably, but not so largely. Why does this kind of property fluctuate so strangely in the course of a few hours? Its real value depends on the earnings of the roads, which do not vary from hour to hour, nor even from year to year, in any such proportions as are indicated by the prices of the stocks. Toa quiet, permanent, unspeculative holder Northwestern stock, for example, is worth as much to-day as it was day before yester- day, although if he were forced to sell it he would have to part with it at a heavy sacri- fice. The road is valuable in proportion to what it earns, which again is in proportion to the amount of its business, Not a ton came imminent a year ago is known to all who have followed the reports in the papers, but may be recalled now with advantage to the general reader. Inthe European pos- sessions of the Ottoman Empire there aro five millions of Christians and four millions of Mohammedans. This majority is gov- erned as a subject race in the interest of the minority. All the laws and institutions are based on prejudice against the greater part of the population. But the operation of the institutions and laws as sources of prejudice against one division of the people, and as instruments of oppression in the hands of one section of the people to be wielded against the other section, are mild and kindly compared to the operation of relig- ious hatred and rancor that these laws do not attempt to repress and could not repress if they did attempt it. In this relation of the parts of the popula- tion to one another there is of course a con- stant and ever menacing source of disturb- ance, not only to the quiet of the neighbor- hood, but to the peace of Europe. Other nations have taken notice of this and have seen and recognized the necessity of some provision to prevent the regular recurrence of revolt at this point. Ameliorations in the Mohammedan law in its application to the Christian subject have been extorted from Turkey by direct treaty, and in some degree by the dissemination in the Empire of Western ideas. stant advocate of those reforms, No doubt she had some interests of her own behind. England has been the constant supporter of the Moslems against all attempts to enforce reform, and she as clearly has also had her own interests to serve. This has been the, constant relation of the Powers for fifty years. and was their relation when the trou- bles broke out two years ago in Herze govina, Then Russia and Austria and Prussia endeavored to settle the relations of the Sultan to his Christian subjects in a manner favorable to the Christians. Eng- land stood in the way, and the effort failed. Then followed the Bulgarian butcheries, and England saw hererror. At that mo- ment the invasion of Turkey by Russia—the settlement of the case between Christian and Turk by Russian arms--seemed to become only a question of time. War was then imminent, and the British govern- ment, seeing the difficulties of their sus- | taining the Turk in arms, joined with the other Powers in that common effort to | secure peace, the conterence at Constanti- | nople. Butthe Turk had been made too ’ | arrogant by his successes in Servia and the Sultan too timid by the fate of his prede- *} ence, and Turkey might have accepted it had it stood alone. But England required the addition of a declaration as to disarma- ment, and the Ottomans make that declara- tion the pretext of refusal, Thus the result of two years of negotiation is that Turkey practically refuses to submit her relations with her own subjects to the revision of ' other governments and defies others to come in aad revise them with the sword, and Rus- | sia will accept the defiance. That other Powers will long keep out of the conflict is not certain. From the humanitarian point of view a great war is not a fact in which any one manitarians commonly do rejoice in wars which they deem likely to further the par- ticular kind of humanity they admire. But | wars must be regarded also in their commer- Russia has been the con- | cessors. So the conference came to naught. The protocol sums up the posi- j tion of the Vowers of Europe as | they stood at the close of the confer- | should rejoice, though the professional hu- | | other buying and selling. fever and fluctuation. As an investment to hold, as distinguished from a piece of speculative property to be disposed of, the shares are intrinsically worth as much to- day as they were two days ago. There is, therefore, no real decline in the wealth of the country by such a stampede as took place yesterday in the street. The owners of such shares who wish to hold them, and are under no compulsion to sell them, are just as well off as they were before the tumble, It is not the country that suffers, but only the speculative hold- ers of shares, by such great and sud- den fluctuations. The country at large is neither richer nor poorer, the permanent holders of the stock are neither richer nor poorer by the sudden tumbles which bring ruin upon speculative operators who take their chances like other miscalculating speculators and must abide the result of their ventures, Nobody suffers any loss ex- cept those who have been gambling in the stock and those whose necessities may force them to sell in so disastrous a crisis of the market. If men overload themselves with any par- ticular species of property and are com- pelled to part with it on a sudden they must necessarily be losers. A speculator in real estate who has overburdened himself with more than he can carry, and is compelled to put property on the market in excess of the immediate demands of buyers, cannot get its real value and suffers in the same way. Such disasters are of no general public interest, because they affect only those who are compelled to dispose of the same kind of property at so inopportune a moment. We must not be understood as de- nouncing the ordinary operations of the Stock Exchange as mere gambling. On the contrary we believe it one of the most useful institutions inthe business world. It creates a class of men skilled in understanding values, and the ordinary quotations of the Stock Exchange are the truest index to tho | real value of the shares which change owner- ship in that arena. It is a business every whit as legitimate and honorable as ordinary commerce, But it is subject to oll the chances, and more than all the chances, of If a dealer in stocks ventures beyond his depth he must pay the same penalty as a merchant who buys goods which he has not sufficient capital to hold and is forced to sell without regard to the state of the market. He suffers by his imprudence, and the purchasers gain, but the general prosperity of the community is not affected unless the community at large has been seduced by the same speculative mania, Wo accordingly look upon the great tumble in stocks yesterday as merely one of the ordi- nary incidents of the market—a simple ad- dition to the numerous wrecks which attend that dangerous navigation. A New Italian Opera To-Night. Since the production of ‘‘Aida” we havo had no novelty in the way of Italian opera, We have had many promises, but no reali- | zations, To-night, however, we are to have something new, thanks to the energy and | enterprise of Signor Albites, who will pro- duce ‘Don Carlos” at the Academy of Music. This work is regarded as Verdi's master- piece, and is new to the American public. It will introduce tous anew prima donna in the person of Signorina Rastelli, and will afford both Celada and Bertolasi ample op- portunity for the display of their great | vocal abilities, It is to be hoped that the New York public will show their approcia- of freight will be lost to it by yesterday's HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1877—-TRIPLE SHEET. | cial and indaustrial aspects, and regarding | tion of Signor Albites’ enterprise by giving him a large and generous support. ‘The charge has been frequently made against the Italian opera that the same series of works were ever recurring, and now that we have found a manager with sufficient enterprise and courage to undertake the production of novelties we certainly should extend to him generous support. Signor Albites has devoted his life to the cultiva- tion of music, and is now making a strenu- ous endeavor to please the public at consid- erable risk. No trouble or expense has been spared to present the new opera with com- pleteness and artistic effect. New scenery has been printed, and both the chorus and the orchestra have been strengthened. if the manager receive from the public the support which those efforts to please deserve he may be encouraged to produce stil! other novelties, and New Yorkers will be able to enjoy a really brilliant season of Italian opera, The Fire Fiend. The conflagrations of Chicago and of Boston and the monster fires that have peri- odically recurred within the last five years lead us to reflect that such calamities aro among the peculiar institutions of this very great country. No such losses of life and property are recorded in England, France orGermany. Fire is the familiar fiend of the United States, He underlies the oil region, or, leaping from city to city, makes an excursion into the prairies, jumps over the Rocky Mountains to alight in the silver mines of Nevada; then skips from one far Western town to another and alights on St. Louis. Why is this country so particularly favored? The answer is ready on the lip of every reader. We invoke the demon by our recklessness and carelessness. We give him honse room by the reckless man- ner in which we build our houses, Wo ex- pose his food to him in every corner. We encourage him by the carcless and ignorant way in which our servants of trifling with public trusts ana swindiing with public moneys, The Police Commis- sioners will not be tolerated in a repetition on a grand scale of Professor Dishecker's humbug about the Harlem flats. Then the audacity and impudence of the officials went so far that they dared to deny the existence of a most pestilential nuisance that bid fair to depopulate large sestion of the city through the foul stench that loaded the atmosphere of Harlem. ‘Two audacious con- tractors--Jones and McQuaid—were encour- aged by the inactivity or dishonesty of the officials to continue piling up nuisance upon nuisance by dumping fetid loads of the most horrible city refuse upon a portion of the city surrounded by dwellings and actually intended for building sites. The enormity of the job was pointed ont by the Hxnarp, and if there had been justice, honesty and decency among the responsible officials of New York these men would have been indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to a long term of imprisonment as murderers of the public health. Instead of this they were paid every cent of their blood money. Disbecker’s conduct at that time was enough to disgust everybody; but that of the reform Comptroller Green—who haggled so desperately over every penny doled out to the scrub women—in permitting these contractors to take from the public treasury thousands of dollars to which they were not entitled by the letter of their contract shows to what base uses the cry of “reform” can be applied, We recall this Harlem flat nuisance for the purpose of reminding Comptroller Kelly that he has a duty to perform in this busi- ness. He has no right to pay a cent for street cleaning that is not honestly earned. A correspondent the other day asked, “Where is all this money dumped?” We should say Mr. Kelly could enlighten us on the point, Tho sudden discovery by the Police Commissioners that the streets are treat all matters where fire and lights are concerned, Bad building and careless service are the two procreants of disaster. To one or the other or to both the cause of the destruction of the Southern Hotel at St. Louis will be inevitably traced. Our full and graphic special description of the dis- aster, published this morning, shows that the fire originated on the ground floor, but ‘we are not yet fully informed as to the source of the calamity, yet we feel assured that it will be ascribed to one of the above mentioned causes. The service of the Southern Hotel was partly Irish, partly African. System, order, carefulness are not conspicuous in the character of these races. But it seems to us that in so immense a building as an American hotel there should be in each district.a well proven and reliable overseer, 8 man of intelligence and order much superior to the lower grade of help that we find in this condition. These of- ficers should always be on guard and on the watch, accessible to complaints from the guests and ready for every emergency. There is too much centralization in our hotel system, and much mischief, as well as discomfort, may be traced to it. But the most fruitful source of fire lies in the defective principle of building. How frequently we hear of what is called a de- fective flue! The defect is not in the flue but in the blockheads, architects and builders who allowed the ends of half a dozen joists to be stepped in the breast- work of a chimney with those ends ex- posed to the highway of fire, or so close to the flue that they are heated sufficiently to generate their own flame. Then we build hollow floors, leaving air ways beneath our feet, and we build hollow partitions to enable the fire to run like ver- min under us, above us, aronnd us, unseen, unknown, until it bursts out and we find ourselves hopelessly enveloped. All floors should be packed solid between the joists dirty would be laughable if the subject were not so serious. In the language of a con- temporary we ask, Have these Commission- ers been confined in vaults underground or conveyed in balloons through the upper air, ‘where they could not see what struck every citizen in the face?” The Commis- sioners whine in a touching manner that they have no place to dump the garbage. We have told them time and again not to dump, bat burn it. Suitable furnaces could be quickly con- structed in different parts of the city and the garbage cremated without causing the slightest objectionable odor. The trouble with all our officials is that they have not an original idea among them. , We respect and like the Mayor, but we are compelled to say that he is showing no backbone in dealing with his subordinates and the abuses they create, Instead of waiting for written com- plaints he should be the chief complainant. So it is with the other public servants, They lead a lazy, dronish life; they run in ruts and care for nothing but their ease and their salaries. Our experience of Ameri- can officials is that to-day we would be riding in old lumbering stage coaches and communicating by canal boat express, instead of travelling by rail and writing by telegraph, if progress depended on official initiative. Private individuals or the news- paper must originate ideas and keep ham- mering them into official heads in order to have them adopted. Thus the idea the of cremation of garbage, though suggesting a simple plan for getting rid of the filth, is re- ceived by the head of the Health Beard as something not to be easily understood. He makes the insane counter proposition that the sum of thirty thousand dollars be given him for experimenting on eharring the refuse. Does he not wish he may get it? We trust that the officials of New York will take this warning and amend their conduct before it becomes a matter for solemn action with light concrete, and all partitions sim- ilarly filled in, Thus by excluding the air the floor becomes practically fireproof, and neither rats nor mice can annoy us by their ranging over the building. There is no rea- son why chimneys should not be abolished and replaced with iron or earthenware tubes glozed on the inside—they clean themselves. If buried in a breastwork they occupy little room and no joist can poke its end into such a flue to the danger of the building. Fundamental reforms must be instituted both in the much vaunted system of American hotel keeping and the safety of the construction of all such buildings where five hundred human beings and upward are liable to present a holocaust to the most insidious, destructive and terrible fiend that walks the earth. Oar Oficial Rip Van Winkles. Our contemporaries are all suddenly wak- ing up to tho fact that the streets of New York are not clean—that they are dirtier now than is known within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Our astute Police Com- missioners have also detected that thestreets are dirty, and doubtless are already consider- ing whether they will prepare to make up their minds to solicit their subordinates to consider about preparing to make up their minds to do something about it. The good Mayor Ely is also reported to have found out, chiefly by reading the Henaup ‘*Com- plaint Book,” that something was wrong, and he promises that if some one else will only give him the information in writ- ing he will read it, and prepare to make up his mind to take the mat- ter into serious consideration, In the meantime, while the giant intellects of our officials are in labor and the birth of ideas is anxiously looked for in several de- partments, while tremendous preparations are being made to receive the “little stran- gers,” we continue to receive contributions to “Our Complaint Book” from fathers and mothers from whose loving arms the grim and indefatigable official, Death, is daily snatching their little ones. The festering piles of filth left on the streets by the noglect of the city officials are the weapons em- ployed to promote this infanticide, The other day we had a communication from ‘‘a mother” who told the heartrending tale of the loss of two children from scarlet fever occasioned by the filth of the streets. Now let us inform these officials that there has been enough of this scandalous neglect of duty on thoir part. We have had onough by the Grand Jury. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Pullman has retarned to Chicago, April seems to be putting on airs, Anna Dickinson is not Maggie Mitchell. Governor Palmer, of Wisconsin, has called on Prost- dent Hayos, The woather seems to say ‘To dust thou art; to dust thou shalt return.” Charles Reado nover married; and so did not sacri- fico his college living. Horaco White thinks that David Davis as Senator is a great improvement over Jack Logan. The Prince of Wales recently lunched on poached eggs, but he owes neatly two millions of dollars. Dr. Mary Walker says she can kick a chip off Anna Dickinson’s shouldor without blushing. Lady Thorntoo’s daughter will stand up with Miss Bigelow at Miss Ames’ wedding at Washington April 25. Alexander H, Stephens is quite well; and the three- column paragraphical obituaries about bim aro no longer m type. President Hayes bas appointed Mrs. Sellers a post- mistresa, It is not definitely known whether sho ts a strawberry blonae or a mulberry. This is what the Iate Jobn O'Mahony called bim- sell;—"Shane MacDhombnall Mic Thomais Oig na bh Foradb Ui Mhaghthamhna.’”” This beats Anna Dickin- gon all to pieces, Sir Eaward Thornton, tho British Minister, arrived at the Clarendon yesterday from Ottawa, Canada, where ho has been visiting Goverhor Goneral Dufferin, and loft last evening for Washington, Punch (at @ boat race):--“Ada—‘Mamma, I can’t quite make out what those rough looking men aro say- ing; but they must be well educated!’ Mamma— ‘Why, dear? the French for lady 1’? Wesxiy Herato:—"'To remove stains trom marble make & mortar of unsiacked limo and very strong lye, cover the stain thickly with it, and leave it on for six weeks, Wash off perfectiy clean, and rab hara with a soft brush dipped in cold water.’’ Yownkors Guseet;—* ‘Nothing was so much dreaded in our schoolboy days,’ suys a distinguished author, ‘as to be punished by sitting betweea two girls,’ Ab! the force of education! in after years we learn to submit to such things without shedding a tear.” Young Tecumseh Sherman, who is ten years old, has tor his favorite book tho “Army Rogister,”” He knows the name and station of every regiment of the army, the rank and station of every officer, and can toll tho paines of nearly all the soldiers; und he wants to go to Wost Point. General Sherman will lenvo to-day for St. Lous, whither he will accompany his family, who go the 0 reside for the summer, Io will be absent hardly more than a week. His preparation for this trip gave rise to the unfounded report (hat tho headquarters of the army were to be moved to St Louis, Nashville American:—**A gentioman lives in this city who has bad chills and fever every duy for four years, during which time be bas taken 1,800 grains of qui- bine, 1,000 grains arsenic, 400 grains cinchonidia, 600 grains of Veravian bark and a good deal of nitric acid, without baving any effect upon him. He bas been ad- vised to give the town he ‘shake’ and travel for his health." f Ada—Woll, they all seem to know TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE THREATENED WAR. Turkey Preparing for the Inevita- ble Struggle. BISMARCK’S “LEAVE OF ABSENCE.” Decrease in Ocean Steamship Traffic— The Rinderpest. CABLE TO THE HERALD. ] Loxpow, April 12, 1877, Tho belief that the crisis has at last arrived in the East and that Russia is about to put an end to the doubt and uncertainty which bave hung over Europe for the last few months is atill stronger this morning, and peoplo here are making up thoir minds that the Inevitable war cannot longer be staved off. Tho diplomatisis have not suc- ceeded in settling @ question which cannot be defi- nitely solved without overturning the existing state of things in Turkey, and accordingly they are about to disappoar for a time from the scene and make way for the men of the sword, The reports that roach us now from tho East aro all of military preparations and warlike manifostos, The Porte, seeing the evi- dent intention of Russiato fight, is assuming a more stubborn attitude, and the English Foreign Minister in- forms the Sultan that ho cannot count upon the sup- port of England. News of groat importance may be expected within the next few days, GIRDING YOR THE FRAY. ‘ According toa St, Petersburg despatch, the Golos of yesterday says:—Europe probably witbin the next week will receive clear proof of Russia’s determination to attain the end for which her troops have been con- contrated on the frontier.” Tho Political Corre. spondence, of Vienna, says intelligence; from St Potersburg denies that a war manifesto will shortly be istucd., Advices from Bucharest report that the Turks display great activity in pushing for- ward military preparations. Twonty-four Krapp guns arrived recently for the detence of the banks of the Danube. Six battattons with horses and ammunition for artillery landed at Varna on Weduesday. Sadyh Pacha daily concludes contracts for psovinons, Flour is being forwarded to Widdin, where several thousand soldiers aro completing the ouyworka The territorial army of the Vilayet of the Danube i already in'arms A Ragusa despatch reporte that there have been continual confiicts for the last three days botween the Tarks and Miridites. It is statea that Ouptain Burnaby has returned from Kars, and does not think either the Russian or Turkish armies in Asia are thorowghly prepared for war, The Times’ despatch from Pera says the Pringe of Montenegro has telographed to his envoys to accept all offers, THE PORTE WILL YIELD NOTHING, ' Safvet Pacha, communicating the Porto’s determina- tions to tho foreign representatives yesterday, ex- pressed the rogret of the Sultan and bis Ministers at their inability to follow the well meant advice of the Powors, but buth political and financial reasons ren- dered it absolutely necqssary to vorminate the present intolerable position of uncertainty. He has also informed the Montonegrin delegates that it = impossible for Turkey to cede Nicsic, Koutchi or Ko- latschin, because the Chamber of Deputies has re- jected their demands for territory. Safvet added, however, that the Senate had still to examine the question. The Montenegring replied by asking for a final answer on Friday. If thelr demands are refused, which seems to be certain, they will quit Constantinople on Saturday. A despatch irom Constantinople dated yesterday states that the Montenegrin envoys will leave there on Friday or Saturday. Le Nord| says. Lord Derby’s reservation on signing the protocol has been misinter- preted at Constantinople, Lord Derby has since writ. ten to Constantinople categorteally declaring that the Porte must in no way rely upon England, ‘A Inter despatch says the Turkish Senate has not confirmed the Deputies’ rejection of Montenegro's de- mands, but has decided to leave the settlement of the question to the government, It is stated that Safvet Pacha was present in the Chamber of Deputies when the Montenegrin proposals were rejected. He was asked whether their rejection would cause war, and replied it probably would, thoug’ ‘ho was not certain. The Morning Post in tts leader says:—“We undere stand the Tarkish circular is an elaborate document, Like alt Turkish state papers it {s courteous in tone and bappy in expression, bat it conveys in language remarkably clear a determination resolutely taken. In word tho Ottomas government fs propared to face the peril of war rather than submit beforehand to terms which it considers could only be imposed upon a vanquished nation after great roverses in the field. Tho Porte resents permanent interference in its internal affairs. It is carrying out reforms and is bent on preventing the recurrence of tho outrages of last year; but it domands to be re- lieved trom the pressure which embarrasses its effort to do justice to the newly inaugurated improvements, It asks for disarmament, is willing to undertake its sharo of mutual obligation and is ready to send as ambassador to St. Petersburg, but not an envoy, as if from a vassal to a suzerain. Now the question occurs, what will Russiado? We may assume from past experience that sho will not act precipitately, We may expect Russia will seok to ob. tain from the concensus of Europe somo sanction for its stops.”? RUSSIA'S NEXT STPEP. It Is reported that the Russian Ambassadors will re colve iustructions to make known to tLe government to which they are accredited that Russia interprets the protocol, under the present circumstances, as binding tho signataries to consider immediately those common steps for which the protocol fixed no time. Tho Russian diplomatists anticipate that Turkey’s rofusal will provoke action on the part of al the six Powers, The Standard’s Berlin correspondem ical summons to Constantinople de reply in three days, Count Andrassy 1s making thy utmost exertions to induce the Porte to yield, WAITING FOR THK ¥IKST CAANON suoT, The Paris correspondent of the Times says just as people were lately too optimist now they are too pes. simist, From all quarters most alarming nowy is pouring im. Europe seems awaiting the first report of the cannon, It seome Impossibio that the simple will of Turkey alone should suffice to overturn the laborious work ot European diplomacy. Everything, indeed, soems compromised now. There was groat divergency in tho Turkish Cubinot, the Sultan and two of the miloisters favoring a pacific reply to the protocol, and only demanding modifications of its expressions. The majority rajectod these counsels of moderation. The Porte will not communicate its oficial reply until Thursday (to-day) The armistice expires on Friday. Consequently only twenty-four hours remain in which to obtain a pro longation, without which tho pacific perspective is en Virely compromised, BISMARCK’S LEAVE OF ABSENCE. An imperial order dated April 10 grants loave ot ab sence to Prince Bismarck until August next, A later despatch (rom Belin says:—**President Von Forcenbech bas just read in the Reichstag « letter from Prince Bis. marck expressing regret that the impaired stato of hit health prevented bis attendance at Parliament, and Dotityiog that he hud obtained eave of absence, Hore Hofman, President of the Imperial Chancellery, wit take bis place in tho Department of Homo Affairs; Herr Von Biilow in the Departmont of Foreign Affairs, ae ais =