The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1877, Page 10

NEW YORK HERALD ‘BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. —_—_-—_—_ an news jetters or telegraphic despatches must Magrensed Keer Youn iienaty. ‘Yertere ‘and packages should Le properly resied. ejected communications will not be returned. PHILADELPUIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH LONDON ‘OFFICE, OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEET STREE?. fable ORFICE AVENU ‘APLES OFFICE 7 d advert PARK THBATRE—Ovr Boanpixc House. (B—My Awrun Dap. HELLER’S THEATRE—Presn FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE BOOTH'S THEATRE-! STEINWAY HALL—Co: NIBLO'S GARDEN—THe LEXINGTON AV. OPERA } BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF LYCEUM THEATRE-C. TIVOLI THEATRE—Vani SAN FRANCISCO MIN: EGYPTIAN HALL—Vanixry, NEW YORK AQUARIUM— PARISIAN VARIETIES COLUMBIA OPERA HOU! THEATRE COMIQUE— GILMORE’S GARDEN. TONY PASTOR'S THEATRE—Vantery. NEW AMERICAN MUSEUM—C QUINTUPLE NEW YOR AY. Al NOTICE T The Adams FE train over the leaving Jersey ¢ tn quarte! Sunday, carrying the regu Lignan as tar West as Harrisburg and South two Washington, reaching pala ‘at a quarter-past six A. M. and Washington at Yor DAY, AP DEALERS, run a special newspaper road and its connections, ast four A.M. daily and From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be partly cloudy or hazy and warmer, Wat Street Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was fairly active and prices were as a rule lower. The chief decline was in the stocks of the Western Union, Delaware and Lackawanna and the Rock Island companies. Gold opened at 1061, and closed at 106%, this strength being caused by the warlike news from Europe. Government bonds were a little higher. Money on call loaned at 3 per cent, and closed at 21g per cent on call. Nor Aut Spring Suoors Are Green. See report of the spring opening at Creedmoor. Tammany’s Cau TO Her Braves reads a great deal like a compilation from last fall's transparencies and banners. As Tur Preparations for the Tweed dis- closures progress there is a marked improve- ment in the demand for guide books and stéam- ship tickets. ‘Tue Oysrermes complain of the dumping of garbage near the oyster beds at the upper end of the East River. But think of what the oysters themselves must suffer! Tue Scanton Tracepy is still a mystery and promises to remain so, for the Italians who were suspected and too quickly discharged haye shaken the dust of New York from their feet. Ayotner Victit or THE Dime Nove has been unearthed in New York, and his recital of experiences will lessen the demand for a class of literature which never finds its way into the Sunday school li From Ovr Articte on “Disease” it appears that the favorable mortality reports which we have had of late are especially due to the kind- ness of Heaven, and not at all to our expensive and leisurely Health Board. Tue Liqgvor War cannot be avoided or post- poned. Both sides have selected ground for opening demonstrations—the temperance men at a church and the liquor dealers at Albany. The preponderance of metal is in favor of the latter. Deuicutret though the profits of the Nicol- son pavement contracts were there seems not to have been money enough for everybody con- cerned, and the legal proceedings alluded to in another column promise to explain where some sz or the infamous fellow, ‘‘Gara- baldi,” sent to the Penitentiary some months ago for keeping one of the vilest of dens, the Court of Appeals shows merey to those who most need and deserve it—namely, the people of New York. The ruftian will continue to reside upon Blackwell's Island during the full term of his sentence. Tue Pecuuiar Locican Asrecr of the case of Rey. Emory J. Haynes, who went from the Methodists over tethe Baptists and was reor- dained by the latter, is ably presented in our columns to-day. If the methods followed in Mr. Haynes’ case are to become precedents the ques- tion “Who shall marry us!” will become as puz- sling as that other timely one, “Where shall we insure?” Tre Weatner.—The storm on the Carolina coast has proved one of the most severe perienced there for many The dama Charleston has been very great, partly du the violent gale that prevailed and partly to the inundation of the city and suburbs by the h tides. Fortunately no loss of life bas t place on the land, but fears are ained that much destruction of life and prop y have occurred at sea, The storm centr passed into the Atlantic, routhward of Ca and will probably move northeastward alor Gulf Stream toward Newfoundland, where it will prove dangerous to ocean steamers and other vessels. Timely notice, however, will prevent disasters, us the movement of the storm will be somewhat slow. In the Northwest the depression already announced in the Hrranp presents a decided barometric fall, with high marginal winds and light rains. Tho highest pressure still continues over the lake region, where Glear weather prevails. The temperature is higher than on Friday in nearly oll the dis- tricts, having risen decidedly in the Soutth- | west. Tho pressure is low on the Pacific ¢ decreasing northward toward Oregon. Another storm centre may therefore be expected from that quarter. The Lower Mississippi has con- tinued to rise, and is seven inches above the dan- line at Cairo and only two feet below it at . The Lower Missouri has fallen, The Bavannah has risen twelve and a half fect at \ Augusta and the Red River twelve inches at Shreveport. The weather in New York to-day (till be partly cloudy oF hazy and warmer, . The Impen ig Wi Panic on the Paris Bourse; great depres sion of securities in London; the unsettling of all valués; increase in the prices of | grain—-such are the items of intelligence which indicate that the financial and com- mercial world has finally taken a real alarm at the war news, From St. Petersburg it is | reported that appearances do not indicate immediate action; but it would be strange | what appearances could now indicate action at that point, On the Pruth and at Tiflis it is, perhaps, otherwise. Russia may be more tranquil in her high places now than for many months past, since the war is brought about finally by the folly of her enemies | and in circumstances in which she would | have desired it should occur if she had con- trived it altogether. She is prepared and is strong, Her enemy is blinded by fatuous faith in a power that does not exist, and help from England seems out of reach— reasons enough for Russia to be tranquil on the surface, thongh she may rejoice secretly. | England's relation to the war is important to us, and is a strange piece of contemporary history. Tories and liberals in the British Parliament are respectively denouncing | each other as “responsible for the war,” and in the Incid moments, when they man- age to disregard for a few hours their party passions, they all denounce Russia as the real source of trouble; and in Russia, nec- essarily different views are held. Perhaps it is of mo great moment who puts in the last drop that causes a full cup to run over, and a war whose occurrence sooner or later was in the nature of things can scarcely be laid to the door of those who blunder into fur- nishing the latest irritation. Recriminations as to who isto blame filla chapter in the history of every war, and are to be noted as a sort of psychological evidence that some considerable part of the opinion of every people involuntarily recognizes that war is so fara shame to civilization that it is desirable to shift upon other shoulders the odium of having caused it. Upon this point the language of the Turkish note, which we print in our cable despatches, will furnish interesting material. There is, however, one point of view in which it is of a eertain consequence to party polities in England precisely how the war was made inevitable. There is a triumph often in averting for a year or two a war that it is recognized must come eventually. It is a victory to defeat your opponent who wants war at a certain period because he | knows he will be ready for it then and you will not. In this diplomatic contest Eng- land has been beaten in the present crisis as she never was beaten before, and has launched upon her immediately a war that | might have been deferred for some years | yet and have fallen, perhaps, upon a year when the general attitude of European poli- tics would have aided rather than weakened her cause. This is due to the ignorance, want of skill, bluster and bravado that have characterized the diplomacy of the govern- ment, and is, therefore, a heavy score laid up against them in the opinion of the country. For a generation statesmen in Europe have foreseen the early fall of the Ottoman Empire; and from considerations of that possibility arose the inquiry, What would take its place? To whose advantage would that fall inure and what would be the new relation of powers the change would pro- duce? From the time this inquiry became important all deliberations held, all treaties made, all concessions extorted, which pre- tended to be for the benefit of the Christians in Turkey in reality were regarded from the different capitals simply with reference to the advantage or disadvantage that each nation believed would result to itself from the disappearance of the Ottoman Empire from the map of Europe. Russia has con- sistently labored against the Ottoman Em- pire ; but it must be fairly said that she as a Christian Power sustained the Christian people, and in that great particular her record was fair. England, which has always accused Russia of duplicity, has never cared to go deeply into the reasons why she, a Christian Power, has persistently supported the oppression and butch- ety of a Christian people. If we accept the English view that Russia never favored the Christians sincerely, but agitated their cause to help her own progress in the East, we may at least do England the justice to believe that she never sincerely loved the vile and barbar- | ous Ottoman dominion thut she has clasped to her bosom; but, intent to sus- tain her own cause in the countries where Russia threatened her, she was forced to use the Turks, and did her utmost to cher- ish and disseminate a good opinion of her tools. As between England and Russia, | therefore, their respective relations to the | difficulties in the Ottoman Empire have always been the cover toa great gamo for precedency in the East, and the unfavor- able turn this game has now taken for England is due to the incapacity with which | her case has been handled in this crisis. Nobody in power in England seems to have taken into consideration the changes in international relations on the Continent made by the Franco-German war. Before that war France was rated one of the great Pow ; but that war showed that with | Germany united a standard was made measured by which France was but a third | or fourth rate Power; and that gave morally the gauge of England’s power for military operations in a continental war. In view of | such a fact it became England to treat a threatened reopening of the Ottoman issue with the greatest discretion, simply because all should have known that any other treat- ment would induce war, and that a war | which would demonstrate England’s in- capacity to take the field on @ scalé likely to } be of consequence, with a million and a half | men on the other side, would be a last blow to her prestig But England acted in flagrant disregard to such considerations and as if everybody in her councils thought that the dial hands had been turned back a century to the days when the body of British troops that gave cohesion to the armies of Germany and Russia turned the scale of | battles. Hence her mistaken rejection of the Berlin note; her indifference to the | Bulgarian crimes ; the bombastic speech at | the Lord Mayor's dinner, made to “catch | whole course of indiscreet and unwise dip- | Tomacy. | Turkey, it is said, counts upon discon- j tents within Russian dominions ; not upon her own strength, but upon things likely to weaken her enemy. Facts of this nature commonly ‘thunder in the index.” They are never heard of after the declaration of war, for a great military nation does not trifle with internal sources of danger. Neither in the Caucasus nor in Poland, nor elsewhere outside the Ottoman lines, is there any help for Turkey, if it is not in England; while in Persia, that the Turks are said to count upon, there is, perhaps, more hope for Russia than for apy one else, since the story of Captain Burnaby as toa Russian alliance is very likely to be true. People imagine Turkish resources in & vague way on paper; but resources of that sort do not fight. Admiral Porter is re- ported to count the Ottomans as forty millions of people, Half of this number is to be cut away at once for Egypt and the other African States that will seize the occa- sion to help, not the Sultan, but themselves ; and of the remajping moiety one-quarter at least are Christian rayahs. All the imagined resources of the Empire will melt away in a similar proportion. It cannot yet be said that England will be condemned to the humiliating attitude of viewing helplessly the destruction of tho Power whose existence she has sustained at such great moral sacrifice out of regard to the supposed need of her material interests ; yet itis not perceptible how England can take part in the war unless it shall be- come generalized throughout Europe ; and | that likelihood is not imminent, England has, it is true, intimated that she will fight to prevent the fall of Constantinople. But if Russia moves two hundred thousand men through Asia Minor to the shores of the | Bosphorus the possibilities of saving Con- stantinople will have even in England a | very different aspect from what they now present, while the slightest movement of | England at the present time will develop | the value of a Russian fleet on this side the ocean. The Herald To-Day. In publishing another quintuple sheet this morning we present to the public a further and striking evidence that a great newspaper can, by judicious management and attention to the wants of its patrons, attract to itself prosperity and success, It has ever been the policy of the Hzraxp to offer to advertisers superior advantages. These have grown with the growth of the paper, and are to-day as much the measure of its greatness as are its wide and increasing circula- tion and popularity that of its success. The public will have its Hzraxp, though a score of daily journals present themselves for a share of its support. Why this should be is easily explained, The Hrnaup’s trade mark is justice to its customers. It never prom- ises what it does not give; so the advertising | and reading public are always certain of receiving what they pay for and expect. It treats all its patrons alike. Therefore there is no cause for dissatisfaction, as each one selects for himself or, herself the exact amount of service that is desired. Every advertisey knows that the same care in classification and presentation is taken of the smallest as well as the largest adver- tisements ; all are placed in their proper po- sitions, where they can be readily found and read. A glance over our pages this morn- ing shows over seventy-three columns of solid advertisements, containing thirty-five hundred and thirty-two separate notices, one hundred and forty-one more than on last Sunday, and forty-seven columns of interesting news collected from every quar- ter of the globe. To produce this quintuple Herarp over one million ems of type, or about three million separate pieces, have been setup. Thirteen thousand pounds of metal have been used in casting the two hundred and sixty stereotype plates re- quired for the presses. Such a paper must attract public support and be pros- perous, because nothing is left undone and no expense is spared to make it attractive, In this respect the Heratp has no rival in the world, and therefore enters into no competitions. It pursues its even course of prosperity secure in the favor of its million of readers and of the sagacious business public. The Anti-Mormon Meeting at Salt Lake. Aboldand practical step has been taken by the Gentiles at Salt Lake City to crush, by a legislative blow, the monster of Mormonism in Utah Territory. Assembled in public meeting the law respecting citi- zens have passed resolutions in support of an amendment of the act of organization of Utah, which, if adopted and passed by Con- gress, will effectually destroy the most hid- eous institution that ever disgraced a civil- ‘is all properly expended, is found to have ized country. It is proposed that any per- sons practising polygamy or bigamy shall be entirely disfranchised and cut off from any share in the affairs of the Territory; that they shall not be eligible to vote or hold any office of trust or emolument under the law, and shall be practically branded aos criminals by their fellow men. The unan- imous vote by which these resolutions were passed by the meeting shows how deeply interested are the friends of law, order and decency in uprooting Mormonism, ‘The fact that the attack has been made in the very stronghold of Brigkam Young gives additional significance to the movement and proves the sincerity of those making it. The anti-Mormon residents of Utah know that institution in all its revolting aspects. They measure its influence for evil by the unerring standard of experience, They recognize in it only o rule of treachery, blood and lust, unworthy of even the least civilized races, much less of men who claim a standing among the American people. We cannot, therefore, regard this action of the meeting at Salt Lake City as other than just and Jegitimate in its aims and objects. While the world is thrilled with horror at the barbarism of the Turks, and an ontery is raised for their expulsion from the assem- blage of civilized men, we cannot join our voices in the demand so long as other na- tions can point to Utah and the Mormons as they do to Bulgaria and the bashi-bazouks the ears of the groundlings ;” in short, her ; who revel in villages filled with the slaugh- | will be stated by Mr. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1877—QUINTUPLE SHEET, tered. Away, then, with this bestial, blasphemous and bloodstained congrega- tion, which insults God in the midst of His | grandest works and the noblest and grand- est feelings of man under the flag of our Re- public. Let Mormonism be extirpated from the land by the Samson of the law, even if its adherents should be buried be- neath’the ruins of its temples. What Are You Going To Do About | mt | If we are to believe the stories that are told us by our public officials we are living under one of the worst"municipal sys- | tems that ever could be devised for the mis- government of a city. Nobody is to blame for anything that goes wrong, and it is no- body’s business to set anything right. Here are our streets in a most abominable condi- tion of filth, although we have a department supposed to be clothed with power, and cer- tainly supplied with money, to keep them clean. But the Police Commissioners de- clare that if they gather up the dirt and gar- bage they are not at liberty to get rid of it ; that their men aro arrested for dumping here, there and elsewhere, and that their appropriation is not sufficient for the work they have to do. The Mayor cannot discover what relief he can afford the people, al- though there is a sort of romance in exist- ence to tho effect that it is his duty to see all the laws properly enforced and adminis- tered. The Comptroller, who is supposed to be authorized to see that the city’s money no power to see that the street cleaning funds are used for the purpose of cleaning | the streets. So we live on in disease breed- ing filth, and no one is to blame. We insist that there must be incapacity somewhere or this miserable stato of affairs would not exist. If we had an active, ener- getic, capable street cleaning department it would soon invent some way of getting rid of the garbage. But the Police Commission- ers hesitate and waver over every plan that is proposed. Cremation affords the readiest, cheapest and surest road out of the diffi- enlty. Furnaces, properly built and prop- erly located, would last for years and burn up the foul garbage without creating a nui- sance or injuring the public health. But the Commissioners shake their heads like so many old ladies and don’t know about this burning business. Scows could be built self-dumping and propelled by steam to carry the refuse out to sea, but the Commis- sioners make an estimate of the cost and start back in alarm. Now, what are they going todo about it? The garbage must be got rid of, unless we want a plague in the city next summer, The people will abso- Intely refuse to permit the department to dump it in Little Hell Gate or anywhere else where it will carry disease and death into their families. The ashes and street dirt can be used for filling anywhere with profit and advantage, but the garbage posi- tively must be disposed of. Householders are compelled to separate the garbage from the ashes. The authorities should not be allowed to mix them together again in con- travention of the law. We repeat, Messrs, Commissioners, you must display some en- ergy and brains and give us some safe plan, by cremation or otherwise, of getting rid of the rotting, disease breeding garbage before the hot weather comes on, or the people will insist that every one of you be dumped into private life. The New York Soldiers’ Home. Twelve years have passed since the war ended, yet New York has not provided a home for her infirm and disabled soldiers. Yet nearly half a million of men enlisted in the army from this State, numbers of whom returned as wrecks, having given to their country almost everything but life. Five hundred veteran soldiers now lie in our county almshouses, like paupers, obtaining from public charity that subsistence which they are entitled by their services to claim as aright. Fifteen hundred others are scat- tered among the four national homes; but not toa single soldier has this great Com- monwealth paid its debt of-gratitude and honor. This discredit to New York should be removed, and steps have been taken by a number of prominent citizens to build a soldiers’ home during the present year. A farm has been purchased at Bath, in Steuben county, at a cost of twenty thousand dollars, and a building large enough to accommo- date about four hundred and fifty men will be erected. To complete this work eighty thousand dollars are needed, and there shouJd be no trouble in raising that sum at once, on any plan that may be selected. A public meeting is to be held at the Academy of Music on Tuesday even- ing. at which the Hon. Noah Davis will preside, and addresses will be made by Gov- ernor Dix, the Hon. John R. Brady and other gentlemen. The gathering will be a brilliant one, as all of the professions will be represented, and many of the veterans of the war will appear in full uniform, All who are proud of the record of New York should not fail to give this meeting their support and make the enterprise a success. Pulpit Topics To-Day. In the course of theological discussions to-day Mr. Hepworth will set forth the reasons why we believe in the Bible, while Mr. Frothingham discusses the Bible doc- trine of tho fail of man and the irrogulari- ties in human conditions, and Mr. Newton prosents a natural view of the life to come, and Mr. Alger inquires whether the doctrine of eternal damnation can possibly be true and whether God's messages to men are real or merely figurative. But if there be no eternal damnation the henthen are safe enough, and the recent discussion of their future condition by the Baptist min- isters of this city and the review of that disenssion to-day by Mr. McCarthy is so much wasted, though it may be for the time interesting talk, A relation that is too often forgotten or wholly ignored by Christians—namely, the relation of tem- poral prosperity to love and labor for the Church—will be presented as atimely theme by Mr. Herr, and the weakening influence of eovetousness and holding back from the Lord His due will be ably set forth by Dr. Wes- cott. The conditions of successful Chris- Searles shows how every man is building up a character and a future life for himself. Dr. Fulton is terribly afraid that the nation’s trust—-the freedmen—will be betrayed by the President's Southern policy, and hence he will sound the warning note to-day and demonstrate that a manly Christianity is the only hope of the future. Dr. Talmage is going into the housekeeping business, and to-day will address housekeepers. Our London and Paris Cable Letters. The two capitals are so much absorbed in the tremendous possibilities of the coming war that, although our budgets of lighter topics are well packed, they naturally recede into the background. As man, however, is a complex animal, and is seldom so much occupied with one thought as to oxclude access to others wholly differ- ent for any length of time, our readers, after satisfying themselves that the Danube is not on fire and that John Bull is not goring Russia with a Golden Horn, will turn with pleasure to the stories of operatic, dramatic and artistic doings which our letters furnish, Ourstatesmen may even find consolation in the thought that members of the British House of Commons sometimes forget themselves in and about the legisla- tive halls. Our Irish fellow citizens may drop a tear over their brethren in British dungeons. Ladies may look forward to { walking on Fifth avenue in dresses of delightful tints made out of spun glass. Should the daring statement in this direction be vorified, it is to be hoped that our belles, whose forms are so perfect, will not endanger their proportions by being tempted into blue glass bodices. To our blue stockings, however, this does .not refer. Miss Susan B. Anthony, for instance, might fairly surprise her more adipose sisters if she was to go about in the sunlight for a week or two in a blue glass petticout. Poor Gounod! The Parisian critics have pursued him with more scorching fires than Anna Dickinson hidtocomplain of. He has, itseems, captured his melodies from Mozart, Mehul and others less known to fame. He will be lucky if ‘Cinq Mars” is let out of Paris with enough musical habiliments of his own to save him from arrest by the police. American beef, it seems, doos not go to England in quantities sufficient to affect the price of meat in that country to any great extent—a state of things which our cattle people should at once remedy. With other matters, too numerons to detail, we commit tho letters to our readers, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Sacramento has fever and ague. Delaware shad, broiled— m-m-m, All branches of trade in Scotland are depressed. Some farmers aro ustng the hoe press and some the bullock, Gentle spring has come. Peas caress the lamb and man lams the peas. Ex-President Lerdo and suite left the city last even. ing tor Washington. Tho suporstition is thatif you pall daffodils too early there will be no-dacks, Wade Hampton wears a cabbage leaf in hia boots for fenr he might get sunstruck. At the Southern ice factories beautiful wreaths'of flowers are artistically trozen 1pt0 the centre of blocks of ice of any desired siz, . Tho most eloquent man we ever saw was Wendell Phillips standing on State street while an Italian puta gill of hot peanuts in the tail pocket of his steel pen coat. The Rochester Democrat thinks it real mean for the New York weeklies to steal their paragraphs from tho dailies of the country. Spring the copyright on them some day and sue them. A great many young girls from the suburbs come to school in New York, and a large majority of them aro attended by young fellows and ola who play sweet to them and drive studies out of their heads. The Evening Telegram has poetry again:— Some little dogs delight to bite, For ’tis their nature 80; But little Spitz alone have fits, Likewise the hydropuo, If a man keeps an animal which he knows is dan- gorous be Is liable for any damages which that animal may cause. Would the owner of a Spitz dog be sub- ject to indictment for manslaughtor in a case of hydro- phobia? A gentleman at Abingdon, Va, has a pet fish. Ho has kept it in aspring for five years and can go and call it up at any time. It eats from bis hand and shows a marked liking for its keepor, 1t1sa black perch twenty inches long. A young Fourth-avenue-car colored waiter in a Mad- ison avenue house recently announced himself as the nescbal’’ of the place, and his master was so happy that he immediately bought a chibouk and tore up an old tippet to make a turban. Probably the sublimest spectacle that Wagner ever saw in fis maddest dream was a beautiful lady, dressed all tn snowy white, with nutbrown hair falling ina cascade down her back, in the middle of the night try- ing to emuggle ber husbana’s best razor go us to cut her corns, Birds killed on the Wostern prairies, packed closely with paper in barrels, and without any freezing oF other artificial process of preservation, now go regu. larly to Leadenhall, and are sold and eaten in the din- ing rooms of London and the Wést side by side with the much more expensive partridges and fowls which are reared in England, Burlington Hawkeye:—‘‘When a San Franciscan gets to be immensely wealthy he builds a palace of a stable, with marbie halls, Brussels carpets, and hot and cold water in every stall; a Chicago millionaire builds a bo- tel nine stories high; a New Yorker builds a hospital; a Bostonian bulids @ college, and a Burlington man vurlds another bay window to his house and paints his front fence.’ “Inquirer.’’—Parson Newman, so frequently men- hioned in Atnerican papers, is a clerical politician who belonged to the Grant crowd and wielded considerable power. Father Newman is Dr, Joun Henry Newman, formorly of the Chureh of Englana, but for many years belonging to the Roman Catholic Charch, IMs books are religious, but the style is a model for oven laymen who wish to learn the secrets of elegant English, Here is» bit of description from tho Italy of a mouth ago:—'La Coutessa goes bome to her palazzo at Carig- nano, where banxsia roses are blooming ayainst the wali, and pink and white fruit blossoms in the villa, while a purple Judas tree is a-llower betore the hi And the Signor Giordano goos home to the flat in Cas- telletto, where, though it ts five stories high, lowers still bloom upon the terrace and over the porgola, for winter 1s past, and we are in spring time.’’ Lord Charles Beresford has shown us that you may Jaunch, out of a sort of frame, from the deck of a vessel, a torpedo which will sink to any depth to the water that it may be thought best to decide upon, from one foot to thirty feet, and then move on at a rate of twonty knots an hour for tail a thousand yards—more than half a miletoward the ehip for which she is de signed, and on contact knock a hole tn ber bottom o givo distinctness to the conception, @ hole of eight fect ofte way and nine fect the other way, Boston Aerald:—"'lt you hear of IL, 8. Sanford be- ing appointed.to any position you can put it down to & judicious expenditure of money tor grocories and wines. There would not have been so much talk about Sanford if he had not, at one of his entertainments this week, Hed up a bluo ribbon across Lhe room to divide certain members of the legations irom tho rest of the company, This was a perlormance which re- | LONDON FOREBODINGS, |The Last Hopes of Peace Disap- an area of seventy sqnaro feet—say, for instance, to | pear in the East, RISE OF THE WAR GODS, Has Russia Secured Germany’s Neutrality ? TURKEY'S DIGNIFIED DEFIANCE, The Protocol Flung Back in the Face of Europe. Von Moltke on the Tarks—The Montencgrin, Bosnian and Albanian Revolts. FILIBUSTERING IRISH MEMBERS, PAINE Se VEE Denunciation of the Treatment of Irish Political Prisoners, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC DOINGS, Two Royal Authors—American Beef—Weston’a New Challenge. [ny caBLE To THE HERALD. ] Lonpow, April 14, 1877. So far as the latest information can be weighed, no declaration of war has yet been made by Russia; but all hopes of preserving peace in the East are given to the winds. No further steps have been taken in that direction by the British government, it apparently being thought useless. There hag been a panic. on the London Exchange’ to-day, resulting in a fall of consols, The temper of the Porte in its circular note will account for Earl Derby’s hopeless utterance in Pare Nament, for was not the protocol in its final shape his work? Then to see Turkey, which His Lord- ship had so exerted himself to have spared, knock over the pai! of diplomatic oll which was to smooth the troubled waters was too much for the limited quantity of human nature he possesses. Indeed, none of the Powers have signalized themselves by further efforts for the prevention of war, althougt: Austria may make a final endeavor, THE COURSE OF RUSSLA. The HERALD correspondent at Vienna telegraph that itis daily expected there that the Czar wilk issue a manifesto declaring that Turkey’s reply to the protocol is an affront to the Russian people. Prince Gortschakoff 1s preparing a circular assar= ing the Powers that Russia intends to make no conquests, but is merely bent on forcing Turkey to execute the'desired reforms in the treatment of the Christian subjects of the Sultan. WHEN WAR WILL BE DECLARED. His Majesty the Czar Alexander goes to Kisch« eneff next week, the present headquarters of the Army of the Pruth. His arrival there will probably be marked by the formal declaration of war. Ot course a few days remain for Peace to flutter her wings before dropping to earth, but there is no im dications of any heavenly airs to favor her pinions, Russia, before taking the field, mnst observe seve eral formalities. She must address a note tothe Powers, recall her embassy from Constantinople: and her consuls from all parts of the Turkish Em- pire, and put Russian subjects in Tarkey under the protection of other embassies. THE TURKISH NOTE, Here let me give you the main points of the Turk. ish note, which may be said to have precipitated the present condition of affairs. As will be seen, it uses very strong language. It first addresses itself to answering Count Schouvaloff’s declaration amxed to the protocol, which was as follows:— THE MUSCOVITE WARNING. If peace with Montenegro is concluded, and the Porte accepts the advice of Europe and shows itself ready to replace its forces on a peace footing and seriously to undertake the reforms mentioned in the protocol, let it send to St. Petersburg a spe- cial envoy to treat of disarmament, to which His Majesty the Emperor wouid also, on his part, con- sent. If massacres similar to those which have stained Bulgaria with blood take place this would necessarily put a stop to the measures of demobili- zation. This declaration it divides into five points, which it answers seriatim. . THE MOSLEM REPLY. In reply to the declaration of His Excellency the ) Russian Ambassador, the Sublime Porte on its side notifies to the signatory Powers the following declaration:— 1. Adopting toward Montenegro the same hne of conduct which brought about the pacification of Servia, the Sublime Porte spontaneously informed the Prince two months ago that it would spare no effort to arrive at an understanding with him even at the price of certain sacrifices. Considering Montenegro as an integral part of Ottoman terri- tory, the Porte proposed a rectification of the line of demarcation which secured advantages to Mone tenegro, and it henceforth depends entirely upon the moderate counsels which the Porte hopes will prevail at Cettinje whether this amair may be cons sidered as terminated. 2 The Imperial government is prepared to apply all the promised reforms, but these reforms, in con. fornuty with the fundamental provision of our con- stitution, cannot have a special or exclusive chars acter, and it is in this spirit that the Imperial gov- ernment, in its full and entire liberty, will continue to apply its instructions, 3. The Imperial government is ready to replace its armies on a peace footing as soon as lt shall see the Russian government take measures to the same end. The armaments of Turkey have an ex- clusively defensive character, and the relations of friendshi esteem which unite the two Empirey inspire the hope that the St. Petersburg Cabine | Will not alone in Europe persist in the idea thet the Christian populations in Turkey are exposedto such dangers from their own government that ¢ 1s necessary to accumulate against a neighboringand friendly State ali the means of invasion ant de- struction, 4. With regard to the disturbances whict'might break out in Turkey and stop the demobiliztion of the Russian army, the imperial government which repels the injuridus terms in which this fea has been expressed, believes that Europe is onvineed ‘that the diavurbances which have trobled the | calls Postmaster Goneral Jowell’s party a year or two tian effort are few and well defined. They Hull to-day, while Mr, | ago, whereat he provided chainpagne for members of the Cabinet only and sherry for the remainder of the | company.” pence of the provinces were due to forci@ insiiga tion; that the imperial government: cold not bo held responsible for them, and that. casequently the Russian government woutd not- bejustified in ——EE————— ee