The New York Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1877, Page 10

10 NEW YORK HERALD| BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches mast be addressed New Youx Henano. ‘Letters aud packages should bo properly seate: Rejected returned, ed communications will not be —_—_---———_ PRRLAD EL EHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH B 4 UONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO. 46 FLEET STREET. AVENUE DE L’OPERA, NO, 7 STRADA PACE, "received and S OFFI Subscriptions and advertisements wi forwarded on the ms N fOLUK XU. PARK THKATRE—Cotonst, Senurns. WALLACK’S THEATRE—My Awrvt Dap. GILMORE'S GARDEN—Mvsvom anv Crecus. UNION SQUARE TH“ATRE—Tnx Dasicurrrs. BOOTHS THEATRE—Wanon’s Bexurit. FIPTH AVENUE THEA iz Paixcess Rovat Micmen. KCITAL CONCERT. BROADWAY THEATRE, BOWERY THEATRE. TIVOLI THEATR NEW YORK AQUARIU en Fisnus. SHEET. c SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 15 NOTICK TO COUNTRY DEALERS. ‘The Adams Expr apany rin a special newspaper wain over the enw vin Railroad and its connections, City ae a quarter past four A. M, daily and ing the reguisr edition of the HimtaLy ns far sburg and South to Washington, renching cipbia at a quarter past six A. M. and Washington at NEW From our reports this morning the probabilities care that the weather in New York to-day will be cloudy, warm antl rainy, with increasing easterly to southwesterly winds, followed by falling tem- perature. Watt Sir opened we movement set in whi rted the whole list. This strength was part tributed to the effects of the failureof Fr change of tactics of a well known bear Gold opened at 107, rose to LO71g and di fo 1067g, at which price it closed. Government closed steady and railroads were gener. '. Money on call was easy at 219 a3 per cent. Reap “Cat by tun Way” to take the taste of the week out of your mouth. Tue Brooxiyn Boarp ©: abandoned its attempt to disgrace itself by re- dueing teachers’ salari A Fun anv Acc te TRANSLATION of the address of the New York clergy to the Pope will be found in another column. Sientricant.—The five steaners which left this port for Europe yesterday carried heavy consignments of breadstuffs and provisions. ANOTHER Inon SteAMER was faunched } in this country, of which we are told that shipbuilding is a dead and buried industry. Tne Natrve Cantye Aristocrats who have responded to the call for » general congress of first families at Gilmore's Garden number a round thousand. Tne American Jockry Civun’s programme for the spring mecting promises a good deal of money to the owners of good horses and some capital sport for th Tink oF GeNeRaL Stewart L. Wooprorp being invited to address a body of students in the Unive of Mississippi, and then talk about the war fecling being still alive in the South! Now Is tre Orvortunity of the champions of woman's rights. The University of New York will accept female students as soon as the neces- sary means can be obtained, and Sorosis asks the public to open pocketbooks. How tne Late 8 Comets has been relieved is exp! by Professor Parkhurst; but the comets, like the greenb cf that are in money articles reported as “easy,” are not visible to the naked Tur Assempry Yesterpay had the rapid transit question all to itself. The remarks were not so profound as those mi © the of Appeals on the preceding d ness they left nothing to be d ired. 1 lodging rooms stations results in the gratifyi places are cleaner have been of late years. places where there was ter managed than th There were no publ more room for improvement. Some More or tHe Porson Factortes which on the sides of milk wagons are called “dairies” are deseribed to-lay. Brooklynites will save many a sad trip to Greenwood if they will see to it that some one takes this subject up just where the newspapers leave it. dily foreing itself upon pub- ice as the best plan of getting rid of the id other offensive refuse collected on ra. We ent ton sketch of a eremating turnace, which sug a simple and eflective way of doing the work. Tur Emma Mine Case goes out of court, the jurors return to their long-ne; ted busi- aesses, the lawyers pocket their fees and long Jor another such C. Things are as they were, The public knows only as ch as it did before the trial began, and the ish owners of the mine get as little out of the defendant as they did out of the mine itself. ‘Tue Weatner.—The storm area has moved eastward from the Lower Missouri Valley into the lower lake region and the Ohio Valley, at- tended by heavy rains and snow. The latter has fallen chiefly on the Upper M ippi and along the western shore. of Lake Michigan and in the Missouri Valley. The heaviest rains fell in the Southern States and the Ohio Valley. The | temperature within the storm has risen slightly, but falls rapidly westward and north- ward, The winds are high on the eastern, but are gales on the northern, western and southern margins, particularly on the Texas coast. The low barometer on the Nova Scotia coust has given place to an area of high pressure which has moved southward from Canada. The highest pressure continues in Manite Clear weather prevails in the South » with de- creased temperature. The weather in New York to-day will be cloudy, warm and rainy, with in- creasing easterly to southwesterly winds, fol- Jowed by falling temperature, — The War and the Holy Lana. These are the precepts of the Koran :— “Fight in defence of God's true religion, as it behooveth you to fight for it. Be not neg- ligent in seeking out the unbelievers, and when the months wherein ye are not per- mitted to assail them shall be passed then kill the unbelievers wherever ye shall find them. O true believers, contract not friend- ships with any beside yourselves! They will corrupt you. © true believers, take not the Jews or Christians for your friends ! They are friends the one to the other ; but whosoever among you taketh them for his friends he is one of them.” This admoni- tion to absolute and resolute enmity toward all persons of another faith, the require- ment of religious intolerance as a moral rule and a positive law, is to be found in every part, on almost every page of the Moslem scripture, and the inculeation to kill and root out the unbelievers is a correla- tive and a consequence of the instruction, This is sufficiently well known to all acquainted, in even the most superficial way, with the history of the Mohammedan dominion ; but it is a fact that it is timely to recall at a moment when an influential press, writing in the interest of England, which is the greatest of Mohammedan Powers, invites the world to credit the theory that the ‘true believers” of the Ottoman Empire are like the human creatures of civilized and Christian coun- tries as to their moral and intellectual at- tributes; that they are more coffee colored and more lcosely arrayed and rather less addicted tosoap and water, but not different otherwise; that they are capable of civiliza- tion and social sentiments, and thatit is pos- sible to organize on them as a main ethnical element a political fabric possessing the general form of the States of Europe and animated by the same enlightened spirit of mingled commerce and culture. If this were true the pressure of civilization against the existence of the Turkish dominion in the Balkan Peninsula, and in Armenia and Asia Minor, would be absurd and mischiev- ous. Indeed, the pressure would not exist, for the struggle that occurs at the edge of an advancing civilization is for the extinc- tion of inconsistent elements, and Moslem- ism would not be an inconsistent element if the pictures drawn by British pens were accurate, ‘That they are not accurate ; that the possibility assumed for the purposes of British politics is an impossibility is evi- dent from the consideration that such pre- cepts'as we have quoted are not the dead letter of an ancient law, but the expression of the vital spirit of Mohammedan life; a spirit as vital to-day in Mohammedan coun- tries as ever; a spirit instilled into the mind of the true believer from his cradle, and exercising a constant influence through lite on his thoughts or acts, Although the result is only forced upon the attention of distant nations when from time to time this spirit blazes out into such acts as the Bulgarian massacres, yet ina lesser extreme degree 1t is always in opera- tion, and is what renders impossible the permanent tranquillity of countries in which Moslems and Christians are neighbors. No doubt there are passages in the Bible that, as interpreted by our Puritan fore- fathers, were practically as savage and in- tolerant as any part of the Moslem law ; but it is an effect of the progress of enlighten- ment to soften the application of such pas- sages by interpretation till they become dead letters, and the civilized Christian world to-day shudders with horror over the chron- icle of the persecutions practised in other ages in the name of Christianity. This is what is characterized as a ‘oss of religious conviction;” but it is certainly a gain to the happiness and good of mankind when it loses the conception that it is neces- sary to butcher und torture all who do not worship in the same way. ‘‘Religious con- viction” of this sort has never been lost in Moslem countries, and they are in that re- spect in the condition morally in which all the rest of the world was during the darkest ages of persecution. In a lesser degree the Christianity of Russia is as to this point in the sume condition as Islamism everywhere, Osristianity is not absolutely inimical to the growth of knowledge and the spread of in- telligence in any country, while Islamism is; but in Russia that comparative indifference to creeds and to religious divisions that has made such progress in the most enlight- ened Christian countries is as unknown as it was when men bored the tongues of Qua- kers for their irreligion. On each side in this conflict, therefore,, there is a religious fervor that can scarcely be comprehended in countries where the propagation of religion by war is excluded trom the number of pos- sibilities. From the mountains of Armenia to-day Russia turns her eyes toward Palestine with the same deep fervor, the same spirit of mili- tant piety, that inspired the Crusaders when all Enrope was awakened to the movement for the conquest of that land— Ovor whose acres walked those blessed feet That cighteen hundred yoars ago were nailed, For our redemption on the bitter cros, Indeed, the redemption of the holy places of Palestine, if the conflict may be stretched out to such a consequence, will be with the great body of the Russian people the most substantial and desirable result of the war; for, while the Russian statesmen will reason on the necessity of a change in the Danube countries, where a con- stant irritation forever menaces their tranquillity, and while their economists will point ont the need of Constantinople as commanding the only way out to the mar- kets of the world, the popalar mind will seize upon the aspect of the case more re- lated to its poetical and religious conceptions. Erzeroum is situated in a district watered by small streams that are the headwaters of the Euplirates, and the march from that point to the Cilician Sea, which would cut in two the Ottoman Empire in Asia, would end in the immediate neighborhood of Antioch, It will be understood, therefore, that the holy places are not removed from relation to the imminent possibilities of the war. If the war ere it end shall reach the point of a complete disintegration of the Turkish Power the possession of Jernsalem and of other places of great interest in Palestine will fail naturally to Russia, should she assert a positive claim, But it is to be sup- posed she will not regard her rights as ox- clusiye. The possession in the interest of i any one creed of a tity so j\dentified with the origin of all Christian hiitory and with all creeds would be 4 misforine, and a re- sult against which the enlightened opinion of the world might justly protest. That protest would rol sympathy and a recognition of commupity of sentiment to which the government pf the Czar could not be ind#fferent. | War News from the East. The situation in Euppe is growing de- eidedly interesting as w¢watch the various interests arranging thegselves in groups and forms like crystals a sheet of water when the temperature fals below freezing point. England’s neutality is daily re- solving itself into an arjed observation of events which may at a monent’s notice give place to an active interfeence, The fact that an army corps is bdng prepared for service ‘‘wherever Englatd’s interests re- quires its services” is ralher significant. Turkey now protests that she has no inten- tion of invading Servia. [This is modera- tion indeed when taken inponnection with the fact that she cannot invale Servia, for all her troops sire sorely neededelsewhere. Her fleet, however, has succeeddl, it appears, in burning Poti, a fortified) town on the Caucasian coast, but th» columns of the Russian army now marching into Arme- nia will not be stayed on thit account. Of three of these columns only one has met with any resistance as yet, it is probable that the other two will be spon, if they aro not already, investing Kar, Russia’s ad- yance on the Danube has een a complete surprise forthe Turks. Theylost the chance of seizing the railroad bridge at Barboschi, and with it that of cgntrolling the whole military situation in Wallachia. It is alike creditable to the Russians tliat their army moves rapidly tothe front and that they are disposed to wage wir even against the Turks in a civilized manner. We have heard so much about Russian barbarities that it gives us pleasure to recommend to certain Powers claiming to be the leaders of civilization the lesson ‘in humanity and moderation which forms the text of the Russian proclamation to the Turkish resi- dents in Bulgari The Dog Laws. The ordinance recently passed by the Board of Aldermen providing for the licensing of dogs and the government in general of our canine population is good so far as it goes. An irresponsible dog who has no master nor home should be con- sidered as a vagrant and duly arrested and locked. up by the Mayor, the Comp- troller or any other officer who can catch him. But the enactment is de- ficient in this respect, that it does not say what disposition shall be made of the dogs after they are captured. There is no pound provided for them, so far as we have heard, and it is altogether absurd for Mr. Bergh to say, as he might say, that if the city takes care of the pens the pounds will take care of themselves, We need some assurance, now that the warm season draws near, and hydrophobia approaches with strawberries and other delicacies, that dogs will be cither muzzled or decently restrained from roaming tho streets by their masters. Now is the time for the authorities of the city to act and to settle the whole question so far as the safety of the public is concerned. If no better method of disposing of the curs who infest the streets and snap at our heels can bo found let them be scooped up in nets and delivered to Mr. Bergh, who, on his own showing, has made away with thousands of dogs in the last three years. But that some practical system should be adopted is evi- dent to every one who has paid any regard to the nuisance which unowned and un- claimed dogs create in the streets of the city. Pulpit Topics To-Day. In the progress of pulpit thought to-day Mr. Hepworth will lay the chief corner stone on which Mr. Hatfield's great promise is based, and by believing correctly on which we may go with Mr. Lloyd from strength to strength until we appear every one in Zion before God. This is the season of house cleaning, and Mr. Sweetser would have it a time of heart cleansing also—a very proper move for a large class in this city and elsewhere, who might then, with Dr, Armitage, use their influence in upbuilding the Church and society, instead of under- mining and destroying both. Dr. Deems knows and will tell to-day the blessedness of the forgiven—those who with Mr. Kennard share in the friendship of Jesus, and with Mr. Rowell, remembering God, overcome the world, the flesh and the devil, triumphing over them by faith. The law of Christian activity, as Mr. Jutten sees it, is that every man shall do what he can and thus the mites will become millions and the molehills mountains, Qhat every man should stand in his place is a proposition so plain that Dr. Wescott should find no difficulty in en- forcing it; and with Mr. Dodge we believe that the grounds of faith are all summed up in the first line of the Lord's Prayer. Thus apprehending God with us, and His relation to us, we shall have no trouble in following, with Mr, Plumley, that ancient Western emi- grant, Abraham, and going out as he did, not knowing whither, but trusting in our Father's guidance. Jesus is the Mediator whom Mr. Hull* will exalt to-day, and by whom not only Mr. Colcord, but all others who are tossed about with the contrary winds of this life nre to be saved. A great secret which men have been trying to find out will be made known to-day by Mr. Searles—namely, how to make and rightly use money. Many aman has hurt himself by slipping on orange peel on the pavement, and Mr. Johns doubtless had a full lately, and hence to-night will warn his people against stepping on slippery places. The recently published heresy of Dr. Miller, of Princeton, has evidently ed some of our city pastors to the necessity of speak- ing ont more plainly and pointedly on the doctrines. Hence Mr. Frothingham will discuss the atonement; Mr. Alger will con- sider the doctrine of the soul's immortality, while Mr. McCarthy will embrace the being and unity of God and the Trinity in his pul- pit discourses. Mr. Bell will expose a great deceiver and dilate onthe coldest wordin our language; Professor Agler will bring to view our consolations and Mr. Newton will dis- cuss the inflnence of the European war on j trade and commerce, | | | Another Presbyterian Heretic. There must be something strangely pro- ductive of heresy of one sort and another in the doctrines and theology of the Presby- terian Church, Dr. Swing, of, Chicago, and Mr. McCune, of Cincinnati, have been vir- tually driven out of the denomination be- cause they chose to think outside of the Westminster Catechism and the Confession of Faith; Dr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, and Mr. See, of Newark, have been disciplined by their Presbyteries for permitting godly women to speak in church meetings ; and Mr. Clark, of Philadelphia, has been called to account for administering baptism by immersion. And now Dr. John Miller, a professor within the classic walls of Princeton, has thrown down the gauntlet which his Presbytery has taken up. He, by his position and influence, and by the latitude, if not lassitude, of his doc- trinal views, is the greatest offender of any yet discovered, He has written a book in which he denies the doctrine of the Trinity, tho sinlessness of Christ and the soul’s im- mortality. ‘These are three vital doctrines held by every evangelical church, and yet Dr. Mille: thinks and declares openly that there is so little difference between himself and his Presbytery on the second and third they would have passed them by had he not come out so pointedly as he does against the Trin- ity. This has been the mainstay of the divinity of Obrist, and, of course, if it falls, Christ, as a vicarious atonement, falls also, and then, with an emphasis too terrible to think about, every man is left to “work out his own salvation with fear and trembling.” The Doctor thinks the doctrine of the Trinity originated with Plato, and from him was incorporated into Judaism by Philo, and thence by the Nicene Fathers introduced into Christianity. The Doctor does not go far enough for his proofs. If ho had read caretylly the Pentateuch he would have found there very clearly and distinctly the existence of a triune God taught. He would have found the same in the Psalms and very suggestive foreshadowings thereof in the Book of Job, And yet while Dr. Miller denies the doctrine of the Trinity as Presby- terians believe it, he claims that he is nota | Unitarian, since he holds that ‘‘the one God our Maker is incarnate in the man Christ Jesus ;” but in the same breath ho main- tains that this divine man was a sinner like the rest of us, and that he suffered for His own sins as well as for ours. This conflicts very materially with Isaiah’s and Paul’s and Jesus’ own views of His life and mission to earth, Jesus declared shortly before His death that the devil would come and find nothing in Him—that is, nothing sinful; and the testimony of frieads and enemies alike is to the same effect, that no man ever spake or acted as He did. And Jesus takes this testimony to prove to the Jews that if He had not done among them the works that no other man did they would not have been guilty of rejecting Him. If Dr. Miller had rend critically the first four- teen verses of John’s Gospel he would have seen that God and His Word, though insep- arable, are divisible. This is true also of man and his word ; and Christ was the Word ofGod. made flesh for the better conveyance of that Word to men also in the flesh. If the Doctor had also noted the expression in Genesis, iii., 15, in contrast with similar passages elsewhere he would know that this is the only promise of its kind given toa woman ; all others are tomen. And then if he had compared this with the announce- ment of the angel to Mary in Luke, i., 35, ho might understand that “the man Christ Jesus” could be a man and yet sinless ;. and hence could die for sins not His own. The Doctor's idea that the Holy Ghost is simply the breath of God is contrary to the teaching of Scripture, which eyerywhere speaks of Him as a per- sonality of the masculine gender. This could not be affirmed of “breath” of any kind. But it is also contrary to Christian experience or consciousness, which knows that the Holy Ghost isa personal entity, and not a mere inspiration of God. The Doctor is evidently ino transitional state of mind, and as God will not deal harshly with men for their imperfect views of Him so let the Presbytery deal Jeniently with this brother, mistaken though he be. Good. Fruit from the President’s Southern Policy. The movement in the South Carolina Legislature for an inquiry into the official conduct of Judgo Wright, the colored As- sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of that State, affords n gratifying evidence of the improvement tho President's policy is des- tined to work in public affairs among the Southern people. Judge Wright disgraced his position during the recent political contests by his course in the habens corpus case, which was intended to test Governor Hampton's title to his office. After a decision, in which ho concurred, had been rendered in Gov- ernor Hampton's favor Judge Moses was taken ill,. whereupon Judge Wright en- deayored to reverse his former jndg- ment and then fled, apparently afraid to face the consequences of his rascality. The demand for tho investigation comes from the republican members of the Legis- lature, the debate on the resolutions was con- fined to the republican side of the House, and they were adopted by a very large ma- jority. The colored republican representa- tives expressed themselves as anxious to purify the Bench and denounced Judgo Wright's disgraceful course none the less NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 1877.-QUINTUPLE SHEET. Our London and Paris Cable Letters. Paris has been seeing ghosts, not only through a fashionable “medium,” but in the more gruesome guise of a phantasmal German invasion. Our correspondent raises the almost tangible national ghost, which from all accounts ‘will not down,” while the polite Italian swindler, who doubtless charges a round sum to his dupes, only brings forth question- able political figments from somebody in the back room who impersonates a dead Czar, a dead sham and a dead states- man, When the gay capital adds duels, suic'des and executions to its ghosts it will be seen that it must have an immense reserve of spontaneous fun in it to keep up its reputation. So it brings out an opera with a sumptuous- ness behind the curtain and a brilliance before it which no other capital can equal ; it lays wonders of art before the world which would give it the crown of merit before the sternost bench of judges, while the subtle charm of its life outside of ali these things vindicates its place in the admiration of the civilized. It has the sovereign crown of beauty, and stripped even of its fripperics might defy a hostile judgment as Phryne did, and Phryne was no better than she should be. London is troubled about the chance of war, buat the thoughts of “villanous saltpetre’ cannot ruffle a feather of the true British collected- ness, which never gives up _ roast beef for worriment. If your Englishman is heartily convinced that he should honor a dead man he is willing to spend money freely in doing so if you can only show him how. That is a difficult matter; for, although he knows how other nations do guch things, he is generally convinced that ho would look ridiculous if ho tried to imitate them. He loves a show but he does not like to fancy himself part of it. Hence such projects as the Shake- speare memorial theatre at Stratford- on-Avon, with its recurring parades and festivals, strikes him coldly. It is a great credit to him, too, that he looks on Shakespeare as a living person- age, not by any means dead, and only a few removes of kindred from him. He would just as soon think of parading in honor of Shakespeare as of his second cousin. The memorial is a good idea, but it is imported, and that is against it. It suggests a sort of carnival, and two average Englishmen in masquerade never see each other without feeling ashamed. It seems that the Viceregal ‘‘wearing of the green” is not so successful in pleasing the Irish people as the amiable Duke of Marlborough would wish; but, then, they are always asking for something substantial, which is rather un- grateful on their part. May Day in New York. Our ancestors on May Day used to dance around the Maypole, garlanded with rib- bons and flowers, and so welcome with fes- tivities the advent of the spring. The cus- tom was a pleasant one; but here, in this unfortunate climate, it is better honored in the breach than the observance. No sensi- ble person would dance around s Maypole atthe risk of pneumonia or attempt to gather spring violets with the aid of an umbrella; yet we have in New York a custom almost as ubsurd and unquestionably more incon- venient, and that is the moving of families from one house to another, The restless- ness of the American people accounts"partly for these annual changes, but there is also a desire to obtain lower rents and find more convenient homes in a city wherein rapid transit is still unknown. Many thou- sands of people every Ist of May play a gamo of “Pussy in the Corner,” and that some must be left out in the cold is a necessity. All the adjacent towns in New Jersey, along the lines of railroad, from Paterson to Elizabeth, will profit by the enforced emigration from New York, and even Brooklyn, now that the great bridge is only a question of time, will have a good share of the surplus population of this city. If the Legislature would keep New York the first of American cities in the point of population let it give it rapid transit at the earliest possible day. As it is people must move, because they cannot stay, and it is natural to think that any change must be an improvement. On Tues- day the yearly scene of confusion will be renewed, but what permanent benefit will the changes of domicile be to the public? In other cities moving day is an unknown trouble, and it is certain that it is of little advantage to the metropolis. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General Sherman loves flowers. Sonator John H. Mitchell, of Oregon, 18 at the Hoff- man, Chicago isthe champion city for the salo of cos- metics. Has Miss Dickinson quarrelled with Colonel Higgin- son, 100? Ben Wade would next time be in favor of letting the South go. ‘The siceves of new dresses are made to fit tighter than ever. Satin is preferred to silk for the foundation of eyon- ing dresses. Mary Clemmer thinks that Chamberlain is @ mass of intellectuality. ward; but @ bear. Russia has contributed tho largest amount toward tho statue of Liebig. Sir Charles Dike says that Niagara 18 terribio and beautiful, but not sublime, A Spanish factory girl, working in cotton, has saved nearly $6,000 in twenty years, emphatically because it was designed to aid their side in the contest. This is agood beginning, It shows that the colored population of South Carolina need only good example and liberty of ac- tion to become honest and intelligent pub- lic officers. Had the republican usurpation inthe State been suffered to. succeed the colored members of the Legislature would have remained the mero tools of scheming partisans, They will now lcarn to legislate for the good of the State, and their action will gain for them public respect and will effectually obliterate the ‘color line” about which we bave heard so much, As soon as the two races discover that their interests are identical and understand that all are alike benefited by honest government the Southern difficulty will be settled and the trade uf the outrage manufacturors will be at an end, Galloons of gauze embroidered {no fancy colors, aro used for trimming greuadines, It is thought that when Victor Hugo rises to inake a speech ho might as well sing a song, A Tennessee girl, protty and in her teens, has pat- ented a combined harrow and stalk cutter, Ata concert at Stuttgart Conservatory the majority of student performers were Russians and Americans, The Qacen of Sweden suifors from disease of the heart, for which ehe js undergoing electrical treatment, Now that the military post at Raleigh, N. ©, bas been abandoned that city loses an income of $60,000 a yoar, Stopford Brooke, the English preacher, who became an apostle of Robertson, 18 poetical, handsome and eloquent. When a German woman makes success or power in life they @o not say she wears the breeches, but that she swings tho slipper, Ah English judge denied an application to compel a defendant to prevent his rooster from crowing at three o'clock in the morning, Mr. Nicolas Shiskin, the Russian Minister, and M, Max Vutroy, French Mintster at Washington, yesterday iatrived at the Clarendon, THE WAR. Progress of the Twofold Ruesian Invasion. e FIGHTING IN ARMENIA, Objective Points in the Advance by the Danube. BRILLIANT MARCH TO GALATZ, The Powers Wash Their Hands of the Blood of the Turk. RUSSIA CLOSES THE DANUBE. Attitude of the ‘Tributary States—Egypt, Servia, Roumania, Montenegro, ENGLAND ANXIOUS AND GBTTING READY. , [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.) Lonpon, April 28, 1877. The week gone by, which saw the lighting of the torch of war in the East, with no man able to tell how far its ‘lurid rays will pierce, has been one of surprises, canards and strenuous invocations of God and Allah, for earnest work 1s expected. Fighting has been commenced in Asia, both sides being victorious. Turkey, for example, says that the Russians were repulsed with a loss of 600 nen, while Russia claims that 100 Turks were taken prisoners against one Cossack killed. Naturally the main interest centres in the fighting, although here the question whether England will be drawn into the war affords earnest ground for speculation. ENGLISH ANXIETY. The anxiety of Engiand1s finely pointed in the daily meetings of the Uabinet. It is Seared that the war cannot be localized and that England will be drawn into the vortex. This feeling is so strong as to influence party politics, the liberals refraining at the critical point from obstruct- ing the government. On this subject the Saturday Review says:—‘Recriminations between English parties are now probably ended.” In the Nineteenth Century, however, Gladstone has an eloquent article on Montenegro, The number is prefaced by asonnet trom the pen of Tennyson, who sings:— O smallest among peoples! Rough rock throne Ofireedom! Warriors beating back the swarm Of Turkish Islam for five hundred years, RUSSIA’S STRENGTH AND HOPES. The HeraLp correspondent at St. Petersburg telegraphs as follows :— ‘4 “Intense enthusiasm prevails throughobt the Czar's dominions. Russia has 300,000 mén on the Danube and 125,000 men in the Caucasus, while the opposing forces of the Turks are 100,000 along the Danube and 50,000 oF less in Asia Minor. Both sides exhibit a weak- ness in skilled generals and the position in Roumania is unfortunate. Austria and Russia are contemplating an agreement whereby Bosnia will be ceded to Austria. The Czaris not desirous to conquer territory for himself, but still will be guided by the logic of circumstances, Russia is threatening India in tne event of English inter- ference, x DIPLOMATIC CILAT. “Rumors of a controversy between the English Ambassador and Baron Jomini at a dinner given at the British Embassy,are whispered around. Igna- tieff, it 1s plain to all here, is the rising man and destined to succeed Gortschakor. It is rumored here that Ignatief’s mission to England was in- tended to hold ont apparent concessions to Eng- Jand, giving Earl Beaconsfleld’s government rope to disport itself withal. A ROMANOFF SUPERSTITION. “When the Emperor Alexander finished hit speech to the troops at Kischeneff he crossed him- self with tear-dimmed eyes. There is a legend that no Romanoff will ever reach the age of sixty. The Czar is now fifty-nine and is a fatalist. RUSSIA AND AMERICA, “Americans are exceedingly popular in Russia at present. There is a wide expectation that America will declare war against England in case the latter attacks Russia. It is supposed that America would gladly seize the opportunity to destroy Englisb commerce. If this opinion is absurd, still it per. meates Russian socicty.”” THE CAMPAIGN IN THE DOBRUDSCHA, The Heap correspondent at Constantinople telegraphs as follows:— “The Russian advance, which is reported vis Bolgrad, in Bessarabia, has for objective pointa Tultscha, the chief town of the unhealthy, desolate district of the Dobrudscha, and the town ot Hirsova, The town of Tultscha was originally the téte de pont of Ismail when both places belonged to Turkey. 11 is situated on the right bank of the Danube and at an angle of tho river near to where it branches into three channels, The two southern outlets were at one time defended by Tuttscha, The ground surrounding the place is very unfavorable Grant-Dat says that Russia is still a bear, going for. | for deiensive works, being low and swampy and commanded by some elevated points in the rear of the town. Since the improvement of the Danube navigation considerable importance attaches to” Tuttscha as a position de passage, “Hirsova, the second objective point previous t 1809, was a miserable place, simply defended by an old castle to the westward, and dorived its sole im- portance from then possessing a permanent bridge of boats, the only one on the Danube at that time, This Jed to the Tarks adding to its defences and constructing around it five bastioned fronts, These had, however, @ very defective contour and the works were com surrounded by a ditch. manced by the ground without and especially by anisiand below the town. Hirsova, however, holds a position of contro! over the Danube that is Important in the attack or defence of the Dobruds- cha, as it represents the terminus of a detensive line across that territory which may be utilized by the Turks hefore the Russians can seize it, THE PROPOSED BULGARIAN OPERATIONS. “The advantage of holding these two important points would probably be to allow the left wing of the army of invgsion to threaten the town. and port of Varga, which commands the coast road.