The New York Herald Newspaper, May 27, 1877, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, eters or telegraphic despatches must w York HEeRatp. 8 should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not ve returned, PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH ry Z LONDON OFFICE ae FLEKT &TRE! ne Subscriptions and Jorwarcec on the same terms us in New York. HELLE#’S THEATRE BOOTH’S THEATRE b Juuer UNION SQUARE THEA MIKE. GILMORE’S CONCERT GARDEN—Su.ane Coxcert, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE- Vests. BOWERY THEATRE—Manucd Ueant. RESTIDIGITATION, CENTRAL PARK GARD! QUADRUPLE SHE NEW YORK, “NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. In Suture all advertisements presented for pubs lication after eight o'clock P. M. will be charged double rates, From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather in New York to-day will be warmer and fair or partly cloudy, with occasional showers, Watt Srreet Yestexpay.—The stock mar- ket was very dull and without interest. There was a pretty general decline at the close, and the market finished weak. Gold opened at 107 and fell to 1067, at which figure it closed. Government bonds were quiet, and, in sympathy with gold, somewhat lower, while railroad bonds were dull and irregular. Money on call was tasy at 11g a 21g per cent, the closing rates being the lowest of the day. No Fireworks on the glorious Fourth, Aw Otp Crrizen wants the reservoir saved. Brooktyy Is Jorsina in the crusade against swill milk. A New Four-1s-Hanp will run from Brooklyn to Coney Island. E: of a change in our comm: PEARER Ranpauy has declared in favor al policy. THE Westcuester Potro Cive will play their first match this season on next Tuesday. A Spitz Doa rescued from the pound in Phil- adelphia expressed his joy by biting off a child’s ear, Buratary by a ch from Connecticut, rested, f of police is the latest The culprit has been ar- Receiver Apriesy filed his report yesterday in the matter of the Metropolitan Insurance Com- pany. Cairornia JUD “‘banco” in New Yor this from experience. should steer clear of . Orrin C, Platt has learned EnGianp is excited about the probable winner of the Derby, while the Russians play their little gume in Asia Minor. Tue FaswionabLe Exovvs for Europe has set in, and the outgoing steamers are crowded with saloon passengers. Tue Divorce Surr of Mrs. Roe against her husband for eruel and inhuman treatment has been decided in her favor. Tne “BULLs” anv xs” had a little target practice yesterday at Creedmoor, but did not succeed in getting up a corner in bull’s oyes. Tue Vet has not yet been lifted from the Gunser murder, and the gossips insist that the widow knows more of the tragedy than she cares to reveal, Tue Board or ALDERMEN and Mayor Ely are unhappy over the appointment of the new Police Commissioner. The Fathers will not have ® republican, Tne Lawsuit between the Countess Hein- ruch and the exeeutors of Dan Marley, the old furniture man, reads like a chapter out of a sen- sational novel. ‘Tue Vassar Girts invaded West Point yes- terday and met with a warm reception from the cadets, several of whom were severely wounded | in the encounter. Carpinan McCioskry last week ordained | seven priests and conferred holy orders on some eighty-four postulants. The ceremonies were very impressive. Jupce Barnarv yesterday allowed the Huested divorce case to be reopened. ‘The hus- band now charges his wife with improper con- duct, and the case promises to become still unore notorious. Ben Butixx, it is said, has resolved to take himself and his fortunes to Colorado, New England is by far too small and too inconsid able a place for a man of his wide embracing sympsthies. In his new home in the Centezmial State he will devote himself to the pastoral oecu- pation of sheep shearing, abandoning for the nonce the political w: h. It would not, however, be astonishing to see the gentle Ben B, turn up in Washington a full fledged Senator. THe WEATHER. e conditions have changed but little since Friday. The area of high press- ure Still extends over all the region between the Mississippi Valley and the Atlantic as far southward as the Gulf and northward of the fifticth parallel, Ruius have fallen on the Middle and North Atlantic coasts, butdid not ex- tend far inland. Light rains have also fullen in the Missouri and Platte valleys, and im the Southwest. The winds at all points have been from fresh to moderate, but owing to the move ment of many small disturbances were very variable throngh the day. The Jow pressures in the Northwest and off Nova Scotia have cuused the usual marginal winds in each case. ‘The heat area within the isotherm of seventy degrees was far to the southward in the morning, but during the afternoon advanced north of Tennessee and in the Mississippi Valley as far as Pembina in narrow tong-> In Manitoba a distinct heat urea is central and overspreads 9 considerable district where the temperature is remarkably high. Cloudiness prevails in the lower lake re- gion, thé Middle States and northeastern dis- bricte, the Northwest. At all other pointe | is fair or clear, In New York luy it will be warmer and fair or partly | ‘reach of government or of science. A Lesson tor New York—How London Is Made o Healthy City. Among the many complaints of the recent misgovernment of New York there are none so well founded as those about the sanitary conditions of the metropolis. Many, many evil things have been done under the pre- tence of “government” by the adventurers and vagabonds who have from time to time ruled this city. But the one evil thing for which they never can be forgiven is to be found in the fact that, while New York, from its situation, its proximity to the sea, the rock formations underneath, the ease with which it can be drained, should be one of the healthiest cities in the world, it is one of the most unhealthy. There is no city in Europe or America with so dismal a death rate, We have to go to Turkey, to the squalid, swarming masses of Asia, to find a parallel. We do not think it any exaggera- tion to say that the reign of Tweed ‘and Tammany Hall alone cost New York thou- sands of lives—lives of children swept away by diphtheria and scarlet fever, lives of men aud women sacrificed to typhus and small- pox. We do not, of course, attribute the presence of these diseases to Tweed mis- rule. The cause, thus tar, lies béyond the But we do say that if New York had been ruled with intelligence and honesty those diseases would have been held in check, as is done in Paris and London; maleria would have been extinguished and thowsand of lives saved. And if weare not doing any better now than when the monumental robber of the age was at the head of the government it is because the policy of burglary has been followed by a policy of stifling. The wild, criminal extravagance of the old régime has given way to @ mean, narrowing policy which believes that the way to rulea city is to strangle it. So we remain where we were when the bediamonded rascals of the Americus Club were our masters and when highway robbery was a recognized in- dustry. It is because we would have our rulers arouse to the true value of their work that we print elsewhere a description of the methods by which London is cleaned and governed in a sanitary way. The death rate in London is much lower than in New York, and yet it falls behind our metropo- lis in many of the essential conditions of healthfulness and salubrity. London is in- land. It borders a narrow stream. The climate is humid, foggy, depressing. These fogs come sometimes at midday—exhala- tions from sea and soil—and darkness over- spreads the noon as the shadows overspread the night. At times there are incessant rains, Last autumn, according to the news- papers, it rained for a hundred days. There are certain diseases which, from these causes, may be almost regarded as peculiar to Lendon—diaeases of ths chest and throat and lungs. It may be called a city where the sun never shines—at least with that radiant, glorious, life-impelling light which we have in New York so many days in the year, and which our English friends are compelled to seek on the Nile or the Med- iterranean, Yet, with all these disudvan- tages, the English metropolis is one of the healthiest in the world, And, notwith- ing the advances of sanitary effort, the rulezs of London are still striving to im- prove its condition. ‘The reader will find a record of these efforts in the letters of our London correspondent. The rulers are in # constant war with malaria and dirt and disease, ‘The streets are cleaned by a well- drilled force, whose work is done as surely as the sun goes down: The sewers are well built, and they carry their burden to the sea, They are not like the mock sewers of the Tweed days, which gave way before the first tide, or were left unfinished and coy- ered up to become pest holes and fever nests. Rigid sanitary laws are imposed upon the people. No man can be a law unto himself and to his neighbor so far as the generation of nuisanees is concerned. He must respect the gencra! law, which sub- ordinates the oupidity and selfishness of the one to the weltare of all. “But a system like this of Paris or Lon- don will cost money,” we are toid by the timid souls who now claim to “govern” New York. Of course it will cost monvy. If there.is one thing we want todo it is to py money—for the general weifare. We are not a mean people. We are ready to | give our rulers imperial power if they will show an imperial intelligence. Wo are pye- pared to spend twenty millions of dollars on the improvement of Now York, knowing that it will bring back p Lundret millions in another generation. But we want this money to go to its true use, and not to a horde of Ingersolls and Garveys and Woodwards. First of all, we want a thorough sanitary system. Let us carry out the acbhisc policy of the men wno built the Croton Aqueduct, men who did a Koman work und who are worthy of Roman fame, Our whole sewer system should be revised. Every toot of the main sewers should be examined, aud where weak mude whole. should be extended so as to embrace not only the developed sections of the city but the outlying seotien, which one day will be the seat of a metropolis in itwelf. We should drain, all the low lands cround Harlem and lower Wesichestsr, Tho little creeks and sireams, like Spuyten Duyvil, Harlem, the Bronx and the country around New Kochelle and Pelham, should all be surveyed and drained. The marshes shouid be dried up. During the last few winters these regions have been as unhealthy as the Campagna at Rome. The frost never comes without bringing fever, and although it does not assume the fatal character ot Roman fevers there is vo knowing what possibilities lie in its deveiopment. Wo must remember that the fearful Roman fever in its present phase belongs to modern civilization, It had been con- quered by the Cwsars before they thought of conquering the world, Let us do the same with New York. Science has shown us how we can take this city, and drawing a line from Yonkers across to New Rochelle make the territory south of the line as healthy as any spot in the world, To be sure it will cust money, but money where life and prosperity are concerned is the least consideration. We want men to gov- ern who know what to do with money. All ' offices. We do not want ; men should unite to labor tor it. ‘Lhese sewers | this claptrap about “the rights of the people,” ‘the will of the majority,” ‘‘popu- lar govereignty” and so on is cant when applied to such a problem as how to make New York a healthy city. What sanitary rights had the people under Tweed bat the right to die of typhus or see their children die of diphtheria? What other rights have they now under the peddling, twopenny policy which is called government? What we need in New York is a thorough business government. That is to say, all | matters connected with the machinery of this vast city, with the lives, the happiness, the health of a million of people, should be intrusted ft business men, and not to the leaders of the rumshop and the prize ring. It is purely a business matter. It is not democracy nor republicanism that we need, but common sense and honesty. Give usa radical like Wendell Phillips, or a rebel like Jefferson Davis—we do not care about his convictions on national affairs if he can collect and expend the millions needed to keep New York in order and give us the best result for the money. This is the point to which politics in New York city, so far as the city is concerned, is driy- ing. When we see what London does to become one of the healthiest cities in the world; when we see what Paris has done, and what it does every day, to become the most magnificent city in the world; when we think what New York might become—as salubrious as Lon- don und as splendid as Paris—we are filled with shame. There is butonecure, We must build up a party of common sense and hon- esty. We do not want another Citizens’ As- sociation with its expenses paid by Sweeny. We do not want another Committee of Seventy whose leaders are anxious about “reform” move- ments directed by men to whom reform means salaries out of the treasury. We do want a liberal, simple, direct policy, and all In the} first place the city must be severed from its dependence upon Albany. Let us have a hundred-years’ charter, made for a century, and no more annual charters, which are blackmailing raids upon the ireasury of the city and the property of the people. Let the government of the metropolis be reduced to a business basis and the result will be felt by the whole Union. Then we may look for sanitary laws that will secure the people all the blessings of an unrivalled climate ard situation. Then we may have rapid transit which will bring Yonkers and New Rockelle as close to the Battory.as Chiselhursit and Seven Oaks are to London. Then the com- merce of the world may find our docks; a3 commodious as those of Liverpool. Then we may hope to see our boulovard systeni, the one thing of the Tweed régime for which we may be grateful, carricd out. Then will New York be worthy of her regal seat as the metropolis of the American continent. The first step in this reform is the adoption of thorough sanitary laws. Our rulers may learn what they can do in this respect by reading what has been done in London, News from the East. If the report of the destruct=on of another Turkish gunboat by the Russinzs on the Danube proves to be true the Lurks wiil be- gin to regard torpedoes as ‘‘bad medicine.” These terrible engines of destruction strike below the armor belt, and while rending an immense chasm in the ship generally insure the destruction of the crewas well. As bearing on the defence of the Danube the loss of two large gunboats will necessarily have a very depressing effect dn the Turks, whose confi- dence was considerably strengthened by the possession, as they thought, of the control of the navigation. While dissensions at Con- stantinople hamper the government a little war cloud is gathering on the Greek frontier, It is natural that the sympathies of the Greek should go out to his co-religionists of Russia, especially when a considerable ac- quisition of territory is likely to reward him for his timely action im men- acing the Turks. In the event of hostilities in the ‘tideless Mgean” it will be interesting to Europe to know what attitude the English fleet will assume when Hobart Pacha’s iron-clads are bombarding the Pirwus. The account given by our cor- respondent at St. Petersburg of Russia's intentions in connection with the present war is highly interesting. Constantinople asafree port under the protection of the great Powers of Europe and the extension of the Russian Pacific seaboard southward at the expense of China would certainly work a great change in the commercial world, and one from which all civilized na- tions would derive a benefit. The Coaching Club Parade, The first parade this season of the New York Coaching Club, yesterday, was a proof that four-in-hand driving is a recreation already firmly and ,permanently established in this city. Nothing of the kind equal to itin splendor has ever been seen in this country, and it rivalled similar displays in | London, There were eleven coaches in line, some of them new and built expressly for this season, and the procession, led by the President of the club, Mr. Jay, and closed by Vice Pres- ident Kane, left Madison square in the afternoon and returned to the Brunswick Hotel in the evening, after a pleasant drive through Central Park. The weather was not altogether favorable, but the ladies, whose presence added to the beauty of the spectacle, did not care for an occasional sprinkling of a May shower. The interest taken in this novel amusement by the pub- lic was shown by the fact that at least twenty thousand people assembled on Fifth avenue to see the parade, and that the usual number of visitors to the Park was very largely increased. Fortunately, New York has many facilities for four-in-hand driving, Fitth avenue only needs to be better paved in parts to be a magnificent road to the Park, through which there are charming drives, while for those who preter long ex- cursions there are the roads to New Ro- chelle, Coney Island and other places, on which the full speed of a first rate four-in- hand and skill in driving can be effectively displayed. The Coaching Club deserves congratulation on the brilliant beginning of the season, and it is to be hoped that the NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 27, 1877—QUADRUPL& SHEET, success already won by the New York club leaves no reason to doubt that coaching will become as popular in America as it has been for many years in England. Our London and Paris Cable Letters. It is something so unusual to see the mass of French republicans sitting quietly down and grinning at a time when, by all the traditions, one should expect them to be up in arms and vociferating, that we cannot fail to call the world’s attention to the spectacle. To see Mac- Mahon and all the old fogies whose shibbo- leth is “order and respectability” going around assuring people that they do not intend to cut up murderous monkey shines is funny enough, but that they should be performing before an amused audience of the large majority of Frenchmen touches our risibles even over here, We do not learn much this week of the Parisian gayeties and social scandals that go on, no matter who is in the Cabinet or who is on the sidewalk, but we contend that the picture of the fiery’ French republicans waiting cool as cucumbers for their revenge is a treat, because it isa surprise. London complains of being chilly and of not secing the sun often, but we are somewhat sur- prised that our London correspondent should deem the latter clause to be news. The impression here in America is that Londoners do not see the luminary of day more than once every five years, and that then it has much the same effect on the in- habitants of Cockneydom that an eclipse has on the Chinese. Whitsuntide, we believe, is one of the periods at which the Cockneys go out to look for the white sun—that is something different from the usual red or yellow disk “shorn of its beams,” which Mr. Milton, the English poet, sung of after he had seen the genuine sun. during his travels in Italy. We therefore conclude that the hundreds of thousands who went ont to the Lon- don suburbs last Monday came back disappointed and that the scientific old gentlemen’ of the Greenwich Ob- servatory who said they had seen the sun twelve times in one hundred hours told a white lie, to soothe the discon- solate Londoners by hinting that they were not looking up at the right time. Fifty years ago the matter would have passed without comment, but when ignorance gets faith in science it is apt to wreak its disappointment on the scientist who does not come up to. their expectations. A dim idea that the time is coming when the people will hang false weather prophets may have inspired the Observatory gentlemen’s rash statement. We hope that the English people will have shaped. their resolution how to treat General Grant before he arrives on their shores. We are not sure that he will care much whether My Lord Duke calls on him first or last ; but so they allow him to have a pleasant time without too much boring and red tape he will be pleased, for he can always please himself. What the Irish people have collected for the Pope will surprise many who are not aware how much the Pope has done for them. Such tidbits of social, literary and theatrical gossip as are.to be gathered in the capitals will bé found in their proper places. What! Can It Be Possible? This is the exclamation with which a cor- respondent calling himself ‘‘Brother Jona- than” commences a letter opposing our proposition to abolish the indiscriminate use of firecrackers, guns and pistols on the Fourth of July. But perhaps the fairest way is to give Jonathan's letter in full. So here it is:— To He Epitor or THE Hera: What! Cau it be possible that you, commanding the voice of the people, | might say, should give utter- ance to such an expression us to prevent the children of New York from spending their Fourtn of July as you andl used to spend it when we were boys? Do You mean that, bad we been prohibited the uve of our torpedoes, firecrackers and ccnon d’enfant, we would eujoy this day? I say we should not, especially as I recall my Urst tavestment in artillery, which consisted of a mounted brass cannon, and cost me thirty cents: but what it cost me in labor apd abstinence from cundy, apples, peanuts and the like was almost un- bearable, Ab! but when the day came, and |, with my new cannon, powder and fuse, went down on the, valk to set “ther” oft, 1 felt as though I owned the country whose independence Laas about to celebrate, ‘And wio can tell but there are a great may doing the same now as I did then, saving their pennies to have a grand Fourth of July in their own way. Tae youths must bave a day to show their patriotism, and the Fourth of July is certainly the most appropriate, as it commemorates an act which made usa constituted nation, which act wo still bold sacred and which is now honored all over the world, So jet its celebra- tion be as it always was. If the forefathers of our country considered it a tit way to celebrate the day, so shuuld we uphold it as we do their acts and actions, which leave us wo aro to-day. a free and uuited people, thank God! BROTHER JONATHAN, Well, Jonathan is overflowing with pa- triotism, and no doubt he is a true Ameri- can, who will tell his weeping relatives on his deathbed, ‘‘Roll me up in the American flag aud blow me up with a ton of firecrack- ers when I’m dead.” But nevertheless, Brother Jonathan, it won't do. We are not to be drawn off by such touching letters. It is very cruel, no doubt, from Jonathan's point of view, to, soto speak, go back on our youth ; but even the fond remembrance of the glories of those distant days must not tempt us to advocate the inestimable privi- lege on the part of juvenile Americans to blow out their precious little brains, to set fire to houses, to frighten hoyses and old ladies, to fill the streets with vile odors and to make themselves a generalnuisance. Wo prefer that Young America should have his pyrotechnics in safe way, under safe supervision, with quite as much real enjoy- ment as of yore to that juvenile patriot, but without any of the risks, Brother Jona- than, rest content. Pulpit Topics To-Day. The approach of Decoration Day has sug- gested an appropriate theme for Sabbath consideration to some of our city pastors, Dr. Wescott, Mr. Pullman, Mr. Frothing- ham and others will speak of flowers and patriotism and love for one’s kind. The ‘Lurco-Russian war will find vent here in the sayings of Mr. Thomoff, a Bulgarian, and Mr. Banerjea, an East Indian, and in the utterances of Mr. Alger, who will pre- sent the causes of wars and the motives that should lead to the abolition of war, and, in the words of Mr. Martyn, who will advocate the patriotism of peace. Mr, McCarthy will take a just pride ina review of the year's struggles of himself and his church on this, their first anniversary, It will have o remarkable parade ,of yesterday will be fol- lowed by others during the summer, Tho double significance now in view of the ordeal highest tribunal of his denomination, albeit he is being burnished rather than blackened by the provess. Mr. Wakeman will show the harmony of the new gospel of science and, no doubt, will leave no further use or place for the old Gospel of Christ. A very important subject, which is often on the lips and oftener in the hearts of worldly men, will be considered by Dr. Woodruff— namely, What difference exists, if any, be- tween a real Christian and an honest man of the world? MacMahon’s Dilemma. Germany holds resolutely to the view that the recent change in the French goy- ernment is a menace to her, as to all other Powers committed to a policy with regard to the Pope unacceptable to the ultramon- tane party. In France, or at all events in the government circles and in official utter- ances, it is maintained with the greatest energy that this is not true, but that, on the contrary, the change made has no rela- tion whatever to the foreign policy of the government. In this difference it must be conceded that the Germans are at least the more logical. If the change made in Mac- Mahon’s Cabinet has no relation to the foreign policy of France the ecclesiastical agitators who helped to make this change will be disappointed. They constitute the party the President depends upon in his defiance of the party that is the ex- ponent of the opinions of the majority of the people, If they are disappointed they will make their disappointment felt, and upon what will the President and his Minis- try rest then? He has thrown over the majority party and made it.the enemy of his government because he puts himself in an attitude of hostility to the constitution and even to parliamentary government. By the choice of a reactionary Ministry he has even alienated and alarmed all those mod- erate conservatives who oscillate from group to group of the Centres. He has, therefore, no support but one to be drawn from the party of the Right with priestly and royal sympathies. They will not insist upon a programme with regard to royalty; but will they support a government that does not accept their views as to Rome and the Pope? Not fora moment. And if MacMahon ac- cepts their views then he is on the ground which the Germans allege he means to take, and he is in collision morally with the Ital- ian and the German policy. If he does not change his foreign policy he is at issue with the only party from which he can hope for support, and he must fall. If he does change his foreign policy he comes into col- lision with Gerthany. What course will he choose? Senator Morton’s Bombshell. Mr. Morton’s letter is thought to be a mistake by the Bourbons of both parties. The extreme democratic journals unite with the extreme republicans in denouncing it ahd him. Why? The country is at last at peace; is this abad thing? We are likely to have some rest from political excitement; is that a bad thing? The next Congress will not waste a long session in wrangling over the Southern question, ‘but will have time to consider questions of real impor- tance to the country; is that a bad thing? The country begins to be aware that it has to deal with a lot of politicians who are utterly regardless of its interests, and zealous only for their own advantages. These fellows would make a Mexico of the United States if they had their way. Their policy is rule or ruin, and they are now abusing President Hayes because they see very plainly that he is not insympathy with them. We trust he will go on in his chosen way without the least wavering. He need not be afraid of the Bourbons ; he need not conciliate them. He is sure of a majority of honest men in both houses when Con- gress meets, and we trust he will not suffer himself to be coerced or bullied by any- body, but that he will go ahead and serve the country, whose interests he seems to us to understand very well. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The cat and croquet season is upon us. Russian visiting cards are two feet long. Snow shovels make good kindling wood, ‘The latest fashions arc punch and yellow. Lamar will make a solid old speech on politics, Proiessor Langston is stil! hunting for that office. The Russians are not many kill-ometers from the Turks, “A. G.—Continued stories are not printed in this column, A Boston musician is happy when he can Handel a Haydn society. A Boston woman who was imprisoned took her two pet cats with her, It Mr, Shearman were only crying a little this year there would not be so great a drought, It ts understood that John Cochrane went North to bea Maypole, and hasn’t thawed out yet. Why is the Chicago Times so Moody about the demo- cratic party and 80 Sankey about Hayes? Sam Bowles is hepetul of the future, because there 18 a strong free-trade element in the Cabinet. A Scotchman has invented a way of inaking whiskey out of weeds Thistle fetch him after a while. Mr, Stilor T. Stantcn, of the Norwich Bulletin, has been appointed a member of the French Legation. The Chicago Trilune a revival of prosperity in increased. exportations, and In importations of articles of luxury. ; A Georgia man bas a cabbage five feet in circuinfer- ence. [ere isa chance for the Boston Globe to buy a new editor. Lord Clarence Paget and Miss Paget are gucsis of Lord Duflerin, Governor General of Canada, at Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Logan bas gone to the Western plains, and if Sitting Bull Onds him he won't have one hair on his head to try a razor on, He—*Sweet, do you really love me?” Sho—You know I do, my darling; and, you don’t mind me, do you?—but don’t take off your flannels too soon,” At Harvard the class of ’77, having scanned Soldene and passed through other purely elective studies, will enter the strawberry fessivals just previous to gradg wating. Colonel Forbes, the new postmaster of Richmond, Va, 1 a native Virginian, a moderate radical, six leet two inches high aud has long been a register in bank- ruptcy. The Atlanta Constitution says that tobe a man and not be a ‘colonel’’ 1s preposterous, and asks what Georgia would do without her bundred thousand “colonels, ”” Evening Telegram ;-~"“Herato—'In some parts of Fiji you must be either a missionary of a cannibal,’ And if youare a missionary you generally drop inta the cannibal system sooner or later.”’ Misiletoe lives on trees as piants live upon the soll, extracting from (he succulent parts into which its roots are thruat the elements necessary to its growth 10 varying proportions Kxp tletoo taken from trees of diffe greatly in chemical composition and in the relations LONDON IN MAY. Cold Weather tor Whitsun Holiday Making. THE COMING OF GRANT. Shall My Lord Duke Go to Him or He to My Lord Duke? s WAGNER WINS FAMR, NOT MONEY, Donations to the Pope—The #1. grims at Rome. Personal, Literary and Dramatic Notes— Stock Exchange Fluctuations. [BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Lonpon, May 26, 1877. Since the 1st of May we have had none of the traditional May weather, but on’ the contrary chilling biasts which sought the marrow of the bones with almost a midwinter persistence, The papers complain that the year is nearly half gone and the sun las not put in his spring appear- ance. The Greenwich Observatory calculates that in one hundred hours the sun has not been seen a dozen times, Fur cloaks are still worn in the Park, and _ bronchitis und diphtheria combine with other delights of the season to glve us a merry time. Whitsun week Is, however, sure of its fun, no matter what the weather. On Whit-Monday list the people poured outin all directions to enjoy the holiday. Sixty thousand visitors went to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham and 50,000 to the Alexandra Palace. These are mere indications of the hundreds of thousands who sought all sorts of places within a radius of twenty miles of London to amuse each other and be amused. Yesterday being Whit-Fri- day was observed as a holiday in Manchester. Apro- pos of popular pleasure, I may mention that the near approach of the Epsom meeting has brought horse talk to the fore again, and the odds on the favorite and all his silken-coated brethren are sounded at all hours of the day and nignt. The great race for the Derby takes place on Wednesday next on the famous Epsom Downs. Chamant continues the favorite at nearly and in some instances quite even money against the fleld. Rob Roy is next in favor at about 8 tol. ‘The yachting season already feels the depression from the war. Truth says that comparatively few vessels are fitting out yet. Some of the most ceie- brated clipper yachts wiil not leave their moorings this summer. : EX-PRESIDENT GRANT'S RECEPTION. ‘The papers alicomment on the coming of General Grant. The World says that the guardians of eti- quette are severely exercised over the matter. It hopes that it will be harmoniously arranged befores hand whether General Grant shail first call on the Duke of Cambridge or whether the Field Marshal Commander in Chiet shall forget his royal blood for @ moment and pay a visit ta the ex-President. “Let etiquette,” it says, ms “pe strained or disregarded rather than have a fresh greivance arise or new indirect cluims be preferred.” The World hopes that the military clubs will show Grant all possible attention, ‘The HzRALD correspondent at Berlin telegraph® that General Grant is expected in the German capi- tal in the qutumn for the purpose of witnessing the army manguvres. The heartiest reception is assured him, as Baron Von Moltke and the ening generals greatly admire the former commander 0 the Union armies, WAGNER IN LONDON. Herr Richard Wagner celebrated his slxty-fourth birthday on Tuesday last. A banquet was given him in the evening by tne London Liederkranz, Wagner responded to the toast of his health in @ speech expressing his pleasure and surprise at find- ing that what he had created in a still retreat had preceded him in the world and made him famous, ‘The series of six concerts of which I have already telegraphed you were a success artistically, but financially a great failure. Wagner, who had the first $10,000 of the receipts ‘secured him, turned that amount over to cover the losses after the two succeeding concerts, There is still a deficit of $5,000, mainly because of the 1,500 seat-holders who paid nothing and the high prices, which kept thou- sands away. A series of Wagner concerts, at pop- ular prices, will be given next week, There is a promise of enormous houses. Wagner visited Covent Garden last night to wit- ness his opera of “Tannhatser,” and returned home disgusted with the wretched performance, but delighted with the exquisite rendering of the part of Elizabeth by Mile, Albani. Mime. Materna, the Brunnhilda of the concerts, returns to Vienna on the 3d of June. She has created a furor here by her wonderful dramatic singing. THEATRICAL, NOTES, Mme. Titiens is suffering trom an attack of dropsy. She was subjected to an operation on Wednesday. The dificulty between Joe Jefferson and Manager Chatterton has been amicably arranged, Jefferson extending the period of his engagement at the Princess’ for a fortnight beyond the time set down in the agreement. Miss Nellie Farren has dangerously injured bet spine, Mr. Gilbert has written a play for Mn BE. A. Sothern, PERSONAL JOTTINGS. The Prince of Wales, says Truth, has given up Chiswick and become @ member of the Orleans Club at Twickenham. Among the authors Wilkie Collins is laid up with | the gout, and Anthony Trollope sails for the Cape of Good Hope at the end of June to remain in South Africa for six months. ‘The principal merchants of Bristol have privately subscribed suficient to make up an annual income of $2,500 for the sugar refiner, Finzel, whose case was referred to in the Saturday Review of a couple Of weeks back, There are some old people left yet. Edward Mor+ gan, of Willesden, celebrated last week at the Star and Garter, Richmond, his one hundred and sixth subsisting between the composition and the timber of through which he is passing before the the tree ou which it grows, birthday. Aun Timmins, of Nechells, near Birminghaty