The New York Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1877, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ‘JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THE DAILY HERALD, pubNshed every day & the year. ‘Three cents per copy (Sunday excluded). Ten dollors per Sear, or ut rate ot ope dollar REE month for suy, period less than six mouths, or five dollars for six months, Suaday ecition included, free of posta.ce. Au bu ‘ews letters or velegraphic despatches must Rend 4 Naw Yous Henan. Lesiers aud packages should be properly seared. Rejected commucications will not ve returned, PETADST OETA OFFICE-NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH STREBT, LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HEKALD— NO. 46 FLEKT sTRERT. PARIS OF FICL~AVENLE DE L’OPERA, PLES OF FICE—N s' PACE, Sub will be reccived and HELLE#'S THEATRI BOOTHS THRATBE.- UNION SQUARE THEA’ FIFTH AVENUE TH BOWERY THEATRE. NEW YORK AQUAR: WALLACK’S THEATI TONY PASTORS THEATR COLUMBIA OPERA HO CENTRAL PARK GARI TIVOLI THEA Va TRIPLE ~NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1877. “NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. In Suture all advertisements presented for pub- Ueation afler 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, possibly with light showers toward night. . Tae Kanvoks made themselves jolly over Queen Victoria's birthday. Cuurcu of Philadelphia yesterday celebrated its two hundredth anniver- sary. Tue First Twerve-Iycn Guy manufactured for the United States will be cast in South Boston next Wednesday ANOTHER S is in prospect among the engineers of the Lehigh Valley road. Reduc- tion of wages is the cause of dissatisfaction. ANOTHER MAN has perished in the Mulberry street “Black Hole.” Will the Coroner, inquire why prisoners fined inthese deadly cells? be regarded as a long borne the ills is not worth while “shuttling off the mortal coil,” Fraycis Murruy, the temperance lecturer, will probably vii ew York on the invitation of the American Temperance Union, Then fare- well to lager. Luzerne County has had its finances for the Past seven years audited, and finds an alarming record of dishonesty. Better to have had the audit made six ago. Tue Lyrerest taken in Christian missionary work was well illustrated in the addresses to the congregation of St. Luke's Methodist Chureb, delivered by natives of India and Bul- garia, Bisuop Porrer ordained three priests and tight deacous yesterday. The ceremony took place at the Church of the Transfiguration, and was witnessed by a large and fashionable wudience. Pore Pics meekly regrets that Austria is no songer willing to support the pretensions of the Holy Sec by bullets and bayonets. How Strange these regrets appear when viewed by the light of the Sermon on the Mount! ‘TneRr SEFMs 4 Goop Reason to believe that the proposed Paris Exhibition will be postponed in view of the threatening condition of European affairs, The unsatisfactory relations existing between the French government and the mass of the people may also have something to do with the postponement, Tue Trias in the Ellenton riot cases is devel- oping the fact that the negroes were the ag- gressors, and that they acted iu a treacherous und bloodthirsty manner toward the whites, If the’ men who used the ignorant negroes as tools in this unfortunate affair could be brought to punishment a great service would be done to the South. A Wuoe Communtry in Louisiana is engaged in plundering the government by cutting timber ou the public lands without authority from the government. The Judge, Sheriff and jurors, great and small, are inthe business, so that it will be necessary for Congress to interfere if this plunder is to be stopped. ‘It is probable that without the spice of dishonesty the com- munity would not cut the timber at all; so per- haps the government had better leave the wood cutters without molestation. ‘Tur Sermons delivered yesterday in the churches of this city had in then something of the vigor and freshness of the glorious spring- time. They were full of aspiration after the better life, and breathed of charity and good will auto men. Mr. Beecher, with characteristic boldness, denounced the religion of seets, which has been the cause of so much suffering to hu- manity. Mr. Hepworth pointed out how man was uided and supported by the angels, and Mr. Frothingham spoke cloquently in defence of Decoration Day and the sweet tenderness of ite “Blower Charity” te the memory of the dead. The Catholic divines devoted their eloquence to the elucidation of the mystery of the ‘Trini Tue Wearner.—Yesterday the weather throngbout the entire country was very favor- able, if we except small districts in the South- west and on the Middle Atlantic coast, where light local disturbances threatened during the morning and last night. In the Northwest ‘be pressure continues to fall, and tho winds in the Missouri Valley to rise from moderate to fresh. The barometer is now highest in the Middle and New England § A general rise of temperature is obser vapecially over the lake region and the St. Law rence Valley, Warm weather will, therefore, set in during the next few days in this district, und will be followed by rains and thunder storms. | We call attention to our special cable despatch from Queenstown announcing the fulfilment to the day of the storm warning sent to our London Bureau on the 21st inst. Although storms arc unpleasant visitors to the coasts of Kurope, it is some sutisfaction to the people there to know five days in advance of their character and arrival. The weather in New York to-day will be warmer and fair, but showers of short duration may visit us from the south- ward toward night. Policy and Desigms ef Russia. The interesting and instructive despatch from St. Petersburg, printed in the Henax yesterday, should ead hasty people who have jumped to conclusions not war- ranted by any authentic evidence to revise their opinions respecting the ultimate pur- poses of Russia in embarking in this war. We see no reason for doubting that the statements made to our correspondent by a Russian official were frank and sincere. At any rate, they coincide with the real inter- ests of Russia in this conjuncture and with every declaration made by the Czar since the commencoment of the presént troubles, They are also confirmed by the opinions put forth by Mr, Wallace in bis recent important book on Russia, published before. the war broke out, and presenting tho result of an intelligent study of the country during a residence of five years. Mr, Wallace thinks the notion that the Muscovite government cherishes @ design or even a wish to make Con- stantinople its capital belongs to ‘‘po- litical mythology.” He asserts, after long and various intercourse, that no Tussian statesman entertains such a thought, and he explains quite at length, in the last chupter of his book, why it is neither the present policy nor the interest of Russia to acquire Constantinople. ‘To this extent, at least, the observations of Mr. Wallace, dur- ing the last five years, are at one with the interesting statements made to our corre- spondent at St. Petersburg by # Russian diplomat. . The Ozar himself has made repeated and very emphatic declarations that he seeks no acquisition of territory. The world is well acquainted with the disclaimers set forth in his public manifestoes, but they fall short of the statements which he made to the British Ambassador, as reported by Mr. Cross in the recent debate in the House of Commons. in November last the Emperor Alexander said to the British Ambassador:—‘He had on several occasions given the most solemn assurances that he desired no conquest, that he aimed at no aggrandizement, and that he had not the smallest wish or intention to be possessed of Constantinople.” It is difficult to imagine any good reason why the Czar should bind himself by such strong language to the representative of a foreign govern- ment if he did not mean it, But he did not stop even here: he went on to say to the British Ambassador :—‘‘All that has been said about the will of Peter the Great and “the aims of Catherine II. were illusions and phantoms. They never existed in reality, and he considered that the acquisition of Constantinople would be a misfortune for Russia.” It is no wonder that at this point Mr. Cross wasinterrupted by cries of ‘Hear ! hear!’ as he proceeded in repeating the statements of the Czar. “There was no question of it,” the Czar continued, ‘‘nor had it ever been entertained by his late father, who gave proof of it in 1828, when his victorious army was within four days of Constantinople.” Now, if these very remarkable declarations of the Emperor Alexander, which contradict so much that has been generally attributed to Russia, were truthful and sincere, there will be no difficulty in localizing the pres- ent war. He has doubtless given the same assurances to Germany and Austria that ‘he has to England, and there is nothing in the attitude of these immediate neighbors to indicate that they disbelieve him. But, it may be asked, If Russia is to keep aloof from Constantinop!e and to acquire no territory, what advantage will she reap from the war? This is a question on which our despatch from St. Peters- burg throws a great deal of light. The Russian official with whom our correspondent had an interview was very explicit in his predictions, and, even if they have little value as predictions, they at least disclose the wishes and expectations of the Russian government. Russia expects, as fruits of this war, that Turkey will be diminished in size and hemmed in by a cor- don of independent States carved out of re- gions which have heretofore acknowledged her sovereignty. This important result and the political consequences that would natu- rally flow from it area sufficient induce- ment for Russia to prosecute the war if she thinks she can succeed to that extent. With Bulgaria, Herzegovina, Roumania, Servia and Bosnia independent the Porte would beso crippled and weakened that Egypt would also throw off its allegiance, having nothing to fear from the Sultan in his debilitated condition, With the loss of these tributary dependencies he would lose so great a part of his revenue that he would become tractable and amenable to the dicta- tion of the great Powers or be driven out of Europe. This programme has already been partially carried out by a declaration of independence on the part of Roumania, and the other tributary provinces will be tempted to follow the example as soon as Turkey is sufficiently weakened. But, it may be further asked, what ad- vantage will come to Russia from this cur- tailment and crippling of her southern neighbor? The answer to this ques- tion is also furnished by our St. Petersburg despatch, She will acquire a free passage to and from the Medi- terranean by unrestricted use of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. To be sure, she will not replace Turkey in her sovereignty over those waters. This the great Powers of Europe would never per- mit. Russia knows they would not, and, therefore, she will not attempt it. But ‘Turkey would be displaced from her ex- clusive control ; she would no longer carry the key to that door in her pocket. She would be forced to surrender it, not intothe hands of Russia, indeed, but into the hands of the great Powers, The Bosphorus and Dardanelles would no longer be Turkish ; waters, but part of the universal highway of | commerce, alike free to all nations, All would be benefited, but Russia more than any of the rest, mot because she | | would possess any unshared advantage, but because, from her territorial situation, she has a greater intorest in the commerce of those regions. The Bosphorus will be free, as the Suez Canal ought to be free, and as the Isthmus of Darien Canal ought to be free to all nations on equal terms, whenever it shall be constructed. Whatever political changes may be necessary for insuring the freedom of the Bosphorus will have to be made under a general European guarantee, and the Sultan cannot help himself. Eng- land would profit more by the new arrange- ments than any other country excepting Russia. Her capital would find employ- ment in building railroads inthe new inde- pendent States and developing their re- sources, and their prosperity would extend her markets. Supposing the Russian declarations to be sincere no country has any interest in sup- porting Turkey in this War, and all should wish to see the remnants of her tottering power annihilated as speedily as possible. If all the other Powers remain neutral the struggle cannot be long, forthe reason that Turkey is utterly bankrupt. Even before the war began her financial condition had become desperate. She had long ago ex- hausted her power to borrow, and her revenue in the year 1875-6 was less than half her expenditure. In October, 1875, she repudiated one-half of the interest on her public debt, and afterward failed to pay the other half. By another order of the govern- ment, issued in July, 1876, she openly an- nounced that no payments would be made “until the internal affairs of the Empire have become more settled.” Later in the same month she fell back on that last re- source of insolvent governments, a large issue of irredeemable paper money, which has already become nearly worthless by depreciation. The Khedive, seeing a chance for independence, will probably find some excuse for not paying his stated tribute. Russia’s financial condition can- not be called good, but against Turkey alone she can maintain the war indefinitely, whereas Turkey has utterly exhausted her resources in the mere work of preparation. The result of the struggle between two such unequal combatants’ cannot be doubtful if they are let alone. The sooner Turkey asks fora conference of the great Powers, with a promise of implicit submission to their ad- vice, the more she will save from the wreck. General Grant in Europe. Our telegram by cable announces that the Indiana, with General Grant and party on board, arrived at Queenstown yesterday, on her way to Liverpool, at which port she will arrive to-day. It was not in the programme, so far as we know, that the General should go ashore at Queenstown ; and, therefore, it must bein simple pursuance of his plan that he remained on the ship to her port of final destination, where a warm welcome and brilliant hospitalities await him. Had achance been afforded the people of any Irish city by his passage through that coun- try the exuberant sympathy of Ireland for America would doubtless have multiplied itself in manifestations of welcome to ‘the great commander, As it happens, however, that he lands first on English soil his wel- come to Europe will be given in the more deliberate ceremonial of English banquets, with probably not less heartiness and good will, Cieaning London Streets. Our citizens who can look back with a shudder to the inexpressibly filthy con- dition of the streets of New York at the close of the past winter will doubtless take a deep interest in the process by which the London thoroughfares are kept clean all the yearround. When one thinks of the topog- raphy of our city and the way in which nature but asks the smallest assist- ance to keep the surface clean, he is filled with indignation to think how incompletely even that little aid is given. London, with its seven thousand miles of streets, rained on twelve months of the year, traversed day and night by tens of thousands of heavy vehicles, and trodden by its nigh four millions of people, yet manages to scoop up its mud daily over the entire surface, removes all its ashes and garbage with clocklike regularity, and so keeps down the death rate even in the most densely populated districts to a surprisingly low figure. We can do the same, and, proportionately, with a tithe of the effort. It is a mere matter of business, and suscep- tible of the same economic treatment as the sweepings of a tobacco factory, where noth- ing goes to waste. Fortunes are made by doing the work in London. In New York the rule has been to make fortunes by not doing it. Our London letter on the subject of strect cleaning is respectfully called to the attention of our young local statesmen who are ambitious of distinction and have not yet got an ‘‘axe” with the street broom for a handle, A Proposed Meeting of Governors, An enthusiastic correspondent, whose effu- sive patriotism is irrepressible, desires that the Governors of all the States shall assem- ble and embrace each other in Independence Hall, in the renowned City of Brotherly Love, take sweet counsel togetherand come to New York in company, and then make a joint pilgrimage and part with touching farewells under the shadow and benediction of Bunker Hill monument. Our patriotic correspondent asks us ‘to advocate this interesting exhibition. We cannot quite do that, but we give our gracious permission and consent, and promise to report it—when it happens, We have looked at the list of Governors, and find it consists of twenty-three democrats and fifteen republicans; but this need create no difficulty in arranging the details of an “‘arm-in-arm convention.” It is only necessary to sandwich one republican be- tween two democrats in several cases, mak- ing the column consist of eight arm-in-arm triplets followed by seven arm-in-arm couples. We suggest, for example, ‘that Governor Conner, who isa warm friend of Senator Blaine, “‘keep step to the music of the Union,” leaning lovingly with his right armon Governor Wade Hampton and his left on Governor Nicholls. Governor Grover, who gave the famous certificate to Cronin, has unfortunately become a Senator, or he might march at the right of Governor Young, of Ohio, with Governor Stone, of Mississippi, on his left. We could suggest other arrangements which would be marvellous pictures of fraternal j harmony, but we do not presume to offer our services as master of ceremonies on that delightful occasion, Only the genius of Barnum could bring out all the amiable qualities of such a “happy family.” NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY,.MAY 28, 1877.-TRIPLE SHEET. The War. Our special despatch from the Russian headquarters at Ploejesti gives an extract from the official report of the officer by whom the Turkish monitor was blown up on Saturday morning. In this simple, straightforward story is given the outline of a splendid exploit—as gallant and daring an achievement as is to be found in the chronicles of maritime warfare. ‘To all American readers it will recall that gallant episode in the history of our own navy when our brave boys exploded a torpedo alongside the rebel ram Albemarle and sent her to the bottom. On the night of May 25 the Russian boats left Braila, , They are called ‘‘gunboats” in the despatch ; but it must be remembered they are craft which the Russians carried with them in sections, and which have been put together since they have been on the Danube. Lieutenant Denbasoff ran his little oraft under the guns of the Turkish monitors at Matchin and exploded a tor- pedo under the largest one, which damaged but did not altogether cripple her; then another boat of the expedition gave the same monitor a second torpedo, and she went down in ten minutes. Evidently the Turks were as brave as they were helpless, for they continued their fire till the water stopped the muzzles of their guns ; yet this tenaciously persistent fire was delivered so utterly at random that the little Russian craft alongside received no harm. This is an event of consequence, as it exhibits the ultimate worthlessness of iron-clads and great guns where there are gallant hearts and nautical skill todeal with them. Here some little craft, ran down to the river in the baggage of an army, armed only with the “loaded tin can” of the period, prove them- selves superior to the great structures pre- pared at enormous cost in the great dock- yards of England with the labor of years, In the sugcess of the torpedo lies the next revolution in navai warfare. . Active operations by the armies on the Danube are evidently delayed by the condi- tion of the river, Several days since it had already fallen to the point at which it was possible to bridge it, but recent rains have swollen it again, All its tributaries are overflowing their banks, and the Danube itself has invaded the extensive low district on the Roumanian side, and, therefore, on the greater part of the Russian front, is rather an inland. sea than an ordinary river. Further complication of the international aspects of the Danube campaign is likely to arise from the attitude of the Servians, who are apparently preparing, it not already prepared, to co- operate with the Russian forward movement into Turkish territory; Despatches ‘from Asia state the Turkish forces engaged in the Kars and Erzeroum operations at one hun- dred and forty thousand men, which seems a large figure, considering how little that army has been able to oppose the Russian operations, Evidently the abandonment of Erzeroum is already regarded os a foregone conclusion, Cheap Comforts in the Park. We publish elsewhere an interesting arti- cle upon the management of the Central Park restaurants and the charges for the goat wagons, donkey rides, hobby- horses and merry-go-rounds, in which both the old and young frequent- ers of our city pleasure ground find amusement, As the Park was created for the use of the people, and is supported by them, they should have its pleasures at the least cost. The privileges granted to ven- ders of any kind of entertainment should be carefully restricted, so that the public cannot be imposed on. The general man- agement of the Park is excellent, but the Commissioners might, with advantage, give special attention to the manner in which the restaurants are at present conducted. Places at which visitors can dine or sup are indispensable to the Park, and, of course, a fair profit must be conceded to their con- ductors; but under the existing system the profits are altogether too large. Instead of the prices being less in the Park than in the city, as they should be, they are in many cases more. As there is no competition on the ground visitors are obliged to pay what is demanded or to feast upon the beau- ties of nature alone. It is mot the true policy, of course, to seek to make money out of the restaurants for the benefit of the Park fund, but, on the con- trary, they should be considered essential elements of the public enjoyment. For this reason we think that the restaurants should be given, rent free, to competent and faithful caterers on the absolute condi- tion that they shall supply the best food at the lowest possible rates. This should be a matter of contract, and the Commissioners should reserve the right to cancel the lease of any restaurant in which the agreement is violated. Inferior food at exorbitant prices ought not to be longer tolerated in the pleasure ground of the people, and we hope to see the reform begun and established at once, From Stamboul to Varna, The graphic letter from a Henan cor- respondent, descriptive of a trip by sea from Constantinople to Varna, which will be found elsewhere, gives a capital idea of the latter important Turkish port and fortress on the Black Sea. Although the probable intention of the Russians to cross the Danube to the west of Rustchuk ob- viously places Varna in the background, so far as immediate operations are concerned, it must be remembered that it is one of the four points of the Turkish quadrilateral— Rustchuk, Silistria, Shumla and Varna— all of which must be either taken or masked before the Russians can be quite safe in crossing the Balkans. It is probable, if the left flank of the Turkish army is turned and Rustchuk and Silistria should fall, that the last great fights of the war in Turkey in Europe will take place along the line of railroad from Silistria to Varna, The rail- road passes near Shumla, which is very strong, but the fall of even that fortress would still leave Varna, and there, protected from the sea by the powerful Turkish fleet, perhaps the most obstinate defence of the whole campaign could be made On its belt of outlying forts, manned by stout~ hearted Moslems fired with fanatical zeal, ] the iron hail is doubtless doomed to fall. Its surroundings of hill and sea would form a fine amphitheatre to witness the last struggles of a Power which came into Europe with the sword to perish by the sword after four hundred years, during which it added nothing to human progress, but piled up pyramids on pyramids of human misery as sacrifices to its selfishness and lust, Swinging Around the Circle. Some days ago we compared the attitude of Marshal MacMahon to that assumed by | the late President Johnson in his famous conflict with Congress over the principles and process of reconstruction, but we searcely believed that the Marshal would furnish so odd an addition to the parallel as to initiate a tour of the country precisely analogous to Johnson’s famous “swinging around the circle.” {t appears, however, that proceeding ‘of this nature is an instinctive resort of men who have placed themselves in opposition to the legitimate depositaries of po- litical power. They cannot wait for the appeal to the country that is to be made in a regular way, and they endeavor to forestall it—to hurry the judgment on their acts and secure its utterance in circum- stances that will incline in their favor the opinions of excitable people. Johnson’s rash, inconsiderate, feverish, passionate ap- peal to the people in popular assemblies against the people in Congress only exag- gerated his burdens with the weight of public ridicule; but it will not be thus in France. No one there has the temerity to laugh at a President who is also a Marshal of France; but we doubt if the experiment ‘will much better his political position. © Finesse in Diplomacy. © How it came about that war was finally declared, with everybody ostensibly eager to prevent it, might be a mystery in the world at large if people had not already found for themselves an easy solution of this point by the simple assumption that the desire to avoid the war was a sham. But the intricate facts in the history of great events are always of interest, and they take a view of the case in the Russian capital that will, perhaps, not appearin the English chronicles of the origin of the war. From this view it appears that, in wpite of all the really important reasons that England had to desire the preservation of peace, the war re- sulted from the inability of some English statesmen to resist the temptation to play a sharp and finessing game—the insane desire to appear to have made a brilliant coup and to have put their adversaries in a false posi- tion, At, the time the protocol was sub- mitted at Constantinople the right sort of declaration from London would have foreed its acceptance. But at that time the English government had very erroneous ideas of Russian intention with regard towar. These ideas were derived from Lord Loftus, the British Ambassador at St. Petersburg, who reported to his government that Russia did not mean war and would not fight; that her pretended preparations were a farce. This report fellon sympathetic ears, went a little further than the Foreign Office and reached Musurus Pacha, the Turkish Am- bassador, who sent it to Constantinople with the hint that the protocol might, therefore, be safely rejected. It was rejected, and England’s rulers, instead of seeing Russia forced to creep out of a hole, saw to their dismay that war was rendered inevitable, If, as some believe, Russia really wanted war, it is evident that all she had to do to secure her object was to play upon the cre- dulity of Lora Loftus. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Toronto girls are pretty, Bob Ingersoll is in California, ‘Young Ben Hill is a literary youth, Wagner wears his beard like a paper collar. Evarte can smile and smile and be a Wilham. Donver (Col.) hotels are Gilling up with travellers, Bathers at Coney Island indulge in floating gossip. Mr, Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, is at the Evercty, Mr. Charies Collings wilt start the Black Hills Cham- pion. Mr, James Gillean, of the London (Ont) Advertiser, isin New York. Pendleton is looming ap as the democratic candi- date for Ohio Senator. The Montreal Herald says that Gencra) Grant always acted for what he thought to be the best, “Gath” has made a pun, but not one idiot tn the Paregoric Association would vote for bim, The Orleans Clab, of London, has Sir Jobn Astloy at ite bead, and is the new home of aristocratic Bohe- mians, It will take Courbet thirty years to pay for puiling down the Vendome Column. He will pay 10,000 francs a year. General Tom Ewing says that the Eastern demo- crats lod tho Western democrats to surrender after a victory. Some of thoso Harvard youvg men who made tree love with tho free lovers ought to be sent to fondling asylums, Lord Carnarvon told Mr. Froude all about it, and Froude told Carlyle; and Carlyle jumped bis little N agara with bis letter. ‘The New Orleans Democrat asserts that the President used these words to one its editors in Washington two weeks ago:—“My purpose, sir, is to completely rid the politics of your State of the alien element.” A man always gets through his ice-cream first, and | looks round with a fawn-like smile. But if his girl really loves nim sho will geatly push ber plate away from ber, and say, ‘*Won’t you take a snootful of mine?’? Danbury News:—‘‘A complaint is made against the increased expense of funerals. Ono reason of this cost is that so many friends want to ride, and this In spite of the fact that cheap excursions are constantly mul- tiplying. But then griet is very cxbausting.”” Norristown Heral ‘Mr. Alger says ‘a woman opens a book, sees a dried leaf, and sheds tears,’ and it is pretty much the same way with a man. He opens a favorite book just returned by a borrower, sees # torn leaf, and feels like shedding tears—or the borrower's blood."’ Norwich Bull '—‘‘Much has been written against the accordeon, but the first evening after a young man who practiced on one moved into the second floor of a house on Union street a smile lit up the face of the aged citizen who lay in sickness on the floor atove, He said that he was now reconciled to death.” Memphis Appeal:—‘It is a cousolation to know that the ‘smart folks’—those who advised their neighbors to grow plenty of corn, while they grew all cotton, hoping to reap a fortune out of it and buy their corn ‘for a meré song’—huve got the worst of it, and have discovered that to be ‘too smart’ is to be not smart at all.’” Weekty Hrrarn beel stew:—“Two pounds of lean Tound steak cut in dico, simmered (the water being skimmed) foran hour, Add tour diced onions, two celery staiks (when in season) and some parsley, with & teaspoonful of minced carrot, Stew twouty min- utes, Adda quart of diced parboiled potatoes, with buttor, a teaspoonful of flour, salt and pepper, and cook till done, The flavor may be varied by adding two tomatoes, or u handful of barley putin with the beet, o tablespoonfuls of rice a half hour be: the stew is done, or halfacan of mushrooms tifteon minutes before it is done, '” TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. GENERAL GRANT IN ENGLAND. Preparations for the Reception’ of the Ex-President. ; THE ORISIS IN FRANCE Probable Dissolution of the Chamber. : THE“ POPE AND. AUSTRIA. [er caBLz To THE HERALD. Loxpon, May 28, 1877, Ex-President Grant and party arrived in Queens- town yesterday, on board the steamer Indiana. They had encountered very rough weather on the passage over, and all the party except the ex- President were considerably under the weather. However, all were in excellent health this morning on their arrival in Queenstown. The party didnot land, but passed on to Liverpool. Apartments have been taken at the Adelphi Hotel for the ac- commodation of the ex-Presidential party. PROBABLE DISSOLUTION OF THK FRENCH CHAMBER. A telegram from Paris says there are several ind{- cations that the Chamber will be diasolved sooner then expected All the newspapers urge their respective partics to actively canvass the electors. « By an official decree twenty-six Communists have been pardoned. 2 NO COMMERCIAL TREATY WITH AMERICA, According to the Havas Agency the informa! prelimi- nary negotiations commenced with a view to elaberat- ing a treaty of commerce with the United States, have-been discontinued and will not be renewed at present, MME, TIBTIEN’S CONDITION. Mme. Tietiens, who underwent a surgical operation for dropay last Wednesday, is stili dangerously ili, On Thursday and Friday the worst {ears wore enter- tained, but on Saturday there were some encouraging indications; and, although for many days her state will be so critical that not even any member of her own family will be permitted to see her, there is still room to hope that her life will be spared. THE FRENCH DERBY, The contest for the prize of the Jockey Club (the French Derby) came off at Chantilly yesterday. The race was won by Jongleur; Verneuil was second and Strachino third, Kightran, The betting was 3'to on Jongleur at the start, z THE POPE axD ‘AUBTRIA, ‘ A aespatch from Rome says:—“The Pope, ‘Teceiving the Austrian pilgrims, deplored the change in Au» tria’s behavior toward the Holy See, whose rights abo formerly defended even by force of arms.” HERALD STORM WARNING FULFILLED, GALES AND BAIN ARRIVE ON TIME AS PRE* DIOTED—FAVOBABLE WIND FOR THE CITT OF BRUSSELS, [Bz CABLE TO THE HERALD. ] QUEENSTOWN, May 27, 1877, Your cable warning of the 2ist to the effect that ®& depression was moving eastward from Nova Scotia and would reach the British and French coasts on or after Friday, bringing northeast shitt. ing to southwest gales, rain and rising temperas ture, has been entirely fulfilled. The gale trom the southwest came this morning, at- tended by rains and thick weather. On Friday and Saturday the wind was from the northeastward and southward, with in- creasing cloudiness and rain. The wind is regarded here as favorable for the City of Brussels making her passage up the Irish Sea to Liverpool, where she will go without stopping at this port. 4A tele- gram tc-day from Holyhead reports a tresh gale from the south, with heavy rain. Much interest 19 feltin the progress of the City of Brussels, and people eagerly note the weather changes that oc- cur from day today. The accuracy of the HERALD storm predictions is widely noticed and com mended. GENERAL GRANT IN EUROPE, INSTRUCTIONS TO THE NAVAL COMMANDERS OF FOREIGN STATIONS, ' Wasutotox, May 27,1877, The Secrotary of the Navy yesterday addressed 9 letter of instructions to the commanders of foreign’ stations, stating that ex-Prosident Grant wis tow making 8 tour of the world, and that when he reaches their vicinity they will show bim proper attention and facilitate his means of observation abroad, RUSSIA’S INDUSTRIAL NECESSITIES MARKET FOR AMEBICAN MANU: FACTURES, Wasminatos, May 27, 1877. The Uuited States Consul at O.esua, Russia, in @ report to the State Department, writes as follows: — Implements of agriculture might come in great quantities to this country if our manufecturers would mako an effort in that direction aad adapt their imple- ments for the use of the peasantry of this country, ‘The principal thing to be done is to mako them ex- ceedingly frm and strong. American reapers and mowers are now favorites above all others, and have a large sale. In other machinery the English manulacturers have the field, and | cle of their machinery that excels unless expensiveness may be deeme: collence, i am persuaded that there is a fice Geld hore for the Awerican thre ig machine, During the year A\ & PROMISING ngines belore in use tI can | ies red at Odessa rican Vessel entered at Gurti ‘There were two at Taganrog. = Only one the year 1876, THE NEW DOMINION, EVIDENCES OF DECLINE IN TRADE—A MISSINQ BANK DIVIDEND—VESSELS LYING IDLR aT THE WHARVES. (BX TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Montreat, May $7; 1877. Considerable excitement has been caused bere by the announcement that the Merchants’ Bank, from the presidency of which Sir H. Allen was obliged to retire, is not going to declare any dividend for the last ball year, DECLINE IN THE SHIPPING BUSINESS, Shipping business is abnormally slack here for the Season, The mail steamship Sarmatian was lying idle at her dock Saturday, as not a pound of froight was of- fering to go in her, and the Allens are thinking of making a jortnightly trip up the St Lawrence, the al- ternate woek sending their mail boat to Halifax and tne down to Baltimore tor cary ‘The enormous tonnage rates in river are-deter+ hero, as goods can be Ting sailing vessels irom com: Iaid down in Toronto and Chicago as cheap by rail irom New York, Portiand and Boston as when landed here, Merchants here are fast losing trade, and our pa wed men, to save themselves, are shipping via altimore, New York and Boston. Tne stagnation ia trade here is simply unprecedented,