The New York Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1878, Page 6

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Rubseriptions nnd navertisements will b forwardes on the same terms asin New Yor VOLUME XLII. roperly sealed, be returned. ceived and AMUSEMEN AMERICAN INSTITUTE—Exiusitios. WALLACK's THEAT! UNION SQUARE THE STANDARD THEATR FIFTH AVENUE THEA KIBLO’S GARDEN—The Devvon ACADEMY OF MUS: sna GRAND OPERA 1100 GILMORE’S GARDEN—| ACADEMY OF DESIG VIFTH AVENUE HAL GERMADIA THEATR BROADWAY THEATRE. BOWERY THEATRE—! BOOTHW'S THEATRE— TIVOL! THEATRE —Vauiery. HAYMARKET THEATRE SHICKERING HAL! 3 BROAD ST, TH iphia—Epwix Boots. The proba York and its vicinity to-day will be cloudy and warm, with southeast to east winds and rain, To- morrow it will be cloudy and rainy, probably with strong easterly to southerly winds. Watt Street Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was fairly active, but feverish. Gold was steady all day at 1001. Government bonds ‘were steady, States dull and railroads irregular. Money on call was easy at 5 a 6 per cent. Some Pecuniar and extraordinary features of the yellow fever are detailed in our New Or- Jeans despatch. As Errort for the benefit of workingwomen and their children is outlined in avother col- umn, and the benevolent are informed how to encourage the good work. Memoners of the Vanderbilt ‘ily, through subpenaed witnesses, continue to belittle the dead Commodore's reputation and character, re- gardless of the effect of these efforts upon their own. New Yorkers Wiut Reauize the full impor tance of the pending naturalization question as they read, under ‘New York's Voting Strength,” that in this city the naturalized voters exceed the native voters by fifty thousand. Tne Loyxe Anticiratep Race between the yachts Gracie and Vision was sai on yester- day in fine style, the course being twenty miles to windward and return, the time less than seven hours and the Gracie winning by nearly fourteen minutes. Tue Russtans piously blessed their new eruiser, which was launched at Philadelphia yesterday, and thereby dropped a hint for the Denefit of our own navy, for if blessing will do a ship any good the majority of our war ships can stand a great deal of it. Tue Atperwen Reso.vep Yrsterpay to teach Commissioner Campbell that it is unbe- coming a public official to wilfully repeat a gross blunder. This is not exactly the wording | of the resolution provoked by the broken arch, but the meaning is the same. As tne Brooxityy Boanp or ALDERMEN, acting as a Board of Estimate, has reduced the pay of tho police force, which is on duty all the while, taxpayers in the City of Churches may auticipate a tremendous reduction when the City Fathers reach their own salaries. Ir Men will insist upon committing murder they at least owe it to their own reputations and the sentiments of society to sce that the motive is in keeping with the deed. A horse collar, which was the cause of the fatal affray in Ohio yesterday, is entirely out of keeping with the magnitude of the act. Meppiesome Goversment Orvictats got some deserved raps from the United States Board ot Trade yesterday, bnt they were not hurt in the least. What is needed is an act of Congress to elearly define the duties of customs officials and convince these lawless meddlers that their duty is werely to collect customs duties—not to reg- ulate trade throughout the civilized world and ruin it in America. he area of high pressure that extended over the Middle and Eastern States on Monday has moved into the Atlantic, and is followed from the westward by a depres, gion which now extends from Upper Canada southward over the Ohio Valley. This disturb- ence is attended by rains, and has been preceded on the coast by tal fogginess, From the southwest the barometer is rising steadily, and a very extensive area of high pressure is advancing over the Lower Missis- sippi. However, the influence of the cyclonic storm now moving slowly northeastward along the Atlantic coast from Florida is calculated to limit the extent of the high area eastward. Another depression is moving out of the North- wost, followed by rapidly increasing pressure and consequently high northwesterly winds. Raine have fallen over the Ohio Valiey and lake re- gion as well as on the Gulf and the South At- Jantic coast. The rains of the latter district attend the cyclonic storm to the southeastward. Temperatures are remarkably uniform through- out the country, but sharp contrasts oecur dur- ing the hours of darkness. The coldest district extents from the upper lakes into Manitoba and Dakota. The attention of masters of coasting vessels is called to the approaching stormy weather along the Atlantic seaboard. As the pressure fell steadily during yesterday after- ‘noon fn important change of the conditions may be looked for today. The weather in New York and its vieinity will be cloudy and warm, with southeast to cast winds and rain, To morrow it will be cloudy and rainy, probably with strong ensterly to southerly winds. Is the Democratic Party Breaking Up? The ‘‘fraud” cry is not heard in the dem- ocratic camp as much as it was a little while ago, and as there is, for the moment, what Sydney Smith called a *‘burst of silence” among our democratic friends, we take the occasion to offer them a few words of ad- vice. Lookers on, it is said, see most of the game, and it must bea very foolish and pur- blind looker on at the game of politics which the democrats are playing who does not see that they are making a moss of it. The democratic party hopes to carry the country in 1880. In order to do that it needs to get more votes than the republicans; and to achieve that object it must convince the voters between now and 1880 that on the whole the democrats will serve the best in- terests of the country better than their op- ponents, That is the only way for them to elect the next President, as can easily be shown. The democratic party may safely count upon a certain large number of voters who will follow its fortunes and support its ticket and policy, no matter what these are. But in this respect it is not so well off, cer- tainly no better, than the republican party. That has also a solid, well disciplined organization, and can in like manner safely depend upon a large number of voters who will support its ticket and platform what- ever these may be. Considering that the federal patronage remains in the hands of the republicans; that they know extremely well how to use it, and that their party dis- cipline is on the whole more effective than that of their opponents, it will probably not be denied that if only the strict and blind party followers on each side were to vote in 1880 the republicans would win the election. But there is a large, a very numerous body of voters in this country, which has greatly increased within the last few years, consisting of men who do not blindly or obediently follow party dictation on either side. They consider tho best interests of the country, and they vote one way or the other as seems to them best, They are the. “independent voters,” who are the terror of politicians; and, while they do not nomi- nate a candidate, they will elect the next President. Now, it is an undeniable fact that in 1876 the greater part of this inde- pendent vote went to the democratic side, and more would have gone there had it not been for its distrust of the democratic can- didate, who was attacked in various ways which might not have been effective had he defended himself, but whose over-cautious silence hurt him and his party with a mul- titude of voters who were discontented with the republican party, but yet adhered to it because they did not like Mr. Tilden’s ‘‘rec- ord” and surroundings. We ask any demo- erat who is capable of looking even a little distance beyond the end of his nose to think whether his party could count to-day on so large a support from the independent voters as it received in 1876? It certainly could not, and for this there are several reasons. In the first place the administra- tion of President Hayes, though for awhile it was attacked by his own party, has un- doubtedly conciliated the good opinions of a large number of independent men who did not vote for him in 1876; and the feud within his party has at the same time been healed, or, at least, patched over. The re- publican party is stronger at this moment than it was two or three years ago. The fact that it has lost a few Congressmen this fall does not invalidate this statement. The democratic gerrymander in Ohio, for in- stance, was intended to secure at least two or three more democratic districts than they got the other day, and the plain truth is that but for this deliberate and careful par- tisan redistricting of the State the demo- crats would have carried fewer districts this year than they did two years ago. But while the republicans have drawn back to them a part of the independent vote they lost in 1876, the democratic party has undoubtedly and persistently alienated the sympathy und confidence of this class by anxiously running after the tramps. Do the democratic leaders really believe that the tramp vote is going to elect the next President? They are greatly mistaken. The country wants, above all other things, pence, order, rest and stability. It will carry into power in 1880 that party which promises these things. But the democrats appear to care for nothing of this kind. In the North they figure asthe disorganizers of the currency ; in the South they add to this a new interference with the political rights of citizens. Can they not see that this attitude of theirs is fatal to their suc- cess two years hence ?—that it repels all the great mass of thoughtful and influential in- dependent voters who would like to see change in administration ; who think the republican party has been in power too long, but who will not help toa change which would, as they are fast coming to be- lieve, be gertainly tor the worse? Take, for instance, these South Carolina political disturbances. The democrats ought to understand that while the federal interference served as an excuse in former times for the violent methods used in self- defence, the South has no such excuse now in the public opinion of the North, South- ern democrats can hope for no sympathy nowadays from Northern men of any party when they interfere with the free political action of the blacks, and it is far better for them to suffer defeat in their States and to let the republicans elect bad men, than by violence to maintain that ridiculous and dangerous thing they call a ‘‘solid South.” Nothing will be so damaging to the demo- cratic party hereafter asa “solid South.” It requires very little wisdom to see this, for it will be regarded everywhere in the North as evidence that the Southern demo- erats have coerced the negro vote, It is in the North, and notin the South, that the democratic party must elect its President in 1880 if it is to choose him at all, So far as the issues of the future have devel- oped themselves they are two—the currency and the South ; but on both these questions the democrats will be in s hopeless minor- ity in the North two years hence unless they turn a very sharp corner. Do they really hope to carry the country in 1880 for irredeemable paper money, and a ‘solid | home championship. South” secured by violence and intimida- American people as to believe that a policy made up in equal parts of swindling and revo- lutionary violence can gain them a Presi- dential election? Do they not see that such a policy—to which they are fast getting committed—would lose them not only the independent vote, without which they can never succeed, but also a large and the best part of their own following? Enforce the Law. The Society for the Prevention of Crimo has addressed a letter, through its officers, tothe Excise Commissioners, to which, it complains, no answer has been received. The letter charges that licensed saloons in the city bearing the sign ‘‘Hotel” are not hotels in fact or within the meaning of tho Excise law; that the Commissioners have been “grossly deceived and imposed upon” by applicants and inspectors; that places licensed for the saloof ale and beer habitu- ally sell liqnors, and that it is a “monstrous perversion” to pretend that the number of places licensed are ‘requisite and necessary to supply the combined wants of travellers and of the thirsty resi- dents” of the localitics. The Commis- sioners of Excise have, no doubt, licensed many places that are not hotels and have no pretence whatever to be regarded as such. This we ‘believe to be a blunder as well as a violation of duty, for the reason that we cannot get rid of a bad law more speedily or more surely than by enforcing it strictly. The law of 1857 is not fitted for the cities of the State ; it does not prevent intemperance or restrict the sale of liquors; it only cripples and embarrasses the police supervision over licensed houses, and, as to New York, de- prives the city of a larg> portion of a@ revenue devoted to the aid of its charitable institutions. If the Excise Board would give the inexpedient law its strictest interpretation and enforce its pro- visions rigidly it would soon be changed. New York is especially interested in secur- ing a liberal, fair and well guarded Excise law, and the people of the city will not for- get that such a law, as well asa just and constitutional apportionment, bas been de- nied them by republican legislatures. Surveying the Mighty Amazon, The employment of ships of war for the furtherance of the works of peace is one of those pleasing facts that mark the progress of civilization in the right direction. The Amazon River, as it drains an immense area of the South American continent, serves as a natural highway for the infant commerce of that region. Heretofore the Amazon has been a river of which little was known to navigators. Native pilots were employed to pick a channel among the sand banks and shallows that were found to exist in the lower sections of the stream, and but few vessels ventured to ascend to where the great tributaries branched away into the interior wilderness. Now, thanks to the labors of United States officers, a care- ful survey of the river has been made to the mouth of the Madeira River, and up that stream to the limit of navigation marked by the Falls of St. Antonio. The positions of all important points along the Amazon have been established by careful astronomical observations conducted on a very ingenious system and the latitude and longitude of each station fixed. At meridian, by means of direct observation and chronometer time as a check, the positions of two stars, one north and the other south of the zenith, were found for latitude andof one east and the other west of me- ridian for longitude. Each station was, therefore, in astronomical re'ation to the four stars and within the four sided figure whose angles they marked. We print to- day highly interesting tables giving the positions of the several points along the Amazon, with the names of the observed stars in each case. Asan evidence of scien- tific labor faithfully performed these tables reflect great credit on their authors and on Commander Selfridge, who superintended the survey. While we know that our naval officers have no superiors in anything con- nected with their profession we feel that this work is one of special merit, and is as useful as it is interesting. Marvard Eight Go to England? It is proposed to send the Harvard eight to Europe next year to row either Oxford or Cambridge. The despatch does not state whether the plan isto forma third crew in the annnal meeting between the chosen eights of the two universities on the Putney course, or to enter, as Columbia did, in the open Henley meeting, or to getona special match with the winning ‘’Varsity eight.” But as the ‘*’Varsity race” usually takes place in late March or early April, which is right in the middle of term time at Harvard, and as it is not at all likely that the Harvard crew would be allowed to be absent then, and as the Henley meet- ing, unless held very late, as it was this year, is practically open to the same objec- tion, a special match later on is probably meant. If the victorious English eight goes into such a contest it will necessitate giving much of their long vacation to train- ing, and this objection, and the clean work Columbia made of it with all the crews which faced her, render it somewhat doubt- ful whether Harvard's challenge, if she sends one, will be accepted--at any rate with the alacrity with which Oxford met her similar invitation in 1869, But, in any case, there is one thing Har- vard ought to do betore she goes to Eng- land. She has been beaten at home, not once only, but twice, by Cornell. She ought to face the latter and do her utmost to prove her crew the fastest home university eight of the year betore going to try con- clusions with a foreign foe, Both Columbia and Yale ought also to have a chance to meet her. Let her outrow those three first and then go, and the foreign venture will be watched with far more satisfaction by all Americans, All she has to do is to say the word, Cornell is eager, Columbia is always ready, and Yale never backed down from Harvard yet ina university race, Let the four meet at New London on the earliest possible day next summer and settle the Then, if Harvard wins, let her go abroad, If not sho had Ought the tion? Have they so poor @n opinion of the | better stay at home, Affairs of the Glasgow Bank. There will be found among our cable de- spatches an interesting report of the meet- ing held yesterday by the victimized share- holders of the broken bank. Although the purpose of the meeting was entirely prac- tical the speeches were marked with such deep feeling and affecting eloquence as come spontaneously to the lips of men who are suffering under a great and over- shadowing calamity. The address of the Rey. Mr. Robertson was as remarkable for vigorous denunciation of the hypocrites who have disgraced their professions of religion as for sympathy with the multitude of sufferers who are suddenly reduced from affluence or comfort to a dis- mal prospect of beggary and wretchedness by the gigantic frauds and mismanagement of men whom they had trusted, and who perpetrated their villany under a cloak of piety. By false entries and deceptive bal- ance sheets these swindlers deluded their unsuspecting victims year after year and entrapped them into the ruin which has come upon them like a thief in the night. No longer ago than June last these faith- less officers made a report of the condition of the bank, which represented its capital of £1,000,000 ($4,540,000) as intact, as- serted that the bank had a reserve of £450,000 ($2,178,000), and declared a divi- dend of twelve per cent, implying that the bank had earned that rate in the profits of the year. Sut in three months after that exhibit the shareholders are startled and thunderstruck by the discovery that the whole capital is gone, that the whole reserve is gone, that the dividend was a flagrant deception intended to operate as a decoy, and that there is a deficiency of £5,190,000 ($25,119,600). The purpose of the meeting held yester- day was to facilitate voluntary liqui- dation and prevent the sacrifice of the as- sets by forced sales. Something may per- haps be saved out of assets which would bring nothing in an immediate sale under the bankruptcy laws. There is a large amount of stock in an American railroad ; there are forty thousand acres of farming land in New Zealand ; there are life insur- ance policies to the amount of £600,000 ($2,904,000) ; and, as Mr. Robertsen re- marked, even wicked men are liable to die, when something may be realized from these policies. A plan submitted by Mr. Robertson for making the most of the assets was to form an association to be called ‘‘The City of Glasgow Bank Assets Company,” with a cap- ital of two millions, one-half to be paidin at once and the other half to consist of deben- tures, This company, he proposed, should purchase from the liquidators whatever assets ure marketable and administer them for the advantage of the shareholders. By this means he thought they would be able to hand over to the liquidators £2,000,000 ($9,680,000) within a year. The victimized shareholders are showinga very courageous, proper spirit, and express a determination to struggle faithfully through, pay all the legal demands against them and ‘emerge with honor untouched and reputation un- shaken.” The Interoceanic Ship Canal, The remarks of Mr. Appleton on the pros- pects of the interoceanic ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien, which we print to- day, throw a very satisfactory light on this important subject. We published, recently, a conversation held with Lieuterant Wyse, of the French Navy, the commander of the exploring expedition sent to determine the shortest and most feasible route for the canal, in which he expressed the opinion that he had succeeded in finding the proper line. “His report to the association in Paris organized for the promotion of the scheme was a very satisfactory one, and received the warm approval of the In- ternational Congress of Commercial Geogra- phy recently held in Paris. With the ener- getic De Lesseps, who conquered the diffi- culties of the Suez Canal, pronounced by Stephenson to be insurmountable, guiding the deliberations of the promoters, the con- fidence of the public in the practicability of the undertaking will be greatly.increased. Onr interests being largely involved in the success of the company of execution about to be organized early steps should be taken to secure for the United States the due weight of influence necessary for the protection of our commercial future. The neutralization of the canal must tend to make it o popular outlet, and it should be our duty to muintain its neutral charac- ter against nll nations inclined to treat it as the British are disposed to treat the Suez Canal. With such a passage opened for ships through the isthmus new com- mercial currents will be crented, and we must prepare in time to reap all the ad- vantages offered by these for competing successfally in the markets of the world, Ludies in City Politics The female suffragists of New York. are taking steps for exerting a practical influ- ence upon the result of the approaching election. We understand that committees of ladies have been appointed to wait upon all the candidates for office as soon as the nominations shall have been completed and to solicit their views on the great question of women’s political rights. ‘Ihey are to hold a mass meeting in Steinway Hall on the 30th inst. to indorse and ratify the nominations of such candidates as shall make declarations in favor of female suffrage. We greet these gentle dames, and tender them our cordial good wishes, The public will owe thom its thanks if they succeed in enlivening our city politics and diffusing over the canvass the grace and refinement which make their sex so admirable, ‘There is, perhaps, no good reason why a beard should be the sole qualification of an American voter. If this is the proper mark of political capacity our fair friends may never be able to acquire it, although it is not safe to be very positive on that point considering the victories that are won over nature in the supply of back hair. But there are other marks of equality which eannot be so easily supplied, especially the thews and sinews which qualify cit- izens to serve the Republic as soldiers. We do not know on what grounds ladies R 23, 1878—TRIPLE SHEET. ci demand te rata rl ai TRLECRAPHIC NWS be delighted to see them wearing gay uni- forms in a street parade and regulating the light tread of their small, well-gaitered feet by sonorous martial music; but we caution them to remember that they cannot outvie each other in graceful fripperies when all are compelled to wear precisely the same costume without deviating by so much as asingle gilt button; but perhaps they will consent to exercise this degree of self- denial for the good of their country. But this is a remote consequence of a success not yet achieved. In their mass meeting on the 30th they can put on any attire which will set off their beauty to the best advantage, and with this precious reservation the exercise of political func- tions cannot be unpleasant. It will be de- lightful to listen to gloved or jewelled orators, Arguments will be doubly persua- sive when issuing from between beautiful teeth and enforced by the oratorical toss of ahead adorned by ‘‘alove of a bonnet.” When they hold their mass meeting may we be there tosee! But it Jupiter should hear their prayers for the suffrage and grant it, with the inseparable accompaniament of a beard, would they not repent of their peti- tion, as the two ambitious goats did in Les- sing’s well known fable? We are glad that the ladies have the courage to test their influence upon the votes of their husbands and sweethearts. ‘The candidates they favor ought to run ahead of their respective tickets; and this excess of votes will measure the influence of the fair dames and sweet damsels who so nobly show, by going into politics, that they do not deem themselves ‘‘too bright and good for human nature’s daily food.” The Louisiana Canvass. * The Lonisiana republicans have joined hands with the greenback-nationals, and have made at least two fit and proper nomi- tions for »uch a mongrel combination. Madison Wells and Thomas C. Anderson, heads of the notorious Returning Board, are their candidates for Congress in two dis- tricts, and are, it seems, not unlikely to be elected. They are now both federal office- holders. It will be a bitter pill to honora- ble republicans to see these two men repub- lican Representatives in Congress. We do not see on what party ground the demc- crats can object to their opponents electing men of this stamp. But, surely, common prudence on the part of the republicans would lead these to desire the defeat of Wells and Anderson. One thing, however, is certain, it will be much better for the democratic party to see such men fairly elected than to try to prevent their choice by any such violence as is practised in South Carolina. Congressional Nom The democrats are earliest in the field this year with their Congressional nomina- tions in the city districts. Messrs. Muller, Cox, Eickhoff, Wood and Willis are renom- inated. In the Tenth district they have named Mr. Orlando Potter instead of Mr. Hewitt, and in the Eighth, now represented by General McCook, republican, they have nominated Mr. Lawrence Jerome, There is likely to be a spirited contest in the Tenth district, where many democrats will resent the shelving of Mr. Hewitt; in tho Eleventh, where Mr. Morton, a popular banker, is the republican candidate against Mr. B. A. Willis, and in the Eighth, where General McCook defeated General Elijah Ward two years ago and will now try to beat thesilver-tongued, popular and industrious Jerome. Both the Eighth andthe Tenth districts are close, and we may expect a thorough and active canvass of the voters, It is a good time this fall to vote for the best men, and we trust all our readers will take care to do so. The fall campaign promises to be of the Donnybrook Fair order. Party bondsare very loose, and here, as in the West, the greenback vote is a source of alarm tothe straight party can- didates. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Count and Countess Roson are at the Fifth Avenae Hotel, Dean Stanley lett Montreal fur Now York yesterday afternoon. Among 1,122 artists tn filty-Ove yours, General A. J. Myer, Chief Sigaal Oficer, has re- turned to Washington. Secretary Schurz will speak in Boston apon foan- etal to ext Monday Tho Atianta Constit Heans of 1880, sees bind bim, Congressman Townsend, of Ohio, who has been re-elected, # a sturdy grocerymya in Cleveland. He looks like an Eogitsbinen, Mr. D. W. Bartiett, tho Journal od American Secretary totho Chinese Legution, recorves in bis Intter posittun a salary of $12,000 a yoar, President Hayes, accompauiea by Socretary Shor. man, will leave Washington to-night to visit the Cum- betiand (Md.) far on Thursday, returning on that ze length of life was ie end at tho repab- 1g ahead with Hartraoft be- Senate from republican to democratic there at least Oty applicants for each office, and two- thirds of them are irom the South, ‘The new preacher-Congressman, Rev. Gilbert dela Martyr, of Indiana, elected by the nationals, is Oity- }, aod very tall, spa ngulor, He rao for prison | S74. “abl yes, they aro darlints, both hi 4 nis brother, Aa’ L love ’om aloike, wid their sorrows an’ j’y; To me they are wan, the sons of wan mothor; Ab! how | do love that sweet b’y and b'y.” The Globe Democrat wilt to-day ounce gagement of Samuel J. Tilden to a St, Loui nod that the wedding will take place within threo montba. Pending the clectoral count Colonel Polton bad his headquarters in Washington, and every night sent a special messonger with & written report to Gram- orey Park, He ally occupied Speaker Rai vaus for ‘old Joe Jobnaton’”’ for Congre: from Virgioia is based largely on his war reco much of tbe South taking an toteront in tt, His op- ponentis a grecabacker who refused to fight tor the Confederacy, but who served in tbe Virgin Evening Telegram: boen curried to th t of extravagan even become the a8 part of the regular evening’s aitraction, By doing he degrades himeelt, his theatre and his star actress in the eyos of ail sensible people.” ondon Queen, 8 known by numerals—w Mont adopted suited to the uw Bumbers—there cannot be that attention to the de- Yelopment of individual character, still less that From All Parts of the World. DIFFICULTIES IN THE EAST. Possibility of a Renewal of Hostilities. THE ROUMELIAN QUESTION. England’s Quarrel with Afghanistan. AUSTRIA'S MINISTERIAL CRISIS. {ex CABLE TO THE HERALD.) Lonpon, Oct, 23, 1878, The Standara’s Berlin despatch says the Czar has issued an ukase ordering that military fur- loughs shall only be granted for particue larly urgent reasons, and itn any case not to extenl beyond February. Sir Stat ford Northcote, Chancellor of the Exchequer speaking at Wolverhampton admitted that he was not able to say that he was sure there wonld not be a renewal of war. It was impossible to ignore the fact, he said, that dim- culties were being raised against the exe- culion of certain parts of the Treaty of Berlin. He declared he wished to impress on the Powers who signed the treaty, and above all the Sultan, the Importance of not permitting this great work to be in vain A _ despatch from Constantinople to the Times says Privee Lobanotf iniormed Satvet Pacha on Monday that the Russians will not retreat from their present positions at Midia, Visa, Lule-Bourgas and Tchifik-Ko1 until some arrangement is made con- cerning the Christian fugitives who are following the Russian army. The Turks are close to these points ana have a strong force at Tchorlu. It is not true that the Rus sians hold Tchataldja. Prince Lobanoff like: wise reiterated the statement tnat the Russians will not quit Adrianopie untti after the signing of a definitive treaty. The Times’ Vienna despatch says the most essen- tial points in the delinitive treaty between Russia and Turkey—namely, the war indemnity and the time tor the withdrawal of the Russian troops are still unsettled. The St. Peversburg Golos says it 18 considered that a Wemand for the immediate payment of 300,000,000 roubles is prob- able. DIFFICULTIES ARISING. A despatch from Bucharest reports that Bessarabia was surrendered to Russia on Monday. Ail the Roumanian authorities have quittea the province. A Constantinople despatch to the Manchester Guardian saye:—“Admiral Horaby, in the despatch boat Helicon, has gone to Cyprus to meet the Lords of the Admiralty. On his return the fleet will anchor in the Gulf of Tsmid. The intendea withdrawal of the feet from the vicinity of Gatiipoli has been abandoned in consequence of the recent movements of the Russians, Fears are expressed in diplomatic circles in Constantinople that the Eastern Roume- | lian Commission will encounter great obstacles from Russia, the Porte and the Bul garian inhabitants. Russia is resolved to maintain the present administration until her troops have evacuated the province. The Porte insisis on assuming the financial administra- tion, subject only to the supervision of the Com mission, and the Bulgarians continue the agite ation in iavor of annexation to Bulgaria.” WARLIKE MOVEMENTS. A Times despatch trom Constantinople contains the following:—"The bulk of the Russian forces in Bulgaria are moving southward. The Russian infantry alone in Eastern Roumeha already number 80,000 men. Another army corps is near Constantinople. There are 15.000 men in Adrianople. Between October 14 ana 19 13,700 returned ‘Turkish prisoners were landed in the Bosphorus. A slight difficulty has occurred with Persia which is pressing for an im- mediate surrender of the province of Khotour. A Bulgarian insurrectionary move- ment is reported in the district of Seres, near Salonica. The Porte has confirmed the arrangement with the Cretans, exceps in regurd to one minor pvint The Journal de St. Petersbourg states that in con- sequence of an increase in the uncovered note 19- sue during the war by 500,000,000 roubles the tariff is to be raised fifteen per cent and an income tax introduced. It exhorts the people to improve the agricultural exports so as to com- pete with the United States. AUSTRIA’. MINISTERIAL ORISIS, ‘The Times’ Vienna despatch says:—‘'lt is expected that at the meeticg of the Reicherath (fuceday) been charged with the formatioa of a new Cabinet. Tho House will then, ne doubt, adjoorn and the real work of forming a Cabinet be taken in band, as the intention ecems te be te form, if possible, a Parliamentary Cabiset which may reckon on the sopport of the ma- jority. This can only be carried into effect by negotiation with Parliament out of Partiamont, asit were. Hero there te Do trace of Parliamentary parties, but only fractions, which mast be combined to get a roally working majority. Although gathered in aifleront Parliamentary clube mont stood outside of it, paving little or no influence. The process of getting or @ Parliamentary majority mast ia these On Sanday most of protiminary confer. ence. On nday the more promiseat mea ef the different liberal German clubs met Baton von Pretis-Cagnodo to hear overtures and report upoa them In theit respective clubs, Baron von Pretis- Cagnodo explatnea bw programme to @ meeting of constitational party, and de claread if they not accept it he would reqounce to forma cabinet, The programme opposes at jazer, and Dromisos the utmest possible reduction of expondl. tures, It says tho cost of the administration of Bos- nia and Horzogovina wilt be defrayed by and from the begin. ovcupation will coaso whole cost recovered. The clabs will discuss the Programme to-morrow. The Austrian budget for 1879 estimutos a defoit of 16,307,740 florins, which it 18 proposed to cover either by the tweue of a gold te or by dition to the floating debt. D FORKIGN TROUBLES, Several pative princes have offored forces tor ac tive service, A despatch to the Daily News trom Simia says tho Viceroy’s native emissary, who has just returned from Cabal, considers that the Ameor has. beon with diMeulty induced to wke prese course by substantial offers trom the Russian Envoy, ‘who wae aul at) Cabul = when = the |= emissary = lett, A tologram trom Bombay states that thos goverm: ment has published an announcement, passage homo to the fi «foe active service, It is thought, bi