The New York Herald Newspaper, October 28, 1878, Page 6

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Rubseriptions and advertisements Sin i 4 received and Jorwarded on the same terms as in } TOLUME XLII... AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT. KIBLO’S GARDEN—Tux Dervar. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. GRAND OPERA HOU i oF Savor NEW YORK AQuaRl xp Horses LYCEUM THEATRE—Josiva Wirtcous. PARK THEATRE-Lorma. GILMORE’S GARDEN—Bauxom’s Snow. ACADEMY OF DESIG: aN Exnrmtiow, FIFTH AVENUE HALL—Buixp Tom. GERMANIA THEATRE—Anaia UND Mrssanina. BOWERY THEATRE— BOOTIVS THEATRE—Frnw WALLACR’S THEATRE. UNION SQUARE THEAT: Mortage anp Sox. STANDARD THEATRE—F un FIFTH AVENUE ut ec ‘Rnov-Frov. Hexry VIIT, TIVOL! THEATRE—Vani CHICKERING HALL ¢ probabilities are that the weather in New York and its vicinity today will be cloudy and rainy, with a sudden change to cold winds from the northwest. To-morrow it will be cloudy and sold, with rain or light snow. A Prominent Southern republican’s views of Southern politics Will be found on another page. Ir Is Nor Wise, Mr. Frep, to have more passengers standing than sitting in your rapid transit trains. Tue New Book, “Six Months in Ascension,” is not a history of the getting up of the Tryon square terminus of the elevated road. That has been a more leisurely operation and the struc- ture has not ascended yet. Ovr Articie on “Uptown Improvements” will be an admirable tonic for croakers; a bet- ter one of the same sort will be prescribed when the clevated roads enable people to build homes as far up town as they want to. ij ing motion in the trains on the up track of the New York Ele- vated Railroad passing Fifth street at the en- trance to Third avenue. Should an “accident” happen there some day it would be bad for Mr. Field and rapid transit. Jupeer Dirrennoxrer’s explanation of how he failed to get the “combination” nomination for District Attorney is not likely to cement the union between anti-Tammany and the republi- cans. Dittenhoefer, though a sorehead, repre- * gents a widespread dissatisfaction among the republican rank and file. Some or THe Sturr of which a “royal good fellow” of the old Tweed Ring was made is suggested in our Poughkeepsie letter. There are so many other good fellows who prepare the way for troubles like those narrated in the Jetter alluded to that one cannot help wonder- ing how bad fellows can do worse. Tne Morar Portion of the public will be glad to read in our report of Mr. Talmage’s ser- mon on “The Gates of Hell” that what the preacher graphically styles ‘holy imbecility” is to blame for a great deal of the sin in the world. True, the people knew this before, but they were not sure that ministers did. Aw IxpiGxant Cr11zen writes to the Heratp to know whether a man has any right to obstruct the streets with half a dozen unueed trucks. Certainly; the glory of New York streets, like that of the Skye terrier, consists in their irregn- larity and uncouthness, and the citizen who covers the pavement with trucks, brick piles, dead animals or offal merely supplements the successes attained by the street cleaners’ and tepairers’ policy of masterly inactivity. Tue Weaturr.—We announced on Satur- day morning that “the conditions are favor- able for the movement southeastward over New England and the St. Lawrence Valley of the low barometer which was north of Lake Superior on the 23d, and the organization of an- other storm on the Nova Scotia aud Newfound- land coasts.” The depression above re- ferred to is now moving over New Eng- land and the St. Lawrence Valley, at- tended by rains and followed by snow, with cold northwesterly winds. We are confident that stormy weather will prevail during the coming week on the Middle Atlantic, New England and northeastern cousts. In the Northwest the barometer is again falling and the centre ot high pressure has moved into the Middle Mississippi Valley. Rains have fallen through this region and in the West and also in the Southwest, attending a depression inthe Gulf of Mexico. Following closely after the low barometer now passing over our meridian a rapid fall of temperature, commonly called “a cold wave,” will be experienced. The sudden change will prove dangerous to invalids, and, although it will freeze out the yellow fever from the South, the advent of sudden cold on our coasts must necessarily be attended with many discomforts. At present the winds are southerly to southwesterly along the Atlantic seaboard, but during today they will change to westerly and northwesterly, with the rains possibly follewed by light snow over the northern part of this State. The weather in New York and its vicinity to«lay will be cloudy and rainy, with a sudden change to cold winds from the northwest. ‘To-morrow it will be clondy and cold, with rain or light ¢snow. Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington will experience similar weather, but the clearing up will commence from the southerly points, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1878.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Unsettled East. Russia intends to fulfil all the obligations assumed by her in the Berlin Treaty—to evacuate all the points she agreed to evacu- ate when she signed that instrument, and in all other ways to keep faith with her al- lies and neighbors. So she has said in response to an official inquiry made at the instance of the British government—an in- quiry which, in order that it might not have an offensive character, must have been put in a form waich assumed that there were some circumstances which could jus- tify an honorable government in refusing to comply with certain requirements of the treaty. England sees and knows that there are such circumstances, and seized the oc- casion of the much reported declaration made by Prince Labanoff—that Russia would not evacuate the country in the time specified—in order to put this inquiry and thereby make a record as early as posrible of Russia's purpose to take advantage of the circumstances that impede the fulfilment of the terms of the treaty. But England’s inquiry has not furnished her with a great deal of information; for the answer given does not imply that Kussia is not fully alive to events in the country south of the Balkans—does not imply that she intends to give away her case there through any superstitious fidelity to her part of a treaty that everybody else can violate; but simply implies that she refuses to go into the consideration of this case at the present time, and more particularly that she refuses to discuss with England separately any events in violation of a treaty to which all the Powers of Europe were parties. She refuses to give any ground whatever to England’s assumption of a right to know what Russia proposes to do in Turkey. She therefore answers an impertinent and insolent inquiry as to what she means to do by referring the inter- locutor to the treaty where the obligations imposed upon her are written. Some time since—two months at least— the opportunity was given to England to consider this topic of what Russia might do or propose to do, but it seems not to have been thought of much consequence in London at that time. But it was then already patent to those who watched intel- ligently the progress of events in the Bal- kan country that the topic of supreme in- terest in that connection was what Russia would @o in respect to her obligations un- der the treaty;and when the German Chan- cellor invited England, in common with all the other Powers, to send representatives to yet another conference, to determine the mooted points, England’s demonstrations of indifference, if not contempt for the project, stopped it. It would have been very awk- ward then for England to act on such a proposition, since Earl Beaconsfield yet lived in the glory of his achieve- ments at Berlin; and to be called upon to appoint some one to go to that city so soon, in orderto patch up and keep in order that grand diplomatic masterpiece that it was supposed he had made there, and to act on the cail, would have looked a lit- tle ridiculous, There was yet another rea- son for not taking any serious notice of the Chancellor's project. It did not call upon England or any one else to consider the ne- cessity of compelling Russia to act up to the treaty. Had the call been put in that form England would have respended promptly and energetically, for she knows Russia to be an old offender. But it called upon the Powers toconstrain Turkey. England knows that Turkey has already been constrained toomuch. She would not co-operate, there- fore. In that refusal she practically gave her consent to the repeal of the treaty— since if Turkey is not bound by it, who is? We thought at the time, and so said, that the invitation then made to England wasa trap prepared for her by the astute German Chancellor--a contrivance to lead her to commit herself by notorious diplomatic proceedings to a declaration or an inaction in regard to Turkey that would cover the case of Russia, since, sofar as the point of moral obligation to the treaty operates, they are in precisely the same position. France and Germany, for instance, agreed respect- ively to do certain things by the treaty which ended the war of 1870-71. Ger- many was to withdraw her armies in o specified time, and France to pay her in- demnities in a certain time. But ifFrance had defaulted in the payments can any sane creature suppose that Germany would have continued the evacnation? Or would any diplomatist have held that the force of the obligation was not suspended or lost even if Germany chose to take the utmost advantage of the default? There is no essential difference in what has oc- curred between Kussia and Turkey. Tur- key has simply planted herself ina position of defiance of the treaty as to certain of its important stipulations, and England has comforted and enconraged her, while Rus- sia has looked on with the consciousness that all England needed while in her pres- ent hands was rope enough. As to the pro- visions with regard to Greece, as to the de- nial of the right of any Power to make sep- arate treaties with the Sultan, as to the gov- ernment of the Christian countries left in Turkish hands the Treaty of Berlin is a dead letter. No record found by Layard in Nineveh was ever more completely devital- ized by the flight of ages than that docn. ment by the flight of a few months and by the joint action of England and ‘Lurkey, the presumed beneficiaries under it. Baker Pacha will, therefore, not be too soon, perhaps, if he completes the fortifica- tion of Constantinople in two months, ashe promises, and the Sultan is not ill advised in the energetic organization of all the mili- tary force of which he can dispose; for Rus- sia’s reply to England represents only the jast formal “intention” of the Russian gov- ernmont as to the treaty, But that inter- tion, through the pressure of events, will ere long be numbered with the other good ones which are supposed to be so service- able as a pavement that will stand the heat, Russia, with the Berlin Treaty in effect out of the way by the repudiation of its makers, will stand by the San Stefano Treaty and will, in any event, have » heavy indemnity account to settle. In vain does England endeavor to form an anti-Kussian alliance. Austria has her hands desperately full at home. France is too near to her Presiden- tial conflict, and Italy, defrauded in her hopes, is sore and sour. All the indications point to an early re- newal of the conflict south of the Balkans. And what will England do? That problem must be settled by her early, for it will not do to drift with events this time. Last year the British government trotted out a grand diplomatico-theatrical combination with some shiploads of Hindoos brought from India at ‘‘enormous expense” to make an “absolutely first appearance on the European stage.” That coup showed that if ever Earl Beaconsfield should take to the circus line Barnum might tremble for his laurels, but it did not show much else, But this time even that poor stroke is im- possible, for the fierce Afghan soldiers will not leave any leisure for the little Hindoos to trot away to Europe in. It will be lively for England next year,and the people of the ‘late United States” will supply her or other customers unlimited quantities of grain and provisions for cash or good securities, é Grant and King Alfonso. General Among the many felicitatory messages delivered to King Alfonso upon his escape from the Tarragonian assassin in Madrid was one. from Goneral Grant, who is said to have seen the flash of the would-be regicide’s pistol. The General has been especially fayored ia the conditions under which he has visited the various nations of Europe, meeting all its great statesmen on friendly terms. Beacons- field, Bismarck, Gortschakoff, Gambett. and others have chatted with him familiarly, and he has heard much from them about the socialists and their crazy theories. In Berlin he heard trom Bismarck’s lips his hot indignation over the recent wound- ing of the Emperor, and now in Spain he actually witnesses an at- tempt on the life of a king. With all the horror of the crime and contempt of the criminals which must have entered his mind he has, doubtless, pondered over the state of society in Europe which makes these atrocious attempts seem epidemic. He must have recognized a social disease to diagnose which the statesmen he met did not bring unbiassed minds. It would be curious to know his impressions on the subject of misgovernment in Europe, but wo suppose that it would scarcely be polite for him to speak them at present. A Subject for Congratulation. Happy New York! The cup of its joy should be full. It has had so much trouble in getting along with one well-intentioned Mayor that the prospect of having two really good ones is thrilling. We have two candidates for the important post—one, Mr. Augustus Schell, who is confident of being elected by forty thousand majority, and the other, Mr. Edward Cooper, who rests assured that he will top the poll by thirty-eight thousand six hundred and forty-one votes or thereabout. These gentlemen have the best possible sources of information. Mr. Schell has com- mand of all the knowledge which the regular democratic party has amassed on the subject, and therefore he must be right; Mr. Cooper has all Mr. Davenport’s books at his disposal, and therefore he cannot be wrong. This being so, both will be elected. Confident of this remarkable result, we should be in some doubt whether it would be for the good of the city if we had not their respective words tor the course of their administra- tions. Here again we find something truly remarkable. ‘I'hey Rave been asked fortheir views and have givégthem. Each promises great reforms ; both are resolved to rule the city in a most impartial manner ; the two are devoted to the best interests of New York ; each will strive to lessen the taxpay- ers’ burdens ; both are determined to scat- ter labor “tickets” until nobody is unem- ployed. Nothing could be better. Mr. Schell will he able to get all his plans through the Board of Aldermen, and Mr. Cooper, who, as a lone Mayor, would be embarrassed by the kicking City Fathers, can only be delighted ot this, tor his plans and Mr. Schell’s are identical. Mr. Kelly in this way will carry his point, and Uncle: Sammy wiil not be left out in the cold ; the republicans, as well as the democrats, will have their hearts’ choice at the head of the city government. We have taken the word of Mr. Schell and that of Mr. Cooper for all this, and surely both are veracious as well astrustworthy. Let the canvass, then, goon amid a riot of patriotic joy. Let the candi- dates on the stump ‘“‘point with pride” to either of the gentlemen we have named, and let no faint-hearted partisan so much as hint to his hurrahing hearers that he “views: with alarum” the possible success of the opposition ticket. This is not a can- yass for croakers, but for jubilators. For further particulars see the views on this important subject of tne Mayoralty printed elsewhere, Who Is To Binmet The case of Terence O'Neill Donnelly, just pardoned for a crime that he never com- mitted, is too serious to be dropped by the discharge of the victim from Sing Sing. Last January three young men who obtained considerable money upon forged checks, ran away, were brought back and charged the forgery upon Donnelly, who was a well- to-do, respectable builder in Brooklyn. Upon the evidence of these seamps Donnelly was sentenced to imprisonment at Sing Sing for two and a half years. Now one of the rognes has made a confession exonerating Donnelly, who returns, after four months of uujust imprisonment, to find his busi- ness ruined and his equity in buildings de- stroyed by foreclosure procecdings. Some one has blundered sadly in this case. Whether it was the public prosecutor, with the special pleading which in officials of his class is so often allowed to take the place of honest legal effort, or a stupid jury, which is the rule in most courts, ora defective charge by the judge, does not yet appear. Lo ar- rest the real culprits for perjury is very well, but the efforts of the authorities should not stop with this ; the injured man has a right to know who is to blame for his misfortune, and if any legal official was at fault in the case the public should know his name and make an example of him. If affidavits by people of no character are to be *hours” there was light? generally accepted as evidence’ the best man alive may easily be placed behind prison bars for life. Extensive Strikes in Scotland. Our special cable despatches from Glas- gow will attract gereral attention. The threatened strikes have come. The failure of the Glasgow bank, which was a great calamity in itself, a crushing calamity to the mercantile firms which went down with it, an appalling calamity to the victimized shareholders who have ruin and beggary staring them in the face in consequence of their unlimited liability for the enormous debts of the broken bank, is likely to prove almost as calamitous to all the great branches of Scotch industry. The im- portant shipbuilding industries, the im- portant coal and iron industries, with the vast associated industries which gave em- ployment to hosts of machinists, boiler makers, millwrights, pattern makers, en- gineers and other skilled laborers, have tumbled into derangement, mutiny and con- fusion, These establishments had long been staggering under burdens which they could not stand under when they were struck with the sudden disaster which has for the last three weeks occupied the attention of the financial and commercial world. The protracted stagnation of business which for several years has borne so heavily on British trade had already weakened every great interest in that country. In this debilitated condition a shock which could easily have been withstood in pros- perous times has a shattering and damag- ing effect. It compels all the great indus- trial establishments to haul in their sails and curtail expenses in a desperate attempt to save themselves from utter wreck. But the laborers resist every attempt to reduce their wages, and have now madly plunged into an extensive and concerted system of strikes. So far as we can judge at this distance no movement of this kind was ever so mistimed and suicidal. Low prices, contracted markets and the high rates of interest consequent on the recent blow to confidence render it impossible for the establishments to go on witbout retrench- ment of expenses, and the prospect is that the strikers, after exhausting the funds of their societies, will find themselves in o condition of utter helplessness and distress. Bad as the immediate situation is the out- look for the future is even moregloomy and depressing. The prosperity of Great Britain, which has been so brilliant and wonderful, seems to have culminated sev- eral years ago and to be now on a declivity whick slopes toward extinc tion, There was never a nation whose prosperity was so artificial as that of Great Britain. It was not self- subsistent ; it rested entirely on her com- mand of foreign markets, Rivals are grow- ing up which threaten to take these mar- kets from her, and the loss of her markets will bring inevitable financial ruin. In a desperate effort to retain them by mere cheapness her products have deteriorated in quality, and the perpetual strikes of her Inborers are more and more crippling her ability to undersell the rivals who. are crowding her in the markets of which she used to havo a monopoly. Her decline will, of course, be a long and a slow process, but she is already on the descent toward the condition in which she will find herself in the early part of the next, if not before the close of the present century. Keep the Lights Burning. If the City Fathers are as indignant as they profess to be about the murderous as- sault upon Alderman Morris they cannot express their sentiment in any other way so creditable to themselves and gratifying to the injured man as by taking the action which for years he has urged in the matter of street lighting. If lights in the streets are necessary at all they are so during the* whole period of darkness, ‘There are more pedestrians and vehicles inthe streets be- tween five A. M. and daylight than there ore in the four preceding hours; thou- sands of grocers, butchers, milkmen and others whose business begins early are then abroad. Itis also the hour in which most successful burglars escape with toeir plunder, so why should there then be darknoss where in the silent ‘‘wee sma’ The hours in which the street lamps aro to be alight should extend trom sunset to sunrise, for in cloudy weather, such as prevails morn- ing or evening in half the days of the year, these hours are practically the beginning and end ofthe night. The present cus- tom seems to bo to light at dark and extin- guish at daylight, the lamplighters deciding for themselves what these hours are; but with due respect for this useful body of public servants we claim that an important feature of the safety of a great city ought to be in hands more responsible under the law. Should an energetic lamplighter ex- tinguish his lights an hour or two before daylight, to get through in time for an early breakfast and a day's work of some other kind beginning at seven o'clock, the wild- est imagination cannot conceive of u gas company reprimanding him. Besides, no stockholder or officer of such a company ever has occasion to be awake at such plebeian hours, and know how it is him- self. O:ganizea Beggary. At Jefferson Market Police Court a scene ‘was enacted the other day that it would be well to consider with some care, ‘lwo sis- ters and their brother were charged with begging in the public streets. In the back- ground skulked an Italian, who was alleged to be their stepfather. Their mother— another boggar—was in Bellevue Hospital, having given birth to a son two hours after her arrival there. They made up o family of professional beg- gars. The burly ruffian in velveteen was the organizer and the treasurer of the family. Tho girls were sent to reformatory institutions, the boy to the Juvenile Asylum and the mother will go to the Island on her recovery, but the Italian is left to organize another family of beggars. When Mr. Dugdale made that deeply sig- nificant inquiry into the pauper and crimi- nal family of ‘the Jukes” he found upon computation that in seventy-five years the twelve hundred members thereof had preyed upon the community to the extent of one million and a quarter dollars, The philanthropy of the age has done much to provide reformatory institutions for the classes to which the “Jukes” and the Noahs belong, and the law enables magistrates to commit vagrants to be dealt with in them; but while the organizers of beggary can proceed without fear of pun- ishment society is wronging itself. The crios of the unfortunate children in Jeffer- son Markét as they were separated to go to the various institutions must have touched the springs of pity in many a human breast. There was enough humanity in them to make them weep at exchanging the vice, squalcr and beggary which had guaranteed them thé ghastly semblance of family relations for the cold if orderly insti- tutions which offered them food and shelter and held out hope. But the sullen Italian that skulked in the background, cursing the law that took these poor hounds that hunted for him in the filthy kennels of the great city, is his profession to find no road leading to State Prison? With the fate of poor Pasquale Pisani fresh in the public memory, and hundreds like him and the family of the Noahs adding to the want, the disease and the crime of the city, it is time to see that the law reaches the lazy and cowardly brokers in pauperism. America may have developed the tramp, but Italy is the parent of organized beggary. Goldwin Smith on Canadian Reci- procity. Professor Goldwin Smith having beeh twitted by the Montreal Herald with voting at the late Canadian elections for Sir John Macdonald, the protectionist leader, while prominent aos a free trader and as a member of the Cobden Club, has written to that paperin reply. Disposing briefly of the question of principle in voting for Sir John by saying that he voted for ‘‘good govern- ment at home” and not on Sir John’s vague views on external relations, fiscal or other- wise, he devotes himself to the examination ot what is good or possible for Canada in its commercial intercourse with the United States. He admits frankly what the result of the eléctions confesses tacitly—namely, that commercial depression still reigns in the Dominion; that the end is not yet; that in Quebec, for instance, “trade is about as bad and the outlook about as gloomy as possible,” and that famine riots are feared. Relief, then, must be sought, but how? Is it to be ‘‘by a retaliatory tariff (against the United States), which would be the commencement of a tariff war, or by a measure of reciprocity, partial or entire?” In a tariff war he sees no hope for Canada; she is the weaker combatant, and the weaker generally suffers. They could not afford to guard their long frontier line against smuggling. Itis a desperate experi- ment, in which failure would have deplorable consequences. Against a partial reciprocity he urges that it would be par- tial in more senses than one; we should have the best of it; that it is difficult to work in the matter of manufactures and liable to complications because of the like- lihocd of Canada becoming an entrepot for European contraband; it would not rid Canada of the costly customs line ; it would be liable to upsettal by a recurrence of bad feeling between England and the United States. He has another objection, which recalls the fourteenth reason of the Mayor of Southampton for not firing a salute to William III.—namely, that he had no powder; it is that partial reciprocity “has been positively refused by the Ameri- cans, for reasons which appear likely to re- main in force.” He concludes that a com- mercial union of Canada with the rest of the continent is essential, and being essen- tial {s sure to come. This is an important admission by one so strongly devoted to Canadian interests. He believes in the feasibility of a zollverein made up of the States on one side and the Provinces on the other. That it would open up many ques- tions difficult of solution, such as the American tariff with us and the im- perial prerogative with England, he admits, but insists that the first is not insuperable because a tariff does not affect an almost self-sufficing continent as it does a nation with limited territory and produc- tions. As to the second, it cannot be set- tled by conjecture, but must be made a dis- tinct question with the English govern- ment. Professor Smith puts the matter logically and courageously to the Canadians. The answer we well know will come with time. As for us, we can afford to wait. The Canadians in electing Sir John Macdonald have shown that the question presses them pretty hard. Impenitent Moonshiners. A “moonshiner” is a man who makes whiskey without leave or license from the federal government and sells what he makes without paying the federal tax, The moun- tains of North and Sonth Carolina and Georgia are fall of moonshiners, and a ma- jority of them vote the republican ticket, ordid so until the passage of the Civil Rights act, which they resented under the erroneous impression that it was a law com- pelling their daughters to marry col- ored men. There is a general belief in the North that the moonshiners are all democrats, which arises from the fact that democratic Senators and Governors have been conspicuous in trying to get the Treasury Department to forgive past moonshining. But this demo- cratic solicitude arises, like the cynio’s grat- itude, out of a lively sense of favors to come ; out of a hopo that the moonshine vote may bo turned into the democratic camp. We advise Governor Hampton, Sen- ator Ransom and the rest of the democratic missionaries to let the federal government doal direct with the moonshiners, and to turn their attention to putting the currency on a specie basis and restoring the country to prosperity. When that is accomplished the revenues will be big enough to allow Congress to repeal the whole system, of internal revenue taxation, which arose out of the necessities of the war, and which, while it has brought and yet brings a good deal of revenne to the Treas- try, has been the canse of a great deal of office-holding nnd the means of a good deal of speculation and peculation, Stupidity All Around. The robbery of the Manhattan Savings Bank yesterday was nominally the greatest burglary on record, the value of the stolen bonds registered, and consequently useless to the thieves, being nearly three millions of dollars. But the most astonishing feature of the transaction is the fact that the janitor, who is described as u very atupid person, should have been intrusted with the combination key of the vault. This key, an implement dangerous enough in any hands, was doubly hazardous to ‘the interests of deposi- tors and stockholders when in possession of a person living in the bank building. That the key of the Manhattan Bank was so intrusted shows a degree of stupidity almost inconceivable in bank officials had not experience often shown that business men have a strange idea that the less intelli- gence a man has the safer he is. Depositors in other concerns will be taking only ordi- nary precantions if they at once ask some pointed questions, for the strength of a bank, like that of a chain, is only that of its weakest part. The Loan Exhibition. The second loan exhibition gotten up by the ladies of the Society of Decorative Artisa great success, The attendance each day will undoubtedly be numerous, and a substan- tial sum will be added to the fund of the admirable society in whose aid the exhibi- tion is held. It will be patent to every one who visited the first exhibition that the present one is far ahead of it, It has been arranged under the super- vision of well known amateurs, artists and experts, and the articles are grouped artis- tically and as far as possible in a syste- matic manner. Facility for the study of tho objects as examples of a class in mate- rial and style is afforded, as well as for the admiration of them separately as works of art or objects of curiosity. The exceedingly valuable collection of pictures forms an ate tractive feature, and hours may be spent in their examination. Japanese and Chinese decorative art is illustrated by a fine display of objects from the valuable collections of amateurs, The antique room is filled with treasures from every clime, and the modern pottery and porcelain are of great value. The entire display is very creditable to the ladies and gentlemen who have the matter in charge. The bringing together of the articles for, and the arrangement of, such an exhibition is no easy task. People who are not immediately interested are often at first chary of lending their art treasures, but when once a start is made contribu- tions pour in, The display is also credit. able to the art taste of the city, and for- eigners will find it a revelation. Until they are collected together in a manner like this no one has any idea of the number of valu- able objects which have their usual resting places in the homes of our wealthy and cul- tured citizens. As this is the last loan ex- hibition which the society will hold we ad. vise all to see it who can. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, The following Americans were registered at the Paris office of tho Hrzatp on Saturday :— Alien, Franklin and wile, New York, Hotel Binda, Bonynge, C. W. and wite, New York, Howl da Louvre, Boyd, J. W., Wisconsin, Hotel de St. Petersbourg. Bruner, L. N., Philadelphia, No. 6 Avenue Messing, Byrap, J. H., New York, Grand Hotel, Campbell, M, P., and family, New York, Hotel da Louvre. Coddington, Rovert, New York, Hotel de l’Athénéq, Cole, K, R. and wife, New York, Hotel du Louvre, Cumming, E., New York, Cumming, H. M,, New York, No. 7 Rue de Rome, Hart, G. P, and wile, New York, No, 118 Beutevard Hacssmaco. Heald, Alfred, Philadeiphis, Herman, Rosalie, Now York State, No. 9 Rue de ls Bientaisance. Iselin, F. F., New Yorx, No. 99 Boulevard Males herbes. Jebn, Harry N. and family, New York, Hotel Byron, Kelly, Joseph, Philadelphia, Hotel de l’Athénée, Kennedy, D. L. New York, No. 82 Ruo Scheffer, Laver, W. E. and wite, New York, Grand Hotel, Lyons, T. L., Nevada, Grand Hotel, Martin, H. 1T., New York State, No, 45 Avenue Fretdiand, Martinore, J. A. and wife, New York, Hotel de Normandy. Newlands, F. G., San Francisco, Hotel Belicvae, Newlands, W. L., San Francieco, Hotel Ballevuo, O’Rielley, M. A., New York, No. 1 Ruo Baseino. Park, Mrs, R. H., Now York, No, 59 Rue Neuve Matborins, Sprouis, Mrs, Thomas, New York, No, 32 Rue Scheffer. Thaxter, E. R., Portland, No. 59 Rae Noave Matha rins. Tompson, L. A., Now York, Hotel da Louvre, Tihon, F, W., New Orleans, No, 47 Champs Elysées, Wateroug, U. H., Ohio, Hotel Bergore. Wilson, M. A., New York, Splendido Hotel, Senator Francis Kernan is at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel, Postmaster General Key rotarned to Washington ow Savurday evening trom bis trip to the Pacific cosst, Mr, P. Kartchowsky, the successor of the late Mr, Bodisco as Russian Consul Gecerai in this city, ar- rived from Eurepe in the steamsnip Germania and is at the Clarendon Hotel. London 7ruth:—‘The word ‘Pansiaviem’ was first ugod in 1846 by tho Polish insargents, 1t first occurs he recommends the Poles to merge themselves | versal Slavism and thus revenge themselves on Aus- tria and Europe Tho suggestion was taken up by the Austrian Czechs and popularized tn Russia by M. Katboff, the editor of the Moseow Gazette, It was only in 1867 that it w. dopted by the Ru erpment, and in 1808 there was asort of Congress under Russian official patronnge. London World:—“It is no uncommon thing to hear |, LUpposed to be unloaded, going off and shoot ho aawary; but 1 wae in a country house in Scotland r day when a fisting rod charged fail grown young woman in th ball, She happened tobe passing along, quite yascious of hor fate, when a party of gentiemon alter dinner wero discussing the merits of an Atherican split bamboo, and wero sending imaginary pool, Great was their brieke were hoard issuing trom doptbhe, and dark parsage with the Ii The gentioman who had possession of the rod at id not fully realize the situation at first, but instinetively kept her bead well up, while another, out of pure babit, seized a gaff ana set off in pursuit with the rest of the party. Notwithstanding mach protest on tho part of the young Indy, who declared sbe ‘was not cuught at all,’ they succeeded in drag- the onwiliing captive back to the hght, with all her blushes avd ali the flies upon ber, Aftor a most | careiul aod a most minote examination they dan artiut dodger’ in her boot, a pioner’ lurking in the mazes of her skirts, and, stilt more shock! Protessor’ clinging tightly round ber waist Iam bound to say—and what I have already sald 1s trae— the genvioman who officisted on the trying osousion showod more pationce than skill in trying to eat oat wkiog i ali round, thoir piacaiu- the protessor ; bi