The New York Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1878, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1878--TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HE ree cents per Co} PAT. OF at a rato o! han’ six months, edition incl free of postaxe. WEEKLY HERALD—One dollar per year, free of post- NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—Remit in drafts on New ‘and where neither of these their old as well ‘All busine: de addressed New York H ‘Letters and packages shi Rejected communication raphic despatches must properly sealed. cturned. PHILADELPHIA OFFICE—NO. 112 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. LONDON ‘OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD— NO, 46 FLEET STRE) DE LOPERA, Sr ADA PACE PARIS OFFICE —4 3 —— OFFIC meriptions nnd. al forwardes! ou the sine VOLUME XE ——— GLOBE THEATRE. GRAND OPERA HOUS PARK THEATR GERMANIA TH LYCEUM THEATRE! BROADWAY THEA EGYPTIAN HALL—Var TIVOLI THEATRE—Vauiery. TRIPLE SHEET. sare that the weather in New inity to-day will be cold and fair. To-morrow it willbe cool and fair, with slowly WALL Str. ie stock mar- ket was fairly active and steady. Gold sold at 100 1-32 a 100 3-6 Government and State bonds were lower and railroads strong. Money on call was active at 4 a7 per cent. THe Nationa ry of New England—that is General Butler—is going to hold a conference in a few day: THe Avrroacuixe Co: 's of the New York Athletic Club promise to be the best exhibitions of the kind in many years. Our State Go three quarter millions to have a bet NT cost thirteen and ou the year. We ought er article for the money. Wues Ir Came to naming the Blaine com- mittee the Vice President found that nearly one-half the Senate was ill, Chilblaines, prob- ably. id his five children in this State and of two children in Pennsylva- nia forms a melancholy chapter of accident and suffering. Mx. Epison will have to look to his laurels. Two Philadciphia professors assert their electric light will throw his in the shade, What will be- come of the gas companies ? STATION investigation it y that a keeper was away from his pest while seamen were drowning and that no attention was paid to the regulations of the service. Nexr Yean’s Procramme of the National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders is else- where printed. The meeting, which will prob- ably be at Hartford, promises to be the turf event of the year. Tur Busixess Ovrioox in New Jersey, it will be seen trom our reports on another page, is brighter than it has been in many years. Good | accounts come from the manufacturing cities end towns, aud in an agricultural point of view the situation is full of encouragement. ANNAPOL few nights ago, was saved from possibly a eat conflagration by the cadets of the Naval Academy. For their bravery and skill on the occasion they have very properly been thanked in an order by etary Thomp- son, and in addition the rv ave been relaxed to the extent of allowing smoking in the Academy. m7 Conc rese.—The House for w minutes yes- terday was turned into a first class b den by « remark of Mr. Cabell, of Virginia, | which had something of the ring of the old slavery days in it. But the angry Congressional passion soon cooled, and the Indian Appro- Priation bill was considered and passed the Senate the Postal De to, and Mr. Burnside ‘ex ganization measur | ar gar | ined the army reor- | en.—The feature of the weather was the movement of ssure into the south- ern and central districts, with, however, # re- duetion of area. The low burometer that | reached the northeast coast on the 17th lin- gers over Nova Scotia and Newfoundland yet— that is to say, the movement of its western mar- gin into the ocean is slow, probably due to an elongation of the area itself within the zone of low pressures northward of the Guif Stream. | The barometer is now falling slowly iu the Northwest and Southwest, but in the latter re- gion the rainfall extending into the Lower Mis- issippi Valley from Yoxas indicates that a decided che is at hand in that district, For some days the barometer has been Jow beyond the Kocky Mountains, and, | therefore, we may look for disturbances on the | eastern side. The light snows reported for the past week over the valley, Middle Atlant. tricts continue on the lower lakes and in the Ohio Valley, with uniformly low temperatures. ‘The temperature is rising in the Northwest and Southwest, with the southerly winds of the ad- vaveing disturbances. Ourspecial cable weather geports from England state that the conditions | that prevailed Jast evening on the coasts were ite gale from the 285 inches; St. wind from t orth. | vter 29.35 inches, | north nor'west, baron Catherine's Point, fresh sweat, fine weather, be thermometer 40 deg Plymouth, moderate | wind from the west nor'west, showery weather, | Darometer 20.38 inches; Scilly, a fresh gale | from the northwe: Liver wind north | nor west; Falmouth, i worth norwest and moderate. The weather in New York and its vicinity today will be cold and fair, To-mor- row it will be cool and fair, with slowly rising Acuperature, | ning Financial Depression in Europe. There are reasoners who maintain that the stagnation and distress which have overspread the civilized world within the last few years are to be accounted for by the enormous waste of capital in war. This theory needs to be taken with great abate- ment. It is true enough that the American civil war, the Franco-German war and the Russo-Turkish war have engulfed much capital which might otherwise have given employment to peaceful industries; but this loss of capital furnishes but a partial explanation of the all-per- vading distress. The nations which were the chief sufferers by great wars are not those which have borne the brunt of financial distress. It did not come upon us ‘until more than eight years after the close of our civil war; if it resulted from the mere destruction of capital the effect should have been felt sooner. Great Britain, which has had no war of any importance since the fall of Sebastopol, is at present the chief sufferer of all. France, the nation which was trodden down most helplessly by war, is that one of the great nations which has been visited most lightly by financial distress, Germany, her conqueror, whose losses were compensated bya colossal indemnity, has been one of the chief sufferers from financial prostration. The theory in question does not accord with the facts. It this theory were correct France should have suffered the most crushing collapse, instead of escaping with the least disturb- ance of her industries. Great ‘Britain, which has sunk no capital worth naming in war, has fallen intoa state of extreme depression. Various minor causes have contributed to fhe result, but the main cause is not the | destruction of property by armies and the payment of war indemnities. The chief cause is the same in all the countries to which this widespread stagnation has extended, and it is precisely an enormous inflation of values followed by the inevitable reaction which is the sequel of over-stimulated activity. The inflation in our own country is too well understood to require illustration. The inflation in Germany is evident to all who follow the course of foreign events. The stupendous indemnity of a thousand millions of dollars which Germany extorted from France swelled her circulation precisely as an enormous emission of paper would have done, for it isa great fallacy to suppose that there cannot be an excess of metallic money. The inundation of money in Germany caused prices to rise, stimulated production, pushed enterprise into daring adventures, inflamed speculation and made it reckless, and led by necessary consequence to the financial revulsion with which Germany has been struggling for the last three or four years. In France, where there was no inflation, the consequences of inflation have not been felt. To be sure, the Bank of France suspended specie payments during the war and did not resume for six or seven years afterward; but the bank restrained its emission of notes and maintained them substantially at par during the whole period. The heavy payments to Germany tended to produce a scarcity of money, and no more paper was put in circulation than sufficed to maintain business on a sound basis. France has, therefore, been a marvel of recuperation. Having es- caped the dire evil of inflation, her recovery from her heavy calamities has excited the wondering admiration of all nations, while the very indemnity received by her relent- less foe brought inflation first and then its inevitable consequence, @ distressing busi- ness collapse. Thus far all we have said will be admitted without difficulty, but the reader is ready to ask how the theory of inflation can be made to account for the business dis- tress under which England has been suffering for the last five years, We must recollect that inflation may pro- ceed from other causes than excessive issues of paper money. <A great influx of gold will produce this effect with as much certainty as an expansion of bank notes or government paper. It would not be diffi- cult to prove this by reasoning, but we pre- fer to rely on the great fact that gigantic and mischievous inflation was caused in Germany by the redundancy of gold brought in with the successive instalments of the French indemnity. From the begin- of our civil war up to the year 1872 there was a great flow of money into England. tender notes drove all the gold out of the United States except what was necessary for the pnyment of duties. That gold went to London, the monetary centre of the world. In the great war which afterward arose on the Continent of Europe vast sums of money were sent to London for safe keep- ing. An increase of money imparts a stim- ulus to trade, and it so happened that, at the beginning of our civil war, a vast field was opened in England for the home em- ployment of capital. We refer to the im- portant revolution by which iron was sub- stituted for wood in the construec- tion of ships—a business which England monopolized for the ensuing ten or twelve years, while the demand for iron ships was urgent and the profits of building them large. She constructed cruisers, war vessels for Russia, Turkey and South America; great lines of steam- ships for the accommodation of her owh maritime commerce, which flourished by the destruction of ours; many of the great iron steamers employed im the French and German lines, besides others for smaller countries, were stimulated to the utmost; profits were high and wages rose, and money came pouring into British coffers from all parts of the world, Money was so abundant that its owners hardly knew what to do with it, and enorm- ous sums were recklessly invested in Turkish, South American and other worth- less securities. But inflation produced the same consequences in England that it pro- duces everywhere. When all the great lines were eqnipped with iron steamers the demand fell off; other nations had mean- while acquired the art of building them ; the growing cheapness and improved quality of American manufactures enabled them to supply the home market and de- The issue of legal | the Confederate | Her iron and coal industries | prived England of her most important customer, Finding her markets narrowed she was forced to curtail expenses, and the reduction of wages has led to extensive strikes, checking production and bringing on a stagnation which does not yet seem to have reached its worst stage. The United States are in a fair way to recover, but whether England will ever again be what she was is doubtful. The loss of her best market is permanent, and we are beginning to crowd her in the other markets of the world, including her own home market, The evils which result from mere inflation can be cured; but the loss of her best market and the impending com- petition in others is a staggering blow to the commercial supremacy of England, A Rare Man Gone, By the death of Bayard Taylor, our Min- ister to Germany, the United States and the world lose a man of a class which at its largest is far too small. While not posi- tively great in any single particular his nature combined many qualities, any one of which would have distinguished him among his felloy men, His versatility, which is universally acknowledged, was neither the result of ambition nor curi- osity, but rather the natural out- come of a catholicity of nature and taste which, compelled him to interest himself in whatever was admir- able, manly or good. He was at one and the same time a fine embodiment of modern culture and a living rebuke to the genera- tion of pigmies to whom culture is an incessant but meaningless shibboleth. Be- yond the age at which literary men are most active, and without the whip of necessity to urge him to labor, he was almost to the last an industrious, painstaking, voluminous writer, always carrying to his work a degree of enthu- siasm which many younger men might envy. Like most other men, he died with his favorite work uncompleted and his pria- cipal ambition unsatisfied, for to write the life of Goethe and to be principally es- teemed as a poet were the darling de- sires of his heart. Some of his friends, doubtful whether his qualifications were equal to the possible requirements of his diplomatic position, will believe that for his own reputation’s sake his death oc- curred at a fitting time; but the world is more interested in what a man is than in what he is not, and the memory of Bayard Taylor will be affectionately treasured as that of a genial gentleman, a hearty friend, aloyal citizen, an enjoyable writer, and, in the fullest sense of the term, an honest workman. Italian Opera—Extra Nights. An exceedingly brilliant and prosperous season of Italian opera has thus far crowned the efforts of Mr. Mapleson, and for this it is tobe hoped he is none the worse, while the city has certainly been the gayer, and that part of the public’ which cannot live without good music has been happy. ‘‘Car- men” has been as pronounced a success as any season of Italian opera has ever given us, and the public accepts Minnie Hauk as a prima donna whose appeal to tlie earis all the occasion demands, and whose appeal to the eye realizes the fiction in so far as it presumes that the heroine shall have all the charms of youth and beauty. But Mr. Ma- pleson has other attractions in store. Next week Marie Roze will make her début in the part of Leonorain ‘Trovatore.” She will be supported by Campanini and Galassi. This, therefore, will be an uncommonly fine performance. Few operas are more popular here than this old favorite. The performance will be on Christmas eve, but will be none the less attended on that ac- count. Thursday of next week will be an- other extra night, and one in which the public is very directly interested. On tBut occasion Mr. Mapleson will give a benefit to the theatre itself, the proceeds being assigned to raise a fund to supply the Academy with scenery and properties indispensable for it as a per- manent home of opera, Even the stanch shareholders relinquish their boxes for that night only, or hold them by purchas- ing them at the box office like ordinary mortals. Roze, Gerster and Hauk will all appear, and there will be given an act each of “Traviata,” ‘“Dinorah” and ‘The Hugue- nots.” Everybody will certainly get the worth of his money in good musie on that occasion, and the money will go where it will do most good for the future satisfaction of the patrons of the Academy. People with Delicate Nerves. Many people who live in this city have discovered that it hastoo many noises for their convenience. One of the oldest of all bits of municipal experience is that it has too many smells; and now an attorney adds his experience to that of Mr. Com- stock, making just two who believe it has too many sights from which they caunot turn away their fascinated ‘eyes. Through the terrible temptations held out to the sense of taste the Rev. Dr. Crosby and some other excellent men believe we are kept at the verge of perdition, and the amiable Mr. Bergh believes that the courts are recreant in no other respect than in their refusal to set aside all the prejudices of a love of liberty in favor of a reduced strain on people's sensibilities, ‘Thus, directly through four senses and colorably through the fifth, is the human soul assailed by the devil or a member of his troupe in this lively city. Wouldn't it be well if some of these gentlemen went to the country? There, in the calm seclusion of the fields, in the beautiful tranquillity of the woods, they will find peace ; and stick- ing little crooked wires into fishes’ jaws or pins through the bodies of butterflies in the pensive pursuits of angling or ento-~ mology they will please their soft souls and recover the robust nerves that are needed for life in cities, For it is becoming a point of practical consequence whether this dog of a city is going to wag its own tail or whether the tail is going to wag the dog. Shall the active life of a great city be constrained and limited and set aside in the interest of a small class of the people and their delicate sensibilities or shall these over-sensitive ones step aside and make way for the hard rush of city ne- tivities? For though Mr. Cummins in his fracas over the model of a head in a shop window did not cause any actual interfer- ence with the shopkeeper, this is because he addressed himself to the Board of Health, which, in the experience of some years, has discovered the limitation of its functions; if he had addressed himself to Mr, Anthony Comstock that superservice- able person would, perhaps, have shut up the shop. The President's American Commerce, President Hayes sent to the Senate yes terday an interesting and valuable message relating to one of the most important sub- jects that can engage the attention of Con- gress. In the first week of the session the Senate passed a resolution requesting the President to transmit any information the heads of departments may have received bearing on our trade with South America Message on South and the means of improving it. The message sent yesterday was in com- pliance with that request. It is more than a mere formal preface to the accompanying documents. ‘The President takes an enlightened interest in the revival of our navigation and the extension of our foreign trade, There is no subject which is more worthy of astatesman’s zeal, | No time could be more opportune for taking this great subject in hand than the present, when we are making our money identical with the money of inter- national trade. With this secure basis to go upon we should proceed with other measures for upbuilding our commerce by opening new markets for our productions and thus furnishing employ- ment for all our citizens. ‘The idea to which the President gives most prominence is the necessity of paying for our imports by the exportation of commodities and thus preventing a drain of the precious metals which might imperil the stability of our currency.. This is important; but the one thing needful is to make’our people pros- perous and contented by securing them iull and remunerative employment, and by en- couraging mechanical invention and man- ual skill with the certainty of adequate rewards. The more we diversify our in- dustries and convert our raw materials into a high grade of finished products the greater will be the intelligence as well as the wealth and comfort of our people. ‘The summary of points by Secretary Evarts in his brief report on the informa- tion he submits is more specific and there- fore more instructive than the general re- marks of the President. He avers that the evidence he has collected establishes the fact that the forerunner of England’s con- trol of the South and Central American markets was the establishment of regular and frequent postal communication with them, and that other European nations which are beginning to rival her in those mar- kets are having a degree of success propor- tioned to their adoption of thesame methods, But we are having quite a degree of success in spite of the utter default of regular mail facilities. The reasons are that these coun- tries are our neighbors and that they are pleased with the quality of our goods. But business letters tor any South American port have to crass the Atlantic twice before they can reach their destination. With direct communication the time and distance would be so much shortened that our trade with these neighbors would be rapidly de- veloped. At present we are losing the ad- vantages of our geographical prox- imity ond of the preference of the Southern Americans for our goods. Mr. Evarts states that they are more anxious than we are for closer intercourse, and that they are willing to contribute from their moderate fiscal resources to the estab- lishment of postal steamers. With such facilities between us and them as exist between them and England we should soon acquire the greater share of the trade, and both parties would be enriched by a commerce which would constantly increase with the illimitable development of the American continent. Why Not Private Dalsell t Bernadotte, who sat upon the throne of Sweden for a quarter of a century and ruled in a manner that commanded approval, be- gan his public career as a private in the royal French marines. Now, Private Dal- zell has been a private all his life so far, and therefore much better fitted to be a king than the shifty Frenchman, who was only a private for a little while. We do not know how long he has been a private, for we do not know his age; but we are reminded by every mail from Ohio that he isone. In fact, there are thousands of editors all over the country who have freqnent, not to say painful, evidence of the fact eqnally with ourselves. ‘he information that we have at least one private in our midst comes at the foot of masterly disquisitions upon every subject pertain- ing to the government of the country, couched, unfortunately, ina language which only our correspondents returned from the remote places in Enstern Europe, lately the scene of hostilities, can understand. 'To each of these we give a ton or more of mail matter from the illustrious Private for reading matter during his holidays. From the reports of a number of these gentle- men, who are now on the sick list, we con- clude that Private Dalzeli is lost to civiliza- tion in America, ‘Lhey pointto the anomaly of a persistent private in a nation of colonels and brigadiers, and with one voice declare that he and his state papers sheuld be sent where they would do most good. Fvom all of which we conclude, and ask our contem- poraries to support us therein, that he should be shipped to Bulgaria and en- throned as its king. “Due Consideration.” It is gratifying to learn from the pro- ceedings of the Board of Education that one local board of school trustees, having had their attention called to the foul air of some of their classrooms, ‘‘have given the subject due consideration.” If the other local boards would go and do likewise there would be a sudden depression in the honorable but dismally suggestive business of making coffins in children’s sizes. Per- haps more of the trustees would give ‘due consideration” to the subject of ventilation if they knew how easy it would be in most cases, If all doors and windows in ® school building were opened wide for an hour after the classes were dismissed for the day, and the same operation was performed during each intermission and during the noonday hour, there would be at least fifty per cent of improvement at once, Hot air is not necessary or even desirable to persons just coming from out of doors, A temperature of fifty degrees is grateful in such cases, and if it can be raised to seventy degrees within half an hour it will meet the requirements of every child who is well enough to go to sehool, The thermometer, which hangs in many schoolrooms, also ealis for ‘due consider- ation.” As soon as the mercury reaches seventy degrees it should be closely watched, and slightly opened windows should be used as preventives of a stupefying degree of heat. ‘hen let the trustecs see to it that the hot air iurnaces do not take air from the neighborhood of the closets or other foul influences. Let them see whether such ventilating flues as their buildings have are open ; let them replace such broken chains and cords as are supposed to regulate the vents to these fines. All these things can be done without assistance from the Board of Education, for each board of trustees has a small fund at its own disposal for re- pairs. Then if they can afford phtent ven- tilators that will still further purify the air let them make use of them, but no ‘due consideration” will have been given until the rooms are thoroughly and frequently aired by the easy, sensible, utterly costless method of opening doors and windows when the rooms are empty. Cheap Fares and Increased Profits. The people ot New York have good reason to be satisfied with what has already been accomplished in the way of rapid trausit. Energetic and capable business manage- mept was essential to its success, and this has been’ secured in the case of both ele- vated railroad companies, and has given us within an incredibly short space of time two excellent roads.@ The rapidity with which the Sixth avenue line was pushed forward as soon as the legal obstructions were removed is no less praiseworthy than the determination with which the vexatious hostile litigation was met and overcome. When Mr. Cyrus W. Field took control of the Third avenue line it was felt that its success was assured. The man to whose energy and perseverance the world is in- debted for the ocean cables could not fail to secure the triumph of rapid transit. It will be singular if the same business efficiency that has swept away all doubts and difficulties from the path of rapid transit does not promptly discover how the elevated roads may be made of the greatest benefit to the people and the most re- munerative to their owners, The Henatp has always insisted that if rapid transit is to be a substantial public advantage the fares must be so low as to enable the poorer classes to use the roads freely. These people cannot afford to pay ten cents fare. ‘They can manage to pay five cents; but if they travel at that low rate now they are confined to two hours in the morning and two in the evening, and are subjected to the delays, discomforts and inconveniences resulting from overcrowded trains. If rapid transit is to be a real boon to these people and és to work the desired reform in our tenement house system the fare must be reduced to five cents at all hours of the day. Enough is known to make it certain that this low rate of fare will yield increased profits to the com- panies as well as increased advantages to the community. The reports of the strect railroad com- panies for the present year show that rapid transit has not as yet materially affected their traffic. This is due to two facts—first, that the elevated roads are not completed to Harlem, and next, that the fare, except for four hours a day, is double that of the horse cars. The Sixth avenue street rail- road carried only 600,000 passengers less this year than last. Placing this loss wholly to the six months during which the Metro- politan Railroad has been in operation, it amounts to about seven per cent on the half year's travel. Tbe Third avenue horse car line carried 300,000 passengers less this year than last. Allowing the entire decrease to have occurred during the three months of Third avenue rapid transit, it is only about four per cent of the three months’ travel. The Sixth avenue elevated road carried in six months 7,000,000 pas- sengers. The Sixth avenue horse cars carried in the same six months 7,900,000 passengers. In three months the Third avenue elevated road carried about 3,800,000 passengers, while the Lhird avenue horse cars carried in the same period 7,400,000. In both cases sixty per cent of the horse car travel would have been taken by the elevated roads if the fare on the latter had been five cents instead of ten, and this alone would have largely in- creased the receipts of both the rapid transit lines, without calculating tho extra percentage the low rate would have drawn from other horse car lines. The fare being equal, no person of common sense doubts that the main body of travel would go to the rapid transit roads in preference to the horse cars. The idea prevails that people, and especially ladies, riding ten or twenty blocks do not care to mount the elevated railroad stairs. This is an error. Ladies would rather ascend the stairs than stand at crosswalks and dodge horses in the road. The difference in fare alone keeps short travel to the surface lines, ‘The belief that the elevated roads would at once draw away the greater portion of the horse car passengers if the fare should be made tive cents is based upon figures and facts, 1, The Metropolitan Elevated Company has averaged its daily receipts in six groups of hours for November last, which affords a fair basis of calculation for both roads, ‘These figures show that during November, 482,664 passengers rode at five cents fare in 104 hours, while 763,880 passengers—only a little more than one-third in excess of the five-cent passengers —rode at ten cents fare in 377—or nearly four times as many—hours. 2 The Sixth avenue and Third avenue horse cars no longer run overcrowded from 5:30 to 7:30 A, M, or from 56 to 7P, M. It is a well known fact that in those hors they carry their lightest loads, the decrease in their passengers being clearly caused by the cheap fares on the elevated roads. 3. The increased travel on the elevated roads consequent on reduced fare would be confined to the hours during which ten cents is now charged, and would not theres fore be attended by any extra cost to the road, while the crowding of trains in the now cheap hours would be relieved. The night travel would probably be quadrupled at five cents Jare, and thus made remunera- tive, instead of being, as is now claimed, accommodated at a loss, 4, Taking the Metropolitan road's figures for November the passengers were divided as follows:— 763,880 at ten conte. $76,988 0¢ 452,664 at five cents 24,133 2¢ i diaincetee sanens + +$100,521 26 Fifty per cent of the Sixth avenue horse car travel transferred to the Metropolitan road would have added 790,800" tor'the lat. ter’s passengers, making a totil’ of 2,037,344, which, at five cents fare all round, would have yielded a revenue of $101,867 20 for the month. This is more than the actual receipts; but to this must be added the large numbers of passengers that would also be drawn from the Seventh avenue, Eighth avenue, University place and other street lines, With these facts before them such capa. ble and shrewd business men as Cyrus W. Field and the managers of the Metropolitan Elevated road ought not ta hesitate long in adopting the policy of uniform five cent fares, The Italian Ministry. For Signor Cairoli to be unceremoniously tumbled out of the Italian Ministry with- out a parliamentary struggle on any lead- ing point of public policy, and to make way fora man of the same opinions with him- self on nearly all points, would seem ta imply that the popularity which followed that gentleman’s good fortune in catching the blow of an assassin aimed at the King does not count for much in the feel. ings or views of Italian Deputies. Any fact which commends an already popular man with peculiar favor to the multitude of in- telligent and order-loving people would have operated in most constitutional conn. tries to strengthen his hold upon office in the absence of a great conflict of political principles in which he should be found on the wrongside. But Signor Cairoli has gone out of office perhaps less through the press- ure of a vote cast against him than because he has made a point of honor of adhesion to associates in the Ministry whom the Cham- ber will not tolerate on any terms. That a Ministry of the Left should be supplanted by a Ministry of the Left would naturally imply that this element of personal-tapop ularity was the most significant iid ciis6; ‘There has been some difference ifthe Pate liament on the course of the governhent with regard to the Barsanti clabs,’ whose meetings have been stopped atrad whose members have been proceeded against in many places as foes to order and friends and encouragers of assassination. Through the attempt on the life of the King the Ministry was even forced into an attitude of quasi reaction, for it seemed impossible that, in the face of such an event, it should go on with the project of electoral reforms which would certainly give increased power in the State to those very elements that’exs hibited their notion of how they would’usé their political rights by the attemptvf Passanante. But we have not Hotitd ‘thet the government has formally renotnééd its intended electoral law, and the vote which ejected the Ministry was probably not taken on a point of that nature, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, St. Augustine, Fla., has roses in bloom, ‘The Buffalo Express is beginning to find out that Mr. Tilden himself is a cipher, Mr. R. von Pestel, Minister for the Netherlands at Washington, is at the Hoffman House. Mr. Welsh, the American Minister to England, passed a good night. His feverishness is gone and the bronchitis symptoms are better, Evening Telegram:—“It is clear that Conkling ia bound to get the better of the administration in the Custom House fight. How can Hayes ever expect to stand on his general merit 2” Representative Williams partook of slight nourish- ment last evening, and his attendants reported that he had been sleeping during the evening. His condi- tion remains exceedingly precarious, Mme. Antoinette Sterling, who refused to sing before the Queen unless she sang in a high-necked ress, has been winning a great deal of success be fore Scotchtyen, who recognize the purity of her contralto voice. From London Punch:—"Soft-hearted grandpapa (to Tommy, who has just been castigated by his mamma)—‘And you know, Tommy, it really pains mamma more than it does you!’ Tommy—‘Oh, y I know it does? She says so! It hurts her hands Colonel Littleton, Military Secretary to the Gov- ernor General of Canada, who had obtained leave of absence to procecd to England owing to the serious illnegs of the Hon. Mrs. Littleton, received reassuring news yesterday and his departure has been postponed, A well-dressed man entered the Bank of England, threw down a penny and asked fof a check. When it was handed to him he filled it up to “self” for £100, signed it, and, receiving the money,, withdrew, As he had no account at the bank of England that insti- tution lost £100 by the transaction, while government gained one penny. London Truth:—“Dr. Schliemann, I hear, is again in luck, More earrings, more bracelets have turned up to his fortunate shovel, He has lately unearthed five separate treasures, each composed of numerous by 4, earrings and lumps of His latest ‘find’ is a bronze vessel, in which weteWoiné bronze axes, us well as 50 silver ornamemts {hd bulk of the contents, howev mnsisted of wold: earrings, bracelets, beads and bars of gold. Many of the orna~ ments ate very graceful in shape and of fine work- manship.”” ‘London Trutk:—“Aithough Paganini is said to have knelt and kissed the hand of Berlioz, at the sama time hailing him as the successor of Beethoven, his opinion on this matter is not likely to be ins dorsed by a more discriminating posterity. Berlios is a very fine critic and a very good composer, but in neither department can he be considered facile princps, He has written, besides minor works, four symphonies, one of which, ‘Harold in Italy,’ was given for the first time at the Crystal Palace last Saturday, It was composed at the suggestion of Paganini, who wanted something exceptionally brilliant for the purpose of showing off the qualities of a special Stradivarius tenor violin he had beconie possessed of. But the writer of the ‘Symphonie fantastique’, did not produce anything of a quality sufficient to satisfy Paganini, and, having begun @ soft of viola concerto, Berlioz continned until he had written the ‘Harold in Italy’ symphony. Thie work professes to be an orchestral portraiture of @ series of Italian scenes, through which a ‘pensive dreamer’ of the stamp of Byron's ‘Childe Harold’ is supposed to wander; though why this individual should be called ‘Harold’ only is not explained,’