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JEW VUKK. WEDNESDAY. MAY 88. 1878.
Important Notice to Advertisers.?To
insure the proper classification of advertisements
it is absolutely necessary that they be handal in
before eiyht o'clock erenj eteniny.
The probabilities are that the weather in New
York and its vicinity to-duy will be slightly cooler
and partly cloudy or fair. To-morrow it will be
warmer and fair.
Wall Street Yesterday.?The stock market
was dull and steady. Gold opened and closed
at 1007s, selling in the interim at 10034- Gov
ernment bonds were strong, States dull and rail
roads higher. Money on cull was easy at 2L, a
per cent.
Castle Garden's Figures show that the im
migration business has really revived.
The Free Bathing Houses open the 1st of
next month?that is, if the river is free from icc.
What Will Plymouth's Examining Com
mittee do with Mrs. Tiltonf is the great question
in Brooklyn. Why do anything I
The Proposition to reduce the salaries of the
professors of the New York College received only
four votes iu the Board of Trustees.
The Brooklyn Bridge Trustees seem to be
dreadfully ufruid that the structure will not suit
some rapid transit company when it is finished.
If the Aldermen can have their way the
present street encumbrances will become per
petual. The outlook is cucouraging fur prop
erty owneis.
The Convention of railroad supply agents to
compare notes in regard to their purchases shows
that the big corporations urc beginning to sail
close to the wind.
The Confirmation by the Senate of Mr.
George A. Sheridau to be Recorder of Deeds iu
Washington gives another Louisiaua patriot bis
Well earned reward.
It Is Barely Possiule that the Senate Com
mittee on Elections, in deciding to investigate
the right of Senator Butler, of South Carolina,
to his scut, has an eye to the fall campaign.
A Congressional Excursion to tho Paris
Exposition is talked of iu Washington. Tho
idea is excellent. By ull means let the whole
Congress go?and stay there five or six years.
Tiie Reformed Presbyterians have resolved
that the Sabbath must he kept holy iu futuro
and thut foreigners must he taught that this is
no place for the profane practices of Continental
Europe.
When the Tammany Aldermen obtain full
control of the street sprinkling business it is to
be hoped they will turn their carts into the
Council Chamber. There is entirely too much
of a dust there.
. Eleven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars
were allowed yesterday by a considerate jury to
* gentleman injured on a railroad cor. If this is
to be tlie scale of conqtensation there will prob
ably be fewer accidents.
An Important Witness was seemed yester
day against Wright, the self-confessed murderer
of Perron, whose body was sunk iu the Erie
Basin, lie win the shipmate of Wright when
the crime was committed.
The Reports presented at the anniversary
nceting of the Sunday School Union yesterday
iliow a very satisfactory condition of affairs. Its
finances arc prosperous and its schools and
pupils more numerous than ever before.
A Thrifty Citizen of Brooklyn has brought
suit against a young lady's mother in that eity
for seventy dollars commission for having ob
tained a handsome husband for her daughter.
This is a ridiculous sum fur a good looking
young fellow.
The Earthquake in Venezuela was attended
by a terrible destruction of property throughout
the country. A remarkable development of heat
atteuded the convulsion, causing the. river waters
to grow warm to such a degree tut to scare the
fish out of their natural element. This sudden
heat was probably due to tho tremendous fric
tion of the eurth's cinst disturbed by the subter
ranean forces.
The Weathi u.?The depression over the lakes
tins moved eastward, with a rising barometer,
toward the New England coast, attended by
liglit ruins and followed by high winds from the
westward. The lowest pressure is now over
Canada. A high pressure is developing behind
the disturbance and e.xfemis southward to the
Eastern Gulf and over the central and const dis
tricts, except on the Middle and Eastern sea
board. '1 he barometer is again falling iu the
West and continues below the mean iu tliu South
west, but without marked indications of a seri
ous disturbance. Light rains coutiuuu ou the
Pacific coast northward from California. Tho
UMii|M'iattir<s have fallen on the New England
coast and in tiie lake district; elsewhere they
have risen or remain unchanged. The weather
in New York and its vicinity to-day will ho
slightly cooler and partly cloudy or fair. To
morrow it w ill be warmer and fair.
Our Savigation Lawi Absurd and
Behind the Age.
The impending war between Great Britain
and Russia brings into the foreground a
qnestion of the first magnitude, which
would almost equally deserve discussion
without this extraneous incitement. The
advocates of reform avail themselves of the
new situation us a means of gaining atten
tion, but the subject is of scarcely less im
portance and is of almost equal urgency if
the war cloud blows over as if it gathers to
a storm. Our navigation laws as they
stand at present are an antiquated ab
surdity in every possiblo condition of rival
nations. They are no more to be
justified when all the world is at peace
than when great Powers which make a fig
ure on the ocean are likely to be at war.
Wo avail ourselves of the disturbed rela
tions between England and Russia to make
a strong appeal to Congress, which would
bo equally pertinent at any other time,
although it would have less chance of gain
ing attention.
The advantages of relaxing the rigor of
[ our absurd navigation laws with a great
European war in near prospect are too ob
vious to ullow of much controversy. In
the event of war British and Russian mer
chant ships will be subject to Inwful cap
ture in pursuance of belligerent rights. The
commercial marine of Russia is so small
that she can be no great sufferer. But
British merchant ships are afloat upon all
the oceans and seas of the globe, and the
history of our civil war illustrates the
damage and destruction to which they nro
exposed. The Confederate Slates had no
commercial marino and no ports which were
not under blockade, and yet by a few armed
and swift sailing cruisers they practically
annihilated American commerce. Our mer
chant ships were sold to foreigners because
the rates of marine insurance wore so high
that they could not be navigated without
loss. In the event of war British ship
owners will be reduced to the sumo hard
necessity. Neutjal ships, which are not ex
posed to capture and have to pay only the
ordinary rates of insurance, cun underbid
the merchant ships of a belligerent nation
and take away their business. The natural
consequence is large sales of ships to the
citizens or subjects of neutrnl govern
ments, and the market for ships being thus
overstocked they have to be sold at a sac
rifice, which is a great advantage to the neu
tral purchasers. Our absurd navigation laws
preclude our citizens from making these
great prospective bargains. It is prepos
terous that when ships are likely to bo sell
ing at half their real value American citi
zens are precluded by a set of antiquated
laws from acquiring the property which its
owners are compelled to sacrifice. The
ships would be of little value to American
purchasers so long as they are unable to
procure American registers for their cheaply
acquired property.
It is the clear duty of CoDgress, before
this session is adjourned, to pass a law ad
mitting foreign built ships to registration
on proofs of exclusive and bonu fide Ameri
can ownership. No other possible legisla
tion could do so much to expedite the re
covery of oar lost navigation, which wo
have been monrning and deploring since
the close of the civil war. A wise and lib
eral measure of this kind would be far more
honorable and statesmanlike than conniving
at schemes to make underhand war and
avenge upon Great Britain the wrong
which she perpetrated in permitting the
escape of the Alabama and other rebel
cruisers to prey upon our commerca It
would be a national disgrace to attempt to
pay off England in kind by conniving at
the fitting out of Russian cruisers irom our
ports; but a relaxation of our absurd navi
gation laws, with a view to permit the pur
chose of ships when her subjects desire to
sell them, would violate no amity and
would yet give us a great start toward the
rocovory of what we lost on tho ocean during
the civil war.
Manifost as the advantage would be of
permitting our citizens to avail themselves
of the great bargains in ships likely to be
offered daring a war between England and
Russia, wo would not advocate the chang
ing of a wise and settled system merely to
secure a transient benefit. Our navigation
laws are preposterous, not so much because
they obstruct tho making of capital bargains
in ships when other nutions are at war, as
because they are at all times detrimental to
our commorco. They were enacted nearly
ninety years ago, and oven then they
were a servile copy of British statutes
on the Bame subject, passed so far
back as tho protectorate of Cromwell.
Since our navigation laws were passed, in
1TJ2, the nation from which they wore ser
vilely borrowed has repudiated them in ioto.
At the time our navigation laws were
passed, and for n century and a halt before,
England had permitted tho registration of
only English built ships ; but she has since
rocognized tho absurdity of those laws and
has expunged them from her statute books.
In 1850 Parliament repealed the law which
forbado tho registration of foreign built
ships, and four years Inter she opened her
coasting trade to the freest foreign competi
tion. What was tho effeet of this courageous
emancipation from antiquated ideas? Did
tho admission of foreign built ships to
British registry and the opening of tho
British counting trade to the freo competi
tion of foreigners arrest tho growth of Brit
ish tonnage ? Nothing of the kind. On tho
contrary, there is no period in the history
of British commerce when tho growth of
British shipping advanced with such gigan
tic strides as during the twenty yanrs which
followed the repeal of the navigation laws.
Within thoso twenty years the British ton
nage was more than doubled, as is
proved by official statistics. Tho opening
of the British coasting trade to foreign
competition did not produco anything like
such marked and wonderlul results,
becuuse it is only under exceptional cir
cumstances that foreigners will ever com
pete for tho coasting trade of a nation. And
yot there are manifest advantages in leav
ing the coasting trade froc. If n European
ship with a cargo to bo discharged partly
in New York and partly in Bnltimoro were
permitted to carry domestic freights be
tween these two cities it would obviously
keep down domestic prices and enable Now
York merchunts to ship goods to Baltimore
at lower rates than when the .coasting trade
is an American monopoly.
We do not, however, think it desirable
that the American monopoly of oar coasting
trade shooed' |tan interfered with at present
Let us begc?, England began, by first
abolishing the distinction between native
built and foreign built ships, and allow
foreign built vessels to register and giving
them the protection of the American flag.
The title to carry the flag should depend on
exclusive American ownership. When the
absurd and antiquated features of the Brit
ish Navigation act were repealed in 1850
there was no relaxation of the strictness
which required exclusive British ownership.
No British ship can bo registered which
is not entirely owned by British subjects.
Under the British statutes property in
ships can be mortgaged like other property,
but such mortgages must bo recorded in
order to bo valid, and this gives the gov
ernment a perfect guarantee against con
cealed claims or fraudulent ownership.
On the point of ownership our own statutes
should continue to be equally strict; but it
would bo wise to imitate the British statutes
in making the place were ships wero built
of no importance in determining their title
to registration and to the protection of the
national flag. We commend this great
snbject to the consideration of Congress,
and urge decisive action previous to the
adjournment.
Welcome Home.
Cardinal McCloakey returned from Eu
rope yesterday by the French line steamer
Pereire, and, while there was no formal
demonstration on his urrival, a large num
ber of clergymen and friends were on the
pier to tender him a heartlelt and earnest
welcome. The Cardinal appeared to be in
good health, and expressed his satisfaction
at being once again among his own people.
A public reception will shortly be tendered
him, probably at St. Patrick's Cathedral;
but outside this contemplated demonstra
tion more people than could be contained
in a thousand cathedrals will rejoice at the
safe return of one whose many excellent
qualities of mind and heart endear him to
the entire community.
Secretary Slierman'i lustier to Mr.
Pot er.
No considerate man will think that Mr.
Sherman is unduly sensitive to the charge
made against him in the preamble to the
Potter resolution. That grave charge is not
to be classed with the irresponsible asper
sions of irresponsible private individuals in
the heat of excited partisanship. It has been
adopted and indorsed by one branch of the
national legislature, and it would destroy
the reputation and usefulness of the
Secretary of the Treasury if supported by
sufficient evidence to Recure belief. It in
only a just regard for character which im
pels Mr. Sherman to demand an opportu
nity to confuto the charges. What he usks
in his letter to Mr. Potter is perfectly rea-*
sonable. Ho wishes to bo represented be
fore the committee by counsel, permitted
to cross-examine witnesses and to pro
duce testimony in his own defence.
He offers to prove that in the
Louisiana parishes (that is, counties)
of East Feliciuna and West Feliciana such
violence and intimidation were practised as
justified the Returning Board in throwing
out the returns from those parishes. Ho
designates Mr. Shellabargor as his counsel
and asks that this gentleman may bo per
mitted to represent him before the commit
tee. We do not see on what ground this
reasonable request can bo refusod. If it
should be rejected the Potter committee
will stamp itself as organized to convict
and condemn instead of to make a candid
inquiry into the truth of the alleged frauds.
A Nation') Gratitude.
The proposition to retire General Grant
with a general's full pay is ono which ought
to have received not only the unanimous
approval of Congress but the hearty in
dorsement of the entire nution. Indeed, it
would be but a feoble expression of the
gratitude duo to the great soldier from tho
American people. Tho services rendered
by Marlborough and Wellington to Great
Britain, important as they were, shrink into
insignificance beside thoso performed by
Grant for tho United States. The English
commanders' military genius stood their
country in good stend in war, but
tho victories they won were not essen
tial to tho preservation of tho constitu
tional structure of the British govern
ment. The American soldier saved tho
Union and gavo the nation greater strength
and inllucueo at home and abroad than it
possessed beforo tho terrible trial through
which it triumphantly passed under hiB
leadership. It has been said that republics
are ungrateful, and perhaps it is fortunato
that their ideas of gratitude do not extend
1 far enough to saddle tho country with gifts
1 and pension lists that pass down to pos
terity and becomo a perpetual burden on
future generations. But tho proposition to
bestow tho full pay of a gen oral for life on a
i soldier like Grant was one bo just and
moderate that no voico in Congress or out |
of CongrcsB ought to have been rnisod
against it. It was defeated by tho demo
crats Senators, and liko many of their
recent proceedings in Congress their action
in the matter is calculated to deprive their
party of tho confidence of the country.
Official Charity.
Ono of tho "institutions" in which tho
city is supposed to caro for the wretched
and helpless portions of tho population is
nn idiot asylum, and it was shown in yes
terday's Hf.uald how the municipal benevo
lence is exercised at that horriblo place.
Idiot children are not objects likely to ex
cite a very extensive sympathy in tho com
munity, but tho treatment that paupor de
pendents aro entitled to receive is n sub
ject that should bo quito apart from
any sentiments of ropngnancy toward
the objects an which charity is bestowed.
Any more shocking* atory than the recital of
tbo way in which diseuso is systematically
cultivated in tho asylum, or in which tho
wretched children aro actually done to
death by deficiency of food, it is not possi
ble to imagine. But tho facts of this caso
cannot astonish any ono who bo3 followed
the accounts we hare from time to time
given of the administration of the Depart
ment of Charities and Correction. It is of
all departments of our city government tho
one most tilled with scandalous incompe
tency and atrocious abases.
Indicting the Board of Httlih Nui
sa uvea.
The Grand Jury* have displayed praise
worthy energy in acting on Recorder
Huckett's charge in relation to the nuisances
created by fat rendering and other offensive
establishments in tho city. A large butch
of indictments was brought into .Court
yesterday afternoon and bench warrants
were issued against tho implicated parties.
It is alleged that the indictment of the
Hoard of Health was delayed or postponed
on some account, but certainly the work of
the Grand Jury will not be complete or im
partial without it. Wo publish to-day the
statements of mombors of tho Health De
partment, one of whom complains that many
people regard tho Board and its employes as
dishonest, and, in his own words, "think
we are little better than thieves." Why this
official should suppose the public to have
any such erroneous impression, or, if his
supposition bo correct, why the public
should havo formed so unjust an estimate of
the Health Department, we are at a loss to
conceive. But that tho health officials have
shamefully neglected their duty and suf
fered tho laws to be violated can scarcely bo
questioned. Indeed, tho present action of
the Board, incited by the terror of an in
dictment under Rocorder Hackett's ad
mirable charge, is a proof that its previous
conduct was open to the censure it received.
It is pretended that "permits" granted by
the Board of Health are a mere matter of
form and give no privileges to tho persons
who receivothem; that if the businesses con
ducted under such permits create nuisances
the proprietors are amenable to the law. But
if it is necessary to obtain a permit before
certain offensive businesses are commenced
the withholding of the permit would be tho
most effectual preventive of the nuisance.
The Board of Health has been grossly in
different to the observance of the laws
and to the protection of the public health,
and no special pleading can wipe out the
fuct. If the department had been as
activo and vigilant before tho Recorder's
charge as einco there would have been no
cause for complaint nud no talk of indict
ment. Tho fact that twenty-nine indict
ments are brought in in one batch against
businesses that are nuisances is alono a
proof of tho negligenco or corruption of tho
authorities whose duty it is to prevent the
existence ot such nuisances. Why, then,
should the officials, who are more culpable
than the nuisance breeders, escape indict
ment? If the present Grand Jury should
fail to indict the principal offenders the
spasmodic activity of the Board of Health
will soon die out and tho nuisances will bo
renewed and continue until they receive
another check such as has been now ad
ministered to them by the Recorder.
Prompt Aetion DtiirtbU.
Tlic New York city funded debt bill lias
not yet received Governor Robinson's sig
nature. The new constitutional provision
requiring all bills left in the hands of the
Executive to bo acted on within thirty days
after the final adjournment of the Legis
lature entails much work upon the Gov
ernor, and this is, no doubt, the reason of
the delay. But it is very desirable that this
bill should receive prompt approval. Its
main features have already been indorsed
by Governor Robinson in his veto of
the original bill, and it was drawn
to meet the objections he raised to the
former measure. It was submitted to him
before its introduction in the Legislature,
and he expressed his satisfaction with its
provisions. This does not, of course, render
it any less necessary that ho should now
give the bill a careful and close examina
tion ns it reaches him after its passage ; but
as its main objects are understood and ap
proved by him he need not take long
to satisfy himself that its meaning is
clear, and that nothing objectionable has
been allowed to creep in. A prompt ap
proval of the bill by the Governor, whose
watchfulness over the city's interests is
well known, will materially benefit tho
city's credit by inspiring confidence in tho
new financial policy inaugurated by the
proposed law. For this reason it is to bo
hoped that the bill will rocoivo early atten
tion, and not be pushed aside while insig
nificant local measures are being examined
and acted upoh.
Sternntatio Infellx.
A sneczo is beyond human control and
may sometimes come at an inoppnrtuno
moment, as the young man discovered who,
having made a practice of replenishing his
exchequer from the poor box at St. Cecilia's
Church, on Second avenue, was at last be
trayed by a sneeze. The untimely irrita
tion of tho innor membrane of tho noso
while ho was concealed in tho organ of the
church led to a search nnd tho discovery of
tho long sought peculator. A sneeze is
occasionally a great relief, no doubt, yet it
would sometimes be deplorably out of place.
For instanoe, it would scaroely do for a
gentleman to sneeze at the momont of a
declaration of love, or for a lady either, for
that matter. The best Juliet ever on tho
stngo could scaroely stand tho test of a
sneeze in the balcony scene, although the
cold air might inako it natural enough. In
tho Stato Assembly once some rogues put a
quantity of snuff on tho great heater by
which the chamber is warmed. A
pompons member had just rison to a
question of privilego on an attack
rnndo upon him in a Now York pa
per, and had opened with a flood of
bombastic eloquence when the fumes af
fected him and ho sneczod. There was a
general laugh. The member looked indig
nantly around and resumed, only to bo in
terrupted by a second sneeze, then a third,
until tho whole Assembly joined him in a
sneezing chorus nnd the Speaker snoez
ingly adjourned tho session. A sneeze is
therefore sometimes out of place; yet it
would bo an excellent thing if somo ar
rangement of nature oonhl bo made to force
a sneezo involuntarily from burglars nnd
stilted orntors whonove* they exercise their
objectionablo talents on innocent peoplo.
. An Klevatecl Railroad Accident.
The accident that happened on the Bow
ery yesttirday through the lulling of one of
the iron girders as it was being raised into
position on the elevated railway was one of
those misfortunes which the greatest care
cannot always avert. The chain used lor
hoisting had been tested and had borne
much heavier weights. The breaking cf a
link, perhaps by a sudden twist in the
chain, or, it may be, by the jerk occasioned
by the falling into its groove of a coil which
had overlapped, was the cause of the acci
dent. All that can bo done when heavy
iron is thus being elevated is to constantly
examine tho chains and hooks, and
there is no reason to suppose that this
precaution had been neglected by those in
control of tho work. Tho unfortunate oc
currence will, however, insure extra watch
fulness, and it is to be hoped will lead to
a discontinuance of one dangerous practice
on the part of tho workmen. It is by no
means uncommon to seo heavy kegs of
rivets and boxes of tools standing on the
cross braces, sometimes in the centre of the
road. It would not take much to tip these
over, aud their fall in so crowded a thor
oughfare, where cars are constantly
passing, might be more fatal than
yesterday's accident. Tho workmen
should bo prohibited from thus im
perilling human life. It will also
bo well if people loam, from the lamentable
occurrence of yesterday, the folly of gather
ing in crowds beneath tho heavy posts and
girders of the Third avenue road as they
are being raised into position. It is not
unusual to lind a group of twenty or thirty
idlers thus amusing themselves, to the peril
of their own lives and the embarrassment
of the laborers engaged in the work. Tho
police ought to be directed to disperse all
such gatherings.
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.
General Beuarogard will leave Louisiana.
Girl Hamilton is a short lutlo thing, as lively as a
drumstick and dignified.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Allen C. Beach Is at Buflalo,
the guest of Senator R. V. IMerce.
Sciiuviar Coliux will go to Sau Francisco In June,
and Henry Ward Uoecner will go in August.
Colonel J. G. Fair, one of the throe remaining mem
bers ol the groat Bonanza drin. Is In 111 health.
Wusliingion Territory Indians know where cod
swim, but thoy reluso to tell where the banks arc.
The President will loivo Washington to-uay for
Baltimore en route to Hampton, Vu., to attend tho
commencement exercises of tho Hamptou Normal and
Agricultural schools. He will take tho 5:30 F. M.
train so as to tuko the night boat for Fort Monroe.
Mr. Thomas Russell, late I'm to J States Minister to
tbe Republic of Venezuela, whence he has Just re
turned, arrived at Bostou yesterduy morning, and In
tended to leave lor Washington In tho alternoou, to
report the result ol his mission to the government.
Plato's undergraduates novor paluicd bis bouse like
a barber's pole or drove a cow Into bis hullway, alter
the manner or our college youtb. Every morning
eurly you could see them In tbe garden with a copy of
the Herald In one baud while they pickod potato
bugs with the othor.
Tho liachiglione ol 1'adua says that a printer ol that
city will send to tbe French Exhibition an edition of
the "D.vtua Coinmedia'' bound In red velvot, which
is but a little longor than a third ol a man's finger,
I and which might bo worn as a charm on u watch
chain. The verses ol the immortal Aligbicrl uro re
produced In characters about as largo as grains of
sand.
AMUSEMEN'IS.
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE ? "HUMPTT DUMPTY'S
BREAM."
An amusing trick pantomlmo called "Humply
Dumpty's Dream," which has been lor somo time in
preparation, was produced last night at the Filth
Avenae Tbeatro. The pantomlmo proper was pre
ceded by a prologue or introduction based on Charles
Dickons'Christmas carol, ??Tho Mlsor. " Tbo rovlval
of the famous old pantomlmo ol "Humpty Damply,"
with whose name that ol poor Ueorge L. Fox U asso
ciated and will bo long romombered, brought to tbe
miudsof many who witnessed tho piece under Its
new name of "Humpty llumpty's Droam" many
memories ol tbe dead una gouo clown.
Fox's career as a paulomlmist commenced
where tba famous French brothers Auloino,
Gabriel and Fruucois Haves ended, and
In a theatre close by the one in which they had Uc
Ugbted thousands ol Now Yorkers In Niblo's Gar
den the Kttvel* produced, witu line scoulo elTvcts lor
brgoue days, the pantomimes ol "The Magic Fen,"
"t'lio lted Guoiue" auJ "Tbo Scboolmauer," and a
number ol oiuers equally popular, and the recollec
tion of tbolr successes bad scurcely laded when Fox,
an American low comediau. gave bis famoua "Humpty
Durnpty" and ut once became the rooognizod clowu of
the American puuiomnuic sugo. His success was
pbeuomenal. '-Uuuipiy Durnpty" held the stage lor
a long period, underwent inauy changes, and was al
ways huro to meet with favor wbeuevur it was pro
duced during Fox's lllotlme. lna new Uuuipiy
Duiupty, Mr. ltoncri Fruser. who appoared last uigbi,
wus for u loug time associated with Fax, nod la holier
acquainted Ibau any oibsr ucior on the stage with all
poor Fox's stage bustuess ana peculiarities.
While Mr, Fruser does not absolutely loilow
the origlo.it Humpty tu all bis stage tress
and counc bu-loess ho (till gives ?ul
Ucicot coloring to bis acting Iti an luteillgvut munucr
to show plainly tbe ?cbool In wbicb Uu stud.od and
the in ode i iroui wliicu bo has copied. Mr. J. 0.
Fruukliu, an acior not uuknowu to the New York
stage, proves u good loll lor the clowu as Uld-Onc-Two
and I'uotaloon. Mr. J. W. dnudford was un agile and
acccpiablo Usrlo<|ulu, and the Colaiublna ol Mile.
Eli.e, while nothing oxtrsordlusry, Was pleasiug and
wou the approval ol tbe audionco lor Iter
spirited dancing. For a llrst night's performance,
and especially tho llrst night of a panioinimr, every
thing worked fairly. Alter a lew repetitions all tbo
alight IiitciivH which ut present leud to mar iho
smooth working ol tbe pioco will ooubllces disappear.
The pantuiuimo proper ol "Humpty Dumpty's
Dream*' is lull ol amusing situations, laughable tricks
and comicalities, but tbo Introduction or prolosuo is
luuie and todtius and was poorly roprcssulud. There
was a good bouse to witness tbe (list production last
night, and the appluuso which rewarded Ihu ellorts of
tbo actors pro vea that It met with a popular verdict
in lla favor.
BTEtNWAY IIALL?OALIMBBRTI.
The farewell concert or Mile. UaliuiOerti was given
last night at dtclnway Hall, Mb* was aldod by several
well known artists, among whom wero Mmo. Lllsnor
do Fern, Mr. Allrod Wilkie, Mr. James Ilor
ton and Mr. Bout, ? tlio well known cor
usiist. The honors ol tbo owning were
naturally tukon np by the brm[Hciaire, whose bravura
style ol siugiug is so lamllur to tba inaGa loviug
public. Mile. Usliiubcrti possesses a rich comrallo
voice, which, if added to English speaking ability,
would bo wunderlully elective In bar musical wurk.
As It Is bar rollicking songs always make a souse
tioo, ana aba never has reason to eninpltlu
of a cold reception. Mr. Bent pcrlormcd
several bsndsoiuu solos on tho cornet, to wineu instru
ment a now alUcl.ineut has boon made by Mr. Disluu
that admits ol a Strang# echo souuu, wbioli is llkoly
to Introduca new elleets In orchotlral and solo work.
BeAur Nunez, Messrs. Wilklo and Hortou ooulnbulsd
to the success ol the evening.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC) NOTES.
Miss Jallet Fsnderson and Mr. B. 0. llent, the cor
notiat, assistod by other artlsu, will give a conoert at
Morrlitowa this evening.
Mrs. Calhoun's lectors atOhlckerlng Hall this even
ing on the subject of "Carbursttod Hydrogen Ghosts,"
ought from the very title to bo altrsctlvtL
Mr. Frabk Glider, the pianist, takes a benefit to
morrow evening at tho Cooper Institute. An excel
lent programme has bean arranged lor tho occasion.
The scadsiny of St. Ltwrtneo Ghuroh will give an
Interesting onterltinmeni at Farspa Hall to morrow
afternoon at lour o'olock. It Is expected that Car
dinal McCloskcy, as well as Ktv. Fathsr Trslaor, pas
tor ol the church, and other* will attend.
Tbe concert in aid of the land to rqulp the Franklin
Arctic soarch party lakos piece nt Htcln way Hall to
night and bids lair to be ono of the Bneet entertain
ments of tbe season. There will undoubtedly bo a
very Isrce attendance, Including tbe most prominent
mambora of the American Geographical Society, who
tako a deep interest in the objects of the expedition.
Tho list of artists who will take part cmbracoe tho
1 mutt eminent musicians in tho city.
From All Parts of the
World.
THE CZAR AND THE TREATY.
Kars Must Be Retained?Bulgaria To
Be Left to the Congress.
ENGLISH DISTRUST OF RUSSIA.
Feeling on the Russian Cruiser
Question in England.
THE SEPOY DEBATE.
Turkish Ministers Dismissed Because ot
the Late Riots.
GILMORL'S BAND IN LONDON.
[BY cable to the herald.]
London-, May 22, 1878.
The correspondent of the Hebald at St.
Petersburg telegraphs as follows:?
"It has transpired that the Czar insists
on the possession of Kars and Ardahan, but
is willing to renounce Batouna. This is ths
utmost limit of tho concessions ho is pre
pared to make in Asia.
BULGARIA LEFT TO THE CONGRESS.
"With regard to the limits of Bulgaria he
is perfectly satisfied to leave the decision
to the Congress. Prince Gortschakofi' re
gards the meeting of tho latter body as cer
tain to take place about the middle of
June."
THE COKQBESS AND THE BRITISH FLEET.
The Standard announces that it is now
more than probable that tho Congi-ess will
meet during the first fortnight of June.
Also, that, owing to the unsettled state of
publio affairs in Constantinople, tho English
fleet will probably move to the Princes'
Islands.
SUSPICION OF RUSSIAN MOVEMENTS.
The reaction lrom the optimist views of last
week is stimulated by tho fncts which are gradu
ally becoming known concerning the Russian
movements before Constantinople. Though these
are stated to have been for sanitary reasons, they
came near precipitating a collision,
ALMOST A COLLISION'.
The Russian line at one time was pushed so near
the Turkish works that the latter were manned
and ammunition was served out. and General Val
entino linker sent an aide-de-camp to notify tue
Russian commander that he would Are on him li
lie did not witudraw.
SKCtllllNU THE TURKISH POSITIONS.
The cirect has been to direct the attention of th|
Turks to the comparatively weak state of that por
tion or their line which covers the Black Sea en
trance to the Iiosphorus, which the Russians natu
rally desire to secure in case oi hostilities The
Turks are, therefore, taking precautions In that
direction.
PACIFIC NEWS.
Pacific news comes this morning from St. Peters
burg, Berlin and Paris.
COUNT ECIIOUVALOFF HOPEFUL.
The Standard's Berlin despatch says Count
Schouvaloir expressed to Lord Odo Russell, the
British Ambassador, hope that the negotiations be
tween England and Russia would lead to a peacelul
arrangement.
A DOUBTFUL SOUKCB.
Tho Times' Vicuna correspondent, however,
says in order to appreciate the exact value of the
announcement of the speedy meeting of the Con
gress it must be mentioned that it emanates from
financial sources. As for political and diplomatic
circles they are more silent and reserved than
ever.
WHAT CAN THE CONGRESS DO T
The Vienna despatch of the Daily Telegraph
says the possibility of a Congress seems to be gen
erally udmittcd, although lew liuve confidence In
lis result Count Andrassy no longer has implicit
faith in that mode of settlement
INTRACTABLE TURKISH INSURGENTS.
According to I'cra auviccs the Turkish delegates
sent to pacify the insurgents have completely
lalied. Their return proves that the Insurrection
must take its course.
RUSSIAN CRUISERS.
In the House of Commons yesterday afternoon
Sir John Ilolker, Attorney General, in reply to an
inquiry of Mr. Gouricy (liberal), member for Sun
derland. said that he had heard of tho ships pur
chased by persons said to act on benail ol Russia,
but there Is no reason to suppose that the ships
will be employed in the event of war as privateers
in contravention or the Paris declaration.
CONFIlfliNOE IN THE UNITED STATES.
There Is no reason to believe that the Unltsd
Slates will depart lrom observance ol the tares
rules of the Washington Treaty. There is no ne
cessity for discussing the responsibility resting on
the governments ol Russia and the United States,
since tlicro Is no reason to suppose that they
would violate their respective engagements.
TIIE HKPOY DEBATE RESUMED.
1 lie debate in the House of Commons was con
tinued last night, the members, us beforo con
fining themselves to discussion of tho legal and
constitutional aspect ol the question. Mr. Puwcett
was followed by the Attorney General.
GLADSTONE'S CRITICISM.
Mr. Gladstone, who spoke over an hour hoped ?
division would bo persisted in, no matter how
small the minority. Ho repelled the charge thai
Lord Harington's motion evaded a declaration ol
policy, if the government pursued European ob
jects in concert with Europe, not by a policy ol
Isolation, and allowed Europe to determino the
method, it would go .uto the Coniercnco pursuing
diplomatic alms bv diplomatic means, rclraining
from a warlike raouaco until a cause for war an
pcarcd. That would bo G.c policy many liberals
l recommended.
SPEECH FOR AND AGAINST.
Sir George Balfour, sir George Campbell and Ml
Newdegate (conservative) spoke !u favor of Lord
Harungton's resolution, uud Mr. Forsyth Mr
Grantham and oincrs against it.
UNINTERESTED MEMBERS.
The debate nearly collapsed. No one rising to
speak after Mr. Gladstone finished, tho Speaker
began putting the motion, but just at the critical
nioment sir George llalfour arose and the House
dwindled down to nine members boiorc he finished
and to six while Sir George Campbell was
lDg.
ADJOURNED TO THURSDAY.
Tho debate was adjourned to Thandav whan
Mr. cross will be tho first speaker. Tho' House
filled up somewhat during Mr. Gladstone's speech,
but at other times the attendance was scanty
DECLINES TO SEE TIIE PEACE MEN.
The Press Association umleistands that, reoif