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THE DAILY JOURNAL. m JNO. C. NEW * sox. WASHINGTON OFFICE—SI3 Fourteenth St. P. S. lleath, Correspondent. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1835. RATES OF SUIJSCRII'TION. *RMS INVARIANT,V IN ADVANCR— POSTAGE PREPAID evthk publisimas. THE DAILY JOURNAL. One roar, by mnll $12.00 One year, by mail, including Sunday 34.00 Fix months, by mail 0.00 Fix months, by mail,including Sunday 7.00 Three months, by mail 3.00 Three months, by mail, including Sunday 3.50 Or.e month, by mail 3.00 One month, by mail, including Sunday 1.20 Per week, by carrier (in Indianapolis) .25 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL. Per copy Scents On© year, by mail. { $2.00 THE INDIANA STATE JOURNAL. (WEEKLY EDITION;) One year SI.OO Less than one .rear and over three months. 10c per months. No subscription taken for less than three months. In clubs of five or over, agents will take yearly subscriptions at sl, and retain 10 per cent, for their work. Address JNO. 0. NEW & RON, Publishers The Journal, Indianapolis. Ind. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places; LONDON—American Exchango in Europe, 449 Strand. PARlS—American Exchange in Pariß, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK—St. Nicholas and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO—PaImer House. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—O. T. Hearing, northwest corner Third and J©fferson streets. BT. LOUTS—Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Ilotol. Telephone Calls. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 242 The Hendricks Memorial Journal. Copies of last Thursday’s Journal, containing tlio complete account of the death of Vice presidout Hendricks, can he had at the counting room, loose, or in wrappers ready for mailing. FINER weather never fell on the last days of November than in the year 1885. TIIE report attempted to be started that President Cleveland would, after all, bo here, and had secretly engaged rooms, was too silly and contemptible to awaken any interest except in the minds of dolts.

Secretaries Bayard, Lamar, Endicott and Whitney, and Postmaster-general Vilas will arrive tLis morning by a Baltimore & Ohio special, to attend the funeral of Mr. Hendricks. Secretary of the Treasury Manning and Attorney-general Garland could not leave Washington. It is said that the Kaiser, upon hearing of ihe untimely death of King Alfonso, exclaimed: ‘‘The poor young man! Death spares the old and takes the young.” So it does, sometimes; but we are not sure that the death of the young King of Spain will work any material harm to his people. Ho could not hope to ever become a great man. The almost universal sentiment of the people of Indianapolis, and of thoughtful men everywhere, was opposed to the President making the journey to this city at the present time. The Chicago News says: “Late ‘dast night word was received that the President had determined not to leave the capital at this juncture. He has decided well.” The Journal said, on Saturday: “From the moment he [the President] should leave the capital until he reached it again in safety, the country would be in pabiotic unrest and anxiety.” Mr. Cleveland said to the Associated Press representative: “I am now certain * * that I ought not to inflict upon my countrymen even tlio unrest and anxiety attending my departure, absence and return in attendance upon the funeral ceremonies.” Mr. John Sherman'says: “The bloody shirt hasn't been waved yet in this country, but if the Democrats really want it waved they can be accommodated. They will wish it had never been callod up if they do demand it. The two great Republican principles are protection to American industries and an honest, fair vote. If we drop these we might as well all become mugwumps, and vote on one side or the other, as fancy dictates.” It should be remembered that President Arthur did not leave Washington to attend the funeral of the late President Garfield. At that time there was no question of the duty and the propriety of the President remaining at the national capital, and no hysterical gentlemen were found who imagined that any disrespect was shown to the memory of the dead chief magistrate. The shriekers and Merry Andrews of journalism were not then either so numerous or so noisy as now. Rev. Mr. Goodwin, who says no sensible temperance men ever talk of the liquor “crime” on the same plane as the crimes of murder and robbery, should have his attention called to an editorial article in the Northwestern Christian Advocate, which, among other things, says: “There are laws which prohibit murder; nevertheless, murders are secretly perpetrated. There are laws prohibiting arson, forgery, larceny, and yet there are people who will commit these crimes. Let It be understood that prohibition does not change men’s natures; it does not make them evasive or hypocritical. It merely makes them allow out their true character.” However, we should have no quarrel with Mr. Goodwin over the proposition that the Advocate is not a "sensiblo temperance man.” Such discussion as this udd3 nothing to the practical solution

of the temperance problem. It only advertises tho writer's inability to consider tlio question candidly and fairly. TriE day and the occasion establish more than ever beforo thet people’s high estimate of a popular government and its official representatives. There is more in to-day’s demonstrations than mere respect for the memory of Mr. Hendricks as a man. It is no disparagement of his character to say that, had he died two years ago, or at any other time than while occupying the second office in the Nation, his demise would not have been awarded anything like ihe great and patriotic tribute so generously and so spontaneously poured out in his honor. He was a distinguished citizen even before his election to ‘ the Vice-presidency, but that would not have been sufficient to have halted the entire American people even for an hour to contemplate his death. For Mr. Hendricks personally, hundreds and thousands mourn his loss as the loss of a friend. For him as a statesman it may be that even thousands or tens of thousands would very deeply regret his sudden death, But for him as Vice-president, one of the few near the center and head of the organic affairs of this country, it has been demonstrated that millions are quick to feel and to express the profoundest interest and sympathy. It is inspiriting to feel on this day that the American people are patriotic; that they love their country far above all partisan prejudice, and that when one of its chosen men falls the effect is felt all over the land. He is a dull observer who does not see in all this very much more than a personal tribute. That is simply one flower in the grand and beautiful bouquet of hearty patriotism. The people everywhere realize that there is more in the death of Hendricks, Vice-presi-dent, than of Hendricks as a private citizen, or even as a member of the Senate. The people may not all be conscious of it; but during the past few days they have made a striking demonstration of the fact that they regard the President and Vice-president as more, b)’ virtue of their exalted position, than mere men who could as easily be snared as any other men. It would, indeed, be folly to say that the death of either or both would endanger the integrity of the government, for it certainly would not. The display of feeling over the sudden death of Mr. Hendricks goes to establish more firmly than ever that the people are wedded to the government and glad to honor and cherish its visible head. It was this sentiment that so promptly moved the people to ask that the President would not needlessly expose himself by risking a long and hurried journey to attend the funeral of his no less illustrious colleague. The millions who worked against and voted against the election of the present administration have demonstrated that they regard it as the visible exponent of the government of all the people, and as such to be shielded against all-Hanger, real or imagined.

So, while the people this day attend in sorrow upon the sad duty of giving sepulture to the body of their Vice-president, there is enough in the feeling displayed over his loss to give renewed assurance to the confidence that the people are loyal and patriotic, and that this Nation shall abide through all the shocks and rancor of partisan campaigns, aud ride over all ordinary vicissitudes incident to a government made up from atoms of mortality. May the lesson of this hour go before the American people, a pillar of cloud in days of peace, of fire in hours of doubt, to guide all in paths of wisdom and ways of unbounded charity and good will. The Indianapolis Sentinel of yesterday says: “It will be seen by reference to our telegraphic columns that the President has decided not to attend the funeral of tho Vice-presi-dent. Ho has yielded hi3 inclination to come to what seems to be the general judgment of thoughtful persons of all parties, that it would be unwise in the present critical condition of public affairs for him to do so. This decision has undoubtedly been arrived at from a high sense of public duty, and it is not, under the circumstances, in the least disrespectful to the memory of tho deceased Vice-president. It is just such prudent and far-seeing action as Mr. Ilendricks’s nearest friends are likely to approve, and which, indeed, was foreshadowed in the telegram sent on Saturday by Mrs. Hendricks to the President, in which it was said that she fully appreciated the ■weighty public reasons that exist at this time against his coming, and urged that he be governed entirely by his seuseof public duty. In this Mrs. Hendricks undoubtedly voiced the best judgment of the community.” The Louisville Commercial, discussing the result of the liquor campaign in Georgia, says: “The advantage of ‘local option’ in a work of this kind is that the temperance idea may be introduced in a section favorable to it without arousing the opposition to it which may exist in other parts of the State, whereas if it were made a State question at the beginning defeat would result. The same plan has been in use iu Kentucky, wherq perhaps two-thirds of the area is under prohibitory laws. The question of closing the saloons in Louisville has been voted upon once unsuccessfully, but tho temperance people may be expected to make other attempts. Tho ‘local option’ plan has never had any connection with general politics, so that the so-called Prohibition vote in the general elections does not indicate the strength of the opposition to the liquor traffic.” In Michigan, as has been shown in these columns, a man values his wife at SI,OOO, and if every man is rash enough to elope with her he at once pursues the flying pair, and collects the amount. In New York it is different, especially at Troy. A man named Wolf had a wife that weighed 225 pounds. He employed a man named Ham to work for him, and it soon became apparent that she was inordinately fond of Ham, a not very strange thing for a woman of that weight. Wolf did not mind it apparently, doubtless believing <4hat Mrs. Wolf was big enough to take care of herself. The plot thickened until a dicker was made, and Ham walked off with tho buxom lady for just twenty shil-

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lings. The woman market is evidently slumped since the Michigan man fixed rates last week. Shorts needn’t feel alarmed just yet. Tiik finale scene of what is regarded as a “romance” by the local gossips has just taken place near Pittsburg. George Poland, one of the parties figuring in it, quarroled with Lis wife in England twenty-five years ago, and coming to this country, settled in western Pennsylvania, whore he married another woman, and where, in the course of time, he accumulated enough property to make him one of the solid citizens. A few days ago a fine-looking elderly lady stopped at the bouse of one of Mr. Poland's neighbors and, sending for him, made herself known as his first wife. She told him she was livine in tho interior of the State with their son, with whom she had a comfortable home, and that, hearing lie was in failing health, knew he needed her and that she had, therefore, come for him. Her husband was, not unnaturally, somewhat overcome by the situation, but, after duo consideration of the matter, decided that he would go. He accordingly disposed of his property, and, after providing for wife number two and her daughter, went his way with the partner of his youth. It is up to this point that the affair is considered romantic; but whether this view is shared by the woman who had sup posed herself for years to be Mr. Poland's lawful wife, is a q • stion open to some doubt. “Romance'’ has some curious features in these days and all people do not enjoy it alike. Charles L. Davis, the circus man, who accidentally killed his wife and took his own life immediately afterward, seems to have been well fixed in the way of killing apparatus. Among his effects were fouud the revolver with which the tragedy was committed, a heavy “billy,” another revolver, and a black thorn club. His wife escaped luckily in being simply killed. A Kentucky trotter, five years old, has just been sold to a Philadelphia man lor $22,500. Three years ago the same animal sold for but S3OO. Tlie rapid rise in value was because the horse itself was rapid and gave promise of better things to come. He has made his mile in 2:19. The prico paid was at tho rate of SIG 2 per second. Time is very much money. The agony of the crazy-quilt show in New York is to be prolonged another week, and an additional inducement to victims is thrown out in the shape of a lady’s dress front done in Kensington painting and valued by the exhibiter at $3,000. This is just the price of three women at Grand Rapids, with dress fronts thrown in. It is believed that the mugwump consumption of turkey yesterday was considerably less than on the corresponding day last November. There were fewer mugwumps yesterday, and they had less appetite.—Chicago Tribune. And they had much less turkey. Mugwump turkey, at best, is a very airy and unsubstantial creature. It is roughly estimated that between thirty and forty lives have been lost in the construction of the new aqueduct building to supply New York city. Instead of water, the conduit will supply “spirits” if this thing is kept up. “Fritz” Emmet, the ladies’ darling, is on an other hilarious bum, at Williamsport, Pa. This won't keep him from having crowded houses wheu he plays next.

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Slab Hollow, Vt., has petitioned the PostofCce Department for a more dignified title. Mr. Labouchere says that Queen Victoria seems to have aged much during the last ton months. Governor lloadly, of Ohio, intends to return to his law practice, which is expected to yield about $30,000 a year. Jenny Lind will sing iu public, next summer, for the first time in twenty-two years. Her appearance will be for a charitable purpose. The Marquis of Lome has written for the Youth’s Companion an article on “Chances for American Boys.” Mr. Georoe H. Boker. the well-lcnown Philadelphian. and the author of “Francesca da Rimini,” has written a play entitled “Glaucus, or tho Last Days of Pompeii,” for Mr. Lawrence Barrett. More than .£IOO,OOO a year is received by Queen Victoria from tho estates of persons who die intestate and without heirs, all such property belonging to her Majesty, in light of her royal prerogative. Senator Sabin, having untangled his financial skeins, finds that he is nothing like as poor as Job’s turkey. He once thought himself hopelessly involved, it is said, but now he is on his feot and in good shapeTliE basket given by Washington to one of his messengers, David Eaton, of New Hampshire, as a dispatch box. is preserved carefully by his daughter, Mrs. Burke, of Portland, Me., who is now eighty-six years old. Miss Mary Lee, daughter of the late Gen. Robert E. Lee, is an indefatigable traveler. She is now visiting her cousin, United Stales Minister Lewis, in Portugal, and before she returns to this country will extend her tour to Japan. The police force of Berlin boasts a self-taught lin guist who has improved his leisure hours by translating a recent work from the Chinese. He has mastered four languages, and is also about to publish a volume of stories and sketches entitled “From tho Diary of a Berlin Policeman.” “Mme. Helen Hopekirk, with her short, clustering youthful locks, her broad collar and her puffed leg-of-mutton sleeves, wrestling warmly with a Beethoven sonata, is quite like a figure out of some old English master. ’ So she seems to the photographic eye of the Boston Transcript. Four children in white Liberty silk, smocked in pale coral and coral Liberty sashes, waited upon Miss Mary Ellen Gladstone at her marriage to Stuart Trotter, in Northwood Church, England, says London Truth. The bridegroom gave to each little lass bar brooches with the bride's initials. The senior partner of the well-known publishing house of Oliver Ditson & Cos. recently celebrated, in Boston, his seventy-fourth birthday. The foundation of this house was laid in 1835, and Mr. Ditson. who has been identified with it3 growth from the beginning, takes as active an interest in its affairs as ever. “M. Grevy,” says a chatty person in Paris, “is very rich and very miserly. He eats plain food because he is too stingy to buy the dainties. How much he is worth no one knows, but it cannot well be less than $7,500,000. a large part of which is in Paris houses. And he is saving money all the time out of his salary.” The trappings of the white elephant of King Thebaw are said to be worth a million dollars. The royal regalia are reputed the most valuable in the world, especially in rubies and sapphires. Ruby mines exist just north of Mandalay, to which no European has ever been allowed access. The Burmese war is, therefore, likely to yield plenty of loot. Mme. Demorest is described as being “apparently forty-five years of age, tall, with dark eyes and hair, streaked with a few silver threads, and combed smoothly back from her face. She wore a black silk dress, with front of open embroidery lined with white satin. Her dolman was of black brocade plush, and her gloves of silver drab.” The late Bishop Fraser, of Chester, England, exclaimed one evening twenty minutes before services: "I have not a single idea what I am to preach about/’ He flung off Lis coat, and in his shirt sleeves sat down at a table, and in twenty minutes emerged from the room with the heads of a sermon which thrilled and electrified a vast congregation for nearly an hour. There died at alhngford, Conn., lately, a spinster who remained one on account of a curious pre-nuptial quarrel. The dav had been fixed for her wadding.

nnd she and her intended husband be.-'nn to put down carpets in the bouse they were to occupy. She wanted them laid one way. he another. They quarreled and separated. He died shortly afterward, and the lady never married. At a recent marriage in Ohio, the bride, a Mi's Morris, wore a dress that was imported from Paris in 1742 for a wedding, and has been in the family ever since, being used only on such occasions. It was worn again in 177 G as a wedding dress, but not again till the other day, when Miss Morris donned it. Not a stitch has been altered or added to it, aud it is iu as good condition as when new. Madame Adelina Tatti will be married to Signor Nicolini in June next—that is to say, in tho legal period of ten months after her divorce from the Marquis de Caux. Nicolini’s real name is Ernest Nicolas, and he belongs to a bumble French family. His wife, from whom he has just been divorced by mutual consent, and from whom he had been separated many years, is an Italian lady named Maria Annata. It having been stated that Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright had pensions, an Accrington correspondent wrote to the latter, who, in reply, says: “I have no pension; Mr. Gladstone has no pension. When in office he received the salary paid for the office. Lord Beaconsfield had a pension after leaving office, and a sala-y when in office. Liberals have not invented pensions; they have reduced them in number and amount.” When war was declared by Franco against Ger many, Von Moltke was seriously ill. The King got the nows late in the evening, and went to consult the Count, whom he found asleep. The Count was aroused, when the King informed him that war was declared. “With whom?” asked the General. “With France,” was the reply. “The third pc.rtiolio on the left,” was all the Count vouchsafed to say, and Le fell asleep immediately. Elizur Wright, who has just died at tho acre of eighty-one, once won $lO, on a bet, from Daniel IN ebster. It was in this wiso: A political letter signed by Mr. Birney had appeared. In a public conveyance Mr. Wright denounced it as a forgery. Mr. W ebster made tho bet on its truth. It proved to boa forgery. The money was paid, and Mr. Wright then paid it to Appleton, the publisher, who but three- days before had subscribed to the Webster fund. Dr. Schliemann, the Homeric explorer, is a man of sixty-three years, full of energy and vigor. Ho takes pleasure in continuing his researches. He ;s a plain, unassuming man. His house at Athens has been built for him cf solid marble, in the most excel, lent taste, and the view is one of tho finest ever seen. The windows command a view of the Acropolis, the bay and the intensely blue waters of the /Egean sea. The flat roof is adorned with numerous marble statues. S. B. Elkins, who was in Augusta, Me., last week to see Mr. Blaine on business matters in which they are joint y interested, says that Mr. Blaine is wholly devoted to work on his history, the second volume of which is to bo out in January. He is in better health than at any time in lifteen years and weighs 191 pounds, llis book, Mr. Elkins thinks, would never have been finished if he had been elected President, and its preparation occupies his time so completely that he has little interest in politics. Edgar A. Poe wrote a remarkably legible hand, with a steel pen, and was extremely careful to introduce all the needed commas, .semi-colons and other punctuation marks. Each page cf the manuscript was a small 12m0., pasted carefully to the next page as soon as finished, so that the result was a long sheet of matter which looked like a scroll. A gentleman well known in New York city has a beautiful example of Poe’s penmanship, which he prizes highly, and for which he has been offered a large sum. Zola, the French novelist, is described as carrying a face combative, pert, dogged, egotistical, with thick, sensual lips, a turned-up nose, a conspicuous chin and a good, broad, intellectual brow, with short and bristly hair atop of it. When Zola speaks, though it bo only to say, “What fine weather we are having,” ho manages to convey the idea that ho is uttering wisdom and being listened to by one who is presumably an ass. His life, liis home, his face, his habits are those of an orderly, methodical rentier. In his youth he suffered privation and poverty. Henri Rochefort, anent tho difficulty between Zola and the French government over “Germinal,” relates an incident of the same sort which befell himself in the time of the empire. M. Plante, the working delegate of the responsible head of the department, sent for him one day, and informed him that there was one passage in a vaudeville of his, just submitted for examination, which could not possibly be allowed to stand. One of the characters was repreented in a particular scone as exposed to tho jeers and abuse of an assemblage of rustics, and lie was made to exclaim, “What answer can one give this foule d’ imbeciles?” “You are too intelligent,” remarked Plante to the dramatist,, “not to understand what a very serious matter it would be to permit the utterance of such words on tlie boards of a French stage." “How?” exclaimed the other; “I see nothing in them offensive to either morality or to the constituted authorities.” “Come, sir; no trifling,” said the censor sternly. “Foule d‘ imbecile—the expression is a direct insult to one of the Emperor’s Ministers." And the author had to substitute "tas d’ imbeciles" for the words in which this uncommonly keen critic had detected a reflection on M. Fould.

ARREST OF GENERAL SHALER. The Coinmander of the New York Militia Placed in Jail on Charge of Bribery. New York, Nov. 30.—Late this afternoon a bench warrant was issued for the arrest of Major-general Alexander Shaler, on a charge of bribery, in connection with the purchase of militia armory sites in this city. He was arrested at his residence, No. 127 West Forty eighth street, brought to police headquarters, and locked up this evening. Tho circumstances leading up to the arrest are as follows: General Shaler is commander of the militia of the State of New York, and, asono of the armory board, bad to do with the selection of several sites for regimental armories in this city. It was alleged that exorbitant prices for the sites selected were paid, and tho legislative committee anpointed at the last session, with Senator Gibbs at bis head, to investigate trie conduct of the municiDai affairs of New York city, has been looking into the armory site business, among other things. General Shaler has, throughout the course~of the investigation, denied that he ever received any bribe, or was influenced in any way in the choice of sites for armory properties. In bis testimony to day, before the committee, M. B. Wilson distinctly and emphaticallv said that by arrangement with General Shalerj after effecting the sale of the Schell and Fairchild property to the army board, at figures greatly in excess of what the property could have been bought for at private sale, he had paid off a mortgage of $9,000 on property owned by Gen. Shaler, in New Jersey, and had handed the satisfaction papei-3 to him (Shaler). After the Gibbs committee began its investigation, Gen. Shaler banded tlie papers back to him, with the request that they be destroyed, which was done. General Shaler was secretary of tho armory board aud major-general in command of tho First Division, National Guard of the State. He is also president of the Board of Health. The The other members of the armorv board were ex Mayor Edson and H. O. Thompson. No indictment has been found against General Shaler. District attorney Mai tine drew’ tho papers late this afternoon, and when sworn to Recorder Smith issued the warrant for Shaler’s arrest. He will not bo bailed to-night. The transactions in which General Shaler is said to be unpleasantly involved are three in number, that many armory sites having recently been located and purchased by the armorv board’. M. B. Wilson is the superintendent of ’the fire insurance patrol, and is alleged to have acted as a middleman between tho owners of the property bought for armory sites and tho board. Wilson is said to have got an upset price from property-owners, and a bonus as well, and then instructed General Shaler to choose and urge such property as Wilson had in negotiation. Wilson swears he never spoke to any member of the armory board except Shaler. 'Wdlson only made his admissions after having been indicted for contempt in refusing to testify when first called. The indictment was Gnashed to-dav.

THEBAW HAS HAH ENOUGH. The King of Burmah Becomes Frightened and Asks an Armistice. The Prospects of a Liberal Victory in England Continue to Diminish—Sufferings of the Servian Troops. THE WAR IX EUR MAH. King Thebaw Becomes Alarmed and Asks an Armistice. Rangoon, Nov. 30.—King Thebaw, of Burmah, becoming alarmed at the rapid approach of the British expeditionary force, notwithstanding the resistance offered by the Burmese, sent a messenger to General Prendergast, begging lnm to grant an armistice for the purpose of peaceably settling tho difficulty between Burmah and tho Indian government. General Prendergast, in reply, demanded the surrender of the Burmese army, and Mandalay, tho capital, stating that only then could he entertain any request looking to a settlement of the dispute. King Thebaw acceded to the terms, and the Ava forts, with twenty eight guns, were turned over to the British troops. A garrison was placed there, and the British troops proceeded to Mandalay on the 28th instant. The Burmese Capital. Just below Mandalay tho Irrawaddy river contracts from a mile and more in width to 800 yards, passing under the rocky feet of the SaGaing hills and an isolated temple-covered eminence on the left bank, and then deflects with a grand sweep suddenly to the westward, washing on either hand the walls of Ava and Sa-Gaing. Here the Burmese have built three forts; one, the face of the old city wall, an earthen rampart thirty feet thick and twenty feet high, faced on the outside with masonry work; a second on the low land of the Sa-Gaing side of the river; and the third further un at the bend, called Shway Gvetyet They command a point where nice steering is required round a troublesome reef of rocks. But a force attacking them from the land side would find little trouble. They have no fosses, or flank defenses, and all the guns mounted are directed on the river. With the fall of theso forts all serious resist ance would bo ended, for the King would probably surrender or his army would disperse. Mandalay is a city within a city, and the palace lies in the center, like the innermost of a series of Chinese carved boxes. There are large stiburbs extending in a straggling way over all the plain. The city proper is a huge walled square, each face a mile and an eighth long. The mud mortar built walls are twenty-six feet high, machicolated at the top. They are three feet thick, banked with a heavy mass of earth, hut there are no guns mounted for their defense. There are twelve gates to the city, three on each side, but only one bridge to each three, except on the west. Where there are two. The moat is some sixty feet from the wall, and about fifty yards broad, covered in many places with the lotos plant that the Bhuddist loves. Here and there upon it float royal craft, state barges and dispatch boats, many of them very richly decorated. Covering each gate is a traverse or crenellated barbican, of the same construction as the w r ulls. From the gates roughly macadamized roads, a hundred feet wide, run parallel to the walls. They are lined with young trees (Mandalay only exists since 1857) and down the sides of most of them run little streams of water. There is no attempt at a drainage system, but the town is essentially clean and airy, thanks to the unmolested, or rather cherished, pigs and dogs that act as scavengers, and the'eonstant open spaces insuring ventilation. Right in the center is the palace, which has two successive inclosures, and in the midst of the palace rises the seven-roofed spire which the Burmese look upon as the center of tho universe. The higher officials live within the palace stockade, and there, also, are the mint, arsenal, treasury, court of justice, the powder magazine, and other buildings. In the walled city live the lower officials and the soldiery, and outside, the traders and the general population. This is estimated all round at something over 100,000. There is a good deal of wealth in the commercial town, but it is in the hands of Chinese and Moguls, with whom the king is afraid to meddle. No Burman is allowed to get rich.

THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS. Continuation of the Polling—No Signs of a Liberal Victory. London, Nov. 30.—The following are additional returns of the Parliamentary elections: In the north division of county Monaghan Mr. T. M. Healv, National, is elected over Sir John Leslie, Conservative. In Clare, eastern division, Mr. J. Cox, National, is elected over Hon. L. O’Brien, Conservative. In Wicklow, eastern division, Mr. W. J. Corbin, National, is elected over Colonel C. Tottenham, Conservative. In Tyrone, north division, Lord Ernest Hamilton, Conservative, is elected over Mr. John Dillon, National. In Antrim, north division, E. McNaughten, Conservative, received 3,233 votes: W. P. Sin-’ clair, Liberal, 2,149, and Mr. Pinkerton 1,915. In Newcastle-on-Tyno. J. Cowen, Liberal, is elected. He received 10.489 votes; Mr. John Morley, Radical. 10,129. and Mr. C. F. Hammond. Conservative, 9,500. In Dublin, south division. Sir T. Esmonde, National, is elected over Hamilton, Conservative, who sat for Dubliu county in the last Parliament. In Cavan, west division, Mr. T. O. Hanlon, National, is elected; lie had no opposition. In Kildare, Mr. T. M. Carew, National, is elected In Limerick, Mr. J. Finucane, National, is elected without opposition. The National League of Great Britain has telegraphed to the various branches in every parliamentary division in which a poll has not yet taken place, saying: “We trust that the Irishmen in your district will strive to stand by the instructions contained in Mr. Parnell’s manifesto, and vote the straight Tory ticket, thus adding another to the already numerous victories of your countrymen in England and Scotland.” The Birmingham caucus has decided to placaid the country parliamentary divisions with Mr. Gladstone's references to Irish affairs in his first Midlothian speeches. In these he claimed that there was vital danger to the era pire if only a small Liberal majority was returned, as that wouid make a Liberal government dependent on the i arnelliteß for existence. The Tories are furthering an argument that an appeal at the present moment to the countrv districts would be too late to affect a change sufficient to please Mr. Gladstone, and that it would be better to make the Tories strong enough to avert the catastrophe predicted by Mr. Gladstono in the speech referred to above. Meanwhile Mr. Parnell is satisfied that only a small Tory majority will be returned. 3 Mr. Gladstone, speaking at Buckley, Flintshire, to-day, said that the Liberal reverses were due to the tomfoolery of nominating duplicate candidates, the miserable imposture called fair and lastly andfehiefly, the Irish vote in Great Britain. He had nothing to say against h ß n Ir ifL HO had ‘apen tho best part of his life F i u humble endeavors to do them justice ard £ t T h^ t u hlS party wouM continue its effoi U to aid the Irish cause. The power of the Irish m the present elections had been spent He would be much surprised if the new oonntv eleMOTato ahould yoUasainst the men w“ 0 had been fighting their battles for forty yea-s temporary Impulse. Therelrom l^|nd“n,i ales, *:-9 unpolled divisions, of which the Ton servativvs estimate that they will secure 150* Ihe London divisions complete, return 37 Con servatives and 23 Liberals. ' ton * dhe Ball Mall Gazette, in an analvsi* nr to tho close u£ Saturday, Takes

Conservative gains 80 and the Liberal gains ii and estimates the total vote cast as folio* Liberal. 1,042,203; Conservative. 900,210. Mr. Gladstone writes that the union of p a neliites and Tories has nlroadv taken btwe* twenty and thirty seats from the Liberals bn! he refrains from passing judgment, as there i! only one day left for voting. He says- ’,f host efforts have always been in behalf of th Iri.-h. One of the most potent motives that lij me, in my advanced age, to forego repose wa2 the hope of being able to render Ireland further service.” w THE BARKAN WAR, Tho Servians Continue to Bombard Wldd| tt —Sufferings of tho Troops, Belgrade, Nov. 30.-General Leshjanin continues to bombard Widdin. It is expected that general fighting will be resumed in a day or two. Colonel Hervatovich, the Servian minieterat St. Petersburg, has arrived at Belgrade to taka command of the forces. The reserves are coin! to tho front. ' * A numoer of persons have been arrested on the charge of attempting to foment a revolution Os the 6,000 wounded Servians in hospital at Belgrade, one-third have self-inflicted wounds on the trigger finger, having been impelled by cold and hunger thus to mutilate themselves in order that they might be sent homo. The Servian Ministry has resigned. The Porte has sent agents to Philipopolis to proclaim amnesty to tho revolutionists. The beared* 1 ® 0 that th ° 3lusta bridge in Hm p’ litsian 1 i t sian news Papers. in discussing affairs k •’ l appear anxi ‘ous about the situa ticn and consider that tho attitude of Austria Jo tantamount to openly siding with Servia. J hey T 5 ?k ** ow action of Austria will influ. ® A C ®. 5 l | S o ’ , wn °’ as a signatory power to the treaty or Berlin, loyally refused to support Bulgaria. The Novoe Vremya says: “We cannot reconcile the action of Count Von Kheven hu.ler-Metseh, the Austrian minister, at Bel grade, with the unanimity of imperial powers. l ’ Continuing, the Novoo Vremya savs it fears th-1 the armistice will terminate when King Aldan owing to Austrian support, has become strong enough to continue the struggle. ° Some agitation has been caused at Philinopolis by Russian agents avowing that Russia only opposes Roumelia and Bulgaria owing to England’s siding with the Bulgarians. It is feared that the arrival of M. Sorrokine, the Rusoian consul, will intensify the excitement.

THE SITUATION IN EGYPT. The Arabs Continue to Advance, and Are Well Supplied with War Material, Cairo, Nov. 30.— General Grenfell telegraphs that bodies of rebel cavalry and infantry are demonstrating on the left bank of the Nile, near Ivoshay. The armored steamer Lotus.is employed in shelling the rebels. Tho following is an extract from a recent letter of a British officer stationed at Assouan: The Jlahdi’s death, instead of decreasing hi* prestige, has increased it. liis tomb has become the center of fanaticism. With tho fall of the garrisons, the immense quantities of ammunition in the arsenal at Khartoum, the skilled artisans and the material for steamer building have fallen into the hands of the rebels, who are able to organize steamer convoys between Sennaar, Khartoum, Berber and Dongola. They have unlimited camels and all the craft on the river. Steamers are working, others are under repair, and others are building. The enemy may now be said to be in contact with the English outpost at Koshay, and they have all things necessary for an advance, except the important item of food. In a month’s time the crops will be gathered, and with the rice crop of the province of Sennaar in their hands, they will have all they require. They have ad' j)tod a conciliatory policy towards the people of Dongola, and men well known as having been in the employ of the British aro being placed in responsible posts. Letter? aro sont to tlie few remaining loyal sheiks urging them to come in, and assuring them of a good reception. The Arabs are now with the rebels, hear 1 and soul. Tho recent h;avy rains have filled the tanks and wells, and it is not impossible the Dervish army will advance, and, evading the British outposts, take the desert route, and make a direct attack on lower Egypt, leaving the English garrisons in a critical position. Any reverse at a small post would, no doubt, set against England the Abadah andßisharic tribes, now wavering it their allegiance. It is no longer a question of putting off, but an absolute necessity to crush forever Ihe increasing power of the Mahdi. Had tbs British remained at Dongola, it is not only probable, but almost certain that the movement would not have been increased to the present alarming extont. The rebels at Koshay suffered severely from the fire from the Lotus. The British lost three killed daring the engagement.

FOREIGN MISCELLANW. A New Spanish Cabinet—Political and Revolutionary Intrigues. Madrid, Nov. 30.—The new Cabinet has been appointed. Throughout Spain the only fear is in regard to Sonor Zorilla, the Republican chief, who will lose prestige unless he attempts a re volt. If he is captured the sentence of death already passed upon him for participation in former risings will be executed immediately. The manifesto of Don Carlos, promising to confirm to tho Spaniards all their present civil and religious liberties, is considered a direct bid for the throne, and is also interpreted as a prelude to a proposal of marriage of Don Carlos’s son, Prince Jaime, and the Prince? 9 ot the Asturias, in the event of no heir to the throne being born. Both the Carlists and Monarchists would welcome such a settlement with acclamation, as it would end a fiftyyears’ conflict and enable Spain to assume an appropriate position among the powers of Europe. French Garrisons for Tonqnln. Parts, Nov. 30.—1n committee of the Chamber of Deputies, to-day, General Briere de 1 Isle, the Lite French commander in Tonquin, declared that a ? o< d police force would suffice to maintain order in I° n quin. lie advised, however, that a garrison be established, consisting of (1,000 Frenchmen and i-, natives, and favored the occupation of Langson, Cabong and other places on the Chinese frontier. The Revolution in Pern. Lima, Nov. 30.—General Cacerea is three miles from Lima. A fight is now going on between the government troops and the forces under his ccrrl , rn ‘^ I ' A4 Trade here is at a standstill, many business being closed. . _

Cable Notes. Sarah Bernhardt is very sick, and is confine! ke bed. She swooned twice at a Paris theater on • A dispatch from Berlin says that the German eminent has refused permission to land a . Germany, appliod for by the GermanAmeri graph Company. Troops Ordered Oat to Preserve orde *; St. Lotus, Mo., Nov. 30. —For some time past has been quite a disturbed condition of tnrng* Bevier coal mines, about five miles from w• - The miners there struck for higher wages summer, and the operators imported to work the mines and built a stockade to - tion of their men. This created ■ o_.ttrred. 0 _. ttr red. feeling, and several little outbursts h*' On Saturday last a collision occurred, an miner and one negro were killed. Anotn > # killed last night, and the situation was co critical to-day that Governor Marmadu -e . oo | scene, and, after looking over the groun 1 • . e jtr, tho First Regiment of the State Guard . and about 400 men will leave on a s P en 1 or jer o’clock to-night for the mines, to pre?ci to protect the miners.

Affairs of Archbishop rurcell. Cincinnati. Nov. 30.—J. B. Mannix. the late Archbishop Purcell, made his , .Hvin* the condition of the affairs of the , , reel'd*'* day. The report shows that the assign j, u t do** $-1 >,OOO. He has nowon hand not disburse it among the Archbishop a* count of a case pending in the I pstat* £ which may largely increase the vaiue , w which may make the $74,000 not eno S claims. The Kiesswotter-ElHott Sho°B ® Columbus, 0., Nov. 30.—Auditor of Wwetter, charged with sliooting vnrn eXun iin t -’‘ J. Elliott, Nov. 8, waived a prelim ,■> , uV erh-’ t4 ' before a magistrate, to day, mid was gi and j ury iu the snm^ofJHoOO. Obituary. p Concord, Mass., Nov. freasf^L. ex-Second Assistant Secretary v si**! here last night, of paralysis of 1 tv-two years.