The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-09-24
EU R o P E
General SickleS' Diplomacy in Madrid
His Note and the Cuban Question.
What the General Says, and Com
ments Of the Spanish Press.

By mali from Europe we have the following
special correspondence and newspaper press re-
ports In detail OF cable kilograms TO the nth OF
September.
The London Alien rum, OF the 18th Of September,
says
The Byron scandal has had one effect-that OF a
"run" on the cheap editions OF his works People
are probably led by the motives which Influenced
M Macaisy who afterwards war complim me
tionnry, II Sec Madam you have been looking
for them ~ SO, curious inquirers note line here
and line there, and put shat and that" together,
and draw differences accordingly, reminding one
OF that other old story In which one LAWYER re.
minded another, who was heaping suspicious cir
cumstances together, that 80 hundred black rabbits
don't make q black horse" As far Mrs. Stoves
share In tins execrabe matter, she may or may not
Bdr for June might lead people 10 suspect q fact
which she thereupon proclaimed IN scream TO the
world. The cloud is, indeed dark enough, and
charity IL struggling to let The SUI burst through It,
The end however, has not come.
The Paris steele, aiudng to the anxiety which
was felt with regard to the health OF the Emperor
Napoleon and to the panics which had arisen owing
to the rumors on the subject, says that France is
now suffering the consequences OF the fault she
committed seventeen years ago in con1dlng all
political power 10 one man,
The hearing of the charge against tie young man,
Clement HARDWOOD Qately New York;. Of having
robbed the firm In which hts father is senior partner
OF $4,000 was TO have been resumed at the Mansion
House. The prosecution, however. by the consent
Of the Lord Mayor was not proceeded with, and the
prisoner undertaking 10 leare the country was
discharged.
& A correspondent OF the London Times, writing
from Russia on the subject of the harvest, says
The general opinion Is that wheat yields only one
half OF an average crop In these districts. For SIX
weeks prior to harvest there was no rain, so that
the wheat matured prematurely and there was
dropping of Further south the crop is represented
being good, but the failure In the districts have
named must seriously AFFECT the present years export
OF wheat by Russia to England. | think If young
farmers knew that there was such good land to be
obtained in Russia as there is at a price which,
together with the necessary capital to work 1t, is
only equal to the capital they require entering
upon good farm IN England, they would not hest
tato TO come.
In st. Petersburg the Imperial Bank again raised
It's rates Of discount for bills TO five and half and
for advances on securities for three months to
per cent. These rates will be current at Moscow
Odessa, Riga and Mitau. but at the other branches
they Will be six and seven respectively.
murder, The circumstances OF which are involved
IN mystery was lately committed in Catchina one
OF the suburbs Of ST. Petersburg The police having
been informed that murder had been perpetrated
IN the house Of the Grande Perspective occupied by
M. Glebow his wife and his mother-in-law proceeded
to the spot ana found the latter, woman about
forty, lying in small ante-chamber with her throat
cut. The relatives OF the victim on being
interrogated, declared that the deceased had
gone to vespers on the preceding evening and had
returned in high spirits; that the family had supped
at eieTen O'Clock, after which NJ. Glebow and his
wife retired to their chamber but at what time the
widow went 10 bed was uncertain. In the middle
OF the night Nine Glebow, the younger, was
awakened by the cries of her young son Theodore,
who usually slept in the apartment Of the mother
in-law, and on entering the room, she found the
latter In the state above mentioned, with the child
lying over the body and crying.
According TO the Northeast correspondence of
Vienna, the fetes in commemoration Of John Huss,
at Prague were not so successful as had been
expected. Invitations had been issued to some OF
the leading European democrats, such az Victor
Hugo, -Garihasuy Mazzini &c, and they "did not
judge IL eXpedjent to accept.p