New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-09-19


II will not be safe to calculate upon Tweed's
return until he is actually hOmeward bound
from Havana. The Spaniards were disposed
to surrender Sharkey, but subsequently al
lowed him to leave Cuba for Spain, where 1t
is supposed he joined the army. The tone IN
which a Madrid journal deals with Tweed's
case affords reason to apprehend similar
disappointment. Tweed being, according to
his own description, a Statesman" the
Spaniards may conclude that they have use
for him as well as for the murderer Sharkey
Being almost forced to decide promptly, the
Turkish Government consented, it appears, to
the armistce on condition that the Great
Powers would take its terms of peace into
consideration. The Porte gained in that way
a diplomatic advantage, but it may prove
valueless should the Powers insist upon easier
conditions or disagree as they did when the
Berlin memorandum came to be considered
Meanwhile the Servian cause will be aided by
the state of public feeling in Great Britain,
which has found expression again in great
indignation meeting at the Guildhall, London.
The work of the society which has taken
perhaps the most helpless of all helpless classes
in its sheltering arms shows no signs of slack
ening. The records for the past month show
nearly hundred cases of alleged cruelty to
children, IN many of which the prosecutors
were properly punished, and in many more
the victims were rescued from life of suffer
ing or shame and given fair chance for
decent existence. The Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Children is doing what it
can to keep the fountains of society undefled,
and it deserves encouragement i'll It's labOrs.
The demand for THE TRIBUNE Guide to
the Exhibition (TRIBUNE EXTRA, No. 35) has
continued to outrun the supply. Three large
editions were exhausted before the nature OF
the extraordinary demand had been fairly
guessed at; but it is hoped that there will
now be no further difficulty. Persons failing
to find this EXTRA in sheet or pamphlet form
at their news stands, or on the Centennial
trains, will confer a favor by informing us of
the fact. THE EXTRA will be sent, postpaid,
from this Office to any address on receipt of
the price, 10 cents for the sheet, or 20 cents
for the pamphlet.
A larger audience than ChickeTing Hall
could provide with seats attended Prof. Hulk
ley's first lecture, and was held through an
hour and half by the quiet, straightforward,
extempore talk, which is elsewhere reported.
Nothing in the lecture was more adroit than
the constant reference to the Mosaic account
of the Creation, not by that name, but as the
alitonic theory and the Professors explana-
ton of his reason for adopting that nOmen-
clature, though couched in the severest and
- iAc n1
amusement. In clearness of statement and
arrangement the lecture was absolutely lucid.
Thele will be many, however, who will insist
that as an argument professedly sweeping
away the whole Mosaic account of the Crea-
ton, it generalized on insufficient data. The
real development of the evolution theory Is TO
follow in the succeeding lectures
In another column we give some OF the
most characteristic passages from Mr. Glad
stones powerful arraignment of the English
Government for its course IN regard to the
Eastern Question. The pamphlet he has just
published exhibits degree of fervor which
rises almost to wrath, and contrasts strongly,
in this respect, with the distinguished states
mans calm and judicial habit of utterance.
The views which he presents, however, Will
have less novelty for the readers OF The
TRIBUNE than for the English people to whom
he speaks. They scarcely vary, so far as the
main points Of the subject are concerned, from
the comments given in these columns upon
the events of the last three or four months,
as they reached US in their historical
sequence. The plan of pacificalon which Mr.
Gladstone proposes is, moreover, substantially
the same as THE TRIBUNE presented, some
time ago, as the only basis of temporary
peace.
Mr.. Robinson has learned promptitude and
concseness from Gov. Tildens prOcrastinatiOn
and prOlixity. His letter of acceptance will be
ready at once, and the beginning and the end
of it will not be more than days journey
apart. Gov. Tilden has been useful to bis
party thus far, at least so far as the methods
of the campaign are concerned, chiefly as
"hor1ible example," and Mr.. Robinson EVIL
IDENTIFY intends to pay his superior candidate the
compliment of avoiding bis minor plumbers.
Whether he will initiate the greater ones, we
shall know better when we see how high
tolls and a low tolls candidate are reconciled on
low tolls platform, and the result is IRE
"form " at high tide, with canal tolls nowhere.
II is safe to say, however, that Mr.. Robinson
will be little less sluggish than his official
and political chief 1t would not take him
four weeks to answer grave personal charge,
and he will probably be a calendar month
ahead of Gov Tilden in learning of their COM
mon defeat.
COY. TILDEN'S WAITING RACE.
1t is said to be wise TO hasten slowly At
least it was said so long ago, and has been