New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-16

ten years since the amendment, which this
bill carries into effect was first framed; in ten
years more, we are likely to see far more rapid
progress.
There is said 10 be small but adrot lobby
at work in Washington on a scheme to get
through another subsidy for the hopelessly
rotten Pacific Mail Steamship Company. on
the ground that the China and Japan mails
could not be carried without it, Congress
men should understand that this subsidy, If
granted, would be simply the robbery of the
United States Treasury to that amount
There is no needs for giving a dollar to get
these mails carried. In fact, better organ
lied company is already offering to carry them
over this precise route. merely for the ocean
hostages. Legislation at Washington has been
sufficiently disgraced by Pacific Mail corrup-
ton already and he would be pretty h"id
Congressman who should favor this last scheme.
BroOklyn's prospects of large pubic mar
ket are improving. AT present large proper
ton of the food consumed in that city Is
brought from Long Island farms across the
East River sold here to the Brooklyn retailers,
and carted by them back to Brooklyn before
1t is finally disposed of. The result is that
grocers and butchers in that city have to
charge much higher prices than here. Inc
State Senate has passed the bill authorizing
the purchase of land for a market at the foot
of Washington-ave., on Wallabout Bay. Inc
location is practcallys midway between the
Eastern and Western Districts; and as ferry
will probably be established at that point,
large ncighbOring population will have cheaper
food and increased facilities for reaching New
York.
The Duke of Argyll, who is TO lead the
attack on Lord Beaconsfeld's Eastern policy
in the House of Lords, has followed the sub
iect attentively during the recess, and Is quail
flied to express the opinions which moderate
Liberals hold on the state OF Turkey. III Is
evident from the terms OF his n0lce that he
Will maintain that the Government Is. not act
ing up to the spirit of its instructions to Lord
Salisbury, which were as strong as most LID
erals would desire. The weak point III this
argument is that 1t makes no account OF the
altered circumstances which have arisen since
the British Envoy tried to coerce the Porte
The question has now narrowed itself to nell
trality or Russian alliance. On these points
the Liberals themselves are more hopelessly
divided than the Conservatives.
The police sergeant, against whom Mr.. W.
s. Andrews has made such plucky fight, has
been committed for trial i'll default of bail.
The case was simply that of brutal and out
rageo,is treatment Of labOring man by
brutal and outrageous policeman. There was
little that was remarkable about that. The
one surprising thing about the affair is that
Mr. Andrews, being a witness of the assault,
instead of exhibiting the usual indifference OF
the average NewY0rker and Sinking the
trouble and n0toriety of seeking redress, fol-
lowed the policeman and his victim-fOr, with
all the consistency of his craft, the officer,
after knocking the man down three times and
kicking him, had promptly arrested hinl-pre-
fcrred complaint against him, and conducted
the preliminary proceedings, and now has the
satisfaction of seeing him locked up. This is
merely doing q citizens duty, to be sure but
how many citizens do it I?
1t is very evident that a bargain, or what is
familarly known as "dicker," has been
made i'm the matter of the appointment
of the Insurance Superintendent. The Demo
Gratis are gwen the nomination OF Judge
Sturges for Canal Appraiser, and are ex-
pected in return for this. to cast their solid
vote for Mr. Smyth for Insurance Superin-
tendent, who is 10 be confirmed by the help OF
those Republicans who have been taken into
the arrangement. The fact that such bargain
has been made renders it likely that 1t Will
succeed but it is a species of barter that re-
fleets little credit on all concerned, and
we shall be glad if enough independent
men of both parties refuse to be bound by it
to defeat it, Perhaps it is worthy of note that
the Democrats have, as usual, been outwitted
in the trade. They get an Office which Is
likely soon to be abolished, and, i'll return,
insure another full term of Republican control
in one of the most important departments in
the State Government
Gov. Packard is an advance on the estab-
6sbed type of oifice-hOder-he shows no dis
posiion to resign, and absolutely refuses to
die. His nerve in dealing with woud-be
assassin is likely hereafter to discourage pco-
pie from asking him to do either of these
things. The attempt was so fOOhardy that it
could hardly have been the act of a sane man.
If it was made for political purposes, it must
have been inspired by reckless frenzy next