New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-07

already deep concern is felt for the safety Of
Plevna.
A dismal account of the condition of the
Ropuhlic of Liberia is furnished to the press
by the State Department. IL viii confirm the
opinion long entertained by weli-iniormed
people that the experiment of establishing II
civilized negro State in equatorial Africa IS max
ing no progress toward even qualified success
and 1t comes III time to check certain
new colonization schemes which bear the look
of Jobs for the benefit of their projectors Ii
IBERIA may yet be useful as point Il app"
from which to push civilization into the lite-
rior of the continent, but it seems now to oiier
no attractions sufficient to induce industrious
colored men to abandon their homes i'll this
country.
Should the tide of Russian success continue,
it will be exceedingly impolltic for the
Earl of Beaconsfiold to make the defiant
speech which he is to deliver at the
Lord MAYORS banquet on Friday next.
The freedom of the Dardanellcs, which. 1t is
understood, he will oppose, may be one OF
Russia's lightest exactions. In 1888 Turkey
secretly agreed to close the Dardanelles to all
war vessels except those of Russia, to escape
payment of the war debt she had agreed
to pay her. This agreement alarmed the
other European Powers, and after much
agitation, treaty was signed in ISL,
forbiddirg all war vessels access to the
Black Sea. This restriction was confirmed
by the treaty of 1886. 1t has always been
deemed irksome by the Russians, who naturally
war IN
their Black Sea ports Flushed with victory,
they are not likely to fOrego chance to remove
#. however much the British Premier may full
inmate.
The attempt to form New French Min
istrv having sienally failed, the De Broglie
Cabinet must confront the Chamber of Dep
uties to-day, and make the best of the situa-
ton. 1t can expect no quarter from the Re
publican majority, nasmuch as 1t defeS the
National will by refusing to resign, and
has encouraged the futile attempt TO organize
Cabinet of BOnapartists and Legitimlsts,
which would have been a further source OF
trouble The first step of the Republicans Will
he no doubt TO denounce the Ministry and call
for its resignation. The gains the Republicans
have made at the Council General elections will
euphasizc the force OF this demand. If their
request is unheedcd they will not be disposed
TO vote supplies or consider any other public
business. President MacMdhon may reply by
prorogung the Chamber for month, expect
ing that the Senate will then sanction disSOiu-
ton a second time. But as he can neither
count on the Senate's support, nor on the Min
istry holding together, this scheme will not
save him or his Royalist adherents. His only
option is, as Gambetta predicted, to submit
or resign.
Governor Williams was in such hurry to
appOint Il successor to Senator Morton that he
must have been worried a good deal at the
length of the funeral services. Perhaps we
ought to be thankful, under the circumstances,
that he waited until the great statesman was
under ground before starting a delegation to
Terre Haute to inform Mr.. Daniel W..
VOORHEES, of his good luck. We were
hardly prepared to expect as much decency
as this. In view of the Governor 5
previous behavior it would not surprise rs
! much to learn that the delegation took along
brass band and an assortment of fire
works. Mr. VOORHEES, is probably on his
way to Washington by this time. He
will find the chair of his predecessor
occupied by a tall Confederate General. but
he will no doubt get in somewhere on the
edge of the Solid Democratic phalanx in time
to vote for cheap silver, for the repeal of the
Resumption Act, and for all the other mis-
chieyous projects of his party. Mr.. voorhees,
will make more noise than Governor Morton
did in the Senate-but he Will not be heard
so far.
From the character of the amendments Of
fercd to the Resumption Repeal Bill in the
House yesterday, it is evident that all the
ground once thought to be securely gained
i'm the currency controversy must be
fought over again. The rank weeds of false
doctrine which seemed to be burned out by
thestrong light OF common sense and experience,
have sprung up again In the cODgeniai soil OF
a Democratic majority. and have spread to the
Republican side of the House. The debate
was opened by Western Republican infa-
ZIONIST, Mr.. Philips, whose facts were as
wild as his arguments. Some practical
Joker had crammed him with the amazing in
formation that 100000 people in the city Of
New-Yolk live by plundering ami begging, and
he grayely cited this dreadful condition Of
things as caused by the terrible Resumption Act.
When told that he was making ont half the
| mendicantS, lac consented to take in Brooklyn
and "A few other suburbs, but he would not
drop any on his four hundred thousand. If