New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-03


as well.
British diplomacy. 1t seems. has NOT turned its
pockets inside out. Sir Stafford Northcote virtually
admitted on Thursday evening in the House OF
Commons that besides the Anglo-Russian Memo
randum some other secret document was signed on
the 30th of May. He could not have referred
to the convention with the Porte, for
that was arranged at Constantinople on
the 4th of June. With whom was this
third compact made Not with Germany,
for that nation has no interests in the East. Not
with Italy nor with Greece, for the Chancellor
scouts the idea The third transaction must be
charged to the account Of either Austria France.
Did England consent IN advance to the occupation
of Bosnia and Herzegovina Or is the rawness OF
national irritation in France TO be healed by the
annexation of Tunis The recent remarks Of
Paris newspaper the Constitutional, not without
significance. "Tuns" it says. is splendid jewel,
and we have only to lay hands on it to become and
remain the masters of it, We have not Of course IN
view conquest by force the affair would be con-
Quoted and concluded by pacific and diplomatic
means. England has not conquered the ISL
and Of Cyprus she has only become
the protector of it. Why should France,
then, be refused the protectoratc of Tunis ~ But
it is idle to forecast the results of English III
tngues-Once upon a time we would have said
English diplomacy. The Government that had so
much TO say about the sanetity of European Obhga-
tions sent its diplomatsts to Berlin with three
cret compaets in their pocketsl Diplomacy ought
not be a game of blind-mans buff in which every
body's eyes are bandaged. But, then again, it
ought to be something better than gambling game
with loaded dice.
One Of the workingmen who appeared before Mr..
HewtGs committee on Thursday laid down, as
rule in political economy, that, in the building
trade no work should be done outside of the place
where the building is to be erected He spoke OF
the building trade because that the industry to
which he was personally devoted, but of course If
his principle is sound it applies equally well to
other occupations. How would it do in New-Yorkf
We have 10000 working people engaged in the
manufacture of clothing; suppose we should agree
to allow no clothes to be made except in the place
where they are to be worn, no cigars except in the
towns where they are to be smoked, no furniture
except where there are families about to set up
housekeeping And indeed, if we are to compel
builders to cut and trim stone on the ground where
they are building. why should we not compel them
to quarry stone on the ground, and to make bricks
on the ground and do their work generally after
the fashion of the Swiss Family Robinsoni
We regret to observe that the apostles of the uni
versal brotherhood of all men who work with their
hands quarrelling and saying ugly things about
one another-as indeed brothers too often do in do
nestle life. Shupe despises JUNO JUNO cannot
abide Shupe, Barney Donohue disapproyes Of Crea-
mer. Mir. Considine will not support Judge Jo-
achimsen. Even "The" Allen, who has certainly
worked with his hands, was east out of the SYRIA
cuse Convention and now there comes a painful
hat rba AZ IN oil beft
eral Butler and Kearney is regarded as damaging
Observation-Disclosures to the general or the truckman
is not quite clear. Alas we fear the millennium is
not yet in sight.
Sociaistic philosopher who addressed the La
Dor Committee yesterday referred TO his case as
striking illustration Of "the unnatural relation
between capital and labor" He is piano-regula-
tor. paid by the piece. In 1869 he could make $3.50
week; now he only makes SO. Probably it
never has occurred to him that when "capital" is
attacked and depleted, 1t is by him and his kind,
capital stops buying pianos. More than half these
agtators who declaim against the injustice of prop
erty and the ouraaes of a state of society in which
one man is better of than another their living
by the rich. If there were men of property, Mr..
Bartholm6e would have nothing TO eat.
Achieved is the glorious work" The monstrous
pine barn which 50 long topped the new Court
House, covering the construction of what was al
ways spoken of as the "dome," has at last been
taken down, and the crown of Tammany's great
palace stands revealed. What shall it be called 1t
is not domo il is hardly cupOla. squat, plain
structure of iron, painted dark red, it bears
resemblance TO any thing we can think Of except a
gas receiver twO-thirds exhausted. And indeed we
do not know where gas receiver could be more APP
propriately placed.
The fact that the pet terrier of Mrs. Smith made
no noise when Officer Smith murdered seems
10 be taken as an indication that the murderer must
have been somebody whom the dog knew. But
whoever has had the privilege of an intimate ac-
quaintance with pet terriers testify that as
watch-dogs they are not TO DO depended upon They
are in the habit of barking furiOusly when they
ought to keep STILL and they often sleep like rock
when you might expect them to DO uncOmmOnly
lively.
POLITICAL NOTES.
The Republican party literally bankers for a fight
everywhere.
The Vermont Nationals, having no incomes Of
their own, naturally favor an income tax.
Now that Butler forsakes Kearney. "Thep Allen
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