New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-02
TRIPLE SH E Z T
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-It is calculated in France that the
Republicans will have majority in the
Senate after the elections in January. -
The College at Maynootb Ireland, has
been partly destroyed by tire; the library
was saved. - NJ. Garnier-Pages the French
statesman, as dead. - Al. Iricoupis has formed
new Greek Cabinet. - Corkey leads IN the
London pedestrian contest.
DoMEsTIC-There has been heavy storm on
Lake Michigan: several vessels were wrecked.
80 Superintendent VAIL of the Mail Service ex-
poets to retire soon. 80 There have been only two
shipments of coin in the mails registered matter
o. far. - IL is not true that the Rus
sian cruisers at Philadelphia to prepare for
active service at once. - The Administration is
pleased at the tone of the comments the letter of
Secretary Evarts about the Newfoundland Outriges.
CITY AND SUBURBtN.-The Police Commissioners
yesterday had important discussion of the duties
of the force at the election. - Mr.. Schell said
he was in favor Of a non-partisan Police Board.
e. Edward Cooper declared that he had not
promised TO appoint any one to Office. - The
Prophetic Conference closed it's sessions with sew
sral papers and some discussion. - Dean Stanley
preached at Trinity Church, and was given Il
Methodist Episcopal Church reception. - Two
witnesses testified for the prepayment in the
Vanderbilt Will case. - James H. Wheatey,
of Brooklyn. trustee of three estates, is miss
ing. - Gold. 1O0'Io. 1006is. 100Ois. God
value of tho legal tender dollar at the
close 99sIO cents Stocks dull but irregular, clos
ing featureless.
TIE WEAIHER.-TRIBUNR local observations in
dictate warmer and cloar or partly cloudy weather.
Thermometer yesterday. 4l0, Az. 440.
The testimony of the author of " st. Elmo "
in the Vanderbilt trial is worthy of notice,
because it brought ont striking tribute
which the Commodore once paid to the wife
who survived him. He spoke of her as the
purest and noblest woman he had ever known,
and said she had done him more good than
all the churches he had ever attended, and all
the sermons he had ever listened to.
Ii is not complimentary to the BeacOnsfeld
Administration that leading Russian journal
regards the British ultimatum to the Ameer
as an abandonment of the threatened invasion
The same conclusion, however, seems to have
been reached in the British camp in India,
where great Indignation was manifested at
the Ameer's "respite." 1t is only too plain
that if England could crush the Ameer at
once she would send no ultimatum.
1t is announced authOritatiyely, in the Paris
letter on another page, that Nj. Gambetta is to
become the husband of Madame Arnaud, whose
heroic conduct and Republican sympathiesVictOr
Hugo has rendered immortal in his History
"of Crime" AS the Republican leader is to ac-
quire great wealth by his marriage it will
be interesting to NOE whether he will lose
any of that influence which. as a man of the
people, he exercises so widely and usefully.
The closing sessions of the Prophetic Con-
ference do not seem to have shown any dimi
mutton in the value of the papers presented or
in the size of the audiences. Taken altogether,
it has been a most impressive confer
ence. The full report of its proceedings, to
which reference has already been made, viii
DO published on Monday morning in TRB-