New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-07

quarrel, but owing in part to the firm atu-
tude of the Paris press the French ana
English Governments finally acted in COM
plete accord, and the overthrow of lsmall
followed The Government Of Egypt is
now substantially in the hands OF the
two Powers, WHO are about to appoint COM
mission 60 supervise the collection and as
bursemcnt Of the revenue. If they continue
TO conduct this national receivership amicably,
they will solve one of the most difficult prob
lens in international politics.
No explanation has yet been made OF one
feature in the Seymour case winch would
seem to demand explanation. This was the
treatment accorded to the wife of the muir
derod man by the police. According to the
statements of her friends, after being required
to accompany the body of her husband to the
station house, she was roughly used was re-
fused permission to get shawl from the
house to protect herself against the night ar !;
was carried through the streets when her
strength failed her so that she could not
walk. and was addressed by the officers hav-
ing charge of her dscourteOusly and dlsre-
spcctfully. Perhaps under the peculiar cir
y.
the appearance of the Bishop and his sister
at the statiOn-house was a necessary formal
ity, but this coarse treatment OF a 1ranuc
woman ought not to so without reOuke,
Even criminals deserve decent usage, and
persons who are not even under suspicion
should be handled respectfully, ii handled at
all.
The criminal record of the past three days
has been exceptional in its ghastliness. The
list was not complete, 1t seems, with the three
homicides reported on Saturday-the murder
of Mr. Seymour by some unknown hand, the
killing of Sisk by RawlinsOn, and the brutal
stabbing of O'Connell by Nichols at Nyack.
Still another murder was committed on the
evening of the Fourth, a Canadian laborer
beating his wife with such brutal violence that
she died; and the next morning another
drunken husband shot his wife twice and was
only prevented from attaining the distinction
of q wife-liller by the interference OF timely
butchers boy. Add to these, the attempted
assassination Of young man by his brother,
and the stabbing at Elm Park on Staten
Island, which may prove fatal, and it will be
seen that the total of crime is dreadful one.
Like many suCu dClS, spllC VI bh'SO h''N -
side which is at once absurd and hon1Ole--
the triviallty of the provocation out of which
they grow. The quaryel which ended with
the shooting of Sisk began with dispute
over the propriety of disturbing the silence Of
night with Fourth of July salutes; the muir
der of OConnell grew, it is said, out of a
dispute over a cigar, though there was an old
enmity between the menj and Brown, the
Canadian, killed his wife, probably without
really intending to do so, because she would
not get him his supper Weighing these facts
with the profits of sordid crimes, like the Hull
murder, from which Cox Ieaped about the
equivalent Of a weeks wages. or the Flfth-ave-
nue. diamond robbery of some months ago,
which brought in the robber exactly $l9 III
money and a twenty years. sentence, the old
ruth is illustrated that crime is the least profit
able of all the professions. A much more use
full lesson, probably, to be learned Is the fact
that drunkenness was the direct cause of every
one of the violent deeds of the past three days,
except the Seymour murder, of which we know
nothing. They remind us sharply that this
great evil is far from being conquered.
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THE REAL POINTS ar ISSUE
Senator Hill, of Georgia, has made good