The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-26

w,sits a dinner ut the Pacha's and i visit to the
Dead Sea and Jordan. no very studied examination
and of its administration. While dining with the
Pacha Sir Henry received despatch from
the Pacha, to which he answered in the
Affirmative. The Ambassador and his lady
are well spoken of by the officers ana sailors
OF the gunboat which conveyed them to Jafra The
entire time spent in the Holy Land was from
the l7th to the 22d-nearly five days Quite long
present administration but all short to enforce
promised reforms and benefit the people, who are
lang ushing under an oppressive and lawless rule
which is maintained by the policy OF Lord Beacons-
field, X q.
PICTURES OF MISERY FROM CoNNEMARA.
II ever there was poverty. says the rowing COM
missioner of Frcenans Journal genuine, poignant.
terrific and unmered. it is that OF the poor OF con-
nemara. Presenting that the village OF Belleck is a
stock or noisome windowless cabins, with not Ave
shilllngs worth OF effects per house. its inhabitants
in rags its stock a dozen pigs and four mountain
cows. every tenant owing years rent at least and
other debts in greater amount than the whole foe
simple of their farms and that all present
of living even il they are left intact cannot by any
self vouch from personal inspection that what is
true of Belleck is in the main quite true of the
townland OF Fahy OF Turbot Island, of Inshturk
Of Knockavaila, Of Derreen, Of Letterdean. Of
Carhoobeg. of cushertragh, of Gleannach. OF Omey
Island. of Claddaghduff, Of Fountain Hill. of the
Patches. of Cleggan and of Rossadillisk. 1
perfectly persuaded that hundreds OF othor
| townlands which have been as yet unable to
visit are in precisely the.sa appalling plight.
never before. and hope never to again. such
dens the people stalled in. The i'll which
there is a window OF any kind are the exceptions
A pane of glass in the sleeping room is the luxury
of favored few. In some cases the furniture con-
sisted OF pot. an old box. the lid OF which served
as a table, an earthen pitcher, bedstead of flag
stones, bed of loose mountain switch grass
and other appliance in the world for the accom-
mediation OF family Of eight or ten Christian
souls-not plate. not a char. not a bellows. All
the rest were in pawn to pay rich absentee his
rack rents But however the people Jared
themselves. the warmest corner within the cabin
itself always sure to be set apart for the
pig or the little COW, and it mark of extraor
binary sanitary development wherever rudo little
stone channel had been made through the floor, out
side the pigs partition to carry off the filth.
huge bony pig rise from his couch in OF these
cabins. with all the airs of its lord thrust his
against a hingeless apology for front door. which
was supposed to contne him, and so out tor walk,
| in the most unceremonious way. over the broken
| fragments of the door. But the most miserable
sight OF alone to make angels weep-is to see the
| poor little children who swarm in semi naked
| ness and neglect in the darkness made visible of
or school; too lstless to have the childs pus
sion green fields; grimy and blear-eyed from the
binding smoke and dinginess; one little creature
nursing another hitler; no surroundings but NTH
| and want no playmate except their fellow lodger
the pig. Can wonder il the fair features Of these
little suferers-and nature has given many OF them
faces cherub like and wits bright to the pets
| OF fairy drawing rooms-grow distorted and
dazed and hepetated as almost to lose their sweet
human stamp? I have said much. yet left SO
much unsaid. Of the grinding misery and danger Of
the people that must reserve for another letter
| think they have heard the worst.
RUssIA's STRANGE WAR SHIP.
firm of shipbuilders the Clyde has received
| an order from the Russian government for mon
ster iron-clad. which is to be practically nvunera-
be and the subject is attracting considerable inter-
est in English official circles. The vessel is to have
armored deck in shape like the back OF tortoise.
with sharp edges all round, on which an iron ram
| may expend its force only to its own injury, or,
at most. cut through mere fringe into
| one Of numberess watertight compartments.
| The surfaces above and below the water being
| OF the same slope would offer mark for oppo-
nent's shot, which would glance off without doing
the slightest injury. and only vertical fire, which is
always unreliable, or baterng from above at close
quarters which the monitors own heavy guns might
repe could be used against such foe. The old
tom Of boarding might avail; but, the ship Is to
be 500 feet In length by 100 feet broad. she would
probably carry great number OF men, and board
| ing might not be easy. The torpedo alone she
would have to dread. and against the torpedo
she would nave 10 aako ner viii sn1
consist of four more lOO-ton guns mounted
on the disappearing principle. together with
tended to make her for attack as well defence at
least the equal OF any other ship aoat 1t is cacu-
lated that u vessel of such build. though provided
with 900 horse power engines. cannot be of great
speed, but this is regarded of secondary conse-
quence IN ship which is described unassailable.
The circular ironclads which the Russians already
possess regarded as failures because their
perpendicular sides offer ready target to
| the enemy, and Admiral Popof who has de-
| signed the new cyclad. understood to
have adopted tho idea propounded more than
u
| the execution of the work is intrusted. Tho
Poyphemus, now building for the British navy, will
armor. but she will be small in comparison. and
fight only with her ram and torpedoes. being unpro-
vidcd with guns. The construction OF the floating
Malakoff is regarded as serious fact in England.
and proposals being discussed for meeting the
and tanning the pre-eminence OF the British
nation upon the seas.
zoLAIsM IN PARIS.
The walls OF Paris gaudy with the advertise
ments of NJ. Zola's new romance The subscribers
the newspaper in which it is to appear have been
kept for weeks in state or anxious excitement The
| great day is at last definitely announced. and
| MANA" i'll all the attractions OF pearl powder,
rouge and spanges is to make her literary appear
ancs very soon and eagerness for more of NJ. Zolas
wock. more and more highly peppered- than ever rs
not very pleasant sign of the mood OF Paris her
self again." NJ. lola poses as moral writer. says
the Daily Necs. he hold the glass to human nature
in ITS depraved condition No other kind of al
ity seems to have much charm for this reast. His
works like the confessions OF those ancient sim
ners who too plainly relish the narrative OF their
Paris; he has memory stored with her revelations;
| he publishes them, and Paris, reading them with
delight, lives over again the pleasant days OF the
Empire. Nay, the town cannot even walt for tho
publication of this story. rather history. for
NJ lola is much too clever not to add personalities to
his ..realism." NJ. Albert Wolf has been kind
enough to relieve the general mind by printing
beforehand kind of sketch or the novel. Writers of
fiction sometimes complain, with reason. that re-
viewers "take the word out OF their mouths and
spoil their tales by letting out the plot 1t is not tho
plot. but tho 'palpitating realities OF depraved
having heard all about the coming romance from NJ.
Zolas own lips in the garden ut Mcudon. has only
revealed enough to make the readers "wsh
for more" There is other connection
between milk and water. separate or COM
! bincd, and the new flower OF realism II
! NJ. VOLTS report be correct. it is easy TO describe
Mana in a sense. Just rs the ''Assommoir" was n
minutely nauseous study OF the lives Of drunken
rufians. the fresh story is to be study of tho
! life OF abandoned women. All the scandals OF u
great luxurious city, the stories of vice and ruin
which had been happily forgotten. the characters
who had their days OF haunting splcndor and
their deaths in squalid garrets will be re-
viviied by the art Of the novelist. The
procession of uncomfortable aud women.
with their victims, will sweep the stage.
Every detail of the life of fast theatres, every
faint that corrupts the air will be catalogued and
reproduced When the original realistic work has
had its novel, we nave the spectacle OF de-
Iirum trcmens and of pugnacious washerwomcn on
the French. and shortly on the English. stage.
Doubtless, Mana" will be- not less fortunate. Tho
fingers OF the "adapter' are already closing. per-