New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-22
THE NLWS THIS MORNING.

FORrIGN-Several important arrests have been
made at st. Petersburg. 1t is rumored that
Lord Derby will replace Earl Spencer In the British
Cabinet. 80 Dcrvisch Pacha has routed the Al
banians at Uskup. - The conditions which Ham
burg has put forward for entering the Zollverein
have been accepted by Prussia.
DoMEsTIC.-ln the United States Senate Mr.. COKE
attempted to reply 10 the speech of Mr.. Frye -
The National Academy of Sciences continued in ses-
sion at Washington. 60 In the state Senate the
New-York Charter bill was considered and amend
ed the Senate Conference Committee on the Street
Cleaning bill will insist on the Senate bill. -
The Assembly Judiciary Committee reported ad-
versely the Brooks Election bills. - The United
States Circuit Court at Philadelphia decided that
the scheme of the Reading Railroad Company TO
issue deferred income bonds is illegal. - Thirty
LODGES of Maricopa Sioux Indians, allies Of Sitting
Bull have surrendered at Fort KeOgh. - The
night express train on the Rock lSiand
Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST.
Paul Railroad was thrown into river near
Albany, ILL.,. yesterday morning, and several per-
sons were drowned. - powder magazine con
tanning 900 kegs of powder exploded at West
Stratford Conn, yesterday. - The Jeanette
Relief Board has submitted its report 70 tie Score
tary of the Navy. - There were two explosions
of nitro glycerine in the ntre vaults of the Dtmar
Powder Works, Bnghamton, n. Y, yesterday.
- Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church are in session at Gens Falls MY, Brad
ford, VT, and Clarcmont n. II.
CRY AND SUBURBAN.-The trial of the Police
Commissioners was continued before the Mayor
YESTERDAY. 49, The Union Ferry Company's
franchises were sold at auction and bought by the
company. - Good prices were realized al the
Chaplin book sale. - The John POndir picture
collection was sold for about $4,000 - a
woman was burned to death in BROOKLYN -=
Gold value of the legal-ender silver dollar l4l2l2
prainsl 81. IS cents. 60 Stocks strong closing
weak at n reaction from the highest figures.
TIE Manufacturers local observations in
dictate clear and partly cloudy weather, With slight
changes in temperature Thermometer Yesterday
Highest GO; lowest $50 ayerlge. Oily
At Albany there is proposition that the
ALBANY Peiitentiary shall he allowed TO make
a contract to board the prisoners Of the state
of Delaware. Senator Brown, of Georgia, Will
at once perceive that this is u plan to COLOMBO
New-York with Democrats.
1t appears that the first expectations respect
ing the place of Lord Beaconsiicld's burial are
TO be realized His will is found to contain
formal direction that his body be laid by that
of his wife, and the project of an interment IN
Westminster Abbey must therefore be aban-
doned.
Our Washington dispatches give thu impor-
tant portions of paper of remarkable interest
read by Professor Bell before the National
Academy of Sciences yesterday. Professor bell
described the continuation of the experiments
which resulted in the construction OF the
photophone-an apparatus in which thin
disks of very many substances exposed
to a rapidly intermitted beam of sun
light, gave out sounds. In carrying the
investigation further Professor Bell was led to
believe that sonOrousncss was a general prop
erty of all matter under these conditions. The
history of these experiments is given at some
length and is of fascinating interest Ii was
found that the loudest sounds were obtained
from substances in q loose, porous state and
of the darker colOrs. The inquiry eliminated
In the discovery of the wonderful instrument
which the inventor terms the spectrophone."
The venerable Union Ferry scandal has
ceased to exist. That corporation will no
longer secure from the city the privilege of
making a million dollars year by paying one
dollar The suits brought by the city, when
the Courts declared the Tweed Ring lease
against public policy and null and void, to
recover the sums which would have been OBJ
tanned under o proper lease, have been COM
promised. The company turns 100000 into
the municipal treasury-which Is az light a
penalty as could have been expected, consid-
eriug that under the rent formerly charged the
city would have received $1,000,0OO in the
S tan years during which the lease ran. new
lease is made, requiring 12i2 per cent OF the
cross receipts to be paid as rent, which.