New-York tribune., 1883-06-06
signs which seem to indicate that there are
rocks ahead for members Of the lodges who
do not pay their dues promptly.

Much interest Is felt in the coming rife match
at Wimbledon between representatives OF the
| National Guard of this country and the British
| Volunteers and the regret Is equally WIDE
spread that there seem to be dissensions In the
National Rifle Association which has the
| American team under its management. 1t
will take great effort for the National Guards
| men to win at Wimbledon in any event, and
there is no chance of it at all unless there is the
utmost harmony in the team and among the
managers during the practice shooting ana at
the match. The differences which are contih-
ually cropping "out, therefore, are unfortunate
and ought to be summariy suppressed, espec-
iaily if the members of the Rife Association
want outsiders to help defray the expenses OF
the trip. Above all, no attempt to use the
American team as al advertising agency must
be allowed for moment.
change has come over the French dream OF
easy conquest in TOnquin since 1t was aifirmed
in the Senate that one reason why the he
public must attack AMMAN was because Its
ruler acknowledged that he was the vassal OF
China. 1t is every day becoming more appar-
ent that the French Government realizes how
unwise it was to set Pekin at defiance. There
fore, of late M. Challemel-L acour has been
irving to smooth down Chinas wrinkled front
by intimating that France really has no wish
to interfere with the Annamte suzerainty.
The Celestial Empire, however, is not so easily
smoothed, and it appears from what Marquis
Tseng says that the new French representative
will have great difficulty in arranging matters
at Pekn. The Marquis agrees with all the
fba
will not be child's play to insure success in
TOnquin.
There is marked agreement between pub
lie opinion and the verdict of the Coroner's
jury so far as holding the trustees and officers
of the Bridge responsible for the accident of
last Wednesday. In the minds of the jurors,
apparently, the panic was due entirely to the
inefficient police force which did not keep the
crowd moving. No reference was made in the
verdict to the stairs, the primary cause of the
disaster. The jurors seem to have been im-
pressed with the testimony of some of the
Bridge officers that the steps are good thing.
AS there was testimony of equal weight to show
that there were policemen enough on the Bridge
on Decoration Day, we do not see why II the
Jurors accepted such statements on one point
they did not on the other. On the whole the
coroner's jury has contributed nothing to the
solution of the problem of how to make the
footpath safer for the public; for 1t will be
noted that the police force has already been in
creased. 1t is left to the special committee OF
the trustees, therefore, to evolve the necessary
plans and remove the dangers that still beset
the passage of the Bridge. AS they have not
seemed to accept readily the suggestion of the
public that there shall be an inclined plane in
the stead of steps, We presume they have other
and better ideas of what changes should be
made. Their report is awaited with anxiety.