New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-09

S0meDO Gy mas Deen spreading III tno LVhuVi
markets the roorback that the crops in this
country are likely to be the poorest in twenty
FIVE years. and in consequence the price OF
bread is slowly rising. There is sheer cruelty
in this tampering with one of the prime neces-
saries of life. The London markets are al
fected by rumors that are wholly without
foundation. The crops Of the United States
are by no means a failure. The most trust
worthy reports indicate that the yield Of wheat
and corn will be fully UP to the average. Such
Hctions as have disturbed London must orig
mate in the brains Of constituencies SPECTATORS
Quaint old York is the theme OF charming
letter from Mr.. Winters facle pen. The mag
nificent cathedral is the central figure of the
picture, although the Canterbury structure is
described as more spiritual and as more har-
monously situated. In York there is a marked
contrast between the splendid building that
overtops the city and the rude and incongruous
character of the city itself. It's modern archi-
lecture leaves the ancient and beautiful pile in
lonely and triumphant isolation. The vulgar
spirit of York is shown in the shabby care be-
slowed upon the fragments of the ancient wall
which yet remain and which deserve to be
cherished with religious devotion. Yet York
was once the seat of great and ilustrious deeds,
and all the country round about, as seen from
the lofty towers of the Minister, is historic
ground.
Another murder Of the same fendish char
acter as the three that have previously shocked
London occurred during Friday night in White
chapel. These atrocities are apparently the
work Of the same hand; yet the police seem
powerless to prevent the crimes or to discover
the murderer. Suggestions of vigilance COM
mttees are made in some of the newspapers,
and large part of London seems TO be in a
condition bordering on panic. A positive de-
NAL is given in our special cable dispatch to
the reports that Sir Charles Warren is to resign
the Commissioncrship of Police but it is evil
dent that the London police and detective force
is badly demoralized, and change Of some sort
Is in order. few of our lynx eyed American
detectives would probably ferret out these mys-
teries so quickly as to make the slower going
Londoners wag their solemn heads in amaze
ment.
The revelations made in letter from Athens
printed on the 9Th page are extremely sensa-
tional. BY the suicide of the President of the
Greek Police Department, few weeks ago, it
became known that all the most valuable
specimens Of ancient Greel, art which have
been acquired by the museums Of Europe in
the last eight years had been literally stolen
from the Royal Central Museum of Athens
and wide-reaching conspiracy has been
brought to light. The directors of the Athens
Museum, several other Government officials
and four prominent professors in the University
at Athens. besides the Chief of Police of the
Kingdom. are implicated in it, and the dread of
the shameful disclosures that were impending
led to the suicide mentioned. The discovery
OF the plot was made by accident by Greek
diplomat in the British MUSEUM Many val
liable acquisitions of the Louvre Museum of
the British and South Kensngton institutions
and OF museums in Berlin and Vienna must be
given up and returned to Greece, the laws of
which on the subject Of antiquities are remark