New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-21

reach. Not only the railways, as l said the
other day, but the middlemen absorb great pro-
portion of the profits There is already Coal
Trust in London in the shape of permanent coal
ring which settles the price OF coal
to consumers. It's profits enormous, and
no successful attack on them has yet been made.
Germans are standing by Germans in this
Mackenzie business much better than English
stand by English. Professors Virchow and
Waldeyer have now come to the rescue OF Drs.
Bergman and Gerhardt. Those eminent
analysts agree in discredting DR.. Mackenzie's
story about the abscess caused by DrMackcnzie's S
! on the ground that the post showed no
traces of it. Their testimony covers other
points, and is thought damaging, because DR..
Mackenzie relied upon both for his diagnosis.
But the English doctor is not to be disposed Of
so easily. True, he says, no signs of the alb
scess visible after death. That be-
cause the abscess instead of being limited as
it might have been in healthy patient, was
diffused. he deals not less positively with
other technical points, DR.. Howell supporting
him. People here do not take sides strongly
on technical points, but they ask: II DR.. Mac
kenze were the charlatan you now try to make
him out why did you all-Dr Bergmann, DR..
| Gerhardt and the rest-agrec to his being called
in consulting physician? To this the Ger
mans appear to have no good answer ready
"The Quarterly Review" is coming to the rescue
of Christians with an article on Robert Els
mere and Christianity" This venerable, but not
now much venerated periodical, still under the
editorshp of DR.. William Smith, blends the sen
sational with the proper with ingenuity which
the rival Edinburgh" vainly attempts. The
next most promising paper in the present table
of contents is on Matthew Arnold. Mrs. Humphrey
Wards novel still sells her publishers adver-
tising this week sixteenth edition, as badly
printed il in a pirated American Library y
Next month will witness the completion OF
the ninth edition of " The Encyclopaedia Britain
MICA" which has been some ten years on the
stocks. Professor Baynes and Professor Robert
son Smith have brought their monumental en-
terprise to what is by the general consent of the
learned a successful conclusion. Considered as a
collection of elaborate treatises great branches
of human knowledge to date, it remains without
a rival.
Mr.. Leslie Stephen, whose illness proved less
serious than his friends feared, has resumed work
on his National Dictionary Of Biography
This, too, is monumental, or will be when fin
ished, and the volumes do, as promised, succeed
each other with regularity each three months
Rosetti worshippers, still numerous in England,
enchanted to hear a new book about their hero
| announced This is book of Notes on Dante
Rosetti, as Designer and Writer" by his living
| brother Mr. William Rosetti. So far as may be
Judged from an account in " The Athenaeum,' 1t
promises to consist largely of sweepings from the
poet-artist's library and studio
Another season of French plays opens in Lon
don under the ever indefatigable NJ. Mayer. Pro-
priety is for once consulted, or perhaps prudery,
and mothers are appealed to in the public prints
to take their daughters to see Nj. Halevy's Abbc
Constantin." They will not see much harm if
they CO. nor much good but dull piece, mod
erately acted.
| Mr. Richard Mansfield appeared last night for
the benefit of the Bishop of Bedford's Home for
East End Poor playing Prince Karl7 to an au-
dience which hardly filed the Lyceum. Prince
Karl" is four-act farce devoid of plot or proba-
| bilty. The only interest of the evening lay in
Mr. Mansfeld's appearance in a character so re-
mote from those he has hitherto attempted in
London, but it was at best, though played with
some freedom and ease, only sketch.
The Grosvenor Gallery reopens to-day with a
private view of an interesting collection of pas
tells This exhibition includes examples of Eng
lish and French. The superiority OF the French
/ is aQmltteQ, even Dy EugllSH critlcs oir CoutO'
Iindsay's object seems to be to stimulate the
growth in England If this delicate art. which is
perhaps, after ALL too delicate to be popular with
the British Phlistne. G. W. S.
SIR JOHN MACDONALDS MISSION TO ENGLAND
Ottawa Ont Oct. 90 (spcciaD.-Thc dispatch tc
"The London Times,s from Philadelphia, TO the
effect that Sir John A. Macdonald will visit
England In connection with the fisheries matter, is
without foundation. The remainder OF the cabled
report to the effect that the visit TO take place
with view TO the modification of the Canadian position
| by the Dominion's coming TO the views OF
tbe United States does not correctly outline the
| situation as between England and Canada. no such
modification being contemplated by either Government
at present
A TRAIN BURIED UNDER A LANDSLIDE.
! RDme Oct 2O-A landslide has occurred at
Lotenza Italy. railway train buried in the
debris, and a number of persons we're killed. SIX
bodies have been recovered and ter persons who
were wounded have been rescued.
| AN OUTRAGE ON A GERMAN CONSULATE
! Paris Oct. 2O-The escutcheon on the German
Consulate at Havre torn from It's position last
night and thrown into the street The Prefect at
Havre has rendered profuse apology to the Consul
and NJ. Goblet, Minister Of Foreign Affairs, as Ike
wise apoogZed 10 the German Ambassador mere 10Y
| the outrage. There is no cew TO the persons who
committed the act.
THE POPE's GIFTS TO HIS GERMAN VISITORS
| Rome Oct. oO.-The Pope has sent TO the Emperor
of Germany through Schlaeger, the Prussian
representative at tho Vatican. hs portrait set with
diamonds TO Prince Henry Of Prussia, splendid
cameo set with diamonds TO Count Herbert Bismarck
| a large gold Jubilee medal and TO the other members
| Of the Imperial suitc small medals