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NationO F THE WEEK'S

THE event of the week wastheformal

opening, on Thursday, of the great suspen-

sion bridge, across theEast River, uniting

New York and Brooklyn. I n Brooklyn the
day was made a holiday, and business in New
York was partly suspended. Both cities were
decorated, the former in great profusion. I n
New York the exercises of the day began at
12:35 o'clock with a rocession, consistlng of
President Arthur, d y o r Edson, and other
dignitaries,under the escort of the Seventh
Regiment, which left thc Fifth Avenue Hotel
and marched to the bridge. A review was
held in City Hall Park. When the President
and party marched upon the bridge, salutes
were fired andchurch
bells rang. When
the Brooklyntowerwasreacheda
similar procession from
that
city
was met.
The exercises of theday were then begun
at the Brooklyn approach. After music, and
aprayer by Bishop Littlejohn,William C.
Kingsley, on behalf of the Bridge Trustees,
delivered the presentation speech to the chief
magistrates of the two cities. Mayor LOW,of
Brooklyn, then delivered an address of accel)tance, on behalf of his city, andhe
was
followed by Mayor Edson, on behalf of
NewYork. Abram 5. Hewitt, orator of the
day, forthe city of New York, delivered
along
and interesting address. The Rev.
Dr. Storm, the orator for Brooklyn, followed withan eloquent speech. The cere.
monieswereconcluded
with music. Greai
crowds were present everywhere throughoul
the day. Inthe evening, between 8 and E
o'clock, a splendid display of fireworks Wac
made from the tops of the two towers a n d thc
centre of the bridge. This was witnessed b1
thousands of people fromthe neighboring
streets, fromhundreds of illuminated boat!
which dotted the river, and fromhouse-tops a1
over the city. One of the events of the daJ
was a reception at the house, in Brooklyn, o
Col. W. A. Roebling, the invalid Chief Engi
neer, who has directed the great work sincc
his father's death. About 1,000 guestsat
tended, including the President. A receptio~
was iven
President Arthur and Govern0
Clev3and in theBrooklyn Academy of Musil
at 9 o'clock in the evening. The bridge wa
thrown open to the public at midnight, an(
thousands of people went across in the earl:
hours of the morning. AlldayFriday ths
crowdscontinued to cross, andfor severa
days the regular traffic was very great. T h
ferry companies noted a great falling off il
receipts.
President Arthur has given an order tha
the $100,000 fund for theprevention of yellov
fever shall be disbursed under the directiol
of the Secretary of the Treasury. This is
precautionary measure. It is believed that i
the yellow fever visits the country this season
it will first appear alongthe Rio Grande.
The saving to the banks from the recen
decision of the Attorney-General that no taxe
are due since January 1 last is estimated a
$3,000,000.
Civil-Service Commissioner GregorJr an'
Joseph H. Blackfan, Superintendent of th
Foreign Mail Department, established a locl
Board of Examiners
the Albany l-ost-offic
on Thursday.
The StateDepartment at Washington o
Friday night received a dekpatch from Minil
ter Cornelius A. Logan, at SaRtiago, Chi1
anserting that a treaty of peace had finall
been signed between Chili and Peru, Generc
Iglesias acting on behalf of the latter COUI
try. The terms of the treaty are the same a
those lately announced.
Secretary Chandler, of the Navy, in a rep1
to ex-Con ressman Dezendorf, of Virginia, i
regard to %ahone's abuse of patronage in thl
State, says: " The tone of your letter, whic

have made public, indicatesthat you take

very strong interest inthe reformation of the
Navy-yard at Norfolk. That
should, although now for thefirst time, invite theattention of the Department and thepublic to such
abuses, after
have ceased to expect any
:rsonal benefit from the management of the
md, is a most commendable performance of
lblic duty by a private citizen." Mr. Dezen~rf,in reply to these insinuations, says : " Rerring to the last paragraph of your letter,
n constrained to say your memory needs
,eadjustment.' From time to time during
y term in Congress, had the pleasure of
tlling 3 our attention to sundry abuses in the
avy-yard and to themany wrongs being per%rated on Republicans in Virginia, to wbich,
regret to say, you turned 8 deaf ear, as did
Le President, being, as I am bound to believe,
)mmitted to the support of Senator Mahone
y an,?rrangement whichcouldnot
be
,ted.
Local elections held in Virginia on Thursay were not encouraging to Mahone. Seven
)unties which had previously given Readlster
majorities
went
Democratic, The
attle-ground was Norfolk County, where ex'ongressman Dezendorf heads the opposition.
'he latter was defeated, but otherson his
cket were elected. Readjuster gains, howver, are reported in the southwestern part of
le Btate. The Bourbons showed lack of oranization.
Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, is con.
alescent.
Qovernor Cleveland on Wednesday appoint.
d John Jay,of New York, tobe Civil-Service
:ommissioner, in place of Andrew D. White,
leclined.
Informationwas received on Friday thal
:enera1 Crook hadan enga.gement with a
arge body of Indians near Guacanope, in thc
lierra Madre Mountains, about ten days ago.
I e had sent forward some of his San Carlo1
the hostiles ant
couts, who were surprised
lriven back to the main body. A general ad
rance was then made by the entire force, anc
he hostiles were driven from their intrenchec
losition with a loss of
when there
nainder broke and fled. General Crook im
nediately
started
in pursuit. There havc
Ieen rumors of subsequent disaster to Genera
:rook, but they are not credited. The report
the battle were confirmed
Tuesday.
The National Exposition of Railway Appli
mces was opened in Chicago on Thursda!
:vening in the presence of 5,000 people.
Mr. Ingersoll continued his argumentin th,
star-route trial atWashington on Wednesday
I'hursday, andFriday,and
attracted larg
:rowds tothe court-room. His analysis o
Rerdell's testimony was especially severe.
Merrick began the closing argument for th
Sovernment on Monday and continued it 0:
Tuesday.
The PresbyterianGeneral
Assembly cor
h u e d its sessions throughoutthe
week a
Saratoga. On Friday the Committee on Ten!
perance recommended theputting down o
the rum traffic by the strong arm of the la7
end by constitutional enactment. Theydim
not, however, recommend pastors and churc
members to insist on prohibition at all time
end seasons, but on the enforcement, wit
diligence and impartiality, of existing laws fc
the suppression of the liquor traffic. The rl
port was adopted on Tuesday.
The fifty-fourth anniversary of the BrooE
lyn Sunday-School Union
was
held
o
Wednesday. The exercises wereas succesf
ful as in former years. It is said that mo1
than 50,000 children were i n line in the VI
rious processions.
The HarvardCollege Overseers on Wedne
day postponed the award of degrees at Con
mencement, including a decision of,the que,
tion of granting to the Governor the degre
of LL.D., until May 31.
The Trustees of Williams College, Wi
liamstown, Maas., received on Wednesday
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:heck
$50,000 from A. D. Germen, of AIbany, tofound a Professorship of Natural
Theology in memory of his son, who was a
student in Williams College.
Patrick Joseph Percy Tynan, the alleged
No. 1of the Irish Invinciblcs,invited a number of reporters on Wednesday to his house,
0. 191 West Baltic Street, Brooklyn.
le ceremony of introduction, Mr. Tynan said:
I regret very much to say, after consulta3n with my counsel, General Pryor, that
ostrespectfully decli?: to be interviewed
)ant myself
Ireland.
The steamer Pilot blew up near Lakeville,
al.. on Friday.Eight
werekilled,
seven
ounded. andten are missinc. The csuse
as insutficlent water int,he boiler.
Strikers having taken possession of the mines .
7ound Belleville, Ill., the militia were ordered
Lere on Monday. On their arrival near Belledle they were fired upon. The fire was rerued. One man was killed and anumber
ljured. Twenty-six prisoners were taken.
piet wasrestored on Tuesday.
A tornado in Indiana on Monday, near Clay
'ity, killed six persons and injured twelve.
Ither places in central Indiana were visited
y the storm, which was very destructive.
The annual parade of the New York CoachIg Club took place in this city on Saturday
fternoon. Eleven coaches were in line.
Ex-Chief-Justice George Sharswood, of
'ennsylvania, died at his residence in Philaelphia at
o'clock on Monday morning, of
PO lexy. Hehad
been unconscious since
'rijay. He was
seventy-threeyears of age.
Iis career as a judge covered thirty-seven
'ears and nine months. He was on the
lupreme bench of Pennsylvania f o m 1860 to
882. As a writer on le al subjects he attained
Teat eminence. a i s eflition of ' Blackstone's
Jommentaries,' first published in 1859, is conidered one,of the best editions of that work
ver published.
Col. Frank E. Howe, formerly well known
,s the PensionAgent in New York, and a
m e prominent member of the Union League
h b , died suddeny on Wednesday in Washngton. Hewasborn
in Dorchester, Mass.,
n 1829. At the opening of the Rebellion he
)ecame widely knownfor hisexertions in
:aring for the soldiers on their way to the
ront.
The ceremony of blessing the imperial flag
vas performed in theEremlin,.at Moscow,
)n Wednesday,in the presence of the Em?eror, the Empress, the imperial family, and
b e Emperor's military household. The Czar
In thatday
sentatelegram
to Emperor
William, of Germany, notifyinghim of his
gafe entry into Moscow, and in returnreceived
the
Iatcer's
congratulations. On Thursday
the imperial proclamation, formally announcing thatthe coronation of the Czar
would take place on Sunday, was issued by
heralds from a circular platform before the
Kremlin. The
Emperor
and
Empress remained in semi-seclusion until that day. The
imperial insignia were conveyed to the throne
room on Saturday in preparation forthe
coronation.
The coronation ceremonies were brilliantly
carried out on Sunday. The day was begun
with the ringing of bells and the salutes of
artillery at 7 o'clock. About a half-hourleter
the dignitaries of the realm who were to take
part in the ceremony assembled in the Cathedral of the Holy Assumption, in the Kremlin.
By 8:30 o'clock the Cathedral was filled with
officials and nobles of the highest rankin
Russia. The appearance of the interiorwas
magnificent. In the centre, between the four
great columns, was a scarlet canopy with a
double-headed eagle and emblazonings and
plumes in black, yellow, and white. Under
this stood the throne and before it atable
for
the
regalia. After a short time the
shouts of the crowd
and
the
booming

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of artillery announced thearrival

of the
imperial procession. The Archbishop of Moscow welcomed the Emperor and Empress at
the door of theCathedral. They entered the
church, and,after kissing the images, took
seats on the throne. The
Emperor
then
declared his faithtothe
Metropolitan of
Novgorod. A liturgy followed with impressive
music. The Emperor then received from the
Archbishops the mantle of imperial purple and
placed it on his shoulders. The crownwas
taken from the table by the official appointed
for thepurpose and carried on a velvet cushion
to the Metropolitan of Novgorod, who in turn
presented it to the Emperor. The latter took
in his hands and placed it upon his head,
while the Archbishop repeated: I n the am:
of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Amen.
Then the Archbishop, at the Emperors command, gave him the sceptre and orb, one into
his right hand, the other into hisleft.
The
Emperor then crowned the Empress. A prayer
followed, and then all the hells were set ringing,and the cannon fired 101 rounds, Afttr
a further liturgy theEmperor and Empress
wereanointed, and received the sacrament.
After concludingtheirreligiousduties
the
Emperor and Empress returned to thepalace,
accompanied by the procession as before. On
t.he steps the Czar turned and bowed his acknowledgments of the enthusiastic cheers of
the spectators. I n the afternoon thestate
banquet mas given in the Dalacc banqueting
hall, which was magnificently decorated and
adorned with a superb display of plate exhibited on buffets. The Czars manifesto was
issued at 6 oclock in the evening. It granted
amnesty to all the Polish exiles who are willing submit to police supervision for a period of two years. No other political prisoners were pardoned.
I t granted the remission
of a large number of penalties for non-political offences, fines, and arrears of taxes due
fromthe poorer classes. The cost of the
coronation isestimated at $10,000,000. On
Monday an imperialrescriptwas
iisued by
the Czarconferringmanyhonors
on his
friends and advisers.
An official denial was published at St. Petersburg, on Wednesday, of the report that an
explosion had taken place in the Czars dressing-room at St. Petersburg before his departure for Moscow.
There were anti-Jewish riots in Rostoff,
Russia, last week.
Paris was startled on Saturday by an official
telegram from Tonquin asserting that Captain
RiviBre, commander of the French forces in
Tonquin.had been killed while making a
sortie fromFort
Hanoi, andthat Captain
Devillers had been dangerously wounded.
General Bouet has been ordered from Saigon
to take the place of Caatain RiviBre. Twentysix men were killed and fifty one wounded in
the sortie. Hanoi is surrounded by alarge
force of Anamites. French reinforcements
have been ordered
the seat of war. The
credit for the Tonquin expedition was immediately voted unanimously intheFrench
Chamber of Deputies. l u China war preparations
are
also progressing. Li
Hung
Chang was summoned to tgke
command
of the Chinese troops in
the
provinces
bordering on Tonquin, andhe
arrived at
Shanghal on Monday, on his way to his new
post to begin operations. I t is believed that
the French Minister at Pekin and the Chinese
Minister at Paris will soon receive their pwsports. On Monday news was received from
China that 6,000 troops, armed in the manner
of European troops, have already arrived at
theTonquin frontier, andthatthe
feeling
throughout China is intensely hostile to the
French.
News has been received in Paris fromMadagascar that a French detachment landed and
carried several military posts which had been
erected by the Hovas on Sakalava territory
defiance of French rights. I t is also said that
Admiral Pierre hasoccupied the custom-house

at Majunga, thus securing the road and waterway leading to Tananarivo, the capital of the
island. The Malagasy Embassy in London
weregreatlysurprised
at the news, and asserted that the natives would fight the French
to the death.
The Suez Canal Company, of Paris, have
announced that they propose to begin the cutting of a parallelcanal across theisthmus
forthwith, and have applied tothe English
Government for their support in obtaining the
necessary concession of land from Lhe Khedive.
M. adouard Ren6 Lefebvre Laboula e, the
well-known French jurist, died on Friiay, at
the age of seventy-two. He first made himself known by a work entitled History of the
Law ,Relative to Landed Properly in Europe. He became a great student of American political history and wrote much in regard to it. During the civil war his writings
in the Dibats did much to influence French
opinion in favor of the Northern States. In
French politics he was a moderateRepublican.
Abd-el-Kader, the famousAleerine chief,
died in Damascus on Saturday, i;i the seventy-sixthyear
of his age. Hewasan
able
opponent of the French, but was defeated in
1843. For manyyearshewas
imprisoned,
but 1Ftely has lived at Damascus on a French
penslon.
The Cologne (Germany) Gazette has published an articlewhich attracts much attention, poiuting out that Germany, Austria, and
Italy can together muster 1,318 battalions of
inhntry, 740 squadrons of cavalry, and 4,464
field guns, while the forces of Franceand
Russia together amount to 1,339 battalions of
infantry, 620 squadrons of cavalry, and 4,840
field guns; but, it says, the last two states can
only operate with divided forces. Thetripartite alliance can thus outweigh the whole
remainder of Europe.
I t is announced in Berlin
that Prince Bismarck will visit the Emperor William during
the stayof the latter atGastein, andthat if the
Emperor Francis Joseph goes to Gastein,
Count Ritlnoky, the Austro-Hungarian Ministar of Foreign Affairs, will accompany him.
I t is rumored that King Humbert and Signor
Mancini, the ItalianForeignMinister, may also
visit Gastein during the Emperor Williams
stay there.
The GermanReichstag on Friday, when
considering the Workmens SickFund Bill on
its third reading, rejected, by a vote of 136 to
134, an amendment introduced on the second
reading, which the Government opposed, extending the operation of the measure to agricultural and forest laborers. I t was reported
in Berlin on Monday that Prince Bismarck
contemplates the radical remodelling of the
entire Constitution of the Empire, abolishing
the Reicbstag.
The Vatican. in its reply tothe note of
Prussia, complains that while its request for
explanations relative tothe jurisdiction of
bishops and the training of priestswas unanswered, Prussia suddenlymade new demands. The Vatican declines to consider any
new proposals until an agreement has been
reached on matters first mooted.
Prof. GabrielGustavValentin,
the noted
German physiologist, died on Monday at the
age of seventy-three.
The Swedish Ministry have resigned in
consequence of their defeat in the Diet on the
Army Organization Bill.
Professor Xordenskjillds Greenland Exploring Expedition sailed from Gothenburg,
Sweden, on Thursday, on board the Sophia.
John Dillon, in a letter to the Dublin
Freemans Journal, advises the Irish people to
make the Parnell fundsuch a success that the
Pope will realize how grievously he has been
deceived by the English Government and the
miserable pauper landlords who infest Rome.
The belief is currentin Montreal, Canada,
that, notwithstanding the action of the clergy,

the local Irish societies will form themselves

into League branches. In the British House
of Commons on Thursday, Lord E. Fitzmaurice, Under Foreign Secretary, said he had already stated on the 19thof March that theGovernment had never entertained a scheme to
establish a British resident at theVatican, and
Mr. Errington had not since been a channel of
communication between the ForeignOffice and
the Vatican. The Popes circular to the Irish
clergy, he said, had not been issued at the request of the British Government.
Gladstone said that Earl Granvilles letter of last
year, recommending
Errington tothe
Vatican as a gentleman of honor and intelli-.
gence, would remain i n force so long as Mr.
Errington answered that description. Archbishop Croke, preaching; from his own pulpit
at Thurles, Ireland. exhorted his people not to
speak a word of condemnation of the Pope,
who wastheirbestfriend.
The Pope, it is
said, is satisfied with the result of his circular.
The police of Tralee, Ircland, on Wednesday, seized the plant of the Kerry Sentinel
and prevented the publication of that paper,
which is the property of Mr. Harrington.
member of Parliament for Westmeath. The
cause of the seizure, it is supposed, was the
publication of a notice in the Sentinel asking
persons desirous of joining the Invincibles to
attend a meeting. The publicationwasresumed on Saturday.
John Behan, the correspondent of the
World, of New York, forthe West Clare
(Ireland)district,
has been arrested
a
charge of intimidating the driver of amail
wagon, whom he called a spyandaninformer.
Only one agrarian outrage against the person occurred in Ireland during the month of
April.
Michael Fagan, who was convicted of the
murder of Mr. Burkein Phoenix Park
the 6th of May last, was hanged in Kilmainham Jail on Monday morning. He made no
statement.
Mr. Kennard, at thedesire of the leaders of
the British Tory party, has decided to abandon for thepresent session his motion olfered
in the House of Commons in relation to the
disposition of thesurplus of the Alabama
award. Et is thought that the question can
be raised more conveniently at the expiration
of the Fishery treaty in
1884.
At a meeting of the Liberal party inLondon
on Tuesday, Mr. Gladstone announced that it
would be necessary to drop for the
present
session the Governmenth bill
remodelling
the corporation of the city of London. He
said he could not expect that this would be a
brilliant session, but he thought it would be a
good and not discreditable one.
Bignor Savelli succeeds SignorZanardelli
as Italian Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs, and Signor Genala succeeds
Signor Baccarini asMinister of Public Works.
PhillippeFranGois Xavier Thkodore Heuschlin , the Belgian writer on political economy,
is fead, at the age of eighty-one.
The Dominion of Canada Parliament was
finally prorogued by the Governor-General on
Friday afternoon. He congratulated the
countryand
its legislators on the general
prospects. Regardingthesettlement
of disputes between the Dominion Government and
the province of British Columbia, the Dominion Government haveagreed to give a
money granttothe
province amounting to
$1,000.000, of which $750,000 is to indemnify
the province
the loss sustained in carrying
out the termsof the confederation and for the
delay in building the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The bombardment of Miragoane, Hayti, has
begun, and is making havoc among the
gents, The rest of therepublic is reported
quiet. The public believe that the real state
of affairs is unfavorable.
Volunteers are
swelling the ranks of the Government army.