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Show Uy W. U. Toleerapn.1 Tllli mi'EItlAL lvruiiviuw. New Y'ork, 31. Tho London "Telegraph" "Tele-graph" of the 20th has the following : Being now permitted to write on the approaching interview between tho threo emperors, tho Russian press generally draws hopeful and peaceful auguries from the event. The "Ga-lois"howevertbinks "Ga-lois"howevertbinks that tho Sclavonian and eastern questions will be brought on thetapis.thatilussia though not greedy of conquest must see tho christian subjects sub-jects of the Porte proiected from persecution per-secution and oppression, and that open declarations to this effect may bo made. Papal encroachment in Germany Ger-many and the interior will also afford points of discussion and combination. Tho same paper says the emperor Napoleon Na-poleon has frankly indicated his views m regard to tho forthcoming interview of the three emperors at Berlin, on the present condition and prospects of Franco and other topics of the day. Referriug to the imperial assemblage, his majesly did not consider it involved in-volved any immcdiato threat or danger to the peace of Europe, but he did not conceal the belief that more than a mere compliment was intended by the unwonted meeting, and that when i each power had served its own immediate imme-diate purpose by tho help of its neighbor neigh-bor in the partnership, it would be dissolved. dis-solved. Napoleon dwelt somewhat severely on the protectionist views of Theirs and on his lavish expenditure on the army, which he contrasted with his parsimonious views while in the opposition under the empire ; and pretty plainly hinted despite the Pro- sident's words of peace, his mind was bent on war. And this of Massacuusseits ! The Boston " Herald" of a lato dato has ibe fc-lluwiug : Major Emery, of Lowell, asserts that State constables have collected ''hush money" in that city the past year to I the amount of $20,000, and adds. ! "It would have been $40,000 had they been let alone. It is fair to say, out of the five hundred liquor dealers in this city, four hundred would have paid ten dollars a month, as was generally gene-rally their rates. Some paid twenty dollars per month. In tho city of Boston not less than four hundred thousand dollars is corruptly collected from the liquor dcalors, to say muliiug ol'thc houses of ill lame and gambling I saloons, which will amount to one j hundred thousand more." |