Show T THE bostonians are cancer concerned ried over the reports which have gone abroad concerning the scarcity of water in their city the inefficiency of its fire department and the faulty reconstruction of buildings in the burnt district and they complain that these reports which have wn exaggerated by the papers of other cities gives a senous serious I 1 prospective injury to the business interests ot of boa bas ton the bobson Irn los journal very seriously discusses this subject hut but affirms that both of the great conflagrations of that city have been exceptional in their character boston had bad been so many years from large fires that the people had bad piled story etory upon story and placed lumber yards upon the top of inaccessible buildings in igno ignorance ranco or in defiance of the additional ri risk k which was incurred by their own action this tells the tale for no fire department that could bo be maintained would ever bo be so BO efficient as to tender render such places secure against fire As to the that bollon lads lacks a supply of water the boston morning journal replies 60 our ur supply of water is as good as that of avy any large city in the union tite THE geneva arbitration is uppermost again in the relations relation between england and america the london times has bus been reviewing mr jimr bancroft Bin croft Davie t report to the or state and the reply of mr fish relating to the conduct of sir Alex alexander anler cockburn Cock barn in that report mr davis spoke of the intemperate and indecorous ef fusions of sir alexander which under the guise of pretended reasons for dissenting from the award of the tribunal of arbitration is said to cover up an acrimonious acrimonious assault on the government and people of the united states as I 1 well as on their agent and couns counsel counsil cl of course so inturre in turn the american press takes up the matter and di cusses with the london looi loni times our tide side of the case I 1 which we pre presume ume is to drag itself along till doomsday examples ar are 0 O said to have bave liada had demoralizing effect on mr mori the japanese minister at washington who it appears is charged with certain certain financial irregularities and has evinced a total disregard of instructions from the Japao japanese eso government it is now alleged that he has gone to europe for an indefinite period and will not return to the united states or japan hla his friends who are charitably inclined 1 say he be is crazy one of our eastern exchanges somewhat ironically observes that if all that is charged chargeable he true trae it is is a sad fad illustration influence of life at washington upon this promising young man truly there is a fair prospect that our american civilization will get considerably discounted in japan if things go on this way an am FOR berau according to the new york times the court of queen victoria li is in in a quandary the shah of persia nasser ed deen is shortly to arrive in london now new the shah has baa with him throe three of his wives the present albect af of the central asian question renders it necessary c for england to bhoj the greatest courtesy to the blish end and the question has arisen who of the three be presented as the Shab Sha hess it will be impossible for lic victoria toria to recognize all 11 three as all that would bo countenance ing polygamy now kow as is probably the most auar married ried man of any on earth hero here is ie an opportunity for him to advise who ot of tho the three wives of the shah should according to ile the iho eliv etiquette ette of polygamy bt presented at the court gibs of st KM james lie I 1 0 would thim l D not ot only fettle a most perplexing question but perhaps preserve Eg lland 6 prestige in central asia bulletin SALT T like lake city is grea great i in in more is than beling being the home of the man on whose shoulders fell the mantle of the ht joeph smith salt lake is great cret on OB the prohibition ques tie eions her people that is that portion of then who ho prefer women to men are endeavoring to 10 prohibit tha me panting of license for the sale of if liquor salt lakes population is a fraction too crude and homogeneous for this sort eort of thing boston refined boston the home of the puritans tried the experiment sad and people continued to get drunk all the same i if f not a little more mo BO san ban francioco franciaco chronicle roure font of the weak a appeared I 1 at the police headquarters to sit at vidy the elco demands ands of the law for an all to infraction of iu sl Atutes they were fined fee of each si so says bays the salt lake tribune but were the ftak tak brothers brother and why were they not fined Is I 1 this justice omans journal ane new york herald gives a grea great t free trade cry of exultation over the wolverhampton Wolver hampton paradox and says the cable informs us that the iron dis gu ted with tho the high prices of british crude I 1 iron ar are looking to country tor for their future supplies and lave have already sent bent out orders for the well pro pig oh ob that uri mr greeley had bad lived hired to see this day dai to read that we tram cram to announce the amazing fact in a double loaded leaded leader after his own fashion whit what a in merry erry time we SI hall still h have of it even without poor 11 mr r greeley I 1 next winter in ia Con congress grevi when the contemplated assault upon tho the great iron iron in interest of the country is met rebuffed routed horses horse foot A and rid artillery by the Trino bant kelley killcy flinging down the gauntlet forged at wolverhampton Wolver hampton to in the fieo of the abashed abashed and unpatriotic pree traders I 1 ARE ABE wo wa a hav a new egyptian tiao E empire m is ono one of the vital questions which ii ia now occupying the journalists and t statesman of great britain and andAm AmeriCa trica and the lie telegram from constantinople that the viceroy of egypt has hag obtained his bis long coveted firman from the sultan and the virtual independence of egypt ij u riving ao an extraordinary interest to the subject we believe that this eastern eastep question will yet become the greatest question of the age before which aich even another war between franco france and germany upon their special quarrel will talc take a second place THE movements of the empress lascole j coupled with those of jerome Jarome napoleon and acid the th indications indication wade made by marshal macmahon in ia keeping therewith are arc attracting the attention of the press th the question estion is ia asked Is t anere pit say any colitt good a arason mason why eugenie Euc nie 1 mould not pay her re dipeco to tie president ex as she is will not do rashly it ig ia not unnatural however to attach some importance to lo this visit THE Tife respectable press of tho country try almost universally ru sustains stains henry ward Be Bece ceber as might have been expected fyr for mr beecher lie ii the most famous preacher in america whom the country cannot afford to lose from iti in list of canonized ramm moreover victoria said they were all is as had bad as one another till THE new york herald halim haia bit of quotation quI exultation tation over the triumph or of its secret commissioner getti getting og inside the gaban aban lines nod describing the war in in his elaborate story dybich that paper publishes in its last assue issue received journals of the country complain that politics are unusually dull tho the people for a time having haring had a sur if cl t of it and b being disposed to let well alone and to enjoy the quietude of t the it in I 1 peace interval THE gold hill news says lit it ii ia rumored that the he small por has haa blokin out among the gutc piute indians encamped nedr virginia city slid aad calls calla upon the city auth authorities orides to quarantine rne tho tholet lot trie THE new grand pacific hotel in chi chicago cli 0 contains ri t sins apartments and cost acut about 1000 OW exclusive of tho the furniture TUB death of horace F dark clark confirmed in our dispatches of yesterday |