Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 8, 1876, Page 13

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. 13 RELIGIOUS. Bishop on the Evils of the Pew-System. A Objections to the Ticket- System at Moody’s DMeetings. Persoeution of the Spai:ish Prot- " estants—Aurresting a Moderator. Notes and Personals at Home and Abroad=--Church Services. CHURCHES FOR THE RICH. * THE EVILS OF THE PEW-SYSTEM. The following estract is taken from & sermon by Bishop Potter, reported in the New York Tima: e erection of free chapels in connection with ish churches which were not free was part of Pt modern nnd American system of expedients. e hould not undertake (o trace the rise and wih of what was called the pew-eystem beyond P rown ehores, or to_explain its origin amid e surroundings. It was enongh to gay that in Yoeiend, where-it had been known {or many \ions, and where some of its worst abuses P fipened to moturity, it had always existed B Gualifestions larzely unknown smong us, 1nd that to-day, in the Church of England, it was asverily 8 decaying and vanishing usage as is the gee of the whipping-post or the imprisonment of for debt. § 2 L‘n{onunnte}y‘ however, this could not be said of it in the United States, where the tendency, if st is marked enongh to ‘be detected in any par- ticular direction, is”in the direction of the wider prevalence of the pew-system, He knew that this s not the case in their own Church, ‘where (as he believed was truc in Minnesota) there were whole dioceses where there was no church or chapel 4 fich was not frec. But in_communions outside Church, 2s among the Methodists, the e system had certainly guned ground ?n“ cities, while at the other ec- Clesiastical extreme, the Church of the Roman Chedience had many of them pews which were let oreub-let to two or three serles of tenents. And thong themselves, whilc there had been progress, that progress had ot been rapid, and the growth of a sonnder sentiment in the Church at large had, on the whole, been painfally slow. As it should be in a1l great reforms, the clergy bad been in the advance, and too much honor could not be given to menwho had committed themselves to the free- thurch movement, in & noble disregard of cvery rsonal consideration of comfort or security. Bat The clergy had_not been hrgel{ followed by the Taity, nor was it, perhaps, greatly surprising. The snccess of the free-church movement in En- nd bad been achieved, it shonld be remembered, imder different conditions and amid very different surroundings from their own. English society was » eociety substantially of fixed classes and of tharply-defined sociel fines. Men hold their place in it by virtue of hereditary considerations quite outside of sny purchased precedence in the house of . Indecd, 8o firmly fixed were those lines, and eo potent in Beparating classes, that when men came to the house of God they were anxions—the Toftiest often even more than the lowliest—to for- geifind obliterate those lines by every meansin the wer, A friend of the preacher visiting a crowded church in the East End of London, which was the TFive-Points neighborhood of that great city, ‘Teached over the ehonlder of some one near him in the throng which gathered near the porch, and, in accordance with & vicious custom not yet wholly extinct in England, dropped s shilling in the hand of some one whom he had observed with his back fo him, busily seating strangers. The supposed verrer urned at once and faced him, and he recog- nized in him one of the first noblemen in Englan Inother words, 8 man of high rank came to the services mainly that he might be the servant of the lowliest stranger that songht cntrance. Bul with us the condition of things was very dif- ferent. In America there were no favored classes, but there was In every generation a large class who were strusgling for social precedence, and who were willing to buy it atany cost. And for this class the pew system scemed to bave been apecially contrived. To buy o place in a conspicuone church 2nd have that place itself as conspicuous as might this was & title to @ certain recognition which, fowever hazy and uncertain it might be when one andertook to analyze it, was not indefinite in its actos] resuits. And go it came to that many =hurches were composed almost exclusively of per- 028 of one claes, or, at all events, of those of am- ple meane, 1f not of great wealth. He kncw that it might be answered that even in such churches there was abundant hospitality to etrangers, -and that that hospitality was exercised generousiy trom one year's end to another. He presumed there were' many churches in New York _in which there was no free sittings, and yet in which, as in that to which it was his own privilege to minister, the strangers who were welcomed to its pews might be counted by hundreds. But he was speaking of the general working of a system, and as to the re- znlts of that eystem it seemed to him that no can- did mind could really be in doubt. 1f the facts wuich could be cited had any mean- ing they meant that the present eystem of pewed churches was a mistake, and thatif it had any geeming warrant in the exigencies of other days, it must cooner or later give way before the power —might we not truly eay—the stronger exigencies of our own. He knew that there were many pewed churches that were still tronzed and prosperous. 1If, for instance, he were conmtent notto look be- yond the walls of the edifice in which he minister- ©d, he might easily dismise all anxiety for the wel- farc of the Church at larze.. But a few churches, occupying & central position, and with means and ample accommodation, wereno criterion of the vast majority that were otherwise circumstanced. The preacher admitted that the reform to which his discourse pointed would not be the work of a day norof ayear. MOODY AND SANKEY. QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE MEETINGS. 70 the Editor of The Tribune. CHICAGO, Oct. 6.—With thousands of others, 1 have noted the coming of Messrs. Moody and Eankey, and have pondered long and seriously upon sttending events, and feel impelled to give cxpression to some of my thoughts and impressions. As these evengelists come heralded by the trumpet of fame, and followed by legends of victory for truth, and as they profess to be pe- culiarly Christ-like. it is mot unnatural that comparisons shonldsuggest themselves to those who have a clearly-defined idea of the missionary labors of Christ and the apostles. Attracted by the wonderful miracles and strangely simple Joctrines of the Savior, vast crowds of all classes of people followed Him when He went into the mountains, where, in a temple ‘‘not made with hands,” he might, from some cofi- venient rock, teach the multitude, composed of every kind of people which made up the inhab- itanis of Palestine, the wonderful truths which were so dimly understood by them. 't which were to be the light and inspiration { cuturics tocome. Nearly 2,000 years later iue modern evaarelists, cnsconsced in a §20,000 temple, is- sue purple-tinted cards- of admission to those whose sclf-rizhtousness is suilient to embolden them to appiy at the office of the Y. M. C. A. for these certizi-ates of zood moral character. While, as we t-avel up and down the city northwest and south, we sce blazing fri m the sidewalks, and on walls side by side with the glariug pictures advertising the performance of the *Black Crook ' and winstrel-shows, and on | the top of the street-cars, great, brizht colored posters annource the **Moody and Sankey gervices at the “Tabernac to-night. Just imagine nearly 2,600 years ago, fluttering above the ears of the jackasses and camels, faming announcements, *Jesus Christ in the wilderness to-night. Tickets of admission to be Bad at the house of one Judas Iscariot.” Ttiswell to be practical, and not supersti- tious, in our religious work: but it will not ad- vance the cause of Clrist to advertise it in the livery of & theatrical or_minstrel performance. 1 wish that great good may come to Chicazo through the ministrations of thesc evangelists. I hD,pe that the vast multitudes of working people. who are not able to purchase seats in the expensive temples in which God is wor- thipedin Clicago, or the livery in which it is Decessary to appear to procure,a bearty wel- some to a frce seat, may be reached By 8 real revival of Christian work, under ministrations of Mesurs. Moody and Sankey, mdI have striven By inve ation to overcome Iy prejudice against the ‘‘tickets of &0n," but have not succeeded. 1donot find that those who distribnte them are able to give a satisfactory excuse for doing 80, but T do find that they injure the effort in ¢ estimation of scnsible people who are not soblinded by their zeal that they cannot see ‘“.fl!\mg but the great revivalist and him glori- fied, and that they are a barrier between great f."mber_s of the more inorant people, whom it especially desirable toreach. Many whomight altend the evening services_have not time or tourage to go for tickets, and, supposing that ¥ are necessary to gain edmisgion, remain at ;:ir seek entertzinment where 1{;'*“&52: o{ ion are not necessury. Remember thal these people can yeither afford to pay for daily Tor have they time to read them if they the sbem, and canuot_therefore know that, in € first plaze, these tickets are not necessary to B admission; and in the second place that 'y one can have them for the asking; and in l ethird place that they arc only issued for tain tervices; and in the fourth place that, like the yellow posters, they are an advertisn ) odge. 1 may be wrong, gut it seems to :2% that if the money expended in issuing those delicately-tinted cards were used to purchase plain, good waterproof cloaks with whicn to cover the racs and nakedness of several poor ‘women whose hungry hearts are aching for the comfort and inspiration of Moody’s plain truths and Sankey’s glorious hymns,—but who must &till hunger, because if they should biave the chilly night-air and forzet their own nakedness, and ‘present themselves at the doors of the “Tabernacle” in thewr wretchedness, the doors would be closed against them,—the work of the Master would be mnore_advauced, although the Y. M. C. A. might not be so well advertised. Wishing that either more light upon the sub- ject may reconcile not only myself, but many others, to what now seems to me and them to be a glaring defect and hindrance, or that the good sense of those who have this matter in charge may do away with these stumbling- blocks in the way of great needed good, I am, very truly, Mgs. M. H. KREAMER, MINISTERIAL DYNAMITE. A MODEBATOR THREATENED WITH ARREST. The Alliance. And now a new danger arises. It is simply this, that since the wonderful success of Gen. Newton everybody will believe in the blowing- up business and will lay plans by which they may send into smithers a man of opposite opin- jons on religion or politics, or a delinquent debtor or rival lover. It must be that there are at least 50,000 pounds of Republican dyna- mite placed under Mr. Tilden, and the quantity of giant powder now being fired under the Re- publican party cannot be much less. These mighty submarine forces arz to be fired in No- vemver, and that something will be broken by the-shock is absolutely certain.. ‘The passion for blowing-up things is said to be bad at Bultimore. A minister of the Gospel of Peace, a Rev. Mr. Marquis, who was ouce pastor of the North Presbyterian Church of Lhis city, has just fired a thousand pounds of dynamiteat the Moderatorof a Presbytery which was in session at the mecting-house of the min- ister of peacc aforesaid. The Rew. D. C. Mar- uis walked bnlv]lf' across the floor and, facing the Moderator, toldhim that, unless be should do so and so, he (Dr. Marquis)would calla police officer and have him arrested! By degrees Dr. Mn.nsnis became calm, and the Moderator es- caped, perhaps, a life-long imprisonment. fiven before the Hell-Gate fever had been made epidemic by Newton, this same Brother Marquis used to carry around little canisters of nitro-glycerine, and was wont to locate it under some individual, orsome chureh, or church-choir, or Presbytery, and, in an unexpected moment, fire it oft. It is true, the damage has seldom been preat, the powder being generally a weak article, but the tendency of the clergyman’s genius has been thercby shadowed forth. Cheered by the recent explosion on East River, there i danger that Brother Marquis will quit the pesce policy of Christ, and do his church business on the Hell- Gate principle. s To arrest a Moderator and imprison him for displeasing Brother Marquis would be such a new application of dynamite that at least the novelty of it is pleasing. What an improvement over the old method of reasoning by means of speech or Scripture. If a sinner should refuse 10 juin the church of Mr. Marquis, let the sin- ner be arrested by a policeman, and, perhaps, he will come to terins; if the Westminster choir donot sing the tume thundered outat them from the pulpit, let the police be'called in to lace the singers under arrest. In fact, Hell Gate must be aceepted as the popular model of doing things; and if & clergyman lack eloquence or brains let him carry his points with nitro- glycerine. THE VATICAN. SPANISH PERSECUTION OF PROTESTANTISM. BARCRLONA, Sept. 16.—At last the vagueness of Article XI. has been put to the test. The Protestants who speek and worship in Spanish, driven out of Vitoria, and persecuted in Mahon (Balearic Isles), have made theirvoice heard, and the Ministry at this dead season of the year has ‘been forced wholly against its will to interpret its own language regurding religious toleration, and as to what shall and what shall not be con- sidered an external sign or ceremony of Prot- estantism. The Ministry has decided that the mere advertisement of a time of holding Divine service or the placing over a doorway the words Protestant Church or Evangelical School shall be illegal, and all such notices are to be taken down, if needful, by the police. Some hundred Spanish lads receive free education in a Protest- ant school here in Barcelons, aud the order to take down the notice-board was accompanied ;it.hg demand that the school sheuld itself be osed. BARCELONA, Sept. 17.—Some anxiety having been caused by the rigid interpretation of onc article of the new Constitution, and the order to remove notice-boards from schools and chapels of Spanish Protestants, it should be stated that the instruction of children will not be interfered with, nor the form of worship within walls. There is, however, a growing de- sire on the part of the clergy to obtain a_cup- pression of all Protestant schools in Spain, their arpuments being that children have no right to be instructed until of full agein any save the Roman Catholic religion. DISCOURSE BY THE POPE. RowE, Sept 19.—Clerical_journals publish a dis-ourse del:vered by the Pope on Sunday to 800 Savoyard pilgrims. He likened the Church of to-day to the Israclites in_ the Wilderness, when God sent serpents to afflict them. Enum- erating one by one the sufferings and aflli.tions the Chiurch has sustained, he described them as so0 many bites given by the venomous reptiles. There were to be no more processions, he said, 1o more monastic unions; no more charity was to be gaven by sacerdotal hands; while in'a few days a clamorous procession would be permitted to solemnize 8 crime—he alluded to the auni- versary of the breach of the Porta Pia. ‘The Foce della Verita says that the Savoyards have found the Pope a prisoner, but not first chaplain to the King, and that, while proces- sions of Christ are inhibited, Rome will see to- morrow that of Satan going up to the Capitol to celebrate the unveiling of an inscription to the ‘memory of those who fell for the independence of Masonic Italy. RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. THE CHURCH IN GENERAL. Tt is said that the authorities of Castile have prokibited the sale of Spanish Bibles, The General Convention of the Universalists in the United States and Territories will beheld in Rochester, N. Y., commencing Oct. 18. The Disciples of Christ, a numerous body of Baptists 1 the West, will hold their annual General Convention at Richmond, Va., begin- ning Oct. 17. Methodists are revising their hymn-book. Revision has been tried at various times and in various ways during the lust twenty years, but the result has been that nearly all the churches stick to the use of the old hymn-book. The Wesleyans of England issued a new hymn-book about 3 year ago, and have now sold over 500,000 copies. The Rev.Dr. H. G. Van Lenncp writes his indignation at the barbarities of Turkey, and asks: ¢ What would be inore feasible than to ercct the territory of Constautinople and the Dardanelfes into a neutrai state like Switzer- Jand under the guaranty of the Great Powers, ruled over by & scion of Europeon ruynl houses " St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Cburch, Hanover, Mass., was conscerated Sept. 19 by Bishops {Williams aud Niles, and twenty clerzy- men were present. The churchis of stoae, from a design by Withers, of New York. The ‘whole chancel and its_furniture were the gift of Alrs. Harris, of New York, in memory of ber daughter. 1In 1530 there was but one recognized Baptist in Montreal—Mr. Muair. In 1860 there was but one church and about 120 children in Sunday- school. In 1876 there are four churches and 1,300 children in Sunday-school. Any one of three of these churches to-day has a larger con- gregation than the only one had in 1860, What i true of Montreal is truc of the whole Domin- jon. A Presbyterion church has been organized in Orange Coupty, Va-, called the i Waddell Church, after the cclebrated blind preacher, Dr. James Waddell, who had an estate in that county, and preached without remuneration to 2 emall conpregation in a log church. It was here that William Wirt heard him, after which he wrote the well-known account in the British Spy. i A radical journal in Lyons, France, hus been fined 3300 and costs for publishing a bill of fare of the Archbishop’s dinner to his colleagues with mention.of game at a time not in season in g publication, which was thought equivalent to charging the Archbishop with peaching. sénsitive is the ccclesiastical conscicnce in France snd so scrupulous is thelaw of the land. 4 ‘his recent sermon in behalf of the American SnI:dav-Schoul Union, the Rev. Dr. John Hall spoke of the power of this Association, especially in the new States and Territories, where the rush of new population is so. great and the church privileges are so limited. * During the Jast year,” he said, tjt is estimated that 400,000 emigrants have gone into Texas. Now there are ‘Wwhole connties without church or pastor. Many of the worst classes have zone there. The ‘American Sunday-School Union has entered the field, and is providing religious instruction. A single worker writes that he bas organized for- ty-nine schools.” The collection taien up after r. Hall’s discourse amounted to $5,236.55. The Cincinnati Methodist Confercnce has voted in favor of enlurging the busis of repre- sentation in the General Couference, thercby reducing the number of delegates. The Cou- ference voted against changing the restrictive rTules, 50 a5 to ullow annual” conferences to de- fine their districts and appoint their Presiding Elders. ‘I'he Detruit Conference hasalso votet ‘against this change. The Tablet reports that the collections of the Catholic Association for the Propagation of the Faith (of Lyons, France), for 1875 were 5,705,463 francs, an increase of 811,348 traucs over the year preceding. The subscription of each mem- ber is one sou per week. Of this total, France gave 3,002, frunes; Austria and Germany, 413,88 francs; Belginm, 870,576 francs; Canada, tlic United States, and Mexivo, 123,207 france. ‘The total amount has not been solarge for many years. It is safe to tell the truth about Christ, and to let it be known that He really did drink fer- mented wine.—Boston Congregationalist It is quite safe to tell the truth about Christ, but not to tell the opposite, which there is a great prob- ability, not to say certainty, is t.c case with the Congreyationalist in this matter. Blind leaders have much more to answer for than their follow- ers, and to bear false witness against Christ must be a very azgravated form of breaking the ninth commandment.—XNew York VWitness. The name or designation by which the present war of the Porte with the Sclavic Christians is proclaimed in the Turkish EmPire is ‘¢ Jehad,” or “holy war against infidels.” It has always been the Moslem war-cry in the past, and it now reappears in the Arabic and Turkish papers of Constantinople, Smyrna, Aleppo, ang Damas- cus. The fund, which is being raised by a pub- lic firman, is called ** Religious War Aid Fund.” ‘All Arabic accounts of Moslems slain in battle speak of them as “martyrs who had entered Paradise.” As thesoldiers leave for the scat of war, sermons aud zddresses delivered in the mosques are placed in their hands, full of stir- ring appeals to Moslem fanaticism. It is stated that a chapel belonging to the first ages of the Catholic Church was discovered lately in the ex avations in the Virinal Hill, at Rome. Its interior walls are covered with fresco paintings, representing the Saviour on an ele- vated throne, dressed in & tunic and pallium, the face beardless, the aspect youthful, seated in the midst of the Twelve Apostles, who are also seated, and in similar costume, with sandals on their fect, each holding a volume inhis left hand, the Divine Master baving two caskets filled, not with volumes, but scrolls (the books of the Old and New Testament) placed beside his feet; his head alone being encircled by the nimbus. Supposed date, the latter part of the fourth or beginning of the fifth century. The Anglican Bishops have recently taken up the question of uul{:in exchanges with Noocon- formists. Their op! nions are adverse to the practice. The Bishop of Manchester, in a re- ceut sermon, said that he had been Invited by a Nonconformist clerzyman in London to officiate in his pulpit, and had decJined. He did not be- lieye that any good would come out of pulpit exchanges between Caurchmen and Noncon- formists. Altbough called a Broad Churchiman, he was not indifferent to the teachings of his Church. What he would say to the Noncon- formist was, **Go on your way. and I will zo on mine.” By persuing this course he thought the different_denominations would best live in peace. The Bishop of Sydney, Australia, cx- ressed about the same views at the time of his ast Diocesan Synod. The Chinaman is such a born trader that he has been known to attempt to take advantage of the missionary who sclls him portions of the Bible.- A colporteur writes from China: “You offer Matthew for ten cash. A mau buys and turnsto go. _No man should become 2 mission- ary to_the Heathen Chinee who cannot count ten. You count, and find eight cash. You call after the man and repeat the price that you have repeated flity times—mayhap it is all you canrepeat. Hec looks dazed.” You hand back the money ‘with an empbatic ‘Don’t want!’ With the air of a bankrupt he at length pro- duces one more cash. You again kindly but flrmlz illustrate, on your fingers or otherwise, the theoretical distinction between nine and ten. He overwhelms you with violent demonstra- tions that he has not another cash in the world. Yourepeat. He repeats. At lust, with a smile that is *childlike and bland, * he calmly extracts the other cash from his car, where it has been all the while as everybody but you knew, takes his book, and aeparts.” The Montreal Witness describes the following incident to illustrate to what extent the distinc- tions of creed arc carried out _at the small-pox hospitals in_that city: * There arc separate dead-houses for the rémalns of the Protestant and Catholic patients who dic, and uwing to the depredations of rats, it has been customary to leave a dog with the corpse; and as there were two dead-houses, two dogs were kept for this urpose. The other day, a_Catholic patient aving died, the bod{iwas duly placed in the Cataolic uead-house. Howerver, tne Catholic dog had run away and could not be found. In this dilemma the place was locked up without one, it being decided that the Protestant dog could on no account be admitted. The conse- quence was that the rats badly disfigured the corpse, and the Sanitary Inspector was notified that it was owing to the Catholic dog not being on duty—it seciming to be impossible to dis- abuse the attendants’ minds of the ides that a dog after being confined several nichtsina Protestant dead-house was unlit for admission to the other.” The following s the reply of the Spanish Min- ister, Canovas del Castillo, to the petition of certain Protestant ministers that the orders to remove the signs of their worship might be re- scinded: ‘It haviog been declared in the clev- enth article of the constitution of the Spanish monarchy that the Catholic apostolic religion is that of the State; that in thé Spanish domin- jons no one sball be interfered with on account of his religious opinions, nor for the exercise of his respective worship, always saving the re- spect due to Christian morality,—ccremonies or manifestations other than those of the State re- ligion not being permitted,—I have judged it right, in confirmation of the verbal order which 1 communicated to you, to appoint you a new and final term of turce days, which shall come to an end on the 10th (S:f)t.), in which time you will cause to disappear all inscriptions or pla- cards which you have caused to be places public Sluces of worship having reference towor- ship, education, or the sale of religious books, which announcements are not guaranteed by the above-cited constitutional precept.” The Methodist Conferences which have met since Sept. 1 report an increase in the number of church members, but a decrease in the amount of Denevolent contributions. The Northwest Indiana Conference statistics show an inerease of 215 probationers and 1,238 full members, The total number of members is 24,350. There arc in the Conference 234 churches. The contributions for missions were $4,441—a decrease ‘of $309. The Southwest German Conference reported 9,602 members— an increase of 309, and 1,236 probationers—an increase of 134. It has jurisdiction over 161 churches. The contributions for missions were $5.450. The Jowa Conference reported 19,653 members and 1,240 probationers. The collec- tions for missions werc 36,857, The Southern Tilinois Conference, which met Sept. 13, reported 23,653 members—an increase of 280, and 2,644 probationers—an increase of 122. The collec- tlons for missions were $4,702—a decrease of $929. inthese Confercnces the propused change in the “restrictive rule” in relation to the pow- ers of Bishops has been voted down. The following intellizence is printed in the London Times of Sept. 15 as a dispatch from Taris: *The Univers, which with the other Clerical organs complains loudly of the non- insertion in the Journal Ojficiel of the Arch- Dbisliop of Besancon’s address to the Marshal, reports to-day another miracle at Lourles: t gd]le. Octavic Noury, of 8t. Malo, aged 39, was suddenly cured yesterday at the Biscina o several maladies, the oldest going back seven- teen years. Four thousand pilgrims from Rennes, Tours, Avignon, and Mirande are at this moment at Lourdes.’ The Univers also pives an account of the millenary fetes of Char- trcisCathedml, at which Father Marcel preached on the veneration due:to the virgin eaint’s tunique presented by the Empress Irene to- Charles the Bald, snd presented by him to Chartres Cathedral. He stated that this relic resembled the light veils cuveloping the head and shoulders of Orientsl women, and suggested that the infant of Bethlehem might have been sheltered on his mother’s shouider under its folds. To-morrow is the golden wedding of the Bishop of Chartres, that is to say, the jubileeof his ordination. Not lon; a phenomenon in China gave lively noge'%?'mpcnmrsien of the Chinese ‘heathen to Christianity. There was s sudden, and remarkable demand, in certain places, for the Bible; and a large edition in the native wnguew:\sconseqncuflfistmck off to supply the anxious heathen. ese_heathen greedily songht for the free copies of the Bible, gratefal- 1y accepted them, and rejoiangly marched off with them. The missionaries were delighted as. they distributed tne volumes among the crowds in waiting, and looked patlently for the apgenr- ance of a3 many cunverts as there were ible seckers. But though there continued to be an active demand among the idolaters for the Bi- bles that were tuitously distributed, no converts turn up. At last the mis- sionaries determined ~to undertake an investigation of this strange state of things. It was amelancholy revelation for them; when they discovered that the quick- witted heathen were not giving themselves Yup to the pious study of their frec Bibles, but were using them in the making and repairing of the thick paper sole of the Chinese shoe. The sup- ply of free Biblical material to the almond-eyed heataen of the Celestial Empire was guic! off by the disappuinted missionaries, but, in the meuntime, many of them had provided them- selves with comiortable shoes at the expense of the Bible Society.—New York Sun. ANOTHER PAN-ANGLICAN SYNOD. " Landon Times. The following is the text of the Archbishop of Cantebury’s letter to the Bishops in communion with the Church of England abroad: Ricnr REVEREND BROTHER: A wish has been ex- pressed by many Bishops of the Protestan Episco- gal Chareh in the United States of America, by the ishops of the Canadian Dominion, and by the Wett Indian Bishops, that & second Conference of our brethren should be held at Lambeth. Before I decide upon the important step of inviting the Bishops of our communion throushout the world to asscmble at Lambeth, IThave thonght it right, after consultation with the Bishops of England, to give all onr brethren an opportunity of expressing their opinion upon the expedicrcy of convening such a conference at this time, and npon the choice of the subjects which onght to engage its attention if it be convencd. 1 therefore beg leave to inti- mate to yon our readiness to hoid a Conference at Lambeth in or about the month of July, 1875, if it hall seem expedient after the opinions of all our bretheen have been ascertained ; and I need scarcely assure you that your advice is earnestly desire and will be - respectfully considered. May T sk for our guidance whether you are willing and arc likely to be able to at- tend the Conference yourself? Those who were present at Lambeth in 1867 thankfully acknowl- edzed that, through the blessing of Almighty God, the Bishops of the varlons branches of the Angli- can Communion were drawn together in closer oonds of brotherly love and sympathy. The help and comfort which are due from the” branches of Christ's Church to eachother are more r:ldllx ren- dered the more fully each is made acquainted with the wants of the rest. In this time of religious activity and increased intercourse between all parts of the world there is greater need than ever of matual connsel among the Bighops of our widely- extended communion. Tue Bishops of England therefore carnestly ask you to join with them in prayer that we may all be zuided to a wise decision ou this important watter, and, If it should be re- solved to hold the conference, that its delibera- i enter peace, and_strensih, and encrgy to the whole Church of Christ. Anx- fously awaiting your answer, I remain your falth- fu} brother and dervant in Christ, A A. C. CaxTUuAR. PERSONAL, The Rev. George Leidy is the oldest minister of the German Reformed Church. He was or- dained in 1819, and is now 84. A letter to the Boston Pilot states that Father Burke continues to suffer from ill-health. Though hopeful of recovery, be does not ex- pect to visit America for some time. Bishop Levi Scott, of Dover, Del., by right of seniority, becomes the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in place of Bishop Janes, deceased. He was elected in *S52. The Rev. Dr. Tholuck, the great German theologian, has become very fecble, though his miud remains clear. Ho is living a retired life with his wife, expecting death. He is 78. Two ministers of the United Presbyterian Church have lately connected thomsclves with the Presbyterian Church. One of them, the Rev. John M. Waddle, has become pastor of the Presbyterian congregation in Knoxville, Ill. In finishing twentv-five years of official ser- vice Bishop Williauws (Protestant Episcopal), of Connccticut, says that within that time 221 can- didates for orders have been ordained Deacons, and 170 Deacons have becn ordained to the priest- hood, and that the number of clergy in his Dio-" cese has steadily advanced from 110" in 1851 to nearly 200 in 1876. ‘The Rev. Dr. Field, in the Evangelist, describ- ed o visit be lately made to tne Latter-Day Saints and Brigham Young. He represents the Prog)hel as a man of large frame, square built, with a massive hezd and compressed lips, show- ing firmness in every line, yet with not an un- kindly expression of countenance. His head shows a lanze brain locked up within his pro- truding temples. Dr. Ficld secmed to be great- 1y impressed with him, and does not believe all the hard things that haye been said about him. He believes him to be rather 2 deccived man than a deceiver. He thinks that when a mao Das 100,000 men shouting in chorus that he is the prophet of God, he would be_more or less than human if he did not believe it himself. DOUBTFUL PIETY. “Mamma," said a young hopeful, who against his will was made to rock the cradle of his baby brother, “if the Lord has any more babies to give away don't you take em.” Of a picture of Moses in the bulrushes, where Miss Paaraoh seems to be “leaving him to be drowned,” the Philadelphia Bulletin wants to know “whether it is a water-culler or a Nile- painting.” Teacher: ‘“Johnny, how did Emoch go to heaven? Johnny: “Don’t know, ma’am.” Teacher: *Why, Enoch was translated; God took him up to heaven without dying.” John- ny: t Golly, then that’s the line I'm going up on.’! New Orleans Bulletin: Potter says the in- vention of elastic cloth for gaiters has done more towards Christianizing Amerien than the Brooklyn churches. _The amovut of blasphemy f_ufrcnt over Lnotted shoestrings once was fear- ul. Philadclphia Bulletin: It is now supposed that Abrabam was the original base-ball player, as the Scriptures say that he pitched in the wil- derness.—£zchange. True, and Moses, you re- member, took A-run with him in the wilder- ness. One of the younsters who was fond of Bible stories swallowed a bottle of parcgoric because it was nice. They zaye hi a powerful emetic, and he thus described the sequel to his brother: “Budgie, 1 was a whay-al, & regular whay-al. I didn’t fror up Jonal, but 1 frew up lots of uver fings.” “But,” said one pious woman to another, “how do_you manage to fultill your religious duties at Paris? At Versailles it was so much more peaceful and retired.” O, that makes very little difference; I only do my small con- fessions here; I still keep a Wwholesale confessor at Versailles.”—Paris paper. Yesterday a youngster of 2} years, who bad ‘become jealous of his 2 weeks' old brother, and beiog left alone with the infant for 2 couple of minutes, lugzed him out of doors, where he left him. When “little jealousy’’ Was ques- vioned why he did it, he replied that he “was going to take him back to grandpa God.” A South Brooklyn boy iuvited & number of his_comrades into the sumptuously-furnished. parlors of the paternal mansivn, and undertook to play “Sardanapalus,” but, during the firet scenc of the first act, his mother sufidemy ap- peared and transformed him so that no onc would suppose that he had ever been an Oriental monarch, . Detroit Free Press: “I motice your colored porter there is a great hand to pray.’’ remarked a gentleman to tlie Captain of a steamer on the lake, one stormy nizht last week. “ Yes, he’s always mumblin’ and prayin’ ’round when there’s a storm,” said the Captain. And then he continued fimvely : “Butyou ought to meet. him -ashore you want to hear some tall swearin’.” . New York Commercial: It was a little embar- rassing to the strauger. He entered the church just as they were singing a hymn, and the sex- ton, hymn book in hand, as he pointed bim to a pew, kept on abstractedly slngin;, “Oyer There, Over There.” ‘Over wherei’’ was the whispered inquiry. *Over There, Over There,” sang the sexton, still pointing in_reply, and the stranger inwntlnunflg‘ subsided in the first empty pew. An exemplary minister of the Gospel residing in Raleigh, N. C., was busy at his sermon the other evening, when a caller came to disturb him. It was a stranger, aud be said his name was Dolsocker. He exiended his hand for a sheke, sat down as_if in his own house,and presently began: I called to sce if you would ive me 3 little spiritual advice?” ‘Certainly will, and be glns to,” was the reply. ‘‘dre you a professor?” “No.” ¢Then you are thinking of turniag your feet into good paths. Thope?™ _“Well, perhaps,” was the hesitating reply. “Don't you want to be a Christiani’ asked the good man. “I'll tell you how it is,” said the stranger, after_quite a long interval. “Pye got a ticket in a lottery, and wanted to ask you'if you thought it would stand_any bet-~ ter chance of striking the big prize if I wassort o;gnod then it woulg if I kept on being sort o’ badi" The clergyman didn’t labor With Mr. Dolsocker very long. et CHURCH SERVICES. BAPTIST. The Rev. A. Gurneg, of Englewood, will preach his farewell sermon in the Baptist Church at En- glewood this morning. —The first of the Centennial series of discourses by eminent Baptist clergymen from home and abroad will be delivered by the Rev. Dr. Everts in the First Church, corner of South Park avenue and Thirty-first street, morning, and in the Fourth Church, corner of Washingion and Paulina streets, this evening. Servicesin the First Churchin the evening. —The Rev. J. M. Whitehead will preach *his evening in the North Star Church, corner of Divis- {on strect and Sedgwick coart. —The Rev. N. E. Wood will preach this morning and evening inthe Centennial Church, corner of Linroln and Jackson streets. —The Rev. D). B. Cheney will preach this morn- ing, and the Rev. W. W. Everts this evening, in the Fourth Church, corner of Washington and Paulijia streets. Evening subject: **The Church andts Ordinances. " ~—The Rev. J. W. Custer will preach this morn- ing and evening in the Michigan Avenue Church, near Twenty-third street. Morning subject: “‘Waiting Upon the Lord." Evenk ject: \:Eiing ihe Tost.r Brenirg aubject —The Rev. Kendall Brooks, President of Kala- mazoo College, will preach this morning and even- ing in University Place Church, corner of Douglas nnd'll‘klllm;l‘en u",engeafi —The Rev. J. D. Burr will preach at Tmmanuel Charch, No. 2000rchard street, between Sophia and Centre streets, at 10:45a. m. and 1:2:15 p. m. —The Rev. N. F. Ravlin will preach atthe Open Communion Church, corner_of Loomis and Jackson streets, morning and evening. The Tev. Z. W. Shephord, e Rev. Z. W. Shepherd, of Quincy, Mich., will preach this morning and e\'enl?xg in the First Charch, corner of Indiona avenue and Twenty- fifth street, and in the Central Church, corner of VanBuren street and Campbell avenue, at 3 p. m. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. W. W. Patton will preach this_momn- ing, and Prof. David Swing this evening, in_Ply- month Church, Michigan avenue, betwcen Twen- ty-second and Twenty-sixth streets, —The Rey. Z. S. Holbrook will preach this morning and evening 1 Ashland Church, Ozkwood ‘boulevard, west of Cottage Grove avenue. 2 —The Rev. George H. “Peeke will preach this ‘morning and even.ng at the Leavitt Strcet Church. —The Rev. D, N. Vanderveer will preach in Union Park Church, Ashland avenne and Wash- ington street, this morning and evening. Z'fhe Rev. B. F. Leavitt, of Portland, Me., who has accepted a call to the Lincoin Park Church, will preach morning and evening. —The Rev. George B. Lynch will preach at the Colored Church, Tuird avenue, between Harrison and Van Buren streets, at 3 and 7:30 p. m. EPISCOPAL. The Rev. W. H. Hopkins will preach this morn- ing in St. John's Church, Ashland avenue, near Afudison street. —Morning and evening services will be held in the Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincoln and Belden avenues. —The Rev. T. W. Morrison, Jr., of Pekin, TlL., will officiate this morning and evening in the Charch of the Epiphany, ‘Throop strect, between Monroe and Adams. —The Rev. George C. Street will preach this morning in Al Saints’ Church, corner of North Carpenter and West Ohlo strcets. Regular even- ing services at 7:30. —The Rev. Samuel S. Harris will preach this morning and evening in St. James’ Church, corner of Cass and Huron streets. —The Rev. Dr. Cushman will preach this morn- ing and evening in St. Stephen’s Church, Johnson street between Tyler and T'welfth streets. —The Rev. Francis Mansfield will ofiiciate this morning and evening in the Churchof the Atone- meut, Comer of West Washington and Robey streets. —The Rev. G. W. Morrill wili officiate this morn- ing and evening_in the Church of the Holy Com- miinion, South Dearborn strect, between Twenty- ninth and Thirtieth streets. —There will be u celebration of the Holy Com- munion at the Church of the Ascension. corner of Elm and LaSalle streets, this morning. As the church is updergoing repairs no other services will be held to-day. —The Rev. D. F. Warren will preach in St. Mark's Church, corner of Cottage Grove avenue and Thirty-sixth street, this mumin% and evening. —The Rev. Edward Sullivan will preach this morning and eveninfi in Trinity Church, corner of Michizan avenne and Twenty-sixth street. * Morn- ing subject: ‘*Ounr Nced of & Revival.” . he Cathedral services will be held this morn- ing and evening, in conscquence of the repairs now being made in the Cathedral, in the church at the corner of Green and Washington streets, —The Rev. Dr, Fleetwood will prezch this morning and evening in Grace Church, Wabash avenue near Sixteenth street. LUTHERAN. The Rev. Edmund Belfour will preach this morning and evening in the Church of the Holy Trinity, corner of North Dearborn and Erle streets. METHODIST. The Rev. John Atkinson will preach this morn- ing and evening in Grace Church, corner of La- Salle and Wh.te streets. —The Rev. R. S. Cantine will preach this morn- ing and evening in the Fulton Street Church. Morning subject: **Quick Time." Evening sub- ject: *‘Submission to God."” —TheRev. S. A. W. Jewett will preach this morning in the First Ciwrch, corner of Clark and Washinzton strrets. Subject: ‘*Religions Ex- citement.” —The Rev. William C. Willing will preach this morning and evening in the Langley Avenue Church, corner of 'Thirty-ninth street. The Rev. Dr. Tiflany will preach this morning and evening in Trinity Church, Indisna avenae, near Twenty-sixth street. —The Rev. John Williamson will preach at the ‘Wabash Avenue Mothodist Episcopal Church at 11 a. m, ana’7:30 p. m. PRESBYTERIAN. The Rev. J. H, Walker will oreach this morning and evening in the Reunion Church, West Four- ‘teenth street, near Throop. '—The Rev. J ohn Rutherford, late of Pittsburs, will preach this morning, and the Rev. James Maclanghlan this evening, in the Scotch Church. corner of Sangamon and Adams strect. '—The Rev.- David J. Butrell will preach this morning at Westminster Church, cornerof West Jackson and Peoria streets, Morning subject: 4 Almost Persuaded.™ —The Rev. Mr. Freeman, of New York. will preach this morning and evcning in the Fourth Charch, corner Rush and Superior streets. —The Rev. Jacob Post will preach this morning in the Holland, and in the evening in the English, {anguage in thé church corner of Noble and Weat Erie streets. 3 '—The Rev. Charles L. Thompson will preach this morning and evening n_the Fifth Church, corner of Indizna avenue and Thirtieth strcet. Evening subj ¢ Salvation Through Christ." e Rey. Henry T. Miller will preach this morning and evening in the Sixth Church, corner of Vincennes and Osk avennes. Morning subject: ++ Camfort for the Bereaved of the Past Year.™ . —The Rev. Mr. Harsha will preach thia morning and evening in the Campbell Park Chapel. = The Kev. Thomas Dogzett, of Niagara Falls, N. Y., will preach this morning and evemng in the Eighth Church, cormer of ‘Washington and Robey streets. REFORMED EPISCOPAL. Bishop Cheney will preach this morning, and the Rev. Dr.Swazey this evening, in St. Paul's Church, corner of \West Washington and Ann streets. '—The Rev. Mr. Ray will preach this morning, and the Rev. BIr. Bosworth this evening, in Emmanuel Church, corner of Hanover and Twenty-cighth streets. The Rev. Mr, Bosworth will preach for the Trinity congregation in the Baptist church at Englewood at 3:30 in the afternoon. '—The Rev. Dr. Cooper will preach this morning and evening at Immanuel Charch, corner of Centre and Dayton streets. Morning subject: ** Jonah's Gourd; or, the Use of Prosperity.” Evening sub- ject: ¢t The Uses of Adversity. " —The Rev. W. E. William#on will preach this morning and evening at the Churchof the Good Shepherd, corner of Jones and IToman streets. —The Rev. Theo. W. Hopkins will preach at Christ Church, Michigan avenue and Twenty-fourth street, at 10.45 4. m. and Bishop Cheney at 7:<5 p. m. NITARIAN. The Rev. Brooke Herford will preach this morn- ing in the Clinrch of the Messiab, coruer of Michi- gan_avenue ond Twenty-third street. Subject: “VThe Minor Morals of Church Lite." In the evening will be given the sccond of the series of Tectures on **Books and Reading.™ Subject: ' “The Word Made Flesh, and the Word lade into Books.” ZThe Rev. J. T. Sunderland will, preach this morning in the Fourth Church, corner of Prairie avenne and Thirticth street. Sudject: ** George Eliot as o Preacher.” - —The Rev. E. P. Pomell will preach this morn- ing and evening in the Third Church, corner of Monroe and Laflin strects. ~Morning subject: ““The Fatherhood of God." Evening subject: 44500 B. C., or the Age of Budha, Socrates, and —The Rev. Robert Collyer will preach tbis morn- ing and ovening in Unity Church, corner of Dear- born avenne and Oak street. Morning subject: +*The Son of Man." UNTVERSALIST. The Rev. Sumner Ellis will preach this morning in the Church of the Redeemer, corner of Wash- ington and Sangamon streets. Subject: **The First Week of the Revival.” —The Rev. Dr. Ryder will preach_this morning and evening in St. Paul's Church, Michigan ave- nue, between Sixteenth and Eighteenth streets. Morning subject: ‘*What Is_Sectarianism?’ Evening subject: **Why Do We Need to Be Con- verted:™ —The Rev. J. W. Hanson will preach this morn- ing in the old school-house at Englewood. SPIRITUALISM. Mrs, CoraL. V. Tappan will lecture before the First Soclety of Spiritualists ic Grow's Hall, 517 Madison street, this’ morning. Evening subject: *+ Occupation, CQ’“""’"‘" and_Possibilities of Dis-embodied Spirits, " by Dr. Benjamin Franklin. MISCELLANOUS. Elder C. C. Rumsey, will preach in Advent Tab- ernacle, 91 Sonth Green street, this morning, and Eider H. G. McCulloch in the evening. Subject for the evening sermon: **The Summer's Loss. —Tae Disciples of Christ will meet at 229 West Randolph street, at4 p. m. to-day. Mr. Peter Dwyer, 3 well. known missionaryand street-preacher from New York City, has establiah- eda mission atNo. 49 North Morgan street, and will hold service there at3 o'clock this afternoon and 7:30 this evening. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOF! Oct. B—Seventeenth Sanday after Trinity. CATH THOLIC. . 0Oct. 8—Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost; St. Bridget, W. 4 0Oct. 9—S5. Dionysius Rusticus and Elentherius, MM, 0Oct. 10—St. Francis Borgia, C. 0ct. 11—Feria. 12—0lice of the Blessed Sscrament. 13-5t. Edward, King of Engiand, 0. 14—St. Collistus, P. AL O Oct. EUROPEAN GOSSIP. Victor Emmanuel’s Troubles with His lllegitimate Family. The Apartments of the American Le- gation in London. Boarding-House Swindung in Parise Louis Napoleon’s Foster-Sister. VICTOR EMMANUEL’S TROUBLES. The Mantegazza trial, whicn has just closed at Turin (says the Rome correspondent of the Philadelphiz Bulletin), could not have occurred in any other country but Italy without creating a popular disturbance. Our Government frauds, the dishonesty of our Government offi- cials, may or may not be 2s bad as they are rep- resented; but evenin their.worst light they cannot, any one of them,compare with the enor- mity of the Mantegazza affair. Of course the cause of the disgraceful suit is known to you. The Marchese di Mantegazza, a man of” old and honorable family, is accused of having forged the names of the King of Italy and Prince Hum- bert. He has been tried by a jury at Bologna, and condemned to eight years hard labor. Af- ter the affair has blown over, the Marchese di Mantegazza will be pardoned, remunerated for his silence and suffering, and will be rehabilitat- ed—pass in the society he frequents *for as good as new and better too.” Now, what are the truths of this disgracefal affair? Mantequzza has never once displayed the air of a guilty man. When the verdict of the jury was announced he rose and swore upon 1ihe heads of his sons he wasan innocent man. This sounds melodramatic to us, but it must be remembered that Mantegazzg is an Italian, and what we would call theatrical and dramatic is simply uaturdl in these Latins. During his trial he wrote to his wife, the Marchesa Sofia: &1l tempo ¢ yalantuomo, e le spieghera il mie agire.”” " (Time is an honest fellow, and will ex- plain to you my actions.) His defense hasbeen, il through, that he is innocent of the forgeries; e discovered them, but too late tohelp matters by disclosing them. A certain X., an unknown erson, is thie one who committed them; but antegazza would not say who this X. is, not even to clear himself. What is the secret?! Who is “X?” The Ki.g-of Italy, it is well-known, has had for many yearsan unlawful connection with the daughter of one of his cuirassiers. There cuir- assiers form a body-guard for the King, they are 100 in mumber, and rank as Ser- geants in the army. This woman, Rosina by name, Countess Miraflore by title, when young, was a coarse, handeome girl, uneducated, an like her class of people, fond of her ease, of luxury, licht and easy in morals, not vicious; ust: a handsome, good-natured animal. The ng conceived & passion for her dming the first years of his marricd life; and the people of Turin Baw patiently and submissively the two young families of their King, the legitimate and ille- gitimate, grow up in their 'Freseucc. In the & Memoires d’ Un Diplote, Turin,” by Baron @’Ideville, yon can read the whole disgraceful story. Baron d’Ideville was in the French Diplo- maitc Corps when the Court was at Turin. Toe da{{hu gone by for Frenchmen to toler- ate such Royal indecencies, and Baron D’Ideville could not help feeling and expressing disgust at the sorrowful Royal dishonor. The King even lodged his *fally” family in a palazetto, in sight of the Royal residence, where the Quecn and his lawful children lived. On the birthdays of his true and legal children he was in the hab- it of ?finv them whatever they asked for. One birthday of Prince Humbert, when he was a boy, his mother, the patient, good Queen Ade- laide, bade her son to ask his father to give him that palazetto. The boy did as his mother di- rected. The King flushed, turned on his trem- bling wife, and said, Capisco bene—ma vabeune’ (I understand well—but, very well ), and lefc the room. The mext day the disgracefal sight ‘was removed, and Rosinaand her childrenplaced elsewhere. Poor Queen Adelaide fretted and prayed to God for patience, znd loved lier husband pa- tiently. When she could no longer bear the shame and neglect she died. For years the King lived on with Rosina in the same manner, and she bore himalarge family of children. Abont Elem years ago, when he was very ill, he vowed, If’ he recovered, to yield up his Royal state and to live a private man honestly. So ‘he married Rosina on what he feared was his death-bed. The old proverb certainly comes to your memory: ** The devil got sick, the devila monk would be; the devil Eflt well, the devil a monk was he.”” So when the King recovered he was not ready to fiulfill his yow; but there stood his shame—he had made of his courtesan, his mistress, the wife of the King of Italy! Like all imperious, obstinate natures, he could not admit the folly nor the foul dishonor of the act. Since then he has even tried to bave her ac- knowledged as Queen, but he found that the patient-bearing_Italian’ somonaro will kick st some things. To force such anact would be worth lns crown. There are some disgraces the Ttalian will not bear, and this was one. The support of this_illegitimate hm‘illly has always troubled the King. His unlawful sons are extravagant ; one, the Marchese Spinola, is worse than'a spendthrift. Thus His Majesty of Ttaly has constantly been obliged toraise money in outside and private ways in order to meet these necessities; for, of course, no allowance is made by Government for the King's tally fami- ly. The Murchese Aant is one of the persons who has for a fong time been employed in these transactions. To be sure he did mot come _personally in contact with his noverm'%n; the affairs were transacted by members of the King's illegitimate family, for whose expensz the money was needed. Now the mystery must be solved to you. You, of course, see into it clearly. X. is no other than the Marchese Spinola, one of the King’s illegitimate sons; e is true to his mother’s blood; he is not only the real guilty one, but he has allowed his friend to suffer disgrace for him. To be sure this dis- grace is not so great in his eyes, nor probably to Mantegazza's. Within that hedfile that sur- rounds the_false divinity of royalty none of these true dishonors hold weight, and Mante- gazza’s silence and patient endurance of the wrong will be deemed a sort of tinsel honor,for which he will be well rewarded. THE AMERICAN LEGATION IN LON- DON. ZLouis J. Jennings writes from London to the New York World: “Perhaps it was the thought of New York streets that took me very soon into a place which has rather a suspicious look— which, indeed, resembles very closely one of those ‘“sample rooms” in your city, to reach which the thirsty pilgrim goes down two or three steps and then passes through a long pas- sage and opens a glass.door at the end. Suchis the approach to the rooms whither I am now bent—dull, shabby, not altogether respectable in ontward appearance, although the street out~ side is good enougb. I open the door, and find avery courteous gentleman writing at a table in 2 mean-looking and fll-ventilated apartment. We chat for & few moments until the general _aspect of the place begins to ive me a creeping sensation down my back, and the ‘horrors’ steal gently over the spirits. Theu I go into an inner room, where I find another cour- teous gentleman hard at work at a second- hand sort of desk. The chairs are worth about tive shillings each, and the carpet would be dear at $10. Itis not quite big emough to conceal the nakedness of the floor. From the one win- dow io this apartment there is a view which at once reduces me to a state of horrible dejection. There is nothing so depressing in this world as aLondon “slum” ona wet day, and this win- dow looks out upon such a slum—aan abject rookery, with an empty ¢ lot” before it, tin cans with holes in them, old bones, and all the name- Jess litter and rubbish which finds its way, from Heaven knows where, on to any vacant pfcue of ground in_London. ‘The thin grass is ail black with noo? and- the pitch-covered palings at the back form a fit accessory to the squalid houses just beyond, with poverty and misery stamped even upon the wmdows. From one of these windows hangs: out a garment which may once have been in- tended for a shirt, but which now might per- haps be used as a pocket-handkerchief if it were not 8o dirt-begrimed. From another window there is a dreary old woman leaning, gaunt and ard, with “her gray bair all matted as if & comb had never been "through it. The rainis coming down steadily—that small, broken, penetrating rain which is pecular to London, and which wets you through withont making any show or fuss about it, and which neither umbrella nor overcoat enables you to dodge. Truly a sufliciently gloom: ouflw{{urmym who has yisitors to receive or work todo—a room altogether not fit even lurauewsgn‘per reporter, who is accustomed to be shoved into all sorts of dog-holes to do his work. What, then, are these melancholy rooms—a second- rate lawyer's office, & bill broker's, ~or gerimps 4 wine merchant's who does a little usiness in usury as well as in docto: sher- ries and ports? _No, this is the establishment which the United States have set up_for carry- ing on whatever business they may have with the British Government. These two back rooms below the basement are the ‘American Legation.” Mr. Hoppin, whom I saw in room, or Jud; Pimevbh:;n: in the lwond,m mfl:;: no remark about the half-underground tene- ment in which I found them. but thers was a pensive expression about their mouths which showed that the genius loci was doingits fell work uficn them, and that the ‘‘bluca” wers gradually ea into their very bones. If any misunderstanding occurs between the two Gov- ernments I shall always think that it was owing, to the American Minister having been thrust away in a dingy room where he could only see dead cats and dogs, and ragged shirts and draw- ers’hung out to dry.” PARISIAN SWINDLING. Lucy Hooper writes from Paris to the Phila- delphia Teegraph: * The general theories af a recent writer in Lippincott's Magazine (the Sep- tember number) respecting foreign bo houses, establishments wherein he states that he ever met with ‘scrupulous honesty and many evidences of kindly feeling,’ would hava received a severe upsethad he been present, asIwas afew days ago, atthe recital of an American lady’s experience. This lady (she is 3 Philadelphian, and a widow) recently took up her abode at one of the best recommended and best frequented pensions at St. Germain— ‘which, by the way, is one of the most delightful of the suburban resorts of Paris. As sha ‘merely wished to remain there during the con~ tinuance of the hot weather, she engazed her rooms by the day; a fact which, by all laws of Continental travel, leaves one\free to depart at twelve hours® notice. When came the chill and rainy weather of a week ago, sbe notified her host one mora- ing of her intention of leaving on the evening of the following day, and requested that her made out up to the moment of her departure, might be brought to her as soon as possible, g0 that she might Jook over the items at her Ieisure. The bill was withheld till the carriagze was at the door and part of her b: bad al- ready been sent to the railway station. On %lum:( over it she found that it contzined aa tem of 250 franes (350) for not haviog given a week’s warning, the right to which was claimed. She remonstrated, declaring that, as her rooms had been taken by the day, no such claim was allowable. Her landlord made answer by seizing such of her trunks as had not already been taken away. In this strait, bei:f 2 woman of sense and spirit, she made appeal to the law. She went before the juge de la paiz, but found the Court occupied in hearing an intermizable case about somebody’s dog which had bitten some one else’s cat. Next she presented her- self before the Commissaire of Police, who hearkened to her case, Iooked over her receipted bills, and then dispatched an officer for the re- calcitrant landlord, who was compelled to relin- quish his unjust claim, to give up the lady’s trunks, to accept in the presence of the Com- missaire the amount of his just dues, and to re- ceipt the bill forthwith. “Moreover, he was treated toa lecture on the impropriety of his conduct, and was sent off witha metaphorical insect of gigantic dimensions in his orzan of hearing. ‘The lady in question, being a_widow and traveling alone with her maid nnf children, he probably thought that, to use a vulgar but expressive bit of siang, he had gotten 1 ‘soft thing’ of it, but he reckoncd without his hest, or, rather, without knowing the pluck and spirit of a sensible American woman. Such in- cidents as these are of dally occurrence in-the experience of American travelers abroad. As tothe claim for a week’s warning, thatis al- ways usual and legal where rooms are taken by the weck or month, but never otherwise. And the landlord is always particularly careful never to state the fact that such warning is necessary when the rooms are t _engaged or when his boarder announces his or her intention of leay- ing. It is only when the trunks are strapped, and the iage at the door and the last train on the point of starting, that he putsin his claim. And nine times out of ten his bill is paid, with a certain amount of anger and re- monstrance, it is true, but still it is easier for the traveler to submit tosuch cheating as a general thing than to be detained forsome days, and then probably be obliged to pay at last.” NAPOLEON’S FOSTER-SISTER. It is positively asserted (says the Philadelphia Press, that all the letters addressed, from hiz childhood tp his death, by Napoleon III. to Madame rmu, his foster-sister, have been handed over, under the provisions of her will, to the National Library, in Paris, and, in compli- ance with the conditions of that bequest, hava been sealed up for nine years. They are to be ‘published in 1835, and no dombt will be ex- tremely interesting, if not important. The first in this collection of over 3,000 letters.written by Napoleon ITI. is dated the 5th of June, 1819, ‘when he was little more than 11 yearsold; tha last was written from Camden House, Chisel- harst, in December, 1872, & fortnight befors Na- polevn’s death. Every week during fifty-three years, from boyhood to death, Napo- leon wrote to his foster-gister. The letters, to be edited by M. Renan or 3, Duruy,in the event of survivorship until 1885, cannot fail to be his- torically and personally valuable, for they give, from er own pen, -In the .most confidential manner, an account of the infaucy, education, and dsbia in public Iife (alter the ‘death of his elder brother early in 1831) of Napoleon -IIL., with. details as to his unfortunate expedition to Strasburg, in 1836; his brief residence in Ameri- ca, his descent upon Boulogne in 1340, his six years’ imprisonment in Ham, his escape to En- £land, his return to France after the volution of 1848, his election to the Presidency of the Republi the coup _d'etat of 1851, the restoration of the Empire in 1852, and his eighteen years’ subse~ uent exile. It is said ‘that his letters during the period when Louis Napoleon lived in En- gland give some very pictt ue details con- cerning high society there, show_him to have been a close observer of men and thinga. ‘Those who were allowed to examine these let- ters while Mme. Cornu was alive—and she was very communicative—affirm they e an 3c- count of ‘the Boulogne affair, which contamns some unexpected disclosures relating to persons now, or lately, in high station inder the Repub- lic, who were professed Orleanists at that time, and also active, thongh generally unsuspected, Bonmn{tm:gfifl’;a. s éa. uslnrnu wnad‘ inn- cerned n o3 ng the Boulogne expedition, and entirely in Nag leon’s con dence? Above all, it is said that the correspondence was very communicative on the coup d’etat of. 1851, and that Napoleon strongly impressed upon Mme. Cornu that he had been and should be compel- led to adopt a very energetic policy in the pres- ence of dangers from the opposition of the Na- tional Aseembly, which menaced France and himself. At that crisis, when, in order to em- barrass him,the Assembly endeavored to keep nim short of money, Mme. Cornu succaeded in raising a considerable sum for Napoleon from capitalists in London. —————— PANSIES, 0 the'golden-hearted Pansfes! 0 the velvet-petaled Pansies! With their ub}n?ng faces lifted upward in ths morn~ ng cool. 0 the beanty of the Pansies, And the blooming of the Pansies, > Like a group of rosy children with their faces washed for school. And the budding of the Pans And the bloss'ming of the Pansies, * Filling ull the air around me with the faintest of perfames, Make me sare that purple Pansies— Yellow Pansies—velvet Panaies— Are the fav'rite flowers of all that in the Father's ‘gardea bloom. There waa one who loved the Pansies, Loved the sweetness of the Pansies, But she faded in the morning, ere the Pansles wers awake; And, when woke the perfumed Pansies, ‘Then we told the margleug Pansies That we held them far the dearer for the darling mother's sake. And the fairest of the Pansies, Loveliest of all the Pansies, 2 Did we scatter with the roses that wers weepiog: everywhere; 8o that, in that Land the rarest, Where the blossoms arc the fairest, - ‘We will know her by the Pansy that is trembling in her bair. Frona Lovisa Sraxmato. e ——— IF. 1f 2 pilgrim has been shadowed By & tree that I have narsed; If a cup of clear, cold water 1 have raised to lipa athirst; 1f T've planted one bright Sower By an elae too barren way: If T've whispered, in the midnight, One sweet word of coming day; 1, in one poor, bleeding bosom, 1 2 quivering chord have stilled; If a dark and restless spirit 1 with hope of Heaven have fllled; If T've made, for life's bard battle, One f3int beart grow warm and strong, — For the gift, my God, I'll praise thee, — Praise Thee fn my latestaong. o ——— Norwich Bulletin: A little 5-year-old daugh- ter of one of our citizens vesterday expressed her knowledge of where the rain came from by telling ber mother that “Jesus had turned the faucet and let all the water out.”