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bodles. His hoarers ’ thas onok LECTURE SEASON. Py Nedien His hearers SoCo EMRE eat wot meee ey it, In the next verse appeared the great difficulty, Miss Bacon's Historical Lecture. and the only stumbling block in the Mosaio Sorip- Wodnesdiny worning, Miss Bacon delivered another tee | ture: “* And God said let there be a firmament in ture at the Stuyvesant Institute, on Oriental History. | the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters She commenced her discourse by expressing (he pleasure THE had used the word firmament for jonal pur- abe felt at seeing to many Indies there prevent avit was | poses for before that period the Cte bad De at. an implied compliment to her, and ® proof of the interest | mosphere. Moses described it in the only way in they take in the subject of hi rotwiihstanding the | which he coald do so. The blue sky—without which severity of the weather and the nvenienee which had | the world would be as dark as Hrebus—is the Hebrew meaning for the word firmament. wiucthee | gre all phenomenas or conception, truths which been experienced at the last od. The ile endorses no , it would soon be ac- ‘The test three hua- el to be considered — i of oriental antiq dred years of that period still n riod when @ new po pressed in the second pe seientitic theory, for shou what it means is a bull of air, ud (od waited until “* | science had attained its height, the translations of wiet. The | the word Genesis would never have taken place. boundary to waver wad disappear | And God said Jet there be light, #0 as to di the ‘Ihis most extraordinary phenomenon in history now ar- | nightfrom the day, and God made the greater light esta the attention. It is one beyond our powers of con. leat an fee cig penne bre ney ception, and must have presented a wonderful aspect to | The sun may in bulk be larger than the earth, bu not so \aluable. The earth may be the smallest, yet the most condensed, and that is the reasonwhy it ia peopled. Jupiter is, perhaps, nothing but a sheet of bi cad snd bar as the philosophers bet mh is oe on 7 i. | light as « cork. erefore the earth ma) eon many centuries? His some new, unscenuntablv adminis: | one of thone celostial bodies whieh is ft for habita- it ed nations that had esisted from | 0 ' : time immemorial. Suddenly some ugw people appear, | tion. The fact of the matter is, that the astronomers ‘Vhe mountains heve poured down int» (he luxurious | knOw nothing about the heavenly bodies, As Job ved States of southwestern Asis, The new | Says, “we know nothing.’ He made them to rale people possessed national em) ies that had yet to | the earth—that dispensation is wonderful. The Lord be developed. This period still remains ja obscu- | saith that when they should cease to rule, then should ‘tity, and therefore auch is jet to inference. We | the children of Lsruel be cut off. He then alluded to vol ized (o reason from the fow factawhieh areknown, the length of the first day, and said it was difficult ye unksown whieh they imply. We suppose, thea, | f° them to tell what € ta oftaee tne Maannoou- aow Assyrian empire, which lus left the mouuments | 'r them to tell what estimate of Gi ay # diseovered—an empire whieh extoaded | pled. Vor in the days of Joshua, the days were pro- Turther than any other known in aneient history—was | longed, as also in the ditys of Hezekiah. Ofthe length the work of the new races who began to appear in history. | Of the day we kuow nothing; the Bible doesnot tell us At first sight it would appear that th race, coming | what period of time that day oceupied. Why was not » civitivation of their | the whole work instantaneously done? Why did not b y found im the oid States, and | God, at » word, make everything that waa done! His characteristies ara race are not impressed om the | reasons for not doing so we do not know. ‘The Serip- ture teaches us, above all things,to be reverent; they should think no more of questioning God about his tose that witnessed it. What is the source of th For ages the old Ststes had saaimtained ¢ What new force is this which male gcarsnce in history, and destroys the foundat now empire. The view of this Oriemtal history which bliss Macon has taken, hae been presented ia puccmssive les ona, ad has had for its ob he ehuckdation of those greaSmoyementa wh all the history of the | great work than of sending an infant to Newton, world. This mode of ins . howorer, Miss Bacon | while deeply engaged ut his great studies, to poke his elbow and ask him w for. He concluded by nis lecture the next even observed, had the disadvan ne whole subject could be ng it all together es pain nea, the effect would far transcend anything that an artist could produce. It isa great eflort of m + to bring together ail the t beauty. Hitherto cots presen en anmeaniag, because | 6 whole eannot be ed. | yy; nid be strictly pres principle evolved could be at onee seen, To secure some litle of that object, it woult be necessary t of the Dew movernent Deen seen tha © of losing the sontinu'ty, it Lis telescope was made fed at one view, aad | ing that be would continue ut the same place. SECOND LECTURE, ‘The second lecture on this subject waa delivered inesday evening, before the N. Y. Young Men's ‘on, in their rooms in the Stuy- ‘The attendance waa far from urer comms ed by reminding Christian “Assoc | vesant Institute. numerous. | his auditory that h lone before geol in made. Tigris oe wos dreamt of, the idea of the indetinite days of the creation was entertained by the | early Christian fathers, particularly by Anselm and St. Augnstine. As in ali the other periods of crea- or ‘tation had « period when it was created and commenced to be. t mast haye had its origin in direct ave the direct evidence of the Bible 4 special creation : “God said, | produced it, } Ww lie creation astov el Jot the earth by secd, and the frait tre ng fruit whore sced ix in itself upon the earth untruth in the supernatural dectarations of the Bible; but here the language only applies to natural laws, and has the appearance of natural process; and.to conceive the iden that all these cansalities were coin- y period, would be unnatural as fhe second mention of the an, yet they crapt he Hultic sea, You must > the rmination of the Vio» jon in the West: bnt at the same ti Seo what: ages, The pietu he incomplete ment whieh connect Kurope. The Hupbe Of traasporting frow 41 into one s a8 supernatural to t ¥ of the firt. ia wos the genesis of the first produc- tion ab least i . A vic were | tion of vegetables; and then the seed continues in ex: istence till God stops the provess, either by direct in- terposition, or by permitting the exbanstion of its power. There is a similar language held respecting the wnimal creation. {t was the lecturer's designin thi v id. to follow the Bible, and let geolozy ge to the winds. It is considered that all species of animals were created, in itself. Nature, in her ated ov deve- products of depot for th srwong the civis le of Semorisrwat deetres stable Ti in the lun- Serusale the i Ww ~ the whales. This indiestes thi 1 ere the light we shall ever have ¢ to the origin of things, is from the sacred and if we forsake that we are in total ight coming from above, the enlightened on this subject * any other pl pier. We are ex- ed his creation ina pe- nage, thale and fe the dancer war sot © would carry out Ome prophet norant E as La P told that man_ rec auuert “in His own Hethem.” Weare told sls that man’s soul, iterlal part.came from the inbreathing of the mighty. ‘Thus man became a living soul; but as for as this word in theoriginal Hebrew is concerned, we can predict no # in man to the lower vi Tox. ents howe vas from wh as del JonT the ¢ . bythe weneral vivi- aeentiad : : es - Solomon the animal has no oa * me : : r * to separate it from niture, but the ewis, UL-D. The lecture wa ms to Hin who made it, and to avery respectable audience. The we decided by the deeds donc ‘odncd to the audienes, said = suppose that ‘Solomon or the son rea ve presented this history of cre Six Days of Creation —was wetter description conld he have given of ony a ch he tof the sth ot Proverbs, setting ow import jom waa set up from everlasti heginning, as even the inoty eartl tot the dust of the dno other wever, hi Ib is sai ¢ philosophical ; made any distinction, as the have vemained the same. ion to the ides of the i mm made of the th day, roliest | sereat nguu ol ed i ction is, that th wer nt proposition, W seperg gear tetes { oe. Babbath, of; the Lord. bad literal meanin apres v4 f this is y turn round and that ail human apeorh wa oxistenee, Sue Th contains need by Joshua, com- tw stand, while, tue n eloquent terms expressed in the langaage of the Bye, while in the G waikine in the cool of the day Bible. heard the | Hebrew translation oi this ic, that Adam and Bye ® very heard the glory of Cod that iv, they heard his than rt y is in aecord- der in the cool of the day. What concep: th the veneral tenor of the Seriptures. it is ipa ore bis voice they ah 7. oF the utmost importanes to find out the impression propre were frightened his vou hie ide un tbe minds of th cient when he spok that agent. Th ets ther Phere was a not * saperatarc, and more but stilt peared to him Pees © the ion ved the lee | the eye cannot see or the mind of man cannot | ying that the ne ~ would | reveal. With these remarks, be said, it would not first term. To viva must be sasiga- | be unadvisable to mention the ex: had said, on last evening, that | | of the rain? What is the law of fluidity The earth itself could never had , ing forth graas, the herb yielding | i (ver his kind, a summary or recapitulation | from the waters.” They might suppose that Mosea | Facts | | from the erection of the sun, but its more extended countable for doing so, We talk of atmospheres, but | r a#inthe period of creation. The fair meaning of | | ea aid centuries to operate these : community there is an sy e, i¢ will 4 state of society will spring forth, in which it will be a crime to believe. are religious men who are frightened into conservatiam, because bad men have hold of thom, while infidels and deiats advance the of pa and liberty. There are multitudes of re- formers, who, when they go out and see the lion's face, slink back, and resolve to be reformers no more. ‘They fall back to conservatism; they cannot stand #, but shrink when anythfng formidable opposes their progress, At twenty-five, a man may be a reformer, but at i five the blood begins to or cold, and when is covered with gray airs, he tay oppose those very doctrines which he picture. ‘the locturer digreased from his subject to trace the meaning of the Hebrew word Olon, expressive of eternity, There are passages in the Hebrew writers which show this Olon to commence with the time i ig the hidden, and boundless, and divine. root of the verb, which signifies lp hide or con- ceal, is of very frequent occurrence, Olon is indefi- nite duration, and is in contrast with-natural or solar | advanced in youth. In reference to a reformer of the periods. Thisis the word used to express the days of preent day, the speaker said that when Kurope creation. Those periods antecedent to the creation | had expelled him as @ vagabond he became an_apos- tle; but it was in vain they persecuted him. He tra- velled countries and learned the iangcagp of the in- habitants, preaching progress and liberty wherever he went. (od sent this man to do agreatwork. He came here welcomed by the enthusiasm of the whole land; but it only lasted for a moment. {t closed up , again, and he departed from our shores almost with- out notice. Never so much as now did the speaker believe in the great cause and pancipley promulgated by Louis Kossuth. (Applavse.) The speaker paid # just tribute to woman, to whom men owe all the good they are in poweesion of, and who hangs like s star upon the face of reform. In conclusion, the lec- turer said that commerce was the most progressive of of man, might therefore be expressed by the word Olonic periods, ‘The word is used to express either what is endless, or what may be understood in » bolical sense, by ita connection with the context, the Scriptures does not press us down to a concep- tion of the six solar days, neither can the geologist prove by hia layers or strata, that they are to be con- sidered’ as. millions, billions, or trillions of years. Greater changes take place, in the course of a few months ia Gur infancy, than for several years in the adult state of reasoning, from what we see in the more. portion of life; these philosophers right changes. Who, therefore, sbail determine what | any department in society, except religion. The lengtl of time it took the world, in ita infancy, to | merchant might be conservative in everything but in upraise or depress a continent? He had said that | this one particular. He might be conservative in the Moasic account of the creation waa simple prose; politics, but notin money mutters. He mects old but it might be ashed how he was able to distinguish | wants with new ones; explores continents in prosecu- between the phenomenal language and the poetical’ | tion of his business, and, like the angel, has one ‘The former took its image from the sense, but the | foot on the sea and another on the Jand. Clip- pers now sweep round the world, while the old tubs of former times are cast aside to make room for new improvements. Nor is this all. The huge steamers are put into requisition for the furtherance of com- merce, and every obstacle iaovercome. If it is profit- able to open a new market for trade, some way will be found to accomplish it, and scientific explorations of the waters of Japan will be made. Nothing stops for commerce. Lf it is wise to obey law under which njoney can be made, how wise that law ia; and when money is lost by law what despicable thing law has become! Commerce is the mainspring of all govern- ments, and all that is desirable is that the same ener- ry inay be displayed im the lower as well as in the fioher departments of life. But, whether religion tends to produce conservatism or progress, a distinc- tion must be made between them. Religious truth is progressive, while the religious institutions are con- servative. They, therefore, that suppose the church to be the grand reformative of life are mistaken, [t | is not the church that will evangelize the world; it is the trath only that will do it—thattruth contained in the Bible. latter secks imagery to extend the poem. The first of Genesis was of the phenomenal nature. It is not difficult to distinguish lhe difference, but, to explain it, he might ask them to contrast the first of Genesis with the thirty-cighth chapter of Job, the most poetical ever written. He found fault with those who Tea distorted these poems into « recital of the na- tural laws of the earth. In respect to the real fonn- dations of the earth, the Bible and our @ priori _con- ceptions are closer to it than anything — ce by her groping method can reach or point out. What can geology, with its primary, secondary, or tertiary ideas, substitute for the Biblical picture?) We might as well take chaff for the wheat, aa to exchange the Bible for science. Throughout the Bible the natural goes haad in hand with the supernatural; but it never loses the idea of the ordinance or decree of God.) It has been said that modern nateral science has answered all the ques- tions which this Ssth of Job .comprises, An anno- questions would not be asked at But this was profanity. 1s this so? ow where light dwelleth? Can she penetrate into i ‘crets? Can the mystery of color be explained? nee makes a very lame attempt to do Aristotle and the schoolmen could answer o the mysteries as connected with the phenomenon? ‘The mystery of fluidity can- not be solved, although the philosophers attempt to explain other phenomena, by saying it is a fluid, electrical or other. We must keep in view the general idea of this grand chollenge in Job, Al tho istry of the age, and clairvoyance, and new spiritual light, cannot explain the dilference between | the drops of rain and the snow-flakes—twin sisters, springing from the law of nature. Chrystailization | is the magical word which scientific men give to the phenomenon of the snow-tlake and hail; but this is a xolema mockery. The lecturer concluded by re, ing that acience was at fault in its attempts to sub- stitute its theories for ‘wud and comprehensive language of the Scripture, Prople’s Lectures, HON. ANSON BURLINGAME ON “NOW AND THBN.' The sixth lecture of this course was delivered on Tuesday evening, at the Broadway ‘I'abernacle, by | the Hon. Anson Burlingame, on the above subject. | Dhe audience was numerous. | The lectucer baving been iatroduced to the mect- ire by the President, said :— it is only after careful observation that we can bring ourselves to believe that men are growing wiser, and better, ang freer, in every part of the world. ‘Vhis law of human progress bas been but recently | recognized, defined, and enunciated. For the last thousand years society has advanced with its face turned away from its proper front; men, adopting the theory of Hesiod, the early poet, who sung of the ages, placing that which was golden the most re- mote, and that which was iron in the times in which he lived and struggled. Men adopting this theory have no faith in the present, and no hope in the future. This pernicions theory has shackled the | march of man in every age; it has caused them to | fear to look into the future, and, in every period, even | from the suushine of Eden to the present time, | whether considered in the immoveable civilization of China, the direct result of the false doctrines of Con- fucins, with its backward-looking thoughts, or in the more progressive spirit of our own race, in all and every period of time, 1 say, but one sigh has escaped from the lips of men, and that has been for “ the good old times; and this feeling bas been kept alive by the je of scholarship, and by the sweet memories of childhood. ‘it was reserved, Has science penetrated i New England Course. i TH REV. UPNRY WARD KEBOAER ON THE CONSENW A> 1IVK AND THE PROGRESSIVE. ‘The final lecture of the New England Course was last Tuesday delivered by the Rey. Henry Ward Beecher, at the Plymouth Church, in Ornge street, Brooklyn, upon the shove subject. ‘Lhe audience was unusnally large and very attentive. The lecturer stated that his subject would be on the conservative and progressive, instead of con- servatism and radicalism, as announeed. His pur- to describe the roots of character developed hese clements. There were many shades o conservatista, but the lowest in nunber was the radi- pose ander cal. ‘There were moderate reasoners and vulgar con. | however, for the italien, Professor Veeco, at servutives, avd on the other band there were des. | Naples, in. the early part of | the last to enunciate the law—to | tury, to divine and yse the past and to deduce therefrom the rule | and he declared that it was ourduty . not only the individual and the nation, but race; and whatever may have been the fortunes | of single individuals aud single nations d humanity bas pre whil tructive progressives and vulgar progressives, The tive was one who held that t irele of im- was limited—that there were no new tools josophers all old, and that modern wyralt upon an old root. were ne’ g Vee Society was ull moou—nothing new to be Ligeia STORY Weer aevecee with C0, aackisce voeressive regarded society | uot only to the gata, but looked beyond them, and | Serenee progressive regarded society | jaeid humanity ascending heights {n the far future; | as a bonyan tree, which constantly grows and | and, lifting up\liis voice, he declared the present, born | tubes new root, and preserves itself by change; | of the past, to be pregnant with the future, and that | ustesd of the pyramid, which rests for ages in | everything, even from the smallest substance up to | man, is advancing towards God. came Sessi but it was reserved develope this theory, through 1 Vollowing him for France to rtes and Pascal, nul position. They believe that human ms change to meet human wants; while constitu conservation believes permanence to be the law | and their views were subsequently maintained by of things. Men endowed with full selfestcem | entancile, Condorcet and othe ud Bacon beheld YRS: = 9 his rule of progression shining dimly. True, we are are well disposed to he cou-ervatives ; they are cou- | indebted for these principles of progress more to the | tented with thin men are ¢ trom sneh as they arc, and in the main, if perceptive intellect of France, but for onr practical hat need they more? It is relation more to the indomitable power and the per- sistent energy of that race to which we belong, and natural r formers — onally which sprang from the races of the British isles. | conscion jd with true Dutch phlegm | (Applause.) ft is in the history of that race that | hold fast to the p not like beavers, wi we may find the facts with which we may | build houses, but like snails, whicu ¢: 1 best illhstrate the principles of progress. We their backs follow. pre precedent find it first organizin If in the confusion of barbarous war, whieb 1 »<tended over the space of a thousand years, from the time of the depasture of the Romans to the Norman conquest; and then we find it unfolding itself in a systeia of knightly war cording to rales recognized by hoth sing from this period. i lasted four ye from the time of ¥ the First to the death of Richard the Third, is a system when the ubmitted to the rule of kings and courtiers. 8 system had its developement in the time of If they are statesmen, they will merely penis, not thinking that they who make tmen. All slugeards, the w x, and petty Hamlets who solilognize when they should strike, arvatives by the power of inertion. Conservatism also springs trou interaperate hopes, and all ides of human ad- vancement troubles t Progression is easily mark- ed between man ond man: itis not character, but fore The volume of Mood which d. * upon the brain, is « very material clement in distinguishing ern men. A la nan With @ large head, is not always Churles the Second, and continued for two hundred able man; it tikes more than @ la head to years, until it unfolded itself in the polic: yaake a great mau. A large head upon a small | which reached its developement inthe tim: trunk inay very often show a man of great force, the Third. England is now passiag from this s who will make f fell in the world, while, on t of political economy, when the great qu the other ban which is asked is“wheiher the thing will pay,” and body, n the most brilliant statesman in England, Sir’ Robert execution mn Peel, felt it incumbent upon him-selfto spenk for one | of a leadin whole hour upon the quality of the onion seed, and much whei how much revenne it Will probably yield to can de withe the government. The race has adyaneed’ through se (different systems in logical order. Som hag snissed way it has Provide nnot be put ihe public them with down, Wh g uy its sometimes way, or any iniquiti led up to exe- | been lured by false lights—sometimes it has failed € with lurge combatiiveness are the | to reeognize ihe volves of its true triends | dash at it heedlessly, regardless | and tree leaders, and thus, in the times e the business Ket for Theu there wre ressives by force e and caution may be said to be the il. Hope perceives the com- ing storm, avoids it; While one of great intellectual activity denotes « theorist who may know world by heart, and whove yhe a continu- dream-—awaking more comfort ont of the ideal the real. ¢ distributed lis gifts, and it | of men te make one man—one supplies of consequences, and ex hem t of Lope: and hoy two prophets of t when Wat Tyler demanded the abolition of slavery and the feudal system, it would not hear him, for he was developed before his time. and they assassinated him. But, £ say, looking hack upon what he pro- posed end what he did, F must pronounce hin to be | one of the greatest and most noble patriots that ever breathed. (Applause.) ‘The great form of Cromwell then loomed forward: with a ferociogs energy it down with its iron foot, kings and coronets, res, and sinote the antichrist with a blow that vio. than takes a sec “egending” tone which -ome people may ina i | consic rz a growth. general principles, and another working plans. They | tnid it in the dust. Indeed, a the earthquake at ny shotld distingnish the d ce be al ¢ 20 the earlier fathers. Th sellom come together on their strong points. By 4 the sen from Lisbon to Antigua, so the | nyaluable facta of that book, and manner in « it state béfore the crea- | this distribution ot gifts, one man is a dependant of the Cromweliion times was felt which they were revealed; and why had God's er ait after that as natural. | upon another. When ioty i¢ full of precipitent flistamt shores of this wilderness world. nal facts been 1 Jt Moses, and t by med the leading idea of | experiments conservatisin breaks them. It is but as nted its iron foot upon the stormy const, and it him in articulate Hebrew words’ “int ning wncientides carried | w bit to the horse s hoop tothe barrel. Conser- tyaneed, treading down barbarism and planting | God created the heaven and the curth.” reat | ont, by name give ¢ first book of the Sep- | vatiem infers that all soeiety isa barrel, in which | States, until now it surveys a wide and mighty em | fact expresse ree Was, that enand , tuagint—Gevesis—which means natare, or growth. | men are to be salted down. Bat is there nothing | pire. (Applause.) The lectorer then proveeded to earth eame not of chance, bat from the w' poof 2 were not shocked with t n the energy of the Gospel to ing hope to t out the differences which existed in society be- God. This ace n Genesis vddrenaed | id they be, since in the ve mule? Yes: to sneha are in bondage, who have | tween this country and Eugland, Jn England, said senses: it is ar a) truth that of formi ord upalagous to it, as ta the cried for ag flow long, oh how long?*——snch | he, some are ings, ond du} es, and marquixes, and | the world out of nv In the varions Earopean | of this hook oecars the word —" These j read the 1 in a greesiv t, and Jook | earls; but every wan in the United States is a kin, Junguages this yerse ted different In | rations of the heavens and of the eart * | for the day of liberation. Conservatizm is got our , for the great doctrine here is that all men are create some languages the word “created.” in th me ew pacts did not conceive (bis word at all ee type of mun; it is a mere strap to fasten the equally, which is the national doctri and all op- we to Sine in others, it was to and in | per, but rather ae ve ypropriate. Muses had ; low), Progress ia that developement in God's law of ilo itis sectional; and let not the good reformer | others to He did not who | is the monntains wer Nn.” Gener. ty, Which, althongh hampered and hindered, acta ry hecause it has not in this country a | cut off the connection between that } tion oF birth wae indeed ov emmnonly used good of all. The man of progress willassured- | application, for that noble sentiment, that followed it. It should be taken | thronyheut tbe Seript: and {ts radical mean ced in his operations. Ho knows be must | which we pronounce in the glowing language tory one to the rest He then went on ing was alwage understoxt. Generation is na- | lannch bis bark inthe storm, and pr | in which it is written every Fourth of July, is not dead | the earth was without form or voit. Jearly im ot notare simply, bot the Divine | He knows that men ave naturally deprave but only sleepeth, ‘Thore it reposes, in the great De- | plies thatthe earth, up to that time, was without form throwely vatire. The .paseago | does not force his epinions upon'them. & claration of our rights, waiting the arrival of a better | or void. It was al! confusion and emptiness, 0 peeting the going forth of wisdom, w | preferences, but will yield. It is only pri time. (Applause.) [f we compere the remote past | a4 Luther terms it, waste and emptiness. {fo any respects, ‘The ancients consider: | trath that he will ne romire- mewsuresheaccepts | with the present, [do not think we shall find any- | ‘have been an old world, or may be it wis then fort p there described aa ident tie cheerfully, but principles he holds fust to. With im- | thing to desparage the present; and looking at it, | first tine in a state ef creation. In the hevinning | 3 and St. Paul seemed yoked | perfection he has pal with wrong none; snd | looming in haxe, and exaggerated by thousands of | ways Hesiod, al) wae confosion- earth, water, and amelight. ‘The firstot Genesis seemed | against those wreags which fall upon the poor he | false chroniclers, and stained through the mediam of | fire, were o!| mingled together, and were nol yet iy m the mind of the writer of the | stands a¥ # denouncing prophet, and would rather | history, and with all the bias of our schoolboy days, weparated. © And the face of the might, perhaps, have expressed him- | die than yie Kuch men never die—they walk by | there is nothing here that the Chfistian and the pa- deep ; but, « s ivit of the Lord in a cimple compesition, but bad choxen to aval the side of God in heaven. There isa large class of | triot should wish to recall. We need not regret the moved the heavens. The phenomenal language used — birmset of sal phors, in which we ore car | men who desire progess, and progress, but al- | Grecian times, when we remember Aspaoia, the | 4 in that portion of the verve was very remarkable, | ried a eArummic state, and back, | wave practice conservatism. They stand insuspicion | vices of Socrates, the cowardice of Demosthenes, the | He then went on tothe firth verse And God cailed back fine when wisdom was alose | of ullfyreat reforins, and very offen spend their life | f Marathon, in whieh one tenth of those who * the light day, and the darkness He c#lled night, and | in the aon with God he mountains, | usefully ax a fife of detail; tut as fur as progress is | v freedom were slaves, and then the Spartan | the evening and the morning were the first day.” d when there were no chaoses, and when God had oncermed they oppose it to the attermost. There | mother, of whom we haye heard so much, giving her } Here, said he, the question + naturally present + mec je earth, or t it oot whieh it was | are men who cot ife as nothing bat a treadmill, | <ickliest child to feed the wolves. Let us compare | itself, what was the commencem: the ¢ und THe he common f the Bible, in | and who ardently desire the milleneum. They would | the England of 1685 with the England of to-day. Mr. atwhat time did it begin, ot t or not very well ren the lecturer imb up -tacoh’s ladder, but would stop before they | Macanlay writes:“Ifby some magic we could call back | morning? Of the primeva! source he the eaning of Hebrew wor reached half-way op, ond think it was too Rard a job | the England of that day uo Englishman wontd know | no proof; God said there be light, and | 5 aneiat ind gave his | toclinb. They wish for that tir his comitry.” were then bot five millions was—the fi ht. God was in he ie the Proverbs roferre Seriptures, when each man shall sit ander hi people, w roads, without commerce or munn- | cause of his t brightness. 11 wa ab r + ideuties! with that | vine and fig tree, and none shall molest him. faetures, the mines of the country nndeveloped, the | argument whether that doy was 4 (ayo t ph 4 sprees the nebular re others both conservative and progressive | rods ewarming with robbers, who assniled every tra- | * four hours or not, until the sar OOH were sad re rondear in the thought of the | their ideas. Touch on aide of th mind ue we vat offices, resisting the introduction which was not tntil the fourth day. There was no OH power bs id they are er nservative — touch the | o riages, and attempting to prevent the light- | means of the time, ior it b bod nts, but it other, and th ' Then | ing ects of London by club law. What. is | whict he time, season We entire hat there are 4 who are thoroughly progressive in | fn now? A gigantic power, taking posdession | ¢ they | tthe first du moe of r iy had every day but are at rfect stand etill in the , 1 of the wa. Go, and behold London, mensinr certainly « t itiqnities te wure of religion: and then there are others who | ne ited np at night with the blaae of AY ro , ¥ ts it t with sw cannot be driven hip or spur, bat when t for piles; go etand at the Klan re rst 8 curry us by do go off there » stopping them t aoclety there 7 { It wa t ened ace isn pocial law which ras the whole, { heh ; and ¢ ‘ ant the perioe 1 r | ever a va n One part, thor " | referred to the Alps, upon which sea-worn ; Doring the | early Christians, the Dismal Gabden, Sir Wobers Pel, Sse ixraeli, a, * ry others. Such, continued he, is the British Parlis- ment of the present day; and | think, notwithstand- ing all the apparent reaction upon the continent, that the are steadily advancing, however sin- ister appear the times. believe, further, that the Frenc i have gained by their forty years revolutions. T believe that Louia Napoleon himself is the blind instrument of progress, and that he is Gestroying that nest of asps which have bitten the bosom of France 60 long—I mean the Legitimists and Orleanists; and, when he bas done his work, he must either go on- ward in the march of progress, or, in the langua: of Carlysle, be “ aquelched.” (Laughter.) in Germany, Hungary, Italy, and even Russia, the spirit of progress is advancing. What was the condition of our country before, and at the time of, the Revolution? pe ee population was scarcely 24 large then aa that of the Empire State to-day, and all ity wealth was not a4 great as that of Massachusetts now is. I need not describe how we have taken the’ seas under our protection, and how the wings of our commerce sweep all round the globe. But not only have we advanced materially but morally. Compare the bigotry, politi- cal and religious intolerance, of the time pase after the Revolution with the general toleration of to-day. Why, even in federal times, aah oid men well remember that the people fought each other like dogs, and re- ligious differences divided families. Surely there has been a little progress. Compare the schoolhouses a little while ago with those of the present day; why there isnot a child now in the city of New York who could not teach the teachersof thatday. Our fathers, itiatrue, looked ee earth in all its beguty—the same beautiful heaven bent over theom—t felt the same sweet influences of the Pleiades, and the belt of Orion; but could they resolve those distant nebul» into clustering atars? Could they have swept the whole heavens with the eye of science, from the horizon to the venith, and penctrated even beyond it, and brought down systems of worlds? This has now been accomplished. Schoolboys now could puzzle old Franklin: and Jenner, and Harvey, if they could return to earth, would be astonished at the progress made in their beg todd artsy. The Jécturer then went on to pass a high eulogium upon the Fricason invention, which he contended would con- fer inostimable bieasinga upon the age. The poor slave, said be, will breathe a benison upon that dis- covery, for it will take off his shackles, and the arm of thé laborer will have rest. I have stood, concluded he, npon the soil of Old Kngland, where no slave can breathe—1 have traversed Germany, and Italy, and France, but no where did 1 find so free and hap- py people as in my own noble native land; and i breathe the hope, in which I know every man of every sect and party will join, that the time is at hand when throughant all this beautiful Jand the sun Auall not rise upou the rosater or set upon the slave. (Applanse.) The Brooklyn Institnie, LECTURE BY PROFESSOR SILDIMAN UPON THR YOL- OANIG CHARACTSE OF ITALY. Prof. Silliman, of Yale College, Hew Haven, Ct., on Thursday evening delivered the seventh lecture of the course, on thé above subject, including the old volcanves about Rome, and their physical effects, no- tices of Romaa ruins, Vesuvius, and the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The audience was large, and the lecture very interesting. He com- menced by observing that the condition of the planct upon which God had fixed our residence was but ir- perfectly known. The progress of research, however, bad extended our knowledge, and the question was no longer to be discussed, whether the heat is greater in the interior than on the exterior of the earth. It had been satisfactorily demonstrated that the interior of the globe was heated far beyond the condition of the external part. This had been ascertained by deep borings. While digging the famous well in Pa- , and at which they hud worked for seven years thout success, Arago gave as his opinion that i! they excavated uader the beds of chalk an abundant supply of water would, in all probability, be ob- tained. After digging below this strata, the wa- ter rose up,in a perfect cataract, to a height of one hundred and twelve feet. and was found to be of a very high temperature. It is a uniform result that, by digging, the earth is found to increase in heat one degree for every fifty fect of descent, and ata distance of fifty miles melted rocks might be found. Hot springs go to prove the existence of a large of firein the interior of the evrth, and volcanoes go to thesame account. The speaker re- ferred to the large boiling springs of Lucea, in the Appenines, with a temperature of 140 degrees, and the hot springs of Bath, in England, with »tempera- ture of 116 degrees. What appears strange in the latter instances, there are no evidences of yoleauic mountains; but he had no doubt they originated on account of voleanic eruptions at a very early period. ‘he exploring expeditions to the South Pole had shown us that two large volcanoes burst forth from icy mountains; and volcanic matter fowad in all por- tions of the globe proves the existence of intense heat beneath. In Sweden there are no voleanvcs, but there is decisive proof ofan internal power which gradually raises the land out of the water; and by geological researches it ix ascertained that the coasts of Sweden are continually rising at the rate of about » seven feet ina century. On the other hand, Gre land is sinking, and the shores where the early 1 sionaries once pitched their tents: is now undér ter. itis continnally sinking, while Scandina ng. On the Rhine, in Frane di incontestible of of the yoleanic nature of the country. ‘The st fudies, and the innumerable islands in the Pacific, are all, without exception, yol- canic, or coral lifted from the sea by convulsions, or formed by insects, All along the wi America, inCentral and in South America, yoleanic evidences are found, all of which goes to prove the general condition of our plunet, showimg that the world is on fire—that it was so at the Ls apt be n so now, and in ali probat ity willend with fire, alluding to recent journeyings in Europe, the leet ave fougd, which had been heaye voleame action, and to Mount Balea, which is at a distance of one hundred miles from the nearest ses where fishes have been ob a for some ti ea taken from the mounteius are f in the ets of many scientific men in Hurop are us sizes, from 4 yard to five fect long. Their presence at such ¢ canic movements th athe sea. They elevation shows that during vol m craters of vole: To the south of that city, to wards Naples, there is a current of lava, from which juarried for making roads. pave of this stone in the time of the ancient Romans 1 to this day. The speaker referred to the catacombs under the Chapel of St. Stephe tends fifteen miles one way and twel time of the persecutions sserabled here to worship, and remained unmolested. They also buried their dear here, and many have not been disturbed to this day: Some seem to have been people of good conditi judging from the ornaments that decorate their per- sons. Passing to nated the most beautifal region the world, the lecturer described Vesuvius, which rises nearly in its centre. The ascent to il* top is very comfortable and Mor seven miles there is a fine carriage voad, at the t ination of which, and al- most ut the cone, the King, of Naples erected an ob- servatory,from which the’ prospect is very beantiful, to be properly ny places, has been cat through Professor Magouny oceupivd long time; but having di pleased the King, by his advocacy of liberal. prinei- ciples, he was ejected. On arriving at the top of the mountain, the Professor found that the had been active a few years before, in 1450, was filled up, and he and the party accompanying him dined in it. wo new craters’ had, however, peen formed—cne 409 feet in depth, and the other 1,000. He examined them, and found that the sides were covered with sulphur. While looking into the large crater, it threw up great clouds ofs m and volumes of smokg, which faatoced them of ad, inom rocks formed of la the observatory they conveniently Md. Sevent: the Christian era this yoleano was ina state of in. activity, affording no other indications of its voleai character than such as were deducible from the resem- blance in its structwe to other yoicanoes, Strabo adverted to its qo sy different fromm that Which it ficids, and a and Pomp! tivity way a quaking cides were covered with ferti were the cities of Hereulan fit aymptom of renovated the earth, shaking the whole neighborhood, ust, 70, the eruption commen The elder iny, wh ynmanded the Roman fleet, the tioned at Misenum, in his desire to get a near of the phenomena, was suffocated by the e: The eruption lasted for six days and ni companied by thunder and lightning, Shower upon Ni during that time, but no lava. shower of cinders When the amphitheatre of Herculancuin was first cleared ont, ashes were arranged on the steps just as snow would lie had it fallen there. It was fret dis covered by the accidental ciroumstar a well being sunk, in 1738, which came direc a itpon t », where they found the stage, the ¢ ‘intiogs, i good condition. wins of Porpeli ix 4 of Domede, whiel presents ta onve residing th it is evident that f howers ofr » took his fhinily, compris ‘ miles, to a place he deemod “ ‘ w vanlt avehed with bri There 1 ruaine ' suffocated, the imprint of their , ' Juinly visible on the wall; and ft FOAtee FvCh Te DidiGe Oh Ww uae Uestroyed were thrown with the mod | | Ros: ¢ Bay of Naples, whieh is denomi- | ppreotated. | the Museum of ‘Naples, among which are steam ratus for cooking, and eyen She reer roses ia by the ladies, Pompeii, it is supposed, contained about 100,000 inhabit in conclusion, the lecturer announced that ea Thursday evening week he would take up the subject of the Bay of Naples. Lecture on Homeopathy. Dr. M. Vicker, President of the Hahnemann Aga- demy of Medicine, delivered the inaugural addrem tow respectable audience, in Stuyvesant Institete, Wednesday evening. It was true, he said, that theirart presented a gloomy retrospect, but there was ome name which cast light apon it, and that name was Hahnemann, from which this society takes its title. He selected, aa the theme of his discourse, the social position of medicine. He read from one of the re- portsof the New York Hospital, an extract comfeas- ing that the science of medicine stood low in publie opinion, and that there was little confidence placed in the faculty. ‘The Doctor pronounced the first position monstrous, incredible, and inconsistent. science of medicine must, of neccasity, be perfoot im itself, Had the allopathic. school DOMnen E the sim- plicity of regular rules, it would not have been ne- ceasary to make that coniession. Instead of ite havingbeen a science, it was @ mere art and ricisn. There was some truth in the > perientia docet, und that was all the allopathists pow- beased. And -yet nature’s aoe aaa of cure was always within their reach. In Hahnemann’s disoo- very they had got the key of the healing soionee, which, without it, waa ® mere empiricism. He thom Proneeaed to discuss the second proposition, namcly, hat the public had little cuvkene inthem. 1 allopathists had subjected themselves to this casualty. ‘They had oyer-estimated their own influence, aad had therefore fallen. If even now a disciple of Han- neman is found at the bedside of a patient witlr alle- pathists, he must’ be dismissed, because true art cannot be tolerated by false art. He refor- red to the obstinacy ‘and stupidity of the fa- cuity in persecuting Harvey, the discoverer of tke circulation of the blood, and also of the discoverer of vaccination, Ac. The last proposition in the extract wits that the time had come to change the character of the profession. Who could have imagined that so proud a profession could have put themselves on the sume level with common tradesmen, by fixing a standard of prices? Homeopathy, on the Moni dy had no opprobrium attached to it til! lately, when allopsathists began to sce their craft anger. The harmony which then existed might have remained, and quackery might have gone on uninterrupted it homeopathy had been coulined to its early limite. But, as was natural, it extended itself, and the har- mony was therefore ruptured. ‘Che Dr. read the laws and regulations of the Hahnemann Society, and said that much xs the profession itself was interested in the question, the endangered and betfooled public were still more 50. The evil of waut of confidence ia wide spread, and all suffer by it. There was no good rea- son, however, why medicine should not be made a matter of popular education. Medicine is no mys- tery, but to many it is practically a nullity. Quack- ery owes its existence to popular ignorance, and the spirit of the age requires that all should have some knowledge of the healing art. if we wish the puhlie to respect a trne physician, we must give them'the education to appreciate them, and we may thea leave the profession, with confidence, to the public. Theatrical and Musical, Bowery Tnkatrs.—The grand drumatic specta- cle entitled “ The Corsic Brothers,” which for a long period drew large assemblages to thia theatre, is announced for this evening, with Mr. I. Kddy sus- tuining the characters of Louis and Fabien. The scenery of this piece is beautiful. The entertainments conclude with the uutional equestrian drama of “Put- pam. Buoapway T 1 are for the benefit of The receipts this evening Francis, and the perfor- mances, therefore, are of a very attractive description. ‘The dramatic company will appear in the amusing pieces of the “ Two Bonnycastles,” and “ Pettiooat Government,” and the nch dancers in @ ballet di- yertisement, and the pantomime of “Frisac.” Bervos's Thearee.—Three excellent pieces are eclected by Burton for this evening, when, a8 usuai, the house will present o brilliant picture, as regards a large a nee, Which is generally composed of rea- pectable citizens. The entertainments are for the henefit of an excellent and favorite comedian. The pieces selected are, the “ Work of an Artist," the “Rake's Progress’ and ‘‘ One Thousand Milliness.'* Johnston deserves » bumper. Navionan Trkarre.—Mr. J. R. Scott, the popu- edian, who is well known to the dramatic for years, appears to-night, it being the last ngagement, in bis celebrated character of the Jibbensinosy in © the Woods.” The other pieces selec ives J1.,” and the drama alled the “ Showman, tot and Moukey.” No doubt there will be a crowded house. Warvack’s Tanarie.—It ‘good acting be an in- ducement to our citizens, we know of no plaée of public amusement where they can be more gratified, and receive a richer treat, than by visiting this well- managed theatre. The pieces selected for this even- ing are, the fine comedy of “Speed the Plough,” with i t, and the amusing pie led" High s Tuxatrr or Varrer binent prov comprises the exec Heurt never Won F -—The_ bill of this evening at White's, vidietta entitled “ Faint » the laughable farce of the interesting piece o€ all of whieh well cast. { Asnaucan Mesnvae selected for this aflernoon and i exceedingly attractive. General Tom Thumb, wh per-onations have al- Weys given the utinost delight, will appear on both occasions iu the character of “Yop O° My Thumb,” in the pleasing piece of that name. 1. 2Gr The ustial Saturday sfternoon perfor: mances will be given ut th din the eveaing snestrinn feats will be y night of th Crist | troupe dies for this even: atre to-day, of attractive six the last revented popular clown, Willia Orr sty’s opens Chri of Nthiopian melo- | . | Woon's Minstrns, whose ente | ways pleasin | in-bumen nents are al- of vocal nad y Houy Lax will shivited Loth this aftormoon wad evening. “kn, the unrivalled magician, adver- programme Yor this afternoon and tises a goud- | Tuamns contin great pleasure. It can be } evenin, Tuy Company ov Cevrertans.We learn thet one of the managers of the famous company of orien- tal musicians and Chinese joglers. that have re- nexhibiting, to the astonishment and de- cof iminensel; ed andiences in the theatres » Louis and Cin- rrangements for This troupe con- » recently arrived from the wid to be the most won- ne in the world, and we doubt of the truth of this aaser- es wre oid to be-of an exceed- nely diversified ch such as feats of magic, ingglery. leverdemain, tumbling, rope dancing, &c. yf their exploits are so curious and dexterons to be incredible to those who haye not witnessed hut, independent of their performances, they nh extraordinary ond attractive novelty. It ix ingest party of Celestiula that have visited our s to be witnessed with ven this alterngon and is now in'this city, making the enlerteinment of our citizens. sists of sixteen Chinan Celestia! empire thi derfu) performers in entertain but little tion. Their exerc cou try. There are among them meo, women ant children, and a double-jointed dwarf, who is repre- sented as the most curions specimen of human nature living. They exhibit, in their dress, acting and con duct, many of the interesting peculiorities of the most singular race of men on earth, ond the oppor- tunity of becoming acquainted with these, alone, will Coubtless be availed of by our entire population. ‘The company is on their way to this city, and, after ling here a short time. will embark for Kurope. orn they will appear at the Broadway theatre on the 31st inst. , ANCONL—-For several months past, the paper heen noticing the probable aren al iu this Lit the celebrated equestrian manager, Neuri Franco- i, with the whole of his colo: Mippodrome, uporr sion of the new Workl’s Mair, We are ena Hed to st that duriag the coming ) wnormer open ay establisiment in the imme- f Madison xquare, witch, in point of » sal fully equal anything of the kind iv tracts have alve been made for the erection of building, which wil! cover several acres of prownd, and containing anvle ommodations for rou ortably seating 20,000 pre he presented all those enter wrdered the proprietor’s French frowpe 40 universal ly rene one hundred Buropean artistes of the F « under engagement for the ¢€. among whon «of acknowlodg ir female per ‘y One Who hie th interest for tie oni’ Hippodrom » de Marguer’ hus made her appeata I tile piece wiition | piece, ya the Albany Regis ina eptitted moat aparkling: i Hct prnraise } spl ye lett vaccubaince the retiring t | dine ha 4 tog (he new opens bourse ta bua ¥ Leon subserived