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8 i RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. AN EPISCOPAL BULL AGAINST AMERICAN WOMEN, Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coxe has issued & pas- vdoral letter (in effect an epostolic bull) in rela- Bion to American women, in which he discourseth ws follows. It will no doubt strike home to many en American household:— ‘When I see the tawdry fashions, the costly vulgarity land the Wicked extravagance of the times, I fee! sure ‘hat (housands of American women are strangers 4 Gret law of refacmenelinelialy, jn mani mitre, When 1 see that thousands of Women read the most shameful romances and the most degrading ner frequent the viiess Gramatic entertainments and join in dances too shock- Sag (o be named among Christians, I feel that Christian mairons are becoming too few, end that civilized keath- enisin ig ret to the fields we bave wrested from the Indians. When I read, daily, of the most ungodly d ‘Voroes, aad of crimes against social purity and agains Doman iife itself, which are teo gross to be mentioned more particularly, I feel that 100 many of our country- ‘women are without God iu the world, and that radical reforms ‘ere necessary in the systems of edu- cation Om which the young wot of Ame- are de) lant = for = their —_—_ training. mm I see thousands of households in which young Girls are reared for a life of pleasure, without reference ‘Yo duty, Tcaunot wonder at these results, nor at the ‘maiser; which they tnvoive families aud communities. o wind and - the whirlwind, As a Christian therefore, I make my appeal to you, Christian ask you to begin the reformation, by Aaaib.ully bearing your testimony against all was tends ‘to the decradasion of your sex, and the more ao, whon Such crime is not only winked at, but receives counte- mance in circles which ought to be exemplary, RELIGIOUS CASTE IN WASHINGTON. ‘There is trouble in the Congregational Church fo Washington, arising from conflicting opinions respecting the admission of colored members upon @ profession of their faith, The deacons told them they were welcome, but the pastor, Dr. Boynton, ebjected, and expressed his views in the following words: — Jn view of their own best interests and highest happi- ness, should we (the Churob) tnduce or advise them (ibe people of color) to come? Where they have no church Organizations of their own that they cam enter, I should do s0; but, in a community where saltable churches ‘land schools of their own people abound, I-cannot consc: Hovs'y, asa frend toibe blacks, advise them to avoid these organizations of their own, and bury themselves 2 iving grave—an unbeoded litthe eompany in we masses of the whites, Of course all the religions papers of the radical type, like the Independent and the radical com- municants ef the Church, take sides with the colored applicants, while the pastor and his friends take opposite grounds. Hence there is a schism im the Congregational Church in Washington, wh ch is net likely soon to be healed. BAPTIST. The,firat colored Baptist church ever organized west of the Blue Ridge, in North Carolina, was eonstituted on Sunday, January 5, in Henderson- ville. The Baptist church of Kingston, in this Btate, dedicated their new house of worship on the 234 ult, The Rev. H. M. Gallaher, of Brooklyn, reached the sermon. The building cost nearly $26,000. The debt upon it, amounting to $12,600, was reduced during the services to $1,207, and the following evening this remaining in- @eltedness was alsocancelled. In Lindsay, N.Y., on the 12th ult., another Baptist church was dedicated. At Athens and Oakfield, in Michigan, the Baptists have recently consecrated twé new. houses of worship, and at Canning City,a few miles from Omaha, Nebraska, another has just been completed. In Omaha the foundations of a Yarge Baptist church have been laid and $11,000 mecured ‘ards its erection. At Glenwood, fn the same region, a similar work is in Progress. In Council Blufix, Iowa, a Baptist church of fifteen members, and at Herriu’s Prairie, Illinois, one of equal strength has been recently organized. The Mount Zion church dedi- eated its new house of worship the 30th ult. In all, the formation or dedication of eleven Baptist churches have been reported the past week. There are five white Baptist churches in our Rational metropolis and twelve or fifteen colored, Jt is believed that in no city have the Baptists ae more progress inthe last ten y than in ashington. Three additional houses of worship have been in process of erection during 1867, The Baptists in New Jersey are thus enume- d: ssociations, 5; churches, 136; pastors, $2; preachers, 161; baptisms during the year, 1,660; present number of members, 22,190. CONGREGATIONAL. The fifst Congregational society ever formally constituted in Virginia was organized the 28th ult. at Guilford, Loudon county, It consists of nine members. Rev. E. W. Robinson, of Washington, preached the sermon. InJowa, at St. Charles and Menticelle last month Congregational churches were dedicated. The building in the latter place cost nearly $8,000. At Algonquin, Ill., the 16th ult.,a new house of worship, belonging to the same denomination, was duly dedicated, and in Waseca aud Douglas, ill., two Congregational so- cieties were recently organized. Mr. Newman Smythe, a recent graduate of An- dover, was ordained in Providence, R. I, January 29, the High street church having invited him te Jabor in connection with their mission school en- terprise on Harrison street, The occasion was one of unusual interest. Under the ministry of the Rey. William Craw- ford, the Congregational church in Central City, Colerado, now four years old, became self-sup- porting at the end of one year, has built and p: a for a house of worship costing more than $11,009, and now offers $2,500 to Mr. Crawford's succes- tor, the Rev. E. P, Tenny, from Massachusetts, now there. The Rev. Andrew C. Dennison was dismissed from his pastorate of the First Congregational church in Portland on January 20 to become con- nected with the Biddle Memorial Institute, a colle- giate and theological seminary for the freedmen at Charlotte, N. C. EPISCOPAL, The Protestant Episcopal House of Bishops, in session in this city last week, elected Rev. Benja- min H. Paddock, of Detroit, Mich., to be mission- ary bishop of Oregon in place of Bishop Scott, de- eased. An Episcopal missionary convention was held the 7th of January at Belle Creck, Minn., sixteen miles from Red Wing, with the thermometer forty- two degrees below zero. The Churchman states that within the last seven Mouths there have been over forty baptisms at Balt Lake Cit The Rev. Henry P. Chase (Pahtahquahong), a Rative Chippewa and priest of the diocese of Hu- He desires to build @ church at one of these places ‘which will cost $1,200, and he has sec! oaly $350 yet towards that object. The meetings recently held at St. John’s Wood, Che!sea, Westbourne Grove and Greenwich, Eng- Jand, to hear addresses on the Irish Church, b Mr. Mason Jones, proved to be highly successful, there being large audiences, who listened with mingled eagerness and astcnishment to what were felt to be the astounding facts and figures of the speaker. In each case @ resolution adopting o petition for the abolition of the Iri ment was carried, not merely with unan with enthusiasm. There to be similar meet ings held in other metropolitan boroughs—thres being announced. The Now Episcopal Diocese. An adjourned meeting of th members of the Episcopal congregations of Troy was held at St. Paul's chapel on Thursday evening for the Purpose of taking measures to raise by aubscrip- ‘tion the amount credited to Troy to aid the en- dowment fund necessary to the establishment of the new diocese. Rey. Dr. Coit presided. Ad- dresses were made by Hon. James Forsyth, Wm. Kemp, Dr. Brivamade, Rev. Dr. Tucker, Jonas Cc. & aso Maco Age efter which resolu- tion was adopted pledging the Episcopalians of Trey to subscribe the sum of $10,000 towards the proposed endowment fund. It is understood that Albany will contribute at least $15,000,— 7roy Whig, Fe, Wy THE GREEK CHURCH. The New Primate of Moscow. The reer Russe contains the subjoined :— “(be official appointment of Myr. Innocent, Archbishop miechatka, to the dignity of Hrimat Mocow, in the room of the late Donerabie b ¢, jv announced, ~The new archbieh«p, who was but a simple priest thirty- five years ago, hed devoted himself to the holy mirsion of converting to Christianity the idola- ‘ous population of that Asiatic country, and by his untiring zeal and eloquent language obtained results so important that in afew years there srose a necessity to raise Kamtschatka into a new The rorthy missionary, who was then Veniaminof, was married, and the of several children. He repaired to Moscow to ~ before Mer. Philarete the requirements the new see. During his stay in that city he received the news of the unex- ected death of his wife, who mhe had lett iq good ealth. Having thus become a widower he was in the condition required for the Episcopacy, and Mgr. Philaréte did not hesitate to confer on hin the dignity to which, in no circumstances, would his modesty have allowed him to pretend. Madsme Potemkin, who is always ready when there is a work arity to perform, undertook to bring up the missionary’s daughters, educate them, aud marry them honorably. ‘The siuple priest thee became a bishop, ander the title of Innocent, a returned to Kamtschatka, where he exercised apostolic zeal for thirty years. For some years past he had become archbishop, and has now been called to the highest functions in the ecclesiastical hierarchy.” ‘A letter from Vienna contains the following :— ‘A fresh outrage on Jews has taken place at Birlat, a large, straggling place, half village, half town, of about fifteen thousand inhabitants, of whom three or four thousand are Jews, situate about seventy miles north of Galatz. This place elected about a month ago as deputy to the Chamber at Bucharest one Vernoff, a pricst and monk of the Greek Church, having immense influence among the lower orders of his district, and famous for im- assioned sermons and speeches against the Jews. in the evening of the 5th of January this priest died, and from the previous Saturday his doctor expressed the opinion that he was suffer- ing from poison, said te have be given bim by a German woman, at wh: lecanda he took his meals daily, she ing been bribed to this by the Jews with 400 duc: As yet no one believes in the poisoning. An altercation on the subject having arisen in a coffee house kept by a Jew, led to an attack by the Moldavian shopkeep- ers and poorer people of the place on every sho; and house belonging to the Jews. The doors an windows were beaten in, the inmates shamefully beaten and illtreated and their property entirely destroyed or stolen, and this went on ina fine moon! ight evening from six P. M. to midnight, when the rioters gave in exhausted. The pretect and other officials who tried ta interfere were beaten off by the mob. The riot would have been resumed next day, without doubt, but the commandant of the place, who had some fifty Dorahauses (militia) under his orders, had obtained leave by telegraph from Bucharest during the night to fire on the rioters. This sagn became known, and an end was put to this shame- fal outrage. The value of the property stolen is not less t! 175,000f., and destroyed much more. Tleft Birlat on the 12th of January, and then the commandant of the district was in charge of the place with a rey force, and had over sixty persons in prison charged with being concerned in these riots. The government have promised a strict inquiry into the matter and punishment of those concerned; but the result will, I fear, be about nil. MORAVIAN. The Rev. W. H. Rice, Moravian, has accepted the invitation of Rey. Dr. W. A. Muhlenberg, of New York, to act temporarily as his assistant in the pastoral office at St. Luke’s Hospital, The annual.report of the Moravian Elders’ Con- ference of the Unity says:—“Our congregations among the Indians of North America, few and small as they now are, remind us of the great and flourishing work which our Church, in the days of its youth, was enabled to prosecute among these eople. May the spirit in which the fathers labored inspire our brethren who enguged in this field. The mission on the Labrador coast has many peculiar difficulties to en- counter. The Interference of a powerful trading company (the Hudson’s Bay), and of many private traders from Newfoundland in the trade with the Esquimaux, which is carried on by the society that has for so many years assumed the sup- port of this mission, has introduced many tempta- tions and corrupting influences among the Exqui- maux. Quite a number of the (white) settlers have been brought under the influence of the mis- siouaries and have turned to God and His service. The recent determination of two of the Esquimaux brethren to proceed to the far north to bring to the heathen living there the sweet message of Jesus, is a token that a deep and genuine spiritual life pervades the congregations. The mission in Greenland is exposed to similar adverse influences from without, a8 is the case in Labrador.” METHODIST. Two Methodist churches at Zion Circuit and Guthrieville, Pa., have just been completed. Another in Sergeantsville, New Jersey, was re- cently dedicated. One in Trenton is nearly finished. In Bainbridge, Ohio, a new Methodist church was consecrated last Sunday, and one is in process of erection at Fort Deposit, Md., which Will cost about $41,000. In Genesee, Ill., and Kik boura City, Wis., churches have been recently Gedicated. The Methodist Protestant Quarterly Conference of Ashboro’ Circuit, North Carolina, bas passed resolutions opposing any further negotiations upon the subject of Union with the Methodist Episcopal Church South. PRESBYTERIAN, The Presbyterian Home for Aged Women has been opened fora little over a year. The house is full, and applicants for admission constantly increasing. The managers feel the pressing aud urgent need of @ larger building. A gentleman belonging to the First Presbyterian church in this city has made @ donation to the society of lots on Seventy-third street, near the Park. The United Presbyterians have just organized a congregation in the far West, at Omaha, where, by the appointment of the last Assembly, a Thomas Macagve is laboring. They have also just completed a new house of worship in Wheeling, Va. Thus the organization or erection of nine Presbytenan churches is reported. The new edifice of the Cohocksink Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, was dedicated last inenth. This ago! cost about $60,000. At Atlanta, Ill, on the 19th iust.,, the Presbyterians conse- crated their new house of worship. The society is yet without a pastor. A church been lately organized in Atco, N.J., under the auspices of the Fourth Presvytery, of Philadelphia, In Ohio, at Newark, $20,000 ‘have been raised toward the erection of a house of worship, and at Avondale, two Bundays ago, one was dedicated by the pas- tor, Rev. Mr. Gamble, In Decatur, IIL, fifty-three Members of the Old Schoo! church have united in forming a New School society, and have called Rev. A. L. Brooks, of Peoria. A church bas been recently formed at Cayuga, a new and thriv- ing railroad town ia Tilinoia, Most of ite mem- ro ig came from the Presbyterian church of Poa- vy he number of Presbyterian newspapers of the various branches in the United States is:—New York, 1; Pennsylvania, 1; @hio, 3; Ilinois, 2; Mis- sour, 1; Virginia, 2;| North Carolina, 1; Bouth Carolina, 2; Alabama, 1; Tennessee, 1; Koatucky, ; California, 1. Total, 24. Rev. Thomas H. Skinner, Jr., D.D., pastor of the Reformed church at Stapleton, Staten Island, has received & unanimous call to the Firat Pree- byterian church of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The church building in pringfeld, Hampshire county, West Va., Rev. W. H. Foote, D.D., pas- tor, rained in the late war, bas been reconstructed and has been opened for public worship. The congregation acknowledge with gratitude the aasistance rendered by Christian friends at # dis- tance, without whieli the work would not have been completed, if, indeed, attempted. Rev. David H. Riddle, D.17., of Canonshurg, Pa., formerly of Jersey City, has accepted a call from the Presbyterien churen at ei yy Va., and pe to become connected with the resbytery of Winchester. A new church has alko been ot- vanized at Martivebury by the Presbytery of Car- isle, in comnection with the Old Schou! Assembly. ROMAN CATHOLIC, The Houne of tha G What tt Doe The House of the Good Shepher the foot of Twentieth street, Eaat ri the management of the Sisters of the herd, a band ef pious women in the Catholic Chorch similar to the Sisters of Charity—and has for ite obiecs the reclamation ¢ What it is situated at is ander f fallen women end the preservation of those who from poverty or other causes may be tempted to lose their yirtue. In order to understand the workings of the insti- tution it is necessary to speak of its mimion, of its divers classes of inmates, and of the number of each class; of its means of support, and to state what claims it has on the public, The special mission of the Good Shepherd is the reformation of poor failen females who have blindly embarked in the way of crime. The whole intent of the Sisters is to cure, or, at least, to counteract the great “social evil” which is committing fearful ravages, sapping, undermining the strength, energy and the very life of society and sending its thousauds to premature graves. Jt may be safely averred that in this institution @ great deal of good has been effected in this reformatory movement, aud true and Iasting reformations have been made. ‘The nature of the evil in question easily accounta for this. It is quite obvious that a moral evil can- not be healed by incarceration, by mere physical punishment, &c, It is preposterous to suppose that people can be made moral without instilling in their minds the principles of morality, without making them feel the excellence of the angelic virtue, without convincing them that rational beings must not suffer themselves to become the slavea of their passions, that they are not to in- vert the order of nature—allowing the body to rule over the soul, And who can better teach those fundamental lessons of morality than the ladies of the Good Shepherd? Who can better implant the virtue of purity in the hearts of the poor, forlorn sinners than those: who value it above gold, who have made 4 vew to cultivate it in all its integrity and to make it loved and esteemed by all those who come under their care? This is not the whole task of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, for while the Sisters are striving to change the hearts of their fallen children they spare no trouble to accustom them to labor and industry, in order to enable them to earn their bread when they will go away from them, and above all to prevent them from’ relapsing; for it is well known fact that labor is @ great remedy inst vice—a gregt safeguard against immor- ality. The classes of inmates composing the House of the Good Shepherd are as follows :—First, the Sis- | ters. who preside over the institution—ladies who, after having left all that which was most dear to them in the world, spend their whole time and strength for the mpolatriiag of the fallen of their own sex; second, the Magdaiens, who are long: tried peckents, completely reformed, and who, in compliance with their urgent request, have been allowed, as @ special favor, to remain in the institution to lead the life of religions under the rule of the third order of Saint Teresa; third, the penitents, young women and girls, who have been admitted into the asylum in the Lope of bringing about their reformation. This class embraces two divisious— those who, after having wearied themselves in the rough and deceitful road of crime, and after hav- ing become the outcasts of society, have sought a place of refuge under the benign shadow of this institution. The other division of penitents is composed of giris within the ages of fourteen and twenty, committed by the Police Justices of the city of New York. This class commenced last year, and its ov igin is due to a bill which, through the exertions aud influence of a well known gen- tleman of th ty; was passed by the Legisiature, allowing the erring girls within the ages pre- scribed, when committed by the Police Justices, to serve their term of confinement either the Episcopal House of Mercy, in the New York Mag- daien female Asylum or in ihe House of the Good Shepherd. Fourth, the preservation class consists of children who were in great danger of being led astray, aud who mostly belong to bad‘and careless parents. ‘The following figures show the number of each class mentioned above :—Sisters, com- rising both professed and novices, 70; Magda- jens, 50; von-commiited penitents, 205: committed penitents, 76; preservation class, 100; aggregate number of all the classes, 501. ‘Tie institution has been, up to this hour, mainly supported by the assiduous labor of the Sisters, of the ininates and by the private donations of char-”| itable persons. It has at times passed through reat straits, arising from a slack demand for jabor, orfrom the great advance of atl commodi- ties of life, or on account of the little help it received from outward sources. As this noble institution is performing a work of public charity, feeding and reforming a class of poor un- fortunates. Applicants of all sects and denomina- tions are, without any distinction, received into the institution and treated with the same uniform kindness ; and as everything is managed there in the most economical way, people generally should aid in supporting it. Ifthe sisters were provided with more means and had larger accommodations they would achieve still greater success than has crowned their efforts ia the past. No alms, no donation can be better applied than that which oes towards the eupport of the Good Shepherd. t relie the needy, it furthers the reformation of the , it conduces to the training of igno- rant minds, and affords to many an opportunity of becoming accustomed to labor and industry, and thereby fits them to go into situations when they leave this home, aud thus prepares them for lives of independence, honor and usefulness. The Rev. Dr. Freel will preach a sermon on the “Sacrifice of the Masa’’ this evening, at half-past seven o'clock, in St. Andrew’s church, corner of Duane street and City Hall place. Proceeds for the benefit of the poor in the lower wards of the city. ‘There will be a grand concert in Lyric Hall, Sixth avenue, between Forty-first and Forty-sec- ond streets, this evening, for the benefit of tne Catholic new church corner of Broadway and Thirty-seventh street. The See of Mechiin, Belgium. Right Rev. Victor Auguste Isidore Dechamps, Bishop of Namur, has been raised to the Primacy of Belgium, and the Archiepiscopal See of Mech- lin, made vacant by the death of the late Cardinal, Archbishop Englebert Stercx. Bishop Deschamps Was raised to the See of Namur in 1865. The New Cardinalsa—The Archbishop of Paris | Refuses to Abjure Gallicania Two more candidates for the red hat are men- tioned—Monsignor Giuseppe Forrari, Papal Min- ister of Finances since December 1, 1854, and jor Guseppe Berardi, Archbishop of Nicwa, nf., Assistant Secretary of State. ied for the failure of Monseig- sts is that he refused to abandon when urged so to do by the Papal Nuucio at i. The portfolio of finance, to be vacated by Mon- signor Ferrari, will be given to @ prelate of French origin, Monsign eraud. Bishop Ge- rand js at present superintentent of the eetablish- ment kuown as the Factory of St. Peter, at Rome. The Church at the Cape of Good Hope. The aamstown (Cape of Good Hope) Journal Sonounces the return of the Most Rev. Dr. Moran, Vicar Apostolic in the Eastern districts of the Cape colony, to his mission, and that his numerous friends assembled in St. Patrick’s on the 2d of De- cember to present his lordship with an address anda purse containing three hundred and fift; Sovereigns. Numbers of ladics aud gentlemen Various religious denominations were present.* The chair was taken by Mr. Justice Fitzgerald, aud speeches congratulating the Bishop on his safe return to his diocese trom Europe and the great assembiy of bishops at Rome last summer were made by several of the gentlemen present. Dr, Moran has been Vicar Apostolic at Grahams- town and the Eastern districts of the e colony for be of twelve years, aud is greatly be- loved by his flock. ‘The London W cember saya :+. kly Register of the 28th of De- have reason to believe that before many day: ver a couversion to the Catholic Church will be announced that will cause more talk than evea the reception of Dr. Manning or Dr, Newman or Mr. Oakiey did twenty yeara ago. If what we have heard is true the conv sion to which we allude is more thaa likely to be follo by many persons who for » long time but atraid to pasa the Rubicon. seiligence has been received annonpcing the death of the Most Rev. Dr. Fennally, Catholic Bishop of Madras, India REORTED, The Jast ommber of the Reformed Church Monihly reports the building of three German R formed churches in Milton and Tamaqua, Pa, and in the Mount ge, Medina county, Ohio. The wly organized society in Washing- ton, under the pastoral care of Rev, J, W. Bbbing haus, hare purchased a« editice, in a desira- bie location, at a cost of The second in the series of conventions recom- mended by tho General Synod of the Reformed eharch was beld in the cliurch at Hudson, N. Y., on Thursday, the 30th ult. Almost every church in tho clavsis of Hudson was represented. The new liturgy prepared for the Reformed churches does 0% seem to make rapid progress in public favor, The Keformed Ulureh Monthly paye that, ‘after ton years’ eforte of various kinds, not ten congregations have consented to the use of the new ‘Order of Worship,’ The chorch im Carlisle, after (ie! of the new “orgerd! hawe res wingli cha NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1868~—TRIPLE SHERG ved, at a tion, ‘‘to ad- | te not, as the defence es Rare fe the former, oF free mode," { ® mythical thing, Dut. It 2 Aud Srefefre roqseet the pastor to élepeafiane or APS st use of the new . + same rights in his Lannnrd b, oversees the form of worship therein LUTHERAN. ‘the right to regulate aud govern in ali thin, The Lutherans in Westminster, Md., have just completed a new house of worship. Also, in the Sugar Valley charge, Pa., 8 Lutheran church is now in process of erection under the auspices of the Evangelical Church and the Evangelical As- sociation. REVIVALS. In New York special meetings have commenced in Dr. Armitage’s church, Fifth avenue, At Canandaigua nearly one hundred have pro- fessed conversion and over sixty have united with the church, The Baptist church in Southington is blessed with an increase of interest. In New Jersey a precious revival has been going on in the Methodist Episcopal church, Orange. The work is chiefly among young men and heads of families. Dr, Dashiell announced a few even- ings since that fifteen husbands had been conyerted in answer to the prayers of pious wives. One of these sisters said recently that she had been pray- ing and waiting for this result for filteen years. Let Christian wives have hope. In New England revivals are in progre Congregationalist society at Sandwich, North Stonington and Weston, Conn., at Scarbor- ough, Topstield and Brownsville, Me. Tu Maryland a revival, which commenced at Monument street church, Baltimore, three months ago, still continues, RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY. Last Sunday, in one of our public halls, a amall audience was gathered to hear a Universalist preacher lay the foundation of the ‘Church of the Future.’ The speaker proposed that the Bible should be accepted so far as it is reliable; that reason should be the arbiter of all questions of right and wrong and the inspiration of great men be acknowledged, The audience applauded and retired. A correspondent who sends us the ac- count of the meeting says that it reminded him of asimilar meeting out West. A Universalist min- ister had assembled the people te bear his argu- ment in defence of his peculiar faith and to take measures to buildachurch. At the close of his discourse an old Quaker, who was present, rose and said, ‘ Frignd, if thy doctrine is true we do not need any church; and if it is not true we do not want thee for a preacher.’’—Observer. By the act to amend ‘An act to provide for the incorporation of religious societies,” passed April 23, 1567, by the State of New York, women are entitled to vote for trustees of congregations. This has no reference to the election of any officers of the Church proper, pastors, elders, &c., which is determined by the usage of the Churches, Some montis ago an account was given of an outrageous attack made by some Roman Catholics, incited by certain priests, on a Protestant com- munity established at Barletta, a small town in Italy, in which two persons were killed and several others wounded. A great number of persone were arrested, and the Court of Assizes at Trani has just been engaged in trying filty-two of them. Of these twelve were ac- quitted, ten sentenced to eighteen years’ hard labor, fourteen to ten years, six to eight years, five to seven years; the tive ethers were con- denned to imprisonment, one for seven years, two to five, @ woman to three and a man to one. Among those sentenced to eighteen years are Father Vito Mario, who by his preaching excited the outrage, and the Canon Ruggero Portiglione, who organized it. In different parts of the world there are now in active operation-eighty-six Protestant mi nary associations for the propa tion of the gospel in unevangelized countries. ‘I'nese associations are supporting about one thousand five hundred mis- wionaties, and the united receipts of these and kindred benevolent associations during the past year excced twelve millions of dollars. AH the American societies received some $4,750,000 The London Weekly Leview, January 25, gives currency to the following paragraph, which may or may not be sensational:—We have reasou to believe that before many days are over conversion tothe Catholic Church will be an- nounced that will cause more talk than even the reception of Dr. Manning, or Dr. Newman, or Mr. Oakley, did twenty years ago. If what we have heard is true, the conversion to which we allude is more than likely to be followed by many persons who for a long time have been anxious, but afraid, to pass the Rubicon.” ccording to the report of the Rey. John Lar- kin, pastor of the Church of the Holy Inno@ents in this city, the receipts last year were $47,269 93; Pg marin $47,267 06; balance ou hand, 308 87. TRIAL OF REV. STEPHEN H. TYNG, JR. Fifth Day’s Procecdings—Summing Up the church, in West Twentieth street, yoster- day, tolisten to the summing up of the arguments on the trial of the Rev, 8. H. Tyng, Jr, The greater por- tion of the auditory was made up of ladies, who have throughout the trial manifested the greatest interest in the proceedings, After prayer had been offered by the President, Rev, Dr. Beach, Mr. 8. R. Nash, counsel for the presenters, proceeded to make his OFENING ARGUMENT FOR THE PROSECUTION, Alluding to the fact that he was layman, and there- fore felt some delicacy in discussing this purely ecclesi- astical question, Mr. Nash begged the court to give bis argument a calm review, and award to it such credit, in coming toa decision, as it might deserve, He then, as his first point, proceeded to review and re-establish the argument he used at the commencement ot the trial Telative to parish boundaries, defining particularly the Umits of the parish of New Brunswick, and eaid:—Even the respondent's witypeses confirmed the faci that an intrusion nad taken place on respondent's part, and that against the express protest of the incumbents of ‘both churches, The learned counsel on the other side ‘would lay great stress upon the words of our Saviour, “Go forth and preach tho Gospel to overy creature.’ Bat be (Mr. Nash) would take this command in ® limited senso, The command Was not given to every han, but te Christ's chosen witnesses who had beon with bim and saw ali he dia. The command was given to them, and asa natural cousequence to their sacceasors, Inthe time of the Apostics bishops, priests and deacons—the three ordors known in the ministry at the present day—were insti- tuted or appointed by the Aposties themselves, Tho Fmission to preach the Gospel given to the Aposties given to the Church's educated, sworn cers. Through ages following it bad and therefore a rule of diesipl fai ‘ho complaint against the respond. jon of the rule of faith, but the of a rule of discipline which bad been in wence for centuries, This c: was not new, but had been in existefice since the establishment of the Church, and in consequence of some violations tuersof it had been amended repeatedly by general conven- tions. He claimed that every presbyter, every bishop, Priest and deacon of this Church 16 an offieer; he ia not ly an officer in the sense of being yader in Christ's Church milivant, bat be is an in Ropical sense. On referring to Blackston' ‘aries, that high authority, it would ba fi of = éufficieut is Dot permitted to @ Gos! Church sees that the candidate has suiicient learning to understand what he preaches, lest any error should creep im. By the English law (not canonical jaw, but the law of the innd) and the law of these United idate must have a cail, and he must had such a cail from’a ton to entitle him to the imposition of hands, ad i this honorable body, In other words he (counsel) 10 minister of the Protei United States received whi roving commission.’ He had a ‘special com: 1d Was required to show the bishop that he the duties apoa which @ bishop, in ordaining a mi lowing questions among others the your {aiinfui diligence simays #0 to mipisier the doc. tring aud sacramenta and the discipline of Christas He bath commanded, and as thie Church bath received the same cording to the commandments of God, #0 that tench the people commitied to your care ib all diligon to keep and observe the id he answars, “I will no do, the Lord being and another question equally important Now, when (hia clergyman was ordained by parish of which he id could oniy leave it by je 1 tho bishop. ‘This reverend respondent upon receiving bis Commision must bave bad a parish, a field of action, Otherwise hejcould pot have beeo ordained. Now, tim question was, what was a pariah? In Jacob's Law Dice ar 83, he fou defnition—Parieh— at wae formoriy calied the diocess of ww regarded as the circuit of ground le of one chureh do inbabit, and the particular charge of @ secular priest’! If the court world wear thisin mind ey Woe fad juate dr her or control them, but Le has the right to rule the housebold of the church of which ho is the overseer aud should report aunually to bis diocesan, so that the Convention may know what is done, make & change, if needed, for the better, and by their action do Whatever taney consider necessary for the good o! the Charch, Im connection with this matter he referred to the canons feces the admission of new families within the boundaries of other parishes, It was neces- sary to look over this. whole tleid of canons aud see if they were ail in harmony, and that by tho violation of & aingle canon the whole harmonious battery should not be disturbed, A rector might torbid, when for apecula- on or other purpores (as had sometimes been the case), congregations had been gotten up, the organization of any now parish, aud why had be not the right to pro- bibit a oon trom tn | mm and disturbing the harmony of bis work? Cases occurred where per- mission to form a new parish bad been refused, and then tho law provides a remedy in an appeal to bishop, who has to exami both sides of question carefully and give his decision. T! counsel then santé from Blackstone's Shenae laries, vol. I, go marginal eo 8 $, a entitled ‘bt tne lary also me ittleton,’? page 300, w the meaning of the word “Parson na Ecclesia, is one that fain fall pose session of all the rights of @ parochial church. Ho is callea yn (persona) because by him the Church, which is an invisible body, is represented, and ho is bimselt a body corporate in order to protect and defend the rights of the Courch of which he is in possession,”? With this view the deat is to regarded a8 an officer violating a rule of discipline now made, In closing he said he had shown satis. factorily, be thought, that the res] lent was an officer, Take the cai of a judge, and his learned friend = (Ful on) having occupied that ‘tom would understand Laughter.) The Juages were at present elected. The lowest judge was justice of the peace. He was oe for a district; a county judge was the next, He was elected for the county, and in the Supreme Court the judges were elected for districts, - Now, it was am unbeard of thing for a judge to go out of bis district and bold court in an- other, without order of his governer. Take an officer of the army or navy, He is sworn to support the conatitu- tion of the country whose officer he becomes, and he swears to the articies of war, in other words, the discipline pf the body, Now all know that an army without discipline would be but a mob. When this reveread defendant became an officer of the Church he swore to obey the articles of war, that was war of bis Master upon earth, and was tobe carried on by canons and rules establisned. Now, malum in se, malum prohibitum, ‘They are onl; il in themselves because pronibited. Now, when the human legislator comes to look on the law, and ls the Ten Com! ments as the primary source of all law, be will make a distinction between the offlcera which God prohibits and which the human legis- lator protibits, . But when the court come to consider when the officer skulkg thea his example becomes pernicious, because in the abandonment of his duty he brings about a general pamc in tae corps to which he ig attached. He said he would allude briefly to one or two circumstances connected with this minis- tration.and then referred to the testimony of Rev. Dr. T:fapy in relation to the arrangements made on that Sunday (14th July) to officiate and that geutieman’s ‘answer toa question on that subject in relation to Mr, ‘Typg having been invited earlier in the season, but not being then able to come bad now come to speud a fow days with some of bis parisuiouers, and the teudering of St. James’ church by (the witness) to Mr. Tyng. For what? To hold such service ag he migat please.” Now, what did the respoudent do? He entered into a Mothodlst church about 1,700 feet from Christ Church, and tbere performed a service which the witnesses de- seribed, That it was vot the service of the Protestant Episcopal Chureh needed no argument, It was partly from the Book of Common I’ altering the absoiu- tion, as ono or two witnesses said, so as to make it a prayer, mixing it with the Lord’s V'rayer, and also using ®& manual of that particular denomination, Another circumstance, although much stress need not be iad on it, was that Mr, Tyng used neither gown nor surplice, ‘This act in 1tuIf need not be a cause of censure, but taken with other circumstances should have its due weight and Importauce, Iie then read the cavon under which Mr. Tyng is on trial, as already publisued in the Hrxatp, and a portion of that canon which defines the boundaries of a parish, One of the wit- nesses for the defence (the Rev, Dr. Tyng) had given his detinition of what is a parish, stating that if a school house rested against St. George's church and » minister came In and ofliciated there he would not consider it an intrusion, With all respect to the court, that was not the true view to be taken of the case. The rector was the governor of his cuurch, and as such his territory would be invaded by such an act on the part of another. Many persons took their notions of republican govera- ments from the city of New York, and formed an un- favorablo judgment from the corruptions which they observed “therein. But as they looked nowhere else Le a in J nt was naturally cramped. In a place like New York it was necessary, perhaps, to define the limits of a parish more clearly. He bardly thought it necexsary, but, in closing, he read the Thirty-fourth Article of Religion as follows ‘Tt 1 not necessary that tradition and ceremonies in all places one and utwriy like; for at all times there have been divers, aud may be changed according to the diversities of countries, times and men’s manners, so that nothing be ordained against God’s word. Whoever through bis private judgment ae and purposely doth openly broak ihe traditions and ceremonies of the church which be not repugnant to the word of God, and be ordained ‘and approved by common authority, ought to be rebuked openly (tbat otlers may foar to do the like) ashe that offendeth against the common order of the Church and hurteth the authority of the magistrate and woundeth the consciences of the weaker brethren. Every particu- Jar or national church hath authonity to. change aod abolish ceremonies or rights of the church ordained only by man’s authority, so that all things be done to edify- ing.” The counsei then proceded to say that if a change ‘should be considered neceasary the proper course to take would be to procure the di to the Gonerai Con- vention to set forth and stow their reasons for the change which was sougnt to be made, and let that body act as they are empowered to doin the premises. MR. PARKER'S ANGUMENT POR THE DkPENCE, Mr. Courtlanat Parker, counsel for Dr. Tyng, then pro- conded to. sum.up for the detence. Alluding to the great interest tl had been created by the trial, Mr, Parker said that Mr. Tyng bad done notbing except, as a minister of the gospel, to preach the gospel. it was not even for omitting the bey which he loved that he¢| was oa trial, nor for omitting the responses, when there was no book to go by, He stood there simply for preach- ing the gospel, and his only crime was that he had not the consent of the Rev. Dr. Stubbs—great laughter)— or the Rev. Dr, Boggs. (Renewed laugnter.) He did not mention these names with disrespect, for tl were his friends, and be loved them; but he consi ered that these gentlemen bad committed a ecclesiastical blut (Laugbter.) If these reverend gentiomen had sted Mr. T; ly it would have been the means of bringing back a whole congre- getion to what they believed to be the truc fold. But what did he preach? Porhaps he quoted Wesley, the great founder of the Mothodist denomination, and showed his hearers that they were wrong, aud direct them to go back to the ark (laughter) from co they to the teachings of Dra, ‘This was a criminal court, and Mr. Tyng was ontitied to every presumption of in nocence, This Church was organized in 1786, and up to ver placed on trial for such a violation of the canon. Here was an Episcopal minister pat in jeopardy because he preached and read from au kipiscopal Prayer Boox, and mo wonder people were astonishud. Messrs. Stubbs aud Boggs had no right to preach in that church, one hundred feet square, witbout invitation, and therefore they had no right to inhibit another, This was the Kernel of the argument Although the canon might be proved to be viviated, yet its truo tnterpretation would mot snow that T was ostablisi limited sal and interpretation would stultify the Cherca. harsh things (he had almost said only one) had fallea from tae counsel om the sido. One of these was the charge of discourtesy, The canon was not found to enforce professional cou: ‘or politences. Professionai poliveness! The church of to provect ministers in their own opini The gospel of ( brist should ve preached everywhere, nO one could or should probivit it, poimt was that he was no true mivister these words consiantly ringing in_ his ears, if I presen mot the gospel.” if Mi and been refused, he would still hay preach. Did the Saviour refuse w! xoguey But it was not Mr, Tyng, but Dr, Stubbs, who ‘was diseourteous, Ha former was on his ee accepted an invitation to preach toa cementing si then, as faras be knew, had no . Mr. Lyng was advertised, That was not his doing, Butwhen he was soad. Vertised he could not draw back without sacrificin, it considered to be right, And what was Mr, duty? To goto the Bishop and complain amd then hie sexton witha note to Mr. Tyng, aad then g brother with whom he once re’ conversation? (Laughter. ) ery near comi . if, underst taking place, Had they Dre. Stubbs and Boggs ‘would have said, “Let him goon; he may save souls, and perbaps increase the chorch.’’ (Laughter.) Tho learned gentleman tnen approached the main subject, remarked that in seventy-five years the canon had t Deed interpreted in this ner, and thd court bad a a Tesponsibiiity interpreting it, He then alluded to the case of Rev. Dr) Jobns, ia Baltimore, preach (0 & congregation is, and Bishop Lh me 293 sent bim @ note forbidding him, Bat Dr. Johns knew bis ta Preacved, True, he was brought before nding Committee, and declared againt him, but he wae never brovent to trial. This, and the case of Rev. Dr Tynu, as ,meniioned in bis testimony yesterday, wero the ouviy cases in any Way approsiinat- ing. to the one under notice. Dr. PUT “oren soondineneg the Stand: Jommittoe, but was never tried, Neihe te mony ot Dra, Muli id butt refer to thi avd, had he tho opportunity, the Bishop hb whom counsel couversed, would bave cited cases precisely like those mentioned by those reverend gentlemen. He would now ask how could Mr. Tyng be guilty of w vio ation of the canva whea numbers of such cases had been Known heretofore, a yet no one wos ever brought to'trial? He thought that the General Convention shortly to assemble shouid attend to (bis, and the respondent should ha 1 ben- efit resuluing from doubte, else What wos crime in New Jorecy might be considered virtue in Marsacnuseits or Virsiaia, Counsel then read the caoon a 1 ime nisted that 1t Was absurd to Interpret it as the presente sought (odo the canon referred frst to dnexets “want of copsent’? which aden The eason Aid not 8) leu “exprope permite op,” aed that the simple silence of the minister Was shadeh to prove. Now to meaning of words, was the meaning of word “preach?” 10, speak on a religious pject, | and tbe Bible showed this: —“What ye ear, that preach (proclaim; Ca) ho ” Lord hath apnointed Present, And Christ weat and preached to tho spirits in prison. He could not convert whom, for they were only there crying, ‘Lord, how long?” Does & minister violate a canon if he proaches, or lectures, OF prays before ® poor sufferer in a railroad car, or in an almebouse, & hospital, en in thal house where the proceedings are alway pened (counsel's) own family? And will it be contended that every time a minister reads prayer in New Bronswick he must get the permission of Messrs. Stuobs and Boggs? (Great laughter.) Why, certainty not, And in that caso he had better pray extemporancously, (Laughter.) D: Stubbs may be invited 69 preach here to morrow, _W: he get the “express permission” of a majority of all tha ‘Therefore, we are in this position that defore @ minister ministers iu the city? If he does nat be viotates the canon, can open his mouth ina psrish whose palpit ig empty he: must get (ne consent of a majority of the clergy here, and as to preaching as a candidate that’s out of the question. (Laughier,) Suppose a brother be sick to New Bruus. wick aud you are asked to go and see bim; muat you run all over the city to find Stubvs and Boggs? (Great laughter.) Counsst—I don’t wonder at tho laughter. ‘The Presiogni—Nor 1 neither, sir; but 1 would like ». little order, CovseL—Ur euppose you bave a Methodist sister about to be married and you are asked te oBcioies must you run all over to find Stubbs and Boggs (Laughiter,) The whole thing is absurd. There is West Poiat; itis a dominion witbin a dominion, It is not a Aigh Church establish ment—(laughter)—and yet all denominations are recognized, But the minister has not to go to the little church outside for permiasion, or say in jail (where, thank God, elergymon sometli £0), must the clergyman who goes tuere go first and gob permission from a majority of the clergy? The the learned gentleman cited ane and insisted that they could not con ind Mr. Tyng guilty of any infraction of the canon according to analogy. The law made the place where he preached the property of others, and the cago, could mot override the jaw, nor could the claim jurisdiction over territory which did not of right belong to them, He therefore insisted that the law never intended the caoon to be .oterpreted as the presenters interpreted ciples of law acknowledged quire that in enforcing this canon {te words be re- stricted from their general signification and receiv construction according to the in.ent of its makers, invoked tbe following rules;— 1, Penal statutes must be construed strictly. 2. Laws must be interpreied so as nut to impale ab- surdity to the Legisiature. 3 Laws must not be interpreted so as to cause thé Legislature to make a laudable crimiual, or one not per sd reprehensibie, 4, The lawa of a Church must be interpreted 804s to attain mds, the Gospel and her own extension, 6. The letter of a jaw may be enlarged so as to tmch- the mischief it seoks to remedy, or restrained so anos to make that penal which is not within such misch¥f, | The learned gentleman here read copious exiactt from Vattel, Smith on Statutes, and otner | aus thorities, all bearing upog ine above rales, provd ing their correcta aud stated that the follwing trom Smith was the point of the whole:—' Nomar shall sustain a penalty unless tue act said to becom~ mitted be within the letter and spirit of the gatutd imposing it.” In other words, within the mfontof thereof, As the thir f roceeded to consider In this connection tl of clergy left gentleman spoke of the —— or the Revolutiou, which was ony ond hundred and seventy-six. Vew and poor, most of them needed nursing and prudence in ive economy oj their: resources, ‘hoy were, therefore, depeadent on ‘olun~ tary coniributions, and wbat made rivalry dpadeds* ‘These “persons,” as his learued frivud had quote, the head of their corporation, nay, according to Engiishy almost the entire corporation, were tuen at themeroy- of their congregations, who could open their" clurcher to other clergy, and so cause cousiderabie mischie. Thier was an evil to be remedied only ia one way. That way could not be by passing a can aga.nst the parab, be- cause ecclesiastical law®could uot reach the parish, Before, some had ti.hes, aud now these were abgiahed, ‘and tae “Governor” was thrown on is people folliving- Hence the law came iu aud said, “We can’t g¢ at tho parish; but we can get at the mischies by praibiting ministers vo officiate ia tue parochial cure of smother without his permission.” ihis canon thea didfor tne clergyman Wuat the law did previously by prwenting any clergy man from seeking his living at the cot of au— other, fh conclusion, Mr, Parker summed upas fol+ lows: —Construo this.canon as its words import, ad these consequences follo#; it enacts (he greatest aburdities restricling the liberty of preach:ng, #0 mucnand 60 ridiculously that scarcely avy waa cap, in fa¢, preach lawfully elsewuere than in his owo pulpit, wor there unless @ majurity of mugisters dst settled agre to hi cure, It introduced a regaiation impossible in wis coun- try, and fdroids the clergy {rom niuisterivg to.heir own cougregation outside of local limits, It aditionally stultifies the legisiation of whe Church by mpu to it tho intent to extend the jurisdstion the clergy to persons who are pro‘essedly hostile. It further stultifies the legisiation of tbiChurchy by imputing to it the intent to puve a frquently, impossible consent, or else to gpmish agan dence epdeavor to carry her tenes to, those who will Dok acknowledge herrule. It turther stultifies thé Jegiaia« tion of the Church by imputing to it tue desir(to pun« ish ag an offence an act without ible crimbalky of want of regard for fraternal or Christian obligaion and. without conceivabie injury to the person wioue express permission w to bo obtained Consiw the canom go, and you muke that wroog whien is ‘he past bad been hailed as a privilege, Consyu@ this capom so, and you restrain a mun from peaching Carist’s gospel, though he do it with the biesed formulas in hid hand; though with the gospel Le adwestes the Churo! though from bis lips alune would ve Audience recel it; though big only interest is to plug souls to Christ, and the only detrimontal result wuld be to bring thent to the church of the man who 90d im the way, With all this true, should they graus shat man’s whim, or worse, close the mouth of a Worn cbampion of thé Cross? ‘Mr. Pangauk having concluded the Court was adjourned to Tuesday next, at eleven o’@ck A, M. NAVAL INTILLIGENCE, QPECIAL CORRESPONCNCE OF THE HERALD. Portemout! Navy Yard. Porrsmoura (N, H.)avy Yarp, Feb, 14, 1868, ‘The following officers re attached to the yard a®- presont:— Captain—Jobn Guest, evotticer. Commanders—0, C. Baer, equipment officer; Homer ©. Blake, navigation offer, and William G. Temple, ordnaace officer. .N. Camenter, purchasing agent, and a 4. H. Gilman. 3 3 Bngineert—Chiets, Dovid B. Maco and James Ws Whittaker; First Assisuots, LL. P. Ayres and Oscar H. ety: Second Assiguats, 1. L, Vaudersiice and Isaiah. a, Naval Constructor-B. F, Chandier, civil engineer, —A. C. Gor There are about f00'men now employed at the yard. The following 1s liat of steamships at the yard : ‘Algoma, second rate, un stocks; Contoocook, second rate; Emerald, fourth rate, ferry boat; Galcna, dewneols, sorew: third rate; Port Fire, fourth rate, ordnance tug; iron= clad Passaconaway, Uirst rate, oo stocks; sidewbeel, Po~ oria, third rate; screw, Speedwell, fourth rate, yard tug; sidewhcel, inconey, third rate; sailmg, Vandalia, four rate, receiving suip; sidewheel Winvoski, third rate; acrew, Yucca, fouriu rate. |; Muscoota, ‘Minnetouka, Oret rate; Nantasket, The Gunboat Shamrock. We learn that the gunboat Shamrock, Commander William E. Hopxins, of the European squadron, is now lying in the harbor of Lisbon utterly unit to go to sea, She has in {act been condemned by a bord of survey, ordered Admiral Farragut, and the department hag Conefuded Yo sell her at auction i hove port, The Shamrock 18 @ doubie-ender, built at tho Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1863. Sve bas been attached to the E in squadron for nearly two years, and ip every pots Das been she was the laughing stock of naval officers, Why such a clumey rat, built for river service, should be sent abroad as ao. type of a class of vessels of our navy js a mystery. She never wasasace sen boat, and nly looks as unlike @ man-ol-war as any craft ever de- signed, It is too bad that a national veel should be sold im forciga waters. It would be much better if she should be copvenientiy wrecked or blown 2p, and thereby save the country’s credit, We presume the officere and crew return to the United States in ae of the store ships, The Kearse ‘The corvette Kearsarge, Commat Thornton, sailed from Boston on the 12th for the South Pacific squadron. Commander Thornton was her gallant etecutive officer in the Alabama fight, and did more thagany viher man to win the battic. AID FOR THE FAMANE SUFFEREKS IN, PRUSSIA New Youu, Feb, 10; 1868, To ta Epiton or tur Herato— I have the nonor to inform you that a committee con- sisting of Wm, A. Kobbe, 87 Leonard } Frederick. Kulno, 61 Broad stteet; Gaiodo Von Gribow, 117 Broads way; Rev. Dr, Schra: Becond street; F. V. Maligdow, Geri Glaubenakioe, inces of ir ) and which eeu produced by the ro failure of tures successive crops. to roquest that you will inform your readers of this fact, and that you wiil be so kind as Yo Feceive conitibuvions at your uffleg, and to forward them to tho Treasurer of the Committe, sr, F, Kulne, of Kbauth, Nacbod & Kubo, 51 Broadatrect, THEODORE G, GLAUBENSKLES, Secretary. 1. P. Pinkham, soventy-one years of deniy in Lafayette, lud., inet week. health till if ao hour bero g0 lor 8 doctor, but he said, Renee in of id peur,