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8 . EUROPE. English Canvass of a New American Minister. General McClellan Heir to a Large Amount of British Money, Violent Altercation in the French Legislature. The German steamship Weser, Captain Wenke, which left Southampton on the 25th of February, ar- rived at quarantine last night, bringing a mail report in detail of our cable despatches dated to her day of sailing. ENGLAND. Irish Questions in Parliament—Earl Russell on the Charch Dificulty—Reform for Scot~ land—General McCiellau’s English Prize Mouey. Im the English Parliament on the 24th of February the House of Lords took the condition of Ireland into consideration. The Marquis of Clanricarde brought in his bill relating to land tenure. Its object is to make contracts between landlord and tenant of a more definite character and in some cases to insure to the tenant com- pensation for the improvements he may have made. Lord St. Leonards avowed his hostility to it. Lord Kimberley approved the bill, but could not agree With the “revelutionary” schemes propounded by Mr. Bright and Mr. Mill. Lord MALMESBURY moved the second reading of the Habeas Corpus Suspension bill. Karl Russe. declined to recite the pamphlet which he had revently published. He insisted, however, that the government should give the House some in- formation as to what was to be their policy as to Ire- land. ‘The bill now brougit in was no doubt neces- 8 but such bills could not be brought in con- stantly without anything being done to remove the yforthem, The Irish Charch was the f= Earl HARDWICKE denounced Earl Russell for at- tacking the Irish Church. Earl G insisted that the government should make a declaration of pele. ‘The Duke of RicuMonp said the declaration of the policy of the government as to Ireland would be made in the House of Commons, Lord ELLENBOROUGH insisted that the Irish Church should be maintained, because the Protestants were a civil garrison in Treland, ‘The bill was read a second time, In the House of Commons Mr. M’LAREN gave notice of 2 metion to be made on the order for going into commitive on the Scotch Reform bill. The effect of the motion is that Scotland ought to have at least Hfeen move members, Discussions on the Irish Church were plentiful, gnd the question what shall be done with it one which occupied ail thinking men. ‘The Pall Mall Gazette says:—General M’Clellan has claim to @ share in the Banda and Kirwee prize . He has proved himself to be the nearest of ronsequently, heir, to Miss Allcia Campbell, who inherited trom her brother, the late Lord Clyde, @ portion of the Banda and Kirwee prize money. General M’Clellan’s father was cousin-ger- man to the late Lord Clyde, These circum. stances ouglit to give additional weight to the reasons for the gallant General's appointment to this country. On the neral juestion of claims, he would speak with all the feeling the Americans now seem to wish to throw into Alabama discussions. If he would lump his claim on the British government with his nation’s claim he would earn the gratitude of many long-suffering English- men. ‘There is a fair prospect of the settlement of the Alabama question within the next fifty years: we cannot put that of for ever by minutes and memorandums, though written on the best govern- ment paper: but when will all the Indian prize money be paid, white the claimants have no better support than is to be found in the conscience of successive adimunistrations ? ‘The aater of the Rolls gave judgment in a re- markable suit, instituted by Milford, Snow & Co., the Exeter bankers, in order to expel from the partner- ship one of the members whose alleged connection with a shameful charge had given great scandal at Exeter. In the articles of co-partnership it was stated that “no partner should do any act to the dis- partnership.” This had no e, iis lordship said, to any immoral act not affecting the interests of the business, such as the act complained of, He therefore dismissed ‘the dill, with cost Rev. Mr. Speke was found at Padstow, in Corn- wall, but when he was found or how he was found we have not yet becn’able to learn, ExeMinister Adams? Services—General McClel- tau’s Chances of Succession. Trom the London Times, Feb, 24.) In the midst of the singularly intricate’: and aim- cult ne tion which arose between the govern- ments. of Great Britain and the United States out of the incidents of the civil war it has happened that the envoy of each power has vbécn removed, It is a controversy which has passed through many vicissitudes. Of the per- sons who were originally engaged in it one only remains to carry it on. The English Foreign Office has been under the direction of three Minis- ters since the questions stilt in dispute were first raised, and of the two plenipotentiaries who repre- sented the government at Washington between 1861 ssuder at Paris and the tof the Americans there principal negotiators until of Mr. Adams ts an- nounced, and thus ward is left the only Min- ister who has throughout taken a chief part in the discussion. There might be circumstances in which the substitution of one voice for another in so pro- tracted a dispute would prove of advantage, but the resignation of Mr. Adams can only be regarded as a 4 joss to both governments. He is thoroughly jamiliar with every aspect of the points at issue, ap’ although he has never shrunk from presenting bis-own case with firmness and decision, and main- taining it even with persistence, he has always been fair and courteous, anxious to maintain v though never for a moment forgetting the in- terests ef his country. There have been times, no doubt, within the last seven years, when we siould have liked him better ff, ‘consistently with his duties, he could have put before us the views of his government in a less rigid and in- fiexibie form. Itis natural, although perhaps not altogether reasonable, that we should lave wished him to took at the questions between us with Eng Msu rater than with American eyes. But Mr Adams had his duty to his own government to perform, and the nicest fagenuity could not have enabled him to render tiwt duty specially attractive to us. He in- ivly, however, exhibited a wise discretion and a 1 it i# easy to comprehend th assinents Into wi both countri ve been plunged by a less cautious or man. We have only to read the speeches jelivered in the Senate of the United the misentel which some pro-* uf Wie American people would have . Adams, the representative of a ed with public life tn st days of the repub- > earl aken an active part in Ue politics of t r alioost a quurter of a century. ingraticade on the part of the American wei Wie services be had rendered them n unylelding In thelr behalf, but no Eng- sier has ever questioned his good faith or ng. it A suc 1 no co‘nmon kind for a amaar to hav onstautly engaged for years to- gether in pr 1 us questions and claims whicie d Y unjust, and yet to have 1 rex roment ‘and the nation. Ne. Adawns has been ob!iren course of roeet dawtastefal to us, bat w aves this coun ir it be with the estecin aad good wishes of ail itbe peopie. a 6 Po us ius of no importance from which party theamew mpjuistersicry be selected, but tt is of ur nporbanee that he shoud be a fair and ju Tainesi isan. Zhere ss HO doubs that public cpinion now esorciaes @ greaver conirol over the ation Devers any wo fro nnents than it 1 ats were permuted to work Wholly in kK New every minister writes an important VeK Bech fox House of Commons and try a S$ chic! and itanay be catied for sas ie as! eLat the Foreign Onice. eI YD né Vienna mission ve ed wah IUaerd | Haud, the future Minister Le Rows) byt process of elimination. It will sem dened! Dar the President nominated gentle- all periie’ god tat his noningtions were fie ariably rapae ved by the the hit upon a Cie Lute WL Leppened, oy au extraordinary com- econ of accidents, to be equally a fa ae at the @hite House and the Capitol im’ presctt ipaiance tie President haa coup what ie iNeely to be A shasp campaign by wy if an OFS WHO Was omtee ‘extremely pop lier wat iis countarenen, General MeCiellan, Sach an Lnanon equid ‘nawreely ke made wei hout rekine a mirosities witeh better forgotten “tu \ ves domes tigns we ip Enc and how wae to Biya te President's nea! we accepted America would ny Ww sented by @ duatingnished — ejtizen ar oho woud command a welcome froin ‘an is an abe ign, still in the oud iis militey renowa aud his aetive a@ oa, toe Sonduet of which wil » pre tor bnyglishmen, would ned hire Befor 1a pol Fewinled Ar. Seward tha event it imposed ene difficulties in our way.” We can des! etter representative of the United States in this country than a man who was thus able to do justice to our general parpcses, however much he may bave misjudged isolated circumstances, * FRANCE, The Press Taw Debate—Another Stormy Scene in the Legisiative Body. In the Legislative Body the discussion on the Press bill was continued. M. Rouher said that the prohibition against pub- lishing any other but official reports of the debates in the Chambers did not imply the prohibition of the right of discussing the debates, ‘The Senate had 1sft it to the courts of law to fix the limits of that right— to bring the question before the Senate—otherwise the point must be decided by the Legislative Body itself, so that no doubt should remain on the subject. ‘MM. Thiers and Rouher respectively addressed the Chamber. The amendment was then put to the vole and re- jected by 155 against 66 votes. The Paris correspondent of the London Star, writ- ing on the 23d February evening, says:—M, ‘Thiers having, during a magnificent speech, which lasted two hours, captivated the attention of every deputy in the House, M. Granier de editor of the ultra-Imperialist paj tribune to oppose rice Ric! 's amendment. He having, in the course of his speech, made personal allusions to M. Ollivier, the following strange incident took place:—* zoe r Le Pays, then ascended the Ollivier, De Janze and Mau- paper compares us to old shoes,” Ollivier, “So does the Putrie,” remarked Ernest Picard. M. Granier de Cassagnac:— “If you wish to consider the langusre, of the Pays as personal”—(Interrupted by Emile Ollivier) “When you ae pa ope grace less insolent.” (Confusion, shouts of “order,’’ of the Presi- dent's bell—not by M. Schneider, be it remembered, as the unfortunate man is in extremely ill, having been utterly knocked up by the series of stormy debates tue bill has given rise to, and his place has been filled by Baron Jerome David.) The lent begged to remark to the opposition, benches, “If you ‘Wish to be you must res- pect others’—a luminous idea, if you will, but scarcely the merit of Tovey. There was a lull in the storm and the debate went on. Emile Ollivier having then read an article which had ap) in the Pays, wherein this journal had freely discussed the hes of some of the Sppeal. tion mempers.& fresh tempest arose. Granier de Cassagnac—‘‘Who signed that article?” E. Ollivier— “Paul de Cassagnac.” M. Granier de “Has M. Paul de Cassagnac the honor of being a member of the Corps Legislatif?” E. Ollivier—“I do not wish to make nal remarks; all I have to say ig that you are chief and ble editor of the paper in which these attacks on us have ap- peared; and I -shall add that when ron, manager of @ paper publishing such lous icles, ascend the tribune to preach the necessity of observing so- cial order as well as the rules of civilited society, you give zone adversary the Boy to act as 1 am about to do—namely, to quit tl tribune without replying to youl’ Applause and prolon; cheers from several parts of the House, hereu} the President considered this the ee late moment to deliver the usual sermon, and uttered the following sentence, which ent descend to posterity, but I have my doubts on this subject:—“It would be a matter of regret,” stated the President, “if these debates fell to the level of mere personal invective.” ‘This sapient remark wag made amid enthusiastic cheering and cries of “7res bien, tres bien.” M. Granier de Cassagnac then said he had but one word toadd—namely, that he stood within those walls as deputy, and not as editor of a paper; he there- fore had no Gerona to give as regarded the article which bad just been read; still he considered it to be only fair to remark that the article in question Splat only to barristers when acting at the bar. M, Jules Favre- fot true.” (Shouts, cries of “Order,” bell rin; &e.) “1 Mean to say this is not correct.” The President—“M, Jules Favre, | call you to order.” This, far from stilling the tempest which by this time around, produced a most irritating eifect, and the noise waxed greater, in the midst of which was heard a voice, and it must have been a Stentor’s—“ How, he aes 3 it is M, Jules Favre you call to order ‘The President—Certainly; you don’t give the lie to a deputy when he is speaking.” Let me add that the debates are rapidly degenerat- ing, and are now offering a sad spectacle, PRUSSIA. The Famine Relief Fund Debate. In the Prussian Chamber of Deputies the bill for augmenting the grants for the relief of the distress in the districts of Gumbinnen and Konigsberg was adopted in accordance with the government ap- proval. To cover the advances made by the Treasury the Finance Minister is empowered to issue 3,000,000 Perr State bonds. The advances were ready at and, BELGIUM. The Army Reorganization Plan. In the Belgian Legislative Chamber the general debate upon the Army Reorganization bill was con- cluded. The amendment proposing that the army should be exclusively com) of volunteers was rejected by 74 against 18 votes. Another amendment pripetine to do away with the system of drawing jots was also rejected by 71 against 22 votes, The Chamber ts adjourned till March 3. INDIA. Commercial Reports. ‘Telegrams from India by way of England report at Bombay, February 1s, cotton excited; exchange on London, 18. 10 9-16d.; freights to Liverpool, 708. At Calc February 17,market excited; exchange, 1s. 10/4d,; freights to England, 75s. SEIZURE OF A DISTILLERY, Another Whiskey Mill in Possession of the Government Officers Found in Operation. Last fall an establishment known as the Finley distillery, located in Fifty-fourth street, near the East river, was seized on a charge of defrauding the revenue, and the case was so clear that when it came up on trial in the United States District Court, about three weeks ago, the claimants put in no ap- pearance and the establishment was condemned by default. A writ of renditioni exponas was issued to the Marshal, and a sale of the effects was to have taken place a week ago, but was postponed until to- day. In the early part of last week Collector Bailey re- ceived information that grain was being taken into the premises and that there was every indication that the distillery was about being operated again, and toward the middle of the week he learned that the parties had actually been engaged in distillation. On Saturday this intelligence was so definitely sub- stantiated that the Collector, about nightfall, sent a couple of men to watch the place, with instructions, if they found it in operation, te report to Inspector Gleason, who had orders in that event to take im- mediate possession, Early in the eventing the dis- tillery was started at work, and Inspector Gleason was at e communicated wil At about eleven o'clock that offictal Knocked at the door, and the person insite opened it, supposing that it was the deputy marshal tn charge who wished to gain admittance upon his return from supper. ( on at once pushed his way in with a number of nnd the party in ssion supposed for -a iat it was a joke, Upon being correctly in- in reference to this point, Major Finley, the owner of the establishment, produced what pur- ported to be an order of the United States Marshal, civing him permission to “ran the bya 4 In- pector Gleason declined to recognize the right of to operate or give permission to operate n fraud of the revenue, and turned ail of the building. Yesterday Collector erts to make an examination of men drew off fifty-five barrels of spirits, about forty degrees above proof, that had ail unning, and found the “mash” wart, and th * Various stages of preparation for running. 'Y slso found enough “mash? set to run about 140 barrels at high proof, mpty barrels to the on umber of @bout 140 were found inthe back yard, aving been bronght there on Saturday night, be- tween dark aid the time of seizure, A rectifying establishment immediately adjoining Was found to have been newly fitted up and in coim- plete condition for working. A large amount of rain was siso found in the distillery, amounting to nearly two barge loads, which gt Was undoubtediy the intent of the parties to work off within the ext few days. The vegruess of (ke distillery to the bulkhead at the East river afforded unusual factlities for the removal of the whiskey, with little risk of interference or detection, No attempt was made yestarday to oust the oticers. Collector Bailey and Inspector Gleason were in possession, sith a strong posse of inen, under instructions to reeist any per sons who might attempt to gain admission. A Munperen Cavont.—A young man by the name of Steven Skeggs killed another young man by the name of Jown Wright, at a Christmas party in d on, Randolph county, Tilinois, in the winter of 1866, Skegys fled the country and went to Kentueky, here he married, and went to a remote of the state to live. Net long since Wright's relatives got laformation of Skeggs' whereabouts, proeured the 1ecessary documenta, sent fur and arrested him, and he J8 now iu jail in Chester, Iil., charged with mur- der, leaving # young and heartbroken wife at what was once their happy home in Kentucky. EEO NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 9. 1868 JAPAN, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Admiral Bell’s Death by Drowning—The Acci- dent, and Officers and Men Lost—Funecral Ceremony and Place ef Burial—Sympathy of the Brith Squadron—The Adwiral’y Fing Saiuiéé and Struck Forever. UNITED STATES STEAMER ONEIDA, HanBor OF H10Go0, Japan, Jan. 14, 1863. T write to state that a terrible and fatal occurrence has taken place near here which has cast a drapery of mourning and gloom over our entire fleet. On the morning of the 11th instant Admiral Henry Hay- ward Bell, of the flagship Hartford; his fag lieuten- ant, Lieutenant Commander Reed; his coxawain and nine out of @ crew of twelve men were drowned, three only being rescued. ‘This sad event took place in the harbor of Osaca, some twenty miles from here, by the capsizing of the Admiral’s barge, at nine o’clock on the morning of the 11th instant, when on a visit to the American Minister there, when she was struck by the surf on the bar, turning her broad- side on, and before she could be righted she was struck a second time and capsized with all on board, Boats were immediately put off from the fleet, and every effort made to reach and rescue them from the surging surf, but in vain, The Admiral’s body, that of his flag lieutenant and four of the crew were found and brought on here on beard the United States steamer Hartford, accom- panied by the United States steamers Shenandoah and Iroquois, which vessels returned here on the 12th instant, with flags all half-masted, from Osaca,. whither they had gone three days before. The other six bodies have been brought here since. On the promulgation of this sad intelligence the fags of all the English fleet, as well as our own, were ‘f-masted. The funeral is fixed for the 14th inst. All officers are to wear crape on the left arm, above the elbow, for thirty days, by a general order just issued By Commodore Goldsborough, who assumes command. At half-past ten A. M. on the 14th inst. all the boats of our fleet and those of the English fleet formed on the United States steamer Hartford, when the process of lowering the twelve coffins im into the boats took place, and at eleven A. M. they putoff for shore, when the Hartford commenced telling off thirteen minute guns, which was taken up in rotation by the Commodore’s ship, the Shenandoah, and subse- quently by the other vessels of our feet in the order of the superiority or seniority of their respective commands; following which came thirteen minute ins from the En; iron-clad frigate Ocean as a last mark of respect to a brave departed comrade-| arms of the mighty waters. On shore the funeral cortege formed at half-past eleven A. M., the lish division on the left, the American on the t, A strong detachment of marines was drawn up in line, under command of Captain Forney, and paid a last tribute of respect to the departed by saluting their remains with presented arms amid the rollfng of muifiied drums. The procession then slowly wended its WEY sO the cemetery, which is about half a mile from the beach, in the foreign grant of land, in the following order:—The marines, with arms reversed, Jed the way, followed by the band of the iron-clad Ocean playing the “Dead March in Saul,” after which came the corpse of the late ‘Admiral, which was cagried by the crew and followed by Commodore Goldsborough and the three survivors of the melan- choly accident. Next caine the corpse of the Flag Lieu- tenant, followed by a namber of officers, and then the bodies of the ten seamen, carried two abreast, each coffin covered with the American ensign. These were followed by a large body of American and Eng- lish seamen, marching four abreast, our men taking the right of the line of procession, the English the left. Next fellowed the consular office followed by a number of American and English officers, the rear of the procession being brought up by the for- eign residents and a large concourse of the native population. {ter the funeral services had been read through by the chaplain the fifing party advanced and dis- charged three rounds of musketry over the graves, which were then clo8ed in on consecrated ground. This ground is to be fenced in and an appropriate monument and inscription raised over this first and sacred American settlement in the newly opened port of Hiogo, Japan. At sunset of the same evening a touching ceremony took place on board the Hart- ford, when the Admiral’s fag was run up to the mizzen, saluted with thirteen guns, and struck never to be raised again. ST. DOMINGO. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Scarcity of Money the Trouble—Outrages— Threats Against the American Consul—Euro- pean Influence at Work. Sr. DomINGo, Feb. 16, 1868. On the 12th instant, at three P.M., General José Hungria made his entry into this capital. His Pro- visional Cabinet consists of Francisco Javier Abreu, Juan Nepomuceno Tejera, Pedro Tomas Garrido, and General Valentin Ramirez, brother of Baez. There is no money tn the treasury, and the Cabinet are divided as to the means of getting resources. They fear to fall back on paper money, for this is the rea- son the people joined with the rebeis.in overthrowing Cabral. The rebels promised specie circulation, but it is probable that they will have todoas Cabral did, issue paper. It were well for the people of the United States to understand that the monetary is the great question in St. Domingo. Had Cabral been aided by the United States, so as to keep his promise to do away with paper, he never would have fallen. It was really the money question, and not SamanA, that constituted the stumbling block of his government. There 1s a disposition among some of the leaders to erect a dictatorship now. Baez has no means, and he {s unwilling to leave his retreatat Curagoa; yet, owing to ‘the engagements he made with Salnave_ and the French Consul regarding Sa- man&. They are all urging him to come to St. Domingo ey, Sainave wants him home so as to have Pujols wers at Washington withdrawn and the negotiations with the United States broken up. M. Landais is anxious for his return, 80 as to restore European influence in the island; and his own statellites want to get a share of the million which he promised to bring from France. Sefiors Aibor and Garcia, ex-Ministers Of Cabral, are under the protection of the American Consul. ‘The night before last a meeting was held, under the residency of Baez’ brother, in the courtyard of ito Domingo charch, at which it was resolved to attack the consulate und take the Ministers out. This threat has not been carried out. Tne meeting Was composed chiefly of hag deserters from the Spanish army and vagabonds, They also threatened to depose General Hungria and three of the new Ministry, for not following the vandalistic course of Baez? brother and son—Ramirez and Tes. The towns of Bonica, Los Matas, San Juan, Neiva and Kl Cercado, have risen against the rebels. Azua is afraid of the loyal General Ogando, From the East we hear the same news, and when the news reaches there that General Miche, Colonels Duran, Linares and Soto are hiding in the American consu- late we shall hear ef vigorous measures against the rebeis from that quarter. In the Cibao some of the most inflvential citizens have been arrested, and this causes unasual indignation. More Outrages—The American Consulate— Mission to Baez. DoMINGo, Feb, 18, 1868, On the 16th we had almost a riot in the city. ‘The | negroes of the Misericordia and Sah Migdel gquat- ters asaombted, under the lead of Baes’ brother, and committed such outrageous acta that Seflors Abreu 1 Tejera handed in their resignations to ¢ ‘These ministers eral Lungri: learned that the intention was t assault the house unwilling to ho cyrovernment. Gen- the Deputy Lafra nstrating. rday V issued a decree calling @ national convention for Maren 20 for the Inaugura- tion of President Baez aud the formation of a nev constitation. General Bobadilla drank yesterday and went t» the jail to kil Pined: t was prevented A went out, and meeting the Castro on the street almost ie Cabinet at last stands: erals Valentin Kamirez, Rom: Curiel. night the schooner Copotillo sails for Cura with Padre Teodosio Ramirez and Senor Pedro Tc mas Garrido as commissioners to Baez, Some say they are going only to get money. ros Moreno, Gen- n Guzman, Ricardo GENPROUS Bequests OF A Rich CrrizeN OF BROOR- LINK.—The Newton (Masa) Journal states that the jate George Babcock, of Brookline, gave $31,000 tn charitable bequests, $1,000 of which was to a per- sonal friend, Kev. W. H. Shaiier, of Portland; $1,000 to the Methodist church in Weston, and the remain- ing $20,000 to institutions, as follows:—Th¢ sum of to Sabbath school of Kap. fist — chure' in Brookline; ¢500 to Massa- chusetts Conference of Baptist Ministers; $600 to Massachusetts Baptist Charitable Society for the relief of widows and children of deceased Bap- list ministers; $500 to Newton Theological lustitu- tion; $500 to American Tract Society; $1,000 to Mass- saehusetts Baptist Convention: gsuato Northern Bap: tist Education Society; $5,000 to American fiaptist Home Mission Society, of New York; $10,000 to Aiie- ricap Baptist Missionury Union; $10,000 to Waterwille Colege, Maine, to endow a Professorsnip of Intebec- tual and Moral Philosopiy. He niakes lis wile reei- duary legatee, and appoints hia brother, Rufus Bub cock, executor. SHORMAKERS’ STRIKE.—The Lowell Courter roi that the shoemaker of Mariborough have struck ior more pay, after aving worked, they say, for the last five months at starvation pric They have a union organization numbering sevou or eight hundred men, and have asked for an increase of pay whici amounts to four or five cents per pair, a reguest to which the enaplovers refused to accede THE CHURCHES YESTERDAY. Notwithstanding the disagreeable state of the streets the churches were well attended yesterday. Below will be found a resumé of the discourses de- livered at the more pronfiment places of worship, ‘They are unusually interesting. St. Patrick’s Cathedral. ‘The morning service at this church yesterday was, as usual, largely attended, High mass commenced at half-past ten o’clock, the Rev. Mr. McGinn officl- ating as celebrant. At the termination of the first gospel the Rev. Mr. Kearney delivered & lengthened discourse, choosing for his text the words, “This is my beloved son; hear you, hear you,” The reverend gentleman first referred to the appearance of our Lord upon the mountain of glory, and observed that the law as dispensed by Moses was only the fore- runner of the new law as administered by our Sa- viour. The law of God was reasonable, and if obeyed with so much earnestness by the ancient disciples, how much more should it be faithfully adhered to by Christians of the present day. It was worthy the love of Christ, full of charity, simple, and merited obedience. Whatever good qualities man ly ey were not of his own making, but came from God, to whom we are indebted for all our natural and acquired benefits, We should allow nothing to interfere with our love of God. Even our dearest friends should be shunned and garded if lef presented any hindrance’ in the way our obtaining salvation, The yoke was easy and the burden was light. Nothing on this earth should draw us from the faithful practice of the law, which comprised everything for our guidance in life, The law of Christ was the law of charity, prion, above all others, had these distinc- , simplicity and reasonableness, The reverend gentleman referred to the great martyrs who had given up their lives for the love of God, simply for the love they bore Him, and which was instilled in their hearts by their crucified Saviour. He concluded by exhorting the ey pe toa sincere practice of the law of God. The musical ar- rangements, it need scarcely be sald, were most satisfactory. Eyerything runs quite smoothly in the choir connected with this church. Deserved atten- tion Speeae to be given to the selections played each Sunday, which are gener: from the best composers of sacred music, appropri ly performed. Moreover, the ar en; to be oqo to everrping proauent, result- ing, no doubt, from careful rehearsals. There is no unevenness. Each relies on his or her own individual merits, and ocanemeeneay the parts re- quiring a simultaneous and well combined effort, are rendered with gratifying effect, both to the organist and on, Mercadanté’s beantiful mass, for three vol including the Kyrte, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Det, was pertormed at the mol service yesterday. The music itself is not of a very difficult or classical character, requiring much force or power of executicn; but there is, neverthe- less, a charm in its simplicity and sweetness which causes it to be regarded a8 a t favorite. When properly produced by a com} it choir it forms a most agrecahle selection of church music, Pong here and there it verges considerably on the operatic. El Incarnatus, a ind trio, in the » Was rendered in a most creditable manner by those to whom it was assigned—Madame Chomé (soprano), Mrs. Werner (contralto) and Mr. John Sohst (basso). At the offertory, Conconi’s delightful solo, Salve Regina, was interpreted by lame Chomé with much sweetness and expression, That lady, whose vocal powers have alr been favorably mentioned, also lent her valuable aid in the Sai and Ag- nus Dei, and was ably assisted by Mrs. Werner and Mr. Sohst. Throughout the complete harmony ob- served was most gratifying and evidenced a just and careful attention to those rules which regulate and insure the proper and satisfactor; roduction of church music, Mr. Gustavus Schmit Director, pre- sided at the organ. The proceedings terminated shortly after twelve o'clock, Church of the Holy Apostles, Yesterday at the Church of the Holy: Apostles, Ninth avenue and Twenty-elghth street, the rector of Trinity church, Rev. Morgan Dix, D. D., officiated in the morning. The subject selected for the sermon was the “Importance of the Ministry.” He began by stating the leading object of the American Church Union to be to promote law and order in the Episco- pal Church and to extend the knowledge of her aS ciples. He then proceeded to a consideration of the ministry, and showed that, besides the gifts and qualities yp ere for its exercise, a commission is wanting. Asa knowledge of military science does not make a man an officer in the army, and as an acquaintance with law does not constitute a man a judge, so learning and piety, however ‘reat, do not ake a man a minister of the Gospel— fle mast have a comission. That commission must come from God. How does it come? how is it iven? There are four theories on this subject—the uaker, Con; juonal, Presbyterian and Episcopal. In each the commission ts held to be from God; but it is supposed, according to these different theories, tocome from God directly, without human inter- vention; from God, through the People; from God, through the elders of the Church; from God, through the bishops. A man may have no definite idea at all on the subject of the ministry; if so, we may disregard him, for men without ideas are of small account; but if he pre- tend toany clear idea, he must hold one of these theories; and whichever he holds, he must hold ex- clusively, unless he consent to remain in an illogical and ernest position; for the four theories are all irreconcilable with each other. The case of a society is the same as thatof an individual. The Episcopal Church holds the Episcopal theory; she holds it pours. for that is the only way, in which it can be logically held. Her position on this point is roved theoretically and practically; from the prayer hook, which aaserts the divine origin of the three orders, and the existence from the time of the aposties to the ged day; and from the canons, which forb! any one to execute any function of the ministry, or to officiate in any congregation of the Episcopal Church, who has not been ordained by a bishop. Still more marked is the fact that ministers of non-episcopal bodies, if they desire to exercise their ministry in the Episcopal Church, are not treated as ministers at all, but as laymen, and are received as candidates for or- ders, and must be ordained deacons first; all which is inconsistent with the idea that, in the eye of the Church, they are in holy orders already. The ordina- tion service is the same, without one word of altera. tion, for the most cminent and learned non-episcopal divine and for the merest neophyte of the seminary, and it cannot mean two different things at once, while it would be a horrible incongruity to use it over a man who was recognized by the Church as already a truly ordained minister of the Gospel. Theoretically and practically the tion of the Episcopal Church is too clear to misunderstood. An attempt has been made to show that history does not bear out this view; but such attempts prove no more than that there have been individuals in the Church whose course was inconsistent with the standards of their own religious system. To further sustain the position assumed the reverend gentleman quoted from “Es- says on Orders,” by Rev. Wm. Goode, and others, authorities in the Episcopal Church. The sermon throughout was Icarned, logical and eloquent, and was closely followed by his auditors to the close, Canal Street Presbytcrian Church—Sermon by Rev. David Mitchell on Swearing, Last evening an interesting discourse on swearing was delivered at the Canal street Presbyterian church, by Rev. David Mitchell, pastor, the reverend gentleman selecting as the scriptural basis of his remarks the seventy-fourth verse of the twenty- sixth chapter of the gospel according to St. Matthew, “Then began he to curse and to swear.” The speaker stated as a reason for directing the attention of his congregation to this particular subject, the very prevalent indulgence of the vice by a large pro- portion of the people, aud the heinousness of the evil, as demanding the serious consideration of min- isters of the ge it was a sin of whose iwital extent he could have no very defi- idea; for however much persons’ might pnselves to the practice of using profane i langue ce, alinost ail are (o some extent guarded aguinst ifs exercise In the presence of clergymen; aud in cases Where a man happened to make use of an oath in the presence of ministers he in most cases odered a prompt apology, as though he had beou guilty of a direct, persoual insult, These facts made it evirlent that a swearer was himself convinced iis words were highly improper. It was conee (habit was a very prevalent error, nrasters ein the habit of sw vants, workmen at each other; that in some cas ladies even Indulge vrofunity, and that at pubite places of aiugement it was also of frequeut occurrence the variety of words employ iu profane expressions were almost ¢ jess in) every” = language. The habit was, apart from its abhorrent heniousness in the sight of God, also useless aad very vulgar. It was a use hast, inasmuch as it was not needed to expre our thoughts or feelings, or, rather, the thoughts and feelings which we should entertain. It was an abuse of the Creator's wise and wonderful gift of speech to the people. The use of moderate and ex- pressive language .was of far superior force in con- veylug impressions to other persons than any Indul- gence in. Violent, immoral or positively profane epithets, from the fact that it commanded respect, Which obscone Langage could never accomplist, Swearing might silence a man, but it never would convince him, and the only impression conveyed by all the biasphemer’s talk would be that’ le Was # great svearer, There was, howove days gone by, a time when swearing Was consi: an accomplishment, and when oaths were frequently Presence of ladies, bat it has now come versal! regarded as low and vuigar in tic It secined to be an ine when evil thougats find a plaee J should show themselves by the words whieh iow from the month, end the nee of profane was never tndatged in but for the expressi CNS Of Anger OF gaili, or Vulgar opin forcibly illustrated in the ease of Perc ipon the oceasion of lis third deniat of Heel his cursing aud swearing showed how bo was vel of =the) «most cowardly fear and the worst of passions, — bi found by experience aud observation tat (ho more men loved and venerated their Godt th purer were thelr lives, the nobier their thoughts and the lofiier their sentiments, and their langnawe will he found to be the tenor of their lives and actions. On the contrary, the blasphemous speech of the aweaver Wan almost always the indication of vuisar this shoeking and unnatural any of m, and to dis- countenance and rebyke it in others. ete Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.’ * Yesterday divine worship in, plymouth church was enced with prayer id thanksgiving; and then the necessities of te poor forimed the theme of an interesting Lumily from the Rev. Henry W. Beec!:er. ‘Tue feverend gentieman, in introducing the subject of distress and privations among the poor, said he was requested by his congregation to bring the ques- tion before the public at large, and to request that a collection be taken up, the proceeds of which would be applied to the relief of a large number of the com- munity of that great city who were then suffering privations from want of the common necessaries of life. ‘The severity of the winter had been appar- ent to all, and to the r and those depend- ing upon precarions omes derived from day labor @ privations and sufferings were severe indeed. A committee of ladies had volun- teered to take charge of the receipts and disburse- ments in this work of benevolence, and he was authorized by those good ladies to say that not onl, money, however small in amount, but waifs and trid- ing articles from the wardrobe would be thankfully received and instantly distributed where the neces- sity might be most urgent. The reverend tleman leaded this casé with peculiar zeal, and then intro- aced to the earnest attention of his congregation the claims of a collegiate institution in Kentucky, for which a professor of the college was then in the city support and contributions, and requ that gentleman might be kindly received and enerously treated. e college was situated in the mountainons mus of Kentucky, in which blacks and whites were allke edu- cated, and in which the honors and distinctions of a collegiate course were open to all in honorable rivalry irrespective of class, color or creed. Having disposed of some other matters of local interest the reverend Free read from the tenth chapter of St, Mark, and pronounced a brilliant discourse on the fifteenth verse of. the same chapter:—Whosoever shall not receive the lom of God little child shall not enter into it.” The incident here recorded in the life of the Saviour is, that when little children were Seon to him that he might touch and bless them, the les forbade and rebuked those who brought the children, at which the Saviour was much Biepioneed and sald:—‘Suffer little children to come upto me and forbid them not.” In reading two pas- from the sacred volume, one as a Jesson for the day and the other @ text for his ser- mon, the » Mr. Beecher is peculiarly feli- citous in the harmony and_ concordance he preserves in those two and in his dis- course. Yesterday he was unusually impressive, His metaphors and portraits from real life, com- mencing with the infant on his mother’s lap, restin; his curly head upon the beating heart in the caateru m, and pursuing the course of life to fifty years old, and the two worlds Time, and Eternity, coming together before him upon a deathbed, then it was that the kingdom of God was further from him than when he was a little child. If the ability and unction of a public teacher are to be tested by the number who resort to hear him and remain for more than an hour in profound silence listening to his discourse, then no doubt can exist that the Rev. Mr. Beecher is not only pre-eminent as a pulpit orator, but that his reputation as such ts extending far and wide and acquiring lustre at every move. ‘ Charch of the Transfiguration. ‘The Rev. Dr. Swope, of Trinity chapel, preached sermon at the Church of the Transfiguration from the sixth chapter of Jeremiah, sixteenth verse— “Ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.” So the prophet warned the people in the olden time who had forsaken the ways of God’s appointment, The warning speaks to us and our times. The pride of our age is in its progressiveness; antiquity is looked upon as obsoleteness. Nothing is respected or received which does not bear the impress o! origi- nality. Men boast of our nreerey in knowledge and arts and sciences, This is well so far as comfort is increased and knowledge is spread and man is elevated in the scale of intelligence. The only eyil is that we are tempted to look for progress in every- thing—in the Church as well as in the world. Progress becomes the watchword in religion, ne ‘as it is in sclence aud politics and rade, Tnere is great danger, then, that men should grow restless in the one old fold of Christ's building, and be tempted to seek sheiter in the deceitful structures of man’s erecting. is is the evil. The spirit of the world and the spirit of the Church are widely ferent. One is of the earth, earthy; the other 1s of God, , In things of the world progress {8 all right. In the Church, in doc- trine and in practice, the old ts better. ‘The Church was not meant to be improved. It was as perfect at first as Omuiscience could plan it and as Omnipo- tence could carry out the design. The faith was meant not for any special age, but for all time. ‘There never was but one Bibte given to the Church. There is no room, then, for improvement. The Son of God knew what was tn man. He knew what was needed. So He gave the high commission to the twelve, and commanded them to hand it on to their successors. He committed to their hands the faith which they were to keep and to transinit un- attered. The Church was periect, then, at first, and Christ promised that it should not fail. It has had days of darkness, but he has delivered it. The Reformation {s an illustration. It was not the in- venting of new doctrines, but a return to the old. It was not a creation but a restoration. It was {tself a roof that men knew that the only measure of the ‘nureh’s purity in doctrine and in practice was the model of the Church of the Apostles. - The learned doctor continued at some ic in his practical re- view of the necessity of cultivating a wise conser- vatism in the Church. It was well to progress in all that elevated and alleviated man, both in hig mental aud physical natures; but in his religious elements he must remain where the t Founder of the Church placed him, and out of the circle of which his spiritual desires could not be gratified “The Coming Mighty Earthquake.” Bishop 8S. S. Snow preached upon this rather startling subject yesterday afternoon in the Univer- sity, opposite Washington square. His audience consisted of thirty-five men and fourteen women, “fit though few,” who listened in a peculiar, dreamy manner to the pecullar, dreamy elucidation and em- phatic prophecies of this peculiar “Chosen disciple of the Lord,” as the Bishop rather modestly c: him- self. The services were commenced by singing the hy Holy Bible, book divine, Prectous treasure, thou art mine, colored volume, as an exposition.of the latter part of the sixteenth chapter of Revelations, referring to the beginning of the day of judgment, in which it -Was plausibly shown that the sixth vial of wrath had already been poured upon the earth, and that the three unclean spirits, like frogs coming from the mouth of the dragon alluded to, were the three un- cican spirits of the political military power, the Poplsh rule and that of the Protestant oligarchy of the present day. God had given abundant life to these spirits of the il in working wickedness, and they had exerted a potent influence upou man- kind, Under diferent phases these spirits had been “rampant upon the earth; the military spirit was dovilish; Romanism, under special sanction, was spreading its accursed doctrines broadcast; the theologians. of the day in their wild preachings have led men to defy or forget the second coming of Christ, The devils that are causing this work are fallen angels, and they represent the dragon, the beast and thefaise prophet alluded to In the chapter, So soon as there is a “ geographical and warlike division in the three great powers of the world, represeating the dispensation of the } dragon, the beast and the false prophet, as devefoped in the ‘old Greck Church of Russia, the Popery of France and the Protestanism of England, then the carth will be again as before the flood. Such were the “points from the red covered | Yolune peculiarly read by the dreamy prophet. was another hyma sungy He reigns—tue Lord, the Saviour, reigns, when, after a collection, what may_ be “styled the sermon proper was preached to the forty-nine pecu- liar, dreamy persons composing the audience, The text now was tie thirty-eigith chapter of Job, twelfth and thirteenth verses—“Hast thou com- manied the morning since thy days, and cansed the day spring to Know his place; tiat it may take hold of tae ends of the earth, that the wieked might be siraken out of ity hh & great number of words tie prophet demonstrated, probably to the-satistuc- tion of himself and his hearers, that the jext re- fevred to the allegorical representation of the Church: of the last days; that the "dayspring” was the eariy dawn of the day of God Almighty, and followed up this anounce: by asking in @ torian manner, “Am T right? Also that the “shakings’ of the earth represent an earthquake of a spiritual nature, when ull wickedness shail be w jd the present world would become @ land of Zion, Parauel scriptural referet were then read by the Prophet from Psalms, Isaiah, Joel and Ht in regard to these propiecies, and also from Kevelations, the Prophet in a shouting volee assuring his still dreamy audience, after two discontented morals had sinMed to the door, that “they mast heed the striking, bold, plain words there contained, if they did not, Hk ‘others why took their hats and ran away, desire to give the cold shoulder to words of inspiration.’ Here the ministry of the present age were overhauled, ihe Prophet Snow a their “pratings as sensual, earthly and devilish,” their authors soon to be overthrown, and his sermon was ded by the assertion that “the coming earth- quake,” already in tts rambles now bégun, would go on, shock after shock, until everything that can be “shaken will be, but that the people the Lord Kt remain on the earth, th he prating theologiuns who spoke of God's peop! i to a heaven were simply eraged, and that the earth of regenerated wouldt stilt be their home, “The rum- biings of the earthquake were even now being felt in Washington and in Burope,” the prophet excitedly added, “and God will soon work terribie ti He has calted me to alarm the nation: +h davsoring is $n our and mn pe come whe Pit apna ‘a ‘crazy head,’ New York Will goon learn what I am’ and the truth of God will make His mark on all men.” This rather peeuiar, Was then ended by the choir singing ZA with hills surrounded, hen the pi Snow wiped his forehead with the peculiar, dreamy the benediction. Rev. Joseph Duryea, pastor, last 8vening delivered! the fourth of a series of discourses on “The Origin of the World, Man, Sin, Redemption and the Chareh.’” The church was filled in every part by a very intelli- gentaudience, The reverend gentleman spoke par- ticularly of the Garden of Eden, and his entire dis- course was highly instructive and showed much study. Adam was not left in the world to wander alone, He was not left alone to ® home; bur God restricted him. He was placed in Eden, a place of delight, the boundaries of which were known to. the ancients, but are unknown to us. Various locall- ties are named by authors as its site, but no remnant of it can now be found. God has entirely obliterated it. The question may be asked, “Why was Adam limited by an enclosure?’ Various answers: mar be ven to this. Adam required food, and that wit the enclosure was considered best sulted for him by God. True there were fruits beyond; but. the; have been hurtful to Adam’s mind and fe garden was evidently for man, while the outside thereof was for less than man. God never reveals hithself, and there are momentous reasons: for it, Were He to come out of His hiding place He would ha Ke plane and compel our love by the frandous of His presence. His seclusion is intended God strengt fines ‘our Teligious feelings. "but the ex- our religious rr Eden oe beans of its abundant ts fruits and beauties, God separated it from the rest of the world for a wise pu: It was not enclosed from His presence, for that was revealed there. This. ‘tion of Adam from the outside world was thé beginning of God’s work of separation. He separated Cath from Abel, He separated Church. 5 In separating Adam world and giving him food, God ordered hirn to till the ground and cultivate the It will there- fol seen that labor was ordained bef ir. Duryea concluded by eloquently contrast- ing man’s present with his state. I state he was furnished by wholesome food for the development of the powers of the , and little labor was reyuired. At present @ different en and superfiuities require inces- sant toil on the part of the many for the gratifica- tion of a few. THE DODWORTH HALL SPIRITUALISTS. The usual Sunday evening gathering of select Sfiritualists who assemble at the above hall took place last evening. It is presumed that there were othera present beside those who are settled in the belief that. Spiritualism, unlike a cer- tain showman who desired Congressional honors but did not get them, is no humbug. The room was well filled with gentlemen, yet there was quite hi ara able sprinkling of ladies present. The evening’s en- tertainment opened with a musical display upon the orchestra, which consisted of a melodeon and a melodeon player, who regaled the numerous audl- ence present with @ series of airs of a melancholy nature, which was well calculated to make ple yawn and ‘desire the presence of e lecturer. This was followed by @ quartet of the most unharmonious harmony that ever fell upon the ears of an assembly. A pause followed this remarkable effort, and again the melodeon poured forth its agonizing strains. Another prologue of Singing by the quartet succeeded, which concluded hands rested, awaiting the arrival oi the speaker. At this juncture some of the audience i ined that the lecturer was detained by some un- looked for circumstance over which he had no con- trol. Again there was music by the band, and dur- ing its progress the speaker In arrived and took his place on the platform. ing forward an- nounced that the subject of his discourse was “Spirit World Intimations,” and that he had been invited to re-deliver the lecture. It is now, he said, twelve fears since he frst began to give the subject of spir- al phenomenon serious investigation. He did not go in search of them; they came to him; and his first experience was in his—away on the land far from tl shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It occw during one fine eveuin; which he was spending in com- with a few friends at the house of the Russian Ataseador at Naples, when one of the ladies _— sent made inquiry of the Sear 6 present as to their belief in autographic writing. varied conversa- tion ensued, when the lady who introduced the sub- ject propounded a question which was so truthfully answered by one Who could have had no possible knowledge of the question propounded that it not only excited the curiosity of those present but led to investigation as to the cause of extraordi- nary acoincidence. It is common, contended the lecturer, for the generality of le to arrive at conclusions regarding subjects without even making experiments regard- the correctness of the ultimatum, which they hold to be correct even on the most su) al inquiry. This was instanced by the theories held by even welt informed engineers and scientific men in relation to ths speed of the locomotive in the early ae of rail- Toad travel. In England a Mo ee let, by an eminent engiveer, was published, maintaining that the maximum speed that could be reached by a loco- motive was ten miles an hour, while Ericsson a short time after developed the fact that fifty miles could be and was reached. Here wasa case in point in which investigation and trial succeeded in establish- ing a truth. History, sacred and profane, recites numerous evidences of the fact that spiritual mani- festations have been juent. Of the cause of these henomenon he does not pretend to judge; but that hey have taken place he thinks there is no question of doubt. He believes that it is not at all im} ble that many of those who, when they bit- ed these spheres, their thoughts were of the most wordly nature, when they cross the rtais of the unknown world and enter into the jand which we must all sooner or later become the’ inhabitants of, it is not improbable that the spirits of those might be driven earthward again. 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