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WASHINGTON. Appropridtion for Removal of Obstruc- tions at Hell Gate. An Indian Girl’s Statement of Her People’s Treatment by Government Officials— Weekly Currency Statement. WASHINGTON, April 16, 1870, i An Appropriation for Hell Gate. The sub-committee of the House Committee on Commerce, baving the River and Harbor Appropria- tion bill under consideration, agreed to-day to ap- Propriate $250,000 to continue the removal of the obstructions at Hell Gate, New York Rarbor, The Howard Investigation, Very little’ progress was made with the Howara Investigation to-day owing to the absence of several members of the committee. Rumsey, one of the Howard University contractors, was subjected toa rigid cross-examination by the counsel for the de- fence, but nothing new was elicited, H. R. Searie, the architect of the building, testified that the origt+ nal owners in the Patent Building Block Company wero General 0. 0. Howard, Charles H. Howard, nis brother; C, H. Whittlesey, J. W. Alvord, D. Li. Eaton and George W. Balloch, all of whom were: offiters. of the Freedmen’s Bureau. The commitiee adjourned over until Tuesday at the request of Gen- eral Howard’s jawyer, who stated that he had to visit New York on professional business, ‘ Cultivation ef Art. The Library Committee is at present considering the propriety of cstablisning a new system of decor- ating and painting for the public buildings. ‘There is a pfoject on foot, it appears, to create the office of Conservator, or Curator of Arts, inthis country, and to give the appointment to some first ciaas artist, whose: taste, experiencs and judgment would be valuable to the country in encouraging the highest order of art. Mr. Miner H. Kellogg was before the committee a few days ago and gave his views, which’ were received with great favor. Should the Project be adopted itis not at all improbable that Mr. Kellogg will be appointed himself. Weekly Currency Statemont. The receipts of fractional currency for the week ending to-day amounts to $485,500. The shipments were:—To the Assistant Treasurer and United States depositories, $1,903,342, Mutilated bank notes burned during the week, $239,170; total amount burned, $22,258,981; bank currency issued for bills Gestroyed during the week, $257,450; total amount issued. therefor, $22,031,630; balance due for muti- Javed Notes, $207,851; bank circulation outstanding at this date, $299.567,788; fractional currency re- deemed and destroyed during the week, $437,100. Treasurer Spinner holds in trust for national banks aa security for circulation $342,246,350, and for public deposits, $16,950,500; coin balance in the Treasury to-day, $11,365,000, including tn coin cer- Tificates, $37,036,000; currency balance, $10,922,060; internal revenue receipts to-day, $292,394; total for the month, $7,406,601; total for the year, $131,296,812, Di-tilleries Destroyed in ‘Tennesse Supervisor Emery, of Tennessee, reports that since the 30th of June, 1869, the following number of stills: mash tubs, &c,, have been destroved by revenue oM- Cers 1n their attempts to suppress flilcit distillation: Seventy-two stills and six hundred and eighty-seven mash and fermenting tubs, and avout 150 gallons of whiskey, the estimated value of which ts about $8,000. Au Indian Girls Testimony of Her People’s Treatmert on a Reservation. DeaR Mr. Brunot—Commissioner Parker re- ceived the following letter from an Indian gir! in Ne- vada to-day. L give the letter precisely as it was written by its author, in a clear and beautiful band, VINCI COLYER, Secretary of the Board of Indian Commissioners. Camy McDeRMor, Nevada, April 4, 1870. S8rB—I learn from the commanding oll this post that Zou desire Cull formation in regard to the Tndiany around his place, with a view, if por r » of bettering thelr cond: tion by sending them on the ‘Trac nd: ee River reservation. All the ludians from here to Carson City velong to the Pahutes tribe. My father, whose name ia Winveinicea, i8 the bead chief of the wile tribe, but he is now getting too old and has not energy enough to command por to impress on their aninds the necessity of their being sent on the reservation ; in fact I think be is euuirely opposed to it, He, myself aud the most of the Humboldt and Queen's river Indiana were on the ‘Truckee reservation at one time, but if we had stayed there it would have been only to starve. I think that it they had received what they were entitled to from the agents, that they never have left there. Sofar as their knowledse of agriculture extends they are quite ignorant, ax they have never had an opportunity of learning ; but think 4 proper pains were taken that they would willingly make the etfort to aintaln themsuives by their own labor, provi Mt they could be made to belieye that the products. were to be their own and for their own use and comfort, It ts needless for me to enter into details as to bow we were treated on the reser- vation while there. Tt im enough to #ay that we were contined to the reserve, and bad to live on what fish we might catch in the river. If thia is the kind of civilization awaiting us on the reserve God grant that we may never be compelled to go ‘on one, as it 18 more preferable to live in the mountains and drag out an existence in our native manner. So far as living is concerned the Indians at all the military oats get enough to eat and considerable cast off clothing, But bow long is this to continue’ What is the object of the ent 19 regard to Indians? Is it enough that we are ? Remove ail the Indians from the military post them on reservations, such as the Truckee and Walker rivers (as they were conducted) and it will require a greater military force stationed around to keep them within ‘the limits than it now does to keep them in subjugation, On the other hand, if the Indians have any guaraatee that they can secure a permanent home on their own native soil, and that our white neighbors can be kept from encroaching on ‘our rights, alter baving a reasonabie share of ground allotted to us as our own, and giving us the required advantage of I warrant that the savage, as he is called to-day, abidiag member of the community fitteen oF shence. Yours, respectfully, SARAH WINNENUCCA, Incendiary Fire. The glass manufactory on Twenty-fifth and E streets, owned by Joun Purdy, was entirely de- stroyed by fire to-night. Loss about $40,000. The fire was the work of an incendiary, . The National Academy of Science. The National Academy of Science, after a session of five days, lias adjourned to meetin this city on the third day of October next. A number of scientific papers were read, oue by Professor War- ren on the new breeds of hardy silk worms that Teed on tne ailanihus or oak, and the importance of their Introduction into the United States as a mea- sure of juture industry. Arrival of the Siloop-of-War Iroquois at Hampton Koads from a Three Years? Cruise in the Asiatic Waters. The United States sloop-of-war Iroquois arrived at Hampton Roads on Friday, 137 days from Houg Kong—all well, The Iroquois is a sloop of the third class, 1,016 tons old measurement, with two engines of 813 horse power. Ler armament consists of one 100-pounder and one 60-pounder Parrott rifle guns, four nime-inch Dahigrens and one pound howitzer. Sne left Sandy Hook Febrbary 3, 1867, to join the Asiatic squadron, visiting, during her cruise, the most important islands in the Indian and China seas and many of the ports of China and Japan, performimg tmporunt — service an those waters. At Osaca, Japan, the Amert- can, Prussian, Italian and Dutch Ministers, several consuls, secretaries abd clerks of the ditferent foreign legations, the ‘tycoon aud several ovicers of high rank, sougnt refuge advourd the Iroquois from the rebels, who had possession of the city. At Hong Kong, in November last, while firtug a salute in houor of bis Royal Highness Prince Atired, a prema- ture explosion of a nine-tnch gun blew overboard, through the port, five seamen, who were immedi- ately picked up, and each found to have lost an arm. Upon learning of this disaster the Prince sent one of his oflicers to Imquire aiter the condition of the men, and presented each with a purse contain- ing twenty-five pouds. On the 2/th of November the Iroquois steamed out of Hong Kong harbor, home- Ward pound, and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope February 3, aiter a pleasant passage. During her cruise the Iroquois lost tive men from disease aud sailed 43,316 miles. The foliowing 1s alist of the ofMlcers of the Iro- quois:— commander—R. L. Law, commanding. Lieulenant Commainder—Nicoll Ludiow, Executive Oficer—Lieutenant Joba McGowan, Jr. Masters—George A Bicknell, H. K. Wilsou and W. H. Emory. 6 ripe idm F. Meigs, F. M. Wise and H. G. 0, ‘olby. Midshtpmen—Duncan Kenneay, Huntinton Smith, William J. Barnett, Washington 0, Sharrer and George W. Tyler. Surgeon—Thomas W. Leach, Paymaster—A. D. Bi Engineers—First in charge, H. B. Nones; Second Assistant, Wm. W. Heaton; acting Second Aseistant, John T. Smith; Acting ‘Phurd As- sistant, Thomas Clark. Boatswain—Herman Peters. Sailmaker—J. E, Crowell. Captain's Clerk—T, M. Spencer. ‘fhe complement of the Iroquols comprises thirty- seven petty officers, forty-six ordinary seamen aud Iandsmen, twelve naval apprentices, fireen coalheavers and fifteen marines. She brings ity-six supernumeraries from the ships Delaware, jaumee aod Unadilla, whose terms of service hav- ang expired, they were sent home to ve discharged row the service. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, THE NEW POLICE REGIME. Installation of Superintendent Jourdan—Ken- "HE FASHIONS. nedy Happy—Jourdan Ditto—Declaration of | MODERN STYLE ON THE ROMAN PINCIO, Polioy-No Quarter to Thieves—‘‘Etor- nal Vigilance” — Politics Ignored— Honors to One of Jourdan’s Pupils. ‘The 16th day of April will long be remembered by the police force of the city of New York asthe epoch from which commences what promises to be radical reform in tho administration of the police system. Superintendent Kennedy yesterday laid down the crown and sceptre, with which he has Tuled the metropolis for nearly ten years, and they Were modestly lifted by Jobn Jourdan, his succeesor. THE BXCITEMENT ABOUT THE BUILDING, It was announced that the ceremony of transfer would take place at noon, At an eariy hour in the morning a large number of captains, cergeants and citizens crowded the rooms im expectation of the event. Mr. Kennedy, who, with all his eccentricl. tes, is unusually esteemed by the force, spent the morning in packing up and receiving the congratu- lations of friends upon ins relief from the responsi- bie cares of the office le has #0 long filled, He had a pleasant smile and word for every one who approached him and was in an unusually good/humor, About half-past eleven Superintend- ent Jourdan appeared in the building and at once proceeded to Mr. Kennedy’s room, where he was closeted for some minutes, As be emerged several prominent citizens expressed thelr congratulations and welcomed him to the butiding. He proceeded to Comimissioner Brennan’s room and was in con- sultation with nim for a few minutes, Later in the day—at noon precisely—Mr. Jourdan proceeded to Mr. .Kennedy’s office, followed by Mr. Bosworth, president of the Board. The outer room Was instantly thronged by officers and citizens, who followed the th¥ee officials to President Bosworth’s room on the second floor. THR CRREMONI&S OF INDUCTION. Commissioners Brennan and Smith not being in attendance, Judge Bosworth remarked to James Hawley, Jr., with a smile, “Inform Messis. Smith aud Brennan that the bride and bridegroom await them.” Those oMctals came im, when Superlatendent Kennedy straiguiened himself up to nis full height and re- marked:— S GENTLEMEN OF TIF POLICE COMMI8sION—I suppose it ban becoine my especial duty to. present 10 you gentleman, you have long known and whom eu Aare chosen Superin- fendeot—Capiain Jobo Jourdan. Captain Jourdan is here to take the required obligation. I have onl 80 to vemark long as I have been ta the department pis depurtment as an oficer and 4 gentleman has sb ‘ag to incet my cordial approval. As an ofilcer under ‘me T havi always found him prompt aud reliable, and [ hope that in the dis- charge of the onerous duties you bave called him to perform be will be noted for the same promptness and success that have attended bis previous career on the force. Superatendent Jourdan responded :— Gentlemen, I wish to return my thanks to'the Superintend- ent for Lis In all our intercourse the most triendly feeling has always existed between un. Here Superintendent Jourdan, who was in citt- zen's dress, stepped up to President Bosworth’s desk, when the venerabie President, in the presence of many spectators, administered the oath of office. ‘tbat ceremony over Superinteydent Kennedy stepped forward and presenting his shieid to Super- intendent Jourdan said:— Allow me to present you with the vadge of office. Commissioner Brennan here remarked:— Mr. President—We desire to make another of our officers— Acting Captain Kennedy, of the Sixth precluct—happy, ‘Send for a clerk that we may make bim full captain. The clerk’s room was seuiched, but Hawley and Hasbroeck were not to be found, and the ceremo- nies ended, the Commissioner remarking that one of their first acts wili be to make Acting Captain ‘Thomas J. Keunedy full captain of the Suxth precinct. A COMPLIMENT TO MR. KENNEDY, Not the least interesting incideng of the day was the presentation to Mr. Kennedy, by Mr. Willie White, of @ letter signed by seventeen reporters, taking thetr lavewell of Mr. Kennedy, and wishing him godspeed. The ex-Superintendent was visibly astonished and aflected on reading the letter to find that it was signed by every reporter atiaehéd to the building, and as a tear started unbidden at the reference to the heroism of the “old cniet’? an riots, he stated Wat ut a future time “he: ge the re- celpt of the document in an oficial manner. SUPERINTENDENT JOURDAN'S POLICY. After all the excitement attending the transfer of ofice had passed away Superintendent Jourdan pro- lulgated the following address to the police force:— OFvick OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF MUNICIPAL PoLicr, 300 NOLuEnRY StRECT, New YORK, April16, 1870. To THE PoLice FORGE or THE VOLIOk DEVAMIMEN'T OF THE Curry OF NEW YoRs:-- In assuming this day command of the Municipal Police Force, ax its chief executive ofticer, I naturally sment when considering that my predecess years’ exp: uperintendent, You can relieve this by your operation. Having been during sev- enteen years your comrade and friend, and having been su cussively promoted (rom the ranks to my present position, 1 Ovght to be familiar with ail your wants and with every de- tail of police duty. I will simply endeavor to deserve your confidence and aid you in lariat that of “ the pubic. Let us all remember we are public servants, en- dowed by law at times with summary and disagreeable powers which we should use firmly but courteously. Let us never forget our grave reaponsitilities as guardians of publi: rights and protetors of vast property interest, Oe numbers are reully inadequate to the police wants of the great metrop- ; yet we can supply that deficiency by viglunce and con- interest In Our respective trusts. Oureriminal foes nero totinaiely bald gether, searys Cwnniigy an at i. Into our metropolis flock 'the depraved trom all ties of the world, as well as the Union. In dealing with nd in guarding citizens or stran- z jval influence, but depend upon ev office. The exercise of police mi popular, That duiy is often subjected to grave nding, but we caa diminish misunderstandin; atroldug our tempers, Let our best muttocs be: first, I neat, never to compromise it. Let our ministers of the law always be respectful, ay b preveit rrinuey a ‘the high and when our primary responsibilities of detection or arrest are discharged, (et us never criticise perjormance of appropriate iy Uy others is branch" of the artmintstration of “ied JOHN JOURDAN, Superintendent.” Later in the day a special §mecting of the Board was held for the consideration of the subject of ad- Justing the proportions of the Police Life insurance Fund. The result wilt be found i another column. No action was taken looking to the promotion of Mr. Jourdan’s successor in the Sixth precinct, but it is certain to follow within a few days. The delay was caused by the fact that it 1s the yatention of the Board very soon to make several radical changes in the command of precincts. It 18 said that tour or fi aptaius will be removed enurely and eight or transferred TSE SHRIEVALTY. Mass Meeting in the Thirteenth Ward—Jus- itice Shandley Nominated for Sheriff. A mass meoting of the citizens of the Thirteenth ward was held last night at the corner of Delancey and Clinton streets. The meeting was under the auspices of the Thirieenth Ward E. J. Shandley Association, aud was organized by the election of P. McLaughlin as President aud John U. Andrews as Secretary. The neighvoriiood was briilanuy iilu- mIninated by Chinese lanterns and bonfires, and was enlivened by fireworks and music by a good band. Mr, John U. Andrews read a sertes of resolutions, Tee arr important among witich were the fol- lowin Resolved, That asa fitting tribute to a wortby citizen, upright official and an honest man, we do hereby nominate 4 proper candidate for Sheriif of (he city and county of New York, at the noxt election, Mr Edwurd J. Shandley, of the venth ward, anid commend him to the intelligent voters of this city sa a gentleman every way worthy of their and one fuily quatitied in every respect for the position, an hereby pledze ourseives to give bim our hearty and’ vo! divided support, Resolved, That as nothing can be done in politics without organiza ion we earnestly call upon the friends of Mr. Ed- ward J, Shand ley in every ward of the city to organize them- selves properly, wo that we cau present au undivided front at the poile. Speeches were made by Messrs. W. H. Burns, O’Coanor, Patrick McLaughlin, John Foster, J. Keyes, E. J. Soandiey and Timothy J. Campbell and others. Justice Edward J. Shandiey was unani- mously nominated as the choice of the voters of the ‘Thirteenth ward for the office of Sherif, and the meeting broke up tn the greatest entausiasm. “MORE BOND FRAUDS. Forgery of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Bonds. Two thieves named Charies Riggs and Frank Jones were apprehended on Friday by detective Charles Heidelverg, assisted by United States detec- tlve Beatty, at McKay's drinking saioon, corner of Sixteenth treet and Eighth avenue, on a charge of forgery. There have been in circulation some time forgea Atlantic and Great Western $1,000 bonas, but it was supposed that \none now in circulation. few days ago vive Beatty was informea by Charies Kiggs, one of the defendants, who was not aware Who Beatty was, that he could sell nim some stolen bonds, and proposed an appointment at the above saloon, where he would sell itn two $1,000 bonds for $1,200, $700 of which were to be given to and $600 to Frank Jones. Beatty made the bi hh a and when the bonds were produced at the saioon Hel- delberg made bis appearance, and tuok the bonds and the two men into custody. The bonds were jound to have the forged signavures of Jay Goud and H. N. Otis, two directors of the roaa. Both men were taken be:ore Justice Dowling yesterday morn- at the ‘Yombe Poltce Court. In the aiternoon . Jy, coals spreeced to give evidence, but after consultation With the Judge the examination was adjourned to a future day, Both prisoners were held, Youth, Beauty and Fashion in Elegant Congre- gation—The Famous “Hill” and the People Who Resort to the Grounds—“Young Bloods” of To-Day and the Memory of Belisarius—A Fairy Centre and Good Sized Fairies —Plumed Hats, Lace Veils, Fans, Farasols and the Flash- ing of Equipages, 3 Paris, March 26, 1870, “ssvery road leads to Rome” says the proverb, and this being admitted I will add, “every street in Rome leada to the Pincio.” In trath, were it not for the gardens on this emmence Rome would not be a place for fashionable people to go to, as where else would they show themselves? Without the Pinclo who ever in the Eternai City would care to Keep open carriages and so many’ livery servants, with galloon on all their seams? A good solid coach and pair for the Campagne, or for a drive down the uneven, antique “Ways,” would be all tne requisites. Coach builders, therefore, and gentlemen who keep stables for other people, as well as gentlemen who ‘keep stables for themselves, should ve much obliged to fashion for the daily rendezvous up on the Pinclan hill, A little topography might not be unwelcome to parues who have never been to Rome, and who, on principle, “wouldn't go mear the Papal States for the world,” Monte Pincio occupies ail the levei space between the Muro Torte and gardens of Villa Media. It ts approached by a flue drive rising from the Piazza de Popoil, and commands the best prospects of Rome, with the Vatican and Janiculum hilis in the background. The grounds of the Villa Borghese skirt the terraces, and wherever the eye turns tt restg on vistas of green, on alleys of box, evergreen oaks, cypresses and statues, antique marbles, sculptures, &c, From the slopes that rise and descend glimpses are caught of the surrounding country for many miles wide. Then, as to history, the place is full of associations, ‘ney would spoil @ good deal of the pleasure experienced there, I dare say, if all sightseers were historians; but fortunately they are not, and many of our fellow creatures are sent by physicians to Rome on purpose to relax their minds and forget things. This accounts for the bland physiognouiies met on the Pincio. People stroll or cauter about for enjoyment, not to be bothered witht dates. No one cares, either, nowa- days for tne antiquated records of past heroes, What if Belisarius did view the degradation of the Romans on the Pincian Way? What if his trembling hand was extended at the Gate de! Popolo, close by, and the gate through which he had led them on to victory? What if he did there beg, when biind, and with heartrending acceuts mmplored, “Date obolum, Belisarto 2”? If young crevédom does think of Belisarius at all, 88 1t walks along the Pincto, tt 1s to soliloquize that Belisarius should have blown his bratns out or have tried his last chance at the game which in those times corresponded to our modern rouge et noir’. 4s to tombs and things lying about, have not peo- ple in hign life quite enough mourning in their own lamilies without caring for the dead of past ages? True, it is here the Pomttians were buried; but Nero, one of thelr most remarkabie unworthies, was a very bad man; and rather a good thing, too, that bis ‘ashes were buried where no ope could get at and desecrate them under the Flamiuian Way. Consequently the ieast said about historical pygonues close by the better. J enter into the heart of my sub- ject fortuwith, which also happens to be the ceatral pot of the Pincio and—a palm tree, it 1s a fairy centre of attraction. Round wis exotic play the militia, and bere ladies are drawn up to jisten to unlimited cantabide ufec- ¢uoso. Here hath cavaliers; were canter by tue bionde and the brune; here neigh the horses of pri- Mates tossing yellow and while rosettes on their ears—tue horses’ ears of course. But to the tree. if 1t could sigh, When a passing breeze does not make Al, What & hurricane would proceed rom tins unique palm! Uniike the obelisk rooted up from the same Kgyptan soli, 1t never did strike deep in the Pincian clods, Urthodoxy im the atmospuere has, perliaps, injured this heatnenish solitawe; tor bere do the ciergy of Rowe read their daily exercises from morning till noon, resting between verses and Chap- ters to carry on polemics with some one or otuer of the congregatious they may come across in these rounds. ‘he tree would tear away unless kept in position by @ beit of vaudayes Wed round its Wrunk aud peggea down in tue ground. Thus secured, the captive is a vegetable martyr to look at. ‘fhe jaureis cultivated beuind the statues of emi- nent men are no less remarkabie curiosities. Dante and Petrarch are im a niche of natural verdure, aud the glossy evergreen leaves brisé out In spear-llke emulation to touch tue cold marble brows of wie poets. ‘Ihe drive, the flower beds aud clusters of Diautations are disposed with exquisite art. here tapers the spikey aloe; there quiver feathery shrubs; farther on viossoin variegated bushes, aud yonder luxuriantly grow citron and orange trees. On the top of gentle mounds gland parasol ir trees, go like Gark isiets between earth and heaven when seen trom beiow, ana so iike gigantic musirooms wieu viewed irom an eminence. On turning irom tie contemplauion of pature within the Pinclo Lo the consideration of externals, there are the ivy- tangled arches placed about the Borghese grounds; the urns, fountains, columns and satyrs ever peeping througa the green. Here large cedars spread op emeraid iawns; there carriage roads wind through silent giades, and down them course the meditattve or lovers of solitude, mingled with the few who oftener turn their backs upon the Pincio im a tit of spieen than in a poetic reverie, Such as these could, i Wey liked, enjoy the gardens in peace wituout many Wituesses and between the hours of tweive and two. Morning stroilers who read Psaims whne golog up and down (just as Socrates went on walking ana reading when he had swalioweu iis poison) ace sure to ve taking @ siesta at noon. A few French zouaves and Papal livres, a few Eugitsu- men accompanted py opera glasses and Murray's, a group of artists here and there, & stoical Koman youth absorbed in the past, @ lew slray squadie- guert from the hills are all one is exposed to. ‘fhe “nigh life set,’ who Keep equipages, are no more to be seen vefore three than Angi0-Saxon belles who go to Rome for the arts and antiques, but study modern heralay, which is the art of titles, 1n- stead. When veauties do arrive late in aii tue giory ol satin, veivet, plumes and an unimpeaciiabie tura- out, Ibis wonderiul how soon they detect # coronet, however microscopic, on the drive, Woudertui, tuo, their littie cry of surprise waen the owner thereol, afterevery mute euconragement, approaches aud lifts bis hat. Wonderful, wo, how soou alter this We read of Miss Sinita turning into a contessa at Rome. But to the Monsignort. ‘They are the upper ciergy only in public life; no one khows exactly where the nobleman ends nor where the other vocation begins; for monsignort bave a tact on the Pincio which renders the distinc- tion arduous. As soon as one of tne Cardinals approaches, aud im such flaming red wat peopie with weak eyes should shade them i the sun shines, @ swarm of monsignort cluster round him in busimess-like zeal. When he has disappeared and one of the matrons of Rome—satirically called “Mother of the Cuurch”— draws up in all the prestige of infailibility-made woman, instantly, they bazz up to her door, and, though apparently talking of nothing but tne weather, are actually holding couucil, acquaintiug her of some Clerical imbroglio, When she tas heard ail about tie infamy of one and treachery of another, and has ordered her coachinan to drive on with a promise made unto her court to get one or wo who are most inconvenient out of office, the monsiguort have to find outa great deal. Tney part, and a few fallin with some newcomers; others, after having their hands Kissed by beggars and old women, not descendants, I should say, of the Sabine belles, pro- ceed to their carriages in waiung and pay tneir calis. Meanwitle whole stcings of vehicies have toiled Up; such pretty toilets [rom the best Paris makers aud tn such variety, from the Roman lace veil over Tauitiess features to the Paris plumed hat &/a Diane de Pouiers! The fan and the parasol, the eyeglass and the whip are signailers, for they telegraph imes- sages a8 the carriages or riders flash by, und these sigs are understood by an impassioned tnriil. Among the foo passengers are three-cornered hats that cast as much shade around as the King of Siam’s umbreila, and these are red umbrellas in the hands of seminarists which could keep as much rain off a8 @ submarine tunnel. There are clerical nats, too, which are not three-cornered, but like roofs, with one side peaied up behind. ‘The Pinctan hill 18 also @ great place for legs. They are here seen in great variety, put, unfortunately, under more robes than skirts, ana, I may say, ais- advantageously, however well a high-necied shoe With buckie may termmate @ slender ankle. At about five o’clock, wien sunset glows behind St. Peter's, a cosmopolitan crowd of pedestrians ana vehicles fill the grand alley. aad as sooa as the bour has tolled the move begins towards the Corso. This famed street 1s lined with spectators, ail stand- ing along the curbstone to see the return from the Yincio. Horses have to be reined in ana caleches to come to @ standstill every other three minutes, 80 fuil 18 this via of pulaces. A good point is ever the Piazza Colonna, and not only 1s the pavement weil covered, but every window and every balcony holds weil-aressed people, eagerly looking down aud naming the owner of eacn carriage as it passes by. It 18 @ shower Of prinwipessa eminenussime aud Pontifical superlatives ending in 1, from the Pincio downwards and back again, over and over again, until dinner time. Among the popolant a gorgeous Roman woman, With black treases, crossed by an arrow, squecses by APRIL 17, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEBr. now and then; or a pauper, majestically draped ta a very patched cloak, lois for ® moment against & iainpp and wito d mien then sauniers on ag in. Foreign bishops are those who remain longest up inthe gardens, ‘They are not particularly friendly to each » aNd to the observer their Hatiouall- es are easily detected, AS @ rule the deportment of the German bishop is elephantine. He is @ thick-sel man anda robust potganas: Particular sigus—Lutueran, thick-soled ote and metaphysical sonsure, but earnest and convinced. ‘The Spanish bishop ts either of a very rubicund or sallow compiexion. His private opimioas are sou bre, which 1s bad for the liver, His gait and pres- enve are more buiky than dignified, and he gets over mags faster than any at the Vatican, Particular sigus—Yobacco-sialncd finger nalls; but monarcui- cal. ‘The American bishop much prefers a walk without any purpie than with it, As he srrides along te shows Pepnsyivanian, not Roman legs. Particular mign-— An irreconcilable hat; but honest, strong on reform. ‘The English bishop ts always one of the Loras, not the Commons. He 1s, pertiaps, very humble inter. nally, but externally looks as if ever listening to the bells of Westminster ringing exciusively for him. Particular signs—a very straight, stiff Diack coat, and “his grace’’ all over; but joyal and sincere. The French bishop can’t for the lite of him nelp tt, but as he passes by he feels he is the “enugbtened’”? clergy. WParucular signs—beatitude and pacuica- tion, @ soutane With buttons all the way dowa, just like mallow seeds or camomile; but dignified and perauasive, ‘The Italian bastion lips round the Pincto like an eel, It takes a many of the small try to make one disn, and when served up as a prelate 1s neither quite dish nor flesh—he may bea volatile. Particular signs—sharp, moving eyes, smooth mien and a good many tassels; but a Keen diplomatiat. ‘Ibe Oriental bishop always seems to be walking In heaps of sand anticipating some torture. He 18 half a patriarch and an apostie; could not be either without an unctuous, flowing beard; thinks Siberia can’t be much more chilly than Kome. Par- ticular signs—Snuit and cotton flag bandkerchiels, ail colors and all squares; but fervent and guieless. ‘The otner episcopal dignitaries do not go out auch in winter; they are Asiaticy or Africans, and catch the ague every time they look at the bandaged paim ree. 1 have not described those who have no distinct characteristics, but may a8 weil note that the whole scene 18 rendered lively by burning crim- son, modest violet, immaculate white, san- guine green and glorious yellow. A sprin- king of rich scari#, @ Mutter /of ribbons, the ghtter of metal and clashing of swords are pleasant accessories, Often, too, the distant trum~ Res call awakens silent echoes as the tramp of horses’ hools causes @ rush tosee the cavairy return from exercise to the fort below. Aud iastly, when pedes- trians and the daugnters of fashion ‘have left the Pincio, there is an all-pervading breeze on the nuil which Iingers thus nowhere else. It is impregnated with the esseace of the fir, the scent of box borders and other undefined earthy emanations. Here whe cypress opens and solemnly closes, and the willows bow to the tormal yews. One feels there 13 1m the darkness a world still moving, though silent; a world that, like our own, sapires, moans and sighs—the suadows periiaps of we past, A SUNDAY IN NEW YORK. {From the London Saturday Review, March 26.) We are informed by the New York HeRaLp that “the new editor of the Oberlin (Ohio) News nas issued a salutatory, brief but to the point. He says, ‘We come here to make money and a readable pa- per.’”? The ‘‘saiutatory’’ of journals which hope to succeed and of journals which do succeed, and the valedictory of journals which fail, might, we con- ceive, as in Oberlin so in London, be reduced to the terse formulary of our Ohio contemporary. But if we come to reduce the statement to logical form the proposition does not admit of simple conversion, All thats readable makes money, but we are hardly Prepared to admit that all that makes money is readable. We have no doubt, for example, that Mr. Charles Dickens’ later novels, and nis readings, now brought positively for tue last time to @ fimal farewell, make money, but we should be sorry to pronounce the stories readable or the elocution tolerable. The NEw York HERALD Itself by all accounts makes money, but its “readability,” to use @ probable phrase of its ele- gant writers, must depend upon pubtic taste, Atmong many specialities of this remarkable paper-— and it seems to be an imvention of tts own—Is giving on Monday twelve columns of reports of the various sermons preached and services held at the different churches and meeting houses, tabernacies, conventicies, theatres, and music halls in New York and Brooklyn. The re- porters and penny-a-liners—we beg pardon, the journalists—engaged on the New York Heap, like their British brotigen, must turn their hands to everything, and we seem to detect the same fine Italian hand in the reports of New York religion and Washingcon pleasures. A ‘Jam at the White House” and “the Gossips of Grace Caurch and the Beauties ol Fasaionavle Worship and Lovely Lautes as Alds to Devouon” ave the same unmistakable favor of Jenkins, “just as we find @ british chiffonnier of literature adapting the same style of word- painting to the detatis of a buriesque and w the Ecumenical Council. We note the tact because m the Lapending Americanizing of ail our instita- tious threatened or promised by Mr. Bright we shail probably some day find im our Mouday’s news- Papers Coptous and personal reports of tue sermons aud dresses exhibited at the London churches on Sanday moruing. We have already sdvanced a step towards this desirable consummation. Already the Saturday papers, or some of them, give us a prelibation of the banquet about to be spread next day by our spiritual pastors aud masters, and from the increasing length of the announcements made by ecclesiastical touters of tue “Preachers in the London churches to-morrow’ we conjecture that tne churches and the sects alike are getting tully aware of the advantages of advertising. but, as im the Case of theatres and other popular exuibi- ons, anucipatery advertisements ought to find their correlauion in critical reports. A play or a burlesgue is advertised aud then criticised, It 18 only fa, if services anu sermons are adyerused, that they should be reported. The N YORK HERALD 18 More logical than the Pall Mall Gazee and the Gobe, ‘The diticulty, and by a little practice it may be got over, is in getting penry-a-liners to go to church—or rather, When they have got to church, im gecuing * journalists ’ who are sufficiently acute not to dis- play their entire ignoranoe of a novet subject. Just ag the typical Sunkeyof the jest-book hoped whacit would be considered in nis wages If he Was to berequired to attend family prayers, 80 we trust that che penny- w-live has been raised to twopeuce in the case of the gentlemen ofthe press who are required by the New YORK HERALD Lo go vo church On Sunday and alter- wards write out thetr experieuces of this unusual exercise, At preseut we should say, judging [rom the reports in the NEW YoRK HERALD of Fen, 28, that tne reporters have not yet quite setticd to their work, ‘Theological and ecclesiological tecunology hardly comes, like reading and writing, by uature; and we remember some cases in this fleid of dtsquisition among ourselves where ‘“abie- editors and accurate sub-editors have committed their journals to queer blunders in unfamiliar matters. Years ago the Times inserted a report, communicated by some expert, of somo choice ecclesiastical cele vration in which the writer described the altar of a new church, or coilege, as elevated in a‘ foot- pace,” the recognized phrase for astep, This was printed in the 7imes as @ “foot-pan.” The New YouRK HERALD has not, perhaps committed so good @ joke as this, but us Religious Summary shows here and there the lucubratious of tyros in church-gomg. It used to be said of a deceased bishop, who had acquired a knack of looking very unctuous and religious in church, that be always joined in the Lord’s rrayer as though 1 were a de- cided novelty whica he had met with for the first time. The jOurnalist wo does Grace Church for the HEALD may be pardoned for his gushing and en- thusiastic language, seelog that “the strikingly im- pressive effec’ of What le saw and heard was de- cidecly the same sort of impression which is made upon as by our first pantomime. The picture is drawn by @ novice in religious, but an expert in theatrical, ei! The softened holy panes and devices in glass, tue deep and stately tones of tie ea: cate tracery in the Gothic rout oulded pillars, the massive day ished pews, the elegance of tol among the many fair w and quiet contemplation, bad altogether ™ strikiagly impres- sive elfect. ‘That 1s to say, the combination of the beauty of holi- ness and the holiness of beauty had such aa eifct upon the susceptivie reporter that we are not alto- gether surprised at ls conclu3ion:— Sitting on a roftly cushioned seat near the centre aisle, midway between the chancel the entrance, listening to the music, the ripple of responses from the congregation, and the full sonorous swell ot the reader's voice, {twas dill: cuit to feel otherwise than an tinpulse of sympathy with tus order of Christian worship. Grace church, we need hardly say, is a very ortho- dox Episcopalian church, but not an extreme one. And yet, if we may trust the reporter, some things are done there which would make even Mr. Purchas stare and gasp. We are informed that “after the splendid voice of the Rev. sir. Egbert had ceased to intone the lessons of the day, the tall form of the Rev. Dr. Potter rose in the pulpit.” if in the use of New York the sermon follows the second lesson, and nothing follows the sermon—for such we are ex licitiy told was the case on thisoccasion—the New york Episcopaiians can hardiy complain of the leugth of their Suuday devotions. We fe:t curious to know how the more advanced school manages Matters across the Atlantic; bat we regret to say that the reporter on “St. Alban’s Ritualisue = Churcn,”’ evidently knowing noviing about the matter, skulks from his duty im language guie, but provokingly vague. We are only laiormed that The services are of the orthodox ritualistic order. The of- ciating clergymen are altired in ecclesiastical vestmante and are surrounded in their exercises by a throng of white-robed Choristers. While the celebrant solemnly recites tne pre- acrived passages the membors of the congregation alternately bow and cross themselves in the responses, whie additional tapers are lighted as the worship progresses, ‘The impression made upon the gentlemen of the press by the Episcopalian churches seems to have been that of an assembly of lotos eaters, 8 calm and areamy Castle of Indoience and a revival, if any- thing, of the Dutch governors of New York. ‘The Sectarians are certatuly more lively. At Plymouth church, so the summary mforms us, Mr. Beecher preached on the “hourly preparation to meet God in the other life,” aud some of bis hearers must have thought they had been rather delayed in this work by those wentlemen who stood at the door of the tabera Out, “Galy pewholders allowed to enter af present, an tala with’ Christian resignation, we trust those unhappy mor- who had bee: to to bid for & pew stood by while we fear, tmagined that they had ideration of the Lord, entered tn These anxious supplicators for divine grace were no sooner seated than some of them en- ged pious couversativa about sociables and the price of rs At the Church of the Messiah—Unitarian—@ sing- ing match was decided. ‘The pastor's place was lled by « Boston clergyman, who informed the congre- gation that he had heard muca of their singing, and desired tu axcortain fi hey could do as weil as the con- gregation oa Thus challenged, the Worshippers Mtruok up “Far from’ Mortal Carea (treating, with an energy and a custiness that must have been gratifying to the challenger, and we pray acceptable to him, ac, ‘The match Was worthy of the metropolis Atthe Lyric Hali Mr, Frothingnam, the person Who assisted Mr. Beecher 1 the cliuical marriage of Richardson and the wowan MeFariand, got ito first Principies and che bigh etymological iattudes, and ulso somewhat oat of soundings, He delivered a ‘#ermon On religion, whica word has three detini- tions—one to ‘read over,’ one to ‘bind again,’ and & tiird to ‘loosen.’ We are quite aware that Cr 0 4s responsible for the first, aud that Lactauttus and Others father the second derivation of the word. But that religion means a “releasing’’ 18 peculiar to Mr, Frothingham’s dictionary, tuough not w bis practice, seeing that in the ceremony aforesaid he considered the ioosening of tue marriage knot a very religious duty tadeed. Were it not that to inculcate any duty ts notin thelr way, and did we not decect @ slight plagiarism of acerialn Spartan practice, we should for iivelt- hess recommend to the conductors of the Sunday lcctnres at pt. George’s Hail tue following America mode of spending Sunday evenin, ‘The usual temperance meeting, under the auspices of the Kings County Temperance Assoclation, was held at iooley's Opera House inst evening. The piace was crowded to ex- cen t and the “end men’ got oif several very amusing carica es of Inebriates, to the delight of a decidedly “mixed” wdience. If, a3 we have already hintea, the knowledge of the New York reporters Is limited on religious mat- ters, as in one case where We were informed that the sermon was on the text, “Charity never fadeth,’? and im auother where a verse, new to the authorized version, 1s quoted, “Thou didst not lead thy Holy One to see corruption,” the penny-a-liners are quite al home in their pictorial and personal estimate of New York chureh going. ‘The coiuma which in the New York HERALD immediately follows the religious summary is filied with an account of the “receptions ‘and balls last week.” ‘The oue column reads exactly like the other, and evidently proceeds from te same pen. At the White House we are told that the Presideav’s wife “wore a rove of ruby velvet, with her portly shoulders subdued under a fichu of poms @Alengon,” and that Mrs. Hamilton Fish ‘wore delicate mauve satin.” At the churcnes the report- ers are equally and in every sense at home. At Grace chureb the “costumes of velvet and plush jackets in brown and = black were numerous,” “Rich and heavy velvets and flashing diamonds” are noticed at one church, while at another we are favored with a personal introduction to “a young lady of nineteen, smal but eiegant in figure, witha eomplexion of the purest pink, &c., &c., and at- tired ta a silk dress, draped with graceiui founces en paner, & pink tle and @ pretty beau-catcher.”’ In New York the Quakeresses seem to “comprise the wealth, beauty and fashion of the city, and it might make Fox and Airs. Fry turn in their graves when toid of the veivet and silks, satins and iris plumes of the doves. But they are run hard vy the savie belies. in Zion colored onurci we find that “the congregation 1s decidedly well dressed, ud that a subdued quietness prevails, which gave a very elegant fout ensemble; while deep purpies aud black velvets show to ad- vantage a dark skin and pearly teeth, aud that the costumes are heightened by diamond pins and ear- drops.” ‘To do them justice the various pastors seem to feel what the Bishop of Orleans calis tne unbridied luxury of women as & sort of challenge, and a good many of them preached against the femi- ine extravagance of the age. One pulpit orator quoted some verses new to us:— What is the reason, can you gu That men are poor and women thinner? So much ao they for dinner ‘That nothing's left to dress the dinner. But, juding from our own experience, the women rather like these pastoral objurgations. They treat a homily against fine clothes as agort of “beau catcher’? and advertisement of their own and thelr milliners’ taste. We are not sure that there is not some uu- derstanding between the shepherds and the lambs of the flock, and that the ladies do not consider the pulpit reproof rather in the light of a testimonial of their good taste and skill in fashion. ‘The writer of the religious summary of New York says that there were only two aristocratic churches in which the subject of female dress was not touched on in the pulpit. Wecan only say in conciusion that we al- Most, when it 18 soo late, begin to nt of giving this picture of Sunday in New York. What if the satire should prove an inducement and the beacon be taken for an attraction? We yet live to see a new Pietas Londiniensis edited by the compiler of the Court Curcular and the reporters of the Morning Post, And as at New York we are informed that “ex-Heaitn Commissioner Crane, and Mr. Chauncey, president of the Mechanics’ Bank,” sald their prayers, or listened to somebody else’s prayers at ‘Trinity, Brooklyn, while “Sirs, Commodore Vanderbilt and her mother, Mrs. Crauford, with others of equal prominence," houored Almigbty God and Dr, Deems with their company at “the Church of the Stran- gers’’—we suould have been giad of some informa ton about the fashionable congregation who assem- bied at the parti-colored striped brick “cnurcn edifice” in New York commonly kpown as the Churen of the Holy Zevra—we are not without seri- ous apprehensions that the day is not distant when the dresses and devotions cf the Sunday visitors to te Beigravian churches wtil be as lully reported ia the London newspapers as the victims of those much duller entertainments, Belgravian recepucns. AMY INTELLIGENG Changes in Departments and Commanders. WASHINGTON, April 16, 1870, The following order has just been issued by Geueral Sherman:— GENERAL ORDER—NO 41, HEADQUARTERS OF THR ARMY,) ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OvFtoE, "> Wasur Cay April 15, 1870," § By direction of the President of the United States the following changes in departments aad commands are hereby announced: First—Major General J. M. Schofield ix of the military df to be at San Francisco, Soul The iepartinent of Alaska will be discontinued after the Ist of July, 1870, and the Territory will be attached to the Department of the Columbia, to the command of witch Brevet Major General E, R. S. Canby is assigned, his bead quarters to be at Portland, Oregon. Vhird-—A new department is hereby created, to be styled “Department of Ari igned to the com. ia of the Pucitic, bis headquarters na,” to embrace the Territory of that ifornia us lies south of «line from the northwest corner of Arizona to Point Conception, head- t Prescott or Fort Whipple, Arizona, und Colonel vet Major i stonem: sxigned to jeneral. ‘assigned to F vacated by d will establish the headquarters of the departinent at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, #yth—The Department of the Lakes after the Ist ot June will be enlarged, so ws toembraee the northern frontier as far cast as Lake Champlain, with headquarters at Detroit, Mich.;and Brigadier and Brevet Major Geueral P. St. George Cook ts assigned to the command. Sirth—Atter June 1 the Department of Virginia will be dis- continued, and the territory and troops therein will be at- tached to and form part of the Department of the East, Brevet Major General I, McDowell commanding, head- quarters at New York clty, Sereuth—The Department of the Cumberland will be discon- tinued after June 1, and the territory and troops therein will be attached to and form part of the Department of the South, Brevet Major General Terry commanding, headquarters at i ie —The officers of the gen partments that are hereby records and accounts, will re the army for reassigninent to duty. mmand of Gi D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. ARMY PERSONALS, Second Lieutenant John Pitman, Jr., 1s relieved from duty at the St. Louis Arsena! aud ordered to duty at West Point, at his own request. Lieutenant Wm. &. Spurgin, brevet major Twenty- fourth infantry, will be dropped trom the roli of lis regiment and proceed home to await orders. Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. M. Duty, unassigned, 1s ordered to report 1 person without delay to tue Commanding G 1 of the Di awcotal, Captain &. G. Parrott 1s ordered to Washington for examination for promotion. Military Court Martial. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 16, 1870. A court martial, convened to try Lieutenant Col- onel and Assistant Iuspectog General James Totten, U.S. A., met in this clty yesterday. The court is composed as foilows:—General S. U. Lovell, coiouel Fourteenth infantry, President; General 8. W. Craw- ford, colonel Second infantry; General G. Penne- backer, colonel Sixteenth iniantry; General H. W. Wesseis, lieutenant colonel U.S. A.; General K. 5. Granger, Sixteenth infantry; General K. Ayres Generai T. J, Haines, General Patten; Captain C. A. Whiter, of the Nineteenth infantry, Juage Advocate. One of the charges against General ‘i otten 1s said to be absence without leave. Aiter remaining 1D ses- sion here two or three days the court will proceed to Charieston, S. ©., for the purpose of procuring testi- mony, and will then return to Uhis city to conciude their proceedings. FIRS iN NEWARK AND ELIZAB: Fi Yesterday afternoon in Newark, N, J., a fire broke out in a saloon, kept by a Frenchman named Frea Gasset, in Plume street, in the Sixth ward. Tue flames spread rapidly, the house being of wood, and soon communicated to the adjoining house, occu- pied as a dwelling. Three families were burned out. ‘These are Mr. Gasget’s, Mr. Freydig’s and Mr. Koe- decker’s. Five little children had a narrow eacape. The buildings were almost mids destroyed, ‘The loss is about $4,000, partly insured. In Enizabeth, at the ‘Port, also yesterday after- noon two dwellings on Marshall street, between First and Crescent streets, caught fire and were an entire loss. though the firemen were prompt at their post. Several families were thereby thrown without shelter, ‘The loss here, likewise, Will be about $4,000 or £6,000. D) EUROPE. Pope Pius the Ninth Explains the Situa- tion of the Church and De- fines Its Enemies. ‘The North German maii steamship Union, Captain Dreyer, from Bremen the 2d and Southampton the 5th of April arrived at this port yesterday morning, bringing our special European correspondence and @ newspaper mail report in detail of our cable news telegrams, dated to the day of sailing from England. The Union landed 658 passengers anda valuable cargo. Prince Arthur will retarn tqEngiand in Augast. Lord Alisa’s Riboa of the Thistle will be given te Lord Miato, Verdi arrived in Paris and was present at the per- formance of “Uae Fohe & Rome” at the Athenée, Sir Rutherford Aicock, British Ambassador in China, accompanied by Lady Alcock, arrived in Paris from Brindisi. ‘rhe death is announced of the Marquis a'Aux ae Lescout, formerly Peer of France, officer tn the Boay Guard of Louis XVII. and Charles X. and Gentieman of the Chamber to both kings. Prince Pierme Bonaparte, says the Echo du Luxem- bourg, 18 about to come and reside very shortly in his chiteau of Epions. Orders have been given to prepare the apartments, ‘The statement wade so positively by the Presse of Prince Pierre Bonaparte’s departure from Parts turns out Co be erroneous, as he was at Auteuilon Thursday evening, Oo the sunject the Hays, of Paris, says:— A journal has announced that Prince Pierre has left Yaris, and it even Went so lar as Lo indicate Bot only the place of his destination, but the hour of bis departure and the persons who accompanied bim. The Prince 18 not gone, Will not leave, and cannot do 80 In presence of such attempts ut mumidauon, Forty-nine members of the Austrian Chamber re- signed their seats. They represent Galicta, Duko- vina, Carinthia and Istra, Bohemia and Dalmatia being no longer represented in the Assembly, only about 130 members are left out of a total of 203, Should any of those remaiuing be unable from iiness or other causes to attend, it will be impossible to trans- act any business, as there will not be sudicieat mem- bers to form a House, ‘rhe first number of the new journal, the Concorde, founded by the Apbe Ticodore Loyson, brother of Father Hyacinthe, appeared in Paris. The pro- gramme aunounces # liberal tone in politics and a religious creed opposed to the dogma of Papal ifal- Lipility. A teiegram rrom Constantinople of the 3d of April reports: ‘The Porte will not agree that the Internatto Tribunals in Egypt shall be composed with a ma- jority of Kuropean judges, a3 was proposed in tne report of the commission Wuich sat in October last. From India, under date of Bombay, March 12, we learn that the Jam of Nowanuggur intends to place atthe disposal of government hall a lac of rupece to commeinorate the visit of the Duke of Edinburg by ereeting some works of pubiic utility. The ‘Thackore of Bhownuggur has given a lac of rupees for & sintiar purpose and the Ciief of Palitana 26,000 rupees, ROME. The Pope on the Position of the Church. (Rome (March 26) ego rag ot the London ‘Times. | The home sickness of the American bishops ex- cles a8 much alarm on the vue side as the other, It won't do, however, for the New Worid to leave the Old in the lurch; and there are quite a8 many On this side of the Atlantic Who are resigned Lo vote as they are bid, bu! who are ony waiting tor Provi- dence to relieve them trom voting at all. At the opening of the Councli Euglana was reckoning up rather proudly the proportion of the Fathers speak- ing her tongue or understanding 1, and looking for- ward to ihe days wien a Councti, to be realiy ecumenical, would be prevailingly Anglo-Saxon. ‘The poor jady has been counting ver chickens, not exactly velore Ley ure Laiched, but certainly belore they chucked, and uever Was tuere so silent and sluggish a brood. All the Ltuilan papers, whatever ew politics or faith, are enjoying Lhe sight ol a Waole race—and tnat oue which links nos meanly of itself and 1s apt to look down on others—abso- luteiy dumfounded. On matters of futi—that 1s, on tue questions reaily at issue ana really moving the souis of men—one English bishop has opened his mouth, one Irishman, one Am in, and there ends this ridiculous exlivitivn of our national su- periority. Meanwhile the Pope ts not silent, nor does he de- ver m8 opinions within closed doors; that was never his Way. He is making speeches, iong or short, few or many, every day, aud tuey are always apropos \o the Council. On Friday he distributed to a large body of missionary bistovs and priests a quantity of sacred vestments, sent here by a Beigian society, aud made an address, which has been de- scribed a3 an epitome of tie whule Couucl ques- ton. treads thus:— It is a great consolation to me to find mynelf in the midst of you, su a8 to fuitil the desires of these pious iadies of Bel- Guin, who, auimated by # lively desire to be avie to say, Donne ditexs decorem domus tue, have prepared and seat wo Rome, in boxe: ted to them, a certain quantity of sacred ornawients of vario: to be distributed among the bih- 4. I must praise the zeat of these yout wil ind the apectal prayers they hot forget them. 4 rejoice beyoud ui have int d themselves about the ornaments for wie Orie ex! Ido not know bow they bave succeeded as regarda the pattern and the cut; each one of you will try to adaptthem: to binsel But i rejoice at tos thougtt, for} love the Urien- ta! rites, ana @ that they shali be eservediotact. The Variety Of th # of the great ornawents and glories of the Cathol! 1 love ail my children, without dis- Upevon of pation, of tongue, or rite; ane bt ardentiy desire this loye ve responded to, and that it imay make suit closer tbe union between the head aud the members. words are directed wectally to you € know that eortus have beed made 1 from this Holy See. Instead of th united to me. and do not suffer you by counsels and suggestions made to yi tie Chureh, and who do oot wish renewed in’ the Viear of Jesus Christ that waich happened to Jesus Christ nen drug before the trivunal of Pilate. Vilate Was well persuaded of the innocence of the Saviour, and would have desired to set Lim at liberty, baton hearing these words, “st hune dimittis non es anvicus Cirsaris,”” be Wus intunidated and overcome by arespect for man—tradviit riuntats coum. TheY are svlemn moments which are passing; we are treating of the principles ol eternal lite, of tue riguts of the Churel and of the Holy See; the truth, sanctity aud justice of whi by all and whieb a t impugned by those w of Cwnar, ate {riends of the their threats or their revolution and we wili Bot initia judges of tribunal ; but we will defend the boly cause of God without ttered by the applause of the world and witthout igbteved at that which is called public opinion, of which there are soMaby uubappy victims. L repeat It:— Be uuited with me aud pot wita the revolution; be united with mo in defending the holy rights of truth and justice, and in order to guard your- wolves against ‘the seductions of the love of popu- larity and applause, turn your iinds to me and not to pub- lic opinion. But to' hold ‘ourselves drm in these resolutions let us invoke the Holy Spirit to descend upon us and give us the strength necessary for us. Avove ali let us be bomble in heart and in spirit, not placing any conidence in our owa strength or our own 4 guided ail things and ta d promulgate the truth Yon. Ubless you tn the nawe the name of ihe Sou. 1b) Spirit; aud may thin blew sions and fortify you for th ¥ and boly Work eitrusied to your zeal. May itdescend upon your clergy and ou awit the faithtul contded to your cure. May it keep you anned in this world, that we may be eter: nully so 1a another tions of the Church to the Lay Govern. ments—The Oath of Constitutional Alles gianc The Vaterland of Vienna of April 2 received from “an unquestionably good source’ two Papal docu. ments with respect to tie oath of loyalty to the con- stitution of te Austrian empire. Goth are replies to the inquiry of th ter of an order (the Jesus, many members of which are Cagaged tn teaching in Austriy, ‘ihe first of these documents, after treat ing of the tutroduction of the new constitutior law and referriug Lo several passages in it, couciudes as follows:— An ail professors at universities, teachers, and indeed every ove Who occupies a’ puviie olfice in Austria, are re: quired to swear, or promise ovedience tu the constitution of the empire under the following formal promise, in the of sweariny at L will hold the eco mation invio~ —the question is; in tt perminsible to. ¢ tals vow, with a good cousclence / Wary, after a full consideration @ v0 0F oath as 48 above pernitted. Given at Rome, in the Holy Venitenuary,on the sth Au- ust, 1S. s ANTON MARIA CARDINAL PaNEbtanco, M. P. Hirvoryrus Canon Pavomn DECISION OF B POE. The second letier, which gives the decision of the Pope, say3:— Most Venn, to his Emjneuce the Cardinal Venitenuiary, me of the fact, that you have received the reply of the Holy Prnitentiary of the Mth August, which deciares that a vow or oath to hold the constitution of the Austrian empire of the December, 1867, inviolable, in the manner described, cannot be permitted. You ask further whether itis also im: permissible to make such an oath or promise with the re- servation, “an [far as tl wa of God and the Church per- mit. I had the houor of presenting this petition to the Holy Father jn an audience kindly rene me yesterday, L hasien to inform your Pevernity that bis Holiness was gra- clousiy pleased to declare auch a vow or oath may be mace, when jn u same context the reserpation you mention is added. Still, the Holy Father is of opinion the makes such’ a vow or oath in this form ought to avoid of- fences as far as possible, to if, e publicly known he w suficlently auiborfeed by ine Holy, Chair to make this oat’ vow with t ve reservation. a © MDONEUARINUS, Archbishop of Orviete, Ro: LR FATHER— Yo!