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‘4 —_—_ that to easay a description, to give even & Peeters rht into their meaning, aa 10 Sire erae ; for were 80 deep, 80 abstruse, that they ples peyond the comprehension, Among the few things that came within the humble understandt of the chronicler of tnis event was the stavement that alt who had helped to make this world bappier or Detter had been instrumental in bringing on this “ jen Age.” CHARLES DICKENS ‘was one of these. At the conclusion of her discourse Mme, Brigham improvised a ae partaking of the same character as the dl irse, After the Ceasation of these intellectual gymnastics @ hymn was by “the cholr.” Mre. E, J, Adams,’ the poprano anit 8 8910, in which she ais “i fine voice. The audience then dis; . cers of this sovlety are:—President, John J, Tyler; Teer, David Parker, and Secretary, P. E, Farns- wort CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH. The End of the World Near at Hand—Signs of the Coming Doom—Powerfy! Appeal to Men to Reform Their Lives. An unusually large congregation gathered at the Catholic Apostolic church last evening to hear the Rey. J. Rentvul lecture on “The Preparation of the — Church for the Coming of the Lord.” In the opening of his discourse the lecturer rapidly glanced at the present state of society, the sins of the world and the coming of Christ. He said that the love for mankind which prompted God to-send His Son on earth to tol for thirty years at a lowly trade, and then die an ignominious death on the cross, ‘was incomprehensible to the minds of men. ‘The more enlightened and learned a man was the More he admired the humiliation and suffering which the Son of God underweut for the redemp- tion of the fatien human race, He then referred to the coming of the Lord, which he beileved was tore- shadowed by the DEGENERACY OF THE HUMAN Race : and the falling off from the Charch. ‘Dhese thin, were to be before the coming of Christ, as was told in the Sertpture. The Courch on earth at the pre- sent time has fallen from tts original position of stainless purity and eternal truth. It has lost the greater part of its heavenly characteristics, and has become intimate with the cuuning politics of empires and republics, and too inu- - Inately associa ed with worldly aims and principles. And this ts a sure and certain sign of the coming of the Lord—of the near approach of that final day to the children of earth now wallowing ia sin. The in- crease of wars, erime, ungodiiness, irreverence for the name of God and the LAMENTABLE DEMORAL!ZATION of society, all plain'y point to the near approach of the end of the world. It behooves all gvod Chris- tians to ask themseives the question, Are we realy for that great and dreaded day’ Alas! how few coud say, “I fear not death nor Judgment.” ANURICAY FREE CHURCH. Bev. Charice B. Smyth at Masonic Hall— The New Testament as a Diecietical and Gastronomical Law. On visiting Masonic Hall, on Thirteenth street, during the hours of divine service any Sabbath fore- noon or evening, one is forcibly reminded of the dawn of the first great French re- volution. The opposition of tne raling Powers to the “Third Estate’—Tiers Etat—had culminated in the closing of the chamber where the latter met, These assembled in the garden of the Palais Royal, and one of the deputies, mounting a table, ex- claimed, “The place 1s nothing; where the repre- sentatives are there is the House of Representa- tives.” It seems that the flock of Rev. Mr. Smyth and their shepherd act ‘upon the same rule, that where the pious children of God assemble there fis God’s house of worship, and hence the hali, which on other days is given up to promiscuous gatherings, resounds on the Sabbath with devout offerings of praise and prayer to the Lord, under the guidance of. the reverend gentieman, in fail oblivion of things that passed in the remple on Eieventh street, and as if such a tribunal of ostracism had never had exist- ence. LAST EVENING’S VICK. Thus again, last evening a goouly number of ptous ladies and gentlemen congregated at Masonte Ball, being the germ of the—as yet jncipieut—though growing ‘‘American Free Church.’? Atter the in- troductory psalm and hymn and the reading ofa chapter from St, Luke, Rev. Mr. Smythe announced prayer meeungs for Wednesday and Friday even- lngs of week, and that the 1's Supper would be administered on next Sabbath, Pe then read luis text from twenty-ilrst chapver of St, Luke, verses thirty-fourth to thirty-sixth, as follow: “And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfelting and drunkenness, and cares of this Iile, and so that day will come upon you unawares, For a3@ snare shail it come on all them that well on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye. thevelore, and pray always, that ye may be accountcd worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, gud to stand before the Sou of Man.” Said the reverend geyitieman “QHARLES DICKENS IS DEAD,'? Such was the anaouncement spread before hundreds and thousands by the jouraals but two days ago. ‘Charles B. Smythe is dead,” will be the announcement on some future day, and the same will, in tura, be said of each one present, but whea and how He only knows who presides over the desti- nies of mankind. Hence it. becomes us all to con sider well our personal condition, that we may be ready to answer the call when it comes, and to ap- paar before the great tribunal. Explaining the con- hection of the text with other prophecies of Christ Christ made at the time, the speaker referred to What was ths proper condition in which to appear before Christ as judge. Sane, professing relluion content themselves with a part only, with the theory, without putting it mto practice, holding AL if tiiey ave the correct doctrine it matters not what may be the character of thetr life. These forget that man was chosen to do goca works, and that salvationgcontempiates not the intellect alone, but algo toe acts Of man. Oxe is orthodox ip vain i he “oes not practice it. The reverend yentieman inued that temperance is meant by many to in only total abstinence from the use of sptritu- ous liqau:s, while the New Testament einploys the i It includes eating aad work- it ineaus self control in the drinking, ‘use of Ulings awful. Eating more or oftner than is healihy is probably a vmmon offence than drunkenness, produc and early death can be traced toit. Ky wyuien are guilty of this sin, One ma A N COLD WATER and on that be eh ts sald to cheer but not to inebriaie. ‘This injunction inthe text applies to cating as well as driuking; not only to wine and spirituous liquors, but to ail Jiquids, aad a true Ciris- Uan should Coutrol himseli in Uici: use. Those who take on too much of ihe cares of this life, who plod night and day jor worldiy gain, though they may not be drunkards, a8 commonly undersiood, ure yet intemperate and olfend against the imjunciion of the Gospel. One may rise in the world and become useful! as an orator and statesman, yet by overs ng nis nerves he wili be guilty of in- temperance, of an offeuce agal Christ, wud bring upon Im punishment forhs sm. Auvther import. ant injunction of the Apostie was to watch and pray. ‘Tue niomedt of deat, so ceruiin vo come, 13 UNre- vealed tous. Man should therefore watch, like the sentinel on an outpost, looking (or the temptations of satan and Withstand tuelr approach, and pray fo God for His ald to be streugihesed in the opposition to the Wiles of evil. x BROADWAY TADERNACLE CHURCH, Music in the Culture of the Souimsermon by Rev. Dr. Thomp:on. This eiegant church was largely attended last evening by therusual fashionable element ot wor- shippers that reside in the neighborhood of Thirty- fourth street and Filth avenue. Dr. Thompson's subject was “Music as Related to the Culture of the Soul and to the Felicity of Heaven.” He took jor his text Nelo a Xik, 27—“And at the dedication of the wall of Jéru- salem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jefusaiem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgiving and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries and with harps.” “And so you see,” said the preacher, ‘this gathering of the multitude from round about toa great musical festival was nothing new under the gun. And by reference to the forty-seventh verse you perceive the singers were also paid good sala- ries.” ‘The pastor then read other similar quotations and @® psalm repicte with exhortations to “praise the Lord,” which seemed to embrace a more general thanksgiving than is usually rendered by a quartet choir. Here, in the last tew weeks, thousands of vo- calists, trained, paid singers, were called to celebrate @ general public festival, on the strength of the reputation of the late Boston celebration, Soon we shall have the loud sounding praises of that master of musical notation, Whose memory all Kurope, in centennial, intends to ceiébrate. ‘This world-wide veneration of the great composer is mad: sion of the mingling of a thousand $: THE RENDERING OF TRUE bells that strike its notes. ne style, sume fora higher style of expressing sympatnenc musio, some for solo and others for ageregation. The very fact that music thus appeals to tue diverse aud general taste, to ne passionate and the sentimental, vocai and instrumental, shows how ‘powerful an clement it 1 in the culture of the human soul. The Bible assigns a prominent place to music on sarth and assure its occupation in heaven. kw YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1870.—TRIPLE be £5 Gab | Levi were demanded whon this chorus wos called | inve regnisition, This perfection. of randeuy. 3 musi ig no new thing aud the bie: | Guy buts repetition of the old, with equal eect, Of the t tuousand par ic.pants four thousand | “praised Lord with instrumentation. “Aud , When the burnt offering bezau H ‘THE SONG OF THE LORD began also with trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David, King of Israel, And all the con- gregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued unt! the burnt offering Was Mnishet.” IL, Chronicle, xxtx., 27-25, Then, for once, they had congregational as well as ir singing, and teachers, educated leaders, who led the multitude while “the ‘ gingers sang and the trumpeters sounded.” On the rebuilding of Jerusalem by Nehemiah, another musical festival 0: the whole nation was held, 8) that again our own was anteceded The antiphonal chant was irst celebrated by the sons o! Levi, who gathered from the villages. In the Kevelanons John music is the society of | heaven. In the eleventh chapter of these Revela- tions we have the song of the angels, with respon- | sive ora‘orio. In the fifteenth a song of victory; in | the sixteenth chapier antiphonal solo; the con- | summation of a judgment, harps resounded, organs pealed their notes like thunder, all with a simul- tancons Laer No wonder Handel exclaimed, “{ | did see heavens opeu.’’ ‘The sermon, fulj of in eresting historical incidents, which we are sorry to ave out, was not provoca- tive of much argument, but all tull and satisfactory | 8 Qn exposition of the principal idea that music is | the essence of the emotions of the soul. Sound and art are put the instruments employed for the inter- | pre/ation of these emoiions, and that none but those | fitted in soul for pure emouons can expect the em- ployment of 1i in the better life, MEBREW RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION. Annual Public Examination of Hebrew Free Schools and, Coagregatioual Sabbath Schools. Yesterday was “weighty with Importance,” for Over a thousand of the children of our Jewish citizens, as in a number of synagogues and other places they were called upon publicly to give teatimony of their proficiency in the doctrines, precepts aud history of the ancient faith of Moses. A very interesting ex- hibition of this character was that of the * HEBREW FREE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION at Steinway Hall, inthe forenoon. This association was founded in June, 1864, wit a view, as was stated by Mr. Abraham Oettinger, its president, in @ short address made by him during the concluding proceedings, to counteract the mischievous eiforts of the sectarfan missionary schools opened by numerous religious bodies on the east side of the city, intending to draw off the chitl- dren of Jews from the fulth of their forefathers. ‘The first school was opened in 1865, at No, 36 avenue C, and since then three other schools have been added. No, 2 at the same pluce, No, 3 at the Greene street synagogue, between Houston anda Bleecker 8.reets, and No, 4 on East Twenty-seventh street, be- tween Second and Third avenues. During the dive years of the active existence of these schools over 1,500 children have received religious and secu- lar instruction, the Matter comprising the common English and German studies, and the pupils visiting these schools during the past season numbered over 600, They, their parents, friends and invited guests Hilied Steinway Hall to more than two-thirds its ca- pacity. These schools are free to ail, being sup- portel by the contributions and donations of the wealthier among the resident israel- ites. Mr. Oettinger stated respectfully, however, that these contributions did not flow as iberally as they were promised, for which reason the managers were compelled to reduce the salaries of the teach- ers; but lie hoped that the mere mention of this fact may be sufficient to remedy the evil complained of. ‘The proceedings opened with prayer by the pupils, and then the several classes, there belug eleven in all, were in tura called upon the platform and ex- amined in reading Hebrew and English, translating, in Biblical history, in definitions of dogmatical terms, in the religious doctrines of Judaism, the dec- alogue among others. Bejyeen these were a nam- ber of recitations, “fhe Si@bbath,’? by Anna Stolts; “Pank der Schuler,” by Ida Clemens; “Rich Man and Poor Man,” by Mary silber; “A Woman’s La- iment,” a humorous and satirical bit of raillery on fashion, weil rendered by Rena Cohen; a poein in Hebrew, by Gustave Kurtz, and two tarcical dialogues, one by Masters M, Rose and Blan, and one by Henry Ettiuger and Samuel Octtinger, and the last was again a Hebrew poem by Murx Whitehead. All these boys and giris acquitted them- seives exceedingiy well, considering that they were each of them under ten years old. After the address by the president, Mr. A. Gettingor, Alderman Henry Woitmon made a shortand appropriate speech of encouragement to the Caildren aud of praise to their teachers and parents, when the prizes were disiri- buted, consisting in buoks, such as thy Aguilar, J. G. Saxe, Mis. Alcoti, &c. The Jewish clergy were well represented on the platiorm by Revs, Drs. Lyons, Bondy, Hata, Tintner and Revs, Mr. Hottmann and Goldsvein—tie latter geutieman having presided at the organ. ‘They were called upon also to address the assembly, which they did with effect. The following pupils were the recipients of prizes:— 5 Somoon No. 1-Rena Cohen, Anna Stoltz, Deborah Ham- meicher, Sophia Wertheim, Esther l'ranktord, Hermann Von der Beugel, Hannah Bader, Flora Schnapper, Samuel Sto- dolia, Sophia Marks, Samue! Eppinger, Louls. Kpsvein, Flora Bader, Lewls Wertheim, Simon De Yough, Rachel Morris, Clara Mannheimer, Joveph Heymann. Soa001 No. 2—Abraham Hamil, Morris Arnstein, Hannab Oppeubeliner, David Cohen, Franz Barron, Jane Pincus, CHOOL Ni Henry Ltulinger, Samuel Oettinger, Em- manuel Levy, Louis Cohen, Michael Rose, Max Whitehead, Hannah Davis, Emily Davis, Solomon Cohen, Sonoon No. 4—Emmanuel Arastein, Seno Unger, Theresa Gluck, Rachel Morris, Clara Manubeimer, Joseph Heymann. AT THE SYNAGOGUE SHARAI TEFILLAH, on Forty-fourth street, near Sixth avenue, the an- nual examination of the religious schoo! attached to this house of worship was aiso held yesterday morn- lng. The synagogue was inronged by the friends of the pupils and members of the congregation. The various classes Were examined in the usual way in Bible history, 1 the doctrines and usages of the faith, the festivals, &c., showing a fair acquaintance With their studies, There were a number of recita- tions, which pleased the children and the audience, although they did pot all evince great oratorica talent. ‘The children sang a few hymns with good siect. Be.ore the distribution of prizes the Kev. J. M. Isaacs delivered a forcible address to the pupils. AT TH TEMPLE EMANU-EL the pupils of the Sabbata school had to submit also to a public examination to test their proficiency tn ihe Gibie aad the tenets and history of the Jewish faith, Kev, Drs. Adier and Gutheim conducted the examination, and the large audience, consisting mainly of the parents and Ieiends of the numerous scholars, Were well satisfed with the result. To tne dost deserving pupils handsome silver medals were disiriputed beiore ule Close. BROOKLYN CHURCHES. PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Sobriety and Sadness at Plymouth Charch— A Quiet Floral Display—Mr. fSeecher Asked ‘*fo Leave Out the Jokes’? from His Sermons—Sermon on Christian Discipline. Was it the death of Charles Dickens, or was 1t yes- terday’s storm that gave so subdued a tone to the floral display at Plymouth Church yesterday? In- stead of a bouquet of roses, a trailing and trellis work of honeysuckles, and the *stately and brilliant rhododendrons there came up from the central florat stand a large branch from the copper beach tree with a few white roses interspersed, and to the right of the preacher a loveiy tapering fern. ‘The little basket of roses on the minister’s stand hid itself away as though asiiamed of its blushing, pinky beauty. Mr. Beecher’s eloquence was also in harmony with the plants and flowers. He, too, was subdued. The sermon was short, quietly delivered and without the ghost of a joke. Mr. Beecher is an early riser, and while waliing for the ham and eggs at bis morn- ing meal had perhaps read in yesterday's HERALD the syiteful, vicious, venomous article reprinted from the Saturday Review on the recently published volume‘of his sermons, and this may account for the absence of sensationausm. Had the critic of what Join Bright calls * ‘The Sat. urday Reviler’’ been present at Plymouth church yesterday morning he would not have found any- thing either in pastor or people that could with truvafulness be described as “HE BARNUMISM OF THE BROOKLYN PULPIT.’? Mr, Beecher and his congregation yesterday morn- ing wore thelr worslupping attitudes of praying, preaching and poetizing in sacred song with an ob- servance of all the propr.etics. Mr, Beecher’s sutject was not adapted for sensa- tionalisms or for jokes, but then all subjects with Mr. Beecher have thelr humorous and their sensational side. [tis related, among the gossip of the church, that some time ago a deputation of a few of the jea/l- ing members of his chureh watted upon him, and as gently as they could, with much circumlocution and ‘without putting too flue a point upon it, succeeded In asking their pastor whether he couid not LEAVE OUT THE JOKES IN HIS DISCOURSE rather more than he did, accompanying the request with the usual phraseology of the nent, and hono.,” c., &c. Mr. Beecher heurd all this with grave face and with a much graver face replied to the solemn deputation—“If you knew how much fun | keep in you would not ask me to cease to let a littie of 16 come out,” The solemn deputation laughed heartiiy at thls cavalier mode of treating their solemn re- quest, changed the subject or the conversation and have allowed Mr, Keecher to have his own way as to preaching ever since. | The text selected was I, Peter, 1., 6-7—“' Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of your faith, being much more pre- Under this old disvougation four thousand sons of ¢ cious than of goid that perisheth, though it be tried Sa ee was to preach the word, This was the Gospel, This covered the wide voyage. It could be narrowed down sometimes and the whole Gospet expressed In asingle sentence. “God so loved the work! that he tt tus ouly begotten Sou, tliat whosoever believed him might be saved.” All tie DIVINE ATTRIBUTES should be carefully remembered, and in view of tho depravity of man tt waa necessary the minisier should be sustained by the pres of the people, ‘The pe was the ambassador of Jesus Carist, who, 1n His mission, was one having authority to confer the right, and who sald, “He that despiseth me de- spiseth Him sent me.” The minister was the ambassador of Christ, selected to disclose the minis- try of God, The duites of the minister were not con- fined to the church, It was necessary for him to go from house to house, secking the poor and amlicted, comforting them and doing all the good in his power. He must give these poor aMficted ones to understand that he feels an iuterest in thelr wel- fare, He must give them to understand that the Christian pastor was one of their truest friends on earth, oue who, when the whole world tramples upon them, will stand by them and throw around them the protection of the church. In the pul it he bad rules and ons to go by, but out of it he bad no rules but his judgment, and it was necessary he should have the prayers of the people, that he ig (Oo WFO. ithout this good judgment he could be “in seagon and out ofseason.” The brethren of the laity had therefore @ great responsibility reating uponthem, They should give the minister all the id in their power. The reverend gentleman said (turning to. the candidates for ordination) that they shouid resolve by Gov’s grace to give themselves un- reservedly to the work they had assumed, adhere to the “Book of Common Prayer’ as their author- ized standard of the Word of God, and also speak at ail times the word of truth. The following geu- tlemen then presented themselves for ORDINATION, J. W. Leek, late a Methodist minister, and Mr. D. McCaffrey, as deacons, and Rev. Charies Tucker, of Red Hook Mission, and Rev. H. A. Dows, of Zion church, for the Priesthood, Bishop Littlejohn asked the usual questions, w which the candidates promptly answered, ‘Then, by the imposition of hands, the gentlemen were regu- larly ordained, JERSEY CITY CHURCHES. Sermon at the Tabernacle by the Rev. Dr. Wilcox—The Intimate ‘Relations Between Mao and His Creator. At the morning services in the Tabernacle at Jer- |. sey Uity yesterday the pastor, Rev. Dr. Wilcox, preached a sermon from Psalms Ixxxvil., 7—“All my springs are in thee.” ‘The text applies to all that goes to make up one’s inward and outward life. A man desires wealth, and he sets to work to obtain it by his intercourse with his fellow man. But when he desires faith and love he must turn to God for It. He cannot ever obtain spiritual supphes through human agency. Time was when God appeared to His people, and when His people had to stand face to face with the fact that GOD MOVES THE WoRLD. But nowadays His truths work through the soul ag aleaven. Ifa person stir a polluted stream the water soon becomes all muddy; but if he try the same process on @ clear, beautiful current it loses none of its trahsparence and purity. Thus we can compare the springs of holiness and purity which flow from God into our hearts with those corrupt springs Wuicy gre inherent in our human nature, Let a man stir the depil Chie heart and he will only find corruption there. the water from the aqueduct was first iet into this citythe pipes burst in half the houses. old pipes were not made to resist such @ pressure. They had accordingly to be repaired, as they were only spit to the small springs which supplied water to the inhabitants pre- viously. So our souls inust be refitted before they can overcome the channels of grace which have their in God. - with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the Sppearing of Jesus Carist,”” ‘The tigure of the he Ma purification by fire, 8"g- gested a few thoughts for the introduction, and led the way to a narration of the various ctroumstances by which poopie assume a life of religion, In oppo- sition to those who glide into a Chrisitan hfe almost imperceptibly, and of whom he gave only @ passing notice, ne noted, with considerable descriptive power ‘those characters who have to battle their way to & change of heart and wind. Prominent awong these was— THE MAN WITH A TEMP! who was anconirolluble in the outbur.te of his pas- sion or in the sulkiness of his offended ease or dig- nity. Though he strove with @ manly striving he ven Cae to control it, until Christ came and calthed this sinful by the Spcectati of His sub- going love, ‘To perfect a man thus conditioned, and to bring him to a knowledge of himsel!, God put such men through a of mind or great bodily aMiction, and, submit they became work- era together with God. And some sceptics sai¢— “ah, his spirit is Broken; that is tne reason of his religion.” “Yes, tt was broken; but it was broken ouly as the flax is brokea, to be bicached whiter Until it fs Iinen and thread.’ In this discipline of life nearly every true child of God had a conflict with fection’, Our atfec- tions were earthward; they were certainly, a8 & rule, not heavenward, but were idolators, To arouse men from this clinging to the earthly, after frequent admonitions and warnings, God will, ever and anon, bring the sharp disc.pline to bear of taking away the et of the house and the beloved of the craule. In this way God taught men Wiat long suffering and gentleness was, With these unsubdued natures men live a very great part of thetr Christian life, for : MEN ARB VERY MUOH LIKE FARMS. Setters, when they went out into the wilderness, Ranarally clear about ten acres of the land, leaving the remaiming one hundred and fifty acres uD- By and an they cleared about tive acres more; by aud by, five acres more, but seldom clear- ing the entire lot in the wilderness to the end. So God did with us; little by little we subdued our faculties; but there are unsubddued parts of our nature that lie like great tracks of the wilderness, untouched, and which are not cultivated except by the trials of afiliction, ‘The difference with which these trials were looked upon by man and God was then noticed, Men looked at themselves through their senses, God looked at men from the inward point of view. He knew the reality of the invisible. He knew the value ofthe soul. For the sake of these it was that He chasiised men, “Whom He loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” ‘Thus: many men have entered heaven by their children having been sent there first. Thus Christ asked every one who desired eminence im the Christian iive:—‘Art thou prepared to drink of the cup that I drink of, or to be tized with the baptism that I am baptized withy” ‘Those who responded by taking the burdens of the cross were traly blessed, and heid to @ sublime faith when, with heart and voice, they said, **Though they slay me, yet will | trust in Him.” - CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Mr. Talmage Preaches About the New Taber= nacle, A large congregation gathered yesterday morning to lsten to the Rev. T, De Witt Talmage, This gen- tiemad is widely known as, in some sense, a sensa- tional preacher, and the knowledge of nis intended departure for Europe for a season of rest and relaxa- tion, united with his somewhat startling powers of attraction, filled the house to overflowing. ‘The platform was beautifully decorate] with flow- ers, and the preacher's reading stand was wreathed with fuchsias and roses. After the organ voluntary the congregation arose and sung, with fervoy and spirit, “Ola Hundred,” to the words, “Praise God, from whom all blessings flow.” x z Y THE SINGING in this church is strictly congregational. being ied only by the organ and by a leader who stands on the preacher’s platform, thus giving no opportunity for singers to win money or fame by quartet, duet or solo, Before announcing his text Mr. Talmage sald that. he thanked the church for their generosity in mak- ing it possible for htm to go to Europe, and that he hoped to repay them in part when he came back with renewed strength aud added experience. He then said his sermon would be founded on the thir- tleth verse of the twenty-sixth chapter of Exodus— ‘And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle.” You all know that God gave directions 1 olden times con- cerning the building of the tabernacle, and I will under.ake to say now that a building that is not from first to last under the direction of God is not fit to be a Christian churen, On the 20th gf January, 1870, some members of this church neld a memorabie meeting, During the previous ten months the church had arisen trom almost extinction to great strengti, On that mght the trustees Went into session, and it was decided that they should build a new tabernacic, that should be s THE SLUICES OF HEAVEN are then opened and our souls are filled with joy. There are many men whose sprite areinGod. How refreshing it is to inhale the air of God’s love andto imbibe the inspiration that comes from Him. The breeze that drives the vessel hath a twofold It gives power and it refreshes. In the closet of prayer we hope only for a repose of the in this world of noxious vapors we neea something electric in devotion to arouse us. Many & man 1s berne down with a load of business and cares, The nightingale gets ite name from singing av ht when every other bird is slambering. So God gives song to His chil- dren, and makes them sing in the dark night of their tribulations, God is the fountain, and man be- low has only to LET THE DIVINE STREAM FLOW into his soul. Every blesaing has @ source of its own, and all the springs are in God. Let us be weak and foolish rooming that 80 We may be strong in God. I saw & cow the other day on a steamboat, with @ label on iis horns showing that It was being sent by express. There are many who think we are sent into this world in much the same way that we are sent by God and consigned to death, being meanwhile, to get on as best we can. How an error is this! Let us take off the rubbish of intidel- ity, sin and thoughtiessness that obstructs the divine Sees, that thereby God’s waters may flow into our souls. ST. PAUL?3 PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH AT TRENTON. The Influence of the New York Herald ina Spiritual and Moral Sense. “The Power of Christ's Word Over the Human Mind,” was the subject of the morning’s discourse by the pastor, Rev. J. ©. Brown, on the words of Luke, iv., 32—“His word was with power.” After briefly adverting to the context, the preacher said the Word of Jesus was with power because it was truth. Whata marvellous gift that of speech. Our Lord’s words do not conceal His thoughts, but are so plain and simple all may understand, MachiaVelli used lan- guage as a cloak to real eentiment. This may do for politicians and diplomatists, but not for us, Words are things. Our language 1s very full, containing over 80,000 words. It proves that we are a thoughtful people, and that our ideas are numerous. So of Jesus’ word. He spoke as man spoke, be- cause from the fountain head of truth, “thoughts that breathed and words that burned.” And there 1g the same divine energy in the written Word as in FREE TO ALL. You all approved; and that you had courage and independeice, aud faith enough, as you alterwards- showed, to rise above ecclesiastical precedent, and say that you wouid abolish , THE INIQUITOUS PRW. SYSTEM, astonished me, and, I think, must have pleased the angeis. Since ther I bave received letters from many good inen, who Dave sald that, jtist as soon as possible, they would fail into line, and that, working together, tiis system, that makes the church a cor- poration and the trustees a board of directors and the members stockholders, should fall with @ crash, MAKING HELL TREMBLE. ‘Yhe work upon our new butiding has already commenced. I want to say afew words concerning what ought to be the grand moral characteristics of the tabernacle. And iirst, it isto be emphatically a christian church, where Christ ts set fortf as the re- former.ot all wrongs, the umpire of all disputes, the most lovely and beloved of ail that the imagination can picture or the heart desire. If I understand it right, that tabernacle is to be built to set forth the glory of Jesus Christ—all the sermons, all the songs are to go that way. Are we going to preach there that_God made some men on purpose todamn them? No, no, Are we going to preach that there are infants in hell? No: we shall have no such barbarism. Weshall preach our iaith in God, and our love of Christ, who 1s willing to save to the uttermost. We shall preach FREE GRACE, an inspived Bible; that there is @ heaven for the eterna. home of the righieous, and a hell for ihe Suis cidal Souls who desire thelr own ruin, Oar Charcht shail be the home of all true souls, whether they be- lieve in sprinkling or pianging, whether they be lieve in dierent or presbyte! a sstmet the spoken word of Jesus. No book in the world oe “ eee meee eT en has had so many commentators and critics as the meal ve ce AOD! ¥ 4 we shail not ask how others do. Fashion | Bible. Renan and a host of others have all written to give the exact status of Christ. I find, in mingling with my fellow men, Church people or not, in sorrow, in joy, in death, the Gospel has been their only joy. It may be a weakness for men tomake a pillow of the Gospel, yet still they do it, The Word of Jesus has power. But why isit? I think there is a charm about the life of Jesus. You may have read ati manner of lives—philanthropists, generals, novelists, historians, but you never read them twice; yet I venture to say you have read the life of Jesus one hundred times, And why? Because it is truthful and natural. Men love nature; they love a true man anywhere. The present is an age of reality. Institutions, society, are all being sifted, the dross thrown away. Man never more in earnest. Our daily journals full of well written, earnest arucies. Man's rights and woman’s rights and true position are being discussed. Why is it 3 THR NEW YORK WERALD publishes page after page of sermons on Monday morning, and why do you see business men and others reading them in the cars or steamboats and at home? 1 answer, men are in search of truth and = are looking for direction and guidance from the pulpit as well as the press. But look at the ndeur of the story of Chrisv’s life and death. stop not at the details; 2 only assert the fact. Isee Jesus lool over the troubled waters of the sea of Galilee ant saying, “Peace, be still;? and instantly I behold the troubled waters sink to rest. But you say, ‘“Thisisa miracie,”? I care not; it has POWER OVER MEN. And in many other passages 1 find men take com- fort. But you say, “Prove these meicals.” 1 do not attempt it. I only show that the word of Jesus was and is with power. The steam engine and the tele- graph have banished the supernatural, but men were never so intent on the spirit world as now. Swedenborgianism, spiritualism, are abor- tive searchings after truth. All the light they have isfrom the wora of Jesus. Science, too, un- folding afinitiesjof matter, the bearing and harmony of the universe. The spectroscope unfolds to us the constituent elements of stars and tells us that their atmosphere is the same as ours. Men have science; then why not make a@ religion of it? Make scientific men its priests, They have tried and failed. Science does not touch the heart Emerson and Phillips may taik about the uncondi- tioned being, the uncreated essence, the absolute. Why not then deify these nonentittes? Ireply you cannot; philosophy does not touch the heart deep enough. It may kindle a vast flame, that sports up into the empyrean, but it warms us no more than the northern lights that play around the pole. THR GODDESS OF REASON, personified in the French revolution, died in a poor house. But Jesus’ love is infinite, It brings God from heaven, and with him near us we are strong to live and strong to die. But Jesus’ word is power, because it reveals would like to control char church architecture shall gloom; that the congregath Ull they have stucied the fashion plates. churches are those ti foriable; the best men sick of sinning. alike, any inere than two ladividuals. to-day 4s ies, Fashion says that stifand have a pious must net go to church The best make the people most com- ching is that which makes No two churches ought to be ‘fhe Churen HE SLAV ‘ORLD; it dare not sing or preach cording to its own sense of right, J have no faith aa gloomy religion, Uf your region makes you joyful jet it shine; if it makes you gloomy the less of 1 the better. When people come to my house with great displays of ap hg 1 always ivei like telling my wife to LOOK UP THE SILVER. All the sanctimonious people I have known have turzed out badiy. Gur Church must be abreast of the times. It li folly to be doing what people did fif.y years ago. Meu of business, acute and active; literary men, critical, and accustomed ali the week to be fed on the richest mental iood, will not be gatis- fed with ECCLESIASTICAL HUMDRUM, We must not hunt with biank cartridges. The Church ought to lead the age. We mus: not be punishing the Yhilistines and hanging Absalom, and forget the corrupt legislatures, the rotten judiciary and the DAMNABLE WHISKEY RING. The people are siarving for the Gospel, and churches are keeping them out; the churches keep their solemn festivals, and the people stand outside and look in. The Church musi wake up in its duty, and do with its might the great work to be done, till the enemy's ranks waver, and, above all noise of discord, sali sound the note of victory. ST. MARWS CHURCH, Ordination. Services—Sermon by Rev. Diller=The Daty of the Clergy. There was a large congregation at St. Mary’s church, in Classon avenue, yesterday morning, to witness the annual ordination services by A, N. Lit- tlejohn, D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of Long Island. After the morning prayers had been said the Rev. Dr. Dilier, of St. Luke’s church, preached an excel- lent sermon upon the relative positions of the pries and latty and the duty which one should expect from the other in keeping steadfast in the faith of Jesus. The reverend gentleman took his text from the second epistle of Paul to Timothy, fourth chapter, second verse—“Preach the Word; be instani in season, out Of season; reprove, rebukes exhort wiih all Jong suffering and doctrine.”? God our Father in heaven had in His infinite goodness given us His doctrine, and through itevery | to us eternal life. All that we have ‘one had a clear knowledge oi His goodness, Christ, | summed up in that littie word life. It under the Jewish dispensation, had made 18 existence, and the chief growth of hap- THREE APPOINTMENTS, piness. Hence it is men love life so dearly. the bishop, priest and deacon, and that was the order of the ministry in the Chu The cecasion on which they had assembled was, therefore, one of the most tmportant. During the past week the lay portion of Gou’s people had been engaged in solemn lasting and prayer, more especially for those who Were about to assume the responsible offices of | we say men love gold, but it is not always dross they are after. It is not gold, but position, influence, convenience and luxuries of life they are after. It makes their life deeper, richer, broader. The ok of gold in a legitimate way is not sinful; it 1s the misuse of it, So, too, Many seek for life in pleasure. But the Gospel comes to every priest and deacon, He beiteved thas God had | soul and says, “You are seeking life, pares heard and would answer these prayers, The diffe- | here it is—Jesus offers it you.” If men should cease rence of the duties of the minister in the Church ! to think, and not till then will the Gospel become & and the laity was briefly alluded to. The minister dead leticr, The message, ‘i give unto you eternal SHEET life,"” will be alwaya welcome, for Jesus’ word Is still with power. WASHINGTON CHURCHES. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Sermon by Rev. Dr. Sunderland on the Value of Sunday Schools as Religious and Edue cational Institutions. WASHINGTON, June 12, 1870. At the First Presbyterian church the Rev. Dr. Sunderland preached a sermon upon the value of the Sunday schoo! as a religious and educational in- stitution, He showed the value of early training, and asserted that merely secular education was not suMicient to make good men and women and good citizens, The Sunday school was THE NURSERY OF THE OHURCH. It required careful and constant tending; tn It wore the future church members, ministers of the Gospel, missionaries, lawyers and statesmen of tho country, The Church 1s too much in the habit of underrating the influence of the Sunday school. The Doctor quoted irom the religious and educa- uonal ai tics «of = Scotiand, which, he sald, Was @ country where great attention was given to Sunday schools, to show that their effect was to promote general enlighten- ment and high-toned morality. In many instances among the poorer ery the Sunday school was the only means of affording an opportunity to learn to read. After arguing at length in favor of Sunday schools he concluded by urging all parents to be more diligent in seeing that their children attended, and teachers to take a deep interest in their work. COLORED PRE‘BiTCRIAN CHURCH. Sermon by Rev. C. W. Dennison. WASHINGTON, June 12, 1870. The Rev. 0. W. Dennison preached this morning at the Colored Presbyterian church on Fifteenth street, taking his text from St, Luke xil., 32—“Fear not, little flock; for itis your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” Our Divine Redeemer represents his people under a great variety of figures. The lesson of the text, “the flock,” expresses a beautiful and instructive thought, Christ is THE GOOD SHEPHERD. e He knows the members of his flock by name. They recognize his voice and follow him. The term is well applied to Christians. We must look alone to Christ Jesus. He spreads the cover of His allmighty wing above his followers, and gives them warning that they may escape im time from threateniu; dangers. The Heayoni city is descril as 6a fBtal contain! green pastures, through which flows the river of life, where grows the free of I1l carte twelt nper HA fruit, Tiers the song of Bs ig Ger heard, thé -fountains never dry and the pastures never wither—a fitting resting place for the flock of God. ‘The world is endeavoring to briag Christianity to its level. It is inimical to Christians, assailing them at every point. The same spirit that op- pressed ‘the Jews in Egypt, trampled on the disciples, thrust them into dungeons, tortured them at the stake, submilted them to shipwreck, wid beasts and iamine, put more than all, crucified our ur, is still abroad in theearth. Is the Christian ie “DAE he will be overcome by his enemies? tt him fely én the arm of the Great Conqueror, Christ shail tread down all enemies under his feet. Even the last enemy shall be destroyed, which 1s death. He wili bring us conquerors, yea, and more than conquerors, METROPOLITAN METHODST CHURCH. Sermon by Rev. Dr. Harmony of Baltimore. WASHINGTON, June 12, 1870. Dr. Harmon, of Baltimore, occupied the pulpit of the Metropolitan Methodist church this morning, in the absence of Dr. Newman, who 1s still absent at West Point, He took for his text, in Matthew, “What think ye of Ohrist?” and referred to Jose- phus and various heathen writers to show the purity of the doctrine of Chriss and his superiority over all other teachers, some of them admitting the performance of bis miracles, but attributing 1t to knowledge obtained from Egypt. ‘Tne doctor also alluded to events in his recent visit tothe East. An intelligent Mohammedan in Egypt informed him that his ro-religionists had the highest respect for Christ as A TEACHER OF PURE MORALS, and soit was all over the civilized world. He was deeply impressed with scenes in. the Hoiy Land, even to the harvests and the “reeds shaken by the wind,” and the WEP at which the Saviour conversed with the woman of Samaria. They present the same features now as when the Saviour employed them for his iilustrations, The preacher, after establishing the character of Christ and His divine mission by authorities other than the Scriptures, alluded to the Gospels in further confirmation of these facts, and presenting the reasons why we should regard Him as our Saviour and friend, and the great interests which should secure our homage. He in conclusion aan the question, “What think ye of Christ?” leaving it to be answered by his numerous auditors, who were evidently delighted with the manner and chaste diction o1 the discourse. TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The Trinity of the Godhead—Sermon by Rev. Mr. Addison. WasiiNcron, June 12, 1870, At the Trinity Episcopal church a sermon was preached by the rector, the Rev. Mr. Addison, upon the Trinity of the Godhead, This doctrine, he satd, ran all through the Bible, Because it is one of those things that are hard to understand some persons thought that the best way was to deny it entirely. This was a great error, and led men eventually to reject tne divinity of the Saviour. Christ himself set forth THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY yery clearly in his mstractions to his disciples when he sent them out to convert the world, “Go, there- fore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, aud of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.” The speaker described the various func- tions of each person of the Trinity, and comvatted at some length the Unitarian doctrine that there is but one person in the Godhead—tie Father. CHINESE IMMIGRANTS AT NEW ORLEANS, The New Labor Supply in the South—The Late Arrival Direct from Hong Kong—Incie dents of Interest. {From the New Orleans Republican, June 5.) Durimg the visit of our reporcer to the vessel hay- ing on board the lately arrived Ciiese imintgrants @ hamber of tncidents occurred well calculated to interest all who are giving tuought and attention to the subject of an licreased supply of labor ior the South. One of the first things to arrest the attention Is the surprisingly Womanish appearance of most of these emigrants. Their femluine countenauces have already been mentioned. Their phystcai frames ap- pear to be correspondingly slight, and the feminine contour of the upper portion of the body accords with their delicacy of factal proportion. ‘The long queue worn by every one of them adds to their womanish looks, particularly when clubbed. In full dress this appendage is worn hanging down the back, reaching to within two inches of the ground. This extreme length of hair in all of them excited great surprise, which was, however, allayed on discovering the jueue was eked out by the addition of silk or cotton tl , Most cunningly incorporated with the hair, 80 as to make it difficult to teil where one ends ant the other begins, When in d@eshabdille this queue is coiled up and fastened on the back part of the head, in which position it has @ ludicrous resemblauce to the present fashtouabie chignon. ‘The man from China, as seen occasionally in the street, shows smali and slight. An examination of the 166 who last Friday went up the river on the Bismarck would lead to the conclusion that the slightness of physical frame is the general rule; for Cee Was Nota large sized or robust man among em. But, notwithstanding their lightness of bodily frame, these people exhibit a compactness of limb and wiry appearance, indicating great endurance, and it is sald of them that during the allotted hours of labor their attention is unremitting and never re- laxes. This 18, no doubt, aided be Agere temperance in eating and the simplicity of their mode of life, With the exception of the doctor, the interpreter and the foreman, none had other bi than a small, neatly made box, about the size of a tea chest, and a light blanket. O/ course they all had the inevitable tobacco pipe. These last were made of coarse bamboo cane for the stem, and some species of hard wood, clumsily carved to resemble a grotesque face, unlike humanity or any living vuing. Tue simplicity of these people's habits of life is such that if retained in this Country success will jollow their undertakings trom the mere force of thrift. Their garments are made of evidently dura- bie, and in mapy Instances of fine materials; but these were in nowilse extensive. One Saratoga trunk would have likely contained the wardrobe oi the whole troop. Yet their extreme cleanliness is eed habitual. One of their luxurtes is a pillow—though it would ee @ Solomon to find out the use of the article, it ig made of bamboo, and is simply @ small stool, ‘with the legs arranged to fold uj ‘which makes it more portable. man reposes he places his chignon on nis hard stool, where it serves as a pad. \e of these curious pieces of bed furniture, together with an opium pipe ‘and several specimens of ‘cash’? (money), were pro- cured ey our reporter. Thef alt of the country where, and concerning the people among whom, they are to pass the next three years atleast, Tney seemed, from what could be gathered Vhrovgn their interprever, to be fully aware that thair when not in ‘hen John China: appeared anxious to learn all they could apprectation in this country depends on thelr capacity and willingness to Work, emiey appeared to Have great Coudivenee in t@resuit or the present experiuent as far as themselves are concerned, and ths bega..se of their ladastrli! capacities, ‘Thelr i- quires were mootly about the nature of the laud aud the agricultural condition of the country, Whon e‘nbarkiag ou the Bismarck, after disposing of the baggage, they carried the invalids amon: them on board in tie mode known as “pic-a-pac," They appeared to hande the sick with care, and showed no want of kindness and human. ity. Altogether, John Chinaman, bls manners, his cleauliness and thrift, together with the evident cordial understanding between him and the captain, oMcers and crew of the immigrant ship, made a very favorable impression upon all who visited the Ville de St. Lo on Friday last. ART NOTES. Goupils. We noticed last weck—though too late to do so at any length—a striking picture by Mr. Thomas Hill, of Boston, now on exhibition at this gallery, and en- tatled THB WHITE MOUNTAIN NOTCH, N. H. The canvas is a large one, six feet by ten, and the scene represented thereon comprises aspace of more than three miles, between the Willey House, @ short distance to the left of the spectator, and Mounts Willard and Tom in the extreme distance, It is the scene of aterrible tragedy which occurred in that locality August, 1825, by which the whole famliy of a Mr. Willey, consisting of nine persons, was destroyed by a landslide, The house of the Willeya, situated at the foot of a sicep declivity, was protected by a large rock in the rear and remained uninjured, The family in their terror probably rushed from the house to escape, were overtaken by the landslide anda de- stroyed. The painting represents the scene of the disaster the morning ‘afterwards, The terrible war of the elements is over. Some dark, huge storm clouds still hover over the valley in the foreground, cloudy columns, broken and dispersing, slowly float upwards over the scene of death and destruction, in their graceful and fleecy beauty unconscious of the ruin beneatn, and wreathing the mountains with festoons of delicate tracery and forms, Beyond the sky, wonderfully clear aud blue, is seen through the breaking clouds. The sun shines down alike on weal and woe, typical of the overrullug care Waica is Over just and unjust. ‘rhe rendering of the mountain sides ts good, well studied and carefully, ‘eelligly, rende ed, ihe ti of the recent tempest are everywhere visible, frum he torn arid broken trees aad upturued earin to the orrent Feng or in its fury, ai carryiug madly with it spoils of the tempest. There is a considerable powcr in the broad maases of sunlight and shades frou tue heavy clouds above, well harmonized with the general nen of the ting. Exception, however, may be justly taken to 4 raiher too great monotony Lbrougu- out the work, There is too little ditfereyce or cou- trast between the fore and background, Tie «ts- tance 18 good enough, but a suill nearer point than is given in the picture would have added much vw the strength and unity ol the whole. Some nearer object might have been mtroduced with much effet ‘This all Would have relieved the eye and miud some- what from a certain sease of weariness as if rogacds the three mile expanse of mouniatn side and ior- rent, The ,only living figure introduced, which gives a certain patios, is that of a dog, the only Survivor of the catastrophe, who tried with almost human intelligence to give notice of tne tate of his master’s family to a neighbor living beyond the valley, and who is supposed later to have perished in the torrent, It stands im the mute desperation of despair, and, although greatly dwarfed both in itca and execution by disiauce, throws in a graceful ele- iment to thé Work as a Whole. Mr. Hill has certainly painted a powerful picture, with several of the cie- indhis of a great painter in it; but he pas not paid tuat regard to effect which, if he&vy aud couven- tional woen carried to an extreme, when lacking eniurely is surely deswuctive to general uilily anu power of rendition, ‘ Merle. M. Knoediler has also a very excellent specimen of this master, which, although in some respects not fully up tothe average of his works, has much of the pathos and sentiment which are so eminent in them generally. The picture represents @ mother, a fisherman’s wife, if we may judge from the sea in the backgiound, and her dress would seem to mdi- cate that she 18 of the humbler cluss of lie, with a child in her arms and evidently looking out ior some one, probably her husband. The woman’s face, thougn beautiful aud ieeiing, t3 far too re- fined for the station her dress would indi- cate, and her general position 13 some- what restramed and conventional Whatever is lacking, however, in the mother is fully compensated in the child. The little figure is replete with cluid- Ish grace and beauty. The chubby arms, the rosy, weil turned cheek, the bright, jaughing, gleeiul eye, wie golden hair—all teil of careiul study and teuder, thoughtful feellag, Which it 1s a pleasure to regard. The child, in both color and drawing, reveals some or Coereag ioe mosé charming representations of in- fant lite, Art Gallery. We subjoin, with permission, a communication we have received containing some practical suggestions on the present subject of interest to all lovers of art, the erection of a Museum of Art in our city. Achromo-lithograph froma picture of the yacht Dauntless, by M. F. H. De Haas, It 1s with much pleasure that we anmounce the pubilcation of the excellent chromo-lithograph, to which we alluded jast week, from a painting by Mr. M. F. H. De hiaas, of Mr. Bennett, Jr.’s, yacht, the Dauntiess, pubiisied by Goupn & Co., under the title of THE QUEEN OF THE SEAS. ‘The general interest which has been awakened on both sides ef the Atlantic relative to the several iast yacht races which have taken piace within the last two years has been suiticient to elicit considerable care and attention in the production of a work of ari of this Kind, which, apart from its excelience as such, appeals to all as associated with an occasion in which we have just cause to feel some national pride and satisfaction, that an American yacht has accomplished whai noue other has yet done, and shown herself fully able to compete with those of a nationalready famous for its eiuiueuce in all maniy sports, both on sea and laud, ‘The painting itself 18 one which combines several of Mr. De Haas’ best points as a painter. The action throughout tue ‘picture is excellent. The waves, crested with the red refieciion of the setting sun, are throwa into that free and vivid action which it has not been the good fortune of every one who has crossed the Cupmnel, probably, fully to appreciate. ‘Tie sky, brilliant with its evenmg glories, giows into @ deep red and golden giory as it nears the horizon; over itsome storm clouds, broken and dispersing, heighten the effect of color and distance by their soverer hues and grotesque forms. A light and soit mist rises from the waves in the distance, subduing but not obscuring the outlines of the clits that bor- der the Hnuglish shore. These Dover cliffs stand forth, rising from the waves with that peculiar mei- lowed yet distinct effect of objects seen at a distance over water, which is here very Seelingly given, in the midst of this beautiful scene, this beautiful har- mony of power and grace, 1s the yacht, the Daunt- less, Seen for a Moment as she silently, almost, and swiftly sweeps along past the Dover coast, followed by her companions, the American yacits which have accompanied ner on her voyage. ‘The representation of the ‘*Queen of the Seas” is admirable, as she floats gracefully and lightly on the ‘waves, with every canvas spread and filled with the evening breeze—a living challenge of the right to the ttle she bears—the Dauntless. ‘The “disposition of ‘the ght on and through the various sails 1s very va- ried and felicitous, On some the blue sky above falls, Unting with its own delicate shade the white canyas, While through and on others the warm sun- lignt streams, lighting them up with the wealtn of gorgeous colors, of which the sun at evening is ever 80 prodigal. A group of fishermen with their boat relieves the monotony of the foreground, without for a moment weakening the importance of the main idea, The whole picture 18 most artistically con- ceived and wrought out with a genuine understand. ing and feeling which does infinite credit to the artist, Who has invesved with the poetry of color and sentiment what might seem to be a somewhat pro- saic subject. In passing a word of credit is due to the lithographers, who have really very faithfully chromoed the picture, aud in many respects with a surprising accuracy of color. Tne eifect of the can- vas might have been much better in the proofs we noticed, ’ : THE SUEZ CANAL. Egyptian Land Grant to Foreigners. Mr. D, A. Lange states (May 31) that ‘the Khedive of Egypt has authorized the saie of lands adjoining the Suez maritime canal, in common with other lands belonging to the Egyptian government, it being understood that the proceeds derived from such sales shall be divided between the once govern- ment and the Suez Canal Company. The convention now concluded embraces the power to sell in com- mon all lands capable of becoming centres of popu- lation from one end of the canal to the other, within an undefined radius, At Port Said conditional con. ceasions had previously been made with an engage- ment on the part of the Suez Canal Company to sell at fifty francs per metre, so soon as the au- thority to do so had nN obtained. These conces- sions were made to nine companies—English, French, Austrian, Russian, Indian, besides the Im- perial Marme of France, amounting to 45,900 square metres. Further concessions, on similar conditions, were made at Ismailia and Por Sald, making to- gether 86,400square metres, whith, at fifty francs, gives an immediate réturn of 4,270,000 francs for these comparatively small portions of laud. What the value of the whole moy. be at some fature time it is diMicult to foresee. Four millions sterling is spoken of as being within the limits of probabilt'y. This must necessarily be conjectural, as all depends on Ret i ed which it is impossible to foresee at presen’ The convention now concluded is said to be, says an English paper, of the highest financial value to the government of Egypt aud to the Suez Canad Company.