The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1871, Page 9

‘ RELIGIOUS, CONTINUED FROM EIGHTH PAQE. the iction and the extending of the crucifix, wi : oteaaaaaal approach and kiss on the eyes and fee! BROOKLYN CHURCHES. The Popular Prophet of the City of Churches on Love, Charity, U-itarianism and Univorsal- ism—Tho Rev, Dr, Buckley on ‘the Great Theological Virtue of Hope—Fine Dis- courses and Large Congregations. _ PLYMOUTH CHURCH. Suow No Match for Beecher—Characteriatic Sermen on the Universal Law of Love. Wrapped in overcoats. and muillers and water proofs, the’ Plymouth sheep followed their shepherd yesterday through the drifting snows, knowing, by long and happy experience, that on stormy days they always get the best spiritual food, When all were aa comiortably settled as circumstances and damp ankies would permit, there re mained sone vacant ailttings; but, judged by other congregations on such a day, there were @ great many people at Plymouth church yesterday, ‘!he’sermon was a continuation ofthat preached last Sunday, and from the same text—“Now the end of the commandment 1s charity, out ofa pure heart and of a pure conscience and of faith unfeigned.” air. Beecher once sald that he had KNOCKED THE BOTTOM OUT OF HELI, but that he intended to keep thumping at it. He gave tt some vigorous biows yesterday, in pursuance ofthis resolution, .giving expression to some start- lng Beecherisnis 1n defence of the doctrine of divine benevolence. After refersing to last Sunday's ser- mon, he said that the love referred to by the Apostle must spring from a heart divinely developed, where the moral element predominates * over all; and this love seeks men’s enjoyment by their perfection; it goes with the spirit of justice and equity and righteousness; it is the largest and aupremest action of the mind. The law of love 13 not given to man alone~it is the universal law of Deaven aed of earth—of God as of his children. Always oo everywhere, now and hereafter, we are under a law whose eud and object is to produce true beneficence, The genius of creation is benevo- lence, not excluding the elements of force, but de- termining the purpeses for which they are used. The lowest parts of creation are governed by < ABSOLUTE FORCE; as life is introduced the element of fear comes in, higher, we come into the realm of intelligent volition: motives grow milder; as new faculties come out government tends to appeal to the higher elements in the soul, Uli at last lorce 1s only impiied inan undertone. All love governs by force, and sometimes bruises cruelly, but when severity is ‘used it is because It 1s the only motive that can be brought to bear, Taking nature asa rule the anal- ogy goes higher and higher towards a point where all government shail ve love, and where we shall get above discipiine. The ancient idea that wrath and ‘vengeance are the prerogatives of the gous has come down to our day, so that there is un idea that God ts RL at a Dain for its own sake. A being in whose heart the sight of sufferins produces pleasure a no better for being called intiuite. Many a man PRAYERS TO THE DEVIL, ‘believing him to be on the turene of the Almighty. * The Christian idea of suilering is disciplinary. Christianity 1s a blow to the infernal Conception tuat God enjoys the sufferings of the damned, hy, itis enough to make o man renounce his faith, this hideous slander of the ruler of the universe, But, you say, eertal we oO Bee for UH id man gu ure, just as he may fina Sesassins? euives in the ore of tne mountain. ‘The Scriptures wre the most malleable thing in the world. Itis like a forest, into which a man may go and make anything he pleases, The spirit of Crist ig this:—“Whom the Father loveth he chasteneth; at f ye endgre chastening, God dealeth with you as with children.” This is the charter of administration— the marrow of history. The genius of the universe 1a not fate, force or cruelindifference. Time is a school; God is the universal schuolmaster, and men » wre the learners. if I thought that the world was a huge bag, and the nations cats swinging found in tt, Oghuog with 7: ws INFERNAL NOISES, I should have ne heart to preach, Under all the § jug and wars and cruelty there isa divine juide working out good. There is a good time com- It may be a good while coming, but it 1s coming. system of theology that leaves ou the mind any other impression than that benevoience is the regnant disposition of Godis upseript Jalse and perni- clous, of thevi have left this impres- won. Iremember asa ci that the side of God that was shown me by my teachers was vengeance. Twas taught that 1 was @ stuner, and. avove all, a sinner because | couldn’t feel sintul. God was rep- resented as a just judge, who forgave men and i them when they repented; aud until then was ry Conborates, fire, That Peonsider . ‘A HERESY that strikes the whole Gospel of Christ fat in the face. God so loved that he gave His sen—zave from love; out of intinitedesire He gave this expression of nim- self. God nurses even as a mother; God docs not wait till you are worth loving, but sats up and moulds you. While you are in the whirlof ion Ged sympathizes With you. To preach God’s love, not a8 @ maudlin sentiment, but a love armed with » force, fear and power; # love that will work the uni- verse up to divine accord; that will not scraple to smite and terribly puuish, but docs all as the mother puts the bitter cup to the lips ef her sick child. The end of ali institutions and jaws ts love, and when it ig necessary te give up the spirit of benevolence or o1 tions aud dogmas, tae saying of Ohrist, that the Sabbath was made fer man and not man for the Sabbath, should be our guide. Suppose a Church is” ALL RIGHT IN BELIBE, cn and all wrong in feeling —they all agree - fession of faith, and all quarrel—wnhat is the good of 4t? There is no place where Satan has spun such webs and got such victims as in the Ohurch: ‘The Charch been te SLAUGHTER HOUSE OF CHRISTIANITY. The Church has never been so intent on ends as on «means. , We are to accent in each individual true character and Iife as the end of the law. Truth is better than error, inasmuch as it ts more poweriul to produce in the soui the final state of benevolence. It is not @ man to be_ since Bingerlty ¢ ‘aout change natural laws. But if we aman by this spirit of love we are no how he came by it. Common sciools are but if @ man learns to read outside of them is gay that the spirit of God in the heart of @ man is.all that we should ask for. We should not reject a man because Universalist is { WRITTEN ON HI3 BROW. He does not Come in because he isa Universalist, but because he is God’s, A man may be a Unitarian and yet @ Christian; he may be orthodox and yet not @ Bat how can a man be a and not believe in Christ? That is the uzele, Can’t a man believe in Christ and not be- feve in O! may believe 1a what the word uth, love, holiness, obedience—when he won't call it by that name. He aak takes Christ who takes His spirit, Whoever 18 not of Bis spirit is not of Him. you believe in Christ, but you are full of envy, flerceness and arrogance towards your neighbor. You believe in the outside, but you don’t belleve in the inside. As 4 system, I » donot rd Unitarianism as adequate. Bul say that the love of God rises higher than dogmas. ST. PAUL'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, Christian Hope Defined—Sermon by Rev. Dr. Buckley, of the City of Cork, Ireland. ‘The blustering snow storm of yesterday, wiille It tendeu to sadly diminish the proportions of conerega- tions of all other denominations, in no way, apparent- ly, lessened the attendance at the Catholic churches of Brooklyn. At St. Paul’s, the second oldest Catholic ‘edifice in that city, corner of Court and Congress * streets, of which parish Kev. Robert Maguire is pas- tor, the congregations at all the masses fillea tne vailding. At the half-past ten o'clock service Rev. Fatner Lane, one of the carates, celebrated mass, wad the splendid choir attached to the church lent tts inspiring dev@pional harmony to the sanctity and beauty ef the services. After the gospel had been read the pulpit was placed Ia front of the altar, and Rev. Dr. Buckley, s learned and eloquent clergyman of the city of Cork, Ireland, ascended the pulpit and preached ‘or half an hour upon CHRISTIAN HOPE. The spea- sald there wag expectation bound- jess in exwat and endiess in the- measure of reward and happiness for him who has faithfully fulfilled the requisite duties to inherit the »)_ realizations of trae Christian hope. at are placed * here a8 the theatre of the passing hour, vo obey God's commandments; to love and adore Him, the Giver and the cre that we may et Pes reatter, |“ oh Lord, ry hich ‘makea’ sribulation bright in follower of METHING ich we have not. If we are in sickness we hope pi health; if we are hungry we hope for food; if we are in poverty we hope for riches. The Christian none Mnrjtian te graee of God and the Joy ot ths ‘ro the Cl rament are the great objects for hope. Were it per for ne animal Xcesal » the vould wither and rot in NEW YORK turned into eternal fre, But consoling hope turns serrows into joy. If we spend our whole life in violation of His commandments, not in wiltul viola- on, bat in our weakness aud tne frailty of our nacures, and stall hope, God, DL Bm BOUNDERSS MRECY, will save us, Not to fee! this lioly truth ts to grope on tn endless darkness to an eternity of suffering. No world beyond the grave! Oh, fearful thought of the unhappy PLS ved brogne 80 lost to vie vine grace racy and perversion of heart! ‘The infinite mercy and love of God for man there is no bounds, Were we to search from the first volume of the Book of Genesia to the last word of the Book of Revelations we tind tn it the fullest tes- tumony of His love fer man. To Adam, when he fell, God gave that ht beacon light to tilumine his darkened path lighten ee way of posterity when He promised that the. seed of woman should bruise the head of Resarpenly ‘Tue Paalns of David breathe the glerleus mercy and love of our Lord for men. But why multiply books, said the reverend speaker, for Vat which is 80 mantiest hon He came amon; the children of men He commingiod with those wh were in poverty that they might participate in the riches of Heaven, He came ry the sorrowia; that they may Uipe s anreemy His joyd.. He came: to call the just but the sinful man, that -he-might re- tain the infleritance in store for'man, He forgave the Magdalen, cured the leper, raised the dead to hfe, gave sight to the blind, fed the hungry, and was the Shepherd in the desert who, ening. one sheep from his flock of one hundred, lett the ninety- ulue and went in searoh of the sheep which had strayed from the fold. Here, then, are THE CROWNS OF YOUR HOPE. Brethren, are you not satisied with this? asked the speaker, , Stl more, did ho not give his blood for you, dying upon the cross? Did He not: pardon his cruciflers, ahd tell the penitent thief to ineet him that day in Paradise? Yet we who diso- bey His commands crucify Him sull daily. Hope, like faith, must fructity in werks, tus be- ware of indifference, which leads to hardness of and stifles the voice of within 80 bat we are no lenger mindful of confidence of God. Man cannot be saved by faith alone. He must build in his soulby prayer faith, good works and receiving ‘Ube sacrament ‘nese, coupled with charity, then, are the chanvels through which ce Hows to our souls. Seek them, then, through the sacrament that your sorrows may be turned into joy al our sins forgiven, and you shall live in Blessed heper ia dure dytdg "moments," when the limbs are wing st and’ stark, and the glow of warn leaving the body, whe @ opens to the sunsiine oi hope, and our closing ey last wish and breath 1s enkindled by hope, which occupies our breast and bears our disembodied ee Soaring an high betore’ the, throas ’ of its reator. ing his hearers to be good Christians, and by thelr ‘lives and examples to show that the true spirit o hege: ‘was animating and lighting them on the path of life to an endless inheritance of ye the enjoyment of Almighty God forever in ne orld to come, Father Buckley, with his bone- diotion, descended the pulpit, , THE WASHINGTON CHURCHES. NEWMAN ON OFFICIAL HONESTY. The Lobbyists of the Legis!ative Halls and the Tricksters in Politics—A Sermon to Our Statesmen—Dr. Sunderland on the Trees of Righteousness, DR. THE METROPOLITAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Dr. Newman OMcial Honesty=The Cor- ruption of Legislative and Public OmMces— Bribes from Lebbyists and at Elections Dishonesty in Trade and Speculati WASHINGTON, Feb, 12, 1871. The Rev, Dr. Newman preached this morning on the subject of oMcial honesty. President and Mrs, Grant, Vice President Colfax, Secretary Delano and several Senators and Representatives were among the congregation. Dr. Newman took occasion to re- buke dishonesty in high places, while he commended those who withstood the bribes ana tempta- Uons incidental 10 official life, He took his text from Romans, twelfth chapter, seven- teenth verse—“ Provide things honest in the sight of all men.’ The duties of Christianity are twofold—ethical and devotional. The former tn- clade all those relations which exist between man and mau, and relate to lierty, justice, property, character, veracity, MARRIAGE AND CL VIL GOVERNMENT. ‘The latter include those relations which exist be- tween the creature and the Creator. A grievous mistake has been made by many men in attempting to diverce morality from piety, Christianity ts & religion ef protection. Seven ofthe ten conmund- ments are protective im their character. It 1s not remarkable, therefore, that Paul should take up this idea and in an emphatic manuer im- pose anew upon us the great Obiigalion of honesty, Dr. Newman spent ashort time in considering the ground of man’s right to property and the source Of our ideas of honesty and dishonesty. It is tounded in nature. Every man has a right to himgell, to the faculties and capabilities with which he has been endowed, aud if he have a right to himself he bas an equal right to that which may result from the inno- cent use of his powers, Society accords this right, and divine and human law throw their awful sauc- tions about it. “THOU SHAM NOT STEAL” is God's verdict on the subject. Having latd the foundations of this right, Dr Newman passed to consider how it may be violated. It may be done by violence, as by theft or robbery, by deception, by abuse of trust. A broker on Change may cause false information te be circulated tor the purpose of raising or depressing the price of stocks and he refit by the rascallty. od says to such a man, Thou shalt not steal.’ A specuiator may monopo- lize an article to create artificial scarcity and raise its prie He may Uhus cause the poor man te pay four dollars more per barrel for flour for his family, ‘Yo that man God thunders out the law, “Thon shait not steal.” There are relative rights and duties on the part of the buyer and seller. The seller in a certain sense is a benefactor to society, and, agsuch, should be esteemed, but he has no right to misrepresent: the an of his wares. Neither has the buyer any right to underrate tyem. Selomon had this creatare in mind when he said, “'TMs naught, ‘tis naught, saith the buyer, but when he is gone he boasteth.” Abuse ot another violation of this law. Society is held togetuer by the golden bands of mutual confidence, High honor 1s no less unecessary to°commercial life than it is @ moral duty. There are times when a person is in such circumstances as compels him to entrust his property to another; for that party to IMPERIL THAT TROPRRTY IN SPECULATION 18 & Wanton betrayal of that trust and a dishonest transaction. Bul the highest form of trust and honor 1s displayed on the pers, of society in seiect- Ing citizens to administer the affairs Of clvil govern- ment, and when that trust is betrayed for parpcoes of personal gain an that honor tarnished ty official corruption the oifeuce assumes & deeper dye and tho criminality a deeper turpitudes What can be asadder im God's stead at spectacic than to see @ man Cras the tribunal! of justice to receive a bribe to blind kis eyes and pervert lus judgment, or legislators chosen to make laws for a peopie to enrich themselves b; corrupt te team at the expense Of the public wel fare, or 0! "AN EXECUTIVE OR CLERICAL OFFICER to appropriate to himself that which a too confidii people nave entrusted to his honesty and ot ‘As We rise on the scale of moral responsibility from the midnight burglar, the murderous high n, the shrewd trickery of the merchant ind buyer, the crafty speculator, to him who filis eficial posi- tions im the ministration of government, we are bound to attach greater guilt to the dishonest acts of the latter. To dishonesty he adds crisy. He ig not what he assumes to be—tne faithful steward of the people's wealth. Under the reves of oftice there is a duplicity which merits public execration. He moves through society with the apostolic exte- rior of Judas, but upon his soul are the cankered spots of the THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER. To his duplicity he adds treachery, to nis deceit he has adaed perjury, Hw solemn oath before God has been disregarded; and to all these he has added his example to public immorality. An exam- le in history 1s the case Racon, Pope wrote of him, “The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind.” Afier laying with his mighty intel- lect the foundatious of modern science, he had re political preferment, and under James I. was made High Chaucellor, but bis love of display and thirst of gold brought on his ruin, He wccepted betrayed nis trust and dishonored his great He was tried and sentenced to pay a fine of two hundred thousand dollars and to imprisonment ia the Tower during the King’s pleasure, The speaker then referred to the prevalent causes of the Violation of ther hts of property, These ho desig- nated as extravagance, CORRUPP PUBLIC SENTIMENT and an inordinate love of wealth. The love of pomp and show is as excessive as it mnicious. Fashionable soctety remorsely rejects all butternies which have lost their brilliant colors. To gratity a natural desire to mingle in’ fashionable society many @ 2 gece cheats his business by transferring nis means THRATRES, RACE COURSES AND RXPENSIVE PARTIES, Closely allied with all this {8 @ corrupt sentiment, The man who steals a loaf of bread jtarving family is sent to jail, but the man whe is Successful in bold, dishonorable speculations 1s ca- essed by society, Why is it that oficial dishonesty ie less di table than dishonesty in @ private cltt zen? Is it not because the public conscience ts de- praved? In all ages and countries and in all forms of government ofictal Be soy ns prevaiied, Our own nation is no exception to the rule. Men nave taken advantages of their places of trust and power for persot gain and brought ty upoa themselves and dishonor upon the St nd to-day THE CRY OY PUBLIC CONDEMNATION resounds through-tho mations, But to what extent this official corrupjion ts due to @ corrupt pubiic sentiment is a queBtion which the porns are bouad to.qaswer. When thowe wito are caited the foremost HERALD, MONDAY, citizens beleaguer halls of State and national legis» lation for the passage of bills, and offer @ cousidera- tion to induce legislators to vote for their Measures, the tempter is worse than the tempted. Ni ; When oitigens at us tO OD more; tain office will deliberately offer a consideratien to others for their ufluence the who makes the Offer is the greater offender. , more; when a 1@, roiling in wealth, accumulating thousands nd hundreds of thousands a yea! ul require men of more brat of more ability, to serve them as public oMoers for a pittance so small that a first Class clerk in commercial circles would despise, tt ig no marvel that the cupidity of such a people should work CORRUPTION IN OFFIOIAL LIFR. Let tho fountain purify itself and the stream will be pure.” Let the ple raise the standard of 10- rality and the public men will follow their example. While language is too weak to express our deep ab- horrence of the treachery, the perjury, the blighting effect ry oficial lie corruption, yet let us rejoice that. every municipal — govornment, in overy | State legislation, in every department of the” national government, there are men whom peig ‘cannot SaRTNP Ww oficial honor cannot be uo et The day of reform has come, Let good everywhere bestir themselves to tighten the now relaxed reins of henesty and intone the public conscience to a severer morality, If they do uot THE MIDNIGHT OF OUR RUIN ig at Band, Woo to a people who enjey wealth @aved by injustice! Woe to a generation that feeds On.the breadof traud! Woe to @ citizensiip who profer gold to God | TSE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Sermen by Dr. Sunderlaud on God's Care of All His People in All Places. WaAsHINGTON, Feb. 12, 1871, Rov. Dr. Sunderland, pastor of the First Pres- byterian church, preached this morning from the text, “That they might be called trees of righteous- ness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be gloil- fled” —isaiah vi, 8, The reverend apeaker satd tho people of God are called TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS because He hus implanted in their nature the prin. ciple and iiie of His own righteousness, Their soil isholy, Their culture, being all of God, ts holy, and thelr spiritual life and development will ve holy. IfGod’s creatures became His children, and combine in themselves every element of come- hinesa, beauty, purity, digoity and morai grandeur, their full exposition of grace and power redounds to the glory of God, When you fiud a true Christian you may know Ged has been there, and bas planted, tended, watered, pruned and watched him at ali seasons, and, as trees are lifted up above smaller growths of vegetation, so is the trae Chris- tian superior to and conspicuous among other cha- acters, The trees of righteousness are ali full of spiritual charms, In all phases of religious ditty the Christtan realizes fidelity vo the sublime law of spiritual life, while the FLEETING PLEASURES OF EARTH, vogether with their thougittless votaries, are swal- lowed up aud become the victims of that law of in. evitable change. The true people of God are the very f6 Of the social order of the world, and instrumentally, under Him, the hope of human salvaiion, ‘Their hopes and their inheritance pertaiu not only to the life that now 1s, but to that which is to come. By faith they speak, though dead, Yhey shall shine like the siars. They shall stand like the tree of life, transplanted into the paradise of God, Like the various trees, Coristians have their various usce—some to suller aitlicuon, someto bear THE BURDEN AND HEAT OF THE DAY'S DUTY, some to reap the fruit, some to support the weaker growths, some to be uusical with the giaduess of angela, some to represent the strength and might of divine grace under ail the forms of Christian bene- ficence for the improvement and salvation of the world; some, represented by the weeping Willow, to illustrate tie humility and the imodesty of sanc- titled afiiction; others, like the mighty oak, battling wiih the storm of life and bending not as its great waves of war go over them. As God Plants these trees of righteousness He plants them When and where He wili—sonie, percnance, in life’a narrow gorges, with great rocky walls all around, unknown by the world, but watened aud cared for by angels and by God, and surely to be transplanted at the appointed time into the paradise of God. ‘Others, more known aud more favored, but while the happiness of aud honors are theirs, the giory aud praise are His enly wiio set them trees of righteousness im His vineyard. Others, sull, are set over the wild ledges ef giddy prectpices, rocked in the flerce tempests of elemental strife and shaken by terrific biaste; but God nurses them, veing TREES OF HIS OWN PLANYING, and they are gathering strengin tor a nobler life beyona the stars. Se God tries and perfects nis peo- le. ke watches them through all the winter of heir desolation, when, like man, if he have sorrows himself, they seem as @ root out of dry ground— baving no form, no comeliness. God keeps the se- cret of their life styli owing by His bountiful grace, and amld all the storms, drought and Lite f 1 ats ol earth, the great Husbandman eupplies all eeded strength, nourishment, censolation and sup. port, He knuws yoar varied story and has counted tue STORMS OF ALL YOUR YEARS, He reckons upon the day of your ripeness and longs to adorn you with heayea’s evernul splendor. He is your keeperand friend and ail the glory you reflect in your life, in your death and in your exalta- tiou, shall ve only His while ceaseless ages roll, NEW JERSEY CHURCHES. 8T. maRYs cred, HOBOKEN. Rome und the Papnacy—Discourse by Bishop Bayley. At this church yesterday high mass was celebrated by the paster, Rev. Father Cauvin, the ceremonies being unusually impressive, owing to the advent of the Most Rev. Bisnop Bayley to administer the Sacra- ment of Confirmation. Mozari’s *“'welfth Mass" (the Gloria excepted) was sung in ® most etfec- tive manner by the choir, under Professor De Grand Val. Before the chanting of the Credo tue Bishop ascended the altar, und, having read the gospel of the day, satd that at the pas- tor’a request he would says a few words con- cerning Rome—that city ever dear to the poet, the artigt.and the scholar, but full of especial in- terest'to the Catholics of the world. There 1s no name of a eity around which clifig so many memora- ble associations as that of Reme. It is the only city which played am important part in OLD CIVILIZATION, and it alao plays ap tinportant part in the civiliza- tion of the present age. It was the capital of an empire which was tie most wonderful of ali em- pires for its extent and its influence, and it became ‘the preparation for the advent of our Blessed Lord aud for the diffusion of His holy religion. Cicero once exclaimed that what Rome valued itself most ‘on was not its conquests, but its being 80 religious But in what did the retigiostéé of Rome consist? “She esteemed herseli very religious,'’as St. Leo says, “becauge she rejected no error.” Her impertal city rave a home toall the divinities of the tribes she had conquered, Nevertheless, by a decree of Pro- yidence, this city and empire were preparing for the great. spiritual empire which was destined to subdue more peoples by their word of faith than pagan Rome conquered by the sword. The bishop then described the ARRIVAL OF ST. PETER at Rome, his success, his crucitixion, the persecu- tion and slaughter of tne Christians, during which all the Popes except one shed their biood, and the conversiun of Constantine. The lattor transferred the seat of bettas to Byzantium, and it is a curious fact that none his successors ever afterwards wook up abode permanenily in Rome. it would seem that this should be so, for although what is now koown as ‘ihe temporalt- ties’? was not then established, the Pontifts were not only spiritual heads, but temporal rulers also. Hence it was to the Pontiff that they looked for deliverance from Attila and Genseric and other incursions of barbarism. 1t was from Rome, too, that MISSIONARIES WERE SENT to every nation, so that all modern Christian coun- tries owe the blessings of civilization to Kome. After depicting the magnificence of this eity at the death of Augustus and its subsequent sufferings from invasion and ctyil wars, the bishop pointed out its rapid decline to a village of 17,000 Inkabttants during the refuge of seventy years in Avignon. “1 meniion his,” he observed, ‘merely to show that the present Rome is a crea- tion of the Popes, built by contributions which they solicited throughout the world. Through their influence it continued to be the common home of retired princes and old diplomats and men ot rank from every quarter of the globe. The Po; infused ito the city that religious feeling which pervadcs everything counected withit. Its vast aud roman- tic approaches excite & most PROFOUND FRELING OF THR SUBLIME, and despite the misrepresentations and rumors re- Roman tyranny, there is no city wherein oreo joy mare iiberty. ‘Travellers grew tired of Paris and London, but no one ever grew tired ef of its catacombs, its palaces, its churches or 8 rainy; not even of its inhabitants. The latter are people, given neither to profanity Nor excesses; they are a religious people. Moreover they are attached to the Papal government, so much bothat 1fa voto were to be taken on the question (not to speak of a sham vote alter the hostile entry Of an army) two-thirds of them would vote to be estored to the mild and . PATERNAL SWAY OF PIO NONO. But the City of the Soul has been taken possession of iv the abused names of liberty and progress, and Mf they keop it it will become, like others, a city of am Btrile, confusion and crime. Every night thoré'are assassinations under the Italian govern. ment. ‘The Archbishep of Florence told the Bishop a few years ago that the Italian government had set itself directly to demoralize the people, Prints were publicly sold. in Florence which would instantly be bel: ‘by American anthorilles. And, since mora- lity 18 the only foundation of empires and of society, no man can tell What shail be the end of suck license in Italy. But amid all these vicissitudes the Ohurch shall never cease (o exist, for God's promises can- Not fail. ‘The temporal power is not # divine instt- tution, yet It seems at present better for the govern. ment Of the Church. The Pope is at present & a temperate, ou FEBRUARY 13, 1871.—WITH Prisoner, and it is necessary that he be free. We Should constantly pray for the welfare of the Holy Father and lift’ our voices agatast those false maxims which are now so common. God, in his own good time, will bring all things right; if not age | a rf net ne, Wee ne wil = men and truth amd justice and wi be triumphant and reigu pecetg 7 In the ‘eyed the Bishop administered the sacrament of contirmation to about 120 boys, 140 girls and 60 adults. He also preached on the sacra- Ment before administering it, ‘The ocharch was crowded by the children’s friends and others anxtous to witness the imposing ceremony, FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, WALL STREBT, SUNDAY, Feb, 12, 1871. } THE ORNERAL TRADE OF THB CITY during the past week was dull in the line of dry goods, although a rather twtter feeling pervaded the market and @ more confident expectation was entertained of a fair trade as soon as tho winter breaks up. The exporters found more to do, and the prospect of peace in Europe ted to large pur- chases of wheat, both for shipment and speculation, ‘The cotton market feels the eifects of a heavy crop, and prices declined. IN WALL STRERT business, compared with previous years, shows a marked falling off in the volume of transactions, although @ strict analysis would doubtless reveal the fact that the current dealings inciude a larger number of strictly legitimate investments than has -been made at any corresponding previous season. But in Wall street the transactions have always been swelled by operations on margins, and it is the dimi- nution of this kind of business which is telling 80 greatly againss the profits of the commission houses. Evidence of this state of things will be found in @ perusal of the ofMcial record of the dally sales at the formal sessions of the Stock Exclmnge, which show & large preportiou of transactions in railway and miscellaneous bonds, which are sought for their interest-paying capacity rather than from any expectation of a sudden advance in their price. There are people who, no matter what the general condition of the country, are always getting rich, and such people are the presont buyers of these se- curit es, Hence, as the demand is steadily on the increase, it shows that the country, despite the evils of the currency and banking systems, 1s prosperoua. ‘The diminution of the speculative and the increase of the legitimate business of Wall street are there- fore a very encouraging sign. THR MONRY MARKET. The money market was steady and easy at four to five per cent as the general rates on the usual col- laterats which the brokers submit to lenders, Where these collaterals were government bonds or first class ratlway stocks borrowers were almost as arule supplied at four per cent. On the former securities some loans were made, exceptionally, at as low as three per cent, Four per cent was, how- ever, the fair rate in the majority of transactions, In discounts there has been a very natural decline €s a sequence of the low rates on call, and prime paper was readily taken at seven per cent, with some sales at as low as six and a half per cent. First class bankers’ paper conld be negotiated at six per cent. SHE BANK STATEMENT. The weekly statement of the associated banks proved very favorable despite a i033 in specie, the effect of which had been largely overbalanced by a gain in legal tenders. The items do not all “tally,” but the general resuit 1s & gain by the banks in sur- plus reserve of over $1,300,000, the addition or which now brings the surplus up to nearly $20,000,000. The statement contrasts with its predecessor as fob lows:— February 4, February 11. 10,789,777 $271,271,345 26,238,578 25,660,714 Circulation + 81,764,129 81,740,164 Deposits....... + 215,888,595 214,060,875 Legal tenders. 64,187,393 65,773,292 ‘The changes are in detail as follows:— Tucrease in loans .: $481,568 Decrease tn sper . 672,859 Increase fn circulation 26,035 Decrease in deposits... 1,827,729 Increase in legal tenders , 1,585,899 FOREIGN 8X0 HANGER. Despite the qualified demand for bills the foreign bankers have maintained the rates for exchange on Europe, @ policy in whictt they were supported most of the time by the prospect that the sharp advance in the domestic prices of five-twenties would not only Umit the supply of bills, but lead to a demand for remittances against the return of bonds to this market to earn the difference between the prices in London and New York. Commercial bills were scarce, and commanded almost as good rates as bankers’. THE GOLD MARKET, The gold market was on the whole a declining one, its, earliest weakness being attributed to sales on the part of the operators who had previously taken hold for a ahort rise. Midway of the week It became steady a 111% on the prospect of a return of five-tweanties from London, but after the intelli- gence of the importaut negotiations between the governmenis Of Great Britain and the United States for she appointment of a Jomt High Commission to settle the Alabama claims and fishery questions, and the eventual upward movement of our bonds in London, where the '62’s rose to 91! on Saturday, the price fell off to and closed at 111/;. The extreme fluctuations daily im the price of goid during the week were as follews:— Righest, Lowest. Mon Jay. 124 ‘Tuesday ue Wednesd: 11 Ills nly” ly THE GOVERNMENT BOND MARKET. The upward movement in the government list con- stituted the real feature of the week. The advance averaged fully one per cent, which. in this depart- ment represents unusual activity and buoyancy. The ease of Lue money market was the foundation of the rise, but the affair of the Joint High Commis- sion and the anticipation of a treasury policy favor- able to higher prices asa means to the refunding of the national debt were also assigned as influences co-operating produce the remarkable ad- vance. The best prices were made im the forenoon of Saturday, subsequent to which time there was some reaction in the Issues most likely to | tempt a transfer of bonds from London to New York. The significant feature of the movement is, the en- hancement of the currency sixes, which, although the interest 18 payable in paper money, have, on ac- count of the permanence of the investment (thirty years, less such time as has expired since their tssue to the Pacific and other Western ratlroads) advanced to 112%. At the close on Saturday the following were the street prices:—United States currency #lxes, 1123 & 11274; do. slxes, 1881, registered, 1144; a 114%; do. do., coupon, 114!¢ & 114%; do. five-twen- ties, registered, May and November, 111% @ 111} do. do., 1862, coupon, do., 112!¢ a 112%; do. do., 1864, do. do,, 1115¢ @ 11134; do. do., 1865, do. do., 111% & 111%; de. do., registered, January and July, 110%; & 1103;; do. do., 1885, coupon, do., 11034 @ 11094; do. do., 1867, do. do., 110% @ 110%; do. do., 1868, do, do., 110% a 111; do, ten-forties, registered, 10734 & 107%; do. do., coupon, 11] @ 1i1',. THE STOCK MABKET. The stock market was in the main dull, but firm, and prices for the week show an average advance of about one percent, Contrasted with the rates for money there are many @ividend-paying railway stocks which are selling at cheap prices, pat specu- jation in them has limited business te purchases by parties who can pay for them out and out and take the maway from Wall street, where clique manipuia- tion has 8o often disproved the power of holding even the best class of stocks on the usual margin. The only sensation of any moment was toward the close of the week, when it transpired that the Erie Railway Company had executed a new notice has been given to the Commitiee on Securt- ties at the Stock Exchange, the object of which is to provide a fund for taking up the several existing mortgages as fast as they mature, reducing the bonded debt of tie road to ® uniferm character. The som required for this purpose is $24,000,000, leaviug a surplus of $6,000,000, which, it ts rumored on the street, will be applied to the laying of a third rail between New York and Buffalo and the purchase of additional equipment for a narrow gauge connection with the Great Western, of Uanada, and Michigan Central ratiways, The Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company are the trustees of the new mortgage, which was executed some Ume ago, but not made public until Saturday. Meantime the dotatia of the new loan are SUPPLEMENT, | fm tho hands of tho committee, who promise am early report to the Stook Exchange. THB FINAL STREBT QUOTATIONS, The following were tho final etreet quotations Sat- urday evening of the leading speculative atocks:+— ‘Weatern Union Telegraph, 46 a 4654; Pacific Mati, 434 943%; New York Central, consolidated, 04% @ 94%; New York Central, scrip, 00% @ 01; Erle, 2354 @ 2354; Reading, 903; = 905¢; Lake Shore, 04% a 04%; Nortn- western, 7654 & 75%; GO. preferred, 8634 a 86%; Rock Island, 107 a 10754; St, Paul, 64 a 6434; do. preferred, 1534 @ 7644; Wabash, 62% @ 53; Ohio and Missis- Sippl, 8634 a 36:4. COMMERCIAL REPORT. Saruuvay, Ped. H—O P. M. OorTON.—Tho market opened quiet and weak, but subso- quently improved on more favorable Liverpool advices, and closed frm on @ alight falling off in receipts at the porte, Low mlddiiug and the better gradea wore most noticeably affected, our quotations appended indicating an advance of 40. per Ib, on these qualities over the quotations of yester- day. The poorer grades wore steady, but without substan- Mal fmprovemen' stilt neglected and 001 Ave! tal. She ashen ‘wore (048 balea, faoliding 1,479 4 for home consumption and 25 les for export, bales on # Mie ” eal Te itt Wh 3 re ih BOS 16 olf ist ‘and al fat Midst bales same deliveries 1 Orc, all the months, March was the is mouth reaching 4,000 bales, fe ales, as follows :—Febri mm 71) Ie, 5 TA ito. BB at Wipe. 20 nt 14 11-16¢,, 4dy 700 at 140, at 14 13-160,, 100 at 147¢0; M at 14 {5-160, Tune, $00 at 14 15-I6e,, 00 0 yesterday after ro- Kearbo,"800 at tenons 60 ne rx aor nl hes te yee Mast 7 . ; , at age. 5 G i ib at tbo. 600° tree onboard‘ sisostay? basis ordinary, at Lidge. Total, ie forward delivers’ wares Pecans iol a te rere :—Febru Ny, 5b. 5 eh, 1a.sto.y April, 14-740.) May, 14090. dune, se wi CovPEs.— The market Tor Rio’ continwed al The de- mand was f1 made of per Con- and were 1,876 wigs, per Freyar on private torma, Other kitds tent, and 967 bags, por were gulch but ateady> We juote:—Cargoos Rio, ordinary, Tigo. at . sy a ae ay ; and Maracaibo, Wor a Wo. Laguagra, M4ipo. aldo. > Bt “Dom ¥ Dio. a ge; JuvariOlger oie, all pala. one 'LOUR AND GRAr et an 700 bil nd 3,725 do, oats, ‘The Sour gt ruled din under a (air Inquiry. The sales were about 16, bbis., including extra State, for shipment, at ray of which 5,000 , were sola | for delivery firet half of March at the outside price. “at four was jn ive and no! at 0 fi Peuntylvania and $2 Stale, Gorm uleal wes & BB fi ttoady, with sates ot a0) ‘bbe yellow Wostoca at €3 90 for oO 06 ; 00 if 700 is Round boop Ohio, trade brands. Too Family... . 800 4 70 ‘Rt. Louis choice family 0 0 Rye flour, a6 Southern. a 20 al00 i43 a 47 Ef bc. a Bde. for Fellow, ol sales reached 56,00 bi svore and afloat, 67c. a 69c. for Ohio, closing for choice WeMtera in store. Barley was change, ‘alt inactive, we was steady Btate and Wertera. sits FRetouTS.—Rates wore generally firmer, but the market pontinued quiet, The engagements wore:—'To London, one ry quiet, without Wa Bl 12 for ee load wheat, 5464. ; one load corn, B34. To Li by eal, 430" bales cotton ‘at apd, a 7-6is A00" bhde- tallow "893, 6a 15,000 bushels wheat, 1. ‘he charters include threes ereto French goverument, for Havre, with provisions, private terms. HAY was moderately active for shipping at full but frm. We quote:—Nortl on rices, river 9 with those ped for shipmont, wit in ’ ex $20,000,000." Theve Aisarrangemones ery need = at the opening of Spring, waking buyers undo- ied and restricting the market to im Apropos of ike freight trouble, Mosern i Wotan Co, mntend to Cugaze Immediately thr steamslips to ran tri-weesly to Baltimore. The peace abrovd ite elfect ta make buyers hi Cotto Is now lower than since the beginning of the reve!ijon, but there muss be an adv wit e sda L101 Cc i Of LOstilities be. tween France and » a8 German and Vrenck anuficl m will at once revive, F Ses a wow ier “apd comtinue ra Sup spring trade, ere are CYOUgh goods pi hand for present necesaliies. on hand for TON GOODS, 001 }. ‘There has been @ moderate degree fotos goods daring eg Pri em for all makes of ol with an advance ae seth aed aflcs arte fn abel juin, ir doubhs the ewand for ‘the supply of “tinmcdiate wante is fair. 4 )R PRINTS ity. FO! there ts not much activi Sctions have been made. houses, Sprague’s and Merrimac cents. Selections are being jobbers, but there is not muc! hd ageuts are showing full lines styles, nany of which are very attractive. BLEACHED SHBRTINGS AND SHIRTINGS, The market in these goods haa been active and vory firin, with no downward tendenoy. Tho supply in jobbers’ hands ts very light, Utos styles have all been advanced by. econ With thé production sold up tor some me. No: York Mills:is ruling at twenty-one ceuts; Wamsatte at twenty cents, BROWN SHRRTINGS AND SHIRVINGS. e The suppiy is reduced and tue market fairly ae- ve. ROLLED JACONETS. ‘These spore are in fair demand, with the leading styles sold up and large orders ahead on some yi makes, PRINTED LAWNS AND PBRCALES ro offered by the agents and & few scales have beom mate ‘The season Is yet early for an active markes. in these goods, For satinets and corset jeans there bas been # demand, and leading makes are in short supply. WOOLLENS have been in lesa demand during the week, bué rices are firm, and clothiers, anticipating @ dimin- hed supply later im the seasou, have purchased quiio freely of heavy cloths. FOREIGN Goops, Importers aro meeting a better demand, and the: movements are increasing. ‘The prospect lor the trade tn ilk goods during the season 1s favorable. Light fabrics for the clething trade move freely. REAL ESTATE MATTERS. An Expectant Market—Some Positive Views Corrected—Rents, With the Wall street markets so dull that the wom der ts how the mass of brokers who congregate there continue to live, there ts matter for encouragement even in the few transactions of the past week in reat estate, while the large congregations that attend the several sales evidence the increasing desire for deal- ings, Men who are neither anxious to buy nor dedire ous to sell are not likely to waste their time tn thas most uncomfortable of places, the basement of Trinity Building. Yet men do ge there, and im considerable numbers; hence tt becomes a very natural Inference to suppose that much interest ts felt tu the market, and by a class who are ONLY WAITING an opportunity to invest. The great difficulty, how- ever, in the way witn them, appears to be thas vague idea that real estate {s too high, and they are all watting for some great crash which is going to permit them to “scoop” in at mere nominal figures the entire realty of the island. On what they base this view, or why there must be such a tumble um real catate, they are unable to explain, alleging, im reply to every attempt at making out their reasons, gotivity ia lage. > ae shipping, 1 20 a 80 a Bl 40, Biraw, “with «far demand, was 981 & (or long rye, 930. a $1 05 for short rye aud Wie. for oat. Hops were without noticeable change in any respect, the demand being confined to small lots of the beat ‘offerings at revious prices. to:—New Ye Ie. per Ib. ; astern, 7c. a 1c.; Wisconsin, 5c. @ igan, bo. «90. ! Obio, 5c! a $e; yearling, 30. « Se, land Old, 1c. «3c, nominal. ‘MOLAGSRS was dull of sale. Foreign was neglected and Domeat: vest, with Lege Retail lota were g and retail qualities #t firm at gi ik, So. * alichiga ¢:—Vorto Rico, We. @ bs se. clayed, & .§ emerara, i New Orleans, 650. a NaVAt STORES.—The market for spirits turpentine has been less active, the reduced stock tends to keep the mar- "i Merchantabl 2 60, with 3,000 stood at about thi PETROLEUM. Tho market continued very dull and prices are a littie weak, although no further change ts noted. Crude, in bulk, I6c,; retined, standard whit c.. without sales of importarice; case oll weak at B0}c. 8 Biigc. In Philadel- hia she market was again lower and very quiet, Re‘ined, jard white, 244c. Crude on the creek quoted at €4475 on lower road, ja 44 for February March, and about 1,000 prime mess on the spot at ¥28 HI. The market for lard was dull and heavy. Tho sales were unimportant. We quote steam Kettle rendered 12/c. a 12/0. ; 280 bbla, wold for May delivery at Ide. was ‘di unchanged. Hoe! tales, excep' 0 quiet, bu bad an upward tendency, 0) boxes pickled bellies and 250 do. pickled ed hain, light, 18igo, Ie. j ne. ans were ting smail lots, Out meats were with ‘aiminiahing stock prices We note sales of & Western pick! smoked buins, Ie. ; smok }, 123¢0. a Ide, ; cc. Bacon was in active request, aiid. prices favored ealers, with sales ot 1,800 boxes long clear, city, 1Lie. a 11%c.; short clear, city, 12'4¢. a 123c.; short rib,’ city, Ll4ge.;- Cumber- land do,, lie. a 114ge ; tong clear Western, iftge. = L1Xc. short clear do., 12i¢c. 8 124j0,; short rib do., Hive. @ 11ig0.; Cumberland do., Ie. Dressed hogs were unchanged, with = ad sules at 930. a 9%o. for Western and moderate demand, 10igc. w WV ood demand and a small sup- ply of Carolina 804) all offerings, was strong, With aales of 800 tlerces Carolina at from 846, to Byes aud occasionally 835 . for eb nngoon was fra and activo, wit at 7c., the market closing with ao upward tendency, especiaily Cor Carolina. STEAK(NE was not in dewand. The only sales were con- fined to small lote at 15c. a 13\c. SUGAR, with a limited demand and sellers anxious to real- tro, prices without exsantial change were @ shade easier: the market closing weak, in the basis of 9c. a Ye. for fair to food refnmg, The sales ware confined tp about fy bh rieaus and Demerara at from 9¥e. @ Ifc., and 19 hhdi private ‘vermis, | Refined suga Private terms; 100 boxes on was lower, and closed dull at the revised quotations. We quote:—Cuba—Iinferior common reining, 8. ages, fale to good, refining, ic, ood rime rebning, fc. ; fair to good Bees ie et pane toc! 101 Toe. a ths , hogsbeads and boxes, ‘a 10%c.; molasses, beads and bores, Bige. Ncuaaee de. a Te. Lavi . & Dgc. Boxes Dutcp standard, Nos. 10 to 12, #ige. a lOc. ; do., 18 to 46, dO p T1o-4 do. 19 102, ae, & dow, white, 124. alexe Rotini . 0 9340. 5 40. & lle. Brazil—Ditteh ph He. 0 13, gc. it superior, 8¢. a 4c. Ketined--Soft joc. & 13%e. ; crushed, powdered aud ergnuiated, b ' me 1 Kc. a 18/40. ecelpts, 20 baxs. The market for all kinds was revious prices. We quote :—Linseed, per 4220 a $2 83; timothy, $6 @ 86 00 per bushel; 154C. @ 11340. per Ib. w'was dull but unchanged, with small sales at 9c. WHISKEY.—Receipts, 435 bbls. The market was quiet with sales contined t 11 lots at 94 DRY GOODS MARKET. There is not the activity in the dry goods market that the advanced season would seem to demand, though there is movement enough to keep the mar- ket from stagnation. Southern buyers are looking about and making considerable purchases, and Western dealers, notwithstanding the high rates of transportation, are filliag up their stock toa mode- rateextent. There is much complaint on ail sides, especially among those whe have to do with cotton goods, From the steadiness of the prices and the reduced condition of stocks at the beginning of the month it was reasonable to suppose that the spring trade, though it might be somewhat delayed, would be active. The heavy snow storms had their effect Im hindering travel and transportation, and now, when it is the season for the market to move freely, the high rates of freight are causing more or leas injury to the dry goods business of New York. The Dry Goods Reporter says:—‘'The great differ- ence im freight does notlie in the fact that rates are fifteen cents a hundred jess from Philadelphia to Chicago than from New York to Chie: but in the inducements offered by the Union Line over the New York lines tn making their charges to agree with those of the Baltimore and Qlile road. ‘They charge nominally $1 65 per hundred, allowing the consignor to credit thirty-five cents on the ship- per’s invoices, which allowance is to be made good by the Union Star Line. We have seen telegrams from Chicago, from the lead- ing houses, directed to New York houses who Mani white, jurrent clayed | ‘ ladelphia, to ship their goods consolidated mortgage for $80,000,000, of which due | BAVe #8 #gency in Philadelp! iP rf from Philadeiphia by the Union Star Line, and they will take care of the rebate at Chicago. We have also seen the report of one of the leading houses tn the commission trade who made application to the Unton Star Line in Philadelphia as to their rates of shipment, when the Unton Star Line replied they would ship at $1 85 or $1 40 per hundred, or rates equal to the Baltimore and Ohio road, the consiga- ora to muke credit to their customers, but the buyors to know nothing Ol the arrangement. The firat in- telligence of this rebate came direct [rom buyers who seem to haye perfecied their arrangements directly with the Union Star Line, who seem to be playing a double game to obtain freight, yet which we are sure will mot react either to their that it must come down because it ts too high, their logic not carrying them any further, and being wholly incapable of furnishing a solution of the Dutchman’s inverted query, “How high te dot!” If there fs one thing more than an- other of which it is impossible to ax the value by any one standard It 19 real estate, ina growing, changeiul city like New York. One au- thority asserts that the value of a thing is Ite produc- tive capacity, which would not apply to unimproved property, from which there isno revenue. Added to this, however, is the capacity aad prospects of the property to produce an income. It is just here where ail the DISAGREEMENT occurs. Both in respect to capact'y and prospects is their matter for difference; and so much depends upon intelligence in discovert and discerning these, as weil as in developing them, thas it ts quite safe to rank the chronio bears as being essentially apd generically stupid, Taking athe island 1n mass, any one who would contend that the capacity of this city as @ productive oy in add- ing to the wealth of the country had mm reached, or that its prospects of any increase of greatncss were shut out, would be Sagarded a8 an oss. What is true of the city a3 a whole 1s true of it in detail. Double the wealth of this metropolis, add 100-per cent to its population and expand its boundaries untiltwice the present area is included within the corporation limits, and the present olty property will have increased In value in like proportion. We are advancing in that direction steadily, swiftly and surely; yet we hear all this croaking about real estate being too high, as though our Movement wasin exacuy the opposite direction, and men of sense and discretion frightened by suca an absurd and illogical conclusion are driven out of the market. That A BETTER UNDERSTANDING in rezard to this matter is growing up @ very ap- parent, and itis upon the development of this to the exercise of unprejudiced, deliberate judgment that we look for an active market this spring. There are millions of dojlars lying in the banks now, idle, the preperly of men whose natural instincts incline them to real estate investments, and which would seek that channel but for the uneasiness ip respect to the future occasioned by this croaking which has, been maintained now for over a year without other result. As the owners of these millions become disabused of the false impressions created by such articles as have from time to. time ap) jared in print in a jour- nal particularly distinguis! for its opposition to real estate credit, and the talk of smail-fry brokers, they are like to seck the real estate market to find employment for these now almost sateroseceiye balances. The funding of the debt at a lower rate of interest, or rather the retirement of the atx per cent bonds in considerable amounts, is likely to bring into the market a further amount of capttat weeking safe and profitable tavestment, which, if not diverted by the “wolf” cry of those referred to above, is likely also to find its way into real estate. It is curious, in examining tnto the condition and pol mosey 4 of some of those who have been most prominent ta to find g close association with soc! lc theo: and that sort of spec: ative Philusophy which & its best practical illustration inthe pickpocket. A desire to reconstruct the world is a very praise- worthy ambition, and, under certata circumstances, might be commended; but when the materials for fhe work are insufticient it ta better to let it alone. The wee of property in common can never be established by attempts to destroy the value of ethes cople’s, if you have none yourself. Again, statis- ‘ics, a3 the basis of argument, may be correct tn general sense; but to deduce from the figures of t year the exact figures of next is not safe. The cot ditions are often very different. They are to-day different in veal estato to what they were thisday a yoar ago. THE MATTER OF RENTS is the principal subject of interest in the market, ia dependent of tts direct reterence to values. It.1s yet too early in the season to speak with certainty upow the subject; but some impertant changes are looked for, Rents tn New York do not always reflect the value of the property, but are in many cases exces- sive, ha = in others, from the of I lh ger causes, they are unrem ‘ be coasidered in some apart from the value uf the fee, Of course, there fre to be found the two reat divistons of feeling in respeo: to this matter his year, as The Jandiord rain that there will be little in rents this year, while the t ag confidently ayserts that rents must come down. ‘uetween. te hang oe dag) Laer jowledge, safe that re Wi! or reductions but it does not look yet as though it would be very general. GENERAL NEWS (TEMS. The coal men Ne deed Ohio and Mississippi Ratiread intend to reduce the pay of miners to four cents per bushel, A “strike” is the expected consequence. Within the last month 600 colored persons have lied to the American Colonization Society for aid to go to Liberia. More negroes are now attractod to the coluny than ever before. The Portiand (Me.) Press speaks discouragingty of the health of Senator Morrill, He will not be adie at present to return to Wasnington. Cnicago is infested with lecturers, The Journal saye:—“‘li there such a thing as a town or city ve- ing lectured to death ete ts certarnly iu ic ef meeting with such a fate this winter.” ‘The Legislature of Delaware is evidently shutting down on the Kod Get ry haraty fhrnh Tag applications have been made al le free ave still Pending, and the voma:nder UavS taxes on real estate and been rejected. The proposition to 1 joing away with taxes on Sm trate, profession or invested capital, and before the Legisiatare powhed in hetnn oe fro ment, 18 ressod SMBmacnuscits with some slight prospect Of Slice cess. Is is reported that the spotted fever is pre’ wo Ay siarniing extent in Schoharie cou i Co pecuniary creitit in the end or to themselves as hon- orable competitors. Of the ameunt of injury to the dry geods interest of this city, some idea may be formed when we state that the f Sy that would wave gone inte cougumytiva or been distributed. We and victoity. particularly in Gallapsvill props — ve ry BaaOet sche and {tis atated that gregs — cae in tai ists. Women and children are the- tims, Tho physiciaus attrivate the Jisease: rittes in or bat conditiva Of fae water Agoality.