The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1871, Page 10

8 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. August6---Tenth Sunday Af- ter Pentecost. RELIGIOUS PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY. Interesting Herald Religious Cor- respondence, Religious Notes,. Personal and General. Services To-Dny. Rev. Chartes B, Smyth will Giscourse this morning ‘and evening, in the Americam Free Church, on the “Liverties of America.” Rey, Edward Haines, of Philadelphia. will preach ™m the broadway Taberuacle church this morning | “and evening. Rev. 8. D. Brown will preach in the Central Meth- | SAistchuroch this morning, aud the Rev. Mr. Oak- dey in the evenmg. Rev. Dr. Wescott will preach this evening in Plym- ‘outh Baptist chure), on the Westfela explosion. Rey. William H. Boole will preach thts morning andevening in the @eckman Hill Methodist church on “the Duty of the Christian Chureh of this City tn View of Present Oficial © tion in High Places.” Rey. Charies F. Lee will preach on tha Westield disaster this morning in Chickering Hall. Rey. Mr. Morgan preaches morning and evening 1a ‘Bt. Thomas’ chure Rey. Peter Streker will preach this morning and | evening in the Thirty-fourth strect Reformed enurch, Rev. Dr. William Bornard will oceupy the putpit of the Forty-second street Presbyterian church this morning and evening. Rey. Dr. Potter will preacu this ehareh. in Gre arkS on bof Rev. in the the Westfield expiesion, David Mitcheil’s discon this Canal street F yiorian church, Bishop Snow will preach in the University, Wash- Ington square, this afternoon, on “The Time Manner of the Judement.* Divine serv vith be held morning and evens. morning, in Zion church uns Revision of the Seriptares. To tHe Kvitok or THE Henanp:— Te ougiy to be Knowm Wo ail readers of the Holy Beriplures that Wie whole of Lhe words aad purases ma italics Were supplied by the transtators in order to make, as they thought, the sense or meaning of whe sacred text more apparent to Ure geueral readc and were not found 18 DOW geverally Suppo tn the orginal manaserin ts. In some cases we trauslators have evidently suc ceeded in their laudable object; bas in very many, Instead Of threwhi addtional light on the text, she atiditional words and phrases intenuonaliy, jet us hope) the legit ise Of the orginal. One case in point, laken from tue Seventeonth verse of the firsc chapter of Peter's Fusi Epistle, reads as follows:—Pass the timo of your sojourning Jere in fear.’ The advert of piace a, (aa: “hero,” in italics, was supplied py the Jwtors; not found in Peter's manuscript. Ortuodex aheology then, as now, embed the doo arine of the “‘drnmoriality of the sou? and of going io beaven or hel at deaths; aud we can hardly avoid the conclusion that, ut at le this instance, the translators added the word “here” io favor orthodox theviogy. Peter eviiently @Hes the term “sojourning” in the sense iu wmiey ib Was applied to the sojourning of the Israelites in the wilderne: «to their entry into the “pro. mised land,” jand of Canaan, And we i struetion of (he present version, a desire to modern- ize the literary Btyle, $o.as to render tt more in har- myony with the tastes of the present generation, 1 for one have no vin apg with the undertaking, und if the revisors do not intend to allow any trans- jation whieh might endanger popular doctrines and dogmas, What cau ther object of a revision of the | preseut version bey [tis # vast work, and needs to be a iabor o1 Jove to be done well. : such meaning or constraction as thar attributed to it by popular expounders. It isa delusion and a snare, Wh regard to the “soul,” ag distinct from the body, the writer says:—“We are aware of tis mma- leriality by a self-consctousness tmpossinie to der One.” ‘This ts a candid confession of mability to Aetna huis ideas on the subject, aud is so fur praise- worthy. Again, “Now, the sout is an immaterial sud- stance.” Here, sir, is a contradiction in werms, An ““mUuaterial Substance” ts abous as sensible a phrase as a “material nothing.” No one conid possibl conceive the idea of ao “immaterial substance.” All substances must bave shape and form, Can any- thing haying shape and form, and consequently parts, be imuaterial? itis mere moonshine. And eveu “moonshine” is material. Lignt, the medium oi sight, is material, It is impossible to conceive anything cognizant to tne senses being immaterial, ye Who believe in “minaterial substances? may mention the name of Locke, but can never have read his “Essay ou the Humaa Understanding” #0 as to benent themse:ves or anybody else. Clear 1icas may be generally defined. Iv is the want of them Wat makes the definition so dificult. Try again, “Bb. A, Pe H,” “8. 1.) can sympathize with you. Plenty scope for progress. Yours truly, 4 ‘The “Slindness ia Port? of Both Jow and Gentile. To rap Eprvor or rax Heraup:— Ivis the intention and design of God to provoke the jealousy of the Jews by offering salvation Ww the Gentiles, “Now, if the full of the Jews be the riches of the Gentle world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, now much more their | (Jews) fuliness”” That is to say, if the Gentiles | have been so highly favored by the temporary re- | Jection of the yews, bow much more may weexpect | they (Gentiles) will be benefited by the fullness of | the flnal restoration of the Jews to the favor of God? Farther on the Apostie says:—“If the casting away of them (Jews) be the reconciling of the (Gen- | tile) world, what shall be the receiving of them | (ews) be, Dut life from the dead?” But, then, itts by no means a popuiar opinion of the present day that the poor Jews ever will be re- stored, #0 as again to occupy that pre-eminent posi- ton in the word, as a people and nation, which they held betore their final dispersion, But whether | Mwedenborg anion Not Spiritualism, To rae Epiror Ov THE HERALD;— Believing that you dere to render justice to und speak trutntally of al) persons, I take the lberty of asking you to allow mo to correct a grave error in your paper of Wednesday. In your obituary notice of Miss Cary you say she was a Spiritualist “being a firm believer m the dovtrines of Emanuel e 01 be popular or not im te | hod ee vorids. tet popular. apostoiie | Swedenbore—or words to that effect. I ain en- | doctrine clearly set forth in the tings | tirely ignorant ss to Miss Cary’s rellzious belter— of Paul, and that should be suicient to convinee us tat it formed pert of the aposties’ creed. Atore- over, the “restoration”? of the twelve tribes of Jacob constitutes the burden of the song of every | a et, Laajoror minor, It 16 the great | ‘adise Regaived,” Paul to the Roman | with that l nave nothing to do; but 1 do ovject to your clasmng Swedenborg aud = spiritualism together, as if there were the least thing in common, detween them. Any. oue who Will take pains to 1 jorin Inmself by the writings and preaching of I. Swedenborg and his foilowers wili fud that so far Gentiles, “that you shoula be ;gnorant of this mys- | from veing Spiritualists thoy utterly denounce tat tory, test you shoal be wise 1 your own conceits; | system, believing it Lo be & balewul miluence trom that blindness in part ts happened to laraet, until | heli itsels. tne fulness of the Gentiles ve come in.” Only until ‘True, upon Seriptare authority they assert that tae fun of the Gentes? We can only sayin | this world 49 imested with evil spirits, demons, reply that the Apostie’s Umely c&ution bas been | “ihe prince of the power of the air that now work- grossly wanecded, aud the Gentes nave verily | eth in disopedience,”? as of old; and as St. Johu’s become Wise In thetr own converts on the subject of | eyes were opened to behold these things, 80 do Jewish restorauion. Pant adds: “or the guts and | they claha that the spitimual eyes of the good and calling of God are Without repentance, ‘or as ye | pure Swede were opened to discern thess wings, | Uienciles) in Rives past Nave not weieved Gor, yet | and to prophecy; bat as to “inediums,? “come Lave NOW obtajaed mercy through there (Jews) un belief: even so have these (Jews) also NOW not be- Meved, tat through your mercy they also may ob- tain iweroy. For God hati concluded ali in unbsbes, ihot He might Gave mercy upon all.” Moreover, Pati says tat Jewish biindness wae only in part; and that part consisted in their rejec- Yon of Jesus OF Nazareth asthe promised *Messian?? mucications” and modern spiritualisin, they abhor them, Ke s0 g0d as to insert this correction of an error, wounaing the feelings of many Of your read as tne error is ay impression that ought Lever wo have beer given. Respectiuily, €RUTLL A Resurrection in the East—The Crescent | or king whe sho We and reign over them. ‘The Well understood that part of the Gospel and the Cross. preached to Abraham which had reference to the | To rns EDITOR oF THE NER* | Mavure and locality of tue * Kingdom;’? but they re- Tam obliged for your insertion of my last commu nication, and have saken the liberty to enciose some manuscript which (atter reading one of tne very interesting leauing articles in the HERALD, headed “A Resurrection m the Kast—A- Rallway trom the Holy Land to the Euphrates’?) I think may thiow some light on the subject of moaern move- ments of European Powers witi reference to the “Eastern qnestion.’? Those movements have politt- cal and religious tendencies of vast import, which the student of prophecy is watching with intense interest. Jeoted the “Kk The Gentiles lave professediy accepted King,” withous Knowing enytning avout the “kinyrdon ‘The Jews Kuew that it was | over the twelve trives of Jacob that “Messians” w: to reign, aid < Was upon the “throne of His father David" in che city of Jerusalem that he was to Sit; and that, therefore, the tweive tries would | constita je Kingdom proper, while “domia- { ion’? would extend 10 the edds of tie earta. So that not only are tue poor Jews bitnd only in part, bat the Geusiles (the erihodox portion at ieast) | also are equally biind in part: the former having ree | king’ of the future “age,” the iatter ingdom.” While the Jews velleved in & Kiig- dom to be establisued on the earth, witha heavenly system and iorm of goverbimeat and with “Messiah? as king, the Gentiles profess to believe m an in. | 48 you truly remark, “Tue crescent must give way uginary spiritual kingdom “beyond the bonus of | to the cross.” The shadows of great coming events | tine and space.” onty remains to say that both | 44 the East are distiuoiy seen in the raovements of ' Gen ty Olid, Wiha thud @y) the Jew reject be “king? and the Gennie the “kingdom. Verily, as Paul says, the Geaidles | have “become wise in their owa concelt.* ! Chrint the “Heir of AM Ta | To vite Epitor oF TA HERALD: | ‘Hei of aii Utings ?’ What a glorious destiny : forthe Son of Man! Well inight tue propher eay, i Ao hath believed our report? andte whom hath | the arm (strengih or power) of the Lord been re- | Vealed? “Appointed,” by God the Father, “heir | Of all uhings’—therefore not yet In possession, But How we see net yet ali tiings put under dim. Gut | we see Jesus, who was made a little lower then the is (by assuming mman nature) Jor the suffering | of deatn (had He assumed angelic nature He could | hot have submitted himself to death), crowned with | glory and boner. Being made so much better than | Land covepanted to Abranam aud to lus “seed,’? | the angels, a8 He hata by imberitance obtataed a | Which, says Paul, 1s Christ, under tne personal reign. | more excelent name than they; for unto which of | Pranwer major orainon whose Wahine NL | the angels sata God ai any tume, “Thon art my Son; | in ue Word of God. A book might be compiled of | this day have T begotten thee!’ But unto the Son | Sacred predicuons on this ail-tmportant point, and yet the belie! of suca au event is not popuiar. sole of the European Powers atthe present time. No important alliance can pow ve formed to chock the progress, the aggressive policy, of Russia iu the Kast, a8 at the tune of cbe Crimean wart, and Russie knows It, lregard Russia, on tue Eastern question, as the agent of the fulfilment of prophecy, as the mere tool in the hands of the Almighty to carry out ols plaa for the “restoration of the kingdom to Israel.’? But she don’t kuow it, The solution of the question Wil close tac presen’ Gentile dispensation and introduce a new era, when all civil and eccle- siastical power will be transferred from the hands of the ‘powers that be” into the hands of Christ and the saints. The soluton of the Eastern ques- uo will Naugurate the millennial reign of Christ on theearth. Tne establishment 01 a Kingdom In tue Holy bear in mind that as the wide in which tuey | He saith, “Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever, | *Xotony asthe “powers that be? rue mankind, sojourned, and the “promised jand” mre winch | * For o the angels hath He (God) not pat in | there wiil be no ‘peace on earth, or good will to they ailerwards © ed, e . iWjection the work to come, whereof we speak.” | Man.” Bub w: their armies and navies have ro esipncwysin ee eae ae DN ee | eae GALE Skee ie been “dashed to pieces like a potter's vessel” the eastern part vf the earth—notone upon carn, we | purase, “world t come,” might be quite a8 | yutions shalt no more learn tile art of war, All these other in heaven—so the Christian's sojourning im | properiy rendered “age 10 come.” We see cleariy, | “powers” were established by tne word, and beiore pSOTL dispe a m0] a aniering, anc © Aposties had been 4 of the! can be “peace on earth” the ‘ord of God de- this preseut dispensation of trial aud sniferiny, and | then, the Apostles f n speaking of @ World or | Ciirestney shall be destroyed with the same we: his future sv" in the kingdom of Christ (toe | “age? to come, the government and controi of | pon. moreover, the day is not far distant. ‘The stu same prounsed iand of Canaat both emphati. | Whiten was not to be mitted to aagels. But to | dent of prophecy can see the event looiing in the tally on the eari; the Kingdom of Chrtsi not t th, “Poy thione, O God, is for} “rn horizon. The infidel ‘Lark holas possession iy fe earl; ie t i not be | ever it is evident, then, tbat 28 | ofthe land covenanted to Abrahamjand ins “seed,” akingdom in the skies, as erroneow: sseried ia | the is to have a “throne” for cver | Chvast; ortiodox iheology, bat Upon the cari, as dectared m the Word of God, “for He (Curist) snail regu on the earth.’ What Peter really says is:—+Pass the tine of your sojourning in fear,” Without atu- Bion 10 jocaiity. the apostie had no nic fo mention focaiity, baving no ialse theory w suppor ile’ well knew, as we a ail the omer aposties, that ere is ho promise i the Word OL God to the nuiwan rac of any other place of resi ier the ped of ¢ Mau Upon vie earth, where they are ive a Feagh with Christ forever.” Chere is no promise to Adaw’s race of a “kingdow beyond ihe skies. edeemed, unuimately, fron the pon iat the ‘tail, a8 inte: abode of humanity reve at CREISL, ds SOLO proaoane to be tue deripture decia rhe and Davie bon of God, isto be the future “King of all the earth,” not i ina morai and spiritual sen as theologians say, bat lit will come Lite: rally io reign personally as surt @ Was } erucilied, “First the ¢ wo common pulpit ap) zu €yroneous preted Li Lot the ¥ will neve 1 the serp head” unty ive kingdoms of this World have be: athe one Kingdom of che 1 He si Ve std. dined all lungs to Himself. ‘This He will accomplish during Lis “millennial reign on tue earth, Any who mey doubs My here ad- } + Chat the Christ AanKht Lis discipics to pray not estaviished on tie i, Whe ca v be Jerusaicm, in the Holy Land, th promised ana’ at as God to Abra . Isaac and Jacon, ‘seed? witch Paul, 1s Ohrist—ic 2 real the six iseveu foutteenty chapicr of /echarialt. Indeed, 11 P weil to read the Whole chapter, ani noi ouly we whole of the chapter, but also two preceding ones. Any one who may take a In OUtaming Correct will have view pi, Which J hay IMat offered Itsels, on re prove how casv ti Is not pervert te true measing man additions and thous pernicious tender Mbits aD honest me — trunslaiors, acknowledged by danger ies ia this: that comparative of the Bible are a of this f iy. therciore yead the italic words aod pnray of the MA TEXL. An truth, fam airai 1 Asters of the Gospel, not conaned to “3 ints,” are not much better acquainied with tie than tue general reade: the ruth on thts pot, never read a portion ¢ Keripture withont reading it with and then wi rence t it isposition oa | that Mer ah puting them ae As one acquamied with She ialic additions, To ime Uns exercise Is, ap Irom Wheological views, exceeding! ster ing. i often a good Xercise in CoupOsiio! mh utences, And J am gramimnaticn Coustrucion of often lead wo unk tal the Muon of ihe texe is frequently and concise without tie Words aud pire pied by the transtators tuan wit them. OF course Uns is & COnSideratION dependent ot Lie danger of perverting the sete and meaning of the text hy ad- ditious Witch inculcate (whetner intentiouatiy or MO) Erroneous Govtrines a! Teveaied matnid and will of God to men ine ent version . ere be a diversity oF opinion, on doc vn's, were advised 10 decide iv tavor 0 Ws of Church to which they velonge: Ang ibstruc might have been a (em pration in more Wan oneor UG anstapces. It will be mieresting tu Bivic stacent observe how the present revisers of our antuor.zed version Will Weat the additions of ihe jormer trans. Jators. Te me it seems a thing almost impossivie that nen already commitied to what is termed orthodox views can be expected fo give us a faint iby w me har a 1 Greek, discover tan rect tran. of ce arives whic iri OrUiodos iD suil to be & dhe oniy over ruic incapayie Popular theolowy of (he day, no fic Such a me by then proleravie LU wo wa ait! uotions, and th: only men capal.c of giving and a true rendering of the mean cular Wii ve rendereu 1 b Gurds marty’ pieposs aver doguie via as | understand the worn Is com menced WI te predeterminauion to suppart and main all hazards modera orthodox t ns Mow, then, can We hope Jor a tril honest transia Yoo of (he original text of We sacred ¥ Ks i the object of the majority of the vevisers be @ Mere guivpie abou Words ai’ (he idWuylival gun and the day fs near at hand, when it will be and ever. Me ts, rotuer things, heir | wyosted from bis gr ‘ead bo those to hto a “kin of wW he is not ret put | so H 5 2s Whom it was promised, tn A scepure caesar hes e was 108i On Lhe earth (notin moaven); it j#Re. soanite, OF VCTAy, SUIee ne 15 Nae restored on the earth, under the personal | pre r rice tee fat mene pay, pay 0 when the “iuiness oi the Gentiles is : ; Sasi la Adam the first, Eden was lost, “nuul,”? father Dy and the “throne of vavid was in the ry? t mn restore us an civ of Jerusalem, One thing 18 sure, that whatever | #5 .1l!¥0n says, “somo greater man restore us and Cirist may be heir to, He 18 not vet In possession, He | Peeitin the blisstal ‘seat; in Adam 11. (Christ) Eden 1 4 n< wal yred, the earth redeemed frum tite declared himself ® king, aud Jor that he was mocked | curse” and become the eternal abode of humanity ae wn of thorns” and cracified, | Buty | nmortatized by resurrection and redvemed tron 80 sure as He Was literal ly cruc ified, SO) Sure. Wit He | the curse of sin and death. ‘The eartit redeemed | be tleraily “crowned; “for the Kingdoms of thi | from che curso HOW Testing Upon It is te Only place | World cor “age’’s shall literally become the one kimg- | God nas promised the Duman race; and whew tt 1s | dom of Car nd he shail reign from sea to sea restored, under Christ, to its former Edenie coud } and from the rivers to tue chds of che eartin”? ¢ be good. ene | of in the pulpit without the persons nsing it fully ad puing though pe born like a Wila wss’s colt.” ‘ongh ambition angels fell. is probabie Lagiand will adopt the policy of getting the Jews back to Palestine as a check on AUSSia's IOVements Im the direction of Judi and Palestine. Ib is said that the Jews in the known world number from seven to tea millions. inese located in the Holy La under the protection of some of the great Powers, would be a serious on- stacle to Russian progress to fndia via Holy Land. Now or never the Anglo-Saxon must assert and n his suprem One thing inust not ve ending or believing tts wue import. | the cross, then the crown,” may be lt | to Christ. ‘fhe Apostic says, “Having Him (Chgis) we shall aise reign with Ham. did the Apostie mean by the term “reign | S#y orthodox theologians, “to reign i heaven, to be } sure.” T would ask them, wuo would there be heaven for the saints to reign over, seetoy that ti heaven Would be equally mntoortal, because none could he there butumimortals’ Whereas, the Scriptural > world or age to coine, Of Whtch | “Pirst 1 ¢ ; the Apost e government of which - ( 0 4 " the. “gov: —Viz., that ali the known Jews ug to ee Wintage Christ, {08 she “government es only’ o. the Uwelve—Inda and Benjamin Shall be upon his siouiders;? mations Ip tne test | Cheay the tormer. ‘The ten lost. tity not shail be raica and reigned over by Obrist aad th known even to those of Juda amt Beujamtn now | Tesurrected saimis. One of the apostles asked Christ What should be ter reward who had lett all ther worldly adairs and interest ¥y—"AL Lhe they will have to abe may Lob a the twelve tribes What their fv J among ali nations, Lup atthe “estoras fish nation number why Holy Land? the Israe j are located im tt In‘uence In the World miay be Who can tel? ovation of all Wings, of Jacob, YOU apos- throves, each one ruling one of the (resvored) trines of is Which ONrist taught his disc ‘The present generation Stands on the orink of two cberas. “The te era 18 fast receding; the millennial about to dawn, Jt is aimosr discerninic on Wie eastern horizou 40 mea now living. Unly genuine students of proplecy can see, in Ue gress pollluecal and religious movements of the day, the ne ch of the “King of kings, and wn mseahent speedy downfall of all huinan thro and dynasties. The advent of Christ is the un ‘he Kuga pray lor—" Gom. tbe 2 bpon the e inzdon come, om carta.’ notin heavy assert? Farihermore | told that tis Kingdom shall “break in pieces all ny other kur toms ?—the Kingdoms of men—‘aud it~ | hope of oppressed humanity; 10r “He shall break 1 roe sae Bi ps bao the | aration | Hieces the oppressor.” Ja his day shall the right eee Alibi ad late Lae balks 72" | cous fourish. During Ts glorious reygn virtue a had re of righteousness is the sceptre of Thy | Wii, be as Tasuionable as Vv is now. Tne binge i XX. | jnorai face of me world will be chavged, More About » Innoertatity of the Soal. And God kuows it had peed, even the professed re. ligious pordon of 1. The ingdous of men’? will thus become the one Kingdom of Christ. In this way “God will verily dweil with mien on the cari.’ No other jveality in the universe has ever been covenanted by God to the Adamic race, We clral- Jonge ani defy Christendom (so-called) to produce it. ‘fhe earvh, animated nature and man are at present tinder the curse’ pronounced at the “fall: but the curse wil be removed from all three, and they will be restored to inore than Edenic beauty and fertility. The political and religious movemenis of ine “powers that be in our rly demgnstra Mat the dark night of man misrute ts far spent wad that tie day of political and religiwus id at hand, A very interesting portion of prophecy To THR Bpipon oF Tnoueed a communication im Suaday's Mera signed “E. T.,!’ whercin tne writer states he bas read the Binle so thorougi: ad “has come to the con- | cision that there is no such thing as the immor- tality of the son." He says righily when ne amirms that the Bible from ti ning to end ts 9 compl | seience—a noly science. He reiterates what Eman- ud swedenborg stated over one hundred years ago, ald atis that the Bible has not ouiy a natural mecaaing, but also a deeply spiriiual one, and hati is written by correspondences—that 1s, Syinboile oF The Heras biewmatic Iauguage corresponding tO things on the restoration of the Jews and the estabisliment by nee “4 a i Christ's kingdom in ihe Holy Land may be found i short. is the word aud breath of God. If ¢F, 7 tas re I shapter, Will take the Wrouble to go to the Cooper Institate eee tay cath taki’ Cee tok torent pecially the eighth, tenth, twelith and fourteentn chapters, particutarly the fourteenth or last chap- ter. The langaage ts clear and positive; nothing equivocal Or eapanie of misconstruction. You wiil be astonished at the mformation on the subject | You will find in those tons of prophecy. There iso portions quite a® definite on the subject Prophet closed thre Dut all bearing on the sar Hberty to avuilzamatée them, if susceptible, © there is @ Compiete and Ire enborg’s works, and procure lis ted “Heaven and Heil, nd read it care. fully with the Bible in the other hand, he wit! ind the Trath for which his soul is evidently secking. God wil allow such an inundation of light to flood | las soul That he will be ready to exciaim, with the undersigned, “Whereas once I was blind, now dot | uf ONL WHO HAS FOCND TH TROTH. et communications, subject, and you are as or use ‘The Soul and the Body. | | | thein as you deem most appropriate, of as Uie space To Tae Eprrorn oF THE HERALD:-— , HERALD May suggest. Twas indnced to ine | troduce the views they embrace by reading your In a recent Sanday’s HERALD 8 a letter over signature of “Edgar Allen Poe Harriman,” “The Relations of the Soal to the Body, very roteresting leader, headed "4 J way from the Ho From that arti in Sanday HERALDS surrecuion in the East—A Rail Which Une writer says, “A systematic derstand the polities rings of the tern study (of the Seriptures) tas so befuddie + | question,” Witch 18 paramount to and ab tue bot brains of “E. 'T.’ that ne overlooked the parable of | tom of every other Earopean question; and 1 con. ae o sider it an aburopriare opportumty to tirow out a sn spscagyncnggsdbnitcgisicadied [lew hunts and general vemarks on the religious Dow, stv, JU is Mot trite that f have overlooked that | bearings of the question. ‘The fact inat ine rei@ious or any vier parable ty tue sazred Writings, My | bearings | lave indicate . are » poputiily re: explanation o| tp fh elena inh ang | cety jay on the subject is my reason for Xplanation of that pa aiready in print, and | ay UO DEW to Jou, Wie © mubject is In substance as follows: —Thar the passage uy | wineh cannot be filly ana salisinctorily explaiaed im question i purely s paraple—othing but @ pare. | Fe re ee ae ee oon nat Ml acti k wane 7 » 1 “precept upon precepi,” Se. a word to ble det &. A. P. H. sce what a parable 1 no | tee 'wiee” be oles oliomaan M alehe rinttie, Jended with important resuits, wud see for yourself is the such persons as Dives and Lazarus ever existed; y of yours, most respect! 80 {ar from representing individual persons, reapecttully . pataboucaiy vepresented the two A. ne! HDWIN THORNTON, iuto Which mavkind Were then, as now, divia ss name, Jews and Getriiles: Dives representing the | Weman in the Old Testament and the New— Mighiy favored, pecitiarly ciosen people o. 1, the A Lay Sermon. ws, Who wore dre in purple and dine linen, and faved samptously every day; and thal Lay represented the poor, despised, forsaken Gents | who by the Jows were invariably termed “16 To THE Eptror or THe HEALD — In view of tie importance Which the so-called “woman question’ is assuming, both in this coun ain he Mf ihe explanation, ‘Vr ia | go into ‘de Sie weant 7 ay ioe + fe nine ‘and iry avd in Barope, it may 00, therefore, in piace to | space Mere. pullive Itty pay, the Passes pears no | take a view Of Woman as Be BDpeAsy IN Ihe Sacred | words toward others, | im per: | forth “NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY. AUGUST 6, 1871.—TRIPLE SHXET. ee eg ee eT Oe em, History. From thaopening pages of Genesis to the clostug chapters @f the Apocalypse, throughout the 4,000 years of Jewish history, from the appointment of Moses to the advent of Jesus Christ, woman never, for @ Moment, appears as the equal of man in physical strength or intellectual! power; never is appointed by God to offer sacrifice on the altar; never to lead the hosis of the Lord in the van of battle; never to enter on the forum in public debate; never to perform any subd+ stantial and jasting effort that ever character izes man’s course here below; but she occupies asort of a secondary position as the friend and kelpmate of man, as tae queen of domestic and so- cial life; as 1s friend, ius counsellor, very often bis wife, the mother of his childyen; and, iu tine, When walking in godly ways, as the only true ornament, stay and foundation of what was then considered & Christian home, And, indeed, 1 must be said in truth that woman in the Bitie seldom rises above the anima life; for im the Pentaieuch, im the Cane Ucles of Solomon, in. the Lamentations of Job aud Jersmiah, in the books of Ecclesiastes and iestas- Ucus, in the Psalms cf David as well asin tae gos ey of Mathew, Mark aad Luke, the epistles of St. ‘aul and the Kevelations of St. Jowu Wo byangellss, woman untformiy stands torth as the type, in figurative Jangnage, of hideous and re- Young sin, There arc, bowever, tures Wo- vuen In the Sceripiures who are intellectual and spiritual at least, and these are Sarah, Queen Esther and the Virgin Mary. ‘the tio iormer were good Wives and, to & cerain extent, mvellectual Wwouen; and the latter, the beaatiful, but chaste ‘wife of Joseph, the immortal carpenter of Nazareth, who, standing oF in alt the ireshness of animal beauty, uurtured by the balmy breezes of an Lasiern life, yet stoow tn the order of ae ye pres destinated grace, and developed, far above other mortals, the highest idea of & spiritual, religious Ite, And where 1s there a wolan who claims spiritual refinenent and wishes to walk as & Chris- an aod perirm well her triple duties of wite, com- Janes, sod motucr, Bub Will take the Mother of ©su8 Christ for her model? And the question pow arises, are Women, 4% @ Class, to-day, in the tuil jlower and bloom of ninetwenth century civilization, more fit to take the stand in intellectual esort than tuey were inthe darkest days of Jewisi lis- tory? ‘Lo the eye of (he caredui observer the younger generauion of Laropean and American women pass ing slong the Faubourg St. Germam in Pans, the Belgravion perks in Loudon and Broadway li New York, tricked out in all the meretricivus ornaieenta- Mon of pagan fashion, wiih their clignous aud e:ado- rate Praidiug Ot Ube nai, ther high-neeted shoes, faced almost uato the knees, and Oiten the vallet style of their adress and their pot umrequent bold, sluring manner, instead of presencing the highest ideal Of physical, inceilectuxl aud spiritual beauty, as developed under the tosterins mauence of whab ougit lo be &@ Chrstiag civiivation, nine-Lentas of thein present what has been traty caitea “the orazen front of prostituvon.” What greater mauen: I ask, thag that exerted during the last tity years by ioolist, ridiy, animal women in French society, has there veen to bring about the bresent state of sovitl, moral aud politcal demorai- ization which iurows France powerless on her bac to-day? The only wue pusition, then, fur woman 1s that ordaincd by God, She may not occupy the sume space in the world’s eye ag man, but she 1s at the same time free from the trouble and anxienes Whica attach to honor aud jame,. It she wil only pertorm well her duties of companion, wie aad mother, and Hlustrate by her life a serene Christian character, then, tndeed, will she be a power ana in- fluence oi good tn both the Church aad the State, And, in coticlusion, if Unis great, free and prosper- ous country 1s to be preserved, it whl only be when our Amcricain women leave off nonseusical fashion and frivolity and political Dtopianism, aud try aud imitate the simple, Christian tiie of Martha Wash- ington, the democratic queen Of the infant repuolic, Retizious Notes. Iron is the most popular materiat for churche: Mr, Talinage’s tavernacic having proved an em. nent success, four more religious societies in Brook- lyn or vicinity are about to follow suit, The Ross street Presbyterian church is to seat 1,500 persons and cost $61,000; the Lee avenue Baptist church to seat 980 and the cost $31,000; the Greenpoint Pres- byterian church to seat 800 and to cost $36,000; and the plans of the Ormond piace Congregational church contemplate alarge house upon @ similar plan to cost $6),000. Rev. Drs, Lansing aud Hogg, missionanes of the United Presbyterian Church, have entered, with much to encourage them, upon the summer session of the Theological Seminary at Ramioh, All the students (eleven ian number) are understood to be preparing directly for the ministry, Ben Batier 13 to be @ contributor to Tilton’s re- ligions paper, the Godden Age. A gentleman in Philadelphia has offered to give $10,900 to tue Bapttst Missionary Society, towards lhe establisuinent of a school iur Digher education among the Karens of Marther lad. Anotier m Washingion offers $6,000, and one in New York $10,000, provided $190,900 are raised. Mission CoLnears.—Ceylon, India, with its twelve nuiiions, is soon fo have a Clirisuan college, provided some $20,000 more ean be raised im Uhts country to endow it. Rev, T. 5. Bueneti, long time missionary in India, Is gieaning here and there among tie Congresmtional churches, Father iyacmthe gives his unreserved assent to Dr. D5ilnger’s declaration and is confident that his act of faith and conscience wilt be tic starting 1 centre of & new reformation whieh wone the Catholic Chure The fact Uiat Or, Ss been ciected President of the Unive sity of Mavich by a large majority shows the falling of his colleagues ana represenss fhe sentinenc of a section of Germany. Sevator Wilson writes from Lon ton of wis recent visit to Ireland, thay he bas seen thousands of the people, from the Queen down to the ragged beg¢ar of the slums, and has yet to hear the frst profane ne wretchedness of the people is so I as to beggar cripuoa, and he thinks he to live there ould be less of a retorme than 2 revolutionts: The Newark (N Young Mei have bought th ay 5 Christian Associat Ader y states that the of thar oy Park street Presbyterian church Jor $50,000, 1118 contemplated to refit the biuldiag, 80 88 tO be Dotter adapted to 18 OF Lie Asso- ciation, Which 18 to be congratulated on obtammng So Vaitable and desirable property on such reason- able terms. At the meew Educauon So uon of Dr K ot the Managers of the Ministerial ty in Chicago, July 17, the resigna- Wor as Corresponding Secretary was accepted, The Lev. James Bawine was elected to sill the vac ‘ne tolal Teceipts of the Soctety in thre: ‘ta balf years were $3,475 07. Tb has aided thi $100 each. The Bay county, Ma sions, Among tt -four young men wit Jenns raging in Arooste J d Jaree avee: eiigvants as au entire Bay List society, uncer the charge of Ite pastor, a gradu ate of tne University of Upsala, and formerly a Lutaeran, mg an Engst speaker he will prove cession bo tue coluny, AS even Maine | st colony from Sweden has soil and citimate thi Sweden thor nor y this colony may not be a prosperous one, people composing i are hardy, tragal and indastirions The Hetping- Rand ports 400 Wormcn Under iaxt its receipts were $2,500 57. The Savings Committee report $1,930 Sy savings. The visitors record great iniprovements in the habitations of their women, ant considerable, bu ed, improvement val neatness. pu have made a voluntary contribution of more than twenty dollars to the Woman's Union Missionary Socie The of ject of Ute society is “to Improve the yen of the women of oar city by teaching them to herp | unemselves by honest labor.” Association, of this city, ree fon for jasi’ year, EXUMANUEE. TEMPL enevoleace nod Charity the Great Aatidates to Selfishness—Sermon by Re Dr. Gutheim. © Dr, Gutheim wes leit alone yesterday to conduct the services in the Temple, iis associates having gone to the country on weir vaeanon. The portion of tne law read for the day was Leviticus Xxv., from ihe (hirty-fifth and so vowing vers! Mne Doctor disconrsed on the sin of seltisimess and the virtue of charity and bevevoience, This 16 a selfish world, he suid, and every one seeks his own gratiicacon and pursues his own ambitions end We daity hear complaints that no deed of charity is performed, no novle self-sacrificing ¢xamples of devouion and charity ave presented to ue minis om selfisi world, But if we anwiyze the eomplainis we ah! find that nine ont of ten of them come from thors who consider them. selves the centres of soci nd ia their gelf isbness judge their neighbors by themscives apd by thelr Own motives, and thus ntter their complaints, Bur is 4% reully so that there 1s so much selfishness existing im our midst? Look at tne constitution of soctely and you shail find many a man and many a woman whose hives and actions shine forth with a lustre whteh nothing can dim, Poe spr of charity and bene lence WM ANAIRS pti aud Wau haviug been Created La ihe exact Image of | God, bis spirtt, ke Nis Creator's, mw breathe of ebariiy and love. Phe law of God eminently urges and incoleates charity, and the perfornaice of good avd noble actions and the expression of kind vit thy brother we waxen poor and Jailen Mm aecay With thee, then thou shalt relieve hin though he bea stranger or a so- journer, that be may ilve with thee. Thon shate hot give hit thy money wpow usury ner ied him thy Vietuals for merase, but fear ing Goa, that thy orothey tay live wilh thee.’ This is One of the pres cepa WhiGh Mig JAW OF Mover Drenemibed Jt ie a oYLY FROM GoD, st our grandest truths, ‘bas been practised to Alustrations were given from Bible history; these the only exumples, We can show that this virtue is still practised among us, and that it is a cue resting upon aii Hobrows. Our hospitais, orphan asyiums and benevolent lustitutions lesuify for us, Not only 1s it the poor of our race wno are thus to fail within the compass of our charity, but this lesson teaches us also to relieve the stranger and the Sojourner, KINDNESS MANIFESTED TOWARD ANY human being and the relief of sutering end distress awaken pleasure in our own hearts and do. us good as well as they. It 1s not alone the poyerty- strKeN maak Wuom We are to ald or Who has claims upon our charity, but the lesson telis us Uae & brother Who was once wealthy, or Well Lodo, niiy necome poor and need our beIp, Sickoess and mis- fortune may overtake him, and the plans winch he had perhaps matnred 1a fis own milud, and on the Iuitiiment of whict he had anticipated w bright and~ happy tuture for bis children and himsel!, aay have: been swept away as the dew before the sun. It is dn seasons like thesé and toward such persons that tne true feeling of charity can be ves developed and muantfested, Nut by ostentation and shovw, but in & Quiet Way. we may assist our brother any set him on nisfeet agai, and, 4s the iext commands us, lend hin our inoney without exacting usury and without seeking applause. Let our syimpatoy: spring Irom tle depin of leeling in cur souls, Our brother is not only he who is thy sou of our earthly fatuer, but ranch more of OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, Every humaa peimg 13 our brother, and is entitled to our aid and support, There has been a charge made against tle Mosaic dispensation, tiat 1b Was exciusive, and that ail its couritavie and penevolent lustructions and priaciples releried onty to Israel ites. Theré could be no greater mistake. Ie stranger and sojuurners, even the heathen living tn the land of Canaan were by iMexe precepts to be assisted equally with the bretiren of Isracl, Trac charity kbows no creed, nationahty oc color. It 1s waiversal and tree for al, and 1613 both the daty and the privi- lege of Israclites 10 demonsirate its universally by practice, "lois must be done, too, Without any sell seeking aggrandizement, 80 that the fielyed one may lave in pes with us, This spirit of caarity has always pervaded the fehrew nacion, wid has been exemplified throughout their checkered career, And ‘Uiis spirit Stil iives among the peop} But we too olen forges that we ave the children of God, aud hence brothers to all mankind; and thae it is there- | Jore Gur duty tO assist wi Who Need our help. May these Impressious be writven upon our hearts, aati the lessons of charity aud benevolence be more re- Ligiourly studied und practised by us THE SING SING CAMP BENTING, Prepurntions tor the Even—Aprearam the Gronnds Vesterday—Unusurl 9 fer Accommodations—An fuunenxe binge Expected at the Meezing. Ere many days shall have passed the spacious or mod Asseme and tume-bonored grove near Sing Sing village, owned by the New York Methodist Epixco- pal Conference — and ad y ihe mem- bers of that numerous and — influential body for camp meeting purposes, will wituess ihe thirty-elghth annual assembling of thoasanis of re- Ngious devotees, who as each returning year takes | its place on the wheel of time anticrpate with ie ine satisfaction the consolation derived irom outdoor worship and the solace produce by free religions communion, While the approaching camp meeting Will Bot be commenced untii the 15th instant. PREPARATIONS KOK TILE EVENT have been ip progress for several weeks past, and the result it Uiat already the svene resembles a quiet frontier setdement of tolerable magnitude, On entering the well shaded grounds av imposing array of tenis meets te eye of the vist tor, many of tiem being quite new, and varying m size from the modest family tent to the elaborate canvas within the capacious amensions of which hundreds o! people may be comfortably seated. Many of these latter have been erected oy ENTERPRISING INDIVIDUALS Who are desirous of atiendtag to tie pl. of visitors who may value ysical wants fare eomiores even more than tney would religious exnorta- ons, in the medicy of rudely “drawn signs 4 “Boaramg on the European Plan,” side With “Wastuacton Square Prayer Meeting Tent; while in contraistinction to the Insignia of an oid Inpuign ienb (evidently a Teite of toe tte war), setung forth im iaded chatuc- ters “The Union shades, DBATH TO ALL TRAITORS,” may be seen another and more imposing spread of canvas bearing Uie sacred seatence, “Holes to the Lord.” When the Heranp representative visived the camp Meeting grounds yesterday there Were aADpout one huudred and fity tents already pitched, many of then containing fataiiles who have vinjr there Most of these househoi boo scidedly covey manner, Neat ¢ wo forniture bespeaking the TORIEE AND RES PROPABILITY of their occupants. Many of the miatrons pass the time Mm reading, Salting, &¢., while one mdustrions ile was 1 busily engagea with feet and ditied up in a and Sig cot hi wing machine, ch is the 5 ye exhausted ther supply and have peen eomp to seni to ig grounds at ound Lake tor all lable canvas that can be spared from that Place. From present indicatuens the camp meeune ins year will be far mi numerousiy attended % tie number g estimated at from TSuns. TO PoPu’s LEre PATRIZZA THE CARDIVAL All Revolationivts aud Free Thinkers themutized—Tho Reading o aati Heious Sourvats Prolibited. Au: irr Th a the fotlowmy letter to Cardinal Patriza, of Rom Monsignor; a in Mis impenetravie signs permit tae capital of — Chris. tamty showlt be wrongfuiy oceupted, — the usurpers = proclaimed — tha Rome is neces. sary to the imiegrity of Iyfy and to the vertect unity of all her parties, as i the re not in Italy to tis day two satall provinces whict contine uoder ther lorimer government, and which, | hope, will ever remain soz hat the purpose of these great Wworkinen of the revolution Was not only to usurp. a ity like Kome : th 98€ Was 4h is still to de. stroy the centre of Cal ) Cacbolietsnt i Ia ove ] of an inde struciible edifice ali se ungodly, all ihe tree ers, ali tie seetar fd Rave ient ti aid by sending ont tag to this | metrupohs, All these tittle battalions Nave united into one body, and their tntention Isto Wt aad break the pages of the Holy Virgia Mary aud of ti saints. Theiraunis to villy and huge down muinisters ef tae sanetnary, to desecrare the charches, to 10) yNOURCS Of prostitution, to assiul tne ew e godly by the! Higions clamors, and to infase into we fearis and nnids | chictiy so atmoug ite young - th tuiptety by the reading prtain journals Kaoww pudens, lyme, Nyy i and irvel “Tus fafernat phatanx has pat iit extirpate In heme what calls ¥ cigm,”? as was said by an Malian pil Asani Memory, Who diet a sudde ars ago. Alter naving taken root in th a few ne it des Signa to transform the ceniry of Christianity mo a elty of infidels, of ratner to make ome the jstress of @ religion of tolerance, snc vs those desire to make he thought of any other bur before thelr eyes, and Who imagme that God allows all things to pass without occupying Himself with our acts, e And does the government which tolerates these acts belong ‘to that phalanx also? We shonid hope not; for the aitirmation would be a iamentable proclamation of the downlatl. of ine chrone, For the purpose of applying, however, some remedy to the tuiness of so many evils, you will pleas Monsignor, to issue a eireutar to te enrates in order that they may warn their parishioners that the reading of certain journats, especialiy those prinied here in Rome, i8 prottbited to them; and Jet this p Taade iM such # mauner that those who break i may understand u they have | committed not a venial sin, but @ cd y ain, And, to conciade, fe us raise our hands towara God, and let us hope that the many crimes against Him, agains: His reiion and against socie should draw to an end, and that we shour! one day come out of this iabyrmth of evils to bre under the protecring wags of faith, of inorals and vf order, T bless you with all my heart. On Jane 40, Yeast of the Commemoration of st. Paal, Let all corveet themselves, and Jet thent live that Mey nay be abic to say to our Lord Jesus Chriss, “Lord, what wilt thoa that F should doy" PIUS IX., Pope. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, ulenant Commanders Frederics TR, Smith and He © Pleas Lientenant Robert BP. Rimpey; Willio Swift and Frank W. Nichols: Midship: men Sidhey A, nton, Perth Busber Hiram As Marshal, Whiten & Babcock, Gustavus C. Harris, Jain 3 Jolin Downes: | amet Png tinee George S. Bruges § YS. I. toe ahd Boatswain Robert MePonaid have ni Lo the Lroquois. Commander Henry As Ndarns ty detached from the Putiadeipoia Navy Yard and ordered to the co, mand of the Woquols. Lieutenant Henry . Niebols 18 detached from ord- Nance duty at Pittsburg, Pa, and ordered to te / vicutenant We We G i trom the Severn and placed on waiting orde outenant T. A. Lyons, from tie Asiatic fleet and p 1 On Walt+ Ing orders: Master . C. Pendleton, from the Wasp, and granted jeave to return to tne Unried States; Master Adoipinus Marx, from the Naval Observatory 5 urgeon A. #. Magrader, from the Washiawion avy Yard, and Acting Guaner J. W, Bogart, trom thy Naval Academy 10 the Jroquoits ti day by day. | OBITUARY. Joba Ludlow Morten: John Ludlow Morton, just deceased, was th est of seven brothers, sons of Major General Well remembered as the friend and assoclse Hamilton, Clinton, Wells, Jones, Kent, Rodgers and Hill, Mr. Morton graduated with red! from Columbia College; then, under the presien of the Kev, Dr., alterwards Bishop Mooré, responsible office in the New York braneh'¢ thd Bank of the United States; was attached to thetafl of Governor De Witt Clinton, appointed sect ot the Board of Canal Commissioners, and said th State Jorces were cailed ont in 1612 held a commpsto! and served as brigade major, In Le en with Professor Morse, Inman, Inflam, Cole and other emment palsters, tb ind fluence and persevering energy of Mr, rtor were active mo) ing and org Nationa: Acaiemy Desizn. Prot Morse aud Mr. J, L, Morton were, we beltero, itd first president and secretary. ‘The decease gens | tleman was an amateur of no inconstderabie peri and many of his paintngs adorned the hallsan: contrivuled WO tue altuacuons Ol the yearly exhibt. tons of the Academy auing the carly perids its history, curing iron city avecatior Mr. Morton resided almost permanently at New Vin #or, a part of the once extensive dopraim of Timm id. Ellisow, on the liudson, where im, rT j scenery, Including Ldiewld, of Wills ar A » that of the miver, bey and Righands, se ample sndjects for his arustic taste and:akil, He Was jortuuate m saving from ulmost ovitVviol a siriking. piceare, the picturesque New .W at headquarters o: Washington, historically nott of Which structure and surroundings No veatige nor remains. Carl Tauris. asig died of typhoid fever during the night or July 16. fle had gone frou Beriin to Letpsig to mect ls friend and teacner, Prana Liszt, who wad travelling from Weimar to Austria and tlungary, ha was taken sick mm Leipsig; buc the first syfpyoms of his sickyess did not lead to tae expectation of sucix @ mourntul texminavon. Carl Tausiz was born im Warsaw, He was the son of a music” toacher,f and displayed in early enudhood such pre-eminent | musical talent (tat Liszt paid spedial* attens | tion to us fill developmens te spent tid | childhood with Liszt In Flanders, but resided as young man in Berim and then in Paris. Me marrk when very young, m Vienna, a distuguist pian iste, divecteu concerts there iu when principally were represented tie new school of music, aud In 186 located. permanenuy at Berlin, is miurrlage wi | not a heppy one, and he separated from his wife years ago. From his first public appearance hi talent Was tuily and unammousiy acknowledged b: critics and Uie public, and he was nOMIDated Court pi+ anist and (ounded @ conservatory for piano tarts of Cart tion, Which was visited by scholars froin all parts o! the world. Por several years past he livea very much reured. He suffered iron a deep melancholy, frong which he was not able to free himself; not even bj toip io italy. His last and great musical the arrangement of the piano score oO! NE * AS Virtuoso, ho vesiste Jast m acharity concert with Mrs, Yoo Schteinitay and then ua concert of Miss Sophia Menser, fro It may bea dispated pois to whom pate the inree plano virtuose of th Hans Von Bulow, Auten Rubinstein 0; Cari Tausig, IN PURSEA. Re PAMINE, The Indian papers continue to punish reports o% the severity with which lamine is pressing upon the mass of tie popniation in Persia, ‘Tie Times, of | India, say: i The crops having fatied in the province of Phar: the most ferule of all the provinces tn Persta, thi distressed inhabitants, unable to Maintain them. | selves even by selling their own children, lefw | their homes and fled to disiany cities, Thos | the government veing deprived of the usual levy of iv Sol rupees from the etty, the Governor, Asfudola, agreed with the peopie to receive the money by long instalments; the King, however, dtd! not approve of the arrangement, atid in the meane time a certaia noie having offered lim six lacs for the province, the King granted him ihe Governor! ship. Itmay well be concetyed thet the new Gov- ernor will try ls utniost to cover the latter amount—to be paid by him to the King besides resorting to any means to false aa much else as he can for ms own purposes, In Kerman wheat was usially sold ag about two annas per mauad, but peopie trom different parts having fied, through Jamine and oppresston, into the city. and the crops turning out very pour, prices ave mcreused uinefoid. ‘The clamor of the famish- ing populace has obliged the authorities to search for corn in all the houses and ccilats aud to confiscate all found in them for the purpose of selmg it to the poor im the bazaars. The mor. tality in Kerman arising irom this state of tunes is described a8 fearful. Tho so of Yezad being Well suited for the growth of cotton and opium, Was never turned to the purposes of growing, corn. ‘The quantity needed for consumption wat therefore Uuported trom Sheraz, Kerman and Ispac han, Bui tlose latter citics having stopped theit suppltessince last vear, the terrible misoryan Yezo may be imagined. Aishough about twenty \ thousand to thirty chow-and of the inhabitania Nave evacuated the city the people remaining part with their children for trifing sums, At the first stage of extreme hunger people took to devours | ing cameis, asses and horses’ flesh and cats also: bat there belmg no more antinals 1a the city many o: the lower classes kidnap children and devour them, VW 1g sald Mat even dead b ten by ind hanger-waddened populac: of measures are being organized In India, and abous £4,000 hava heen already subscribed by the Parsees for their cov | Yehgloaists in versia, ' THE A other Great Excursion. ‘The renowned objects of interesé ia the Old World | that have drawn so many thousands of visitors | from over every sea are at the present moment } made more vuluable and attractive than ever i | i | by the interes aitaching to them from recent | events. The changes that the sweeping + hand of progress has made will be mora than ordinarily striking to the visitor from their+ | marked contrast and bold, striking tilnstrations of | the imedern mind in close proxbutty to ehe unyield- | ing landmarks of the ancients. One great attrac. ton at the present moment to Europoun tourists is | the London Exhibition, pnt many thousands of | people who would like to wander through the | myriad lanes of the great Kenstagton budding are | deterred by the dread of the innomerabie annoyan thas almost always beset thes | Iraveuer. An opportunity, however, 18 junes now offered to timid as Well as to We pleasure: and searcher alter knowledge to view the enes of the Old World with comfort an One mey dash through the fogs of London | to alight in un », clear Minosphere of Fran o | gie down the bosom of the itine and ty; | through Swit : lounge onder the Uydens in, Milan while a plecuresque gitaua capers for one’s, musement; hear the wonders of tre little Laecay and roam through the otassi One of the disiines and valu- | able features of jou is ihet We managera lake enitre control of everytuma. Ail the Arrange- forehaad, and all couventenc mt Sew srrounds of Lhe ors? comfort are waiu readiness. ° | There is no disputing with cabbies oY bother with no bills to pay, Mo baggage to | look after—in fact, no greater mental effort | is required than to stow into . Wal one’s memory atl thatis seen and beard, te ispre- posed mM itis, jie tenth of these excursions, to visit all the principal potnts of interest and tnstracson,, dwelling at those places only that really desery? ate tentton. Atter stopping at all the principal clttes im Europe the route lies through Palestine to Jera- salem, Jericho, the Jordan anu up the Nue. ‘The exenrsion 3s to start from New York aj the end of Aurust and will occupy nearly six motths, ‘The entre arrangements are under the ntra of Mr. W. Rau. FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, The census of the population in France, which was to have jaken place in 1871, 18 postponel to next year. ‘The Bank of France, says the Paris Figaro, has juabaccorded to all those of its employes whotook part in the defence of the establishment during the reign of the Commune, rente scrip 1 ihe vake of 200 trancs, equivalent to @ capital of 4,000/. periead, and amounting to a total of 2,000,000 francs. ‘The Dantatc Gazette announces that the Geman navy is avout to be increased, Three powerlu tur- ret ships are in course of constraction, und tvew corvettes have been newly ordered, A letter trom Berlin says:—“The entire magriet of the German army is to be renewed wit alt speed —perhaps in two years, ‘The mitraileusds to } be Introduced, though no model las ye: heen chosen, and the needle-gun, peing too heavy’ is to. be superseded by a hghter weapon, with aonger range. ications, too, are 1o be estalished around the coast.” A journal of Nice states that the prospectiof the | new crop of olives is Very unfavoravie ionse- quence of tie present exeessive heat. The gowers have, in consequence, Increased We privesor thy stock of oil on hand. Several of the German journals state that Bgland and Utaly have refused to send representatics to | the Customs’ Conference which Prince de Binarck haf proposed to convoke at Berlin to estahsh a new classification and revised tax on inerclndise in wansit. ‘The two Staws have proavonceduch a inceting usciess, a8 the present system can ardiy be rendered more simple. Rochester Carhedral 1a now being restoreda sum of between twenty thousand and thirty tusand ponnds having been allowed to accuinuiate # that purpose, In carrying ont the restorath the original plan of bishop Gundniph, by whh the present structure was erected, whi be wichy aduered 6, »