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, uted, and claimed that, while nov disparagt ‘This cold, unbelieving world of ours needed the sunshine of holy living; it needed to se- and Heaven and Christtanity in the Church; it to feel the pulsations of the Divine heart Christ’s body On earth, and when it did it be attracted to Christ. Example was also whe most succeséinl way of winning the esteem of the world, ‘That statement might seem to be con- tradictory and anomalous; but such was man’s moral constitution that 10 constrained him from its nature to do nomage to truth, goodness » When @ Christian stood upon his principles and refused compliance with the sintul and doubtful practices of society, all that was Bonlest m humanity did homage to him and coms mended his course. ‘True personal piety was so in Rarmony with man’s moral constitution, with the Righest interests of society and with the noblest of character that pubilc conscience cndorsed it, while public fashion and practice condemned It, | He (the preacher) was not speaking of the garb of Profession or of religious shaius, but of men who ‘Were thorot ee if Christians would win sou's to chr t and challenge the admiration of world to 100k upon Hlin who is altogether lovely, they should put on the garment of salvation and array themselves in the clean linen of the Saviour’s righteousness, for then Chistianity would iti E go forth as the brightness of the morning, and the whole world would hail its coming with admiration ana joy. There prized as reality in religion. They can stand shams | and bypocrisy in everyting else, but they demand that Ee profesnor of religion shali be what he seems tobe; they want tho real article in religion; they ‘Want noi the gilded or the plated, hut thé solia arti- cle—the real religion of Curist in the heart aud Ie @f its professor, God gave much to the world when he gave His Son, the Bible, the Spirit and the instt- tution of the ministry; but fis last wumatum of mercy Was to send His cuildren Into the communi- | ties of impenitent men, that by living goodness, by breathing piety and by fragrant imfluence that Would speak every hour of heaven and immortality should arrest attention, impress minds aud win souis to His dear Son. In conclusion he said we needed more culture, elovuence and liberality, but above these the Charch needed more reiigion m life ana practice, SIMPSON METHODIS! EPiscoPaL cuUReH, ‘There was a fair congregation at the Simpson Methodist Episcopal church, corner of Willoughby and Clermont avenues (formeriy Carlton avenue), yesterday morning. The pastor, Rey. Richard Mere- dith, preached an excelient sermon, taking for his text the following:—“Now ye are the body of Christ and members in particuiar’’—{’aul’s Epistle to the Corintiuans, xu., 27. The reverend gentieman proceeded to compare © he human body to the Church, in accord- ance with the Apostie Paul’s conception. The human body, he said, was a symbol of the Onristian Church—of any Christian Uhurch, ascord- mg to the general principles which they laid down & few Sabbaths since. The figure by whicn this symbol of the Church was represented was a favorite figure with the Apostie Paul, he having wsed it no less than thirteen times in this episule, nd In the chapter which he read as the morning NEW and warmth of @ beautiful spring. Now, musv we be robbed of Christ? is the world to be hurled as into the evils of past superstition? We have but one hope—must that dier Is what we thougnt power but a mockery to our souls that have trusted Him? 1 confess that Strauss and his colleagues are too much for me, They have, humanely speaking, murdered my Christ. There has never been any system of Chris- tian theology, and, a8 soon as men begin to run to the schools they begin to grow weak. Joi) thought together as skilfully as they wilt, there will bea crevice in the armor ol argument for any enemy to | inflict a wound. Man is not suficient, —1t would be | @ foolish thing for one to go in the dayhght witha candle looking for the sun. It shines out with sur- | possing glory, and all can see ft. Ic is not less foolish or learned inen to search for evidence of Him—the Sun of heaven. He it 18 who alone can arise from | the sepulchre into which reason may have thrust | Him, and roll away the stone of unbelief and inspire us WIth what ALL VICTORIOUS FAITH that could be imparted by no other son of man, if He Was not the Son of God also. If we cling to Him, then He will roll away the sealed stone of doom trom our hearts,as He did on that resurrection morn from His ; owa. Therefore | commit you to the truth, As the | smitten Israclite looked to that Healer of human souls, £0, unquestioning, to Christ. It will be seen that tie preacher, though he raised olt doubts, Savaneoa nothing that could set tiem | es is only remedy was faith, ai ol Witte y ) bind faith, wns NEW Ja@RseY CHURCHES. GRACE CHURCH (£P i COPAL), JERSEY CITY. Sermon by the Rev, Dr. Rice on Prayer=The Arguments of Sceptics Auswered—Wuhy the Church Has Been Shorn of It Powers The attendance at the services in Grace chureh, Jersey City, yesterday, was very large, The pastor, | Rev. Dr. Rice, preached from Luke xvill., 1:—“ana He spake a parable to them to this end, that men ought always to pray and not to faint’? ‘This para- ble showed how the unjust judge, overcome by the importunities of a widow, granted her “request, though he feared not God nor regarded man. He granted to her tmportunity what he woula not grant ' on the higher grounds of justice. This shows us the great advantage of PERSEVERING IN PRAYER, One of the great objections of seepties to Prayer Is that it isa violation of natural laws, a disturbance of the established order of things, and, | therefore, that prayer is idleness and @ waste of time, an aiming at impossibilities, Nearly all the intelligent beings who have lived from the creation of the world till now offered prayer. For six thousand years prayer has been offered up. Prayer has a part to actin our natures, for it be- comes anelement therein, That comet, says the astronomer, whould travel thus and thus, but it has to pass Jupiter, and will therefore be turned aside from the line which 15 would have pursued, So that we can reply to the sceptic that there are influences which disturb irequentty the established order of i} lesson the Apostle pursues the analogy between the aH i openly to tela rw ning ire body and the Church at considerabie leugib. ‘The | calamity is moving over a nation; it is moving body was not one member, but many all combined, | on straight to its object,and while it is moving along and so iG was with the Chrisuan Church— A NATION'S PRAYERS each member of the body had tts own particular organization, its own particuiar funcuons, so that the hand needed the foot and the toot needed the hand. ‘The boay could not get along withoui the Read nor could the head do without the body. so with ihe Church, it was an accumulation of distinct members, all performing weir pro| work and Ming certain positions, so the Church could no more du without the teeblest. member velonging to it. The head of the body was the same as Christ ‘Was to the Church, He was our guiding spirit. They had here two phases of the great pruiciples of the Fd of the Christian Church—diversity in union. rhe “body was one thing—it was asinguiar mein: ber—a union of members. This unity o: members, the Church, is so graded that every man and wo- man has his or her place—every man was in the rignt place. The right men were in the Sabpaih School ag Well as the Women, ‘Ine right men were in She class rooms, ana so it was throughout te whole Church. So the well developed human body Might be taken as the symbol of the Chure! The reverend gentieman also likened the Church toa grand army, and Christ as tie nea all obeying | the commands with willingness, and ail, from the | highest oillcer to the private, peing periectly satis- Bed with the positions they filled and the works they were called upon to perform. Atter soine | further remarks the reverend gentleman closed and the congregation was dismissed. TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Gending Forth the Word of Life-sermon by Rev. Dr. Oxilvic. In this splendid temple of Episcopacy yesterday the Rev. Dr. Ogilvie preached a short sermon. His text was taken from St. Paul's epistie to the Cormth- lans—*‘Sending forth the word of life.” It was prin- cipally an appéal to the congregation to support the | Bivle and Prayer Book Association. This society, remarked the reverend doctor, disiributed in she last three years 37,000 Bibles and 50,000 Prayer Books gratuitously, He explained the reason wny more 01 the tatter than of the former were fie. ging the le 48 2 Missionary power, the Book of Common er Was much more necessary Lo most people. The preacher asked that additional iunds be given the association, so that the good work of seuding forth the word of ie migut go on and be extended. RELIGION IN FLUSHING. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Who Sball Koll Away the Stone from the Sepuichre ¢—The Old Vonbts and Questions. Fiusnina, L, L, Sept. 17, 1871. The fine old Congregational chureh of this village @ situate] on Alianthus avenue, which, like many Other streets In Flushing, is lined by long rows of graceful locusts, maples and elms, wutil, just at this | spot, where the edifice stands out m bold reiiet, | crowned by a spire and a belfry, This latier gi utterance on the Lord’s Day to sweetly-cade ced invitations, and the pews of tne church are usually Well filled by an assemblage of SINCERE AND QUIET WORSHIPPERS. ‘So it was to-day; and one had good food for study | in te nnostentatious feeling with which the gunple ymns were sing, the Lora’sP rayer repeated and | the words of the pastor listened to. The choir ren- dered good, harmonious music, but the ull inspira- Gon was only felt when the. rythm was swelled Tnto a diapason full by the mellow, mingted voices of the earnest « gregation. The text of the sermon was taken from St. Mark, Xvi, 3—And they said among themise! ‘Who shail roll us away the stone from the door of the sep- uicbre/’” This was a patheuc question. ‘The faitn- ful women had come very early in the morning— “atthe rising of the sun—io the sepuichre. But @ow, as they approached, it become doubtin! even if they could do tne simpie act of roilng away the stone, ana their hearts were WRUNG WITH SORROW. How conld gentie hands move the stony barrier, Sven if their true hearts still longed with qacnch- tess love to aid the Master in His promised rising? Alas! for you, Christians, 1f you must staud at tne tomb 01 Christ powerless and be mocked at for toud fouls if you believe Him not dead! that you should have speat your sentimentality in vaut itso? Has the world hopelessly buried him? Is ita weak infatuation to beiteve im a crucited Sa- vioury No; for the two sad and taithiul women found that the stone was roiled away. What was desired was so found, The grave was emply, and an angel stood beside it, Looking upon the dead Christ would have made terrible trouble of their doubt more terrible sill. But the stone was rolle away and Christ bud risen. The reverend speaker impressed his hearers with the idea that when our hearts are bi In sin this I$ the auesiiou—the solution of which would be OUR SALVATION— Who shall roll away the stone from the seputctire, or wio WH! prove for us a living Christ? The ques: tion is prominent over all that the world can ask. All the ages of Christian ministry have been vexed by (he sii-rceurTiny doubis of sceplics and athersis, But the best tnmgs that were ever sald or written must be blotted out Hf Christ does not live, and the jas been so long butiding musi be Only ment of folly and fanaticwi, 1 is no tight r to siake our Chrisuanity on only one ques- tion. The world ts full OL those Who are carping at Christianity, and sopmistry, satire and calumny have all been at work. The preacher said that a woman of his acquamtance bad ony laicly told him tat “ane more she lived tn the world, Ue mere she saw of life, the more she Wondered Wal people could be | fevered by that superstitions reigiou.” She knew how grea! the Influences were against far and be- Hef, and dount and uubetiel art the stones that cover the sepulchre ip which bes THE MURDERED CHRIST. fs is that deaihh bus the mastery’ Doubt Christ and faitn dies, If He does le bopeiessty buried ane the stone of our unbelfef is as Hard as the hearts that laid it tere we lose our boll upon Hamortuity and saivation, This is true, that the best things im ‘Uns world have found a being because of Christ. If there is any beauty im the home-love ot our race we Must thank Christ for it. Men ontside of Chrisien- dom knew no true home, excepting in the Jewish Jan, Where God had enlightencd men's hearts. Cunst has been CHANGING THE “WORLD'S HEART, and the sway of the Prince of Peave is widening Bpon the earth. There was a strong contrast ve- tween the gloom of heathenism and the checriul- pees of Chrisiaylty, Lie co” dus Wis like the livht mat | created io be pnre and | Of the Chureh been weak | had | vi | Thirty-fourth and | crowded to their utmost capacity. + time anid beat him over the head with are sent forth and arrest it tits progress, The scourge 13 turned from its course. Prayer 1s as much an element in our nature as gravity or cohe- | sion, In the parable laid down im the Scripture to- day it is shown that the prayer of the widow turned | the heart of the judge from the decision which he Was about to render. Even if God in the beginning established a law for the regulation of the universe He can modify itat pieasure. And if God cannot do tuis, behold what lollows. God put these things beyond His control, aud ‘therefore He ceases to bo God, for He is no ionger Almighty. In other words, GOD WOULD DETHRONE BIMSELP, and such a consideration is not only profane, but an absurdity. God can and may be persuaded to grant. certain things to His people through prayer. He created the world for man, and man was created for God. If man fulfils the duty of his relation with God—if he moves in the orbit for which he was d-—why should not nature also move im the | jon for which she was created? We were and nature was created to be subservient to us. The one tion imvolves the other, Ido not wonder that Mose: performed sueh mura through power 1s in ng, though ls and Paul; but the times do not require 81 as were witnessed in their time: impiety prevails im our times! Scarcely does tie Chureh dare to utter a remonstrance, and how littie 18 it heeded if it ve uttered! Profanity, licentious: | ‘ness and other crimes /il! the earth, | THE CHURCH HAS BEEN SHORN OF HER POWER, — | because, while ia herearly years she summoned her | children to pray every morning, we are content m these days with the Sunday devotions, And just i proportion to our deviation from this practice of | prayer have we degenerated and has the imfuence ned, | At the ciose of ine services the “Qnomam Tu | Solus Sanctus” of Mozart’s No, 12 Mas3 was given on the organ and fort @ lively and agreeable | contra t to the Gregorian chant, which ts the standard for the bymns aud psalins of the Episcopal , services, | CHEAP SERMONS AYD VERY GO0De To THE Epiror OF THE HERALD: — Being a preacher myself, and engaged on Sab- | baths, 1 seldom have the privilege of listening to H j i sermons except my own, and can not stop long to listen to them; yet 1t is a privilege to read five hun- dred dollars’ worth of sermons in the New York Heraip on Monday mornings, costiag me tive cents! True, ihey are bus sketches—reports—some- umes the cream of sermons, when the sermons have any cream to rise; put all the better for belng | brief, rather than) so lengthy that no one would read’ them, We, who so seldom hear preaching, like to glance over the proclaimed thougnts of | others, to Know how they preach and what they | preach, and what are iheir best thougnts: and waen | We see how much anead of us they are, of course it | takes ont the vanity which might mflate. Besides, there is variety euongh to make the morning meal | spicy—interesting. io one issae your paper I | counted cleven reports of different discourses wich | een preacied the day before. That ought to | fy any ordinary man, PUBLICO. Ball OLOSE OF THE JEWISH FESTIVAL ROSH : HASHANA. The Jewtsh New Year's observance was terml- | nated yesterday, as It had begun, witht religious ser. | The Temple being closed, the synagogues in Forty-fourth streets—tne only English-speaking congregations—were | The pecultar | services of the day were exceedingly mreresting, | but were prolonged later than usnal. The enoirs, | , had been largely mereased im both of thes and in Thirty-fourth street synago.ue espe- | he choral service was mazuiticent, The | and the priests still retained their white robes, Will be removed before the next serv-ce. no preaching tn either synagogne yester- , but the interesting ceremony of blowing the umpet was performed in each and in every other orthodox synagogue in the elty. From yesterday commenced a serles of penitential remaining which Phe: days until next Monday, a week hence, when tue | great Day of Atonement will bey. During the week ail faithful Israelites are required and ex pected to repeat the prayers assigned to this season regularly every day. Yesterday the altar jights were burning m= tne syna- gogues to indicate the desire after or — the attainment of — holtness in And the deep interest felt by many of the older Israelites in the sotmn services Was mautfested by the venerable Cusiom of swa/ing the body to ani fro duriug the recital of the “confesston” and the connecting prayer. The young people indulge: another kind of confession, one might judge the rapid glances which were exchanged ‘between the galleries and the body of the synagogues. What is termed by Hebrews as “the long day,” or | atonement, wiil occur on Monday, when for twenty- four hours the faithful ones "are expected to worship in their reapective temples all day long. | Many of them remam without food daring all that nd others take refrestin with them, and their places in the house of God aunt the 2 closes. this present year. {From the Utiea Observer, September 16.) Just as the Observer ts going to press it 1s ranrore that a murder was committed in the town of san- gortieid on Wedvestay of tis week. Our informant | could give us bat few paruiculirs, and none of the | f the parties, said that a tarmer and jus wile, residing one mile aud a ball from Sansger= | fieli, vad a serious quarrel white’ one or boil were | intoxicated. The husoand handled the wile prevty | rougaly, but she got the advantage of him aiter a& a whiitetr ‘The husbanl died on (he vex vine injurt he received at the hands of Tt is reported that the inqnest was held at Waterville jast evening, | and that the Wile was arrested on the cuarge of murder. The name of the murdered n is Wiliam Edict The wite’s testimony ts that on Monday wight, the 4ih inst, a colored man ap- proached the bed where lerself and her pusband Were sleeping and asked if Bdlet was in bed. She replied that he was, and asked) what was wanted. He said, “Shut your mouth or twill smash your eRuli!’ She junped from the bed and lett the | house until moraing, When she returned and found her hasvand it bed badly beaten about the head. A bloody whulletree was found near the bed. A man arrested on suspicion is held as a witness, The de- ceased Was in the empioy of Jona J, Clark, of Chit- fening. for six or eight years. He leaves four or five chidren. COURT CALEWDARS—THIS DAY. Wr—TRiaL TReM—Part 1.—Hleld by | Seaver vs. Brivgs, Nos, 6160, 695% ; G155, G453G, G44, G465, O450, O404, 6457, 6458, 6459, 6460, 6461, 6452, 6403, Part 2—Held by Judge Shea—Nos, 6367, 6264, 6273, 6363, 6268, 6: 6008, 6407, GOT, 5058, 6261, 6218, 6228, 5976." Pal i.—Melo by Judge Joachimson =Nos. 7340, 6393, A x | fal in j built the unsightly school houses whose existence | , We deplore, | teachers or school committees to buy a new work | | Mr. Monteith’s is che Robertsenian method, and ms | books have long been known co the public. | tongues. LITERATURE. School Houses and School Books. Scnoo. Hovses. By James Johonnor, Architectu- | ral Designs by 8. E. Hewes. ic W. Schermernorn & Co, MANUEL OF READING, in four parts: Orthofony. Class Methods, Gesture and Elocution. Designed for Teachers and Pupils. By H, L. D, Potter. New York: Harper & Brothers. THE NORMAL ELEMENTARY ALGEDRA. containing the First Principles of the Science Developed with | Conelseness and Simplicity, By Edward Brooks. Philadelphia: Sower, votts & Co, Lancuaces Wrrnour a Master. By A. H. Mon- teith. Philadetphia: B. Peterson & Brothers. A MANUEL OF GERMAN CONVERSATION TO SUCCEED THE GERMAN COURSE. By George F. Comfort. New Yor! Harper & Brothers, The multiplication of school houses in this coun- | try at this time is of much greater importance than the multiplication of school books. In most parts of the country the buildings erected for the public | Schools are unworthy of the boasted intelligence of our people. Fortunately in the city of New York this 18 not the case, but in the rural districis and even in some of the larger towns and cities {he most wretched straciures, furnisaed in the worst possible way, are thoug't good enough for schoo! houses, ‘There has Deen the most lamentable ignorapce among teachers and school boards on this suoject, and no one las | been able successfully to point out the faults or to suggest a remedy for the evils which were patent toevery eye, We dubs whether even Mr. Jjohon- not’s book wil speedily eradicate the errors im School architecture, vat it ts a step tn the might | direction and can not fail todo good, Tne tantts of construction and the waut of taste in the orna- Meatation of schvol hous2s, are wWweated at length, and such important questions a3 the arrangement Of school rooms, hght, heating and ventilation, fur- niture, apparatus and outbuillings are all allotted &@ separate Chapter. Mr, Hewes’ designs are simple and at the same thme tasteful and inexpensive in | application, and the work will supply a much needed manual. Mr. Johonnot’s former work on ‘*Country School Houses,” published in 1858, was the first eifort made 19 this country to apply the principle of archi- | tecture to the construction of school houses, It bore good fruits, and the preseat work being a more complete treatise on the same subject it can- not tail tohave a wider Influence. We commend ib heartily because the efficiency of our common school system depends almost as much upon the \ School houses as the school: If the lessons it | teaches are heeded the unsightly butidings where | American ebildren are compelled to reéeive their | elementary education will be gradually replaced by | better structures, and the muitiplicatton of school | houses become a great good to the people. Turning from this work to the second volume named tn our i3t—Mr, Potter's “Manual of Rea: \ ing”’—we flad that we have hit upon another book | which, alter velug remodelled, wiil prove use- Making our common school system meet the fuiflinent of its mission, We rarely hear a good reader—so rarely, indeed, that they are regarded as phenomena, Children learn to | read, but only by the eye and understanding; elocu- tion as aa artis taught by few of our teachers, and | many of those who attempt to teach 1b nave as little knowledge and skill as the bungitng workmen who | New Yoi Jn how far this manual will correct | this evil it is rmpossible to say, bub it seems admira- bly adapted to the purpose for which It is intended. The selections, however, a¢@ the worst that were ever put into a book, and mar ti beyond reparation. They are mere cuttings irom teeble newspapers aud mayazines, and in the whole collection there 13 scarcely a flower from the fair field of Engilsh ; literature. Tue oook ts the groundwork fer a really | goud manual, bul a new edition, which shail be in | reality a new work, can aione make it acceptadie | or earn for it the commendation we shoulda have | been pleased to give 1b if it had not heen marred by such an extraordinary blunder, What Professor Brooks’ “Elements of Algebra’’ Was written for it is Impossible lo say, unless it was , Vo satisiy the vanity of its author and add to the | perplexiues of teachers. It is no better and no worse than a thousand other volumes on the same | and Kindred subjects, and ought never to have been ; pubushed, If algebra is a science ataliitis far ; from being progressive, aud rival text books on the sunject are as Useless ay Tival editions of the multi+ plication table. But we very much douot whether itis a science, and we are sure thousaads of school children waste valuabie time over it to no good pur- \powe. Of wnat use will it prove in the great batue of life to ave learned to substract —c from -;-a? We give the mteresting “operation” for the benefit | ofsuch of our readers as are anxious to learn the beautitiud manipulations which their children are compelled to make in obiaining an education. Here it is: faca! —¢ aye aye ‘Tie whole business is very simple siuce by equally increasing and dimiuisoing @ quantity 1t8 value ts Not changed; but there is already mm the hands of every schoolboy & text book wich teacaes Mim that ais equal to a t-co—c, and it 1s a great wrong tnat parents should be compelled at the dictation of not any betier than ine oid Oues alrealy in use, Professor Comfort’s “Manuel of German Conver: sation” seems to be Worthy the examination of teachers. It is intended for the use of students who have finished a “German course,” in Which the au. zlewit,” during which time “The Cricket on the Hearth”? had .been chirping right merrily, while “The Chimes” from the adjacent church were heard, when “Seven Poor Travellers’ commenced singing a “Christmas Carol; “Barnaby Rudge” then ar- rived from “The Old Curiosity Shop” with some “Pictures from Italy’ and “sketches by Boz” to show “Little Dorrit,” who was busy with the “Pick- Wick Papers; when “David Copperfield,” who had been taking “American Notes,” entered and in- formed the company that the “Great Kxpectations” ot “Dombey & Son” regarding “Mrs, Lirriper’s Legacy” had not been realized, and that he haa seen “‘Bootg at the folly Tree Inn’? taking “Some- body’s Luggage” to “Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings,” 1n street that has No Thoroughfare’ opposite Bleak touse,”? where the “Haunted Man,’? who 2 | had just given one of “Dr. Marigold’s Prescriptions” to an “Uncomiuerciai Traveller,” was brooding over “The Mystery of Edwii Drood.” A SECOND AND THOROUGHLY REVISED EpITION of Wedgwood's “Dictionary of English Etymology” 18 | to appear in London in tive parts, from October to February next, It has veen greatly enlarged by the author, wita che ald of Rev, J.C. Atkinson, A Revision of the entire Buddhist Seriptures has been going on in Ceylon for four years past, When completed this will bring within the reach Of scholars as perfect a text of the sacred books In the orginal Plas itis possible to obtain at this day. The work is in charge of a Synod (quere— Syndicate?) of Buddhist clergy, selected for their learning and scholarship trom the principal Ceylon | monasteries, “LITTLE FOLKS’ SONGS” 18 the title of a new vol- ume of original poetry to appear from the press of Hurd & Houghton, ‘The poems are by Mrs, Alexina B, White, wife of Richard Grant White. Dk, NOAH PORTER, the new President of Yaie College, has in press “Elements of intellectual Pri- | losophy,”? understood to be great work, Seribner & Co. “FROM STONE) OF THE SUPERNATURAL,” by Mrs. Richard Greenough, 18 m the press of Roberts Brothers, Boston. Rey. C. A. BARvOL, OF Boston, has a new book mM press with the somewhat paradoxical title of an abridgment of his ‘ne Human fntetlect,”’ published by | “Radical Fain.” PETERSON & BRos. will issue shortly an Ameri- can édit on of Mrs, Heury Woou’s new book, “Dene Hollow.” THE “St. ANDREW'S MAGAZINE,” a new illustrated Periodical for Scotland, 1s commenced the present month in Eatnburg. COMPLAINT 12 MADE in the London weeklies ‘nat Parliamentary proceedings anu debates are only half reported in the gatly press, and it ts urged that what England needs 1s a dally “Hansard’s | Debates.” Congress has this already in the Congres- siona! Giobe, but nO Englishman, who dependa on his Times, can possibly know halt that goes on in the House of Commons or the Lords, THe ATHENLUM says of Mr, “Riches of Chaucer” that “of the many services | literature vy Mr. Clarke we | rendered to English account these selections from our earliest great poct the roof and crown.” Tae CALLOW Stump OrRaArorS of oar eloquent land are to be still further sumulated by the issue of “Barber's American Book ot Ready-Made Speeches,” containing 180 speeches, suited to all public occasions. Dick & Fitzgerald will publisi tt, DR. M, MAHAN’S collected words, inclaaing his Church history and miscellanies, theological and literary, willsocn appear, in three volumes, from the press of Pott & Amery, New York. M. LANFREY’S “History of Napoleon L” ts tn pro- cess of translation into English, and is unquestion- ably the best and most impartial account of that re- markable man which has yet appeared, THe UOLpesr DalLy Newsearee tN DuBiin is Saunders? Neins Letter, established in 1745. SWITZERLAND now has twenty-five libraries, with 92 volumes. tion is the Zurich library, volumes, My. R. SOMERS, an Engilshman, will publish his traveis m the Southern States, unter the tite of “The South Since the War.” A GREAT Book on Mary, Queen of Scots, will soon appear from the pen of Professor Petit, of Beauvois. Ten years’ labor 1s represented in it, and itis said to be a complete justificauon of the w Jortunate Queen from the charges which such his- torians as Froude have perpetuated, ‘The book will make two quarto volumes, in English and French, WILLIAM ARCHER CocKE, of Virginia, whose “Consututional History of the United States” reached its first volume as long ago as 1858, has in press a ‘Treatise on the Common and Civil Law, as Embraced in the Jurisprudence of the United States.”” THe RePoRT that Messrs, J, R, Osgood & Co. will soon start a humerous paper 18 not true. PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH hag found its lexicographer in the person ot Edward H. Ranch, of Lancaster, Pa., who is engaged on a dictionary of words and phrases In common use among the German ahd half German inhabitants of that State. se GOTTSCHALK’S autoblography was prepared by public Her largest coliec- possessing ! him for publication to the extent of about two thou- sand manuscript pages. The tollowing from the London Glove is a defence of Mr. Longfellow from the criticism of an English scholar who supposes that Longicllow’s poems are written in the Latin languag A gentieman who contributes a column of discur- sive and miscellaneous criticisin to a weekly con- temporary, and Who condescends to instruct the world in the sublimest mysteries of science and literature, ancient and modern, bas lately failen fonl of the poet Longiellow apropos oi the alleged incorrectness Of his Latinity. Transatlantic writers, he tells us, cannot mM the nature of things ve classical scholars; that 18 a luxury of erudi- thor clans to have incorporated tie most advanced views and principles of linguistic instraction, as hela by the best writers upon philology, and the best practical educators In Europe and America. Esp | cial preference lias beea given to those fi tures of approved works for the study of modern languages which, in Kurope more of practical use. A especiily, have stood the & Jew features lave aiso been introduced which have been adopted with eument success by the most able professors of modern language in their personal Instruction, bat which have not heretofore found tuon reserved exclusively for Engiishinen, ‘to {| appreciate the fuil force of the delicate diterence | between Greek patucies and Latin words it | 1s essential that one should be totaliv uncopnectet | with the New World and Its inbabitants, And then | | | we are lavored with & beautifully impossible picture, iliusivrating the distincuon between tie American atry gentleman and the Bayiish. If the ute | ances of Unis wonderlul exponent oL British pare | to be credited, there is not a squire im the reaim | Who does bot walk about with an Rizevir edition of Horace m ts pocker, ur who, upon the sugntest | provocation, tails to produce the volume, and hoid a | pablic reading. We contess in our experience of | bnglish country genticmen not to have come across We trust we ni j Uuis tuuracutous ideal. hover may-—Ior their way mio text books. If ihe first work—Pro- | pedantry of every kind 1s otyectionable on principle. - % ye oc, " Tue tumediate cause of ti contemptuous: fessor Comiort’s “German Course’—is all tugt is | jydignation of this. constinmate ciassicist, claimed for it, this volume cannot fall to be of valu. | as he platniy holds himseil to be, is able service in practising the German tongue. but iis still a quesuon whether both books are not | open to Lie same objecuoas we have just urged | against Professor Brook’s “Algebra.” Frequent | changes m school books are infurtous to learners | and expensive to parents, and new text books ought to be introduced in the public schools only aicer the most careful scrutiay and because of their un doubted supertority. We commend this volume to the alleation of teachers, but ouly for examination. French, German, Spanish, Malian and Latin, | “without & masier,” i8 a most captivating promise; | but he who thinks he can acauire any of these lan- guages by a course almost as simpie as that adopted vy the Vrilya—communicaling it to the subject while‘he is asieep—will find himseif disappointed. We Nave failed to discover that his pretensions to such | janguage “im six easy lessons” have made many \ linguists, and if any one should attempt to speak German, French or Spanish after going through bis course he would find how trae is the old saying that a litde learning is a dangerous thing, As there | never Was a royal road to tearming Mr. Monteita need not be blamed for not having discovered it, and his Memory musi always be green in the praises of his American puoushe They only claim for bim thai he is the most cviebrated teacher: of languages in the worid*and that is fame enough for any man. His book, however, will not be found particularly useful in acquiring ether aucient or modern LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. A New [listony or Patosocuy, by Professor Ueberweg, translated from the German by Protessor S. 8. Morris, With introduction by President Porter, of Yale, will Shortly appear from Scribner's press. Proressorn W. VD. WHiTNey, the philologist, will edit for speedy pubitcation by G. P. Putnam & Sons ~he Sakuntala,” from the Sanscrit of Kalitasa. GEORGR SANv’s novel, “The Crime of Monsieur Anvoine,” transiated by Virginia Vaughan, ts to ap- peur from the press of Roberts Brothers, not the classical blundering of a transatiantic coun- try geugleman, but of the poet Longfeliow. The tuule of one oi Longiellow’s poems, be ybserves, lu. volves @ gross Violution of the laws of Latiu gram- mar. “Every schoolboy” would kuow better than to have writen exceisior; it ought to be excelsius. As itis, exceigtor can only correctly mean that the mountain 18 growing higher, not that the youth 1s going higber up the mountain, This 1s the very false guilop of pretentious criticism, Of course Mr. Longielow is perfecily right. It is @ characteristic idiom of the Latin tongue tint in such cases as these an adecuve coe | with the subject 1s elegantly puttoran adverb. For instance, smedeus +o means wo go in the middie; and it is upon this analogy tuat Mr. Longfeliow’s construction is deieasivie and correct. A Paris correspondent of the Pal! Mal! Gazette says tue Archiepiscopal Palace at Bourges, recently destroyed by fre, contained works of art and manu- scripts of inestimable price, the most remarkable being the order for the execution of Christ, the per- sonal property of the lamily De ta Tour d’Auvergae. The order rans thus:—Jesus of Nazareth, of the dewish tribe of Juda, convicted of imposture and rebellion agafMst the divine authority of Tiverius Augustus, Emperor ot the Komans, having for this sacrilege been condemned to die on the cross vy sentence of tie judge, Pontius Pilate, on the prose- cution of our want of the Emperor in Judea, s take: to-morrow morning, the 234 day of the ides of March, to the usual place of puuishment, under the escort of a King of the Jews shall be taken out by the Stranean gate. All Wie public olficers and the subjects of the Emperor are directed vo lend their aid to the execus ton oO: this sentence, signed, “Capel. Jerusal wat day of the ides of Marcn, year of Rom Another curious document, supposed to be lost with the others, relating to the time when Charles VilL., driven from Paris by the Duke of Bedfc Who wa called King of Bourges, is the will of the celebratca siversmith and speculator, Jacques Coeur, who ad- vanced mouey to Lis Majesty, was afterward thrown into prison, ropved, and Gnaily vanished the king- dom, accused of extoriion. The oratory of we palace contained a Madonna of Raphael and @ “Descent from the Cross," vy Titian, NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. From T. B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadeiphia— “Palaces and Prisons,” by Mrs Ann 8, Stepne “Cou Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas,’ by Charlies Lever, new ediiton. From the Catholic Pablication Suciety—"‘Biograph- ical Sketch of Mother Margaret Mary Hallanan, 0. sD.” From Henry Hoyt, Boston—“Lyle MacDonald; or, A Winter in the Woods of Maine,” by Mra. & F, AN Ischs!0U8 RoMANcB READER has concocted | the fo)ow ug Diekensy items:— “Oliver i,"? who had some very “Hard Times’? in the“ ttetie of Life,” aod having been saved from “the Wreck he Golden Mary” by “Oar Matual Friend? © stonolas. Niectooy had just finished readiug “A Lule of bhe LWO Caves? Martin Chur. | Keene. Magazines—British American, Galary, Catholic World Harverts Monthin, Cowden Clarke's | 100,090 | company of the Praetorian guard. The so-caliea | ART MATTERS. « Reysching’s Love in Arcadia. In Goupil’s gallery tnere is an unpretentious | painting by R. Reysculag, which possesses some | qualities seldom found in modern pictures. In & | landscape that 1s purely imaginative, but which | | Meverthetess is suificiently natural and’ free from | mannerism, the artist nas placed two figures en- gaged in the time-honored occupation of LOVE MAKING, | Nothing could be more appropriate to the calm | quiet of the scene, aud we can almost imagiae that | we hear the murmuring of the distant river, min- gling with the sympathetic pleating of the browsing lambs, who wander uncared for on its banks while the shepherd swain pours out the cale of his love to the object of | | his adoration, A shadowy light is thrown over the picture, and the place seems cut off from com- munion with the rest of the world, There is noth. | ing in the scene to break the unity of the composition, | which centres with IIIT YORK HERALD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET, —- rdrd It waa resolved to found a “New South, ‘ales Academy of Art,” and a committee was ape Polnted to carry ont the wishes of the meeting, A proposal has been made to purchase the Alex~ sndria palace aud ark, In London, with the object of converting it into an‘art museum for encour- agement of the highest industrial and fine art—an allotment of £39,000 a year, distributed on the Art Union. principle, to be made asa stlnulis to Lie manufacturer and the workman, In addition it ia proposed to bicnd something of the Conserraloira h will have the op: unity of becoming acquainted with Whatever is best in thet own cratt, * It is proposed to place the statue to Bal e in the vestibule of Drury Lane Theatre, put the siownest with which the subscriptions are comiuy ender it doubtful if sufficient funds can be realized. TUE MINISLER'S MISSING WISE. No Clue Yet Found—The Detectives on tha Trail—The Eld-riy Boston Gentleman Ail Right—Interview with the De- troit Clergyman, ADMIRABLE FORCE in the love-making group in the foreground, mark the time an Etruscan vase has been introduced and lies with a basket of frait near the fect of the ‘ girl, The shephera swain, seated on a mossy bank®, Jeans on his eivow, his chin supported on his right hand, while witn the left he holds lightly the tips of the girl’s flagers, all the while looking unuttcra- | ble things in a gentle, innocent kind of way, The expression on the shepherd's face is very good. TENDER AND EXPRESSIVE, but evidently he feels perfectly satisded thit ts | | suit to ihe coy maiden is pretty sure to be granted, Woman in the artist's mind evidently was always | a cogueite, tor the lovely little pastoral person of | his imagination turns away, a3 tiough unwiliing to | give a direct answer, Something, however, in tne , pose of the Ggure and the gentie, redective way in | | Which she is engaged, plucking some wild flowers, | | tells us, without the possibility of mistake, that the garden of her affections belongs to the happy swan, Who seems perfectly couscions of the fi The coin | | position of tne group is marred by the disposition of | the shepherd's legs, Which, though perhaps uatural | enough, 1s | ANGULAR AND UNGRACEFUL, But the posé of the young girl, standing with a puzzled, bashful look, with the mass of while | drapery revealing the beanty of her form, 14 skuple and appropriate, and the drawing displays | exquisite feeung., At the moment cnosen by the | artist the shepnerd has ceased to plead bis cause, and the easy posture he assumes tells the story of his. \ confidence as to the resnit, and though the maiden | has turned away her head and is sient we feel that when she speaks agaia her words will not be un- | kmd. In conveying feciing and the sentiment Of the scene the artist tas been most happy, aud we need no cuinbrons catalogue or quoted verse to tell us the history of the medent. There ts throwa AN ATMOSPHERE OF PORTRY around the scene that is truly delightiul, and the soft | Shadows that steal over the quiet landscape har- | monize wonderfuily with the expressions oi tne ig- ures, The white drapery on the female figu | though sweeping anu eifeetive in its generat line: ig too much t n up by minute touches it an eturt | to create the edect of fineness in the maierial. Na- tional, or perhaps we mixht more correctly say | personal, predilection has guided the artist mn lis choice of the maiden type. Instead of the dark eyes and cold classic brow that one naturally looks | | for in the Ktruscan land, we are presented ‘with & | fair, golden-haired, blue-eyed daughter of tue Norta— { * doubuess some FAT VISION of the Fatherland. We feel a litte surprise at meeting the beautiful blonde, bat ine pleasing ed prouuced by the coutr olered by the ! ich brown sunburnt skin of the lover at ber side with her own delicate piuk and witte com- |; Piexion produces an adimrabie eves The same | contrast is maintained m the costume of tits step herd, Who 1s Clad ina red sleeveless garment, just | relteved here and there by the appearance of ‘the } itnen underclothing, — There 13 tn this flesu coloring | something of ctty’s force and naturalness, and tie TEXTURE OF THE GARMENTS isexcellent, All the colors are rich and deep and | seem to be laid on without hesitancy by one possess ny knowledge. ‘The tints are brilfiapt and are weil | bicnded. Though there is a good deal of contrasted color there 18 nothing suddea in the effects, Hach | coior has been made subordinate to the geuerat ef | | ject, and the tones are balanced so as to produce TIARMONY OF COLOR. In the drawing of the female tigure th | unfortunately placed the knee of the right leg too | low, whicb interleres very much with tne eilect of the figure, Sufficient attention also Was not paid to | drawing che legs of the shepherd; the right one | especially ts poorly drawn, the lower leg being de- ; eviedly Mat. | baci ground of this picture is exceliently composed | and js uodetied on one of Poussin’s classic paint- | ings, but joins to the French painter’s manner more | of the sealism of the modern landscape. in te ex+ | treme distance a huge mountain bathed in DAKK BLUISH TINTS | iooms up and shuts m the scene, which appears | completely isolated, At its flows # broad, tranqutl stream, the image of peace. On the left of tis | picture, adark wood throws & w over the scene, and on the right @ Mf of sheep are peacefully browsing. ; Throngh the opening, et ween the wood and the | Mountain, we caten Sgimpen of @ little pateh of | is Noatin | blue sky, With white cl ng across. A good deal of care was bestowed on the drawing of ‘he trees which, though indistinct, are weil sketcned | 12, Had more care been taken with the composi- | tion of the group this painting would nave been A GEM. Itis fail of dramatic power and bears evidence of reiined tecling on the part of the artist. Bul with the shortcomugs we have pointed out it is stil strong i composition and rich in color. Mr. Johu Foley, the ¢ h Sculptor, has | recovered from his long iliness aud returned to London io resume work. rawin Land-eer has so mueh unproved tn | health tnat hopes of Sinai recovery are entertained | by his friends. | “atasale of rave prmts and etchings in London | some of tie works of the great German master, | Albert Diver, realised very ingit prices. A proot of his “Knignt and Death’? brougut Los, Thornycrofts statute of Boadicea, whe British Queen, will be piaced in the Kensington Gardens, | The figure of the Queen has been flashed for rome | Years, bat the artist has only recentiy completed the modetitng of the horses witch to locum part of the group. A lady seuiptor, residing at Rome, Mrs, Freeman, has designed a beautiful bronze v: Which Is on eX. lubition im Loudon, where it attracts a gout deat of { attention in the art world, 2 } Mr. Walter Smith, Head Master of the Leeds, Bradford and Wakellelt Art Society, las resigned his position and is coming to Amertca to direct the art educations of the State of Massachusetts, A working Joiner in Glasgow has devoted his leisure bours for the last twenty-five years to te construction of @ model of Jerusalem and the sur- rounding country, as it 1s supposed to have existed in the early Christian days. ‘The movdel is of wood and covers 144 square feet, It weighs 1,200 Ibs. Mr. Dumbreck, the constructor, delivers a descrip- uve lecturs every cyening, to which ne gives cot siderable zest by his enthusiasm as weil as the knowledge displayed of his subject. A new has appeared in England on that seemingly exhaustless subject, the relation of art to religion. It js from the pen of Josiah Gilbert. An American artist, Mr. J.C. iliom, is tavoraply mentioned by the English oritics, His picture, “A Moonlight Scene near Rouen,’ forms part of the English art department of the London International Exhibition. [tis a remark: happy and effecuve study in brown and white. The moon is at full: a belated traveller is seen passing a flock of sheep. ‘The English critical journal Art calis it a gem. A new system of mosaic painting has been ine vented in England by a Mr. Minton Campbell, Itis an application of musaic tesserae to ordivary p& tot | ing, and, 1tis claimed, combines the durapility of | the mosate with the freedom of oi! painting. Though treated in on, it 13, in fact, vitreous, aud may ve Surut in by the farnace. Wall painting is thus se- cured by an imperishable enamel, In the French Department of the Internation Exhibition an imitation of we cele Lazuil cup, in the shape of a galley, w | of Neptune seated in the stern, wi the glories of the Louvre collecuo: erabit attention. ‘Tue artist, M. Duron, has succe fully rivalied the exquisite enametied work of ie Italian arust, and tis modelling of the figure of | Neptune displays great ality, The colors of the enamels are remarkabiy fine, and te laps lazuit 1 to the Les! advantage. Town Couneii of Boghton lave set an exam- ple to our City Fathers. Ata late meeting they re- solved, by a large majority, to erect a building for | the purposes of pabite museum, library and picture gallery. When wilt the Empire City follow tue e, ample of the Engiish watering place ? Pivmouth is avout to erect a statue to the famous uu is To | | forting news that the gentieman in que rtist has | The dark landscape which forms the | ‘The fate of Mrs, Mitchell, wife of the Rev. E. €. Mitchell, pastor of the Swedenborgian New Jerusas tance was chronicled in yesterd, ALD, appears to be suil shrouded in dark and bine penetrable mystery, ‘The police of Boston and New York are busily engaged endeavoring to develop some ciue that may lead to the discovery of the whereabouts of the missing lady, but up to the present writing they have becig | Mo more successful than they usually are when the press does not perform the greater portion of their especial work for them, “It is am ill wind that blows novody good,” ane it may be that the misfortune jaiien upon Mrs. Mitchell and her stricken relatives will enable our detectives ta estavlish the now doubtful fact that they are at \eaa “worth their salu” They have now a good chanca to show the public that its verdict, “stupid bunglent all,” unammously and most deservedly passed upon) them on account oi their recent NUMBROUS AND VERY DECIDED FAILURES, shouid be withdrawn in respect to this case, and it, 1s to be hoped they will make good use of tha | opportunity thus so unhappily afforded, not only for. the sake of restoring their lost character for eMiciency, but for U turn of peace and Lappiness to the tamily and friends of the lost lady. A HERALD reporter found the Rev. Mr. Mitchell gloomily pacing the tirouged halls of the St Nicholas Hotel, in this city, about eight,o’elock yes- terday evening. [He is @ medium sized, refined looking §gentieman, about thirty-luree yeard | of age, with full, hight vrowu | close-cut peard aad pale, handsome, delicate fea- ; tures, He leaned on the arm of a young frenu jas | arrived from Bostou, and seemed utterly cast dowm | by the afllction Wuich there 1s now bie too much | reason to fear has (allen upon him. After wie usual introduction the reporter asked Mr, Mit it ha nad heard anything new reiative to the fate of hit missing wile ¢ “Well, sir,’ said be, sadly, “I have neard vers little to-day. Theve 1% ous little matier cleared un, however, which cannot but aiford some satistaction. You remember that when she wrote to me ir! Boston, she mentt he fact oat AN UNKNO .DERLY GENTLEMAN nad sbown her much xindness ta the cars all tha way trom Portland, aad, on their arcival in Boston, oflered to her to an humble hotel, which 81a declined, We were ail very apprehensive that thi genticman might have been some Way insirumental him. Well, my young friend here nas ju: from Boston and brought me tne some been found; that lie Is a most respectable md Of irreproachabie character and standing, and vit ne remembers inceung her aud sending fer again safe and well to continue her journey towal Philadelphia, So far all ts right. Wiat we hav next to discover is the lady calling hersell Mrs, Ames, who shared ler section in the sieepin: with my wife, Afier she nat accepted that ac qn ion all trace of her 1s lost so far.! “Have you any theory yourself, Mr, Mitchell, that | might account for her disappearance?” asked the reporter. “on, Lean only account for it m either of tw ways; one of them certainly must be tne correc conjecture. She was sultering VERY BAD HEALTH, and was subject to tits of hemorrhage of the Iungsy Now, considering the fatigue she had uncergone, fod one in so delicate a condition, it is more than poss, sible she may have taken one of those fits in fl | cars, In that case of course she would be put of { and placed under the care of some medical genties man a soon as the tram arrived at tue ne: station. If the fit were a very severe one tie doctor would probably refrain from communicatiy ; With me, lest 1 might precipitately rush into he | presence while she was in @ state of partial con | vatescence, and, by the excitement tius occasionedy ; bring on a fatal relapse. | spat, considering that fully twelve days hava, { now elapsed since she was last beard from, and aly lowing your supposition to be correct, don't yout unink she ought to be sufficiently recovered by Und time to justify that physician or herself in commu- nicauing with you ?? “Ab, deac! that's true, and that ts why peainning to lose heart tn the matier.” Now, Mr, Mitcaci, what is your other theory”? “well, there ¢ be but oue—she bas met test foul play.” And the poor geatieman here held down tus head and SEEMED QUITE REART-RROXEN, sumed, “Lam not without hope that the puvlicity now being Kiudly aflorded by the N y press will result in procuring me some i ie whereabouts,” 10 Au eXuct description of tha OL < Tam ale formation asto ht “Could you at ” “Ol, ye thing lithe HeKALD Will publish t. And p that because L may teave this hotel as 3 St iieml Of tidings) a note on thd i 20, Cooper Lustivute, will 2 promptly.” a lady of twenty-seven years of we joreuead, rather suvall she wad , LOW CY sselin a bro traveline, suit, Dlack straw hat tuned with red roses, wit ried a browa linen duster, & small black valiou g. and & travelling shawl strapped up. sha Wo gold rings, One a plain one, and one evt | opening and showing hair, On the inner surfac | of the hair ring were the words ‘Ned | June 28, 1392." “She also had a gold sreetung Jiederich, Chou. Fords, see, and numbered 27,400. It is uncers | tun whether sii wale With canvas cover, biagk trunk with gr BAOOKLYN AFTAIL&S. Sedden Neath. At about four o'clock yesterday morning the poe lice found Mr, William Smith, tn @ sick condition, at his door, 218 Grand street, Wiiamsburg, and on taking him hiin mito nts residence he suddenly gaval up the ghost. The ise of death will ve investt= guted by Coroner Whitehill, | | wore Fire in a Stationery Stor At noon yesterday a fire was discovered in the stationery store of Hubert & Kerr, No. 630 Fuitor street, and before being extinguished had canseq damage to the building and stock to the ainount o| $1,200, There 18 an insurance of $1,000 on stock in the Contyneatal Insurance Company. The Brooklyn Ferryboat Suiride. Henry McCreery, tue young man who committed suicide on Saturday by jumping into the Bast River, off the ferrynoat Nebraska, was a native of Paine’¢ station, near Pittsburg, Pa. He exhibited signs of losanity previous to nis fatal Jump. Ou his persow at tne (ime was $119 in bills and a check for $5,50v.. His body has not been recovered, Stabbed by a Pedler. Thomas Holmer, a pedler, and Michael Terking had @ confict at the house of the 10 No, St Columbia street, on Saturday mght. Holmer, dar- ing the desperate struggle, stabbed Perkins in the lett thigh with a Kaife, and was subsequently rested and tocked up inthe Third precinet station house, Perkins’ wound necessitated iis velng seat to the Long Isiand College Hospital. of One of the Principals. Some of the pugilistio fraternity of the Fifth and ‘second wards, naving completed the arrangemenis- | for a prize fight between @ couple of young bruisers,, started down to Sheep's Head Bay at a late hour om ont sea dog, Str Francis Drake. The exhibition of the works of Holbeins, at Dres- den, opened ou the 15th of last month, The best work of thw great Augsburg master is the “Meyer Ma- | donna,” which, with eight magniicent portraiis, form the Dresden collection. AS Holveins lived most of his life ip England, under the protection of Henry | VIL. the majority of his works are in the Royal Gallery at Hampton Court, Queen Victoria, how- ever, kindly lent a number of his best paimlings lo the Dresden Exmbition, Pera will have her first international exnibiton in December. | It will be the tirst ever veld in Sout iq America. ‘The chief prize of honor will be com peted for by Peruvians and foreigners; its valu Will be $1,200, The second prize, of $660, Is re-e served to foreigners. Australia is thiuking of abandoning the pastoral Pipes and reed, and moving forward in the road of | Drowress, At @ public mechue Del 4a Sydnev ip Saturday night, that being the place selected for ne fight to take place. Tne event had been so nosed about amorg politicians and others that the crowd of spectators Was unusually large, and vieir de« parture from the city attracted the attention of the police of the Secoud precinct, Captam MceConneth arrived on the ground with several of his ineu jus6 after daybreak; but the fight at that Ume was nearly over, nine rourtls having beet fought, ‘The police rushed into the ring and sue ceeded in capturing James Malone, one of the prin= ciples, but Harry Larkin, the other bratser, together With the seconds, made their escape through & swamp Where the mud was knee deep. Malone was taken belore Judge Buckiey yesterday and admitted to bail In the sum of $1,000. A Warrant ‘vas issued for the arrest of Larkin. The purse fought for con. tained $200, but the betting was large. Malone would have won the fight, as Larkiv was hardiy abie to come to Ume when the police imtertered,