The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1872, Page 3

EUROPE. Marshal MacMahon’ and President Thiers in Conference, THE GAME OF THE IMPERIALISTS, Arrest of a Terrible Murderer in France and a List of His Crimes. QUEEN VICTORIA'S THANKS TO THE NATION: Address of the Pope to the Ladies of Rome. THE LATEST SPANISH CRISIS, dn English Criticism of Mr, Catacazy’s Treat. ment ia the United States. ~~ Bismarchk’s Threat of Re= taliation. : The mail steamers (ity of Antwerp, Captain Eynop, and the Russia, Captain Cook, arrivea at this port yesterday bringing one week's later mails than those aiready at hand. FRANCE... The Situation Throughout the Republic Things Beginning to Shape Themsclvea— Marshal MacMubon and President Tilers The Greck Difficulty. ad Y* paris, Dec. 20, 1871. although many questlovs are, wita us, at the present moment, the all-Important ones, we are still unable to arrive at any sort of settlement. ‘The income tax, which forimed, as a matrer of prin- ciple, such an important feature in the new finan- oial arrangements, has been rejected by. o vast majority after three equally exhaustive and equally ciever speeches of M, Thiers and M, Pouyer-Quertler against. the tax, and the well-known economist, M. Wolowskl, in Javor of 1t. Nothing has been as yet proposed as a wubstitute to the rejected tax, yet in less than foriy- eight hours begins the new year 1872,.during the first five months of which we have to pay, by fort- nightly instalments, not less than six hundred and Mity millions 10 the Prussians, or else become Onaliy bankrupt and have our not yet recovered territory imvaded again, But thea with many people New Year’s gifta and New Year's visits are more important to-day than anytning else, and our papers are full of announcements as to What the President, the Ministers and the Diplo- matic Body will do on the first day of the year, which approaches with presages so gloomy for all but the volatile Parisian, M. Thiers, however, is sufficiently aware that’ if he were to bring Inmself too much into prominence on this occasion be might casily make himseif ridiculous, aud that however much ihe French may like great festivals and receptions, his little old figure 18 not quite it to represent anything in any sort of solemnity. Consequently he based his ceremonial for the New Years Day upon the motion that the Assembly 1s souveraine, Accoruing to this arrangement the President of the Fepublic ia to pay on the 81st a visit to the President “ofthe Assembly (M. Grévy), who is to repay M. ‘Tilers the visit a couple of hours later, On the let of January they will both receive the members of the ASCMUIy. aL Versailles, and on the 2¢ M. TwWera will yo to Paris 10 receive the viplomatio Body, and upon this the official compliments will bé concinded, THE PARIS ELECTIONS, te. a8 undetermined as the tinanclal quostion 1s uestion as to who 1s to be the supplementary candidate for Parts at the election which is to take piace on the 7th next, Victor Hugo, M, Ran,c Marshal Mesiabon, M. Clément Duvernois and seve- gal other. persons had been proposed without anv of tem accepting the candidature cr being finally shosen by their supporters, Various reasons are Of course given Why this or that candidate would pot do; but with reference to MacMahon tho mat- Yer has some interest. The Marshal did not refuse the proposition made to him by the uaton of tho press, serving as an electoral committee. Quite the contrary. He accepted tue proposal apparently ‘With willingness, aud gave it up only subsequently under the following circumstances :— MACMAHON AND THIERS’ PRIVATE CONFERENCE. When it became known that he did accept it M, Thiers sent to him hiscivilleutenant, M. Barthelemy de Saint-Dilaire, to ask the Marshal to come over to M. Thiers, The Marshal refused to fo so on the text Of an indisposition, On hearing this M ers at once went himself to the Marshal, and found nim taking a copious luncheon, not quile suitable for an Indisposed man— 8 circumstance of which M, Thiers compiained to bis entourage at Versailles. The Marshal did not fala) himself to leave the dinner table, invited M. wers tO partake of the iuuch, aud gave him th the interview lie was_asked for. No one knows what ‘Was talked about at this strictly private conference; Gut the result was that the Marshal withdrew bts candidature, You must not conclude, uowever, that this was necessarily the result of intimidation op ioe part of the President, MacMahon ts pot o man to be intimidated. The Vresideut provably led Him upon patriotic yrounds, saying that his election might bring ucw troubles and party rand both ree ee as inside the Chamber, an that this would only render tie Principal endeavo: of the government--the raisiug cf money and the reorgauization of the army—more dimcult To wel a uments the Marshal must have 03 ie Five to yield, as the imperialists sch lately to avoid exposin themselves to any chan of defeat ot the efecilods, THE IMPERJALISTS WATCHING CLOSELY, They muster their forces in another way, and Pordre (ihe jeading imperialist journal), when speak ing of McMahon’s candidature, sald that it advised ail its frien.ts to vote for tne Marshal, but, @t the sane time, advised yhe Marshal to refuse the Beat. The Ordre would not have spoken thus with- Out some sort of new plan of action having been selected at Cuislehurst and some instructions sent over to the Marshal througu this chanuel That at have not been sent Ciectly to the Mar- is simpiy in consequence of the cold rolaiions that exist between him and the Emperor since the days when Bazaine ana Palikao were carricd over fis head and en- trusted with the enviable task olgruiming France, But, notwitpstanding tls personal coldness, Mac- Mabon always was aud always will be a stauch dmperialist. His pretty little wife would not permit Tum to change his persuasion, cveu if be Dimself ‘Wished to do 80, FRANCE’S NEW TROUBLE. Abroad, besides having the German and the Italian businesses to settic, we are likely to get into some bother with Greece. At all events, M. Rhan- , tne Grecian Minister at Paris, scems to be m affected by the resolution taken by our ninent to send B squadron into Greek waters, complication arising in that quarter might, however, bring us, perhaps, to some better arorerarainie, with eee for in this case the governorent of M. Thiers ana of Victor Em- manuel are on the same Side—that is, on the sido of @Franco-italian shareholders’ comphny, which un- dertook to work out the silver mines of Lanziuw. The company has a lawsuit of considerable im- Bye tora and the government of France anda Ital, i iw for an arbitrage, while the Greek governmen sts upon the matter being leit to the tribunais of the country, I saw M, Khangabe leaving the cabinet of M, Rémusat (the Foreigu Ofice Secre- tary), and found him very much affected by the news he had heard. M. Kémusat announced to Bim that the italian and French governments had agreed to send each a squadron by way of demon- eration. Besides this M. <hangabe learned of the intent of M. Guyot-Montpayroux as French mister to Athens, a late Deputy, who is known as being of a very firm character, and as placing French monetary inte. ests almost above everything (a the worid, A RUMOR. Iheard at tho same Foreign Office that several Suropean governments, including that of England, bave mude through their representatives at tne Court of Berliv some remarke concerning the toue ‘Of the Jate note of Prince Bismarck, They seem to displeased with the provoking tone of the Bul in ihe first place this news requires sopirmation, and in the second it 18 weil Enown bow Uttle noice the German Chancellor takes of such baie especially when they como trom GAMBETTA GONE SOUTH. Gambetta ts gone to the South under the pretext Of tudier la situation du pays, He has alread visited Marseilies and Toulon with his confrire, Rouvier. ut unbapplily he could not gather any fg mooring consequent on the state of siege lng still im force at Marseliles, A‘ Aries some disturbances took place on Thursday, and @ rein- sont Of troops bas been sent irom Marseilles ‘by General Espirent. i CENFORSIIIP OF THR PRESS, All ihe regular press tclearams have now, con- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. sequent on ani onde? of Mr. hrough tee mane of tousere Of tue Portign Ooken An Atrocious Murderer—The Crimes He W: Guilty Of—Murder, Sacrilege, Incendiarism, Robbery—Successful Carrying Out of His Infamous Plane—Caught at Last. {From the London Post, Dec. 28.) The Assize Court of the Pas de Calais has been engaged for the past few days in the trial of a man whose career has been one of the most remarkable in the records of human villany. be criminal 1s a te man, py twenty-lour years of age, named mit » and his course of crime appears to have commenced tu the year 1864 At that date he was a larns servant, aad obtained the pertect coufiaence of his See rer by his activity im nis busincss and hts sup) regular and excellent conauct, At this time certain fires occurret im the district in which Lemettre resided, and a certain M, Framery enter- tained some suspicious that they nad been caused by this apparently well-conducted servant, but these suspicions only resulted in bis having his oWn house burned without nis being able to de- mounce the incendiary, Lemeitre’s master having died, the Widow married a certain Louis Sauvage, Whose brother had married @ sister of Lemetire, and he removed with the Sau 3 to a house at Auvingham, at @ short distance from Audresselies, Here he lived for some time in such fashion ay to bg an Sxcetlen} repute sno Cane NOR fe) Occasions 10 Obtain credence lor thé sfnidctont that he fad "ea “shot at. He was also fortunate enough to dnd 1,600f. on the high road, which he placed im the hands of ine Maire, who returned it at tic eud Of a year, as DO once rs Samed it. He places CU ateom tm che nds of his misiress, anid months iter en- trusted ‘her with a furtiler sdin OF i00L, saved hom his wages, This was in September, 1x63, and on December 1, in the same year, a brewer's drayman, who had fallen asleep On nis dray, while passing along the road, was suddenly turown into the ditch, horribly mutilated, and robbed of his purse, con- taining abvut fifteen france. A fortmiynt later a Widow Lambert was attacked one night ia her dwelling house and severely wounded, the object of the outrage being robvery, as sbe was known to have received the previous day. A week after robbed the presbytery of Audre curé Was serving mi ad the meet the curé at the poilce ofice. wiien he went to give an accouut of the rovbery, the robber having come to compiain that his trunk, containing 1,500!., had been stolen from his room, but aiterwards dis- covered in the garden, In May, 18u¥, Lemettre took a farm in Audresselles, and shortly afterwards mur- dered @ peasant maimed C » Whom he enticed to come and drink with him, Suspicion in. this case fell upon a Wineselier named Foucart, in whose snop Lemettre had met Cugny, anu this man and bis two sous were arrested. Not long alterwards the third gon of Foucart was tfouud murdered in hia bed, the house baving been cleared of all the linen to be 1 ound, and an attempt having been mude to set it on tre, ‘The house of the Widow Lambert, which she nad not ventured to inhabit, was also cleared of all portavle property by Lemetire, who some time aitewards murdercd a M. Malfey, who It is sup- posed had been privy to some o! bis crimea, Afcer this Lemettre cominitied roberles of money and securities in a neighboring villa; and about this tine was obuged, to join the Mobilized Guard, Returning home after tie armistice he recom. menced his career by clearing out the palace oi the Bishop Blanquart d¢ la Movte, whence he carned olf money, jewels and papers. Tue Abbi Flour, at Manninghein Vimille, was similarly treatea on the 1dth of May last, and another priest, the Abbé Cal- lier, on the 4th of June. Lemettre, as he was grow- ing rith, took to himself a wife on the llth or tie same month, @ girl from Ambicteusc, whose famuy were much pleased at the excellent conduct and Tegwar babits of their new connection. At the wedding feast, however, he was so imprudent ag to display on bis ie @ valuable ring which bad been given by the late Queen Amélie to Munseig- neur Bianquart, Archbishop of Rouen a this belug admired he took it om and put it away, and no more was said to him on the subject; but on the 25th June he was watched by M, Noyelle, whom he had ques- tioned as to the habits of the curé of Auuemvert, and who saw Lim cross the walt 1nto the aurden of the said cor¢, ‘The gendarmes were at ouce sum- moned, and Lemettre was seized before he had effected an entrance inte the house. In his own house were found abundant proofs of his guilt, which he at lengths acknowledged, asserting, pepe al that be bad been only an accomplice in the m TB. A correspondent of Galignant, writing from St. Omer, says:— The peculiar out that soccer each separate murder was aigo suficiently described to ive your readera an idea of the annaturgl character of the man who may now qustly claim for himself a foremost rank among criminals. ‘be brief summary of prisoner's personal examination, with @ knowledge of the verdict, is simply necessary, A «itfll- ‘tre with the various acts of incen- rae to him was apparent from the outset, and determined the prosecutors to confine themselves to the rob beries and murders of which he was accused, The risoner's defence to these was an original one, He invented two confederates ¢compired with whom, trom his own statements, he was guilel who bad assisted = him—no, who had actual; perpetrated the oifence with which he was charged, an enerousiy handed over to bis safekeeping the Proceeds of ecrines, This atnrally accounted tor the discovery in bis house, carefully buried, of the stolen property. “It was Briche, Manique, and Madoy, alias Croisette,” who were the of the of which ‘he was but an bum! member. Malfoy robbed Deguine of 600f., at least “riche told him so”—though Malfoy, a sailor, was at that tine 008 leagnes from France. metire “was not aware of that.” riche robbed the cure’s house at 11:30 P. M. though he was proved to ve at that very hour at midnight mass, The discrepancies in the Tevenen statements and the facts climinated were careiully pointed out by the Juge d who did not fail to remark upon the unusual y of MM. Briche and Malfoy in “taking ali the risk i the prisoner all the plunder.” Throughout the <i @ and trial the very meation of Bricho’s name was the signaj for “ianghtor.” ‘This triding blander, however, was werged in the other and overwhelming evidence Lrought to bear upon the prisoner's guilt, As each succeeding question, poimted and searching, Was put by the resident, a reply paipabiy contradictory or terribly crimlaxuing followed. Now it is 18 landiord, who bas come to the Chiisimas xe, and as left bis carriage at bis tenani’s house till’ mid- night, ‘when he, will return to, tetch it, and whom he tefls to knock, “however lightly,” at the door, and be will awake. The lindiord comes with three friends, and “they knock and kick for ten mfantes with all thelr might,” ut “he was asicep and did not hear them.” He was ch gaged in strangling Ougny. Again, he confesses to participation” in the murder of Foucard, who was p Outraged, but denie complicity in a precisely aimilar fi ack upon Prey In a word, his guilt in every single Instance Was proved to the satisfaction both of Judge and Jury the former of whom complimented im upon hie ability and the world will shoruly ve rid of nim. "Fo night (Sattirday), at eleven o'clock, verdict of guilty was unani- tmously returned. Joseph ‘Lemettre was condemned to death, and willbe shortly exccuted at Marqnise. The prisoner beard his sentence announced without exhibiting any emotion, A Communists Vindication—Ranc’s Account of Himeelf—Did Not Cause the Hostages To Be Shot. Panis, Dec. 27, 1871, Not having succeeded In getting me transported the reactionary press 16 seeking tu dishonor me, I expected no less fromit, Yesterday it was stated that 1 had caused the hostages to be shot. To-day it 1s asserted that I have “rendered services to Ver- sailles.”” To my friends—to all those who know me— I have no need to make any reply. But the calumny ig spreading among the public, and I ought to check it. I beg you, therefore, to insert this short answer to the note which you published thig foruing. I arrived tn Paris gn the 0th of March, Meateacit of all that nad happened on the 1sty. From that very day, in the hope of averting a disastrous confict, 1 labored with several citizens who were devoted to the democratic cause to organize a committee of concil- jation. On tue 2th, at night, it repaired .o the Central Committee, charged by the Maires assem- bled at the Kue de la Banque with a mission which, orm tt proved abortive, At the elections of the 2ou 1 ol iained, without even presentiug myself, the almost unanimous vote-of tue Ninth Arrondisse- Jeatei! which had not forgotten the good 1 endea- vored to «lo after the dt of Septemver. I was placoa upon all the acts, even upon those which bore the name of M. Anirea, the present Deputy for the Selue. Thus elected, 1 conceived that had a double miission—on tle one hand, to insure order, ihe public peace and tranquillity within tue arron- dissoment; and, on the otuer hand, to continue at the Hoiel de Ville my eforts for goncitiation. Upon the first polut, thanks to the activity and devotion ef my friend, Ulysse Parent, we enti succeeded, pou tue second point I was tess fortunate. On We 4th of April the news of the death of Duval and of Flourens rendered vain all hope ol arresting tne etruggie. The pext day I did al a fe the Hotel de Ville, but 1 sent my resignation, [had not doue so eailier because so long 8 | eniertained a glimmer of hope I would have regarded tt as an act of cow: ray vd to have withdrawn, One thing remained to be done—to create a force which cou interpose be- tween the combatants, With this object | Wok part in the formation of the League for the Rights of Paris without giving my name, which would have been {il-Péceived by both parties at Versailles be- cause | had been @ memover of the Commune, abd by the Commune because I had quitted it, From that time I lived in Paris in absolute reurement. Is it necessary now to add that 1 never had beiore the 6th of April or after it, neither closely nor afar of, any communication, direct or indirect, with any member of the government? You have repro- duced a remark attributed by tne Unirers to an important personage under the republic, Who 18 Sulu to have repued to a Deputy, “How can you ex- Pect us to prosecute M. Ranc, who has rendered us buch great services?’ J am persuaded that that ig @ pore invention, but in any case I reply, i an ini portant personage in the name of tue government did make that statement thus attributed to him, or anything analogous, that personage has lied. if a feet repeated it or invented it that Deputy Thave, &c., 4. RANG, GERMANY. © ee Prince Bismarch’s Despatch to Count At. aim=The Tb French Hos Stull More ‘The following 1s the despatch transmitted on the 7th inst, by Prince Bismarck to Count Arnim, the German Ambassador at Paris, on the subject of the acquittal of Bertin and Tonnelet, accused of assas- sinating German soldiers:— t to France of Seizing and Having Recourse to Your Excellency will have become acquainted through the ress of the impression which tho acquittais in Meiun ana Sivte bas. made on pubile opinion ip Ge flowever aiid Bt, ena Wauetartos dings in ine face of et ating 10 the responsibility for emote Delleve tbat is Frac government ts not able to control the disposition of the off- { that the connection was established by On the contrary, the fact had this cials employed on such trials, Vs that the sense of justice in France fs so utterly lost, even in whieh by pecerence Se (ge of order, and of ¢ law are found, enal urOpe ‘of te dimeuiice which. the Frengh the pressure vy which i 8 oppreased through the, e pressure by whicl preass f aavions of the masses. ‘If’ T, ‘motwitasiandicg, quest fist “Your ‘Excellency’ will confer om the’ sutject with M. de Remusat, it is to bring the reproaches of the <(erman press the notice of the French goverument, but to prevent & possible objection that we had not at the riget time given uuterance to our views with regard to the consequences which might resuit from the repetition of similar events, If ori like premeditated murder remain unatoned, ublic sentiment ig apt to demand reprisals because jus- tice cannot be had. If at were possinle to place ourselves on the standpoint of legal BAe stration at Pans and Melu tho. jus tu’ionis would lead to homicide on our part infiicted | on ‘Frenchmen, occuring within our Jurladtction, | punished. The hig! i feo" From t remaining nj ) moral culture and thé sense of honor and justice which are pecuuar to | 1 $hg German people preelude such @ possibility. But it will be ditfent after these events to satisly public opinion in Germany by merely pointing to French adminis- tration of the taw, if similar crimes should be acain com- mitied. As a measure of immediate prevention the com- manders of our troops have been compelled to seex security by declaring the occupied districts in a state of sicce and of enforcing martial law for crimes committed Against our troops, The cases, thereore, of the immediate arrest of the culprit will not give any cause for tnterantional diflicuties. But every demand for extradition which we may te compelled to make will excite and anger public opinion in France, We have, therofore, aiter the extr: tion of Tonnelet ‘and Bertin had ven declined, not insisted Upon our demand at that the, 2s we trusted to the administration of justice {n Frane», But in future we should not be able lo obéerve similar reticence {view of the 1u- | diguation on the part of the German population, but should | be compelled on the refusal of exiraditivm In sue) a case to give eifcat to our demands by seizing and placing in security French hostages, and even to have recourse to still more Atringept meagures—n contingency from which we most sincerely wish to be selisved, Setting amie the dangers acerving to our mutual relations which are to be feared in this direction, the events of Molun and Paris bear witness to the disposi:ton of the more culti- vated and well-to-do eso! the people toward Germany, which cannot remain without influence on Our furuke action in the tnterest of our own safety. Weare obliged to own that although we were last year atincked by France without any provocation whatever, suill the exasperation because we have victoriously defended ourselves which inflames the French population, up to the circles irom whien ibe jurora, tie olliciais, the advo- cates and the judges are drawn, ts 80 —passio that we roust in thie course of the negotiations with Franc Which are atid impending take toro Consiieration not oniy thesecurity that the peace condit will ve fulfilled, but Aigo the cefensive strength of our position within the depart- ments occupied by us, Your Exce lency wi ‘ec diect that the last negotiations with M, Ponyer-Querier were conducted tn the full coaf- jat the removal of the las! remaant of our occupar orter period than stipulated in the Treat ot Peace would be brought about by mutual ay ment. The light which the events In Melun and Paris reliect on the disposition and aims of the better elucated Frenchmen FAD ezard to us hus the more, digpelie thie hope, as the friends of justice and order in the French press havo not felt auticteritiy strong publicly to condemn the conduct of the jurors, of the “persons familiar with the law aad of auapplanding public. The few voices whicn feebly gave utterance to disapproval base it on expediency only, be- cause theroby the wermans woul! sili, by occupation, ‘even now be able to inflict tnjury on France, But they in no way base that disapproval on a dectaration that the verdict as proclaimed ts incompatible with the abiding princip! Justice, of order and the present state of clvilizatfon. ‘appears, therefore, that even these teebie evidences in far Vor of justice would become silent as 4000 as our occupation ceased, Your Excellency will be pleaged to submit these remarks to M. de Remusat, without, however (I repeat this), m any way giving them a turn wiichcould allow any cispieasure | on our part to be suspected with the government of tho republic. Your Excellency will, on tie vontrary, lay apecial stress ov the regret which we experience at the fact that, immediately after our having glven the most unans- fakable proofs of good will on Our part events ehould crop up in the face of whic the hopes of & revival of mutual trust must uphappliy be considered premature. BISMARCK. ITALY. Address of the Holy Father to the Ladics at Rome. - Bi Tcould not be happier than on secing myzelf sur- rounded by £0 many honorable Roman women, You complain, and justly, of the present situation of your city; but we must respect the judgment of God, and be resigned to His holy will, We readin the Gospel of to-day that St. John the Baptist, thrown into prison by berod because he liad re- proached him with bis crimes, received there a visit from his disctples, It was a spacious prison, in which they could visit him and hear his teachings, Im that fespect it resembled the Vatican, Where one may come to see me, but from which it is impossih's for me to get Out with- out exposing to outrage my dignity as Vicar of Jesus Christ, and without being wanting to the duty that office imposes upon me, I am far from being able or desirous of comparing myself to the great prophet seut to prepare the way for the Lord but Imay, to a certain degree, apply to our umes the words which Jesus Christ said one day to the | discipies of John. in spite of the assurance the Precursor, gave them, they sttil doubted whether Jesus Christ was really the Messiah, John sent them thei to the Divine Saviour Himself, “Art Thou the Mesgian?”? they asked Him, ‘or are we to await another?” Jesus Ciirist repiied to them in Jan- fuage eloquent of iacts:—‘The blind see, the deaf ear, the jame walk, the dead are brought to life, Judge yourselves by that whether the reiga of God has come or nol,” it 1a true that those perceptible Miracles are not witnessed nowvdays; but God has, hone the less, not forgottén you, and He continues to protect in @ special manner eur Kore, the capi- tal of tho Catholic world, Other miracles of a higher order are accomplisned under our eyes, in spite of the triumphs of the impiety that reigns, we see suvjects of ali clusses walk with an ever increasing iervor in the Way ot virtue, The sacraments are more and more frequented; the humerous communions on the ieast of immaculate conception are a ‘proof of it, Kacu day new associations are formed, having (or their object a de= votion to good work. On all sites schools are opened with the view of opposing the propag.ution of the er- rors of impiety, and saving (rom the contagion of evil the souis of your children, of whom you have just spoken to me. Yes, this generous and unanimous agreement of the good to resist the efforts of im. purity, is a gift of God, agreat prodigy which the Lora ‘works In your behall, You ask me when will come the hour of our deliverance? It does not belong to us, my daughters, but to God aloue, to determine it, What we do suow is that prayer will hasten the coming of the day when we snail be again free, be- cause prayer alWays finds access wv God. Pray, therefore, my dauguters, in order that God may abridge the period of our tribulations. The Lord” can put an end to them when the hour marked bv His merciful providence shall have struck, In the meantime I bless you with all my heart, I bless your persons, that God may preserve you in strength and health. 1 bless your souls, that God may fli them with His grace and supernatural gilts, Ibless your business, that the Lord may give you prosperity. | biess your children abd your families, that you may find in your households subjects of consolauon, May this blessing accompany you during Ife and open to you after death the gates of heaven! Benediclio Dei Omnipotencis, &C. ENGLAND. Queen Vivtoria and the Prince of Wales—Her Majesty’s Letter of Thanks to the Nae tiow. {From the London Gazette of Friday, Dec, 29.] WHITEHALL, Dec, 29, 1871, The Secretary of State for the Home Department has received Her Majesty the Queen’s commands to make public the following letter:— WINEOR CASTLE, Dec. 26, 1871, ‘The Queen is'very anxious to expres her deep sc th touching sympathy of the whole nation on the oceasion of ‘the alarming iline f her dear son, the Prince of Wales. The universal leelii fw, terrible days, oy with herself 4 her beloved daughter, the Princess ot Wales, as weil! as the general joy at the improve. ‘ment in the Prince of Wales’ state, havé made a deep and JaaUing impression on her beart which can never be eflaced, It was, indeed, nothing new to her, for the Queen bad met with the same sympathy when just are eae & similar illness oved Irom her side the mainstay of her life—the best, wisest and kindest of busbanas. The Queen wishes to express at the saine time on the part of tue Princess of Wales ber Enea of heartfelt gratitude, for she bas veen as deeply touched asthe Queen by tue great and universal nifestation of loyally and sympathy. The Queen cannot conclude without expressing ber hope that her faithful sub- jects will continue their prayers to Gol for the complete re- “covery of her aear son to health and strength, SPAIN. The Last Spanish Crisis=King Amadcus’ Note to Adniiral Malenmpo. Manni, Dec, 21, 1871. Yesterday His Majesty, without consultation with any one, cut the knot of the situation by ad- dreasing the following note to his Prime Minister, Malcampo, and despatching it vefore any one had seen thi PALACE OF MADRID, Dec. 19, 1871. SENOR PRESIDENT OF THE CoUNcIL:— sin—Wh ia aure criterion to guide in my conduct, By the wisdom of the Cories naeavored to guide myself, and my profound ave ov respect for its (Jueros)” caused me to desire eth duratie of the Le- feiative session their le term. For i 1 must do what de on me. nd T with it, inat th et shall be discussed aad a ad that there shall be resolved by the concourse of rave questions aecting ita glory, le integ- ts oroeriy administration ang its good govern- iy, cirouraat rity, fla credit, ment, Jf, uafortunas oppose the realization my conscience my dut: constitution concedes to ine, asking es deyoud, my will thea, baving fuldlies (ke use Of the powers the xi to give me hight and radence. You must, Senor Mara be convinced of the Prcerity of my desires. Believe me aiso that, conirmed {a he sentiments of ccnfidence on your election, ¥s @ to value you, AMADEO, RUSSIA AND AMERICA, How tho Eng! Regard the American Treat- ment of ExeMinister Catacazy. (From the Pall Mall Gazette.) At first sight Englishmen seem to have no interest save that of curiosity in President Grani’s dispute with the Rassian Minister at Washington and in tho triumphal progress of the Russian Grand Duke Fs oy through the Northern States; yet there is 00 | doubt that these events are counectéd w~etner. and persons who country in thetr minds, for Me Catacazy ms condnet ought to put an end tor- ever to the superstition which once prevailed as to the amiversal and almost diabolical skillfuiness of Russian diplomacy, Because he was in America he seems to have supposed he could do as the Ameri- cans do. Because American public men canvass one another without scruple for apy object they have in view, because they intrigue with newspa- rs ani consider no information as confidential, @ has imagined that the same expedients were open to a foreign minisier, But the fact is that the Americans are rather more or less ex- acting than other people in the decorum they ex- ect rom the diplomatists accredited to them, and hey 100K upon their own political conteivances when practised by a Foreign Miuister much as & maa, conscious of imperfect social training, would re- gard a guest who af table thought nimseif at lib- erty to copy his host’s bad manners, President Grant scems to be especially sensitive to any slight of the kind, and he has pressed wf. Cataca- zy's recall with all the energy in his power. The Russian Court has made some slight for form’s sake, to throwing M, Catacazy over, Dut its anxiety to cultivate the best possible understanding with the Americans has been shown by sending a young Grand Duke to receive in all the great American ¢ities the same tumultuous greeting Wliich in a ruder stage of American civili- yauion Wrung from Charles Dickens the most per. fect of ms satires. Im tnat game of chess which diplomatists are always supposed to be playing the Treaty of Waspington Was certainly understood to S give check to the Kussian Emperor, and the indiscreuons af M. Calacazy made the dilicuity worse. great = measare was therefore required, and the Grand Duke was moved forward, English statesmen ma} indulge in a ‘sicey dream of peace,” but they only hall opesedfheir eyes they might pers ceive that Russian statesmen have taken to heart one great episodical jesson of the late war, and are evel DoW making provision for “neutralizing”? a Power which might Otherwise, to say the least, come Im as thirdsman in a Buropean quarrel. The elaborate mterouange of courtesies between vhe United States and Russia began long before the war o/ secession and 1s BOW Of Old tate. It has long been seen that this str driendship derived a great deal of its savor rom) mon dislike or distrust of british power and icy. ‘Those who have merely regarded the @illance trom the political polnt of yiew have not aturaily regarded it as pectouriny immoral. hat could the Emperor Nicholas, to whom the sight of a newspaper was as are) rax to a bull, see estly to admire in a com. munity governed by ne’ rs? What could the Americans, who rece oles and Huncariaus with great explosions ofpopular sympathy, find to respect in the despot Who had crushed Hungary and had Poland under his heel? The Ozar was in the habit of saying that he nated constitutional monarcty (which he assuredly did with his whole heart) becanse if was ‘“aypocritical,’? whereas he considered that a republic was a “frank? and “nouesv? form of government, like hs own absolutism, The ericans, on the other hand, were frank and est enough m thoir ade mission that they showed tenderuess to Russia be- cause the British distrusted ber policy ana detested her institations. But there have always been, uo doubt, some deeper reasons tor te mutual attrac- tion which Russia and the United States lave exer. cised Jor one another, Their political differences have im some ways been weaker than their social resembiances and their common national aims. Russia, before the Crimean war, was @ great slave-Lolding empire, With au unscrupulous greed for new territory, it is vain to deny (though Americans in their present mood do occasionally deny it) that this 13 also an accurate description of the United States during at least a quarter of a century, in all that Was open to the obser- vation of @ foreigner, {heir toreizn policy was wholly under the control of the deimocratic and Southern party, and the secret of this poilcy was its watcniulness over sijavery. Not only was wll American diplomacy guided, but the other- wise valuable American treatises on Inter national law were all colored by tender- ness for the “pecultar iusttution.”” — Side by side with law books intended to show the monstrous tegality of the wglt of search when applied to slave traders, there grew up a series of novel doctrines intended to prove the right of the American people to appropriate as much territory from their velghbors as it suitea their purpose to take, Tnus the Russian despotism and tne Amert- can republic exhibited many strong genera: re- semblances 10 the World down to the outbreaks of the wars which respectively revolutionized tne his- tory of both States. The Crimean war and the war of Secession ended with very different military results for Russsans anu Northern Americans, but the social consequences were identical in tne two communities, in the great entertainments given to the Grand Duke Alexis @ large picture of the Emperor Alexander emancipating the serfs appears always to face @ large picture of President Lincoln eniranchising the negroes. Tne two Powers, once alike im their patronage of slavery, ow more than ever Qlike in their enthusiasm for irvedom of labor; and yet another very remark- able item of resemblance has ween added hy the conquest of the South, The government of the Russians in Poland, and to some extent in the Baltic Provinces, has a very close counterpart in the government of the Southern states by the Northern Americans. in both cases military power is in alliance with ignorance, corruption and poverty to kecp down whatever inteliigence and public spirit the conquered provinces contain, Nevectueless, strong at present as are the social resemblances in some pointe between Russia aud the Umied States, there is fortunately at the bottom of them a radical dissimiarity, M.de Laveleye, in avery striking article recently contributed to te Revue des Deux Mondes, has explained what are the reasons which lead Russtans tmbitious for their country to believe that hei carécr of conquest is Nol closed, 1n spite of the temporary perplexity oc- casioned by the German successes, The strongest of them is the comparative freedom of Russia (in their view) Irom the social disorders which are tear- ing France in pieces, and which also cloud the future of Germany. Russia 1s almost eatirely an agricultural country, and her agrarian institutions are known to be strongly Communistic. Our suciety therefore, say these Russians, consists of a single monarch, with a host of military and civil servants enireiy at his bidding, at the head of a multitadt nous population organized in smali agricultural bodtes, which to a great extent forbid individual exeriion and enterprise, while they maintain alow standard of domestic comfort. We have, therefore, no such volcaulc forces preparing for eruption as are created in other countries by the ambitiou or despair of the classes left to shift for themselves on the outskirts of the social system, [t was not so before the Crimean war. Then we had nobility between the Ozar and the rouliitude, more and more dissatified with the position allotted to it by the first and hoiding the last under its personal control. But tac emancipation of the seris impov- eristied the nobies, left them without power over the masses and placed them at the mercy of the Empe- Tor, Now at iast there is nothing between the ab- solute Czar and his millions of subjects, drilled into low contentment by Communism, except an insig- Nificant class, just enligntened enough to be made nse of as regimental officers or civil servants. There is no doubt that most of the great emperors of the world have ruled societies organized on this model, and the existence of such a society oa the edge of civilization is one of ihe great dangers of mankind. But bere we have the positive conirary of the American social system. American Pelee ig the very riot of individual energy and enterprise and the very negation of social drill. A few sociaistic experiments which may be pointed out here and there in tne United States liave been foolishly supposed to iiustrate a natural tendency; but they are really nothing more than ecceniricities of the license permitted in America to individuals, it is fortunate for the world that the two most aggressive communities it contains rest on a social basis so different as to for- bid more than & temporary understanding petween them. A SENSATION IN A FIFTH AVENUE CHURCH. Last evening, at the closing unlon services of the week of prayer, in Dr. Rogers’ church, Fifth ave. nue and Twenty-first street, whiie Rev. Dr. Adams was addressing the large congregation, @ young lady sitting In a pew near the jast pillar, middie aisle of the church, attracted general attention by turning around suddenly“and giving a bark like a dog. Two ladies who sat beside her, one in the same pew and another in the pew adjoining, quickly changed places with gentlemen. But so nervous had several of them become that as soon as Dr. Adams had concluded nis address they left the church, A young lady in the rear of the “barker,”? and toward whom the latter glanced frequently and strangely, also left,. “During the continuance of the service, which lasted about three-quarters of an hour longer, the young “barker’’ kept the attention of those Dear her fixed upon her movements, she first nad a “spell” of crying and then of laughing, which she kep* up oft and again during the service. And while the congregation swol up to sing she would stand up, and sit down, repeating these movements frequently and looking around at her neighbors with a peculiar twitch and twinkle 1m her eyes Wich showed that she was paruaily insane, or was laboring under some strong hallu- cination. When the service was ended sue left the churel very quietiy, but with a double row of eyes fixed Ou her a3 she passed out, and many expres- sions Of syMpatny for her menial conditioa. J, STEELE MAOKAYE PAINTS ON THE STAGE, ‘The St. James’ Theatre was the scene of a tragedy witnin @ tragedy on Saturday evening, Mr, Mackaye had acted his réle of Monaidl with wwemendous energy from we commencement to the last act, Where he persouates an insane man, He had just thrown wil the science, muscie and facial expression of which he was capabie into the horror act. He had clutched at his sup- posed enemy and thrown him upon the foor in @ delirium of horror, and, carryin out the intention of the play, he himse fell exhausted upon the floor, In a moment his companion actor came out to pick him up and re- vive him, according to the custonis of the play; but he was horror struck to find that Mackaye had atk y his part so faithfully that he had really fallen into & swoon Of exhaustion. He iifted up Mackaye’s head, but it fell back a8 helpless as a corpse, “Drop the cartain,” he shrieked to the attenuants, This Was s000 done, a oes sent for, the au- dience apologized to, and Mr. Mackaye was brought to consclousness. It is expected snat he will go on ‘With tue play again to-nigbe FISK AND THE PARSONS. Reverend Preachers Giviag Seau- dal in the Pulpit. FISK DEFAMED, A Most Dastardly and Sensational Ser- mon by the Rev. Mr. Willis. CRIME AND PUBLIC SENTIMEN Rev. Merrill Richardson Casts a Stone at the Grave at Brattleboro. VEN IN DEATH. A Baptist Pronounces Judgment on Poor Fisk’s Soul, ‘Rejected by Christ.” An Episcopa'ian Asks, “Where Were His Spirit- ual Advisers?” and Demands for the Assas- sin the Extrem> Penalty of the Law. It will be found from the following ‘“sermons,’’ touching on the death of the unfortunate James Fisk, Jr., that among some members even of the sacred ministry poor human nature, in @ very gross form, forces itself to the surface and reveals the existence of turbia feeling ana very Uncharitadle thought, The ‘sermons, under pre- tence of giving advice to young people, fell lament- ably short of attaining the desired end, and some of the preachers cannot fatl to have impressed their congregations with proofs of their pos- sessing great command of a certain selec- tion of nghsh words. That the discourses will be read with great interest there cao be no doubt, and they must necessarily prove instructive to thousands of readers who have hitherto been unaware how men cailing themselves Christians can, on occasions, standing over the fresh grave of a brother, say not only hard, uns feeling things, but even provoke a shudder at the Tecollection of how prone the world 1s to hypocrisy and seusationism, A DENUNCIATION OF THE DEAD. Sermon by Kev. J. Willis, in the Severe teenth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, As was tobe expected from the subject chosen, “Adaress to young men with reference to the death of James Fisk, Jr.,” the above church was densely crowded yesterday morning to hear the pastor, Rev. J. 8. Willis, During tne aelivery of the discourse, which is given in full, the audience was greatly ex- cited, When he spoke of Colonel Fisk’3 character and habits the people sat in mute astonishment, and when some happy illustration of tne danger of Jollowing his example was given the voices of old members of the church uttered fervent “Amens!? “Lord God of Heaven be pralsed!? &c, At its conclusion he was sarround’4 by many, Who congratulated the pastor on iis bold utterances, Rarely has such a sensation been wit- nessed iu @ metropolitan church, Mr, Wiilis se. lected a hymn, peculiarly suggestive of his subject. Beneath our teet and o'er our head Is equal warning given; Beneath us he the countless dead; ‘Above us is the Heaven, Death rides on every passing breeze And lurks 1n every flower; Each season has its own disease— Als perils every hour, Turn, mortal, turn 1 thy ‘To truths divinely give ‘The dead who underneath Shall live tor nell or heaven! The pastor took for his text Proverbs xvl., 26, and xvL, 12-—“There is a way that seemeth right unto @ man, but the end thereot are the ways of death,” and sald:—What palling power lingers in that last word—Death! What fearful defeat to all who trust earth and time for their delights! What fading of ail hopes like au- tun leaves! What faliing of all shrines ana tem- ples and idols of the heart, ana dissolving of every Cherished thought in the biankness of the tomb! The tragedy which suggests these reflections, and which lea to the selection of the text, transpired about four o'clock on the afternoon of Saturday, the 7th inst, and on the qutet Sabbath that followed, which should have mingled its Loly worship with the soft sunshine, the closing scene was covered with clouds, and tne curtain dropped on ALL THAT WAS MORTAL OF JAMES FISK, JR. As Lapproach this subject I seem to hear a voice saying, “Tread lightly o’er the ashes of the dead.” So says humanity; so says Christianity. So let it be; and yet for the sake of humanity and histors the truth must be told, Lifets a path in @ wilderness, which diverges at-countless points and often leaves the traveller perplexed as to the certainty of his journey. ‘There is but one right way; and this, more rarely travelled than many of the byways, Is often less distinct, There are roads that lead through lorest and flowers, roads that are CHARMED WITH BIRDS AND FOUNTAINS, roads that thousands frequent, and In their gradual divergence and increasing beauties they seem right unto aman, anc he follows them and rejoices in them, and feels ever so safe and rich and proud in them, “but the end thereof are the ways of death,” There may be a precipice at the end of a hignway— @ pitfall in a garden path—a bottomless cavern in the most beauuiul landscape. A journey more our way may be beset with another class of dangers. Wild beasts may devour, serpents may sting—dis- eases may infect, robbers attack and slay—nigut fall unexpectedly from the shadows of the bills and leave us to perish in the darkness and cold. all important that the right way be chosen, for only in this shall these periis be wanting—only in this shall there be safety. It has been the study of the ages so to map out this human pilgrimage as to af. ford the unwary voyager a safe conduct to the goal, Earliest forms of philosophy looked to this as their ullimatum—viz:, how to live, It entered into the codes of States and the theses of scholars ana tue devotion of worshippers. All seemed interested to know WHERE WERE THE ROCKS IN THE STREAM OF LIFE. All seemed*to recognize the fact of perils, but at what point they lay in the ways that seem right to @ man, or whether they were there at all, they were puzzled to decide, Abd so itis now; the illusions of sense are as strong to-day a8 ever; and men by thousands are being shipwrecked and starved and ruimed, just as when tbe feeble twilight of truth had but dimly jigitei toe morning of the world, J. These disasters emanate too often from a failure to obtain a right start in ile. Tue divergence which I bave iuentioned takes place irequently and oitea fatally at the very beginning. ‘The world lifts its lures On the vision Of chiidiood, YOUTH 18 POISONED BY A DREAM, and early manhood finds itself vewidered, beating aloug perhaps with giant force, but wasting tn sor- did endeavor aud energy Which slould have con- tributed to the bene.action of the world, He that would rear a temple Lo the ciouds must be careiul of his foundation. He that would rear a character to the skies must build on trath{ul principles, Migh aims must be warranted by a sure footing, or when the realization comes it will be but overthrow and disappointment, ‘Lhe man whose life we contem- place w-day was a most vigorous builders, but HE BUILT ON BAND, he built hastily, altnough spiendidiy, and therefore unsalely, He vegan wrong. His iife was @ yanity fair; his character and unhealthy plethora, a drop- sical ambition, @ fungus and @ stench. His way seemed right uato him, doubtless, in a certain sense, because he lad never weighed its issues in the bal- ances of truth, He followed an ignis satuus, aud while it burned he was In a glare, but when it faded all lis light went out and he sunk in TUB VOTEX THAT ROARED FOR HIS COMING. His life was one of the most signal fallures, know this false brilliancy in which he revelled daz- gled the souls of many, ‘The young, especiaily, ed by it. Those who knew not enough of the wily ways of sin, those unskilled in the tricks o1 fortune, were wont to esteem this a9 more or less real. But those who kuew the hollowness and the bitterness of this human drama have learned to distinguish between reality and mere Pretence. They see that thus Cagilostro was A MERE PANTOMIMIC SHOWMAN ‘on whom fortnitous circumstances Imggsed oppor [tis | | To take in tue vanities which he had not the wisdom to improve, and lavished luxuries which be lacked the good taste to enjoy with modesty. With the melodramatic buffoonery of Falstaif he combined the sinister intrigues of Dunstan, yet without the redeeming virtues of the ideal on the one hand or the genius of the real hero on the other, He was rash, and yeb not praye; he was deflant, and yet not couragedus; HE WAS A BULLY WITHOUT PROWESS; & champion without a belt and without battle. He trasted to tne almighty dollar to do his fighiing for him. With this as another Aladdin he expected to uniock dungeons, to dety courts, to pervert law ang transform society into a carnival of debauch, where he might giut bis hellish lusts witout iiadrance or stink, And much of this he realized. He saw legislators at his feet, made obsequious with gold. He put the ermine into nis pocket to be used at hig convenience and according to his whim, Hi bought up such of the legal profession as he deeme: suited to lis purpose. Aud if he had nad ANY USE AT ALL FOR THR CLERGY Heaven oniy knows what he nt have done tr their needy ranks, It 13 really fearful to contem- plate the exXaimple of aman who ts willing first to steal a fortune and then increase it ad iannitune with unscrupulous measures of bribery and corrup. tion—Wwho shrinks not from invading the most sacred precincts with hts gullty subsidies—who luoks at the appliauccs of State as so many shares to be sold to the highest bidder—who has no interest in anything whiten cannot be bought with money— who expects hovor and virtue and tntellect and power to forswear themseives: AT THE BARE SUSGESTION OF A BRIBE, ; and to esteem It their highest privileze, as Well as’ thelr greatest good, to piay the iariequin at the feet of wealth, And ali (ius we have m the DISGUSTING MASQUERADE OF THIS MAN'S CAREER. The circurustances which Sonsairest to promote him were as rare as Mis abuse of thein Was flagrant. His hisiory 18 a prodigy of Contradictions; i113 ude vancement like the “magic of fable—now am ignorant and stupid boy—now a fantasuc pedler, with tinselled wayons aad gaudy teams—now a Boston iwerchant—now irom bankruptcy seaping to the summit Of Wall street notoriety, and throw- jag cloud and panic over the money market by one of the most daring schemes in the lustory Of specus Jatlon—now, benu.d! by suvie craft aud romano incident, at the head of one of the largest rauroad corporations ta the workl; conducting taw sults Ie volving millions; SUBSIDIZING LEGISLATURES; conniving with siatesmen and politicians; aagzlin; beauty and fashion with his gewgaws; rivalling® Kings with ais gems; toying with the tortunes and luterests of Coulmuuities plundered by his Lraud IN GUILTY LETTERS TO & PARAMOUR, ; and dying at the hands of an assassin who was but bis compeer in crime, And all this in a stort life of forty years, ‘truly it was @ strange Ite, It may, under the kaliuctuation of success and the. stimulus of ambition, have seemed right unto him: but it was really a “Comedy of Errors.” 1 nega tn folly; 1t continued in deception; itended in death. It was a splendil farce. There was but one scene in It that was yenuine, and that was tie bloody, tragedy of its close, ‘That, indeed, ts too terrible tat contemplate, and tiras whatever of bitierness We may have felt at lus Wroag-doings tito THE TENDERNESS OF PITY FOR HIS LOSs, For it was but too signai an ilustration of tue text, “Liat there 1S & Way buat seemeth right with a Mian, bat the end thereof is death.” ‘This nin made} & mistake but too amon realy’ the youth of the present (tine-—viz., the mistake of following melini Uch. Man was never intended Lo be the creature of, desire, but of reason. ‘ihe Creator, wlio gave tar the beast mstinct, has gt to tim the moral gense./ And lor wan to iguore the latter and adtere to tht former would indicate either tat God had erred 01 that His creature stumed. We accspt the latter) horn of the dilemma, and contend that to be cons troied by appetite and sense is both brutal gad sine ful ina being 80 hignly endowed as man. Voilow« ing Inciinations! Indced, ome must be under a dee Jusiun Lo Suppose iS SYONTANEOUS DESIRES Wil point out or lead Lo his chief good. The expe rience of the wor.d proves the contrary, Giuttuny, drunkenness, deviity, disease, premature age, un~ timely death, all come ot tue suggestion and leading of our luclinauon. Does a Man never Want ivod A quautily or im Kind which will be harmful to niu Does he never thirst for poison? Does not his tus) clination lead him to expose his health, spend hi fortune, injure his reputation and invite a climax! of sorrow lor an incipieucy of delignt? Why this {a the daily history of the race! Inclinauons! why, our iociination ty our evil genius, But for that mam: would bave no dificulty In securiug his everlasting good. Itis just at this point that the evidence of Ue fail stares at us, and SIN SHAKES 11S DEAT’S HEAD AND CROSS BONES,’ This isthe symbol and the seal of our frailty. This 13 the land that anbars tie sluice that whelms the soul with ruin, No! to follow inclination 6 to take tne first om turn in the road simpy because 16 is smooth and broad and beautifnl, Because flow- ers bloom along its course, and music regaics it, and pleasure Charms 1t, and fashion frequents tt. Although at tne end there 18 a pit deeper than the grave, GOING DOWN TO THE CHAMBERS OF TELL. Following inclination is the heaven of the volupe’ tnary, Lut not the paradise of a man. It ts the Utopia of an epicurian, but not the goal of a vrava heart vattiing for the right. It is the plea of cowards, THE RETREAT OF SENSUALISTS, the code of those supine creatures who present’ the unmeaning paradox of a life without purpose and asoul without principle. tis not your business, young men; itis not your duty nor your desuny to be poisoned and perverted by this false notion. 16 is not yours Ly leap upon the stream and fold your hands aud Close your eyes ancaring that the roar of the mad waters teil of the cataract below, 1b is not Yours to lie down IN BEDS OF ROSES AND SPICES and sleep througl your dream of death while the house burns over your head. It is not yours to le passive aud placid in the arms of sense until your foes bind you aud your heart deceives you and your mianhood dies ina chill of tditierence, No! Itis yours rather to be uobie and usetul and good, Ta combat laclinauion for the sake of iigut. ‘To deny and restrain desire that conscience may live and breathe Ireely. To bitng the lie wider Lhe mastery of the will andthe guide of reason, To consider destiny at its ultimatum as well as at its beginning. whole scope Of responsibility andy capacity and labor, and straggle aud suger, if necdt be, to liouor the oue and to discharge we other: looking ever unto Wat Divine and supernal fore Which assures that “all things work together tor good to them that love God,’* My brother, where are iu to-day? Whither has melination led you? What are THOSE SCARS ON YOUR SOUL? ' Whence comes those sad recollections of sorrow and defeat? Why are you so feevic and feariuk to-day as you review the dark experience of the as? Does it not all come of foliowtny inclination Jid you not nestle like spoiled children in the arms’ of fortune? Did you not smile and dance to thea luliavys of seuse? Did you roll along in the chariot of iadulgence until a rough place in the road gave you a sudden jolt and brought you to yourself, and you looked vack and muttered, “wat & FOOL | HAVE BEEN ?? On! I tell you, you are not merely driftwood | stream, neither slips buiil and rigged aud launches with all the appurtenances of navigation eacept & helm, and therefore at We mercy of the elements; put CRAFTS BUILT BY GOD AND FRRIGHTED WITH I+ MORTALITY, to sail ont gloriously on the voyage of life—when the winds are fair to sali with them; but when adverse todefy ‘nem. To make the course onward for the right and upward to the skies regardless of all op- Dosing forces, until you hear TUE TRUMPETS RINGING ON THE WILLS OF HEAVEN and the multitude of satis shouting you weicome, and the caim harbor of peoce, which ts the boso: of Jehovah, opens unto you asure and perpetual mooring. J. Again, this man made that other too prevalent mistake of our age, and expec’ viz, @ determination to ve rh to be rich—and when a young he 1s already half ruined. hi ‘‘the love of money ig the root of all evil,” then that desire for it which defies all scruples tu its acquirement Is certainly a@ high stage of the disease, and must be fatal unless violently and aimost miraculously arrested, There are two grades or phases of money loving— the love of money tor the having, and THE LOVE OF MONEY FOR THE SPENDING. In these we have represeated the miser and the voluptuary. And it matters little, although these yoads are quite divergent, which one a man way take. In either case he is lost, for avarice surivels the soul, as ieaves ure shrivelled in the frosty winds, and voluptousness destroys both body and soul. Itis Uns money loving in some form which irom the beginning has so much helped to unjoins society and breed strife in the buman breast, Money itself ts guod, a litte of It is neeulul; but we love of itis A CANCER IN THE BEART, is apebble in the eye, botn perverting the vision and destroying the iife. It is the bane of the world. Kings have bartered their thrones to get it, Snares have sold their franchises to procure 1t; conquerors have sacked cities and pillaged provinces and red- dened their track with the viood of the Innocent and the helpiess to obtain it, Honor and culture have sometimes sold out to ti VIRTUE HAS PAUSED TO LISTEN TO ITS SEDUCTIONS, at first tempted, then dazzled, then ruined. It hag beea the snare of youth, the divinity of manhood and the blight of oid uge. It has invaded the peace of the domestic circie; it has trausgressed the sanctity of the Churcb; it has riven hearts whom God joined tozetner; It has left the poer to die in sight of its poayesstons, has denied bread to the huagry beggar and help to the starving orphan and hesitated nottotake the widow’s mite for @ pledge aud tostain its hands with the blood of the unwary for tne accomplishment of its purposes “0 Money, thy dread glare," £0. ‘ ‘ ‘There is nothing more Lilusory than this love ol gain. itis one of those Ways along the path of lie which almost al § seem right unto & man, es- cially if he be si sful. A wounded cousclencg Psoon neaied b succesalul Oras a aM eud appears to sanctily the me: will eorine over a lingering disease that distressed him, will esmfort himself over es, TLL-GOTTEN GAINS THAT DAMN HIM This love becomes a monomania, Here a Se who seems to love his family; he 1s gen! tie chrel duigent at home; his friends of the domestic. circ 6 Jook upon him as the best of men; and yet he de» yours widows’ houses; he devises fraud for his ighbors; he even deaults and purloina the Pokhires which condding candor has entrusted to his keeping. oct of our remarks seems not to havo loved ey so much for the keeping as for the spenee Ag NOT A MISER, BUT A DEBAUCHEE, It 4s sald he was kind to those at home, That he ne ever ore was often lavish to those loved (| shat he sometimes helped (he poor; that he way: