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y and, Rev. Father Burk rth ae F of the House of the 58 uepherd in this church for the above object. HE POUGHKEEPSIE PULPIT. Tas MILL STREET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, POUGHKEEPSIE, Sermon om “Truth” by the Rev. James C. Beechor—His Idea of What Constituies a Christina and How to Become One. Since the pastorate of Rev, James ©, Beecher, brother of Heury Ward Beecher, over the above charch began, about a month or so ago, increased religious interest has been manafested by the con- Bregauion. The reverend gentleman, with the char- eteristic enthusiasm of his family, has infused new into the membership, and a new era of spir- at prosperity is dawning upon the church. The interior of the church edifice has recently een retrescoed and refitted and presents fine appearance. Yesterday morning @ large nd devout congregation assembled to listen to an fable discourse on “Truth.’? Mr. Beeciier’s text was Corinthians |, vill., 2—“Ane if any man thiok that he Knoweth anytuing, he knowesb notning yet as he ought to know.” The reverend gentieman opened nis discourse by paying—Puate askea the Master, “WHAT 18 TRUTH? Bnd received no reply, im very wach the same spirit men aud women nave been and are repeating te question, asking ior some complete formula bontaining the truth, the whole trath, nothing but the Wath; some formula of faith absolute, unques- jovable, exbaustive; someting waich, velag warned anu proiessed, there siall be nothing more Wo learn, in response to bls demand men aud co!- feciious of men have endeavored to ORYSTALLIZE REVELATION Jato Set form auu snipe, and make wat ts called a Msysiem,’? aud ims system is declared to be the Wud, soit happens wat we find, 1 don't know just Low miaay, diferent schovls answering the Question of riate, Wiuch Var Lord aid not answer; @ud sluce LO LwWo give Lhe sume answer, but, on tbe eouirary, contradict and wax { GONDENTIOUS OSE WITH ANOTHER, Yt is at least prdoavle that none have replied cor- Fectly. Krom this standpoint the questivn as uo euswWer, ‘There 18 not, aud cannot de for men, any such thing as that o1 which Pilate questioned or ‘Which scholars pretend co descrive. For us SPIRATUAL TRUTH [8 RELATIVE, We may Know @ iruth or mauy (ruths. God alone Knows the whole truch concerning anything in the Moral world, Absolute truya invo ves the past, the he-eut aut the iutuve. Goud alone Is competent or that, ‘Lue root of all tuat 18 13 deep buried in the past, aad tne top of all that 1s is away ABOVE THE CLOUD of the future. We see only the present, except as by laith; somewhat oi we past is ja:hed, sume. what of the juvure is reverted, and ouly so much of either as We are able to compreneud. ‘the wuirto any wan js precisely that amount of reveiation Waich ne fairly hogs and lives by; no more w no Ale tuliness of wruth isin God aiowe ‘That is God’s truth, Ours is just that poruoa of God's truth jor which we have capacity, and which we adopt asa Iormative lulueuce—make a part of our Muuer ive. You canuot iorce more than a pint of aren aio a pint cup, though you (ip from the an. What you take up depends entirely on what you dip witn, The sinatest vessel hulds true sea Waver; the largest only ab intinitesimal part of tne whoie, No man needs to know the truth respecting God orrevelation from God, Whatever ol truva one Kuows and feels and uses, that is to him tne fruLb, and Will ve tne innit of 1b until Dy iv he ea- warges, to greater sapaally, suppose the true pu losophy of Christianity to be that we should go ack in the Ie 01 Jesus-—back, back, no ater bow far in the inspired ~ bistory—just 89 far as to able fully to appreciate the character of Him who came 0 reveal GOD AND TRUTH, This 18 why the periect manhood of our Lord 18 so detormiaately set forth in the Gospels, mm ordef that somewhere In that jie we may find a point were our own iife and it come togetier. That point 13 the truth, and irom 1 growing, and by its inspira. Won jiving, We silail De ied higner and highor. Just how much of {feeling one must have in order to begin to be @ Obristian Is Muues'ion vetter let alone than tampered with, Every man will testily av- Soxaing: vo experience, aud Ve range may be any- er FROM ZERO TO FEVER HEAT. My impression 1s, taut who begining to follow Onrist is, or may be, one of Lhe coolest, catmest acts of a sifotime, and a possible act at any moment, independent of excitement or outward preg sure. if any one asks, then, How shall 1 vecome a Curlsuaur i reply, by begin- ming to be. one, und now is the accepted Une If one so bewinaing asks, How shai! 1 mature ip the Ubrisuan ie Lrepiy, by going ahead just as fou bezun, countig every experieuce an advance— 0 experience # tinality, "No man sgould say he bas experienced religion as Indicating a fimisned work, A growing man experiduces reiigion every day, aud the day he stups growing ne stops being a Ubristian, ‘On tne other bund, ve Who at any point of nis life is moved by the Holy Spirit to desire a bigher lue, aud Jn consequence of that desire begins to lolow the dictates of conscience, ant seeks a pattern life, adopts the ilfe o1 vesus, and by His comforting Word ig ied to follow Ou—ne 18 a Chrisian, DO matter how far back in the reveaied Jie tue two Lives Dave come into unigon, SMALLPOX, Excitemont in Newburg. NEWBURG, March 28, 1872, There have been several cases of smallpox here uring the past few days, and cousiderable anxiety existe regarding the possivle spread of the disease, This anxiety has not been at all alluyed by the bungling Management shown in ono of the cases, This cage Was that of @ mau ill with the disease and Jiving im @ tenement house in North Water street, While in a semi-delirtous condition he commenced abusing his wife, and a couple of officers were sent vo urrest nim, they not knowing the nature of the disease, When they discovered that ho had the smallpox ay of course declined to make the ar- rest. ‘Then he ran abouy the strects, and, it is feared, may have imparted the contagion to others, At length on Friday he was securé4 and removed to the “pest house,” @ small structare situated on Me grounds of. the Newourg Almsitouse; but his moval was mide in such a way that it will be Ingular if the result is nota further spread of the @isease, The venicle was an ordiuury express on, usgd every day in the conveyauce of mails, wage and goods about the cily, and crowds Of children gathered at the house and near tue Wagon at the tme of the removal ‘the tumilies living in the house bave been allowed to circulate freely among their neighbors) On Friday night tho tient referred to in his delirium .atiacked his eeper in the pest house, knocked lui down and p ie nis escape, ‘The inmates of whe alms. jouse, gathered in their sitting room, were favured ‘With the first call from the escaped patient, and it is stated that ue altecwards rau at large through we city. However, on Saturday he wag again secured and returned to the pest house, A Case in This City. dames Collins, twenty years of age, vas found on the corner of First avenue and Thirtieth street last vening, suffering from smallpox. He was sent to iavue Hospital by ihe po.ice of the Twenty-first Precinct, BROOKLYN AFFAIRS, Robbery. On Saturday night the house of Thomas Lesite, atthe corner of Tompkins avenue and Kosciusko street, was entered by @ sneak thief during th temporary absence of the lamily aad robped ol $200 Worth of clothing. - Cowardly Assault. While George Vine, abil) poster, was engaged in patting up bills at the junction of Fuiton and DeKalb avenues on Saturday night he was attacked by three Men, Who beat him until he was insensibie, and then leit him. One of the rowdies used a bowtie, ‘The Im {area man Was taken to the station house, where 8 Wounds Was dressed, after which he was con- veyed to bis Lome, 46 Heury street, or om emer} 7 “Teckfetw shooting. Yesterday the police of the Eighth precinct arrested Lawrence Hayes, Michael Toner and Johu Ward for @ felonious assault, having, while in a drunken braw! at the corner of Sixth avenue and Fifteon'h street, on the night of the 2ist instant, BROT A little girl named Catharine Dolan. Durio, the aifray one of the accused drew a pistol and dis gnarged it wwice, and one of tio balls entered the Jeti side of the litte girl, The accused were locked ‘Bp to awalt examination, Capture of nn Old Offender. OMcer Connery, of the Third precinct, arrested Patrick Mungerford on Saturday night on a charge Of rescuing a prisoner from him on the night of the 10th of January, The oificer attempted at we time arrest James Flanerty, who was intoxicated and go ng In @ disorderly ‘manner at te corner of 4m. iy and Hicks strects, While onthe way to the Station house with Flaherty Richard Dunn and fiungertora fesauited him and rescued his prisoner, UHM Was arrested at tue tne, but Mungerford left the cily and did not siow his tace agaia pntil ? night. He was locked up to answers Sa AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BOY DROWNED, On\Satuiday Afternoon a bo; y cight years old, son of Henry Miller, of Glen vaie, 1, L, ventured ona pond and broke throcgh we ice, Before assistance could reach him Wag dr Toooveved guou alters UOMO His body wus NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEST, JULES PAVRE’S BOOK. annem Tho Relations Between the Holy See and the French Republic. Cabinet Revelations—A Friend, but a Worse Enemy—The Boman Question and How It Was Regarded—The Price of Italian Co-opera- tion with Franoe—Italy Could Do as It Pleased—Antagonism Between Reli- gion and Civilisation—The Men Who Figurea on the Stago in Hastening the Over- throw of the Pope. Rome, March 8, 1872, Why was this book written? ‘Yo throw light, the Author declares, upon the relutions between the Holy See and the French republic, from September 4, 1870, to July 22, 1871, A far different motive, we fear, must be assigned, for not one single aaditionai ray of light wasneeded to prove that M. Favre, the King of Italy, the Chevalier Nigra, Count Beust and Prince Bismarck, with al) thelr cabinets, colleagues | and followers, were tie declared enemies of Pope Pius IX. Ithad become a subject of mirthful inte- rest to some, of painful apprehension to others to watch the tortuous and subtle dexterity with which all the Powers of Europe played the game of Fagan upon the white-haired Pontiff. That he had no rights except the right to feel hurt was conceded on all hands; therefore they were particular that his feelings were to be “respected”? while they took from him every vestige of the patrimony of his See. In the four bundred and odd pages of CABINET? REVELATIONS which make up the volumo before us, M. Fayre shows talent which no political Pagani can do with- out; and, beyond that, reveals the motive which inspired the book, too clearly to be mistaken. Alter having worked diligently during ten weary and most eventful months at endeavoring to abstract, without being detected, he was subjected to the humiliation of seeing the National Assembly condemn his lefty and disinterested labors and sweep aivay tnelr fruits by @ vote of 421 to a paltry 82. This vote, from which the traditional and “friendly” Left abstained, was given on July 22, and by ft the entire question of the conduct to be pursued by France concerning the temporal pos- sessions of the Papacy, was relegated to the Min- ystry for Foreign Affairs, Up to that trying day the composition of the book before us had not, in all probability, been imagined. The most splendid burst of indignant cloquence of which M. Favre may be capable would rail to convey an adequate idea of how deeply the vote of the Assembly wounded him. The next day he handea to M. Thiers his resignation as Minister for Foreign Affairs Ten days later, the acceptance of that resignation restoreG him, he tetis us, “to liberty.’”? He was cer- tainly enabled to wash bis hands of the Thiers gov- ernment, and to exhibit his profound contempt by throwing open to the world tnose secrets of the cabinet which the old-fashioned honor of other times had always regarded as @ sacred trust. WHAT THE BOOK SHOWS. But the book 1s providential, It shows that facts Jusufled the vote of the Assembly, and would justify that respectable Legislature in passiag a vote of cen- sure which would be but a very slight penalty after all upon the ex-Minister for the undignified manner in which he conducted the business of his bureau, and this, irrespective of the merits of the ques- tion intrinsically constdered. We will not discuss its intrinsic merits, But it is worth while noting that there never was a century since the birth of Onris- tianity in which many thousand persons of ali classes and among all nations were not found ready to de- prive ecclesiastics of their property, whetlier acquir- ed by gilt or purchase. Though congresses of social sclence might well occupy themselves with tho question, yet it 1s not precisely an ethnological phenomenon, for it is common to all races and limited in its action to one particular class of ecclesiastics, At any rate, history in this respect 19 constantly repeating itself, THE PATRIMONY OF THE HOLY sit has been “expropriated” no fewer than ten times in as many different centuries; and though the idea with which M. Favre starts, as from @ fixed principle immovably riveted to his “inner sense,’’ 1s thut the Pope has no rights which any one is bound to re- spect in the matter of the Papalpatrimony. Yet, as has been said, it is upon grounds of a totally differ- ent nature that M. Favre merits the sharpest cen- ture of we Assembly, THE STATUS QUO OF THE ROMAN QUESTION, On the 6th of September, 1870, not more, and probably less than forty-elgnt hours after the au- thor had become ‘le Ministre dun éemeute,” the Italian envoy, M, Nigra, presented himselt to the self appointed “government” of France. He told M. Favre that he was charged officially by his government to declare that the status quo of the Koman question “could no longer be supported.” Ho declared that “our interest and our honor command us’ to take Rome, He even says “the safety of the Papacy de- mand it no less impertously.”” What touching .s0- licitude! He reminds M. Favre of his past political life, and appeals to him to be consistent and de- nounce the Convention of September 15, 1864, by which the King and government of Italy had pledged their honor to France to protect the Papal dominions from all spoliators. The King and gov- eroment of Iiaiy in choosing that particular mu- ment to declare thelr fixed purpose to violate that Convention, showed no regpect for the Papacy, for France, or for thelr own solemn pledge. No sooner was France prostrate at Sedan than tney telegraphed to M. Nigra what to say, and how to say it Did M. Favre, mindful of his country’s dignity, protest against the Italian meg- gage? Quite the contrary, “I feel,” he said, in re- ply to M. Nigra, how much there is that ts irrefuta- able in your observations, The Convention of Sep- tember 15 1s quite dead. However, 1 will not de. nounce it. If quite dead there was no necessity so to do, and then to whom could he denounce it? To Crémieux, Glais-Bizoin and Gambetta’ M. Favre's sense of the ridiculous would prevent that France, he went on to say, was unfortunate just then, and he himself “too unhappy to have tne courage to afilct a veneranie old man.” Under other circumstances he would be most happy. And then he did “not wish to sadden his Catholic fellow countrymen |? This was as afe point. “oe cannot, nor dol wish to binder anything,” and so on. It would be difficult to say which of the two diplomats guyes fhe more Ignoble role. Fours teen dayd laicr Viett¥ Emmanuei’s cannon naa batiered down the Roman gate of Porta Pia in spite atid in Contempt of the September Convention; in Jact, We May say With the approbation of the man who had proposed to the world to represent France and gee to thg execution of ber contracts, THR ITALIAN” GovEnN COULD DO AS IT 3 ASED, “The incident which I have just related,” says M. Favre in the opening of his third chapter, “was tae point of departure of the policy from which J never deviated,” ‘xhat incident was the conversation with M, Nigra. The “policy” was “a system of loyal neutrality,’’ which he telig us on the gamé page he would not have adopted if he guid have secn the slightest prospect, “even CYeutual,” of obtaiming armed assistancg. fYom Italy. The conveu- uon he geclited was “quite dead.” He would Snither tuvoxe nor Jenownce it.” He could ot, and would not “hinder anytuing” that the overnment oO; Italy might choose to do, That cer- ‘auy Was neutrality with & vengeauce on the one hand aud On te other a tacit co-operauon. What eise can he mean Whea ho says he would vot have adopted that course lr he could have seen a pros- pect of armed ald Irom Italy? Because, a3 wo liave luinted, their neutrality related by no means to Italy, but solely to the Holy See, His words are:—How- ever imperious the senument which made me re- fuse tue appearance of an action againsl the Holy See, | would not have abundoned myself to ititT had been able to only Suspect @ chance of armed support.” ‘The plaia meaning of which is that if he could have even suspected a chance of armed aid from Italy he would have gladly co-operated against the Holy See, THE PRICE OF THAT GO-GPFRATION was armed aid to France, which Ita: Was not dis fioeed to pay, for the very exce.ent rea. that in thd “policy of joyai neytrale of M, Favre she ah All he ¢g-op- eration that wad needed. MY. Nigfa obtained all ie ‘ 1 ij the deciaration from the Ups of the de- honor thas the September von- VYention was “que dead.” M, Fovn is quite right When le expresses bia Conviction that his system Of neutrality would be ‘lat from displeasing’! +o Traly, aud “Would reassure Bors” but when he says ender of Freveli he was equally convinced that this same system would “treat with due resi (menagerai) whe elevated and respectable interests of which the Holy bather is the representative,” he says what he knew, ant wished tn his heart, would would promptiy have fouad the ‘courage to aillict @ venerable old man,” and joyfully have “saddened his Catholic fellow countrymen.’? NAPOLEON Il, AND THE POPE, M. Favre gces over the history of the relations be- tween the government of Napoicon lil. and the Holy See, and shows what every one acquainted with the matter knows full weil—that the ex-Em- ror Was HOt among the warmest friends of Pius X. He, too, would gladly have a/llicted the “‘ven- erable oll man’’if he had had the good fortune, uke M, Favre, to have discovered some excuse for @ “system of loyal neutrality.” He tried hard to “reconcile” the Pope and Victor Emmanuel. The aan quoted by Favre from Napoleon's mant- festo on the subject to the Legislature, in the session of May 20, 1862, are touching Monuments of the ex- Emperor’s missionary lanors in endeavoring to con- vert the Pope to ‘liveralism” and modernized Chris- Uanity. All thrown away! ‘In spite of thelr eyi- dent correctness,” says our author, in allusion to the remarks of the imperial missionary in the docu- ment above, ‘those declarations modified in nothing the dispositions of the Court of Rome.’’ Quite true, Then came ‘THE CONVENTION OF SEPTEMBER, 1864, Mark the manner in which M. Favre speaks of it—‘‘lt gave Rome to Italy (1), while imposing on the tallan government the obligation of abstaininy from all Violent undertakings against the pontifical vernment.’? Now, if it gave Rome to ltaly, tne onvention is a lasting monument of the most ap- palling bad Yaith. And again, if it gave Rome, while imposing upon Italy the obligation 0: abstain. ing from the only means she could use to get what was thus given, does it mean that Napoleon in- tended possessing himself of the oly by violence in order to give it to his Itaitan ally? The words of the Coavention will not, of course, support M, Favre's interpretation—“‘italy reserves to berself to cause it (the Convention) to be respected by whomsoever, Whether having to do with insurrections {rom with- out or with foreign Powers, She will continue to pursue, within the conditions of the Convention, the Conciliation of the essential Interests of italy with those Of the Papacy, on the basis of the separa- tion and reciprocal liberty of the powers of the State and of the Chureh,’’ To the mind untu- vored in the diplomacy and philosophy of which M, Favre, the ex-Emperor, ihe King of Italy and ever so many more are disciples, the above extract sounds ilke the most unmeaning jargon, and, in fact, evory line 1s in contradiction with the next loliow- Ing. ‘Italy will cause it to be respected by whom- soever.”” No other Power dreamt of attacking the Papacy. That Italy will pursue the ‘conciliation of the essential interests of Italy with those of the Pa- } pacy”’ has as Much common sense 1n it as to talk of concilating fre and water. To secure reciprocal liverty to the moral and civil powers of any gove ernment is to unite them 1n a common interest, not to place them in dangerous antagonism. But to continue. ‘Fhe effect of the Convention upon the Holy Father strikes our author as unreasonable ana absurd, ‘fhe Holy See, which was not in any way & party to this Convention’—and why not ?—‘re- plied by a violent dectaration of war”—azainst Na. poieon and Victor Emmanuel? Not at all. inanlnt Modern society” (?). o he kindly lets off the interlopers who took @ course of action without condescending io consult one of the parties most deeply interested; but tn this “deciaration of war," Not against “society,” out against *‘men who apply vo civil society the impious and absurd principle of naturalism” (Enoyclical of December 8), he was only doing what M. Favre must acknowledge to be in defence of those “elevated and respectable interests of which the Holy Father is the august representative.’ So much for “reciprocal liberty” of the Church, &¢, Next we come to OCTOBER, 18¢ and the atrempt made 867, by Garibald!, Events at this time certainly show how farcical was the famous September Convention. Victor Hmmanuel never ited @ finger, while the Emperor Napoleon, wish- ng, no doubt, to spare the feclings of the Itauan Klug, ‘believed himseif obliged to organize a new expedition to protect the Holy See,” ‘This, we are told, “was golng gratuitously to meet a series of sterlle humiliations.” Possibly, but Napoleon 18 not very sensitive. He made an appeal to all the Cabinets of Europe, showing the necessity fora common understanding on the subject) of the Holy Seo, M, Favre says they ae- clared Pn ee that a congress Gould sanction No other solution than tht already brought about between Italy and the Holy See. This 18 not very clear uniess thrown out asa sarcasm on the Sep- tember Convention, which tale plainly showed she nad no intention of adhering t6, We are told that Prossia and Austria were ‘particularly expitcit”” in their replies, Napoleon, therefore, st00d alone, ana capped the climax of his involuntarily heroié atti- tule as sole defender of the Pope by attering through his parifameotary organ, M. RKouher, the famous jamais ot ember 1867, ‘Ine next Imperial move manifested an evident malaise, THE FAMOUS ECUMENICAL COUNCIL was opened, and the ever faithful! defender, against nis will, cast about for meang to annoy, and, uf possible thwart, it, In this work the Emperor was aided by-@ number of per sons whosd names aré of no consequence, Part of the plan was to demand, among other ex- Traordinary wings, that a represéutative of France should be admitted “to defend our interests in the Vouncil,” The eixty or seventy French bishops al- Teady there went for nothing, Or could not be counted on to defend “our interests.’? Every one knows that tne various demands were refused. in ati this M. Favre believes the imperial government to have been actuated by the noblest motives, The chief wire-puller for the Emperor, the Count Daru, Munister for Foreign Affairs, ig described as ‘‘a sin- cere Catholic,” and he, dnding himself batted in all ‘his attempts to Interfere with the Councti, proposed, by way of avenging himeelf, the immediate with: drawal of the French troops irom Rome, (Page 24.) This the wily Emperor dared not do, aud thereupon the Count, Toubaulting out a delicacy rare enough to merit praise,” resigned his post, How af, Favre delights to houor such men! The Count’s successors, the famous Emule Olivier and the no Jess famous Duke de Gramont, followed in his illus Irloug footsteps, and lectured the Pope and Couucil soundly, moved by @ ‘‘solcitude for the Charen” and Jor “our tuterests,” and then abandoned the uutractabie and ungrateful ecciesiastics. ‘Ins policy,” gays M. Favre, “was not proud, but it was wise.’? The Holy See was iett ‘to the responsiviliiy Of its own acts’? Then came THE DECLARATION OF WAR. It bas been seen irom the events described that, notwithstanding the obligatiois assumed by Victor Emmaneel io the Sepiember convention, theEmperor Napoleon feit compelled to gave Kome and the Holy Bee (rom Garibaldi, whose volunteers were repulsed at Mentana. We know what would have thea hap pened had not Kkome been occupied by French troops. ‘fhe Sicilian raid and annexation would have been repeated. Jn the teeth of this that ‘“siue cere Catlo.ic,” tue Count aru, did his utmost to withdraw the Freuch troops, and was followed iu taat purpose by M. Ollivier and the Duke de Gramont. Hqually persistent were the efforis of those three Ministers to overawe the Ecumenical Council, moved, as they declared, by ‘‘s0i1cituue for the Church,” a soucitude oi ich depicts ia very striking colors the species oMliberty they desired to accord to the Onurch and its aagust chief pastor, Had not the war occurred at that critical moment there 18 much reason to belleve that tue ellurts of tne French Ministers wou'd next have veen directed % avtemmpung to clove and disperse the Council vy orce; anu, looking at the opinions aud dispositions of the various Cabinets of Europe at tne time, it must be feared that the attempt would have suc- ceeded. Not having made tha: attempt, having per- mitted the Couucii to proceed to a vove on the ques tion of Papat iniwlinility, and not having with drawn the French troops, coupled with the affair of Mentana, were amuny une inexcusable blunders (matadresses, in the judgment of M. Favre, wich deprived France of Itaiau aid, The conclusion 13 by no means warranted, for ue tells us Jurtuer on (page 189) that italy and Prussia were bound to gether oy a treaty Which Napoleou had tuily sane tioned. Furiher, tnat the ftailan parusans of unity altributed to Prussia ali the honor of the cession of Venetia, while bitterly denouncing France for not aiding Italy at Cusvozza and for constantly ovcupy- ing Kome, M. Favre, who Went to Florence at the end of September, 1806, to stady the sicuation, knew ertectly well that, im any event, Italy would never reak With Gerimany Iu order Lo aid France, PRENOM TROOPS WITHDRAWN FROM RKOUE, Finally, the French troops were withdrawn by the Duke de Gramont, whose despatch on the sub- ect wo M. de Banneville, French Representative t Rome, is characieristic, the most salient point of is that if Frauce were victorious Bee would be all right, Immediately after the witidrawal of the troops the Italian Minister, Viseont) Venosta, addressed a circular (August 29) to the ‘Hpiomauid agenis of (he government abroad, stating that me moment had come to gcoupy Kome. Prolessing, In the language of the circular, the most unvounded respect for the Pope and Gatuolic Church, the sia- ceri & his declarations must be absolutely re- jected on feading tne three concluding lines of this document, where he speaks ot the ‘ANTAGONISM BEUWEREN THE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT AND THE SPIRIT OF CLVSLIZATION and ilberty.”’ Tue intention of a Miaister holding such a belief, In Occupylng Rome, must be to crusn hay “gptagonism,’’ and if he did uot mean that, he i Mo My tigngnest. If such a man be in the sligitest degree honest he cannot respect, mucn Jess protect, a system which 1s opposed to anotier he professes to respect and protect. Asa public Minister, charged with the proteciion of suviety, when he finds “religious sentiment” pitted against “ecivilizauion and |. derly,”? he cannot be the frien« of both, but must put down one or the other. This is the commonest logic, and In accordance with It M. Venosta degired to occupy Rome, Kveuts favored M, Veuosia and bis wish Was gratified, The same events threw tue question into the hands of M, Favre, who says thereupon:—"The empire nad abandoned the Papacy; the war prostraved it, 1 neither Wa8 able nor did I dest.e to raise jt up; but as a Minister of France 1 ore it respedy and Lite tecuon.”? Precisely like M. Venosta. He at dace proceeded to respect and protect to Papacy by writing to M. de Behaine, Envoy at Rome, that ‘the Gaverument Of the National Defence can velther approve bor recognize the temporal power of tne Holy See.” At Rome, on the same day (September 10) an emussary from Florence told the Pope that ‘the Italian government had decided to take posses- sion of the State of the Church, imciuding the city of Rome, On the 12th VHE ITALIAN TROUPS ENTERED THR PAPAL TERRI TORY; on tre 20th they bombarded the Kterna! City, and Qi the game day the Government of tie National wahea, gine UD In Faris pth ae ents was ~ andon Voring to find respect and protec- ch bat Mle aie constrained to pass over M, HOw EGE Waere tof wat transpired at Rome durin Vro’s account of W. «at Paris, He continue hls savoluntary seciusiv.. Wo hear. however. from ws? 9 SMe fom Me de | Behaine. Trough this gentleman he learned what hai happened. and tie humiliation of the Pope caused nim the keenest joy. He speaks of this homilation as a “sublime transiguration” of the Papacy, “God,” he says, ‘nad chosen the noblest ‘figure that his history has ever described’? for this trausfiguration. ‘Tender and convinced apostle of uational inuependeuce and of liberty,” and so on through a page of eulogium, every word of it true, but every Word and the spirit of it an in- salt, when M. de Behaine writes to him that “the Holy See can still appre- ciate at its high worth the moral support which the pellaious, chivairous and generous senti- poy! of France afford him,’’ M. Favre coolly takes tall to himself, and has the imeftable efrontery to say, “I have had the lively satisfaction to obtain the approbation of the Holy See for my language and for my acts.’’ Audacity can go no farther, M. DE CHANDORDY'S PART. At Tours M. de Unandordy took charge of the Programme. But there was little danger of mis- foacemementy “M, de Chandordy had received my tructions,’’ and very kind and condeacending has that geatleman been in SareElae On6 those in- structio For all the harm that had been done him the Pope retaliated by a prayer to the victorious King of Prussia to accept an armistice, spare the eusion of bloodand allow Paris to receive su; ‘This generous and humane act M. ‘favre also took 10 himself personally. “I was pro- foundly touched on learning that generous inter- vention upon which I had no right whatever to count,” ‘Truly, noright whatever, Then came ahaa ann RELEASE OF PAGIE is @ and the appearance upon the scene of M. Thiers M. Fayre wrote constantly to de Behaine to kee; astobe no let down, Notitag, not even the ope’s blessing, which M. de Behaine Nat Up to M. Favre in a despatch, could make that upright Statesman swerve from the rectitude of his loten- tions. He feared some counteraction on the part of the National Assembly and resolved to “cut ghort those imirigues.” He instructed M. *de Behatne to preserve “excellent dispositions for the peop of the Popes disereet and firm maintenanco f phe policy Ihave always followed.” He sdas ‘that & Would be Letter not to conter on questions of poliey. “even indirectly,” with Cardinal Antonelll, ‘hat is to say, M, 'Toiers was now at tue Head of the Prarplonal government at Bordeaux, aud M, Favre ought It as well to be cautious, A REMARKABLE AVOWAL, Note what followed, He wrote, on March 10, to M. de Behaine:—“I persist in considering the statu ge asthe only reasonable policy. For the reat ball draw up our resolution definitively when Thiers shall return to Paris.’’ M. Thiers arrived at aris On the 12th, and, afer a Conference w.th him, Favre wrote, he says, a detailed despatch to M. de Beuaine, “To explain to him my views and trace @ line Of conduct for him.’ One would suppose that had been done berore, and irrevocably, It seems fot. Anew light had broken upon him. “Ihave the honor to be @ Minister of /rance, and it is by her will I snould be inspired,” This is entirely new language. “I have too long and too publicly come bated the temporal power of the Holy See for all men not to know that I have been and remain its convinced adversary, But 1 recognize that this opinion, at the same time I maintained it, was not that of {ne majority ot my fellow citizeus, "I recog. nize Lurther that it is not, at the present moment, that of the President of the Council, and that, although not having as yet had occasion to declare it, 1t 18 not that of the majority of the Assembly, to the sover- eign auchority of which | ought to be the tirgs to submit’? (Pages 70 and 71,) M. THIERS’ VIEWS, This traly remarkable avowal, the only merit of which 18 candor, forms the subdstauce of the prom- ise despatch to M, de Bename. which was to contain “our”? final resolution, M, Favre does not favor Us with the original toxt; but, surely, is not his own summary of its contents the strongest ac- cusation, and does not tho use he made of the post- tion he usurped on September 4 entitie him, on his own Coufession, to the vote of condemnation assed On July 22? But he goes on to say (page 71) hat M, Thiers and the Assembly “considered the temporal power hecessary to the Holy See,” while he discreetly hopes his government will not think of “imposing it upon ihe italians by force of arms,’’ and then bas the coolness to give the following in- gtruction:—'‘We are not to occupy ourselves at all (points) with the temporal power; we consider it as outside the question (hors de cause!) Here is another flagrant violation of his position, Who are “wet? None others but the Minister, on the one hand, who is but the clerk of the government, and the Envoy on the other, who is the clerk of the Minister; and the upper clerk tells the lower cierk that their principal is to be ig- nered | Worse fatth to the Holy See it would be dificult to imagine, i M. Favre next tells us of his share In the appoint- ment of a French representative at the Vatican. His idea was that one and the sume person should represent the country at a future day, near the Court of tae Italian King as well as at the Vatican, Did he not know that the Pope could not con- gistently admit such an arrangement? On this subject M, de Behalne wrote his views ina de> spatch, which is a very remarkatie production and not at all flattering to the intelligence of ata author, M. Favre and M, Nigra, however, found its argu- ments “irrefutable,” which 13 not surprising, MORE ON THE SUBJKCT, This is about the substance of the thing:—M. Favre had declared to M. ae Behaime tiat ‘not for @nyiuing in the world” would he make or accept representation at the Vatican by an ecclesiasuc, ° de Behuiue, taking tne cuatrom hig chiet, says In the despatch abuded to:—“The Cardinal has not added, but I believe [ ought to press vis point, that the Holy See would be nothing less than charmed to see foreign governments adupt the idea of being Tepresented near the Pope by ecclexiastical agents. Ot all the combinations trom which it will soon be necessary to choose, Uuat would be unquestionably the most hurtiul to the political and even spiritual juterests Which it is tue mission Of foreign agente to protect at Rome.”? (Page 79). The Pope charmed to see adopted a system ol representation whica would be most hurtful to the spiritual mteresis, to say noth. ing of political, Which it is the Mission of agents to protect at Kome! The remaiider of the despatch evinces the grossest ignorance and stupidity, or else @ quallty infinitely Worse, particuiarly where he speaks of the ecclesiastical diplomat “ouliged by his conscieuce to sacrifice Nis inspirations as a states. man to the yi a he would owe to the dogma” of Infaibility ! As if in that respect the conduct of a jayman could be conscientiously diferent; out then we know What the stutesimen of M. de Bahalue’s stamp would do, A EUROPEAN CONTERENCE, It was finally settled that M. de Choiseul should be sent to Florence and M. de Harcourt io Kome, About the same tline the question of expropriaing certain convents iu Rome and the almost utter m+ possibility ior eccieslastics «vo appear ia the streets of thac clly without belug subjec.ed to gross insult and viten W perronal Vioience, originated 1a some minds the idea of referring tie wiole mavter to a Curopean conference. ‘nts proposition aiforded M, Favre another very tavorable opportunity of proving his devotion to the cause of humiliating the Papacy. lie leared the possivility, though ever x0 mote, of the re-estavlisnment of the tempe power. In the proposed couferemce and inthe course of action it might resoive on adopting there could be nu danger to France. Tuere appeared to be w prospect Wal Austtia, Bavaria and even lialy were Willing Lo accept a conierence. Prussia did not oppose the idea The project Was gaining ground. The Pope ikea it—ail tue more thut It would relieve France of sole rexpousivility, M. Favre lost no time io wriilag to Vieuua, Florence aud Rome, Lis despaicn to tue latter city is given, very nearly in full, gd He tells us that tie reasons for opposiug the project, contained in the three de- spatcues, are detailed in that belore us aduressed to M, de Behaine, One of the otiers Would be more sausfactory; oul for reasons best Knowa to himself M. Fuvre preterred giving us this oue, walch, now: ever, tells us quite enough. (age 84.) Suifice it to say that the project was killed. Killed, of course, On priuciple; just as the hostages were murdered ip Paris. M. Favre then tells us that Cardinal Antonelli adopted lis views! As @ prool, he adduces and poluts 4 despatch from M, ue ve haine, This ls utterly untrue, and an extraordinary mMmstance of bad saitu., M. de Lehaine says:—-‘rne reflections which Count de Beust’s project suggests to you, of examining, ln a conlerence, the recipro- cai conditions of Ltaly and the Papacy, have ov tained from the Cardinat Secretary of the state a full and unreserved approval.’ The question pre- seuted, and as understood aud accepted oy the Pope and the Cardinal Secretary, was n0i at all the ques. tion of “xeciprocal conditions,” to the discussion of which, itis Manilest, the Pope would never consent. In other words, tne Cardinal’s approval 1s given to only a part of M. Favre's despatcn, while tne latter endeavors to make it apply to a condemnation of the Conference as at firat understood ani atuvuted, not to Count de Beust, but to sir, Giadsione, A careful re-reading Of those pages confirms us in this view, and creates a suspicion that the turn the mat ter took isdue to M. do Betaine, and, in tact, M. Vavre says as inuch 1 bis reply to tnat sypsionaant whom he appreciated aa an invaluable a M. D'HARCOURTS POSITION AC ROWE. With such @ Minister for Instructor the position of M, d'Harcourt at Rome was very didicuit. He could not. please the Pope, to Whom he was acere- dited, While he certainly was not sent tuere to gratity ime bg oe goverument.§ M. Favre gives us is Iétier Of iastraetions to M.. d'Harcourt, We have also M, «Harcourts address to the Moly Pather, and the reply of the latter, in which occurs the famous “el as it bas been charitably calied, in regaru to the restoration of the States of the Church, M, Favre says 1t was an error of nis copyist; but how happens it that he co:ments pon te erroneous statement all turough page 110? Une Would suppose that he woul! make his comment white the original lay before Yim, the copy contain- ing the “error? being atlerWards made fox we printer, But}. it pass FAVKE'S ENMIVY TOWARDS THE Pore. M. d’Yarcourt iaving been reduced, by a series of despatches, toa very Layjniess condition, M. Favre roposed to place thé Capinets of Florence and enna In thesaine position of patient tuactivity. ‘The plan was interrupted momentarily by the Paris {usurrection anu the necessity of puting a stop to the attacks oftue Italian revolutionary press, M. Magra saul fia government id gg potung, * presé Doing {ree tu Italy; but M. Venosta proved, v., the contrary, that be at Jeast’ could control those fery creataresy whicd abone word from bim sub- sided into comparative silence, We do not propose now to discuss the secret of that power possessed by we iain Minster, But Me Fayfe bad not much iime ieft wherein a Pay ion The aie a Aled lament propos iQ meet in Kome on July 1, anc June wis thst “th aft aWay. anotner mtérrup- He to the completion of his plan the frrival of Pius IX. of the twenty-fifth year of his pontificate That was two iow of June, and all we world was astir to compliinent we venerable man toe beng bin years of vewr: M. Thiers, as 0 ne Fronch government, \ " ness a Jotter of congeatalatios, Waren adh ak Tui in M. Vavre’s book. Jt contains, however, no- expression tet need alarm the most ‘liberal mind, All tue Courts of Europe seus addresses, and irom io) onaset », at thé completio! him well up to the mark. There | Many countries money, in considerable ‘Was poured into the impoverished bey: erst Amain the so-much dre: juestion of the tempo- ral power showed itself fora moment, and 1 again our Cerberus dashed in to worry It, He oo anew and wrote !o M. Venostaa letter full of the usual counsels on the ye of moving to Rome. He was moved, he said, to offer his advice and new plan on behalf of “the triple interesis of France, Italy and Catholicity.”’ He was mach more solicttous ut the latter than any pope or bisho} that Rome ever saw. His especial miszion on eart! Appears to be to defend the Catholic Church againat the attacks of the Pope. M. FAVRE’S NEW PLAN was what he calls a ‘composition’ (atermotement) or compromise, and consisted in making Rome thi capital de jure, while Plorence was to remain the capital de facto, the tormer to be Brees by an inves prefect, a plan perfectly shallow and value- less; aud if that would not auswer he proposed an adjournment of the ‘‘matertal operation’ of trans- ferring the capital. Tho plan was not accepted by Venosta, who issued an oficial communication ‘0 the various foreign representatives, notifying them that the government would be transierred to Rome on July 1, Would M.'rhiers decide that the French Legation shouid or snould not go to Rome? That was @ serious question for M. Favre. Accident came to his relief, It happened that most of the foreign Ambassadors had obtained leavo of absence, M. Favre then made up his mind to follow Ausiria’s Jead, and resolved thatif M. de Kubeck, the Aus- et Ra should absent himseif the example oul But “oount. den Hous ag. Gagne pave un ave been foreseen, imtructed “L rh Kubeck to go to Rome, which conduct M. Favre affects to Mind strange, inasmuch as the Austrian Chancellor seated the matter without consulting the French abinet. M. Favre, who says he regarded tho whole affair as one “entirely of sentiment,” wrote to Choiseul vo come to dn understanding with the rep- entatives of the Catholic Powers, and informe . Venosta that France «lid not desire to be “first at the Quirinal,”” The Pope was very much offended by the decision of M. de Beust, aud hinied at the ossivility of being obliged to leave Rome. Then . Favre ound himself in another dilemma, from Which he was extricated by the hey ayant of M, de noiseul, Who conceived the idea OL avoiding the iMeuity by sending to Rome lis First Secretary, M. le Viliestreux, he Limself taking a leave of absence, Biforts were made to gach Austria to follow this example, But M. de ieged that he was pouny by 9 speech he nad made an the Reichsrat! ud that M.de Kubeck should go to Romo, . ‘favre had highly approved, and theretore foun himself commited td the plas Ot Mode Choweur pia which Cardinal Antonelll remarked did not ect the question Sanda ipenia , though it migut @ taken as an evidence of good feeling On the part 1 the French government, The question not ben ically altered, it was not very dificult tor M, favre to reconcile the Austrian and Itauan abinels lo this new position, M. de Vijlestreux ent to Rome, where he was presently followed by |, de Kubeck, M,. Venosta was much elated at nis ‘ilumph, while on his side M. Favre claims that this ‘uelicate matter’ had “terminated to our honor.’ THE STRANGEST gare of thig termination is the 1 bi caverta: ol affected to be entertained by Favre that al Parties concerned were satisiled, But vo ms great disgust and alarm there were two parties very far trom belog in that frame of mind. ‘Those were the Pope and the french Vatholics; we migit well add the Catholics of tae entire world, ‘here ts nota Dage in M. Favre’s book 14 Which he does not re- iterate the avowal that his desire to please italy without offending the Pope was the motive of his conduct. do “the one and not oifend the Pope was to propose to do two contradlotory and diametrically opposed things, iu ouly one of which he could possibly succved; therefore, neither his avowal nor his conduct was honest. He had succeeded admirably in pleasin; the Italian government; ana, having weighed dowd the seale on that side, He affects astonisiment au anuer-at seeing the other side rise, “Could’t they Jet things remain as they were?’ he cries, with the whine of @ passionate child. No, they could not al- low thiags to remain as they were; but, witnout pre- tending to trouble M. Favre, the French Cawholica Tiopores simply to peution the Assembly fadg gome- hing which M. Favre haa bent EN nervé not to do. Tho prospect that the “August old man,” as he frrquently calls the Pope, with aa affectation of rever+ ence he does not feei, might receive some consola- tion from Krance was too much for his feelings, Judging others by himself, he says (page 149), wpoeking: of the French bishops, ‘the essential thing for them was to make ig and thus at- tract the notice of the crowd, Possiviy, to the “uoeral’’ mind, the coasecrauion of bishops Points to no higher motive. But the secret of this really unworthy anger and unseemly abuse was in the fact that the Assembly ana M, Thiers had resolved upon discussing the matter. We know the results of that discussion—one, the virtual condemuauon of M, -Favre; tne other, the book before us, WITH THE EVENTS OF THB 22D OF JULY torical part of this book concludes. The author Tew words of gratitade to Gambetta, enlogiz- ing M, de Rémusat, who succeeded him 1n the Min- istry for Foreign Afatrs, and speaks feelingly of him- self in connection with his retirement from powe) in obedience to “imperious conscientious duty,” He feels that he is the innocent victim of circum. stances, ‘‘oue vanquished, whom defeat has rovved oL be Sl He is the man who has capitulated and “become odious.” He is resigned even to finding himself “‘held responsible for the misfortunes of tie war.” He would have retired to obscurity lowg since had he not desired “to finish the cruel work Of negotiation,” to deliver up those inches of tue territory of France, to hand over those stones of her fortresses, He goes bewaiilng the blindness of By country in many respects, but especially in rega to tie temporal power of tue Papacy, and then passes to other themes, HOW FRANCK SHOULD ACT TOWARDS ITALY, Tn Giecnsaiag the conduct which, in his jadgment, France should pursue toward Italy, he’ eriticises favorably the doctrine of national guities, and takes occasion to express surprise that M, Thiers should hoid opposite views, He tninks that Italy would have become oue long ago but for the “domination aud sovereignty of the Papacy, which have been the principal ovstacies to her unification.” He admits toat “the vitality of the municipal régime, which bailt rival republics, “as well as the rivalry in art and luxury which marked every City and petty principality contzt- buted also to prevent it. “But from tue end of tne fourteeath century the great men of the Peninsula— Dante, Petrarch, Macniavelli—aroused the soul of the couatry and dreamed tne reunion of her divided fragments. Tuey pointed out the Holy see as the direct hindrance to that salutary ‘ransformation.” That is to say, at about the time when the Papacy was In exile, banished from Italy tor some three, quarters of a ce ‘The policy of Cavour, the early antl-Papal career of Napoleon IIL, and the tragic story of Orsini, with his letter to tne ex-Emperos, whicn 18 given in full, are Well touched upon ‘ag bearing upou tne subject. Then the war against Austria, vegun in te Tulle- ries on New Year's Day, 1859, in & way not creditu- bie, Then the sudden peace, tollowed presently oy the adventures of Garivaid! tu the Neapolian kingdum, and ® panegyric upon that imu vidual “who, like the valiant hervine 0: Orleans, has received from God a heart, pure and simpie, luetfavie goodness, Aa ardent faith, @ tender and miystic sou), and UnDstakable drmuess i bis reso- lutions’? Alas! the quotation is correct and literal, @nd wuere 18 Wuch more OF It, Which We Have not the courage to give. Immediately after this eulogy, Anu as uf pare of it, he says : ~~ WHO MADE IVALIAN UNITY, “Nothing, then, is more unjust, and, above all. . More inexuct, tuan to accase France and tne Um. peror of having anade the anity of italy. If it as meant that we have made her indcpeadence tuat is right.” (Page 184) Few men wouid have the haraihood to assert that the goverdinent of Napo- leon 1, was “too much under the iufuenee of the ultramontaue ciergy.”” M. Favre says it! (Page iss.) He saysitin order to flatter lialy a¢ the ex- pense of his own couutry. ‘Tnrough four or five ages of commen:s upon the Lain races he 1s ex- remely complimentary to Italy, as @ preparatory slep to encouraglog her to do away, once and tor all, With the imiluence of the Holy See. To tuls crowning edort he devotes the last chapter of uis book. ; THE TEMPORAL POWER. Tie replies to inose who claim tnat me temporal ower Is necessary, by arguing that the secular gove érument of the popes Was not perfect, What, ile deed, upon earth is pertect? He adjures France not to attempt to restore it. ‘Tals game,’ he says, “must not recommence.”? France must not iim- pose upon the unhappy itallans the theocrauc des- pouism Which has so long crushed aad corrupted them.’? Sne would tind herself compeiied to avandon the “work of iniquity.” This manner of treating the Vapacy is nO more than might ve ex- pected irom M. Favre, but when he says “tue prim tve Church did not recognize any supreme cuief’ hw enters where, for Want of space, we cannot fol- jowlum. if the eight or nine hundred bishops of the Catholic Gaurcn, including Pius 1X., whi accept M. Favre's exposition of the ‘truth’? it will not be for us to complain, But if they do not accept either 18 GOCITInes, his statements of facts or his extracts rom ecclesiastical writers, including many popes, as iatrly given and free from the asilight- est tinge of bad faith, then no one should blame us either for observing what he 80 much admires, @ “loyal neuirality,’’ Or for pin- ning our jaith to the side that may appear to us to have the weight of historical truth aad ecclesiastt. cal records to support it. M. Favre bas a way of saying thingy that does not carry conviction, He if constaully eulogizing the Church and the Popes, and is constanty flugtng both co the dogs in @ very contradigtory and inconsistent mauner, His eulo- gies are, therefore, Hable to suspicion, and smack Oi insincerity, all the more that he Is constanuy telling of his perfect sincerity. Tne Uath- oli¢ Uhureb, We presume, knows her own Interesis best, and it is idle as well As lupolitic to tell her thatshe does not. If she, bemg the best judge, caunot separate sroin, or, rather, caanot allow herseil to lose ner little “cor. ner of ground” in Italy, without feeling that sie loses a facility for her mission of saving souls iroul eternal ruin, then tie interierence of M. Favre aud of node like him should cover jim god ee oat cule ip we cyes of every mai who ¢ {we fat Wo ogelner oi Favie sould remember that this Vatholic Church which ener to accept him Asa teacher 1g composed not = of eight or nine huadred bishops, vat of Lt computed at fwo hundred millions, exclu f tM Se Baie ind’ those who. ayree with bull ear Favre must. know tat the Church Is the un M$ bishops, priests and lauy, in one ound and Ayn Y ideas. Those, thep, Wao dutor ny Prrieih 5 Or AN jak, are jot inewher’, nor Is the solick buch chstaways, for the Ohureh, muen regarded It. ts idie, therefore, fol thoge Wao romain farcnsule Th, ie Catholies of Frangg 0} M. Favre to preach to th ; ‘aie nh nthe Church, th is even of Italy; for jt they foil oeage fo be {i cominiinion wh he vuorea, Se Jar ia not the Pope aud Var dina! a “2 tain the temporal possessions of the hic ao ab ‘burch, acting as one body, for whed they {ac gre vo be we highest intereats of numauinge | Pa ig SE for want’ ot ‘space, the arte tatoo us; Why was semen this book written’ MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. nee 2 NrBio’s GARDEN.—Mra, John Wood sppears fof the last time as ‘La Belle Sauvage” this week, wit! the commedietta of “Checkmate” as an introduc, tion, Next week the bul will be changed for sur: nard’s burlesque, ‘Poll and Partner Joe.” Booru’s,—Mies Carlotta Leclercq, the lady w supported Fechter during his engagement in ¢ country, Makes her first appearance at this theat to-night as Rosalind tn “As you Like It,” The notable representative of this character in this ¢1! Was Mrs. Scott-Siddons, WALLACK’ s—‘‘The Veteran” 1s likely to be true ite name in the length of its run at this stanaal theatre, With such an admirable cast and suc! superb mounting it 1s no wonder that the house SOMsAARY crowded since ‘The Veteran” was pr duced. SUNDAY CONCERTS.—Many of the theatres are devoted to the concert business on Sunday even} ings. Last evening very attractive concerts were ven ab th rand Opera House, Union Squari heave and federkrans fui, aud several dthe, houses propose entering the field im April. GRAND OrgRa Hovs B.—“Lalla Rookn” has god, Out of the shoais and reefs of first representat Into the deep water of a successful run, With little more judicious rani of the dialogue, sa’ the whole of it, thé fine scenery, well selecte music and enticing ballet Will be relieved of an : necessary Incambrance, Comigus.—Josh Hart, desiring to satisfy th metropolitan public as to the Roman procitvities of tho fair Worrell Sisters, proposes this week td, Introdade fhom as classical couspiritora to & bur-y lesque galied ‘Juilus the Seizer.” Probably th death of the first Cesar will be enlivened by ®& chorus and walk around, Hi ‘Tam EASTER SEASON oF OrERA.—On Easter Moné day an Italian opera season will be commenced a the Academy of Music, under the auspices of Mro* Carl Rosa. The principal artists in the compal ‘will be Madame Parepa-Rosa, Miss Adelaide Ph: lips, Wachtel, Santicy, Mme. Vanzini, Miss Jenn; Burk, Migs biara Doria, Tom Karl, Joseph Her: manns, Signor Ronconl, Aynsley Cook, euerey Ryse, Miss Schotield and Mr, Chiesa. “Th ib consist of sixty volces, with ao orch a foce like number, Such a combination 1s al leled im the history o1 the the Academy. / ROSSINI’s STABAT MATER.— This magnificent w was performed yesterday afternoon at St. Franc Xavier's church by Professor Wiiliam Berge’s chot ‘The solo quartet consisted of Miss Veresa Wernekt soprano; Miss Mary Werneke, contralto; Bi Tamaro, tenor, and Signor Baceill, basso. The ren- dering of the work was highly creditable, especial; that of the “Inflammatus,” by Miss Teresa Wei Deke, and of *Cujus Anunam,” which were gems lu their way, This is the best choir im the ey, for, Catholic music, as the skill and musical ability of the conductor make the proper iuterpretaduon great works mecessity, and phe yoices of tha Soloists are particularly trained to that end. Y OLyMPIC.—Pantomime-like, “ Humpty Dumpty” a susceptible of constant changes, Next week an ei fare transformation {8 promised, as on Seturday might the piece will reach ita 260th representation, this season, In the change, ail the sensations, ex4 cept the cat duct, will be withdrawn, and will ba yeplaced by @ grand combination of new features pe Ganges 43 the Kirally troupe, fresh pantomimg ricks, a hew burlesque Opening, and new scener, ry be the leading features of the reconstructe' *Hampty Dumpty,” Miss Luiu Prior, 5 roung actress, takes the principal par ‘vrapa dl buclesgdo; the Wilson Brothers, Euro: pean gymnasts, a jhyggler, wo character singers, eh who plays on eighteen drums at once, wii appear, ' NILssON,—The matinée & the Academy of Musid on Saturday, despite the unseasonable weather, was crowded fully a3 much as auy ofits prede- cessor, And yet the perlormauce of “Roberto 1} Diavolo” was by no means worthy of such patron.’ age. The mise en scéne, appointments and ballet, could scarcely be worse and the churus an orchestra weré manifestly reduced on the o sion, Nilsgon’s Alice, although @ very char impersonauion, cannot be piaced on a level with her Violetta, ry ep Mignon aud Ophelia, and Mile, Duval makes & ravuer unsauisfactory Isabella, Brignol appears vo the best advantage in the tty role, except in the absurd ballet sceue, and Jamevi Voice 1s scarcely deep and dramauc enough for arch fiend. Toe undccoimpantied trio jn the secon: act was given without a overs ls thé most dificalt concerted piece ih opera, ‘Hamlet? wii be presented to-night Jor the last time, with Nilsse! as pelts, Miss Cary as the Queen, In a nine\eentit Sota orpeing dress; Cede} as the eaten King, Barré as the rollicking Hamlet and Volett .the brida}-velled Ghost, ‘The tuiree painied shelved will be set up for the last time vo represent tue “weeping brook,’ and the heroine will be gently waited between these shelves Om ‘tue traveiler.” Alas! pour Shakspeare, FIFTH AVENUB THEATRE,—' Frou-Frou” is an- nounced for revival at Daly's, for tnis even- ing. Iv will be acted every night duriug the week, and will be the Matinee attraction of next Saturday. The cast embraces most of the artists who appeared In the piece upon its original produc- tion at the Fifth Avenue during tbe spring of 1870— including Miss Agnes Ethel, who has not acted here since two seasons ago, ‘*Frou-Krou’’ completes the round of revivals with which Mr. Daly has fa- vored the friends of big charming theatre {cliowing the withdrawal of ‘Divorce.’ Nigntly the audi- torlum has heen well filled and someumes crowded—noticeanly so on Friday and Saturday evenings. Since we Jast called attention to the old comedies In course of representatiou at this house, . Mrs. Inchbold’s ‘Wives As ‘ney Were,’? and “The Provoked Husband; or A Journey to London,” by Colley Uibber and Sir Join Vanbrugh, have been performed, and on saturflay evening a very brillant week was brought to @ close by the revival of “London Assurance,” wiich has got to be regarded as one of the huppies: comeuy suc. cesses of alr. Duly’s company. “Wives as Tey Were” received an even aud creditave representa- lion va fhureday evening, but devewped nothing to cull for special remark, except we nove ihe dig- nifled repose anu natural lendern 83 Waich charac. terized tue personatiog oO! Sir Wiilam Dorilloa by Mr. Geurge H. Grutiuis, who in that part ma.e his second appearance with Mr. Duly’s company. The Miss WVoruion of Miss bate Newton was also @ remarkably gracefal und effective erformance, Ou Friday eveuiug “The Provoked usband” was acted before a large audience. It 1s 140 years since Sir Joon Vanvrugh, dying, left his skeich Of the Wrongheau series of tails comedy to Coliey Cibver to fiuish oul, Colley Was the Bou. cicault of his day, and signalized bis ‘adaptation’ * of Vanbrugu’s play by the invention aod iatroduc. tion of the scenes in which the extravagances of Lady Townly and the quarrels of Lora fownly are. the prominent jeaiures. ‘The two sets Of scenes are connected py tue very faintest huk—Manly’s ace quaiutancesiilp wita the fowniys and the Wropg- heads—bub in the stroug contrast between the two tue height Of dramatic alm 18 reached, and pernaps thut was all that Oibber desired, Aul these charac. ters are natural enough eveu to Ine eyes Of to-day’® piaygoers, but the diction of the play is of that old Tastioned formal cuaracter Wick ls worse Wan broken Dutch to moderna ears. Mr. Daly's company Y have hit upon the happy idea of giving a8 much every-day iiie and vigor to the periormance of these old plays as the Janguage permits, aud thus they are vitalized., The cast 1 the “Provoked Hus. band’? on Friday included Mr. Markius as Lord ‘rowuly, Mr. James as Mr. Manly, Mr. Davitge ag pir Francis Wronguead, Mr. Lemoyne a8 John Moody, Mr, Faweett as Squire Richard, and Mr. Parkes as Count. Bassett. Miss Panny Wave. port invested the gay and giidy part of Lady Townly with ult that wealth of nab ural spirit and exuberant gladness Which be jongs to her. In the affecting and repentant scene of the ith act the contrastive sadness of tone and emotional power she displayed won tue tribute ol @& hearty and spontaneous outourst of applause. Miss Davenport hag every reason to be proud Ol her suce cess In so exacting a part. Mrs. Gilvert’s Lady Wronghead was also one of those periect vits of ols comedy ladies for whicn we lave had to applaa this artist so often before. Miss Cary’s fort: by boydenish and good, and Miss Veiis's Lady Grace was invesied witn that Iauylike essence which marks every performance we have ab Miss Deita's hauds, Mr. Daly annuuuces lor next week the first pro:tuction of the new Parisian sensation, “Aruicie 47.” ‘This play was sult ramuing it Paris at jast accounts; 1 was drst played in Uutober last. Miscellaneous Notes, |- Pony Pastor bas au operatic novelty this week, ‘The Zigzag’ will oppear to-night at the Unton Squares “Julius Sneezer?? Bryanv’s. ‘The San Fraucisco Minstrels have @ burlesque om “Rigoletto.” “pne sea of Ice’? will be the attraction at the Brooklyn Tneatre this week. Mile, Janausthek 1s reaplug @ harvest of money and popularity in the Souta, Miss Keile een engaged to sing at the Bos- ton Musical Jubilee id yung ‘ohn Henry Cooke and Uharies W. Fish are the lalest Stars of the New York Uirods, is the reigning feature at t nights of “Burfalo Bill’ are announced ave Bowery and tho Park Theawe, Brookiyn. Miss Henrietta Markstem announces @ grand com> cert at Association Hall on Wednesday eventha. Mr. Mackaye Aihdwnceg ind ‘last week or his sen gon at the St. Janes, + jolly” Davenport baa @ penellt W-niginh