The New York Herald Newspaper, June 10, 1872, Page 6

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CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Tae Naiap Queen, PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.— Houerr Duxrrr. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No, 201 Bowery.— Negno Eccentarcrries, Buntasave, £0. SAM SHARPLEY’S MINSTREL HALL, 885 Broadway.— Sam SuarrLey's MinstReLs. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Ganpew Lysrauvmenra UConcxrr, PAVILION, No. 688 Broadway, near Fourth street.— Oncurstra. \ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ‘GcimNoR anp ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, Jane 10, 1872, CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD. Paca. Advertisements. 2—Advertisementa. 3—James Gordon Bennott: The Results and the Gene of Mr. Bennett's Career ag a Journal- st 4—James Gordon Bennett (Continued from Third Page)—Opinions of tne Press on the De- ceased—Funeral of a Distinguished Journal- ist—Political—The Mormon Delegates to the Philadelphia Convention—French Interna- tionals in Council—Felonious Assault at the Grand Central Hotel. S—Religious: Sunday Solemnities and Sabbath Sermons to Saints and Sinners; Dr. Potter on Typical Excuses; Children’s Sunday at Chapin’s Church; A Floral Festival; A Dis- course on the Gospel Narrative of Peter and the Lame Man by Dr. Storrs; Beecher and a Personal Christ; Dr. Braun on Obhristian Charity and the Observance Thereof; God's Gifts and Man’s Duties Described by the Rev. Rufus Clarke; Dr. McGlynn's Advice to People Who Ara Overburdened with Knowledge— Brooklyn’s Bad Bourbon. 6—Editorials: Be Article, “Important from Spain—Dr. Houard’s Case—The Ultimatum of Our Government”—Amusement Announce- ments. ‘T—Editoriais (Continued from Sixth waa be Spain: President Grant Makes,a Peremptor mani for Dr. Houard’s Releage—The French Derby—Dr. Livingstone’s Safety Certain and the Great Explorer at Unyanyembe—The Granite State Senatorship—Business Notices. S—The Long Strike: Beginning of the Sixth Week of the Revolt; Particulars of the Procession To-Day—The Toilers of the Hub—The Inter- national Boat Race—The National Amateur Regatta—Aquatic Notes—West Point: Sun- ight and Shadow and the Effect on the Fashionables; The Season Lookin Ip and the Gloom Disappearing—Centr: Park— Fatal Affray in a Barroom—a Midnight Sul- clde—“Suffer the Little Children’—Assault- ing an OMcer—A Tugboat Disaster. ®—Financial and Commercial: Advent of the Summer Dulness; The Week’s Doings in Wall Street and on “henge The Cotton Specula- tion and the Dry is ‘Trade; Gold and the Gold Clique; The Speculators Exercised as to tne Future; Saturday’s Bank Statement; A Further Instaiment of the City Loan—the Cavalry at Chancellorsville: General Averill Derends Himself Against the Attack of Gen- eral Hooker—New York City New: ot in the Head—Stahbing Affray in Marion Street— Crushed by a Car—A Hoboken Amazon—Mar- riages and Deaths, 20—The Treaty: More Stumbling Blocks to the Arbitration; Eight Months’ Postponement Proposed; Text of Granville’s Note; Sketch of the Supplemental’s Supplement} America Declines to Ask a Procrastination ; If the Delay is Not Granted England Cancels the Treaty; More Negotiations Proposed to Make Matters Clearer—News from Washing- ton—Shipping Intelligence—Advertisements- 11—Horrible Child Murder—Advertisements. a4—Advertisements, Potrrics Acarxst Portrry—Sefior Castelar’s defence of the European Commune in the Spanish Cortes yesterday. The Iberian orator has advanced far beyond the radical reform idea of Byron, the poet-patriot of Britain, who lamented, even although in a tone of covert irony against the Crown, the fact that the demagogues of his time would, with a butcher's knife and by ‘damnable incision,”’ sever the constitutional bond which held together Com- mons, Lords and King. Iraty Has Surrerep most severe losses in consequence of the inundation of the river Po. Twenty-two thousand persons have been made houseless in a single province, and the distress of their more immediate neighbors is pressing in the extreme. The Italians will require the exercise of charity, which is grander even than faith, in their behalf, and there is no doubt that their government will be at once active in the exercise of the saving wirtue towards them. Livincstoxe’s Sarery CONFIRMED AND Beyoxw Dovst.—A telegram, dated in Bom- bay last Saturday, and despatched to ns through London, announces to civiliza- tion the grand fact that the safety of the African explorer, Dr. Livingstone, is & matter of truth beyond the possibility of doubt, and above the chance of any future cavil os to its accuracy. Couriers from the interior brought the news to Zanzibar. ‘The long-lost traveller was found by the com- mander of the Henatp Expeditionary Search corps. He was journeying toward the coast at the date of the latest intelligence forwarded from Zanzibar to British India. He had NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, Important from Spain—Dr. Howard's Case—The Ultimatum of Our Gov- ornment. The special telegraphic despatch to the Henarp from Madrid, published in another part of the paper, is highly important. From this we learn that our government has resolved at last to act firmly with Spain in the case of Dr. Houard. Our Minister at Madrid has made a formal and peremptory demand for the release of Dr. Houard, who is now in a Spanish prison undergoing the sentence of a court. martial in Cuba. The communication of our Minister, in which this demand is made, is, it seems, an elaborate one and cover- ing the whole case. The Spanish government is informed that Prosident Grant desires there should be no delay in responding to the de- mand made upon it; that the matter should receive immediate attention, and that, in the event of a refusal to comply, the President would take decisive action. It is not necessary to go into the details of the case of Dr. Houard. So much has been published about it that the public is pretty well informed. We will simply state that Dr. Howard is an American born citizen, and, though he resided for business objects many years in Cuba, he never renounced his citizen- ship or acknowledged allegiance to the Span- ish government. He was arrested by the Spanish authorities in Cuba on a charge that appears to. have had no foundation, tried by court martial, condemned, barely escaped with his life through the interposition of American officials, was heavily ironed and transported to Spain, and there imprisoned and punished as only the worst felons are. He has been ruined in health and fortune, and, in fact, brought to the brink of the grave by his cruel suffering. Our Secretary of State resisted for some time the overwhelming evidence of Dr. Houard’s citizenship and innocence and of the out- rageous tyranny and insulting conduct of the Spanish government. He seemed to be, indeed, more the apologist of Spain than the defender of a ftel- low citizen and American rights. Finally, through the ever-vigilant, independent press exposing the facts and the horrible situation of Dr. Houard, and Congress having been shamed into taking notice of the case, Mr. Fish was forced to remonstrate with the Spanish government. We beliove he went so far as to ask for the rolease of Dr. Houard ; but the Spanish government, knowing with whom it had to deal, intimated, it was said, that it might release its victim if his release were asked asa favor. This is where the case stood up to the time of our Minister at Madrid making the peremptory demand spoken of in the telegram published to-day. Has, then, tho limit of forbearance with Spanish insults and outrages been reached? If so we may say, in the language of the reached Unyamyembe. Livingstone placed | his despatches for Europe in the hands of Mr. Stanley, and the American representative was near to the coast, carrying his precious charge, when the despatch closed, It appears as if the English savans of the Royal Geographical Soci- ety had had an inkling already of the success of our undertaking. At the last meeting of the associated literati in London the president of the body referred to the Henaup enterprise in @ very distinct and remarkable manner, Giving it credit for being one of ‘the most Pnergotic, as it is the most popular, of the American newspapers,’ and proclaiming that tho Heraty effort in behalf of Livingstone pnd science ‘is an instance of the extraordinary ppirit of eriterprise which animates the Ameri- pan pross."’ But enough for the day. Liv- Angstone is safe, He was lost; he, has been found. familiar adage, better late than never. The American people have long been ‘surprised and felt humiliated at what they deemed weakness in the government. Though Spain has murdered, imprisoned and otherwise wronged our citizens; has made the United States a storehouse of supplies to carry on the most brutal war against a neighboring and an American people struggling for liberty, and has outraged all the laws of civilization and humanity in Cuba, she has shown nothing but ingratitude to this country for its forbear- ance and friendship, She has persistently re- fused redress for wrongs done to this country and its citizens. She has shocked mankind by unparalleled atrocities in Cuba, for which she ought to have been placed outside the pale of civilized nations; and yet she has only mocked at our remonstrances and insolently defied this great republic, as well as the public sentiment of the world. It will be gratifying to the American people, therefore, to learn that a climax has been reached and that our government has determined to have justice for our own citizens at least. We think we seo in this peremptory demand for the release of Dr. Houard the hand of General Grant. It is like the firmness and patriotism he showed with regard to the Fronch invaders of Mexico. It is characteristic of him some years ago, when his finer and nobler instincts were not elim- inated by the Presidential office and the time- serving sycophants and partisans around him. But let us hope thero will be no backing down, as in the case of the Alabama claims. Let us hope this exhibition of firmness and patriotism may not be made merely for politi- cal effect or to cover up the humiliation the nation suffers from tha Washington Treaty fiasco. The President may rest assured he will be sustained by the people in a bold and manly course toward Spain. We suppose the Spanish government will release Dr. Houard upon the demand made, and will not wait for his release being asked as a favor, Indeed, it is said Marshal Serrano is disposed todo so. But if the Span- ish government should be obstinate we trust General Grant will take the decided action he has announced, Better war, if it must come to that, than national degradation, We do not think there would be war, though it is not im- possible that Spain, seeing the loss of Cuba is inevitable at no distant day, might in her pride prefer to lose the Gem of the Antilles in a struggle that might seem to have some glory in it than either to give it up voluntarily or to sell it, War is an evil under any circum. stances, though sometimes necessary, and the people of the United States do not desire war with Spain; but if it must come we could in- demuify gurlyes by taking the Spanish possessions in this hemisphere, and thus end at once and forever the interminable trouble we have had about them. We have little fear of the result of such a conflict. Spain could not invade American soil, our limited shipping would not suffer greatly, and our iron-clads, monitors, and brave naval men, small in num- ber though they be comparatively, would play havoc with the much-boasted Spanish navy. But, war or no war, let us have our citizens and rights protected. We hope the President will continue to be as decided and firm as the de- spatch from Madrid represents him to have been. It is the only way to bring the Spaniards to their senses and to end our prolonged trouble with Spain. The Treaty Again Threatened. Once more the Treaty of Washington is in danger. Although it might be more exact to say that the miserable child of diplomacy has never been out of danger since its birth, the present difficulty requires the promptest of treatment in order to avert the most fatal of consequences. The rosy declarations of Earl Granville in tho House of Lords on last Tuesday night seem to have been premature, if he intended to convey that all trouble wasatanend. The British government still thinks our language not sufficiently explicit in the supplemental article, not, perhaps, as re- gards the indirect losses in the present case so much as the working of the principle in future. ‘The English Foreign Minister has therefore sent a cut and dried draft for an eight months’ postponement, In this the American govern- ment has very properly declined to unite, believing that it cannot consent of itself toany modification of the terms of the treaty. At the same time the matter of postponing is left in the hands of the arbitrators, to whom England must now apply single handed. Greeley and the Democracy—A Solu- tion of the Dificulty. It becomes more apparent every day that tho great body of the democratic party, as well as many of the leaders, are unwilling to accept the Cincinnati nominees, or, at least, to accept Mr. Greeley for the Presidential race. They see that to do so would be tho end of their party os a great national organization, and would prefer defeat even to preserve the party intact. They would rather live in hopes of the future than make the sacrifice required of them. We shall not discuss now the wisdom or folly of such views or expectations, and only treat of a fact. Nor do we think it likely the Baltimore Convention will endorse the Cin- cinnati nominations. It might accept Mr. Brown as & candidate for the Vice-Presidency if he were on the ticket with an acceptable can- didate for the Presidency, but will hardly take Mr. Greeley and the ticket as it stands. All the professions of leaving the tariff and other questions to the representatives in Congress cannot bridge over the gulf which separates the democrats and Mr. Greeley in their views of public policy. If even the Baltimore Convention should nominate Mr. Greeley the defection of democrats would be, probably, greater than the accession of votes the liberal republicans could bring, and the election, consequently, would be lost. Mr. Greeley may imagine he would obtain a large popular vote from the floating and not very decided partisan elements; but we fail to see at present any such elements of popularity. Besides, it must strike every one as an anomaly in politi- cal affairs for a great and still powerful party to go over toa small body of seceders from another party. It would be like the mountain going to Mohammed instead of Mohammed going to the mountain. There are great and serious difficulties in the way of the democrats accepting Mr. Greeley, and unless he is blinded by ambition he cannot fail to see them. Under such circumstances what ought he to do? If he be more desirous to defeat General Grant and to reform the government than to gratify his own ambition he might be willing to withdraw from the contest should a more available man, who could unite all the opposi- tion elements, be nominated at Baltimore. This thought was suggested in reading a high and well deserved eulogium in Mr. Greeley's own paper on Saturday on Chief Justice Thompson, of Pennsylvania. Though this editorial article did not mention Mr. Thompson in connection with the Presidency it was very pointed in speaking of his great influence and popularity in Pennsylvania, as well as of his high charac- terand ability. Here is a man, a war demo- crat anda statesman, that both the seceding republicans and democrats could unite on. He, perhaps, could carry Pennsylvania over any other candidate, and if that State is the keystone of the political arch, why might not Chief Justice Thompson be taken as the candi- date of all the opposition elements witha much better prospect of success than with Mr. Gree- ley? Thompson, of Pennsylvania, and Gratz Brown, of Missouri, for example, would be a good and strong union ticket. We throw out the suggestion to Mr. Greeley, the liberal re- publicans and the democrats without charging anything for it. Can they not come to some such compromise? Can they not make a bar- gain acceptable to all? It is a curious coinci- dence, too, in connection with this mention of Chief Justice Thompson, that the New. York soi disant organ of the silk stocking and Man- hattan Club democracy had yesterday a similar eulogistic editorial article on Mr. Thompson. What is in tho wind? Is there some new political movement contemplated? Whether there be or not itis clear that there must be some compromise—some change of action—to bring about a cordial co-operation between the democrats and seceding republicans. We think some such compromise ticket as suggested affords the only chance of success, Destnvcrive Tornapors and local storms and freshets are reported from various parts of the Northwest, They are the unfailing visita- tions in that section in the month of June, to a greater or less extent, and are mainly due to the open prairie character of the country from Dlinois westward and to the free scope which it gives to the winds from all quarters, The only available security against these disasters is the liberal planting of trees around the cities, towns, hamlets and farmhouses of the prairies ; and we are glad to know that the people most directly interested—from Illinois to Iowa, Ne- braska and Kansas—are waking up to tho im- portance of thig great work. JUNE 10, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET The Eight-Hour Movement—The Great Labor Demonstration To-Day. A singular and imposing spectacle will be presented in the streets of New York to-day. Many thousands of the sons of labor—men of throng the thor- vices, bent upon making a moral demonstra- tion in support of the apparently just and reasonable demand that capital shall hence- forth concede to labor the principle of a ‘fair day's work for a fair day's wages.” Nearly every description of business will be repre- sented in the line of march, with their banners and devices; blacksmiths and piano makers, builders and coffin makers, confectioners and stonecutters, gilders and horseshoers, coach trimmers and bricklayers—every branch of in- dustry moving shoulder to shoulder, to signal- ize their determination to stand by each other in the common cause, It will, no doubt, bea wonderful and an interesting sight, and it cannot fail to have an important effect upon the question now being so widely and so warmly agitated all over the country. There is, of course, a difference of opinion among our citizens as to the propriety of such demonstrations as that which is to be made to- day. Many, who imagine their interests are to be injuriously affected by it, will condemn it under any circumstances, while some are disposed to disapprove on principle of any ex- hibition of force in’ a movement that should depend for its success upon reason and justice, But it must be always remembered that labor is powerless without combination, while capital holds its strength in its own hand alone. The agitation for the eight-hour system has been now going on for some years, and it has not made much headway yet; hence the laboring man feels that if anything isto be accomplished in the effort to make him some- thing more than a mere ‘toiling machine ; if he is to have any time to devote to improvement, recreation and domestic happiness; if he is ever to enjoy the privilege of doing something in life besides to ‘work, work, work," from the rising up in the morning till the laying down at night, it must be through united and determined effort among those of his class. Throe years ago the State Legisla- ture passed a law declaring eight hours a day’s work for mechanics, laborers and workingmen employed by the State or on public works; but even this was only partially carried out. The first application of the law in our city government was made by ex-President Sweeny, of the Central Park Commission, who obtained the passage of a resolution by the Board fixing the hours of employés in that department in accordance with the law, at the fall rate of pay previously prevailing. Other departments followed, and now the eight- hour system generally prevails in the city. But outside of this, few mechanics and laborers have succeeded in obtaining this boon of reasonable hours, so necessary to the health and life as well as to the happiness of the workingman. We therefore regard the demon- stration of to-day as not only justitiable, but as a matter of necessity to those who are interested in the eight-hour movement. ‘We must, however, urge upon those who take part in the procession the importance of peaceful, modest, sober and temperate con- duct from the beginning to the end of the eventful day. Nota single disturbance of the peace, not a solitary offensive or objectionable act ought to be permitted. The eyes of the working classes all over the Union are directed to New York, and the opponents of the move- ment will be ready to avail themselves of any misconduct on the part of the processionists to do injury to the cause. Every man who turns out to-day should resolve not to taste liquor until the business in which he takes part shall be over. He is working now for his own good—to accomplish a reform that will be a great boon and blessing to himself and his family, and he should be careful not to de- feat the object by any imprudent act. The police regulations are perfect, and there is ample power at command to protect the peace and order of the city; but no resort to the police force ought to be necessary on such an occasion, and we are confident that the day will pass over without an untoward occur- fence, and that t% great demonstration will have a powerful effect towards securing the reasonable demand of the workingmen of the country. The Race for the French Derby— Brilliant Scene at Longchamps. The race for tho Grand Prize of Paris, the French Derby, was contested at Longchamps yesterday. Tho English horse Cremorne, the winner of the Derby at Epsom, carried off the Continental trophy, Count de Lagrange’s horse, Reine, making a bad third on the turf of the republic, even after the fact that he had just won the Oaks Stakes on the soil of Albion. The French event brought out a crowded and brilliant assemblage. Our special telegram report states that the concourse of spectators was immense. The weather was showery, but Paris mustered in huge force despite the occurrence of this condition of the clouds— the most acute désagrémens, perhaps, which Nature herself can inflict on o Parisian when in complete toilette for the enjoy- ment of outdoor festivities. President Thicrs was pregent on the grounds, as were most of tho leading diplomats and parliamentary and political celebrities of the republic. The French Ministry was repre- sented by some of his coadjutors in the Cab- inet, and there were sportsmen, financiers, statesmen, soldiers, private gentlemen and ladies from foreign countries—England, Ger- many and the United States sending distin- guished and profitable delegations. The costumes were magnificent and in taste—a piece of news which may be deemed unnecessary, superfluous at the least, when it is told of ladies of taste and refinement and wealth, who have just beon in Paris and gone forth from the temple of the French goddess to see and be seen ona race course. The wheeled ‘‘turn- out’’ for purposes of conveyance was magnifi- cent and in the latest style of the codch- builder's art, so that, taking the French turf ensemble as a whole, tho man who would not, or could not, admire it, and be made better by the display, must have been either a rude bigot in the cynical profession of the nil admirart dogma or a Communist of such decided conviction in the trath of the levelling principle with re- spect to wardrobes, clean clothing and ‘‘ducks of hats’ that he would assimilate the stock of dition of the magazins which supplied the f his sole outfit, a straw hat and a pair of spurs, and furnished See een aioe connt, ble was pi The Parsons Preaching Yesterday. The churches were comparatively well at- tended yesterday, yet not so well as might be expected. The sultriness of the atmosphere drove many to the green fields and rustic scenes in the vicinity of New York or shut them up in the quiet of their own homes. But the thousands who ventured out, we have no doubt, were well repaid ond wero feasted with spiritual food adapted to their wants and their tastes. We give to-day our usual synopsis of some of the pulpit utterances of yesterday—a condensation of the wit and wisdom which was parcelled out among differont congregations, and hope that our thousands of readers may draw their accustomed degree of comfort therefrom. Uniterian faith is either very compler and many-sided or else the Church of the Messiah is not very fortunate in its choice of exporienta of that faith. Yesterday it had the Rev. Dr. Bellows, who ought to know whereof he afiirmed, and yet he is reported as ridiculing Gobet neki cos characterizing ites ‘gross fanaticism.’ Touching the wor- ship of Jesus Christ as God, the Doctor inti- mated that such worship is nothing better than idolatry, and then, with an air of assumed triumph, he asks us to ‘conceive a God in the flesh if we can.” A sufficient reply to this query would be, ‘‘conceive a God out of the flesh if you can.’? Until Jesus Christ—God manifest in the flesh, the bright- ness of the Father's glory and the express image of His person—came among men they had none but the orudest conceptions of God. Even to the anctent Hebrows, who had the best and truest conception of the Deity, He was a God of ven- geance, @ consuming fire, a destroyer, as unlike what men now conceive Him to be as the + is unlike the noonday, and our conception of God to-day would have been little better had He not shown us His true character in the person of Jesus Christ the Lord. Our columns will bear witness to a different doctrine preached from this same pulpit and declared by other ministers to be genuine Unitarianism. Which is the true and which the false creed ? Yesterday was the children’s Sunday in Dr. Chapin’s church, and the Doctor in his own peculiar manner led the little ones to compre- hend the silent but steady progress which Christ’s kingdom has made and is making in the earth. No genius of mechanism of earth can make a flower with its beauty, its colors and its fragrance. The flowers are made gradually, slowly and in silence, and the great temple of nature, of which these. flowers are the sweeteet decorations, is made in silence. The temple of the body, too, is built up in silence, and the structure of the human char- acter, of which the body is only the casket, is a fairer temple still, built as silently. The children were affectionately urged to guard well this treasure, From the Saviour’s time to the present men have made excuses, and still make them, when the claims of religion are pressed upon them. Some of those excuses were examined yester- day by Dr. Potter, who urged his self-excusing hearers to accept the Saviour’s invitation ere they make their excursions to distant lands and be compelled, after feeding on the husks of the world, to return and accept it. Rev. John Parker illustrated the change which tho Divine Spirit produces in the heart and upon the character and life of men. An alien is made a son ; a rebel becomes a child of God. And this spirit is given not by bishops, priests or popes, but by God directly to His children. And where the Holy Ghost is there is the Church. What the Obristian gains by this indwelling spirit was amply set forth by Dr. Chapman, of Brooklyn, in his exposition of the text, ‘‘All things are yours.”’ God looks at us through the works of His hands, and comes near to us in all the forms of nature, so that creation isa kind of mirror in which He re- flects His attributes. Hence this universe is but the embodied thought of God, the vesture of the Infinite One, made resplendent by the outbeaming of His glory. It cannot be disputed that we are all crea- tures of necessity, and that God gives us richly all things to enjoy. Dr, Clark, of Al- bany, therefore insisted that we were bound by a debt of gratitude to God and to our fellow men to give as freely as we have received, and to render to God our talents and energies and the honors and wealth which we may possess, to be used for His glory. Mr. Beecher uttered an important truth yesterday when he said that ‘men taken collectively needed to have clear views as to their relationship to Christ, for their theological views largely affected their piety.” His theme was o personal Christ—a Saviour near to every human heart, who loves us asthe mother does hor babe, not for what we are, but for what we shall be. Dr. Storrs, in commenting upon the narrative of the lame man, who, sitting at the beautiful gate of the temple in Jerusalem eighteen hundred years ago, was healed by Peter and John, related a story which was current in Rome that the present Pontiff, after he had) been declared infallible, attempted to perforir a similar miracle upon o lame man in that city, but after two ineffectual efforts he gave it up, having only parodied that which he undertook to parallel. The habit of fault-finding and criticising our neighbors’ acts and setting ourselves up as judges of character and conduct, and thereby usurping the place of the Almighty, was very properly rebuked yesterday by Dr. Brown, who reminded his hearers that if we say wo are not sinners we are liars and the trath is not in us. Ho urged upon his people the most liberal exercise of true charity tho fashioncry’ shope of France to the con- | towasd oll mén. Da, MoGlyun evidently felt ~ ~~ @8 manya minister of Christ has felt, thaf his frequent urging of those in sin to approach pad ih te mga ae seem as if it were throwing seed upon rocks and barren places from which no frait could come. But his faith assured him, as it assures every Christian workman, that no seed of truth was ever cast in vain, and some day it will yield an abundant harvest. Father Kearney sow in the parable of the lost sheep an illustration of God’s great mercy. In spite of all our denials and impenitence the Saviour refuses to be driven away from us, and still holds out his hands pleading that we might come to him. May there be a general response. The International Rowing Mateh Te~ Day—New York Versus London. At four o'clock this afternoon, London time, or about noon of ours, the second great contest between chosen men of England and America, who row purely for the love of it, is expected to take place on the Thames, four miles. above London, over the famous long- distance track from Putney to Mortlake. On the 18th of last-April the racing four of tho Atalanta Boat Club of this city, composed of Dr. Russell Withers, Theodore Van Raden, Alexander Handy and Edward Smith, with Leander Waterbury as a spare man, sailed for England on the steamer City of Montreal, end ten days later found themselves the re- cipients of a hearty welcome at the hands of a delegation of the London Rowing Club, who had come up to Liverpool to meet them and escort them to their new quarters. They went soon to Hammersmith, a small village a mile and a half above Putney, and on the 30th of April were out for their first spin on the Thames, They seem, unlike their Gecessors, to have prepossessed the En; public in favor of their rowing almost at once, and won éarly i from the press for the uniformity and beauty of their work, well as for their frank and modest ng They had taken with them both a practice, and a racing boat, and though the ocean rida did both no good, yet they were able to keep at their work and lose no time, building great hopes on the beautiful and frail little oraft which they expected out soon, and in which they hoped to command victory. Tney have been especially strong in their captain, ‘‘the Doctor,’ a middle-aged man, of great experience in rowing and apparently excellent judgment, to whom the rest all look up; and it was doubtless by his counsel that they have constantly abstained from row- ing directly, during their practice, over tho whole course at racing pace, and so indicating their possibilities to their rivals and the publio generally, and have instead, as their home, half way, has made easy for them, rowed from it to one end of the track and back one day, and over the remainder another. And by anchoring at Hammersmith, instead of Putney, as did the Harvard men in 1869, they have profited by the latter’s experience; for Hammersmith is not nearly so accessible to London, and so they have not been annoyed by a great and curious crowd every time they started out for a spin. On the 17th of last month the now boat on which they had counted so much arrived out, and to their keen disappointment proved to have been so badly damaged by the voyage as to be utterly unfit for use, She is said to have weighed complete but about eighty pounds, and if so was probably at least thirty pounds lighter than the boat that will be rowed against them. Indeed, if experience goes for anything, it is very questionable whether, had she reached them in good order, she would have served their purpose, for, after having tried her a few times to get used to her, it is ex- tremely probable that she would have proved too fragile to have sustained the severe wrenching they would have given her in the race. In fact, it has always seemed to us unfortunate that in this matter of the tools to be used in a contest of such national interest, and in the manner of carrying them, everything could not have been so tested beforehand that no serious mishap could reasonably occur. They at once ordered a new boat from Biffen, of Hammersmith, who has yet to prove himself one of England's best boat builders, and of course their chance to become familiar with her in the short time since hercompletion has been extremely limited. Meanwhile the London men, fully alive to the importance of the contest before them, have been taking great precautions, not only in other ways, but also in procuring a swift boat, and both Jewett and Clasper (the former of whom built the superb outrigger in which the Wards defeated England’s fastest professional crew, on the 11th of last September, on Sara- toga Lake) have been furnishing them their best specimens of their handiwork. Clasper's craft in particular seems to have won un- bounded praise. Happily the Atalantas have been able to row continuously, without chang- ing any of their men, while not until the middle of last month were their antagonists sure of whom to place on their bow thwart. But while the neatness and regularity of the American rowing has won much commenda- tion, the whole tone of the British press has steadily shown that our men are regarded as of not heavy enough timber to stand the wear and tear of such a very long race as this, The London Echo of May 17 said, in sub- stance—perhaps patronizingly—that the pres- ent selection, though not the strongest crew of the London Rowing Club, was yet amply strong enough to beat the Americans, The London Times of the day following, in com- menting on the performance of the Atalantas, [ thought that ‘when fairly entended, they row beautifully together, their time’’ (or uniform- ity of work) “being as nearly perfect as possible, and get a very fair pace on the boat ; but they lack the dash and finish which, ac- cording to our notions, form tho essentials of good rowing.”” The London Telegraph of the same date states that “they themselves are just as sanguine of being able to defeat the Londen men as general opinion is strong the other way. Their stroke is short and light.’’ Incommenting on their own men the Lon- don Standard of the 18th ultimo spoke of Stout, their stroke oar, as “perhaps the most successful sculler of the present day;" but of their execution it added that ‘at present the men row fairly together, but not in the same style.” Its conclusion as to the Atalantas waa that ‘if they do not intend to,row harder than they do daily it will be a cutious matter if they can keep in condition for a four-mile course. There is no grip of the water.” But when at work they ‘‘are Like what an old oarsman galled ‘like @ Indy paddling on a lake’"