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[anne and itis the greater part of Ontistianity. Yet us, therefore, pray. see ‘The Rev. Bishop Foster preached o ‘The Bible, Its Age, Perfection and U: s meas." Itis not only the oldest book, but it is ‘the only perfect book that was ever written. It treats of subjects of the highest importance ‘and such as no other book treats, and in a amanner that inspires men with the fullest confidence in its sublime truths. Dr. -Cheever maintains that prayer is not an ex- periment to be tested in the hospital or on the farm, but is the law and the necessity of spiritual life, and the soul that denies prayer dis on the certain road toatheism. Dr. Morgan “Dix finds that the people of this world live in “but two houses—the house of feasting or the house of mourning. This earth is a house of ‘mourning, and all the fair things of life flourish +on the surface of death. The house of mourn- ing holds the greater part of mankind. The ‘house of feasting is that whose inhabitarits, though comparatively few, say, ‘Let us cat sand drink, for to-morrow we die.” In view of the advent Dr. Dix urged his hearers to spend imore time in the house of mourning than in sthat of feasting. Remnants of anything are very suggestive, “but “reninants of society’ are highly so ; and, -Mr. Beecher doomed them worthy of his con- «sideration yesterday. The men who give them- . selves for others in a less sublime sense’ than “Christ gave Himself for -mankind, but not the ‘less heroic—the men who want the stimulus of hope that gives fibre to the body—the men “who have no adaptation, who put a yoke of -oren to rock the cradle and put the nurse’s -foot to plough with—these are the remnants «of society for whom God cares. Mr. Beecher ‘would despair if all the men in this world «who fall in the battle of life had no God to ‘take care of them in the world tocome. But ihe is glad to know, and so are we, that the spirit ot Christ is not to blegs those only who ~pucoeed, but those who fail here also. Rev. Dr. Tiffany, talking to the politicians cof Washington, urged them to be followers of *God as dear children. He presented the «characteristics and qualifications of children as examples to follow. He was glad that as the world and the Church advance the narrowness ~of sectarian bigotry gives way to the broad, ‘kindly Christliness which makes ‘every man «our neighbor who needs our help. ‘President Grant and the James River and Kanawha Canal. The Virginians, taking advantage of the op- rportunity afforded by the Presid:nt’s recom- “mendation of internal improvements in his Nate Message to Congress, are moving in the matter of tho James River and Kanawha Canal. It will be remembered that the President made «special reference to this canal as one of the vmost important works of internal improve- ‘ments to develop trade between the West and ‘the Atlantic seaboard, and recommended Con- »gress to aid in completing and making. it -offective. Immediately after the President's ‘Message was delivered Governor Walker, of “Virginia, sont his Message to the State Legisla- cturo, and in that rather threw cold water «upon the proposal of federal aid, upon the “ground that he did not believe Congress -would afford relief and that the State ought to help the work itself and not look for assist- ance from the federal government. The Vir- -ginians, however, sppear to be determined to surge Congressional action, and for that pur- “pose a delegation from both Virginia and West Virginia have had an interview with tthe President. Tho address made to him on ithat occasion and his reply have been pub- ilished among our’ Washington despatches. he President reiterated his expressions in “favor of governmental aid and the hope that ***Congress will give sufficient encouragement cto insure the completion of the work.’ Now, vwhile we agree with all that has been said of the importance of opening canal communica- ‘tion through Virginia to facilitate trade ‘between the West and the seaboard, and of the : reat value of the work to beth Virginia and ‘West Virginia, we must say that the appro- 1 priation of money by the federal government 1 for it would be the commencement of a most disastrous policy. It would prove but the Yheginning of a system of internal improve- iments on a gigantic scale that would in time : Swamp the government, keep the people over- ‘burdened with taxation and spread the curse : pf corruption and demoralization all over the iland. We think the Virginians had better ttake the advice of Governor Walker and do ‘the work themselves, with the assistance of ‘capital from private or State sources, and neither appeal to nor trust to the action of the : federal government. Dmastrovs 9Fmes—Oan tHe Macnetic *TutzoraPn bE More Uriuzep ?—The terrible sweeping conflagrations in Boston and Chicago, and many other disastrous fires of late, have raised a great deal of discussion on the subject of preventing, to some extent at least, such - disasters. There is one agent of great efficiency that has not yot received due consideration in - connection with this subject. We refer to the .tmagnetio telegraph. Whilo we are not pre- pared to say in what way science may apply or “utilize this agent, it seems to us that it could “be made to give instant alarm of the presence Of fire in a house both to the residents and to «the whole Fire Department. The magnetic telegraph is exceedingly sensitive, and might be made to act, by an unusual degree of heat at any time, so as to give of itself and without handling an alarm of fire instantly, if suitable ‘inatraments and connections of wire were provided. We raise the question for the con- :sideration of scientific men and the Fire Department. Tae Sr. Louw Republican (liberal demo- serat) says the democratic party has not a particle more strength, in a national point of view, than it had at the close of the Presi- «dential election of 1868; that essentially there is very little difference in the present ‘political views of Mr. Thurman, the straight- -out democratic Senator, and those of Carl ‘Schurz, the republican, who declares he can- mot consent to be classed with democrats ; and that the problem for the leaders of the politicians is to combine this opposition so .aa to make it as effectual in ‘‘warring upon”’ fa it is conspicuous in being ‘‘warred against.” In short, in order to make the combined opposition formidable, the only thing necessary—according to the Republi- cun--is “a name.’ There is something in a name, then, after all. But whether the rank and filo of the democracy will ‘smell as sweet’ by any other name is a question for Political porfumists to decide, ) ‘ Protesor FyndaileF'% for Original Selence—His Lectpred. 5 “Light.” On Thursday last Tyndall closed his Washington lectures ‘an eloquent and powerful plea for the sustentation of cxiginal scientific research.*. No man on gither side the Atlantic has done more to make science practical and to bring its wealth of profound acquisition within reach of the humblest and most unscientific classes. With the trne greatness which condescends to men of low estate he has turned aside from that brilliant career of investigation in the domain of radiant forces and molecular physics in which he is a pioneer to perform the work of a lecturer and teacher. No man, therefore, has a better right to know orto plead for that large class of scientific laborers who, with infinite experimental pains, pursue their pa- tient course unnoticed and uncheered and often derided, and who, while their follow scientists are sleoping, are themselves ‘ toiling upwards in the dark. Tho argument of Profesgor Tyndall is that the noble volume of modern science, when traced back towards former.ages, is discovered to: be the autflow from the gonius-of a fow such men, who, like Newton, Arago and Thomas Young, worked eolely from tho love of truth, and who never received a dollar's profit froth their splendid discoveries, Cut off the corps of original investigators and you dry up the stream of practical science, he says, as surely as you would that of a river by sealing up its fountains. Never was this strong and sensible assertion more timely than in the presont age of busy and restless practicality, and it is not without peculiar im- port in the United States, although uttered in the high tide or golden era of technical education and in the heydey of our colleges and universities. The history of all scientifio advance shows that it has been carried for- ward, not by men taught and trained to sit at the feet of tho great Gamalicls of knowledge and to become the receptive magazines of their dicta, but by mon who penetrated the very wilds and trackless wastes of nature in courageous loneliness; who have had to brave the imperious authority of the existing priest- hood of science, and who found at last only By dangerous roads A path to perpetuity of fame. These are the men for whom the great Eng- lish lecturer sympathetically and strongly ap- peals, and his appeal should not be made in vain. If the great Republic isto take rank with the highest civilizations in the develop- ment of science, and wipe off the charge of De Tocqueville, that republics are incapable of great progress in original scientific research and great discoveries, itis evident that such men as these must be encouraged in their arduous and trying labors. We have not a few such earnest men scattered over the country, and men who, with the limited means of in- quiry placed before them, have evinced great capacity. As Professor Tyndall, however, has remarked, they are generally burdened with the routine duties and details of tuition or official labor in the practical service of the public, and have but the smallest fragment of time left them for the prosecution of their proper calling. Our scientific departments in the government are similarly crowded with the ordinary public business, which concerns the every-day and matter-of-fact interest of the whole nation and cannot safely brook delay, so that but little opportunity is afforded for the purely experimental and contemplative study of natural phenomena. This, perhaps, is just what a large class of so-called ‘‘practi- cal men” would have it. But time will show their error, as it has so often done before. Whether Professor Tyndall's appeal penetrates the minds and enlists the sympathy of those who reach the mainsprings of public opinion and who are in position to further his views or not, he will have discharged a high and noble mission for true science and sown seed which will ultimately bring forth o golden harvest, Possibly there could be no better time than this, when his powerful plea is sounding all over America and the popular mind is tossing with his great themes, to push forward the long-agitated proposition for a National Physi- cal Observatory, designed for the exclusive object of original research in the vast fields of solar, cosmical and terrestrial phenomena, and unembarrassed by the wearing and wasting routine of public business. This plan, so ably supported by the distinguished Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the friend of Professor Tyndall, would be another and per- haps an improved edition of the Royal Insti- |- tution of England, which has proved the nur- sery of philosophers and scientific discoverers. The suggestion is worthy of national attention, and if putinto execution would meet one of the profoundest needs of American science. It would be a deserved compliment to the great successor of Faraday, now in our midst, and a fitting acknowledgment of our deep appreciation of his mission, to crown it with the erection and munificent endowment of such a beneficent institution. In the same connection, and by way of en- forcing the argument we have already ad- vanced, we call attention to Professor Tyn- dall’s lectures in this city, which begin to- morrow evening. The first lecture is a general introduction to the course, dwelling principally upon the importance of original inquiry, and explaining the instruments of science and the principles upon which they depend. In the second lecture the demon- strated constitution of light is applied to the doctrine.of colors, and spectrum analysis is copiously illustrated. The third lecture deals with solar light, the reciprocity of radiation and absorption and the extension of the spec- trum beyond its visible range. In the fourth lecture he explains the faculty and method of scientific investigation, and in the fifth the phenomenon of crystallization. The sixth lecture, which finishes the course, is devoted tothe farther illustration of the action of crystals upon light, and concludes with an explanation of the magnetization of light. The whole series is one of great importance, and is rendered exceedingly interesting by Professor Tyndall's experiments and illustra- tions, Itis said that Boston was disgusted with the dis@nguished lecturer because he made everything he touched so plain that all his hearers could understand him. This will prove a great pleasure to his New York auditors, many of whom will be mechanics with a love of scientific investigation, In the facts of Professor Tyndall's simplicity of speech and clearness of illustration we have tho proms of (ho most exgellent resulta, WHEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1872—TR FRANCE, The Questions of Popular Right and Parliamentary Privilege Debated in the National Assembly. eeebeteieae Ministerial \ Irony Against the Radical Demand for Dissolution. VIOLENT SCENES AND A DIVISION. The Citizen Claims for @ General Election Re- pudiated and the Petitions Rejected— President Thiers’ Absent—Tho Monarchists Elated. TELEGRAMS TO THE WEW YORK HERALD. Panis, Dec, 16, 1672, Tho members of the French National Assembly reassembled in sesston at Versailles, after the tem- porary adjournment, at the hour of nine o'clock ‘last night. ” Six hundred and ten representatives wete prea- ent when the presiding officer called the Legisla- ture to order, aud the number alternated, more or less, frequently during the hours which passed be- fore the division. THE RIGHT OF PETITION AND QUESTION OF PRIVI- LEGE. Mintster Dufaure addressed the House in favor of rejecting the petitions praying for a dissolution of the Parliament. He spoke tronioally of M. Gambetta, whose speeches, he said, were the cause of the present needless agitation. Speeches followed {rom members of all the par- ties, The debate was one of the most violent and ex- citing which has taken place in the Assembly, ana lasted until one o'clock this morning, when the Ohamber, by a vote of 409 to 201, rejected the petitions and passed to the order of the day. M, THIERS ABSENT. President Thiers was not present during the debate, either in the afternoon or evening. THE CABINET TRIUMPH TO BE TRUMPETED TO THE RURAL COMMUNITIES, Before adjourning the Assembly adopted a reso- lution directing that M. Dufaure’s speech be pla- carded in all the communes of France. RADICAL PRESS PROPAGANDISM RESTRAINED, A similar resolution with regard to the speeches of theradical Deputies was voted down, Monarchism Elated and Radicalism In. different Yet Persistent. Paris, Dec. 15, 1872. The monarchist journals are greatly pleased with the stand taken by Minister Dufaure. The radical press maintain a tone of indifference, and declare that they will continue the agitation for dissolution, The President and Parliamentary Ma- jority in Direct Conflict. Lonpon, Dec. 16—5 A, M. A Paris despatch to the London Times says it is more than ever evident that the majority of the Assembly is in direct opposition to President ‘Thiers, One or the other must yield. . The country supports the President, ITALY. Parliamentary Committee Action for the Sup- pression of the Jesuit Corporation. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALB. Rome, Dee. 15, 1872. The members of the committee of the Chamber of Deputies who have under consideration the Relle gious Corporations Suppression bill at their sit- ting yesterday adopted a resolution declaring that the suppression of the Society of Jesus, {cluding the chief establishment of the order in Kome, is imperatively demanded by the interests of the nation. The announcement of this action was received by the liberal Deputies with enthusiastic applause. PROVISIONS OF THE BILL AS PROPOSED TO THB PAR- 1 The bill for the suppression of religious corpora- tions, introduced to the Italian Parliament by the Ministry of Justice, and reported favorably by the legislative committee, is intended to enact that the laws of 1866, 1867, 1868 and 1870, relative to the sup- pression of religious corporations and the conver- sion of their property, be applied to the province and city of Rome. ‘The bill, however, maintains that in the cases of houses of the directors of these corporations that have a director or deputy director in the city of Rome, the original property of such houses, may be maintained, but cannot be increased, and the will not enjoy civil rights. The property of the suppressed corporations will continue to be applied to the charitable purposes for which they were originally established. ‘The edifices appertaining to the religious houses in Rome will remain at their disposal until such time as the pensions to be settled upon them shall have been decided, which decision must be arrived at within twelve months, The property of the religious corporations in the city of Rome will be converted into inalienable public rentes, The Minister of Justice, in the course of his speech, added that the total net income of the cor- porations amounts to 1,192,000 francs, GERMANY. Court Disciplinary Jurisdiction Against Re- cusant or Disloyal Churchmen. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALS, Berwin, Dec, 15, 1872, The Disciplinary Court yesterday decided that it was legally incompetent to try the case of Army Bishop Nanczanowsky, who was arraigned for in- citing chaplains to disobey the orders of the Minis- ter of War. Prince Bismarck’ ance—His Policy Council. Lonpon, Dec. 16—5 A, M. A spectal despatch from Berlin says Prince Bis- marck ts looking exceedingly well. He will, perhaps, consent to remain at the head of the Prussian Cabinet if Ministers Selchow and Itzenplitz, who oppose the reconstruction of the Herrenhaus, resign. THE CENTENNIAL OBLEBRATION, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec, 15, 1872. At the room of the State Legislative Centennial Committee a meeting of conference was held yes, day. Representatives of the State and City Con- tennial committees were present, and also repre- sentatives from the Citizen's Committce of Twenty- five, the Committec of Journalists and the Commit- tee of Councils, Colonel A. K. McClure prosided. It was decided to ask the Legislature for a hana- some appropriation in aid of the Cemboonial Lx position, ENGLAND. ETA - Death of Disracli’s Wifo. TeLeoam TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. . Lonpon, Dec. 15, 1872. Viseouiltesd Beaconsheld, wife of the Right Hon. lenjamin Disraeli, died af noon to-day. SKEPOH OF LADY BEACONSFIRLD. Mary Anne Evans (Disraeli), Viscountess Bea- consfield, was the only daughter of the late Captain Joun Viney Evans, R. N., dy his wife—bis cousin— Eleanor Scrope, daeghter of the Rev. John Vincy, D. D., and neice of the late General Sir James Viney, of Taynton Manor, The lady was ercated Viscountess Beaconsfield, in her own right, in the year 1668, She waa twice married; first, in 1816, to Wyndham Lewis, M. P., who died in the year 1838, and secondly, im the year 1839, to the Right Hon. Bgnjemin Disrack, Public Sympathy with a Distinguished Statesman. Lonpon, Dec. 16—5 A, M. All the metropolitan journals this morning ex- press the warmest sympathy with Mr. Disracli in his domestic:afMiiction. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Father Gavazzt has arrived in Rome, Professor Tyndall has returned to. the’ Brevoort Honse. Ex-Mayor Eastmaa, of Poughkcepsic, ta ab the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge W. J. Lowry, of Cincinnati, is at tho Grand Central Hotel. . . The Japanese Minister, Arinori Mori, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Schiller’s youngest daughter, the Baroness Von Gleichen-Russwarm, died a few days ago. King Oscar Il. of Sweden and Norway will bo formally crowned at Stockholm on the 16th of May next. The house in which the poet Pope was'born, in Plough court, Lombard street, London, is being pulled down. M. Michel Chevalier, the great French political economist, condemns the new commercial treaty with England, : ‘The students of the Blackburn University, Mis- souri, lately in revolt, have laid down their arms and resumed their work. At is stated that the private fortune of the ex- King of Naples will be returned to him on the con- dition that he will abstain from all political tn, trigue. General Alfred Wf, Terry, of the United States Army, yesterday arrived at the Sturtevant Ilouse, General Terry is Commander of the Department of the South. Mr. Gladstone {s said to take as much interest in tree culture as Horace Greeicy did. When at his manor (Howarden) he takes up much time with his little hatchet. Moliie Smith killed her husband Harry Smith, a notorious desperado, in Clinton, Mo., lately. It was only a question of who should be first ‘in at the death,” and Mollie won. The oldest native missionary is John Metz, of Clark county, who is seventy-six years old and hale and hearty. Grim death seems to have abandoned the siege of Meta, The house in which Joan of Arc was born ts fall- ing into ruins, The oMcials of the Department of the Vosges have decided to repair it. She 18 not the only Arcde Triomphe France has seen dese- crated, John Knox has sued Margaret Arnold for broach of marriage. He is not the same John whose memory is so fondly cherished by the Scotch Pres- byterians, Margery objected to knocks and John received damages. The Oneida Community now eat only two meals aday, but find no economy in the plan, on tie principle, probably, that ‘nature abhors a vacuum,” which vacuum must be duly filled by Mutton and boiled potatoes. Mr. R. Moon, Chairman of the London and North- western Railroad, has been presented with a mag. nificent service of silver and several sets of dia- mond, sapphire and amethyst ornaments, Were the subscribers Moon “struck?” M. Ledru Rollin has returned to Paris. He lives on the Avenue Josephine, in a house owned by hia wife, an English lady of fortune. His estate at Fontenay aux Roses is sti!lin the dilapidated con- dition in which the Germans left it. , The letter-carriers of London dislike stripes as much as the convicts. A number lately refused to hear a communication from the Postmaster Gen- eral announcing that good-conduct stripes had been awarded to twenty-five of them, Mr. T. P. Addison has been appointed Constable of Lancaster Castle by Queen Victoria. The salary of the office is the same agin the reign of Edward IiI.—twenty marks per annum. The new official is reported to have said, “‘I'ad as soon not ‘ave ‘ad hany.” It is reported that M. de Lesseps entertains the idea of cutting a ship canal through the isthmus of Corinth, where excavating less than five miles in length would open communication between the Gulf of Lepanto with the Gulf of Egina and make Morea an island, Amonument has just been erected to the mem- ory of Chopin, the musical composer, at Warsaw, his native place. Itis timely act and prevents that chop'in of the composer's name and fame which happens to every literary person or musi- cian long after his own time. The destructive spiritual phenemenon in Eng- land known as the “Camberwell Ghost’ has been exorcised ag the servant Miss Maria Hogan. In the moments of confusion resulting from flower- pot wafting she used to “go through” the pockets ofher employer. Curlous ghost! It 18 said that the Prince Royal of Hanover, son of the ex-King George, will soon marry the Prin- cess Thyra of Denmark, sister of Princess Alex- andra, the future Queen of England, and of Prin- cess Dagmar, the prospective Empress of Russia. ‘The old man is doing well for his family. “Never before was such a sight witnessed," says the Boston Transcript, ‘as was seen at the Revere House on Friday afternoon, when 200 merchants, who had been burned out at one fire, ate dinner to- gether, and had social family converse about the past, present and future of their trade.” M. Thiers advocated a respoysible ministry under the Republic of 1848, There is a story told about Imm having lately said toa friend, “Ah, you wish to impose on me my maxim, “Ze rot regne mais ne gouverne pas,’ but you are bad scholars and don't understand; that was all very well under @ mon- archy, but would never do under a republic,”’ Mile, Adde Spitzeder, who, having failed on the stage turned financier, is now on trial in Munich for swindling. Three years ago she started a bank, promising depositors eighty per cent interest, and between profuse prodigality in living and pre- tended piety so won confidence that at her recent failure she owed $5,000,000, The piety part of the affair is worth noting. ‘The following are the names of a few of the gen- tlemen who are on the democratic roll for the honor of representing Missouri in the United States Senate :—F. P. Blair, James S. Rollins, ex- Governor Reynolds, Lewis ¥. Bogy, Colonel George Q. Vest, B. Grats Brown, Judge Napton, Colonol Bennet Pike, General Hatch, General Cockrell, General E. L. Edwards and Colonel John S. Phelps, Thé more tite merrier. Major General W. 8. Hancock arrived yesterday in this city with Captain John S. Wharton, of his stam, He was also accompanied by Generat Thomas W. Sherman. They are stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel, The General has removed the headquarters of his new department from Phila- delphia to New York. The Quakers newer could conscientiously admire military mea but they were not prepared for this, That pretty object of martial devotion, “the daughter of the regiment,’ ts now in its fairest form adored by the officers of the 159th regiment of Russian infantry, She is the daughter of M, Malicini, the former chaplain of the regiinent, who died in 1867, when she was but ten yours old. She was adoptizd by the officers of the regiment, who annually sabscribe a handsome sum for her, When- ever wrogimontal catertainment is given the ofl 1 Cera invite thele “daughtey”’ to do tue honors, IPLE SHEET. ett hart ete SUDDEN DEATH OF KENSETT, THE ARTIST. His Early Yeare—His Career and His End—A Great Landscape Painter Gone. Another name has to be added to the long st of distinguished men who, after lives of toil and use- fulness, have suddenly passed away. Scarcely has the literary public recovered from the shock caused by the announcement of the death of the great tragedian Edwin Forrest, when tt is again atartied by the ead news that the artist John Frederick Kensett, whose works a3 a landscape painter have delighted the thousand lovers of art, both in his native country and foreign lands, had on Saturday been unexpectedly ealled to his account. Mr. Kensett had since November been suffer- ing from pmeumonts, but for the past few weeks he had gained so much in strength that tus friends fondty hoped he had fully reeovered. His death has, therefore, come so unexpectedly that his assoviates, to whom he was endeared by | Inany tles, are grief-stricken at the wmlooked-for bereavement. On Saturday morning tre was at his studio, to alt outward appearance In the enjoy~ ment of good health, S0comfdent were his friends that the dangerous symptoms of bis disease, had passed that Mra, Hicks, wife of the portrait painter, who was the friend of the dead artist and who was wpremitting inher attention to him dur- {ug his ilmess, felt so, conddent.of his convates- conce that she teft tho city with her husband to be absent over the Sunday. He was in the habit of partaking of a alight tunch’ every Gay at about half-past one o'clock, and on Saturday he sent the boy, according to-custom, to bring in the meat. The boy revarned ih a few min- utes with the lunch; and placed it close to Mr. Ken- sett's table. The artist was sitting in his- easy chair looking deathly white, Which so alarmed the boy that he instantly ran for assistance, returning with the janitor's wife. While the assistance was being brought Kensctt arose from the easy chair on which he was sitting and staggered to the lonnge, He lay in such a position upon the lounge than when the boy and the janitor's wife entered the apartment they were seriously alarmed, and medical aid was at once sent for. A doctor arrived in a short time, and, after examining the artist, pro- nounced him dead of heart disease, When the news of the sad event spread, the artists, who had known the dead man for years, hastened to the studio, The secrererect the Academy of Design, J. Addison Richards, William Huntingdon, William Hart, the landscape painter, and a few others, col- lected around the sofa, and their vears freely Nowed in contemplating all that remained of the friend who in life they had so dearly loved. A messenger Was sent with the intelligence to Mr. R. M. Oly- ie of this city, who had been for years he. artist's patron, and it 1s belleved he will see that the funeral arrange- ments are befitting the artist and the man. In consequenee of the day being Saturday the studios of the artists were open to their friends, and many visitors who came to Mr. Ken- Sett’s room, expecting to find him at work, were met with the news of his death. The tender and loving nature of the man, his large-hearted gene- rosity, his kindness to his juniors and his just ap- preciation of the merits of the artists of his own standing had so endeared him to his friends that the task of breaking the news of his death to strangers was an exceedingly paintul one. Joun Frederick Kensett was born in Cheshire, Conn., on the 22d day of March, 1818, 80 that he was at his death nearly fifty-five years of age. His parents were respectable people, an uncle of his being Alfre Daggett, widely cele- brated at the time as an engraver of bank note vignettes, At an early age Kensett was appren- ticed to his uncle, and fora time worked steadily, but his aspiration soared higher than the en- gtaver'’s art; he had sct his soul upon being a painter. His leisure time was spent in the study of oil colors; and 80 enamored had he become of this art that, at the age of twenty-two, we find him in England engas in actay Palneing, with & wish to adopt tt as his future profession. He first commenced in London, and while there he made the acquaintance of several young artists who af- terwards became famous, among them Durand and Casiiear. He supported himself by engraving for five years, during which he was unremit- ting in -the endeavor to acquire a per- fect knowledge of oil ainting. At the end of the five years his first work, a view oi Windsor Castle, was exhibited at the rooms of the Society of British Artists, Suffolk street. This was the turning point in the young artist's career and his first genuine success in his beloved art. It was, and still is, the custom in this association to an- nually hold a lottery at a guinea a head, There are two lucky numbers, the winners of which are allowed to choose @ picture as a prize. On the occasion on which Kensett exhibited, his picture was chosen by the winner of the first lucky prize. The choice was universally applauded, as the jicture, among many beautiful ones, was the most beautiful of them all. So soft and tender it in ita coloring, 80 delicate in its composition and so finished in its design that it attracted universal admiration and @ brilliant future was predicted forthe young American by the critics, With the price received for the pistons, Kensett left England in search of subjects for his pencil, which England, generous as it was in its appreciation of him, could not afford. His sind had long been set upon a visit to Italy, the land inseparably associated with art and poetry, the Mecca to which the painters of all lands an all schools turn theit longing eyes. Here his enius took a higher fight than it had hitherto lone. He sketched along the beautiful Italian lakes and dreamed of art in gondolas, in the was romantic city of the sea, whose marble palaces and poetical villas have furnished themea for many a@ ferttle pen. Como and Maggiore realized his most sanguine expectations, and he left Italy with arich portfolio of subjects, with his talents Lal ee and quickened and his heart beating high with hope. He went from Italy to Switzerland and Germany, crossing over the Alps on hig way. “The cloud-cappea hills” en- latged his love for the grand and the beautiful. In Italy he had been touched with the softer beauty of nature, but here she asserted herself in all her sublimity, and the artist’s soul was touched as it nover had been before. At the conclusion of his tour he settled down in Rome and set himselfin earnest to work. In 1848 his tandscape, ‘‘View of the Arno” and a sketch entitied “The Shrine” was sent to the Acadei of Design. The suc- cess of the two works was complete. Critt- cism was silent, except to praise the pictures; eavy was disarmed, and the artists recognized Kensett as the future star of the profession. By & unanimous vote he was elected Assuciate of the Academy, and the next year he was made Acade: mician, He returned to New York. His return was hailed with delight, and his frst works—views of the mountain and river scenery of New York and the Eastern States—were Leg parchased and lavishly praised. From that time up to his death he has painted unremittingly his favorite subjects, lake and river views, and in his own department he has rarely been excelled. In the Fall of 1868 he returned to New York with a large number of sketches from Lake George and Lake Champlain, ae ee some views of the Atlantic coast, and the ig Island coast, near Darien, where he had a Summer studio, A large coy of Lake George, ‘Near the ” with Blac! Mountain in the distance an lands on the left, the sky a littleover and the sun “drawing water;” a broad view near eles be with Mont Mansfeld in the distance, and an old-fashioned red farm house and barnyard, standing out tn all their barenesa, Thsee, with several. other paintings, were executed at this time, attracting universal atten- tion and admiration, In the following year, 1860, he was appointed a member of the National Art Commisalon, organized to oversee the work of beautifying the national Capitol. His time since, when not interrupted by iliness, has been spent im earnest study. He was an en- thusiastic. devotee of his art, an ear- nest and faithful worker and a loving and constant friend. The shaft of malice, recklessly as itis sometimes almed, and unsparing as it is of reputations, never assailed Kensett, as it could find no opening for attack in anature 80 generous, tless and pure. His iriend and partner sincé is return to New York has. been phant, but there are few collections do not contain specimens of his works. ‘The style of Kensett was characteristic of the man. ith the grand and the terrible spectacies of nature his soul was not in unison, The tempest and the storm, the ocean rocking itself in ita wild fury, or _the toes of the elements, delighted him not. His spirit was eminently pastoral, and at no time did he feel so happy ag when sketcning some quiet view of the sea coast of his own beloved prs 8 Views of farm life, the sea when at rest, the bubbling of some lonely brook snd the lovelinesa of the set- ting Sammer’s sun have all been worthily treated by his pencil, and though he has left the more lofty flights of bis art to the more ambitious he will always be remembered 88 a man who excelled im whatever he undertook, and will hold an endar- ing pers among the great landscape painters which the last century has produced. ‘The funerat will take place from the Fifth ave- Due Presbyterian » corner of Nineteenth street, on Wednesday, the 19th bare at one orclock P.M. A lare gathering of and Members of the literary circles in whioh the de- ceased moved are expected to follow his remains to the grave. “OBITUARY. Very Rev. Thomas Mulvey, Very Rev, Thomas Mulvey, Vicar General of the Roman Catholic diocese of Virginia, died at bis residence in Petersburg, Va., yesterday. The vene- Fable ecclesiastic was fh the sixty-fourth year of hisage. He wasa zealous missionary, & aithful pastor anda Kind and agreeable friend and com- panion Died. 7 , " — Eighth evenae, on Tucaday ev “Hing, at halt-pang Gouvan.—At the residence of J. Clu*4M, 549 Thira’ avenue, Brooklyn, on Satarday, Deceme’ @ short illness, of pneumonia, Magia A. GOS omungeal on Monday afternoon, 16th inat., e Ropagrs.—At his mother's reaidence, 320 Eawt Thirty-second street, on Sunday evening, Decem' ber 15, Fexous T., youngest son of Helen and the — nner Rodgers, aged 5 years, 11 months an® Notice of funeral hereafter. Skaats.—In Brooklyn, on Sunday, December, 16, ELizaBeTn PEARSON, Widow of David J. Skaats,. @ the 75th year of ber age. ' Notice of the funeral hereafter. : (For Other Deaths See Ninth Page.) 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