The New York Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1873, Page 13

RELIGIOU PROGRAMME OF EXERCISES TO-DAY. Interesting Herald Relig- ious Correspondence. MOVEMENTS OF THE CLERGY. Services To-Day. ‘A missionary meeting will be held at the Church of the Transfiguration, on East Twenty-ninth street, near Filth avenue, this evening, at hall-past Seven o'clock, Bishop Potter will preside, and ad- greases will be made by several oi tue clergy. Rev. P. L. Davies preaches at the Berean Baptist Church, corner Downing and Bedord streets, this “morning and evening, at the usual hours. » Mrs, Nettie 0, Maynard, trance speaker, lectures ‘on Spiritualism at Apollo Hall this morning, at half- past ten o’clock, and this evening at halt-past seven clock. Children's Lyceum at twelve o'clock, "The congregation oi the Brookiyn Tabernacle will occupy the Academy of Music until their new jehurch is built, Kev. T. ve Witt Talmage, pastor, ‘Preaches this morning andevening. Seats free. { Services will be held this morning and evening in ‘Vhe Baptist church, Fifty-third street and Seventh avenue, Rev. William H. Pendleton, pastor. Bap- fism in the evening. . { In the Universalist church, corner Downing and Bleecker streets, Rev. E. C. Sweetser will preach morning and evening. Morning subject—“The Bow in the Cloud.” Evening subject—‘Iuspira- mn,” Strangers turnished with seats. Bishop Snow will preach in the University, Wash- ington square, this aiternoon, at three o'clock. Gubject—“The Prospective Conversion of the World.” ! In the Christian church, West Twenty-eighth Street, near Broadway, Rev. W. C. Dawson, pastor, preaches in tae morning and evening. Rev. J. M. Pullman preaches this morning at the fooms of the Young Men’s Universalist Association, 1,283 Broadway, and in the evening at Lynic Hall. , Rev. C.S, Robinson preaches this morning and evening in the Memorial Piesbyte:ian church, Mad- ison avenue and Fifty-third street. In the Church of the Messiah, Park avenue and Thirty-fourth street, Rev. Henry Powers, pastor, preaches this morning and evening. Divine service will be held to-day in the Russo- Greek chapel, 951 Second avenue. Sermon in “English. At the Anthon Memorial church, Forty-eighth Btreet, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, divine Bervice will be held at hal:-past ten A. M. { At the Cnureh of the Resarrection, corner Madi- Bon avenue and Forty-seveuth street, divine ser- wice will be held at hali-past ten A, M., and nall- past seven P. M. Sunday school at three P. M. geAt the Old Forsyth street Methedist Episcopal church services will be held at hall-past ten and ibali-past seven. _ Rev. George H. Hepworth preaches at Steinway ‘Hall this morning and evening. ; At All Saints Episcopal Church, corner Henry ‘and Scannell streets, Kev. William N. Dunnell, rector, preaches each Sunday at 10}; A. M. and “Ids P.M. At the Bleecker street Mission, 11 Carmine @treet, Episcopal services will be ne.d at 103g A. M. Rev, Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., will lecture in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Madison avenue and “ Forty-second street, this evening, at nhalf-past seven o'clock. Rev. Dr. Cheever will preach this evening, at hhalf-past seven o'clock, in the University on Wash- ton square, Rev. H.C. Potter, D. D., will preach in St. Bar- tholomew’s church, Madison avenue and Forty- fourth street, this evening, at half-past seven p’ciock, Rev, Ealsey W. Knapp preaches every Sanday in, the Laight street Baptist Mission, commencing at balt-past tea A. M. ana half-past seven P. M. Rey. John E. Cookman, pastor oi Trinity Metho- dist Episcopal church, West Thirty-tourth street, mear Eighth avenue, will preach to-day at half-past fen o'clock A. M. and half-past seven P. M. Services will be held at St, Ignatius’ church, Fortieth street, between Fiith and Sixth avenues, Rev. F. C. Ewer, D. D., rector, this morning and evening. ¥ree service willbe hela to-day at Christ church, corner of Filth avenue and Thirty-fi‘tn street. Dr. C. Stiles holds meetings every Sunday at Union Hall, corner Grove and Fourth streets, Jer- sey City, at three and eight o’clock P. M., for spirit communion and trance speaking. Mr. H. P. Blake will illustrate the spirit power this after” Moon at three o'clock. Full choral services will be held at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, West Forty-fiith street, near Broadway, at haif-past ten A.M., four and half- past seven P. M, Rev. A. D. Gillette, D. D., will preach in Plymeuth Baptist church, Filty-fi strect, between Ninth and Tenth avenues, this morning and evening. At St. Luke’s Methodist church, Forty-first street, ear Sixth avenue, Rev. G. R. Crooks preaches in the morning and Rev. E. B. Otheman in the even- ing. ‘ In St. Thomas’ chapel, Sixtieth street, near Third avenue, Rev. Professor Roberts will preach in the morning and Rev. Mr. Norton in the evening. Rev. William M. Taylor will address the Morning Star Sunday school, corner of Seventh avenue and Twenty-sixth etreet, this afternoon, at half-past two o'clock. Rev. M. J. O'Farrell will deliver a lecture on “The Trials and Triumphs of the Catholic Church,” in St. Andrew's church, this evening, at eight o'clock. Tickets fifty cents. Proceeds for the poor of the parish. In Trinity Baptist church, Fifty-fifth street, near Lexington avenue, Rev. Dr. Holme, pastor, preaches this morning and evening. Sunday school ‘at hali-past two o'clock. in the Tabernacle Baptist church, Second avenue and Tenth street, Rev. Wayland Hoyt, of Brooklyn, preaches in the morning and evening. Seats free in the evening. Bartholom * Massacre from a Catholic Standpoint. To rus EpITOR oF THE HERALD:— The massacre of St. Bartholomew is & favorite e@BeCatholic weapon. One of your correspondents lately referred to it with exultation. Mr. Froude has also used it In his historical tilts. Will you give place in your columns to a view of “the other side?” The Huguenots in France were an aggressive and Intolorant party. They sought not alone religious freedom for themselves, but aiso to abolish the Mass and to suppress Catholic worship. They scoffed at the holiest Catholic doctrines, and as their numbers grew broke down crucifixes and statues, pillaged and destroyed or appropriated churches and hunted to death priests and members of the religious orders. The Huguenot churches by degrees assumed a military organization, Fre- quent collisions with the Catholics occurred. Again and again they plotted and attempted to overth: ow Catholicity, to seize the King, assassl- Nete the Guises (Catholic leaders) and secure con- trel of the government. In one of these conspira- oles they succeeded (1562) in capturing nearly two hundred towns. They butchered priests, religious @nd lay Catholics. In one little town in August, 1662, more than eight hundred men, women and children were slain. | The Admiral de Coligni was the Huguenot leader. He has been called the French Cromwell. By one of his hirelings the Duc de Guise, the Catho- Uc leader, was assassinated in 1563. In 1867 the Huguenots were nearly successful in a plot to cap- ture the King, and large massacres of Catholics took place. In 1569 hostilities were again renewed by them, and@ at Orthez 3,000 Catholics of every age and sex were massacred, the river Gave being actnally dammed up by their bodies, Cretineau Joly says that Coligni, in a letter to the Prince of Orange, dated June 15, 1572, gave notice of an in- tel execution of the Catholics in September. Bismondi and other Protestant torians ee that the St. lomew Massacre (August 24 New YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. 1972) has not a tone inet prot, pakrvananageniy conceived on the eve ol its excow An attempt was made August 22 to assassinate Colizn: in te streets, Catuarine de Medici, mother ©: the vacil ating young King, Charles IX., is ed us having been the instigator of this and other crimes, She was jealous alike of Colignt and tue Guises and plotted against both, In the inSammabie and distracted conaition of France the atvempted assassination of Congni bred the Huguenots, who bad assemblet ta large numbers in Parw to attend the marriage cere- monies of Henry of Navarre. ‘hey marchedthough the streets in’ mulltary array and jorced their way to the King whe he was at supper, deman: iin; justice and threatening vengeance if dent» Catharine became seriously alarmed, dieading an fosurrection in Paria and @ renewal o: civil str fe throughout the lund. she pe. suaded the ning that Goiigni and ail Spe Fiognenoty were in @ league to murder him. Their own demonstrations had filled him with dread. At last, on the morning of August 24, she extorted 10m iim & consent to tue death of Colignl, accompanied by tue iatal words, “Kull all, thea, that none may tive to reproach me.’’ The buc de Guise, eager to avenge his father’s murder, undertook the execu ton of the slaughter, beginuing with tue murder of Colignt. ‘he esthuates of the nunbers ot in throughout France have vari:d trom two thousand to one hun dred thousand. The Caivivistic author of the ma tyrology ol the Hu:suenots, publisied in 1682, eati- mated the number first at 3,010, then, im detail, at 15,109, aud, fina.ly, ater examining the registry of individuals who pe-isned, cou'd only ind the names of 786, A air estiwates seems to be 7,000, a nuinber really less than the massacres of the lrish under Cromweil, and not much greater than the victims of the Luguenots themselves in their outbreak in As the King’s order was carried throughout France the sceue was re-cnacted here and there, So lar irom being a simultaneous massacre, it oc- curred like the repetit.ous of an echo as tie report travels tron point to point; wille ,a recent Prot- estaut writer says that the occuirences in the provinces, instead vf proving jong premeditation, will be tound, aiter careiul examination, ratuer to prove the absence of su remeditation. And now asto the participat.on of the Catholic Church. It is certain that nuubers of eminent French Catholics detested tnis biood aélat as it deserved. A number of Catuolic Governors refustd to obey the order oi the King. The Catho- lic Dukes of Auimaie, Bison and Beilievre, with other Catholic noplemen, exerted themseives to save as many Huguenots as possible. Many Italians opened their houses as asyiums for the iugitives, Ivis@ remarkable fact that none of the French bishops or ciergy took any part in the massacre. ‘the Bishop of Liseux extended an open protection to all the Huguenots o/ his diocese and received all who chose to come into the protection of his epis- copal palace, an act wich induced many to return to the Catholic Chu:ch. The motives which prompted the slaughter were purely political and not religious—they were in no Way sanctioned by the Church, ‘he principal guilt oi tkis heinous political crime, says ‘Appleton’s Encyclopedia,” must be laid at the door of that abie vut wicked ?rincess, Vataarine de’ Medict, who lived only tor her personal ambition, and who would bave been equally ready to excite the reli- gious animosity o: tae Huguenots against the Catholics as that of tue latter against tue former, uit had answered her purposes so to do, The a See had no foreknowledge of the mas- sacre, is loliows, Of course, {rom the non-pre- meditation of the deed. The Cardinal Secretary at Kome, instead of being cognizant o1 any intended slaugiter, wrote, after hearing of the event, in cipher, so that if could not have been intended ‘or the public eye, to require of the Nuncio at the French Court iniormution concerning the causes, authors and circumstances of the massacre. Tne Nuncio replied, wita provis, that the slaughter was planued only on the night previous to 1ts execution and a.ter tie 1allure of the attempt to assassinate Coligni. The Nuncio’s letters were also written in cipuer, for the instruction of his own court ouly aud without the expectation or probability of their being made public, and he repeatedly therein asserts his certain conviction of the accuracy of his inior- mation. Finally, as to the rejoicings of the PapalSee and the obnoxious medal. The word “‘strages’’ means “discomfiture, defeat, overthrow,” as well as ughter or massacre. It is natural that anti- Catholic writers should translate it by one of the latter words. The allegorical representation on the medal is 8 mbolical of the triumph of a just cause, represented by the Angel oi Justice. lom- munication between countries was then, of course, dificuitand slow. The day after the slaughter Cataarine transmitted her own account of tae event to the other courts of Lurope. At Rome the intel- ligence came through the i rench Ambassador, the Cardinal de Lorraine, a prelate embittered inst the Huguenots by the murder of his brother, the Duc de Guise. He, receiving the version of his sovereign, announced to the Pope (Gregory XIII.) the nurrow escape of the French King from an insurrection against his throne and life on the part of the Hugue- Rots and the complete defeat of tne conspirators. He placarded the news on the doors of the church o1 St Louis, and the Pope consented to the offering of a ‘fe Deum” in the church in commemoration of the victory. The Romans remembered the evils which they ti emselves had suffered from tue Lutherans during the siege by the Duc de Bourbon. They knew tho desperate struggle which kad been going on in France for years on the part of the Huguenots to obtain control of the government, and on tie part of the Catholics to retain pre-eminence. The great victory oi: Lepanto, which had prevented the Turks from overrunning Europe, was being ce.ebrated. Letters had just been received from the two pow- erful French Princes, the King of Navarre and tne Prince of Condé, announcing their return to the Catholic Church. ‘the news of the defeat of the Huguenots capped the climax of the rejoicing. It may be said, as an offset to the Roman action, tuat tne English Parliament ina similar manner thanked God for Cromweli’s massacre of the Irish, after he had granted quarter, and rewarded a cap- tuin jor throwing prisonerg overboard into the se: When in time the actual character of the Hugue- Not slaughter became understood, Gregory 380 ef- fectually disclaimed all sympathy in it that even anti-Catholic historians have acknowledged him freed from the charge. Gregory was remarkable etter enable me to perorm my labors of the next | «1 coud not seep. After lying ior sone time and thinking of my | bus ness adairs, a strange sensation began to | Creep over ms, for whics 1 coud not account; and wie trying to convince mysel! that it wus Only a hallucination, my arm, Which was hanging oak. of the bed, was thrown with sume force on 0 This startled me somewhat, and knowinz it was no movement of the muscles which caused it, I telt impressed it might be a spirit, and de- terinimea to teat it. Isaid, “If thisds a sprit that moved my arm, | wi.i not believe it unless you cau throw it buck te sts original position.” 1t was instantly done with the same force 28 beiore. The Jact of uy wish being grat: od was p.oof positive to ine tliat it was cove by aa intelligence ourside ofmyseif, Quest ons whicu i asked were immedi- ately answered bya move:nent of my arm either allirmatively or ne; atively. For some time aiter this occurrence I was awakened evéry morning st daybresk by & shuk- ing 0; my head, a3 though some one was trying to arouse ine, aud, ater recovering my senses, my arm was 80 iniiuenced which led me to suppose the tutelligence wished me to write, Beimg desi ous of 1athoming this mystery to the end aud see wh.t feign come of it, | asked the spirit one morning “1i I sbould take a pencil and hold it on paper could 1 rece.ve comminication 7" It replied in the aifirm.stive. Idid so, and being aroused so frequently at so early an hour i thought I would teat the poetic powers of the spirit, and asked it to write mv averse on early 1i8iD; My arm bezan slowly to trace tnese ‘our anes:— nd, To welcome the light trom the eastern skios doy to Na,ure’s beauty lend? Never having seen these linos beiore, and not being in session of any nati Povtic gifts, 1 am satisiied | not the author o! theul, but re- ceived tnem from the spirit wovid. Alter this my entnusiasm began to cool and I became somewast svudptic. I douvted tue wisdom Of changing the religious teachings of my younger days, andemuracing tue more liberal doctrines promuigated by Spi: ituausm, Woaile in this state of perplexity I was one day sitting at my table, when I feit the same imfuence in my arm as on the previous occasion, and taking a@penciland holding it on paper, my arm Wus moved to write tae loliowing :— Gan you bs so blind as not to soe The iruth of Heaven as reveaied to thee ; And |i'tle know how good God's kindness is, When He to us some favor gives? Iconsidered this a rebuke and devermined to doubt no more. And aitnough I may sull bo derided on account of the delusion(?), a8 some of my friends choose to cull it, the consciousness of right doing will more than compensite for any loss of iriendship which I may sustain ior my present belie! Itvis trae Spiritualism is not at preseut a popular relision, but, if 1 can read the signs oi the times correctly, the day is not far distant when its influence wilt become so great in the worid that even its most bitter opponents wiil be compelied to give it more than @ passing notice, And when the advano/ng liosts of angeis armed with the weapons of wisdom and brotherly love shall have laid waste tne strongholds oi bigotry and superstition and released the minds of men from the thraidoin cf scctarianisin, tacn will the beactiful teachings of spiritualism be better un- derstood and become a suurce of joy and comiort to the human race, The loregoing are events which actually occurred, and if my narration of them ‘will induce any candid mind to investigate the philosophy of Spiritualism I will not have written this article in vain. A SEEKER AFTER TRUTH. The Errors of the Accusers of Catholi- cism. To THe EDITOR*OF THE HERALD:— A great deal has been said—and probably willin future time often be repeated—of the abuses of the Catholic Church, and purgatory, transubstan- tiation and imiallibility are offered as specimens of these alleged abuses. But the accusers of Catholl- cism are in error when they assert that the Church has corrupted Christiamity in teaching and en- forcing upon her disciples these doctrine: for when our Lord Jesus Christ laid the foundation of His holy Church and instituted the order of priest- hood He delivered to her and to them the whoie truth, both in doctrine and morality, of His divine religion a3 a sacred and inde‘easible inheritance, in which men Of all nations were to be instructed until the end of time. This sacred trust was not transmitted to the Church as a possession which might be alienated, or trom which she should be at liberty to separate herself according to her pleasure, but the Almighty made her the creature of His voice for the accomplishing of His purposes toward the children of men. He willed that that truth, tor whose revelation a God has been sacrificed, should be built up and estab- lished upon a solid and enduring foundation, so as to be unchangeable and incorruptible, ever acces- sible to man in allits pristine purity and virtue. The omniscient God foresaw that without this ex- ercise of power His holy religion would languish awhile in meekuess and imbecility without author- ity either to teach or command, become corrupted through the influence of man, and at length expire in the darkness of paganism. Thus the blood of Jesus would have been shed in vain, a result which the most just God could in no wise _ permit. fhe Almighty God resolved upon this gramd exertion of His omnipo- tence. He endowed His Church with His own at- tribute of jufallibility. He guards and directs His Church. He is present in the mind ¢¢ His vicars and disposes their thoughts to Hisglory. He en- courages them when strong and strengthens them when weak. He preveats them from wandering from the path of truth or from compromising the for his mildness and liberality of character, for his great learning and his zeal for education. It ‘was he who re‘ormed the calendar. It is the custom of anti-Catholics to hold the Catholic Church’responsible tor the individual acts of ita prelates or pontiff. Its doctrine on this point is clear and simple. The Pope, in his func- tions as Vicar of Christ and Head of the Church, has irom time to time, in order to settle doubts or contreversies, to reuaer decisions upon questions as to what is and has ever been the faith of the Church on the subjects referred to. In these deci- -sions of dogma ex cathedra the Church teaches that the Holy Ghost speaks through the voice of the Pontiffand preserves the faith from perver- sion. This is his infallibillty. He cannot invent new doctrines, but simply defines and declares tne original deposit of faith. But in his ordinary sacer- dotal functions, or as a sovereign, or as an individ- ual he is net infallible; nor is he, as many anti- Catholics, through ignorance, imagine is believed, impeccable—that is, incapable of sin. te may fall, luke other men, and he will surely be judged by his Creator like them. He may commit errors of judg- ment or of will. For these the Church is not sponsible, though his elevated position in it natu- Tally occasions, in, such cases, joy to its enemies and grief among it@triends. As to his infailibility in defining dogmas—tf there is no infallible, God-guided, visible tribunal of ap- peals in the Church, whose decisions shall com- mand the belief oi men, how shall the honest con- troversies among believers be settled? The ‘one fold” would, as time rolled on, be divided into countless sects, The language of Christ is at least remarkable—“On thee, Peter, I will build m; Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Peter, feed my lambs (the peuple) ; feed my sheep (the pastors). I have given to thee the keys of the kingdoin of heaven. I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not: do thou, being con- verted, confirm thy brethren.” From the bark of Peter He taught the multitudes, Im Peter's net occurred the miraculous draught of fishes. A CATHOLIC, Why I Became a Spiritualist. To THE EDITOR oF THE HERALD:— Tlaving read for some time back in the Sunday edition of the HeRap the various shades of reli- gious opinions expressed by your correspondents, and the experience of some of them which was they cause of their abandonment of the religious teach- ings of their childhood and adoption of the more advanced views of the present day, I would like, with your permission, to insert in your columns a few facts which induced me to follow the same course amd to embrace the philosophy of Spiritual- ism. About seven years ago, in the city of Buffalo, I formed the acquaintance of @ very respectable family who believed in the communien of spirits. ‘With them, on several occasions, I discussed the merits of this philosophy, and the arguments brought to bear were a0 convincing that I deter- mined to give it an earnest investigation, as I con- ceived it to be more reasonable than the arbitrary teaching of the orthodox ministers which had cir- cumscribed my mind fer many years. In my course of investigation I read works of some of the best expounders of Spiritualism— among which I will mention Judge Edmonds and Robert Dale Owen—from whom I learned many things of the future life which have been of in- estimable value to me, and also visited mediums, ‘who were recommended to me for their sincerity, who gave me some of the most convincing proofs of immortality. During one of my discussions with the family to whom I alluded & circumstance was related to me of a friend of theirs who had been developed as a medium and received communications from the spirit world by sitting @ haif hour each day alone in his room for this purpose. I determined to test eee of this course, and adopted the same method. 1 d this experiment for three weeks without success, but on Sunday night of the fourth week I was rewarded for my perseverance. Having re- turned from Niagara Falls, where I had been on a visit, and being somewhat fatigued, I retired garller than usual to geek that repose Which would deposit 01 Christian iaith. The doctrines which are termed abuses are part and parcel of this original deposit, The Church cannot lay them aside. She Inust teach them, whether she will or no, because she is but an instrument moided in the hands of God and predestinated to do His will. When ealied upon to ‘reform’ and ‘‘conform to modern pro- gress and modern science,” she must reiuse. The words of the Vicar oi Christ will echo through all the centuries, “Non possumus.’’ We are not able. The Church of God, in periorming and accom- Pplishing her mission here on earth, in teaching and governing the Christian peoples, 18 obliged tu. enact canons and bylaws, mere tulos of discipline, which are amendable at pleasure, according to. times and circumstances, and in passing these she may mistake, since they are not a part of the de- posit of Christian faith and morals, but only a means, under God, of maintaining and perpetuat- ing the same, Human wisdom may set up imper- fect and pernicious rules, and an abuse may creep into the order of the Charci, and by long hs Deh or sufferance become a custom. ‘The writer of this communication believes, and will endeavor to joint out, that at least one of the Church’s laws, owever Wise may have been its institution and salutary its working at the time of its erection, has by the change of times und of nations pecome powerless for good, if not absolutely fruitiul of evil, and that one abuse of great importance has by long continued negligence crept into the Church. By the first he means that law of the Church whicn locks up the pet in the mystery oi a dead language. In the early ages of Christianity the Roman Empire ruled the known worid, and the Latin language was understood more or less readily by the peoples of the different Roman provinces, The use of the language of Rome in the divine service was, therefore, natural and appro- priate, and it inflicted but little inconvenience on the faithful, When at tie opening of the Middie Ages the barbarous northern tribes invaded the civilized southern countries, and blended them- selves with Christian people, imparting to them many of their rude customs and much ot their savage disposition and receiving in return the Christian religion and the influence of the Christian civilization, it was proper that the Church shoud pT pte her ancient law, and continue to clothe er Liturgy in the language of the old Empire; for new nations and peoples were then gradually srising, and new tongues were forming from the mixture of the old and new and by degrees per- fecting. In the general confusion the meaning of the Divine Liturgy must be preserved. If commit- ted to the new languages it would have partaken of their change and uncertainty; it must therefore remain wedded to the old. lany centuries have passed since then. The Chris' nation: Settled down in order and quiet, and the la of eac' become perfect and clearly know! ascertained. Why, then, should this law 8 A; and in what are we benefited by its ‘continuance? When the reason of the law ceases, the law itself Ought to cease. The reasons given for its contin- aance are few, unsatisfactory and not at all prac- tical. Tae reasous why it should be repealed are numberiess, Thoy appeal te the reason of the Cath- piety, his zeal for religiom and the salva- 8. Whi ‘lory to the Catholic Church is the Divine Liturgy! What @ crown of diamonds! What a chaplet of pearls and precious stones! And how unfortunate it is that this wealth of grace and beauty should be withdrawn and aimost totally obscured! How the heart of the Catholic would jad with pride and zeal and piety if ke could listen to the magnificent rs and praises of the mass, the beautiful selections daily read from the Scriptures, and the charms of the other services of the Charch; the splendid an? of baptism and matrimony, the grand oid ce of the Uhurch, the magnificent hymns of the vespera! Could he do so, what an incentive to devotion, , what a prompter of piety it would prove! What numberless graces would be diffused in the souls of ali! How the zeal of all, the interest of careless Christians, would revive! I the crowded churches, the large and deeply-in std ona And what a harvest of souls would the Divine Saviour reap! The doors of the Church would open wide and an innumerable host of erring souls would be gathered within her pale, I speak of our Protestan: triends, How they would crowd our churches—so inany who now hunger and thirst after truth and find it not, because there is none to lead them! They would listen to our service; they would be impressed, en- chanted by the glorious beauty of the Liturgy, The truth of the Catholic faith would then stand forth as bright as the sun. She would be the wit- ness of herself. How many calumnies would stand refuted, how mavy wrong impressions be removed and how much preju ‘ice would fall to the ground! And the ordi Protestant comment on the Cayholig gervice—"It is all mumunery, there t e nothing but form and ceremony’—would perish through its own apparent ioolish ess. ‘To it would suce ed the deepes: respect, the most mtense ad- miration. (od speed the coming of the day whea the want long felt by piovs Uatho ic hearts may be supplied, and that day will be a vrignt one for the Ca’ nollie reilgion and the world, ‘Vhe writer does not desire to torce these opinions onany one, He merely suggests then as worthy the attention of all Catholics, On all sides ne seems to hear ob,ections. lic unticipates the | thoughts of many pious and worthy people op reading this communication. The Latin service is ancient, they say, ani supp rted by such high d venerable authority; by means of it arses tne mirabie uniformity 0. the Liturgy throu: hout she whole world, and it binds ali the churches more closely to the See of Rome by reminding tiem of tueir dependence on the Vicar o: Chiist. And though to lim these arguments, albeit entitled to the utmost resect and consideration, are insuffi. ci nt and unsatis aciory, yet he is wilting toa cept them and continue ths use of the Latn service without a murmur, if only the abuse to which ae has atluded could be condemned and tho ouzhiy eradicaied irom the practice 0: tie Church, Of this he will speak at length hereatter. M. H. J. Anglican T ation of the Roman Catholic Chureh in India. After consulting the Archbishop and Vicar Apos- tollo of Westera Bengal on the subject, the Gover- nor General of India in Council nas directea that the following articles shall be supplied to Roman Catholic churches built by the government for the use of Europzan soldiers within the cost speciied against each:—Ong tabernacle, inside covered with silk; one pyx with silver cup, inside glit; one chalice silver cup, inside gilt; one monstrance, six altar c.ndlesti id cruciAx, two cruets and one plate, one altar lamp, one missal, altar canons (ole set Of tree), altar vestments O1 silk, five sets Ol the five colois; two copes, one white and one biack, of silk; humeral ‘or benediction, altar linen, Comprising sibs, altar covers, communion cloth, &c., &c. The above articles will be supplied by the Builtary Department at an aggregate cost, The churches in question are also to be supplien by the Public Works Departnent with oue bookstand, one almirah for altar vestments, &c., at ieast jour teet long by two teet five inches broad; tiree aliar chairs for oiiciant and assistants, ene table and ¢ chairs for the vestry, one font and cover, ab aggregate cost of 176 rupees; besides the usual fAxtures, viz.—Seats and kneeling accommodation for the congregation, ultar t.ble, communion rail, pulpit, punkhas where required, and aypasatus ior ighting. When achurch is to be jurnish d, the olficer of the Public Works Department who is charged with the work skould communicate with the ecclesiastical authorities concerned, with a view to afford the congregation an oppostunity of furn.s ung the cuurca ia more costly style suould they wish to do so. English Missionary Bishops. Three new English missionary Bishops, the Rev. P. 8S. Royston, the new Bishop of Mauritius, in suc- cession to the Right Rev. Dr. Huxtable; the Rev. W. A. Russe'l, M. A., who has been appo nted to havo charge of the missions in China; and the Key, Henry xowiey, M. A., the first bisuop o: the new Soe of Madagascar, were consecrated in Westmin- eter Abbey on December 15, Ministerial Movements and Changes. METHODIST, The Wesleyans and the “New Connection" Methodists oi Canada are about uniting their forces, The Bible Christians and the Primitive Methodists have voted against union, and the Episcopai Methodists of that country have also de- cided to stay outin the eold. In India the Sun- day school work begins to show signs of good re- sults, According to Rev. T. Craven, of the Metho- dist Episcopal Mission (American), the Methodists have 800 Sunday scholars in Lucknow, in Morada- bad 350, in Cawnpore 200 and in Roy Bareilly 150— making 1,500 in all, and this same progress, which characterizes other stations as well, is only stayed for lack of teachers, Kodama, the Japanese who was baptized by Dr. Newman, at Washington city, several months ago, has abandoned his intention of making law his profes- sion, aud proposes to study for the ministry and return.to Japan and establish a Methodist Epis- copal church. BiShop Doggett, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, reports increase in members and preachers in all the Southwestern Conterences he has attended. Bishop Early, of the Methodist Epis- copal Church South, is so ill that his death is expected every moment. He 1s confined to his bed and unable to rise, save as he is helped by friends. The Methodist Board of Bishops hold their next meeting in this city on Monday, April 7. Rev. Wil- lam Searies, of the Central New York Conferenc:, has just entered upon his duties as chaplain of the New York State Prison at Auburn. Rev. H. B. Cassavant, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., who has spent a few days in this city seeking ald for hia Charch work, left for home last week. Bishop Wiley and Dr. Rust have reached their homes in Cincinnati safe and well alter tueir ex- tended tour in the Southwest, Bishop Janes, Dr. E. 0. Haven and their genial travelling companion, Rev. S. W. Dunscomb, have returned from their month’s tourin the South. They bring a very en- couraging report of the work in the Southern Con- ferences which they visited. Rev. J. Miller, pastor at Edina, Mo., has been transferred by Bishop Wiley to the Texas Conierence and stationed at Austin. Bishop Yeakel, of tae Evangelical Asso- ciation, familiarly known as Albright Methodists, is very ill. At Clyde, Central New York, a great work is still in progress. At latest dates 130 new converts had already united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, under the super- vision of Rev. Mr. Chandler. A considerable num- ber of the students of Pittsburg Female College have professed conversion in the revival meetings now in progress. In the Methodist Episcopal church in Montclair, N. J.,a revival isin progress and several conversions are reported; at Harper's Ferry station 16 conversions are reported; at North- port, L. I, 61 were received on probation on Jan- uary 26; in Delaware avenue Methodist Episcopal church, Buffaio, 60; ia Marshail, Ill., 75; in Green- ville, N. J., last Sunday, tne ‘rorty-third street church (New York) praying band went to the assistance of Rev. E. Clemen's, and 20 were con- verted during the day. The pastor's wife died suddenly during the evening services and the event left a deep impression upon the people. ROMAN CATHOLIC, The Christmas collections in this city for the Roman Catiolic Orphan Asylums foot up a total of $26,245 72. The Bishop of Tarpes is about to form a religions society calied aiter the Immaculate Von- ception at Lourdes. The Very Rev. Dr. Moriarty, 0. 5. A., has conciuded his very able course of lec- tures in Philadelphia, reviewing the charges ot Froude. The ceremony of blessing the stations of the cross took place Sunday evening at the Church of Our Lady of Loreto, Hempstead, Rev. E. McSherry, pastor. The ceremony was weil at- tended, an tae of the city folk went down to Hempstead for the occasion. Archbisiop McClos- key administered the sacrament of confirmation at the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, Third street, last Sunday evening, to 350 children. ‘he diocese of Rieti, Italy, was formally consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Our Blessed Lord on December 19, A majority of the Catholic dio- ceses in Europe are at present under the protection of the Sacred Heart. The Society of the “Living Rosary” counts over 600,000 members in France alone. Father Morel, a celebrated Benedietine preacher and author, attached to the lamous Abbey of Einsiedien, died recently at an advanced age. Father Leineweber, of Manich, has been sen- tenced to six months’ imprisonment for the crime of protesting publicly an inst the odious prohibi- tion recently made by the Bavarian government to boys and young men, preventing their serving at mass. Fathers Turner, Rooney, Lilly and Carey, of the Dominican Order, are giving “missions” in the Catholic churches in New Orleans. PRESBYTERIAN, The United Presbyterian church in Newburg, of which Dr. Findley is pastor, have tried free pews and voluntary offerings jor a year, and finds that it works well, Considerably more was raised in this way than was ever done in the church before. All the current expenses were fully met, the ordi- nary contributions made to the boards of the church, and the year closed with money in the treasury. The church at Big Rapids, Mich., have so nearly completed their house of worship as to hold services in it, A commission has been appointed by the Southern Presbyterian Synod of Texas to consider and determine the question of moving the Synodicai College from its present location at Hontaville. Lafayette avenue Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, Rev. Dr. Cuyler, pastor, has the largest membership of apy church of the denomina- tion in the country—namely, 1,675, Last year they erected a beautiful mission chapel, aud now a colony of 100 members is going off to organize the Calvary Presbyterian church in that chapel. This ig the Second colony sent out by this prosperous church, The whole number of members received during Dr. Cuyler’s ministry of twelve years has been 2,230. Rev. 8. H. Thompson, of Canandaigua, has resigned his pastorate of the it Presbyterian church there. v. A. D. Barber, of New Milford, Pa., has gone to the Presbyterian church im Wy- 80x, Pa. v. Charles Fueller, of Mexico, Mo., has ‘oue to Oxford, same State. Kev. Hl. P. Smith, of Walnut Hills, Pa., has returned from a year’s tour in Europe and resumed the professorsnip of sacred rhetoric in Lane Seminary. Seventy-five have united with the Presbyterian church in Goshen, Onio, the result of @ revival still in progress in that place. Rev. W. J. Stoutenburgh has re- signed his pastoral charge at Tecumseh, Mich. Rev. D. S. Banks, of Pennsylvania, las accepted a cail to Marquette, Mich., and goes thither about the last of February, ev. Dr. Hoges, Presby- terian church, in Richmond, Va., at their last com- munion received fifteen new members. Rev, James Watson, Of peli Alp, has just organized 4 new Presbyterizn church in that place, with thirty. three members, twenty-Ave of wrom are the fruits ofa fate revival. Rev. A.W. Clisly, of Savanna Ga., has accspted @ call to Micon, Ga. West ‘Twenty-third sireet church. Kev, H. D, Northrop, pastor, hal an addition ©: fi.ty-five members last babbata, of wuom forty-one uuited by profession, Tuese the first iruits of a poweriul revival whic } has been in progress for several weeks, anu continues with unubated interest. Rev. Joseph Bardwell has accepted @ cull irom the Church at Meridian, Miss, ISCOPALIAN, The Episcopalis of Hudsoa county, N. J., are about to erect a hospital, in counection with which wil bo a home tor aged and indigent persons. The Lnglish Protestant bishop Wilber.orce has lately vesused to atiow # Protestant clergyman 0: the tire- brand species to lectuye in his diocese on ‘Popish Errova.” ‘he Bisiop of Missouri complains of the decreasing confirmations in tue church, A move- ment is on vot towards establishing @ new Prov. estant church at Wasaington, N. The who.e number 0 ciergy canonically connected with the diocese of New York is 309. Bishop Lee, 01 Iowa, issued a = ‘“pustoral letter” to the clergy and people, manly in behalf of the theological department of Griswold Colleze. Christ church, Boston, boasts the oldest Sunday school in New Lngiani, ‘The church tiself is tae Oldest nuw used for worship in tit ctty. George Il, presented it with @ communion service and books, whic are now in use. It hus a marbie bust oi Washington. 118 chandeliers were taken by @ Britisu cruiser trom a Frenci vesscl and presented to the church, BAPTIST. The N-tional Baptist claims that not less than One hundred thousand persons were added to its denownation last year by immersion. The ear previous the number reported was 85,321. A Baptist missionary convention will be held in Phila- delpnia on iuesday next and following days. Ke- vivals Of reiigiou are 1e¢90. ted among the saptists in Vineland, N.J., where forty converts are re- portod, geveral of whom have been immersed, Reports from the interior of Ku-sia state that the Laptists are making unprecedented progress in the acquisition o: converts.. Dozens and scores have been baptized in the riveis or the sea cespite the biting cold. A Russian as-ociation nas, been Jormed, including all the Bartist churches in Kussia and ‘lurkey. Many of the reéent cases of baptism reported in Russia include persons of note and influence. Im Kiza there are about one hun- dred Baptist members; in St, Petersburg, thir- teen. The Church at Adams, N, Y., is favored with eucouraging revival influences, The pastor, Rev. 8. T. Merrill, is doing effective service, bovn in his immediate field and at other accessible points, where he occasionally preaches. lev. Gevoige H. Lawson has added to the membership of the Baptist Church, in Soleburg, Pa., eighty- eight souls during his three years’ ministry, and @ revival has recently occurred there, Kev. A, F. Shanaleit, pastor of the baptist cuurch in Chester, Pa., baptized. eight persons last Sunday and re- ceived 1lo membership nine others previously baptized. Delaware Avenuo Baptist church, Wil- mington, Del., has a revivalon hand. Nealy fiity have asked tor prayers, and one-hai! are said to be rejoicing in hope 0: tie glory of God. Rev. Folwcll, pastor. last Sabbath baptized ten persons atthe First charch, in Wilmington; eleven were baptized on the 2vth ultimo, by Kev, & Maryott. Rev. J. P. Hunter, of Russelville, Pa. Baptist church, on January 12 immersed three converts, whose zeal was so ardent that the ice had to be broken on the creck ere tiey could rec-ive the ordinance. Kev. Mr. House immersed six recent converts last Sabvath in Mount Lolly, N. J., Baptist church, ight more are awaiting the administra- tion of the rite. kev. Mr. Chambliss, on tie same Sabbith, immersed four in the North church, of Camden, N. J. MISCELLANEOUS, More money is expended annually by the various churenes for the maintevance oi Christian institu- tions in New York city alone than is expended an- nually by all the churches of the United states in maintaining their missions to the entire heathen word, inctuding é¢very outlay of every kind tor those missions. ‘The Keformed Church in America ex.ends more in sustaming its churches and Christian work in New York city alone than in maintaining all oi its missions tu tie heathen. The Reformed hurch in America collected and expended during the financial year reported to the iast General Synod, for Christian instiiu- tions at Lome and abroad, $1,623,709 31, reckoning the, income from invested funds at $200,000, of which large amount only $63,973 26 were given by it for and expended upon missions to the heathen, Revivals among Unitarians are as scarce as snow insummer. But @ late number of the Christian Register states that “there 1s @ deep re- ligious interest in the Cnanning Society at Newton, Mass. Thirteen persons between the ages of seventeen and seventy came orward to the aitar last Sunday.” Both the Congregational churches in Chelsea, Mass., are enjoying unusual prosperity. ‘The pastor of the Winnisimet, Kev. A. P. Foster, invites persons desiiing religious conversation to remain aiter the Sabbath evening prayer meeting for that purpose. Nearly thirty have accepted the invitation at ong time. Dr. Eddy, oi the Central, holds @ young people's meeting On Tuesday even- ings, which ts largely attended, and which he con- ducts much after the manner ot an old-fashioned “imquiry meeting.” Other churcnes in the vicinity are favored with @ similar religious awakening, which, in most cases, may be traced to the week of prayer. The day of prayer for colleges, which was observed through- out the land on ‘thursday, January 3), dates back haifa century, when it was first kept in Andover Seminary, on the recommendation of Rev. Dr. Cor- nelius and Professor Edwards. Kev. G. W. Bailey has resigned his pastorate in Moriisville Univer- salist church, ‘he resignation to take efiect the ist of April. He has been seven years pas- tor of this parish. Rev. E. Davis resigas his pastorship at Canton, Mass., to accept the oMce of Financial Secretary of the Universalist State Convention. The reports handed in at the annual meeting of the Shawmut church, Boston, are of great interest, showing tuat the Society is nard at work, not only in its special church duties, but in missions of general benevo- lence, Sevent:en new members have been added through the year, making a total of 208. Rev. James Eastwood accepts a call from the Universa!- ist church in Foxboro, Mass, The International Lesson Committee has another meeting announced for Feoruary 19, at Niagara Falls. The Executive Committee of the International Sunday School Con- ventiun is calied to meet at the same time and pare. The KRelormed church at East Brooklyn, ev. J. Halsted Carroll pastos, during the past year has been increased by the addition of 124 families to the congregation. In the same period 201 new members have been added to the chureh, of whom a were received on confes- sion o1 faith, A breach has occurred in the Univer- sal Israelite Alliance by the withdrawal of the German branch, and the result is likely to be a total disintegrat of the society and a reorgani- zation into several smaller societies, according to nationalities. The Universalist church in Ridge- way, N. Y., Rev. H. B. Howell, pustor, recently re- ceived an accession ot thirty-seven members. Rev. J. H. Campbeil, of Conneautville, has gone to Sus- quehanna Depot, Pa., and become pastor of the Universalist Society in that place. LEXINGTON AVENUE SYNAGOGUE. Isracl’s Faith and the World’s Expecta- tion—The Dual Blessing to Abraham— Relation of Individual Character to National Morality. Yesterday Rev. Dr. Huebsch gave his people a simple exposition of some texts of Scripture in lieu of a studied discourse—not that the com- ments of the Doctor were given at random, but they partook more of the conversational style than ordinary sermons do, The congregation had read the thirtieth chapter of Exodus, and the Doctor's remarks were directed mainly toward the twelith-fourteenth verses—“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel. after their number, then shall they give every man @ ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest them ; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them. This shall they give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary, twenty gerahs a shekel: half a shekel shall be the offering of the Lord.” Dr. Huebsch explained the importance of this poll tax according to the ancient rabbinical writers, and further elucidated the text by giving reasons why this ransom tor the soul should be offered. It was not lawful, he said, to take THE NUMBER OF THE ISRABLITES, because the Lord’s promise to Abraham was that his posterity should be as numerous as the stars in the firmament and as the sand upon the sea shore for multitude. But the Doctor did not deem this reason quite sufficient for the prohibition to num. ber. There is a deeper reason for it. According to the will of God Israel was destined to represent a kingdom of priests and a holy nation; and, so far as the community was concerned, they have never denied their holy vocation. Even in those times which are described as vicious and idolatrous the pceeee witnessed to the respect for truth, hough in their horror at the sins of the people they doubtiess portrayed some of the national vices and transgressions more heinous and blacker than they were, But, nevertheless, we may boldly dee¢iare that there was no time in history when Israel did not give witness of the living truth of the living God, Asa@ community they bore taith- fully the message of the Eternal through the ages. But it we separate a community into its constitu. ent parts we shall find many gross individual crimes with which the community cannot be justly charged, and yet it 18 seriously injured by them. For like toadstools growing at the foot of a tree in- dividual vices cannot fail to impair the public wel- fare and to suck up many & power h else would have subserved to promote the growth of noble fruit. But these generai truths have a special ap- plicatioa to the Jewish people, Time has passed and many PREJUDICES HAVE BEEN REMOVED, but there is one prejudice so deeply rooted in the minds of multitudes of nonAsraelites that neither time ner culture seem to have any influence or bower over ie, Lmeag, daig the Dogior, the preju- dice which always names the religious denomina tion o: an Israelite who, by avcdeut or design, ete himselt on the nina lst. Yet ths rejigious designation oj & Jewish criminal can be taken as @ general ucknowledgment of tue divinity of our Crime is «0 contrary to the nature of our religion, suid he, that people are astonished when they find thatan adherent of and believer in the ott Sinwitic revelation has piaced \imseif in antagunism to tiose principies of justice and righteousness and trath, which constitute the basis ol this reve- lation, Then our nin Jewish brethren proclaim the surprising fact to tne worid thut the crimimal isaJew. Ido net like to accuse my fellow men, said the Doctor; I would rather jus*ify them in my heart, and, thereore, I tuink such expressions, With whatever des.gn ured, mean to say to us:— “A man pro essing a creed so pure and 80 full of love and justice as that imparted to Isract ought always to walk in the ght of the Etesnal, and never should aporoach the darkness of vice and crime.” But whether these utterances be intended as homage toward our reiigion or to express @ want of kindness and brotherhood toward our race, 80 much 1s true that the moral deportment of the individual has a very decided influence upea the degree of respect and esteem in which Israeliies may be held by brethren of other creeds und denominations. Every man is not a judge oi precious stones. We are too apt to measure the vaiue of the jewel which the well- dressed man wears in his shirt front by our im- pressions gained oi his apparel, while the man in mnean ature, tioagh he may wear a real diamond fis his breast, is adjudged to own a counterfeit, ur RELIGION I3 THR PRECIOUS JEWEL which every one bears about with him and adoras or otherwise by his daily life, whetner in: t domestic circle or in busmess relatious. And the value of our jewel will be grade@ by our neighbors according to our at ward actions, Nowhere so much as in Juduisi is individual purity the basis, tae prima of religious prosperity, The Lord was not satist with having Israeci make tne sanctuary the com- mon nationalinstitution. It was not enough that the who.e people should there be represented 4 the tribe of the priests as a religions body, but each man for himsels, whether rich or poor, was to give a ransom tor his soul, ‘The Doctor then explained the idea involved in the hall shekel, which in the rich called fortm modesty and in the poor sell-denial and a certain degree of independence and self-consclousness, waich as a poor man he could not otherwise have. The double Llessing to Abraham was next ex- piened. the reference to the stars conveying the idea of religious brilliancy, while that to the sands on the sea shore gives the idea of compactness and unity 0: taith, One grain o; sand cannot do much, but millions of them together form a barrier to the sea, ‘The Doctor thea applied these ideas to the individual lives of his congregation. A HUNGARIAN CAUSE CELEBRE. eee Atrial is at the present time taking place at Szegedin, Hungary, the extraordinary complicated and dramatic history of which is destined te occupy & conspicuous place among the criminal records of all countries and epocns. The individ- uals involved may be counted by hundreds—ther crimes and offences by thousands; and the first arrests took place as far back as 1860, The Lloyd of Pesth gives an outline of the case under the title of the “Procts Sandor’’—Sandor being the name ot the chief ofa band of malefactors whose depreda- tions and atrocities rendered them the terror of Szegedin and the surrounding district, According to the Pesth journal, ever since 1860 the inhabitanta of Szegedin had become so terrified in consequence of the daring exploits of Sandor’s band of briganda that they locked and barred themselves in their houses every night at dusk, and dared not te ven- ture into the streets even during the day without being armed with revolvers and swordsticks. Robberies, incendiary fires and assassinations were the order of the day, and the maieiactors carried their audacity so tur as to attack the diligences ia the open day, and in the very midst of the town itself. For @ long time the criminals escaped, while numbers of innucent inhabitants were ar- rested on suspicion; and it was unuer these cir- cumstances that M. de Kaday was sent as a royal commissioner to Szegedin, charged with .ull powers and having at his disposition the forces and the resources necessary to put an end to a state of things so dep.orable and alarming. M. de Raday soon became convinced that not only Szegedin but the whole comitat and the surrounding districts were infested by 1ormidable companies of brigands, whose organizutiou was complete and their circie of action clearly defined. When one of these com- panies was not suflicently numerous to carry out @ daring enterprise, assistance was lent by the other companies. Two o! these bands of brigands, leagued togetuer, not long ayo succeeded in enter- ing the cellurs of a bank, and im carrying the immense sale intu thestreet. ‘They fuiled, however, in gettung it intoa cart wnich they had brought tor the pur- pose, and jound themselves compelled to abandon thelr valuavle vooty. The sate was found intact at the door o! the bauk on the 1ollowing morning, and the operation had been carried on without any one’s attention having been called to it or without any one daring to give the alarm. After caretal and minute inquiries the royal commissioner found, to his astonishment, that a number of adminisrra- tive and judicial tunctiouaries were acting a8 ac- co mplices of tne various bands of brigands—that even the titled nobilities of the district acted as re- ceivers of the stolen property. A number of these companies were soon tracked, and several of the bandits were arrested and given up to justice, It was then found that the police agents were in league with the malefactors. At Szegedin a Com- mussary of Police, two judges, four employés of the ‘Treasury and torty-six detectives were arrested as being implicated in the depredations of the bands. Crimes have been brought to light which were perpetrated thirty years ago; and an old man of seventy was condemned some short tine ago for @ crime committed when he was forty ears of age. The novel and peculiarly “psycholog- cal’ system pursued by tne royal commissiener in order to find out the guilty parties among the hundreds of fndividuais arrested is worth record- ing. The prisoners were completely isolated from the rest of the world during their confinement, and their eyes were bound, in order to prevent any conversation by signs usually resorted to by ac- Complisied thieves. ‘Companions in captivity,’® totally unknown to them, were placed in the same celis, Who soon insinuated themselves into the con- fidence ef the prisoners, studied their character: made themselves acquainted with their secrets ant used all their efforts to bring about their conies- sion. With regard to Sandor, the royal cemmis- sioner himself succeeded in getting @ full and complete avowal of his crimes by adopting tactics of @ most ingenious kind. Knowing the great brigand chief to be exceedingly vain of hia reputa~ tion, and to be in the habit of locking down upon his less daring accomplices as mere “purioin- ers of chickens,” M. de Raday ordered Sandor to fall upon bis knees before his fellow priseners—the small fry of the band—whose instructions were to reproach their chief with being a chicken stealer like themselves, The ruse was perfectly successe ful: the proud Sandor’s “honor” was mortally wounded, and the “brigand king” (as he loved to style himself) immediately entered into @ full con- Jession of bis long series of crimes, as well as those of his accomplices. The expedient resorted to by the royal commissioner in the case of another fainous brigand, named Jean Bajdor, was this:— Bajdor ts known to be ppc superstitious; he is charged with having committed two murdera and insists upon asserting his innocence. One evening the examining magistrate had Bajdor brought ito nis cabinet, aad immediately ad- dressed him as follows:—‘John Bajdor, I cannot sleep on your account; the ghost of Peter Bodri, whom you assassinated, appears before me every night, and threatens to haunt and torment me until such time as I shall have put the rope with whieh you strangled your victim round your own neck! On saying this the examining magistrate threw @ rope round Bajdor’s neck and ordered him to be taken back to prison, At midnight John Bajdor, who had slept soundly, aot- withstanding his flity-nine crimes, roe up aiirighted and rushed towards the door of the prison crying for help. This was the moment the examining magistrate had anxiously awaited; he made his way into the cell, when Bajdor confessed not only to having murdered Bodri and his son, but also to having committed a number of other hein- ous crim n consequence of these disclesures the two bodies of his victims, with the ropes stilt round their ck, were discovered. Acting om Bajdor’s advice @ number of otner prisoners have made free coniession of the crimes they committed. All the malefactors arrested, it must not be for- gotten, are kept in the utmost ignorance as to tho charges which weigh against them. On their first examination they were not questioned as to the perpetration of such or such @ crime; they were simply asked to give an account of any offence of which they. TS eee themselves guilty. By me: of crimes have Veen brought to light hitherto totally unsuspected. An idea of how desirable a place Szegedin must have been to live in may be formed from the following enumeration of the cases which are now being tried beiore @ specially ap- pointed Court :—When the royal commissioner first arrived at Szegedin there were 1,506 criminal charges to be made. A little later 600 more charges were made, and when the Royal Commission had terminated its duties 950 fresh cases were byrog to light, making in all nearly 3,000 crimes of the ‘avest character. Of this total 1,000 judgments ave already been given, and nearly all these judg- ments have been confirmed on ap The crimea and offences discovered by the Royal Commission amount to 8,000. The principal chi $ are those of murder, robbery, pillage, incendiarism, &c., the cases of robbe: me exceeding 4,000. The trial of this unprecedented batch of highwaymen, which commenced on the 12th imst., is not expected to terminate before the end of the month.—London Standard, OTICUT MURDERER.—Efforts countrymen of on, friends of his, to raise empt which is to be mad@ to obtain for him a new trial. Money bas already been obtained toward this object. The hearing Upon the motion for # new trial will not take place tillspring. Should the effort fail a year will elapse from next Spring before sentence of death would be carried out. He was quite comfortable yester- fay. though still quite weak from the loss of blood in his suicidal attempt, and still emphatic in his ex- pression of determination ta ¢! id We, Vert Aaven Jan. Yt.