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4 NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDA THB LAW AND THE GOSPEL, Proceedings of the Conference of the Evangelical Alliance. CHRISTIANITY AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT. Papers by American Professors on Chris- tianity and Liberty. Canon Fremantle on the Church and the Nation. FREEDOM OF SPEECH SUPPRESSED. Lively Debates in Both Sessions. THE PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY. The sessions of the Conference of the Evangell- cal Alliance were remarkable yesterday for con- | siderable freedom of speech. The latitude allowed inthe discussion was productive occasionally of much amusement, and the merry and joyful side of Obristianity was well represented in the hearty laughter of the audiences at cach session. To-day the Conference will direct its attention to missions at home and abroad. Association Hall. The proceedings of the section of the Evangelical Alliance Conference were opened yesterday morn- ing at ten o’clock. The hall was crowded at the opening of the session, and throughout the day lo- comotion along the aisles was extremely dificult. After the singing of the hymn commencing, ‘I love Thy kingdom, Lord,” the audience was led in | prayer bythe Rev. Dr. Caswell, late President of brown University. ADDRESS BY THE REY. CANON FREMANTLE. + The Rev. W. H. Fremantie, M. D., of London, read @ paper on “The Church and the Nation,” in the course of which he said:—‘‘The reason why de- nominational lines were not more completely broken down was that men grew puzzled when | they attempted to go beyond the old lines, | and did not know how iar it was sale to advance. the denominational lines were fading, and few Protestants now Maintained that their particular orm of | church government was the only one sanctioned. | He looked forward to the time when Christiaus woulda form a truly catholic Church, composed of ail who believe that man 1s saved by faith in Christ alone. The dogmas oi each sect need not be given up, if viewed in connection with a central prin- ciple of light and love. If this principle be held fast, the different dogmas will be harmonized im a | Many-sided, different life. The tendency he dwelt | upon would bring the influence of religion to bear | More and more upon legislation and increase the power of Christianity in national affairs, The | speaker quoted Hooker, Burke and Dr, | Arnold to show that in a Christian commonwealth | the state and the Church are identical. This was be. 4 different from the interierence of government with the right of conscience. A great mistake had been made by De Tocqueville aud others in think- ing that the State must be ey Separate from the Church, or else subordinate all other sects to one. A national system of Church governinent Was possible, with free room for all. In many uf the churches organized in New England, alter the pattern of those in the New Testament, ruling | elders had been among the officers. Why bad this office been done away with? Because it was recog- nized that government should be administered | the Christian magistrate, and that the interests | of the Church and State were identical. | ADDRESS OF DR. WOLSEY. Ex-President Theodore D. Wolsey, D. D., LL. D., New Haven, Conn., rose to read a paper on ‘The Constitution and Government in the United States as related to Religion.” Before proceeding to read it he asked that Bishop Simpson, o! the Methodist Episcopal Church, snould preside. The Bishop, who was on the platform, on taking the chair, introduced Dr. Wolsey to the audience. President Wolsey commenced by defining and describing the relations that the government of | the United States had with Christian religion, and | then described summarily the attitude of the sev- eral States to the Christian religion, before and since the Revolution. He explained and asserted | the fixed principie of the American mind, religious | or irreligious, against the establishinent of an ex- clusive State Church. He made the statemeut that if any attempt were to be made, either irom the history or condition o1 the Church, to forma connection with the State, he believed that the adherents of every form and condition of religion | would Pe ged any act that would destroy the prin- ciple that makes them all equal. Neither would | any oi these ps er people consent to have Ko- | manism frowned upon by State law. (Cheers.) | Thus the responsibility of the — faithiul preuching of the Gospel was thrown upon the people. We dread the inquiry whether the United States could ve considered a Christian nation. It may be called a Christian country; in this sense, at least, that a Vast majority of the peo- ple believe in Christ and His Gospel; and that all onr institutions are framed upon that Jact. ADDRESS BY DR. HOPKINS. Ex-President Mark Hopkins, D.D., L.L. D., Williamstown, Mass, read @ paper enti- ted, “The Sabbath Made for Man; His Conse- uent Right to Legislation for Securing Its nds,”* le alleged that the obligation for keeping the Sabbath was as strong a commandment of the moral jaw as those laws that relate to lile, property and purity in the Decalogue. No good law | can be destroyed in the interests of ireedom; for the goodness consists in the observance. He then laid down the following propositions First--That the nature of man, whether physi- cally, intellectually or spiritually, either as an in- dividual or socialiy, is preconiormed to the division of time which the Sabbath contemplates, and with the best resulis on the individual aud society on tnem throughout. Second—That in connection with this division and employment of time there are rights which properly ought to be secured by legisiation. A LIVELY DEBATE. J. CARVELL WILLIAMS, one of the Vice Presi- dents of the Liberation Society of Great Britain, responded to the invitation of the Conference to a discussion of the subjects that had been referred to in the papers read that morning. He said that he should not be doing Mr. Fremantle any injus- tice, neither would he be saying what was wrong when he stated that the system which Mr. Freman- tle advocated England was not prepared for. He would go further and say England would not adopt it, and that the views of Mr. Fremantie were | not in accordance even With fis own Church. He knew that the views of Mr. Fremantie were held by but @ small part of the Church of England, and- were rejected by the great body of English Nonconformists. He believed that the tendency in England was more towards the system of the United States, and he felt sure that a Broad Church could. never exist in the former country. He thought that Mr. Fremantie’s theory should be condemned on many grounds, out he was afraid that he might do him injustice, as the theory had been presented with an indefinite- ness of which its propounder himself seemed at times to be conscious. Mr. Fremautle seemed to acknowledge that affairs in America were not fa- vorable for the adoption of bis plan. Why, then, should it be advisable for England? What differ- ence was there between Englishmen and Ameri- canst (Laughter and applause.) If the plan was good for one it was yood for another. The union | of Church and state had been tried in America and had failed, and in England and had failed; yet we were asked to try the experiment over again. He argued at length in favor of the voluntary system | and oe separation of civil and religious govern- men A WORD FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT. The Rev. Mr. MENZIES said that as the only rep- resentative here of the National Presbyterian | Church of Scotland, he felt compelled to say a few | words in behalf of the union of Church and state, although aware that the sympathies of the audience were against him. He spoke of an inci- dent which happened just before he left Seotiand, when, in a country church, he saw the Queen and her Prime Minister at their devotions, He was led at that time to reflect upon the connection of Charch and state, andthe great influence which the Church has had in Great Britain in civilizing and humanizing the people. in a great part of Scotland, owing to the poverty of the people, it would be um le to support religion without the endowment of the Church, and he hoped it Would be very long beiore the government would lay its hands'on the benefactiona devoted to this map and apply them to other uses. ‘The Conlerence then adjourned until two o'clock. Afternoon Session. The Rev. Dr. Jovy, of Newton Theological Semi- nary, Tead a paper on “Christian Liberty.”” ADDRESS OF MR. JAMES GIRDLESTONE. Mr. Jamxs GinpLxetoxy, of London, Who spoke on “Legislation on Moral Questions,” and said he was @ member of the Established Churck in Eng- dand, but he was not there to argue in favor of an established Church, but a reiigious state, In a © State, there could ence to the law that controls be no law that any man could’ obey that P ~) hot in accordance with the law of . The Bible was the standard of the mocestary in tne aoesrion OF MAFTiAge, and 15 was very desirable that & man and wife should know whether they are married or not. (Cheers and laughter) Mr. Girdlestone then expounded at length the abstract principies on the relation of law w Christianity, and in the course of a forcible and humorous speech showed that the principle of all Ohristian Isw was tounded on the Ten Com- mandments, A CANADIAN DELEGATE. The Rev. G. M. Grant, of Canada, defended Canon Fremantie’s views and said that he thought thatin the expression of these views they had been greatly misunderstood. Mr. Fremaatie had relerred, by way of tilustration, to the fact that the Church of England needed the reformation, but what he (the Canon) was seeking for was the making of @ nation Christian. Now the Alltance had nothing to do with what any nation did as to its oWn support and organization, He proceeded to show the absurdity by the deduction of certain facts of the absurdity of the reasoning that the Church had nothing to do with that which is Christian. The discussion was continued by the Dean of Canterbury and by a Scotch delegate. Alter these speakers Bishop Simpson spoke on the general question of Christian way | in a very fervid elo- auence, and with a power that brought out enthu- siastic plaudits trom the audience. A(ter the singing of a hymn and the pronouncing of the benediction the session was adjourned until this morning, at ten o'clock, . AtSt. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church. The second section of the Alliance reassembled yesterday morning, at St. Paul’s Methodist church, on Fourth avenue. The Rev, Dr. George L. Crooks was chosen chairman. The session was opened by the Rev. Mr. Merwin. The general topic jor the day was “Christianity and Liberty.”’ President W. H. CAMPBELL, D. D., of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., read the first paper, entitled ‘ne Influence o1 Christianity Upon Civil and Religious Liberty.” The speaker said that Bishop Butler, in his poaloay: on reason, speaks of the action of brute force; it is this force, intensified by the spirit of evil, that is working in the hearts of the children of disobedience. Piety is the prin- cipal agent in this work of reformation; men are the intermediate agents. Various in- stances were cited, among them that of John Knox and Mary, Queen of Scots, to show ihe influ- ence of Heaven in restraining vicious desires and tendencies. Nowhere can we find civil and re- ligious liberty except in the Jewish theocracy, Whose fundamental principie was, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” During the first three centuries the governments everywhere were heathenish, and a Christian could not hold oftice under them. Now Christianity abolishes slavery, gives women and children their rights and gives one to all. ‘ne Hon. L. M. Curry, LL. D., of Richmond, Va., followed Dr. Campbell upon the same vopic. Every person has a right to worship God, free from civil moiestation’ Liberty is not unre- Strained license; it imposes laws and obligations @s Well a8 guarantees privileges. The right of tree- dom of worship is sacred. When Church and State are united the State practicaily as- Sumes infa.libility—abrogates the right to say what Shall be the church, and not unfrequently uses civil oMcers to enforce religious discipline. Sepa- Tation of church trom State means freedom irom political influences; it means that the State must | hot intertere between conscience and God; 1t Means, “Render unto Cwsar the things that are ‘wsar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s,”” Religion here is neither fettered nor endowed. Extracts from the constitution were quoted to | llustrate this point. Religious liberty was not considered by the framers of our constitution as | anything but a right. Religious —_ttberty with us is no longer an experiment, but an established fact, meeting the hearty approval of every religious denomination and political party vuroughout our broad land. ‘the union of | church and State is wrong iu principle and | injurious in practical operation. The estab- | lishment of a union would be an injury to the State; Mexico, France and other instances that could be mentioned are powertul illustrations of | this truth. A national church is based upon the pripciple that eure man is @ member of * that church. he church, when thus united, offers a premium upon hypocrisy, 1or men affect religion in order to become sneritts, magistrates, or to gain some civil office. Under such union a man’s right to worship God is not God given but a political grace. A union is wrong to citizens generally. It robs them of their prop- | Lonaon; Kev. H. H. Stuart; Rey. George Fisch, of Parts; ir Devoppet and Professor re About half a dozen were also of the party, and Warden Brennan, of #ellevuc Hospital, stepped on board as the last man and the most useiul one, ‘The Minnahannoock steamed away for Biackwell’s island and landed her passengers, who were taken in charge by Mr. Jerolomean, steward ofthe Charity Hospital, and shown over that institution. Mr, Joseph Liscomb, warden o1 the Penitentiary, next took them in hand, aud explained the workings of his monastic sanitorium ior the health and refor- mation of wayward citizens of New York. They were then passed along to Mr. Marshall eon ie who exhibited the interior of the almshouse and its occupants, and after a brief inspection the visitors Proeeeded to the Storehouse, the con- of which were enumerated by mera! storekeeper, Mr. John. Flagler. At the Workhouse, Mr. Joseph Keen, the warden, enlightened the joreign gentlemen on the ways of women who are sent to repent and toil in durance vile on Blackwell’s Island, ‘The warden, Mr. Anthony Allat toek the gentlemen subsequently through the Lunatic jum, and then the entire body embarked On the Min- nahannock and started for Randall's nd, where they were received by the warden, Mr, William H, Stephens, and the boys and girls of the reforma- tories. Little harry Savage and little Tommy Graham made & speech o! weicome to the visitors, and so did littie Emmy Gardner,gwhom tne tender- hearted Mayor was moved to kiss, After the visitors had onload {as they certainly seemed to do) the exercises of the boys and girls, the: went through the Lunatic Asylum under charge of Mr. Edward Burke, avd took sail soon after for Hart’s Island, where they were welcomed by Mr. Lawrence Danphy, the Warden, A visit to the school ship Mercury fol- lowed, and some pleasant speech-making by tie Mayor, the Rev. Mr. Fisch and Captain Giraud was indulged in, The boys on the ship performed various exercises, and towards two o'clock im the atter- noon the large party left on its returm to Ward’s Island, where dinner was arranged to be ready. Dr. Adams, Resident Fhysician of the Inebriate Asylum and Soldiers’ Retreat, paid every atte:- ton to his guests; and as lor the old soldiers, who were all drawn up at ease outside the building, they were ever 80 cheerfully disposed to welcome the delegates and be uselul to them in imparting injormation, The dinner was good, and was & nd, for everybody was hungry enough to steal a loaf ot bread if put to it, Mayor HAVEMEYER made a neat and felicitous address, saying how glad he was, as representative of the great city of New York, to show so many and such distinguished strangers the workings of insti- tutions forthe protection and wellbeing of the poor and erring who were of foreign as well as of native birth. Dr. PaRKER, of London, responded fo the re- marks of the Mayor, on behalt of the foreign dele- ation, and said he was sure all of them should go Back deeply impressed with what bers j hac seen, and never likely to orget the wondertul hospitality of the people of New York. There Were no more speeches, The time was growing late, and the delegates had various appointments or the evening. Wardea Brennan, who was assiduous in attending to the Wants of the party aboard and ashore passed around several boxes of cigars, which were appreciated by a considerable number of the dele- gutes as a pleasant addendum to the dinner. At six o’cloch in the evening the Minnehannock pulled up at the foot of Twenty-sixth street and the company quickly dispersed to fuifil their difer- ent engagemenis. THE CITY MISSION, A meeting in connection with the Conference was held last evening in Olivet Chapel, 63 Second street, when addresses were delivered by Stephen H. Tyng, Jr.; the Kev, R. Knox, irom Belfast; Narayan Sheshadri and Charles Reed, Esq., M. P., of London. There was a very crowded attend- ance, Programme for the Day. MISSIONARY DAY. Devotional service in the Madison square church (Madison avenue, corner Twenty-fourth street), at nine o'clock A. M., to continue for three- quarters of an hour. There will be four sections for this day. The first section will meet in Association Hall at ten o'clock A, M. and two o’clock P. M. General Topic—“Principles and Relations of Missionary Work. —1. “Duty of the Churches in Relation to Mis- a ngu erty: for when a government takes from the peo- | ple more than enough for its legitimate aftairs it commits robbery. It 1s @ wrong to our holy re- ligion, because it makes Christianity dependent upon civic power, it disowns the Holy Sprit and seeks other enjoyments of peace. THE LIBERTY OF SPEECH. At this point in Mr. Curry’s lecture the bell was sious” Rev. J Angus, D.D., Regent's Park Col- 2. “ferritorial ‘Division of Missionary Fields ot Labor—Missionary Courtesy.” Rev. Ri i- derson, Boston, Mass’. “Roman Catholic, Protestant Missions Compared.” Rey. Dr. | Potsdam; to be presented by Professor Christlieb, D. D. 4, “Ovligations of Science, Literature and Commerce to Christian Missions.” Key. Thomas M. Eddy, D. D., New York. §& “Lay Preaching.” Mr, George 'H. Stuart, Fhbedeiphia, Pa, ; Count Andreas von Bernstorff, Berlin, russia, The second section will meetin St, Paul’s Method- rung, marking the end of the half nour. ‘The audi- ence became clamorous {tor a continuance. The | chairman, Dr. Crooks, said that as mauy invited | guests Irom abroad entertained views entirely at | Variance to those expressed by the speaker, he | \ thought that it would be discourteous, unlike | Americans, and unchristian, to permit the discus- | Re sion to continue. The voice of the chairman was | drowned in cries for “Curry.’?. Mr. Curry rose and | said in response, that he abided by the decision of the chairman as regarded the rule of limitation, yet he wishea against being termed by the chairman either “un- christian or discourteous.” A terrific uproar Jollowed, Dr. Crooks finally persuaded the au- dience to become partially reconciled, and stated in explanation that he bad been iniormed by a visiting iriend that the discussioa was very painful to him, and he doubted not thatit was to many others, Personally the chairman said that he agreed with the views of Mr. Curry, but respect for the fee.ings of guests of the Alliance made it im- perative that the Giscussion should cease at that | point. LECTURE BY DR. GOODWIN. ‘Yhe third paper was read by Professor D. R. Goodwin, D. D., of the Divinity School, Philadelphia, on the topic, “The effects of Civil and Religious Liberty upon Christianity.” By Christianity we understand no religious hierarchy, but the faith set forth by Christ. By liberty we under: stand neither lawlessness in Church nor State. Civil liberty is best secured where the people are their own rulers. Religious liberty is not “Casarism.” It is con- sistent with the most prolix creeds. Christ’s religion was embodied in His life and teachings. Who was He and what did He teach? He was born in a stable; His com- panions were chosen trom among fishermen, and He took a thief with Him to Paradise. The princes of the Gentiles exercise authority over the people, but Christ taught that whosoever was greatest among Hisfollowers shouid be the servants of their people. He did not say a syllable to stir up contention against the most tyrannical government of the time. The tyranny of Rome was accepted. Kelig- ious hberty was not to be used asa cloak of seifishness or intolerance. St. Peter said, “We preach not our- selves, Dut Christ Jesus” The ministers ot God were ap- proved as such by abuse aud toll. Such was the condi- ton of those who were called to the highest dignity ot the nascent Christian faith. Christianity lays the only secure foundation for permanent civil liberty. Christi- anity is popular without being revolutionary. that the weak and poor should be opp! strong. The highest idea of the Christian S ernment by the people and for the people. 1 FROTS OF CHRISTIANITY, When we consi what have been the effects of Christianity upon civil government we see that wher- ever civil liberty has been most perfectly acquired there isto be found the most widespread Christianity. There may be any ether influences favorable to civil liberty besides Christianity, many of them entirely distinct irom religion. Christianity has its proper religious purpose, which is to lead man on to his higher state in which 1s de- veloped ali that is noble, great and manly, Such a religion comes to raise the allen ‘and to reform the gracious and cannot be anything else than the harbinger of civilizas Man's nature is radically perverted, and the best ‘ions may be of little service to bringing good results. Though the evils of man’s nature may crop out everywhere, Knowledge is the loster parent of clviliza- ton. In understanding we are admonished men, Men are what Christianity wants. Theretore, as civil liberty must produce in every community a number, of great-hearted men, in just that degree does it further the advance of Christianity. All the horrors ot the French Revolution resulied not from civil liberty, but from the long centuries of grinding and oppression through which the people of France had gone. Many men Will insist upon associating the dogmas of infidelity with every European movement for civil liberty. Athe- ism and infidelity ars jurnished by such tanatics with their greatest afruments. But civil liberty has never flourished out of the pale of Christianity. The best lovers of civil liberty rurnisn the best Christians. Error, cor- ruption and conscious weakness may be intolerant, but ‘Truth does not treat man as a maniac, who must cod in # straitjacket to keep him in the faith. This policy would not have worked when the great powers of the world were all arrayed against Christiauity. In no such spirit is the world to be conquered by Christ. This faith is not to convert men as Charlemagne proselyted the Saxons, or in St. Bartholo- mew's eves. Christ was meek and lowly of heart, and He asked His followers to take their code of life trom Him. ‘vil and religious freedom are the conditions of the of Christianity, ‘Ihe principal laws of Church and State should be the st liberty, to propagate all religious creecs and faitns. “Cortes. and Pizarro are not the examples to be followed by the Church; they did not tollow the example of the Apostles. Christianity needs only a fair and an open field. Going forth with sch & ath there is no fear of failure. Our strength is in Christ, and where the spirit of the Lord is there is lib- erty, the Rey. Dr. Prime announced vhat the farewell exercises of the Alliance will pe held on next Sun- day evening, at the Academy of Music. There will aiso be meetings in the Steinway, Tammany and Cooper Institute halis, The exercises of the day closed with a benedic- tion by the Rev. Dr. Henry D, Smitn. It torbid ea | Visit of the Delegates to the Island In- stitutions, The members of the Evangelical Alliance spent a delightiul time yesterday visiting our charitable and correctional institutions on the islands of the East River. The weather extremely favorable and the sail as jar as Hart’s Island, to where the school ship Mercury lies at anchor, was well appre- ciated by the entire company, lay and clerical. ‘The trip was made on the invitation of the city, and the start yesterday morning on board the Minna hannock, from the loot of T'wenty-sixth street, was effected as early a8 half-past nine o'clock. The delegates were met and welcomed at the dock by Mayor Havemeyer and a representation of each Board of the Common Council, consisting of Aldermen Vance, Morris, McCafferty and Koch, and Assistant Aldermen Thornell, Coddington, Strack, Kreps, Wade, Kehoe, Brucks and Beyea, together with Commissioner Laimbeer, of the Board of Char- ities and Corrections, and Mr. John T. Agnew, of Igw and was the (hristian’s sole st: Horan My moral eye is /ajiible, and nea Rs Fae an infalitbility that cannot err. Legis- lat should be distinct and intelligibie. That was the Department of Docks, The Alliance body num- most emphatically to protest | } ist Episcopal church, at ten o’clock A. M., and, ifthe discussion be not concluded, at two o’clock P. M. i 1 Topic—“Particular | Missionary Fields.”—1. ity Among Hindoos,” “Obstacles to Mission nen’s Work in India.” Rey, Narayan She- mbay, India; Hugh Miller, M. D., Scotland; v. Woodade, India, % “Missionary Work Among the Most inegalacant and Degraded’ Tribes ot the Heathen World.” Bishop E. De tchweinitz, 8. T. D. Bethlehem, Pa. 3. “Ihe Mission Field of the South.” Rev. M D. D,, Richmond, Va. 4. “Indians U » Mr. Felix it, Branot, Pittsburg, r. Nathan Bishop, LL. D. New York, M » of : “Christianity in the West Iudics” Rev. William Murray, Falmouth, Jamaica. The third section will meet in the Fourth ave- nue Presbyterian church at ten o’clock A, M., and, if the discussion be not concluded, at two o'clock P. General Topic—“Home Missiot sions in Nomi- nally Christian Countries.” nt Missions in Spain.” Rev. Antoulo Carrase: 2. “Protestant », Madrid. Missions Among the Oriental Uhurches.”” Rev, H rot Jessup, D. D., and Rev. D. Stuart Dodge, Beirout, Syria. ‘Protestant Missions Among the Roman Catholics of Ireland.” Rev. Lowry E. Berkeley, Lurgat and. 4. “Protestant Missions in France." Rev. Telievre, Nimes, France. 5, * City Missions in Irelan 3 ert Knox, Beltast, Ireland. The fourth section will meet in the Madison square church at two o’clock P. M., and will be ad- dressed only by foreign missionaries, of whom the following are in attendance at the Conference :— Rey. Justus Doolittle, China; Rey. B. Labaree, Persia; Rey. A. Groat, South Africa: Rey. 5 Rev, J, V. N. Talmage, D. D., C1 Constantinople; Constantinople ; Joseph Sia kdkins, Rev. Rev. ©. Hf. Carventer, B & Woodside, India} Re Rev. G. Lausing, D. 'D. adras. A German meeting will be heid in Association Halil, at half-past seven o’ciock P. M., to be ad- dressed by many German delegates from Europe and America. If the attendance shall make it necessary the Fourth avenue Presbyterian church will be opened at the same hour, Kalopothakes, pty Rev. W, Church of the Disciples. -The third section of the Alliance met last evening in the Church of the Disciples, Madison avenue and Forty-fifth street. The general topic fer dis- cussion was “Ministerial Support.” George H. Stewart, of Philadelphia, who was introduced by Rev. Mr. Hepworth, was chairman for the session, Aiter the singing of a hymn and a prayer the ad-. dresses were led off by the Rev. Pro‘essor J, F. Astie, of the Theological Seminary ofthe Free Church of Lausanne, Switzerland. Professor Astie asked that, as his pronunciation of English was imperfect, bis paper be read for him, and this was done by the Rev. Dr. Baird. The paper was a his- tory of the progress of Evangelicism in continental Europe. This paper was followed by an address from the Rev. John Hall, D. D., who pleaded earn- estly that the people should take the subject of “ministerial support” more in their thoughts, and he was sure if they did that ministers should soon receive adeq maintenance, The next speaker was the Ktev. 7. J. Killen, of Bellast, Ireland, and aiter him came the Kev. L. Berkley, of Lurgan, Ireland, both of wnom showed how well the Church was progressing in Ireland since its disestablishment. Key. Professor M. W. Jacobus, D, D., of Alleghany, who was the last speaker on List, devoted his remarks to an exposition as to how the plan of maintaining the ministry, adopted by the Presbyterian General Assembly some five years ago, had worked successiully. At the close Bishop Cummins, of Kentucky, was introduced to the Saalenos and the ishop made some remarks which excited the enthusiasm of the audience. He said the grand result of these meet- ings of the Allance would be to procure jess of denominationalism and more of union among Chris- tians. He was himself less of an Episeopsitan than ofa Christian, There should be a united front in tnis country against Romanism. To begin wit! we should protect our public schools, in defence of which every man of thei would lay down his No The session Closed as usual with the benedic- jon. PRESENTATION TO REV. PATHER MAGUIRE. There was a@ presentation by the altar boys of the Church of the Immaculate Conception jast evening, in the pastoral residence, East Fourteenth street, to Rev. Father Maguire on his departure from that church. The presents consisted of a large and magnificent missal and splendid black walnut stand, and chimes, The presentation was made by a re committee of the altar boys, consisting of P.H. Curran, Master of Ueremonics; William J. Larner, Deputy Master of Ceremonies; George J. Jones, First Assistant and James F. Bush, Second Assistant. The Rev. Father replied very feelingly and thanked the boys jor their kindness, POSSIBLY A HOMICIDE. Coroner Keenan has under investigation the case ef Philip Farley, a young man, late of No. 32 Rector Street, who died a few days ago trom peritonitis, the result of injuries received more than two weeks since, It appears deceased attended a picnic in Jones’ Wood, and, while there, it is alleged, he was kicked in thé abdomen or chest by one of his com- panions during @ quarrel, or else accidental Tell inst some hard substance, and thus recet' injuries which caused his death. The real facts bered over 200, and comprised most of the foreign deiegates, among Whom were Rev. Dr. Parker. 0 the case will be developed during the e: ion No arrest has been made in as an unexpected visitor | » \BAZAINE. Trial of the Great Capitulator of Metz and Hero of Mexico. COMPOSITION OF THE COURT. Text of the Indictment and Probable Course of the Prosecution. SHALL BAZAINE BECOME A NEY? Panis, Sept. 26, 1873, After an imprisonment of some eighteen months, Marshal Bazaine is at length to be tried by court, martial, and on the 6th October will begin the mo- mentous investigation as to whether the victor of Puebla, the first reputed strategist in the French army, did or did not betray the city of Metz and his country. The article which forms the basis of the indictment which General Pourcet, acting as government prosecutor in the case, has drawn up ig the 209th of the Military Code, revised in 1857, and runs as follows :— Shall be sentenced to degradation and death every commander of a fortress who capitulates without having forced the besieging army to per- form all the slow and successive operations of a siege, and without having on his part exhausted every possible means of resistance and done all that duty and honor could suggest. And the 210th article orders, in its second clause, that, when the commander shall have been guilty, not of treason or wilful neglect, but of remissness, from ignorance or bewilderment, The penalty shall be dismissal from the service, with or without degradation. Marshal Bazaine does not, consequently, stand between the sole alternatives of death or acquittal, as is commonly supposed by the public. His judges can sentence him to be simply dismissed from the service, and many reasons point to the probability that this will be his fate. Dismissal, implying negligence, would satisfy the wounded self-love of the nation, by placing the responsibility in the capitulation of a first class citadel and 140,000 men on the shoulders of a single man; but it would also maintain intact the private honor ofthe army, which would be sullied in foreign eyes if a field marshal were shot as a@ traitor. Besides this, various po- litical motives have conspired, as they generally do in France, to render the inquiry into this case on its own merits extremely difficult. If Bazaine had been brought to trial immediately after the peace, public opinion, which clamored for a scape- goat, would have sacrificed him with one voice; but since then the republican press has inveighed against the prisoner with such virulence that the conservative papers have one alter another gone over to the other side. Bazaine is now protected by the fact that his execution would justify Gam- betta and be hailed as a radical triumph. If Bazaine were guilty, then all the allegations of the government of Tours were true; and Gambetta, instead ol being the fussy, mischievous, and in- capable dictator whom the conservatives revile, becomes an able patrivt, who was only prevented from saving France by Bazaine’s treacherous re- fusal to co-operate with him. Again, there is much tn the personal relations of Bazaine’s judges towards him which must incline them to be extremely lenient. These judges are seven in number—General the Duke d’Aumale, Generals Princeteau, Chabaud-Latour, Dalessue, Tripier, De La Motte-Rouge and Martimprey. THE DUKE D’AUMALE, an Orleanist prince, trying an imperialist officer accused of conspiring to re-establish the regency of the Empress Eugénie, stands in a very delicate po- sition, As President of the Court it will be his junction to interrogate the prisoner, and were he to display any il will in his questions the fact would be 80 much noticed that the Duke will prob- ably err on the otuer side, and so word his inter- rogatories as never to run the prisoner into a corner. Now, in French procedure the whole gist of the trial lies in the prisoner's examination. A clever and prejuuiced judge can confuse @ prisoner as to elicit damaging admissions, even when mac is innocent; on the other hand a well-disposed judge can allow the prisoner to put his actions in 80 lavorable a light as to throw the entire onus pro- bandi on the prosecution. The President furtner- more examines the witnesses, this duty not being delegated, as in KEngtand, to the counsel on both sides; and the Duke d’Aumale, in dealing with witnesses like Gambetta, would naturally be very shy ol setting them come off too briliiantly, A good instance 0! a Freuch trial as conducted by a Justice who means kindly to the prisoner can be Tound in that of Prince Peter Bonaparte, at ‘Tours, in 1870, by Chief Justice Giandaz. If M. Glandaz had wished to condemn the Prince he had more than enough evidence to send him to the scatold; as it was, he conducted his examination of the prisoner and witnesses so skilfully that the prose- cution seemed to break down at every step, anda verdict was obtained which carried the mere nom- inal penalty of a fine. GENERAL PRINCETEAU is an aged and distinguished artillery officer, who took the chiet part in the reorganization of the artillery and tae improvement of gunnery under Napoleon Il. He is not in very x odor with the puolic, however; he allowed the Vrussians to steal ahead of him with their Krupp guns. In the weneral outcry which followed the national dis- asters it was contended that the Artillery Commit- tee, with General Priuceteau at its head, was quice as much responsible jor the defeat of the French as Lebwut or Bazaine, and Bazaine himself will urge in lus defence that his artillery was wretched. Princeteau will, therefore, feel almost as if he were on his trial, tod, GENERAL DE CHABAUD-LATOUR served in the engineers and was the principal con- structor of the Paris tortifications. He is the most competent authority in France on siege questions, and will provably weigh hardest on Bazaine, for he is convinced that Metz and Paris were both im- pregoable and ought indeed never to have been in- vested if defended by able generals. Moreover, he never liked the pushing, fighting officers whom the Second Empire delighted to honor. He isa grim, trank Puri'an officer, a Protestant and a stanch Orleanist, having been alde-de-camp to the Jouke of Orleans, and he voted belund M. Guizot in the Ckamber of Deputies from 1837 to 1848, GENERAL DALESSUB eimosio ns as an infantry officer in Alrica, and is renowned Jor his heroic and olten rash bravery. He understands little about the command of large armies, for he has never had more than 6,000 or 8,000 men under him, and his tactics are those or a guerilla chieitain. if he had commanded Metz he would have, doubtless, led out his 140,000 men to sortie after sortie until ne nad forced his way through the iines or got them all butchered. He will certainly ask why Bazaine did not try the sortie-en-masse, and ue will be able to make no head or tail of the Marshal’s explana- tion, On the other hand he is understood to have been once Bazaine's intimate comrade; and he has @ horror of radicals. GENERAL TRIPIER 4s, like Chabaud-Latour, an engineer and an anti- Imperialist. He has veen compared to Hago for his practical knowledge of fortifications and to Caasseloup-Laubat for his administrative skill in victualung and organizing the military defense of besieged places. He has never been put to a won all his Y, OCTOBER 10, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. $$$ SS searching test, however, and it is not unlikely that | he may be at bottom buta paper soldier, like ‘Trochu, What encourages tms bellef is the some- what crotchetty part he took in criticizing the War Office under the Empire; and he even offered himself as an opposition candidate to the electors of Montreuil, but was rejected. The Emperor did not like him, nor he the Emperor. If he were to preside over the court-martial instead of the Duke @Aumale it would go hard with Bazaiue, for he has a knack of propounding his opinions in the form of scientitic syllogisms, as dificult to answer as riddies. He, too, is known to hold the belief that Metz should never have capitulated, GENERAL DE LA MOTTE-ROUGE aoe old soldier, past seventy, who served in Charles the Tenth’s Garde Royale, and by and by became an ardent supporter of Napoleon’s Minis- tries in the Corpa Légisiatif, He 1g @ military cour- ter, who never spoke in the House aud never {os pg but always voted obediently as he was old. When the Empire Jell be was just on the point of being raised to the Senate, which meant 30,0001, @ year, and his detestation of revoiutionists is of witnesses, which will take place in a ow day inst ne e Cae, ti i this did little such that he will probably view Bazaine chiefly as the antagonist of Gambetta and favor nim in con- sequence. In any case La as tiene will be the stient general on the trial, He will sit s' questions, and, at the moment of the verdi vote ag be ts told A President, from habit. ery: body likes La Motte-Rouge, but it was Ww! red by jokers that he was one of Gen- the P rbicy | 3 1 eral Loum in the ‘Grande Duchesse.”” He says, “Corbleu |” “Sacrebieu!” and thinxe that with these expletives and a gooa deal of ee’ the French troops Ought to thrash Christendom, GENERAL DE MA\ Governor ot the Invatides, rested under the Bazaine at ceur! ht bs pointed Governor General or ne chose | Martimprey ne Deputy Governor, and the G suited prey weil, for he was eminently a carpet knight, co andcool, It been > has reported that ‘timprey would perhaps be repiacedby General Guiod On the ‘trial, ir Mar- ‘timprey's health is still bad. The change woul ld be pore id Longe for Bazaine, soctug that Ly ord hereas Martimprey often me knew him, and, t rf said, liked Tune Must uso have embitterse. him thoroughly 0 have , ee embittes ro ‘ro sum up, then, the only two generals out of the seven who may be expectéd to declare themselves rar pet inst e are Chabaud-Latour Ts 80 far @8 One can prognosti- cate from their and known sentiments, would vote tor the capita! penalty; the others may be relied on to put the most favorable construction ou the Marshal’y acts, It must not be forgotten, moreover, that accord'ng to French law in courts- martial there must be @ majority of two to obtain find antes fOr hin be would ati bo noquittgd. Ys ould 3 . is oalled la minorité de Javeur. he BAZAINE’S COUNSHL, MAITRE LACHAUD, Having the majority of the judges, the technt- calities of procedure and the expediency of gov- ernment politics in his favor, it may be seen that Bazaine’s situation resembies tn nothing that of Admira! Byng, to whom he has been compared, But even if all odds were opposed to him he would still have a tower of strength in the person of Mitre Lachaud, the most powerful advocate at the French bar. Lachaud’s voice is like a clarion, his gestures are flery and forceful, and his style of argumentation always goes straight to the hearts of French listeners, Other barristers, Dulaure, Grévy and Allon may be more learned than he, but none have been so successtul in convincing juries. His forensic triumphs may be numbered by hun- dreds. He has been reading up Bazaine’s monster brief for more than a twelvemonth, having even journeyed to Metz to study the fortifications tor Dimself, and he does not conceal his sanguine bellef in being able to vindicate his client. ART MATTERS. William Hart's New Picture. Mr. William Hart, who has been spending the last few months at Essex, and who returned a few days ago to his studio in Association Building, has just completed a picture, which, as an exposition of the prevailing sentiment of the ideal American autumn, will take a higher rank than any otner similar work by him. The picture, which is in oil, was in hand one year ago, but has been finished only since Mr. Hart’s return to town. Were it ex- hibited abroad—in the London Royal Academy, for instance—it would do much toward placing British appreciation of Mr. Hart’s genius upon an ade- quate basis, for however much critics who are ignorant of the idiosyncracies of an Awmeri- can autumn might feel indisposed to ac- cept the work as a representation of facts it 18 not likely that they would deny its great artistic merit. It is @ poem of color wherein, the artists reveals in all those brilliant blendings and luxurious contrasts which bis palette can supply. Mr. Hart has studied for many years, and with the Most affectionate zeal, the prevailing traits of North American landscapes during the fall of the year. He 18 familiar with those infinitely varie- gated transformations by which October, with a touch as miraculous as that of Midas, tints the perishable greenness of summer with russet and crimson and goid. In the present picture the rus- sets predominate, but by an application of the most sensuous and deiicate skill are made to alternate with the richest profusion of crimsons and yellows. glowing in tne serious but not sombre light of a [teed autumn sky that shows no glimpse of blue. é Mr. Cushing’s Bust of William R. Rob- erts. Mr. Robert Cushing, the sculptor, has at his studio, No. 765 Broadway, @ bust of Willlam R. Roberts, M. C. The bust is executed inthe fine white betoglia marble that is 80 abundant in Car- rara, and the portrait is pronounced by those who are familiar with Mr. Roberts’ personal appear- ance to present with much symmetry those traits which enter into his characteristic expres- sion. Mr. Cushing has several other works in his studio, some finished, some just begun, and others well on their way. There is avery striking and faithful bust, in the hard, mellow, ringing cristola marble, of Father Matthew. A very delicate piece of sculpture, in anotaer variety of the beautiful betoglia marble, represents an incarnation of Longfellow’s ideal “Spring.” The only fault in Mr. Cushing’s elaboration, in this instance, is, perhaps, that he has indicated a too near approach to ma- turity. The bust has many exquisite lines, In tue course of the winter the sculptor hopes to have on hand several works which may make a visit to his studio of some interest. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. M. DE LANCLEYE has written a new work entitled “Des Causes Actuelles de Guerre en Europe et de Arbitrage,” in which he discusses the chances of more great European wars. He does not believe that peace societies and arbitration are going to save the world, but predicts that towards the end of this century Europe will be transformed into a kind of hell. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR, Of Chicago, author of “rhe River of Time’ and other poems, will shortly issue ‘Old Time Pictures and Sheaves of Rhyme.” Miss ANNA E. DICKINSON has written a book, of which the Osgoods hope to have the manuscript in time for publication this fall. Nothing is as yet known of the work, except that it is a novel. PRoFEssoR JOWETT, author of the best translation of Plato, has finished his translation of Thucy- dides. A wriTex in the American Bookseller's Guide denounces vigorously the trade sales of books by auction, which, he says, ‘“disorganize and distress the book business, and make no adequate com- pensation by increasing the sales.” While de- ploring the ‘cart loads of books slaughtered at this last sale,” and the disastrous effect on values of the “bargains” secured by buyers, he adds, ‘Why, you can ‘obtain to-day at retail an immense line of books at rates running from 25 to 100 per cent below the publisher's retail rate !” It might be a pertinent inquiry, How much do those books bring which are sold at 100 per cent below retail price? Mr. 8. REDGRAVE's “Dictionary of Artists of the English School” will be pubushed during the autumn, and contains notices of the chief artists more important works, “HOLLAND House,” by the Princess Marie Lich- tensteim, 18 soon to appear in London, illustrated with photographs and engravings of celebrities connected with that historic resort of literary men, statesmen, and men of the world. Out West is the title of a new magazine pub- lished monthly at Colorado Springs, Col, repre- senting the interests of the Rocky Mountain sec- tion and of Colorado in particular. THe Pail Mall Gazette' catches the editor of our best critical journal, the Nation, napping upon matters of current intelligence to such an extent as to have spoken of Miss Maytineau and of Lord Granville as deceased persons in one issue of the Nation, FIPTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEULARATION OF CUBAN INDEPENDENCE. The 10th of October is to the Cuban race what the 4th of July is to the people of this country. On this date, five years ago, the cry for liberty was raised in the fields of Yara, and from the stand the Cubans have already taken in the battle fleld it is Possible that they will still be able to carry on the war for another five years if necessary. TO-DAY'S CELEBRATION. At noon to-day service will be celebrated in the Church of Santiago de Cuba, situated in Twenty- Second street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, Bud 8. patriotic sermon preached by the Rev, J. Formerly under the agencies of Morales Lemus, Mr. Aldama and the iate Mr. Mayorga, there has been cannon firing in the Park, but the present agents, Generals Quesada and Castello, are appa- rently of opinion that, the money required for the purchase of powder had better be invested in powder to be expended upon the Spaniards. No Duban mass meeting is announced to take place, but it is expected that addresses will be made by many prominent Cubans on the occasion ot Geri- eral Millen’s lectare on “Cuba Libre’? this evening at Cooper Institute, It is reported on good au- thority that a large number oc Cuban cigarmakers and others of their countrymen will contribute, as many did, their days’ wages to the cause of Free Cuba and the expuision ot the Spaniards. BONNER & 00, AND THE BANK OF AMERIOA Several of the daily papers having published se- vere comments reflecting upon the action of Mr, Jobn Bonner, in regard to the check drawing of that gentleman upon the Bank of North America, {tis but just to Mr. Bonner to state that the com- mittee appointed by the Stock Exchange to inves- tigate the amair “have come to the conclusion that Mr. Bonner should be exonerated from any dishon- as A Commune, and owed his iife to the lucky fact that | orable act or intent; and the report further on he was ill and had to be sent to a Matson de Santé | states that “it. is admitted by Mr. Aonaldson that instead of to prison, He was on the staf and was | the Bank of North America could n event, accounted @ most promising officer when young; | lose money ¥y; . Bonner’s transactior le is age but he broke down in his Algerian expedition 1eved at, Ms, Bonner’s of confidence in his in. the province of 0: and alter | bank and not on account of any substantial dan- active service, When Pel wea | get.’ Here andeth the litte rampus. REAL ESTATE. The Becent Wall Street Sensation and Its Rela- tion to Beal Property—The Financial Views Growing Out of It and How They Affect Realty—The Subject of New Logisla- tion on the Currency Question Diseussed—How This Market May Be Affected—Its Present Condition—Recent Sales. It has been said betore now that in respect to financial values real estate is the first to feel the effect of an impending crash, and the last to re- cover from it. The almost complete separation of Teal estate from the latest Wall street revulsion contradicts this. A month ago the HERALD, feeling the pulse of the market at that time, which was rather unsettled and unsteady, gave its diagnosis of the exact condition of the patient then under treatment. It pointed out the uneasy, fretiully disturbed sensitiveness noticeable in some parts of the bocy, with the generally healthy working of the vital organs, that must eventually reconstruct the morbid excitation prevailing elsewhere. It encouraged the hope of an early recovery from the distressing symptoms then the occasion of much, alarm. At about the same time, in another part of the paper, the coming event on the Stock Ex- change was forecasted with reminiscences of 1837 and 1857 ag parallel periods. But these, however, proved but analogous events, and those only in & slight degree. Noticeably, real estate, usually the first to suffer in such a crisis, as been , passed unscathed by the contagion of distrust thus suddenly awakened, and after a short interval of comparative dulness,as much due to the dis- traction occasioned by the excitement in Wall street as from any other cause, has been the first el: aril of the last to resume its old buoyancy. re A LOCAL DISTINCTION, however, in the character of the two markets—viz., the real estate market and the stock market, In the first the tnvestmeng demand directs and con- trols speculative operations; in the latter specula- tion too often regulates investment. There is that in the appearance of the two markets to-day that explaing these antithetical conditions. Not- withstanding the marked improvement in the monetary situation, which brought the price of gold in the early hours of business on the Stock Exchange yesterday down to seven per cent, we still hear of continued mistrust in respect to stock values, and mutterings are {ree that we have not touched bottom yet. This is unusual after a panic, the rebound from which is generally quick and lively; and while it may be true in respect to many stocks, yet, taking the entire list tn. its ther- mometrical relation, it would seem to indicate the operation of causes not wholly natural. What such causes may be is explainable on A VERY SIMPLE HYPOTHESIS— viz., that the bears who brought about the recent crash, deprived alike by the suddenness of the fall in values and the many suspensions this occa- sioned, a8 well as by the action of the Stock Ex- change in virvually compelling private settlements, of the prone they expected, are preparing now tor @ change of iront, and, before turning bare are seeking to layin a good supply of low-pri stocks. To this end they conuunue to manipulate the money market with spasms ot recurring ac- tivity, with the view of frightening of outsiders, while, when they shall have sufficiently “covered in” to their own hands such amount of stocks ag they deem sufficient for their purpose, a sudden return to circulation of the currency now locked up by them will soon start a bull market, at the top of which they will unload to those enthusiasta they now seek to hold in check. ‘The interest which the real estate market has in this relation is that confidence now so fully restored to the market may not pe checked by these mere Stock Exchange troubles and struggles, but, in the full assurance that there is abundant currency lor present uses, bear iruit in renewed activity. It is not AMONG THE LEAST OF THR LESSONS we have learned from this recent monetary disturb- ance that real estate values, especially here in the city and neighberhood, rest upon @ substantial basis of intelligent appreciation that no slight financial storm, even when tc imitates the roar and fury of aburricame, can suffice to stir them trom their foundation—viz., of the great and increasing greatness of this commercial metropolis as the entrepot of two continents, whither Europe senas us not only her products of all sorts of mechanical skill and art, but her people, too, receiving in re- turn gratin to feed and cotton to clothe those that remain. These two points are dwelt upon thus strongly here because they constitute the basis of our present real estate values, CHANGES IN OUR MONETARY SYSTEM may affect them temporaily, a8 they were slightly affected inthe manner pointed out above, but these can only be Le fid pepied in their restrictive influences, It would be well, however, in view of possible, it may be said probabie, legislation at the next session of Congress upon the question of cur- rency, with the opposing theories of bullionists and anti-bullionists to threaten iresh disturbances, if real estate owners should begin to think of protect- ing their interesis by advocating sucli modification of existing currency laws or snch new legislation that without loss of security will give our currency an eiastic quality, whereby it can be made respon- sive to the requirements of trade capable of alter- nate contraction or expansion as the demand called for its use or ceased to call for itsemployment. Gold would still be the standard of exchangeatle value, but would no longer be needed tn circulation, and, with a sufficient guarantee behind it for its redemp- tion, paper money, relieved of the prejudices against it, which belong largely now to its non- elastic quality, woula soon appreciate to par in its relation to the gold standard, Thus can we reach the puint of RESUMPTION WITHOUT DANGER, especially to such a large interest of permanent investment as reai estate. In other words, what 1s wanted is not to arbitrarily legislate existing currency values down to a goid basis, but rather, by relievin; the currency expression of other ‘fixed ..property from the risks of artificial influences, “such as locking up, undue expansion or contraction above or below trade requirements, bring about through the ordinary iriction of our domestic exchanges an agreement between the two, When this snall be reached resumption will not be needed. Real estate owners have a larger and wider interest in this matter than the owners of almost any other class of property, as a sudden and violent effort at resumption would be not only exceedingly hurtful, but would in their case partake somewhat of the nature of a national breach of faith. If the pres- ent party in power deserve any credit for their frequent and noisy declarations that the honor of the nation is Reread to the payment of the inter. est on the public dent in coin, equally is it pledged to those who have so long used and traded in its other lawiul money that in its endeavor to bring about resumption a full regard shall be had for THE ‘CLATMS OF PRESENT INVESTORS and nothing done calculated to cause a revulsion. The legal betty found its value in the cheerful acquiescence .of the people, to accept it in that character, when the government was in need of gold, owing to the strain put upon it in a supreme Imoment. The people now deserve that their in- dustries may bé permitted to thrive unrestrictedly, and grow. until the two forms of lawtul money are unchangeable at par, when such change becomes a matter of indifference. To secure this end, owners of real estate are equally opened in their interest to any sudden increase of the volume of legal tenders to be fixed by law. A measure of this kind would be exceedingly dangerous Just now, ag stimulating inflation in a market that has proved firm through a period of excessive monetary stringency, thus showing that with a healthy cir- culation of even the present volume of currency preserved, its activity would be uninterrupted. These views, be it said, however, gathered from various sources, and thus presented to the consideration of those interested im real estate, given here without dogmatic assumption, ere is no infallibility in floance, even gold being only an accepted standard, Hence, while neither the bullionist nor the anti-bulliouist opinions in regard to the present situation of affairs in the real estate market, monetary und otherwise, are without re- cognition here, the grounds gone over peint toa possible basis of compromise for these extreme opinions. It is a matter, however, which is deserv- ing the attention of real estate owners and brought to their attention at this time in advanc of any propositions submitted to Congress in the way of monetary reform, that the real estate in- terest may have full understanding in such etforts atreiorm and find a fair representation in their discussion. THE PRESENT DEALINGS in the market continue light, but the result of Wednesday's sale of Fifth avenue property shows a full appreciation where first class property 1s pre- sented. Of the sales of out of town property {t is dificult to speak positively, That they are “a suc- cess” is apparent from the repeated offerings that are made ike in. Westchester county, New Jersey id Long Island. What the degree or measure of that success is can only be determined by the tuture, The following lots on the De Motte estate, situated tn West Hoboken and North Bergen town- antps A were disposed of Wednesday on the rounds :— F Between Cortlandt street and De Motte avenue, ten lots were sold for $345 each. On Cortlandt street and Grand avenue four lots were sold at $350 cach, and two lots at $600 cach. On Bergen ‘enue and Cortlandt street six lots were sold at $640 each. On the triangular plot between Berge! id and Bergen Wood avenue one lot was sold for $700 and a second for $500. On the Plank road and Gillies avenue, two lots were sold at $625 each. On the plot between Cortiandt street and Dé Motte avenue, onthe Paterson Plank road, three lots were disposed of at $450 cach, twoat 440 cach and two at $446 each, At the corner of fergen Wood and Paterson avenues five splen- did lots werd disposed of a8 follows:—No. 5 at $! 4.and 3 ab $630, No. 2 at $620. and No. 2 at . Upwards of tilty grand lots were disposed of entirely, making one of the largest sales that has taken place in Hudson county this year, t following were yesterday's ies in this PROPERTY—hy JAMES MoM be tl fC Lifth st. A802 te ee . Th 4 bk. hi et AC ‘S ator; ase mt), Tot Xo. ig Mang! aft, trol Delvaees at. : lot bagel, 9 Whitshoi J. Whitehouse ,.,.