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NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXVI. He, 908 ——-- AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vaninry Enrentaisment. Matince st 2d THEATKE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Vanirry Enrenrainuest. Matinee at 2). BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Inisa Love—Tue Rosuers. res BROADWAY THEATRE, 723 and 730 Broadway.— Max, Tux Mera Swiss Boy. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—Tax Guanp Ducuess. Matinee at 2. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Bri Houston sta—Tux BLack WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth streeL—Barwisz’s Boor. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, léth street and Irving place.— Traviay Orzra—Locias DI LauuenMoon. way, between Prince and UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Tux Genev. S WOOD'S MUSEUM, Bro: way, corner Thirtieth st— Natty Buaro. Afternoon and evening. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Sixtn av. and Twenty-third st— Pancnon, THe Crickxr. NEW_LYCEUM THEATRE, Mth st. and 6th ay.— Noras Dax. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall.— Uysuavocur. GERMANIA THE ATRE, Mth strect and 3d avenue.— Diz Banpitex. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.— Vanusty ENTERTAINMENT. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth strect—Taz Roya. Magionertxs. Matinee at 3. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av.—NzGro MinstRExsy, 4c HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Conrt street, Brooklyn.— San Francisco MinstrELs. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st— PRESTIDIGITATION, FERRERO’S NEW ASSEMBY ROOMS, Mth street.— Magicat ENtertainaxnt. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, 34 ay., between 63d and 64th sts. Afternoon and evening. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- way.—Sciexck axp Ant. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No. 683 Broadway.—Scrence Np Art. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, October 15, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. MEXICAN GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS AGAINST THE ANARCHISTS! THE RECENT AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION! PERSECUTION OF THE CLERGY—SEvENTH Pace. NAVAL AND ARMY OPERATIONS AT CARTA- GENA, SPAIN! A HEAVY BOMBARDMENT IN PROGRESS! THE INSURGENTS’ SUP- PLIES GIVING OUT! MORIONES’ “DE- FEAT"--SEVENTH PAGE. & THIERS TO GIVE A DINNER TO THE RE- PUBLICAN DEPUTIES OF THE ASSEMBLY! THE SETTLEMENT OF POLITICAL DIFFI- CULTIES! MARSHAL BAZAINE AND THE SURRENDER OF METZ—SEVENTH Pace. ADVANCE IN THE DISCOUNT RATE BY THE BANK OF ENGLAND! HEAVY DRAIN OF GOLD FROM ENGLAND FOR AMERICA— SEVENTH PacE. @ DIPLOMATIC COMPLICATION BETWEEN AUS- TRIA AND TURKEY! THE SUBLIME PORTE’S OfFENCE—INTERCOMMUNION WITH AMER- ICA URGED BY A BRITON—SEVENTH PaGE. DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE IN HAYTI! MANY LIVES LOST AND GREAT DAMAGE TO SHIPPING AND PROPERTY ON LAND— SEVENTH Pages SERIOUS LAPSE IN STOCK VALUES ON THE EXCHANGE! ACTIVITY OF THE BEARS! SEVERAL FAILURES! A FALSE ALARM! GOLD, BONDS AND MONEY—FirTH Pas. (HE PANIC AND THE RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS! LETTER FROM THE PRESI- DENT! THE POSSIBILITIES—THE WALL STREET FAILURES—REAL ESTATE—TRADE PROSPECTS—FourTH PaGE. zg ELECTIONS! REPUBLICAN SUCCESSES IN PENNSYLVANIA AND IOWA! THE DEMO- "RaTIC TIDAL WAVE IN OREGON! OHIO DwBTFUL—SEVENTH PAGE. MOST IoPEFUL REPORTS FROM FEVER- SMITivN MEMPHIS AND SHREVEPORT! THE DE.p OF YESfERDAY—SEVENTH PaGe. PRESIDENT GhnT’S PROCLAMATION RECOM- MENDING TapRSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, AS A DAY OF UtirEp THANKSGIVING—Sry- BENTH PAGE. THE FIRST SESSION Ob 7HE FREE RELIGION- ISTS’ CONFERENCL) ADDRESS BY THE REV. 0. B, FROTHIZGHAM! ROMAN CA- THOLICISM, PROTESTANTISM AND THE RELIGION OF THE FUTeRE REVIEWED~ THIRD PaGE. TAMMANY’S NOMINATIONS FOr SUPREME, SUPERIOR AND MARINE COtRT JUDGE- SHIPS! THE APOLLO HALL vOALITION FIASCO—GENERAL POLITICAL NEWS— THIRD PAGE. THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE DELEGATES AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL CITY! ‘THEIR REGEPTION AT THE WHITE HOUSE! THE DEAN OF CANTERBURY'S ORISUN—Tentu Pac. A FULL JURY OPTAINED FOkK THE TRIAL OF EDWARD 8, STOKES TO-DAY—IMPORTANT LEGAL SUMMARIES—FATAL FALL—Fourta Pace. day of the races at Jerome Park. The preced- ing ones have been attended with marked sne- tess, and the promise is that the season in every point of view will prove at the close the best that we have yet had. The first race to- day will be for a purse of five hundred dollars, for three-year-olds ; the second for a purse of five hundred dollars, for two-year-olds ; the third, free handicap sweepstakes of forty dol. lars each, if not declared out, with eight hun. dred dollars added; the fourth, a purse of four bundred dollars ; the fifth, handicap steeple. chase, purse eight hundred dollars. In ji of these races the second horse is provided with a prize. The impetus to the develop. ment of a fine type of racing horses by these meetings marks one of its best features, Tar Evanoztiacan ALLIANCE AT WastrNcton.- The foreign delegates to the late Evangeli- cal Conference, with their American friends, met with a cordial and generous weleome from the national and municipal authorities and citizens of Washington yesterday. The recep. tion by the Prosident and his Cabinet at the White House was, however, the great be pleasantly remembered to the end of their earthly pilgrimage by the distinguished divines from over the sea. For the particulars of tho 's proceedings we refer the reader to our despatches elsowhero in these feature of the occasion, and it will, doubtless, | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. Church and State in Mexico—A Radi- cal and Wonderful Revolution Effected. From the city of Mexico, via Matamoros, October 14, we have a special Henatp despatch, which informs us that the revolu- tionary movement in Sonora against the State government will soon be suppressed ‘by the federal arms; , that Congress has adopted and solemnized the laws of reform; that the members have taken the oath in accordance therewith, and that the decree against the clergy living in community is to be carried into effect, But what are these laws of re- ferm and this decree against the clergy? We have the answer in a despatch from the city of Mexico, dated October 2, from which it appears that these reforms constitute one of the most radical, remarkable and won- derfal revolutions in the history of Church and State since 1789, that memorable year of the world-shaking upheaval of France by her enraged people and of the inauguration of our first President, Washington, under the constitution of the United States. The Con- gress of Mexico has decreed the following ad- ditions or amendments to the constitution of the Republic: — 1, The Church and State are to be separate, 2. Congress cannot make laws prohibiting or establishing any religion. 8, Matrimony is to be a civil contract. 4, Religious institutions cannot possess prop- erty. ea simple promise to speak ithe truth, comply- ing with obligations contracted, with penalties in case of violation, is substituted for the religious oath. 6. Nobody is obliged to give hisor her services Without just compensation. 7. No contract is to be permitted which aims at the sacrifice of the liberty of man in the matter of work, education and religious vows. (The laws thus do not recognize monastic orders, nor permit their establishment by any denomination or under any pretence.) 8, And no contract will be allowed to be made among persons consenting to their own proscrip- tion or banishment, These constitutional provisions, it will be perceived, mark the completion of one of the most radical and comprehensive governmental revolutions in the history of modern nations. | These radical changes in the Mexican govern- ment, however, are not the work of yesterday. Step by step they have been reached, through fifty years of revolutions and revolutionary factions, and foreign wars and foreign occu- pations. First, after the proclamation of Mexican independence, a monarchical govern- ment was established (1822) under the unfor- tunate Iturbide, as Augustin Next (1824) a federal republican government, upon the model of that of the United States, with some important exceptions, was adopted, embrac- ing the independence of Mexico, the mainten- ance of the State Church (the Roman Catho- lic), the abolition of slavery and all distinc- tions of caste. Under three hundred years of Spanish monarchical rule the Church in Mexico had become exceedingly rich and powerful, and in the establishment of the Re- public it was maintained as the exclusive re- ligion of the State, mainly in considera- tion of the active share which the clergy had all along taken in the revolution. But from that point down to the French invasion, armed occupation and imperial protectorate in the name of Maxi- milian, the history of Mexico (excepting the lucid interval of her war with the United States) is that of a continuous state of civil war, revolutions and anarchy. Nevertheless, from one encroachment upon the Church to another, from forced loans to confiscations, from regulations to proscriptions, and notably under the radical republican administration of Juarez, Mexico, step by step, was prepared for these decisive constitutional advances of 1873. Against Juarez, Maximilian, as the champion of the clergy, doubtless contributed much to alienate the Mexican people from their Church and to open the way for these sweeping constitutional changes under Presi- dent Lerdo. Clearly, so far, has Lerdo proved himself master of the situation, in his suppression of the revolutionary chiefs and factions attempting his expulsion, an in the unexampled state of internal pea ich now prevails in Mexico; and no dow... xe is con- fident of the popular support in maintaining and entorcing the constitution of the country as just decreed by its Congress. On the other hand, it appears that the clergy are not disposed quietly to submit to these destructive aggressions upon their ancient rights and privileges. They are but human, and, reduced to the last extremity of submission, they naturally resist, although to the spectator their resistance may appear as vain and futile as that of a blind man beating about in the empty air. In any event, it ap- pears that “‘the priests of the Church of St. Loretto and all parishes have excommunicated all persons recognizing the constitution and the reforms inaugurated by the government,” which reduces the issue with the individual to a choice between the Church and the State. In behalf of the State the President had issued a decree the day following the publication in each locality of the amendments to the con- stitution produced on the 25th ult., command- ing all functionaries and employés of the Re- public, of whatever order or class, to affirm, without any reservation, the reforms, and to guard them and cause them to be regarded, or otherwlse to consider themaelves dismissed the public service. Furthermore, the Jesuits have been ordered to leave the country at the first opportunity, and in their departure are given the choice of American, English or French packets. These proceedings indicate not only the fixed purposes of the present Mexican govern- ment, but the troubles anticipated in the enforcement of these constitutional reforms, We do not apprehend, however, any serious revolutionary disturbances in Mexico in con- sequence of these measures. From the late experience of the Church in the loss of its landed estates, after holding them for cen- turies, it can hardly be ambitious to invest its funds in new estates to-day, of which it may be dispossessed to-morrow, whatever privileges may be granted it for the present time. Again, in a country where we may tay all the people are Roman Catholics, and where the sweeping constitutional changes indicated Laye been so quietly adopted as to be a general surprise to the outside world, we do not apprehend any serious trouble in their enforcement. And it is one of the most remarkable facts in the history of modern nations and their vicissitudes that the most radical governmental changes from the ‘di- vine rights of kings’ to the divine rights of | the people, have been made in the most radically Roman Catholic countries, such as Austria, Italy, France, Spain and Mexico, and since the dissolution of the Ecumenical Council at Rome, In the face of this great fact how absurd and preposterous appear all these alarms and warnings of narrow-sighted states- men, philosophers and prophets touching the threatened dangers to liberty from the dogma of papal infallibility ! In behalf of the great cause of popular liberty and equal rights we see in this new constitution of Mexico that, outlawed and incapable of self-government as she has been widely proclaimed, she stands to- day among the nations foremost in the front rank gf modern progress. She declares o separation of Church and State, and that Con- gress cannot make laws prohibiting or estab- lishing any religion. Here she is in happy accord with the United States and will receive the hearty congratulations of our people, as she will in making matrimony a civil contract, in dispensing with every shapo of a religious test oath, and in securing her people against peonage and involuntary servitude of every form. In the provision which denies to religious institutions the right to hold property she is a long step in advance of us, and it may be a step in the dark; but the day is visibly approaching here when the ‘irrepressible conflict” between the people and our grasping railway and other over- shadowing moneyed corporations will surely terminate in a settlement quite as surprising. Meantime the Mexican separation of Church and State, and this decree prohibiting the possession of property in Mexico by religious institutions can hardly fail to make a deep im- pression upon the popular mind of England, for example, whose State Church to-day, with its vast possessions, its princely livings and luxurious drones, hangs like the Old Man of the Sea upon the shoulders of every one of the laboring millions of the realm. From her half a century of revolutionary factions, civil wars and anarchy, is Mexico at length emerging ‘‘like gold purified in fire?”’ We hope so. We believe that she has reached, in her difficult case, the solution of the prob- Jem of self-government, and that she is near- ing the high road of law, order and prosper- ity. We wish her success in all her wholesome reforms; and we are confident that while she maintains her present promising conditions of internal security and stability she will be sus- tained by the most friendly relations from the United States, and may dismiss all fears against us of political conspiracies or schemes or dreams of annexation, Yesterday’s State Elections and their Results, The election in Pennsylvania yesterday, from the returns at hand, appears, on a re- duced vote, to have been very quietly and effectively carried by the republicans. For Mackey, for State Treasurer, in the city of Philadelphia, the vote was 56,979, against 31,870 for Hutchinson, the democratic candi- date, giving Mackey 25,109 majority. Last year, for Governor, the vote of the city was for Hartranft, republican, 69,278, against 48,841 for Buckalew, the democratic candidate, which gave Hartranft 20,437 majority. Taking Mackey, then, as the test in Philadelphia, his majority upon a popular vote reduced one- fifth, being equal to a gain of one-fourth upon Hartranft's majority, Pennsylvania may be considered as not having experienced much of a political revolution yesterday. In Ohio the day was fine, good order pre- vailed, the vote was light, and there appears, between the three parties in the field, to have been considerable scratching. It will, per- haps, take a day or two yet to settle the results, particularly as the vote was short and respect- able. Democratic gains from various quarters are reported. In Iowa the fusion of the democrats with the farmers’ grangers has evidently failed to make any material impression upon the over- whelming republican majority of the State. The democratic fusion no doubt fright- ened the bulk of the republican grangers back into their party intrench- ments. But from Oregon we have the news of a positive democratic victory in the election of Nesmith to Congress (to fill a vacancy) by a majority of about a thousand. It is probable, however, that this result is as much due to the case of Senator Mitchell, re- publican, as to any other cause. Otherwise, from the elections of yesterday the political situation throughout the country remains ap- parently as it was before, excepting the possi- bilities of some changes in Ohio. The Great August Hurricane. The Signal Office has just compiled the re- ports of the tremendous storm of August 24, and it presents a truly frightful exhibit. The report is made up from official data, the most reliable log books and accurate statistics. It sums up a total of one thousand and thirty- two vessels known to have been destroyed during the 24th and 25th of Augnst in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and around the coast of Nova Scotia, me Breton aad Newfoundland. Ninety additional vessels were overwhelmed in the same tempest before it reached Nova Scotia, while six hundred lives were lost and nine hundred buildings injured or demolished by its force. The misery and ruin entailed on thonsands of New England and Canadian fishermen and seamen by this single gale are almost incalculable, and they afford strong in- ducements for the extension of the Signal Ser- vice warnings to the Canadian ports. Could the vast fleets of merchant vessels that throng the waters in which the August storm spent its fatal fury have had premonition of its approach the majority might have escaped, and many lives and much of the shipping have been saved, It appears that the gale in question had originated in much lower latitudes than those of Nova Scotia, and speeding on its way from the tropics northward overswept the angular projection of the Continent of which Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and Newfoundland are the outlying islands. The premonishing of such gales, which strike from the Atlantic in- shore, can only be insured by securing the earliest intelligence from vessels arriving at the Atlantic ports and using them for pur- poses of meteorological predictions. The new arrangements for connecting the Signal Office with the lighthouses and lightships off the coast by telegraphic cable ought to, and prob- ably will, facilitate such forecasts and open the way for their far greater usefulness and accusacy. It is with great pleasure we observe that one of the subjects under consideration in the Vienna Meteorological Congress is how to connect maritime and land meteorology so as to enable the landsman to utilize the mari- ners’ observations at sea and vice versa. The National Centennial—A Pi the “Glorious Fourth,” 1876. A special correspondent at Philadelphia has furnished us with the plan which will prob- ably be adopted for the celebration, in the city of the great Declaration, of the one hundredth anniversary of the day of independence of the United States of America. The scheme em- braces four elements—music, civil societies, military organizations and statues. The music will consist of » colossal orchestra and chorus, the organization of which will soon be placed in the hands of one of our most worthy conductors. The military division, it is pro- posed, shall embrace a regiment or two from every State, forming an aggregate of at least fifty thousand men. The civil bodies{will be the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Cincinnati Society, &. The statuary will embrace statues or groups of distinguished men of the several States in the civil and military service of the country andin science and art, To give an international caste to the military branch of the celebration it is proposed to solicit an act from Congress authorizing the President to extend invitations to the heads of European, Asiatic, and other foreign governments, to be present, either personally or by their proper representatives, accompanied, respectively, by a regiment or smaller military detachment of their selection. In addition to this, the Presi- dent will be requested to detail to the spot a considerable body of the regular army, and place it under the command of his most dis- tinguished officers, and also as many vessels of the navy as practicable. This is certainly an imposing programme ; but as the grand idea of our national centen- nial is a national and international industrial exposition it appears to us that the national celebration for the Fourth of July, 1876, at Philadelphia, could be made in harmony with this grand idea of a world’s fair! if it were made what we may call an industrial proces- sion of the States and Territories. In such a procession, with each State and Territory represented by a delegation of its own people, bearing in front on a large banner the State or Territorial coat of arms, and with the products and processes, as far as prac- ticable, of its leading and _ peculiar branches of industry borne in _ the line of march, we would have a splendid and instructive spectacle. It would be a pass- ing panorama of the States and Territories, representing in bold relief and in actual life the people, the industries, the products, the climate and the peculiarities thereof in every State and Territory of the Union. More vividly than any other devico would such a procession represent our people, our country and its various and bountiful resources and boundless capabilities. It requires no great stretch of the imagination to reach the impres- sion upon citizen and stranger, from a pro- cession of a hundred thousand men, women and children, embracing the fishermen of Maine, the tar kilns of North Carolina, the big cheeses of New York, the orange groves of Florida, the monstrous grape clusters of California, the towers of gold and temples of silver from Montana, Colorado, Utah and Nevada; the buffaloes of Nebraska, the elks of Oregon and the thousand forms of the iron of Pennsylvania, and so on, to the end of the glorious line. This procession would ap- propriately be led by the army and navy, as representing the forces of our national inde- pendence, and it would properly be classed with our civic societies as completing the representation of a reign of peace. We throw out this suggestion as entitled to consideration by the management of this cen- tennial enterprise; for we think it embodies an idea for the celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of our national independence which, from its attractive novelties and instruc- tive groupings of American life and industry, will at our great world’s fair of 1876 be uni- versally acceptable. The Bank of England Patting on the Screws. We learn by cable telegram that the Bank of England, at a special meeting of the direct- ors yesterday morning, raised the rate of dis- count to six per cent, which is an advance of one per cent on the rate previously reported. Our readers generally are aware that this is the accustomed practice of the Bank whenever it intends to check the outflow of specie or overtrading and speculation. The recent large shipments of gold from England to this country and the great decline of the premium here furnished sufficient cause, perhaps, for this precautionary action, though there has been, according to late accounts, a tendency to excessive ‘speculation and trading. The effect in this country will not amount to much, though it may temporarily arrest the decline of gold. Strange as it may seem to those unacquainted with financial matters, it isa fact that the Bank of England—this foreign institution—can regu- late to a considerable extent the price of gold and values here. When we can emancipate ourselves from that thraldom, or, in other words, when we cease to be largely a debtor nation, we may talk of returning to and hold- ing on to specie payments. No doubt a por- tion of the specie coming to this country is on account of a more favorable state of trade and the exchanges, and this is both gratifying and promising; but it is said a good deal comes to be recoined here for the China market, the difference being four per cent in favor of American coinage over that of England in China. Six per cent is a very high rate of discount at the Bank of England, and, there- fore, the cause for it is not of an ordinary character. Still, as we said, our financial position, arising from the state of trade, is too strong to be seriously affected by this action of the Bank. Evprnon Francis Josern or Austria pro- poses to make a visit to the Czar of Russia at St. Petersburg during the holidays of the Rus- sian Christmas. Emperor William, it is understood, will visit Francis Joseph at an earlier day. The three Emperors are evi- dently on good terms, An understanding of some kind has been established. There is only one cloud on the European horizon for the present, and that cloud hovers over Italy. France is reviving, and, in proportion as she is regaining her strength, so is she giving the world trouble, Ut is pogaible that the world is just now making too much of France. How- ever this may be, it is difficult to get over the idea that Italy has secured the sympathy of the three Empires and that the three Em- pires mean to keep the peace and to protect Italy from all attacks on the French side. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Edwin Adams, the tragedian, is registered at the Astor House. Mayor John Clark, of Jacksonville, Fla., is at the Scurtevant House, Rear-Admiral Boggs, United States Navy, is at the Everett House. Governor Howard, of Rhode Island, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman ©. D. McDougall, of Auburn, N. Y., is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel B. Du Barry, United States Army, iSquar- tered at the Brevoort House, Assemblyman Smith M, Weed, of Plattsburg, N. Y., is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge J. R. Race, of Decatur, Il, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge E. C. Billings, of New Orleans, arrived yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. United States Senator Conover, of Florida, yester- day arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Colonel J. ©. Audenreid, of General Sherman's staf, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel Alexander Montgomery, United States Army, has quarters at the St. Nicholas Hotel. President J. F. Joy, of the Michigan Central Rall- road Company, has apartments at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General Cowan, Assistant Secretary of the In- terior, returned from Minnesota yesterday and resumed his duties in the Department. A cable telegram from London, under date of yesterday, reports as follows:—“UVaptain Halpin, of the steamship Great Eastern, was married to-day to the daughter of Rev. John Munaos.” Rev. Green Clay Smith, formerly of Montana, has organized a colored temperance society in Frank- fort, Ky. The Rev. Green has probably seen through many a “glass darkly” before this, They ve two switch engines on a Tennessee railroad, one of which is named ‘Captain Jack,” the other “Boston Charley.” This was before these “Big Ingines” were switched off at Fort Klamath. The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph puts a case of the prevailing grab fever in this wise :—Collector Wide- mer, over in Alabama, has Bullocked $20,000 of internal revenue money. Orders have been sent from Washington to find out whether he can be forced to divide any of it. ART MATTERS. The Paris Oriental Exhibition. This exhibition is now open in the Palais de V'Industrié, Champs Elysées, and consists mainly of Chinese and Japanese productions. Almost all the objects are choice specimens and some of them unique, The bronzes form the largest and perhaps the most remarkable group. Chief among them are the figure of Buddha, tweaty feet high and nine feet square at the base, from the temple at Mégouro; several large bronze lanterns, used out- side the temple; great perfume burners, bells and other temple furniture. The smaller bronzes of the same character are all said to be unsurpassed for the color of the metal and the thinness and perfec- tion of the casting. Some bell-shaped lanterns for covering lights are, for delicacy in bronze work, as remarkable in their way as the famous egg-shell china, The collection of vases 1s said to be, per- haps, the finest ever brought together in Europe, and there are a number of chauffrettes, covered braziers for warming tne hands, which are de- scribed as the perfection of decorative bronze work, The chimeras form a remarkable class of bronzes. Among them is the Chinese kerin, witn the “‘head of a unicorn, the body of a horse and the feet of the stag;” the unicorn itself, and the tor- toise, with dog’s head and flowing tail. The second room is used for the smaller bronzes, principally objects of ornament or of general use, casts of animals, and so forth. The bronze bottles jound here are said to be ag pure of outline as if they were cast in the period of the best Greek art. Two pers of heavy bronze Cae re are beautifully inlaid with sitver, and a number of periume burners and other objects of like character are most ex- peed Pierced, One is a gong which would do for the use Of sensitive people and which consists of a eae of fine bronze, with thickened and carved edges, suspended by silken cords and struck with @ Very small covered stick. This second room likewise contains a very good collection of illu. strated Japanese and Chinese books, many of them exceedingly humorous. The Mongolian curiosities include two “sama’s” headdresses, One is in the form of a Glengarry cap, and is surrounded with something like a small door mat arranged after the similtude of the horsehair crest of the English Lite Guards. ‘The color is that of tow and the appearance is most grotesque. In the third room are to be discovered some photographs of Indian celebrities; some imitations Ol fruits by a Javanese artist; avery extraordinary work in silk representihg the infernal regions after the Japanese idea, brought from the house of the late Tycoon at Ovens; some splendid specimens of Satsuma fafence; portraits of Buddhist ascetics and hermits; wood earrings and immense cloissoné enamel jars; Canton furniture, inciuding massive chairs With alabaster seats; Japanese screens, richly painted ona solid gold ground and some wonderful silk tapestry representing a physician receiving patients underneath some trees in a garden. ‘The contributions from India are not very im- portant. They include a number of tables apd chairs of European design, but honeycombed with carving and piercing, representative of subjects Which offend all decent eyes. Those of our readers who attended the Paris Exposition in 1867 may possibly have caught a glimpse of these horrible distortions of art, which, however, the authorities of the exhivition had the good taste to put out of sight almost immediately. The present exhibition, which will remain open for some time, aud which 18 now being largely visited by Americans, is com- pleted by three cases containing articles of the ‘reatest beauty and rarity, but by various private individuals, and almost exclusively of Japanese origin. These embrace small specimens of the most famous ceramic wares; red and other laquered ar- ticles, of the finest finish; jade, rock crystal and other carvings, and numerous miscellaneous exam- Piles of the highest Japanese decorative art. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Tue Courter de Paris states that Emile Olivier 18 pudlishing, in London, a pamphlet relating all the circumstances leading up to the Franco-German war of 1870, THE WELL-KNOWN BIBLIOGRAPHER, Gustave Brunet, has in the pressa book, “Sur la Reliure des Livres, et sur les Collections de quelques Bibliophiles.” M. PAUL DE CASSAGNAC has just handed to his printers the manuscript of a work on the Empire, which promises to make a sensation. Tue Saturday Review pronounces its critical judgment of Mr. Seward’s posthumous book, “Travels Round the World,” thus: If we had expected less from the book we should probably have considered it a favorable specimen of American books oftravel. Neither himself nor his eS cae Appear to have made any effective use of their peculiar opportunities of observation. They journeyed, as Americans mostly do, ina hurry. W. L. E. CHARBONNEAU, Bishop of Jassen in par- tubus and Apostolic Vicar of Maissour, died inJune Jast at Bangalore, India. He published, in 1859, a a Latin Kauara Dictionary and severai other worksin Tanul and Kauara., He had established in Bangalore & printing office, from which several re- Ngious books, dictionaries and grammars, in the diaiect of the country, were issued, CASSELL, PETTER & GALPIN will’shortly publish “Notable Shipwrecks,” containing popularly told narratives of all the remarkable shipwrecks that have occurred from the wreck of the old Royal George to the loss of the City of Washington last July. “Tne Divine Litvrores of John Chrysostom and andy Basil the Great,” “The Russian Orthodox Church; @ Treatise of her Origin and Lite,” and the “Greek Catholic Fajth,” have been trv ved into English by the Rev. Father Nicolas }ijeriing, and published by EB. P. Dutton & Co., 713 Broadway. A. D. F. Ranvoten & Co, have in press Dr. Samuel Ireneus Prime's new volame of Conti- nental travel, entitied “The Alhambra and the Kremiin—fhe South and the North of Europe.” Dr. Prime enjoyed peculiar facilities for acquaint- ing himself with the soctal, moral and religious condition of the countries which he visited, and avoided, to a large extent, the common road of European travel, The character of the book has afforded the publishers ample scope lor pictorial iilustration, of which they have availed them. aalvea, a en , AMUSEMENTS, —_-—_—_ Italian Opera—\ucca‘’s Marguerite and Jamet’s Mephistopheles, The above were the Attractions that drew s large audience to the Gr@id Opera House last night, as outside these two rvies there was not much in the representation of “Faust” to interests opera goers. But the maiden and the demon could scarcely be impersonated by two abler artists tham the little prima donna and the accomplished French basso, From the moment that she ap- peared in the vision of the first act until the cur- tain fellon her prostrate form in the last—in one scene the tempting bait held out by the fend to the vacillating philosopher, and in the other the sad victim of hellish malice—Mme, Lucca en- chained the attention of the audience, Her meeting with Faust in the market place was @ fascinating piciure of coyness and rustic coquetry, and there was a spice of the defant in the saucy toss of the head when she declined the young cavalier’s arm and company. In the garden scene she re- ceived an encore for the brilliant manner in which she sang the air des bijoux, The ringing tones of her rich, rounded,voice, which seems now to have attained the zenith of its power and briltiancy, lent an additional charm to the sparkling meas- ures in which Marguerite expresses her delight at the fatal casket that proved a Pandora’s box to her. Each note jquivered with emotion when she spoke of the loss of her only love, the sister that was snatchea away from her by death. The love scenes with Faust, the duet, “Notre Dame,” the passionate utterances of never aying affection, “Senza te io vogio morir,” and the rapturous aria at the window, in which she longs for the morrow that will bring back to her the first new idol of her heart, were all interpreted by Mme, Lucca with a wealth of voice and expression that )car- ee the audience away into the realms of enthu- siasm. In the church scene and at the side of her dying brother Mme. Lucca won a still greater triumph. ‘The struggle against the mocking voice of the tempter and the horror and despair that takes possession of the unhappy Marguerite, when she sees the horrible phantom in church, were deline- ated with wondrous power and effect. But in the last scene, when her mind gives way in the prison under the agony of her thoughts, the climax of Lucca’s Marguerite was reached. In the wild, pleading cry to heaven for protection, in which the melody is repeated, each time a note higher, the thrilling tones seemed to fill the entire building as with a torrent of sound. Such a voice gives to this scene unwonted effect and sheds a lustre of rare eneriene over the death of the hapless heroine of joethe The Mephistopheles of Jamet is one of the most remarkable impersonations of an operatic char- acter that can be found on our stage to-day. The grace and CU ireeen of his acting, the high in- velligence of his ficent vocal method and the ag tones of his expressive voice, are displayed to the fullest extent in this 70le. Anencore to his sing- ing of “Dio dell’amor’ has come to be asettled fact with every audience. Throughout the gardem scene his presence seems to surround as with @ lurid light, the lovers and their interchanges of mutual affection. His singing of tne mocki serenade beneath Marguerite’s window is full o! malice and devilish expression, and in the church scene he shares with Lucca the success of that wonderful exhibition of histrionic power. Mme. Testa made her début in the rdle of Siebel, and as there was no opportunity afforded by this role to judge of the powers of a lady who was once areigning favorite here in opera, we shall defer definite criticism in her case until she appears in & role more consonant to her position as an artist. Signor Vizzani’s Faust was neither better nor worse that what we were accustomed to at the Academy last season, and the Valentine of Signor Mari was—let us draw the veil of Cy ae it, The rest of the periormers were unsatisfactory in the extreme. Next week’s programme of this company is as follows;—Monday, Mursl and Tamberlik, in paysite Tuesday, Mme. Lucca, in Hartford; Wednesday, Di Murska aid Tamberlik, matinee at Booth’s; Thursday, Lucca, in New Haven; Friday, Lucca, in Providence, and Satur- day, Di Murska, in concert at Steinway Hall Can We Have a First Class Theatre at Popular Prices? There is general complaint among the theatres that the recent panic has injured business, but among the amusement-loving public there is am equally general complaint that a large body of the people are practically excluded from first class en- tertainments by the high prices for admission and Teserved seats. There isa want in this city ofa first class theatre giving first class entertainments at prices within the means of everybody, The clerks in downtown stores, mechanics, laboring men and small traders are nearly all prevented from seeing performances such as they would de- sire simply because they cannot afford the luxury of @ night at the theatre. Just now this class, which is a very large one— in fact, the largest in the city—is not to be counted among the patrons of our theatres. If a manager could be found who would cater for these people, giving them entertainments as perfect in every re- spect as entertainments are now given in most of our places of amusement, he would build up for himself a class of patrons not drawn at all from the regular theatre-goers of the metropolis, but even more numerous, and, because of numbers, much more profitable. We have no suggestion to make to any of our theatres on the subject further than to point out the fact, as we have already done, that @ vast majority of our people are practically ex- cluded irom all first class places of amusement. ‘The prices may be necessarv to the success of the theatres generally, owing to the large salaries ob- tained by artists and the enormous expense atrend- ant upon giving ptblic representations; but the effect is to exclude @ large amusement-loving class. The prices necessary to the theatres are too high for the general mass of the people. Are there not one or more theatres in New York large enough to supply this class with amusements at prices which all can afford to pay? We believe such an enterprise would prove emimently practi- cable and successiul, simply because it would be immensely popular. It is @ common argument among theatrical managers that they must give the people what the people want. That which the great body of the people most want is low prices. All that We can say on the subject is a reiteration of this one truism. Believing that a first class theatre adopting the policy of popular prices and bringing out that immense multitude which at present cannot afford an evening at the play would prove an immense suc- cess, we ask, who is there among our managers wiling to make the experiment? ashough we think the manager who could respond would find it immensely to his interest to secure this excluded class of patrons, itis in behalf of the people that we ask the question. A man receiving an ordinary salary who desires to take his wife to the theatre once a week is compelled to pay @ whole day’s wages for the evening’s enjoyment. There is no theatre in the city affording entertain- ments satisfactory to an intelligent man so circum- stanced at a price which he can afford, It is the battie of such men that we are Sighting, and we hope our argument may have the effect of pointing out to some of our managers that there {810 this city an element capable of supporting a popular theatra doing everything in the best manner at popular prices, sees Musical and Dramatic Notes. Mr. Lester Wallack will probably make his first appearance at his own theatre this season in “She Stoops to Conquer.” This, it seems, 1s to be the last week of opera at the Grand Opera House, and the dramatic com- pany will reappear on Saturday nignt in “Under the Gaslight.” To-night the theatre will be closed to give an opportunity for the rehearsal of “The Magic Flute,” previous to its production on to- morrow evening. This is one of the operas in which Mile, Di Murska is most successful, and her appearance, in conjunction with Mme. Lucca, is an important musical event. On one account the sudden termination is to be much regretted. The completeness of Signor Tamberlik’s art is making @ deeper impression as it is better understood, and it is to be regretted that he will not be heard for the present in “Gillaume Tell” and “Le Prophete.”? OBITUARY, 8. B. Berestord, M. D, 8. B. Beresford, M. D., one of the best known physicians in the State of Connecticut, died at Hartford on the night of the 13th inst, He was @ graduate of the University of Edinburgh, came to the United States forty years ago, was a liberal patron of art, and leaves the moat valuable private gallery of paintings in Connecticut, His age was sixty-Seven years. TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION, “Sr. Louis, Oct. 14, 187%. Mrs. Virginia L, Minor, formerly President of the Missouri State Woman’s Suffrage Association, and @ leading spirit in the woman’s movement, has Notified the Hoard of Assessors of this county that she refuses to make them a return of her property subject to taxation, on the ground that under the decision of tae Supreme Court of this State she, being femme couverte, cannot own the money wherewito to pay, taxes thereon, and further, be- canse she thinks that taxation without representa tion the pam of all tyranny.