The New York Herald Newspaper, October 19, 1873, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXV1II.. ‘AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. "1 USEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Dee Caoexurs saneinoon and sveuing. and Twenty-third st.— BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth a’ Fancuon, THe Cricket. ie: NEW_LYCEUM THEATRE, Mth st. and 6th av.— Nore Dane. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Varrery ENTERTAINMENT. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Vanisty ENTERTAINMENT. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Gixcer Syars—Tae ‘Tonr Dicesr's Doom. ' BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.— ‘Max, Tux Merry Swiss Bor. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth ay. and Twenty-third ot.—Unper tax Gastic: OLYMPIC ‘and Bleecke! ir sts.—Mons. CHOnrLeuRt. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Tux Brack Crook. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street—Our Amxrican Cousin, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, lith street and Irving place.— taLIaN OPERA—IL 1ROVATOKE. “ BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st.— Travian Orexa—Lucia pt Laxmenmoon. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Tux Geneva Oni MRS F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Avixe—Marmtep Lire, PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN, opposite City Hall.— JuLIus Casa. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vanrety ENTERTAINMENT. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av.—Necro Minsrretsy, &c. ROOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Court street, Brooklyn.— San Francisco MinstREs. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street—Tax Roya. Manionertes, Matinee at 3 P. T. BARNUM’S WORLD'S FAIR, 27th street and 4th avenue. Afternoon and evening. FERRERO’S NEW ASSEMBY ROOMS, Mth street.— Magical Entertainment. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FATR, 34 ay., between 63d and (4th sts. Afternoon and evening. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- ‘Way.—SClENCE AND ART. QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, October 19, 1873. aaa THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. CRAMBORD’S TOURNEY FOR THE FRENCH CROWN! ADDITIONAL POINTS TO BE PRO- CLAIMED AT THE OPENING OF THE AS- SEMBLY! RESISTANCE PROMISED FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF THE SEINE—Ninta PaGE. SEARCHING INQUIRY INTO BAZAINE’S CON- DUCT AT METZ—MINISTER SICKLES HONORED BY THE SPANISH WAR MINIS- TER—NINTH PaGE. ‘TSE DANISH PARLIAMENT REJECT THE MINIS- TRY’S BUDGET AND ARE DISSOLVEv BY THE KING—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS— NINTH PAGE. ‘THE ITALIAN KING AT VIENNA! AFTER EF- FECTS OF THE PANIC IN FINANCES! THE OUTLOOK FOR PHILADELPHIA! AN IN- TERESTING SPECIAL REPURT IN GER- MAN—FirTH Pace. STILL ANOTHER REVOLUTION IN MEXICO! SUNORA THE SEAT UF THE PRESENT REVOLT—Nintu Pace. NINETEENTH CENTURY MIRACLES! THE EX- TRAORDINARY CURES AND PHENOMENA IN FRANCE, ATTESTED BY HIS HOLINESS THE POPE, THE ARCHBISHOP OF SENS, AND THE BISHOPS OF GRENOBLE, VER- DUN AND FREJUS—SIxTH PAGE. HOURS AND PLACES OF RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY FOR TO-DAY! THE WORSHIP OF MAMNON! AN ABRIDGED RECORD OF CLERICAL CHANGES—PIO NONO—SixrH Pace. FINE FINISH OF THE JEROME PARK RACES! “SIR ORACLE” OF THE WEATHER BU- REAU GIVES “THE BLUES” TO THE AMERICAN JOCKEY CLUB AND ITS MYRIAD | FRIENDS! THE RACING—Twetrru Page. #IGNOR TAMBERLIK IN OPERA AND CUNCERT YESTERDAY—PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS— NINTH PaGE. APOLLO “BRAVES” THE WIGWAM! A WILDLY JUBILANT CONGREGATION OF THE GREAT UNTERRIFIED AT IRVING HALL! TAM- MANY’S COUNTY TICKET DOOMED! THE LETTERS AND ADDRESSES—GENERAL POLITICS—Firta Pace. ACTION OF THE ENGLISH BANK TO PREVENT THE OUTFLOW OF GOLD! EXTENSIVE SHIPMENTS YESTERDAY—NintH Pace. AMERICAN FINANCES AND THE ENGLISH AGONY! THE BANK DISCOUNT RATE | (SEVEN PER CENT) FAILS TO AFFECT | THE SITUATION! GOLD PREMIUM! PRAC- TICAL BUSINESS THOUGHT ON THE QUESTION OF RESUMPTION—TewTH Pace. | CONDITION OF THE WALL STREET MARKETS! BUSINESS AND PRICES! MORE JLLION FOR AMERIVA! MONETARY EASE—Tentu | PaGE. | ARREST OF A BROKER CHARGED WITH CoM- PLIVITY iN THE PHELPS DEFALUATION! WHERE THE $150,000 WENT—NiNTH Pace. THE LARCENY FROM THE STATE TREASURY! THE TRIAL OF CHARLES H. PHELPS FAIRLY UNDER WAY! HOW HE OPER- ATED! THE WOMAN IN THE PLOT— SEVENTH Pace. STOKES’ DEFENCE! THE JURY NOT PERMITTED TO VISIT THE SCENE OF THE TRAGEDY— | LEGAL SUMMARIES—Seventu Pace. Tae Frvanctan Ovrtoox or tHe Govenn- ‘ent seems to have given rise to some ques- | tioning and discussion. The Treasury De- partment, therefore, in » semi-official way, throws out its views. There need be no ‘pprehension that the government will not zeceive money enough to pay all current demands and have a surplus over. The doubts that may have been expressed come, proba- bly, from protectionists und government con- tractors and employés, who would like to increase taxation and have a full Treasury to operate upon. Indeed, the expenditures ought to be cut down considerably and a correspond. ing reduction be made in taxation during the Dext session of Congress. THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1873.-QUADKUPLE SHEET. Whe gfostal Telegraph and Savings Bank Systems— Will the Proposed Reform Pay? Postmaster General Creswell, at a republi- can meeting held on Friday last at Baltimore, has opportunely revived the question of the expediency of the establishment of a postal telegraph system and of ‘postal savings banks” as they now exist in Europe. As Mr. Creswell predicts, there will no doubt be great opposition to both propositions on the part of those who are interested in retaining the de- posits of the savings of the people in the in- dividual banks and of those who desire to maintain the existence of a telegraphic mo- nopoly ; but both must eventually fail as the questions are more fully understood by the people. The idea of establishing post office savings banks has in it nothing novel. It has already been practically carried out in Europe. To the poor laboring man or mechanic who has managed through industry and frugality to get together a little capital it gives a security that his hard-earned money shall not be lost without any error or fault of his own. It renders the savings of the people as secure as a national currency, pledging for them the credit and good faith of the nation. In addition to the great advantage of entire security, it affords depositors the advantage of taking their sav- ings bank with them into any part of the Union. Ifa mechanic now has money depos- ited in a savings bank, and is suddenly called away to work ata distant locality, he is com- pelled to be at the trouble of drawing his money and at the risk of carrying it with him. Under the postal savings bank system he car- ries his bank with him wherever he may go, and can draw his balance wherever and when- ever he may please without disturbing the money. In Europe the system has been found to work with advantage, both to the depositor and the government; and in this country, with its great distances and its migratory popula- tion, its benefits would be proportionately greater to both. In regard to the proposed postal telegraph the opinions of the Heratp have already been fully given, and are only confirmed by the experience of our own and other countries. The report of the President of the Western Union Telegraph Company to the stockholders, recently made, presents some points which are of as much interest to those who use as to those who own the lines. Its statements show how material a reduction could be made in the charges for the transmission of messages under a govern- mental system, with lines built at a legitimate cost, and how little hope there is of the cheap- ening of rates while the telegraphic business remains in the hands of a private monopoly. We learn from the report that fourteen and a half millions of messages were sent over the Western Union wires during the year ending June 30, 1873, and that the gross receipts for their transmission were $9,333,000, being an average of nearly 64} cents tolls collected on each message. The average is incorrectly stated in the report to be 61 cents per message. The working expenses exceeded the large amount of 70 per cent on the gross receipts, reaching $6,575,000 and leaving a net profit of $2,758,000. The working expenses of the European lines, owned and operated by the governments, average only 40 per cent of the gross receipts. During the year | where competition existed, is $1. Faance—Tur Puan or THE Monancuists.— Chambord, it appears, has made concessions which are satistactory to the liberal monarch- ists, and his plan of a Bourbon restoration, boy coke sear of the National Assembly, on the proposition “to claim hereditary Pood etiesty, the king promising liberty of conscience and equality before the law as the tights of all.” Tt is the last chance. The majority of the Assembly are said to be willing to seize it, but the movement is doubtful and dangerous, $1,722,000 was expended on construction account, interest, dc, and a balance of $1,036,000 remained, which if paid in div- idends would be a little over 2} per cent on the capital stock of the company. The capital stock is, in round figures, $41,000,000, and the debt $6,000,000, making a total of $47,000,000. It is admitted that the lines owned by the Western Union could be duplicated with the best English wire, the best instruments now in use and the best poles for $12,000,000. The stock of the Western Union is watered up to three and a half times the real value of the plant. With a legitimate capital invested, with the working expenses reduced down to the ordinary rate and with the same amount of business now transacted over the Western Union lines, a government telegraph could transmit messages at one-half the present rates in the United States, and realize a profit of 8 per cent to form a sinking fund for the payment of its cost. The increase in the number of messages sent over the Western Union lines in 1873 over those transmitted in 1872 reaches 16 per cent. This increase is attributable to two im- portant modifications of the tariff; the first being the abrogation of all rates over $2 50 per word—above which heavy charge the tariff was found to be prohibitory—and the equali- zation of rates West and South. This equali- zation and its necessity are explained in the report. The charges to points reached by competing lines are called ‘‘special rates.’’ The “square rate” is a misnomer for the tariff extorted to points where there is no opposi- tion. The opposition lines would send mes- sages over their own wires as far as they | reached, and then forward them at local rates to places beyond, at a through rate much less than the ‘‘square rate” demanded by the West- ern Union. The report gives the following asan example:—The “square rate’ of the Western Union from New York to a place, say, in the vicinity of Chicago, where there was no opposition, was $2 per word. The “special rate’? from New York to Chicago, The local rate between Chicago and the place in its vicinity was 40 cents; so the opposition lines would accept messages in New York to that place at $1 40, sending them over their own wires to Chicago and thence over the wires of the opposition at local rates. This was a losing game for the Western Union, and hence “came the “equalizing” of rates, and not from any consideration for the public interests. But to these reductions made within the year the increase of 16 per cent in the business of the company is mainly due—an evidence that & reduction of 50 per cent, or even of 25 per cent, from the present charges would largely increase the use of the wires by the public. We have ample evidence in the report that the people can expect no reduction of rates to meet their necessities or their interests so long 28 @ private monopoly holds the tele- graph business in its hands. The stockhold- ers are informed that the profits have not in- creased in proportion to the increase in the volume of business and in the gross receipts, on account of ‘the reduction of rates ren- dered necessary by the action of the competing companies between stations on the routes, of their lines, in the fret instance. aud, later, tho | reduction in other sections in order to equal- ize rates and thereby remove the inducement for competing lines to extend still further.” In other words, the Western Union has only given the people the benefit of fair rates and relieved them from extortionate charges when it became necessary to crush out or prevent the extension of opposition. “No public business of equal importance,” says Mr. Orton, ‘is so sensitive to compe- tition as that of the telegraph,” and he naively complains that among those persons who persist in promoting com- petition are the “senders of messages’? who selfishly desire to save money ‘‘from the re- duction of telegraph tolls which a competing line is expected to secure.” This certainly affords a striking illustration of the liberality of telegraphic monopoly, and the people will not be very well pleased to learn from the report that the Western Union is about to swallow up the Pacific and Atlantic lines, as it has already swallowed so many other op- position adventures. The country will soon discover that the only hope of bringing the great advantages of the telegraph within the reach of the masses of the people and of re- ducing the tariff to a reasonable amount is in the adoption of the government postal sys- tem, We are now paying treble the rates paid over European lines for the benefit of a private corporation which avows its determi- nation to crush out competition, and which only brings its tariff within fair bounds when riven to do so by a healthy opposition. The Recent Woman’s Congress. There was a dramatie propriety in the fact that the recent meetings of the Association for the Advancement of Women were held in the Union League Theatre. We will not say that never was a meeting held before charac- terized with just that quality and quantity of | picturesqueness, for we do not know what the processes of evolution during the eternity that has passed may have developed in other planets and far distant ages. But, so far as the relation of this earth to space and time are concerned, we have no warrant for be- lieving that anything exactly like it has ever been seen before. The Congress was a wom- an’s rights meoting stripped of several of those characteristics which have hitherto been accepted as distinctive of such meect- ings. There was a smaller propor- tion of those wonderfully constructed monads whom we are obliged to call men for want of a more exact, but inof- fensive appellation, but whose long hair and short ideas seem to entitle them to a place not the highest in a feminine category. There was a larger proportion of sterling women, pure in character, unsullied in reputation, earnest in intentions and inflexible in reso- lution. Altogether, the recent Woman’s Con- gress was an improvement upon former women’s rights meetings, and we felicitate it upon the fact that the dramatic picturesque- ness to which we have referred possessed so few elements lacking dignity. But it would have been absurd to expect, as some cavillers appear to have done, that bodies battling for what they believed to be their rights should be totally regard- less of the demands of fashion. Almost any woman will rise to a moral height if you dress her in the depth of the fashion; and we doubt not that among the scores of elegantly attired ladies who took part in the public exercise at the Union League Theatre Inst week nine-tenths of them will deposit their first votes in bonnets ordered for the occasion. Still, let us give these ladies their due. We have no desire to throw undeserved ridicule upon dignified women acting from correct motives. In fact, to speak with pre- cision, no ridicule will adhere to women like these, but only to those exceptional interlopers who have but a half perception of things as they ought to be, and with the wings of the bat hope to soar like the eagle. The humor that was inherent in the | meetings took its rise from a very different and much more respectable source than this. Some of the best things said by the speakers were spiced with a touch of comedy that will do something to contradict the assertions of mysogonists who declare that woman has no sense of humor. The Rey. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, for instance, announced that as an experiment she recommended an oc- casional exchange of household duties, and be- lieved that one day of baby tending and bread making would go far to humanize a husband and enable the whole family to sleep of nights. Now, there is something in this view. No one will gainsay its humor. Whether it would work practically in a large proportion of cases is another question. But we have no doubt, and we presume. many of our readers will share our convictions, that there is a certain proportion of women who are better suited for the transaction of much work that we call masculine than are many of the men who now monopolize that work. Nay, we will go even further and maintain that it would not be dif- | ficult to find men who would be more useful | and happy in the performance of quiet domes- tic duties than in those public functions to which the biases of society confine them. Nature has given them that fineness of organ- ization, that delicacy of netvcs, which is con- ventionally termed feminine, though the number of women who daily contradict the propriety of ffich a phraseology as exclusively applicable to the female sex | Seems to be increasing. Still, we do not like the spectacle of Ingomar and Parthenia chang- ing places, except as a poctical antithesis, | pretty for the moment and possessing a valu- | able emblematic moral. To the one his spear and buckler, to the other her distaff and rose- | wreaths. To the modern Ingomar the store, the office, the business exchange; to Parthe- nia the sewing machine, the cradle, the babies and the shirt buttons. The exigencies of the age in which we live are too pressing to warrant us in taking that telescopic view of the future of humanity when the present aspect of affairs shall possi- bly be reversed in many points and that expansion shall have taken place in the one sex and that repression in the other which shall assimilate their sympa- thies upon a nobler and higher level than they now occupy. We are content with recognizing in the present movement among the better order of women’s rights women @ more respectable and dignified elo- ment than ever before, and if this element Grows and augments itself with noble and valuable accretions it will be our pleasure, not Jens than our duty. to draw attention to it from time to time. The recent Women’s Congress was attended and endorsed by women whose social and intellectual status is as high as it is undisputed, and who, by thus pronouncing approval, are insti- tuting a strong contrast with their own conduct in previous years. Such a contrast speaks eloquently in favor of the improving quality of the better order of women's rights meetings. But, as we said before, we do not wonder that ladies insist on rushing into the field of action well dressed. Joan of Arc in this nineteenth cen- tury will not walk to the stake quite happy unless she is conscious that her gloves fit and that envy of her bonnet will mingle with the remorse of the female jury that sat on her. Italian Opera in New York—The Duty of Managers and of the Pub- ie. The progress of the Italian opera season affords us much ground for encouragement and some reasons for complaint. During the last fortnight we had two companies singing at different houses on the same night. The result was, perhaps, to do injury to each other and to operatic music; but these companies give usan opportunity for comparing the two systems of producing opera—by a brilliant “star"’ and a wretched cast, and by an evenly balanced, meritorious and almost perfect com- bination. Mr. Maretzek clung to the former plan, and he never gave us more than two ar- tists in any one opera. For instance, he pro- duced ‘Il Poliuto” with Tamberlik and Lucca, “La Sonnambula’ with Di Murska, and “Lucia di Lammermoor” with Tamberlikand Di Murska. These performances only served to advertise the few great artists he is able to present; butat the very moment when the public was ready to respond and he should have been able to present Di Murska in “The Magic Flute,” Lucca in ‘Der Frei- schiitz,” and Tamberlik in ‘William Tell” and “Le Prophdte,” he announced the sudden termination of his season, did his great tenor the injustice of not allowing him to be heard in New York in those réles which are really in Tamberlik’s répertoire, and succeeded only in giving Di Murska a single oppor- tunity to display her exceptional gifts as ‘The Queen of Night” in Mozart’s fairy work. The production of ‘‘The Magic Flute” was the only real effort of Mr. Maretzek to produce opera; and simply because it was not a work worn threadbare by constant repetition and presented some promise in certain parts of the cast it drew together an audience unex- ampled in numbers and enthusiasm. There isa lesson in this which must not be over- looked in the future, since it proves that good artists can bring together a vast multitude to hear works not too often rendered in New York, even though the operatic management is burdened by the feeble system to which Mr. Maretzek clings. In the magnificent company at the Academy we have an excellent illustration of the newer and better system of presenting Italian opera— the system upon which we shall have to depend if we wish to make it a permanent in- stitution in New York. Every work, so far, produced at the Academy of Music this season has been presented with a strong and efficient cast, an excellent chorus anda well balanced orchestra. With the production of ‘Don Giovanni’’ on Wednesday evening the height of general excellence will be reached, for we believe this great work will be given as it was never given before in this city. Butso far Mr. Strakosch has only accomplished two things—the successful and almost separate debuts of his artists and the demonstration of the fact that they are capable of performing the most difficult works. He has produced no new works, and with the exception of “Ernani’ has not gone out of the beaten track in the presentation of old ones. That most of these works are favorites is no excuse for their constant repetition. Even an anchorite desires some variety in his food. Our managers have constant proofs that the music-loving public also desire variety. A work which has the slightest claim to novelty is sure to draw a full house. “The Magic Flute’ on Thursday night filled the Grand Opera House to overflowing, while the repetition of the ‘“Sonnambula’”’ on the following evening betrayed a beggarly array of empty benches. Every seat at the Acad- emy was filled on Friday night to hear “Ernani,”” and the pleasure of Maurel’s triumph was greatly enhanced by the fact that it was not achieved in one of the threadbare réles of the New York répertoire. It is not to be expected that Italian opera can be sup- ported in this city with the production not only of the same works year after year, but with two or three repetitions of each every season. Mr. Strakosch started well in giving us most of the old favorites in rapid succes- sion. It is only now that he is beginning to repeat them that we begin to complain. We want novelties, if they are only novelties like ‘Ernani,”’ and he will consult his own interests if he gives us new works as well as old. ‘Aida’ and “Lohengrin” are both promised for this sea- son. When will the promise be redeemed? We hope speedily, because it is of vital im- portance to this city that the opera season at the Academy shall be a great success. Feeble management destroyed the Maretzek season at the Grand Opera House, and the promise of three weeks of opera was only partially re- deemed, Onlya like feeblencss can destroy the Strakosch season at the Academy, The company at the latter house is the best which has been heard in New York for years. Its representations afford us examples of that perfection in ensemble, chorus and orchestra, for which the Heranp has long contended. If, besides all these, the works produced meet the wants and wishes of the public the season will become the most brilliant, in every way, which the New World has ever known. Great as is the work depending upon the manager, the duty of the public, if possible, is even greater. Mr. Strakosch has demon- strated his ability to give opera in an entirely acceptable manner. From what we have seen of his efforts so far we are persuaded that he is disposed to give the public what is wanted if the public responds with proper liberality. Tho cast of “Don Giovanni,” which in- cludes Nilsson, Torriani, Maresi, Campanini, Manurel, Nannetti, Scolara and Coletti, is perhaps the strongest the opera has ever had in this country. Besides Verdi's ‘Aida’ — upon the speedy production of which we are to insist—the “Huguenots” ond “William Tell’ are in vreparation. Other great works will also be produced; bis’ it must not be expected that the manager can Q0 this at his own exponse. Three weeks of season have already expired, but so far the | AP! opera has been a greater artistic than finan- cial success. Both aro necessary if we would make opera a permanent institu- tion in New York. Should we allow the present season to fail it will prove a dis- aster that will be felt for years. We havea good company—a company excellent in every artistic sense, and it is our duty to support it manfully, that we may have like companies in the future, This fact is one which we desire especially to impress upon our readers. The Academy of Music ought to be crowded every night. The performances are of the highest order—better, we believe, than even in Paris— and crowded houses can be the only adequate recompense. It may not be a very msthetic view of the matter, but the New York public must remember that they must make opera pay if they would have opera. The Great Lake Storm and Its Good _ Effect on the Southern Plague. On Friday night a severe storm of consider- able cyclonic dimensions swept over tho Northwest and upper lake region, and all day yesterday was advancing in this direction, This gale, as reported by telegraph, was at- tended with very dangerous winds and with heavy rains, and, necessarily, with a very low glass. It is to be feared that its results on the whole chain of lakes—now that navigation is at its busiest and all vessels are seeking to make the most of the few days remaining of open water—have been very disastrous; but there is one bright view which relieves in a measure the apprehension felt for the consequences of this storm. Following close behind it comes the long and agonizingly prayed for cold weather, destined to visit the plague-stricken city of Memphis and drive back the pesti- lence which is already on the point of waver- ing. The weather “probabilities” yesterday indicated cold, clear weather for the Ohio Valley and southward, and this was good news in the scene of the great desolation wrought by the scourge. The powerful and frosty northwester that must scour the Mis- sissippi Valley to-day and to-morrow will lift the veil of horror that has so many weeks hung over this region and admit the rays of hope to its sorrowed and death-stricken people. It is by no means unlikely that, attending this great western gale, the whole Southwest will be visited by a chilling and biting frost, and that even Texas will experience a norther never s0 welcome as now. - We may hope that this tempest will verify the poet's idea: — O, not more Pees the Favonian breeze ‘To Nature’s health thau purifying storms, The storm in question was fully and abund- antly premonished by the Signal Office, and if its Friday storm warnings were heeded on the lakes, as we doubt not they were, many a vessel has been spared the danger otherwise encountered. The Jerome Park Autumn Meeting. The close of the autumn meeting of the American Jockey Club at Jerome Park yester- day leaves but one more meeting, that of Baltimore, to reach the end of the fall racing season. The meeting just concluded has been one on which the well-wishers of fast horseflesh can congratulate theniselves. It was blessed with lovely weather, full attendance and fine racing. Each day's programme contained at least two nota- ble struggles, and the fortunes of the field abounded in those surprises which gave merit, unknown till then, the place it deserved. In recalling the meeting, however, it must be said that there are some points on which the management might do a great deal to give the meetings under its auspices more popular significance. We have long learned to be glad at the sight of such gatherings as the past meeting and its predecessors * have witnessed. We do not wish that the Club members or those willing and able to pay for special privileges should be denied them; but there is every reason to ask why those who can spare a day, but not the extra dollar to procure a simple admission, should be debarred from having a share in the sport? The management need not fear that the free admission of people to those portions of the Park which are abso- lutely bare of spectators on racing days would lower the tone of the sacred precincts of the Club, the speculated on strip of quarter-stretch, which they call in England the ‘‘ring,” the benches of the grand stand or the hill behind it. The grades, and they cover wide differences of social standing, would remain much as they are, and the picturesque addition to the scene of the masses in their holiday attire and enthusiasm would grandly compensate for the injured dignity of a personage here or there. It is thus that the Derby is a national institution in England— everybody is jollier for the presence of the crowd. Next to sitting out a play with “a beggarly array of empty benches,” getting through a day's racing where there is a sparse attendance is the most doleful thing possible in the way of amusement. The manfer in which the bluffs overlooking at a distance the Jerome Park course are thronged on ce days shows how gladly the masses, and these not the vile and degraded, would hail the opportunity of entering the Canaan of equitation. They are more to be pitied than Moses on Mount Horeb. We learn from the Saturday Review that there are some things in the English turf rules requiring amendment at the hands of the Jockey Club there, and so the gentlemen of our own institu- tion need not expect to be less criticised be- cause their faults are fewer. Horse racing is a noble and healthy pastime within certain limits. These limits are certainly not in the classes fit to enjoy the sport. Tue District or Couumpra—A Ory From tHe Pustac Scnoors.—After the dance comes the piper with his little bill. The Territorial government of the District of Columbia for a year or two has been as freely spending its money and its credit as if assured of a car- nival of flush times that would never end. But the pinch has come, and now it seemp that, while the Governor and other District officials have been dining and wining as if upon the proceeds of an inexhaustible gold mine or oil well, the pitiful salaries of the poor teachers of the District schools havo not been paid them for six months, and that, while they cannot meet the demands for their board, the schools are unprovided with fucl. Ata meeting the other evening of the Board of Trustees of theso schools a meinber called fhe attention of the Board to these facts, but he was’ speedily silenced by his colleagues, who peared to be dnxious only to prevent any 4 reports of their apparent official negligence getting abroad. This is a suspicious course of action, to say the least of it, and reminds us of the old adage that ‘where all is not open all is not honest.’’ Or does this Board of School Trustees imagine that, like the silly ostrich in hiding its little head in the sand, its long legs and big body are invisible ? Last Words About the Late gelleal Congress—Review Keligious Press. Strictly speaking there is very little to re- view in the editorial columns of the religious press this week. Full reports of the Evan- gelical Alliance, which has just closed its sittings here, are given in most of the secta- rian journals, to the exclusion, ina groat measure, of other and more varied articles. For example, the Observer gives some fifteen columns of this matter, the Hvangelist about the same amount, the Independent about a dozen pages, the Methodist some sixteen columns, and so on through nearly the whole Protestant list. The Observer finds editorial space to say, in summing up the business of the Convention: — The most elaborate, philosophical, theological and scientific discussions were listened to with the greatest satisfaction, These papers were encored, a8 popular songs in & concert, and their repetition actually required, at great length. One of them, for the second time read, held a vast as- sembly, packing one of the largest churches, two hours and forty minutes! The enthusiasm of these immense audiences indicated an _ inteliectual pipes Sh ) revival, a sudden awakening to the ap- prehension of evangeiical truth, in its bearings upon the world’s regeneration, and the quick appreciation 01a great thougnt, a fine illustration, or @ novel and ingenious argument, showed the audience to ve in the highest range of mental and moral activity, day after day, through the most protracted and exhausting sessions, The Evangelist concludes its summary of the occasion by trusting that ‘‘in all branches of the Church this grand Protestant Council will be followed by a more intelligent and energetic prosecution by each of its appropriate work. With larger views and a more correct appre- ciation of what needs to be done, as well as with a stronger sympathy for all who, near or far away, are engaged in Christian labors, we shall respond to the impulse now given and go to our work with new faith, courage and hope.’’ The Independent frankly admits that the meetings of the Alliance “have been mor& fruitful of good than we had expected, although we expected not a little: And yet, when we attempt to tell to our readers at a distance just what those fruits have been, we recognize the difficulty. For the Alliance Evans of the has made no record of decretals, has formulated no doctrine and has even recommended nothing. It has passed no votes unless it be votes of thanks. When the Vatican Council was adjourned it had something definite to show. It had been de- cided, after bitter discussion, that the infalli- bility of the Pope was a doctrine that had al- ways been held everywhere by all Catholic Christians. That was not true, but it was something to show. The dogma had been formulated and adopted and proclaimed. The Evangelical Alliance, on the other hand, has nothing of this sort to show, for it has only met together and talked.” The Methodist wishes it to be remembered that “the Alliance is not a league of churches, but an association of individual Christians. It is open to all accredited believers who accept its basis. Now that its importance has been demonstrated we beg our people (whom it is our function to address) to sustain it, to be- come members of it, and so to increase and perpetuate its power.’’ Church and State (Rev. Dr. John Cotton Smith) remarks that ‘‘a few years ago it would have been impossible for a Conference like this to have been heldin this country without very great prominence being given to the the- ological barriers which exist between different Christian communions. In the present Con- ference the existence of any such barriers was scarcely recognized, or, if recognized’ at all, was treated with perfect indifference.’’ The Christian at Work (Rev. J. De Witt Tal- mage), in its labors in the cause of temperance, states that the Indians first called the site on which New York was built Manahachtanienks. The translation of it is, ‘“The place where they all got drunk.’’ ‘‘We aro glad,’’ says the editor, “that it has been changed, for though New York has several thousand unliceused grog shops, we consider the name inappropriate, although, ifintemperance continues to increase as rapidly for the next hundred years as during the last twenty years, the time will come when New York may appropriately take its old Indian nomenclature.”’ The Christian Union (Henry Ward Beecher) affirms that ‘the Alliance is one of the land- * marks of the world’s advancement toward a genuine Christian toleration and brotherhood. - It is one of the agencies that promote this ad- J vancement. But progress never fails to go beyond the agencies that set it agoing, and the time will come when the Christian world shall outgrow the Alliance. Each generation thinks that it has attained the end of progress, or at least that its own ideal is that end. But every generation is short-sighted. Our horizon is not the end of the world. Beyond the partial unity accomplished by the Evangelical Alliance there will come in the fulness of ’ God's time a broader fellowship and a pro- founder union of Christians.” The Baptist Weekly discusses the free speccl and religious liberty branches of the delibera- tions of the Congress. The editor insists that “Dr. Curry’s positions were true and ably sus- tained; and that they were entirely in harmony with the avowed purpose of the Alliance in aiming to promote ‘religious liberty’ must have been perfectly plain to all who were not ’ swayed by their partialities or prejudices, If no divergence of thought is to be tolerated in our Protestant conferences, and only such things are to be spoken as men of all sects will approve, as little liberty will be enjoyed as,in Papal councils, and trath will be pro- scribed by the very men who profess to ba most zealous for its defence.” The Tablet (Roman Catholic), after sharply Y criticising some of the proceedings of the Alliance, adds that “they who assume this title of representing the Christian Church will go away again without baving done one thing to alter for the better the present state of Christianity, They were not expected to favor the Catholic, Church, but they might be ex- pected to do some work—to say this is or this is not Christian belief, this is right or this is yy wrong, this is the teaching of Christ or it is ‘ not, Gould they only have healed oven somo of tho dissensions of their own body (hex,