The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1874, Page 6

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WHITELAW REID'S ADDRESS—T inp Pace. PHILADELPHIA’S TROUBLED POLITICAL SITU- ATION—BUYS DROWNED WHILE SKAT- ING—TuHIRD Pace. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS IN NEW YORK CITY; REPORT OF COMMISSIONER VAN NORT ON THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED AND ITS | COST! THE SAVING OVER LAST YEAR! IMPORTANT SUGGESTIONS—TuiRD Pace. THE DOOM OF SLOW-COACHISM WRITTEN! FURTHER UNFO! NG OF THE POPULAR THOUGHT IN f1ON TO RAPID TRAN- SIT THROUGH THE METROPOLIS AND BROOKLYN—Tuirp Pace, THE PROGRAMME OF PUBLIC WORSHIP IN THE VARIOUS CHRIS‘ N TEMPLES TO- DAY! RELIGIOUS GLE G3! THE CHI- CAGU CHURCH WAR DECIDED AT LAST! | BISHOP CHENEY 1RIUMPHANT—JEWISH | SERVICES YESTERDAY—Fovrru Pace. “SONS OF THE COVENANT!" THE CONVENTION OF AMERICAN ISRAELITES TO MEET IN | CHICAGO TO-DAY! HISTORY OF BNAI | BERITH—THIRD Pace, LEGAL SUMMARIES—GENERAL NEWS—Testu Page. OPERATIONS ON ‘CHANGE YESTERDAY! AC- TivITY IN STOCKS—Fovrrn Pace. 72 NTH Page. THE ALPHONSIST LIQUIDATIC EDNESS—Szv- LARGE MEETING OF PROGRESSIVE CITIZENS | 7 | OF THE UPTOWN DISTRICT AT M¢ HAVEN—AWARD OF THE CONTRACTS FOR LIGHTING THE CITY—TaiEp Pace. THE CHARGES AGAINST WARDEN DROWNED—FirTu Pace. QUINS— Monper 1 4 Cover or Jusric#.—The want of reverence for the law, which is such @ re- gretable feature of our society, has been again exemplified by the murder of a prisoner in open court, The story is a deeply tragic one. A man in Galveston, charged with murder, was waiting the com- mencement of his trial, when the gon of the murdered man approached unperceived end shot him through the head, killing him instantly. The young man, no doubt, con- sidered himself a hero and felt that a sickly sentimentality would save him from the gal- lows. If murderers were treated in the sum- mary manner they deserve, and the law made itself really respected, we shonld have less melodramatic crime of this nature | sound principles of common sense. | thinking men and women of the land demand Sunday, January 25, 1874. | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 25, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. Popular Selemce as s Revolutioniter of National Thought and Cultere. During the present month the people of New York have hada rare and rich intelleo- tual treat in the serics of astronomical lec- tures delivered by our honored scientific guest, Mr. Richard A. Proctor. The success of this high essay, we venture to say, augurs anew era in the extension of science among the people, if it does not also inaugurate a great revolution in the national mind. There was a time when the songs and ballads of a nation shaped and moulded its thought. But we live to see the day when the popular mind is to be trained in a higher school and cast in the loftier and larger mould of nature, amid the higher concepts of science— —the lore of colors and of sounda; ‘The innumerable tenements of beauty; ‘The miracles of generative torce; Far-reaching concords of astronomy, The great engine through whose potent agency this revolution is to be wrought is evi- dently the popular science lecture, taking that | term in its most dignified sense. When the ' Royal Institution, in 1801, selected Dr. Thomas Young’s memoir on light and colors as the | Bakerian lecture for that year, Lord Brougham | stigmatized the popular lecture as fit only to | amuse the fashionable ladies who thronged its | halls and as unworthy a place in the venerable records of the society. No idler or falser ap- * | peal to prejudice was ever made than that of | the great reviewer. The lectures of the Royal | Society at that time, though far inferior in | point of illustration and adaptedness, did | more to awaken scientific investigation | through the world than any means known to history. The poor apprentice who happened to hear the lectures of Young's successor (Sir Humphrey Davy) was among the first fruits of the science lecture system; and, had that system given the world nothing more, Michael Faraday would be its title to universal respect. ‘That I might be of use to the public in disseminating the’ true principles of natural philosophy” was the confessed ambition of Young, a man almost the peer of Newton, and a similar am- ; bition is not unworthy our most mature and original scientists of the present day. ‘The inauguration of scientific culture among the thinking masses in America has long since taken place; but its prosecution as a great national educational work must proceed upon 1 The solidity and a high order of thought to engage and even to tax their intellectual powers; for in literature, as in war, the poet's idea of the pleasures of energy put torth—gaudia cer- taminis—is true to human nature. The list- lessness and apathy shown by the laboring classes to #9 many scientific books and lectures especially intended for them arise from the fact that the instruction they | convey is made subordinate to their dress. They are clothed in a certain gilded or lively style, which is palpably a cloak to disguise the real knowledge to be imparted; and this sugar coating naturally excites a suspicion that it covers a pill too nauseating to be seen. Against this widespread error of popular lec- turers and writers our most eminent scientists, | in their designedly popular communications to the public, have entered their emphatic pro- test. The lectures of Tyndall (not to name first some of our own science teachers) will | long be remembered for their combination of profundity and popularity, and for the great impulse they gave to the popular zeal in physi- cal research throughout the country. The kin- dred works of our American scientists, as New- berry, Young, Whitney and many others, have largely contributed to the popularization of solid scientific erudition and research. And | now Professor Proctor’s lectures will have an accumulative and far-reaching effect. The Henaxp, conscious of the mighty agency of the press in bringing about such a revolu- tion in national thought, has steadily exerted itself to lead in the movement and to keep its readers intelligently informed of every ad- vance of science. There can be no doubt the greater commixture of scientific with literary and classical culture is demanded by the genius of the age. The novel, in its best forms, has, till within a few years, held place as the most powerful engine of civilization, just as a century ago and in remoter periods of history, the epic poem, handed down by memory from sire to son, inspired the masses of men. Even as late as the first quarter of this century the old Higklanders of Scotland were as familiar with ‘‘Paradise Lost’’ and the works of their national historians as with their sheep hooks. And we are told by a distinguished geographer that even in Iceland, amid penury and priva- tion, literary cultivation bag reached and | retained a high degree. This is all well as far as it goes. A nation ignorant of its his- toric annals and unanimated by the burning thoughts of its Miltons and its Shakespeares must be poor indeed. But with all the exist- ing sources of refreshing and refining culture which we have inherited from the past we need the infusion of s more earnest and solid learning. And this is to be derived from the severer methods of the mathe- matician and the physical investigator. The one rock on which the advocates of scientific culture are in danger of ship- wrecking their hopes is their ambitious en- deavor to make scientific speculation super- sede the testimony of Divine revelation. In this overweening conceit the ignominious fail- ure of the iconoclast is certain. The grand old masters of modern science were too wise and too humble to engage in such a warfare with a heaven-descended revelation, The magnificent works of the Newtons, the La | Places and the Herschels are not, like the ancient Athenian altars, dedicated ‘to the unknown God," but to the revealed Creator. And even now, despite the inflated preten- siond of the évolutiohiats, S ‘sober patriarchs of science, such as the lamented Agassiz and others still living, deplore and denounce the sophistry which would mutilate the Scrip- tures. ‘Let ministers of the Gospel,’’ said Dr. I. Lawrence Smith, the eminent leader of American science, ‘‘utter in a voice of thunder, like the Boanerges of the Gospel, that the world by wisdom knew not God, and it never will.” Confessing this, our science popularizers and pioneers of physical research may render inestimable services to the «orld; and, confining themselves to their sphere of actual inquiry and actual discovery, the age will respond to the beantiful and sublime truths which nature has actually entrusted to their teaching. Attempting more, or tran- ascending the legitimate limita of scientific thought, the intellectual giant, though a Tyn- | Topics Treated by dall or a Huxley, dwindles into the propor- tions of the pygmy or the charlatan. The people who flock to hear the lecturer may not be learned, but they can distinguish true and false reasoning and will demand the applica- tion of the crucial test to every proposition advanced. A solid and non-speculative science, eschewing a ‘mine of assertions” (which Agassiz pronounced Darwinism to be), but bent only on unfolding the grand and the beautiful in nature, is the great desidesatum of our popular literature and lecture. The Cuban War. The news from Cuba shows that the insur- rection is gathering new life since the over- throw of the Republic in Spain. Manzanillo, which has been almost isolated during the past year by the insurgents under Generals Calixto Garcia and Modesto Diaz, is now re- ported to be surrounded and threatened by the Cuban forces, whose number is set down at four thousand. Important as is this news in demonstrating the growing strength of the Cubans in the Eastern Department, the raid of an insurgent band into the Trinidad valley is still more significant. The meagre in- formation allowed to reach us through the. telegraph speaks of the destruction of three plantations and the carrying off of the slaves, but as very little faith oan be placed on the accuracy of Spanish accounts the affair may be of still greater consequence. The fact ad- mitted, however, proves that notwithstanding the much talked of trochas the insurgents are carrying the war westward, and are reoceupying districts from which they were driven some years ago. It is the delib- erateintention of the Cuban leaders to carry the war into the Cinco Villas, and General Gomez is showing how vigorously he can carry out his plans. The victories of Palo Seco, Melones and the sacking of Manzanillo, Santa Cruz and Nuevitas show that the Cubans are well able to maintain themselves against the greatest efforts Spain can put forth. The action of Serrano’s new government in seiz- ing on and imprisoning insurgents who had surrendered to the government will probably cause thousands to flock again to the insur- gent standard; and, as the men in the field have learned how to win arms and ammuni- tion by the aid of the terrible machete, we may expect to see the Cuban struggle taking such proportions that it may be jmpossible longer to refuse the insurgents recognition as belligerents. Castelar's Republic no longer blocks the way. The New Tribune Building. The spot made sacred by the labors of Horace Greeley was yesterday the scene of a touching incident. The old building has gone down to the dust like the man whose genius Taised it up and made it a power in the land. It has passed away, however, to be replaced by a stronger and more solid structure, which is destined to last through ages, and so bear down to posterity a visible sign of the strug- gles of a man who left his impress on the times in which he lived, and who will be re- membered as long as contemporary records have an interest for the students of history. Tho accomplished daughter of Horace Greeley laid the foundation stone of the new building which will remain a lasting monument to the memory of her father. There was something peculiarly appropriate and touching in the sight of the young lady laying the foundation of the grand and imposing structure that already begins to rise out of the earth, and if spirits can revisit this globe the shade of Horace Greeley must have smiled encourag- ingly on the work of his daughter. ANoTHER WintEx Wave on Its Way.—Once more Old Winter reasserts his sway. The indi- cations strongly portend the approach of another icy and frosty spell, which has already appeared in the West, and may be expected to reach us and seal up our rivers to-night. Yesterday morning the tidings of intense cold in the Northwest, more than thirty degrees below zero, the sure harbinger of wintry blasts for us, were announced, Judging from these premonitions, furnished in the weather reports, it is pretty safe to predict that from Southern Virginia to Arkansas and everywhere northward the ice crop will be tormed within the next twenty-four hours. The high barome- ter advancing from the West and Northwest brings us these cold spells, and the weather reports thus furnish the unerring intimations of their advance eastward. While the coming cold will give glee to the skaters and bring great gains to the ice trade, it will be trying on the penniless and homeless. Let us this week ‘‘remember the poor.”” Tae Cavrce or Tat Messiun.—There must be something in the location, organization or polity of the Church of the Messiah fatal to Unitarianism. Since its transfer from Broadway to Park avenue it seems to have come under the influence of orthodoxy to such an extent as to drive one of its eminent pastors into the Epis- copal fold, another into the orthodox Congre- gational fold, and now the Rev. Henry Powers has tendered his resignation as pastor, giving among other reasons for taking this step that the Church is not ‘a genuine Church of Christ.” He, therefore, suggests the sale of its present property and the Transfer’ of the society to another locality, where, under more favorable auspices, a genuine Church of Christ might be built up which would ‘deserve, not only the sympathy and support of the whole Unitarian community, but would also be blest hereafter with a measure of outward pros- perity fully equal to its most sanguine de- sires.” The church has accepted its pastor's resignation, but bas not adopted his sugges- tions. After its protracted struggle to find a successor to Rev. Geo. H. Hepworth it may be pertinent to ask, Where will it look now for Mr. Powers’ successor ? Tae Auronsmr Ciuss ayy raz SennaNo Govennment.—One of our most interesting items of news this morning is that the Spanish government has issued an order closing the Alfonsist clubs in the capital city. This most people will regard as a wise and proper course of policy. If the friends of the Prince of the Asturias, who is himself too young to intrigue, are presuming too far, it is right to teach them that they arm injuring the cause that they have espoused. If Serrano really intends to stand by the Republic it is his duty to put down insurrectionary clubs. Most people will be of the opinion that the suppres- sion of the Alfonsist clubs in Madrid is in- tended rather to conceal than roveal the pur- pose of the govergment, the Religious Press. “A Friendly Critic’ baving found fault with Mr. Beecher for magnifying right living at the expense of right thinking, while it is certain that in the long run the religious life of an age is shaped by its religious thought, has led the eminent preacher to defend him- self in the editorial columns of the Christian Union from this criticism. While he does not despise systems of theology, he maintains that a godly life is the best exposition of the thought of God, and to build men up in such a life and to form in them such a character is, he thinks, the surest and most certain way to deliver them from scepticism on the one hand and from narrow and belittling conceptions on the other. The main obstacle to the prog- ress of religious truth, Mr. Beocher believes, is the low condition of man’s moral and spiritual nature. Of what avail, then, we may ask, has been all the moral and religious teaching of the past? and how will it be ere mankind is lifted up to a higher plane of moral and religious truth and thought? The Union bas a timely article also on Sunday school books for boys, which condemns the trashy literature that finds its way into our Sunday schoo! libraries. The Indepeiient, touching on “The Revival Season,”’ would like a revival in summer as well as in winter—all the year round and every year. And yet it sees in nature an analogy to this law of periodic revivals. Dur- ing searce three months in the year the forest sends out its wealth of new shoots; the other nine are given to ripening and rest. The editor believes that there is to be this season a more than ordinary outpouring of God’s spirit and revival of His work, and that there is a blessing for all who will pray and work for it. In the discussion of the question whether we should have two sermons on Sun- day or one, the Independent inclines to one and the making more prominent of the Sabbath school or children’s service. It thinks that two sermons, with Sabbath school and prayer meetings, leave no timo for the ‘home church” services, ‘An ounce of mother is worth a pound of preacher.” The Methodist returns to the subject of «Plagiarism in the Pulpit’’ to answer a Western correspondent, and concludes that-no matter how much a man may borrow from others he who digests his reading will not bea pla- giarist. It also lets fly a brondside at the Examiner and Chronicle for its strictures on a former editorial of the Methodist on the “Decline of Baptist Exclusiveness,"’ and gives the names of a dozen prominent open com- munion ministers of the Baptist Church which the Hvaminer challenged iit to name, The Christian Advocate indulges in a philo- sophical treatise on ‘Ecclesiastical Econ- omics,” in which it enters a mild protest against expensive Methodist church buildings and small salaries to ministers. It thinks that a minister's expenses ought to amount to more than an ordinary mechanic's wages—for the good of the Church and for his own and his family’s comfortable subsistence. His salary should, therefore, be proportionally larger. The Advocate, in a review of ‘Bishop Cummins and His Schism,” heartily endorses the Reformed Episcopal Church movement and wishes it abundant success in the name of the Lord. The Hvangelist devotes a column and a half leader to tributes of respect to Professor Smith, who has just resigned the chair of Systematic Theology in Union Seminary, in this city, andto Dr. Shedd, his elected successor. To Dr. Smith, more than to any other one man, it says, is due the union ot the separated Presby- terian families of the Old and New Schools. The Evangelist also hails the new free church m ovement inaugurated in the canton of Neuf- chatel, Switzerland, and wishes it God speed. The Baptist Weelly mildly favors ‘‘compul- sory education;"’ thinks that ‘zeal for union’’ is “a cause of strife,’’ and for itself recog- nizes a larger measure of unity, as existing in connection with ecclesiastical separations, than many who are clamorous for more. The Christian Indelligencer refers approvingly to the late union communion service in Brooklyn, in which Baptists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Methodists and Reformed Church Christians participated. It also under- stands (editorially) that Liberia is soon to be put in telegraphic communication with the rest of the world by connecting Cape Palmas with the Brazilian submarine cable at St. Vincent in the Cape Verd Islands. It thinks a line of steamers will follow this, and thus the young Republic will be brought directly into the family of nations, and through it, by and by, Intro-Africa is to be re- generated and evangelized. The Liberal Christian is not in the least alarmed at the unsettled state of theological opinion, the non-attendance of thousands of intelligent and: unintelligent people upon preaching and public worship and the decline of family prayer and domestic piety. There is no more danger to the Church in these things than there is to the State in the apparent lack of interest in our republican institutions. The Christian Leader makes @ proper dis- tinction between ‘‘Church unionand Christian union,”’ favoring the latter and believing the fommes Jeposghls aad imprpctienble, wer i possible, Its remedy for “the tumult of the people” in Tompkins square the other day is to get one or two ideas into the minds of these “menacing throngs’’ that they might see what the beneficence of God and a free government offers to all honest industry guided by intelli- gence, and what they must do to avail of the offer. Church and State reviews Archbishop Man- ning's essay on Cesarism and Ultramontanism and takes a strong stand against the abuses of Sunday funerals. The Freeman's Journal defends the Irish- American population of this city against the charge of being Communists, and transfers the odium of this ism to the public schools. The antidote to Communism is to make education more Christian. The Tablet returns to the charge against Bismarck and Germany for the persecutions which they have brought upon the Church and which she has to bear unaided and alone in every part of the world. The Catholic Re- view helps its neighbor a little in the same line, and adduces proofs to show that Bismarck was untruthful when he accused Catholics of disloyalty. The Jewish Messenger has some thoughts on the study of the Bjble; the Jewish Times on Theology and Evolution and the Hebrew Leader on Duplicity, Demtse of the Siamese Twins. The interview we publish in another column between a Heratp reporter and the doctor who attended the Siamese Twins during life furnishes the most interesting information as to the cause of their death, According to the doctor's theory the lives of the two men were separate and only their bodies were bound to- gether by the connecting ligament. In support of his views he states that he has known one of the twins to be sick while the other enjoyed perfect health. But the most im- portant point is the statement that he has noticed a difference of twenty beats in the pulsation of the two men. If sufficient care was taken in making this observation, and its correctness can be relied upon, it effectively disposes of the theory that these men had but one heart. We know that the temperaments and tastes of the twins differed widely, and that there was no intimate symw- pathy between their thoughts or feelings, for one was often merry while the other was ill-tempered and morose. This difference of disposition marking the existence of two separate identities is inconsistent with the theory of unity of life. Dr, Hollings- worth’s opinion may be wrong as suggested by some of the twins’ friends, but the evidence so far obtained supports the doctor's views. It is to be regretted that persons of speculative mind will not even respect the sanctity of death. Some people, it is said, are endeavor- ing to obtain the consent of the twins’ wives to the exhibition of the bodies of Eng and Chang. Such a project has something in it extremely repulsive, and we hope the chil- dren of the dead men will have sufficient re- spect for themselves and for their parents to refuse to sanction the contemplated outrage on decency. Tho circumstances attending the death of Chang and Eng are such as to call for a careful post-mortem examination. Their deaths were sudden and unlooked for, and it was the duty of the Coroner of the district to have empanelled a jury to inquire into the immediate cause of death. There are many reasons why the post-mortem examination should be made. The interests of science, as well as the protection of the citizens, demand that an investigation should be held, and we hope the Coroner of the district will take the matter in hand if the consent of the relatives be refused. Tue Dissovri6n or tHE Brimise Parwia- ment.—The British Premier has recommended to Queen Victoria the dissolution of Parlia- ment, and, in accordance with custom, the ad- vice will be acted upon. The motive for the Premier's advice was furnished by the embar- rassing tactics adopted by th@ leader of the opposition and by some of the disaffected mem- bers of Mr. Gladstone’s own party. The sud- den resolve of Mr. Gladstone to appeal to the people has created much excitement in Eng- land, where men have been astonished at its boldness. Whatever may be the final issue, Mr. Gladstone’s action marks a new depar- ture in British statesmanship. It is a breaking away from the old time customs, and seems to indicate that new modes of political thought are becoming fashionable even in so conser- vative an assemblage as the British Parlia- ment. A Boup Grancer.—Mr. John Cochrane, the Master of the Wisconsin State Grange, is a bold man. He made a speech at Janesville the other day before the State Grange, in which he reminded his fellow grangers that the Senators and Representatives in Congress from Wisconsin had been requested to ask federal aid for the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers ‘and the mouth of the Mississippi. Senators Howe and Carpenter and Representative Rusk responded favora- bly, the others keeping a discreet silence. But nothing has been done by the Wisconsin Con- gressmen looking to the consummation of the demands of the farmers, and now Mr. Coch- rane tells the Grange very distinctly that the people are snubbed by the men they chose to represent them at Washington. Apart from the question whether Congress should do any- thing for Wisconsin improvements, it is plain that the Congressmen made insincere prom- ises to the Grange for the sake of political con- ciliation. As this is one of the principal sins of,our public men, we are glad to find a granger bold enough to expose it. Cause of ¢ PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. -* General McClellan and family are in Palermo, Italy. Speaker James W. Husted is at the Windsor Hotel. Senator Reuben E. Fenton has apartments at the Windsor Hotel. Israel T. Hatch, of Buffalo, is stopping at the Hotel Brunswick. Judge Marcus P. Norton, of Troy, 13 living at the Metropolitan Hotel. State Senator Jonn H. Selkreg, of Ithaca, 1s stay- ing at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge George F. Comstock, of Syracuse, has ar- rived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General J. N. Knapp, of Governor Dix’s staf, is quartered at the St Nicholas Hotel. Assemblyman F. A. Alberger, of Buffalo, has quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Governor E. M. McCook, of Colorado, is re- siding temporarily at the Everett House. Senator William B, Allison, of Jowa, 1g among th cent arrivals at the Brevoort House, s semblyman Smith M, Weea, of Plattsburg, N. Y., arrived from Albany yesterday at the Fiitn Avenue Hotel. Commodore Commerrell, of the British Navy, who was wounded on the Gold Coaat last summer, is now recovering, having at last coughed up those parts of nis shirt which he wore inside of him for several months. 7. R, Pickering, of Portiand, Conn., the chief engineer of the American Department at the | 2 | heard make a cat-cal melodious, Vienna Exhibition, will arrive in New York in the City of Chester, Mr. Pickering was decorated by the Austrian government with the Cross and Order of Francis Joseph as a reward for bis services, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Arrival of the Gettysburg at Key West. Key West, Fia., Jan, 24 1874, The United States iron steamer tysburg, Lieutenant McRitchie commanding, arrived here this morning trom Nortoik, Va., with a aew crew for the Congres nd a supply of torpedoes lor the iron screw stea iconderoga, Naval Orders. Wasttinaton, Jan, 24, 1874 Acting Assistant Surgeon Wiliam Martin nas been ordered to the naval station at New Orleans. Chief Engineer Joseph Willey has been ordered to the Ossipee, relieving Chie: Engineer King, who waits orders, Lieutenant Commander George H. Wadleigh is detached trom the Canonicus and ordered to the Ohio as executive officer. Lieutenant Commander George F. F, Wilde ete. tached from the Boston Navy Yard and ordered to the Canonicus as executive officer. tt Master Henry 7, Stockton is ordered to the Canc ua, A Paymaster H. P. Tuttle, (rom the Narragansett, is ordered to returo home: AMUSEMENTS. —1—— English Opera—“The Bohemian Girl.” The Kellogg English Opera Company gave ¢ Matinée performance at the Academy of Musit yesterday of Balfe’s most popular work before af audience which filled the building from parquet 4 dome. We do not recollect having ever scen a many people congregated together at the Acad@ my, except, perhaps, once or twice during thi Parepa-Wachtel-Santley season. Hundreds wer unable to obtain even tolerable standing room and went away disappointed. “The Bohemia Girl? is @ never-failing source of attraction wit the general public. Its melodies have long ag become sterling favorites tn the concert room am the parlor, and are as familiar to the public ear a “Yankee Doodle” or “Hail Columbia.” The pret little concerted pleces scattered through the wor! add much to its attractiveness, and the choru: are all written in & popular vein. A musicial would be inclined to cavil at the ephemeral char acter of the instrumentation, which is vert weak and commonplace. Miss lio} ul dertook the rdle of Arline, and invests it with an importance and charm that a i capable or less pois artist would hay failed to give it. Her first 0G “I Dreamt That Dweit in Marble Halls,” was delivered with ¢: pression and fooling, and in the duet with Th: deus which follows Miss Kellogg’s voice seemed & be admurably adapted to the music. In the com cluding air of the opera, “Oh! Wnat Full Delight,’ the prima donna was heartily applauded. Mra Seguin, as the aoeen of the Gypsies, was the nex feature of excelleace in the opera. Whenever th music ranged beyond the compass of her voice & was written for & soprano) she skillully changed without marring tt in the slightest degree. For tht grand air in the second act she substituted a beau tiful melody from “The Puritan’s Daughter,” am sung it with such a wealth of fervor and sentimen that & unanimous redemand was the conse uence. ‘The tilness of some of the artists of the Company caused a change tn the cast in the rdles of Thi deus and Count Arnneim which was notfor th better. Mr, Willord Morgan in the former ro# failed to create & favorable impression tf the two most important airs entrusted him, “When Other Lips’ and “When the Faif Land o! Poland.” The music of Thaddeus ia writ ten very high and strains tbe voice considerabiy ‘The resembiance in voice and style between Mn Morgan and Mr. Castle was very marked yester day. In the concerted music he was more success, fal than tin the solos, and his acting was graceful and effective, without being too demonstrative Mr. Arnold, who essayed the rdle of the Count, hat @ very good barytone voice, but the cradencss his style ana the unauthorized manner in wht he treats the English language are serious defects “My choild, my choild!’? cannot be regarded a satisfactory pronunciation. Mr. Seguin’s Devils hoof is always an admirable plece of acting, but thc necessary concomitant of voice was altogether wanting yesterday. Mr. Tilla, who possesses ( tenor voice of a very peculiar and by no meant agreeable quality of tone, was the Florestein of tht occasion. The chorus and orchestra were irre proacnable, “The Marriage of Figaro” is set dowr for Monday. Theodore Thomas’ Third Symphony Concert. The esteem in which Theodore Thomas is held by the New York public brought together an immens¢ audience last night at Steinway Hall. The pro- gramme was of the most diversiflea character, pre- senting works of opposite styles, and the soloist was a barytone of acknowledged ability. The folk lowing was the bill presented last evenin Symphony, No, 1. in C minor, Op. 5 ..Gade 1. Moderato con tmoto—Allegro energica. "2; Scherzo. 3 Andantino grazioso. & Finale: a Gla Aria—“Iphigenia eX Aulide”.... ‘M, Victor Maurel. Concerto, G minor.. eeteeceee Handel For string orchesira—two solo violins and solo violom cello Larghetto Affetuoso, Fugato, Musette, Allegro molte vivace, finale. Messrs. Listemann, Jacobsotin, Lubeck and Orchestra. Ivan IV. (Der Grausame), Characterbild (new), Rubinstei von Monat Reothover: oreanda Aria—“Le Nozze di Figaro” M. Victor Symphony, No. 8, Op. 93, in F. 1. Aliezro vivace e con brio. tto weltori 3 Tempo di Minaetto. 4. Allegro vivace, Gade’s work, although some musicians might b¢ inclined to call it light and superficial, is, to our mind, more attractive than the later compositions ofthe Danish musician, as it is of a more spon- taneous character, is fresh and characteristic and less atfected with the Heidenthum of the school ot the future. The scherzois one of the most genital efforts of the composer; and bubbles over with right hearty humor. The principal theme of the third movement is rather commonplace, and ita plainness can hardly be disguised even by the rich raiment o! instrumentation in which it is clothed. 1t was an act Of no ordinary temerity to place Handel’s concerto on the programme, ag it belongs to an old school which nowadays, in the face of sensationalism, is regarded by some aa obsolete, and which, for interpreters, imperatively demands congenial spirits in the orchestra. It ta so nicely baianced in all its movements that a serious mishap would be inevitable with a less eriectly trained band than tnat o1 Mr, Thomas’, The soloists did their work with heartiness and intelligence, and the other string instrumenta were wondertul in precision and expression. The cadenza, by Ferdinand David, which waa intro duced, was charmingly rendered. Rubinstein selected a subject for tone painting in the character of Ivan the Terrible, one of the most atrocious monsters that ever disgraced a throne, that was Well calculated to give lis powers a wide field for display. It is one of hus later works, and must ‘be placed among the best trom his fer- tile pen. In it he shows that wonderiul com- mand of instrumental effects that makes him so celebrated among modern composers. As might be expected from such @ subject the treat ment 1s bizarre aud eccentric, and the climaxes of the stormiest kind. Once or twice asa foll to the general turbulency of the work he introduces a lovely andante religioso, which charms alike by its sweet theme and flowing harmonies, Next to the unrivalled “Ocean” symphony this character picture of Rubinstein wiil be placed in the list of his works where merit is considered. It would be neediess at this late day to tell the New York public how Thomas’ orchestra plays the eighth symphony of Beethoven, which they have made as familiar to the metropolitan ear as @ nursery rhyme, M. Maurel’s noble barytone voice and finished style gave etfect to Agamemnon’s air, on¢ of Gluck’s most dignified and tuneful etforta In Mozart’s music he was even more successful, ani in response to an enthusiastic encore he sang in his best style the grand arta, ‘Les Rameaux,’ which 18 considered the first on the répertotre o' M. Faure. He barely escaped another redemand for his magnificent rendering of this aria, In response to numerous requests Mr. Thomas has decided upon giving a matinée at Stenwas Hal! on Saturday week, with Mr. Whitney a so.01st. — Musical and Dramatic Netes. Rubinstein has just concluded engagements i Venice and Milan, and ts now in Naples, The Kellogg opera troupe will shortly enter upor an engagement at the New Park Theatre. The London Atheneum intimates that ili nealte will necessitate the permanent retirement of Mule Desclée, AFrench theatrical company ts playing at the Saal Theatre, Berlin, for the first time since the Franco-German war. Mme. Janauschek 1s presently to act at Booth Theatre. A new play by Belot is in contemplation there jor Mrs. J. B. Booth, Miss Clementine Lasar, the leading soprano o Plymouth church, Brooklyn, will give a concer there on Wednesday, at which Thomas’ orchestr wii assist. M. Maurel and Wienlawski have secured thy valuable services of Thomas’ orchestra for tw concerts, whicn will take place at Steinway Hal on Monday and Tuesday evenings. The new appearances in “Humpty Dumpt Abroad,” at the Grand Opera House to-morrov | evening, wiil be the Martens, the Wilson brothers the Rigl sisters, the California quartet, @ Mons Ravel ag Harlequin and an enlarged ballet. Th Martens are the only peopie whom we have eve Perhaps there 13 considerable felicity in namin the new adaptation that on Tuesday night ts to presented at the Fifth Avenue Theatre ‘Folline.’ Where a drama concerns itself with social “frat ties and fortunes” a good deal of folly ia apt to forn the vackground, and, w:thout going prematurel into the etymology Of the title, it 1s lair to Imagin that this fact had something to do with suggest ing it. It is no Injustice to the spectal success that othe theatres may have made to claim that at no othe place of amusement in America could “Money! have been more ably and symmetrically produce. than at Wallack’s, The design of the manager evi dently was to ensure, frst, good acting, and, sec ond, excellent accessories. He has obtained both and kept them tn their normal proportions to eact other. In nothing is the fineness of the superin tending taste more evident than tn the care taker to preserve the t: rsonator of Graves from ex travagance. It would have been possible for Mr, Beckett to have danced the hornpipe with tox much eiaboration and technical dexterity, ant then everybody would have remembered, (wha everybouy ia now lorgetting) that he was once ont of the pillars of burlesque. The performance clo#es every evening a litte alter cleverly