The New York Herald Newspaper, February 15, 1874, Page 8

8 ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hznap. Letters and packages should be properly sealed, . Rejected communications will not be re- torned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. No, 46 AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW. NIBLO’ ARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.— LEATHERSTOCKING, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P, M Woop’s MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth s: A QUIET FAMILY, at2P. M.; closes at 4:30 P.M. DANIEL BUONE, at $ P.M. ; closes at il P. ot FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, s Twenty-third street and Broadway.—FOLLINF, at 8 P, BM. j closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. Hurkias, Miss Ada Dyas GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Ba avenue and Twenty-third | street,-HUMPTY DUMPTY AT SCHOOL, an VARIETY NLERTAIN- MENT. begins ut P. - Mr GL x. 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BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, EVInO; Sirs stzeet, comer pa Soe —OINDER- BLACK, NG SPRELSY, &c,, = M. ; closes at 10 P.M, rc aieseaes STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street—CONCERT of Caroline Richings Bernard's Musical Union, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. coLs M, Broadway, corner of 1 ith, street.—PARIS BY NIGHT, atl P.M; closes at 5 P.M; 7PM; Cloves atl P. M. . ey te s: QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, Feb. 15, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. | | ‘To-Day’s Contents of the, Herald. GREAT FIRE IN LONDON! BURNING OF THE PANTECHNICUN IMPORTAN' GENERAL NEWS—Ninta Pace. THE PEOPLE OF SPAIN TO DECIDE UPON THE FUTURE FORM OF GOVERNMENT—JOVEL- LAR FEARS THE HAVANA MOB—NinTH | Page. THE ENGLISH ANTI-PAPACY MOVEMENT! BIS- MARCK AND HIS ROYAL MASTER EULO- | GIZED IN ST. JAMES’ HALL—FirtH PaGE. PROFESSOR PROUTOR ACKNOWLEDGES THAT | SOLAR EVOLUTION IS NEITHER DEMON- STRATED NOR DEMONSTRABLE—Stvente PaGE. DISSECTING THE SIAMESE CURIOSITIES! THE LIGATURE SEVERED—MR. CHARLES KINGSLEY—Firra Pace. SNAIL-LIKE TRAVEL THROUGH THE METROP- OLIS! THE MISERABLE MEANS FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF OUR CITIZENS UP AND DOWN TOWN! HOW TO BETTER THEM! RAPID TRANSIT A VITAL DE- MAND—FirTH Pace. BEFORE THE DRILL! THE AMERICAN FLEET | IN THE WEST INDIES PREPARING FOR | THE GRAND REVIEW—Firra Pace. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AT ORANGE, N. J., SOLD BY THE SHERIFF! HOW THE DEBT WAS INCURRED—FirTH PaGE. SIMMONS’ DEFENCE! THE KILLING OF NICHO- LAS W. DURYEA SAID TO HAVE BEEN JUSTIFIABLE—TzNTH Page. MISERIES TO MOVE A HEART OF STONE! THE | PLAIN, UNVARNISHED TALES OF THE WOE AMONG. THE DESTITUTE! MORE SOUP HOUSES! THE BLESSED WORK OF RELIEF STILL CONTINUED—SixTH PaGE. PENDING OFF THE NURTON BLAST! THE DE- FENCE OF THE TENTH NATIONAL BANK— TENTH PAGE. THE REFORMED EPISCOPALIANS GAINING STRENGTH! RELIGIOUS NEWS AND CHURCH SERVICES TO-DAY—JEWISH PUB- LIC WORSHIP—Sxventu Pace. LENTEN HISTORY! HOW THE FORTY DAYS! PENITENCE AND EASTER WERE ESTAB- LISHED! THE OONTENTIONS OF EARLY CHRISTIANS! CIRCULAR OF ARUHBISHOP McCLOSKEY—SEVENTH PacE, A LUCID REVIEW OF THE PERILOUS FINAN CIAL STATUS! CHANGES IN THE VA- RIOUS MARKETS! EXPORTS AND IM- POR(S! THE BANKS’ REPORT—ELkvexta PAGE. Storms on THe ATLANTIC.—By reference to our ship news column it will be seen that storms have prevailed on the Atlantic for some days. The City of Antwerp experienced very heavy weather and lost her second officer on the voyage. The gales have extended as far as Capo Hatteras, and heavy weather is re- ported from Nova Scotia. i alenaiatas Tae Sioux Inptans have at length so ex- asperated the officials of the Interior Depart- ment, who are generally so apathetic touchin . ‘ca the “reds,’" that the War Department hae Fe | separating the double spectra, and sifting out ceived permission to punish them for the re- | coffee, which they sell at the rate of ten for one dolla: sand meal tickets, for” bread and soup | Encke’s comet gave a carbon spectrum. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBKUARY 15, 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHEET, Professor Proctor’s Second Letter to the Hereald—His Theory of Evola- tion Not Demonstrable, We publish to-day another Letter from Pro- fessor Proctor, which the pressure on our columns has, we regret, slightly delayed. We trust the eminent astronomer has not misun- derstood the spirit and scope of our remarks upon his hypothesis, and that he will appre- ciate the deep interest we have manifested in it by the discussion of his subject “Tho ability of fearlessly doubting is not the mean- est attribute of genuine philosophy,” said an eminent French savant, and we are sure Pro- fessor Proctor is too profound and too ripe scientist to think hard of our, temority in questioning some of bis conclusions. In his letter of the 28th alt the distin- guished lecturer wrote of Laplace's theory and his own: “Both theories are based on evi- dence indicating, I think we may say demon- strating (italics ours) the evolution of the solar system.” He also said: —‘sTaking our earth, we know that millions of years havo passed since she ‘began to be peopled."’. It was principally against such positive views and the seeming claim of certainty that wo | dissented, showing, as,we “did, that such strong expressions far outstripped the cautious language of the great astronomers of the past. and present. Now Professor Proctor writes: — |Z have not at ;any , time, spoken . of my theory of,., the f evolution of+ the solar system as demonstrated,”’ and, again, “I have nowhere spoken of it as demonstrated or demonsirabk,” and “I* only claim for my | theory itis more probable” (than that of La- place.) Weare sure that the learned Pro- fessor will do us the justice to acknowledge the irreconcilability in the tone of the two letters. But we ago perfectly satisfied with ‘his last statement, that, his theory, i ‘more | probable’ than that. of Laplace." Ouly, we", would ask him to remember that, when the bold autbor of the “‘Systéme du Monde” put | forth the hypothesis in question, he avowedly did so ‘with diffidence.” When Professor Proctor, who stands in the foreground of modern astronomers, confesses, as he now does, that the evolution hypothesis is, ss yet, neither ‘‘demonstrated” nor ‘‘demonstrable,” we most cordially agree to his confession, and would congratulate him on that modesty of all solid science which prompts the acknowl- edgment. But henceforth, now that one of the most advanced of living scientists so candidly disavows even the ‘‘demonstrability” of evolu- tion, let those to whom it has ever been such | a bugbear breathe freely, and cease to fight | the grim shadow. Here, then, but for one or | two interesting points upon which Professor | Proctor catechises us, we might properly | leave the subject. | A newspaper is not, perhaps, the best place | for discussing the many phases of solar as- | tronomy; but itis not beyond its sphere to |,indicate the methods of scientific research | which most deeply concern mankind. Trav- | ellers relate how, in certain conditions of the | air, a spectator standing on the shore at Reggio | and looking out upon the Straits of Messina | sees rising before him a spectral city, with its domes and turrets, and ewen descries the moy- ing forms of animated life. The illusion is so complete that he thinks he has seen some | | magical hand suddenly erect tho illusory | | structure on the waters before him. Tho his- | | tory of science is replete with instances in which just such unreal and imaginary phe- nomena have deceived the most eminent pbi- | losophers, and they have reasoned from them | as if they had been the most determined of re- alities. Nowhere more than in the domain of | stellar research has the process of uncon- { sciously creating and peopling new worlds been more seductive and more fatal. The spectral forms which retreat before the lens | of severe analysis have eyer thronged the vast interplanetary straits, and when” sPeculation, like Hamlet, cries out, “Methinks I see my father,” it cannot be complained if, with Horatio, we demand, ‘‘Where, my lord?” In his essays Professor Proctor himself | | truly tells us that the elder Herschel’s whole treatment of the nebular and sidereal systems | | indicated that the views he advanced “were | intended, for the most part, rather as sugges- | tions than’ as theories.” This is just what we | | claimed in our review of the Professor's lec- | tures that astronomy ought now to be content | todo. When men began to interrogate nature, | as the great Humboldt argued, the philosophy | of nature cast aside the poetic garb, and | “now weighs the value of observations and | substitutes induction and reasoning for con- | jecture and assumption.’’ ‘Hypotheses I do | | | not frame,” was a motto which the immortal Newton bequeathed to the world, and must forever stand as a warning to science—a motto, | too, which has left its impress on such minds | as Tyndall, who asserts:—‘So far from hay- ing a theory of the universe, I have not even ‘a theory of magnetism.” When we come to that misty, interstellar sphere of spectroscopic inquiry, in which Professor Proctor delights to dwell, the words of Newton have a still deeper emphasis. The ever-changing want of uniformity of the earth's atmosphere, through which the stellar light comes to us, and the numerous fine lines | of stellar spectra have greatly retarded such investigations. Nay, os has often been | pointed out, many of the lines are quenched | | in cosmical space before they reach our | planet—a fact strongly suggested and sup- ported by Struve and other astronomers before | the spectrum analysis was applied, and since | fully confirmed by that analysis itself. Only | few weeks ago our own eminent spectro- | scopist, Dr. Draper, proved that ‘the exact | composition of even a part of the spec- trum of # metal will not be known until we | have obtained photographs of it on a large | | scale;’’ for the human eye is too weak to | discern the fine lines. And we know that , spectrum photography is, as yet, but just be- | ginning its work under Dr. Draper's able | investigations. So far as reliable results can be had we know that comets have | two spectra, the one proper to them and | the other derived from solar illumination. | Until some sure method has been devised for that derived from the sun's rays, revelations cent murder of Robinson, Coleman and Apple- | of the spectroscope, despite its boasted powers, ton, Our despatches this morning show how Sherman and Sheridan are going to work. Tae Bowxrr Baaxcu of the Young Men's Christian Association are issuing twenty thou- | must be more or less speculative and the | results vitiated. It is true, as Professor Proctor says, that we overlooked, in our necessarily hasty comment on his first letter, that Huggin’s third comet But the considerations just mentioned strip that oversight of auy signifigauce in the -{ John Herschel for believing that it was an in- | $14,406 on the poor, ‘“‘is liable to convey a ; given “fair play” to the institution will the | great ‘‘charity’’ ball, which occupies the first | public mind so long, and ladies’ toilets were | he says, is unwise, ‘‘for the reason that you | mittee in this city. present discussion. The homogencity of 0os- mical and terrestrial matter—upon which Professor Proctor's hypothesis. rests—is, with & fow exceptions, wholly unestablished. Pro- fessor Lockyer, who has no superior as & spectroscopist, has proved that the sun's spectrum gives no compounds from its incan- descent surface, while the spectra of the stars do give them—a fact which appears to com- What the Preachers Will Talk About. Topical preaching is a peculiarity of the advertise their subjects or not they almost in- with some Current Teples of the Religious Press. The Christian Advocate enters ita strongest ments of the churches, and with equally for- London. Tho Pan- Great Fire im London has had a fire sensation. American pulpit, and whether ministers | protest against the whote musical arrange-] technicon, a building used for the storing of valuable furniture and other effects, has variably have subjects on which they discourse | cible language advocates congregational sing- | been burned to the ground, along with before their congrogations. We have looked | ing. It objects—and we most heartily endorse | number of the adjacent houses. In epite of interest to know how the pulpit | its objection—to the number and character of | the efforts of an excellently organized fire would receive and treat the woman's raid’| the Sunday school hymn books with which | department the conflagration could not be against rum in Ohio and elsewhere, but there {the market is flooded. What real gems they pletely upset the theory in question. So that | hag been an ominous silence thereon, The f,contain, it says, are taken from older colleg- with all the results now in hand, the German | Rey. Dr. Steel, than whom no man in the |tions, astronomer, Vogel, has just declared that the | pulpit of this city is more capable to treat | positively objectionable, and enjoying a tem- conclusions drawn from them are of a value | this subject, will handle it in his church this porary popularity quite above its merits, while “greatly overestimated.”* . to Professor Proctor's challenge as to whether covery. As the now living successor of Fara- day bas well said ;—‘‘here bas been o vast dcal of idle discussion of He rapes merits .of induction and deduction, while every true philosopher has sought the marriage of both." We have gaid’ nothing whatever against de- duction, but against unchastened “epeculation. [' "But we unhesitatingly answer the challenge in :the affirmative.. Not to prolong this we give ‘him as among tho triamphs of induction the discoveries of the metals thallium, rubidiam } will show that Esau did not make such a bad |' dent fear that ‘‘the permanent effects will not bargain after all, But as it is a discourse for and calcium. If we fmow what induction means Joules discovery of the law of conservation .is another,» As to Newton's discovery of grav- tation, we have no less an authority than Sir “ductive study, of ‘the comet of 1680 which made that law @ discovery which before ‘had been only a rational: dream. Gravitation was ' Kepler's theory, but Newton's discovery. We have said so‘ much because the occasion demanded; for, as a countryman | of, Profes- recent issue of the British Quarterly, we need to know that science is only a provisional “cading’ of the facts of nature ; that the in- . terpretation of these facts differs in every age, changing with the changing time, and that even since the beginning of this century it bas had three phases—continuity, convulsion and evolution—all scientific shibboleths, to pronounce which aright has been stoutly de- clared necessary to our scientific salvation. Fair Play for a Model Charity. Superintendent Barnard, of the Five Points ! House of Industry, wants us to give him fair play. He thinks the statement, based on the annual report of the treasurer of the institu- tion for 1872, that it cost $26,104 to expend weong impression ;"’ and he says, “if the amount paid for fuel, lights and transporta- tion be reckoned as part of the sum spent for the poor why not the cost of repairs, fur- ‘nitare and incidental house expenses ?’’ Well, although ‘furniture’? may include comfort- able chairs and new desks for the officers, and although ‘‘incidentals’’ may embrace lunches and their usual adjuncts, we give the institution the full benefit of the Superintend- ent's claim, and we then find the treasurer's exhibit as follows: — EXPENDED ON THE POOR. interes, We hardly know what sor Proctor has so strikingly suggested ina important arguments fqr and against the moming. Another topio of constantly in- only here, but throughout the land—namely; | inductive science has ever led to a single dis- compulsory education—will be discussed by } neighborhood, of thesame or differing denomt: The Doctor has |:nations employ a competent musical in- ;structor to give lessons to the people during | tain degree of heat is reached. And it is evi- deep thinker, so that his opinions or sugges- | one or two nights in the week, and thus en- f©ourage congregational singing, and eventually | dp away altogother and forever with the objec- | cases of extensive conflagrations. The prompt Dr. Wild, of Brooklyn. eome experience as an educator, and is alsoa tions should carry great weight with them. They will, doubtless, be read and heard with can be said new on 60 hoary a topic as Esau and his mess of pottage, with here. and there a specimen not the great mash is simply wortbless, and much could not two or three or more churches in a Gonable features in our church musical ar- rangements ? ‘The Christian Union recites the progress of gotten under by the ordinary means, and the Corps of Engineors had finally to be called om to isolate the fire. The loss is estimated at fifteen million dollars, The building was specially constructed for safety, and, in viow of the immense value of the property, it is We have only space fora word with regard | creasing interest to large class of persons, not | of it scarcely better than execrable. Why | probable that the greatest vigilance was used in guarding against fire. It would seem that no ordinary solidity of construction will prevent the spread of fire once a cer- dent that the ordinary machinery for ox- tinguishing fire cannot be dépen on in action of the engineers in London confined the flames within a‘small space and saved many millions’ worth of property. It fur- but Rev. Mr. Swoetser, we dare say, will bring | the women's temperance crusade in Ohio, and | nishes a hint to our own Firo Department out some new thought from it. Perhaps ho young people, most likely it will be an arga- ment and a plea against the waste of youthful life and the neglect of their spiritual birth- right. Some one bas mapped out for himself a subject of great sweep and one that has occu- pied the attention of the Christian world from: Resurrection of the Dead and the Translation of the Living. A minister can do little more than hastily group , together a few of the more truths here indicated ini one discourse. To a Universalist there is probably but one answer to the query, Will He cast off forever? which Mr. Pullman proposes to ask and answer to- . day. The answer, of course, will be an em- phatic No! Rev. Thomas Veitch will have word to say on temperance, and other pastots,~ no doubt, will treat the live topics of the day without wholly neglecting the greatest of all pulpit themes—the salvation of human souls through the Gospel and the atonement of Christ, Szasonasrz Donations.—It will be seen from our news columns this morning how nobly the people of this city are responding to the call for the relief of the suffering poor. In addition to the larger donations of the wealthier classes, smaller donations in the shape of coal, food and clothing are daily be- ing received at the headquarters of our various charitable institutions. This is as it should be. The penny which the poor man cast into the treasury received the commendation of the Master. According to our means it is the duty of all to give. The smaller donatiens | are as welcome as the large, and if every one does bis duty the wants of the suffering poor will be abundantly supplied. Let it not be forgotten that charity, like mercy, is twice | blessed. ‘It blesseth him that gives and him that takes,’” | | | { } Provisions. $12,088 | Fuel and li 1,787 Clothing... 55 Medicine and hospital 76 Outdoor poor and beneficiaries 318 Transportation. 102 Repairs. 1,889 Purnitur Tad Incident Cost of expending the above sum on the a as Tux Dey Srnzer Sour House has in three days given fifteen hundred people comfortable | meals. What a terrible demoralization must have taken place among the downtown poor ! Wuom Wau Ir Bznzrrr?—A bill in the State Legislature proposes to exempt from poor:— Po Salaries Sf School and teachers’ s: Printing @ paper Called the & Stationery, &¢ Interest, insurances, taxes and ne DOtAb ss vasa nessueasiverness abvaeeste ere, $21,624 Thus, on the most liberal calculation, for every one dollar spent on the poor the insti- tution and its officers swallowed up one dol- lar and sixteen cents, Now that we have institution give fairer play to the poor? Lent.—Lent casts its shadow before it and will soon be here, It is a time of solemn fasts and vigils, of sackcloth and ashes—a time of | tender mourning, wherein the sins of the past may be repented of, and holy resolutions formed for the future. We are not disposed to smile at the spirit which leads a mgn to withdraw himself from the world at such an hour as this to commune with his own heart, to forego associations which lead through the maze of worldly pleasure and to fix his eye upon the heavenly vision. Elsewhere will be found a description of the solemnities and observances of the season—solemnities and | observances which give a solemn tone to about & month and a half of human life, and touch town and country alike with a grace not of the earth. TerpsicHoreaN Cuarrty.—The season has been a Terpsichorean triumph, to judge from the large list of balls which we find on the record and from the general success attend- ing the same. As the Lenten seasonis just at hand, we may consider the reign of the God- dess of Dancing at an end. She has mate- rially added to her list of admirers, and gained undoubted patronage by her earnest and successful efforts in the cause of sweet Charity. A great deal of privation and suf- fering has been averted by the prompt action of ball committees this winter. The last position among entertainments of this de- scription, brought hope and relief to hundreds of poor families. The splendor of such en- tertainments has not been dimmed by the | financial troubles which have exercised the never more attractive nor expensive, SoureRtNTENDENT Bannanp is “hardly pre- pared to deny’’ that there is a great deal of suffering—much more than usnal—in the city just now. But he insists that relief should come only through ‘‘established charitable in- stitutions."’ To go outside these institutions, will help a class which is not deserving of it.’” Not only that; you will fail to help a class which, as “‘experts’’ in charity, deserves good pay and large perquisites. Tux Street Cuxantno InvesticaTion com- menced yesterday before the Legislative com- It will probably end in whitewashing the Street Cleaning Bureau and leaving the streets as filthy as ever, Lroenat Contrmutions continue to be made tothe St. John’s Guild for the relief of the downtown poor. Clothing and groceries are yn. aes '9@ | come a resident of this State. 1,314 aOR die on 9,446 | but would not such a law induce the male por- taxation all the real and personal property of any woman who now is “dr may hereafter be- | It is all very | well to help the ladies, even if they are rich; tion of our population to make over their real and personal estates to their wjyes and_ daughters, and thus take all property out of the reach of taxation? Tue Ice Cror.—The ice companies do not make a very promising report of their prog- ress up to the present time. Only about one- third of an average crop has been harvested, and, although the companies hope for more frost and an opportunity to fill their houses before the winter closes, the prospect for con- sumers is not promising. There is some con- solation in the information that the ice already gathered is unusually pure and in excellent condition. In this respect it will differ from the ice that was served to con- sumers by the New York companies last summer. ‘Tae Howarp Rewer Reports from January 13 to February 13, meals furnished, 22,584; lodgings, 9,087; families relieved outside, 376. This is good work for thirty-one days. Tue American Gzocrapuicat Socrery anp rae Poiaris Crew.—The American Geographi- cal Society will give a reception to the surviv- ing officers and crew of the Polaris to-morrow evening at the large hall of the Cooper Insti- tute. This is to be one of the most important gatherings of the kind ever held in New York, and we trust that able geographers, like Presi- dent Charles P. Daly, and renowned explorers, like Dr. Hayes and Mr. Bradford, will render this Arctic night in our city a reproduction of “The Land of Desolation.” The untimely death of Captain Hall prevented any very thorough examination of the extraordinary cruise of the Polaris until the subject was taken in hand by the Geographical Society, by which we are sure it will be treated with judicial fairness. We are assured that a great deal that is new concerning the expedition will be disclosed at the reception to-morrow night. Tur Lapres of the Church of the Disciples, on Forty-fifth street and Madison avenue, have organized a Helping’Hand Association and are making clothing of all kinds for the poor. Tur Barris Evections.—The conservatives have been successful, up to the date of the latest news,in maintaining their majority. Ac- cording to one of the leading London papers the resignation of Mr. Gladstone may be looked for on Monday or Tuesday next. Rumor has it that on the occasion of his retirement from office he will be raised tothe peerage. Mr. Gladstone in the House of Lords will be prac- tically lost to his party. If there is any truth in the rumor it would seem to imply that the Premier really’ means to retire altogether from public life. Cuurcn Couxctions.—It is to be hoped that the churches generally will make good | returns from their collections to-day in aid of | the suffering poor. The work is one in which | they can heartily join, and not one of them should fail to do its best to swell the relief solicited to be sent to St. John's chapel, Varick atrect. fund, of which the destitute stand so much in os baaaancl “be such as to justify measures so extraordi- Lareakened the insurrection in Camaguay. ,comments thereon favorably, yet with evi- nary and so at war with the principles, in- stinots and habits that characterize our Ameri- can civilization.’” The Examiner and Chronicle takes issue with: @ Michigan “Moderator” on the similarity of installation and ordination, which the latter on the Unitarian Bishop, Jules Ferrette, and thinks that the savor of Episcopal grace is getting pretty impartially diffused. The Independent reviews the Ohio women’s war on the rumsellers, While it believes in moral suasion as the only means of effecting a radical cure of this evil, it thinks this should coffe after’ the law has been tried. Such a'| crusade as the women of Ohio are now carry- ing on, and as the women of Massachusetts ose to inaugurate, may do for inland towns and villages, but, the Independent thinks, will, not work well in Now York, Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago"”or” any of the large cities of the There are too many establishments here to be attacked simultaneously, and a counter mob of loose women could be easily secured, who would, the editor thinks, be too much for their reputable sisters. But the law should first have its perfect work. If it fails, then let the women try their plan. It is not the high- est style of piety to pray down liquor selling unless we have first done all we can with the law. The Evangelist sees a strong likeness ‘between the movement which separates the Old Catholics from the Church of Rome and the Reformed Episcopalians from the Epis- copal Church of the United States. Tho Evangelist also touches of church discipline and church quarrels, in which it advocates mild treatment toward offending and weak brethren. The Catholic Review quotes extracts from + Herr Reichenspeiger’s speech in the Prussian Parliament, and comments thereon, in proof that Prussian Catholics had been always loyal to the State until the State placed itself im direct antagonism to the Church. The . Review continues its controversy with the Nation and exposes the absurd blunders of press despatches respecting the health or death .of Cardinal Antonelli. The Tablet rejoices in the prospect of a Catholic university being established in Eng- land and in the educational movements on the Continent of Eurdpe. The Tablet is alao _Yery naturally indignant at the arrest and im. | prisonment of Archbishop Ledochowski, of Posen, by the German government for the simple act of consetrating priests without consulting that government. It thinks that the German government cannot afford to let this prelate out of prison again lest itself ap- pear ridiculous in the eyes of the world. It must keep him there or do worse. The Tablet also reviews the Rev. D. H. Miller's late anti- Catholic sermon (published in the Hznap), and shows the falsity of some of his ar- guments and deductions. The Catholic Mirror, ot Baltimore, comments vigorously on the arrest of the Archbishop of Posen, who, it: says, has been torn from the altar where he ministered and from the sanctuary where he prayed. It classifies him with the confessors and martyrs. The Methodist sketches briefly the literary life of Strauss, just deceased, and, after ac- cording to him the full merit which was his due, and to whom, it says, we owe the great attention which since 1835 has been given to the life of Christ, it points out the falsity or feebleness of some of his arguments, illustra- tions and propositions in the working up of his theory of Christ. The weakest point in all Strauss’ system of thinking was, the Methodist declares, that after having destroyed, ashe supposed, the Gospel history, he tried to hold the life of Jesus as ideally true. What he meant by this it is impossible to tell. The Methodist, discussing the contest between Bis- marck and the Pope, justifies certain appar- ently hard measures against the latter by declaring that the Roman Catholic Church has proved an element of political mischief and a stirrer up of disloyalty in every country in which it has obtained a foothold. The Jewish Times and the Hebrew Leader both have editorials on Strauss complimentary to that great thinker and acknowledging his affinity with Judaism and his service rendered | to true theological criticism. The Jewish Messenger deals with a subject more practical, because more vital—namely, the increasing neglect of the synagogue by young Israelites, Some remedy must be applied at once. Church and Slate defines its position as be- tween the Protestant Episcopal Church and the reform movement. It is non-committal, but inclined toward the latter. Trovsxxs 1x Cuna,—Considerable uneasiness prevails in Havana, caused by the resolution of the government to draft a portion of the vol- unteers for active duty. The Captain General feels it necessary to establish a special guard at the palace, in order to be prepared to sup- press any riotous demonstration. The news from the insurgent district is very meagre; but the government reports that the troops have killed Pedro Urquiza, a member of the Cuban government, Even if this is true it will not affect in the least the progress of the war, Agramonte was a much more important leader, and his death intensified rather than worth following. If the system of isolating a fire the moment it threatened to pass beyond coatrol were acted on with promptitude in | our towns we should have fewer extensive conflagrations and fewer towns reduced to ashes, The increasing disposition of the lower orders to acts of violence and riot came prominently into notice. The authorities wore forced to call out the,military to pre- the earliest times to the present—namely, the | contends are one ordinance. It alsocomments | serve order during the progress of the fire. The Winter Season of Music. Hard times and panic tribulations do not seem to have produced any serious effect upom the numerous musical eptertainments which have bepn presented in this city for the last few months, except for a time with one Italian opera company, which, however, “tided over” successfully the immediate con- ‘ sequences of the financial scare, and another, which subsided after a brief existence. There has been no dearth of concerts and opera and less bankrupt managers than might have beer “expected. “The season opened auspiciously enough with two Ifalian opera troupes, one of which yielded up the ghost ina few weeks, while the other, by skilful management fand positive excellence of ensemble, after receiving some rough financial usage, ultimately reached a harbor of safety. The genius of Mme. Lucca, Mile. Di Murska ond Signor Tamberlik failed to save the season of one company, and the completeness of the othor in every detailand tho superb manner _in_ which every opera was pre- sented, independent of the attraction of the chief star, Mme, Nilsson, brought success in spite of the most adverse financial sur- roundings, As the season advanced and the public began to recover from the affects of the panic music was patronized in the most liberal manner. “ The concerts of Theodore Thomas and the Philharmonic Society showed -2o falling off in the public estimation of their value, while the brief seasons of German opera at the Stadt Theatre and the Kellogg English opera at the Academy of Music were positive triumphs as far as attendance waa’ concerned. The only drawback to the season is the absence of choral societies and oratorio performances. It isan undeniable fact that with the best materials that can be found in America we are in this city absolutely without: @ representative vocal society. This may be remedied by combined action and earnest endeavor on the part of the leading musicians in the city. The want of a special musical department in the public schools is severely fell, and should the Board of Education take proper measures to establish such a bureau the result will be eminently beneficial and satisfactory. The outlook on the verge of the penitential season of Lent is encouraging. On Friday next the Strakosch Italian Opera Company commence a season at the Academy of Musio, which will be the farewell engagement of Mme. Nilsson in this country. Tho last strains of the Swedish Nightingale will doubt- less prove an irresistible attraction to the operatic public in the metropolis. Mme. Pauline Lucca will be the principal feature of German opera at the Stadt Theatre next month, and Mile. Di Murska pro- poses to inaugurate an Easter season of Italian opera at the Academy. Miss Kellogg, with her English troupe, will pay us a second visit in the spring, and Mlle. Aimée intenda to renew her opéra bouffe acquaintance with the New York public in a short time. A gala week of music from Thomas is promised, and in some of the leading churches Bach’s passion music will be heard for the first time. The indications are at present that the musical season of 1873-74 will be more brilliant in ita conclusion than in its opening. Tax Mercer Srreet Sove House on ite opening night furnished eighty-five meals to destitute men, women and children. A Coor, Srrmz—On Friday last three bun- dred ice cutters and packers “struck” for in- creased pay at Coxsackie. They were receiv- ing one dollar and a half a day and demanded two dollars. The mild weather compelled a speedy decision. The thaw, which was play- ing havoc with the ice, melted the hearts of the companies and the advanced pay was con- ceded. During the trouble the ‘“strikers’’ attacked a party of one hundred and fifty men who had refused to join them, and endeavored to drive them from their work by @ fierce bombardment with snow. balls. ‘This was better than breaking the heads of the non-conformists with the ice tongs, but it, was not 60 effective. The anti- strikers defied the snowballs and stuck their labor and their dollar and a half a day. Tur Contrrsutions to the relief fund for the suffering poor continue to flowin. The members of the Gold Exchange yesterday opened a subscription list and raised three thousand dollars. Spanisn News.—By the cable we hear of the probability that the form of government in Spain will be decided by an appeal to the peo- ple at the polls; but this probability seems te us remote. With the Carlists in the North, the intransigentes and the supporters of a constitutional monarchy everywhore, the country is greatly divided, and it is likely that the last named party is in a majority. If the rulers in Madrid are certain of this fact there will be # plebiscitum, not otherwise; and mc one knows better than Serrano the uncertainty | of things the most cortaitte