The New York Herald Newspaper, February 23, 1874, Page 6

6 1 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ___—_-—_— 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. jo. 5% Volume XXXIX ANUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOOY AND EVENING OLYMPLO THEATRE, iy . between Houston and Bleecker streets.— Proad wer rend NOVELTY EATERTAINMENT, at Tao P.M. ; closes at 1) P.M. Matinee at2 P. di, BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.—WHITE SWAN, at 5 P. Mb. closes at ii P.M. Matinee at 2 P.M. BOWERY THEATRE, Rowery.—A STEAMBOAT TRIP TO’ SERSRY, SUN- LIGHT THROUGH THE MIST, Begins at 8 P. M.; closes acllP. M. Matinee at2 P.M. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, Washington street, Brooklyn.—AMY ROBSA Kt’ M., closes atll P.M. Mire Bowers Matinee at at 8 P. ae. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No, 585 Broadway.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 745.2. M.j closes at 10:30 P.M. Matinee at2 P.M. IBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway. bet Prince and Houston streets. — i BAPHBKSTOCKING, ats P.M.; closes at 10:40 P.M. Matinee at 1:30 P.M WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broa¢way, corner A QUIET FAMILY, at WAS DOM AND SON, at 2°P. Mo: closes at 42 3 1TH THE REY BEARD, at 3 PL M.; closes at 1 P. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fonrteenth street, corner of Irving place.—Strakosch Italian Opera Troupe—AIDA, at 8 ¥. M.; closes at ll P.M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-third 5: and Broadway.—LOVE’S LABOR’S LOT, at 8 P. M.: closes at U:30 P.M, Mr, Harkins, Miss Ada Dyas. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, DUMPTY AT MENT. Begin dox. Marine THEATRE COMIQUE, Do, SU Broadway.—PTRST CRIME, and VARIETY ED TERTA! NT, gins at 8. M.; closes at lu P.M, Matinee at 21’ BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street.—CHESNLY WOLD, at7 45 P. M.; closes at 1045 P.M. Mme. Fanny Janauschek. WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Rroadway and Thirteenth stree.—MONEFY, ats P. M.; closes at P.M. Mr, Lester Wallack, Miss Jeffreys owls. SONY PASTOR'S OPE No. 20 Bowery.—\ ARIETY EN dj closes ati P.M. A HOUSE, TAINMENT, at 8 P. Matinee at2 P. M. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, ‘Twenty-thira street, corner of Sixth avenue.—CINDER- ELLA IN BLACK, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, M.; closes @i 10 P, M. Charity matinee at 2 P.M. COLOSSEUM, Rroadway, corner of Thirty-fitth, street.—PARIS BY NIG it WA. M.; same ati? M.; closes atS P.M; same at? P. M.; closes at 10 P.M. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—CONCERT of Caroline Riching» Bernard's Musical Union, at 8 P. M.; closes at lu P.M. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street.~KINE VORNEHME EGE, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:45 P. M. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, Feb. 23, 1874. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. A SERIES OF DESPERATE BATTLES RAGING IN SPAIN! A REPUBLICAN SUCCESS, WITH VERY SEVERE LOSS! THE CARLISTS CAPTURE A VALENCIAN TOWN AND ABANDON PORTUGALETE—SEVENTH PAGE. THE INSURRECTION IN JAPAN MAKING ALARMING HEADWAY! NAGASAKI THREATENED AND FOREIGNERS IN FLIGHT—SEVENTH PaGE. CUBAN SLAVEHOLDERS OPPOSING THE CHINESE COULIE INVESTIGATION COMMIS- SION! THE ITALIAN OPERA COMPANY'S EMBARRASSMENTS—SEVENTH Pace. THE HOLY FATHER REQUESTS A PERSONAT, FAREWELL VISIT FROM ALL HIS CHIL- DREN IN THE EPISCOPACY—SkEVENTH PAGE. GERMANY’S TROUBLES WITH THE CONQUERED PROVINCES! THE ALSATION DEPUTIES WITHDRAW FROM THE PARLIAMENT— SEVENTH PaGE. GLADSTONE PURPOSES RETIRING FROM ACTIVE PARLIAMENTARY LIFE—FRANCIS JOSEPH’S RUSSIAN TOUR—SEVENTH PaGE. PREMIER DISRAELI! HIS CAREER, POLITICAL AND PARLIAMENTARY! HIS ANCESTORS HEBREW EXILES FROM SPAIN! O'CONNELL AND DISRAELI! THE CHARACTER AND APPEARANCE OF THE GREAT TORKY— Fourts Pace. WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY! HOW IT WILL BE HONORED IN TdAIS CITY AND BY THE NAVY AL FLORIDA BAY! SALUTE OF TWENTY-ONE GUNS AND A SUSPENSION OF THE EVOLUTIONS—Sev- ENTH PAGE. THE REPUBLICAN POLITICAL PRUGRAMME! POSTAL ECONOMY—3EVESTH PaGE. COLD-BLOODED MURDER OF A YOUNG VIR- GINIAN—AMUSEMENT FEATURES—Tuinp PAGE. THE AMERICAN NAVY! LUCID PRESENTATION OF THE STATE OF EFFICIENCY AND THE PRESSING NEEDS OF THE RIGHT ARM UF THE REPUBLIC! {RON-CLADS AND TOR- PEDOES AND THE WARFARE OF THE FUTURE—Tarep Pace, THE GREAT QONSTITUTIONAL QUESTIONS OF THE RECENT ELECTION CANVASS IN IRE- LAND!—THE POLITICAL DIVISIONS OF THE PEOPLE—THIRD PaGE. MAGNIFICENT CHARITY! THE GLORIOUS REC- ORD OF GOOD-DOING! SOUP-KITO RE- LIEF NOW, AND MR. DANA'S 1 FOR THE FUTURE—Firrs Page. SERVICES OF THE FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT! EXCELLENT PULPIT ADDRES: 1 TALMAGE’S NEW TABERNACLE DEDI- MR. THE y TEN VIEWS OF ARCHBISHOP r MocLOSKEY AMERICA AND RoM}~~* Shall go through the winter, we suppose, more | Eicura Pace. tee ge to. at oP. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1874.—THIPLE SHKET. The Ultimate Forms of Charity—Mr. | employment in such centres of occupation for | to investigate and report to the House the Danea’s Great Idea. the unemployed.” Then comes the practical status of the Indians of the United States as We publish elsewhere a thoughtful articte | ‘ference that “‘it would take » comparatively | to citizenship under the constitution, with from our ingenious contemporary, the Sun. Mr. | Dana elaborates a great idea, which cannot be | too widely discussed. It comes from him with | more emphasis because he has striven ear- | nestly during the present unhappy time to | lead to the relief of the suffering, and has evidently thought anxiously over the best | means of doing so. Mr. Dana’s great idea is not as important now as it may be in the future. We entirely concur with him that ‘if the best thing we can suggest to help people who are suffering | hunger and destitution from want of work is to ladle goup out to them, we should say we are to be pitied for our want of sense almost as much ag the poor are for want of work." This is agound principle. We cannot perma- nently remedy the wants of the suffering poor in New York by any system of relief like that now in operation, by the founding of soup houses or the random distribution of any char- acter of bounty. But we must alleviate suffer- ing and then remedy the cause, When a pesti- jence breaks out in the community the first duty is to go among the sick and minister to their wants. After the pestilence then we can look into the sanitary conditions and see wherein we have offended them and how we can eradi- cate the offence. There is an immediate as well as an ultimate duty. The first is to re- lieve, the second to prevent. Nothing, for in- stance, could be more absurd as a general prin- ciple of political economy than the sending of ships laden with flour and breadstuffs toa country like Ireland, as was done in 1848. All the breadstuffs in America could not affect in the least the grave social and political problems oppressing Ireland. A famine is impending in India. In atfew weeks mill- ions of Asiatics will die from starvation un- less England succeeds in affording artificial re- lief by sending rice to Bombay, just as soup is sent to the Seventh ward. And yet for a gov- ernment to adopt the policy of sending rice to | India as a matter of administration would be to violate the plainest laws of administration. The way to avoid famines in India is not to send rice to Bombay, any more than the ladling of soup in the Seventh ward is the way to improve the comfort and prosperity of its inhabitants. But calamities had fallen upon ‘India and Ireland, corn and rice became necessary, and, notwithstanding all that was done by private and public influence, there was only a partial rolief in Ireland, as we fear greatly there will only be a partial relief in India. New York affords a parallel case. A calam- ity has fallen upon the city. It came with the last panic. No one supposes that any amount of soup will do away with the effects of the panic or make us secure against its recurrence. But thousands of men, who entered the summer assured of employment, confident in the solvency of the great houses and associations who commanded their labor, found themselves suddenly out of employ- ment. It was not their fault any more than it was the fault of the Irish peasant that the blight destroyed the potato, or the fault of the Hindoo that rain did not fall in Bengal. It was simply a calamity, a visitation of God to them, menacing thousands with want and starvation. There is no large city in the world with so small a pauper class as New York. As a general thing our poor, no matter how poor, are free from the necessity of begging. Mendicancy is revolting to the mind of the humblest workingman. When, therefore, we see mendicancy, it means far more than it would mean in other communi- ties. When this winter began there was scarcely a highway where we did not find beggars. They were not professional beggars, because we really have no such class in New York. They were simply honest, poor, worthy men, driven to beg or die. And when, instructed and warned by these symptoms, we set on foot an inquiry into their causes, tke result was painful and appalling. We discovered that a large, worthy and most interesting class of our people was on the brink of universal want. Of course if we had known this last summer—if we had known, among other things, that Jay Cooke and the Spragues and others were going to fail; that we were to havo a panic in all business, the shrinking of val- ues, the paralysis of industry and the sudden throwing of thousands of worthy men out of employment, we could have devised the wisest | remedies. There would then have been time for the elaboration and fulfilment of Mr. Dana's great idea and of the ideas of other thoughtful men. But when the truth came upon us we had no time. Immediate relief was necessary. Mr. Dana argues that, as a general rule, those who want soup do not de- serve it; that the decent and industrious workingman would only go for soup in “the last extremity.’’ This is perfectly true, and we can best describe the situation by calling this ‘the last extremity."’ Mr. Dana has only to visit one of these institutions to see that those who seek their aid are not ‘the vaga- bond poor.’’ Would, indeed, that they were only the vagabond poor, or that we had no poor but those who became so from vagabond ways—‘‘the helpless, blighted members of the race, the chronic poor and dependent.’"’ The question would be an easy one to solve. Our reports show that those in want now are pre- cisely ‘that large class’’ denominated by Mr. Dana ‘the decent, industrious poor.’’ For the present we are all doing our best. The arrangements in New York are now so perfect that any case of actual want and suffering would be almost impossible, and we And + comfortably. But what of the future? small sum to initiate an oxperiment in some single branch of industry; and if it should be successful, as we feel sure it might be, what 4 wide vista of hope it would open for the future of every crowded community, and what 4 world of genuine relief it would afford to the estimable poor, as well as to those charitable souls who so willingly employ time and money in their behalf!” We think this is a great and sound ides. There may be some trouble in adjusting the details of the experiment. Mr. Dana assures us that it would take a small sum to initiate it in some single branch of industry. History is not rich in successful precedents of this kind. But we presume the experiments have never been honestly and calmly tried. In England co-operation ta now the favorite panacea for poverty; but even co-operation is on triaL Capital shelters itself s0 securely and commands the laws of trade so inflexibly that co-operation can only partially assert the rights of the deserving poor. Louis Blane hadsome enthusiastic visions of vast laboring unions in 1848, with the palaces as national workshops; but somehow the plan did not succeed, Tho experiments in America about thirty years ago, when some of our foremost minds, like Emerson, Greeley and Hawthorne, believed that Fourier had solved the prob- lem, can scarcely be cited as encouraging precedents. Brook Farm, the most celebrated attempt of all, began under the best auspices, and was managed by humane and gifted men. But it did not succeed. The work could not be properly divided. We think it was Emer- son who wittily said that while one man felt it his duty to work im the fields the other believed it his duty to look at him from the window. So with other institutions—Strawberry Farm, in New Jersey, for instance. The two farms have long since fallen into the hands of prosy farmers, who till them for gain. And if we were to establish anti-poverty workshops in New York they might incur the same disas- trous risk, unless managed with prudence and skill and strong business sense. So that, while we are not stimulated by these precedents, we feel that the idea is worthy of renewed trial. We appreciate as fully as Mr. Dana ‘‘the totally inadequate na- ture of existing arrangements for the relief of a worthy and deserving class of our popula- tion.” We shall welcome and aid every way in our power any experiment that may be tried for their relief. If Mr. Dana's great idea can be entrusted to the management of careful business men, and not to enthusiasts tike Louis Blanc, with his national workshop plans, it will, we are confident, lead to good results. We shall be happy to see it at- tempted, especially if Mr. Dana will not con- found the immediate duty of relieving misery with the ultimate duty of devising means to prevent its recurrence. That seems to be the only weak point in his argument, Admiral Porter on Naval Inefficiency. The report of Admiral Porter to the Secre- tary of the Navy, which we print this morn- ing, points to a good deal of inefficiency in the navy for which Congress is not respon- sible, and suggests some improvements for which Congress will be responsible unless his views are adopted. It may be taken as a truism that no navy in the world is worse manned than ours. Admiral Porter sug- gests a remedy in the apprentice sys- tem, and his suggestion is both wise and timely. We must have skilled sea- men who are American citizens for our vessels in time of war, and the only way by which a supply seems possible is by a system that trains men for a service to which they may return. It is astonishing that any necessity should exist for Admiral Porter's remarks about the absence of life-saving apparatus on our vessels, and the neglect should no longer be disregarded. The greater part of Admiral Porter’s report is taken up with his discussion of the torpedo system. The re- markable part of what the Admiral has to say on this subject is in the fact that he neither fails to expose the indifference of our naval officers to this means of defence nor | to impress its importance upon the depart- | ment and on Congress. It is believed that | torpedoes will become an efficient means of | coast and harbor defence, but they can only | be made useful by the skill of the officers and men in the torpedo service. The system is | anewelement in naval warfare, and is as yet | imperfectly understood and awkwardly prac- | tised. Admiral Porter's incisive discussion of | its necessity and his explicit instructions re- | garding its practice, both for perfecting it asa | part of the science of war and making it valu- able in the emergencies of battle, commend themselves to the common sense of the coun- | try. Indeed, his report is in every sense an eminently common sense report, and one that ought to receive the tull attention of Congress | and the Secretary of the Navy. | Tue Currarm Has Fanren on the second act of the new opera, ‘‘La Diva en Maschera.”’ ; Mme. Lucca, Mile. Di Murska and Signor | Vizzani have sailed from Havana for New | York, after depositing in the hands of the | Court the required sum of money for the chorus and orchestra. A court scene, with | red fire and introductory ballet and the | tableau of the payment of the money, might | be worked up into a musicel ensemble equal to | the ‘‘Benediction des Poignards’ of Meyer- beer, while the joyous roulades of the released | song birds and the frantic exultation of the tri- umpbant chorus would furnish a theme worthy of Wagner's pen. The reflections of the chorus | and orchestra that they have yet to await the AN AMERICAN EASTERN QUES1ION—BRitisH "in dealing with the future we admire the wis- | pleasure of the Spanish Court, and ondure, EFFORT AGAINST SLAVING AND SLAV- ,:dom of Mr. Dana's great idea. “‘‘We see no | perhaps, @ deal of vexatious delay, while their ERY—THE STATE AND CHURCH AND THE WAR FEELING IN BRAZIL—JAPANESE Pv- LITICAL TUMULTS—Fourra Pace. PROGRESS OF THE OBIO ANTI-RUMDRINKING WAR!—THE CAPITAL CITY UNDER TEM- PERANCE SURVE WESTERN Tae Arsattan Dezrvries in the Prussian Reichstag have taken the determined step seceding from the legislative hall. returned to Strasbourg. will no doubt treat this manifestation of very true, and Mr. Dana shows that, ‘in the | yorru’ Castle, French patriotism with disdain, or may seek to prevent a repetition of iton the part of others of her newly acquired subjects by means of penal enactments. The circum- stance indicates, notwithstanding, the ex- istence of an anpleasant condition of feeling. réago..” he says, “why, in a great city like New Yous and, indeed, in all our chief cities, | there canrioy be established by individual effort manufactdml% ®2d mechanical, and even artistic, centres whe? labor thrown out ‘ ne bn,nt find of its ordinary employment OM." oceu- pation at reduced rates of pay—cerites’ Of in- | board bills are daily increasing to an unwar- | rantable extent, would make an effective sub- | fect in a minor key. Then the lament of the operatic agent, left behind like ‘the poor | Exile of Erin," forms a capital close to the | second act. Selika, under tho deadly upas tree, watching the departure of Vasco di dustry, where individuals, skilled ati@\y°" Gama's ship, could in this case be trans- various manufactures of wood, of leather, of iron, and even of cotton and wool and paper, and the thousand and one subordinate mixed industries, an immense proportion of the labor thrown occasionally out of its custom- ary avocations might find even remunerativo of unskilled, might find something to dovat) tucmed into @ tenor, sitting on the dingy They have prices which would afford them far more that! ).wharf 0 Havana, while the steamer passes Imperial Germany one or two bowls of soup per day.” This is | Wi YorkewatD geet ‘be frowning walls of | ‘Tae Question ov InpiaN Crrizensai ts {2 be brought before the House of Representa- tives to-day by Mr. Shanks, of Indiana, in a resolution he bas given notice to introduce, such suggestions as may seem proper and just touching their titles to property and otber rights and privileges. Mr. Shanks has stated that he believes the Indians are citizens under the constitution as it has been amended, and he has been working to have the question are termined by Congress If the Indians be citizens bow can they be denied the right of voting? Then what is to become of the treaties which have been made with them asa separate people? It is « very nice question and involves many diffioulties. It would be curious to see the red men go up to the bal- lot box to deposit their votes. However, they would know as much about the ballot as many of the negroes of the South did when they were firat enfranchised. Mr. Bergh’s Extraordinary Gtll, Mr, Henry Bergh is one of those excellent and enthusiastic gentlemen who permit their emotions to run away with their judgment. This is the only theory upon which we can un- derstand the extraordinary “bill relating to animala,” to which we made reference yoster- day. Now, we can understand bow s wise measure might be adopted, compelling igno- rant and brutal men to show more mercy to their animals and more regard for their com- fort. This we understand to be the real mean- ing of Mr. Bergh's mission, the real function of the society over which he presides. In o work of this kind be will command the ad- miration and sympathy of all humane men. sut Mr. Bergh follows his theory, and is absorbed by it until it becomes s passion, al- most @ monomania. And, wo say it with the utmost regret, when he enters upon it be be- comes as rapt in ite contemplation and as insensible to mere suggestions of common sense as the valiant and generous Don Quixote when he discoursed ou chivalry. Upon what other theory can wo un- derstand hia bill? Whoever commits a cruelty upon. an animal shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. In othor words, our butchers and fishermen mast abandon their calling or be prepared to follow Mr. Tweed to Blackwell's Island. Then, all Mr. Bergh's | agents are to have the powers of sheriffs, with permission to search houses and make arrests and seizures. So that no housewife can plunge @ struggling lobster into the pot or arrange a quantity of living oysters for a soup without being in peril from one of Mr. Bergh’s sheriffs. Surely it was never seriously in- tended to give this power to any body of irre- sponsible mem who may wear the badge of his romantic society. No one would seriously ob- ject to a visit from Mr. Bergh himself to look after the lobsters, the oysters, the clams or other suffering dwellers in the kitchen, because he is a gentleman and would be welcome everywhere. But we cannot say so much for those he may employ. Heaven knows, what with police- men, municipal and private detectives, rev- enue agents, Custom House spies, informers, the emissaries of Mr. Sanborn and Colonel | Howe, the atmosphere swarms with agents | enough without hatching another brood to do | the bidding of the President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Let there be a just, wise, humane law, really reaching the evil Mr. Bergh knows very well that certain animals have certain uses in the economy of life ; that some must labor, like the horse and oxen ; that others must die for our uses—beasts and fish and birds. This is a law as ancient and immutable as our human necessities. What Mr. Bergh really wants to do, as we understand him, is to secure these ani- mals from unnecessary pain. He would not in- terfere with the slaughter of a pig or the exter- mination of a rat. He has learned, we have no doubt, what savory mysteries may be en- veloped in a tender steak, deftly cooked with mushrooms or truffles. He does not propose to interfere with that, nor with the terrapin and turtle on their way to become soup He means that animals not necessary for food shall not be slain wantonly, that horszs shall not be overdriven or badly fed, that we shall not have bull fights or bear baiting. Let him draw a moderate, plain, sensible bill providing | for this and this alone, and there wi!l be no objection to its passage. But there is a serious objection to passing any bill that will submit New York to the entausiasm of Mr. Bergh’s imagination, and, more particularly, give him power to add another swarm to the multitude of officials who now prey upon society under the belief that they administer | justice and execute the laws. The Spring Season of Italian Opera. The penitential season of Lent, with its typical sackcloth and ashes, will be bright- ened up this evening by an event to which the music-loving public of New York look for- ward with interest and hopefulness, The Strakosch Italian Opera Company, that by the completeness of its ensemble more than by the merits of any particular artist won the hearty, earnest support and endorsement of metropolitan opera-goers last fall, appears at production of this work in America, long be- to present it, except in the cases of a few Italian managers, isa triumph for the cause of lyric art here. The representative opera houses of London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin and St. Petersburg, with all the wealth of lyric material and government sup- port at their command, must, in this | particular instance, yield to the superior en- | terprise shown at the New York Academy, No | | opera of late years has attracted more atten- | tion and interest and provoked more discus- sion than the last work of Verdi. European | critics speak learnedly and earnestly about its merits, and in Germany some of the highest janusical authorities are divided into two schools, one in favor of and the other opposed to the new departure of the composer from his ) well known style of opera writing. _Xet, | strange to age Bo anager Maes het teen. terprise to furnish a fitting illustration of the | tnuch-disputed question by producing the | Opera. It was reserved for New York to be the first city, after Cairo and a few Italian | towns, to enjoy the privilege of hearing and wit- negging the opera, placed on the stage in a style | corresponding with the efforts of our best theatrical managers. Not content with this signal. evidence of operatic enterprise, Mr. Strakosch proposes this season to bring out yl Wagner's grandest work, “Lohengrin,” with iustructing the Committee on Indian Affairs\, the saiae comoletencas of ensemble and verfec- the Academy of Music to-night in Verdi's | last and most remarkable work, ‘‘Aida.'’ The | fore any of the European impresarii ventured | tion of mise en scdne that characterized qth? first representations of ‘‘Aida." We have columns the feasibility of the production of large operatio works at the Academy of Music with the same attention to detail as may be remains for him and his successors to carry out the ides in all operas, and not to descend from the high standard of art thus happily An interesting feature of the forthcoming season will be the farewell engagement of Mme. power Nileson in America. ‘Ihe magnetio exeroised by the Swedish Nightingale im the lyrio raiment of Gounod; the Bride of Lammermoor, with Donizetti's florid meas- ures; the “Dame aux Camolins,” with her and _heart-broken end with those réles in the hearts of New York opera-goers. Since Marty's troupe came from Havana, over twenty years ago, and gave opera at the Castle Garden Opera House, wo have had no company to compete with the Strakosch troupe in point of ensemble and ex- cellence, oven in the smallest details. It is to be hoped that this company will prove the avant courrier of @ lasting reform in Italian opera in this city. Seill Further Gleams of Light—Au Appeal te Religious Rancor. Brace and Barnard give us another flash of light upon their movements. They inform us that the Hunatn’s “attacks on the charitable institutions of the city are confined exclusively tothe Protestant charities—thoso institutions which are under Roman Catholic management are left alone.’ “This is carrying bigotry pretty far." We should think eo. These aalaried philanthropists accomplish two pur- poses in this statement. They say what is un- true about the Henarp, and they make that appeal to religious rancor which history al- ways shows to be the resource of the ignorant and narrow-minded. Our readers will certainly not require us to say anything in response to the assertion that we ever make discriminations, either in the way of praise or blame, on the ground of religion. Our columns this morning show the impartislity with which we treat all religious questions, as they have shown it ona thousand occasions before. Mr. Brace is aaid to be in the habit of visiting Europe at the expense of the charita- ble people who support his institution. We are afraid that he has learned one evil custom in these journeys—that of religious intoler- ance. He has no doubt met with Englishmen who have no politics but prejudices, who pro- fess now all the anger and malice that were common in the times of the religious wars, and who contemplate a renewed religious war with erultation. These fanatics are mainly of | an ignoble and ignorant type, with rude gifts of speech and occasional access to the news- papers. We can understand how they would impress Mr. Brace. Butif he spent more of his time at home, and gave some attention to the institutions and genius of America, he would know that there could bs no argument more absurd and injurious to the person mak- ing it than this appeal to the spirit which hanged Quakers and burned witches two cen- turies ago. In this country, Mr. Brace will permit us to inform him, there is the utmost freedom of conscience, and nothing could be more offensive to right-minded Protestants than these Whitechapel and Bethnal Green appeals to Protestantism. This is particu- larly so because America is a Protestant country, every State and, with scarcely an ex- ception, every city and town being largely inhabited by Protestants. These appeals are made to the religious convictions of the ma- jority of our citizens. But they are none | the less impotent and grotesque. In England, as we have said, such appeals have still a cer- tain influence among the lower orders of fanatics, and we see in the Tichborne case that they have been used with pertinacity aud | zeal. But even in England, and especially in | the Tichborne case, public opinion has indi- | cated very plainly that these crude and vulgar imputations are sadly unbecoming the char- acter of an English gentleman. Let Mr. Brace leave these imputations and | this style of rhetoric to Bethnal Green, where | it belongs; and, instead of endeavoring to impose upon our people the forgotten anger | and strife of religious intolerance in England, | let him tell us something about his books. What we wish to know is what is done with | the money subscribed to his institution? | How much goes to the poor and how much to salaries? How much does he expend on his | foreign trips? If Mr. Brace will give us this | | information we shall not quarrel with any- thing he pleases to say about our “bigotry.” Benjamin Disracli. | The reappearance of Benjamin Disraeli as | asserted in those Yn: the Prime Minister of England would under any circumstances be a most interesting event, | for in his personality he is one of the most | interesting characters in history; but he comes back to power as the leader of a reac- tion—a revolution, as it were; and, if his pledges mean anything, he will give new life | and spirit to English government at home , and English statesmanship abroad. The | ineaning of the TriutSph of the tories is that | we shall have a more English spirit in admin- | | istration—the spirit of Walpole and Castle- [Feat nnd Palmerston, Mr. Disraeli as the | champion of this policy assumes an impor- tance almost grotesque, for there is nothing in ' his character or his intellect to justify us in anticipating the robust and lusty statesman- | ship of the old torica who believed war to be | the first duty of England, We can under- stand something of the new Ministry from a study of the admirable sketch we print else- where of Mr. Disraeli. He is man who will govern England with wisdom and tact, and not with the spirit of adventure. It is a life of romance. and as it mamea maw inte the shadowy period of threescore and ten, we “may almost fool that we are contemplating its close. \ National and Lenten sermons. Our o!leotion of sermons to-day embraces chiefly topin” that have « peculiar reference either to the da,” ¥® devote to the honor of our great captain—>"eshington—or to the sea- comm, emorate the tompta- aon in which we tions, sorrows and ean oe Captain—the Lord Jesus Chris Of the lat- ter clase is that delivered in the On{hedral by the Archbishop, who explained the>yienifi- cance of this holy season of Lent as undc* stood by the Catholic Church, and urged ite importance in @ spiritual sense to help the soul toward a better life and holier thoughts’ and aspirations, Of similar purport is the sermon preached by Dr. McGlynn in St Stephen's church, where also in the eveni the Rev. Mr. McCreedy took up a practical feature of this season—namely, repentance— and explained its nature, the necessity for it, the manner and form of its effects, and the importance of promptly getting imto full sym- pathy with God’s commandments and keeping them. - Of the other class—national sermons—is that delivered by Dr. Fulton in Hanson place Bap- tist church, Brooklyn, on Americanism in Church and State. Ignoring the old inter- pretations of the Apocalyptic woman fleeing into the wilderness on the wings of a great eagle, and remaining there for one thpusand two hundred and sixty years, Dr. Fulton believes that America is the wilderness re- ferred to, and that here is to be the great bat- tle ground of Protestantism and Romanism. The Doctor will no doubt hold a high commis- sion in the Protestant ranks when that great conflict comes, though he believes the power of Romanism in America is broken. Why, then, waste time in discussing the question whether America is to be Romanized or Ro- manism Americanized? The ignorance, big- otry and superstition of Catholics born here is something terrible if Dr. Fulton speaks correctly, and his battle cry is, ‘Put none but Americans on guard.’” We hope such a cry will never be taken up by any great propor- tion of the people of this land. His fling at the Roman Catholic press has but the barest shade of fact in it, and is doubtless but a cheap ad- vertisement for his own anti-Catholic journal. Of a national character, also, is the sermon delivered by the Rev. Henry Powers in the Church of the Messiah. He indicated the di- rection of Washington's greatness. He waa really great in the bulk and compactness of his practical powers ; he was great intellect- ually, but the excellency and chief distinction of Washington’s greatness were, however, moral. He left behind him as a priceless treasure to his countrymen the example of a stainless life. This is more than a few of his successors will leave, or have left, and surely it is more than “the average Congress- man of to-day” can ever gain, either by purchase or inheritance. The mame of George Washington is too sacred and pure to be mentioned in the same breath with that of the man who pockets Orédit Mobilier funds and then addresses Sunday schools on the importance of honesty and in- tegrity in life, or who staggers to or from his home under the influence of liquor one day and the next shouts “‘hurrah"' for the woman's crusade against rum. And who, as Mr. Powers inferontially asks, is responsible for the average Congressman of to-day but = ourselves? We, his conituenta, make him what he is, and he un- doubtedly fairly represents the average moral character of the community that sends him to Washington. Here, too, is a field tor the exer- cise of woman's influence to turn the tide of politics toward morality, as it is now evidently going farther and farther away from it. Aside from the two general subjects above named two others have attracted more or less attention in the pulpits of Brooklyn, The great feature of the Sabbath in that City of Churches was the dedication of Dr. Talmage’s mammoth Tabernacle, a house capable of seat- ing 4,000 persons—the largest free church on this Continent, erected at a cost of $100,000, all of which has been paid or was subscribed for yesterday. The union sentiment was fally recognized in the dedicatory services. Baptist, Methodist, Congregational and Presbyterian ministers met on the same plat- form and gave their words of cheer to pastor and people, and “the great Methodist Church beggar” of this country and this century man- aged the financial part, so that the people allowed him to pick their pockets very cheer- fully. nf is quite likely that Mr. Beecher had im his mind yesterday, while preaching bis mis- sionary sermon, some of those long established benevolent institutions of New York which ob- ject to charity being administered except by themselves. Let a new almoner appear in the city, and, like a strange ox or a new fowl in the farmyard, he is gored by all or pecked by all, Man, says Mr. Beecher, is worth more than all science. There is no gift so precious as one’s self. We have no right to trust communities other than by the rule | that those who have are debtors to those who have not, the world over. ‘Tae Cerepration oy Wasnrnaton's Brsrm- pay. —Owing to the fact that the anniversary | of Washington's Birthday occurred this year on Sunday its celebration will take place im most of the cities and towns to-day. Prepara- tions bave been made in this city and Brooklyn for its proper observance. Yoster- day the United Order of American Mechanics honored ths memory of the Father of His Country by an oration at the Cooper Institate, but the more boisterous patriotism waited for aday. Itisa beautiful custom, this annual tribute to Washington's genius aud services, and while its observance continues we need acarcely fear for the safety of the Republic. More Practica, Cmanrry. Samos Olvany will distribute a hundred loaves of bread among the poor of the Seventh Ward twicea | week for three weeks. This is another example of feeding the poor without the interposition of salaried charity. Tus Javanese Iwscxnection in the neigh- borhood of Nagasaki is making rapid scoording to the latest advices from London by cable. The reports may, perhaps, contain a very exaggerated accoant of the movement, any denial of the authority of the raling power being such ® novel, unexpected step on the wart of the Agiatica