The New York Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1874, Page 4

4 RACING IN ENGLAND. ——EEe Apology’s Victory in the Great Doncaster St. Leger. anemia DOWNFALL OF THE FAVORITE. | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. Sir J. Astley’s br. ¢, Scamp, by The Rake—Laay Sophie, 122 ibs, (Parry) . sees ee Mr. W. S. Cartwright’s'b. c, Volturno, by Maca- roni—Fairwater, 122 Ibs, (Constable) Mr. East's b, f. Lady Patricis, by Lord Lady Langiord, 117 Ibs. (J. Goater)..... xe Lord Falmouth’ ¢. Atlantic, by/Thormanby— Hurricane, 12 (Chatoner) .....0-.s.0+ Mr. R. Waiker’s b. f, Sweet Violet, by Voltigeur— Cowslip, 117 Ibs. (J. Suowden) Mi usa? A b, ¢ Blantyre, by on! MN, 122 Ne Hopper) Mr. Fisher's cli, c. Rostre?d Lady Augusta, 122 ibs, (Huxtable) . uy Whortna nby— | M. Letevre's b. . Boulet, by Monarque—Cre- morne, 122 Ibs, (Hutier’ 0 tisk Sa M. Lelevre’s b. c. Feu dA 4 | yf igurette, 122 ibs. (Custance) ..- 0 . | Mr. Merry's b.c, Glenailmond, by Biair The Stakes—The Time—Large | © Coimbra, 1315s. (Fr. Web»)... the R | , letting 3 to 1 each against Apolo, ‘Trent, 6 inners on e Race. | to 1 against Fen d’Amour,7 to 1 against Gienal- Winn | Mond, §to 1 each against Leolinus aud Atiantc, 40 pile oa vies | tol agaist Blantyre and 60 tol against re- LONDON, Sept. 17, 1874 One of the most “sensational” St. Leger’s on record was yesterday decided in presence of per- haps the most enormous crowd that ever assem. died on the town moor of Doncaster. The turf tro- phy of the north is ran for in the midst of a popu- Jation passionately fond of horse racing, out not for many years past, at all events, have they assembled in such multitudes to witness the most important contest m England after the Epsom Derby. The St. Leger is the last of the three great three-year-old races of the season, and is led up to through the Two Thousand Guineas and the Derby, Only three animals have secured the whoie oi these prizes—West Australian, Lord Lyon and Glaaiator—vut many haye taken two ofthem, while on tue other hand the St. Leger has frequently fallen to an animal that was not successful either at Newmarket or at Epsom, On this occasion the Held was promised to be composed of DISTINGUISHED COMPANY; distinguished, if not by their individual merits, at allevyents by the number of honors which they had won. Among those that were expected at the post were George Frederick, Whose greatest achievement was Winning the Derby present season; Apology, the winner of the One ‘Thousand Guineas and the Vaks; Trent, winner of the Grand Prize of Paris and the Great Yorkshire Stal Atlantic, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas and Ascot Der Leolnus, winner of the Prince of Wales’ Stakes and St. James’ Palace Stakes, at Ascot, and Scamp, winner of the Good+ wood and Brighton Stakes, None of these horses is of the nighest order of merit as established by the performers of maby previous years, but their careers had been very distinguished, and, taken as a pody, they were entitied to high respect. Un- fortunately, it was destined that their ranks should lose one distinguished member, George Frederick, and the scratching of Lis name on the very morning of the race was one of the most SENSATIONAL INCIDE! connected with it. The horse liad been for a long time past at head of quotations—in fact nearly constantly since he won the Derby. A certain amount of suspicion, however, was always at- tached to him, and many of the sbrewdest men on the turfhave never ceased to lay against him. It was known that he had twisted some of the muscles of,one of his legs shortly after the Derby, but his owner and trainer would seem to have taken extraordinary pains to convince the public that he was fully recovered, and, it may be noticed as a curious fact, tuat even upto the day of the race the ‘special commissioners” of the sporting papers, men whose duty it 1s to know everything about the condition of the principal race horses, reported that George Frederick was never better or fitter in his life. On Tuesday, however, the horse showed decided symptoms of what 1s known In the siang of the turfas “MARKET FEVER, He was seen at exercise in the morning, critics were at singular variance a3 w his cond- tion. Some asserted that he was in excellent health and was in the height of prepara- tion; others held that be was decidedly lame and wouid probably not go tothe post. Among athe latt as Lord Faimouth, the owner of At- lantic, who, a perfect Diuntly told Mr. Cartwright that George Fred- erick, who is that gentieman’s property, was lame~a remark Which did not appear to please him, In the evening the Derby winner went very badly in the betting at the rooms, and it was ob- served as un ominous circumstance that Sir Fred- erick Johnstone, who, it is rumored represented, a confederacy of gentlemen got up at the dinner tagie, and laid several thousands of pounds against him at fourto one. In the morning the murder was out. A notice was posted at the rooms announcing that George Frederick had been struck out of the race at seven minutes alter nine A.M. Later in the day Mr. Mannington, veterinary surgeon, who is regarded as the “stormy petre!’’ of rainy disaster, issued a certifil- cate to the effect that the horse's leg having filled, he had advised that he should not be sent to the post. The policy adopted by Mr. Cart- wrigit was and the LOUDLY CONDEMNED on all hands, and he was opeuly charged with having been making money out of the horse ever since the Derby, uever intending to run nim jor the St. Leger. 1t is a most discreditable fact that on Tuesday he went about informing his friends that George Frederick was perfectly well and that they ought to have their money on him, and one betting agent he tola totuvest £1,000 for him the | following day, well knowing that the agent would take time by the forelock on his own account, which be did to the tune of £600, all of which was, of course, lost, The downuull of George Frederick was NOT THE ONLY DISASTER which threatened tue ti) On the very morning Of yesterday rumors were m circulation that Apology had talien lame and would not ran—in- deed, it was reported thatshe had been scratched, The fact that while Joun Osoorne was ricing her at exercise in the morning he observed that she crossed her legs, and, iearing that something was wrong, he at once On examination, he could not discover that there was anything (he matter, but to give her a rest he sent her back to her stable, where her legs were | fomented for hours witu cold water. Tne public got wind of the amair, and, putting the worst con- struction on it, came to the conclusion that the Mare was lame aud had no chance, even if she were to run. Osborne himself was douvtiul, and \gelegraphed to the owner of Apology, the Rev. Mr. RVng, a clergyman in Lincolnshire, who races under the name of “mr. Launde,” the facts, but Was\answered tuat the mare must go to the post and take ber chance. In te false start, after the fall of the fag, Apology did not please the critics by her st of going, and many of them laid 10 to 1 inst her—to their ultimate disgust. Among the other candidates was Atlantic, who | ‘was one of but who, untortunately, had BROKEN A BLOOD VESSEL about a fortnight previously and labored under suspicion that he might do so again, Trent, who, like Atlantic, is trained by Matthew Dawson, but property 0! avother owner, is a fine, com- nal, WHO has always shown improvement y time he has runat the York meeting. Re- cently beat Apoloyy for the great Yorkshire Stakes, v Was giving him four pounds, while here she was to meet him on weight for sex terms—ad hee which \t was generally thought Would turn the scale inher favor, Glenalmond, Mr. Merry’s representative, started first favorite for the Derby, on which be ran owing to his having twist d’Amour, in the Fre looking colt, and was at one p mand for the Derby, bu (one of his plates. Feu another good- tlod In great de- he could not be trained for the race. Leolinus, a tuird of Matthew Dawe eon’s String, but the property of that sportsman, Sir R. Bulkeley, has hitherto been ree garded a8 a handicap animai; but he was one of te most striking horses in the Whole lot. Scamp isa fine, level, well-built colt, but his field ig handicaps, in which, a8 noticed above, previously distinguished lime @ summary :— THe St. LEGER STAKES Of 25 sovs. each; for three-year-olds ; colts 4 st. 10 Ibs., fillies 8 st, 6 Ibs, ; the second receiving 200 sovs. aud the tuird j00 vs, St. Leger course. 197 subs. Mr. Launde’s ch. f. Apology, by Adventurer— The following is | lantic of the | | crowd, bleeding profusely from the nose, mission was accomplished when he had got hall a ' | Trent and S judge of a race horse, | ismounted in alarm. | 1 best looking animals in the race, | very badly, paruy | fine old | he had | j vor. first attempt ata start was frustrated by the hanging back of Boulet, who was started merely to make running for his stable companion Feu d'Amour; butat the next they got off toa good start, of which Blantyre got the best and his stable companion Glenalmond the worst, When they had fairly settied down to work, Boulet, commencing his mission, dashed to the front ata great pace, the nearest of the others being Scamp and Atlantic, the latter of wiom was nearly pulling his jockey out of the saddle. The next were Blantyre, Leolinus and Feu d'Amour; behind them Rostrevor and Gienalmond; the last three being Trent, Apology and Vo.turno. far behind and appeared to be going so indil- | ferently that in the ring several bets of 10t01 | were laid against her to win and 3 to 1 fora piace. After half @ mile had been got over Blantyre and Scamp gave way, leaving Leolinus and Atlantic im attendance on Boalet; but At- began to roll about on making the aescent, Chailoner tried to stop him, but could not, until tney got to the Red Mouse, When, on dismounting, he found that the horse had once more broken a blood vessel, and he subsequently walked in among the Boulet’s Mile from home, and he resigned the command to Leoiinus, who was shortly alterwards joined by Apology and Trent, the mare having for some time been rapidly making up her leeway. nearest of the others were Rostrevor, Feu d’Amour, Blantyre, Scamp, Lady Patricia and Gienalmond, the last of whom had met with a dis- appointment as the mile post when Atlantic dropped back, the whole lot lying very close to- gether. Blantyre, Glenalmond, Feu d’Amour, Rostrevor and Lady Patricia were all settled be- fore reaching the turn into the straight, and nothing was left “im it’? but Leolinus, Apology, mp, Who entered the straight in a At the point Apology went to the front cluster. with the greatest ease, shook off Trent before | Teaching the distance, and Leolinus almost imme- | diately aiterwards, and won without the least | dimiculty by a length and a half, Leolinus finishing five lengths im iront of Trent, who was the same | distance In advance of Scamp; Sweet Violet was filth, but all the others were pulling up. value of the stakes was £4,600, or $23,000, sult was received with TREMENDOUS CHEERING, which continued until the winner weigied in, wien, the announcement being made that all was right, Such a storm of applause rent the air as has never been heard even on Doncaster town moor. Apology is trained in the north of England, and the northern people are always very partial to their Own borses, none of whom have becn success- iujin the St. Leger since Blair Athol, ten years ago. John Osborne, who rode Lord Oitfden for | the prize, pursuing the same tactics with him as ‘he did with Apology, 18 also highly popular in those regions, and came in Jor his full share of the popular approval. Moreover, Mr. Launde, though a clergyman, is 4 fine oid Sportsman. He ts eignty, | two, and yet is now shooting partridges from an armchair m which he 1s wheeled about, and breeds and runs his own animals in a style which makes Lim a great favorite among the home-loving people of the north, It is rumored that his Bishop—the Bishop of Lincoln—is beginning to look askance on his horse running feats, eud is likely to take some action to put a stop to them, | THE TIME was, thanks to Boulet, tne fastest on record in connection with this race, being 3:16, which is | half a second less than Caller Ou made, It is true that Reveller's time was shorter, and Sir Tatton Sykes’ the same; but im the one case the course | Was not the same, and in the other the weigits | carried were less. THE CHIEF WINNERS | are Whitaker, the Manchester bookmaker; Mr. Gomm, the principal agent for Allsopp’s beer and | a noted plunger; Mr. Luke Barker, of Liverpool, a | very successiul better, and Mr. J. Saville, who, it is understood, have netted something like £50,000, or | $250,000, between them. The bookmakers gener- | ally lose heavily, for Apology was backed to wina | great deal of money, as were Leoliuus and Trent jor places. ROMAN CATHOLICISM AND FREE- MASONRY. *| —__+—____ English Expianations of the Church Treatment of the Secret Brotherhood. To THE F-DITOR OF THE LONDON TIMES:— Lord Ripon’s abjuration of Freemasonry was a very simple thing. His desire to become a Roman Catholic came to be greater than his desire to re- | main a Mason; the two things were not compati- | ble, and he made his choice, But from this choice | We cannot tell whether he has become ultramon- tane or remains liberal. He may have leit Masonry grudgingly and unwillingly, as @ sacrifice all the | more painful because he knew it was demanded | in ignorance and prejudice, or he may have be- come so devoted to his iniallible teacver that the body to which he has so long been blamelessly attacned is suddenly revealed to him as @ monster. Your correspon. dent “Nemo” is a man who talks avout what he does not understand. He makes out that the one thing for which Freemasonry is condemned 18 jor its exacting a solemn oath concerning things unknown at the time to him who takes the oath— a consideration which would condemn every privy councillor, and every priest who engages nut to reveal the now unknown things which shail be- come known to him in confession. | | would reirain (rom being wiser than his Popes, he | Would know that Freemasonry is condemned by them on several distinct grounds. 1 quote a Bull of Benedict XLV. }, Because in those societies men of any religion and sect are associated tozether, manitestly to the perdition ot the purity of Catholic religion. 3 | “2 Ihe strict and impervious secresy in which things | done at the meetings are covered, 3. The oath by which they bind themselves to this secrecy. Agifa man might by pretence o obviate his duty of replying to the interrogatories of the lawiul authority when it would inquire whether any- thing isdone at these meetings coutrary to Church or | | State. 4, These societies are forbidden by both civil and canon law; the civil law prohibits ail colleges and soda constituted without public authority, or without licence | of the rrince. 5. In many places these clabs have been proscribed by | the laws of secular Princes. 6. Prudent and good men think M11 of these clubs, and any one Who enters them 18 noted by them for pravity and perverseness Benedict, therefore, prays kings and princes to help him tu Suppress these ciubs, Crement XIL, | in 1738, had spo-en of their oath of secrecy on the Bible and of Coeir affectation of natural morality— @ char, od admission which his more wary suc- cessor, Benedict, omitted, But let us look at Benedict’s own reasons. | equaliy condemns every mess room of the Engush Army and Navy, every hall in every Inn of Court, all partnerships, aii” social correspondence be- tween Catholics and Protestants. The second equaily condemns synoas of Catholic bishops, cieties like the Jesuits or any other religious tians, Whose persecutors are thus justified when they persecuted them as secret sovietie | the last alty from Garnet and Oldcorne tor having omitted to reveal the existence of a plot of } which they only knew by confession. The fourth | tries to perpetuate a piece of imperial tyranny | quiet anen irom English liberties, The fifth simply | makes the Church accessory to all the tyrannical | edicts which it may please absolute monarchs who | happen to be Catholics to make. The sixth seek to abridge the liberty of every Ustholic whenever the Pharisaic consclence of the reputed orthodox | takes scandal at Iris jiberty. The Pope, it seems, may prescribe what condi- tions he likes for commanion with him, Doubte less he generally acts in accordance with the prejudices ol the mnuititude of his followers. there must be always @ large margin of men who only submit because they think if better, on | the whole, to remain Catholics than openly to violate apy of these conditions, however unwise they may be. Mandragora, 117 los, (J. Osborne)......... 1 | ty Benedict, except the testimony of the great in- Sir RK, Bul legs ch. Levlinus, by Caterer. orease of these societies and their hostility to the Tasmania, 122 Ibs. (T. Osborne) . 2 | Church. When Popes were so careful to weed out Mr. W. RK. Marshall’s br. c. Zrent, by Broomie- | al Carholics from this society, could they expect taw—The Mersey. 122 Ibs, (Uapnon).......... 2 | the revidaaum ta ba anvebine else but anti-Cath- o| Apology was so | The | The net | The re- | But if “Nemo” | bis oath | His first is one which | order, and every meeting of the primitive Cnris- | Bat | Leo XII. and Pitas LX, add nothing | the Pope has made them, Jam, sir, vour obedient servant, AN E SUMAN AND ROMAN CATHOLIC. SEPTEMBER 22, A Berlin Oath, | To Tae EpiTor Or THE LONDON TimEs:— | With reference to the subject of Freemasonry, | which you treated yesterday Mm a leading articie, allow me to send you for publ | Ollcy if tne Freemasons are So, they are such es | tion, irom 9 | Za Franc-Magonnere of Archbishop Dechamps, | Primate of Belgium, edition of 1874, pages 16 and 17, the terms of the oath alieged to be taken by | new memvers of one of the Graud Lodges of Ber- , hoi Iswear, in the name of the Supreme Architect of all Worlds, never to reveal the secrets, the signs, the touches, the words, the doctrines or the usages ol Free- masons, and to keep thereupon eternal silence. 1 promise aud swear to God hever tw disclose any of these things vy pen by word OF Dy wet: meyer. to cise Any hing to be Writien or Uthographed or engraved or dd respecting them, and never to publish what bas ) to this moment eontided to me, or what shall be in the 1uture, “I i should break my word submit myself to undergo ihe tollowing Yo have my Lips burned with a red hot iron, ieage an penaity: lny haid cut off, my tongue torn out, my threat cut, my rpse hung up in 4 lodge during the ceremony ot admis- hew brother, and then to be buricd and its to the winds. On the same page, seventeen, is given, on the authority of Alban Stolz, an iustance in which a punishmest sush as that which 1s myoxed in the above oath Was inflicted in the Grand Lodge of London upon an Englishman who, in 1730, bad published at Liéze a work revealing the mysteries Gl the lower grades, Tam, sir, your obedient servant, W. A. JOU ARCHBISHOPS HOUSE, WESTMINSTER, dept. French Views of Lord Ripon’s Conver- sion. {Prom the Liberté, of Paris, Sept. 24.] The Lnglish pewspapers have taken cure to re- | fute the strange articles Which M. Jobo Lemoinne wrote reluuive (o the conversion of the Marquis of Ripou. As is known, the writer in the Débats con- sidered Mis Loraship’s change ol creed as a& aable uct from the poimt of view of elisu patriotism, declaring that, according the Thanners und customs of the british, to he who abandons the kstablished Church, tt religion oi the State, is a traitor, The several English organs have contradicted tat curious 4s- seruou. There is no occasion to Know Engiand, as M, Lemoinne does, to be aware that in that country are to be ound ptenty of Catholics who are excellent patriots, and that, in a dogmatic pulnt of view, less Uifference exists velween Kowmanists aud (he partisans of the Anglican creed than between these latter and the Nonconiorm- ists, Does aby necessity exist for refuting ‘he as- tonisbing assertion that the Marquis, Grand Ma: ter of the Free Masons, in becomiuog Koman Catholic only avandoned one s cret society to enter another? Was his Lordship converted by a Jesuit? Are all Koman Catholics forcedly . aMiated to the Company oi Jesus? Do ihese worus, Ad majorem bei goriam (A, M. D. G.), Constitute a special formula of initiation? In fine, can M, Lemoimue tell the public in what the Company oi Jesus differs, as regards its principles, from the other communities recognized by tie Church? We strongly suspect tit he nas obtained his iuforma- tion relative to that association a tittle from the “Lettres Proviuciales” of Pascal, which is a very serious work, abd @ great deal from the “Juif | Errant” of Eugene 5 yinnch is not at wil so, FIRE INSURANCE IN CHICAGO. pS Address to the People by the Executive Committee of the Citizens? Associa- | vien—What the City Will Sustain from the Action of the National Board. (From the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Sept. 28.] The lollowing address has been issued by the E. eculive Committee oi the Citizens’ Associatioi To THE BUSINESS MEN AND PROPERTY OWNERS OF CHICAGO Understanding a part of our duty to consist in | calung the acvention of the community trom time Lo ume, a8 OCCasion-May require, to matters which demand the action ol citizens, and ieeling that the present emergency, growing out of our imperfect protecuon against fre, calis lor the most energetic and untiring effort on ine part of every individual identified with Chicago's interests, we desire to place before you some facts bearing on the sub- Ject, and to point out What We Conceive to be some Ol our duties as citizens, in the hope of inducing a speedy adoption of ail possivle safeguards, It is Weil kuown that a number ot highiy respectable and inijuenual gendémen, composing the “Na- tional Board of Underwriters,” have recomuiended the Withdrawal irom this city of all the insurance companies under their con rol. To waatever de- gree their precipitate action may be open to eriti- cism, aud however indignanuy our pride may re- Voit at their seeming dictation, tue alarming fact TeMains that these gentlemen decline to longer transact business iu this city, We characterize It | as un alarming fact because they represent by far | the largest aud most renabie insurance interests of this counury, together with all Lie loreign caple | tal doing busihess here, and our commeretal or- | ganization 1s of such a nature that no targe city | can conduct tts business Without insurance. It 18 the foundation stone upon which our commer- clal superstructure Stands, ake 1t away and the whove system crambles to the ground a disor- ganized mass, ‘the question as to whether @ sys- tem thus organized is the best that can be adopted jor promoting the commercial prosperity of the age, we cannot discuss, Be it so or not, the fact that Chicago, of ail cities, can least aiford now to inaugurate anew system must be apparent to all, Frow the sad experiences of the last turee years this Community is painiully aware o! the alarming possibilities Of conflagration. The effects of the ravages committed vy the great fire of 1871, not- Witustanuing our Wonderful recuperation, are still apparent in various directions, and will be for years Wo come. ‘The fire ol last July caused us the peculiar damage Of absolutely unsettling conti- | deuce in our security as a city 1n the minds of the | people at a distance; although we of Chicago reathed more ireely after it, Knowing it to have swept away the danger that most threatened us, Confidence bot only in its integrity, but also In its | ability to protect property, 18 essential to the | commercial existence of any community. ‘Tne only Way in Wuich this Confidence can be restored to us 1s by taking prompt measures to recall the | Protection these insurance gentlemen have with- arawu .rom us. | It may not be superfluous to point out in detail some Of the injuries that will result to this city should the action of the underwriters be persisted in Jor uny length of time. | The credit of our merchants will be impaired, and tue large stocks of goods Lhat now attract tne trade of the West will shrink to meagre propor- tions. Already the order to ‘neduce stock” has been given in some ot our large houses, Manulac- turers and importers are unwilling to intrust their merchandise to a Community unable to pro- Ci ncematty against loss by fire, The immense grain trade that now centres here will seek other Taarkets, and our elevators will stand empty. Our Vessels Will seek other ports or lie idle ‘at our docks. Parties will not come here to engage in in business enterprises with such risks aud aigad- Vantages to encounter. The low of capital into our city tor loans and Investment will be checked, for capitalists will not invest where insurance pro- tection is not afiorded to property. In tact, the general growth and prosperity oi our city will be interrupied, and @ shadow will rest upon ua, In view oi these considerations, we feel that every good citizen stouid be aroused to @ full realization Of tne magnirude o! the emergency, and throw all wis euergy and influence Into & united effort to ward off this most damaging blow. We shouid not linger even to disc: ve matter, but hasten to consummate the reforms already 1n- augurated and in view when the action of the | ‘National Board” was taken. We should iustract our representatives in the Common Council to vote for protection, and our official boards to remove every obsiacle that Stands In the way ol absolute reicrm, im terms that they shuilrealize will tolerate no further de- lay. Some of them, no doupt, are deserving of grave censure for not heretofore providing better means for our protection; but we suouid remem- ber that “low taxes” is the cry that has been Oitenest sung in tueirears. Let us now instruct them to tax us as lightly as possible consistent with complete protection, but give us protection at whatever cost. I! it snali be jound that legal objections, which cannot now be prevent the raising of necessary funds by our authorities (a contingency we do not anticl- pate) jet us advance them; we should nota day \ longer, even by implication, be partes to the | criminal negligence that permits only a four-inch | Water main (which two engines will exnaust of | water) in streets lined on ettuer side ings and merchandise valued at millions. We must have @ most ample supply of water, the best building law and the most efficient fire de- partment to be found inthis country, We can aiford nothing less than such an absolute condl- tion of safety that these gentiemen who have Withdrawn irom us, taking With them the protec- | tion We so much need, shall return laden With | cheap insurance. | Although the Citizens’ Association cannot, as an | Organization, take any ordinary | we would orge upon all good ciuzens of either | party the further imperative duty o: attending the primary elections now near at hand, and ol nen. | using every effort to place in power men worthy | ‘ine | third justifies the English government in exacting | to be entrusted with public only means of securing permanent reiorm. | _ We would state, as a taatter of 1uformauion upon | which we urge immediate action, that the Board | of Public Works will at on place water mains of | proper capacity in any street where they are Insul- | ficlent upon the property owuers advancing the | trifing sum of $160 per foot, wich sum, in most cases, Will be saved many times over in one year | by the reduction in insurance premiums it ‘Will | secure. Weare pleased to add that the owners of property on some streets ure already avauing themselves of the protection tuus profiered. Any individual can iniorm himsei witn regard affairs; it being the to the alarming inadequacy of the water maina by | | consulting a map now hangig in the rooms of our association, Showing the dimensions of the pipes in each street throughout the city, | _ In conclusion permis us to say iat sueh reforms | as are now neeged in the community can 1p no | way be so speedily accomplished as through or- | anized effort. In the Citizens’ Association we ave an organization through which all may work, | and we again invite into its mombersnip every interested person. | mM XECUTIVE COMMITTEE HE OF THE CITIZENS! ASSOCLATION, overcome, | with build. | political action, | THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. Energetic Action of the Washington National Monument Society—Prospects of Speedy Completion. The majority of our readers are aware that there has bees a recent revival of interest in the affairs of the great unfinished monument to George Washington which has been standing on | the Mall just south of the Executive Mansion in the city that he planned and that bears his name. This interest has been awakened by a final appeal to the patriotism of the people, made some two months since by the society, for funds to enable them to resume work upon and to finish that at present unsightly structure, The motive of the Monument Society, a3 set forth in the circular let- ters addressed py them to the various organized bodies and sociewes throughout the country, is one that appeals to the gratitude of every citizen of our free land—namely, to wipe out an ugiy blot upon the national honor which has been a subject of scorn and of sar- castic comment by all the nations during many years. The plan determined upon to accom- plish this noble eud is geuerally understood, it 1s presumed; but that ail may understand it we again present it to our readers. It is intended to | appeal to every organization, whether secret or | otherwise, in the country to make contingent | | | pledges 1or whatever amount it may desire to | give, no pledge to be redeemed until official notice | is received stating that the $500,000 necessary | to complete the monument at an altitude of 485 | feet bas been promised, Then the society will call upon each society or order that has made a con- tingent pledge for one-half the amount subscribed, | and will at once resume the work, and in six and | twelve months from the date of the first payment | they will call for the balance of the subscription, | The society gave it out in positive terms that they will not again attempt to resume the work until they have enough subscribed to enable them, with- | out possibuity of failure, to go on to completion, | andin this they act wisely. The country cannot afford to undergo the disgrace of any more failures in this regard, Doubtiess the interests of the Monument Society | have suilered a good deal in years past by bad | Management, The plan of sending out trresponsi- ble collecting agents some years ago was a bad one, and it is likely enough to be true that enough money was given those agents to build the monu- ment. The present society is chartered by Con- | gress, and its ofMlcers are men of unblemished | fame, They dropped the strolling coliectors when | they came into office, and have never sent out an | figentstuce. Gentiemen like the President of tae | United states, the General of ihe Aru miral Powell. ol tue navy ; Hon. John second Comptroller of the Treasury; | coran, the well Known philanthropist; George W. | | Riggs, the distinguished banker; J. Bayard smith, | Dr. John B. Blake, John Carroll Brent and other | high officiais need no indorsement«s to their in- | tegrity, yet any one or ail ot iuese gentlemen are by the terms o! their charter liable to be taken into Court and punished, upon convicuon of mal- Jeasance in the trust confided to them. Tue country, therefore, can rest assured that money contributed under pre-ent auspices will not be | misapplied, No contribution wili be touched by intermediary fingers, but will go at once to the treasurer, abd Wil be used atone for the purpose Jor which it is contributed, Tis may set at rest any suspicion that irresponsibie hands will have any control of the tunds given toward the building ol this Mobunent. The Monument Society, then, beimz composed of gentlemen of known repute, and having set in motion a plan so simple, prac- tical and safe, whereby tlie monument may be finished by a fair show of patriotism on tre part oi the American peopie velore the ciose of the one | hundredth year of American independence, it would seem only just that the great American public should respond, and respond promptly, to the appeal. A lew dollars trom each of the bodies and societies in the country would do the work, } On the Sist of January, 1848, Congress passed a Tesolution authorizing the Washington National Monument Society to erect ‘a monument to the memory of George Washington upon such portion of We public grounds or reservations within the city of Washington, bot otherwise occupied, as suall be selected by the President of the United States and the Board of Managers ot said society, a8 a Suitavle site on Which to erect the said monu- | ment, und for the Necessary protection thereo.”? ‘The site selected, under. the authority of this reso- | lution, Was the public reservation nambered 3 on the plan of the city of Washington, containing | Upwards Of thirty acres, Lear the Potomac River, directly west of the Capitol and south of the President’s bouse, The grant was executed on the 12th of Apri, lidy, by the President of the United States and the Board of Mauagers of the society, and is duly recorded among the land records of the District of Columbia, Tne site selected presents a beautitul view 01 the Potomac; | is so elevated that the monument will be seen irom all patts oi the city and surrounding coun- iry, and, being @ public reservation, it 18 safe irom any luture o.struction of view. Jt is so near | the river that materials for constructing the mMonu- ment can be conveyed to it from the river at but lituie expense; stone, sand and lime, all of tne best kind, can be brougut to it by water from con- venilen’ distances; and marble ofa most Leautiiul quality, obtaiued ata distance of only eleven inues irom Laltimore, on the Susquehanna Kall- road, can be brought either on the railroad or in vessels. In addition to these and kindred reasons the adoption ol the site was iurther and impres- sively recommended by the consideration that the monument to be erected on tt would be full in view of Mount Vernon, where rest the ashes of the Chief; and by evidence tha. Washington himseif, Whose unerring judgment had selected this city to be the capitai o. the nation, had also selected tis ars spot for “4 monument to the American | evolution,” which in tie year 1795 1t was pro- posed snould “be erected or placed at the pei ma- hent seat Oi government of the United States.” The Board of Managers at once commenced active operations, Which were vigorously prosecuted. In about six years irom the layiug of the corner stone they were enabled to raise the obelisk to the | height of 170 ieet, being a littie more tuan one- third of its proposed ultimate elevation. On the Work a8 thus Jar done $230,000, the whole amount of collections, including interest on investments, from the origin of the society, were eXpenaed, The joundation Of the obelisk Was laid eighty-one feet square, eight leet beow the surface of the ground, and the opelisk is contracted in its pro- gress $0 us to be sixty-One feet ten inches at the top, an elevation of twenty-five feet of solid masonry It is comuenced at the height of seventeen and a half teet above the ground, y-five feet square, used With marwe, with walis ffteen feet thick, leaving & cavity of twenty-live feet. It will be cended by stairs in the inside, and by machinery. Tne purchase of materials and the general con- struction of the work Were comitted by the Board of Managers to three of their number, de- nominated a Building Committee, subject to the Tevisory authority of the Board which met weekly, ‘The services of the Boa:d were gratuitous. Faith ful to the principles on which the society had acted from the beginning, they solicited contribu: | tons from the whole people, without distinction of party, or sect, or creed; and In the same national Spirit administered in ail respects the trust con- fided to them, A variety of circumstances have conspired since that time to delay the progress of the work, but | the society now believe that they Nave initiated @ scheme which will bring about the long desired result, viz, the complete achievement of this great national work, THE IBON-CLAD3 OF EUROPE, [From the London Shipping Gazette, Sept 24.) All Europe at this moment has 142 tron-clads fit | to be placed in line of battle. Of these England | owns, 38; France, 28; Austria, Russia, Italy and Turkey 15 each, Germany, 8; Spain, 7; Denmark, 3; | Greece, 2 The tonnage of the German ships and | | the size of their guns are, however, 80 uncom: monly great that, although fewin number, they | are supposed to be more than @ match for any | navy, those of England, Russia and France ex- cepted. Besides these there are 103 iron-cased ves- seis to be found im Europe tor the defence | of coasts. Of this number Germany has 2; Spain, | Norway and Denmark, 3 each; Turkey, 6; Sweden, | 9; Russia, 13; Holland, 18; Lngland, 23, | and France, 30; 431 screw irigates and corvettes | make up the wooden array of Kuropean strength | at sea. Here again England, with 132 vessels, | 5,670 guns and 40,700 horse power, has the first | place. france, the second on the list, records Only 52; Kussia, 48; Lurkey, 44; Spain, 37; Hol | land, 25; Itaiy, 24; Germany, Denmark, 16 | Austria, 14; Portugal, Sweden, 5; Greece, 2. Smaler craft, such as avisos, gunboats, | &c., of Which England née has 176, with gov guns and 15,254 horse power, are not reckoned 1n this calculation, I England were to man her navy lor war sue wonld require 68,000 men, of Whom 22,000 | would have to be enlisted for the purpose. | Russia, for the like object, wants 36,000; | France, 34,570; Turkey, 21.000; Spain, 14,000; | Germany, 15,000 (every one kept in readi- ness) ; Austria, 11,5305 italy, 11,200; Holland, 6,260; Denmark, 4,8005 Norway, 3,500; Portugal, 3,300; Sweden about 4,000. Comparing the total oi the German crews with those of the other States, we find it exceeded by England, Rassia, France, Turkey and spain. Spain does not count, 80 much of ber forces existing only on | paper; nor can Yurkey’s numbers be relied upon, | she being to @ great exteut dependent upon | foreign help tor the effective manning and oficer. | ing of her ships. Hence the German navy is in reality inferior only to the British, Russian and French; and even this statement requires to be | qualified, German vessels re much more | sparingly manned than either the Kussian or the | French, and 13,000 German saiters being accord. | ingly not so very much below the strength of 86,000 Russians or 33,670 Frenchmen as the tigures ‘would geem to Indicata, | knew by the pitching of the craft that the Cream | | | venture, but I regret to say tuat it is too long for ‘The china was all good enough, but common candor | orway, 5; | hi AMONG THE WRECKERS, A Perilous Cruise in the Cream o’ Tartar. Sailor Life on the Great South Bay. THE COAST GUARD. A Disaster Which Is Not Recorded Among the Herald’s Ship News. ON BoaRD THE CREAM 0’ TARTAR, GREAT SovTH Bay, L. L, Sept, 27, 1874. 1 was awakened from a sound sleep early yester- aay morning, by quite a commotion on deck. I o’ Tartar was in distress, We had been roosting on a sandbar since the previous night, waiting for high tide to float off. The Cream o’ ‘tartar, Captain John Carter, had been chartered to cruise around the Great South Bay by an adventurous crew of six young New Yorkers, who were anxious to get the most enjoyment out of two weeks’ vacation. We met last month at a well-known downtown restaurant and elected our caterer, The lot fell to _ Binn, and we laid in one of the most remarkable lots of stores and provisions ever recorded, The article of commerce having the chemical symbols Cc. H. O., Was most prominent on the list. ‘The Cream o’ Tartar 1s not a prepossessing craft. | Her lines were originally not ot the best. As I | know more about the interior than the exterior of the vessel, Ishould say shewasof the Chinese | model; at least her cabin and forecastie look more like a ‘junk’? store than any floating afair | lever sailed in, and taken altogether she was a | ‘Sunkety” craft irom stem to stern, A MATTER OF HISTORY. The history of the Cream o’ Tartar is very | worthy of record in this remarkable story of ad- | repetition. The keel is part of a deck beam of the old steamship Franklin, wrecked on the beach near Moriches more than twenty yearsago. The deck came from Jersey, in the English Channel. The mast was origimally fashioned into shane on the rock bound coast of Nova Scotia. The interior wood work ol yellow pine, red oak and white ash | had previously done service in several coasting | vessels, which have rather got out of the | way of wnavigating the seas since: they | settled Into the sands of Fire Island. Our beds | were improvised from large rolls of matting which were brought at great trouble and expense | all the way irom Canton, China, to furnish the cabin of the Cream o’ Tartar, ‘fo be sure, this | same matting was cast up on the beach in the | hold of the bark Robert Fletcher, but never mind | about details. The sails were procured trom—but | sufiice it to say that everything on board the | Cream o’ Tartar, from the keelson to the whip- | | } pennant at the masthead, had done duty in some | other place. Talk of a pedigree! Why, the Cream o’ Tartar could point with pride to more than a dozen worthy dams, I have thought that the Cream o’ Tartar would be a good crait for a gov- | ernment naval constructor to secure, for under | the head-of repairs a new vessel could be built | from every plank in her deck and sides. Apropos, | 1 have a cane which came trom the good ship Con- | stitution, and when I get the appointment of naval constructor some day, I shall build a new vessel on it and charge the expenses to the head | of repairs. AN INTERNATIONAL CRAFT. | 1 was pleased with the rakish loo of the Cream | o’ Tartar even from the outside, bat when I was admitted to the mysteries of the cabin, which Iam bound toconiess was not until we had got about a hundred yards from shore, I was more than ever inspired with the “rakish” condition ofthe interior. | compels me to say that the name of a different vessel was to be read on each gilded plate. I got in the habit of observing that the china dishes had belonged to a great many different sets, The fact that no dishes were ever washed on boara | during the cruise may have accounted ina slight | degree for the particular fancy which 1 took for having my chowder served in a dish which bore | the mystical words ‘‘Nancy Bell.” Whether I was infuenced by my respect ior Gilbert's thrilling tale of the sea or not, I scarcely know, but there is no doubt of my affection for the soup-dish “Nancy Bell.” The other guests on board have each chosen a dish which, cither from its shape or coloring, is readily distinguishable, RELIC WORSHIP, ‘Yhus It happens that we are all accustomed to look upon every bit of furniture or china or piece of tackle as @ thing endowed with a history. Per- sonally, if there is anything which I abbor it is a trinket with a story clinging to it; but we have one fellow among us who Is eternally looking alter things with historical associations, It is Sam's worst failing; but it does stick to him badly. During the past weck’s cruising, whenever I wake up trom a doze I immediately recall the tact that the last thing I heard was one of Sam's requests to tell bim about some piece of wood which had been discovered in some old nook, and the reply of tne Captain, always beginning in these words, “Wall, le’ me see; that was in the winter of forty-odd,” or “fifty-so-and-so."” Ithen remem- | ber just how the old man hed made the main sheet fast, and bow, after taking @ large chew of Sam's tobacco, he had settled down on deck to rehearse some hackneyed yarn which ue had heard Sim Havens, Sidney Penney, or some of the old wreckers tell, Ife entire party knew what to ex- pect. One remarks that he must “go below” to read, another must write to his sweetheart, Ike at once strips and takes @ swim, and "Pinkey’? crawls into the forecastle, among the old anchors and chains, togetanap. | usually light a cigar | and, going orward of the mast, seat myself on the | hencoop, which was once a case for btandy | bottles, and bears the stamp, “By Bark Rosina, Bordeaux, 1869.7 When I first discovered this brand on the old box I fully realized how impos- sible it was to escape from the reminiscences of a wrecker’s iife. CAPTAIN CARTER, OF THE ‘CREAM 0? TARTAR.” This skipper of ours is @ Curious specimen of an old man of the sea. He is a child of the sea only by mistaken adoption. He was undoubtedly changed at his bith, He spends his summers down on the Great South Bay and his winters tn | New York. Here he guides we fleet winged | “Cream o’ Tartar” over the billows and there he , directs the flerce chargers whicu along the stony street draw the useiul omnibus. Stili he wishes to be considered a gay old sport. In the city he gives | out among his acquaintances that he spends his summers in the conntry, and here he deciares that he goes back to his hotel in New York when tne | Weather gets too cold to “enjoy the water.” His | cool “brass” 1s charming. It is no use trying to | “put up a job’’on him. No } rer ago than Sat- urday jast ‘‘Pinkey” sent his ‘iriend,” who was | ignorant of the “Captain’s” legitimate occupation, | to draw him out In conversation about his ite in the city, The young man was instructed to open | the interview Somewhat as follows — “Well, Captain, how does she bead #” “Patchogue landing two points on the port bow,” was the reply, HOW TO EVADE AN INTERVIEW, “By the way, Captain, you pass your winters in | the city, I believe :” “AW, yes; most generally,” was the rather carefui reply, a8 he eyed his inquisitor suspi- ciously. “bxcuse me, bit T think I remember to have seen you last winter on the top of a Fourth ave- nue stage going down Broadway. IL thought 1 had seen your /ace somewhere,” “Very possivie,” calmiy replied the skipper, as @ now Saw through the whole scheme. “You see, my |ungs are weak—or were—and I always like to get all the air that’s about. In fact, 1 may say, thav’s wnat brings me down here.’ Indeed, I think I prefer the air here much more than at Long Branch or Newport; and, a8 for Saratoga, why itis periectiy— | “Exeuse me, Captain,” sald the young man, | Who believed in keeping to one subject at a time; “out what do you tuink of the base insinuations , made by the proprietors of the stayze lines in put- | ting those patent boxes into the omnibuses??" | “On, Tremember. We were talking avout New York, but betore | finisn I want to point out to re Governor Dix's house, away @n that point. tis near Qnog, otherwise Ketch-e-Buneck, other- Wise, otherwise, olherwise. You see, it seems to stand away out im the water, It 18 two miles Jrom the railroad » om, A dreadful lonesome Place in the winter but, then, the General, like me, spends his wink re im the city. Fine man, 1s the General. le was out sniping the other day— birds very scarce—stll he appears to enjoy itie Very Pinkey’s friend turned away, and came down | into the cabin ciscouraged, tie said he did not | see anything to laagh at, although the rest of us Were almost strangiing With suppressed laughter, Personaliv. | have come to the conclusion that the | | rubbing me most vigorously. Sclousness suficiently, opened my eyes and saw | advertised his loss | try. Captain of the Cream o’ Tartar Is narder to inter+ view than Ben Butier, DIREFUL FOREBODINGS. The sky had been overcast for two or three days past, and with each hour the roar and crash of the reakers on tue beach had become more terrible, From this maddened waste of waters only @ slign& barrier of sand, in no place more thaD ten or twelve feet hig, separated us. Even the bravest ot the party’ felt that there was danger to be apprehended trom the sea. One of us now remembered that he bad heard the old skipper say that a terrible storm wad raging somewhere out at sea. Occasionally & very strong wave was seen to rush up the slight in- cline of sand on the ocean side and cast its spray over into the bay. The thought of tne direful con Sequences which would follow, should the sea ever break through, was startling enough to drive ashore the stoutest hearted sailor. THE STORM BURSTS. As I crawled out of my bunk yesterday morne ing, to get back to where I begap my letter, £ realized that something dreadful was about to happen. A roar of rushing water almost deafened me, The door of the companionway was closed, sO escape in that direction was impossible. i seized @ hoot and knocked off a skylight just in time to see one alter another o1 the crew emerge from the forward hatch, shouting :— “Give her sheet!” “Haul up the board 1!” “Jibe her!" “Hard aport !? “Now, luff her 1? Poor Ike began to pray, “0, now I lay me? “stand by!” shouted the skipper through the deatening din, with the same composure with which he would have cursed a hack driver at the corner of Fuiton street on Broadway. ‘Bear @ hand here, Cut the ancnor rope. Now, Sam, pole her bow off. Down with the board, Ike. Here she frees about; heads ail. Not clear yet. Take ti elm, i’ll get her clear,” and much more of the Same sort. 80 DOES THE CREAM 0? TARTAR, Up to this moment I had been conscious, of a vague fear for which I reaily knew no reason, I ‘Was too soon, alas, to be made aware of our terri- bie situation, I looked out toward the eastward | and | saw that the narrow strip of sand between us and the ocean had melted away Jor a distance of a quarter of a mile, and through this gap the ocean was pouring ina stream fully twenty feet high. It was coming on toward us, @ solid wall or water! The roar momentarily increased and now seemed as if it would rend apart the drums of our ears. The scene was one of awful majesty. The strangest fact of the horrible occurrence was that after we had been for a few moments In a dead calm the wind | seemed to tend toward the avalanche of water, and to our horror we found the miserable Cream o’ Tartar drifting toward the coming food, All efforts to “put ber about’ were tutiie. The crew Uecame panic-stricken and unmanageable. It was with the utmost effort that J restrained Ike from leaping into certain aestrucuon. The poor skip- per forgot himself, and as he got down on Mis knees I heard him faimuy mutier:—“Pass tae fare up to tue driver.’ HOW If FEELS TO BE DROWNED. It was only the work of a moment for each one of us to buckle ona Ife preserver. The Captain declined to accept the offer of one and ieaped down into the cabin, The suspense was dreadful, for each of us had now resigned himself to his fate. 1 have no recollection Of anything alter the disap- pearance of the ( ‘ain untill found myseli strug- ling in the water. Tue waves struck the wretched vessel and seemed to roll right over ber as if she had been mere drift wood, Fora few moments! Was surrounded by a darkness which wag dreadiul. It was certainly a darkness which could be felt. Tae roar sudaenty ceased aud the must indescrivable stience followed, Of course, this could have actually lasted little more than a traction ofa second, but it seemed an eternity. I thought of everything I had ever done and every place 1 had ever been. I then decame conscious oj rising toward the sure face. 1 seemes to shoot upward with terrivle velocity, yet the distance to the top seemed very reat. It never once occurred to me to breath. very effort of my will was now centred in get- tng to the surface. Several terrible etforts to get into the daylight and I became unconscious, . * * * SAVED BY THE COASTGUARD, I all at once realized that I was the object of considerable attention. I found myself stretched on a board, aud over me stood two men, who were As I gained con- beside me my five companions, all in various stages: Of resuscitation. I experienced a feeling of in- describable relief on realizing that I was not drowned. I need not worry your readers with an account of my recuperation, Suifice is to say that last evening 1 was able to situp and take a little burned brandy, ‘Yo-day I turther tmproved and to-night 1am able to write you this letter, again seated in the cabin of the redoubtable crait. £ may say, by way of explanation, that the crafe floated better than any oi us, and drifted ashore | about four miles below where the storm struck her, The Captain was found asleep tu the cabin. It required the labor ol a large gang of men all this morning to dig the crait out of the sand, but [ am happy to say she is now afloat off Sim Havens’ woarf, and we see no reason Jor discontinuing our voyage. A ROMANCE OF RESTITUTION, A Man Who Lost $700 Over Five Ago Receives $500 Through a C Priest—Nerald Advertisements. To Tue EpiToR OF THE HERALD:— In the summer of 1869 Mr. E, Meuris, who now resides at No, 83 Grand street, but who tuen was in the business of manufacturing cigars at No. 95 Third avenue, lost $700 in bills, between Vesey street and the old Herald Building. Mr. Meuris in the HERALD, but heard nothing concerning it, and, as several years had elapsed, the whole matter dropped Jrom his mind. The Joss was specially hard on him at the time, as the business at which ne was engaged turned out to be very unprofitable, and as troubles do not come in singly, but in battalions, so it turned out in his case, as this latter Joss compelled him to abandon @ business whico only threatened him Wit ruin, Some two weeks ago a stranger called on him, and alter making inquiries as to now and when he lost the muney and the denomination of the bills, asked iim to advertise in tne “Personal coiumn of the HERALD, and Il notning came O/ Lt he would be refunded the cost of advertising, He ac- cordingly advertised in the ‘Personals’ ol the HERALD Of wext day, but it was considered by Mr. Meurts’ friends as only a cruel joke, and the thought of any of the lost money being returned was laughed at; and when one considers the corruption and aishonesty in public ine, coupled with defalcaulons and theit of tunds in private lite, it 18 not singular that the sincerity of the stranger ound few believers, But ou Tuesday lasta young Catholic clergyman cuiled on the unfortunate loser, aud, alter being Batisied that he had found the rgacul owner of the missing funds, handed him $500 in bills, with the assurance that the balance wouid be returned with interest tn @ littie wuile. The above are the facts, but whata lesson do they teach! Here is a young priest, Whose mission asa saviour ot souls has ouly just Commenced, acuung as the meqium for tue restitution Of property to its owner. How blessed was wis errand that Tuesday morning, and with what courage it must have inspired nim to go ana persevere in tue good work cle ee PROFESSOR TYNDALL EXPLAINS. (London (Sept. 22) correspondence of Liverpoot Post.) Professor Tyndall has republished, with some slight alterations and the restoration of a few passages omitted im the delivery, the ad- dress with which he opened the meeting of the British Association at Beifast. In a short pre- face to the address the Professor makes some comments op the “unexpected amount of criti- cism”’ which his address has provoked. He denies generally the interpretations which have been put upon his expressious. In oue passage he disavows the charge that he 1s a ‘materialistic atueist,” but does Dot state eXpreasiy in which par- ticular poimt an erroneous construction has been put upon his language. He repudiates the statement that “he was led on by the cheers of his audience to use words which no right-minded man, with a sense of the gravest responsibilty, could employ.” The words to which reierence was made were written in Switzerland, and they evoked no cheers, but a silence far more impressive than cheers, He cars tholie | refers to some observations of the Bishop of Man- chester, with the remark that “he is not likely to | be among the earliest to discern tue inward and spiritual signs of the times, or to prepare ior the conditions which foreshadow.” He alludes to Dean Cowle’s speech, terming him @ ‘Materiai Atheist,’ and Says that such attacks have lost their power to injure. To the denunciations of Cardinal Cullen he replies that His: Eminence 18 impotent in the region of science, “Ihe youth of Ireland will imbibe it,. however slowly they will be jeavened by it, however gradually.” He concludes by saying:—"In cone nection with the charge of Atheism I would make one remark, Christian men are proved by their writings to have their hours of weakness and doubt as well ag their hours of strength aud cone viction, and men like myself share in their own way these Variations 0; mood and tense. Were the religious views of many of my assailants the only alternative ones I do not know how strong the claims of the doctrine of “Material Atheism’ upon my — allegiance might be, Provably they would be very strong, but, as it 1s, i have noticed, during years Of Seli-observation, that it 18 not in Lours of Clear- hess and vigor that this doctrine commends itselt to my mind; that in the presence of stronger and healthier thoughts it ever dissolves and disay pears, as offering no solution of the mystery which we dwell and of which we form part.’ SCIENCE IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE, Mr, Norman Lockyer, the English astronomer - Whom the Acadeiny of Sciences has named corres« pondent of that section, has arrived in Paris, and on Monday took possession of hig seat at the In- stitute. fle 18 charged by the Britisn Government | to make an inquiry into the state of meteorology: jo France, and tas already svent @ dav at UbservaLory, \ ,