The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1874, Page 9

- NEW YORK HERALD -— BROADWAY AND ANN. STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subseriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms es in New York. ‘aaa XXXIX.. or be AMUSEMENTS TO- + ROOKLYN THEATRE. A NEW WAY bh) PAY OLD ts, at SP. M.; ati! P.M. Mr. Davenport. closes GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street SiN EMFOLG, ats P. ve 10:9 M.; closes at ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street, between Broadway and Fifth avenue.— VARIBTY, ats P.M, BRYANTS OPERA HOUSE, ‘Wost Twenty-third street, near ~ixth avenue,—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, de, at 5 P.M; closes at 10 PM. Bryant, Dan | METROPOLITAN THEA ba at Broadway.—VARIETY, at 5 P | 4 | } closes atl0 | OPERA. non SE, jcloses at 10 P. M. TONY PAS’ No. 201 Bowery.—VARL N PRANCISCO MINSTRE: Broadway, twenty-nin'h Street —NEGRO | DINSTRE closes at 10 P.M. Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.—GENEVIEVE DE | ML; closes at L045 P.M. BRASANT, at 8 P. Miss Emily Boldene. AMERT( NSTITUTE, Third avenue, ‘ stween Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth streets. —INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, | COLOSSEUM, Broadway, corner ot Thirty-fith street. PARIS and MES. JABLLY'S WAX Wo. x 745 P.M. TORM OVER . ar 2280 P. woop: Broaaway, corner of ch LOUGH, at2P. M., and Haya Me; Oliver Doud Byron. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, German Opera Boutle—BARBE ; Closes at 10:30 P.M, Miss Lina Mayr. Im. rert.—BEN McCUL- Closes at 10:49 P.M, BLEUE, at 8 OLYMPIC THEATRE, No, fo Broadway.—VARIETY, at §P. M.; closes at 1045 PARK THEATRE, seed between Twenty-first and Twenty-se~ net streets.—OlLLED AGE, até P. M.; closes at 1:30 P. 1. Joha T. Raymond. THEATRE COMIQU Be ah Broadway.—VARIXTY, at3 ; Closes at 10:30 STE. Fourteenth street. — ior. A. ; closes at i Wa HALY, BEGONE DULL CARE, BOOTH'S THEATRE, gorner, of Twenty third streo VAN WINKLE, at 8 P.M. Jefterson. th avenne. Eee loses at 10:30 P.M. ROMAN HIPPODROME, ‘Twenty-sixth street and Fourth avenue.—Afternoon and evening, at2 and & WALLACK’S THEATRE, ROMANCE OF A POOR YOUNG M.; closes at 10:30 P.M, Miss Ada Dyas, Broaaway. Sts ie MAN, at 5 P. Air. toutague. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—THE nes at 3 P.M; closes ac UP. M. The Kiralty ‘am: FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-eiehth strect and Broadway THE BELLE’S STRATAGEM, at 8 P. Joses at lil. M. Miss Fanny Davenport. Miss Jewer ties. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth streez.—Italian Opera—ERNANIJ, at 8 P. M.; Closes at ll P.M. Mile, Marest. GLOBE TSEATRE, seuayer VARIETY, at8 QUADRUPLE SHEET. New Fork, Sunday, Nov. 8. 1874, From our PaIae this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clear. Watt Srreer Yestenpar.—Stocks were strong. Moncey was loaned on call at 23. 3 percent. Gold advanced from 110 to 110}. “Harp Tres” among the people have | brought hard times to the party in power, | and they who sow the wind are apt to reap | the whirlwind. Tuer Sexms to be a determination of the European Powers to sustain Roumania in her contest with the Turkish government. Japan anp Curva are still unable to agree ‘upon the Formosan question, and the dangers of an Oriental war have been revived. Tue Ovrswe Factions, such as the pro- | hibitionists, the labor reformers and grangers, | appear to have been swallowed up as by | Aaron’s rod in these astounding November elections. Possibly, however, we may hear of | them again in the s) pring. Amnests for the violation of the Enforce- ment laws have been extensively made in | Memphis, New Orleans and other places in the South. The alleged offence of the mer- | chants arrested was the discharge of negroes for not voting as they were ordered. A Ssocxme Arram—The killing of an | epileptic inmate of the insane department of the Philadelphia Almshouse, by another | | lunatic, in a room in which eight lunatics | were shut up together and left to the chances | of murdering each other. That Almshouse | sadly needs the work of reform, A Consourne Anaument.—Notbing displays | more forcibly the abiding hopefulness of the | American character than the tone of the republican papers in their criticisms of the recent election. We find most of them earnestly striving to convince each other that a democratic majority in the House of Representatives will give the republicans an advantage. For, they | reason, the possession of a majority will | impose upon the democracy a responsibility | which they have hitherto evaded and which they cannot meet. This is a very ingenious | argument, but the gentlemen who have so long clung to that responsibility can hardly be expected to appreciate its force. The de- | woman who long afterward became his wife. | Had he enjoyed, as most of us do, a happy | well it would raise, and withheld the volume | twist in his philosophy was the natural and | inevitable result of a corresponding twist in | conclusions on the subject of religion were | tional or ‘affectional experience consequent | perhaps, see this connection, and, according | ment as a positive obstacle to true faith, and | is very chary of his praise of Christ, willingly | | admitting that He was a good and true man, | the whole a very fair piece of mechanism for | the general faith of mankind with a relentless- | consisted of a gloomy perhaps. It is little | wonder, then, that he delayed the publication | of his infidelity until death had introduced | him to the mysteries in which he did not be- | his memory will be sullied by the just charge | malignity. | of the general belief and tumbling from* | sequences are the bugbears of fools. This feated candidate will be apt to lose his temper | and answer these consolations with the em- phatic words, ‘Be brief; I am sick.’ A More “REMARKABLE AvTuMNaL SEAsoN | than this, atmospherically or politically con- sidered, can hardly be recalled in the recol- lections of the oldest inhabitant. Meteorolo- | Gicaily the season has been dry, but politically | we have had a deluge. Tax Bruuuep Tovaament which is now being held in this city has unquestionably displayed more brilliancy than has ever been | shown in public matches in this country, | The contestants imclude some of the best foreign and Aterican players, | whose scores and averages are without prece- dent, and indicate the great progress which | mind the newspaper has a direct responsi- We has been made in this popular game. ive a report of the remarkable games which | were viev.d yesterday. — xen | general faith which is the impulse to all nro- NEW YORK The Religion of the People. No one who has carefully read the autobi- ography of John Stuart Mill will be greatly surprifed at the character of his posthumous work on religion, which is being issued from the English press. This work is producing a profound sensation in religious circles in England. This autobiography is the most oppressive book conceivable, and one rises from its perusal with the feeling that he has been living for a time in an intel- lectual fog. He is filled with’ an overwhelm- ing pity for a man who was misused and mis- directed in his boyhood, and who never got right, even to the day of his death. Mill’s heart evaporated in early life, and he became simply a huge brain. All his emotions were trained out of him, and in the region of his affections be was as juiceless as a piece of kiln-dried timber. The only experience he ever had indicating the possession of any- thing so human as those tender feelings which form an important part of our nature was the fervent love he entertained toward the home, and had he been surrounded by the tender and clinging and educating love of children, he would never have left or written this book, which will cost him the admiration ot his best friends and seriously impair the general influence of his life and character. It is not a little significant that he hesitated to publish this last work during his lifetime, bat while it was going through the press quietly bid himself behind the wall of death, or, according to his own theory, within the oblivion of nonentity, where the arrows of critics will fail to reach him. It must be con- fessed that he was not quite courageous when he shirked the public responsibilities of his | own logic and the storm which he knew too until he had passed into outer darkness. Every thoughtful reader knows that the his early education, and sees at once that his caused by overtraining the intellect in early life and an almost entire absence of any emo- thereupon. But the general reader will not, to his infidelity or faith, will be pained or | pleased by this catapult, which hurls its facts, like huge rocks, against the wall behind which Christianity lies entrenched. The conclusions at which Mr. Mill arrives, if generally believed, would so completely | demoralize the world that virtue and charity | would die out of society in three months. He not only rejects the miracles with which Christianity is buttressed, but defies Chris- tianity itself to prove its divine origin. He regards the Pauline element of the New Testa- | Their denials are born of self-conceit. | No amount of logic can destroy our moral | born man, | as the best joke of the season.” ; correspondent describes the source of all | cient to meet the exigencies of a severe winter. HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1874.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. gressive social and political activity. Any at- tempt to undermine the religion of the people is an attempt at complete revolution, and an intellectual rebellion against’the chief forces of history, resulting in social paralysis, is an act of treachery toward our rights and prerog- atives. The root of the difficulty is plainly seen. Modern science insists upon measuring and weighing religion with the wrong instruments. While it is legitimate to drop a leaden plum- met from the cornice of a column to discover | its perpendicularity, it must be conceded that the plummet is wholly ineffectual to dis- cover the vertical character of a man’s | creed, The instruments with which we measure an arc of a meridian are not the instruments with which to compute our faith in immortality. Mill and Huxley and Tyndall, starting with the asser- tion, wholly false, that religion is just like any other science, have brought to bear on it their compasses, their telescopes and their theodolites, and, arriving at no definite results, have sagely concluded that religion is a myth. Know- ing something they conclude that they know everything. Pygmies may swell to their ut- most limits, but they can never become giants. A tortoise may think himself gifted with wings when he is only carried aloft in an eagle's claws, but he learns bis mistake when he drops and breaks his shell. The faith of the people remains untouched. consciousness. Whatever the eccentricities of scholars may be, the religious life of man remains, and one consecrated purpose, with its necessary result of honesty and happiness, outweighs the scepticism of ages. John Stuart Mill may deny to his heart's content and Tyndall and Huxley may ery, Amen, the faith of mankind is intrenched behind an impregnable fortress and reposes securely beyond the reach of any logical needle gun or mitrailleuso. The President’s Hilarity. The President seems to be in high spirits.. The Washington correspondents chronicle the joy of the second Washington as something unusual, The President has never been noted for his humor, and we have regarded him as under sombre influences, as a silent, sad, stub- | But it seems that the elections have wrought a happy change in his tempera- ment. At the Cabinet meeting it was felt that | the country was in no danger, the President's staff officers ‘‘were in admirable temper,’’ the “remarks were all ina good-natured spirit,” and the incumbent Washington rather | “treated the occurrences of Tuesday as a good joke.” The third term idea ‘‘he laughed at Another wisdom as in earnest consultation with Colonel Mosby, the chief of the Mosby guerillas and | the successor of Nevada Jones, the Daniel but denying Him all authority as the Head of | the Church. Not satisfied with that, he boldly attacks the fundamental facts of theclogy, and ridicules the omnipotence and perfection of | God, asserting that though the universe is on an apprentice, itis by no means worthy of a master workman. He then approaches the | grand mystery of ourimmortality, and scorns | ness and bitterness of logic that leaves only the mere shreds and patches of the fature life to a hungry world. One feels when he has finished the book | that he has been roaming among the black- ened ruins of a once admired and beautiful city, of which only a broken statue here and there, with perhaps a few pieces of shattered columns and friezes, are leit to tell the story of the grandeur that has been, but which, alas! will never exist again. His faith was | only a shrewd guess, and his firmest hope lieve. The terrible criticisms which he was unwilling to bear while living will be fired like a volley of musketry over his grave, and that, believing nothing and being miserable himself, his last act was to leave a heritage of unbelief and misery to all who have been his disciples. It seems to us that modern science is acting | | not only in a bad spirit, but also with Panic faith. Its recent attacks on religion exhibit a degree of animosity which almost amounts to Like Vandals and Goths the men of science seem bent on sacking the city its pedestal everything in which the people have been taught fo have _ confidence, When | we bave courteously asked what will be the consequence of all this intellectual plunder | and rapine we have been curtly told that con- | may be good philosophy, but itis very bad | common sense. Scientists may live in the clouds above the reach of consequences, but ordinary men must continue for a time, at least, to live on the earth; and while this is the case consequences assume a very grave im- portance. If the practical results of new theories constitute no palpable element in the | logic of modern science, then to the ordinary | understanding modern science and insanity become equivalent terms. We are willing to defer to scientific men in many things, and in all things to acknowledge their authority, but with the bigotry of science, which would | laugh to scorn the emotional and affectional nature of mankind and pour boundless ridi- | cule on the reasonable faith of the masses, a faith which alone has made progress possible and given to the nineteenth century its color and complexion of charity and good will, of | lofty manhood and pure womanhood, we have no sympathy whatever. The faith of man- | kind will continue to incite to good deeds, to encourage the fallen and to cheer the troubled | long after Tyndall and Huxley and Mill re- | treat to the obscurity which is their natural | hiding place from the indignation of the world. It may be thonght that a journal of this | kind is hardly competent to enter upon a reli- gious controversy, that the legitimate arena for the discussion of these questions is the | theological reviews of the country; but to our | bility for public opinion and should always | throw its weight for a conservation of that | of the President. Another historian informs | | fancy our Chief Magistrate listening with | charity, to issue cards and to compare names | more than ordinary interest to the lamenta- ; and Goneril as he remembered his treatment | years of stirring, bustling times, does not ington is as calm under the storm as he | and intoxicating praise cannot surely end in | recompense in its way, and perhaps a serious | | event, but the rest is only fun. | tation of fame and honor. | that they and we and all mankind shall stand Webster of Rooster Gulch, in the confidence us that the Chief Citizen of this Republic ac- tually went to the play. This is in itself a | afflicted striking indication, as the President is not of a theatrical mind. the prevailing Washington was not of a cheer- | ful character. It was “ear,” and we can | The play which attracted | tions of the discrowned. monarch wandering | on the heath and thinking perhaps of Regan by Conkling and Morton. The supposition that the ruler of the brave and the free was about to go into sackcloth, recall Kremer and Russell Jones, order Fred out to duty on the Plains with his proper rank, remove Sim- mons, change his Cabinet and give us two seem to be justified. The successor of Wash- | rebel hell-fre in tho Wilderness. He is not afraid. The peo- ple cannot seriously mean to repu- diate him or spurn his administration. The twelve years ot adulation and incense was under the this. It is all a joke, like Uncle Dick’s elec- tion to Congress. The defeat of Butler isa As for him- self, he does not care much, and we do not see why he should. He has had a good time. He has had more money out of the office than any man who ever heid it, for his pay has | been raised. He has gone through every mu- He is sure of two years more, unless impeachment or death su- | pervene, and why should he care? Let the good time continue. Close the windows, lock the doors, let the fires burn up, and care nothing about the storm without. While it lasts the President hasasure thing, and if ‘after him the deluge—why let it come. Pulpit Topics To-Day. While men are as prone to imitate one an- other as they are at present example, whether for good or ill, will have a powerful influence over human hearts and consciences. It is, therefore, important that our models shall be | the best that can beobtained. Mr. MacArthur will present the Apostle John as an example | of o victorious young man, and Mr. Boole | will illustrate the power of entire devotion to Christ by the life and labors of the late Mrs. Palmer, the evangelist. Such devotion, better | known as Christian perfection, Dr. Wild will | show is nota gift, but a progressive reward of pious diligence, and springs from abiding | and precious faith in the words of Jesus, con- cerning which Mr. Kennard will speak to-day. / We know very little concerning heayen— | where it is or what it is, or how long it takes to get thither. These are mere specalutions; | but we do know something about it, and Mr. Ganse has collated that knowledge and will | present it to his hearers this morning. Mr. Corbitt will at the same time demonstrate that | we shall recognize our friends in heaven, and | at the Judgment Day to receive our rewards or punishments according to the merit of our | deeds. And that we may meet that ordeal without fear Mr. Pullman will show us how we may live Christian lives daily, and thus living and dying we need not fear punish- ment in the future life. But salvation so | great as this is conditioned only on faith, as Mr. Hawthorne will show, and not upon an almost persuaded Christianity, of which Mr, Merritt will speak. Paul understood some- | thing about this salvation, and Dr. Thompson will follow the great apostle this morning, and Mr. MacArthur will catch uo with him at | labors Cypress and tell us what his missio on there was, There area great many dead men in the land just at this time, and it may be that Mr. Hawthorne had an eye on the deceased repub- lican party in the choice of his topic—‘‘Let the Dead Bury Their Dead.’’ But those who hear can tell this morning. How Shall We felieve the Poor in the Coming Winter?! Afew days ago we called attention to the importance of an early consideration of the best means to be adopted for the relief of the poor in the coming winter. Experience warns us of the prudence of perfecting our plans in good season. When the ¢evere weather came upon us last winter it found thousands starving and freezing in the midst of wealth, and no method of affording that imme- diate relief needed for the salvation of human life, The established charitable institutions were in operation, it is true, and doing their own measure of good in their own routine way. But they could not put food instantly into the mouths of those who were on the point of death from starvation on the streets and in the garrets and cellars of tenement houses, for they had their rules to ob- serve and their investigations to make, and before these forms could be com- plied with the charity they might have been willing to extend was unavailable. Soup houses were established as the best means that offered to meot the emergency, and, with the co-operation of the police force, they did much good. The reports of the cap- tains of the precincts show that these institu- tions were a great success; that the aid they afforded to the poor was valuable, and that but for them we might have been in danger of bread riots, such as have often the great cities of the Old World. We believe it to be an error to suppose that they encouraged vagrancy and street begging. On the contrary the soup houses were an injury to the professional street beggar and seriously interfered with his calling. The shivering wretch who stopped a citizen on the sidewalk with his well-re- hearsed tale of starvation was directed to the nearest ‘soup house for the meal of which he professed to stand so much im need, and missed the ‘‘material aid’’ he in reality desired. We are glad to see a disposition on the part of some of our contemporarie3 to unite with us in bringing before the people in good sea- son this year the subject of the relief of the poor, and we are also pleased that our re- marks have called forth an interesting report from the Bureau of Charities, established at the Heratp’s suggestion a year ago. That report affords conclusive proof that the relief extended by the organized charities of the city, valuable as it may be, is not suffi- ‘The suggestions of the committee at the head of the Bureau are no doubt valuable, but they look rather to the perfecting of a system of perpetual relief and to a harmonizing of the work of the several rival charitable insti- tutions—for, singularly enough, there are bitter rivalries among them—than to the establish- | ment of some well organized and efficient | method of instantaneously relieving those who are perishing of cold and hunger. It may be wise to register those who call for and residences; but the poor wretch who faints by the roadside from the lack of food, and the little ones who freeze to death in the empty garret, cannot very well wait while a committee is investigating their cases or searching for their names on a registry. The discovery made by the committee, of one person who was receiving aid from nine organized city charities at the same time, is sufficient to show that the safe- guards and systematizing suggested in the report are much needed. But the further fact that ‘all this aid only gave the recip- ient eight dollars month, or less than one dollar a month from each society, shows just as conclusively that such relief is insuffi- cient to meet the wants of pauperism during | a severe winter. For these reasons we cannot agree with our contemporary, the Times, that the adoption of a well considered system of immediate tem- porary relief is likely to be attended with evil consequences or to attract vagrancy to New York. We do not indorse that philanthropy which would | stop pauperism by letting the poor die on tho sidewalks. It savors too much of the English policy of making the almshouse worse than a felon’s prison in order to keep down the poor rates. The poor we have always among us in a large city, and humanity cannot allow people to starve and freeze in the public streets, even if they should chance to be strangers. We insist that soup houses, which have been successfully tried in Europe, have the effect to drive professional beggars from the city. The professional beggar is a well fed, sturdy vagabond, who wants money, and secretly turds up his nose ata pauper’s meal. When he sues for alms he does not desire to be referred to a soup house and charitably directed where he can procure food. Under | intelligent management a system of prompt relief may be devised and perfected which will effectually aid the deserving poor and destroy | the occupation of the professional vagrant, The Times is in error in supposing that we | desire to place such on important work in the | hands of ‘a new and inexperienced commit- tee.’’ The names we have heretofore pro- | posed—those of Peter Cooper, Commodore Vanderbilt, A. T. Stewart, S. B. Chit tenden, William Butler Duncan, August | Belmont, William B. Astor, William E. Dodge and Theodore Ruvosevelt— are sufficient to show that our con- temporary is mistaken on this point, for | among them are those of gentlemen long dis- tinguished for their intelligence, experience | and charitable works. Let the organized charities continue to do all the good they can, and let the Bureau of Charities persist in its praiseworthy attempt to harmonize their and suppress their jealousies. At the same time, in view of the probable sufferings of the poor in the approaching winter, let us all unite with such prominent | citizens as we have named in completing | some plan of relief by which our unfortunate fellow creatures may receive immediate aid, and may enjoy the benefit of every dollar that is contributed by the charitable on their behalf. Forest Fines have swept the Blue Hills of Connecticut, and ten thousand acres of wood- land have bean bugued near Meriden. The American Theatre—Miss Cush. man’s Farewell. The poet may lay down his pen, the painter his brush, with regret, it is true, yet not with that same sorrow the actor feels when he bids farewell to the stage. The writer, the painter and the sculptor stand behind their art; what they produce has thenceforth an independent life, and may for ages survive its creators. Homer's poetry lives though his birthplace is as unknown as his grave, and though Phidias is a mere name his genius is embodied in the Elgin martles. But Roscius, Better- ton, Garrick, Siddons, the elder Booth, Kemble and Kean, are nothing but traditions of glory. What little we know 6f their great- | ness has been preserved by the writer and the painter. We see Kean ia the criticisms of Hazlitt and Siddons in the portrait by Reynolds. The actor has: at once the benefit and the misfortune of standing before his art. He embodies it in his own person. It must, therefore, be with pain greater than other artists feel that he abandons his vocation and disappears like a meteor forever, leaving for a moment a tading trail of splendor ; for, although his reputation may endure, his work vanishes. Something of this sad, ness must attend even the triumph of Charlotte Cushman in the farewell she is taking of the stage. The majestic phantoms ot her own imagination accompany her, and the world will look on them no more. It is strange to think that while the rude weapons of stone made by the prehistoric man remain | as evidences of his existence, the dramatic creations of such a genius must vanish as shadows do when the light is withdrawn and must soon become but a cherished memory— a page in a book or a picture on the wall. The most intellectual of tragic actors upon our modern stage, Miss Cushman has no rival, and will leave mo successor. Her passion has been emulated by others, | though by Mme. Janauschek it has been equalled, but very few have approached her power of thought. Her reading alone would have made her a great actress, but it is united with immense force of gesture andattitude, No Shakspearian rexding is more effective, more poetical, more oe than hers. During the closing years of her career Miss Cushman has played but few paris, and as | Lady Macbeth, Queen Katherine and Meg Merrilies she is most familiar to the public. But older theatre goers will associate with her name anoble train of characters. She was | fine as Hamlet, remarkable, especially in the banishment scene, as Romeo, imaginative as Rosalind, and superb as Cardinal Wol- sey. She raised melodrama in such creations as Nancy Sikes, almost to the level of tragedy, and tragedy was a tubleland upon which she made her home. The dramatic world cannot part with such a woman without far more than usual regret, and in the honors paid her last night, on the .occasion of her | farewell appearance here, New York expressed a national appreciation. Of the ceremonies at Booth’s Theatre, the address of William Cullen Bryant and Miss Cushman’s reply, we give | elsewhere a full report. What the stage loses when such artists as Miss Cushman, like Pregpero, bury their book and wand, cannot be replaced; yet it is for- timate that outside of these exceptional geniuses the American theatre has so much merit and ambition. One theatre like that of Mr. Wallack is a school in which the nation may study. It is the bright, consummate flower of Ameri- can dramatic culture, and preserves, with un- usual success, the traditions of the great stock companies of the past. Transcendent genius is rare, and we take it as the gift the gods choose to send, but good plays, a complete company and a perfectly appointed theatre are always 1n the power of a manager who respects the intelligence of the public and truly honors his profession. Surface Thoughts of Press. The Independent highly compliments the | journalist-poet William C. Bryant on the at- | |.tainment of his eighticth birthday; thinks the Protestant Episcopal Convention strained at a gnat ‘and swallowed a camel in its refusal of a rubric on baptismal regenera- tion, which doctrine, as declared by that body, | it says is sacramentarianism in its boldest form, and has no more warrantin the Word of God than the doctrine of consubstantiation. The Catholic Review quotes trom English Church jurists, in support of the view that the Epistopal Prayer Book contains and inculcates what Lord Coleridge styles the ‘Sacerdotal Principle,’ but that the enforcement of this principle will overthrow the Church. The Review thinks the troubles of the Anglican Church are thickening upon it, and there seems to be no way of eseape therefrom dis- covered yet. The Kraminer and Chronicle ig of opinion that the vote by which Dr. Seymour was rejected in the Prot estant Episcopal Convention implies a higher and stronger feeling against Roman Catholic doctrine or the approach to it than was anticipated. It intimates that such a pitch of Protestant zeal is unwonted and that it must have been stimulated by Bishop Cummins’ movement. The Examiner longs to see the removal from the Prayer Book of those superstitious rites now prohibited which have sprung therefrom by a normal develop- ment. While the Evangelist rejoices that the Convention has discharged a can(n)on against ritualism it is not very confident that the end aimed at will be secured. Ritualism is strong and defiant. It has been nourished within the Church, where it still claims a place. The rejection of Dr. Seymour it does not look upon as a victory, but rather as a definition of the grounds of conflict between the two parties in controversy, and it has no doubt that the chal- lenge will be accepted, and the ritualists will not be the first to retire from the conflict. The Christian at Work takes a more hopetul | | view of the case and thinks Dr. Seymour and his ritualist friends have been thoroughly routed, They have received, it says, a double defeat, which, if it does not keep them quiet, will at least render them powerless to carry on their proceedings, and henceforth the nonsense of their incongruous service must cease. We do not so read or under- stand the canon on ritual. The Church Jour- nal is certain that the whole Church will come to seé that the tendency and temper of the General Convention was to bring together and | not to separate, and that it has clearly and emphatically auswered the questions which « came up to it from every side, ‘Ia the Prot- the Religious estant Episcopal Church true to her traditions and her name? Is she really faithful to the Reformation, and does she propose to stay 80?” The Journal prays that the hand may be withered and the tongue become dumb that moves again for debate or strife, The Methodist does not see anything in the legisla- tion of the Convention to lessen the justifica- tion of the Reformed Episcopal movement. After much debating the High Churchmen remain in full possession, The Methodisl thinks that, notwithstanding its pretence of Protestantism, itis really turning its back upon everything that is distinctively Protestant and is secking other affiliations. As long as the dogina of apostolic succession remains the Protestant Episcopal Charch will tend to ritualistic error, The Christian Advocate reviews the recent Church councils which have. sat in differen’ | parts ef the land, including the Methodists in Canada, forming a basis of union for the several branches of the same family; the Uni- tarians at Saratoga and the Universalists in this city; the Congregationalists at New Haven; the Episcopalians here and the Bap- tists in Brooklyn—in all of which it recog- nizes signs of real and valuable progress, in which it rejoices. Tue Vox Arnm Casz.—Bismarck is not inclined to leave anything undone which will serve to crush the enemy of his policy. All the evidence that can be accu- mulated against Von Arnim will be used in the approaching trial, and we have had several revelations of the intensa efforts which Bismarck is making to secure convic- tion. Our despatches to-day show that an examination of Herr Hauser, the editor of the Vienna Presse, has been made in order to as- certain whence he obtained the information regarding Count Von Arnim which was pub- lished in that paper. The sources of this in- formation he refuses to give, and it is difficult to see by what means he can be foreéd to dig close the secret. The Von Arnim case is, in’ fact assuming a still more interesting aspect, as it becomes evident that Prince Bismarck is not seeking revenge upon a personal enemy, but is constrained to attack, and, if possible, crush the representative of German conserva- tism. PER:ONAL INTELLIGENCE. ——- Edwin £. Stanton, of Washington, Gilsey House. Preparations are making for an international exposition in China, Congressman E. R. Hoar, of Massachusetts, is at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Captain John H. Donovan. United States Army, is registered at the Grand Central Hotel, Colonel Larned, United States Army, is among the latest arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel, General Thomas W. Sherman, United States is at the | Army, 18 quartered at the Fittn Avenue Hotel. OMclal notice is given that Zarl Dufferin has re- sumed the government of Canada from the 3d inst. Assistant Adjutant General J. B. Stonehouse ar- rived irom Albany last evening at the Hotel Bruns- wick, Mr. W, Graham Sandford, Secretary of the British Legation 10 Ubina, ts sojourning at the Albemarle Hotel. The great paintiag of “St. Anthony,” by Murtilo, has been stoien from the Cathedral in Seville, Spain. The Japanese murderer of Mr. Haber, the North German Consul at Hakodadi, was beheaded on the 26th of September, Takak and Tomita, Japanese Constis to reside in San Francisco and New York respectively, ar- rived at San Francisco on the steamship China yesterday. Nothing like leather. A French tanner is re- ported to have discovered thata solution of oak bark will destroy the phylloxera. French chemists pronounce the experiments made with sulpno- carbonate of potassium to be successful, and de- clare this drug an absdlute remedy; but it is an expensive article. in New Jersey there are some difficulties in counting, and votes for Phelps are thrown out because they are written with abbreviations, thus:—“Wm. W. Phelps.” Mr. Phelps says he writes his name that way on his checks; and the democrats say its appearance in that form om his checks may have been what mislead his sup- porcers, At Boiogna, in Italy, M. Thiers was interviewed by a writer for the Monitore di Bologna, to whom he said:—“Italy has nothing to apprehend from France either by acts injurious to her pride or contrary to her interests; but she must expect to feel from the actual government of France the effects 01 an tll disguised resentment, as a conse- quence of the influence in the Ministry of the ultramontane party.” Odd acctdents in great cities, Recentiy the | Paris police issued this funny advertisement:— “There was found yesterday at midday a bride, eighteen years, blue eyes, black hair. Can be ob- tained on application at Police Headquarters.” She was a country girl, who came to Paris with her betrothed to get married. They took a cab at the station, On the way to the church the man got out to make some purchase. The driver was tipsy, and, instead of waiting, drove on, so they were separated in the wildernesa, and the police found the bride weeping in the cab, The venerable Pio Nono was 60 charmed with the specimens of American engraving contained in the illustrations in “Picturesque America,” that Cardinal Antonelli, by his order, wrote to the Messrs. Appleton, of New York, to express the Pontift’s gratification, and accompanied the letter with a beautiful silver medal, bearing on one side the profile of the Pope, and on the other an interior view of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggtore. The medal, which is of solid silver and two inches in diameter, is exquisitely executed. It bears the date of 1874, and English engravers have declared 1t to be superior to any work of the kind ever pro- duced in their country. It is inclosed in a rich case of silk scarlet velvet, bearing the Papal arms. Uncle Dick has not yet been serenaded, but the “terms” in which he will respond when he ts serenaded are perhaps as follows:—He esteems it a “privilege” to be sent to Washington asa Con-* gressman under any circumstances, but to go there “under the rule” and auspices of the democ- racy of the Empire City ts a “doubie privilege.” Ir “called on” ior a apeech, it will “pac” him to ne inconvenience. On the contrary, he can, without even “a day’s notice,” discourse on the financiat situation generally and on the malign influence and immorality of “panics particularly, making his “deliveries” promptiy and without once ‘ay- ing down’ to avoid the most stunning blow. Should he become the Speaker of the House, tt would puzzle the most cunning parliamentarian to get him in @ “corner,” alter his experience in Wall street, Outside the * capital” he will props ably “straddle” his charger and “spread” nimself ail over Pennsylvania avenue, but, we are morally sure, without danger to the innocent pedestrians on the terraced margin” allotted specially to their ase, In “short” it is a “long” time, we “fancy,” since we have had so ‘ uncompromis- ing” @ representative at Washington, or one possessing a‘ iraction”’ of his ready ability in a “crisis;? who would make it a “point” to guard more closely the “interest of the people or render a better “general account” of himselt than this “stocky " specimen of the old school of politicians, And even if, peradventure, our great expectations should “tail” of “realization” the people will have the “option” at the mext elece tion to “exchange” him for another, better member" and never again “go long” of out “firm! and «fences siend, Cage Dik.