The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1874, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD ——__->—— BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. GORDON BENNETT. PROPRIETOR JAMES - NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—On ,and after January 1, 1875, the daily and weekly editions of the New York Heratp will be sent free of postage. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. ; Letters ard packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AR Saas, Fee LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms in New York. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth stree.—! L GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third street and Kighth aveuue.—THE BLACK DROOK, at 5 P. M.; closes at ll P. M. ig THEATRE, 1 i a adway, between Twenty-first and Twenty-secon' Rrete oinb! D AGH, at SP. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. John 1, Raymond. THEATRE COMIQUE, tog Broadway.—VARISTY, at 3 P. M. ; closes at 10:30 BOOTH’S THEATRE, corner Twenty-third street and Yixth avenue.—RIP VAN WINKLE, at 5 P. M.; closes at lU:40 P.M. Mr. Jefferson. ROMAN HIPPODROME, Twenty-sixth street and Fourth avenue.—Afternoon and svenity, ats ands WALLACK'S THEATRE, HE SHAUGHRAUN, at 8 P. M.; closesat ir. Boucicault. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets. —THE ROBBERS, at 8 P. M. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-eightn streetand Broadway.—THE HEART OF MID-LOTHTAN, at_5 P. M.: closes at 1030 P.M. Miss Fauny Davenport, Mr. Fis! BOBINSON HAuL, Sixteenth eereet between Broadway and Fifth avenue.— Variety, ats P. it. BRYANTS OPERA HOUSE, ‘West Twenty-ihird street, near sixth avenue,—NEGRO MINSTRELSY, dc., atS PM.; closes at 10 P.M. Dan Bryant. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSF, No. 201 Bowery.—VARIETY, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, Broadway. corner of Twenty-ninth street._NEGRO MINSTREL=Y, at 3 P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. MRS. CONWAY'S B’ THE HUNCHBACK, at3 \OKLYN THEATRE. M. Miss Clara Morris. _. GLOBE THEATRE, ‘Broadway.—VARISTY, at 8 Y. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth avenue.—LA FILLE DE ADAME ASGOT, at 3 2. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. Miss mily Soldene. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Groadway, corner of Thirtieth stréet—ROUND THE CLOCK, ai P. Bi. ; closes at 10:45 P.M, METROPOLI No. 585 Broadway.—V 2 P.M. N THEATRE, ' ASP. M.; closes at 10:3) | tADT THEATRE, a Boufle—FLEDERMAUR, at 8 M. Miss Lina Mayr. OLYMPIC THEATRE, | ta Broaaway.—VARIETY, at 81’. QUADRUP New York, Sunday, Nov. 22, LE / SHEET. 1874, | "From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be clear. Wau. Steerer Yesterpay.—The stock mar- ket was dull and the transactions small. Gold | continues firm and money is easy at 2} a3 | percent. Good bonds were in request by in- vestors. Evropray Cryvmzarion is indeed penetrating the Orient when China orders breech-loading | Tifles from Germany. Tae Commrree ox Aprroprrations of Con- gress have nearly finished the work of prepar- ing the annual appropriation bills. They are resolved to make the most that can be made | of the coming short session in closing up their ‘accounts. Tue Presment’s Mussacz.—It is under- | stood that the President has collected from | the heads of the several executive depart- | ments the materials for his annual Message to | Congress in December, and that we may an- | ticipate in the Message a full exposition of his | views according to the leading points of bis | detter of the last session to Senator Jones, | the excellence of her public improvements. | ness in plan and administration. By com- | debt is about $150,000,000. Apparently the NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, City Debts and City Improvementh— Paris and New York. Paris is undoubtedly the finest city in the world. Iyife is easier there for every class. Rich men, who can afford themselves all the luxuries and splendors of existence, find their imaginations stimulated by the supplies of that city; and the poor, who are compelled to live on a hard earned pittance, can domore with it in Paris than in any other great city. In one particular only does it yield the palm in the necessities of modern life to one other great city. London is an age in advance of other cities in overcoming that difficulty which we call “the problem of rapid transit.” Lon- don has no horse cars. No street of the city or the West End is handed over in fee to monopolists in order that they may exclude ordinary vehicles, filch the public, and or- ganize a great vested interest to defeat with capital every scheme for the more effi- cient transportation of the people from point to point. Horse cars in London are confined to suburbs like our Manhattanville, or Har- lem or Morrisania. But in the vast and densely peopled districts between the Royal Exchange and Westminster and Kensington steam trains regularly run to and fro at inter- vals of from five to ten minutes, and for very low fares. So efficient is this sort of transit that if we had it here a laboring man might leave his home in Harlem at a quarter to seven ‘culty of getting to it; one unfinished Court House; miles of badly paved streets; sewers from whose stagnant gulfs epidemic poisons are disseminated into every house; not one decent market; not a single stone pier or dock or basin for the discharge of cargo from ships. It is not a pleasant comparison, but it should be wholesome to the people to see by the example of Paris what might have been done with the money spent by this city, and it should teach the important lesson ot choos- ing more wisely the men who are to handle our funds. Thanksgiving and Other Topics of the Religious Press. In view of the approach of Thanksgiving Day some of our religious contemporaries have put forth a few reasons why we, as a nation, should be grateful on Thursday next, and why we should express that gratitude, not only by going to church and offering our devotions, but by eating turkeys and pumpkin pies when we return home. The Evangelist thinks that though the commercial prosperity of the country has not recovered from the blow of the financial crisis a year ago, and many of our mills are standing still and thousands are idle from lack of employment, it does not follow that there is no great and and be at his labor near the City Hall at seven o'clock, and this for six cents. London is supreme among cities for the convenience and advantages of rapid transit, but Paris in this particular also is far ahead of our own city. Paris is cut into two great sections by the Seine, and on this river ply rapid little steamers to and fro from either extremity of the city, stopping at a dozen stations. On these the fare is from two to ten cents, according to distance. Then Paris has six hundred and ninety-four omnibuses, or perhaps more, as that was the number reported in 1870. In that year these vehicles carried one hundred and seven million passengers. Each omnibus made sixty-six miles a day. Paris omnibuses, owing to the excellent pavements, are easy vehicles to ride in; they move at a fair rate, and one can ride either inside or on top, and, as the average patronage is two hundred and ninety thousand passengers a day, they move every day one-seventh of the population. With these, therefore, and the little ‘‘bateaux mouches’’ on the river, the movable quantity of the population is pretty well cared for. Persons who wish to ride more luxuriously take cabs, which goto any part of the city limits for forty cents. While, therefore, judged by the way in which she meets that important requirement of modern life, the rapid transportation of the people, Paris is fully up to the times, it isin other facts that her glory is found. It is in the splendor and For her wellnigh numberless miles of per- fectly paved streets, kept in irreproachable condition, she is alone. Not only are the streets themselves worthy of admiration, but the administrations by which they are kept in repair and also kept clean are worthy of | study. There is no part of Paris to which one cannot go by a fine avenue, and there is no | time when that avenue is not in good condi- | tion. In every quarter of the city there are markets all conceived and regulated with | regard to the need and comfort of the people. The sewerage, the water supply, the police, exhibit the evidences of an equal thorough- parison with the hospitals of Paris we ought to be ashamed to say that we have any hospi- tals, for we should be less humiliated by such an acknowledgment than by the comparison of what we have in that way with what there is in Paris. With all New Yorkers who contemplate these facts there must come the inevitable query, What does all that cost? Is Paris as far ahead of us in debt as in the more enjoyable posses- sions of a great city? Without the loan it is now proposed to issue the consolidated debt of Paris is 1,800,000,000 francs or $360,000,000, | and with the addition of the projected loan it will be $412,000,000. Our acknowledged city absolute difference here is greatly in our favor, and if the addition of $262,000,000 to the debt were to be taken as the necessary price of good streets and splendid promenades and the other features of a grand and beautiful | city, our people might well congratulate themselves that they are without them. But the amount of our debt, as it relates to the Tue Conan Ivsvnrection still lives. The | insurgents, indeed, have not been so active or aggressive at any time within the last three or four years as they are now, and it is upon the | reports of the Spanish authorities that this important fact is disclosed. Don Carlos, fighting for the monarchy in Spain, is evi- dently doing good service for the cause of in- dependence and of the Republic in Cuba. Lovtstaxa, as it looks to be from a Wash- ington point of view, is to be seen in our de- spatches to-day. The President and Mr. Williams scem to think that anarchy is still threatened, and the former will make the affairs of the State a special topie of his annual Message. We should like to see upon what evidence more serious trouble than has yet been known is anticipated in New Orleans | in January. Germany AND Mexico.—Negotiatious are reported to be in progress between the gov- ernments of Germany and Mexico for a treaty of amity and commerce. Prince Bismarck, it has heretofore been broadly hinted, has de- signs upon Mexico not very widely differing from those of Napoleon III. In any event our government, pledged to the Monroe doc- trine, is bound to prevent more vigilantly than heretofore any presuming policy of Ea- ropean intervention in the affairs of Mexico. Parwce Brsmanck appe red on the floor of | ulation than that which now actually bears the Reichstag yesterday in a debate upon a | motion for the release of democratic Depu- | ties who are now in prison, and found him- | self attacked in regard to the arrests of Von | | each person, With regard to the pressure on | population, is $150 to each person, and the debt of Paris, stated at the outside, is $206 to the people, therefore, the debt of Paris is not greatly larger than ours, while, if | we were to consider it with regard to its rela- tion to property, the comparison would be still less in our favor. But this comparison of the debts is based important benefit to be derived from this ap- parent calamity. Among the benefits enu- merated by the Evangelist are the arrest of national extravagance caused by the inflation of the currency and the return to the good old vir- thirds of the people are shut out by the diffi- | tue of economy. More sober views of life, of business and of the world sre taken to-day than were taken a year ago; and this seriousness is cne of the most hopeful signs of a slow but steady national improvement, for which we should be thankful. Large revenues and abundant harvests are also objects for thanks- giving. To this the Intelligencer adds the peace of the world promoted by the Geneva arbitration and our own peacefal relations with all mankind and the allaying of party strife after the late elections. The Intelligencer regrets that the President omitted from his proclamation any direct recognition of God and of Christianity, and also regrets the finan- cial embarrassments of the country, but hopes the poor will not be forgotten on Thanksgiv- ing Day and the winter days to come. The Hebrew Leader has ® pious review of the old Jewish Thanksgiving Day or Feast or Taber- nacles, and prays that we may be inclined to an unselfish, contented and thankful temper, which is at once a medicine, a feast, an orna- ment and a protection. The Jewish Messenger sorrows that the thanksgiving dinner and family reunion should compel the religious idea to take a secondary place in this celebra- tion. It recommends the Jewish programme of charity first and turkey after. The Independent discusses the relationship of righteousness to religion and agrees with President Fairchild that conversion is not having an experience but is the beginning of a godly life; that righteousness is the better part of religion—its essence, whether professed by angel or man. The Christian Union tells us what faith is and what it does. It is not an exceptional thing ; it is by faith we are saved, all who are saved. And how does faith saveus? Not by being a substitute for right conduct, but by being the supreme help to right conduct. Faith is the consciousness of God. The man who is without faith is not therefore without God. No man can put asunder what God hath joined together—his own life and the divine life that supports it. The Christian at Work makes the Heraxp's Central Park article of recent date the text fora sermon on the snakes, panthers and lions innumerable which roam or lurk in every street in this city in the shape of bad books and unclean newspapers; and it calls upon parents to see that none of them find refuge in their children’s trunks. The Baptist Union discourses on the unity and | fellowship of faith, which, it thinks, is more potent, precious and enduring than organiza- tions or names. It goes on to suggest a true basis of union among Baptists—one life in Christ by the power of the truth and the renewal of the Holy Ghost. Sectarianism is a matter of feeling, it says, and not of convic- tion—the outgrowth of caraality and not of loyalty to Christ. The Tublet touches lightly and morally the recent priestly scandals, and defends itself for not denouncing those erring teachers of its faith, The Great Master would not do s0, and the Tablet wants to be like Him. The Pilot (Boston) publishes two important arti- cles, on which it comments—the pastoral address of the Irish bishops on modern materialism and the controversy between Archbishop Manning and Mr. Gladstone. The Churchman urges upon its readers the neces- sity of providing for the poor this winter. The Church Journal has an able and elaborate arti- cle on “Dogma and Rationalism,’’ showing upon the statement of the obligations of Paris | as they will be upon the addition of fifty-two | the amount of money spent upon the city. | In fact, a large figure in the present debt of | Paris is due to the events of the late war—an | indebtedness altogether extraordinary and | not properly to be counted in a com- | parison with our debt, as our city has never had to pay @ war contribution, | If we leave out of the computation the burden that the war laid on Paris and the proposed | debt, a large proportion of which is to be | spent on projected improvements, and take the debt as it was in 1870, when all the great improvements of the city, as conceived by | Haussmann, were realized in so far as they are realized now, the comparison will be nearer | , just. In March, 1870, the total debt of Paris | was 1,475,799,082 francs, or a trifle over $295,000,000. Paris, therefore, secured all that New York needs to make it a great city, with a smaller proportion of debt to the pop- upon this city ; for the debt of Paris, without the extraordinary outlays of the war, was only $142 to each individual of the population, while | ours, as above stated, is $150. Paris, with the absurd conclusions of the latter on the former. Church and State has undertaken the difficult task of reconciling the diverse state- | millions to the actual indebtedness, but even | ments of Bishop Coxe and Dr. Seymour. The that actual indebteduess does not represent Baptist Weekly presents the lesson of a life drawn from the recent death of the Rev. Charles Vince, of Birmingham, England, a Baptist minister, who won the esteem and love of his brethren of all denominations who knew him. The Christian Advocate presents the claims of Methodist missions to ite read- ers, and the Examiner and Chronicle discusses the propriety of taxing church property, and, adopting the arguments of another, it is opposed to such taxing. Mayor Haygmeyer recommends the citizens of New York to observe the 26th day of the present month as a day of thanksgiving and gratitude. He should have recommended the Ast day of January next. Borrer Exrtostons. —Yesterday a boiler ex- plosion occurred in Jersey City which danger- ously injured one person and nearly de- stroyed four buildings. The thrilling inci- dents of the escape of other persons in the building, and the alarm of one man who saw the boiler sailing in the air, like a balloon, j are depicted in another column, On Arnim and the Catholic bishops. He de- | her two millions of people, spends $295,000,000, | the same day the inspectors were investi- fended these acts and justified the laws | and New York, with one million, spends | gating the explosion of the boiler of the tug- under which they were made. The want of $150,000,000; but Paris with that smaller rela- boat Lily at Hell Gate, and the testimony ap- 8 preliminary public examination of arrested | tive expenditure secures nearly all that imagi- | pears to show that the limit of pressure persons in Germany was, with very good rea. | son, regretted by one of the speakers, and the | the wellbeing and the pleasure of a metro- | debate is another proof of the growing dis- content with the arbitrary policy which bis- Warck so beldly mainjains, , . nation can pictare as likely to contribute to politan population. And what does New York secure for her greater relative outlay? allowed by the inspectors had been over- stepped by the officers of the boat. We never Lone splendid public resort, fram which two-, hear of such violations of law before an ex- plosion. The explanations come after the | evil has been done, The Church and the Theatre. One very important result has come from the prominence we have lately given to the Sunday question—viz., a very free expression of public opinion on the subject. Almost every class of society has been heard from. The workman who toils all the week, who not only feels disinclined to attend service on Sunday morning, but to whom physical rest at home seems to be a necessity; the minister, whose earnest endeavor is to sanctify the hur- tying, bustling and wearing life of the masses by the high and holy associations which make the one day in seven fragrant, hopeful and serene, as well as the actor and the business man, have spoken freely on this topic. That good will come from a discussion of this kind, carried on in a spirit of fairness and impartial criticism, no one will doubt. The community is prepared for it, and recent movements to open our theatres for dramatic representations of the better sort and our concert halls for musical entertainments, which scem to be called sacred more on account of the day than for any other reason, it must be confessed render it imperative to take some action either of approval or disapproval, It is needless for us to say that we have very little sympathy with either extreme in the multiplicity of positions taken. The Heraxp de- sires simply to subserve the public interest and to seek the public welfare by the most direct means and in the mest economical way. We have no patience whatever with that wholesale denunciation of the theatre, which is at once short-sighted and unwise, and which lays one open to the charge of entire ignorance of the drama and of its practical effects. It may be fairly said of the ministers that they are talk- ing in the dark when they denounce the drama as an unmitigated evil. They confess that they have never been to the theatre, that they know of its allurements and its tempta- tions only by hearsay,'and yet they venture, we think rashly, to express as decided an opinion as they would on a subject with which they are perféctly familiar. It must be con- fessed, also, that in the heat of controversy the advocates of the drama are somewhat in- clined to draw a voil over the demoralizing influences which are actually connected with the theatre. What the people want is to get at the real merits of the question, and an honest statement of facts, with an equally honest confession of any evils that may exist, is the shortest road to a settlement of the problem that will be satisfactory to all. It is very earnestly argued by some, and the argument is not without force, that if any- thing can be done to entice those who form the lower stratum of society out of the beer shops, the rum cellars and the houses of a still more questionable character it should be done at once. It is certain that the present missionary force is inadequate to such a re- sult. Either the missionaries are not zealous enough or their number is too small, or religion itself, even in its primary stage, fails to awaken any sense of moral responsibility in these people. Whatever may be the cause of the fact it is apparent to every one who takes the trouble to walk through these dis- tricts that any change whatever would be for the better. If by a concert or a spectacular representation or anything else that is attrac- tive they can be drawn away from bad liquor, with a probable brawl anda possible murder as a consequence, then it would seem to be well to tolerate the concert rather than to be mawkish about it and be compelled to tolerate the brawl and the murder. It has seemed to us that anything which leads a man up from actual crime is better than anything which leaves him there. The end in this case cer- tainly justifies the means, and amusement which is notimmoral in its tendency is better than vicious company and vicious practices. If the Church can and will devise some means by which these people can be drawn into their chapels and taught the rudiments o: a relig- ious life it will, of course, accomplish the most desirable of all results; but, if this is impossible, the next best result to be achieved is the ingathering of these people inte any place where the immediate influence will be better than foul companionship and drunken- ness. A word can also be said for the middle classes, so called. A very large proportion of them, for some reason or other, do not attend church. Religious worship is either too ex- pensive or too fashionable or not sufficiently attractive, and they prefer to remain at home or to walk in the Park. The simple fact with whieh we have to do is that they are not attendants upon divine worship. The ques- tion naturally arises—and it is a question of great moment, and should receive careful attention—would it not be a step in the right direction to open all our libraries and reading rooms, that this class of the community may have an opportunity to educate themselves? If they will not be religious, shall they, therefore, be ignorant? If we have done our best to attract them to the church and failed, shall we therefore close every door of improvement against them? Is it better that they should do nothing but sleep and gossip than that they should have at least the incentive to intellectual culture ? A library and a reading room are steps toward the church, and steps up from their present level. If we cannot get what we want, shall we insist on having nothing, or gratefully ac- cept the best thing to be had undpr the cir- cumstances ? All these questions are to be answered without prejudice and without bigotry. They demand the thoughtful consideration of our best minds, for the answer will involve very important issues. Jvupaz Pouany’s Oprnton Upon tae ARKAN- 648 Lueroario, from all that we can learn, is that the verdict of the people in the recent State election supersedes Mr. Smith and his pretensions to the office of Governor. As Judge Poland is the head of the Congressional committee assigned to the investigation of the affairs of Arkansas we conclude that his opin- ion means that there will be no further exper- iments of Congressional reconstruction in that quarter. President Grant has already dis- missed Mr. Smith, having had enongh of these intestine squabbles of Arkansas, Tae Mexican Repvaiic.—A telegram from Matamoros, special to the Hrranp, announces the important fact that the national Congress has decreed the constitution of a Senate, in which cach State and federal district of the Union will be represented, thus affording an additional guarantee for the permanency of the Repuplic. Peace prevails in the territory. 1874._QUADRUPLE SHEET. A Racy Letter from Archbishop Bay- ley. We are permitted to publish this morning the most piquant contribution to the Man- ning-Gladstone controversy that has yet ap- peared from any American source. It is o letter not written with a view to publication, and is therefore marked by a colloquial free- dom and unrestrained vivacity of expression which make it more interesting than a formal statement in the measured language which the conventionalities of his position would require of an ecclesiastical dignitary on a public ap- pearance. The difference is as great as be- tween listening toa discourse of the Arch- bishop with his robes on and a free conversa- tion with him at a private dinner. In this unique letter Archbishop Bayley speaks as impulsively and with the same careless dis- regard of forms as he would toa brother ecclosiastic of his own Church, and the ap- parent relaxation of dignity is more than com- pensated by a fresh and hearty unreserve which attests the downright sincerity of the utterance. Without furtherremark on tho singularities of Archbishop Bayley’s language we will make a remark or two on the substance of bis let- ter. His emphatic denial that the Vatican decrees are inconsistent with civil allegiance will be agpepted without reserve by every Catholic pm abaaat and every Catholic lay- man in the United States. It is not only a point of Christian charity but a dictate of ordinary candor and common sense to allow that men are themselves better qualified to truly state their own belief than other people can be to state it for them. Certain it is that the Catholics of this country have never failed in civil loyalty and obedience, nor is there the slightest danger that they ever will so long as our government main- tains the sacred respect for the rights of conscience which is one of its fundamental principles ‘engrafted in the constitution. Catholics, like Protestants, hold that there is a limit to the obligations of civil obedience. If the Catholics of this country should ever become a majority of its citizens, and should use their control of the government to suppress or obstruct the free- dom of Protestant worship, the Protestants would justly rebel against the civil authority; and s0, on the other hand, if the Protestant denominations should combine to impair the religious freedom of the Catholics, their re- sistance would be perfectly justifiable accord- ing to American standards, The reservations to loyalty are precisely equal on the part of Catholics and Protestants; but it is a reserva- tion which is merely theoretical and never likely to become practical on either side in this country. Itis not surprising that the American Catholics agree with their English brethren in resenting Mr. Gladstone's pam- phlet as an insult to their faith. Archbishop Bayley is probably correct in attributing Mr. Gladstone’s assault to politi- cal motives; but we should hesitate to agree with him in his estimate of its political effect. Indeed, we think he greatly undervalues it; but its political aspect opens too large a ficld to be entered on now, and we should be un- willing, in any event, to discuss it asan an- tagonist of Archbishop Bayley. There is, we trust, no want of deference to a venerable prelate, occupied with apostolic duties, to im- ply that we do not regard him asgan able judge of secular politics; but we prefer to simply express our dissent without discussion, reserving the subject for some more suitable occasion. Pulpit Topics To-Day. The theory of Christianity is that the hu- man soul, being immortal, is of incalculable value, and that every effort should be put forth to save it from present and prospective danger. Mr. Hawthorne intends to show what is God’s estimate of the worth of a soul, while Mr. Pullman will demonstrate the superiority of manhood—Christian manhood, we suppose—and My. Kennard, starting the inquiry, ‘Is Human Nature Entirely Selfish?” will endeavor to show how and how far our humanity has fallen, Admitting that man- kind is sinful Dr. Deems will demonstrate how God and man can become covenant Dr. Robinson will show Christian experience will have its proper sphere, and the duty of publicly confessing Christ, as Mr. MacArthur will present it, will be duly appreciated. Of the Christian virtues none, perhaps, in these days is so much talked about and so little understood as “Perfection.” Mr. Corbit will endeavor to enlighten his congregation on this subject, and also on the “Last Judg- ment,” where little things will confound the mighty, as they sometimes do here, and as Mr. Hawthorne will affirm, and where the fate of the suicide will be better known to Mr. Pullman and others than it possibly can be now, and the perils of rejecting the truth will be realized to an extent of which Dr. Fulton can hardly have any conception at present. Dr. Fulton will consider the question, ‘Can Christians Countenance Theatres?” this morning, and we shall see his answer to- morrow. Mr. Alger will invite his hearers to enter the open door of his church, “The House Not Made with Hands” will be described by Dr. Ganse, Universalism will be defended from the Bible by Mr. Sweetser, the connection shown by the Rev. J. P. Bodfish, and the relation which modern science bears to ancient superstition, as illustrated by the Athenian altars to the unknown God, will be set forth by Mr. Egbert. India Rubber Tires. “All the subjects that are discussed now were only imagined once,’’ said a dis- tinguished lunatic; and this is so true that the public mind has now reached the subject | which comes immediately before Lear's famous proposition that the cavalry should be ‘shod with felt ;"” though this relationship seems to be putting the cart before the horse. In Lon- don it is proposed that the owners of all vehicles which ply in the public streets shall be compelled to have the wheels of their vehicles bound with India rubber tires. At first this has a sound of something wildly im- possible, Popular notions of India rubber at once suggest that it would use a set of tires a day. People can scarcely conceive of an ar- ticle familiar for its yielding softness endur- Ing for any time the friction which destroys the pavements ; and the notion of expense, founded on the presumed instability of such bixed. ja the arent gbiection waagd to the imno- Lear frionds, and in such ao state of friendship as | of music with the Catholic Church will be | vation. But the fabricators of India rubber answer that they can make tires which will outlast iron. Perhaps they can. So many things have been seen in this generation that one scarcely dares deny any downright state- ment of that sert. One of these days we may see Krupp's cannon made of papier maché, and we shall simply shrag our shoulders and inquire, What next? India rubber tires sre said, practically, to be doing effective service in Berlin, and the experiment of this change has too mach possibility in it not to be well and widely tried. If the experiment prove a Success the great pavement problem will be well nigh solved. Mr. Frothingham’s Letter. The Rev. Mr. Frothingham, in his letter to the Hrnaup elsewhere, says of Sunday:— “Religion claims the day, but does not, and from the constitution of the human mind cannot, use it."’ This recalls to usa passage in Mr. Gladstone's article in the October number of the Contemporary Review, viz.:— “The work of Divine worship, so far from being a thing of course, even among those who outwardly address themselves to its perform- ance, is one of the most arduous which the human spirit can possibly set about,” It is, doubtless, to the same truth that Mr. Froth- ingham refers in his excellent letter, and he recognizes the importance of providing: proper occupation for the mind during those hours which cannot be spent in devotion, unless it is such devotion as Mr. Gladstone defines as a ‘‘mere perfunctory performance.” The right use of the day is the prob. lem to solve. So long as it is a day of pmhibitions it will be found very difficult, The law which says that people shall not occupy themselves on Sunday in ways which are considered harmleas on the other days of the week walls it up, as Mr. Frothingham says, and makes it to large nume bers of persons a barren desert of unim- proved time. His argument on this point deserves consideration, and with it we print other contributions relating to the genera subject. Ir 18 now rumored that Morocco has ceded 8 port to Germany. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. They say there are now “colonies in Paris, but no society.” Rev. W. R. Alger, of Boston, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Larkin G. Mead, the sculptor, is residing at the Brevoort House. A translation of Napoleon’s famous “Fate Book” has appeared in Bengall. Governor E, M. McCook, of Colorado, is sojourn- ing at the St. James Hotel. Charlotte Cushman, the actress, is at the Gran@ Hotel. Cinctnnatt, seriously ill. Dr. Christopher Woodsworth has published ‘‘30- cial Lite at the English Universities.” General Gustavus A. De Russy, United Statea Army, 18 registered at Barnum’s Hotel. Meigs is in @ quandary. But why do they want to getrid of Meigs. What's the little game? Major V. Sanchez ana Captain L. Moragues, ot the Spanish Army, are quartered at the Hofman House. Baron de Bussterre, of Paris, has returned to this city and taken up his residence at the Hoff- man House. Mr. Jerome B. Chaffee, Delegate to Congress from Colorado, arrived last evening at the Sj Nicholas Hotel In the town of Linden, near Magdebourg, Ger- many, fifty-six persons recently died in one week from trichinosis. Byron’s Itasian valet ts still in the land of the living, and is au employé in one of tte public offices at London. Dr. Cumming, the great tribulator, says he “never called Professor Tyndall an infidel, as has been stated in the public press.’ Count de Ia Rochefoucauld, an attaché of the French Legation at Madrid, is gazetted as First Secretary of the Legation at Washington, ‘There appear to be doubts, owing to Catholic dissatisfaction, whether the Duke of Abercorn will accept the Grand Mastership of the Irish Free- masons. “{ have lighted a fire that I can’t put out’? was: the accurate statement of a ten-year-older when he ran into the house for help after setting fire to @ haystack. “What would you be, dearest, ir I should press the stamp of love upon those sealing wax lips?” «4, respondea the fairy-like creature, ‘should be— Stationery |” Sir Henry James, Q. ©., recently said, in a pub- lic specch in England, that “there was only one possible leader” in the liberal party, and that was Mar, Gladstone, The Elizabethan literary revival tn England will next produce a treatise on the language and ver- sification ot Samuel Daniel, who was a contempo- rary and rival of Shakespeare. ‘vhe Britisu College at Rome has offerei the Pope the sum Of $13,000, On Tuesday November 2, $10,000 was offered to His Holiness on the part of the English Catholics resident in England, Vice Chancellor Bacon has sanctioned the sale of the Tichvorne estates in Surrey, in the admin- istration suit of “Mostyn vs, Emmanuel,’”’ under the will of Roger Tichborne, made by him just be- fore he lett Englaud, The position of the Prince Imperial at Wool wich is that of eleventh cadet in the first class, which is thirty-two in number, and he is expec to pass a creditable examination. His term e: pires in February. Whatever the benefit or harm the use of tobacco may do the consumer’s body, its common tendency is to render the mind indifferent to the well-being of his neighbor.—Art Journal Grant smokes a great dea!, but his neighbors are the persons im whom he takes most interest. Plain spoken Mr. Greville, in his ‘Memoirs, describes Pope Ptus VIII. as ‘‘a very nice, squint. ting old twaadie, whom we liked; but then he telis us that George LV. was “coarse, blasphemous, Jaithless and a liar,’’ besides being “a contempti- ble, cowardly, se!fsh and unfeeling dog.” Cockney hunters have become a bore in Eng- land, anu the Court Journal says:—'The mob of mounted Londoners mm the habit of attending the hunting parties anywhere close to town reached such dimensions last season that a regulation has now been made by the different masters of hounas not to advertise the meets in the papers, but to tniorm subscribers of their dates and where. abouts through the medium of private circulars,” Naturalization in England does not give the Tights of citizenship in a British colony. “Her Majesty’s government are advised that the opera. tion of the imperiai enactment ts clearly confined: to the United Kingdom, and that a cerifloate of naturalization granted under either of the acts of 1844 or 1870 confers upon an alien no right or priv~ ilege in @ British colony,” 60 that a man may bem British subject a8 naturalized, and yet be w foreigner under the British fag, W. Chambers, LL.D., writes tothe Londov Athene | @um & protest against the alterations made in the: American edition of Chambers’ Cyclopedia, es~ pecially against the fact that articles on free trade and protection have been “corrected” for the latitade of Pennsyivania, {nu France the Duke de Mouchy 18 a candidate, for Deputy, and the Siecle alleges against him, with’ other offences, that he voted for the war of 1870./ For this {t cannot forgive him, Yet the director of) the Si¢cle, Jules Simon, voted the same way. Nearly all the authorities at Noumea, New Cale- donia, a8 & cousequence of the investigation of Rochefort’s escape, nave been retired from their respective services om hall pay, and many sent home to Frapc@ (or tuxther waukw jate their nwa,