The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1874, Page 5

CONGRESS. Effort to Postpone the District of Columbia Bill. THE APPROPRIATIONS. - More Mourning Over the Repeal of the Franking Privilege. SENATE. WASHINGTON, Dec, 16, 1874, Mr. EDMUNDS, (rep,) of Vt., introduced a bil) to provide for the review of questions of law on find- tugs of fact by District courts of the United States. Referred wo the Committee on the Judi- clary. Mr, HAMILTON, (dem,) Of Maryland, presented a memorial of the citizens of Maryland tor the abo- lution of the tax cn friction matches, Relerred to the Committee on Finance, Mr. SARGENT, (rep,) of Cal., Introduced a bi!) for the relief of Rear Admiral Joun L. Worden and tue officers and crew of the United States steamer Monitor, who participated in the engagement with the rebel ram Merrimac. Referred to the Commtt- vee on Nava) Affairs. Mr WriGH?, (rep.) of Iowa, from the Committee on Claims, reported favorably on the bill for the relief of John B, Tyler, of Kentucky. Placed on the caiendar. Mr. HAkVEY, (Tep.) of Kansas, presented a me- morial of citizens of that State asking the passage Of the House bill to amend the act to aid. in che construction of a ratlroad and telegraph line irom the Missourl River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the game for postal, military and other purposes, approved July 2, 1864, Referred to the Committee on Rau- Toads. Mr. HaGER, (dem.) of Cal., troduced a bill for the protection of the harbor of San Diego, Cal. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, Mr BOUTWELL, rep.) My Mass., submitted a reso- Iution instructing the Gommistee on Finance to iaatee into the expediency of providing fr the redemption of mutilated United States currency by the postmasters of the several citics and towns Oi the United States. Reierred to the Committee on Finance, Mr. CHANDLER, (rep.) of Mich., gave notice that aiter the expiration of the morning hour to- morrow he would call up the House oill to revise, amend and consolidate the laws relating to the Beourity of life on board vessels propelled: in whole or in part by steam, known as the Steamboat bij). Mr. HaGEB submitted a resolution providing that so much of the annual Mossage of the President as reiated to Chinese immigration be referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations for report by bill or otherwise, to remedy tle evils to which the President calls the attention of Von- Tess; ulso referring to that committee fhe rego- jutions of the California Legisiature on the same Buoject, and the resolution presented by him last session matructing the Committee on Foreign Re- lations wo inquire into the expediency of prevent- ing the importation oi Chinese women for unmoral urposes, @.d suppressing the coolie trade. greed Lo, Mr, CRAGIN, (rep.) of N, H., called up the House bill to restore Cap ain John C. Beaumont, Uuited States Navy, to is orginal position on the Navy . Register, which was discussed and then recom- Mitted to the Committee on Naval Affairs, Mr. MERRIMON, (dem.) of N. C., presenied reso- Jutions of the Nortif Carolina Legisiature 1n rela- tion to the repeal of the tax on tobacco and the Tepealo! the whole internal Revenue law. Re- ferred to the Committee on Finance, He also presented resolutions of that body for the erection of @ Court Honse and Post Ofice at Asheville, Referred to the Vommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds. Also resolutions oi that body asking for the im- Biren of Cape Fear River. Reierred to the jommittec on Commerce. ‘Mr, West, (rep.) of La, submitted a resolution requesting the douse of representatives to furnish the senate with a copy of the report made to that body by the Secretary oi War relating to the ac- counts of disbursing Officers. Agrezd to. Mr. Scorr, (rep.) of Pa., from the Committee on Claims, reported iavorably on the bil) for the Zeller a the Alleghany River Railroad vompany. assed. Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, (rep.) Of N. J., moved that ‘the bill making retirement in the army obliga‘ory after a certain age be recommitted to the Com- mittee on Military Affairs, Agreed to, DEFALCATIONS TO THR GOVERNMENT, Mr. Davis, (dem.) of W. Va., called up the reso- Jation submitted by him jast week requesting in- formation as to the Dames of oMcers who owe the government money, the amount due, names of Buretles, &c, Mr. SHERMAN, (rep.) of Ohio, sald:—To farnish the information called for by this resolution would involve La Patel Ath o! money and take much time. When his iriend (Mr. Davis) would point to any particular case where there was good ground to believe a defalcation existed be (Mr. Sherman) would cheerfully vote for an investigation. Mr. CONKELING, (rep.) of N. Y,, sald some time ago a list was published containing & large num- ber of names of persons chargea with being de- faulters. Among them was the name of a gentie- man whose integrity had never been challenged before. He was an ex-Collector, and bad been charged with being a defauiter to the extent of 34,000, The gentieman at the time was in urope, When he came home andheard of the charge the matter was {ully investigated, and it turned out that the government owed nim $900, He would vote Jor an investigation in any particu- Jar case where evidence oi fraud existed, but he thought it useless to pass such a resolution as the one belore the Senate. Mr. THURMAN, (dem.) Of Ohio, said there was more fn tae resolution than some Senators thought, and he desired to have it modified. As it stood it was too extensive and would deleat itsell. The morning hour having expired the resolution Went over until to-morrow, THE DISTRICT GOVERNMENT PROBLEM, The unfinished business, being the bill fur tne better government of the District of Columbia, was resumed, and Mr. Morrill, (rep.) of Me., ex- plained the provisions of the bill ut Jength. He Bald the committee had devoted much time and care to its preparation, and reviewed the reasons which governed them, as set forth in the report accompanying the bil. He urged that the consti- tution o: the Unived States invested Congress with the whole coutrol of the District, ana the obligation rested upon Congress to govern it. The District ot Columbia being set apart ior the Rational capital, and the exclusive control over it given to Congress, excluded the of it being represepted ty & delegate in Congress. Every Senator and Representative had a trust of that character, The District could not be organized into a ‘Territory, for the moment Congress made a Territory there was an incipient State, and it never was mtended that the District Of Uolumpia snouid be a State. The guthority of the generai government over the District was the game as Over the docks and navy yards. He then explained the specific provisions Of the bill. in the Board of Regents was lodged all the power bow exercised by au Executive oMfcer. The oper- ations of that Board were to be open at ail times, They were to appoint members of other Boards, except as otuerwise provided. In regard to taxa- won he said the bill proposed to give al) the privi- Jeges and immunities to the people of the Pisttict apy enjoyed by.the people of other cities, and thé jestion W: ‘hag 6) ould sue: pay. The commit- tee had fixed the rate at two per cent, ps they he- Maree tae to bergen yee 4 Sti ir, BAYARD, (dem,) Of De)., Rovedt £4 dill would pelatd over ti {it al ‘) 6 Spproaching holiday recess. The people Ol the whole country were 1u- terested, a4 It was held they were iiable for the enormous debt incurred by tie misgovernment of the District ior the past two years. He mov that it be laid over until the 10ta of Jantary hext, Mr. THURMAN Concurfed with his friend from Delaware (Mr. Bayard) that the bill ought not to be acted on till all interested had full opportunity to canvass its provisions. He thought tne rate of taxation proposed too great and more than neces- sary. nt, MoRRILL said, having explained the bill, he might tnink his duty at an end and make no uppo- Bilon to the movion to postpone, He did not dee@in it advisable to postpone the bill till aiser the holidays, as there would be only about two months of the session left them. He had no intimation from any one in the District of a desire to post- pone the bil, It was reported on the first day of he session, and there had been abundant time to examine it, In reply to Mr. Thurman’s objection that the rate of taxation was too high, Mr. Mor- rill said the people of this District cuuld not ex- pect the government to stand behind their great aebt and hot puy a reasonable sum themselves, He thought the rate xed in the bill a reasonable one under the circumstances. Next year it could be changed, ay the pill fixed the rate for the pres- ent year oniy. Mr. BAYARD said he thought the pill was too lengthy. He could point to several plac lines were used to give expression to wna be gatd tn one line. As to taxation in thi trict, it was a mystery to him, and, compared with the rates in his Owu State, was monstrous. Mr. MORRILL said he believed the property hold- ing, suostuntial taxpaying people of this commu- nity Were in favor o! the bill, It was in the interest of honest government, and was degigued, in his judgment, to relieve the District from she Beriboa emuss panics it ne been struggitng. e ator Would examine it it his careial consideration, ianibeh ps: ewe rag NA es shes ae ont the word in the bill wherever it occurred \" sert “Commissioners.” verge Mr. HAMILTON, (dem.) of Ind., said he was a member of the committee which reported the bill, and he was ready to Lead fe any reasonable amend- ment, All that be desired was honest government idea | NEW YORK: HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1%, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. - til after the holidays it would be antagonized ‘with the appropriation bills and other bills of im- portance. By unanimous consent the bill was then laid over Uti to-morrow, Mr. Hakvey, (rep.) of Kan., gave notice that aiter the morning hour to-morrow be would ask the Senate to consider the House bil to confirm pre-emption and homestead ensries of public lands ‘Within the limits of railroad grants in cases where such entries have been made under the regula- tions of the Land Department. Mr, PRAT? moved that the House bill to amend the act granting pensions to certain soldiers of the war oj 1812 and the widows of deceased sol- diers, approved February 14, 1871, and to restore to the pension rolls those persons whose namee were stricken therefrom in consequence of their disloyalty, be taken up for consideration on Mon. day uext, after the expiration of the morning hour, Rejecteo—Yeas 29, pays 17, two-thirds not voting tn the affirmativ Mr, HITCHCOCK, (rep.) of Neb,, introduced @ Dil extending the provisions of the act entitled “An gct to settle certain accounts between the United States and the state of Mississippi and other States,” approved March 3, 1857, to States admitted into the Union since that date. Kelerred to the Committee on Public Lande, Mr. JOHNSTON, (dem.) of Va., introduced a bill to aid the Washington, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad Company to construct a narrow gauge railway from tide water to the clites of St. Lowe nd) CBISRED> Rejerred to the Committee on Rati- roads, Mr. HiITcHcock introduced a dill $o establish the Inventors’ Insitute anc Patent Emporium end Patent Manufacturing Company in tne District of Columbia, Reserred to the District Committee. The Crain laid before the Senate a memorial of the citizens of Arkangas for the revision of the act of April 10, 1869, extending ceriain privileges tu the settlers on public lands, Committee on Public Lands. Also & memoria) Irom citizens of that State for an extension of time tor filing clams tor the pay- ment of stores furpished the army by soya) citi- zens in the tnsurrectionary States. Reierred to the Cominittee/on Claims. The Cuaik laid before the Senate a communica- tion fom W. L. McMillan, claiming to be Sevator from Louisiana, and asking speedy action in hia. case, Referred to the Committve on Privileges and Elections, Mr, CHANDLER Moved that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the bill to revise, amend and consolidate the laws relating to security of life on board vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, which was Sgroed to, and the bill was partially read and vben laid over, The CialR announced as @ member of the Com- Iitvee on Claims, Mr. Pease, (rep.) of Miss., co fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Boreman, The Senate then, at four P. M,, on motion of Mr. OGLESBY, (rep.) Of Ill., proveeded to the considera- tion of ‘executive business, and at tweaty-live Minutes past four o’clock P. M, the doors were re- Opened and the Senate adjourned, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WasuINaton, Dec. 16, 1874, Mr, MAYNARD, (rep.) of Tenn., from the Banking Committee, reported back favorably. a biil to amend the Internal Revenue law by increasing the tax on the circulation of national banks from one-twellth to one-fourth of one per cent. per month, Rejerred to the Committee of the Whole, Mr. YouNG, (dem.) of @a., from the Committee on Military Affars, reported a bill tor the relief of certain States and Territones on account of ord- nance stores issued during the ate civil war. Re- committed. Mr. WARD, (rep. of N. J., was appointed on the joint Senate committee on the reception of the King of \he Hawaiian Islands, instead of Mr. Hoar, excused, ‘The SPEAKER stated that in announcing yesterday the select committee to visit Vicksburg he nad omitted to mention that the reason why he had not appointed Mr. MAKEE, (rep.) of Miss., who had offered the resolution, as chairman of the commit- tee, aa required by parliamentary usage, was that gentieman’s own request, APPROPRIATIONS. The House then, at twenty minutes past twelve P.M, went into Committee of the Whole, Mr. Ek. H, Roberts, (rep.) of N. Y., in tne chair, on tne Legis:ative Appropriation bill. ~ ‘rhe amendments indicated iast Monday vy Mr. Wheeler, (rep.) of N.Y. on the sudjec: of the National Asylum for Disabied Volunteer Soldiers were offered, explained and adopted. They reduce’ the clericai iorce in the Second Anditor’s bureau trom 40 to 87 Glerks of class 3; {rom 79 to 73 clerks 0. class 2, aud irom 60 to 45 clerks of class 1. ‘They repeal 80 much of the act of the 3d of March, 1865, incorporating the Asylum as appropriates to its support all stoppages, fines, &c., imposed on soldiers or officers by court martial; all jorfeitures on account oJ desertion, and all unclaimed moneys due to deceased soldiers and Officers, and they provide jor the support of the Asylum by a direct appropriatiou—that for toe next fiscal year being . WHEELER congratulated the committee on having saved by 118 action $100,000 jur the next fiscal year on a Very moderate computation, THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE AGAIN, A paragraph for the purchase of postage stamps for tne Treasury Department gave rise to a dis- cussion, in which the question of @ restoration of tne frauking privilege came ap. Mr, G. F. Hoar, (rep.) of Mass,, asked Mr. Gar- field whether there bad been any diminution of the Post Office deficit by means of the abolition of the frankiog privilege? Mr. GaRFIBLD, (rep.) of Ohio, said he did not know; but he believea that were it not jor that aoolition the Post Ofice deficit would have been greater. Mr, HoAR—Does not the gentleman know that the deficit has increased? Mr, GARFIELD—I know that the deficit has in- creased, but | believe that the repeal o: the irank- ing privilege has, to a considerable extent, in- creased tne revenues of the Post Office Depart- ment. How much [ do not know. I am compelled, however, to say tnat Ido not belleve that the re- eee of the franking privilege has been as great a leasing as 1 believed at the time it would be, Still {do not think we should give it up without a full trial, [do not think that one year’s trial is enough. That year was an annus mirabilis—o difficult year—a year of famine and of distress; Not a fair year to judge of the effect of the reform, year’s trial with a democr: Ouse, and then with this double vision, we can see stereoscopi- cally and determine the Ty chine Mr. KELLBY, (rep.) Of hoped the paragraph would be struck out and the franking privilege restored. He had it not on his congcience that he had ever voted for its. repeal, and he had tne satisfaction of knowing that whenever his vote impited favor to its restoration he had given it, He belteved that the free circulation of the agri- cultural report in one year more than paid all the frauds that might have been practised under it, The repeal haa been obtained by fraud in the get- ting up of memorials by order of the Postmaster General to bis 40,000 subordinates, and there was @ further fraud on the Postmaster General’s oMcial statement that the repeal would save $5,000,000 a year. It had not saved $1,000,000, nor $100,000, He asked a restoration of the people’s rights; the free intercourse between the peopie and their representatives. Mr. MaYNARD, (rep.) of Tenn., also condemned the repeal of the (ranking privilege as tending to Temiove the government still further from the people. So fur {rom being @ reform, in the true sense of the word, it bad operated solely to cut off free communication between the people and their representatives, ter further discussion Mr. Merriam’s motion to strike out the items for oficial postage atamps was rejected—T1 to 77. After progressing as far as the forty-secona page the committee rose, Mr. BUTLER, (rep.) Of Mass., from the Judictary Commitiee, reported the Suppiementary Civil Rights blll, Ordered to be printed and recommit- for the District, and he thought this bill would sooomplish that If the bil showd De postponed | ted.. ‘The House then, at tour o'clock P. M., adjourned, as ~ rare IRONY AND HUMOR *~ A Lecture by Mr. Weiss, at Steinway Hall—Wit, Humor and Irony Illus- trated, . Kiectiiré was delivered last night in Stetaway Hall by the Rev. John Weiss on “Irony and Humor.” The hall was only partially filled by an audience that was very largely composed of ladies and gentlemen of Teutonic and Hebraic descent, Mr. Weiss commenced Nis lecture by stating that irony was manifested fn nature before {€ was developed in literature. Irony was tilustrated in Mar. Thackeray's definition of high-minded inten- tions tn Becky Sharpe. Of this the great author gave us his views and his abhorrence in “Vanity Fair.” Ivis @ case of irony where Mr. Lovell speaks of Dante’s acquaintance with the Scrip- tures, and says ‘They do even a scholar no harm." In the Old Testament there is an instance of irony in the priest; of 1 story, When irony becomes persistently cynical tt defeats its end in imparting that instruction to men for which it was designed. [rot ould piaue our desires to make inquiries, Thackeray’s novel of “Philip” abounds in irony. If irony does not for- Ret 00d nature in its expression tt becomes wit. cynical vein of irony was illustrated in the character of Jaques, in ‘‘As You Like It,” when he tells Orlando, “1 was seeking for a fool when I Jound you.” The melancholy of Jaques is the cynicism of # man who is used up, ‘he uality of wit exists wherever the imagination fMiters through w derstanding. The sediment ie: gold dust of wit. Sarcasm and with an imperfect moral tem} appears best in connection wi of Northern Earope. There is a comic passage in the temperament the “Inierno” of Dante. The opening verses of the tenth canto of the “Paradise” are aiso comic. Irony 18 jest slightly behind gravity. Humor ts paoteg al ney, vehind the jest. Humor ig man’s device to satisfy man for the painful things that perplex us in this worid. Where there 1s no sense Of incongruity there can be no humor. The laughter of man is the contentment of God, ‘The lecture was concluded with a brief presenta- Mon of the religious alde of Syakespeare. Reterred to the | Let us give it another year’! Nie us have one~ Ic NEW YORK CITY, Afire on the first floor of No, 143 Greenwich street, yesterday afternoon, destroyed of property belonging to Adam Beiite. The Exective Committee of the State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, continued in session yes- terday, but transacted merely routine business, Katy O'Hara, aged five yeara, of No. 40 Watts street, was scverely burned yesterday afternoon about the face and hands by her clothing taking fire from a stove In her restacnee, Oharies Vatiere, forty-five years of age, of No, 22 Scammel street, jell last evening through the hatchway of the steamship Republic, lying at plier 62 North River, and waa severely injured. Patrick Hickey, of No. 242 East Seventy-fiith copal church, at Mariner’s Harbor, are making pre rations for a holiday Jair and New Engiand itchen. ‘The Rev, Mr. Miburn told nis ytory of (What @ $26 worth | Bind Man Saw in England” last evening before ® large audience, at the Kingsley Methodist Epis copa) chureh, stapierou, A delegation of the residents of the northwest shore, at Factoryville, calied upon the Pilot Com- miasioners @ day or tivo ago in regard to tne changes now being made in the Kill Von Kul) by the dyking Operations oj General Newton, The Board decided to hear them at their next meet- ing. NEW JERSEY. Tne accidents on the Pennsylvania Ratiroad are street, while at work yesteiday afternoon 10 | pecoming feariuily numerous in Jersey City. Yes- bigbty-seventh street, near First avenue, strack his foot with a pickaxe, severely injuring himeelt, A servant dropped a iighted match upon some clothing in the basement of No. 60 West Fourth street last eveniug and caused a tire which de- stroyed $25 worth of the property of Mr. Thomas Reynolda, , A horse knocked Join Long down and trampled on him in the boree market at the foot of Seventy- fourth street, Eest River, last evening. Long’s Jelt leg was severely hurt and he was takea to Bellevue Hospital, Coroner Woltman was yesterday notified to hold an inquest at No, 471 Washington street on the body of Ann McCarthy, a woman thirty-one years of age, Who died suddenly without medical atd and sige @ brief tiness, Deceased wae a native of Ire- and. Officer Whelan, of the Ninth precinct, was amus- ing himself in the sitting room of the station house yesterday afternoon, when his pistal fell (rom his coat pocket to tie floor and was discharged. The contents of the weapon lodged in the left leg of Oficer Rector. Alfred Aidridge, & colored man, who resides at No. 105 Wooster street, fell from a scaffold on which he had been standing to whitewash at the rear of the second story of No. 100 Nassau street yesterday aiternvon, Having fractured his colar bone he was taken to the Park Hospical. Rev, Dr, M. Schlesinger, of Albany, N. Y., will lecture this evening before the Young Men’s As- sociation of the Congregation Ahawath Chesed at their rooms, corner o! Lexington avenue and Fifty-filth street, on “The Translations of the Bible and Their Influence on Civilization.” Paul Falk was arraigned at the Essex Market Police Court yesterday on a charge of violating the Sunday law. The warrant for his arrest was issued on the 6th of Beoeeres jast vy Justice Otterbourg, but as Mr. Falk was very 1) at the time it was not executed, Judge Kilbretn yester- day held him in $600 bail to answer, which bait was Ce Ey MET by Frederick Berg- hardt, of No. 303 Bowery. A large number of the most ‘prominent ladtes and gentlemen of St. Peter’s (Episcopal) parish, Of this city, have organized themselves into a charitable body, and are rapidly pushing forward the benevolent work of sasisting the destitute b: collecting and dispo"ing of contributions of food, ratment, &c., to the really needy. To-morrow (riday) might they give a choice entertainment of Mrs, Jariey’s wax figures at St. Peter’s Hall, on West Twentieth street. An inquest was yesterday held by Ooroner Eick- hoff im the case of Jacob Schaffer, a boy nearly ten years of age, who Was killed on the 5th alt., in Canal street, near Washington, by being run over by dummy engine No. 7 attuched to a freight train ot cars belonging to the Hudson River Raiiroad Company. The jury rendered a verdict of acci- dental death, Deceased, who lived at No, 520 West Tnirtieth street, it {s supposed, got aboard the train without authority to ride up town. Atareguiar meeting of the Young Men’s Wo- man Sulfrage League, held last evening in Plimp- ton Building, Stuyvesant street, J. K. H, Wilcox presiding, an address was delivered by Christo- pher Oscanyan on the subject of woman suffrage. He compared the oanes of women in England and America, and said that the inequality be- tween men and women in this country was a blot upon the escutcheon of the Republic. He algo dealt with the usual arguments in regard to the necessity of a vote fdr'sell-protection. ~ In the course of the lecture ie described the con- dition of women in Turkey, where a temale would think it immodest to appear unveticd. This he ascribed to her education im that particular, and when education can do so much in the wrong direction what could it not do if exercised iu favor ot woman suffrage ? BROOKLYN. ‘The receipts for taxes on Tuesday amounted to $86,776. From January 1 the rebate on tax bills will cease. Afire broke out at the residence of Rev. Dr. Snively, rector of Grace churéh, on the Heights, esterday morning, owing to a deiective fue. The {eas caused is about $500. Yesterday the special committee of the Board of Supervisors who have been engaged upon an investigation into tne affairs of the county insti- tutions submitted their report. The main fea- tures of the report have been heretofore pub- lushed. Justice Pratt yesterday granted a mandamus in the case of Cooper and Crowning, to compel tne Supervisors to audit the payroll of the Board of Charity Commissioners for May, June and Jul; last, ag far as the parties named are concerne: The Board subsequently passed the payrolls, LONG ISLAND. Mr. Franklin A. Darling:bas been appointed postmaster at East Setauket. While Miss Catharine Meviner, residing at Glen. wood, was driving home from: Gsrden City on Monday evening, her horse took fright and, shear- ing suddenly, threw her from the wagon, Her head was dashed against @ pile of stones, She | was taken 0p unconscious and conveyed home, where she died on Tuesday morning. Much complaint is made on the south side of the island, and espectaliy in Suffolk county, that the appropriation of $5,000 to provide payment for the site of the life-saving stations on the Sonth Beach, has been cut’ down to $2,000, and that a committee pues to see to the disburse- ment of the money have not yet attended to the uty. ‘The residence of William Emmet at High Bridge, town of Jamaica, was entered by @ burglar on Tuesday afternoon, and & large quantity of wear- ing apparel was stolen, The varglar was sur- prised while at work ransacking the house, and made his escape by jumping from a second story window. Chase was {mmediately given, but the thie! succeeded in reaching the woods and made good his escape. The new Episcopal charch at Richmond Hil, known as the Church of the Resurrection, will be consecrated to-day by the Right Rev, A. N. Little- jobn, Bishop of Long island, assisted by the Rev. ‘homas Cook, head of the Associate Mission of the diocese of Long Island in Suffolk county, and the clergy of the surroundiug parishes. This church was formerly & mission of Grace church, Jamaica}; the parish was organized oa the 27th of April last, and admitted to the Convention on the 19th o} May. The Rev. Joshua Kimber, formerly of Flash- ing, is rector, Ground was broken for the new building on the'sth of July, and the corner stone as laid on, ng sth, The services to-day wtil commence At ha pot Sigy: nn 9’¢ of Oregon Will preach in even! ae. An effort is now making to secure tho Sonstrnc: tion of the proposed Bay Ridge Railroad by the ist of May next, The total cost {tis estimated ill not exceed $400,000, and operations will be Sinmencea a8 s00n ig 100,000 shall have been subscribed, ten per cent of which will be required to be paid down. The line will be as followa:— Peet og Oe) on the bay of New York at or near Bay Ridge, ip the towp of Hon treo and run- ning thence by the mos rect route Ly through Kings county and ied hrough Queeli county and through the Yil! oY Fags New York and Wood Haven, with vranches to the vil- lage of Bath and to Coney isiand. The ent: length of the road will be about fifteen miles. committee of prominent gentlemen are now €n- gaged in obtaining subscriptions. ‘The Ucean Hotel, at Far Rockaway, owmtd and ocoupled by Henry McDermott, was, with most.of its contents, totally destroyed by fire at an early hour on Tuesday morn: The origin of the fire ig at present unknown, bat there is @ suspicion that it was the work of The first y roused by the and were forced to make their escape as ly a8 possible, with Buch articles of po G n ye smoke, speedii; clothing as they were able to huddie on ina ourry. ‘The Fire —what there artment of the villa; is of it—arrived promptly did all tn their ‘Power. to Without avail. advantages, and, desides, a strong gale blew fro: the ocean, causing the flames to ppread with great rapidity. The property, with all the furniture and fxtores, was in the hands of the sheriff, on execu: curion for debt, and had een advertised for sale under three executions. Ti short of $10,000, on which {sa partial insurance, but in what companies could not be learned. STATEN ISLAND, — Mr. Julius Credo, Treasurer of the village of Edgewater, reports a balance of $4,207 04 in the | village treasury. The ladies of the Summerfield Methodiay Epis Cy ie hop fps Ree, Rune @ loss will not fall far | | | | | i | ge terday morning a destitute German, named Henry Detzel, while waiking along the track at the Baldwin avenue crossing, was run over and had both lega taken of, The trial of Klenen, the defaulting cashier of the Hoboken Bank, and that of Hamilton, the default- ing Treasurer of Jersey City, have heen postponed for the present. District Attorney Garretson states, however, that born cases will be taken up during the present term, The rumor that Rey. Mr. Wall, Moderator of the Jersey City Presbytery, would decline to appear in the pulpit of Giendenning’s church next Sunday and read the judgment is unfounded. The Mod- erator will appear at the morning service and carry out the decree of the Presbytery. If a ma- jority of the congregation should ‘pursue any course ip opposition to that judgment a special meeting of the Presbytery is to be calied to have the chured stricken irom the roll, PIRES IN NEW JERSEY. The greenhouses of Mra, David Hunter, of Lodi, were destroyed by fire on Monday night, and the plants that escaped the Names soon succumbed to the coid, the thermometer indicating a tempera- ture of five degrees below zero, ‘The total joss is estimated at $10,000, of which $4,000 was on the greenhouses and $6,000 on the stock. There was no insurance whatever, such @ thing as the barn- ing of a greenhouse being aimost unprecedented. Toe Harrison street depot in Passaic was entirely destroyed by fire about ten o'clock on Tuesday night. It is supposed, as the fire was first discovered im the roof, that the origin waa At Jospmodye spark ane fire depart- men’ 0 render ttle assistance, owing t6 the Nhadequate guppy of water is that art of the city. The station agent, A yhite, lived with his family iy the depot, but knew nothing o; yaa, rue structure was enveloped in james, and had barely time to escape with his life, ali his furniture and clothing being destroyed. The depot was erected six or seven years ago at the expense of the property owners of the vicinity, and was valued at about $4,000, It will prooably bo rebuilt by the railway company. It is a singular fact that Mr. J. O. Mercellus, whose palatial resi- dence is Mm the vicinity, who originated the idea of this depot and gave the land upon which it was Duilt and $1,000 in money, died, a few hours after the destruction of the depot, from diphtheria, POLICE TRIALS, A Case of Perjury—Why Officer Kearney Woauldn’t Ride to a Funeral with Roundsman McBride. At the police trials yesterday afternoon Com- missioner Voorhis presided, The principal cases investigated were those of Patroiman Fitzsim- mons, of the Fourteenth precinct, and Rounds- man John D. Post, of the Thirteenth, The former officer is charged with perjury. He had become hopeless of defending himsel{ from the accusation, and therefore delivered up hia shield and volun- tarily retired irom duty several daysago. The substance of the testimony against him ts as fol- | lows :—Ontef Clerk Hawley was induced several | weeks ago to look over the oath books of | the department, aod he found in them two | affidavits looking very much _altke, One-was | dated August 23, 1865, and was signed James Fitz- | simmions; the other bore the date June 3, 1873, and the signature James W. Fitzsimmons, The handwriting in both papers was the same. Their only poinis of difference were between the names James aud James W. Fitzsimmons, the dates of Dirth and the dates when the dual Fitzsimmons became a citizen, or perhaps it would be better to say, became citizens, Investigation into the life LITERATURE. What the French Authors Are Doing. LOUIS VEUILLOT’S NEW BOOK | Christ’s Message to the Whole World. Panis, Dec. 1, 1874. Some extremely improper novels have appeared this month, a8 usual, in Paris, One of the most outrageous is called “LA FAUTE DU MARI,’? by M, H, Rividre, It relates the story ofa French oMcer of high literary attataments who mariies & middle-aged lady with some reiuctance, and dis- covers that she is of too cold a temperament to further his ideas of domestic bliss. He, therefore, supplements her conversation with that of a young creole widow, Who 18 of so ardent @ disposition that she burns herself out and diea just at the moment when ler lover's fortune, which he has stolen from 4 pious aunt, 18 utterly consumed io the flames, which have also devoured the crevle widow. In this disconsolate state he goes Into an uncomfortable lodging and prepares to starve. He does starve, in fact, partly {rom cold, partly from hunger; skuiks about the streets, too, with no definite object, uncheered by wholesome 1ood or drink, Meantime, however, the middle-aged lady has lit up her fires and steams after him at high pressure, declaring that she is ready to burn as flercely ag he desires. Much alarmed by her spirit and enterprise he decamps from one bare attic to another, and then she seta an errand boy and an old colonel upon his track and they succeed in stalk- ing him, Tne middle-aged lady, who has inherited an enormons French fortune amounting to severg) thousand dollars yearly, and which looks consider- able when translated tnto francs, spends a portion of her newly acquired substance in providing him with copying work to do at remunerative prices; and fattening him @ little before she discloses her Tesolve to be reconciled with him whether he will ornot. When he has become somewhat plump she writes to him a letter full of lurid flashes of impropriety; and he ts so slarmed by it that he makes at once for the seacoast. Several things Dave happened, meanwhile, with astonishing rapidity. While the fugitive military man was making flesh he has likewise made q literary reputation as great as that of M. Victor Hago, General Trochu and Colonel Stoffel rolled into one, and his wife has miraculously given birth toason who could run as soon as ke was porn. She confides this child to a vigorous minded widow, who takes the boy to her rupaway bus- band’s last place of refuge, and flirts with him in a highly courageous manner, but in his wife’s in- terest; till, after the lapse of a few days, the widow catches fire and writes to her friend that she can find no safety from the military and literary man’s assiduities but in fight, M. Rividre does not make it cleat to us whether bis second widow ran away quite s00n enough, lor she and the military man | pass their evenings habitually Sogether at the sea. | side without any other company than a piano and @ child who conveniently goes to sleep. However, she takes herseif off at last, and leaves the child behind her tor the military man to wash and dress, After this queer husband has had time enough, in M. Riviére’a opinion, to become suMiciently attached to his. miraculous offspring, his wife atrives at the seaside by an express train and formally declares her intention of muking tt up on the warmest terms possible. But the hus- band, who has become attached to his wife's | friend, rejects the middle-aged lady’a proposals with extreme harshness and scolds her in two pages of post octavo, after which they have a | stand-up fight of the most wordily explosive | character, in which the middle-aged lady, who has of Officer James W. bitzsimmons, of the Four- teenth precinct, was ordered, and it was devel- oped that he was the man who was appointed to the police force in September, 1865, and dismissed in October, 1866. A charge wag then made against him of having perjured himself when he applied | for appointment to the police force in 1872, by swearing that he was never on the force and that he was nut thirty years old. Chiefs Clerk Hawley and a number of policemen who knew Pitgsimmons when he was in the Sixth precinct ip 1865-6 testified against him. The case was referred to the full Board, and the officer will | provably be dismissed 1rom the force at the semt- ‘weekly meeting to-morrow. The charge against Roundsman Jonn D, Post, | of the Thirteenth precinct, was that he was away from his duty for more than forty-tive minutes, which time he spent in an office at the foot of Delancey street. ie testimony was Very confict- ing, as it tatualty at trials of policemen, That person who wishes to retain a good opinion of | Men, an idea that they will select and main. | tain the good agamst all temptations, had better not attend such trials. If he disregards this caution, however, and 18 not possessed of a tenacious and an analytical intellect, he will leave the court room at Police He: | shocked and grieved, and debating in hi whether to exclude policemen from consideration With the rest of mankind, and class them as the | ‘MO3T DEPRAVED OR MOST GULLIBLE of men, or to give up his theory of the universal ee of good. After the above flight it will be etter to stick to detail, lest the writer should be taken jor s prose Tapper. Mr. McSherry was once on the police force, unttl the Commissioners felt it their duty torelieve him of his ardaous lavors, Roandsman Post was one of the who helped to influence the minds or the Commis- sioners, Mr. McSherry himself was another. He has felt pot “altogether lovely” toward the Toundsmapn since he has been t Prete, and, vi) ia hoped, @ worthy citizen. On thé lith tnst., after | one o’clock A. M., Mr. McSherry entered the Thir- te Pig ia By He met ie kiud-lookin, ergeant Ryan, an er several ‘aterio i= quit 3 ager ae te Clinica, is (iformed pe te athe kne ere & vouple of policemen were ‘so sweetly dreaming’ when they ought to have been on duty. He said that he had seen Kounds- man Post go tnto the office of Cari Smith at the foot of Delancey street, and that he knew that the reous ofcer was im the wabit of reposing therein. Roundsman McBride was sent to look into the maiter. He testified yesterday that he watched the ofMce for forty-five minutes, and then, open- ing the door, he saw Post inside, The latter testi- fied in nis defence that he bad only been in the omce three or four minutes, and that he had gone | into it at the request of @ citizen to watch, from | the rear windows, some river thieves whom the citizen said were operating on a vessel at the | dock. Five or gix officers testified that the met Roundsman Post on their posta durin| the time 1 McBride swore he was in Smith's ice. Post offered to) prove that both McSherry oad Mouride had animus | Qgainst him, the former for having taken part ih procuring nfs Jigmiswal from oy jolice force and op Hot nevitg to him since uulicer Kearney refused to ride with him to Roundsman Toots’ funeral, saying at the time he would not ride with @ man whom he once had “by the nape of the neck and had eng te he IplApd. n, There was, indeed, a desire to Wash some Very airy linen"? before Commissioner Yi iy ou he refused to allow anything to ot uid that We not closely connected with hgrge veing tried. WEsTON'S NEWARK TRAMP, Ove® Haif His Work Done in Three Days—Thirty Miles Ahead of His New York Time. Ata quarter to five o'clock yesterday morning, after @ rest of four hours and @ half, Weston started on the third Gay of bis 500 mile tramp at the Rink in Newark, He was in good spirits and | good condition physically. When he stopped at eleven minutes past tweive, on the completion of his second day, he had then finished 190 miles. n° Ss } atoto must sometimes regret that it {8 a faise light, probably @ shrill voice, ultimately gets the best of jit. She tells her husband that he cannot desert | his own son, and he replies tbat he has not got one, ts) M. Ghio. Tuere ts enough {n it to 4 sf the most inveterate card-player, LMS posi. y envugs to relorm, him, because a gambier w . ever give up his game while he bas a dollir o cout, The only wonder Is that the card-sliarpi’ traternity in Paria are stil! able to carry on Sliei" rogueries after they Rave been exposed With suct a tirm and cunning uand by M. Cavalié. M. Deptu, the publisher, bag issued & romance entitled “LA -SIRENE, SOUVENIR DE Capa,” by M. Gustave Toudouzs., i 1s a pretty little trifle ofonly 100 pages, and relates a tantastic ad- venture of which & young poet 1s tue unlortanate hero; and he meets with his death in @ tempest, being lured to abipwreck by the siren. u- douze has @ rich tinagination, a picturesque style, and an exquisite taleni for description. His DOOK, Uhough 80 short, reveals @ remarhavie erudition, and is the effort of a scbolar and @ gentleman who hever writes at random, A German library just opened at No, 9 in the Rue Jacod has issued @ book entitled “LES MYSTERES COMIQUES D& LA PROVINCE.” It contains some admirable episodes borrowed from the best French story tellers, and may serve a8 an agreeable educational book Jor young Ger- ™Ma4Ns desirous of acquiring & good French vocadu- lary, because a transiation of ali the dificult and vosolete words ia printed at the bottom of each page. ihe authoris Dr. J, Baumgarten, and he a8 Made 20 amusing collection of popular French parases, resting on the best authority. Tne vole ume aa pppeeded by a learned introduction and followed by a vocabulary containing 1,200 French words seldom met wth in current literature, The Ne’ ear’s books this year are very bumer- ous, M. Paul Lacroix bas given us the “DIX-HUITIBME BIECLE: ITUTIONS, USAGES ET COSTUMES,"” in which he shows us France as it was between 1700 and 1789, M, Lacroix has not concerned bim- seli for his readers with the dry facts o. history as told for the uae.of schools. He has produced & much more valuable Barrative Oo! the manuers apd customs of the time, both public and private, and has shown us bow the immediate ancestors of the present generation of Fremchmen dressed aud looked and acted on the world’s stage. He has wriiten, too, and written well, on the state ot lee ters, art and science in the pertod of which he treats, and has presented us with @ picturesque @ud interesting narrative of the characters and persouages Who surrounded the ste, of France waen Lor. were great and powerful. Ths spieadid git book Is flustrated by tweuty-one caromo-litho- raphs and 350 engravings on Wood aiter Watteau, Yan Loo, Lavcret, Boucher, Chardin, Jegurat, Bouchardon, Saint-Aubin, Eisen and Moreau, its price, beautifully bound and magaifcently gilt, 1s 40 francs, or about half tne cost of Englisi high Class gift books, ‘yes03 by Lonts Venillon win Be” ME yy Loni ‘eniliot, with an “Es: Christian Art,” by EB. Gurley, & Meath iS of reputation, 1@ another magnificently tilus- trated book for the New Year. The first part of it announces the coming of Christ As necessary jor the regeneration of mankind, The second part relates the life of the Kedeemer in that classic abd exquisite style of which M. Louis Veutilot is so consummate a master. Catn- oles wiil read it witb profound gratitude and rey- erence; all must read {t with admiration and de- light. Tne third part gives Christ's Message to the World, and the principal idea of the book is the utterance of an anthem of thanksgiving over the blessings Which wie Church has orough! upon eurth, This work 1s illustrated by sixteen chromo- luthographs and 180 wood engravings, taken trom the monumenjs of Christian art from the Cata- combs to thisday. The iilustrations include paint- ing, sculpture and arcaitecture, and gre an avridged nistory oi church embeilishments since the dawn of Christianity. Only 300 provf copies of the book will be printed, Price 40 irancs, Volumes XIX, and XX, jor the year 1574 of the “MAGASIN DIEDUCATION ET DE RECREATION,” by MM. P. J, Stat) and J. Verne, have beep pub lushea by Jean Macé, and forma valuable Christ- mias present. They contain, awong other um tant writings, an excellent narrative of ‘Ae! Wrecks,” which is the frst part of the ‘“Myaster oua Island,” @ charming story, by M. Vern “L'His‘oire d'un Ane et de Deox Jeunes Filles pretty, innocent story, by Stan; “Une Mere Per. e¢vérante,” by BE. Legouvé, a name which ranks nmgh in Frenon literature, and an infinite number 01 stories, barratives and articles on science and morality, by very able writers, It is ihasirated by 800 excellent drawings, and should only cost $2 50, well bouad and delivered, at New York. Awong other pew puolications oi note which have oeen issued ‘this month in Paris are some which will have a peculiar interest tor ladies, “UART DANS LA PARURE BT DANS LE VETEMENT!? is one of them, It is written by M. Charles Biano, member ofthe Institute of France, a high author- ity on such subjects, and it 18 pubiished by Loones, M, Bianc is the firat writer Who has tried to dis- cover the invariable jaws which preside over the fashious, hitherto supposed to be the most capri- cions things in the world, and he has laid down the ruies aud principles of the art 0) dress- ing becomingly. He snows, by philosophic rea- gos, Dot less than observations on taste and cps- tom, and by 8 delicate sense of the becoming, that vhe human figure should always be adorned in ac- ordagce With the true principles of beauty ae in- Sicoted by the diversity 9f conditions, faces and character. M. Blatic has composed a curious and | foMtad aot Wilbe useful Yor fates’ to consult It is profusely illustrated and costs $8 in Paris, ~ “HISTOIRE DES BVENTAIL3, BY M. 8 BYONDEL,”” 1s a record Of the vicissitudes of fans, printed upon | apparently refusing to accept the miracle which | has been performed to bring htm back to the paths | of duty. His wife persists im asserting that she has really produced an active boy of four years | old at least tna few months, and the husband te | at length touched by this phenomenon, and sub- mits to his fate with such resignation that when the widow, who was sent to hunt him down, tarns { ‘up again shortly afterwards, he is quite insensible to her advances and altogether absorbed in teach- ing his surprising chtid the art of warfare ina drawing room, where @ moderator lamp is burn- ing to make all things pleasant, Tae novel closes | with the middle-aged iady’s repentance for the | early chilliness of her behavior, and with the as- Burance that the love of her latter days is of as j fervent @ description as a military man could | wish. Indeed, she and the Colonel who advises her | Sppear to be constantly lighting smal! wood under | it thati¢ may blaze up and roar like a furnace j under the influence of a pair of bellows. Ali these people—the fiery literary soldier and his flery | wile, the Colonel who works the bellows, the miraculous child and the courageous widow are held up to us. ag models of wisdom and virtue, So fs the other widow, the creole, whose romantic | attachment to 8 married man is explained with | much candor and pathos, So that upon the whole, if we are to take M. Riviere as a moral teacuer | whose lessons should be followed, we must forget ! @ great deal which we have learned from divines | by M. Amédée Achard, and “Le Mari de Char- lotte,” by an anonymous writer, are only & | ttle less startling tn the views-of lite which | they bring before us. They describe a topsy- turvy world, wherein the Decalogue is set at deflance an@ brought to @ general state of ruin. They must do a great deal ot harm to thoughtless people, for they are exquisitely written, They abound tn epigrama which one cannot help rememoering, if one would, and they put all naughtiness in a light so rosy that even a Ui we could really go about the world taking other people’s wives on short leases, supping with their daughters and. their widows amid, universal hap- piness and festivity; if we could rob our friends | and relatives and still be rewarded with the loye, a get of all Sound ae aie Che only made the purer because we have not deserved it; with corn and wine and much gold heaped up in plenty about our dwellings, though we have not earned J while the ay teit-deaylng people hext door appeared to every one as dull dogs un- worthy of notice, why, then, the trade of tne hero and the worker would be but @ poor one, not overcrowded, Thus much is certain; let us hope No more for decency’s sake. The French | novels, which givo so wild and untruthful a de. scription of life, sell largely, or they would not be | pubished by M. Lévy, wno is a very sirewd man | Of business and knows his public. It is only Going justice 10 one of the first publishers in Paris to add | that M. Lévy brings out other books besides er- | pats novels under the sanction and warranty of name. r “LE QUATRE GRANDS HISTORIENS pete by M. D. Nisard, is @ Work which will repay the at. tention of scholars. French authors woo treat of Roman history are seldom accurate in their facta, and M. Nisard is no exception to this unlucky quite as elastic making good time, seemed to make no special effort to indulge in “spurts,” Hertofore, according to his attending physician, Weston has never walked over Hity miles without raising water blisters on | the soles of ‘his feet; but this time, thus far, his | Jeet have continued entirely iree of these annoy- | in jpediments to progress, At noon time the | er trian took @ rest of 68 min. 48 sec., and was hen twenty-seven miles ahead of the time he | shown oa the firstday, and, while | made in New York. In other words, at the time he had made his 108th mile in New York he had made in Newank 225, noon and evening he kept up a good galt, ! making some @ his miles in irom eleven to , twelve minutes, lt was expected at the close of | this report that when he stopped for his long rest at midnight that he would have completed in the three days 270 mil themee! confident he will succeed this time, Thu he attendance of citizens bas been ii | meagre in the extreme, although the Rink is pleasantly lit up and heated. [tis the general im- pre a though, that Weston’s people made a rea fign. mistake ip placing the entrance tariff so During yesterday forenoon he walked with astep | ject | be sound ; German historians, It is no idle compilment to | and truthful. M. Thiers, fol Throughout the after- | tad He and his attendants declare | almost invariably discuga their sub- e view, which rarely to in ore writings of English or Bay that the reader rises from the perusal oh * French history with much clearer ideas-than after | studying the same narrative of events in English, Anachronisms and doubtiul statements are to be met with by the score and by the hundred io French histories, but the Cate effect is vivid instance, las written an incredible amount of nonsense dbout Napoleon L, but, alter ali, he has produced a iaithful picture of the conqueror and his times. M. Nisart d, up to the jevel of M. Thiers, but bis pages | may be read with considerable instruction and in- | finite amusement, “TRAGALDABAS,"” | by M. A. Vacquerie, is apother work oe by | M. Lévy. Ib & curious study, balf French, half Spanish, in which the refnement of woman's love 18 oddly allied to buffoonery. The end of it is bur- lesque anu absurd to the last degree; but there is | 8 vein Of thought, as pure as virgin gold, running | ail shrongh it. | “LES PILOUTERIES DU JEU," by M. Cavalié, ex-Inspector of the Prefecture of exquisitely tinted paper, with numerous en- gravings 01 artistic and bistoricai fans of diverse e] 8 10 Bi countries. 1ts price is $2. M. Blondes complains, with great truth, tuat up to the present date the history of fans has noi recetyed suiticient attention trom the learned, and that having found It necessary to give an archsvlogical account of them he bas devoted much time and labor to this praiseworthy object. His book terminates by some curious information about tortoise shell, mother of ear) and ivory, which are ine bodies of the fans (not their souls, and he tells us who were (he Moat ilinstrions masters in the art of tanmaking. @ sort of Knowledge Which May save a good deal of money to American ladjes } a walks througn the “ruination shops’ ‘aris, a LasTogny L& MODE EN FRANCE,’ by M. Augustin Challamel, author of the ‘“‘Memoira Of the French People,” is another, book on dress, which refers exclusively to the toilet of ladies from the fal of the Roman Empire to.the present day. Is is luxuriously printed, adorned with seventeen colored engravings on steel, and costs $3. Its object is to show the varieties of teminine costume during many centuries in France, and 1s & work quite unique of its kind. It Las, of course, B good deal of literary merit, for French works ere never dull, and in appreciating the value of such writing it ta well to remember that there (s Dothing in literature so difficult as to write a read- abie article upon millinery, Nearly ali the kin, 8nd queens of the press have tried it, for no art, in a Dewspager or a magazine would have a wi circle of readers, and the peuman who could deitiy describe stiks and satins, fouuces and ribbons might command his own price from avy enterprising publisher. To gay that M. Ohai- lamel succeeded where every one else bas failed would be to sa too much; but be has evaded the dificuities of his task very pleasantly, and has written with taste and eleganc Where he might have got into trouble with his subject by striving aiter accuracy he has lett {t alone, and presented us with soine neat anecdotes, somé Well turned verses and some bright wit instead of inexplicable cole. Bi book will look well on a raion tabie, 1 conclade with a heap of children’s books, all equally innocent and charming:—“La Comédie Falapsing, Wy fouls, tigbonne, price 5 “LiHlstotte dfune Bouchée de Pain," “L’Histoire de Deux Potits Marchands de Pommes,” “L’Arith- métique du Grand Papa,” “Le Tnéatre du Petit chateau,” “Les Contes du Petit Chateau,” all 0; Jean Macé, price $2; “Les Aventures de Jean-Paul choppard,” by Louts Desnoyers; “La Jeunesse des Hommes Céiébres,’’ by Eugene Muller; “Les Aventures d’an Petit Parisien, by Allred de Bré- hat; “La Roche aux Mouéites,” signed by the great ye a Jules Sandeau and tilustrated by je Bayard; “L’iistotre de ia Familie Coester, by Stahl; “Aventures d'un Jeune Naturaliste,” by Lucien Viart; ‘Mon Premier yom RS en Mer,’! 4 4U Histoire du hy os “Aventures de Terre et de Mer, Ciel,” and, dually, I pee Coates ge pperrault,” ex ed by Gustave LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Mr, Thomas Lewin, a London barrister, has pub Nshed a sumptucaus work on “The Life and Epis- tles of St. Paul,’? which 1s full of learning and illus- trated by 400 engravings. A new edition of Walter Savage Landor’s com- plete works, to be edited by John Forster, will ap- pear in London in seven volumes. The rumor that tae memotrs of Prince Talleyrand are about to be published ta denied. The term fixed by the author expired in 1866, bat when the Prince’s executors showed the manuscript to Napoleon LIL the latter found that Thiers, Guizot and others wore so badly treated that he asked to have (ts publication delayed for thirty years, and tne neirs of Prince Talieyrand have resolved to keep their contract. The new novel, “Far From the Madding Crowd,” which was attributed by some to George Eilot, {8 really.oy Thomas Hardy, . The next voiume of Scribner's Bric-a-Brac Se ries will be made up from the journals of Mr. Grevilie, and will condense jnto one the best thing® tn the three latge volumes, FUNERAL OF REV. FREDERICK SILL Yesterday Morning, at St. Ambrose church, core ner of Thompson and Prince streets, Bishop Pote ter conducted the funeral services over tue re- mains of the late rector of the church, Rev. Fred- erick Sill, There was a large attendance in the unpretentious edifice, and much sorrow was manti- fested by the members of the congregation, to whom the a ed had ministered faithfully and with great acal for sixteen years. The Rev. Drs. Morgan Dix, H. U. Potcer and Rigenbrodt assisted the Bisnop in the sotemn services for the burtal of the dead, and the pailbearers were the Rey. Dra, Gatiaudet, Geer, Tutiic, Kden, Peters and Weston, with the kev. Messrs, Millett and Duunell, The | Police ip Parise FY Uotabie DOOk, Just published vy tuterment took place at Trigity Cemetery,