The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1875, Page 8

“TE STAGE ABROAD, The New Paris Opera House—Principles of the Construction of Theatres. Tagen, 1,400 places; maximum receipts, $790. } Theatre Royal, Dublin, 2,490 places; maximum re- ceipts, $1,280, Theatre of the City of Frankfort, 1,216 places; Teceipta, $500. Theatre Caro Felice the City of Hamburg, 1,680 piaces; receipts, $900, Theatre Royal of Hanover, 1,920 places; recetpts, $1,160, Theatre of San Cario, at Lisbon, 2,000 Places; receipts, $1,100, Covent Garaen Theatre, in London, 2,500 places; receipts, $7,500. Theatre of Mayence, 1,675 places; receipts, $735. Theatre of La Scala, at Milan, 3,000 places; receipts, $1,800. Grana Theatre of Moscow, 1,840 seats; receipts, $3,000, Theatre Royal, at Munich, 2,300 seats; re- ceipts, $1,075, Opera House at Stockholm, 1,068 places; receipts, $600, Theatre Royal, at Stutc- gardt, 1,900 Seats; receipts, $728. Theatre Royal, at Turin, 2,000 seats; receipts $888. Grand Theatre, at Warsaw, 1,118 seats; receipts, #750, Theatre de Ja Fenice, at Venice, 2,000 seats; receipts, $1,728. New Upera House, at Vienna, 2,406 seats; receipts, $2,700. Has the Stage Degenerated---Its History and Progress. PARIS THE CAPITAL OF PLEASURE, Napoleon the Third as a Patron of Uni- versal Art. THE NEW OPERA HOUSE IN PARIS contains 2,621 seats. The old opera house only contained 1,835 seats, 4nd there 18, moreover, this difference between them, that the seats of the new opera house are much larger. The prices of seats will be as follows :— SUBSCRIPTION LIST. For One Day The German Indemnity Paid by French Plays. in ~ Week, For Bt Day. RELATIVE SIZE OF EUROPEAN THEATRES, | Orchestra sta 0" ‘Tso Paris, Dec, 28, 1874. The Jove of theatrical entertamment seems In- mate in the human race. It has existed in ali countries and tn all ages, taking probaoly its first form of representation in the dancing girl and its Jatest in the parliamentary assembly, There have always been and there always will be some people who are actors on the Stage of llie, and others who are fond of looking at them and listening to them. De cote (6 seats) Avantscene (0 seats) Avantscene (8 seats) Entre-colonn L Loges de cote Avantscene (0 seats). Avant-scene @ seats) Entre-colonnes, Loges de taee. THE PRI CES, engaged beforehand and takeneat the office, Theatres have been eqnally condemned by te | are:— Roman Catholic and by the Puritan clergy. There At the Bureau, Proceed Beer hant, are maay worthy persons who consider they are | Pit stalls 9 an invention of the devil. It makes no sort of | eee ee ain B difference ; the passion for them is so deeply rooted | Baixnoires Pavantscene + bb nignuires de cole. iim the heart of man that they never can ve put | Pyar sce " down by the most violent opposition, and the best thing that any government can do, if it meddles | With the subject at all, is to satisfy the desire jor | them, and to give dramatists and managers the Means of producing their works in so noble a manner as to inspire respect rather than condem- mation, and to mske them a part of pational | education and the worthy school of national art. | At is clear that, in order to give theatrical repre- | sentations all the charm and value which may be- | Jong to them, they must be produced under con- ditions favorable to thelr development, This cannot be done iff the actor is placed on a mean stage and amidst surround- ings where he cannot be conveniently heara | Italian campaign and having, as he thought, ‘orseen, The principle of 3 good theatre, there- | established himself securely, resolved to build an fore, is to have commodious scenes and comforta- | OPer house ‘which shoniG be she crowming Manvel ol the Paris which he had renovated. He knew CAL PROFESSION, It was in 1859 that Napoieon ILL, glorying in his Die seats. Herein lies the first secret of the archi- a a tect who builds a theatre; and when he has pro- | 20W Popular such a building would be vided for actors and audience it is still necessary | With lis stage-struck subjects, and he knew, too, that 1% would require no Shat the building should be so constructed that ‘the seats shail be divided in a manner to yield fatisfactory pecuniary returns by their sale. Lignt, beat, ventilation and, finally, beanty, | are all to be considered before tue structure is | complete. The reason why we have 60 many bad | theatres in the world is that they have been gen- , erally built by speculators who were desirous of | getting alarge return for very little money, and | therefore they boxed up actors and audience in a confined space in order that they might nave | great effort of genius, but only plenty of money, to endow France with the most splendid theatre | existing. Oddly enough, theatrical architec- ture had produced no master works since the time ofthe Romans. It would have required some- thing more than money to rear 4 new cathedral eclipsing St. Peter’s or a second palace rivalling that of Verasilles; but in the matter of theatres the San Carlo, at Naples, the theatre built by Lous at Bordeaux, and the Imperial Opera at St. Peters- burg Were tue only three edifices jaying any claim fais ee | to beauty, So a lew monchs were spent in Jarge gains at small expense. Until very recently | renocton and in.conlerring With court architects no kind of speculation was more hazardous than | about the Dest site, and at last,on the 29tn of December, 1560, @ decree was issued Opening a that connected with theatrical entertamments, e e competition to all French architects, but ex- 1 pi ana the practice of risking @ lavish outlay upon | Cjyding foreigners, Altnough but a month was them is quite new. Indeed, there was no public | given to tne competitors, no less than 173 to remunerate investments of this kind till very | rca op ph i Weceeke & Delos ny sided ove , deci recently, because it was an enterprise of consid- | Presided over by . sap , | lect any one of them tor execution. Seven arcni- erable difficulty and not devoid of danger to wan- tects were, however, picked Out a8 having excelled ler about ill-lighted st and our der abo il-high ue at midnight | PRIZES WERE DISTRIBUTED in bad weather to search for amusement, | among them, viz:—A first prize of 6,000 francs to and even the men and women of the lastgeneration | M. Ginain, a second of are Irancs to Ire Botrel red t fireside: 2 | and Crepinet, a third of 2,000 francs to M. Garnaud Preferred their own firesides, and playgoers were.| S04 a‘iourtn o! 1,50 franca to MM. Duc aud Gur: either very young or very rich. There were iew | yer, Before separating, the jury expressed a theatres even in such places as Pans, London and | wish that a second competition should ee instl- n 2 ; 7 , | tuted among the four prize winners, and that Vienna, while some of the largest provincial cities | +o winner tiis time sould have wis designs de- in Europe bad none at all. The immense au- | finitely accepted. The result of this secoud trial aiences which now fill every weil conducted house | was, that on tue 2d of June, 1861, : | M. CHARLES GARNIER of entertainment, and many which are not well as unantmousiy vrociaimed winner. It was a conducted, were created when gas, cheap public great biow to M. Ginain, who having prevailed the carriages and an efiicient police became the rule | per green had made almost Pen of final ge 5 | aud it was aiso a surprise to the coantry, for M. Father than the exception in every large town. | Garnier was ut ititie kuown. He was then thirty: Sull itis obvious that a speculator who builds @ | pve years old, and had been acting assub-inspector theatre will always count on large and quick re- | Be op erpietagge ei = eeeced ae | In this subaltern capacity he ba d to re turns for his investment, and thas the artistic | store the Tower of St. Jacques de la Houeuerie, proportions of the uilding and the comfort, ifnot | but it was lever suspected that he possessed the safety, of both actors and audience are likeiy | erensssc ears — Lit agetandiethh A le shh ‘ | Masters as Ginain, Séchan, Du let-Leduc, to be sacrificed. When, therefore, Napoleon I. | ang nis success was truly & proof that the compe- decreed that the building of @ national opera | tition had been conducted without favoritism, house in Paris was a work of public utility, in | Toe explanation of M. beep tego 1s, now- which speculation and profit should have no part, | rine ecucnron Vass cpesned mage est eet he simply gave expression to an obvious truth, THE SPIRIT OF THE TIME IN WHICH HE LIVED, No private person or mere public company, intent | | owl iB com stion = told ae ions ‘i ‘ | disasters the first prize woul: rc ve upon reasonable gains, could have purchased the | heen awarded io the beautiful opera in White mar- site of the new opera house, had it been forsale, bie, at _. srennicee, chaste and severe, de- ana built the magnificent edifice which M. Garnier Signed by M. Duc. Had the competition even : been held in the latter days of the Second Empire, has raised upon it, with the-prospect of getting | when the giory of the Emperor was waning, tne one per cent cpon the investment. It required prize must ouve lalien, if not to M. Duc, at ieast ; voice of imperis | to M. Ginain, who had projected a monument re- ee eerrerey, psy Rg al authority and | ryote with ali the tradivional graces of French the treasury Of a great people vo cail it into being. | arcnitecture—simplicity, lightness and great purity PARIS THE CAPITAL OF PLEASURE, of outline. M. Garnier’s opera house is not " 2 . | Rational monument; it is essentially a monument It has been @ common practice among the Oppo | or the Second Kumpire, and of the Second kmpire nents of the Second Empire to tax it with anex- jn its heyday. Its composite, garish, many col- travagant waste of public money, and among the ored — semblematical of a reign od had o made oi Parix 2 caravansary tor ali nations, and W: ov «thai ol acd ae thrown away on the | which reveiien in ostentution. If one looks at | useless embellishments of Paris none have been the gaudy pir, not yet ten years old, one can al- more severely criticisea than those which were ready disc + it signs of decay, and one is seized with o presentiment that in another cen- tury ail traces o1 it will have disappeared, If DORS NOY BEAR THE MARK OF ETBRNITY. Those gilded busts and those variegated col- awarded for the buiidmg of the new opera house, But peraps not one of the charges against Napo- | Jeon III, was more unjust. Paris is the capital of | A Me feed se. | UMMMS, those riotous groups of statuary in bronze pleasure, whither all the World resorts tor amUse- Tee ee ee that giltteriug Apollo wie ment. Kich idiera trom ali countries go w Paris, | noids up a golden lyre on the pinnacie, will have ecanse they can there purchase pleasure, not | to be constantly ben ee ge iene wer Javish cost ' if they are to retaan their lustre. The monament only of a better quality, but much cheaper than \, 4 piece of jair-weather architecture, which elsewhere, and any French government which is | might have a chance of life under a sky eternally not wilfully obstinate and short-sighted should ard - —— Ling ny Sia 4] = a vor * ranquil and lo; G of England, and hardly grudge any cost which enabies Paris to onjera government having ulways large sums to attract visitors and to maintain 108 supremacy spend on amusements. But it ls not fitted to with- over all the world in the matter ot public enter- | pect geri ti lnge here ee pees es i ; ations, in an ac eng burned tainments. The greater the funds employed tor | qowy under the Commune, and there 1s every this purpose may be the greater will assuredly reason to lear that at the next great rising incen- be the profits arising irom them. Over and over again parsimonious and silly administrators have desired to withdraw the subsidies allowed to the NEW YORK HERALD at Genoa, 2,000 places; receipts, $640. Tneatre of | Metres. The | blunver in not allowing it to be pushed on to a | rapid finish so that it might bave been maugurated sets of | diary torches Will make an end of 1%. It stands too insolently to escape the fury of the moba. There are some buildings the august majesty of which fils even the most ravid Iconoclasts With awe, just Opera, the Théatre Prangais and the Odéon. For- | tunateiy for Paria they have never been abie to carry their purpose into effect, and now, undera Republic, while there is a loud outcry everywhere for economy the subsidy given to the opera is to be largely increased. GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES TO THEATRES. If the three national theatres in France were Bot suns 1 every playhouse im the country would be given over to burlesque and extrava- ganza, not even so noble a piece as M. Sardoa’s “La Haine” having paid ite expenses. It was Brillat-Savarin who said that French cooks and fgoreign epicares had paid the cost of the Napoleonte wars wuich ended at Waterloo. Certaialy Prench cooks and their customers have had no small part 1m liquidating the enormous indemntty lately a mapded by Germany, and of which not one c now remains due. French actors and actresses, milliners and dressmakers have done the rest and the stupebaous task nas all been accomplished im three years. France is now richer than ever, while there has been onetary panic in Ger many. Gold has again come invo circulation here, and the twenty-franc notes nave been calied in, ‘while notes o! jess than a dollar in value sull cir culate in Germany. Geffman paper can only be cashed at @ heavy discount abroad, French paper bears @ premium in Belgium and Bertin, wile nin England it ts quoted a mere fraction be- nt e Jow par. If pleasures, rightly controlied and | administered, can work such wonders as this, it ae certain that they form the chief part of French pational wealth and deserve all the care and gttention which can possivly be paid to them. RELATIVE SIZE OF BUROPEAN THRATRES. It may be worth while to compare the new wrench Upera House with the principal theatres an Burope. The Royai Theatre, at Antwerp, com i} tains 1,830 places, and the maximum of tte recelpis nightly 1a $1,000. The Koyal Opera, at Berlin, con- tains 1,786 places; maximum receipts, $1,400. The Grand Theatre, at Bordeaux, 1,800 places; max | BM FOCENIe £1, The Laeaye Koval Comune | bie ange a, as there are women Who, serebe in their matronly dignity, may pass through the rudest crowds Withoat hearmg @ rough Word; bat there are others resembling those flaunting lit- ue baggages, ateem with silks and jeweiry, whose aemeanor 18 & standing provocation to insults and imprecations, and this flashy Grand Opera is one of them. It will symbolize in the eyes of revojutionists all the extravagance of a | aynasty whose institutions and edicts must be razed Gown before public freedom can ever be establisued; and, judged by these tokens, 1¢ must jal, A Prench workinan who pass by the Louvre lifts his eyes and silently admires, Going by the new opera house he sneers. If he were hongry he would shake hus 081, Al this, however, dues not detract irom THK MERIT OF M. GARNIER’S WORK, Built as the holiday monument of a holiday reign it answers ite purpose, aud it is not the arciitect’s Jault ii nations, like men, grow tuo soon Ured Of their holidays It may be observed, that the wouderfal recherché oi inne! nees which the oullding displays is Lot arcustect’s work, but was imposed tm vy tue terms of the programme drawn up vs the Emperor's orders by Count Walewski 1M. Felix Martin, late seeretary of Wwe O;er& This programme filed seventy solid pages, and @ summary of it will help to convey an idea of (ue magnificent scale on which the archk tect was ordered w work, Inthe first place, he bad to provide stapling for seventy bot nameiy:—Pen for the cavalry guard on duty at ordinary mighss, fifteen for horses required in stage periormances, thirty for te horses of the imperial | | escort whenever the Kuperor should visit the house, and fifteen for the horses of the court car- riages and Outriders. In addition to tas be bad | vo locate inside the building @ police station, two | | injantry gaard reoms, @ telegraph office, a fire station, coach houses, a museum of musical re- | cords, a Waiting room for court servants and ap~ other for the servaats o1 subordinates, a saloon for aides-de-camp on duty, @ pablic vestibale where three vundred people at least could stand without crowding, & crush room fiity metres loug, a rea taurant, 4 calé anda smoking room, private sa- | jouns to each of the boxes and 4 separate carriage entry where 300 carriages could let down their oc- | | cupants under coveyin less than & quarter of an nour, Ag to the Bmoperor’s private entrance and box, the suits of rooms attached wo it were re | quired to be ten in number, enough to form @ good sized mansion by themselves. dll these con- vitions and many more have been tulfifled with this result, that the auditorfum, though providing seats lor 2,020 spectators, occupies not one-fifth of tye Winge DuUdind, The by Yl MOLoAL cubage oF the Grand Opera from cellar ‘basement to roof is not less than 430,000 metres, that is, more than double those of the Pantheon and the Bourse, the former of which, vaults inciuded, cubes but 190,000 metres, and the latter 106,000 new opera house is consequently THE HUGEST FABRIC IN PRANCB ana the largest plle raised for purposes of recrea- tion since Titus built the Colisseum at Home, But why did not the French Titus live to see the com- pletion of the most striking work of his reign? Well, the opera house might have been fintshea long | belore the fall of the Empire had not economy stood in the way of the original project. As at first arranged the opera house was to have been inaugu- rated for the International Exhibition of 1867, but 1n 1s64 1b Was discovered that M. Garnier was con- ducting his works at such @ rate that the cost of the building could acarcely be kept within $20,000,000, At the instance of M, Fouid; the Fi- nance Minister, the Emperor very reluctantly gave orders that the building should be slackened: but to cover lis retreat he published @ sentimental edict declaring that as fal ifthey were ever meant, The same remark would apply to the Archi 8) in, He ry V. on the hts Of thas to the Frenc! throne, and which ts certainly not calculated to enhiven the listeners, tho trully equal to the average utterances of the Right Reverend Bench, If the drama is to be THE REPRESENTATION OF ORDINARY LIFB, treated irom a8 humorous a point of view a8 Pos- sible, whicn is certainly the object which a drama- Uist Usually proposes to himsel! in the present day, there can be no doubt thas such an end 1s at- tained more successfully in the nineteenth than tn the seventeenth century. We love Shake- speare none the less for preferring in the evening @ picasure which makes no demand upon our inteilectnal energies alter a pard day's work. In a word, even fi it be conceded that tie stage has degenerated, there is abundance of proof that the mind of man has not, If the drama has ceased to be religious, society 18 none the less so on that account, But no one can seriousiy maintain that the pleasure seekera of the present day are less refined than their ancestors, Tne -kirts of THE NEW HOTEL DIEU, or central hospital, was so far from complete, it would be uaseemly that the house of pleasure should be inaugurated before tne house of suffer- ing. This little vitef shoddy morality did not deceive anybody, and it rather made the Emperor unpopular, The Parisians were excited about their new opera house; they were already proud of it, and impatient to see foreigners come and | gape at its facade. Besides, it 18 @ Javorile theory with Parisians that prodigalities tn archi- tecture are always remunerative, and that it was unwise to scruple at the expenditure of a hundred miilion francs When the opera house, once com- pleted, would repay the investment in a hun- dred ways, Of course, M, Garnier and Baron Haussmann were the loudest in sing- ing this tune, and they both made & sturdy attempt to obtain it, that the opera honse should at least be imaugurated on the 15th of | August, 1868, which Was the first centem@ry of the | great Napoleon, but parsimony had already hegun | vo prevall in the !mperial councils, Baron Hause mann’s achievements were being roughly criti- cised, and the Emperor, who was not sufficiently fond of music to risk & parliamentary storm ior | M. Garnier’s sake, decided that tae neues eonie be proceeded with ‘at leisure.” So M. Garnier, with chagrined soul, was obliged to make bis best of the comparatively small sum voted to him every year to complete the works. He nad calcu- lated that he had stil some ten years’ occnpation before him when the war and then tue Commune broke out, arresting progress and threateniug the builaing with premature rain. During the siege of Paris the opera house Was used as a magazine for military stores. Under the Commune it vecame A RECEPTACLE FOR EXPLOSIVE MATERIALS, and M. Garnier had to perform prodigies to shield it against bombardment by the shells irom Mont- martre and voluntary incendiarism on the part of the insurgents, However, lt has survived so far, | and there it stands; but one cannot help thinking | thatthe Emperor Napoleon committed a grave in We Exhibition year along With the magnificent | Avenue de l’'Opéra, which is to lead by and by trom the Opera to the 1héatre Frangais, but which was retarded for want of iunds. {he inauguration o! tms | opera house and avenue in 1867 would have been 4 fit thing done ata fittime. It would have been the splendid memento of a year when the Empire had reached its zenith, when not only eubjects but sovereigns Were flocking to the capital, and whea Napoleon IIL might justly regard himseli as the rst poteutate in Coristeudom. ‘The occasion was allowed vo sitp, calamities betel, and now the in- auguration of the Opera house will be.like an ad- journed wedding takiug place in a house of mourn- iyg. Ail the more so as the building is not unlike | a Brobdingnagian wedding cake. actresses sometimes require lengthening, and their postures are not always such a8 @ man would like to see bis wile imitate in public; bat Otherwise the stage, even in Paris, 1s studiously decorous compared with that of former days. The lesson in French, for instance, in Henry V.. seems tntroduced solely for the purpose of causing the Princess Katharine to utter, as if unintentionally, @ number o/ phrases containing the most offensive double meanings. Every comedy oi Aristophanes 18 replete with miserable jokes on Vices not to be named among-Christians, RUDB SPORTH DISAPPEARING. Again, bear-baiting, cock-fighting, even boxing nd all otner cruel or even rude pastimes o! our ancestors are gradually vanishing {rom civilized countries, while amusements of a rational and | eniightened kind muitiply on every side. Tne present is emimently the age of scientific lectures, Meeting of the anthropological and other socte- ues, and similar meth Of spending the even- ing. Ht any one wishes to gauge the earnestness of moral parpose and the admiration for what is truly noble possessed by the present generation, he should have been in England when Mr, Stanley rst brought news of Livingstone to that country and could lecture in no hall suificient to contain those who drank in every detali of nis adventures with breathless interest. Perhaps such a genera- tion may be forgiven for its separation of grave and gay, and its love of sheer amusement when It goes to be amused, NEW YORK CITY. A fire broke out last night at No, 211 Bleecker street that caused a damage of $1,000, Garnier is out with achalienge to Rudolphe vo play bim a game of 600 points (French), the game to be played under the National Tournament rules and the stake to be $2,500 a side, An unknown colored man, about forty years of age, died suddenly yesterday, at No. 128 Thompson street, without medical attendance, Coroner Loe Was requested to hold an inquest on the Joseph Coburn, the pugtlist, was arrested last evening by Captain Irving and Detective ‘King, charged with having committed a felonious as- sauit on Patrick Burns, of No, 71 East Houston street. Atthe annual meeting of the Woodlawn Cem- etery Company yesterday the following officers were elected:—Wliliam A, Booth, President: Caleb B. Knevalo, Vice President; Lucius Hopkins, HAS THE STAGE DEGENKRATED? The new opera house im Paris, that most splenatd legacy of the second Empire to Frauce, | not unnaturally suggests some reflections on the | well-worn ineme O! the degeneracy—real or sup- posed—of tue drama in modern days. Is it true that our amusements are less refined than those of our fathers? If tt be 80, our whole civiliza- tion must bea mistakeanda sham. For the aim of all men, whether they avow it or not, 18 pieasure, and i, as cerrain moralists affect to be- eve, tiat pleasure, on which art and weaitn | chiefly lavish their stores at the present day, 18 | become the mere minister of frivoious and even sensual tastes, it becomes clear that the chief good of modern life 1s something which falls in- nitely below the ideal of whatis beauti!ul in ltie, ag it appeared tothe master minds of pagan Greece. AS far ag the drama is concerned the truth seems to be that what is termed the degeue- Tracy of the stage, really Meaus its gradual perfection | by restriction to its iégitimate objects. The drama has had two births—tne one in ancient and the other "in medieval times, In either mstauce 1b sprang irom the reltgtous feeling of the age. The firet scenic representations at Athens were in honor of Baccnus, and performed during tue tes- tival of tne god. We know from Horace and Pliny what sort oi an affair Was the first tragedy. Thes- pis, one of the earliest lessees and managers, had no otuer stage than a Wagon, and for we “OOPY RIGHT” of *‘Aicestis” received a goat from the discerning puplisners of the day. A regular stage was not introduced till (he time of Aschyius, wno further | insisted that the actors in nis pieces should be properly dressed—a very necessary reguiation provably jor the early actors. There were no charactera Ultimately the Dionysiac Theatre arose, and plays were ‘acted with such attention | to scenic effect and sach due care of the accoustic arrangements a8 tohave beeu probably unrivalled, til within a very recent date. Tere was no need to simulate an artifictal sup, or sea, or pictur- esque background, ‘the sun of Souter Europe, | the parpie bills: of Attica, the blue waves o1 the Gull of Agina Were themselves visibie to the | spectators, who saw them by a better light than | any lustre can give. Jt is worth noting that the Athenians devoted the whole day to the theatre when 4 play or rather @ series o| piays were to be | acted, nox because they usualiy worked at night, or were (zy and did not work at all, but because | dramatic representation were rate, occurring | only in boliday time. To an Awerioan or @ Frenchman THE ATHENIAN’S IDEA OF PLEASURE must appear simple marty:dom. He would goto the theatre early in the morning and see at least three or Jour trilogies persormea, h trilogy. or set ol three tragedies, being followed by a short | ‘satyric” piece, which Cannot be caliea Immoral for tie simple reason that the conception of | Morality was entirely absent irom the | mind of the author in writing it. Thus | an Athenian gentieman would listen without | yawhing to sixteen play in succession, though a | | Inodern audience would weary Of the “Agamem- | nou” beiore it came to a close, Mizht possibly make an Lott 4 sit out the “Cnapnore,” but | would rerire hurfledly berore the curtain drew up for the “Eumenides,” Ist that the macnificent dramatic epic—asit may be calied—of the “Ores- tela” has no attractious for the race of men who delight in the “Grande Duchesse” and “Madame Varebiduc?”’ Very far irom it. We go to the theatre solely to be amused. Poetry we love 10 read in the solitude of our chamber, where the mind can be concentrated on tue pages o1 Miiton or Teuosson; lor religious iostraction we go to churen ; for comments on current political events we glance throug the newspapers. To the | Athenian, on tie other hand, the theatre was in the place of a ook, of pulpit and of new=papers. ‘Yhough appreciative in fae oighestdezree ot wit | and eloquence, the majority o! the citizens | could not read; and if they could read | could rarely afford to buy books, while Teligioug teaching there Was ,none, except through these plays, the plot of which was generally chosea from a Jegend of the national mythology, or at least through these plays and tie recitations of tue rnapsod.sts. and Jor comments On tre last news from toe seatof war in Thrace or bwotia, the pending negotiations for peace With Sparta, le last bia 1 Cleon ior tne | democratic vote, for ailusions to aif sunjects which | are now treated im leading articles, the arheman looked tothe play. Aschylus and Aristophanes fought to appeal to every emotion o! the human heart, to the sense ot religion, to the love o! coun- | try, to the politica: opinions of tne audience, Tne ern playwrignt only Seeks to amuse or to in- erest, #18 stock in trade, 60 to speak, consists in tangled p.ots, in critical situations, in witty je rather avolus deciamations on the grandeur of freedom, on the respect aue to the Almighty, or On the mysteries of th Inthe comedies of Aristophanes are to be found repartee, sacred hymus of exquisite beauty. but, according | to modern notions, scar in their place waen preceded and followed by humoraus scenes which are Wo oiten courser than any represented on the Paris stage. THE DRAMA ILAS NOT DEC but nas been limited to its prop 5 outdoor service 1,999 patients, Although sap- what applies to the difference between the Attic | ported wholly by private contriputions and ander Slage o; toe firth century vetore Christ and te the immediate auspices of the congregation of St, | Freuci stage of the niveteenth century of ourera | John’s (Bpiscopal) churen, the doors 0: the hospi applies equally to the difference between sha tal are open to patients of all denominations, speare and Sheridan or en becween Shal physical suffering being the only passport re | speare and Mr. Bion Boacicault. The drama res | qui w share its benign advantages. It may be | vived in Lurope after tue dark ages in the snape | added that it is the only charitable imstut®uon of of miracle plays and mysseries, as they were called, allegorical representations, in waich the cardinal Virtues appeared contending witn the cardinal sins, whom they ultimately, with the as- sistance of the carpenters, Would trast through a trap door, embiematical of the bottomless pit. OF this sort Were the “holy plays” Which Fitzstephen mentions in nis iife of Thomas & Becket as having been “wrought by holy conlessors.” Such, tov, were the piays “periormed at Cierkenweli by the | parish clerks” in the year 1307. he **Moralities’? | of skelton @in extremely obscene writer it may be | observed Within paremtacses) were of 4 like na- ture. Skelton was poet laureate to Henry VIII., won- | drously near to Shakespeare in time, when one considers the infinite distance between the Eliza bethan drama and that which came tmmediately before i. But, though it is almost sacrilege in English eyes to criticise Shakespeare, one may venture, fortified by the opinion of such admirers | of his as Mason and Charles Lamb, to remark that | much of what he wrote is fitter jor study in the closet thai @represenvauon on the stage. The drama in Shakespeare’s hands 1s still in its 1p~ fancy, notwithstanding the fact that Shakespeare 18 by Universal consent the ena of all poeta. Modern audiences are bored by Shakespeare on | the stage, yet he would be arash man who sbould assert that the upper and middie classes of Kng- | lana were more intellectual in the reign of James J, than in the reign of queen Victoria. In the | former perftod, as in the golaen age of | the Attic drama, the theatre was more to the people than tt is now. It had, indeed, emerged from the religions type, but a poet | deemed it perectiy fair philosophical speculation into his plays, AS Elia | pointe out, the subtie disquisitions in Hamiet, novo Tiowaly the soliloguy, can vever ve properiy rem 4 sages OR Lue shaze, Jor Wich, Ln iach, if 1s double | daily endan} encharist, | to insert bistoricaband | ‘Treasurer ; James D, Smith, Secretary. Directors— | George A. Peters, Charles ‘Crary, Hugn N. Camp, Robert J. Niven. Coroner Woltman was yesterday called to the Ward's Island Hospital to hold an inquest on the body of Anton A. Jackson, a German, forty- seven years of age, whose death is alleged to have been caused by exhaustion couseqnent upon hav- ing been {rozen during the severe cold weather nich prevailed @ lew days ago. John Butler, a colored man, twenty-four years ofage, died yesterday at No. 76 Sullivan street under circumstances which his friends think indi cate that he had been poisoned, Deceased had been employed in Norwich, Conn., and was taken sick there or became go aiter returning home on Saturday last. Deputy Coroner Leo will make an ausopsy on the body, after waich Coroner Kessler will hold an inquest. On Tuesday evening, between six and seven o'clock, the office of Witham E, Parsons, Jr., No. 113 Reade street, was broken into by cutting out fash and wrenching off the shutter and 18,000 cigars, Valued at $1,000, stolen, A reward of $250 has been offered for the r conviction of the thieves. years of age, in aroom adjoining the ofiice who heard burglars breaking in, but was afraid to give the alarm, as he suys, because he was in feevie healtn and could now protect nimself. Commissioner Van Nort has transmitted to the Board of Assessors the certificate of the costs of the following improvements, in order that the as- sessments therefor may be made:—Paving Thir- ty-sixth street, from Tenth to Eleventh avenue, amounting to $5,293 34; regulating aud grading, &c,, Worth street, fom Broadway to Chatham street and intersecting streets, $26,275 98; sewer in Sherif street, between Grand and Broome streets, $1,107; flagging sideWalks on the north side of Forty-third street. from First to Second avenue, $508 06, Total, $35,187 38, LONG ISLAND. Long Island City is nightly left in the dark, in | consequence of the gas lamps not being lighted. The Queens County Court House Commissioners meet to-day at Hunter’s Point to take measures | for the further completion of the court house and jail now being erected in Long Island City, Complaints are being made by captains of boats now awaiting cargoes at the different oll wharves in Hunter’s Point that river thteves nightly visit their vessels and, appropriate ropes aud other valuables, The barge Oliphant was the last vic- um. Tony Miller’s hotel, at Bayside, was discovered to be on fire on Tuesday night, the flames having apparently caught in the celiar, and had it not been ior aid given by soldiers from Willett’s Point the building would have been destroyed. ~Moat ot the furniture was saved, but the house was pretty well gutted. The lives of residents of Long Island City are red by gunners who visit that place for the purp@se of shooting game. Patrick Monaghan attempted to shoot some pigeons belonging to Mr. Carrotl, of Blissville, but mised bis ain god sent the cuntents of the gan {nto the apartments of Mr. Carroll, the load lodg- ing in the wall. Monaghan was arrested and Hned $10, Mr, Jacob Heiser, of Jamaica South, purchased a horse a few days ago under the supposition tnat it was of kind disposition. On Monday evening he went into the stall, ana was putting feed into the manger, when the animal suddenly seized him by the breast with his teeth and raised him clear from the floor, inflicting a serions and paininl wound, wnich it was at latal, Heiser 1s now slowly recovering, WESTCHESTER. Hannah Kelly, aged six years, and whose par- ents live in Myrtie street, Yonkers, fell on a red hot stove, during the temporary absence of her mover, on Wednesday evening, and was burned in a shocking manner about the tace, arms and other portions of the body. was taken to St. Jotn’s Riverside Hospital, | According to the report of St. John’s Riverside Hospital, at Yonkers, just issued, it appears that that beneficent institution (aow in the filth year | ol its existence) bas during the past four years re- | ceived into the medical and surgical wards 426 | cases, while there have been under charge of the the kind on the Hudsor River within a distance | of seventy miles from New York. | At Yonkers, yesterday, Roundsman Woodraft | both colored, the lateer on @ charge of grand lar- ceny and the tormer, as alleged, for receiving and secreting the stolen property, which | im this mstance consisted of @ seb of jewelry, valued at $100, together with | @ dress pattern and other articies belonging to & jaay In Whose house the gin Young had been em- ployed as aservant. Leonora Brown, who lives in Woodworth avenue, has Long been known to the police as a confidence thief, her mode of oper- | ating being to secure employment as a domestic ana then decamping at the first opportunity with whatever portable property she could lay her | hands on. In this manner, it is satd, sae has vic~ timized nearly @ score of families in the city named. Un searching Brown’s apartments yes- terday afternoon Captain Mangin discovered @ large quantity of plander, which now awaits iden- tiflcation by the Owners. Bovh of the accused par- tues are heid for examination, STATEN ISLAND. | The village of Edgewater has 394 street jamps, which cost last year to lignt with gas nearly $15,000, Anew benevotest society, recently formed at Stapleton, known a8 the Fraventups Verein, will hold a meeting to-morrow evening ‘or the election Of officers. The Board ot Supervisora have struck out an aspesamucat of $26.000 for personal property against very of the goods or | Theré was a wan, sixty | Yesterday one | rst feared would prove | The livtie sufferer | | arrested Leonora Brown and Josephine Young, | FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. Louis De Jonge, it had been am Louis De Jonge, tt appearing that ne ned | ‘The Rev, Andrew H, Smith, D. D., delivered one of the series of free lectures before the Young Men’s Christian Association in their rooms at Fac- toryville last evening—subject, “A Health Tour in New Mexico.” we aching John Donovan was yesterday arraigned for the second time before Justice Canete, at New Brighton, on the charge of abandonment, pre- ferred Py his wie, Mary. The Justice adjourned the case for a further hearing, The wite of Dr. G. W, Bassett, a well known drug | gist in Tompkinsville, died suddenly on Tuesday evening, after a very brief iilness, caused bya | heavy cold. She was buried yesterday afternoon from St. Paul’s Episcopal church. Thirty-eight proposals in all were received by the Drainage Commissioners of the Southfield, West- fleld ana Northfield Drainage district, for finishing | the work as advertised, the bids ranging from $16,292 to $60,186, The proposals came from vari- ous quarters—Staten Island, New York, Brooklyn, Flushing, Hoboken, Paterson, Jersey Ctiy, Provi- dence, K. L, and Rockville Centre, L, I. NEW JERSEY. Eleven indictments have just oeen returned by the Cumberland County Grand Jury. A motion to pay Sheriff Walton, of Mercer county, twelve cents per meal for each prisoner's board in the County Jail was discussed and tem- porary laid over by the Board of Chosen Free- Polder at their regular monthly meeting, just eld, There are forty-eight paupers in the Bergen Couniy Poor House, among them being Isabella Hannibal, colored, and John Johngon, white,jwho were married last Christmas Day in that in<titu- tion, They have been ordered to vacate their quarters and scex for @ home at their own ex- pense. : A caucus of the democratic members of the Legislature will be held on Wednesday next, to choose @ candidate for State Treasurer. Charles T. Henry, of Essex county, and Secretary of the State Democratic Executive Committee, and Mr. McMichael, of Burlington county, who for two terms held that position, are the most prominent candidates mentioned. Mr. Henry says he is con- fident of success. A bill introducea in the present session of the Legislature in relation to the Circuit and Supreme Courts provides that the Supreme Court shall consist of a Chief Justice and seven Assistant Jus- tices; that there shall be created an additional district, and that the Sixth district snall be com- pores of the counties of Bergen, Passaic and inion, and the Eighth district (new) of the county of Hudson, It 18 said that Governor Parker will be appointed to the new judgeship. A fire broke out yesterday afternoon in a three story !rame house, No, 58 Hudson street, Jersey City, owned by John Cahill. It originated in the upper story from a defective flue, and, owing to some bungiing in paging the fire alarm, the fire- men did notarrive mf time to render much assist- ance, Philip White and lus family, Michael Kee- anand his farily and Patrick Powell and bis family occapied the different floors, and these had | to take to the street, losing ail of their furniture and much of their clothing. Yesterday Mrs, Catharine Hetrich, of No. 73 Fergnson street, Newark, appeared before Police Justice Mills and mage affidavit that her bank book, showing @ balance in ber favor of $2,000, and $60 in money had been stolen from her resi- | dence, and that she believed that her son, Charie: | Hetrich, was the thief. The young man when ar- | Tested so stoutly protested his inuocence that the detective made the mother make @ thorough search of the house in his presence, when she found the missing property securely lockea in her trunk, where she had misiaia it, On discovering the sad mistake the old lady was almost distracted, The annual meeting of the Newark Board of Trade was held on Wednesday night, when Colonel E, L. Joy was inaugurated as Prestient for the ensuing year. Alter the transaction of | routine business and before the banquet ex-Mayor | Thomas B. Peddie offered a resolution that the | | Board of Trade invite His Majesty, the King of the Sandwich Islands and suite, to visit Newark and | such factories as he or his suite may desire to see. | ‘The resolution Was adopted with the understand. | ing that the expense of the visit was not to be | borne by the Board of Trade, iis faancial condi- tion not warranting the expenditure. Out of the abundance of his riches the generous ex-\ayor will, doubtless, do the honors tor the city. A few weeks since the opera of Queen Esther’’ was produced at the Newark Opera House by Mr. R. W. Seager, with the assistance of local talent, It appears that Mr, H. B. Kimball, proprietor of the Opera House, was in partnersmiy with Mr. Seager and was to have one-haif of the profits of | the enterprise. On Wednesday evening Mr. Kim- | bali prosecuted Mr. Seager in the Second District Court for the sum of $30, alleged to be due him. Mr. Seager admitted ali that Mr. Kimball alieged, but claimed a allowance of one-hali 0: the board bill of $60, and that Was why he retaiued the bal- ance of $30 belonging to the plaintuf. The trial | continned unt ten o’clock when the jury ren- dered a verdict tor plaintiff for the sum of $15. THE DEATH OF MR. VOEHLINGER. ! HE WAS NOT A MURDERER. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was hela by Coroner Kessier in the case of Henry Voehlinger, the lager-beer saloon keeper at No. 682 Ninth ave- nue, who died under peculiar circumstances a | few days ago. It will be remembered the deceased had been arrested, charged with causing the death | of John Merz by ejecting him from his saloon early on the morning of the lst inst. The evidence showed most conclusively, however, that deceased | did not put Merz out of the place, por inflict | any violence whatever upon him; neither did he know bow he received his injuries, Merz was very drunk, and doubtiess fell and fractured his leg atter leaving the saloon, as it was very sippery. ‘The fact that deceased was coarged with such & | crime had an unusually depressing effect upon him, and he could netther eat nor sleep, but con- | soled himself by taking large draughts of brandy | and bourbon whiskey with red pepper, which | | caused intense inflammation of the stomack and | death. The jury found ‘that deceased came to his death | by exhaustion and gastritis, que to want of rest — and abstinence from {ood while laboring under | mental anxety, and we take occasion to most fully exonerate said Vochlinger from any com- neity OF connection with the death of John lerz.? THE MUBDER OF M’NALLY. The Coroner’s inquest in the case of John Mc- Nally, who was killed by being assaulted with a brick during an affray in Bond street, Brooklyn, was conciuded yesterday by Coroner Sims, There was nothing iu the evidence to indicate who in- flicted the fatal wounds, and the jury rendered a verdict that the deceased came to hia death at the bands of some persons unknown, The three men. Printy, Rovimson and Leonard, who were arrested on suspicion, are still in jail, The Coroner will not order their discharge till the matter Bas been Jurther investigated by the District Attorney. | KILLED BY A LOCOMOTIVE. | CENSURE BY A CORONER'S JURY. Coroner Woltman yesterday held an inquest on | the case of Mis. Ann McCormick, late of No. 607 West Thirtietn street, who was killed on Sunday last at the corner of Thirtieth street and Tenth | avenue by being ruu over by engme No. 109 of the Hudson Kiver Kallroad Company. In their verdict the jury exonerated trom blame the empioyés of | the road, but censured the railroad company for | not having @ suflicient number of flagmen sta- uoned at the place where the accident occurred. Deceased was Mity-eight years of age and born in ireland. + e+, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. ——+—___ MARRIED. ANDERSON—CARTER.—On Thursday, January 14, by the Rev. W. W. Halloway, Jr., Ropeat J. AN- DERSON WO EMMa A. Carrer, second daughter of the jate Gilman Carter, deceased, both of this city. No cards, CaRkY—DONERTY.—On Satorday, January 9, at the Caurch Of St. Francis Xavier, the Kev. David A. Merrick, 8. 4, Mr. THOMAS E, CARRY to | | a Mauoanxt A. Doneery, both of this city. No cards. ELKINS—COLLINS.—On Jengary, nu, the Rev, pastor of St. Josepb’s church, Thomas Farrel) WASHINGTON L. ELKINS, Of thia city, to May Ei CoLLIns, youngest daughter of John W. and Mar- garet Mulvey Ovilins, of South big HOAGLAND—NICHOL#.—At the residence of the bride’s parents, Newark, N. J. on Wednesday evening, January 13, by kev. J. F. Stearns, D. D., Prrek W. HOAGLAND t0 J, LILLIAN, elder daugoter of br, Isaac A. Nichols, KeMP—MALLOKIB—On December 23, 1874, at Buflaio, by the Rev. Dr. Calkin, CHARLES OU. Kemp, Of this city, to Mrs. J. M. MALLORIE, daughter of Samuel Smith, Hsq., of Newsield, Lompkios county, N. ¥. MasoN—DUCKWITz.—On Wednesday, January 13, 1875, at Grace church, Brookiyn hts, by the Rev, George ©. Betts, of Kansas City, adsisted by the rector, Rev. William A. Snively, Mr. Prep- KKICK BE. MASON and Mies EmILin M., daughter of the late George F. Duckwitz, Esq., of Brooklyn, San Franch papers please Copy. MBADE—MAGUIRE.—-On Wednesday, January 13, at the parsonage, Thirty-seventh street, by the Rev, Richard Meredith, JouN JoserPa MBADB to HENRIBTTA MAGUIRE, bovh Of bits city. PRRKINS—SEYMOUR.—At Kidgefield Park, N. J., | on Wednesday evening, January 13, by the Kev. | | William Welles Holly, Hexny ©. PRRKINS, of New | | York, WO ELIZA Me SRYMOU My OED, : Anras,—January 13, KL1za J., wife of Henry P, ngs st reeas. Remains taken to Harrise re, or interment. services at residence, 460 West Twenty; fourth street, on Thursday, at eight o'clock P. M. BELL—On the 12th inst., of heart Epwakrp B. BELL, late of the United Stajgs Nav. ‘vhe reiatives and friends of tue oficers on the station, and the members of Syivan Grove Lodge, No. 275, F. and A. M., are respect fully invited to itvedd the funeral. trom, his late residence, on Sunday, 17th, at one o’ . Me, from No. 429, Monroe street, between Throop and Yates avenues, Brooklyn. NoTice.—The members of Sylvan Grove Lodge, No. 275, F. and A. M., will meet at Doric Room. Masonic Hall, Sixth avenue and fas le anny mirech ae nae uasy ten orale A.M. Mem! of Sister lodges Invited to join us. ky WILLIAM H. OWEN, Master. BERGEN.—At Bay Ridge, L. 1., on Tuesday, Jan- uary.12, MICHAEL BERGEN, in the 66th year of his age. ‘The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectfully Invited to attend the funeral, Irom his late residence, Bay Ridge, LL, on Friday, the 16th inst., at two o'clock P, M, BUTLER.—On the 14th inst. of dipntheria, Os WALv BLaks, only son of J. J. Butler, aged 3 year@ and 1) months, ‘Oswald’s merry voice is hushed, His romps and piays are over; His parents’ hearts are crushed ‘Throagh deach’s uuyielding power, Puneral from residence, 337 West Twenty-sixt® street, and to Greeuwood Cemetery on Saturday, 16th inst., at one o'clock. BYRN: CHARLES BYRNE, of Ross Gray, county Tipperary, Ireland, 10 the 634 year of his he relatives and (riends are invited to attend the funeral, on Friday morn.ng, at nine Rate from his late residence, 68 Bayard street, from thence to the Church of the Transfiguration, corner of Park and Mott streets, where a solemD Tequiemr mass will be offered for tne repose of his: soul, alter which his remains will be taken to Cale var} isguencane for interment. Chicago papers please copy. CALVERT.—On nureday. SAUSy 14, 1875, Wile LIAM CALVERT, aged 44 years. Relatives and friends of the family are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral services, jrom the Reiormed church, Mott Haven, corner Third avehue and 146th street, on Sunday, January 17, ‘at balf-past ten o'clock. CARPENTER.—The !uneral services of Dr. ABRAM’ H, UARPENTER will be beld'in First Presbyterian church, Newark, N. J., Saturday, 16th inst., at one o'clock. Cars leave Liberty street at 12 o'clock. CORCORAN.—On the 14th inst, MARY, the bée- loved wite of Thomas Corcoran, in the 29th year of her age, a native of Stoketown, parish of Kiltruston, county Roscommon, Ireland, ‘The funeral will take place from her late resi- dence, 645 Tenth avenue, at twelve o’clock sbarp, on Saturday, the 16ch inst. ‘Tne friends and! acquaintances are respectiully invited to attend, Doris.—On Wednesday, January 13, 1875, ANN Doris, a native of Longiord, ireland, in the 60tm year of her age. Her relatives and friends are respectfully in- vited to attend the juneral, at her late residence, 209 West Nineteeuth street, this day, at nalf-past nine o'clock; trom thence to St. Francis Xavier's, West sixteenth street, DvuGan.—On Tuesday, January 12, after a short ness, Davip DUGAN, In the 39th year of his age. The funera) will take place irom his late rest- dence, 212 Elm street, on Sunday, the 17th inat., at one o’clock P. M. ELMENDoRF.—In Mott Haven, N. Y.,on Wednes- day, January 13, JAMES E, ELMENDORF, in the 46th year of lis age. Funeral from nis late residence, 141st street, near Willis avenue, on Saturday, 16th inst, ab eleven o'clock A. M. Kingstou (N. Y.) papers please copy. FELIX.—On January 14, PaTek F&uix, a native of Genova, Italy, aged 58 years, The iriends and relatives are invited to attend | the funeral, on Sunday, at one o’clock, from hig late residence, 857 Seventh avenue; trom thence to Calvary Cemetery. GRay.—On Wednesday, January 13, 1875, WiL.iaM T. GRAY, aged 48 years. The relatives and friends of the family are fn- vited to attend the funeral, from his late rest dence, No. 277 Washington s:reet, Brooxlyn, on Frid: 16th inst., at ten o’ciock A. M, Milwaukee papers please copy. GReEN.—On January 14, 1875, Mrs, ELLEN GREEN, agea 48 years. The remains will be interred in St, Raymond’s Cemetery, Westcnester, on Saturday, January 16, atone P,M. Her friends and the frieuds of her brother-in-law, Patrick Curran, are respectfully invited to attend, Haws.—On Wednesday, January 13, at his rest. dence, 61 West Forty-sixth street, George T. Haws, late Lieutenant C.lonel of the Seventh | regiment, and son oi J. 4. Hobart Haws, deceased, 10 the 42d year of his age. Relatives and riends are invited to attend the funeral services, at St. Ignatius’ church, Fortieth street, between Filch aud Sixth avenues, on Satur- Gay, 16th, at ten A. M. Higcins.—On January 13, ELLEN, the beloved sister of Stepuen Higgins, i the lst year ol her age. Tne friends of the family are invited to attend the funerai, on Friaay, January 15, at two o’clock P. M., from the residence ot her brother, Mr, Ste- nen Higgins, No. 19 Laidlaw enue, between Bonner aud Palisade avenue: beget, A city Heights), Jersey City, to be tasen to tie Hudson oF Roman Catholic Cemetery tor tutermeut, HIMLYER.—At Newark, N. J., on Wednesday, January 13, 1875, Mary LOBDELL, wife of David Hillyer, aged 37 years and 2 months. Funeral at Trinity Methodist spiscopal church, West Brighton, Staten Island, on Saturday, 16th inst., at half-past one P.M. Take 12:30 boat from foot of Dey street, New Yor Hosroy.—On Wednesday, January 13, PRIOR HORTON, 1M the 8ist year of bis age. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, on Saturday, the 16th inst., irom his late residence, the house of Joshua Hor- ton. Carriages will be in waiting on arrival of 10:05 train from Forty-second street depot. Husson.—On Wednesday, January EDMOND Husson, aged 41 years. The relatives and irends of the deceased and those of his tamily are respectiuily invited to at tend the funeral services, at the Church of St. Vin- cent de Paul, Twenty-third street, near Sixth | avenue, on saturday, the i6th inst., at teu o'clock A. M. precisely, The interment wili take piace al the Catholic Cemetery, in Plainfield, N.J., and friends desirous of being present will please take the 12:40 P.M. train of tie New Jersey Central Railroad, foot of Liberty street. Inness.—In Brooklyn, on Thursday, January 14, at the residence of her son, Stephen Pell, MARY InNEss, widow of the iate John W. Inness, in the 83d year of her Kom Notice of {uneral hereatter. KkaLy.—On Wednesday, January 13, fHomas KEALY, a native of Kadlan, coun:y Kilkenny, Ire- land, agea 51 years. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, irom bis iate residence, 217 Fast Twenty-eignth street, this day (Friday), 15th inst, at two P. M. KLing.—On Thursday morning, eight o'clock, HENRY KiINk, awed 4 ber of Eschol Lodge, No. 55, 1. U. B. Funeral will vake tog to-day (Friday), at eleven o’clock A. M., irom his late residence, No, 3 Liv- ingston place, Friends and brethren of the above order are respectfully invited to attend. MakTIN.—At Barrytown, Dutchegs county, N. Y., on Thursday, January 14, alter a brief illness, Avaustus MARTIN, in the 67th year of his age. Funeral from bis tate residence, at Barrytown, on Sunday, 17th inst., at twelve M. Moork.—On Tuesday, January 12, 1875, Colonel THKODORE M. MooRE. in the 76th year of his age. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, Jrom the Church of St. Chrysostom, corner Thirty-ninth street and Sev- enth avenue, on Friday, 15th tnst., at one o'clock P.M. The rematns will be taken to Greenwood Cemetery for mterment. O’BRIEN.—In Brooklyn, E. D., on Wednesday, 18th inst., CORNELIUS O'BRIEN, in the 59tn year of his age. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the suneral, from his late residence, No. 230 Union avenue, on Fri- the 15th inat., at two o'clock P. M. BILLY.—On Wednesd January 13, CHARLES REILLY, @ native of CaBtie Saunderson, county Cavan, aged 89. The relatives and friends of the family are re- spectiully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of his son-in-law, Michael Butler, 112 First avenue, Friday, at one o’ciock, SCHENCK.—On Monday, Jauuary 11, GeorGE N., fay son of William K. Schenok, im the 25th year of 8 age. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend a memorial service, at the Pilgrim Baptist church, Thirty-third street, between Righth and Ninth avenues, on Sunday evening, January 24, at hall-past seven, Suay.—un Wednesday, January 13, WALTER, the third son of Patrick aud Mary Anne Shay, aged 3 years, 7 months and 7 days. “A bud on earth to bioom in Heaven.” Funeral trom the residence of his parents, 137 Division street, Friday, January 15, at one o'clock. SLEVIN.—On Wednesuay, 13¢h, at his residence, No. 131 Mott sirect, Dr. Hmwa¥ SLRVIN, aged 86 ears, v ‘The remains will be taken to St. Patrick’s Cathe- dral on Saturday, 16th inst., at ten O'Clock A. Muy, where 4 solemn requiem mass will be ofered tor the repose of his soul. The reiatives and tnends of the iamily, and those of hig sons-in-law, John Mulholland ‘and James J, Sievin, are respectiuliy invited to attend, * New Orleans peeere pices copy. STRRNHERGER.—On Thursday evening, January 14, at the residence of her son, Mayer Sternberger,, MIRIAM, beloved relict or the late David stern berger, aged 85, Notice o! the funeral hereafter. Cincinnat! and Philadeipnia papers please copy. Van NOSTRAND.--At Swain’s, Allegany county, N. Y., on Tuesday, January 12, Appia Day, wile of Charles Van Nostrand, and daugnter of ‘the late Samuel S, and Mary Da, Relutives and friends are respecthully invited to attend the funeral, at the New Durham Baptiss church, this panel, afternoon, at three o'clock. WakD.—lo Brooklyn, on Wednesday, 13th inst, ANNA ©., daughter of the late James 0, Ward. Funeral from the residence of her brother, George E. Ward, No. 272 Ryerson street, Brooklyn, on Saturday, 16th inst., at two o'clock, WISWALL.—Un Wednesday, the 13th Instan' after a short illness, ELOIss Roome, daughter oi January 14, at 2 years, @ mem- | the late Samuel Wiswall. ‘The relatives and {riends of the family are ré- quested to attend her funeral from Saint Peter's church, West Twentieth street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, on Friday, the 15ta lust, two O'ClOGk Ps Me