The New York Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1875, Page 15

. BELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. eee [Minfsterial and Church Movements. Who Methodist Conferenees---Changes and Removals. Jntellectual and Moral Conflicts—Revivals— Orthodoxy the Bane of the Age. PROGRAMME OF SERVICES TO-DAY. In Allen street Presbyterian church the Rev. George 0, Phelps will preach this morning and evouing, ‘The Spiritualists will hold a conference in Har- ard Rooms this aiternoon aud evening. « The Rev. W. P. Abbott will preach at the usnal hours’ to-day in Wastington square Mothouist Spteoopal church, Divine service will be conducted in Ail Saints’ Provestant Episcopal church tis morning and evening by the Key. William P, Dunnell, Mrs, Margaret B. Lowry will conduct the ser- Wices thia morning and evening in the Free Taber- macle Methodist Episcopal caurch, Mrs, F. 0. Hyser will speak tor the Spiritualists gt No. 65 West Thirty-third street this morning @nd evening. : Dr, A. G, Osborn will minister to the South Bap- tist churon at tho usual hours to-day, “Changed into the Same Image” and “The Care for Unrest will be considered to-day by Rev. J, M, Pailman in the Church of Our Saviour, In the Church of the Holy Trioity this morning ghe Rev, ©. R. Honey, of England, will preach, in he afternoon Rey. J, W. Bonban, evangeliat, und jn the evening Dr. Tyng, Jr., will preach. ” Phe Rey. &. S. MacArthur will preach this morn- fg and evening in Calvary Baptist church. ‘ Im the Church of the Discrples of Christ the Rev. . BR. Van Buskirk will minister to-day at we ‘usual hours. Dr. Deems wiil tell the Church of the Strangers this morning ‘Iu What a Man’s Lie Cons.svs," and this eveuing will tell tem to “luke Away the Stone.” Phe Rey. Waiter W. Hammond will preach at the usual hoais to-day in the Berean Baptist ‘nuroa, & The Rev, M.S, Terry will preach a sermon on *Gutemperance” tnis evening m the bighteenth plreot Methodist Episcopal church, Dr. Armitage Will preach as usual to the Fifih avenue Baptist churen to-day. “The Povency of the Cross” and “Decision for Gea" are the themes to be considered this morn- ing and evening in the Fuity-thiud street Baptist burch, Dr. J. B. Wakoley will speak to the Lexington Avenue Metnodist Episco;al church this morning on the “Spiritual Baiiding,” and this evening on ‘Phe Second Voming of Cartst.” * Rev. Heury Varley will preach In the First Bap- ‘Wet cnorch this morning. Br. Chamberiain will tell the Madison Avenue Reformed church this morning sometning about ‘Qtiswionary Work in India.” Dr, Gause will preach there 1p the aiternoon, ‘Tne Rev. Dr. Morgan will oMciate in St, Thomas’ Protestant Kpscopal church this morning aud atternvon, : ‘The Rev. J. B. Hawthorne will meditate on “Gray Batrs** tus morning and on “The Man of Sor- rows’ tis evening, in the Tabernacle Baptist burch, in the Seoteh Presbyterian church the Rev. 8. M. . Hamiiton wilt preach this morning and afterneon. ‘The Rev. H. W. Knapp will preach in Laigut -@lreet Baptist churcn Bt the usual hours to-day. Kev. J. W. Barnhart will close is pastorate with the Forsyth street Methoaist Episcopal churcn - @nd will preach (are well sermons to-day. Rev. W. P. Corbit will minister to Seventh . Street Metnodist Episcopal church this moraing and evening. ‘The Sixth avenue Union Reformed charch will hear the munistrations of Kev. Wm. B, Merritt this morning and “The Need of the Hour”—*Action"—will be pre- g@onted to the Pilgrim Baptist church to-day oy Rev. J. Spencer Kennard. ‘Tho Rev. ©. ©, Tiffeny, rector of the Church of the Atonement, will preach in Association Hall 8 Methodist Episcopal church this Morning and eveniog the Rev, James M. King ‘wal preach, in 8t. Lake's Methodist Episcopal churca this morning the Rev. RK. Harcourt, of New Jersey, will preach, and this evenmg tue Rev. J. F. Moviollaud, The Rev. Dr. Newton, of Philadelphia, will preach this morning m the Anthon Memorial Charon, and this evening Rey, Heber Newton will preach. Dr. A. P. Patnam, of Brooklyn, will preach this Morning in the Church of the Messiah and Rey. 8 HU, Camp this evening in the same piace, Dive services this mornug and afternoon in ‘the OChurch of the Heavenly Ress will be con- auoted by Rev. Dr. Howland, Dr. Flagg will oMeciate in the Church of the Res- Urrection this morning and evening. “How the Church bas Made Void the Resurrec- tion” will be shown this eveniog by the Rev. W. W. Andreus in the Catholic Apostolic church. “The Victory that Overcometh the World” will bo explained by Dr. Thompson this morning in Ohriat church, and this evening “The Oure for Douvv" wiil be given. Mr. &. V. Wilson will speak on Spiritualiam this morniog aad evening in Armory Hail, Brookiyn. At the Turd Universalist church Rey. B. 0. SBweetser wilt explain the “Reitgious Use of the Imagination” this morning, and this evening Bev, H, BR. Nye, of brookiyn, will preach, A “high celebration” will be given this morning in the Ohuron of St, Mary the Virgin. Vespers this evening. Rev. W. T, Egbert wili preach this morning and evening 1a the Wainwright Memorial charoh, Dr. Porteous, in All Souls’ church, Brooklyn, ‘will speak about the ‘Oom/ort tn Religion” this morning, and “The Preponderance of Goodness in the World” this evening. im tho First Reformed Episcopal charch the Rev. W. T. Sabine will preach this morning and evening. Dr. Ewer will begin a course of sermons In St. Jgnatins’ charoh this evening on “The Worship of the Churoh iu i:s Laternal Structure and External Aspect.” Rev. B. H. Kraus will preach in St, Ann’s churoh this evening, ‘The Rev. ©. O. Tiffany will minister in the Churen Of the Atonement to-day at the usual hours, High mass will be celebrated iv the Greek Cath- Olio chapel this Morning and @ Russian choir will fing im diavonic, Fatber Bjerring will oMciate. ORTHODOXY THE ALLEGED BANE OF THE AGE. Tn the discussion of religious OF moral sadjects fn these columns we alm \o give as great & va- Tioty of topics as possible and as full # discussion O1 any one topic as space will permit and the in- torest of the particular sunject may require, But in this line onr correspondents will be disap- Pointed sometimes, and necessarily so. Their communications may be too long oF not interest- Ing enough for the general reader, or they may be Withheld for Want of room until whatever interest OF relation they may hb: had to @ particular topic has died away. 4nd all this time the corre- Spondents may feel themselves siiguted and ag- grieved because their views have not found place fn the columns of the Hzwarp, Our aim is to give every church and sect and party and school of ‘moral thought an equal voice in these columns to their (fellow mea, A communication now before us accoun's for the intense desire for Sanday and ‘Week-day amusements to the preaching of “infant NEW and & personal devil” on the one hand, and “golden streets, pearly gates and @ diamond spangled firmament and ths furntsbings of heaven, 4m which God is represented as sitting on @ great whito throne,” on the other. Tne only remedy (hat our correspoudent suygests ts the accept- ance of the Universalist idea—final and universal salvation through punishment. He thinks that in this enlightened age “we want something more ennobling than the exploded idea ol a personal Goa aad & person. devil, a Neral hell and a liveral heaven.” if the idea of @ persona! God has ex- ploded it must have aone so very quietly ava bowelessiy, aud the idea o! a personal devil is cer- tainly to0 taugivle at present to permit the belief that 16 bas exploded, We hope our correspond- ent will apprise us when he has discovered “something more eunobling” than the idea oi & personal God, Tee sceptics and scieutists of America and Kurope bave peen diligentiy search- ing Jor \bat some! ning, and Mey would be giad to be directed Where to dad it, Auoitier correspondent tbinks orthodoxy nas combined to ake the Word oO: God of none effect through creeds and ‘radi ions, And one Oo! Lhe treaitions Which be tiimas the Church has re- ceived Contrury to the Word ol God 1s the doctrine Oj the soul's LmmMortality—"tne basciess dugma of the lmmoriauty Of the soul,’ as our Correspon- deat styles it, He looks at it rom his stand port, wich he cails We Bivie standpoint, a8 “a stupen- Gous iraud, worthy tae name of Pueoogical Crédit Mebilier.”” ‘Lne sooner Orchodoxy 18 rovbed oO! Lis joundution belie: in an ethercal ghost tupris~ soned liere, and giad to get away Wea released by death, tue soouer that comes Lo the grouua, our coirespovdent thinks, “ine berter 101 Ae kind, who bave been 80 loug Cursed wita th Oud~ disnovoring docitrine,”’ ‘ois 18 strange language enough, proiessing, too, to be based upon tie Scriptures, “Because 1 live,” said Jes: ‘ye shail live aiso.”? go ** * snat where lam there ye may ot also.” “1 ascend to my Father and your Father aud to my God and your God.” “1 give unto soem eternaliie,” &o, These Bayings Of the Son of God appear to us iuconsis'ent with the theory put jorth by our correspoadeat, bur quite con Bisient with Laat of the Goctrine Whicn be combats and Genounces. And (hey are lound mand are supported by many similar passages in ihe Word ol Goa, to Wulch be appeals tor tue justificuuion of his own Lueory, THE CONFLICTS OF THE AGE, To THs Epiror or THE HERALD: ‘be present 18 a period of unrest. Few minds aresatisiied with the existing Condition o/ things, and yet lew, if any, are able to define exactly tue changes wick they would deem desirable. 1a the general aspiration of mankind, however, two op- posite lendeaoies are more or less conspicuous, Lt wouldseem that the desire of one-half of our people 1s to have their present fixed thoughts, on ail ques- tions of religion, politics and svcial institutions, roauced to some stereutyped jorm demanding tue assent, not onlv of this, but of all inture ages, while the otter half is inclined to disregard ali old lanamarks, to deny ali Old faiths as superstl- tious and follies, and to rush forte, each manvy bimself, into new fieids of thought and specuia- tun, wader the supreme guidance of the five senses, ‘fhe first of these general classes of minds are just now making strenuous efforts to have the recognition of whe God of their concep- tons embodied in the national constitution, The second are laboring, covertly and openly, to uproot the very foundation oi Curistianity and to substitute universal scepticism aud materialism in 18 place. To neither of these aims can we yield our approval and for the reasons whicn tol- low:—Tne existing agitation to procure the for mal recogaitien of God in the constitution (con sidering tuis as a gemeral type of all otuer Lea- deucies to religious fossillizations) is open to criticism, first, as an utterly useless measure, It would accomplish nothing eituer for religion, moralily or good government, We canuot iesis- lute the pete in Goa into the minds of men, The only consiituuen inte which that can be put with any effect is that unwritten constituton—the bear's of the people. Tuatail our applauces: ol Church and State have falled to redeem tne world irom degradation caunot be denied, bat this is plainly Owing to some radical defect in our ecclesiastionl, social and political system. We may give an apparent sanctity to these detects by embodying the iOrmal recognition of Goud iu the coustitttion, Dub ib Will be 4 suam aod a delusivn, Gou Aimseli Will MOt RECessarily VE there because His name is Wiitten there. The letter killeth; it 18 the spirit a tant giveth lie. Aad taat spirit must be Wild the hearts Gs Lhe people, in order that it May have any mantestatiug in poliucal aud social tiie, And teen look at ther aspect or the ques too, What could be more apsurd than vo at- tempt, by any jorm Of decrees or iegisiation, to compel Ourseives and toe peopie at large to acknowledge tae Creator aud 5 er oi the What couid be wore repugnant to tae relagious liberty 0 Wuich we voase? ‘There a Who are not ratio el the 10 aD aliegiance Wo ap instrument of Which the recognition vi God 18 & part, Would not be to convince Laem, bat to make LYpocrites of Luem, ‘Towt the uta saail be aniversaly recognized, and the Worid by ité means upluived irom is moral degradation, 18 tue devout aspiration of every rigat-iminued persoa. But coercion is net 1eforma Hen, and compulsion never did and mever can make anytaing but giaves. We submit, (wen. that ali encroachments of eccicsiasiicism, whether im thw OF @uy Other jorm, Upon the sphere of secular government shoula be armiy discountenauced by an euigutesed people as progiusing uo good resuits, Walle tending, how. ever remvtely, tO reiuaugurate the imtolerauce aOd persecutions vi past ages, Buc let us lovk at the vpposite elemenié vi the world’s counties and wurest. fhe wiiter was recently assaued by a seeplic, WhO Maiulained that our discordant state was produced by Unristianity. Tus {| ao moat empbativally deny. Ou tue contrary, | maintain Unes the evil Freie: Od FO is bie Outcome Of & inck of Corisuauity. Ia iis primitive stave tae Onris- tian religion Was & power Which made itseli leit by ali iis believers. They were a pecuiiar peop.e, endowed with the spirit Of God, Which acvauted them in all things. They Were Wiliug to die jor the pfineipies which their religion imculcated, Christianity in 108 primitive stave 1s too pure, too gvod aod too true ior the mejority of tae people of our times to receive. Li it prevailed in Ita 1uli power, justice, iraternity and peace would be extavlisied among Men, Bud We Would have a beaveu upon earti, Balin addition to that sprit whien would pewily Oaristan theism inte & dead form, aad toat, on the otoer hand, which would ex- Unguish tue very iorm Of Unrisuanity ifseli aud hi valy @ coid, seifisa tmaale:iaiisu in Its piace, there is another spirit avtvad making itseli more and more conspicaous, and in this kes the bope of the world, Kmphaticaily Christian in its iuoda- mental spirit and prinoipies, it invokes the highest lights of science and the eXpefieuces Of past ages, truth ywoerever it find prociaims wheu the wheat and cnaff of ali religious creeds and @Xisting buman institutions shail ve separ- wed, it recoguizes every wuman institation as having had sowe mission to peiform, but deaies the right of any institution to coniinue to exist alter it Bas ceased to periorm some service to bu- manity, And when new aspirations are ora and new meatal, moral and socal Wants arige 1. secas to suppiy them. Tue scientists have done mucin to briag about existing coudiets im the works oT thought and at the same time to provide ways ior their final settiemeat. They are accomplishing a jorious work aud deserve to be recognizeu as ré to Mankind. Without @ scientific analysis and classification of the different forces of mature, mankiod canaot progress harmoniousiy im the science of lise. ben these men sbail have accomplished their labors in the fleids of ultimated matter they wilt have establisued @ rationai basis on which bo in- Yostigate she nature of tie human spirit, its mis- sion in this world and its iusure destiny. but at present scientists, ior the most pari, are dealing only with Half traths, Kin believe in nothing whieh cannot ve mn y some OUS OF more of tne five OT iat Miet wit! nce as iperstition; w 8, On the orner band, piy them with texts of Scripture and de- Gur themselves noance them as infidels, to @ ichly physical entists, om ue last analysia, (0 account for a nature or for the wen wil of one gram inteliectual mony end THE Ust OF THR REVIVALIST, To THe Eprton oF THE HeRaLD:~ ‘The expMioncy of the religious revival is being questioned. We argue in its favor, ‘There is @ variety of temperament tn this world, and to be influenced for good it requ ri variety of treatment. The masses are emotional. They crowd and obstruct the streets to see a fign, a fire of & procession. They demand shocks and sensations. They will follow an excitement of any description aud leave Darwin an! Tyndall to tale } to a corporai’s guard. For inem cola reason ts unpalatable, They want their moral pitlosophy hot, They demand something stimulating, ry though it docs horri/y a little, the heaven of tne mere philosopher OF moralist Would be for thom a dul place, In time they would long for another, & lower and & warmer sphere, Philggondigal preaching anAWers now for tho wa few. Acentury hence hundreds may go to hear the future Frothingham or Emerson where now we find one. The great truths and principles of the gospel have a much firmer hoki of human hearts than many imagine, because they cons!t- tute og 1s were @ part of the soul, But they be- come smotherea, buried and hidden unaer worldly interest, care and anxiety. White-flngered pii- losophy, compticatea morality and elaborately turned sentences won't answer for most ol us. We need & workinginan, & Moody, a Sankey, a Variey, @ man of ourseives, Who can delve with the gospel pick and shovel and who with the gospel pick and shovel will diy iis way witu might and muscle, shattering all intervening rock, trush and rubbish down tothe door of our hearts, and thea with the lungs which filled the Hippodrome cry, “Fire! You aie in dauger! 1 am oere to sioW you the way out |? ihe great aim 1s attained when the multitude are attracted to heat any man who may cail their a@btention to the Christ principle and philosophy, it matters little woat may be nis crudities, his misinterpretations, his mistkes, He is the watchman on the towers of Zion, The book, the principle, the truth on which he bases his speech is rignt, He simply sounds ao alarm bell, Let those who sneer at the revivalist remember that he who Tings it must give vigorous strokes, that if while ‘his coat 18 Of and he is buckled down to the work he josties your pet scheme ot salvation or mine, stil it is better for the general goou that these for @ time seem shattered than that thousands suould jive stolidiy on thinking of nothing higher than bread, bec and beer. CONSERVALOR, THY ACAPULCO MASSACRE—ANOTHER SIDE. To THE Epiror oF THE HERALD:— Your correspondent, “Impartiality,” has stated What he no doubt believes respecting Rev. M. N. Hutchinson and his connection with the /eariul and uncalled Jor massacre at Acapulco, but fam happy to Injorm nim that there is another siae vouched for by Mr. Hutchinson bimsell, who Is at Present in New York, who has read the article named, and on his authority | am enabled to con- tradict many of the charges made, It was not “a sudden outburst of wila rage’ on the part of the agsailanis, but adeliberate attempt to murder peaceable and uauoffending citizens, Mr. Hutchinson had not entered the hotel beiore he beard threats against nis life, and ic was said toone who had accompanied him from Mexico City that nad it been known that Mr. Hutchinson Was 80 near he would not have entered the city alive, Again and again, during nis sojourn in che place, he was urged by his frients not to go to the night service, and threats were So rife that the Protestants went to their place of meeting more than once under the im- pression that an attack would be made, and when it did come tr was apparent that it was coolly planned and deliberately executed, For the first time during his stay at Acapulco Mr, Hutchinson was prostrated and prevented by sickness from attending the chapel. He bad met with the con- gregauod night aiter nignt ior about sour weeks, singing, praying and preaching. Alcer the tamily bad Cree to ine service, tue lights were ex- \inguisued and the aoor barred. A Mexican driend Who was With him soon heard the sound of yoicea aud au attempt to enter the house. He jistened ana ueard some one say, “lie ts not here, he is at tue chapel.” This party returned to their compauions, Wuo Were waiting ior them, aud soon iterwards they eniered the buidiog. They marched up near to tue puipit, and while the con- gregauoa Was eugaged in prayer, tueir jeader cried out, “Meath to the /rotestanis,” and taen began tae work O/ Slaughter, Sureiy this Was a deliberate attempt vo murder peaceavie and uuoffending citizens, Who had mec there simpiy lor the wor- ship of God in What thoy deem a better way than Wiat Rome teaches, There are many mistakes in the uracie signed “l@partiality,” aud they are met with @ denial by Mr. Hutchinson, He was bot deceived by Mr. Diaz us to tne unmber of Protestants in Acapulco, aud never siated so publicly. ie never applicd 'o the political chief jor the use of ihe Chapel wentioned, and tie cher did HOL asaizn It to the Provestanc mission. Tne chapel had been sold and Was used as a srore- house. 1¢ was ren'ed vy the congregation irom ils Owners, one Oo} Whom Wasadew, Air, Kurca- inson Lever spoce 1M the streets against the cuer- igued beilel OF the Vatnojics, Tuat is bot his style of preacniug. Mr, Diaz did not cali for Lim the evening of the massacre, Saying Lat the congre- “a pressure is brought to bear from town gation was waiuug jor him; he was then, aud nad beea lor days, the guest of Mr, diaz Mr, Huteninssa had — neveF said that the savage aud brut) attack on the congre- ation Was “a consyiracy of inceliigent Catuoiios,”” but he does say tat Lhe priest, by lis course aud utterances, did arouse the mob to deeds of bivod, ‘Tue “conunued imsuits, ag well as most unprudent conduct,” characterized the Words aud acts of tue priest and not tuo-e of Mr. Hutchinson. The remark of Sefior Huarte that Mr, Huteuinsoa knows of Wiat he asserts, Whea on the list of com- Municants is & MeMver Of ihe Legisiature, Lue Ome: oi Police, the wajority Oo! the LILY Co wu oMcer ©: tne port, Custom House oiicials, With tue families of most of them. ‘There are other Caarges or insinuations equally groundiess; but suppose (he Whoie were true, tbe congregation Was injartog no One by their words, Tue house they met in was their own, lor which tmey were paying rent to tts owner. Catholics need pot be present, and if they did not lice the reaching they could stay away. Among ourse.ves me sumetiues Ullers bard things against Geneva and Geneva against Kome, witaout incit- mug to rivt or interiering With that hverty which 18 gusTantecd to us. The same iverty is by law Vouchsaied in Mexico, and the question is, spall Protestants be protected im their rights, or shail Rowe resort to mob law to suppress iree speeca aud the liverty of worshipping God according to the views of cacu? Tus opposition on the part of Catnolies at Acapulco to Protestantism 1s ouly one Ola series Which ihe missionaries wave experi- enced; and will those Who enjoy in our oOwa aud iree abu juli toleration deny it to those who, ii of @0 Opposite failb, are seeking to honor ano serve God in thei way? TRUTH. THE METHODIST CONFERENCES, CHANGES AND EXCHANGES IN THE PASTORATRS AND PRESIDING ELDERSHIPS OF THE NEW YORK AND NEW YORK EAST CONFERENCES. Next week the two Methodist Conferences which hold jurisdiction over this city and Brookiyn and contiguous territory will gather im annual ses. sion—the New York Vonierence in Poughkeepsie and the New York East Contferei in Meriden, Conn, These ecclesiastical gatherings usually lei of the annual crop of “anniversaries which New York is accustomed to receive in the month of May, But with these Conferences custom and courtesy require their aiter- nate sitting im city and country, Hence last year the New York Conference met in this city and the New York Bast Coniereace in Brookiyn, Sometimes, however, it happens that the interior of citner Conference territory for the meeting of the Conf ee at those places, and wen the respective Conferences may mect away som this city Or Brooklyn two or three yearsin succession, For, while the ministers and their friends are entertained liberally and without cost, they spend money very freeiy, and a@ lively trade Springs up for the time being between the Vonfer- ence and visitors and tae local tradespeople and merchanu, LAST YEAR'S OMANORS AND THIS. Las: year Was a kind of “off year” in both Con- ferences. T wore comparstively few prom- inent ministers either to be providea with piaces and few churcnes looking for first class miaisterial talent, Tils year, as a’ present an- ticipated, agreat many changes Will take piace. The position of Presiding Eider oi the New York District, New York Vonference, vacant by the de- cease of the inve Stephen D. Brown, D. D, a now temporarily filled by Dr. M. D0. Crawford, will require an occupant. Dr, Crawiord is now Presiding Elder of the Poughkeepsie District, aud at the next Von.erence will very likely be ap- pointed to Hu ts vacant place for the four bits a minister one district longer than four ister May, U the conditions are bIe, hi re ministerial iite be- tween two churches, elvert between two districts, Hence It often occu the office of prea ding elder thas @ man wiil © hat povt- how epee for ball ministerial lie, velog trausferred from trict tO another, ‘Thre years’ absence from any charge entities o ninteter to reappuia Ment to the same, provided nd four years’ absence Tight, provided his ministerial Ore| want him ana Bis oo appoints hm. And toe ondtuol mes appear harmoniously and ly omen. A little iriction occurs occasiovally trom this cause, ecclesiastical machinery There are a few men ‘eat majo bie in that office to their bretaren, THE PRESIDING BLDAR 18 A SUBBISHOF, strict between one Conlerence session Bat o0 wise man wonld presume to it roment, (or under the Metho- Teiation to and Ly! become If he pleases @ kind in mtg di YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1875—QUINTUPLE SHEET. elders that they e come of late year? to elect their men, and taeir choice is simply confirmed oy she bishops. 1¢ happens, however, occasion- ly that the Bishop of a Conference may have & uttie greater siting for one mun than guother, and he @Xercises bie independent right of ap- polating @nother man beside the one chosen by the minisiers to any particular district, This right is not very often exercised, But it hus been done often enougn to draw forth the criticisms of the denominational press and of mintsiers on the favoritism Oo: bishops, and the next General Con- terence will probabiy be asked to jegisiate for the election in open conference of the presiding elders, as wellof members into full connection and on trial, It would seem to oe only just that the min- islers who are to be governéd by them should have some voices in the election o their sub- bisbops, a8 weil as of their bishops; and, as the latter are openiy elected by ballot in’General Con- lerence, there 18 no Valid objection against elect ing the subordinate ofiicers ot DISTRICTS IN THE ANNUAL CONPERENCES, The two candidaies most iaveraviy named for the presiving elversbip of the Poughkeepsie dis- trict, provided Dr, Crawiord suall be trausferred to the New York district, are Dr. J. B. Wakeley and pr. L. H. King. The jormer leit that district as elder three years ago and a8 pastor two years ago, to accept the charge ol the "Lex. iugton avenue Methodist Mplscopal church, in this city, which tle now holds, and the latter has been pastor oi the Free Tavernacle Methodist Episcopal church, in West fhiriv-fourta street, lor the past year. Dr. Wakeley has devoted # great deal of his ininisterial ilie to the presiding eldersnip and Dr. King very little, 1 any. Dr. Wakeley 18 hardiy eligible Jor appomtment to the same district, but Dr, hing is. 1: mint, bowever, be arranged very eusily to give Ur. Wakeiey other district, as there are 61x in the Conier- ence and at least two ‘others wii be vacated by the present incumoent next wees. At ali events it 18 believed tuvt these two pastorates will be leit open by tke clergymen named at the next Confer- ence. Tne Rey. K. M. Stratton, D. D., will, In such event, probably return to the pulpit of the Lex- ington avenue Methodist Kpiscopal church, woich he lett only three ears § ago. it 18 hardly known yet Who Dr. King’s saccessor will be, His healti’ bas been very poor during the past year, and i! he does not get the presiding eldersiip be will probably take a supernumerary relation for a year torest and recruit, be Kev. Wiliam Lioyd, of Poughkeepsie, will succeed Mr. Abbott at Nidogserea akg square Methodist Episcopal church, Mr. Lioyd is a Welshman, and one ol the most thougntiul and promising young men in the New York Conference. He has a good deal of the natural fervor and eloquence of the Ceitic race, and great things are anticipated irom bis ministry in this charge. Mr. Abbott will succeed Mr, McOleliand as pastor o! St. Luke’s Methouist Epls- copal church, ‘This church is jast dying through toe DOUBLE DISHASH OF WEALTM AND RESPRCTABILITY preying upoa its spiritual energies, aud tl it 18 to brougatinto line among Methodist churches iM anything excep: the name it will require all the vital furce and puipit power of its iucoming pastor, and as he is a worker as Well as a preacher wuccess may ve predicted from tne start. 18 predecessor has not enjoyed very vigorous heaith jately, and has not, therefore, been so suc- cessiulas he might otuerwise have been, The Kev. Mr, Bishop will leave Thirtiech street churen, and hall @ dozen or more short pastorates in the cl'y Wil be reported @t the neXt session of the Dew York Conterence. A pastor can leave a charge at the ena of one or of two years, but he ust jeave at the end o! three. in the New York Hast Conierence the changes and rem vais will probably be much greater than in its sister conference, und Very Muci more Luu- merous than they were last year. All the presi- ding elderships nave asother year to run, and un- less they desire to change or the Bishop presiding Kaoows Of soe good reason to wake a change, the present incugivents wiil hold on ior one year more, Quite a number of Brooklyn and New York east side ministers will, however, exchange pul- pits at the approaching Conference. seventeenth street, Secoud avenue and Forsyth street churches In this city will exchange pastors by the expira- ion Of the disciplinary term by the present imeumoents. in prooklyn, Wasbington sircet, Johuson street, Pacific street and First ph Hansva piace, Washington avenue or Sum- mertield, Seventh avenue, Kighteeuth street (which Rey. Mr. Simmons leaves to go to Souta hiird street church, Wilhamsoury), Wesiey church, mpkINS aveuue, South Third street, North Fiita et and Greeipoimt First churenes wiil all be cated On similar conditions—expiration of time. y. Mr, Buckley is bookgd jor Stamjord, he came tnree years ago to lead the Suin- merfeid church, The Rey. Joan 5. Watlis will leuve Stamiora and come, provabiy, down to this city or to Brooklyn. THR RBY. A. H. WYATT, OF WILKESBARRE, PA. formerly pastor Of Wasvington square Metuodist Aspiscopal church, this city, is tue rumored cessor of Mr, Buckley. Ihe Rey, bmory J. Hay’ of Hansen place church, Brooalyn, It 18 believed, Will exchange pulpits with his successor at Fail River, Mass, Dr. Wiis, oi Seventh avenue church, Brooklyn, may possibly return to Canada, whence he came, He bas doubtiess couciuded what to do by this time, Besiae these there are a iow JOr& pastorates to ve supplied at the next Con- lerence—such, jor instance, as Grand street church, Brooklyn, B. D., yacatea by the Rey. R. OC. Putney, woo goes to Eighteenth street, if ap- ointed; Greeupoint fabveraacie, Greene avenue, ‘bus churches. The Rev. Mr. will provably tai superannuated relation at Couference. He has been greatly nelped duru the winter just closed bv Mr. Julius Nelson, 0! De Kalb avenue Methodist Episcopal chured, woo, with a dozen other young Meu, will apply for ad- Miséion on trial to the next Conference. Sixty odd persons have been converted in Fiatbusir charch through Mr. Neison’s mivistrations, These are a few of the pastoral changes (hat may be expected next wi MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS, BAPTIST. Sixteen churches in Pittsbarg, Pa., are now holding revival meetings as the result of the visit of Messrs, Whittie and Blt lay evangelats, of Chicago. Great spiritual success attends these meetings, A Massachusetts correspondent of the Examiner draws a doleml pto‘ure of Baptist churcnes ana ministers im that State, and adds that ast October there were 231 Baptist pastors there and of these forty-one were there two years, fifty-four one year and fifty-nine began their ministry there auring the year; twenty-nine have resigned since October, and the correspondent adds that they have ail the evils of the itinerancy without any of its advantag aad that Methodist ministers have now longer pastorates than Baptisia, He Would have ministers hired for two or three years and then let the relations be severed without [rie tion or jar. Massachusetts Baptisis intend to raise to their State $260,000 tor educational purposes, in $1 sub- scriptions, itis to be a Centennial gift, and is to be divided among the denominationai colleges as follows :—$100,000 to the Newton Theological In- Stitution; $60,000 to the Worcester Acaaemy; $60,000 each to Brown University and Corby Uni- versity dnd to the American Baptist Missionary Union; $40,000 to the American Baptist Home Mission Society, the money raiset to be used jor pe ot on balidings. r 505 Baptist churches, 518 Baptist ministers, of whom 464 are ordained, ana 64 lirentiates, During the past year there 8,222 aduitivns by baptism and experience, an: The total membership of the cburenes is 44,068 In caes ands Veral pros bersuip of i,Tv4; in vers; a0 6 coluted, 1,802} colored, 00, In Cattseiil seventy-five souls nave been con- Yerted In the Baptist revival there; in Camilius, N. Y., twenty; in Souta New berlin, twely kensack, First cuurch, thirty-one; in Kato! Hiteens in Uli City, Pa., sixty-four, . D. Brown, of Camillus, has accepted a, N. Ys The Rey. Samuel Miles has just closed a li Years’ pas ora fosiaa Philips, recentiy of Milestown, nia, bas become pestoro the Gwynedd North Wales, Montgomery country, ven a puist church, in Wyomin: county, Pa, alter a success/ul pastorate Oo! severa. years. The Rey. E. R. Warren has resigned at Burnt Hills, N. Y.j Rey. J. ¥. Osterhont, at dariem, New York city; Re Murcovk, at Titusville, Pa, ; Washington, tne second church, Harlem, five converts baptized last Sunday; in the First chures, two; in the Gentral ewurch, in Forty-second street, two; in Noble street, Greenpotat, tweive; in Marry avenue churcd, Brookiya, sixteen. 5 eral were baptized m Lee avenue Bapiist church Jast Saobath moramg. Rev. Mr, Jones, oi brooklyn, Is now stopping in | Bergen, Where, it 18 said, he Will @ucceeti the late | pas.or of the Baptist church, W. W. Hammond, PRESBYTERIAN, New York Presbytery contains 133 ministers and a¢ churches, The average monthiy attendance of ministers and elders at the meetitigs of the Pres- bytery for the last six months, has been 40—a smaii number to represent so jarge aud iuduenual a peer. on important churoh matters, Madison square Presvycerian church last Mon- day gave @ onanimons call to tae Kev. W. J. Tucker, of Manchester, N. H., to become their Pastor and successor o: Dr. Adams. The Springfield street Presoyterian church, Boston, is about to reorganize as 4 iree clurch, ‘The Rev. H. M. Parsons is pastor. Additions by revivals and conversions are re+ ie follows :—In Ludiowville, Ne m Me r Spring as ) N. ¥., 19; ta Greenwica, N. J., 26 mn church, Philadelpiita, 12; Bethesda church, oodiand same city, 31; ureb, sume city, 14} Fiuaware, § Milford, Moons Vern Sbacy side oharch, Mr 29; Kewe Orange, coms olty, 28 N Hi Oitva saree “cnuten, ‘Nase Me Uy et ieteid eh Pittsburg, Pa, ev. F. H. Adi of Wilson, N.¥., scce tsa Call to New Hartford, 2. .) M. Cutler tas rs. signed at Sodus, N. ¥. Vs ¥. . Nelle, of Adaivon ons gone to Gamwanda BX. and Rev, & Wi Peter, of Ogdensburg, aas removed to Parish- The Rev. Heury Rinker, of Newton, b gone to take charge of achurch at Oa Pa, und Rev. J. A, Priest, D, D., bas become his auc- cessor at Newton, The First churci of Mansfield, N. J., have cailed the Kev. 8. E, Webster, of Belie- vue, Pa., to be their pastor, Grace Presbyterian churen, Chicago, has formed @ union Wi'n a part of toe Ninth chure, which | did not go off mito InGependency with Dr. ge] and the united body will be known as the Sixt Presoyterian chureb. The Rev b. E, 8. Bly bas consequently resigned his cuarge of Grace chure! Rev, De Bruyn Kops, a returved missionary irom | Africa, bas accepted an invitation to supply the | Presvyverian churea of Gulesville, Wis., 1or one | year. ‘The pulpit of Mr, Glendenning’s church, in Pros- nee avenue, Jersey Oily, is LOW Occusted by tue | kev. O. B. Bidwell, who will coatinue to officiate wl the Synod disposes of the appeal from the judgment of the Presbytery. = ROMAN CATHOLIC, The Catholic Review presents 18 readers with a portrait and biographical sketch of Cardinal Man- Bing, ot England, Fat b, a Barnabite missionary in Norway, neouragiugly irom that country. Tae church at bergen ts completed and many ‘erts trom Protestantism have been made Within the past year or so, Missions are being founded in ail the cities of Norway. ‘Toe wile of the sub-dean of St. Patrick's (Prot- estant) Cathedral, Dublin, has been received 1nio the Catholic Chu The Dominican Fathers of New York will open a Missivd in St, Mary’s church, Chariestown, Masg., on next Monday, St. Peter’s chureh, Dorchester, Mass, was Opened for public service ior the first time last Sunday, and crowds of people gathered at each of the services, . in 1840 there were but five churches in New Jer~ Sey, With a priest loreach. In 1875 there are 116 churches ana thirty-two stations and 120 priests, Another church will soon be aided in Bloomfield, The Rev, Fativer Mullen, of Essex, Conn., 13 lying very ili at Brantiord, same State. 48 health bas been very poorly all winier. The congregation of St. Vincent's church, Baltt more, are about to erect @ $500 Memorial siab for their late pastor, Father Myers, The Rey. Father Petri, of Baltimore, has now fully recovered from his late seveie iliness. ‘The Very Rev, Provost Cookson, of Liverpool, has pest ep pernree domestic prelate to His Holiness 1 Pope. The Archbishop of New Orleans has been ae- tained in Havana by reason oi the serious ulness of the Very Rey. Father Anstaett, who accompa nies nim, The Cathorcs of Buifalo, N. ¥., will present an address or metnorial to Archtisiop Me- Cioskey on ts accession to the Cardinalaie. Tne Rey. James A, O'Connor, late assistant pas- tor at Wimington, Lil, has been appointed pastor Of the Missions Of Batavia, St Caries and the Junction, HL Rey. Father Vanuta, of St. Joseph’s charch, Jer- sey City, Who had been prostrated by illness for several months, returned to his charge last week, ‘ne Rev, Father McManus has been promoted from the assistant pastorate of St. Patrick's churel, Jersey City, to the charge of Mount Holly | parish, N. J., by Bisvop Corrigan. ine Rey, J. L. Conron, pastor of St. Peter's, New Brighton, Staten Isiand, has re'urned irom Ha- Kane, wuste he was stopping jor the benefit of Ia neal. ‘The Rey, Canon Moynihan will not return to his charge ia New Orleats, He has received an ap. potntment a8 assistant pastor to the Kev, P. Hea- neasey, in Jersey Cily, METHODIST. A misstonary collection, amounting to $2, was taken up in Summerfield Methodist Episcopal churen last sabbaib. During the last two moatas seventy conyeris have united With (hat church on provation, Dr. Newman ts again pleasantly installed in the Metropolitana charch, Washington, D. U., Which ne left three years ago to recreate himsell at home und abroad, ‘ Accessions of converts to the rollowing-named churehes are reported:—New London, Conn., 40; Parkville, Conn., 74; Purchase street, Newbury- Ort, Mass., 60; in Aberdeen, Ohio, 110; on the Louisville District Greenery Conierence, 600 dur- ing the year; at Pearsalis, L. 1, 70; at Spartans- burg, N. Y., 82; om Oakwood Oli cuit, 1u., 60; in Hovoken, 100; Stony Brook, Conn., 42. Bisiops James Simpson, Harris, Andrews and Haven were here last week. ‘They bave since ieit for their several poin(s of labor. The Philadelphia Conference, which just closed its annaal ssi0N, reports 44,690 memoers and local preachers, 309 churches and 3, 360 Sunday schools and 63,003 id scnolars, Missionary dilection, on the Mount Verno has been provided tor. Bishop Marvin (Methodist Episcopal Church, South) has been preaching in Leesburg, Va., and the resuit 18 a religious revival there, A proposition 18 made for Centennial cele bra- tions throughout the Stare of the organization of Methodism im North Carolina, Methodist societies Were first established m that State 1 1775, and @ cireutt Was formed in 1776, Bishop Plerce, of the Methodist Episcopal pe South, while in Portiand, Orexon, preached e: churen, Washington, D. rooklyo, and F 5 sey of the latter, whose ype ae wa § 4 cbare! pd tance. pe cease er dasa get feebie for the past year, and Whose long : minis:orial labors should entitle nim to a rest, | _ Dr.d. M, Thobura, of the Meinodist mission in Inala, is expected to reach this city, on @ turee Months’ visit to this country, about June i Dr. W. Woodruff, Secretary of the General Con.e:ence, bas been in this city fora few Gays past, ooking as well and happy as ever, Rev. W. F. Matialieu, of tue New Kngland von- on a ‘iree and easy tramp fereuce, is to 453. The Baltimore Methodist exuits because the debt | another agoRue Govt, at meantime the burial plot is negievted ana ‘dese. crated, and neituer side is willing to spend money for its im ent or preservation, In Forty-tour. t synagogue Mr. bi. Bilderse@ has retired iro position oO: Shamas, aud Rev, Moses A, Sehreiper (iormeriy of the ‘“Darech Amuno” Congregation) has been eleeted in his place, acting us Assistant Roader as weil as Shamas and Oollector, Rev, HW. Sait, who was iormeriy-Assistant Reader, has also retired, Key. W. H. Smith has resigned the position of teacter in the public school of Guttenberg, N. J., and has assumed the charge of a church ib Fore ec, A dill has heen introduced into the New Jersey Legisiature by Senator Abbett throwing open ail the penal and reformatory institutions of the State jor one hour on the Sabbath toc! rgymen of white ever denommation for the religious iosiruction of the Inmates in their respective .orms of Worship, A BAPTIST CONVERT ABDUCTED. The Rey. D, B. Jutten, pastor of the Sixteenth street Baptist church, in this city, senda to the Examiner and Chronicle a story concerning the abduction of 8 young girl, @ womver of his chareh, with toe design of placing ber ip aconveat, Her parents bad been Cathones and had brought her ap in that fuith, but shortly before they died, & fed months ago, they renounced Catholicism and be came Protestants. The girl united with Mr, Jat ten’s church a year ago and has been @ consisten® member ever since. By various means and methods her friends sought to induce her to return to the church Of ber childhood, bus eho persistently refused, It was finally agreed to bring motives of affection to bear, and her aunt came down from Foruham with @ message thas the gu’s uncle, whom she greatly loved, was dead and would be buried the next day. The youn, Woman went, as sho supposed, to the funeral of he! relative, but found herseli a prisoner, with @ rospect ol @ speedy incarceration in a con er pastor and friends in this city procured rt of habeas corpus, and & iew days ago the youn, woman was brought before the Supreme Vow here and discharged, her abductors tailing to ape pear. CARDINAL MANNING AT THE VATIOAN, [From the Weekly Register and Catholic Stand ard.) Our Roman correspondent informs us by teie graph that of the six new cardinals five are car dinal-priests and one (Cardinal Bartoliat) cardinal-deacon, Upon the occasion of tue pres- entation of the Papal brief to Cardinal Manning 1a the English College on Monday forencom Uhore were assembled Mgrs, Angelini, How. ard and Stonor, with Fathers Manning and O'Callaghan, a8 well as other ecclesi- astica and gentlemen to the number of veirty. Shortly afver eleven the domestic prelates of the Pontiff arrived, bearing the’ oMcial announcement of the new creation irom the Minister of Stute, Cardinal Antonelli, The document was opened im the presence of ail by Archbishop Man ning, its contenta being then read aloud by Mgr. Howard, Immediately aiterward the newly appointed Cardinal received the com gratulations of those aronad nim, fie Eminence, who was groatly moved, expressed his ackuowledgmeuts briefly in Lialian, iv answer to the first felicitations, woich came to him from the members of the Sacred Vollege, O:her congratus lations then followed in rapid succession, After” receiving an intimation irom tne domestic pre lates of His Holmess that he would be expected at the Vatican on Yuesday for the purpose of receiving the red skuil-cap irom the nands of the Pope himeeif, Cardinal Mi ning addressed a iew words to the Bng! visitors, alter which Mgr. Howard and th tim turn tendered their congratulations to the W Cardinal. His Enunence, greatly touched, thanked eacn in words, accompanied by his bless. ing, Our correspondent, on leaving the Buglish College, met crowds Ot Visitors still thronging in to offer ulations. A similar ceremouy was witnessed a little inter in the afternoon as the Belgian Voliege, where Cardinal Deschamps is residing. a ‘fnesday Cardinal Manoinz, accompanied by nis chaplain, the Very Rev, Father Manning, went to the Vatican, according to arranrement, His Holiness, addre: sented to each t the same time, ung the ew cardinals, pre- red skuli-cap, intimating, at the red hat wouid be given on Easter Wednesday at a new Vonsistory. Vardinal Manning Will take possession on the same aft noon of his throne tn San Gregorio, and on following day (Thursday) wili start ior Eagiand With the intention of arriving ja Loudor on Low Monday in time to be preseat at tne meeting of the bishops. SYMPATHY WiTH PRISONERS To THS EDITOR OP THE HERALD :— Permit one interested im “prison reform” to thank you for your articie that subject im the HERALD of the 20th, You could scarcely touche subject of greater importance tu tue people, go through Europe,” leaving New York about tue middle of April Tae Philadephia Conference, at fi te session, passed a resolution refusing admissi@® on trial to (wenty-four ministerial candidates who were anxiousiy waitiag to be received. The Church at large is lacking lor men, but @ few conierences hear the Atiantic seaboard are crowded, and they try to repress tie Zeal of the young candidates for hard work and poor pay im the Methodist ium eraucy. ‘The fifteenth anniversary of the Sunday school connected with the Palisade avenue Methodist Episcopal church, sersey City Heygnts, took place last Suoday, The 8c.00! contains 200 scholars and has given rise to two missionary enterprises, The Newark Methodist Conference during its session in Jersey City the past week adopied @ memorial to tue Lecisiature against the passage of the Cathotic Protectory bill, The expenditures during the past year for mis sionary purpos?s, under toe auspices of the Mis- sionary Society, Was over $700,' The debt of the society 18 $00, The centennial address of the venerable Father Boehm before the Newark Conierence will be de- live:ed, not in the Jersey City Tabernacie, as at first intended, but im the church, Ihe ume has not yet been fixed, EPISCOPALIAN, The now lecture room of Trinity church, Bos: has been completed and ts occupied. it 18 one & most elegant structures of the kiad in the city. he pew church edifice, wuieh Wil Gust $750,000, is In the course of erection. ent ip tem The Rev. Charies L. Fiscner ts at porary charge of St. Jonn’s, Olympia, W. T. Think for ® moment of the fact that some 15,008 to 20,000 (perhaps more) of our popuiation spend their lives in prison, noarly all whom are abie bodied, vigorous men, capabie, under proper guidance, of adding largely to the prodoctive la bor of the State, but most of whom, unier ont present syaiem of mismauag: nt, are supported {n idleness, keptin ignorance of everytoiny use. ful, though allowed, under our miserable practice of promiscuous herding in iarge and smali rooms, to instruct and stimulate eact other in every Species of criminality tuat curses our civilization. 1 thauk you for cailing attention to our prisons The system that pervades them needs the ire. quent aj tivn Of “printer's Ink” to arouse the jolte to its iniquity, it is the «ysiem that is) jauit. The persous charged wita tne oon ‘ these institutions are almost poweriess, withon legislative aid, to reform them. The Legisia ture is slow to move, u attempts any radical change in prison matters having in view the umprovement of tne system. it 1s Met with the opposition of partisan poittics, the great, rave and sturdy opponent of everythin interie! with or sup, to imteriere Ww Personal partisanship and private gain. the « Of the prisoner and the wellare o/ the Stave bein? of no sort of consequence im the opimion of tit Capenaes. Said the Legisiature is slow to move, yet does move and generally in the right arection’ but, to continue movi it needs the force of pudlic opinion (whose authorized exponent it 1s) and there is nothing so powerfal in creating at The Rev. Utis A. Giagebrooke has accepted the position of assistant minister of the Mi red, Baltimore, and missionary in ci of St. George's chapel, Pennayivaula avenue and Fre- mont street, rhe Rev, George R. Davis has accepted the rec- torship o! Trinity church, Nevada City, ‘The Rev. Heman Dyer, D. D., bas returned to New York irom his visit, in company with the Bishop of Delaware, to the Uily of The Rey. D. 1, Edwards has resigned ship of Emmanuel church, Cu Present in porary charge Ascension Sioa, and aigo Of the parish of Giendaie, Unio, Tue Rev. W. W. Estabrook, M. D., has resigned the rectorship of St Thomas’ parish, Sioux Cliy, Owa, The Rev. P, DaGué Trapter has accepted tne rec- pe ip of Worcester parish, diocese of de The Rev, Julius H. Ward, ot Maine, has been elected revtor oi St Michael's parisn, Marbiebead, Mass. ¢ Rey. J, Ward has removed from Waverley to Gaivest n, Texas. The Rey. J. T. Webster has resigned rector- sop of Triwity chureh, Hudson, Mic! id ace ted an eleccon to Emmanuel charch, Detroit, sum o1 $2,500 was subscribed last Sunday to pay off the devt o/ St, Joha’s church, in Summit avenue, Jersey City. This ts the largest collection ever taken up im ‘hia section of the city, MISCELLANEOUS, At Newbury, Vt., fifty persons have been con- verted and jomed the Copgregational church. At Worcester, Mass., thirty, under the like circum. stances, have united with the Congregational cnurch there, The filtieth anniversary of the settlement of Rev. Dr. Bouton as pastor of the North Uo a fonal charca at concurs, N. H., Was celebrated on Tuesday of last Week. With the exception of Kev, Mr, Walker, tne flest minisier of the town, thia is the only pastorate of ball a century in the place. Rev. H. N. Brinsmade, D. V. reviewed bis inst ten years of minisieriai labor in Newark, N. J., in eae sireet cuarch, Newark, N. J., on Suuaay a8 Bishop Reinkens, the leader of the old Catholti has Issued @ pastoral letter eniorcing the duty ovedien @ to the civil government, He aenies with great ability the papal coctrine of allegiance first to the Vaarol and then to whe state. Rev. N. H. Sayles, of Manu's Choice, 0 accepted @ call to the Reformed churca in Joier- son, Md., aod will enter on his duties there May 1, A revival of retigion {8 Im progress in Kenae- buok, Me. The Congationalist, Methouist and Bapust denominations fave joined together and are holding onion meeungs twice a day—in toe aiternoon and evening. A deep religious interest has been awakened and bids jair to extend. The Rev. M. Loucks bas resigned tue pastorate of the Reformed Dutch churca at Akrou, Unio, and Rev. J. M, onder has resigned ms charge of = Reiormed Dutch church wt Mount Pieasaut, 4. scvapten ‘the presiaee oF “SU Tonys cehege is Hoar residency oO ans Me ay a wich he haa bee Ga Bs cere a in th Jewish congregation Beth-Bi cn takinaon avenue and Sixty-third sireey Two ‘ega- are here which—tho olf Nor. the 168 them i correcting public opinion as the puolic press. ‘The last paragraph of the articie reierred (0 Is Most excellent sermon—more especially whe ou speak of the need of constant work and un- nding discipline, Without these “prison re- form” is @ myth and the reformation ortm\naia a dream, I thank you fer your articie om “Sympathy With Crime,” spectially, youra, SINCLAIR TOUSEY, of the New York Prison Association, COURT FASHIONS IN ENGLAND, {Prom the London News, March 9.) The Queen heid @ court at Buckingvam Palace yesterday alternoon, Their Royal Hignesses the Prince and Prinvess of Wales, atteuded by the Countess of Morton, Miss Knollys, the Marquis of Hamilton, Lord Coiville, the Hon. U. L. Wood and Lieutenant Colonel Teesdale, aud escorted by & detachment of the Royal Horse Guaras, arrived at the garden entrance of the Palace irom Marl boro House. The Queen wore a biack corced silk dress, witha train tri With sabie and crape, and a long Yell surmounted by Majesty also wore monds, the Ribbon Garter, the Orders of Prussia, St. Catherine of Saxe-Ooburg and Gotha Family Order. Her Koyai Highness the Princess of Wi & dress of cream-colored satin, trimmed wi Honiton lace and bows ot brown Veivet, reverse with pale bi Ter aad Sogn ton a A tara of diamond ments—Pearia and and Albert and ¢! Her Royal Highness Schieswiz-Holstein wore a tral rich blue gilk, trimmed with roves and Brussels lace. Giamonds, veil and plames, monds. Orders—Vi dress train of light vine stik, (rimmed with forget-me-nots; @ diamond neckiace and brooch, the Russian Order of 5%. Uatherine and the Vio torta and Aibert Order, SIR ROGER TiICHBORNE. THE CLAUMANT LOOKING FOR TWO MILLION FIV® The Tichborne cate has entered upon a net phase. To-day 4 declafation was flied ut tae suis Of Str Roger Tictborne, tie claimant, against Mr.