The New York Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1876, Page 4

4. QUEEN MARY. Tennyson’s Play Being Prepared | } for the English Stage. THE SCENES m and Where Slashing Will Be Done—C Trial by Footlights. Loxpoy, Soon after Tennyson’s ‘Queen Mary April 3, 1876. was published here appeared in the Kdinburgh Review a criticism of | the work, which was one of the most curiously absurd productions 1 ever saw. The eritic was, in the first place, savagely bitter, should even bave attempted the dramatic form, and seemed to feel a sense of deep personal injury that the poet should have thought of writing a play. Ho evi- dently believed that Tennyson had broken some great moral law; that he had set at naught. some great first principle underlying the universe; that he bad revolted, as il were, against the solar system, Naturally, no good could come of such a prockeding, and THE PLAY WAS DAMNED, But the critic not only objected to it on principh ho condemned it in detail, and showed that it was ut- terly absurd and wrong from begiuning to end. His grand objection was, absurd as it may seem, that Ten hyson had not written like Shakespeare. He showed first, for he seemed to know, how Shakespeare would have done it, then pointed out how Tennyson had done it; he showed where the method of this one differed from that of the other; he said, “Look upon this pic- ture and then upon this,” and thought he had damued Tennyson. With regard to “SQUERN MARY"? AS AN ACTIS it is of course dificult, as with any pls has been puton the stage whether it will » not, The only test of a play asa play is Its success or failure on the stage, and this test will soon be applied to “Queen Mary.” Mrs, Bateman is preparing to bring tt put in the same style of magnificence, as regards scenery, tostame and decoration, with which she put Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “Othello” on the stage of the Lyceum, Although I believe Tennyson wrote this play for the theatre, it is, in its present condition, hardly adaptea for acting, and will have to undergo several alterations before it is finally brought out, It betrays the inexpe- rienced hand of a man who has never belore written gr the stage. There is a certain lack of dramatic co. herence and sequence im it, a fault which would not have beon made by an experienced playwright of even an inferior order. TENNYSON'S LACK OF STAGE EXPERIENCE, ‘The scenes are very loosely put together, and do not follow each other with dramatic sequence; that they do not produce each other, No one scene is made necessary by that which precedes or follows it, and many of them might be taken out entirely without in terfering with the progress of the story, so little Vey contribute to the central or dominant interest, There is no plot, properly speaking. ‘The play con sists of a series of historical pictures drawn from his- tory and strung together, with scarcely any continued or dramatic interest to unite them. But this weakness, arising from want of stage experience, is one that can be easily rémedied by an ordinarily skilful playwright. There is the material in the play for a grand acting tragedy. It is composed of a series of pictures, it is trae; but each of these pictures is full of life and in- terest, and three of them at least contain situations of the highest dramatic power, either one of which ought to insure the success of a play. A WIGHLY DRAMATIC SCENE. One of these 1s the last scene of the second act. Mary 1s in the gatehouse of Westminster Palace with Gardiner, Renard, Alice ana others of ner court, await- ing the result of the battle that is raging outside. The rebel Wyatt 1s attacking London and has advanced, driving a part of Mary’s soldiers, as far as the palace rate, where they are making a last stand. ‘The result | is doubtul Messengers come rushing in upon each other's heels bringing news of defeat aod disaster. Gardiner advises her to fly, but she refuses, Then Courtuay, Earl of Devon, comes rushing in, breathless and battle-stamned from Charing Cross, where he assures her the rebels are victorious aud urges her to fly to Windsor, Rut she only treats Lim as a coward, Then the soldiers who are defending the palace gate are driven inside and the gates are slosed agaist the enemy. She orders them tobe thrown open again, the guard to sally out, and she her- self rushes to the window to watch the fight in spite of the arrows that are flying thickly everywhere. This time her troops are victorious; they drive the insur. | gents before them, and now messengers come pouring ™ announcing that the tide of battle has turned and the rebels are flying on all hands. Finally the capture of Wyatt is announced. Het was who headed the re- beilion which ber enemies had stirred upto prevent her marrying Phiip. “To the Tower with him,?? she o { then, trembling, quivering with the exertem und Suspense of the previous few minutes, sinks ex- ed on a seat and cries, “MY FORS ARE AT MY PRET AND Puuir KtvG.’? 1 The scene is tuil of ement, action, and wil have, if properly acted, an overwhelming success, « THE THIRD ACT is by no means so good, It is for the most part de- goted to quarrels between Pole and Gardiner, ghat can- uot have the slightest interest for the modern reader; cription of the ceremonies attendant upon the ution of England by the Pope’s legate, Cardinal in which we are treated to a long than’ flity lines by the latter, wearisome, and Without the shghtest action. This act is, however, relieved somewhat by Bugenhall’s touching description of the Geath of Lady Jane, and it is lightened by a pretty scene at Woodstock, in which Elizabeth plays the principal part. It is im the last scene of th:s act that Philip be- gins to take a prominent position; but fully one-nalf of it, comprising three whole scenes, might be cut away without in the least injuring the pi The whole of the fourth THE BURNING His death is not, of course bat is deseribed by a person who uct, considered by itself, or as part really very fine, it has mnection with that which precedes and that which follows, and does not in reality belong to the play. The interest of t spe is centred on Mary and Philip, act devoted to the death of Cranmer, which ct their fortunes in the least, and has not, as the slightest result on the final c we audience. it. Although this pall bf technical skill and stage experien The characters ofCourtenay, the lordly, toppish fool, gna of Elizabeth, cool and scheming, but susceptible to Litiery, are well drawn, Philip is only a rapul sketch, done, a it were, with a few light strokes of the crayou, ut it is characteristie and litelike, Tbe character of Mary herseit x drawn by the hand ofa master; and in spite of the dark side of her nature, which is bot con- sealed in the least, she excites our interest and pity trom the (rst, She,is a weak. (t/-favored, aged woman, piety, bigotry, cruelty, implacability and intolerance of the age in Which she’ lived—characteris- tics whieb ought to repel us, one would think, at the very beginny But there is a siver lng to this loud, ‘The picture is not all shadow. There ts a brighter side to this gloomy, forbidding churacter, ‘This Queen is still a woman and an English woman. Her love of country, ber doting, ish fondness fer Vnihp, ber love and veneration for her poor, unhappy mother and her own miserable, unbappy existenc seize upon our interest and, in spite of hicr faults, excl our pity and compassion to the utmost. Not be more touching and pathetic than tho consciousness of her age and ugliness beside her young aud handsome buyband; nothing more affecting than her bina devo. tion towhim while half conscious that her love is not re- turned, h MARY AND PrtrLir, Bhe first appears upon the scene kissing Philiy Miniature, for ikea schoolgirl she tas tailen in lo With his portrait without ever having seen himn:— Most goodly, king-like and an Emperor's son A king ty Ue-is lig not nod © ahead So fall of erace and benaty | wonldanat mine Were haif as uracious | O, my lord tw ve, Virgin, ly. | My by or hated me than loved. My sister and hates me, (oly Virgin, Plead with ty Messed son: my prayer; ers, me my Poilip, and w i lead two wi yg waters uf the faith main ‘ack thro’ their widow'd chanue! here. and watch e pareh’d banks rolling inceuse, as of old. fo heaven, and kindled with the paims of Christ! aga Renard telis her he is oaly longing with diamond, come with hira; for sails at sea, Prayer is granted; but the hatred of her sub. and koops alive by ber persecution of tue Protestanis, He was indignant that Tennyson | e other play, | ing can | ae ann | Her life is rendered miserable and wretched by Philip’s | I took it, though I did not know | And put'it in my | coldness, indifference and heentious manners. We cannot belp piying her wild longing for a son to bind her tast to Philip's love, in that fervent passionate out- burst when she feels the quickening of anew hfe within her bosom. | He hath awake ie now thy love to min more close, wud bleak manners Thas make me shamed and tongue-tied in my love. ‘The second Prince of Peace— ‘The great unborn defender of the Faith, | Who wi fob— Ho comes, and my star rises. His seeptre shall co forth from Ind to Ind! His sword shall hew the heretic peoples down! His faith shall elotbe the worid that will be his, Like universal al shine! Open, Yo everlasting wat he King is here— ‘My star, ny soul! But her star never rises, her sou never comes. She | is doomed toa childless, unloved life. Philip grows | colder and harder as the bope of seeing a prince born tw him grows less. She thinks it is the hand of Heaven punishing her because she has not better protected the Faith and burned out Protestantism, She grows more | | eruel and bloody, She burns Latimer, Ridley, Cran- mer, honestly to appease the wrath of heavy We cannot help sympathizing with her hatred of Cranmer, for it was he who divorced her mother and pronounced herself illegitimate, How tenderly she loves and venerates the memory of | her mother is shown 1 the very first scene im whieh | she appears, and one is inclined to say she was half | right in burning the prelate who pronounced divorce, ALICE, ly. Aw hi royal futher » they say) was all pure lily and rose youth aud like « hudy, ‘Many. 0, just God! Sweet mother, you had thine and cause enough To sieken of is lilies and his | Cust off, betray'd, defame nd then the king—that tr The false archbishop fawnti The mother of Elizabeth, All this time wretched, miserable, unhappy, hanging upon Piiltp for a kind word, a look, a smile, which she | never gets AUANDONKD HY PHILP. u | At length Philip, disgusted with England, English | manners, English people, tired beyond endurance of a wiie he never loved, abandons her and returns to Spain, | never more to come back, « does not tell her | the separation 1s to be tinal, and she still halt hopes that he loves her, But she is broken, depressed and | | wretched at the coldness with which he parted from | | her, and the conviction 1s gradually foremg itself upon | | her that be does not now and never did love her. Her | sceret enemies ure daily growing more bold and tuso- lent; thoy throw seditio pers about, even m her | palace, containing the grossest insults, such as—* We pray daily for the death of that Jezebel, the Queen.” “The Queen hath been delivered ofa dead dog.” Sir Nicholas Heath, the Chancellor, is announced, RY. i Lapy CLARENCE. Well. Madam, he may bring you news from Philip. | ‘Let me first put up your buir; It tumbles all abroad. Mary. rt And the gray dawn Of an old age that never will be mine Is all the clearer seen. No, no: what matters? Forlorn 1 am, ang let me look forlorn, He comes to announce the capture of Calais, which comes upon her likea thunderbolt. Here her love of England glows deep, pure and bright, and her native | energy flushes up splendidly in a last determined et- fort to recover the lost fortress, Heatu. I bring your Majesty sueh grievous nows Iyrieve to bring it. Madam, Culais is taken, Ay ANY. t traitor spoke ¢ Here, let my cousin Pole e him and ura him for « Lutheran, KATH, Mer Highness is unwell. I will retire. LADY CLARENCE. Madam, your Chancellor, Sly Nicholas Heath, a Sir Nicholas! Tam stunn’d—Nicholaz Heath ? Methonght some traitor smote me on the head, What said you, my good Lord, that our brave English Had sallied out from Calais and driven back ‘The Frenchmen trom thelr trenches ? RAH. Alas! no, ‘That gateway to the main land over wh Our tia; h floated for two hundred yi 1s France again, 8 Mary. So; but it is hot lost— Not yet, Send out: let England as of old Rise Honlike, strike hard and deep into ‘The prey they are rending from ber—ay, and rend ‘ho tenders too. Send out. out, and make 1 the counties: gather all to sixty; collect the fleet ; curries sail and gun Guisnes is not tuken yet? Hearn. Guisnes is not taken yet. RY. There yet Is hope, Harn. Ah, Madam, but your people are s0 cold ; 1 do muc that England will not care. Methinks there is no manhood left among us. Y. AKY. Send out; Tam too weak to stir abroad; ‘Tell my mind to the Council—to the Parliament; Proclaim it to the winds, Thou art cold thyself ‘To babble of their coldness. O would | were My tather for an hour! Away now—quick! (£ci¢ Hearn. T hoped Thad served God with all my might! i It seems [have not, Ah! much heresy | ais, Saints, L have rebuilt | up your broken images; | Be comturtable to me, Sutter not | ™ reign in England be defamed | Thro’ all her angry chronicles herealtor | By loss of Oalais. Grant me Calai-. | If 18 ALL IN VAIN, While struggling thus with fate she picks up one of those seditious scraps of writing and reads:— “Your husband hates you as your people hate you.” It as the echo of her own fear, the confirmation of her own doubts, What she herself suspected the world knows and openly talks about, Her Philip is one, and now she knows he wiil never come back. he blow isa crushing one and she sinks beneath tt | She seizes u lute and sings a sad, despairing song with a refrain of “Lew, lute low:"" ALICE. Your Grace hath a low voice. | Mary, i How dare you say it? | Even for that he hates me, A low voice j Lost in a wilderness where none can hear! A voice of shipwreck on # shoreless sea! A low voice trom the dust and from the grave. Flinging herself on the ground and sobbing— ‘There ; am I low enough now ? The Count de Feria is announced from Philip, Philip! quick! loop up my hair! ‘Throw cushions on that seat aud make it thronelike, Arrange my dress—the gorgeous Indian shaw! That Philip brought me in our happy days!— That covers ail. So—am I somowhat queentike, Bride of the mightiest sovereign upon earth ? LADY CLARK: Ay, s0 your Grace would bide « moment yet. vrs No, no, he brings a letter. | Before I rend it. Letn Cousr p I trust your Grace is well. Many. Lam not well, but it will better ime, Sir Count, to read the letter which you bring. } Feeta, Madam, [ bringuo letter. Many, How! no letter? | Fen. i | His Highness is so vex'd with MARY. ‘That his own wife is no affair of his. BRIA, Nay, Madam, nay! he sends his veriest love, Aud’ says he will come quickly. ARY, | | Doth he, indeed * You, sir, do you remember what you said When lait you came to England ? j FER! Madam, I broughs it was hopes My King’s congratulath ein happy state Your Highness w To give him an Mary, Sir, you said more; | You said he would come quickly. [Lad horses | to shame himsell ag turn. And tell him that T know he comes no more. ; Tell bim at last [ know his love is dead. ’ THE LAST SCENR | is one among the most grandly pathetic ever written | for the stage. We arc first shown the outside of the | paiaco, Itis night, and lights are streaming forth from | the windows, before which now and then a shudow is | seen to fit, Passing voices of the night floating silently | through the darkness are heard cursing the Queen. | Then the scene changes, and we are shown Mary's | | apartments, Mary is pacing feverishly up «nd down. | | On the wall there is a large portrait of Philip. The | moonlight is streaming in through the windows; her maids are anxiously watching her. She sits down at a | table for a moment and writes; then she resumes her | walk. They look at what she has writen and Philip; come to me. | Again she sits and writes; again resumes her feverish | walks, And agai they read, nothing, but “Come, come, come,” and all awry and blotted by her tears. | She speak: I whistle to ® bird bag broken cago, \ And all in vain. Calais gone, Gaisnes gone too, and Philip gone ¢ Then pointing to the portrait: — } Doth he not look noble t J had beard of him in battle over seas And I we Me said tt | \ Before the mn He momentéy Altho' you'll not Uelieve me, As if be loved me yet 1" And 80 he does, He never loved me—nay, he could not love m@® . 1k was his father's policy against France, Taro cleven years olier than he, ‘our Boy. /. dearest lady, see your good physician, Drugs—but he knows they cannot help me—eays ‘That reat ts all—tells tae 1 must noc thioko= ‘That T mast rest. at 1 all rest by and by. Cateh the ‘cage him, and when And maim) f against the bars, say “rest ;” Why, you I him if you would have him rest. Her bigesty and fanaticism add powerfully to her sufferipgs. She is continually tortured by the thought | that wer misery is a just punishment of Heaven for remissness in Stamping Out Protestantism, One of her women say to her— +t that God will make you happy vet. the bing, happiness ? Appiost hour, was May time, loved. And I was walking with T loved him, but E thought L was | And both were silent, letting the wild brook | Kpeak for uy tilt he souped and gathered on@ From out a bed of thick forget me-nots. | Leok’d hard and sweet at mo, amd wave it meg | This bhss might perhaps have bee: | 0 God: [have been The Mal Wherefore should I see him ¢ } i | for the great Republic beyond® the seas. | profit vesides. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, ° APRIL 17, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. T took ft, som, and all at once T felt his arms about me, and his lips— The picture of so much happiness which has never been hers drives the unhappy Queen ‘nto a frenzy. herg had.she better protected the faith. slack, too slack: hot gospellers oven among our We have but dared not touch. arnt ic priest, workmen, and women and children, ine, ague, fever, storm, wreek, wrath— “J 0 We'll follow Phill a ‘Tue Holy Office her And burn the Burn | In_ her delirium she sees the gentle Latimer and smells his burning flesh:— we re Ana Food to close 4 . hrs ees below. Bir, we are private E rough. blunt ‘Thou light a torch that never will x Ah, wewk and meek Sevenfold dishonored even in the sight Of thine own sectaries— No pardent— Why, that was false; there is the right hand still Beckons me ‘And 40, he smiles and goes, Jentle us in life, ALicK. Mudam, who goes? King Philip ? Many No, Philip comes and goes, but never goes, Women, when | am dead, and there you will find writtes ip and Calais; open his— tip and Calais hil ly, policy, potiey— of one hour true to me! 5 in a fester'd vice! rt of hell, cs ist thou akaife? She flies to the picture of Philip, which is smiling mockingly at her in all the pride of youth, beauty and strength, cuts It out of the frame and fiings iton the floor, This Philip shall not Stare upon me in my haggardness; Old, wiserable, diseased, Tneapable of children, Come thou down. Lie there, O God! I have killed my Philip. But the last spark of life has been consumed tn this | sudden burst of rage; she sinks exhausted in the arms | of ter women, and is borne out dying, with that ap- peal so full of pathos and reverential affection to her unhappy persecuted mother, whose life has been 0 much like her own, © Saint of Aragon! with that sweet worn smilo Among thy patient w help me henee. THE CLOSE OF THK DkaMma. Although the third and fourth actg are loosely and inartistically constructed, the fifth is a model of dra- matic writing and effect, and Tenny sou has here displayed dramatic power of the highest kind. There is nota ye nor a word too much in this act. It ts full of sife id movement, and the jou hurries on to the end without a pause or a break, enchaining irresistibly the interest of the spectstor to the very last, Philip's coldness, his final departure, Mary’s foolish fondness for him, her despair at his indifference at the moment of parting, the taking of Calais, the persecu- tiotts of her enemies, who annoy herby continually throwing papers about the patace contaming the most outrageous insults, the voices of the might herd denouncing and cursing her, her elirium when she sees the ghost of Latimer and thinks she smells his’ burning — flesh, and finally her rage and despair when the memory of Philip's cold-hearted policy, his cruel, cymeal nature, his worthlessness, his want’of faith, bi Weentiousness, drives her to madness and she fies at his picture, | which 1s watching her with mocking ingsolence, cuts it from its frame and tramples it beneath her feet, that it may no longer be a reproach to ker age and wrinkice, all go to make up an act full of dramatic power that car: | ries away the spectator as with a swiltly rushing tor- rent WAGNER'S. CENTENNIAL MARCH. A GLOWING TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT REPUBLIC'S HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY—THE WORK AND 1TS COMPOSER. Some months ago, when Theodore Thomas, the rep- resentative conductor of America, was selected as the conductor par excellence for the opening musical ser- vices. of the Centennial Exposition, he wrote to Richord Wagner, who 18 considered to-day the greatest living - composer, offering him, through the Women’s Centennial Union, $5,000 for a grand march worthy of the occasion, and | worthy of the fame of Mr. Wagner. This march has arrived in this city, and it is worthy of the subject. A eursory view of the score, which is very elaborate, en- ables us to speak of the work ina musical point of view. I, is more effective than the Kaiser March, and yet in treatment it resembles very much that famous work which has now achieved a world-wide renown among musicians. The difficulties of reducing such an enormous score to piano form are not easily appreciated. Wagner bas a habit of introducing sev- eral distinct motives at the samé time, and it would be absurd to give certain phrases ot bis “Centennial March” in the columus of a news- paper ih any form except the one which he has marked out tor the orchestra. Unless a newspaper de- votes a large space to the iMustration .of the pt subject of such a work as this ‘Centennial March,” must necessarily stuluty itself, im ® musical port of | new. Wagner's march is entirely characteristic of the new style of the composer. ives are introduced in abundance; sometimes several sabjects are brought tp at once, and no piano score can convey the won- dertul effect. Wagner is a thorough master of the ef- fects of the modern orchestra, with all ite great | Tesuurces, In this march he has seem- ingly exhausted all those cffects. Not that he has forgotten, for a moment, the true rinciples of musical art. The endliche melodie, which e puts forward in opera as the true idea of operatic art, i tirely lost sight of in bis instrumental works, In'this march he appears to be* melody-laden; so much so. that 1s difficuit- for a musician to point out at times which theme of the series in course of performance is the most agreeable. This is a triumph fur Wagner in his instramental theory. He can compose a work, heavily scored like the one under review, and yet can introduce | ravishing melodies—a number of them at that—with- out disturbing for a moment the legitimate harmonies that make up the, foundations of a great work. The ladies of the Centennial Umion may well be proud of their musical work. They tntrusted the labor mto the competent hands of Theodore Thomas, a man who has won hia way to the very heat of his’ profession. Mr. Thomas called upon the greatest living composer to frame a work worthy of such an occasion as the centen- nial of tbe greatest Republic the world has ever seen. Tho composer has nobly responded. Not even when the triuinph of Germany over her long persistent | foe, who had so often trodden her under foot, gave to Richard Wagner a fruitiul theme did he dis: such artistic power and genius as when he wrote When the “Kaiser March’? is forgotten the ‘Centernial March of America” will be remembered and perpetuated. Whatever Wagner's fwults may be, and they are numerous, it must be acknowledged thai on this occasion he did not disappoint the abiding faith placed in him by Theodore Thomas, We hear a greet deal of the cant of musical people in this city regarding Mr. Thomas’ action in calling upon a foreign composer to pertorm the —prmeipal work that is to inausurate the musical services at the Centennial Exposition. We have yet to hear from the first’ representative | American composer who has done anything for the Contenmal, There are many great composers in this country, but they are either too iazy or are waiting to be asked. Wagner has torn himsel! away from the contemplation of his Ring of the Nibelungen” at Bay- reuth and has given America a march of which he ean i roud, Five thousand dollars were paid for this march. It is worth the money. Now if Mr, Thomas and the Ladies’ Centennial Union wish to make money by this marek the advice we give them ts, Have atthe opening of the Exposition 25,000 copies of the work in piano torm on the Exposition groands, at say dfty ceutaa copy. The money paid for tre march wilt not only be brought back, but there will be a handsome One of the features of the oponing of the Exposition will undoubtedly be Wagner’s “Centen- a | nial Mareb. COUNTERFEIT MONEY. The Bankers’ Association of this city has just pro- parod a listof the counterfeit bills now in eireula- ton, The Association has denounced in strong terms the inefficiency of the Sceret Service Department, For many months past not ao arrest has been made for | kets have been culating counterfeiting, although the “queer” w working hard, Tne counterfeit money now | js of various denominations, and ts not contined to the banks of this city or State, The followmg is a list of tie bills now being passed upon the publie:— New York Urry.—First National, $50; Central Na- tional Bank, $100; Commercial, $20, §10, $5; City Bank, $20: Shoe and Leathor, $20; Tradesman’s, $20 0 te of 3 . $20 and $2; Market, $20, $10, $2 s $20. $10, $5 al, $10, $2; Marine, $1 nit q 4 $2, St. Nicholas, $2; New York Banking Association, 20. New Yorw Srate.—First Nationa of Palmyra, $ $2: Tioga, Oswego, $60; First, Elmira, si; ony: Uiiea, $20; First, Utica, $20; Oneida, $20; City Na: Hons! Alban; $10; Fireman's and Merchant's, Hartaio, $10; Central National ot Cherry Valley; First National, Lockpor ; Exenange, Lockport, $10; Farmers’, Maione, $10; Highland, Newbarg, $10. Wesriiereim —National, Peekskill, $10, $2; City Bank, Poughkeepsie, $10; Farmers aud Manufacturers 0, First aoe i 10; First National, eepsi¢, $10; First National, Red Hook, $10; City National Bank, Rochester, $10; Central, $10; (Weeps. gg $10; Mutual, Troy, $10; First, Whitehall, Pincerarh Kinderhook, $2. Phin 80 NSYLVANIA.—Fitst National, adel) Third, $10; Sixth, $2; Levanon, $20. eh New Jensky.—First National, 01 ’lainfield, $10, | Mile, Pappenheim appears on Wednesday in “Paust.’? ‘The Vocal Society has a concert at Chickering Hall | | on Thursday. | | The Vokeses will play this weex at Mrs. John Drew's Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia. Mr. Theodore Thomas gives an extra symphony 6o@- cert to-night at Steinway Hall, Max Pinner, the celebrated American pianist, lett Bremen yesterday for America. j Kelly & Leon’s Minstrels open the Twenty-third | ‘Street Opera House on the Ist of May, i ‘The E. L. Davenport Club give adramatio perform | ance at Terrace Gdrden on the 18th inst. | The Kiraltys’ new theatre in Philadelphia, the | Albambra, is rapidly approaching completion, | Mile. Anna de Belocca makes her American début | to-night at the Academy of Music as Rosina in “Il Bar- biere di Seviglia.” Mrs. Imogeme Browa, Mr, Fritsch and Mr. Blum will sing the principal réles in “Der Freischutz’’ on Tues- day at the Academy of Muse, A prestidigitateur is giving “donation seavces” tn Philadelphia who advertises to give to every purchaser | of a fifty cent teket a building lot 20 py 100 teet, Mr, Adotph Neuendorff has been proposed as the coming conduetor of the Philharmome Society, and a bettor selection could scarcely be made, Mme, Jule De Ruyther’s aznuat concert takes place | at Steinway Hall on the 24th tnst. The lady is oue of | the best of our local artists, é Miss Gertie Emanuel, a promising and accomplished oung singer, gives a grand concert at Chickering Hall | on the 2ist inst, aided by a number of well known | artists. The balltobe given by she Women’s Centennial | Union of New York at the Academy of Music on Tues- | } da; the 28th of April, promises to be one of the most | brilliant of this season. The Emperor of Brazil has | been invited, and a proscenium box has been provided | for Limself and suite, The proceeds of the bali will be devoted to the exhibition of examples of the handiwork of the women of this State at the Centennial Exposi tion. The dramatic event of last week in Philadelphia was the appearance of Miss Beatr ce Strafford as Juliet, in Shakespeare’s sentimental tragedy, Miss Strafford is the young American lady who took the Londoners by surprise in acceptably filling Miss Neilson’s place in her great character when that lady suddenly in- | disposed, Miss Strafford’s début 1m this country was | made atthe Walnut Street. Theatre in ‘Romeo and | Julie. The young lady shows unmistakable signs of talent, and received a warm reception. Theodore Thomas’ last symphony concert at Stein- way Hall, on the 22d inst., is announced, with the fol” lowing programme:—Overture, Leonore, No. 3, Bee- thoven; Variations (Theme vy Haydn), op. 56, Brahm: Spinning Chorus and Ballade, Wagner. Second act of | | “Phantom Ship,’ Miss Liva Pfeil, Miss KE, L. Harri- | son and female chorus,’ Symphony inC, No. 9—An- | | dante, Allegro ma non troppo; Andante con moto. | Scherzo (Allegro vivace); Finale (Allegro vivace)— | A vile conspiracy has been entered into by the di- rectors of the Musical Protective Union against sum- mer garden concerts. Thinking that there was a good opportunity during the Centennial summer to exerciso the tricks which failed so signally with the theatrical managers nine years ago, they have sought to double the rates of orchestral players this summer. Musical Protective Union was once an organization deserving of the utmost condemnation. | FINE ARTS, NOTES FROM THE GALLERIES, As the summer months approach and residents of the city prepare for departure to sutmmer homes out of | town the picture dealers import fower pictures and | give more attention to other branches of their Vasiness | whieh rise with the régular spring tidal trade wave, | At Schaus’ gallery Cabanel’s “Penelope” stil! continues to be the chief attraction. Having given the proceeds of the exhibition of this and other pictures to the Young Ladies’ Christian Association for the past two weeks, be will continue the exhibition until May 1 for the benefit of the Women’s Centennial Union, bringing before the public the works of our own artists, winter caused our artists to rely upon the unreliable | patrons of the action rooms for the patronage which | should be given them in their studios and regular art | galleries, The paintings which occupy the places of | honor at present in this gallery are two Centennial | pictures, Inness’ large Italian landscape atia Phillips’ ; “1776 and 1876."’ Both will leave for Philadelphia this week. Eastman Johnson’s “Woodland Bath’ is here, and on the opposite wall hangs an uncommonly fine snow scene, with the sunlight brightening tho tops or weeds, &c., and falling with exquisite effect upon the soit white substance, Harvey Young’s last and best jandscape, a Freneh scene, represent- ing nature in one of her ead, gray moods; | | a-‘Long Island Meadow Scene,” by Wiggins; one of McCord’s “Winter Sunsets,’? a ‘Wood Interior,” by McEntee; Davidson’s picture, which has attracted much attention, representing the engagement between the “Constitution and Guerricre;” & small picture representing Brittany peasants lounging near an old building, is by Arthur O*Kelley, a young American artist, at present residing in Brittany, There are ron Dheeing notable works by native artists and a large number by foreigners, Hasenclever’s “Schoolmuster, ana ‘lhe Approach of the Flymg Dutchman,” by EB. Basch, are here also, ‘At ‘the Goupil. gallery, Cleopatra on the River) Cydnus,” still remains | te centre of attraction, li is the most. strik- ing example of the modern French classical scuooi, with its merits and detects, which has been exhibited in New York for some time. “Mary | at the Tomb of Christ,” by Caubanel, has more ad- mirers than the Picon, ‘ihe Fete Day,” by Louis Letan, is from the Paris Salon of 1875, and ts @ highly finished coztumed picture, good in color and draw ing. as his pictures always are, ‘Morning’ and “Evenipg,’’ by Lambinet, were also in the salon of | 1875. pringtime,"’ by Mesgriny, is a pleasing pic- / ture, representing a group of young ladies feeding a nestinlt of young birds. “Making a Bouquet,"? by Palmaroh, ts a smail but good example of the Roman- Spanish school, “The Cubmet,"” by Simonetti; “The | New Novel,” -by Toulmouche;" “ine Bouquet,” by Vivert, are among the newest ‘pictures in the gallery. | Among the few American works are ‘‘Noonday,” by William Hart, and a “Marine sketch,” by M. F. HL De Haas, and “The Eve of St. Agnes,” by T. L. Smith. | In the Tolosa Spanish gallery, No, 6 Astor piace, may be seen the newest examples of Casada, Casanova, Pradilla, Aznar, Perea Gotofré, Olavide and others. | The latest importation consists of three works— "In the Garden,” by Veraita; “The Practical Joke,” by | Martinelli, and “Visit vo the Workroom,” by Gabrini. The pictures are all examples of the thoroughiy Span- | tsh school ag it represents modern art, [n drawing the | figures equal those of the modern French school, al- though the latter have been for years considered the best draughtsinen in the world. The works are gen- | “Antony and e | French in not being carried to the extreme of tinish | which, from the minute attention paid to detail, de- tracts from the merit of a work by giving equal promi- pence to the port of interest and the accessories. The | general lack of concentrated light 1s the greatest departure from conventional rules of | composition, and this, though ft is true to nature in some of her variations, ts as much opposed to accepted ideas of artistic effect us the pre-Rapuacnte tendeucy of the modern French school. “In the Gar- en’ is & good example of this, A young woman rest- | wn a lounge is dozing from the eflect of the heat, the perfume of tie flowers and the dulness of the book | which she has been reading. The figure is an exquisite piece of Work, but itis not geen until the eye has roamed over the garden with its contosed foliage bright with sunlight, Au mieror, in which a group of merry young women are tying a beenirge fl youth to a chair, is more artistic in treatment, and the workshop interior contarns a more effective arrangement of Light | and sbade than either of the others. The same anas- terly drawing and color are visible in all of these works and in otbers in the gallery, | In the same baila‘ng, No, 6 Astor place, is the estab- | lishment of Mr. 1. Lanther, a gentieman well known in art circles as one of the most reliable authori ties 1m the country on all matters connected with art. He often has on his walls a number of pr works: of celebrated artists, ine merit | artists whose names are not well enough known to sell their pictures independent of tue artistic skill di played in them. The paintings which he has present, though few in number, are first class im ality; oue of them being “The Evening Meal,” by | 1, of Munich, which was at one me ip the | of Mr, N. D. Morgan, of Brooklyn—a flock of ; Ne Tiixo1s. —F bled waiting impatiently at the halt open barn door | " N: for their tood, and the bright littic sheplerd dog watch. Uonal, $6; ing them from the inside, The work is strong First, Aurora, $5; $5; every particular, the natare of the animal Rwove Istaxp,—First National, New port,’ $2; Firat | jaw becn. welr understood by the arti National, Provi 5 Rogers Williams? Bank, $2 | and his skill has enabled bin to render city Navional, 93, $2 4, Portland, $5; boo Miontiorrerl 2 digthed ar drawing is epic ie Subject Would not, of cout rs First National, Boston, $20, $80; | Sdmitol brithant color; but N las een treated with SRACHUSETTS. CRs as on wee tal ks the ears on Adams" are wot atall plain. The $50's are not weil and the paper ts stiff! ana otly and darker than the genuine, while many of the $6’s are coarsely engraved, breadth, the warn browns of the pha gg ot Ii be ecto Repentaat crane skuil, | MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. | i ) unul | suall examine the cabmet and Miss Fay,” said Pre Schubert, | The | ‘Thia 18 also » stil life study, not noticeable powerfully executed piece of work. A by Milne hg ce the others, from striking color, but for the truth objects are pated. The study con tains nothing but a lighted eandie, a beer muy, an ornamental shell and an old giove; but it shows how much knowledge may be put in simple studies as well as in the most ainbit ous sub- Jects. One of Olavide’s still lite groups contains the ‘Same qualities and is more showy,, As the artist tas chosen. e brilliantly colored objects there is more jeg in Leche orn the effect U4 Nae = good, the objects having the appearance of high finis without the cee pn ml which too minute attention to detai! is apt to give, A large flower piece, by Redmord Fay, shows the hight touch of this arte im masses ot color “Stealing Is a Si," by Gustw Sus, of Dusseldorf, is a small picture representing 4 duck sermonizing @ flock of snowbirds which have | perehed ou the limb of a tree to Wait the duck has finished the mel that = been placed in a dish for its benefit. “The Pottery del; one by Williamson; a little gem, by David Joln- son, and two small scenes, one in France and the other on Long Island, by C, B. Coman, a young American artist, whose work shows the iniluence of French mas- ters, The subjects chosen are generally wetrd-looking groups of tall, slender trees, with so lutte foliage that the anatomical structure is visible—this being a peculi- arity of the trees m France—and the artist. shows this characteristic feature in wood interiors and lonely marshes, selecting generally for the alinosphere a peeu- liar and pleasing gray tone Which renders them still More poctic, while it Keeps within the limits of nature, A SERIO-COMIC SEANCE. UPROAR AMONG THE SPIRITS—ANNA EVA FAY'S CONFLICT WITH MATERIALISM. Last evening the comfortable hall of the San Fra cisco minstrels, in Broadway, held an assemblage of a very reflued class, present to witness the demonstra- tious of Miss Anna Eva Fay, who 1s described in the ad- vertisemonts as the “Celebrated Indescribable Phenom- ena or Spiritual Medium.” Every one present seemed | in the best of humor, On the stage there was a cabinet, | lined with red cloth, which had six short legs, each of The cabi- and which had a pivotal wheel under it. pet wae in sight of the audience, was = not possible for any os or friend of Miss Fay, to come near it and accomplish any trick. Professor Fay, the manager of the séance, came forward at little after eight o'clock and addressed the audience. He was atured in full evening dress, and stated that he expected silence trom his hearers, He added :—*That order as had been observed when Miss Fay had the honor to appear before the Prince and Princess of Wales. ’? Immediately the audience became still, seeming to consider that if the reyal wanderer could repress his teelings for Miss Fay's sake, they could overcowe theirs, “I will now have the pleasure to introduce to you Miss Fay, who will make her mani- festations, We do not pretend to any spiritualism or electricity or animal magnetism, We do not say that fy is any of these things; nor do we claim that it i, And we k that a committee be appointed by the audience. wha jes sor Fay. The audience chose Surgeou Generai Ham- mond, Mr, Fairchild (who goes to all spiritualistic séances to expose them) and Capiam Turner as the com- mittee, In a moment Miss Fay appeared, elegantly dressed in black sulk, trimmed’ with a costly white lace and havinz a flowing train. Her hair was in waves upon her shoulders. ‘The audience gave her a very courteous reception. The committee, being on the stage, were asked to bind Miss Fay’s hands, and, as she isu very handsome blonde, they were quite gentle in performing their duty, Mr, Fairchild ued cot- ton strips a yard i length wound her wrists and Captain Turner took a needle and thread and vom. menced to stitch them closely, so that it could be dis- covered whether or not they had been broken, when the manifestation was ended. All tho ladies in the audience laughed heartily when Captain Tarver placed | his spectacles on his nose and commenced to sew in a worthy of respect ; but in this instance, in the face of | distinct obligations made by condactors, its course is | ! | | | i At Snedicor’s. may be seen tho best collection of | American paintings, as he takes special interest in | and bas endeavored to reiorth the demoralized state of | the market for American works’of art which has this | rather nervous manner, Dr. Hammond took no part 1m this performance and Mr. Fairchtid complained that Miss Fay would not hold ber wrists ciosely together so that he could bind them tightly. Miss Fay answered that she did not think 1t necessary to hurt her, and THR AUDIENCE SiDFD WITH HER, Professor Foy stated that they had hired the hall, and they proposed to conduct the maniiestations in their own Way, Dr, Hammond declared that the whole thing was a humbug, Miss Fav, with a glance of feuuiuine contempt at him that might have penetrated an Ulster overcoat, stated tothe audience that Dr. | Hammond had acted as her personal enewy In writing a letter to the newspapers denouncing her. She there- fore objected to hitn. 'Mhere was a scene of great con- fusion for some time, Various gentlemen in the audience rising to their feet and screeming at the top of their voices, and all the ladies laughing until the tears came into their ey: Cries of “Hounce him!” “Let the committee do their work!”? “Go shoot yourself,” “Cheese iu” *Pall down the blimd!”’ “Hire « Halll’? and other humorous. allus' rang through the house. [silly Biren was seated at the back of the house, and on it bemg suggested that he should be piaced on the commuttee hilarious young man tbe veteran minsi Fic, me blanched with fear. He wanted ‘no cit ? He suid, for the audience at the time were having a good deal of fun with their own selected committee. Dr Ham- mond came down twice from the stage and was sent back by the audience. Finally Miss Fay wasallowed to enter the cabinet, her bands being tied, Mr. Fatr- Child objecting to the method, as he stated that there was a slack * interval between the — bandages on her ‘wrists, Miss Fay then performed her demonstrations very successtully. She drank a glass of water, banged a banjo, tossed smail shot around, jayed on a mouth orgun, puta pail on her head and placeda ring, borrowed from a iaty iu the andicher, in her ear. All these “stunts,’? a8 a youns man in the audience styled the manipulations, were dona with Miss Fay’s hands tied. The comnnttce was com- pletely puzzled, and the audience got uproarious and stopped the performance. Protessor Fay then asked the audience if they would not permit the dark séance to proceed, but they would not, and the show was ended in a scene of indescribable excitement, “CROOKED” PUTS AND CALLS. THE BUSINESS OF A WALL STREET FIRM IN THE ARTICLES, L. W. Hamilton & Co, do business at No, 10 Wall street; they are what is technically termed “put and call” brokers; their advertisemeots are in nearly every newspaper, and their circulars are scattered througbout the !and, instructing the rural inhabitants how to make a fortune in Wall street im one day, One | “of tiese documents, which was shown to a Heratp lly as reliable in treatment, bat differ from the | 4 reporter yesterday by a man who claims to be the agent of a gentleman who has deen fleeced by them, | Tung as follow: Wo pay particular attention to purchasing stock privileges and cun always secure puts, calls, spreads or straddles all active stocks, signed by members of the New York Stock ¢ the Dest marker rates: Uontracts pursliased wil eir order, for which a certificate of pur- J, In order to be able to take advant: settle privileges at the most favorable is necessary that we should retain the contracts in sion. Now it is weil known that all legitimate puts and calis, or other privilegus—if any of them cav be called legitimate—are invariably signed by members of the {or parties residing at w distance trom N: by us subject tot | Stock Exchange or capitalists well known and of un- disputed credit. The mere fuct of a firm wishing to retuin the contracts they negotiate for their clients ia their own hands is in itself suspicions; but this is what happened to a Philadelphia speculator, as nar- rated by his agent at the Henan office yesterday, The ving documents were shown ‘in support of his Frick or L. W, Hamtitox & Co.,) No. 10 Want Stare, N. Y.. Naw York, Jan, 18, 1876, chased for Your account thirty- eos shal ea ot end uae, a way Company at 2134 per ceat of the par vi hh ract is held by as subject to your order, No. Salk Fe W. HAMILTON & 09. xo, New Yor, Jan, 18, 1875, eave Dean Sin. day call on 190. wht Philadelphia Sin—We have purchased for your account a hirt 100shares of the stock of the Pacitic Mail at 39 per cent of the par value, whieh subject to your Ww \ Now, to show the course of the-e peculiar transac. tions, It 18 necessary to copy two niore letters of the arm: Me & * New York, Feb, 2, 1876, iy omen eg Dean Stn—We have settled your call on 100 Ohto and Mississippi at 25%, nt the ten o'clock board, We were obliged to do this in order to make sure of 10 per cont profit. We could have settied it this morning at 244), but, by terms of the stop order, are not authorized todo so, Thixsectloment places to your eredit $200, less commission for closin., SECOND LETTER, ew York. Feb. 9. Monday party on whom Ligure, which will 7. As soon as we re he money on these cPhtracts we ‘will re tal amount is $375. Respectfully, & Now here another ‘‘crooked’’ part of the transaction comes iu. Mr, A—— sends an order to New York for his money, but receives it not, His agent hes an order for 1t, but upon presenting it can never tad Mr. Ham- ilton in; finally he ts told that there is no money for him, but he can have the contracts, as the parties have not yet paid up. The agent, apon examining the contracts, found (hat they were signed by one C, H. Garland, who 1s unknown at the Stock Board and y Captain John R. Gar eputabie member of the Exchange The eall spread shown to the HxnaLp reporter was SIGNED BY HAMILTON & CO. t dealers, and aise contrary to Hanul- core ail signed by members of the Stock Exchange." Atallevenis the agent of the Phi inn has not been to collect a dollar on his speeuiation; tnvcall tog. THE KNIPS AGAIN.’ Timothy Quinlan, of No, 44$ Pearl street, was stabbed slightly yesterday morning in the neck by Jobn Kane, sg casisaattcnc * it | ng irresuiar and at variance with the — ton & Co.'s own circular issaed, that their privileges | | i is 1 Vaiu and his sprend ling so (ar availed him noth”) | i { | { j i i i | | | } , tocnth street, Jersey FLIGHT OF WILD PIGEONS. A FLOCK TWELVE MILES LONG AND FIVE MILES WIDE SEEKING A NESTING PLACE—A FLIGHT ACROSS TWO STATES—SETTLING IN THE BEECH WOODS AT PIKE COUNTY, PA.—-FORCED TO TAKE WING BY RUTHLESS AND INDISCRIM]- NATE SLAUGHTER BY HUNTERS—TEN THOUe SAND KILLED IN A NIGHT WITH CLUBS. Pocoxo Suma, Pa., Aprill4, 1876, About a month ago, early one morning, the people living at Barnum’s, Sullivan county, N. Y. were sur- prised to see the air thick with the flight of am ap- parently endless flock of wild pigeons, which was pass- | ing over that section tothe northward, For over a quarter ofan hour the @ight continued in an inees- sant stream, obstructing all view of the sky, and giving to the surroundings that sombre appearance caused by the gathering and passing of thunder clouds, It was not known at the time how far the flock extended’ to the eastward, but it was subsequently learned that “it reached over twelve miles in a continuous line, The birds were too high to be shot at with any degree of success, although during the flight quite a number were killed by unusually fortunate gunners. Old hunt ers said that the pigeons were seeking nesting places, but from the altitude of their flight it was not sup- posed that they would rest short of the North Woods, in John Brown’s tract. Two days afterward, however, lumbermen from the head waters of the Beaverkill and the beech woods of the upper wilderness of Sulli- yan county, brought im the nows that these sections had been taken poss@ssion of by wild pigeons in enor. mous numbers, and that they were preparing for the nesting season, Law and order sportsmen, acting as individuals and for fish and game societies, at once set about takimg measures to PROTECT THK MINDS from lawiess destruction, The woods were found to be literally swarming with pigeons. Deputy game consta- bles were stationed in considerable force in the wilder- ness, cabins betng erected for their accommodation, ‘They bad orders to deal as summarily wita all gunners: or trappers seeking to disturb the birds as the laws would warrant. Unparalleled sport was anticipated in due time; but anfortuuately severe weather intervened, snow tailing wo the depth of neariy a four along the Beaverkill a few days after the pigeoas rested, Alter the storm had ceased the constables noticed an unusual stir among the birds throughout the region, and about noon ou the fifth day cf their stay they BRGAN TAKING PLIGHT, and in a few hours there was net a pigeon to be found in the entire territory, They took a direction north- west, and in due time were-heard of us having passed over the counties of Delaware and Broome in this State, and Susquehanna and Bradford im Peonsylvanta, an took up their quarters m the beech woods of Pike and Monroe counties. ‘Tue beech woods of these countics comprise thousands | of ncres of almost primitive wilderness, they being m- vuded only by lumbermen, bark peelors and sportsmen, In their fastucsxes the black bear roams at will and the wild deer finds security “from , hunter ant hound, On Friday Jast Clinton Waters and Isaac Kennett, two bark-peelers, were in the depths of wae beech woods, about tive miles from this station, selocting # place to build a cabin for the ensuing bark- peciing season, The sun was shining brightly, not a cloud being in the sky, when suddenly the sun was hidden as it bya dark cloud. and a noise like that pro- duced by a gale of wind or the roll of distant thumter broke on their ears, Simultaneously the woods com- imenced tilling with wild pigeons, Tree alter tree was filled with the rapidity ot lightning, and still the air was black with one great moving mass of birds as far ‘as tue eye could reach. SLAUGHTER OF THE BIRDS, After the first excitement attending the appearance of the pigeons had passed off und it was apparent that the great body had found resting pfaces, Walters and* Bennett, true to the instinct of the human race, begau to wage war against the birds) Tney were possessed of no guns, bat taking each a long pole, they fread bout them among the pigeons, right and left, ith every blow dozens of the birds fell killed and maimed } to the ground. The men slew hundreds in this. way. ‘The pigeons ina tree that they attucked would fly at the first assault, only to seck the nearest resting place. This ruthless destruction of the pigeons was up by the two men until they were actually glutted with killing, when they picked ap titty of the dead birds and started tor this place, leaving the ground strewn with, others, dead, dying and wounded, For the put we of seving how far the woods were occupied by the pigeons tl walked tor five miles through the for As far as they could see on either side the birds occupied the trees, aud when they stopped in their waik to turn off to the Summit, they could not discover the end of the flock. When they brought the news of the great pigeon roost to this place the excitemeut was great among the Jumbermen and others, and dozens of men started out to kill them bight on the roost, Ay te Gl armed with guns and clnva, Each man carried a lantern or torch made of pine knots, On reaching the rovst a co! he ter was kept up for two hours. The bit the guns and lights, flew blindly about among the treea, some dashing against the lanterns und singeing them. selves in the torches, The noise made py the disturbed pigeons flying from their roosts was.territic, It is esti- mated that 10,000 were killed and wounded, the most of ‘hich wero left on the grouad, The party returned ated down with birds, which were distributed through- ont the neighborhood, No one took interest enough in the pigeons to ask the Protection of the law for them, and on Saturday the same ‘slaughter was commenced ugam. The birds had chosen the beech woods ag their vesting place, but tho deter- mined cruelty and darbarity of the adjucent inhabitants resulted im their again taking flight and secking other ficids. They rose from the woods about nine o'clock Satarday morning, and in a short time ail had dis- appeared. They took a course bday § west, tlying very high, and have settled probably im the wildernesa of Western Pennsylvania. Old and experienced hunters say that this was the li flight of wild pigeons ever known in this region. The fiock was cer. tainly twelve miles long and four or five wide. THE WAR IN THE EAST. TURKISH ATROCITIES AGAINST THE CHRISTIAN DEAD. [Paris (April 83) correspondence of London Telegraph.) A telegram received by the Russian Telegraphic Agency, dated St, Petersburg, to-day, confirms the news of the atrocity committed at Belek. It appeara that the heads of seven Christians were carried about the town on the top of their rifles by the Turkish sol- diers. Notwithstanding the strict investigatt ore dered by the Ottoman government this incident may seriously compromise the negotiations, A HALL FOR LIBERALS, Science Hall, No. 141 Eighth street, was yesterday afternoon dedicated to the service of liberalism, under the auspices of the Religio-Scientific Society, Avout 200 ladies and gentlemen connected with liberal orga- nizations were present, among them being Professor Home and daughter, C. B. Phiilips, of Chicago; Alfred Lozier, Mra. Stevens, W. Losier and others, G, Le uderson presided, The exercises were opened with the performance of sume selections on the piano by Miss Hume, after which several passages from Longfeilow were read by Mr. Hugh B, Brown. Mr. Henry Evans made the invocation, asking a bless- ing on the religion of humanity and upon the new hall, The dedicatory address was dclivered by Mr. Charles Sotheran, his subject being ‘The Stru; Between Theology and Science—Lo:quemada and He jalileo,’? reviewed the history of man from tl est and also the history of Christian tn of the religious ideas of,later times opby and free thought fas having risen above the su. perstitions which hampered theology. CHEAP TRANSIT FOR WORKINGMEN, A meeting will be held at Mott Memorial Hall, No. 64 Madison avenue to-morrow evening, 18th inst., for the purpose of advocating cheap transit for city people tothe suburbs. Mr! Godwin, Prosident of the Dweiling Retorm fon, will preside, and ad- dresses will bo delivered by momvers of the Public lealth Society and the Cheap Transportation Associ: , Secretary of the latter organ- ization, will also read a paper on the sudject of “Morning and Evening Trains for Workingm Jar to those now rua on the railroads radiating from London and Boston. WALKED OFF THE PIER. A man, apparently about fifty years of age, was seen by James Dobbs, a watchman, to walk off the bulkhead at tho foot of East Twenty-third strect into the river at an early hour yesterday morning, He was low. sized, having a dark beard, and was attired ina dark suit, A black felt hat, made by Davi, Broadway, and ® cane With a silver plate, on Which was a monogram with tho letters “BE. J. W.,"’ were found by the police of the Righteenth net floating in t " a prec: joating in the slip, The body CUT WITH A BOTTLE. An altercation took place yesterday morning between James Gleason, of No. 64 James street, and Josepb Hughes in @ liquor store at No, 7] Rose street, which resulted in Gleason receiving several severe wounds on io a ‘ecg rd bop ht —_ of Hughes., The ake ’ Hospital, Haghes eseaped and has ot, yet bp me rr A STRIKE’ ENDED. The strike of the mon empioyed by the Delaware and Lackawnnna Railroad Company, at the toot of Ning ty, has come toa close. The company brought a large gang of men from Paterson to supply the places ot honribats, and b pease or ponte Were sent trom the Second to preveut any dia turbance, ‘The company to employ any of >