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8 II fflCE ABROAD. The Paris Opera of the Construction of Theatres. Has the Stage History and Progress. PARIS THE CAPITAL OF PLEASURE. Aapoleon tlie Tlurd as a ralron or tinTarsal Art.

The German Indemnity Paid by French Plays. RELATIVE SIZE OP EUROPEAN THEATRES. Paris, Dec. 28, 1874. The love of theatrical entertainment suems innate in tne human race, it has existed in all countries and in all ages, taKlnir probaoly its drst Jorm or representation in the dancing girl and Its latest in the parliamentary assembly.

There have always been and there always will be some people who arc actors on the stage oi 11 and others who are fond of looting at them and listening to them! Theatres have been eqnally condemned by the Koman Cathode and by the Puritan clergy. There are rnauy worthy persons who consider they are an invention ol the devil. It makes no sort of diflerence; the passion lor them is so deeply rooted in the heart ol man that they never can be put down by the most violent opposition, and the best thine that any government can do, If it meddles with the subject at all, is to satisfy the desire lor them, and to give dramatists and managers the means of producing their wotks in so noble a i manner as to inspire respect mther thnn condem- nation, and to mike them a part oi national education and the worthy school of national art. It is clear that, in order to give theatrical representations all the charm and value which may be 1UU? bUClU. Hicjf uc 4J1VMU' vu uuun uvutlitions favorable to tholr development.

This cannot be done if the actor is placed oa a mean stage and amidst surroundings where He cannot be conveniently heard or seen. The principle or a good theatre. therelore, is to have commodious scenes and comfortable seats. Herein lies the first secret or the architect who builds a theatre; and when he has provided actors and audience it is still necessary that. the building should be so constructed that the snail be divided in a manner lu yield satisfactory pecuniary returns by their sale.

Light, beat, ventilation and, finally, beauty, are all to be considered bciore ae structure is complete. The reason why we have so many bad theatres In the world Is that they have been generally built speculators who were desirous of getting a large return lor very little mouey, and theref re they boxed up actors and audience in a confined space in order that they might have large trains at small expense. Until very jecently no fcind of speculation was more hazardous than that connected with theatrical entertainments, ana the practice 01 risking a lavish outlay upon them is quite new. Indeed, there was no public to remunerate investments of this kind till very recently, because it was an enterprise of considerable difficulty and not devoid of danger to wander about ill-lighted streets at midnight in bad weather to search for amusement, and eveu the men and women of the laat generation preferred their own firesides, and playgoers were either vi ry young or very rich. Tnere were tew theatres even in such places as Paris, Lonuon and Vienna, while some of the largest provincial cities in Europe had none at all.

The Immense audiences which now fill every well conducted house of entertainment, and many winch are not well conducted. were created when gas, cheap public carnages and an efficient police became the rule rather tnan the exception In every large town. Mill it is obvious that a speculator who builds a theatre will always count on large and quick his investment, and thus the artistic proportions of the building and the comfort, if not the safety, of botb actors and audience are liKeiy to be sacrificed, hen, therefore. Napoleon III. decreed that the building of a national opera Iious" in Paris was a work of public utility, in which speculation and profit 6hould have no part, hn simply gave expression to an obvious truth.

Ko private person or mere put lic company, intent upon reasonable gains, could have purchased the lie of tne new opera house, had it been for sale, auu built magnificent edifice M. (iarnier lias raised upon it, with the prospect of getting one per cent apon the investment. It required the peremptory of imperial authority and the treasury a great, people to call into being. PARIS THK CAPITAL OF PLKABt'RE. It has been a common practice among tne opponents of the Secoinl fcmpire to tax it with au extravagant waste of public money, and among the large hums said to have oeen thrown away on the useless embellishments of Paris none have Deen more severely criticised than those whicn were swarded for the building of the new opera But perhaps not one of the charges against Napoleon III.

was more unjust. Parte is the capital of pleasure, whither all the world lor amusement. KictJ idlers troni ail countries go to Paris, feecaosc toey can there purchase pleasure, not only oi a better but much cheaper than elsewhere, ami any Prench government which is not wilfully obstinate short-sighted should hardly grudge any cost winch raris to attract vvitors and to maintain its supremacy over all the world In the matter ol public entertainments. The greater tne tunds employed lor this purpose may be the greater will assuredly be the profits arising Irorn them. Over and over again pursiinonous and silly administrators have dewred to withdraw the subsidies allowed to the Op ra, the Theatre Franqrtis and the Fortunately lor Paris they have never been able to curry tneir purpose into effect, and now.

under a Kepubltc, while there is a Ion 1 outcry everywnere for i conomv the subsidy given to the opera is to be iuigely increased. UUVKKMUC.T 1" IJ1 A- ru IOIIIU3I If the three national theatres id France were not every playhouse in the country would lie given over to burlesque and extravaganza. even so noble a piece a.s M. "La Halne" having pai its expenses. It was who said that French and fomsui epicnreshad paid tbe cost of the Napoleonic wars wmch ended at Waterloo.

Ceriaiuly French and their customers have had no small part in liquidating ibe enormous indemnity lately demanded by (ierniany. and of wuicb not one cent now due. French actors and milliners and dressinaners have done the rent, and utupenuous uck duk all accomplished in three vara. France la now ncber tban ever, while there has been a in' neiary panic in Uerniuuv. baa ajrain come into cir uiation here, and the twenty-franc have been ailed in, wbilc notes 1' km tban a dollar in value still circulate in Ueriaany.

(icAan paoer can only be cnaued at a ben vy discount abroad. French papci bears a premium In Belgium and Berlin, wblli even in England it la quoted a mere fraction be low par. If pleasures, rightly controlled and mmuusiered, can work sucb wonders as li ib re riant that ihey form tbe chief part of Frcnct natloual wealth and deserve ail tbe care which can possmly be oald to tbem. HKI.ariVK SIZI OF Kl.aOPKAK THHATBW. It may be wortn to compare tbe new irrencb II itise wrb the principal Uieatrei ui Kurope.

The Ruytii Theatre, atAuta crj'. cootains places, and the maximum ol receipt nightly is fl.ooo. The Iioyal op. ra, at Berlin, contains i.tso niHilniu ri receipts, 11.400. I he Theatre, at Bordeaux rnaiiMBUifeuMJUS.

liyy. I'iiC iiuvtU. LumOr i NEW 1 nagen, 1,400 places; maximum receipts, Theatre Koyal, Kublin, 2,400 places; maximum receipts, $1,280. Theatre of the City of Frankfort, 1,216 places; receipts, $500. Theatre Caro Felice at Genoa, 2,000 places; receipts, $640.

Tneatre ol the City of Uambnrg, 1,680 places; receipts, $000. Theatre Royal of Ilanover, 1,920 places; receipts, $1,160. Theatre of San Carlo, at Lisbon, places; receipts, $1,100. Coveut GarJen Theatre, iu Lonilon, 2,500 places; etpts, Theatre of Maycnce, 1,675 places; receipts, $735. Theatre of La Scala, at Milan, 3,000 places; receipts, $1,800.

Grand Theatre of Moscow, 1,840 seats; receipts, Theatre at Munich, 2,300 seats; receipts, $1,075. Opera House at Stockholm, 1,063 places: receipts, $600. Theatre Royal, at Stuttganlt, l.aooseats; receipts, $728. Theatre Royal, at Turin. 2,000 seats; receipts $s88.

Grand Theatre, at Warsaw. 1,118 seats; receipts, $75o. Theatre tie la Fenice, at Venice, 2,000 seats; receipts, $1,728. New opera Bouse, at Vienna, 2,406 seats; receipts, $2,700. NEW OPKKA HOfSE IN PAKI9 contains 2,521 seats.

The old opera lionse only contained 1,835 seats, there is, inoteover, this difference between them, that the scats of the new opera house are much larger. The prices oI teats win be as follows subscription list. For One l)ay in Ihr Week. For Hvery Day. jvari' OlO L800 Amphitheatre 700 Avant ncene (li? a van scene (6 seats) 4.mW Lie (6 3, 0) l5seaU;) 2,7311 Avant-SCcne (lOseats) 7.DUO 21,000 Avant-sccne (8 seata) S.ftiO tntre-coluiniea H.4U> 26.200 Lone a de face 4.2W) Loges tie c4tfc.

3,600 lO.Hui) Avaut-sci-ne liO scats) 5,000 l.V0t) Avaut-sci tie 18 scats) 4.1*10 12,000 Lntre-colonnes 6,000 18.0UO Luge. Ue THE PKICB8, engaged beforehand and taken the office, At the Hurrau. Enifayetl liffarehand. fiunci. Fruuct.

Fit stalls 7 uo 9 Ksuteulls d'orohcstre. 1.1 00 15 KauUuiis il amphitheatre 15 IM Baiunoires d'avaut-aceue 15 H.iinnu.res de cdte 12 00 14 nea, Ire 15 (J0 17 tnire-colonnes, Ire. 15 U) Loisea de tace, Ire 15 UO 17 de C6te Li Oil 15 a vent-scenes, 2iue 12 00 14 Kntrc-coloiin. 12 00 14 Loties de lace, 2me 12 00 14 Luges de cOte, 2ine 10 on 12 a 3me 8 00 10 Luges de fuce, 'tine 8 00 10 Kntre colnnnes, 3tne 00 10 Loues de cote, Sine 6 IW 8 Loses de lace, 4tne 4 U0 6 Avaat-scenes. 4nie 2 51) 3 Lojies de cute, 4rue 2 3 I Aiupliiuii'itre (li- tace, 3 50 Amphitheatre de cdte 2 50 Sine 2 i)U 8 NAPOLEON III.

A PATRON OP ART and the theatriCAL PROFESSION. It was in 1868 that Napoleon ILL, glorying In his Italian campaign and having, as be ttiouirht, established himself securely, resolved to build an opera house which suouidbe tbe crowning marvel 01 tbe Paris which be bad renovated. lie knew bow popular such a building would be with bis stage-struck and he knew, too, that would require no great effort of genius, but ouly plenty ol money, to endow France with tin; most splendid theatre existing. Oddly enough, theatrical architecture bad produced no master works stnje the time of the Itomans. It would have required some1 thing more than money to rear a new cathedral eclipsing St.

Peter's or a second palace rivalling that of Verasilles: out in tbe matter of theatres the Sail Carlo, at Naples, the theatre built by Louis at Bordeaux, jnd the Imperial Opera at St. Petersburg were tue only three edifices any olalm to beauty, ho a lew mouths were spent in reflection and in conierring with court architects ai'oiu 'lie best site, and at last, on tbe 2Utu of Decern 1800, a dberM was issued opening a prize competition to ail Krench but excluding loreigiars. Although but a month was given to the competitors, no less than 173 sets of designs were sent in; but the jurv ot thirteen, presided over uy Count Walewski, declined to setae) uy OH Ol them lor execution. Seven arciiitects were, Uuwever, picked out as having excelled and lour ntlX-ES WEBB DISTRIBUTED among them, A llrst nrize ol 0,000 francs to M. (jinaln, a second of 4,000 irancs to MM.

iiotrel arid crepinet. a third of AOOO lrarics to M. and a lourth 01 irancs to MM. l)uc and Garnier. I tore separating.

the jury expressed a wish that a secoud competition should oe instituted anions the tour prize winners, and that the winner tins time should have his designs definitely accepted. The result or tbls secoud trial was, that on tue 2d of June, M. CIIAKI BS (iAKNTEK was unanimously proclaimed winner. It was a great blow to M. who having prevailed the first time had rn.ide almost certain of Unal 1 and it was alao a surprise to the country, lor M.

Garnier was In tie known, lie wa- then thirtyfive years old. and nad been acting as of m'unicipai works umler tne orders of M. Hailu. In this sun.iltern capacity he had helped to reiitnro rd? Townr of St. Jucnues de la Honeherlo.

but It was never suspected tout tie possessed architectural Renins sufficient to cope witQ such meters MQlnim, Mtkmi Um tod VtoUet-LMoe, and liia was truly a proof that the competition had conducted without lavoritism. Toe explanation of M. Garnier's triumph is. however. a very simple one.

lie alone among the architects caught THE SP1KIT OK THE TIME IN WTIICII HE LIVED. Had the competition taken place alter trance's disasters the nr.it would assured have Ik en awarded to the beautiful opera in white marble, at once grandiose, chaste and severe, designed by Due. Hud the competition even been held in the latter days of the Second Empire, when the giory ot the Emperor was waning, tne prize must uave laiien, if not to M. l)uc, at least to M. (Jinain.

who had projected a monument replete witn all the traditional or Krencli lightness and great purity Of OtCfcne. M. l.arnit-r's opera house not a national monument; tt is essentially a monument ot the Beeoo I BOM ire, and of tlie Second Empire In its hey.ay. H- composite, irarisn, many colored omtil-mi ticil ol a reign wnich had made 01 Paris a caravansary tor all nations, and wlilch rereiied If one iooks at the gaudy mi not yet ten Years old, one cau already disc 11 in it signs of decay, and one ib seized with a pn'sentiiaent that In another centary all traces oi it will have disappeared. IT Dol? NOT ilKAR THE MAltk OK KTBRNITV.

Those gilded and those variegated columns. riotous groups ol statuary in bronze and delicate marble, that glittering Apollo wno holds up a golden lyre on the pinnacle, will have to be constantly regilt and lurolshed at lavish cost ll they are to retain Uieir lnatre. The monument is a piece of iair-weather architecture, wuich might have a chance ol Hie und'-r a eternally blue and warm, like that of Italy: amid a people tranquil and loyal like that or England, and under a government havimr always largo sums to spend on arausetnehis. But it is not to withbuind rain and suow, and, still less, popular revolutions. It was witnm an ace of being burned down under the tommnne, and there is every reason 10 sear uiai ai tnt- nexi great rixirifr incendiary torches waj make an end 01 it.

It too 1 insolently to escape me Jury of the inoba. Tner'j are some buildings the august majesty of winch tins even tne most raoid icouociastr witli awe, just an tliere are women who, serene in their matronly dignity, may pass through the rudest crowds wittiout hearing a rough word; Dot there are others rei-emtniiig those flaunting little baggages, ateem wth silks and Jewelry, whose demeanor is it standing provocation to tiunUta ud impTMiUOM and tni? ink; Graad I Opera Is one ol them. It a ill svmbolue in the of revolufiouitts all the extravagance 01 a dynasty wnose institutions and edicts must he raxed ilown before puollc irecdom cau ever established; and, by these tokens, it must tail. A PreiicJj workman who p.iHwen by tne Louvto lifts his eyes and silently admires. bv the new opera house he sriC' rs.

Ii he were hungry he would shako ins est. All Oils, however, not detract irom TUB MKKIT OK M. OABNTBR'S Unlit as the holiday monument of a holiday reign it answers its purpose, and it is not the arf mU t's lauit li nations, like toen, grow too tin of their holidays. It may be observed, li thai tue wonderful recfwrctxol inner conveniences which 'be ouildliig displays is not altogether architect work, but was imponed mi him uy it- terms of tue programme drawn up tio Kmperor's orders Tiy count W.tiewskl and M. helix Martin, late wc etary of Ui' t'hls programme filled solid puwrH Li.d ol li will neip to convey an idea oi tue magnificent scaJe on wmch Uie was ordered work.

In the first place, ho had to provide staohnv lor seventy horses, namely for i.m cavalry guard oil duly at ordinary flitecn lor hor-rs in stago perioruiantes, thirty for horses of the imperial esc ort whenever the Kmpcror should visit tne house, atid fifteen for tne horses of tne oourt car. r.ages and outr.ders. In addition tnis be bad to i ate inside the tiulkline a ponce station, two uiuu'ry guard rooms, a telegraph ofliee, a fire 1 itution. ciucli horn.es, a museum of musical rot cords, a waiting room lor court servants ami an, otner tor the oi a saloon for aider de-cauip on duty. a politic vestibule where three lundied people at least could stand wiuiout crowding, a crash room fifty metres long, a taurant, a and a smoking room, private lonus to each of the boxes and a separate carriage uy wfcere could let down their I rupants under than a quarter of at nour.

As to the Eumuror's private entrance ant box, tne suits of rooms attached to it were 1 (jtnred to ne ten in numtier, enough to form i good mruiHion by themselves. Ail these con i i itious and many mors have oeen inlfllled will this result, that the auditorfiim. UiongJi provldini seals lor occupies not one-fifth U0 uuutiUliU ivtftl ORK HERALD, FRIDAY, cubage or tne Grand opera rrora cellar basemen) to roof In not less thau metres, thai Is, more tbaa double those of the Pantheon and the Bourne, tne loruier of which, vaults included, cuoes out metres, aud the latter 106,000 metres. The uew opera house la consequently THE IlltiRST KAUKIC IN KKAKOB and the lartrext pile raised lor purposua of recreation since Titus built the Oolisseum at Nome. Hut why aid not the French Titus live to see the coin pletion ol the most striking work or nia reign Well, the opera house might have been flutsheu loiifl beiore the fall ol the Kmi ire had not economy stood in the way of the original project.

As at first arranged the opera house was to have been inaugurated Tor the International Exhibition of but in it was discovered that M. Uarnler was conducting Ills works at such a rate that the cost ol the building could scarcely be kept within $'it), OOu, ooo. At the Instance of M. Fouid, the Finance Minister, the Emperor very reluctantly uave orders that the buildiuu should ue slackened: but to cover ids retreat he puolisbed a sentimental edict declaring that as THE NEW HOTEL central hospital, was so tar irom complete. It would be uuseeiuly that the house of pleasure should be Inaugurated before tne house of suffering.

rids little bit shoddy morality did not deceive anybody, and It rather made the Emperor unpopular. The Parisians were excited about tliuir new opera boui-e; they were already proud or it, and impatient to see foreigners come and gape at its facade. Besides, it is a lavorue tueory with Parisians th.it prodigalities In architecture are always remnnerative, and that it was unwise to scruple at the expenditure of a hundred million francs when the opera house, once completed, would repay the investment in a hundred ways. Ol course, M. Garnler and Karon were the loudest In Hinging this tune, aud they both made a sturdy attempt to obtain It.

that the opera honse should at least be inaugurated on tne 15th or August, 1868, which was the llrst centenary ol the great Napoleon, but parsimony had already begun to prevail in the imperial councils. Baron Hausarn ami's achievements were being roughly criticised, and tne Kmpeior, who watt not sufficiently loud 01 music to rusk a parliamentary atorni or M. Uaruier's Hake decided Unit tue building should proceeded wlth "at leisure." bo JU. Gamier, with chagrined soul, wan obliged to make tits best of tlie comparatively small sum voted to turn every year to complete the works. Ilo had calculated that he had sua some ten years' occupation belore him when the war and then tue Commune broke out, arresting progress and threatening the building will premature rutu.

During the siege oi Paris the opera house was used as a magazine lor military stores. Under the Commune it became A HKt BITACLE KOK EXPLOSIVE MA1KKIAI8, and M. t.arnier had to perioral prodigies to shield it against, bombardment by tue shells irom Montj martre and voluntary incendiarism on toe part of tue insurgents. However, it has survived so tar, and there it stanus; but no cannot help thinking that the htnperor Napoleon committed a grave blunder in not allowing it to be pushed on to a rapid hnish so that it might have been inaugurated i in the Exhibition year along wuii the maguilicent Avenue de l'Opcra, which is to lead by and by irom the Opera to the Franqais, but which was retarded lor want ol ine inauguration ol this opera house and avenue in would have been a tit thing done ut a lit time. It woald have been 1 tne splendid memento of a year wnen the had reached its zenith, when not only subjects but sovereigns were flockinu to the capital, and when Napoleon HI.

might justly regard himselt as the nrst poteutate in Christendom. The occasion was allowed to siip, calamities belell, and now the inauguration ot the opera house will be.like an adjourned wedding taking ice in a house of mourning. Ail the more so as the building is not unlike a lirobdingnagiau wedding cake. HAS THIS ST AUK KRATED? The new opera house farts, that most Bplenuid legacy or tne Kinpire to France, not unnat.rally suggests some reflections on the well-worn iheme oi tne or tne drama in modem days. Is it true that our amusements arc less refined than those oi our lathers Hit be so, our whole civilization must i a mistake and a sham.

For the aim oi all men, whether the.v avow it or not, is pleasure, and ii, as certain moralists aifect to believe, tuar, pleasure, on which art and weaitn chiefly lavish their stores at the present day, is become the mere minister ol frivolous and even sensual tastes, it becomes clear that the chief good ot modern hie is sometning which lulls infinitely below the meal oi what is beautilul in Hie, as it appeared to the master uunda of pagau Greece. As lar us the drama is concerned the truth seems to oe that what is termed the degeneracy of tnesiagc, really means its gradual perfection oy restriction to its legitimate objects. The drama lias had two one in ancient and the sprang irom tiie re.iulous feeling of Hie ane. Tlie llrst scenic representations at Athens were in honor ui Bacchus, and perlorrned during tut lestivdl oi tue god. We know irum Horace and I'liny what sort 01 an affair was ihe first tragedy.

one of ti earliest leasees and managers, had no utner autre man a wagon, and lor me "OOPYRlliUT" of "Aicestts" received a goat from the discerning punl.stiers of tiie day. A regular stage was not introduced till time oi wno further insisted that the actors In his pieces should be properly droned? very necessary regulation prooa'ly lor the early actors. There were no ci tneteri Ultimately the DionyMac Theatre arose, and plays were acted wirti such attention to effect and sjch due care 01 the nccoustic arrangements as to have beeu unrivalled, i till wulun a very recent uate. There was no need to simulate an artilictal sun, or sea, or plcturI eMjue background. ihe sun of southern Europe, the purpie hills oi Attica, the blue waves oi the i.mi of /Kgiu.i were tnemselves visible to the spectators, who raw them uy a better light than any lustre can give.

It is noting that the Atuei ians devoted the wnole day to the atre when a play or rather a scries oi p.ays were to be acted, noi because they usually worked at night, or were ifizy and did not work at all, but because dramatic representation were rare, occurring only in holiday time. To an Atuerioan or a Frenchman TIIE ATHENIAN'S IDEA OF PI-KASPRE I must appear simple inuriyidom. lie would goto the theatre earlv in the rooming and see at least I three or lour trilogies per.ormed, each trilogy, or set 01 three tragedies, being followed by a short "sutyric" piece, which cannot be caned immoral lor tue simple reason that the conception of morality was entirely absent lrom the mmd of the author in writing it. Thus an Athenian gentleman would listen without yawning to sixteen piays in succession, though a modern audience would weary oi tue 'Agamemnon" beiore it came to a close, possibly make an eilort Mi sit out the "C'no priorse," but would re'lre hurn-dly oeiore the curtain drew np for tiie "Eniuenides." Lilt that the magnificent drania'ic It may be the "tiresteiu" lias no attractions for tlie nice of men who iicliL'ht in the "Grande Duchesse" and "Madame l'ArchidueV' Very far iroui n. We go to tue theatre solely to amused.

I'oetry we to read In the solitude ol our chamber, where the mind can be concentrated on tue pages 01 Mjlton or Traoyaos; 101 religious lutnuUoo we go to church; lor comments on current political events we glance througi the newspapeis. To the Athenian, on the other hand, the theatre was in the place 01 a book, of pulpit and ot new-papers. Though appreciative In tile Highest 01 wit urid eloquence, the majority 01 tne citizens could riot read; and it they could read couid rarely afford to buy booka. while religious teaching there waa none, except through these plays, the plot of which waa generally chosen from a legend of the national mytiioiogy, or at least through these plays and lue recitations ol the mapaod.Hts. And lor comorJDts on ie last new.s iroin toe seat of war in ihriice or i.otoUa, thependmir negotiations lor peace with Sparta, the bin oi O-on ior tno democratic vote, lor a.lusions to art subjects which are now treated in leading the Athenian lookeu to the play, and Aristophanes nought appeal -o every "motion 01 the humnn lieurt.

to the sense 01 religl 10 the love 01 country to toe political opinions of tue audience. 'Jne pliywrignt only seeks to amuse or to intercut. ills stock in trade, so to Sj.eak, consists in tangled p.ots, In critical situations, in witty reparii e. He rather avoids declamations on the grandeur ol ireedotn, on the respect, due to the Almighty, or on me mysteries ol the eucharist. in ti.e comedies of Aristophanes sire to tie found sacred litmus ol exquisite beauty, according to nsodera notions, humIj Id ttieir piacs wi.en preceded and 1'Hiowed ny humorous which are too coarscr than any represented on the l'arla stage.

T1JK DKAMA HAS NOT IIBOKNSKATED but has been limited to its proper spuere. what applie to ih" difference between the Attic 01 the flltli century iieiore Christ and the French stage ol the century ol our era applie." equally to the difference Shakespeare and (Sheridan or even between shake upe.ire uiuu oiMjciitiijib. i uc uianm ic vived in Lurope alter the dark In the Hiiapc of miracle j.lay:- and mysteries, an they wen; called, allegorical representations, wiilcli the cardinal appeared con lending witn the cardinal sins, whom they ultimately, with the usinstance 01 the mi pent is, would thrust through a trap door, emblematical of the bottomless pit. thiH sort were tlie plays'' whion t-'itzsteptieii in his lie ol I nomas ft as having bMi "vrrongbt bolj Bach, too, were the plays "performed at Oieikenweii hy the I parish clerks" In year K597. lie "Moralities'1 ol nkelt'Hi (an CXireaitlf otMCene writer may observed within pareiitochea; were of a lute tia i tn re.

Hkelton waa poet laureate to Henry won drously near to Miakespeare in nuie, when otic considers the Infinite distance lietwtjen the nth drama and that which came Itnmedutelj before lu lint, though it in almost sacrilege IE hnirlish ey criueute lili.ikeupcare, one inuj veiiture, lortifled tiy the opinion or such 01 htn MAlton and Charles Lamb, to remark thai rnuen ol what he wrote Utter lor Btuuy in Hit cioset than a representation oq the staire. 'i lit dr.una In Hliakespeare's hands is still in Its infancy, notwithstanding the fact that Shakeppearf i is by universal cousant the greateU of all Modern are i.y on itdiie, yet he would he a rish man wno stioiiM assert lliat tlK! upper and middle classes of Kng i I an a were more intellectual in ttie reijrn of Jamex than in lie rel(fi? of Victoria. In th I former period, an in the goluen ol I tke Attie drama, ttie theatre was morr to the people than It now. It had Indeed. I emerged from the religions typo, but a poet deemed II.

per eetjy fair to insert. historical i pfiiiouuptucal speculaiion into his playa. A lilt I polntr out, the subtledisquisitions in Hamlet, nolo rloualy the soliloquy, can never in- properly a II lOfiN ua Uc ior wiiicu. in iact. aouu JANUARY 15, 1875-TRIPI 1 mi irthey were ever meant The same remark would apply to the Archbishop's speech in Henry i V.

uu the rights or lhat prince to the French throne, and which la certainly not calculated to i enliven the listeners, though lully equal to the aver aire utterance of the ELght Reverend Bench. II the is to be T1IK KKrRESENTATION OP ORDINARY L1KB, i treated irom as humorous a point of view an posI Bible, whicn Is certainly the object which a dratna' tist usually proposes to hlmseli in the present day, there can be no doubt that such an end la at: taiued more successfully In the nineteenth than I In the seventeenth century. We love Shakespeare none the less lor preferring in the I evening a pleasure which makes no demand upon I our intellectual energies alter a day's worK. In a word, even li it be conceded that tne stage i has degenerated, there la abundance of prool that the mind oi man has not. If the drama has ceased i to be religious, society is none the less ho on that i I account.

But no one can seriously maintain that tne pleasure seekers ol tne present day are less refined than their The -kirts of actresses sometimes require lengthening, and i tneir postures are not always such as a man would lute to see hie wiie imitate In public; bat otherwise the stage, even in Paris, Is studiously decorous compared with that ol former days. The lesson iu French, for instance, In Henry seems Introduced solely lor the purpose of causing the Princess Katharine to ntter, as if a number oi phrases containing the most offensive I double meanings. Every comedy oi Aristophanes Is repiete with miserable Jokes on vices not to be 1 named among-Christiana. I Chi ISO Dl'UftlP IMOArrfiAninUi Again, bear-baiting, cock-flghtlug, even boxing and ail otoer cruel or even rude pastimes oi our ancestors are gradually vauisiuug trom civilized i countries, while amusements of a rational and en.lghtened kind multiply on ever; Hide. Ttie present is eminently the age otacientiiic lectures, meeting of trio anthropological and other societies, and similar methods 01 spending the evenlug.

It any one wishes to gauge the earnestness or moral purpose and the admiration for what is truiy noble itoesessed by the preseut ueuerauon, i he sbonid have beeu 111 England when Mr. Stanley ilrst brought news ol Livingstone to tnat country and could lectnre lu no bail sufficient to contain i those who drank In every detail of ins adventures with breathless Interest. Perhaps such a generation may be lorgiven for Its separation ol grave and gay, and its love of sheer amusement when It goes to be amused. NEW YORK CITY. A (Ire broke out last night at No.

211 Blcecker street that caused a damage of $1,000. Gamier Is out with a challenge to Rudolphe to play him a game of guo points (French), the game to be played under the National Tournament rules and the stake to be a side. An unknown colored man, about rorty years of age, died suddenly yesterday, at No. 128 Thompson street, without medical attendance. Coroner W'oitman was requested to hold an inquest on the body.

Joseph Coburn, the pugilist, was arrested last evening by Captain Irving and Detective King, charged with having committed a felonious assault on l'atrlck Burns, oi No. 71 East Houston street. At the annual meeting of the Woodlawn Cemetery Company yesterday the following officers were electedWilliam A. Booth, President; Caleb P. Knpvalo, Vice Prealdent; Luclns Hopkins, I Trea urer; James D.

Smith, Secretary. DirectorsGeorge A. Peters, Charles Crary, liugn N. Camp, Hubert J. Niven.

Coroner Woltman was yesterday called to the Ward's Island Hospital to hold an inquest on the body of Anton A. Jackson, a German, forty, seven years of age, whose death la alleged to have been caused by exhaustion consequent upon hav- 1 ing been irozen during the severe cold weather winch prevailed a lew days ago. John Butler, a colored man, twenty-lour years of age, died yesterday at No. 76 Suillvan street under circumstances which his friends think indicate that he had been poisoned. Deceased had i been employed in Norwich, and was taken kick tner or uecamc so aner returning nome oq last.

Deputy Coroner Leo will make an air.opay on Hie body, alter which Coroner Kesaler will hold an Inquest. On Tuesday evening, between six and seven o'clock, the mttce of William E. Parsons, No. 113 lleade street, was broken into by cutting out and wrenching off ttie shutter and 18,000 cigars, valued at stolen. A reward ol $J50 has beeu onered lor the recovery ot the goods or couviction 01 the thieves.

There was a inau, sixty years ol aire, In a room adjolmug the office wno heard burglars breaking in, out was afraid to uive the alarm, as he says, because he was Inleeble hcaitu aiid could not protect himself. Commissioner Van Nort has transmitted to the Ruard ol Assessors the certificate of the costs of the following improvements, in order the assessments tuerefor may be madePaving Tnirty-six'h street, from 'lenth to Elevuntn avenue, amounting to regulating uud grading, Wortt! street, I om Broadway to cuaiham street and intersecting streets, as, 27M sewer in Sheriff street, between Grand and Uroouie streets. (lagging sidewalks on the north side of Forty-third street, from First to Second avenue, $608 06. Total, $35,187 38. LONG ISLAND.

Long Island City Is nightly left in the dark, in consequence of the gas lamps not being lighted. The Queens county Court House Commissioners meet to-day at Hunter's Point to take measures lor the further completion of the court house and Jail now being erected in Long Island City. Complaints are being made by captains of boats now awaiting cargoes at the different oil wharves In Hunter's Point that river thieves nightly visit their vessels and appropriate ropes aud other valuables. The barge Oliphant was the last victim. Tony Miller's hotel, at r.ayside, was discovered to be on Are on Tuesday night, ihfe flames apparently eamrht in the cellar, and had It not been tor aid given by soldiers from Willctt's Point the building would have been destroyed.

-Most ol ine lurnrure Wits uui nil- nuu.sc yienj well gutted. The lives of of Long Island City are dally endangered gunners wiio visit that place for the purple of shooting game. Yesterday one Patrick Monaghan attempted to shoot soma tMlonglDf to Mr. Carroll, or BUssvilie, but mi ned Ins ami and sent tin' of ttie nun Into the apartments 01 Mr. Carroll, the lodging in the wall.

Monaghan was arrested and flned $10. Mr. Jacob Heiser, of Jamaica South, purchased a horse a few days under the supposition tnat It was of kind disposition. Ou Monday evening be went into the stall, and was putting feed into the manner, wrien the animal suddenly hjin by the breast with tils teem and ruined rum cletir from the floor, lnflicrlng a serious and pain nil wound, wnlch it was at first fearvd would prove latal. ileiser is now slowly recovering.

ESTCHESTER. Hannah Kelly, aged six years, and whose parents live Id Myrtle street, Yonkers, lell on a red bot stove, during the temporary nbsencc of her mother, on Wednesday eveninp, and was burned In a snocking manner aoout the lace, arms aud other portions or the body. The utile sufferer Wits taken to st. John's Riverside Hospital. i According to the report of St.

John's Riverside Hospital, at You Hers, just Issued, It appears that that lieneflcent lnstiiution (now in the filth year 01 Its existence) has during the past four yars received into the medical and surgical wards cases, while 'here have been under charge of the outdoor service patients. Although wholly by private contributions and under i the immediate auspices of the congregation ol st, John's (Episcopal) ehurcn, oi the hospital are open to patients of all denominations, physical sullfcrlng being the only passport quired to share benign advantages. It may be i added that it is the niy charitable institution ol i the kind on the Hudsot River within a distance i ol seventy miles Irorn New ork. 1 At Yonkers, yesterday, Roundsman Woodruff arrested Leonora Brown and Young, both colored, the lutter on a charge of grand lar; ceny and the lormcr. as alleged, for receiving ana Mcratioc Um stolen property, winch in this instance consisted or a set ot jewdrv, valued at $100, together with a dress pattern and other articles to a 1 lauy in whose house me gin Youn? had been pio.yed as a Hervant.

Iiconoru Brown, who Uvea in woodworth avenue, has long been known to the notice as a confidence thief, her mode of oper itniiK iieing to employment hh a donientic and tiien dc-amplng ttie (lrnt opportunity witli whatever portable property she could lay licr 1 li.iNUH on. In manner, it is s.ild, arte lias vio tiinized nearly a score of families in the city named. On searching Brown's apartments yesterday afternoon Captain Mangiu discovered a (juantity ol plunder, wtucti nnw awaits Identill nation tiie owners. H0U1 ol tlie accuied porj uea are Ueld lor examination. STATEN ISLAND.

The villas' of Edgewater has 304 street lamps, whl' oost last year to wltn gun nearly I A new oenevole society, recently formed at Htaptoton, known as the Franenhnps Vereln, will 1 liotii a hh "tiug to-morrow evening or the election 1 ol oflicera. i The Board or Supervisors have struck oat an aw.jMiJuout of iiO.wufor veraojial property against iE SHEET. Lonts De it appearing thai ne Baa Mem Mmessed twice. The Be v. Andrew H.

Smith, D. delivered one of the scries of tree lectures before the Young Men's Cnrtsttan Association In tbelr rooms at Pao torjrvilie last "A Health Tour in New Mexico." John Donovan was yesterday arraigned lor the second time before Justice Cahete, at New Brighton, on the charge of abandonment, preferred by his wue, Mary. The Justice adjourned the case lor a further hearing. The wile of Dr. Q.

W. Basaett, a well known druggist in Touipkinsvllle, died suddenly on Tuesday evening, after a very brier illness, caused by a heavv cold. She was buried yesterday aiternoon from Paul's Episcopal church. Thirty-eight proposals in all were received by the Drainage commissioners of the Sonthfleld, WestHeld and Northfleld Drainage district, for finishing the work as advertised, the bids ranging from i $10,292 to $00,136. The proposals came from vari- our Island, New York, Brooklyn, Flushing, Hoboken, Puterson, Jersey Cliy, Provideuce, it.

and Rockvllle Centre, L. I. NEW JERSEY. Eleven indictments have just oeen returned by the Cumberland County Grand Jnry. A motion to pay sneilff Walton, of Mercer countv, twelve cents per meal for each prisoner's board in the County Jail was discussed and temporarily laid over by the Hoard ol Chosen Freeholders at their regular monthly meeting, just held.

There are forty-eight paupers In the Bergen County Poor House, among them being Isabella Hannibal, colored, and John Johnion, were married last Cnrlstmas Day In that Institution. They have beeu ordered to vacate their quarters and sees for a home at tlielr own expense. A caucus of the democratic members (or the Legislature will be held on Wednesday next, to choose a candidate for State Treasurer. Charles T. Henry, of Essex county, and Secretary or the State Democratic Executive Committee, and Mr.

McMlchael, ol Burlington county, who for two terms neld that position, are the most prominent candidates mentioned. Mr. Henry says he is confluent of success. A bill Introduced in tbe present session of tbe Legislature In relation to the Circuit and Supreme Courts provides that the Supreme Court shall consist of a Chief Justice and seven Assistant Justices; that there shall be created an additional district, and that the Sixth district snail be composed of the counties of Bergen. Passaic and I union, and the Eighth district ol tne county oi Hudson, it is suid that.

GovernorFtrur win be appointed to the new judgeship. A fire broke oat yesterday afternoon In a three story irame house, No. 58 Hudson street, Jersey City, owned by John Cahlli. It originated In the upper story Irora a defective flue, and, owing to some in ringing the lire a arm, the liremen dnl imUarrlvo in time to render much assistance. I'hilip While and ins family, Michael Keegan and hi? family and Patrick Powell and his family occa-ded the different floors, and these had to take to the Btreet, losing all of their lurnlture i and much of their clothing.

Yesterday Mrs. Catharine Iletrlch, of No. 73 Fergnson street. Newark, appeared before Police Justice Mills and maue affidavit that her bank book, showing a balance in her favor of $2,000, and $60 in money had been stolen Irom her residence, and that she believed that her son, Charles Hetrlch, was the tmef. The youug man when arrested so stoutly protested innocence that the detective made the motner make a thoromjn search of the house in his presence, when she loutid the missing property securely locked in her trunk, where she hail mislaid It.

On discovering the sad mistake the old lady was almost distracted. The annual meeting of the Newark Board of Trade was held on Wednesday night, when IAHUUC1 Myj nan ao ucoiuum for the ensuing year. Alter the transaction of routine business and before the banquet ex-Mayor Thomas If. Peddle offered a resolution that the lioard of Irade invite Majesty, the King or ttie i Sandwich Islands and suite, to vi-rtt Newark and such factories as he or his suite may desire to nee. The resolution wax adopted with the mt; that the expanse or the visit was not to be norue the Hoard of Trade, Us financial condition not warranting the expenditure.

Out of the aounoance of his riches the generous will, doubtless, do the honors lor the city. A few weeks since the opera of "Queen Esther" was produced at the Newark Opera House by Mr. K. W. Seager, with tbe assistance of local talent, it appears that Mr.

H. B. Kitnball, proprietor or the opera House, was in partnursnip with Mr. Suairer and was to have one-haif of the profits of the enterprise. On Wednesday eveDiug Mr.

Kimball prosecuted Mr. Seager in the District Coui for the sum of $3o, alleged to be due bun. Mr. Seager admitted all that Mr. Kimball alleged, but claimed an allowance or one-hall 01 the board bill or (CO, and that was whv he retained the balance ol $30 belonging to the plaintiff.

The trial continued until ten o'clock when the jury rendered a verdict lor plaintiff for the sum of $15. THE DEATH OF MR. VOKHIJNGER. HE WAS NOT A MI'RDERER. Yesterday afternoon an Inquest was held by Coroner Kesslor in the case of Henry Voeblinger, the laser-beer saloon keeper at No.

082 Ninth avenue, who died nnder peculiar circumstances a few days ago. It will be remembered the deceased bad been arrested, charged with causing the death of John Merz by ejecting him irom his saloon early on the morning of the 1st inst. The evidence urmwiifl mrwt. that did Dot pat Merz oat or the place, nor inflict any violence whatever upon iilm; neither did lie know bow be received bis lujunea. Merz was very drunk, aud doubtless tell and fractured his leg attcr leaving the saloon.

as it was very slippery. i be lact that deceased wan ciiarged with Bucn a crime bad an unusually deprcatuug effect upon him, and he couki neither eat nor sleep, bat himself by taking lirne draoalits oi brandy and bourbon whiskey with red pepper, which caused intense inflammation ol tlie Btomach aud i death. The jury lonnd 4that deceased came to his death by exhaustion and gastritis, oue to want of rest and abstinence from 100a while laboring under mental anx ety, and we take occasion to most fully exonerate said Voehllnger rrom any complicity or counection with the death 01 John Merz." THE MUEDER OP MTtALLY. The Coroner's Inquest in the case of John McNa'iy, who was killed by being assaulted with a brick during an alTray Id Road street, Brooklyn, whh concmded yesterday bv coroner Hlms. There was nothing lu the cvitieuoe to who Inflicted the fatal wounds, and the jury rendered a verdict that the deceased curae to his death at the bands ot some persons unknown.

The three men, Prtuiy, Kobinson and Leonard, were arretted on suspicion, are stlil lu jail. The Coroner will not order tneir discharge till the matter has been further investigated by the DiBtrlct Attorney. KILLED BY A LOCOMOTIVE. genbt7re by a cokonbel's jdbt. Coroner Woltman yesterday held an inqnest on the case ol Mis.

Ann Mccormick, late of No. W)7 i West Thirtieth street, who was kiliel on Snnday I last at the corner ol Thirtieth street and Tenth avenue being run over by engine No. 109 of the i Hudson Kiver Railroad Company. In their verdict the iiiry exonerated from blame the employes of the road, bat censured tne railroad company lor not having a sullicient number ot flagmen sta- tiotieu at the place where the accident occurred. Decease i was flity-eight years of age and born lu i ire land.

MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. MARRIED. Thursday. January 14, by the itev. W.

w. Hailoway, itnuiHT J. Andkkmon hi A. Caktkk, second daughter of the late Oilman Carter, deceased, both of this city. No cards.

Saturday, January 9, at the Cnurch oi st? Francis Xavier. by the Kev. David A. Merrick, 8. 4..

Mr. Thomas E. Oakky to I MISS aliliaujit A. uoijkuty, both Ol UlU City. No cards.

January 11, by the Rev, Thomas Harrell, pastor ol St. Joaeph'l cliurch, Wahuinuton Eluin.s, or thU city, to Makt k. i Collins, youugent daughter of John W. and Margaret Mulvey Ooillna, ol South boston, Mans. Hoaoj.and?Nicuoiji.?At the residence of the bride's Newark, N.

Jn on Wednesday I evening January 13, by Rev. J. F. Stearns, D. I'ktkk w.

UoAiiiMNii to J. Lillian, elder daughter of nr. Isaac A. Nichols. December 33, 1874, at Buflaio, by the Hev.

Dr. Calkin, Cuaklbh O. ol this city, to Mrs. J. M.

Mallokik, daughter of Haniuel U. Smith, of Kewlield, 'loinpkina county, N. Y. Wednesday, Jannary 13, 1875, at Grace cnurch, Brooklyn Heights, by the Hev. George 0.

Reus, ol Kansas City, ablated by the rector. Rev. William A. Snlvoly, Mr. Fkkiikkii k.

Mahon ami mirn Kmilik danuhter ol I the late George V. Ducltwins, ol Brooklyn. Han I'raticiaco papers pl'-use Copy, Wednesday, January 13, at the parsonage. Thirty-seventh street, by tho Hev Richard Meredith, John Joseph Mrakb to I iibnriktta MAOI'IRK, both Ol tO)H City. At lUdgcfleld Park, N.

1 on Wednesday evening. January in, by Gio Rev. W111 lu in Welles Holly, IIknhy C. yf NfcW I 10 ELUA M. bKXMOl u.

DTEtX 13, Bliza wife of Rear ft Autos, aged 31 years. taken to Harris burg, lor interment. Funeral services at residence, West Twenty? fourth street, ou Thursday, at eight o'clock P. M. the 12tb or heart disease, Edward B.

Bell, late or the Unitedstaud Navy. The relatives ana triends or tbe lJndy, tbe offlcert on tbe station, and the members of Sylvan Grove Lodire, No. 276, P. and A. are respectfully invited to attend the fuueral, from bis late residence, on Sunday, 17th, at one o'clock P.

from No. 42tf Monroe street, between Tbroop and Yates avenues. Brooklyn. members or Svlvan Grove Lodge, No. 275, P.

and A. will meet at Doric Itoom, Masonic Hall, Sixth avenue and Tweutv-tbird street, at huir-past ten o'clock A. M. Members of sister iodges invited to Join us. WILLIAM H.

OWPTN, Master. Peru Bay Ridge, l. on Tuesday, January 12, Michael Bkrujcn, In tbe Ubth year ol age. The relatives and friends of the rarnlly are respectfully luvueu to attenu the runcrui, irom bia laie residence, Bay Kidge, L. ou Friday, tbe 15th at two o'clock P.

M. tbe 14th of diphtheria, 08walu Blake, only son of J. J. Butler, aged 3 and 11 months. Oswald's merry voice Is bushed, His romps and piays are over; parents' hearts are rruslied Through death's uuyieldintf power.

Funeral irom residence, 337 West Twenty-elxtl street, and to Greeuwood Cemetery on Saturday, 16th atone o'clock. Charles Byrne, or Ross Gray, county Tipperary, ireiauu, iu ouo The relatives ami friends are to attend the tuneral, on Friday mora.air, at nine o'clock. from his late residence, 68 Bayard street, and from thenco to the Church ol The Transfiguration, comer of Hark and Moit streets, where a solemn requiem mass will be ottered for tne repose of bis soul, alter which his remains will ue taken to Calvary cemetery lor interment. Chicago papers please copy. Thursday, January 14, 1875, Calvert, aged 44 years.

Relatives and friends of the family aro respectfully invited to attend the luneral services, irom the Keiormed church. Mott Haven, corner Third avehne and 146th street, on bunday, January 17, at hair-oasr ten o'clock. luncral services or Dr. ABRAir H. carpenter will he hold in First Presbyterian church, Newark.

N. Saturday, loth at on? o'clock, tars leave Liberty street at 12 o'clock. the 14th Mary, the beloved wlie ol Thomas Corcoran, in the 29th year of her age, a native ol Stoketown, pariah of Kiltrnston, county Roscommon. Ireland. The funeral will take place from lier lata residence, Tenth avenue, at twelve o'clock sharp, on Saturday, the lflih lnst.

Tne friends ana acquaintances are respectlully Invited to attend. Wednesday, Januaty la, 1876, Anw Douid, a nativo oi Longiord, Ireland, In the 60tfc year or her age. ller lelatives and friends are respectfully Invited to attend the mineral, at her late residence. 209 West Nineteenth street, tins day, at half-pasi nine o'clock: trom thence to St. Francis Xavier's, West Sixteenth street.

Tuesday, January 12, after a short Illness. David Dug an, In the year of his age. The runora) will take place irom Ms late residence, 212 Elm street, ou Suuday, the 17th at one o'clock I'. M. Mott Haven, N.

on Wednesday, January 13, James E. El men dork, in the 40th year of his age. Funeral irom his late reatdence, 141st street, near Willis avenue, ou Saturday, loth iusu, at eleven o'clock A. M. Kingston (N.

papers please copy. January 14, Pstkr Felix, a native of Genoa, ltab, aged 58 years. The iriends and relatives are Invited to attend the funeral, ou Sumiav, at one o'clock, rrom his late residence, 807 Seventh aveuue; trom thence to Calvary Cemetery. Wednesday, January 13, 1875, William T. Gray, uged 48 years.

The relatives and mends of the family are in. vlted to atteud the inneral, irom his late residence, No. 277 Washington reet, Brooklyn, on Friday, 16th at ten o'clock A. M. Milwaukee papers lilease copy.

Green January 14, 1875, Mrs. Ellbn Green, aged 48 years. The remains will be Interred in St. Raymond's Cemetery, Wostctiester, ou Saturday, January 18, at one 1'. M.

Her friends and the trieuds of her brother-in-law, Patrick curran, are respectfully iuvlted to attend. In Tannai.fr in at hla rMl. rtence, 61 Forty-sixth street, CitoRGE T. Haws, late Lieutenant lone 1 or the seventh regiment. and son oi J.

11. Hobartllaws, deceased, in the 4-d year ol his nsre. Relatives and iriends arc Invited to attend the fuuentl set vices, at St. Ignatius' church, Fortieth street, between Pmii aud avenues, on Saturday, icrh, at ten A. M.

liiui.iKs.?Oo January 13. Ei.i.en, the beloved sinter 01 eaepuen lliggius, id the Olat year 01 Uer age. Tne friends of the family are Invited to attend the tunerai, Frlaav, January IS, at two o'clock P. irom the residence 01 her brother. Mr.

Stephen No. 1:1 Laid law aveuue, betweea itonner aud l'allsade avenues (Jersey City lieights), Jersey City, to to tue liudsoa City Roman Catholic Cemetery lor lutermuut. 1111 j.yi Newark, N. on Wednesday, January 13, 1H75, Maiiv I.hudki.l. wife of David S.

Uillyer, aged 37 venrs and mouths. Funeral at Trinity Methodist hpiscopal chnrcb. West Brighton, siateu island, on Saturday, 16th at hall-past one 1'. M. Take 12:30 boat from foot 01 Dey street, Now York.

Wednesday, January 13, Pbiob Hokton. in the 8ist year or his age. Helativos and irieiids ol the family are invited to attend the (uncial, on Saturday, the 16th irom his late residence, the house of Joshua Horton. Carriages will in waiting on arrival 01 10:05 train from Forty-second street depot. Wednesday, January 13, Edmond Hcsson, aged 41 years.

The relatives and iriends of the deceased and those of his lauilly are respectiuuy Invited to tend the funeral services, at the Church o( St. Vincent de Paul. Twenty-third street, near sixth avenue, on Saturday, trie leth at tea o'clock A. M. precisely.

The interment will take place at tlie Catholic Cemetery, in Flainfleid, N.and friends desirous ol beinu present will please take tlie 12:40 r. M. tram 01 ti.e New Jersey Central Kailroad, foot ol Liberty street. Brooklyn, on Tbu-sday, January 14, at tne residence ol her son. Stephen Pell, Makt Inniss, widow of tho late Johu W.

Inness, in the Kid year ol her aire. Notice 01 mueral he reader. Wednesilay, January 13, Thomas Kealv, a native ol Kailuo, couniy Kilkenny, Ireland, ajtea 51 years. Relatives and iriends are respectfully invited to attend the luneral, lroiu his late resideuce, 21'J Kast Twenty-eighth street, this day (Friday), 15Ui Inst-, at two P. M.

Thursday January 14, at eight o'clock, Henry Kmnk, 42 years, a mcmber of KbcIioI Lodue, No So, 1. O. H. U. Funeral will take place to-day (Friday), at eleven o'clock A.

irom bis late residence. No. a Livingston place. Friends and brethren or the above order are respectfully invited to attend. Barry town, Dutcness counry, Jt.

on Thursday, January 14, alter a brief illness, Atrorsnrs Martin, in the year of his age. Fuueral from his tate residence, at Barry town, on aundav, 17th at twelve M. Tuesday, January 12, 1876, Colonel Theodore M. Mookk. in the 76tb year of his nge.

Relatives and friends or the family are invited to attend the funeral, irom the Chnrch or St. Chrysostom, corner Thirty-ninth street and Seventh avenue, on Friday. 15th at one o'clock F. M. The remains will be taken to Greenwood Cetnetery for interment.

Brooklyn, E. on Wednesday, 13th Cornelius O'Brien, In ttie cotu year of his age. Tbe relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the luneral, from his late residence, No. 230 I'nion avenue, on Friday, tbe 15th at two o'clock F. M.

Kkii.lv.?on January 13, Charles Ueji.lv, a native of Cattle baunderson. county Cavan, aged sw. The relatives and ortheramlly are resuectrullv Invited to attend tbe luneral, rrom tne residence of his son-in-law, Michael lluiler, 111 First urcnae, Friday, at oue o'ciock. on Monday, January 11, Oforoe only sou ol William K. Schenok, in the z.iin year of tilH and are respectfully Invited to attend a memorial service, at the Pilgrim Baptist church, Thirty-third street, oetween and Ninth avenues, on Sunday evening, January 24.

at seven. Wednesday. January 13. Waltxr, tho tMrd son of Patrick ami Mary Anne Shay, aged 3 years, 7 months and 7 days. "A bad on earth to bioom in Heaven." Funeral irorn the residence ol his parents, 137 Division street, Friday, January 15.

at one o'clock. Wednesday. 13th, at ht? residence. No. 131 Molt street, Dr.

Uknuy slbvin, aged S( years. '1 he remains will taken to St. Patrick's Cathedral on Saturday, lflth at ten o'clock A. wheie a solemn requiem mass will be oflered lor the repose of his soui. The relatives and friends the lamlly, and those of his sons-ln law.

John Mulholland and James J. Slevin, are respcetlulir Invited to attend. New Orleans papers please copy. On Thursday evening, January 14, at the residence of her sun, Mayer Sternberger, Miriam, behoved relict ol Uie Utre Uavul stemburger, aged 85. Notice oi the funeral herearter.

Cincinnati and rtiiladelpnta papers please copy. Van swain's, Allegany county, N. on Tuesday, January 12, Addis Day, wile of Charles Van Nustrand, and daughter of the iato Samuel S. aud Mai7 Day. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the luueral, at.

the New Durham Baptist church, this (Friday) afternoon, at three o'clock. lirooklyn, on Wednesday, Anna daughter of the late Junes O. Ward. Funeral from the residence of her brother, George Ward, No. 27'J Kyerson street, Brooklyn, on lHtti at two o'clock.

Wednesday, the 13th Instant, after a short IMuchs, Kiajiss Rooms, dauahter of the late Samuel Wlswaii. The relatives and irleuds of the family are re? ties ted to attend her funeral from Mslnt church, West Twentieth street, between Klglita and Ninth avenues, on Friday, the I two u'uuck i'..