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tion by enthusiastic applause. Rt. Hon. Bro. Reynell Coates, M D., presided, assisted by a number of Vice-Presidents and Secretaries. Rt. Hon. Bro. Jacob Broom delivered a patriotic oration in his usual eloquent and forcible style, which was received with frequent bursts of applause. Kendall Brass Band and the Melodeon Glee Club furnished music for the occasion, and acquitted themselves admirably. Bro.Wm. Beals (the pyrotechnist and decorator of Boston) voluntarily decorated the interior of the building with mottoes and flags, arranging them with his usual fine taste, and also displayed illuminated tableaux of the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Considerable excitement has been manifested here among the American Catholics by the refusal of the Pope (through Austrian influence) to appoint an American-born Bishop to the See (recently vacant) of Philadelphia, which was conferred on an Austrian, contrary to the earnest request of Rt. Rev. Dr. Kenrick, the recent incumbent, who understood the feelings of the Catholics of Pennsylvania better than "His Holiness." It is generally believed, from information received, that the Pope has determined for the future not to appoint an American by birth to any Bishopric in the United States. Who cry that birth-place is the result of accident, and Americans are proscriptive ?

In the cause of "God and our Native Land,"
THIRTEEN.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

“JEREMIAH.”—By some inadvertence, your communication got mislaid until too late for use. Your complaint respecting the tardy manner in which the New-Yorkers responded to the invitation of their New-Jersey brethren last May is very just, and we trust that when another occasion offers, we shall be more prompt and liberal. New-York appreciates the fraternal spirit in which New-Jersey has always responded to a call from this side of the Hudson, and if New-York did not respond as heartily as she should have done a year ago, we may say it was owing, in a great measure, to the fact that the plan of your demonstration was not generally understood. Next time we shall do better.

AMUSEMENTS.

BROADWAY THEATRE.-That distinguished tragedian, Mr. Edwin Forrest, closed his most brilliant and unprecedented engagement, which occupied sixty-nine almost consecutive performances, about

the first of May, and on the following Thursday evening appeared in a new character at the O. U. A. Hall, where he performed the part of the novitiate, and was duly initiated a member of the Order of United Americans, by Washington Chapter No 2. Edwin Forrest is a gentleman who has passed through many vicissitudes. We saw him on the occasion of his first engagement at the original Bowery Theatre, then called the American Theatre, at that time under the management of Mr. Charles Gilfert. Forrest was then a young man, and as poor as a poor editor. He was just pluming his wings for a precarious flight, and depended upon the favoring breezes of popular favor for that success which his inspiring genius and his honest ambition sighed for. Prior to that time, Mr. Forrest had been serving an obscure apprenticeship in his profession, at places remote from the prying eye of the caustic critic, and then for the first time essayed to place himself before a metropolitan audience, and abide

a man more sinned against than sinning;" and that he still retains the popular respect and affection is abundantly proven by the enthusiasm which has attended his recent triumphant engagement at the Broadway Theatre. May his days to come be more fruitful of peace than the past!

At the conclusion of Mr. Forrest's extraordinary engagement, the ever enterprising management of the Broadway Theatre secured the light of another orb in the Thespian galaxy of America and of the world, in the person of Miss Charlotte Cushman. To this event, however, was attached a painful proviso, asserting that this engagement would afford the public a final opportunity of enjoying the transcendent professional talent of this accomplished lady; in other words, that with this engagement it was her intention to bid farewell for ever to the American stage. It is whispered in circles that are supposed to know, that Miss Cush man is about to relinquish the independence of single life for the more rational and happyi ndependence of matrimony; yet the world at large must and does sincerely regret her determination to

withdraw from the stage, especially since at the present time

there is none to fill the void."

We saw her perform several characters during her last engagement, and thought she never appeared to greater advantage. Near the close of her engagement, a new and telling tragedy was produced, called "The Actress of Padua," in which she was seconded by Mr. Couldock, who sustained effectively a little part comprising about fifty lines. The part of La Tisbe, a very laborious one, by Miss Cushman, was well calculated to exhibit her versatile tragic abilities, and the piece was decidedly successful.

At the close of a brief but triumphant engagement, Miss Charlotte Cushman, responding to the call of a densely crowded audience, appeared before the curtain accompanied by the manager, Mr. Barry, and in a neat and unassuming address, in which she recounted briefly the rise and progress of her professional career during a period of about sixteen years, thanked the public for its favoring encouragement, and closed with an impressive farewell. Her retiring must be a source of deep regret to every admirer of the legitimate drama.

After Miss Cushman came the ci-devant Countess of Landsfelt, the notorious Lola Montes, who has managed to condense about her person an atmosphere of sickly attraction which is not at all fashionable in this latitude and longitude. As a danseuse she is positively inferior to the graceful little Miss Price who has for some time past held a prominent place in the ballet corps of the Broadway Theatre.

Since the above was written, Lola has appeared as an actress, instead of a danseuse, in a new play written for her by Mr. Charles Ware, entitled "Lola Montes in Bavaria." It was quite refreshing to the habitués of the theatre to see the Countess in a new phase, and hear her voice; consequently, the house has been filled every night of the performance of the new play, and the play itself has been well received, doubtless more from the novelty of the thing than from any intrinsic merit. As a production, Mr Ware's last effort will not bear criticism.

NATIONAL THEATRE.-Mr. Purdy has produced at this house, during the month, a series of amusing novelties that have kept the people in a roar. What with low prices and pleasing performances, the National is always enlivened with full benches; and it matters not when the patrons of the establishment go there, they are sure to find a good entertainment. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Jones are still on

the programme at the National, in the leading parts.

BARNUM'S MUSEUM.--This highly popular establishment, under the management of John Greenwood, Jr., Esq., is the most complete and magnificent magazine of natural and artificial curiosities

in the United States; and that its interest and value are duly appreciated is attested by the unceasing train of visitors that continually passes to and fro through its spacious galleries throughout the day and evening. Here are seen the great Chinese collection, embracing many figures of life size, with houses, furniture, work-shops, and all the paraphernalia of Chinese life, from the street barber to the rich boudoir and the court of justice; here is the congregation of birds and beasts of opposite natures, living together in the closest harmony, known as "The Happy Family;" the model of the great Koh-i-noor Diamond, almost as brilliant as the original; giants, dwarfs, preservations of the animated world; minerals, paintings, cosmoramas, and things innumerable of rare and curious interest. In the lecture-room are given, afternoon and evening, scenic representations by a good company of dramatic artists, affording altogether a most desirable place of resort at all hours of the day for families and individuals.

CASTLE GARDEN. This splendid and well-known summer resort has, after due preparation, been again thrown open for the season, by its proprietors, Messrs. French and Heiser, and a series of concerts are now given on Sunday evenings by Dodworth's celebrated Cornet Band. Remote as Castle Garden is from the regions of Upper-tendom, the denizens of that magic circle cannot resist the temptation of an occasional pilgrimage to the summer evening scenes of enchantment for which Castle Garden and Lake Como are alike celebrated; and the curious observer may often witness the carriage of the nabob, at dusk, rolling quietly on through Eighth street and Broadway, Batteryward. Time-honored celebrities have woven a web of soul-touching remembrances around the very atmosphere of Castle Garden, but the profive cents the visitor may enjoy the reminiscences, prietors charge nothing for this; and for twentythe choice music, the fine air, and a glorious view of the bay after sunset.

BUSINESS NOTICES.

SUMMER HATS.-Kellogg's elegant summer style hats, just got up for the season, are worthy of commendation. They are light, airy, and beautiful His wareroom is at 128 Canal street.

ALBANY PERIODICAL STORE, AND AGENCY OF THE REPUBLIC-Messrs. M'Goun and Kewin have opened an extensive magazine of periodicals and cheap publications, at No. 464 Broadway, in the city of Albany, where we can recommend the reading world with entire confidence. Every thing in the line of modern publications worth having, will be found on their counter. They are also agents for the Republic at the State capital.

IRA BETTS.—A magnificent establishment is that of the "Marble Pillar," at the corner of Broadway and State street, Albany, under the management of Ira Betts; and many a drooping law-giver,

weighed down with the cares of state, has been fain to confess the refreshing powers of his Alhamra. Strangers who visit the capital should call at the "Marble Pillar."

"LIVE AND LET LIVE."--This is the motto of the enterprising young caterers, Messrs. Walnut and Radford, who hold forth at No. 214 Broadway, opposite St. Paul's; and we may safely say that whoever lives under their administration, will live

well. They have recently enlarged and refitted their pleasant establishment as a resort for the bons vivants, and their larder is always stocked with the choicest viands.

BLACKMAN'S WASHINGTON RESTAURANT is one of the convenient places of the town for procuring an excellent dinner or lunch. His quarters are at 15 Nassau street.

HE mania for bookmaking, which prevails to such an extent in this community, will ere long be the death of the 'professions," and the "fac

ulty" at least will from necessity find the printer instead

of the patient. What with medical books, lectures, and nostrums, what

with the teachings of Allo-, Hydro-, and Homoeo-pathy, man will soon learn to know himself, prescribe for himself, and give stout battle, f not with disease and even death itself, at least with the doctors. Many a good and many a bad book on physic and physiology has made its appearance, "illustrated with cuts," during the past few years. The doctors have evidently discovered that the people are far more willing to take their precepts than their practice, that they will more readily swallow their theories than their medicines; and with the numerous rays of pharmaceutic and physiological light already let in upon the public mind, it is found to be much easier to preserve than to restore health. By means of the sensible and really scientific portion of the medical books published, men are enabled to discover many of the causes of disease, and thus avoid it, as also the appropriate remedies to be applied when disease occurs. Redfield, of Clinton Hall, has just published one of this class, entitled:

BRONCHITIS AND KINDRED DISEASES. By W. W. HALL, M. D.-This is a book of 350 pages, including an index, and treating of the diseases of the throat, the bronchiæ and the lungs, written in a language and style adapted to the comprehension of

the general reader; and in our climate, where these diseases are very prevalent, such a book is of the utmost value. We make a very short extract, which comprises "a volume" in itself, if estimated by the good it may do in removing a prevalent and dangerous error. Speaking of Consumption, the Doctor says, it is generally inherent, but is also produced by various causes which he enumerates, and finally,

"By unwise attempts to 'harden the constitution' by needless exposure to heat and cold, and over-exertion; forgetting that a man's constitution is like a good garment, which lasts the longer for being the better taken care of, and is no more improved by hard treatment than a new hat is made better by being banged about."

This is not only plain-spoken, but rational, and consistent with common sense; for, to say the least, there can be no harm in the avoidance of unnecessary exposure. The Doctor in this work takes the ground that Consumption is not in all cases an incurable disease.

THE CAVALIERS OF ENGLAND. BY HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT. New-York: J. S. Redfield, Clinton Hall. This may properly be termed a romance of English history, written by one whose long residence in a republic has not sufficed to wean his spirit from the ancient usages of fatherland, or to eradicate from his soul the strong affiliation to monarchical and regal ceremonies and institutions, implanted in the mind of his youth. Mr. Herbert's book, which comprises a series of fugitive pieces, heretofore published in varions magazines, will be read with interest for its romance rather than its history; but it is of a class which we never commend to an American reader, as being calculated to convey false and poisonous notions of legitimacy and aristocracy, entirely unsuited to a republican student. The American reader can store his mind with true pictures on these subjects by the perusal

LILLIAN AND OTHER POEMS. BY WINTHROP MACK WORTH PRAED. Redfield, Clinton Hall.-The poems of Praed have heretofore been better known in England than in America, though many of his fugitive pieces have been conned with delight by the readers of our own periodical literature. This volume is the first collation of his poetical works, and even this is very incomplete. Their author was one of the most promising of modern English poets, and it is much to be regretted that his career was so early cut off. A term of ten years added to such a life would undoubtedly have placed the name of its possessor among the deathless poets of the world, and given to mankind an unpalling feast of delight. There is a peculiar freshness of style in Praed's poetry, a sort of fine mosaic, composed of the gems of fancy and fact most choicely and artistically put to gether, and none can read them and tire. With few exceptions, his poems are like exquisite paint ings, over which the eye wanders again and again, constantly seeking and finding new beauties.

REMORSE AND OTHER TALES. By G. P. R. JAMES. New-York: Bunce & Brother, 134 Nassau street. This is said to be the best work of its well-known author. It comprises a series of consecutive tales

venge, Love, Despair, and Hatred, carefully interWoven with romance of captivating interest.

THE TWO FAMILIES: An Episode in the History of Chapelton. By the Author of "Rose Douglass.” New-York: Harper & Brothers.--Chapelton is represented as a pretty country town in Scotland, and the present work purports to be a side-leaf in its history. It will pass current at least as a romance of pleasing interest, carrying with it a good moral.

COURTESY, MANNERS, AND HABITS. By GEOSGE WINFRED HERVEY. Harper & Brothers.--Guessing at the title of this book, we should have placed it in the Chesterfieldian category. But it does not belong there. What Chesterfield was in the fashionable and social world, Hervey is in the religious, and his book is devoted to the culture of becoming courtesy and etiquette as a Christian duty among Christians: a worthy mission truly, yet one that would seem to be superfluous in the field to which it is devoted. There is yet room for another Chesterfield.

FIELD-BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION.--No. 22 of Lossing's patriotic pictorial is now before the public, published by the Harpers. We are not surprised to learn that this valuable serial is in extensive demand.

ADDRESS OF CHANCELLOR AMES C. PAGE.On the evening of the 27th of April, Warren Chapter No. 3 held an anniversary celebration at their rooms in Brooklyn, at which a large company of ladies and gentlemen were present. Our ever active and energetic brother, A. C. Page, Esq., having been chosen as the

orator of the occasion, was present, and delivered a most interesting discourse; stepping from the counting-room to the rostrum, and emerging from the bustling scenes of mereantile duties to the responsible and embarrassing position of a public speaker, with all the ease of an adept in the oratorical art. We make a few extracts from this address, all of which are very fine, and some critically beautiful. The subject being TRUTH, we quote a few words from the proem:

"By truth, we mean things as they are; facts and the relations of facts; things as God appre hends them; things as God reveals them to his creatures."

The speaker proceeded to state, that as truth came from God, it pervaded the whole creation; but that, by the birth and growth of error, truth became perverted or hidden upon earth, and was again brought forth and

revealed to man through the advent of the Saviour. With him it was crucified, and with him arose again. Subsequently it was cast by the Papacy into the wells of the Inquisition, and restored again by Martin Luther. The speaker next dwelt largely upon the value of truth in religion, government, and in all the various phases of its application. We quote a passage:

"But there is enjoyment, and of the highest order, in the pursuit of truth, which renders the necessary toil and self denial but a trivial sacrifice. But while I may insist on the reality of purely intellectual pleasure from study and reflection, my principal object is to declare the superior pleasure which truth in contemplation and possession gives over every other source of enjoyment; a pleasure open to all minds, whether cultivated or uncultivated: to the reflecting student most accessible in its purest quality and largest degree; but also derivable to those who never investigate patiently nor reflect intensely. Truth, discovered and possessed by the mind, gives its own peculiar pleasure. The contemplation of a single truth, casually perceived, as well as that elicited by elaborate reasoning, and brought out in clusters of gems from the deep mines of thought; a bare fact, separated en tirely from error and raised above doubt, contemplated as an immutable reality, bestows enjoyment of a nature superior to the most ingenious combinations where error is known or suspected to be hidden."

The effects of truth and error upon the mind and faculties are thus analytically set forth:

"If error went no further than the intellect, the consequences would not be so sad. But it cannot stop there. The intellectual faculties are the masticators and digestive apparatus of the soul. The mind perceives, reflects, digests, and then the moral circulation and assimilation commence. What the mind feeds on, goes to the conscience, the passions, the heart. If it be truth, the conscience is quickened and true, and the heart beats with healthful pulse, and urges on a current of life throughout the whole being. If it be error, the conscience is paralyzed, the passions swollen and ungovernable, the will perverted, and ready to do the bidding of the basest lusts; and the heart circulates a flood of death throughout the entire economy of the soul.

"So with the body politic. If error could remain in our Constitution, our law-books and legislative speeches, and not circulate through the arteries and veins of our country, it might be a shame and a sin, but it could not do extended injury. But it cannot remain there. A fundamental error at the heart of our Constitution, or in one of the main arteries of our laws, may speedily be found in its effects at the remotest extremity and in the tiniest vein.

"Let us then reflect on the infinite preference of truth over error. Error may come in specious political falsities, promising to distinguish and aggrandize a people by some newly conceived

notion, that takes because it is a novelty. It may present before our eyes the tempting vision of our millions of inert and silent acres all tilled and populated, and teeming with social and business life. And it may whisper that this desired result can be best accomplished by throwing open every door of our precious asylum to the galled serfs of other lands, and enlarging and multiplying our ballot-boxes.

"It may perhaps come to our ears, in the siren eloquence of a true freeman exiled from a land that has a right to be free, and urge us to admit and act upon a fallacy that is so like truth that wise men doubt and hesitate to reject it; and, by touching the tenderest sympathies of an American, almost make us believe it is our duty to join a holy foreign crusade against the tyrants of the old world. Or it may come in any other form. And yet I say, if solid, sober judgment pronounces that error even lurks in it, we had better repress our desire for population, our sympathies with the distant oppressed, tax immigration, and wall in our ballot-boxes, than that political error should defile the fine gold of our republican crown, or poison the arteries of our happy and as yet healthy country. We have nothing to do with any scheme, however fair it promise for wealth, honor, or increase, that will not bear the scrutiny of truth."

The truth in government is thus apostrophized:

"Especially do our age and country demand vigilant partisans of truth. The truth in government never was displayed to mortal eyes until the founding of our republic. An enlightened, free, religious people, with Bible republicanism for their polity, is the full-orbed truth in human government. Brethren, I believe our order is another embodied truth. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty;' and by what eyes shall this vigilance be exercised, if not by the native-born sons of freedom? Who shall be the body-guard of truth in religion and politics for our native land, if not we, whose fathers possessed the soil before we were born? Who so well understand the true principles of our government as we, who were taught them in infancy? Who can possibly love them so well as we, who have never known any other? When immense hosts of aliens are landing annually on our shores, and, like the well-trained regiments of an invading army, form immediately into battalions, ready for self-defense or aggression, needs there no organization of American natives to stand ready for defense, or offense if need be? Or is our country merely a vast tract of land, with some magic property that transforms monarchists at once into liberalists; serfs into men; barbarians into the enlightened and refined; and all, atheists, infidels, and Papists, at once into lovers and practisers of truth? Is America merely a continent, or is it the sacred birth-right of liberty? And is liberty a thing necessarily eternal because it has once existed; and incapable of corruption because it has existed in purity? or is it liable both to be vitiated and annihilated? And by whom is it most likely to be destroyed? By invading armies, under a foreign leader, coming with the avowed purpose of aggression; or by armies equally averse to true, constitutional, restricted liberty, flying from the abodes of tyranny and hunger and ignorance,