New-York tribune., 1871-01-13
LECTURES. MEETINGS. ETC.

DR.. Lord delivered the third lecture of the
University Course. Columbus, yesterday morning,
ut Association Hall.
John G.. SAKE delivered his lecture on
French Folks at Home" last evening" before large
audience in Association Hall.
The children of the Lord Industrial School
onoved .tval last evening e. Nc 2O1 Peenwich-st
at which the Rev C. L. Ice and others sade addresses
At festival given to the inmates of the
nirs House. No. 125 Bleecker ST. last evening"
addresses wsfe .,v
Prof r. Ogden DOremus spent an hour last
evening at the Chelsea Presbyterian Church. in proving
to large audience that We the First and not the
Last OF our Race"
Miss Anna L. Dickinson last evening repeated
her lecture on Mems Rights before large audience
at the New. England Congregational Church In South
Ninth-st., Brooklyn, f. D.
The Commissioners appointed by the Legis-
for tho improvement OF Staten Island met yester-
day at the Office ef Mr. Duncan, in Nassaust, and in
spected plans for laying out roads and avenues
The Polytechnic Branch of the American
Institute last evening listened to lecture by Mr Spear,
Uoosac Tunnel engineer, the result OF the expert
ment OF using compressed air In engines as motive
power .
The Rev. DR.. l. w. Rogers, formerly an
Episcopal Rector at Nashville, Tennessee, delivered
in aid OF the Roman Catholic Orphan um Fund, upon
the temporal Sovereignty of the Pope"
The Ladies' Reception of the Union League
Club will DO given at the CubHOuss Thursday Owe
ing, Jan. &c. Tho Committee Of ARRANGEMENTS includes
g. H. Wales, Richard Butler, T.. NJ Townsend, John III.
Hall, Henry Clews, John f. hensett, ana D. Lansdon
Ward.
DIR. William A. Hammond read paper on
tho "Medico-Legal Value Of Confession before the
Medco Legal Society, at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons on Fourth-avo. last evening, In which he
maintained that, notwithstanding tho common opinion
that the OF guilt by prisoner Is the strongest
knd of eydence such confession frequently made by
innocent person.
The annual meeting Of the Union League
Climb was held last evening, and the following officers
were elected for the ensuing President, William
Hoppin; vcePresidents, William Cullen Bryant, Alex.
II stewart George Griswold, Charles p. Kirkland, wB.
A. Booth, Benjamin II. Hutton. william 7. Bodsett,
Daniel r. Appleton Thomas b. Van Buren,. Otis d. Swan,
Alexander Van Rensselaer,. Theodore Roosevelt score
tary Ceoree r. b. Hill Treasurer, George Cabot ward
Executive Comnittee, John II. Hall, John F. Kensett,
Lansing c. Moore, Henry Clews, james G. Carter Henry
l.. Dyer.
The Dock Department appropriated $6,541 50,
Yesterday the payment OF various bills resosu-
ton was passed person be allowed to examine
the plans the Improvement OF the water front until
such plans receive the sanction of the Sinking Fund
Commissioners. The Department OF Public Parks re-
oueste that three piers above Fifty nnthst ~ r., be
set apart for their during the Construction by them
OF the great Boulevard Mr.. Brtton and Mr. Taylor.
in relation the changes in tho river channels which
would be produced by an extension OF tho bulkhead
lhG. - .
An invited audience of about $50 listened
last evening, at the Weber Rooms on Fuhave, to En-
met r. Olcots lecture the Crown Princes Pass" 1t
is graphic account Of his adventures when bearer OF
dispatches between Ministers Washburne and Motley
during the present Franco Prussian Of his capture
by French guer,as and what he In their camps OF
his Interviews with Gen. Won Blumenthal and other
prominent men, OF the exciting scenes In the Corps
Iegislat during tho last days of Napoleons rus; OF
Paris the outbreak sf the and after the city had
invested: of riot OF students at the College OF
France and mutiny Of Red Republicans In Rocheforts
district OF Gen. Troehu's grand review OF the National
Guard and Of many other exciting sceues