New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-06
oENERzL No1Zs.


The gentleman who had telephone coDnec-
ton made between mis- house IN this city the stage Of
Academy OF Music during last has
an initator In Edinburgh, where sick man has had
wire stretched from his house 10 the Presbyterian
Church Of which be s elder Sounding chaIabersr
are placed on either side Of the pulpit through which
the voice of the preacher conveyed WHILE by means
Of another chamber in the gallery. the singing OF the
choir and congregation Is transmitted The sounds alike
Of preaching worship. although travelling over three
missed and other such as che o.
the congregation, also communicated TO the Invalid
A religious publication Of Switzerland prints
letter from native Of valas. now farmer at Corr
tiba Brazil. which tells apocryphal story about
swallow. on August u.s. 1880, Jean Louis Caillct the
sory-teler then pious shepherd Of vsiais climb
ing among the rocks when swallow alighted ON heI
nest above his head He climbed up and took the bird,
which was perfectly tame, his hand and hoping 70 see
1t again in the future wound bat Of brass wire, taken
from his rosary around one OF It's legs as means OK
identification. Just thirty years aterward Oaiet was
lying In his bed at Corftba Brazil, when he heardia
rusting of WINGS as II bird flying over his Dec
He thought that it was probably Bat and fell asleep
again. When got up In the morning" ne wr1tes, II
saw dead swaGw ynSd On ny b. Oses
OF brass wire oneircIed Its right Leg Caiiet Is con-
that this was the ye orS Ne Ssa
before when be was IN Europe. and SENDS Dack n
OF the wonders wrought By q consecratcd rosary
The Boston Herald calls attention to the Gu
rous errors that made 6y writer's with
respect the principal religious denomination of New
England. Mr.. Henry James, In his sketch OF Haw-
thorne G9eas OF Concord parsonage the home Of
successive generations OF Presbyterian minister's Miss
WOolson story of Anne" In Harpsrs ha0azas al
ludes to Presby az the religion Of HewEneand
and recent writer in The S. Jasess Gazette speaks OF
the time when, in New-Engand. "Presbyterianism
passed into Unitarianism" The Herald rightly ssys that
Presbyterian and always have been few In
New England. COngregauonaiism having always been
dominant there It IL indeed angular that such writer's
as Mr. James should make sucn mistake, but it is
which multitude Of persons living 10 this part
Would 1 appear to New Enssnder. Il Is common thing
in NewYOrk 20 hear persons speak OF Coneregasiona
counted for By the fact that the OF worship pac
tcally the same In both denominations, the disrnsus
ing features OF each existing In ts organization ana gov
erDment
The recent exercise by the English Home
Secretary of the authority conferred upon him By statute
for the opening OF private letters at the
General Post ONCE has called out numerous articles In
the English newspapers the history Of the practice
According to The Globe there statutory authority
open private letters prior to the RESTORATION whsn
clause was introduced In the Post Once charter forbid
ding every except under the Immediate warrant Oh
one principal Secretaries OF State to exercise the
privilege. Before that time, however, letters were me-
auenty opened without sanction OF Law, and In
l641 no less parsonage than the Venetian Ambassador
complained that his correspondence had been opened
and read and no ventured to contradict him. Oliver
Cro did scruple to this to defend the
Common wealth. In iii, under Queen Anne. similar
authority though rather restricted, conferred
upon the Home Secretary and the same act has ssen
continued under each successive monarch. lnoludlDe
Queen Victoria At various tunes this authority mas
been used to an unwarrantabe extent and numerous
protests publicly entered against its exercise
The agitation previous to the present one was IN
1874 over the Mazzn correspondence. At that
time a special commission having examined the ques-
ton in detail reported against ADVOCATING the power
conferred by Queen Annes statute. The agitation how
ever served useful purpose, for SINCE that time The
privilege has been carefully and conseientiousy
Exercised that IL Is believed few persons La
England were that such power existed until the
application OF it.