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THE PRESS. I JUNE 14, 1856. THE CITIZENS OF MANCHESTER have issued an address to the people of America, imploring them, as , 4 friends and brethren," to restrain the warlike ten dencies of the United States Government, assuring them that the citizens of Manchester will, on their part, exert themselves to a similar effect on the Go vernment of Britain ; and declaring that much of the dispute has arisen in mistake, not in design ; and that a calm and quiet survey of the question will even yet lead to a satisfactory solution of every difficulty, and to the removal of every cause of con tention and complaint. The first experiment I made ( says Mr. Pooley) con firmed my suspicions. I found that the existence of a fractional part of emetic tartar (tartrate of antimony ), with a large amount of strychnine, is sufficient to destroy the characteristic indications exhibited by that substance when treated with bichromate of potass and sulphuric acid. I repeated the experiment several times with invariably the like results. This assertion has given rise to a lively medical correspondence, in which Mr. Pooley's assertions are unhesitatingly denied by Mr. Rogers, chemical lecturer at St. George's, and Mr. Girdwood. Mr. Rogers also as unhesitatingly asserts that strychnine cannot evade detection if proper processes be employed for its separation : In this opinion (continues Mr. Rogers) I am supported by the highest chemical authorities of the day, and now request a space in your valuable columns to give to the world a process which accompanies this letter, and which has enabled myself and Mr. Girdwood to detect that fear ful poison in the blood, liver, tissues, and contents of stomachs of animals poisoned by doses such as those Dr. Taylor administered in the experiments on which he founded his theory promulgated at the late trial, and which has also enabled us to separate the strych nine from the tissues and organs of a dog after the body had been interred twelve months. The results of these experiments, but without a description of the pro cess employed, were forwarded by myself and Mr. Gird wood fur the consideration of Sir George Grey, as we were of opinion that if John Parsons Cook was poisoned by strychnine, no matter how small the fatal dose, its presence could even now be clearly demonstrated if the tissues of his body were subjected to the same mode of analysis. I cannot conclude this letter without expressing my opinion that, as of all known poisons there is not lee more readily detected in the tissues than strychnine, conse quently no death ought to be attributed to its agency unless its presence be clearly demonstrated. The execution is fixed for 8 a.m. spotting. • lie. Corrtspouttutt. WAR OR PEACE WITH AMERICA? TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PRESS." Sir,—Aro we to have war with America, is the question which every one is now asking of his neighbour, and which few venture to answer with much positiveness of assertion. There are, indeed, persons who maintain the inevitability of such a disaster, while others laugh at the idea of such a catastrophe as manifestly absurd and impossible. But the majority of those who give themselves the trouble to think about the matter at all are neither extravagantly sanguine of a continuance of peace nor entirely possessed by the dread of war. The question does not lie in a nutshell ; it depends on more ifs than the solution of the Justice's quarrel in Shake speare, and I think its answer is to be found rather in the state of America's internal affairs than in any incidental complication of her foreign relations. We all know that Mr. Pierce's Administration is weak, vacillating, and unprincipled; and we also know, which is more, perhaps, to the point, that it has made itself exceedingly unpopular throughout the whole of the Union. To the New England an' 568 Northern States it is especially obnoxious. Its tor- - tuous policy with regard to the great Kansas ques tion has blown into a flame, the embers of the old sectional hatred between North and South which Daniel Webster, when ho helped to pass the com promise measures of 1850, fondly hoped would have smouldered out for want of fresh fuel. But those mea sures which could only have been acquiesced in by the free States of the North frcm a patriotic feeling that anything was better than a disruption of the Union, were. not calculated to lessen the detestation of slavery in New England or Ohio. The old Con servative Whigs, even in their stronghold of Massa chusetts, saw their influence decline and their numbers diminish daily ; and when blood was shed and murder committed in the streets of Boston, in order that the hateful fugitive slave law might be enforced, the tide of abolitionism, which had hither.° trickled its puny course in country towns and by places, now swelled into a mighty torrent, which the old Whigs, unable to stem, have wisely endeavoured to guide and direct. Charles Sumner, who has just been the victim of a savage assault in the Senate at Washington, was, in 1851 and 1852, execrated as the Peel of Massachusetts. Elected as a Whig, and by Whig influence, to the Federal Senate, he had soon appeared the noisiest champion of the free-soilera. His ostracism by the "governing classes " of Boston was complete, and strangers were warned that too close an intimacy with Senator Sumner would have the effect of closing the doors of the best houses in Boston to the offending parties. But a change was coming. The highly-educated and liberal-minded Bostonians soon saw that there had been more of timid selfishness than of wise patriotism in their sanction of the compromise measures. Slavery they had always maintained to be a necessary evil, just as pauperism and prostitution are necessary evils ; but their State had made noble exertions to support the poor and to reclaim the guilty. Had it a right to maintain the other evil in its sister States as an insti tution to fence it round with privileges and immu nities, and even to degrade its own citizens by making them the instruments of Southern tyranny and in. justice? Such questions were beginning to agitate the Con servative mind of Massachusetts and the other free States, when the Kansas affair sprung up to turn , their doubts into certainties, and to rouse in them the manly hatred of tyranny which, if it had been soothed to slumber for a while by self-interest or fear of civil war, was not the less deeply implanted in the descendants of English freemen. Mr. Sumner is no longer a pariah, but a high priest of the State religion. His return togioston from the capital is an ovation. Denunciations of slavery are no longer confined to Theodore Parker's infidel chapel, or to obscure back-street platforms. Fenced'. hall, the cradle of liberty, as the Bostonians proudly call it, rings with free-soil orations, and will, perhaps, ere long have another infant committed to its keep. ing ; and the best and noblest of the State will come forward as the nursing fathers to the newer and nobler liberty— ... in the womb—a liberty of caste charter shall not begin, like American independence, by This is only one phase of it is not an important one, and present momentous crisis is clear the representatives and people the Union, smarting under the tions which they have had to. be so anxious to preserve civil border that they will allow war England—their commerce destroyed knocked about their ears, without rial interest or political principle at stake, and merely to give popularity Administration which they deter: and extension to institutions which them ? Will they not, as their insist on peace, even if a disruption and their severance from the Southern the price they are to pay for it But the South is probably war which is to ruin its trade There remains only the restless less President and his Cabinet. Senate will not sanction the war wage for their own unholy purposes, Pierce and Marcy privately hint - their on the West India station, or about hostilities by some overt suit, and then appeal to the , _ States to support them in a struggle of their seeking? This is what I fear. Congress of America will deliberately formal declaration of war against account of a miserable enlistment to defend the interpretation placed Bolwer Treaty by the Cabinet at to be almost an impossibility obedient servant z J une 10. . 4 ' -141 AME.RICIN TRANIU44Sft. I V. • . , • -...., JUNE 14, 1856. THE PRESS. 568 THE CITIZENS OF MANCHESTER have issued an The first experiment 1 made (says Mr. Poole y ) con- Northern States it is e s p ec i a ll y o b nox i ous. I ts tor- - a ddress to the people of America, imploring them, as fi rme d my suspicions. I found that the Y existence of . a t . uous policy with regard to the great Kansas gues- s friends and brethren," to restrain the warlike ten- fractional part of emetic tartar (tartrate of antimony), with lion has blown into a flame, the embers of the old dencies of the United States Government, assuring a large amount of strychnine, is sufficient to destroy the sectional hatred between North and South which them that the citizens of Manchester will, on their characteristic indications exhibited by that substance when part, exert themselves to a similar effect on the Go- treated with bichromate of potass and sulphuric acid. I Daniel Webster, when ho helped to pass the com- promise measures of 1850, fondly hoped would have vernment of Britain ; and declaring that much of repeated the experiment several times with invariably the the dispute has arisen in mistake, not in design ; like results. smouldered out for want o f f res h f ue l. B u t th ose mean and that a calm and quiet survey of the question This assertion has given rise to a lively medical sures which could only have been acquiesced in by the free States of the North f rom a patriotic feeling will even yet lead to a satisfactory solution of every correspondence, in which Mr. Pooley's asser ti ons are difficulty, and to the removal of every cause of con- unhesitatingly denied by Mr. Rogers, chemical lecturer that an y thin g was better than a disruption of the tendon and complaint. at St. George's, and Mr. Girdwood. Mr. Rogers also as Union, were not calculated to lessen the detestation unhesitatingly asserts that strychni ne canno t evade of slavery in New E ng l an d or Ohi o. Th e old Con- detection if proper processe s b e em pl oye d f or i ts servative Whigs, even in their s t rong h o ld o f M eese - ptlant. separation:— chusetts, saw their influence decline and their In this opinion (continues Mr. Roger) lam supported numbers diminish daily ; a n d w h en bl oo d was s h e d and murder committed in the streets of Boston, ARCHBISHOP CULLEN has issued another P as t ora l by the highest chemical authorities of the day, and now in order that the hateful fugitive slave law might be request a space in your valuable columns togive to the enforced, the tide of abolitionism, which lied hither.o chiefly directed against the efforts of Protestant world a process which accompanies this letter , and which proselytisers, " wolves in sheeps' clothing," having has enabled myself and Mr. Girdwood to detect that fear- trickled its puny course in country towns and by- for their object, according to Dr. Cullen, "the con• ful poison in the blood, liver, tissues, and contents of places, now swelled into a mighty torrent, which the version of Roman Catholic children by bribes and stomachs of animals poisoned by d oses such as those Dr. old Whigs, unable to stem, gold ": Taylor administered in th e ex p er i ments on w hi c h he t o gu id e an d direct. Charles Sumner, who has just Though we are living (says Dr. Cullen) in times of founded his theory promulgated at the late trial, been the victim of a savage assault in the Senate at boasted toleration, and all that is liberal and enlightened in and which has also enabled us to separate the strych- Washington, was, in 1851 and 1852, execrated as the Protestantism condemns the spirit of past persecution, yet nine from the tissues and organs of a dog after the Peel of Massachusetts. Elected as a Whig, and by the progress of our holy religion could not fail to excite the body had been interred twelve months. The results of Whig influence, to the Federal Senate, he had soon envy of the malignant one, whosnot having succeeded in these experiments, but without a description of the pro- appeared the noisiest champion of the free-soilers. destroying our religion by violence, induces his followers cess employed, were forwarded by myself and Mr. Gird- • His ostracism by the "governing classes " of Boston wood fur the consideration of Sir George Grey, as we to employ new and insidious tuts, and, leaving the blood• stained track of a Nero or a Diocletian, to walk in the foot- were of opinion that if John Parsons Cook was poisoned was complete, and strangers were warned that too steps of the perfidious Julian. by strychnine, no matter how small the fatal dose, its close an intimacy with Senator Sumner would have presence could even now be clearly demonstrated if the the effect of closing the doors of the best houses in Then, explaining that an active and insidious system tissues of his body were subjected to the same mode of Boston to the offending parties. But a change was of proselytising is being carried on by the Protes- analysis. coming. The highly-educated and liberal-minded tent party, he alludes to the effect of the Protestant I cannot conclude this letter without expressing my Bostonians soon saw that there had been more of free schools, in which the children of a vast number opinion that, as of all known poisons there is not see more timid selfishness than of wise patriotism in their of Roman Catholic parents are now educated, and readily detected in the tissues than strychnine, conse- sanction of the compromise measures. Slavery they says, somewhat illogically : quently no death ought to be attributed to its agency unless its presence be clearly demonstrated. had always maintained to be a necessary evil, just as In every Catholic country, under one pretence or pauperism and prostitution are necessary evils ; but The execution is fixed for 8 a.m. another, English money is lavishly expended in endeavour- their State had made noble exertions to support the ing to undermine the :with of the people and to introduce poor and to reclaim the guilty. Had it a right to a system of doubt and unbelief. We say doubt and unbelief, sporting. maintain the other evil in its sister States as an insti- because Protestantism cannot be propagated, for it is cursed with sterility, and has no vitality and no attraction in it. tution to fence it round with privileges and immn e And, indeed, wherever the Catholic Church is assailed no ASCOT RACES. nities, and even to degrade its own citizens by making them the instruments of Southern tyranny and in. attempt is heard of to substitute any new form of belief in place of her doctrines; and if an apostate be made TOLERABLE weather and crowds of visitors have given justice? he is left in darkness and uncertainty, and destined to the Ascot Meeting unusual eclat this week. Some- Such questions were beginning to agitate the Con- become, according to the words of our Divine Redeemer, thing, also, was to he allowed for the public desire to servative mind of Massachusetts and the other free a child of hell, twofold worse than the Pharisees who per- be satisfied whether the Derby running were true, or States, when the Kansas affair sprung up to turn vested him. whether Epsom mud had not materiallyinfluenced the their doubts into certainties, and to rouse in them Dr. Cullen concludes with an earnest appeal for the result of last month. The ground at Ascot this week the manly hatred of tyranny which, if it had been necessity of increasing devotion "to the Prince of was as hard as could be wished, and, as many antici- soothed to slumber for a while by self-interest or Apostles, St. Peter." pated, the Derby running was quite reversed. In fear of civil war, was not the less deeply implanted A STEAMER was about to leave Cove with nine the Triennial Stakes and Ascot Derby, Mr. Bowes's in the descendants of English freemen. Mr. eight miles of electric-telegraph cable ou board, t he - Fly by Night, who was nowhere in the Derby, beat Sumner is no longer a pariah, but a high priest of first batch intended ultimately to communicate with Cannobie, who was the third, easily for the first race, the State religion. His return tolßoston from the America across the Atlantic. These ninety-eight and Yellow Jack, who was the Derby second, almost as capital is an ovation. Denunciations of slavery are miles are to be laid down between Cape Ray, New- easily for the other race. Flyby-Night, however, no longer confined to Theodore Parker's infidel fonndland, and Cape North on Breton Island for suffered severely from his second victory, for soon chapel, or to obscure back-street platforms. Fanectil- eighty-five miles, and thirteen more between Cape after passing the post he broke down, and was led hall, the cradle of liberty, as the Bostonians proudly Traverse on Prince Edward's Island and Cape away, dead lame, call it, rings with free-soil orations, and will, perhaps, Formanton on New Brunswick. The Gold Vase, won by Fisherman, proved that ere long have another infant committed to its keep- Ellington was not really so bad as he seemed prior ing; and the best and noblest of the State will come THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH this week, for to his Derby victory, for it will be remembered that forward as the nursing fathers and nursing mothers the first time since the institution of the Encumbered at York Ellington gave Fisherman 61b., and was only to the newer and nobler liberty—which is even now Estates Court, has overruled its jurisdiction in the beaten by a head. The great event, " The Cup," in the womb--a liberty of caste and colour, whose case of Errington v. Rorke. The trial was originally proved a good race, but the result hit the gentlemen charter shall not begin, like the first charter of one against ejectment, and the verdict was given for uncommonly hard. Both favorites, Manganese and American independence, by solemnly enunciating the defendant. The court this week has confirmed Saucebox, were beaten easily by Winkfield, the a lie. the verdict, which will have the effect of disturbing horse of a licensed victualler, and the rnagni- This is only one phase of American affairs, but the possession of many purchases and seriously im- cent piece of plate given, the envy of all beholders, it is not an important one, and its bearing upon the pugning the validity of parliamentary titles, goes pro bono publico. The Ascot Stakes were won present momentous crisis is clear and evident. Will easily by Redemption, the Hunt Cup by Forbidden the representatives and people of the free States of Fruit, and the Queen's Plate by Middleton. the Union, smarting under the insults and degrade- Yalu ad Noble. The Court was present on the Heath on Thurs. tions which they have had to suffer from the South, day, " The Cup Day," when the Queen, accompanied be so anxious to preserve civil peace within their by Prince Albert, all the Royal children, and her border that they will allow war to be declared against THE CONVICT PALMER. Royal visitors, met with a marked enthusiastic re- England—their commerce destroyed and their cities THE prisoner persists in asserting his innocence ; ception. knocked about their ears, without one single mate- and from his demeanour, there is every reason for - _ rial interest or political principle of their own being believing that he will continue to do so to the last. at stake, and merely to give popularity to a P. and an The preliminary preparations for the scaffold were Corrtspouttntt. Administration which they detest, and permanence completed yesterday. Several very strong barriers and extension to institutions which are abhorrent to them ? Will they not, as their fathers did in 1814, were erected, as the crowd is expected to be greater WAR OR PEACE WITH AMERICA? than on any similar occasion. insist on peace, even if a disruption of the Union, The magistrates on Thursday issued a notice to TO THE EDITOR OF " THE PRESS." and their severance from the Southern States, is to be the effect that no person under fourteen would be Sir,—Are we to have war with America, is the the price they are to pay for it? allowed to mix in the crowd, advising women not to question which every one is now asking of his But the South is probably as little anxious for a be among the spectators, and requesting the autho- neighbour, and which few venture to answer with war which is to ruin its trade as the North can be. cities rniaht have. rittn nntira of all nlatfnrma intended mulch nositiveness of assertion. There are_ indeed Tharp remains only the restless West and the reck- less deeply implanted nglish freemen. Mr. but a high priest of rn togioston from the iciations of slavery are odors Parker's infidel set platforms. Fanettil- the Bostonians proudly tions, and will, perhaps, committed to its keep- t of the State will come s and nursing mothers y—which is even now iste and colour, whose e the first charter of solemnly enunciating American affairs, but id its bearing upon the ',leer and evident. Will is of the free States of he insults and degrade- ) suffer from the South, civil peace within their sr to be declared against stroyed and their cities rithout one single mate- !iple of their own being opularity to a P. and an letest, and permanence which are abhorrent to eir fathers did in 1814, ruption of the Union, southern States, is to be it? as little anxious for a as the North can be. less West and the reek- net. Fearful that tle war which they wish to purposes, will Messrs. nt to their naval officers T at Greytown, to bring rt act of wrong or in- people of the United struggle which is none tat I fear. But that the deliberately sanction a ainst Great Britain on ment squabble, or even laced upon the Clayton- t at Washington, I bold ility.—l am, sir, your FJUCIN Tuviu44lp. pdant. AncastsHoP Cur.LEN has issued another Pastoral chiefly directed against the efforts of Protestant proselytisers, " wolves in sheeps' clothing," having for their object, according to Dr. Cullen, "the con version of Roman Catholic children by bribes and gold ": Though we are living (says Pr. Cullen) in times of boasted toleration, and all that is liberal and enlightened in Protestantism condemns the spirit of past persecution, yet the progress of our holy religion could not fail to excite the envy of the malignant one, who,- not having succeeded in destroying our religion by violence, induces his followers to employ new and insidious alts, and, leaving the blood. stained track of a Nero or a Diocletian, to walk in the foot steps of the perfidious Julian. Then, explaining that an active and insidious system of proselytising is being carried on by the Protes tant party, he alludes to the effect of the Protestant free schools, in which the children of a vast number of Roman Catholic parents are now educated, and says, somewhat illogically : In every Catholic country, under one pretence or another, English money is lavishly expended in endeavour• lug to undermine the faith of the people and to introduce a system of doubt and unbelief. We say doubt and unbelief, because Protestantism cannot he propagated, for it is cursed with sterility, and has no vitality and - no attraction in it. And, indeed, wherever the Catholic Church is assailed no attempt is heard of to substitute any new form of belief in place of her doctrines; and if an apostate be made he is left in darkness and uncertainty, and destined to become, according to the words of our Divine Redeemer, a child of hell, twofold worse than the Pharisees who per verted him. Dr. Cullen concludes with an earnest appeal for the necessity of increasing devotion "to the Prince of Apostles, St. Peter." A STEAMER was about to leave Cove with ninety eight miles of electric-telegraph cable ou board, the first batch intended ultimately to communicate with America across the Atlantic. These ninety-eight miles are to be laid down between Cape Ray, New foundland, and Cape North on Breton Island for eightyfive miles, and thirteen more between Cape Traverse on Prince Edward's Island and Cape Formanton on New Brunswick. THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH this week, for the first time since the institution of the Encumbered Estates Court, bas overruled its jurisdiction in the case of Errington v. Rorke. The trial was originally one against ejectment, and the verdict was given for the defendant. The court this week has confirmed the verdict, which will have the effect of disturbing the possession of many purchases and seriously im pugning the validity of parliamentary tides. Yalu ad Volta. THE CONVICT PALMER. THE prisoner persists in asserting his innocence ; and from his demeanour, there is every reason for believing that he will continue to do so to the last. _ . The preliminary preparations for the scaffold were completed yesterday. Several very strong barriers were erected, as the crowd is expected to be greater than on any similar occasion. The magistrates on Thursday issued a notice to the effect that no person under fourteen would be allowed to mix in the crowd, advising women not to be among the spectators, and requesting the autho rities might have due notice of all platforms intended to be erected, in order that the town surveyor might be satisfied as to their strength, &c. Mr. Smith, Palmer's attorney, on Monday and Tuesday addressed letters to Sir George Grey, en treating that the execution be postponed until a further analysis of Cook's body be made, and also on the ground that two witnesses were absent who would satisfactorily account for the disposal of the strych nine by Palmer. Sir George Grey replied on Thurs• day that there was "nothing " in Mr. Smith's letters which would justify any interference with the due course of the iaw. A writer to the Times o n T ues d a y, a Mr. Pooley of Cirencester, stated from experiments be has made he bas come to the conclusion that the presence of antimony in a body destroys the appearance of strychnis ASCOT RACES. Tot.zrusix weather and crowds of visitors have given the Ascot Meeting unusual eclat this week. Some thing, also, was to he allowed for the public desire to be satisfied whether the Derby running were true, or whether Epsom mud had not materially influenced the result of last month. The ground at Ascot this week was as hard as could be wished, and, as many antici pated, the Derby running was quite reversed. In tha Triennial Stakes and Ascot Derby, Mr. Bowes's Fly by Night, who was nowhere in the Derby, beat Cannobie, who was the third, easily for the first race, and Yellow Jack, who was the Derby second, almost as easily for the other race. Fly by-Night, however, suffered severely from his second victory, for soon after passing the post he broke down, and was led away, dead lame. The Gold Vase, won by Fisherman, proved that Ellington was not really so bad as he seemed prior to his Derby victory, for it will be remembered that at York Ellington gave Fisherman 61b., and was only beaten by a head. The great event, " The Cup," proved a good race, but the result hit the gentlemen uncommonly hard. Both favorites, Manganese and Saucebox, were beaten easily by Winkfield, the horse of a licensed victualler, and the magni cent piece of plate given, the envy of all beholders, goes pro bond public°. The Ascot Stakes were won easily by Redemption, the Hunt Cup by Forbidden Fruit, and the Queen's Plate by Middleton. The Court was present on the Heath on Thurs day, " The Cup Day," when the Queen, accompanied by Prince Albert, all the Royal children, and her Royal visitors, met with a marked enthusiastic re ception.