The Sun. — London, England, 1868-08-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIg aOITBNALS, • There are few things of more practical importance at the present moment, according to the Daily News, than that Liberal constituencies should awake to the fact that new circumstances require to be met by new arrangements. In not a few constituencies, county and borough alike, there has existed an ancient compact for dividing the represen tation—which practically means for annulling it. It often happens that the old local party leaders are desirous of letting this agreement continue in force. Various reasons lead them to this. The principal families on both sides are satisfied with an arrangement by which expense is saved. Very possibly there is but a nominal difference between the politics of the two representatives ; both are of aristocratic origin and instincts, and though one may vote for Mr. Disraeli and another with Mr. Glad stone on party questions, both are safe to oppose indepen dent reforms, to support the game laws, to resist motions tending to economy in the army or navy, and generally to maintain Conservatism with the smallest admissible tincture of Liberalism. But it does not at all follow that such motives are of weight with the great body of the electors. These may be anxious fer a real and not a sham representation, and desirous that the representative should be a real and not a sham Liberal. The Herald says Mr. Gladstone's reputation is one of the most curious phenomena of the politics of the present day. It is not due to his political achievements, for very few men with such opportunities ever accomplished so little. It can scarcely be due to his eloquence, for it is not altogether the reputation of talent or even of genius. It cannot be ascribed to his past conduct, for that is one mass of inconsistencies. It cannot be traced to his personal cha racter, for no man was ever more deficient in the quali ties which Englishmen most respect—in straightforward simplicity, in sturdy manners, in loyalty to party and fidelity to principle. Yet he is at this moment one of the most popular men of his day. It is not due to his opinions, for it is irrespective of his position as leader of the Liberal party ; indeed, it is only his reputation which retains him in that position. We will not say to what it is due ; but we may confidently affirm that it has been greatly enhanced by a quality which is not one of the highest that statesmen can possess, which is not even one of the best that he can fairly claim—his plausibility. He is ever best liked where he is least known. In no constituency in the kingdom is he so distrusted and disliked as in Oxford, Avbich he so long represented. He is the idol of the Liberal electors; he is hated by a large portion of the Liberal elected. The herald compares the result of Whig and Tory Governments, and then makes an appeal to the country on behalf of Mr. Disraeli, who for the future loyalty of Ire land, firstly on those elements to which we owe the allegiance of Ireland in the past, and to which Ireland owes whatever prosperity, commerce, in dustry she possesses ; next, to the returning good sense of the Roman Catholic laity, and the gradual enlightenment produced by education. On what does Mr. Gladstone rely when he shall have disgusted and alienated the loyalty of Ulster by wholesale robbery ? On what, indeed, if not on the attachment which that robbery is to inspire in the Romish clergy and their docile flocks ? Mr. Disraeli would govern Ireland on English, Mr. Gladstone on Romish principles. Let Englishmen choose between them. The Times notices that it was publicly announced a few days since that Mr. Reed, the Chief Constructor of the Navy, had tendered his resignation to the Board of Admi ralty, and intended to start as a candidate for the Pem broke Boroughs. It has subsequently, with the same publicity, been notified that his resignation has not been accepted, and that Mr. Reed will not aspire to a seat in the coming Parliament. Such a notification would not, in the case of an ordinary public servant, re quire comment in our columns. But Mr. Reed is identified with the building of broadside ironclads. It is owing to his influence that the present board have, in spite of their convictions, persevered in the building of broadsides as weak and unsteady as themselves. Shall we be wrong if we ascribe his resignation to a proposal of Mr. Reed's superiors to substitute a turret vessel for one of his broadside ships, and his remaining in office to their reversal of the too obnoxious design ? The Times dis cusses the comparative merits of the different navies, and complains that we are content to obtain all our knowledge of turret ships from the experiments of foreign Powers. Our present ironclad fleet is useless and obsolete. The Daily News condemns the present system of credit at the universities as the root of the whole mischief, the parent of extravagance, which ought to be banished. No person with an available fixed income should ever resort to credit for articles of consumption. If the law expressly declared that the debts -which minors contract in univer sities should not be recoverable, no one would complain, and many a worthy parent would be spared a load of grief. At present, however, the law is a snare to all parties, and a suit little better than a lottery. The Standard draws attention to the address of Sir James Simpson to the medical graduates of Edinburgh, which contains at once a promise and a confession—the latter to the effect that his profession have hitherto made but little way in the mysterious world of human suffering ; the former to the effect that we may yet hope that medicine and surgery will become positive sciences. Mankind, to tell the truth, are wearying of the old experiments and processes—a fact which gives enormous encouragement to quackery. Yet theliterature of thesubject is of overwhelming bulk ; the discoveries announced every year arc numerous, and, we arc assured, important ; while in point of skill, and of the implements necessary for its application, we are supposed to make progress almost daily. Neverthe less, •the ancient enemies of humanity do not appear, computing from one generation to another, to have been iu the least subdued. It is true that medicine can never hope to meet all the demands made upon it, and that there aro not a few, like the invalid of ninety-eight, who complain that nothing has been invented to cure their particular complaint. Although Sir James Simpson rambled into fancy while endeavouring to stimulate the imaginations of his auditors, and indeed to provoke their ambition, he pointed to not a few absolute facts scarcely creditable to the medical science of an advanced epoch like our own. 'Whatever the surgeons of the nineteenth century may be, the physicians, or rather the curative means at their disposal, have decidedly not progressed in a ratio with those who command other sciences. Taken for all in all, the health of civilised communities is not in any appreciable degree improving. This may be because the object sought is more difficult to attain. But so it is. The evidence comes mainly from the profession itself, which is continually calling attention to the short comings of medical science. Consequently there is nothing invidious in accepting Sir James Simpson's predictions as an ironical commentary upon truths which he might prefer suggesting in any other form, but which, no matter how stated, he would probably be the last to deny. The Telegraph believes that Australian governorships are becoming the fashion, and that the day of half•pay captains and colonels is gone by, so far as the rule of the Antipodes is concerned. The new governors of Tasmania and South Australia have both enjoyed one paramount qualification for their office—parliamentary training— and will bring to bear on their new life a considerable experience of men and affairs. Their duties under what is called " responsible government " require all, and more than all, those qualifications ; for, as affairs in Melbourne have amply proved, a governor's position may at any moment become exceed ingly onerous and irksome. With perfect impar tiality, rigid adherence to the constitution, and total abstinence from gossip —a self-denial often hard in the dullness of colonial life—they may reasonably hope to steer clear of difficulties. The personal influence of an Australian Governor on questions social and political can, If he has tact, delicacy, and discretion, make itself most beneficially felt ; but in a colony the appointment of a man wanting in these qualities would be a calamity f...r greater than those accustomed only to a great community can understand. We have ground for demanding that these most important appointments shall never be made subservient to merely political exigencies. BLACK ROD. —A report from a parimmentary committee of the session just closed states that the Gentle man Usher of the Black Rod receives 6s. Bd. a day for his attendance on the House of Lords during the session. Ills real emolument arises from fees in respect of private causes, &e. These fees vary greatly in different years, and the committee recommend that they should he commuted into a fixed salary on the next vacancy in the office. FENIAN SENATORS IN CONGRESS. Fenian senators from various Northern and Western States are now holding a mysterious session in Buffalo. Their assem bling was unknown to the rank and file, and as they sit with closed doors, guarded by armed sentinels, it is believed that this secret conclave portends evil. A Fenian Picnic is proposed for next week, but it is hardly believed that this would have called for an extra session of the " Fenian Congress."—New Yon: . Times, July 23. IirRDER.—A master in the French nayy named Le Corre, residing at Brest, has just murdered his wife by stabbing her to the heart with a knife. The woman, k consequence of the menaces of her husband, had taken refuge in the room of a neighbour, to which he followed her and there committed the crime. He then returned to his own lodging, and went to bed as if nothing had happened. He was arrested on the following day, and alleged that he had been driven to commit tho degd through the infidelity' of his ite, BIDING ON A RAILVAY,,,,BUTFEB. I)r. Lankestii, the coroner for Central Middlesex, held an inquest, on Tuesday, at the Bank of England Tavern, Cambridge-place, Paddington, on the body of George Palmer, 17 years of age, who met his death through riding on the buffer of a carriage while in the service of the c4reat Western Railway. George Palmer, father of the deceased, identified the body. He said his son met with the accident on Sunday 'morning last. He told witness that he had asked to be allowed to ride, and got into one of the carriages. Whilst he was getting out another carriage ranged against the one in which he was, and he was jerked off and fell under the wheel. George Haycock, employed in the goods shed of the above. mentioned railway, saw the deceased sitting on a buffer of a carriage. He heard a cry of "Oh 1" and on looking. round he saw the deceased lying on the rail, and the wheel of another carriage go over him. The speed they were going at was three miles an hour, so that they were easily enabled to stop. Henry Brooks, a sleeper boy, similar to the deceased,,said he also saw Palmer riding on the buffer, which was contrary to the rules. He also saw him jerked off. Mr. Edward Blackett, house surgeon at St. Mary's Hospital, said deceased was admitted about half-past seven on Sunday morning last. He died on Monday night from compound fracture of the arm, left leg, and the breakage of the right thigh. After some remarks on the disobedience of rules, a verdict of accidental death was returned. A VISCOUNT SHOOTING WITHOUT A CERTIFICATE. - Viscount Canterbury has been summoned before the Marlborough magistrates for shooting without a game certificate. Some time since Lord Ailesbury, Lord Charles Bruce, and Colonel Maude were summoned for the offence, and the Inland Revenue officers afterwards discovered 'Viscount Canterbury to have been of the party, and an information was accordingly laid against him. Mr. Dwelly attended from the Board of Inland Revenue. Mr. W. 9. Merriman, of Marlborough, who appeared for Viscount Canterbury, said : " I have received a letter from his lordship on the question, and he admits having been there shooting at the time. Therefore, I think, there is no necessity of calling any witnesses. He delayed the case in expectation of finding a game certificate, but I believe his game certificate cannot be found, and I have therefore only to say that I cannot produce any evidence of his having a game certificate, and, as the bench has the power of mitigation, to ask them to mitigate the penalty to the same amoun 4 as that paid in a former case." Mr. Dwelly said the Revenue Office had not discovered any trace of his lord. ship's taking out a certificate for some time. He had, therefore, to ask the bench to let the penalty stand at £2O, and if his lordship could satisfy the commissioners that there had been an omission on his part, this penalty would be mitigated. The bench thought the way the matter was put by the Inland Revenue officer was fair, and gave judgment for the full penalty. THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT CHATHAM. Thomas Hills, Esq., coroner, held an inquest on Tuesday on the body of William Merchant, a private of the Chat ham Division of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, whc was killed by the breaking of a flying bridge, at the re hearsal of the troops in siege operations. Major-General J. L. A. Simmons, C. 8., the director to the Royal Engineer Establishment, was the first witness examined. He stated that the Royal Engineers had lately been preparing for siege operations. On Monday the troops of the garrison, consisting of the Royal Engineers, Royal Marines, and line regiments were ordered out for a rehearsal. In the course of the proceedings a flying bridge was thrown across the ditch at a part of the lines known as the Redan. It had been reported to have been care fully constructed for any number of men to pass over. This bridge, which was of the same kind as that used last year, was constructed of round beams of timber lashed together, with props resting in the ditch. These beams supported the planks. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur was the lieutenant in charge of this bridge, and in this duty he was assisted by a thoroughly-qualified sergeant. It was the duty for the main body, consisting of a battalion of Royal Marines, with fixed bayonets, forming the assaulting column, to pass over the bridge. Two or three of the leading columns of companies had passed over when a slight check was observed in the advance from some cause, which was presumed to have brought a greater weight on some part of the structure, and the men keeping step together, which was very difficult in well-trained men to prevent, the bridge gave way, and the troops who were on it fell into the ditch below, a distance of 25 feet. The structure was not capable of bearing a number of men in a body "marking time." The :Sergeant-Instructor, John Foster, RE., was next examined. He superintended the construction of the bridge. He made his own selection of blocks, ropes, and other materials from the store, and he was quite satisfied that it was strong enough for any number of men to march over. On two occasions he had proved its strength. Colonel W. Adair, R.M., who was in command of the leading battalions of Royal Marines, said that two com panies and a half bad passed over the bridge before any thing occurred. Prince Arthur had charge of the bridge, and Captain Thomas had charge of the rear company when the bridge broke down. All the evidence went to prove that every attention had been given to the strength of the structure, and that it would bear any number of men passing over in the usual way. Assistant-Surgeon Rogers, R.M., deposed to the nature of the bayonet wounds the deceased had received, which caused his death. The Coroner having briefly summed up the evidence, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. LAW 4ND POLICE. IMPORTANT DECISION WITH REGARD TO STAMPS.--In Vice-Chancellor Malins's court his Honour had before him the case of Rawlins v. the Metropolitan Railway. Notice to treat had been given in the usual manner, and a jury assessed the damages at £25,000, and the Registrar considered that the notice to treat ought to be stamped the same as an agreement. This being the case, the matter was brought before the Vice-Chancellor, who decided that no stamp was necessary. HEAVY DAMAGES AGAINST A RAILWAY COMPANY.—At the Guildford Assizes an action was brought against the Great Northern Railway Company, by a Mr. Croker, for damages on account of injuries received by him on the defendants' line. The plaintiff is a young man 23 years of age, and in consequence of the accident, which occurred a few months ago at Sandy-bridge Station, he was quite prostrated, insomuch that he could not safely be brought into court. The great question was, as usual in such cases, as to the prospects of recovery, and upon this question the most eminent medical men were examined on both sides. The jury ultimately gave £2,200 damages. A DEED OF SETTLEUENT.—At the Leeds Assizes LIM cause of Travis v. Ashforth was heard. It was an action by the assignee of a bankrupt to recover possession of a house of the bankrupt which he still continued to occupy, and of which he refused to give up possession to the as signee. The defence was that four months before the bankruptcy the defendant had executed a voluntary settlement of the house in que Alen in favour of his wife and children. It was shewn, however, that at the time of executing the settlement an award had been made against the bankrupt in an action brought against him by the now plaintiff, and that on the day after the date of the deed judgment was signed in that action for £75 and £ll2 costs. The deed included the whole of the bankrupt's estate and effects, with the exception of some book debts valued at £l9. The learned judge held that the deed was void at common law, and gave a verdict for the plaintiff. BREACH OF PROMISE TO MARRY.-At the same assizes, In the case of Marshall v. Feber, the jury awarded £2O damages. It was an action for breach of promise tomarry by a woman of 30 years of age, against the son of a small manufacturer. The plaintiff was a weaver, and is was shown that about six years ago the defendant wrote her several letters, in which, after talking of Isaac and Rebecca, and Zacharias and Elizabeth, he begged the blessing of God upon their approaching union. There was no evidence of the terms upon which they had lived since then, but about two months ago the defendant married someone else. THE STMCIILEY MURDEIL —The trial of Harris for tlit murder of Bernhard Zusinan is still proceeding, and isnot likely to terminate for another day. Dr. Kenealy, for the defence, pointed out various discrepancies in the evidence, after which the court adjourned. Madame Alexandrine Bris has just passed brilliant examination before the Faculty of Sciences at Paris and obtained the degree of Bachelor. Her intention is to study medicine with a view of obtaining a phygcian's diploma. BRITISH ARCILEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. The twenty-fifth annual meeting of this association will be held at Cirencester, from August 10 to 15 inclusive, under the presidency of the Earl Bathurst. The Earl of Ducie, lord•lieutenant of Gloucestershire, and the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol are patrons ; and there is a long list of vice-presidents. On Monday, August 10, the pre. sident will deliver the inaugural address. On Tuesday the members will inspect the numerous antiquities of the town. On the following days there will be various recursions, CATHOLICS IN WORKHOUSES AND PRISONS. That public opinion in England, regarding the treatment which Catholicism has hitherto received, is undergoing a complete change, is obvious to everyobserver. This change is owing to a variety of circumstances, some accidental, indeed, and personal, others of a more per manent and deliberate character. On a future occasion it may not be without interest to trace the more remote, as well as the more obvious causes of this return, on the part of the vast majority of our countrymen, to a wiser and juster estimate, both of the character of Catho licism and of the position it ought to occupy in the Empire. Not now to speak of the resolution, to remove at all costs from Ireland an esta blishment which has long filled to overflowing the measure of religious injustice, we have only to look to the determination manifested by the leaders of public opinion no longer to tolerate the proselytism of Catholic paupers and of Catholic children in the workhouses and workhouse schools, to convince ourselves that the death knell of an antiquated bigotry has already sounded. Justice to Catholics in the workhouse, is a cry at last taken up by the Protestant press, or rather, as it would be more accurate to say, by journals which are neither Protestant nor Catholic, but repre sentatives, nevertheless, of the current educated opinion of the country. The Pall Mall Gazette and the Times unite in demanding, as a matter of strict right, that Catholics in gaols and workhouses shall no longer be deprived of the services of chaplains of their own faith, and the free exercise of their religion, and that Catholic children shall no longer, as they now are yearly by thousands, be brought up as Protestants, in Protestant workhouse schools. In an article, which we reprint in another page, the Times says " that some time ago Arch bishop Manning, in one of his addresses, drew a pathetic picture of the numbers of Roman Catholic children who were forced to abandon their parents' faith, and were educated as Protestants." The Times, whilst acknowledging that such a complaint was just in principle, expressed, at the time, a certain scepticism as to the facts alleged. Such a charge against the guardians of the poor of deliberate pro selytism was so grave, as to seem to the Times " to require some confirmation." It now, how ever, acknowledges that this confirmation "has been furnished, and that Dr. Manning has dis tinctly made out his case." To have produced such a conviction on the public mind, is not the least of Archbishop Manning's services. The fact is now pub licly acknowledged by the Times, that at least a thousand Catholic pauper children at a given moment, and in London alone, are being educated as Protestants, in Protestant work houses. The religion of the children is known, as according to the recent provisions of the law, a creed register is kept at the workhouses in which on being admitted their religion, or that of their parents', if known, is recorded. For this wholesale yearly proselytism there is no palliation, no plea on the score of provid ing education for these destitute children, for the Times candidly admits, what indeed is well known, that Catholics have shown themselves unflagging in their persistent efforts to obtain these cildren, in order to have them brought up in Catholic schools in the religion of their parents. There is something almost perfidious, it seems to us, in bringing up Catholic pauper children, thrown helpless on - the mercy of the nation, in an alien religion, which had they not fallen to the tender mercies of the guar dians of the poor, they, like their parents, would have regarded with insuperable aver sion. By no act or fault of their own, they are made unconscious apostates from a faith, which 1 it may be safely . predicted from the history of the land. they mostly come from, they never would have surrendered, even tinder the fiercest persecution. It is bad enough to attempt to force or allure grown-up men and women in gaols to abandon their religion, but to deprive helpless children of their faith is inexpressibly mean and contemptible, in the opinion, we should imagine, even of those who know not what faith is, but to those who believe that these children by losing their faith, lose their best hope of heaven, the only inheritance — but one worth more than an .earthly crown —of their parents. Moreover, what a terrible addition does not the knowledge bring to the misery of pauperism, the knowledge which the Catholic pauper too certainly has, that his children in English workhouses, under the eye of the English law, will be taught to abominate the religion of his parents, and to blaspheme the truths which they hold as the most sacred gifts of God ! This terrible addition to the pangs of pauper ism, this long-standing injustice, this practical result of Protestant supremacy, is at last about to cease, for one of the last acts of the dying Parliament was the introduction, in the Poor Relief Bill, of a clause authorizing the removal of pauper children to schools of their own de nomination. This clause was the last battle field of Protestant bigotry, but the barefaced attempt to continue the system of wholesale proselytism by the rejection of a clause dic tated alike by common sense and common jus tice, was happily defeated. By this act a thou sand Catholic children in the metropolitan workhouse schools alone will be liberated from the hands of the proselytizers. For the Catho lics of England, this Act, as far as this most im portant clause is concerned, is a real Relief Act. 1 It is to be regretted, however, that the oppo , nents of equal justice succeeded in defeating 1 i that clause of the Act which entitled the Catholic priest to visit, for the purposes of reli gious instruction, Catholic prisoners, by an 1 amendment which made it optional on the part I of all prisoners above 14 years of age to receive his spiritual ministrations. The priest is en titled to make one visit, but after his first visit his instructions are to be dependent on the will of the prisoner. By this enactment those very prisoners who stand in greatest need of re clamation, will be enabled to escape the religi ous instruction best adapted to their reforma tion. The absurdity of such an arrangement is so glaring that this clause in the Poor Re lief Bill ought not to be allowed to become law. It is cruelty to the prisoners themselves, and an injustice to the community at large, who are interested in the conversion of the criminal classes. We trust that those who possess the ear of the nation will speak out in such tones as to shame and terrify the bigotry which is seeking to perpetuate in secret this cowardly mode of proselytism, for such it is in effect on the most helpless portion of the community. — Westminster Gazette. THE STATE OF THE ODDS.—Suppose there are two horses (amongst others) engaged in a race, and that the odds are 2 to 1 against one, and 4 to 1 agst the other, what are the odds that one of the two horses will win the race ? This case will doubtless remind our readers of an amusing sketch by Leech, called (if we remember rightly) "Signs of the Commission." Three or four undergraduates are at a " wine," discussing matters equine. One propounds to his neighbour the following question—" I say, Charley, if the odds are 2 to 1 agst Rataplan, and 4 to 1 against Quick March, what's the betting about the pair ?" "Don't know, I'm sure," replies Charley; "but I'll give you 6 to 1 against them." The absurdity of the reply is, of course, very obvi us. We see at once that the odds cannot bo heavier against a pair of horses than against either singly, still there are many who would not fiad it easy to give the following correct reply to the question : —The odds against one horse being 2 to 1, his chance of winning is e.lual to that of drawing one white ball out of a bag of throe, one only of which is white. In like manner the chance of the second horse is equal to that of drawing one white 1441 out of a bag of five, ono only of which is white. Now, we have to find a number which is a multiple of bo!h the numbers three and five. Fifteen is such a number. The chance of the first horse, modified according to the principle explained above, is equal to that of dro.wing a white ball out of a bag of fifteen, of which five are white. In like manner the chance of the second is equal to that of drawing a white bailout of a bag of fifteen, of which three aro white. Therefore the chance that one of the two will win is equal to that of drawing a white ball out of a bag of fifteen balls, of which eight (five added to three) are white. Thus there remain seven black balls, and therefore the odds are 8 to 7on the pair.— Chambers's Journal. THE SUN, Lo 00N, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1868. LETTER, FROM GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN. (From the Anglo-American Times.) We have read the Irish Times' report of the proceed ings, and although we would be sorry to hazard an opi nion against that of Mr. Jristice Keogh, we cannot help thinking that them is neither law nor justice in the deci sion of which Mr. Train complains. We rogrot that the report is too long to publish, and wo cannot doubt that Mr. Train will soon be at liberty, for a creditor imprison ing a debtor, except as a punishment for an intent to de fraud, is a foolish proceeding, and if the report we else where give regarding Mr. Train's property at Omaha be correct, he must be, or soon will be, able to pay anything ho considers justly due.—ED. A. A.T..1 Dublin, Four Courts, Marshalsea, July 27. Dear Anglo-American Times, — Thank you. A kind word turns away wrath. Save the Cosmopolitan, the Universal News, the Nation, the Irish man, and the Cork Ilerall, the British press have not showered much hospitality on my head. But how could 1 expect it when they hate America so. How they must laugh in their sleeve when they write these :—" Dear Cousin." "Two great nations speaking the same lan guage, and worshipping the same God." You think the Now York press is not subsidized to Free Trade. You aro right. Thera is no need of it. New York is an English city. All the newspapers are English except the Revolution. How does it happen that the cable never gives any American news from their "Dear Cousins ?" LET US AGREE TO DISAGREE. Suppose we do disagree. Is that a reason for not liking a spicy, well-edited paper? Abuse mo ; praise me; but don't forget me. On some things we have the same opinion. You speak well of the Revolution, and quote a column on Miss Anthony. Would you like to see an inside view of the Convention through the eyes of the Revolution? Here are some extracts from the Revolution Editors:— New York, July 7th, 1868. . . . The Democrats are but too happy that you are not here to ruffle their feathers at Tammany. They say greenbacks are in the platform, but who can unravel their dishonest ways. They always did, and always will, wear two faces, but the Revolution will expose any trickery that involves the interestof the people. Our platform is that of the working men—of the honest labourer—not of the Alabama Bondholders. . . S. B. A. Now York, July 11, 1868. . . . Well, the agony of Tammany is over, and what a nice bit of a mouse it brought forth. Seymour and Blair couldn't possibly have hit upon two men so certain to ensure defeat —" Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." Oh, if now wo only had the right man in the right place, with the grand platform of Universal Suffrage and anti-gold and land monopolies to launch upon the troubled sea, how the people would rush to the new ship, and how the good captain would take them into port. But alas, alas, the man—where is he ? Tammany has but proved your oft-repeated assertions that the White House is but a Wall-stroet Pool—there is not a doubt but Belmont and Co. bought the Ohio delegation with bondholders' gold. Mr. M. told Day and Col. B. Y. Green that no man could get the nomination but a bond holder man. But always, when we feel things shaping most disastrously, we later find we couldinot have planned better to secure the desired end. . • • S. B. A. Clo! old Clo! Sold out again BY THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD. I was asked the other day to write a manifesto coming out for Seymour and Blair. But the only party I belong to is myself ; at least the Anglo-Anteriaan Times the other day said as much. I can endorse these words of Thomas Francis Meagher in 1864: Be it enough for me to say that neither in the old coun try, nor in this, have I ever bowed my neck to the yoke of any political party ; and that as long as a drop of red blood courses through my veins, or a spark of intellect re mains, or my heart can give one responsive beat to the eternal voice of truth and independence, I never shall. Enough, aye ! more than enough for mo to say, that if I have deserted the Democratic party, I have deserted to the country, and am to be found in the army that defends it. Yon see by Miss Anthony's letter that the bondholders have bought up the West ! The Londo:t Times, Pall- Mall Gazette, Star, Telegraph, Standard went off ou the half cock—greenbacks were sold out—the bondholders win. Both Pendleton, as well as Chase, were sacrificed. We can sympathize with the Chief Justice, for at the bottom of his ambition we feel sure lay the hope that he might regenerate the great party and place it on a solid and lasting platform, at the same time that he stepped to the supreme power on its shoulders. He has, however, only met the fate of all who try t. perform what we fear is an impossible task, and his ambition blinded him to the fact that the leaders of the party were only using him as their tool. —(Angle-American Times.) You aro right. Chase is sound in everything but spec!o pay ments, and I shall not be surprised if we run him yet. On everything but the gold for Alabama bondholders, I am with the Chief Justice. My voice is still for greenbacks, to stop Repudiation. These were my sentiments expressed in my Stock Exchange speech. (From the New York World.) A LITTLE WALL-STREET AFFAIR EXPOSED. He then discoursed on greenbacks, declaring that a cur rency which was good enough for the butcher, the la bourer, and the poor man, was good enough for the bond holder. The National Debt must be paid off in greenbacks. The debt was contracted by inflation, and by inflation it must be paid. He declared that M'Culloch's policy of contraction would break every merchant and every man throughout the country, that greenbacks don't moan repu diation, but that specie payments moan ruin. Ho favoured taxing 'bonds and paying the National Debt in greenbaCks ; declared that Now England no longer ruled the country, but the West. The West demands inflation and green backs, and thinks it is in the Union. Mr. Train delivered himself of the following impromptu epigram on Robert J. Walker's late letter : ' A very poor writer and very weak talker—(laughter) Is Treasury bondholder Rubett J. Wallc,w. Whose gold-paying letter, in behalf of the rich, Loaves the pocr man, as usual, in bankruptcy's ditch. Lot 11‘CuMich, Sam Ileopor, Jay Cooke, 'anti "Bob" Divide their commissions with Lauier and Rib, To sell out tho people in this now foreign loan, While the rich men laugh and the poor men groan! (Sensation.) Greenbacks are good for our butchers and farmers, While nothing but gold suit our dear " Alabamas." A National Debt that wits made by inflation, By inflation can only be paid by the Nation — (applause); And Shylock's gracd swindle is nipped in the bud, 1/ we pay hint the flesh and ref use hint the blood. (Loud applause.) The Democratic Platform is two-faced—ono face looks greenbacks to the West, the other gold to England. It is much like the Chicago Platform: neither are honest. Both are swindles. Tho poor men are sold out by politicians calling out " Old Clo." THE SLAUGHTER OF THE FENIANS. --- Do you want to see Buncombe personified ? Read the general Resolution to catch the Fenians : Eighth—Equal rights and protection for naturalized and native-born citizens at home and abroad, the assertion of American nationality which shall command the respect of foreign Powers, and furnish an example and encourage ment to people struggling for national integrity, constitu tional liberty and individual rights, and the maintenance of the rights of naturalized citizens against the absolute doctrine of immutable allegiance, and the claims of foreign Powers to punish thorn for alleged crime committed be yond their jurisdiction. (Loud Applause.) Read on, as we visit the soldiers and the sailors—all bogus--damagogism in disguise—buncombe for the million. General Rogers offered the following resolution, which was also referred to' the Committee on Resolutions: Resolved—That in our Government, while there are none so exalted as to be above the obligations they owe to that Government and the duties which it imposes, yet there are none so obscure or unfortunate as to be beneath the shield of its protection, and that it is the duty of the Go vernment to extend its immediate and powerful interposi tion in behalf of all those persons who have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States or have served in the late unhappy war for the preservation of the Union, and are now suffering incarceration in British pri sons for words spoken or sentiments expressed upon American soil, and to demand indemnity for such impri sonments and a speedy settlement of the "Alabama claims." A Delegate—l move to suspend the rules for the pur pose of putting this resolution on its passage. The motion was put and prevailed. The question was put ou the adoption of the resolution, and it was declared carried amidst great enthusiasm. General Green Clay Smith—l offer the following reso lution, and ask that it be referred to the Committee on Re solutions:— - Resolved—That it is the sense of this Convention that all citizens of the United -States, whether native born, adopted, or those who have made declaration of becoming citizens, whether in America or abroad, are entitled to the fullest protection of the American Government, and we, as the late soldiers and sailors in the civil war just passed, do pledge ourselves to adhere to this doctrine, and maintain it with the earnestness and force which has here tofore so nobly distinguished them. All this in a few days—not a word of which is honest — all done to feel Ireland, and catch votes. Read on—Resolution on resolution passed amid loud cheers. Read— Mr. Fenelon, of Kansas, offered the following resolution : —Resolved: That the honour, dignity, and solemn obliga tions of the Government to its foreign-born citizens de- mend that the flag of the nation shall protect them every where, precisely the same as national born citizens. (Great applause.) We are not done yet. The cry is, Still they come ! A million of Irish votes is worth working for, more especially as they will go wills your correspondent. Mr. S. S. Cox (New York) offered the following reso lution, which was received with applause, and referred to the Committee on Resolutions : Resolved—That this Convention approve of the doctrine applied by Secretary Marcy in the Korta case, so that not merely full naturali zation, but a declaration of intention in good faith shall be the shield of American citizenship abroad. Everybody. hurrahs, and I accordingly shake wish en , thusiastie applause. Read to the end of the chapter: By General Rogers, of Illinois :—Resolved—That in our Government whilst there are none so exalted as to be above the obligations they owe to that Government and the duties which it imposes, yet there are none so obscure or I unfortunate as to be beneath the shield of its protection, and that it is the duty of the Government to ext 131 its immediate and powerful interposition in behalf of all those persons who have declared their intentions t.) become citizens of the United States, or have served iu the late unhappy war for the preservation of the Union, and are now suffering incarceration iu British prisons—(prolonged applause)—for words spoken or sentiments expressed upon American soil, and to demand indemnity for such imprisonment, and a speedy settlement of the Alabama claims. (Vociferous cheering.) Once more, and I have done. The cheers are endel The hoodwinking is finished. The Convention is over, and the Delegates think all is safeel By General M'Quade, of New York:—Resolved—That whereas naturalized citizens of this country were subject to the same obligations as were natural-born citizens dur ing the war for the preservation of the Union, and fought with unexcelled bravery: to upheld the flag of their adopted country. Resolved—That it is the duty of the _Government to protect them in all the rights, privileges, and immunities of American citizenship, with all the powers that they employed to defend the Union and the Constitu tion.—(Great applause.) Now, Mr. E liter, in confidence, I pronounce this to be all a sham—a delusion—a snare. The only man who has done anything for the Irish and our citizens in gaol is your correspondent. They aro after'votes ; lam not. But I will not allow our boys to be sold out again. FRANK BLAIR A FENIAN. Frank Blair is a friend of mine, and if these are his words he is sound. But what has Seymour said ? Our commerce has bean swept from the seas, and the Republic is insulted in the persons of her citizens by a Government hostile during our war and hostile still. The first duty of a Democratic Government should be to vindi- cate American honour in the matter of the imprisonment and punishment as felons of American citizens in Eng land and Ireland on suspicion and without proof. The prisoners should ha dernand , d at the cannon's mouth, with proper apolNies and a sufficient indemnity for the out rages. (herald Reports—Conversation of General Frank Blair.) These sentiments are national : You said I am wrong about stirring up the war fever. What would you have our Flag trailed in the dust? Iteinember . D.tniel Webster and Martin Korta, and think of William IL Steward Oosletto, and Warren. HORATIO SEYMOUR IS ANTI-FENIAN AND PRI-ENGLISiI, know Seymour. lie is a gentlenian, sad a good pali- tician ; but what has he said for our citizens in gaol : I say, in the presence of the gallant and distinguished soldiers of the Confederate cause here to-night that this very City of Now York contributed eighty-six thousand gallant soldiers to the Uuibil States armies—(applause) in her direct enlistments, and I believe that she contri buted about the same number to the the quota of other counties and other States. But, I believe; of that vast number five out of every six were Democrals before the war—(great cheering) —and are Democrats to-day. (S. T. Tilden's Speech.) Why did he not go further, and say that four out of five were Irish Americans, and that some of them were slowly dying in British Bastilles? Tilden, and Seymour, and Bsl mont made the White House a Wall-street post. But what chance had they to win unless I was consulted ? Like all Virginians my wife was a " reb" during the war, and of course copperlioadist in her opinions. Maggie Tucker, daughter of Banally Tucker, is her guest at New port. Mrs. T. sings the requiem over the party in her let ter to-day. (Extract of letter from Mrs. G. F. T.) Newport, Rhode island, July 14, '6B. . . . The nomination of Seymour is fatal to the Demo- cracy. Grant will be our next President, unless Chase consents to run as an independent candidate. Every lady isdisappointed. Everybody is cross about it. . . . But don't lay the flattering unction before your readers that the Republican party are the friends of England or of spocio payment, even should they win. Times have changed, and men have changed with them. Bead this digest of opinion: C HINGE ABOUT-FACE -.WHICH PARTY IS THE FRIEND OF ENGLAND ? Let this broadside from an Irish editor of " A Roman Catholic Journal" toll its own story. (Extract, Leader in London Universal News, July 25.) The Abolition party, so called, it is true, was mere or less friendly to England before the war, but it is so no longer. There is not, nor has there ever been, a party so hostile to the British power as this party is this day and year. The treachery and villany of England in the drys of the late war have opened their eyes. Opportunity to punish her is daily prayed for, and if once presented will be gladly embraced. But the Democracy ruled by August Belmont, the agent of Rothschild, excluding its Irish supporters, aro her friends. They will rant upon the stump against her, but it will be all fuss and fury— bait to catch susceptible voters. Her enemies are those who have suffered at her hands. They ate the kindred of the dead defenders of the Union; they aro the survivors of the terrible conflicts which for years jeopardised the existence of the nation ; they are the men whose cargoes and ships have been destroyed by privateers fitted out in English ports ; they are the men who dared bid the black man arise from his dun;eon and hurled to defeat and death half a million of brave sol tiers with sharp steel, and the broken fetters of 4,000,000 of slaves, which caused joy in Heaven whoa they fell from their limbs ; they are the men linked with every enterprise from the Hudson to the Sacramento ; they aro the men who believe, know, feel, and declare that peace cannot be restored in America until every wrong inflicted by England upon the commerce of the United States 5h..1l be expiated to the last farthing; they are the men and women, boys an.l girls, who are pre pared to aid Ireland when opportunity offers, but are never hood-winked by froth or gulled by bombast, not even when adjured by the memory of Brian Baru, the sword of Rod Hugh, the mythical sunburst, or the p►ke of '9B and the songs of 1848. PARKER PILLSBURY, EDITOR OF THE "REVOLUTION." His " Mortality of Nations' an 3 other writings aro more than Emersonia.n and far ahead of Mill—a man of great power - and co-labourer with Garrison and Phillip, with a larger head, and batter quality of brain and much learning. I can see nothing in his private letter to prevent my pub- fishing it, except his surprise to see it in print. The Democratic Convention delays the Revolution one thy —the only harm, so far as I know, that wo have yet suffered fro:u it. That we will forgive them, ho long as they read Miss Anthony's latter. LETTER FROM. PARKER PII,LSLEY TO MR. TRAM. New York, July 15, 1868. _ _ _ My dettr'Sir,—With the mercury at ninety to ninety six in the shade, and every power wilted accordingly, you must not expect a letter, and especially from me, for I have no mission as a correspondent. But Miss Anthony has gone away to Boston, and Mrs. Stanton to Peterboro,' to visit her cousin Gessil Smith, and left me in charge of everything in general, and you and Ireland in particular. So a hasty word must be sent. The Revolution. lives. Wo have waked the nation more than ever did anti-slavery pr. aching or printing. Ind3ol under that we wont on from bad to worse, until the war came and shivered the nation's idol, nation and all. Slavery got Florida, Texas, repeal cf Missouri Compromise, Fugitive Slave Law, Reduction of Tariff, every. ling in deed that it ever dernanded,,just a; though Garrison had never been born, and the tongue and speech of Phillips had been iron instead of gold. Still Ido notundervalue our anti slavery work. Its harvest wes in nien and women, few indeed primp, but still in men -and women to look after the inte rests of the nation, and - the negroes especially under emancipation. Men and women who can see through the duplicity and diabolism of Republican politicians, who having speculated in anti-slavery before the war, now trade in negro votes at the South, and drive them out of the market in Kansas and Connecticut, who swindle the Indians out of their lands, and Lhe working men and women out of their wages i • making a brainless, vulgar shodtlyocracy of the few at the expense of starvation prices and enormous taxation to the many ; iu a word, our work made the Revolution possible •, furnished pens and patronage to carry it forward. And whether we make presidents, or improved private citizenship, the. time will come when to have been founder or patron of the Revolution will be more an honour than to have been born a Washington or a Wellington. But we may do both. We may make presi dents; we certainly shall mend the citizenship by elevat ing suffrage on the ono hand by education, and extending it to the noble and virtuous women on the other, and that alone will save the nationality. The Democrats have met and organized, as you have heard. Their blindness is now revealed as never before. We knew long ago that they were superlative diabolians ; the last argument in support of the Calvinistic doctrine of Total Depravity, the one overwhelming assurance that there must be a hell somewhere, and that Universalism is therefore a delusion. All this we knew, but they were greater fools after all than knaves and rascals I never knew so well as since their recent Convention. You would have raised thunder-storms had you been there. Rebellion was not more rampant in the Montgomery Congress in 1862 and 1863, and not ono Northern Democrat to rebuke it. Even a Ben Butler or Stephen Douglas would have been a sublime relief, a star of hope. Like Milton's devils, the would at least have raised a storm which " If not victory, would have been revenge." But the South had it - ;i11 their own way, New - York their cat's-paw, and Hampton, Forest, and the rest of them ap pearing meantime meeker than ever Moses was, as we learned iu our Sunday-school Catechisms. There never was such infatuation before. But they tell me I must hurry up to be in time for the mail. Your own condition seem likely to be no part of this letter. I never before had occasion to write to one in prison. I do not know, but the time is coming when it will ba dishonourable to be out of prison. When my excellent friend Thoreau, now dead, was imprisoned by the Govern ment for some non-rosistent protest, W. Emerson visited him. Looking through the grates he said, " Thoreau! why are you here ?" " Why are you not here ?" was the ready reply. "You know your own consolations. Bunyan was certainly far freer in Bedford gaol than the foolish monarch who kept him there. You may be serving your God and country better as you are than anywhere else. But bo you sure, nevertheless, that many prayers are hourly offered that the angel may soon be sent for your deliverance. We greatly noel your presence at the Councils of the Revolution." I am sorry to close so abruptly when my story is not half told. I see the paers report at Newport, among " distinguished arrivals," Mrs. Geo. Francis Train and family. Fortunate woman ! Would that you and I were thereabouts also ! Miss Anthony will be absent a week, and meantime I shall have to be at my post constantly. Indeed I am - never far from it. With very kindest regards, I am, my dear sir, very truly and respectfully yours, PARKER PILLSBERRY, MR. TRAIN AS TILE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE FOR TIIE PRESIDENCY. (Extract from my Fourth of July Speech in a British Bastille.) The Now York Sun says I will not be a candidate. They are mistaken. lam in the field, and this is my parlour. TO THE POLITICIANS. If I cannot rule in the White House, I will reign in the camp of the Bourbons. TO THE PEOPLE, When I get Costello and Warren out, 1 may return and make ninety spackle in ninety cities in ninety days, to the cry of —Down with the Politicians and up with the People. Down with British manufactures and up with American Industry. Down with gold for Alabama Bond holders, and up with Greenbacks and High Wages. Down with Whisky Ili.tgs aml Whisky Candidates, awl up with the following Platform of the Revolution: - FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. —AMERICA V. EUROPE. Gold, a; our cotton, for sale, Greenbacks for money. An American system of Finance. American produc:s and labour free. Foreign manufactures prohibited. Open doors to artisans and immigrants. Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for American Steamships and Shipping. Now York tho financial centre of the world. Wall Street emancipation from Bank of England, or American Cash for American Bills. The Credit Fonder and Mob;lier System, or Capital mobilised to resuscitate the South and our mLing interests, and to people the country from ocean to ocean, from Omaha tolSau Francisco. More organized Labour, more Cotton, more Gold and Silver Bullion to sell to foreigners at the highobt prices. Ten Millions of naturalized Citizens Demand a Penny Ocean •Stamp, to strengthen the brotherhood of labour. It Congress vote Ono Hundred and Twenty-five Millions for a standing Army and Freedmen's Bureau for the Blacks, cannot they spare One Million for the Whites? Americans, I am going to the White House—jump in and ride. Circumstances may change my plans. To-day I hold the balance of power. If I cannot be king, I will ba king- maker. All I have to do is to carry Pennsylvania against the Democrats, and they are lost. Ilfive they forgotten Chicago in 1861 ? Do they still think I will allow the Irish to be fooled again —sold out to the high3st bidder —making Fenians wear English clothes by their geld and Free-trade Platform-? AN INFAMOUS PERSECUTION OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. P.S.—lf you thought Judge Keogh's decision unfair, what do you say to this? After getting the documents ordered by the Judge certifying that I had paid the debt long ago, the Court refuses to receive the affi lavit because the Venetians do not use insolvent court paper ! (To the Editor of Saunders's New3-Letter.) . Sir,—llaving been imprisoned five months for a debt which I have paid pound for pound, the Court, in adjourn ing my case sine die, gave permission to appear on produc ing certain documents, if procurable, and hiving received affidavit from the lawyer, who is now in Europe, who paid tho claim on which I was arrested, duly sworn before the British Consul in Venice, Italy, the following letter is the result of my application to-day, which leaves me no chance of redress during tho long vacation : Offices, 9, Capel-street, Dublin, July 25, 1808. Sir,—Representing Mr. Rynd, your solicitor in the in solvency proceedings, I waited on the Chief Clerk this morning, and tendered him the affidavit of Mr. Clark Bell. the solicitor who pad Mr. M'llenry the Ebbw Val Corn ptuy's claim, being the debt fur which you aro now detained; and although I montionod to the Chief Clerk that your ob ject in tendering this affidavit was in order that it might be in time to make application for your discharge on Wednes day next, that being the last day that Judge Miller would sit, pending the long vacation—in other words, until Nov. next, which application would be grounded on thoaffidavit then presented to him—the chief clerk, in the most peremptory manner, refused to receive the affidavit on the files of the court, on the grounds that same was not written on the paper prescribed by the rules of the Court.—l am, sir, yours most respectfully, George F. Train, Esq. PHILIP WDONAGII. Thanking you for correcting the report of my case in the Consolidated Chamber, perhaps you will be so kind as to publish this. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. SALEM WITCHCRAFT. (From the Anglo •American Times.) Such evidence as that recorded in our last issue could not be considered sufficient to hang this lady of high repute, by any jury ;—she, the ornament of their church, the glory of their village and of its society. We have lately seen a strong outside agi tation in America against a verdict of Not Guilty given by a high court fully qualified to judge ; but let the country glance at the Salem case, and learn how competent are a prejudiced people —liable to ex travagant manias—to upset the decisions of a legal tribunal. The jury Acquitted Goody Nurse, but the clamour raised by the crowd, the howls and struggles of the " afflicted," compelled judges and jury to review the decision. The Chief Justice pointed out a phrase of the prisoner's which might signify .that she was one in guilt as in jeopardy with the accused gang. She had used the words " of our company," which she after wards declared to be a mere allusion to her fellows as prisoners in company with herself, and being hard of hearing and full of grief, nor knowing how her words had been taken by the court, she offered no explanation, and her silence settled the question, for the foreman considering these words a principal evidence, turnel against her. Still, it seethed too monstrous to hang the venerable lady, and the go vernor reprieve.l her on the ground of the first ver dict being sit aside without fresh evidence . ; but he was compelled in the face of the fierce outcry to withdraw his reprieve. "On the next Sunday here was a scene in the church, the record of which was afterwards annotates by the church members in a spirit of grief and humiliation. After Sacra ment the elders propounded to the church, and the congregation unanimously agreed, that sister Nurse, being convicted as a witch by the court, should be excommunicated in the afternoon of the same day." The place was thronged, the reverend elders were n the pulpit, the deacon presided below, the sheriff and his officers brought in the witch and led her up the broad aisle, her chains clanking as she moved, when the Rev. Mr. Noyes pronounced her sentence of expulsion from the church on earth, and from all hope of salvation hereafter. She had given her soul to Satan, and she was delivered over to him for ever. Aware that every eye regarded her with hate, unapproached under an'y other circumstances, yet she was able to sustain the trial. She was still calm and at peace on that day, awl during the fortnight of final waiting. When the time came she traversed the streets of Salem, between houses in which she had been an honoured guest, and surrounded by well .known faces; and then there was the hard task for her aged limbs of climbing the rocks and steep path on Witches' Hill to the place where the gibbets stood in a row, and the hangman was waiting for her and others on the 19th July, 1692. It was not till 1711 that the authorities of the pro vince, sanctioned by gaeen Anne, granted to her represmitatives, as compensation, .£25 ! but shortly after, on a petition from her son Samuel, twenty years since the judicial murder, at a church meeting the record was blotted out—the remorseful congre gation doing this in terms of bitter self-reproach. Mary, once her playmate on the sands of Yarmouth, was her companion to the last in love and destiny, being arrested on the 21st April, while her sister lay in gaol in irons. The charges against her were a mere repetition—torturing, strangling, pinching, and pricking Mr. Parris's young friends, and ren dering them dumb, or blind, or mazed. So absurd was the evidence that on the 18th May she was set at liberty, but instantly the convulsions and tor tures of the children returned. On the news being known, the ministers, and elders, and deacons, and all the zealous antagonists of Satan bore down all opposition, and Mary Easty was in two days again laid in irons. Her excommunicated sister Rebecca, abhorred of man kind, lay ironed in the gaol awaiting a felon's death, and the news of her younger sister Sarah's arrest was carried to her. But nothing could break down the fortitude of this brave lady, whose faith was built on a rock, and she died on the gibbet on the 22d September, serene to the last. Her memorial to the court became her life, as her attitude on Witches' Hill became her death, for it was a vigorous appeal on behalf of others to drive reason into a community which. seemed to have lost its wits. For herself she had nothing to look to but this foul end, satisfied with her innocency, bowing to her doom on earth and cherishing her hope of heaven. After bidding farewell to her husband, her many children, and her friends, leaving all in tears, and her words deep sunk in the hearts of all who heard, she walked calmly to her end on Witches' Hill and to her grave among its stones on the rocky height. Twenty years afterwards her case was estimated as meriting the com pensation of £2O. Sarah, the third sister, had a narrow escape, baying, in common with • the two elder, created by absenting herself from the service when the interruptions of the " afflicted" became too flagrant to be endured. On the Sunday after the examination of Mrs. Nurse, Mrs. Cloyse, though horrified at the proceedings, at tended, as it was a Sacrament Sunday. Mr. Parris gave out his text, "One of you is a devil ; he spake of Judas Iscariot," referring, of course, to the trans actions of the week. Mrs. Cloyse could not bear the pointed outrage, and retired, the door slamming in the fresh breeze as she left. Nor had she to wait long for the result, being arrested on the 4th April with many others, and examined on the 11th. In one case a witness was asked if she had seen a company eating and drinking ? Of course she had, it was the devil's sacrament. Forty were present, Mrs. Cloyse and Sarah Good being the two dea cons ! And when Sarah Cloyse sank, fainting with a cry for water on the floor of the court, some of these devilish children exclaimed " her spirit is gone to prison to her sister Nurse." A strong effort was made to involve Rebecca's son Samuel, his wife, and Peter Cloyse in the charge. But the decline of the ministers' power saved them, hastened by the innate disgust inspired, which caused the depirture from the parish of some of the most eminent mem bers of its society. Among these was Mr. Cloyse himself, who, when his wife was freed, gathered up his effects and left Salem, never again to return. From this sketch of a single family, we briefly turn to a few other cases, which will suffice to give our readers an idea of the period in the history of Salem to which we allude. John Proctor appears to have been one of those true and intrepid men, who in a free society raise their voices against iniquity and injustice at whatever peril. So boldly had he spoken, says Mr. Upham, that it was felt to be necessary to put him out of the way, awl so bitter were his persecutors that they not only arrested and tried to destroy his wife and children above the age of infancy in Salem, but all her rela tives in Lynn, many of whom were thrown into prison' The helpless children were left destitute, and the house swept of its provisions by the sheriff. Proc tor's wife gave birth to a child about a fortnight after his execution, and to this alone, it is believed! she owed her life, while he died on the gallows. George Jacobs, senior, mainly owed his arrest to.his grand-daughter Margaret, one of the afflicte d girls. He regarded the affair as a wicked conspi racy, and in infirm old age he had to die for a crime tie knew to be impossible. He was a man of coßsi derable estate, and now his home was desolated, h is property confiscated, while his only son, under the same charge, had to fly an exile to foreign lands, leaving his children unprovidcd for. His crazy wif d was chained in prison, awaiting trial as a witch, the elder children were scattered he knew not where, And his own flesh and blood was his accaser. rifled at her work, Margaret tried, but in vain, t ° undo it; she was conveyed to prison for retracting her evidence, while her grandfather died on the gib' bet as well as 111T x Burroughs. Goodman Corey was so rough as to be Wl' popular even in a young colony. When th e delusion broke out he was a well-to-do citizen, eighty years old, and his wife Martha aP" pears to have been a woman of singular piety She spoke freely of the tricks of the children, the blindness of the magistrates, and the falling away from common sense and the Word of Ge d ' and while her husband attended every public meet ing she stayed at home to pray. In his fanaticism he quarrelled with her, and she was at once marked out for a victim, and one of the earliest. When visited by examiners she smiled and conversed with entire confidence, declaring that " she was no witch, and that she did not think there were an/ witches." By such sayings, and by the expression of vexation that fell from her husband and the fanaticism of her four sons-in-law, she was soon brought to extremity. But her husband was Pre" sently under accusation too, and much amazed he, was at his position. His wife was one of the e i g ht firebrands of hell, whom Mr. Noyes saw 0 0 . 14 off on the 22d September, and the record says .Martha Corey, protesting her innocence, concluded her life with an eminent prayer on the scaffold. Her husband suppbsed certain to follow in the san e way had chosen a different one. His anguish e c ; his rash folly at the outset of the delusion ex cite the strongest desire to bear testimony on behalf ° his wife and other innocent persons, and to give d emphatic blessing to the two sons-in-law who ha been faithful to his wife's cause. He executed e deed by which he presented his excellent children with his property in honour of their mot her° memory ; and, aware that if tried he would be cob; deinned and executed, and his property forfeite d, resolved not to plead, and to submit to the cons 3; quence of standing mute. Oil as he was obstinately endured, and 'the court had, as tl- 0 authorities believed, no I.lternative. Ile O a pressed to death, as devoted husbands fathers were here and there in the Middle Ag e: i t when they chose to save their families from l e consequences of attainder by dying untried. I. bore the horrible agony with unconquerable fe rn ; tude, only praying for heavier weights to hast e his end. In the face of such an act Mr. Parris ti e ' nounced him as a suicide and obtained his exl °l l l' munication, but the hearts of the New England ° '; although then warped by the fiend of prejudiett; were still true, and this deed of self-sacrifice Vele straight to the mark. The execution of hie two days later, coupled with his end, weighed " es the community, and no revival of old 0116' 4 against Goody Corey had any effect, and the attenv,„ ten made by the ministers and one of their " am- pa l e o agents to impress the Church and society wi t : h it vision that announced his damnation v/ 3 ',d complete failure. But now the tide that '1:0g swept like a monster wave on shore, overwhelnlisj all who opposed its resistless force, i n ruin, expended its strength, and was sweeping back t' s g. the desolated land—and desolate, indeed, it ', iv Empty homes hastening to decay, properties ,0 stroyed, deep and inextinguishable hatred plantea 10 the hearts of the people ; in truth, a visitation of S a t i t attacking the Puritan settlement where ler e a guarded, while the defenders earnestly &s a s h to do what was right, like a Maori P oo which the English lately took when the garr, e, on Sunday had gone out to pray. But if the traordinary scene enacted at Salem brought out l o ,' b t clear relief the vices of human nature, it bronereo e also into prominence the nobility with which ted trial can be met. Numerous instances ar e r e ,'`fra• in which shone conspicuously filial, parental, an" : . se a ternal fidelity, and love. Daniel Drew, a c` ti t he of high standing, who had been deputY ' i YO 4 general court, asserted, in the boldest language,bsa belief in the innocence of Rebecca Nurse, alci,,oh to fly for his life. Many devoted sons and ' u e loa ters clung to their parents, visited them in P ;f r ;isla in defiance of a bloodthirsty mob, kept by th e ' re on the way to execution, expressed their love,,roo verence, and sympathy to the last, and by 1 ; ic and perilous enterprise got possession of th e ' le mains, and bore them back under cover eitors. night to graves consecrated by prayers a nd One noble young man is said to have effet ed r in mother's escape from gaol, and secreted bled the woods till after the delusion had NO' away, building for her a wigwam, and, perate hazard, supplying her with food. ,; o cio, after Goody Corey's death, the Rev. j r- oci Dane signed memorials to the Legislature hol the courts .against the prosecutions. 1 - 1 , 0 . 10 0 reason to know something about them, for a c t i v es , nine of his children and grandchildren, releitlioa. and servants had been brought under ace°l o oo When he spoke out, others followed, and t," o ver the prisons were filled and the courts occupie d the and over again, there were no more horrors i iio l3 accused were acquitted, and Sir William roilV discharged all the prisoners by acclamation' 0 0 ° ing a gaol delivery such as bad never been v t ba in New England. Of course, the ministerSiogeo judges, the magistrates, who were actively gaged in fighting Satan, violently opposed this ovof but their power was gone ; the spell was n i , r os ett 4 and although the proud Church of Massn eP h ear t " 4 refused openly to acknowledge her error, the of many of her best members were in secret ', co il l with the agony of the new light that had hr°,7 o t upon them. It may grieve some to learn ty ;pea authors of this hideous calamity went unpn°o of the hrw. But there is a retributive jus tice is tb° lives of people, as of nations, which prelt free escape of any from a great crime. ri t rr l , Goody Nurse's sons-in-law that drove grand , from the parish he had turned into a hell, d sunk lower and lower till he ended his dnY'r wretched outlying station, querulously at wA • t ot°' mankind, and ever endeavouring in vain t° • 3 to himself, or to others, his conduct at Salo'''. lirL' 10°;e; 4 ' of LA DVERTISEMENT. I—Holloway's1—Holloway's Pills.-- • Weather.—The sultry summer days strain the, disi o l ,o the feeble and decrepit, which state eventuates le n 1 106 unless some restorative such as those purifYitgnilolio found to correct the disordering t e ndency- i 5 medicine gives tone to the nervous system, wu l p - i . es) i e source of all vital movements, and presides `itf action which maintains the growth and well-he'n„',os•4o boily. No one, therefore, can over- estimate the u se sv l e of keeping the nerves well strung, and the e itv es!o which these pills accomplish that end is borne i; by thousands dwelling in hot climates, whose li been saved, and whose lives have been spare:>/ MonANT —On the 81st ult. at Births. Waler, the wife 0. r Co'''' mander G. D. Morant, RN., of a Bo ni n. ' OL h iv i E i, utA—On the 2d inst., at Ladbroko-Pl3 isTottiPg' the wife of A. Oliviera, Eeq., of a daug' c i ° J . l . , /•-• ifiti ORMISTON—On the 2d inst., at 17, Belsize-Prl" stead, Mrs. Walter Ormisto n, of a son. tit' SETCN—RIPLEY—On 31thaerruit7uelSt., at Ligh teitf o e t; °T)fiej t e' l' il; Charles i C. Seton Royal Engineers,• youno-0.,,, 5 . 1) , 0 0 , ,,,1,V nice Seton, of 'Cheltenham to Pbcober'Da:" f Pi , youngest daughter of Hnry ' W. Riplo7, sc l'' ° ' cliff', near Halifax. . ~,,, WA; SP& • r, . RKES —....DWARDS —lO a the Ist inst at St. 3 13.11 s° ll 4 , beth, John Charles Lewis Sparkes,•o'f• Tha .14'°niasg Lambeth, to Catherine Adeline, fourth sure ivi ii " ter of the late Wm. IL Edwards, Eill• Deaths. .10 A. l'' '' rj CLARE—OnK the 3d inst., at Notting-hill-sill l3r $ • ' Clarke, Esq., aged 84. 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