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

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC lOITRILELLB, There are few things of more practical importance at the present moment r 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 ahlce, 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 for 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, which 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 2 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 the literature of the subj ect is of overwhelming bulk ; the discoveries announced every year arc numerous, and, we are 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 in 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 far 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 BCD. -A report from a parliamentary committee of the session just closed states that thesGentle man Usher of the Black Rod receives 6s. Bd. a day for his attendance on the House of Lords during the session. His real emolument arises from fees in respect of private MIFF, causes, &c. These fees vary greatly in different years, and the committee recommend that they should be 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 York Times, July 23. MURDER.—A master in the French navy named Le Corre, residing at Brest, has just murdered his wife by stabbing her to the heart with a knife. The woman, in consequence of the menaces of her husband, bad 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 bad happened. He was arrested OD the following day, and Alleged that he had been driven to commit the dead thrQuila Aho infidelity wife, RIDING ON A RAILWAY BUFFER. Dr. Lankester, 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 Great 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 side, and got into one of the carriages. Whilst he was getting out another carriage banged against the one in which he was, and be 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 4 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 "retuned. 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. Q. 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' 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 h2arsal 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 greatez 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, R.E., was next examined. Ho 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 NV. Adair, RM., who was in command of the leading battalions of Royal Marines, said that two com panies and a half had 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 AND 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 SETTLEMENT.-At the Leeds Assizes the 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,tion 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 vlaintiff. 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 it 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 STIRCHLEY MURDER. —The trial of Harris for tat murder of Bernhard Zusman is still proceeding, and isnot likely to terminate for another day. Dr. Kencaly, for the defence, pointed out various discrepancies in the evidence, after which the court adjourned. Madame Alexandrine Bris has just passed e 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 physician's diploma. BRITISH AIWILEOLOGICAL 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 clayllkere wilt he,_tariglll txcurslolll. 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 children, 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 it may be safely predicted from the history of the land they mostly come from, they never would have surrendered, even under 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. It is to be regretted, however, that the oppo nents of equal justice succeeded in defeating that clause of the Act which entitled the Catholic priest to visit, for the purposes of reli gious instruction, Catholic prisoners, by an amendment which made it optional on the part 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 oat 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 wo 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 l'il 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 be heavier against a pair of horses than against either singly, still there aro many who would not find it easy to give the f 'Hewing correct reply to the question : —The odds against one horse being 2 to 1, his chance of w:nning is oval to that of drawing one white ball out of a bag of three, one only of which is white. In like manner the chance of the second horse is equal to that of drawing ono white hall out of a bag of five, one only of which is white. Now, we have to find a number which is a multiple of both 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 drawing 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 are 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 SOT, LONDON, 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. Justice Keogh, we cannot help thinking that there is neither law nor justice in the deci sion of which Mr. Train complains. We regret that the report is too long to publish, and we 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 muit be, or soon will be, able to pay anything ho considers justly due.—ED. A.A..T.] Dublin, Four Courts, Marshalsea, July 27. Dear Angle-American Tirne,s,- - - - - - Thank you. A kind word turns away wrath. Save the Cosmopolitan, the Universal News, the Nation, the Irish man, and the Cork Herald, the British press have not showered much hospitality on my head. But how could I expect it when they hate America so. How they must laugh in their sleeve when they writo those :—" Dear Grusin." " 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 are right. There is no need of it. Now 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 piper ? Abuse me ; praise me ; but don't forget ma. 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 oyes 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 interest of the people. Our platform is that of the working men—of the honest labourer—not of the Alabama Bondholders. . S. B. A. New York, July 11, 1868. . . . Well, the agony of Tammany is over, and what 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 we 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—whore is he ? Tammany has but proved your oft-repeated assertions that the White House is but a Wall-street 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 TILE HOUSE OF ROTIISCHILD. 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 Angle-Ameriaan 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 me 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. You see by Slim Anthony's letter that the bondholders have bought up the West ! The Londois 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 Cie 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 ou its shoulders. He has, however, only met the fate of all who try to 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 are right. Chase is sound in everything but specie 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. Those 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 he 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 mean repu diation, but that specie payments mean ruin. He 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 Robert J. Walker, Whose gold-paying letter, in behalf of the rich, Loaves the pocr man, as usual, in bankruptcy's ditch. LPt M'Culloch, Saml.looper, Jay Co o k e , a nd "Bob" Divide their commissions with Lanier and 13,31), To sell out the people in this new foreign loan, While the rich men laugh and the poor men groan! (Sensation.) Greenbacks are good for our butchers and farmers, White nothing but gold suits our dear " Al tbamas." A National Debt that was made by inflation, By inflation can only be paid by the Nation — (applause); And Shylock's grand swindle is nipped in th 3 bud, If we pay him the flesh and refuse him the blood. . (Loud applause.) The Democratic Platform is two-faced—one face looks greenbacks to the West, the other gold to England. It is much like the Ohicap Platform: neither are honest. Both are swindles. The poor men are sold out by politicians calling out "Old C 10." THE SLAUGHTEB. OF THE FENIAN& Do you want to see Buncombe personified ? Raad the general Resolution to catch th e Fenians : Ei g hth —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 them 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 on 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 ou 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 mand 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 with 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 iu good faith shall be the shield of American citizenship abroad. Everybody hurrahs, and I accordingly shake with en thusiastic 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 aro none so obscure or unfortunate as to be beneath the shield of its protection, and that it is the duty of the Government to ext •nd its immediate and powerful interposition in behalf of all those persons who have declared their intentions to become citizens of the United States, or have served iu the late unhappy war fur the preservation of the Union, and are now suffering incarceration in British p, isons—(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 ended The hoodwinking is finished. The Convention is over, and the Delegates think all is safe.l 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 uphold 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. Elitor, 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 are 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 those ars his words he is sound. But what has Seymour said ? Our commerce has been 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 be dernand..d at the cannon's mouth, with proper apolo.cies and a sufficient indemnity for the out rages. (Herald Report.—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 tho dust? Remember Daniel Webster an 1 Martin Korta, and think of William H. Steward Coslotto, and Warren. HORATIO SEYMOUR Is ANTI-FENIAN AND PRO-ENDLISII. I know Seymour. lb is a gentlarnin, and a good ; but what has ho said for our citizens iu 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 Uuitsd 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 wore Democrats More 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 Bal mont made the White House a Wall-street pest. 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 copperheadist 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. P. 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 is disappointed. Everybody is cross about it. . . . But don't lay the flattering unction before your readers that tho Republican party are the friends of England or of specie payment, even should they win. Times have changed, and men have changed with them. Read this digest of opinion : CHANGE ABOUT -FACE -WHICH PARTY IS THE FRIEND OF ENGLAND ? Let this broadside from an Irish editor of " A Roman Catholic Journal" tell its own story. (Extract, Leader in London Universal News, July 25.) The Abolition party, so called, it is true, was more or less friendly to England before the war, but it is so no longer. There is not, nor has there over 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 dpys of the lite 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, are 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 conflict 3 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 dunpon and hurled to defeat and death half a minion of bravo sol Hers with sharp steel, and the broken fetters of 4,000,000 of slaves, which caused joy in Heaven when that' fell from their limbs ; they are the men linked with every enterprise from the Hudson to the Sacramento ; they are 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 shall be expiated to the last farthing; they are the men and women, boys and 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 Bore, the sword of Red Hugh, the mythical sunburst, or the pike of '9B and the songs of 1848. PARKER PILLSBURY, EDITOR, OF TIIE " REVOLUTION." His " Mortality of Nations" anl other writings are more than Emersanian and far ahead of Mill—a man of great power -and cJ-labourer with Garrison and Phillip 4, with a larger head, and better quality of brain and much learning. I can see nothing in his private letter to prevent my pub lishing it, except his surprise to see it in print. The Democratic Convention delays the Revolution one day —the only harm, so far as I know, that we have yet suffered from it. That we will forgive them, so long as they read Miss Anthony's letter. LETTER FROM PARKER PILLSLEY TO MR. TRAIN. New York, July 15, 1868. _ . My dear 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 Ant'aony 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. We have waked the nation more than ever did anti-slavery preaching or printing. ludael under that we went on from bad to worse, until the w,tr came'and shivered the nation's idol, nation and all. Slavery got 'Florida, Texas, repeal of Missouri Compromise, Fugitive Slave Law, Reduction of Tariff, everything in deed that it ever demanded, just as though Garrison had never been born, and the tongue and speech of Phillips had been iron instead of gold. Still Ido not undervalue our anti slavery work. Its harvest was in men and women, few indeed perhap, 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 the working men and women out of their wages ; making a brainless, vulgar shoddyocracy of the few at the expense of starvation prices and enormous taxation to the many ; in 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 one 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 one 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 all their own way, New York their cat's-paw, and Hampton, Forest, and the rest of them ap pearing meantime meeker than over Moses was, as we learned in 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 be dishonourable to be out of prison. When my excellent friend Thoreau, now dead, was imprisoned by the Govern ment for some non-rosistent protest, R. W. Emerson visited him. Looking through the grates he said, " Ah, Thoreau! why aro 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 need your presence at the Councils of the Revolution." 131) I am sorry t 3 close so abruptly when my story is not half told. I see the papers report, at NewpDrt, among "distinguished arrivals," Mrs. Geo. Francis Train and family. Fortunate woman ! Would that you and I wore 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. AIR. TRAIN AS TILE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY. (Extract frau:my Fourtito7.lulySpeech in a British Bastille.) The New York. Sun says I will not ho 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 roign in the camp of the Bourbons. TO THE PEOPLE. When I get Costello and Warren out, 1 may return and make ninety speeches 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 Geoenbacks and High Wages. Down with Whisky Itiags aid Whisky Candidates, and up with the following Platform of the Revolution: — FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.-AMERICA V. EUROPE. Gold, like our cotton, for sale, Greenbacks for money. An American system of Finance. American products and labour free. Foreign manufactures prohibited. Open doors to artisans and immigrants. Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for American. Stea nships and • Shipping. New York the financial centre of the world. Wall Street emancipation from Bank of England, or American Cash for American Bills. The Credit Fonder and Mobilier System, or Capital mobilised to resuscitate the South and our mining interests, and to people the country from ocean to ocean, from Omaha to jSau Francisco. Moro organized Labour, more Cotton, more Gold and Silver Bullion to sell to foreigners at the highest prices. Ten Millions of naturalized Citizens Demand a Penny Ocean Stamp, to strengthen the brotherhood of labour. If Congress vote One 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 b.) king maker. All I have to do is to carry Pennsylvania against the Democrats, and they aro lost. llava they forgotten Chicago in 1861? Do they still thiak I will allow the Irish to be fooled again—sold out to tho highest biller —making Fenians wear English clothes by their gold and Free-trade Platform ? AN INFAMOUS PERSECUTION OF AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. P.S.—lf you thought Judge Keogh's doci,i m 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 affidavit because the Venetians do not use insolvent court paper ! (To the Editor of Saunders's Nook. Letter.) Sir,—Having 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 having received affidavit from the laviyer, who is now in Europe, who paid the 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 the long vacation : Offices, 9, Capel-street, Dublin, July 25, 1868. 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 paid Mr. IPllenry the Ebbw Val i Com pany's claim, being the debt for which you are now detained; and although 1 mentioned 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 the affidavit 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 writton on the paper prescribed by the rules of the Court.—l am, sir, yours most respectfully, PHILIP M'DOSAGH. George F. Train, Esq. - 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 TVITCHCRAFT. (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, turned against her. Still, it seemed too monstrous to hang the venerable lady, and the go vernor reprieved her on the ground of the first ver dict being set aside without fresh evidence ; but he was compelled in the face of the fierce outcry to withdraw his reprieve. " On the next Sunday there was a scene in the church, the record of which was afterwards annotated by the church members in a s-,irit 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 any other circumstances, yet she was able to sustain the trial. She was still calm aid at peace on that day, and during the fortnight of final waiting. When the time came she traversed the streets of Salem, between housN3 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 stool 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 Queen Anne, granted to her representatives, as compensation, £25 I 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, having, in common with the two elder, created ill-will 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 devilidi children exclaimed " her spirit is gone to prison to her sister Nurse." A strong effort was =do 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 departure from the parish of some of the most eminent mem bers of its society. Among these was Mr. Cloys 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, and 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 afflicted girls. Ile regarded the affair as a wicked conspi racy, and in infirm old age he had to die for a crime he knew to be impossible. lie was a man of consi derable estate, and now his home was desolated, ids property confiscated, while his only son, under the same charge, had to fly an exile to foreign lan ds ; leaving his children unprovided for. llis crazy wi fe was chained in prison, awaiting trial as a witch, the elder children were selittered he knew not wher e ' And his own flesh and blood was his accuser. Hee rified at her work ; Margaret tried, but in vain, to undo it; she was,conveyed to prison for retracting ILA' evidence, while her grandfather died on the gib bet as well as Mr. Burroughs. Goodman Corey was so rough as to be 11° ' popular even in a young colony. When t his 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 G od ' and while her husband attended every public meet ing she stayed at home to pray. In his fanaticisma lie quarrelled with her, a n d s h e was a t once mark ed out for a victim, and one of the earliest. Wile visited by examiners she smiled and conversed with entire confidence, declaring that " she was no witch, and that she did not think there were Of witches." By such sayings, and by the expresSieue of vexation that fell from her husband and th fanaticism of her four sons-in-law, she was D on brought to extremity. But her husband was Pr' sently under accusation too, and much amazed b ° was at his position. His wife was one of the eig ht firebrands of hell, whom Mr. Noyes saw sWil off on the 22d September, and the record says t ill , Martha Corey, protesting her innocence, conclu ded her life with an eminent prayer on the scaffel°. 0 Her husband supposed certain to follow in the SO h way had chosen a different one. His anguts his rash folly at the outset of the delusion eiei teu a if of the strongest desire to bear testimony on bell , — his wife and other innocent persons, and to 0 181 1 emphatic blessing to the two sons-in-law who ba been faithful to his wife's cause. He execute', deed by which he presented his excellent chil 4P 7 o with his property in honour of their mot her memory memork ; and, aware that if tried he would be dun be ned and executed, and his property forfeite d, resolved not to plead, and to submit to the ee e°6 llo quence .of standing mute. 011 as he was the obstinately endured, and the court had, as authorities believed, no alternative. lie W , 1 ,1 pressed to death, as devoted husbands re. 4 fathers were here and there in the Middle when they chose to save their families from t consequences of attainder by dying untried• bore the horrible agony with unconquerable for tude, only praying for heavier weights to h adCe>i his end. In the face of such an act Mr. Parri s nounced him as a suicide and obtained his 00° I de s ' munieation, but the hearts of the New Eng- 3° ,,. 0 e, although then warped by the fiend of prejnu l eo were still true, and this deed of self-sacrifice Ti vi y straight to the mark. The execution of his / 00 two days later, coupled with his end, weighe nly4 the community, and no revival of old nbsrp,i,t against Goody Corey had any effect, and the a ctor t o made by the ministers and one of their " da i . c . t s agents to impress the Church and society W i s vision that announced his damnation n od complete failure. But now the tide 03 64 swept like a monster wave on shore, overvih e jsl all who opposed its resistless force, in ruie , fr esn expended its strength, and was sweeping ba ck 0 .0 , the desolated land—and desolate, indeed , it Empty homes hastening to decay, properties,ed stroyed, deep and inextinguishable hatred plae4taa the hearts of the people; in truth, a visitation of l o st attacking the Puritan settlement whereirca guarded, while the defenders earnestly' des all to do what was right, like a Moil ,„.', o a which the English lately took when the " rr- e r on Sunday had gone out to pray. But if v th e i n to traordinary scene enacted at Salem brought o nt ebt clear relief the vices of human nature, it bre ' et co also into prominence the nobility with which fete d trial can be met. Numerous instances ar e re , l 'irs' in which shone conspicuously filial, parental, alwitiy,!a ternal fidelity, and love. Daniel Drew, a. c the of high standing, who had been deputy 11 b'e general court, asserted, in the boldest langu a r'd'l;l o belief in the innocence of Rebecca Nurae to fly for his life. M a ny d evo t e d sous an "" r i,"o o ters clung to their parents, v i s ited them illAsiti` 3 in defiance of a bloodthirsty mob, kept by 41 % re' on the way to execution, expressed their 1 0 1 ;00 verence, and sympathy to the last, and b y r rc' and perilous enterprise got possession of 0 1 Lo la' mains, and bore them back under cover e i tet o' night to graves consecrated by prayers a n ' te a Di 4 One noble young man is said to have effe e he r mother's escape from gaol, and secreted ,fed the woods till after the delusion had r c le o ; away, building for her a wigwam, and , ; h oe% perate hazard, supplying her with food. 4OO, Ge V after Goody Corey's death, the nov• r e Ar i j Dane signed memorials to the Legislat,nfe b,t the courts .against the prosecutions. l i t lei reason to know something about them, for l a te nine of his children and grandchildren, re boot and servants had been brought under scrip t Of, When he spoke out, others followed, atle . .A of' s , the prisons were filled and the courts occult - i ! and over again, there were no more hart/P . 4P , accused were acquitted, and Sir William discharged all the prisoners by acclanontieript es l , ll o ing a gaol delivery such as had never been ro, be in New England. Of course, the rnini ste o gg e judges, the magistrates, who were activell ootip: in fighting Satan, violently opposed this hrol‘et,s but their power was gone ; the spell was 004 and although the roud Church of Massa lies refused openly to acknowledge her error, tm t. of many of her best members were in seert o vii ii e with the agony of the new light that bad ' r t bat,, t e cl upon them. It may grieve some to learn authors of this hideous calamity went Ing o DI t oe of the law. But there is a retributive jue' l ; o tS lives of people, as of nations, which Pre y.- jt 1 _44 free escape of any from a great crirat, r k" l Goody Nurse's sons-in-law that droveand s from the parish he had turned into a b e A llO sunk lower and lower till he ended bis7, o . o ri f t ilf wretched outlying station, querulously at to JO mankind, and ever endeavouring in Vain ier a. to himself, or to others, his conduct at S A v ofo 0$ LA DTERTISEM ENT. I —Holloway's Pills. O DO . 4 .4 1 ; Weather.—Tho sultry summer days strair. t" . 0 c l l l5 the feeble and decrepit, which state eventuates..,l, oy unless some restorative such as these purifYiposo t oo found to correct the disordering tendency wbjeh eirel medicine gives tone to the nervous system , o ver ft o source of all vital movements, and presid„ es bo ieg° o 4 action which maintains the growth and well belly. No one, therefore, can over-estimate , 0 . 0 e o 4 of keeping the nerves well strung, and tu o No vi which these pills accomplish that end is borli liversby thousands dwelling in hot climates, wh °s d been saved, and whose lives have been spare Births. a of e l Mon Arr -On the 31st ult., at Weimer, the tt ior mauder G. D. Morant, R.N., of a son. 5o OLIVEIRA.—On the 2d inst at L db ke - P l3ce' , i a ro , ~,.bter• , iti oe h.ll, the wife of A. Olivier • a, Esq., of a clA u o AA P ORMISTON—On the 2d inst., at 17, Bolsize-re'" stead, Mrs. Walter Ormisto p, of a son. 0 1 ' M ll arriages. Li'. •ffe, it/ te 0 o t ile SETON—RIPLEY—On the 30thnit., at Lig b u __ es t so . o p, 0 , Charles C. Seton, Royal Engineers, yo , pboior , 05 Bruce Seton, of Cheltenham, to Pbo 3l)° , , oi youngest daughter of Honry'W.RiploY, •' - ' s ' '' .1,4 11 ,, ' cliffe, near Halifax. , Y, -. o 'l ' SPARKES -EDWARDS-0 th Ist • t at•St.3l:ll; S'''''W both, John Charles Lewis 4 eparklens,s .orstila.oviliviL 'tlolb Lambeth, to Catherine Adeline, fourth for of the late W ni• H. Edwards, Esq. l or d Deaths. A Vic' , „„,,rv, CLARKE—On the 3d inst., at Notting-hill-s‘i 0,. P Clarke, Esq., aged 84. NO' Dvsox—On the 3d inst., ,at The Grove, W et oil ' Mr. Charles Dyson. - 1/ 6 e.iftr KENNEDY—On the 3d inst. Boy 'amin Kennedy,solk til o Stoc l ‘ , Leinster-squaro, Baysw7tter, jand the aged 85. 'll Coll" ti SHANNON—On the Ist inst., at St. Ann e,3 I/1 ' 4) ,„f End of Shannon. qii ta- 0 `i lex 11 SCOTT- Oa the Ist inst., General henry R.A., aged 89. .d o eset TuLLocu—On tho Ist inst.. at Couttland v' e d 7 , 1. Mall, Kensington, Donald Tulloch, s' l, ' , t'g iil s D l3°' • ---_- 3' , j oi 0 3 1 o f London : Printed and Publishe d by Wi„? . 0,11 0, 14 ,0 81 of No. 112, Strand, Printer , at Tali SEY' .. tue 0 - Strand, in the Precinct of the Se voY , iu Middlesex. —Wednesday, Augus t 5, 1.60.