The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-02-08 00:00:00

THE POPULARITY OF MR. TRAIN.

The Cork Examiner prints the address presented to
Mr. Teain by some of the ladies of the city. The
lathes (who it seems were "young ladies ") made the
following remarks :—"Von claim our highest admira-
tion and warmest thanks for your zeal in propagating
with your abilities the cause of Irish nationality in
America ; but a feeling even higher than this has, with
an irresistible impulse, urged us to this step, and that
feeling is that you have been imprisoned for Ireland !
In you we wish to mark how warmly and bow deeply
enshrined in the hearts of the women of Cork—as well
as those of the rest of Ireland—are the names and
characters of those heroes and martyrs of Irish
nationality who, for the past two years, have been
banged on the gallows and sent in hundreds to
the dungeons if England men who have sacrificed
all that to life had entwined them for the grand
principles of liberty and republicanism ; and in coupling
your name with theirs we feel we pay you the highest
compliment it is possible for any man to receive from
the women or frau the men of Ireland. In conclusion,
we beg you will accept this address, and the accom-
panying slight souvenirs." The address wan signed
" Miss B. Buckley, Miss M. O'Connor, Miss M.
Dennehy, and Miss S. Hussey." Miss Buckley, the
youngest member of the deputation, whom Mr. Train
bail placed standing on a table by his side having
first gator:teed and kissed her with much effusion, to
the 1,-feat satisfaction of the audience, then placed the
wreath, which was one of the "souvenirs," sin Mr.
Train's head and covered it up with the smoking cap
(anther "souvenir "). Both were rather small for the
wearer. After the cheers which followed the present s-
tint, had subsided, Mr. Train advanced and said:
"America is a great country, and I am not surprised
thatlreland appreciates America. But I am sur-
prisell that Ireland does not appreciate me. The
makers of this cap never calculated, I am afraid, that
they had to fit a twenty-four inch head. But allow
ine to say that I value highly this compliment coming
from you, ladies of Cork. Irishmen, Americans, let
me say to this young lady

_
Lovely in form, peerless in debate,
Who follows you, Miss, takes the Train too late.

At Mr. Train's third lecture in Cork he was pre-
sented with a pair of green silk garters and the fol-
lowing address
To G. F. TRAIN, EA..4.

ON BEING PRESENTED WITH A PAIR OF SHAMROCK
GARTERS.
We have no gems to offer,
They'd worthless he to thee,
• Who sways the mighty multitude
Of hearts so bold aml free.
old Ireland's sons that nightly throng
to worship at thy shrine,
Are gems more pure than e'er were got,
From out lioMondays mine.
The twenty-fonr inch head last eve.
Was crowned with the victor's wreath',
And the sweet delectable Dessheel,
Was given thee to eat.
Ana. we, a few unworthy twigs,
of the great tree—womankind—
Present to thee these Garteni,
Thine own fair hose to bind.
MR. TR4IN'S PROTEST.

Mr. George Francis Train, "native-born American
citizen," has addressed the following protest to the
Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Secretary Home De-
partnient, or Major-General Sir Thomas Larcom,
Dublin :

Police Barracks, Queenstown, Jan. le, IS6S,
PROTEST.

Ai American citizens under our Naturalisation Laws of
ISO! are not acknowledged to be American citizens by
British law, I beg to state that I am a native-born American
citizen that while on my way on important business to
Purist landed, with Thomas C. Durrant, the Vice-President
of the Union Pacific Railroad, from the Scotus, at Queens
town, to take the special mail express, via Dublin, to Liverpool
and London: that I was arrested on the tugboat, and passed
the night on the floor of the police-barracks: that I spoke
no word, wrote no letter, made no observations t-, anyone,
but no intention of interfering with the laws: therefore I
hereby protest in the name of the American people—as the
American Government are powerless to protect their citizens
—against this outrage, the offence being words spoken in
America or on the high seas, and of having Irish-American
newspapers in my trunk, together with other late papers and
copies of my speeches made five or six years ago in London,
I deny the right at all times of the Government of Great
Britain arresting or detaining American citizens for words
spoken in America, awl hereby hold the British Government
responsible for this unwarrantable delay. My only object
In passing through Ireland was to ascertain the position
of nip concession for street railways in Cork and Dublin.
Against these acts of arrest and detention I hereby solemnly
and publicly protest.
GEORGE FIi.ANCIS TRAIN.
Witnelle E. G. EasTmaN, U.S. ConauL