The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-23 00:00:00

AMERICAN _PA7RIO7IC HOPES.

The Rev. Dr. S. Tyng, of New York, who is
known by report to a large number of Englishmen,
preached the sermon at St. George's Church on
Thanksgiving-day. In the progress of his discourse
he said—No class, no form of humnn government,
in its institutions and its promises, ever attained to
an exaltation like this. lam grateful, under God,
to those venerable and elevated men, the fathers of
the generation past, who humbly and solemnly said,
" We owe it all to the grace and beneficence of God.
The people are the rulers by their elected represen-
tatives. They devise, enact, proclaim the laws, by
their elective commissioned magistrates; they com-
mand their laws to be justly executed and enforced
by their own appointed judges; they interpret and
decide the particular application of their laws, as
occasions demand, and having thus, in the majesty
of their power and the right of their control, under
God, from whose beneficence they confess the right
to proceed to establish their authority, they claim,
and rightly claim, that it shall be thoroughly and
properly administered for their good; and having
thus settled its authority in every department of
execution of their sovereign will, they, as volun-
tary subjects of their own law, submit themselves
to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake
whether it be the king, as supreme, or to go-
vernors as unto them that are sent by them for
the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of
them that do well; for so is the will of God, that
with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance
of foolish men. The justice of our ruler is a
righteousness in the fear of God. It is not our
theory merely to restrain, but to uproot the crimes
of the wicked. Our inherited, adopted view of
public justice is the protection of the innocent, the
secured welfare of the deserving—the education of
the ignorant—and the destroying those who destroy
the earth. This has been the great positive scheme
which the beneficence of God permitted our fathers
to inaugurate for us, and have transmitted to us as
our dearest inheritance. It has established a
system of free public education, constantly im-
proving—proclaimed laws for the faithful honour-
ing of the Lord's Day, which have made, as the
eminent D upon ceau declared, the American Sabbath
to be the chief distinction and honour of the nation.
It has constantly restrained and limited, and in
some highly favoured sections of our country abso-
lutely prohibited, the sale of intoxicating liquors,
the direct instrument in 40 years past of consign..
ing to a grave more than 1,000,000 of the men of
our land. It has regularly compressed the power,
denied the claims and testified against the wicked-
ness of African slavery, until it has realised the
dawn, and given the promise of a universal eman-
cipation. It has solemnly testified for the validity
and authority of public law, of majestic national
sovereignty, over all inferior dissent, and against
every aspect of individual and sectional rebellion,
until it has even risked the issues of a war of un-
precedented extent, and of terrific inflictions of
individual suffering and cast, rather than yield to
any rebellion that national sovereignty and integ-
rity which is the only foundation of individual
security. It has raised up a spirit of energy transmit-
ted from father to son which will stop at no sacrifice,
and flinch from no danger, in defending and main-
taining a national unity so justly dear. Can you
suppose that a nation so educated will yield P It
is impossible. Its going forth in its high progress
is as sure as the dawn of morning. Clouds may
come over it—l have unbounded hopes for the
glorious advancement of my nation, and I have no
abiding or overwhelming fears. No internal re-
bellion can break it down. No outward assaults in
whatever combination can overthrow.

ASSENECAL POISONING.

,! A. very serious case of poisoning is being investi-
gated at Revesley, about eight miles from Boston,
in Lincolnshire. The body of an elderly woman,
named Jemima Garner, has been exhumed, and the
stomach, &c., forwarded to Dr. Alfred Swaine
Taylor, who in his report states that he discovered
arsenic in the stomach, intestines, liver, and heart
of the deceased, partly in a soluble and partly in an
insoluble form, i.e., as orpiment or yellow arsenic.
Patches of colour were observed on the stomach,
bowels, and spine, produced probably by a
chemical change in the white arsenic contained in
the stomach and bowels at the time of death.
Yellow stains found on the spine were produced by
arsenic escaping through the coats of the stomach
after death, and yellow stains on the mesentery
were caused by arsenic escaping through the coats
of the intestines. The quantity of arsenic
found in the body would probably be a fatal dose
to a human being. This result was disclosed after
only one-third of the viscera had been experimented
upon. The body of the poor old woman was in-
terred so long since as December, 1861. John
Garner, her son, and Elizabeth Garner, his wife,
have been apprehended, and it appears they were
both in the habit of behaving cruelly to the deceased,
who resided with them. Thus, when the deceased
was suffering from dreadful pain and sickness on
her death-bed, she was refused brandy by her son,
who said to her, " You've been torturing me with
your dyilig these last 30 years ; you're afraid of
dying ; it's your Wesleyanism giving way.''
He then left the room, and did not see his mother
again, although sent for twice. On another occa•
sion he had been seen to beat and kick his mother.
The female prisoner was also in the habit of swear-
biiner.
until after Christmas. adjourned
ing and calling at the deceased. The inquest,
Christmas.—Blanchester which has been commenced,ianeht er Examiner.
hass

. The Special Services at St. Paul's Cathedral will
commence with the New Year. Preachers :—Jan. 4, the
Lord Bishop of London ; Jan. 11, the Very Rev. the Dean
of Canterbury; Jan. 18, the Rev. J. Lawrcll, Incumbent
of St. Matthews, City-road; Jan. 25, the Rev. Daniel
Moore, Incumbent of Camden Church, Camberwell.