The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-03 00:00:00

VARIGNANO, Sept. 29, 1862.
My dear Sir,—The General had your teLegram,
and also your letter. We did not answer before,
because we have been anxiously attending to our
sufferer.e We hop© will forgive us for it. Now
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General deputes me to say, in reply to yours
of the 25th inst., that the letter written by him on
the 14th to the Consul of the United States, Mr.
Canisio, is correct.
Garibaldi being a humane man, and who never
denied his noble and generous soul, could not have
answered other wise to one who asked him to offer
the power of his mind and arm, in order that he
might solve the Gordian knot which unfortunately
involves and ravages America. In explanation of
this letter, what your great English people have
wished and carried out—the redemption manumis-
sion) of slavery in the islands and dependencies of
your Crown, Garibaldi wishes and wills the same,
because the clanking of the slaves' chains is abomi-
nation to his high and true-hearted soul, and wher-
ever there are tears to be dried he is always eager
and ready to help the oppressed. Not caring to be
called filibuster or rebel, he was going to Rome to
cause to vanish from that place of human grandeur
and scatter to the winds that fetid imposture
which keeps enslaved so numerous a portion of
mankind. In America he does not see a question
of commerce, but a human problem, to be solved.
He cannot think, with great emotion, that in a
land where, as an exile, he was honoured with the
citizenship, there are human beings sold by auction
like sheep or horses. He thinks and trusts that the
Federal Government will abolish slavery. This, he
says, is their duty, and it will and must be their
decision. :Such, then, is the explanation of the note
that Garibaldi has written to the American ambas-
sador. When the General is sufficiently recovered.
to travel he intends to visit you in London, when
you will hear the same from his own lips. Pray
give my respects to the Lord Mayor and to Mr.
Alderman Alechi, and receive for yourself the salu-
tations of my General, and those of Basso.
Allow me, in conclusion, to offer you the senti-
ments of my perfect affection.
Mr. John Richardson. C. A. VEECIIY.

THE PRISONERS UNDER SENTENCE OF
DEATH IN NETVGATE.

On Friday afternoon the sheriffs, Mr. Alderman
J. C. Lawrence and Mr. Hugh Jones, accompanied
by Messrs. Farrar and Mackrell, under-sheriffs,
and the Rev. Mr. Davis, and Mr. Jonas, the gover-
nor of Newgate, proceeded to the cell in which the
prisoner Robert Cooper was confined, and the chap-
lain announced to him, in becoming terms, that the
sheriffs had fixed Monday, the 17th inst., as the
day for carrying out the sentence of the law, and he
exhorted him to make the best use of the time that
remained to him in this world, and by a sincere re-
pentance to endeavour to obtain pardon for the great
sin he had committed. This wretched man appears
to be quite prostrated by his position, and appears
to feel an excessive terror at the thought of losing
his life upon the scaffold. He has never, it appears,
attempted to cast any doubt upon the propriety of
the verdict of the jury, but still he seems to think
there was a sort of justification of the act he com-
mitted by the conduct of the deceased. He has re-
peatedly stated that no one could tell what his feel-
ings were at discovering that his wife, as he always
called the deceased, was unfaithful to him. On his
being reminded that she was not his wife, and that
he hod a wife living, he stated that, on account of
his being in the army he could not live with the
woman whom he formerly married, and that they
mutually agreed to separate ; he had not seen her
for many years, and thought she was dead at the
time he contracted the second marriage with the de-
ceased girl. The prisoner evidently entertains an
idea that mercy will be extended to him, and he has
expressed an intention of sending his own statement
of his case to the Home Secretary, and making an
appeal to the Crown for mercy, but it is not probable
from the character of the crime that this will
be likely to have any effect. The prisoner has
repeatedly stated, since his conviction, that on the
day the fatal affair happened, ho went to Isle-
worth quite by chance, and he declares that
he entertained no intention to do mischief
to the deceased, but alleges that the object
for which he carried the pistol about with
him was to destroy his own life. The other con-
demned culprit, Samuel Gardner, the sweep, who'
was convicted on Friday of the murder of his wife,
appears to exhibit much more fortitude than his
wretched companion ; and it seems that he has all
along persisted in declaring his innocence of the
crime of which he was accused. It will be remem-
bered that the circumstances of the case were of a
very peculiar character; but although the jury
were in deliberation more than an hour and a half
before they returned their verdict, it appears that
eleven of them had made up their minds in a very
short time that the evidence had established the
guilt of the prisoner, and only one of them enter-
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that were made use of by him after his trial. On
Friday evening, after the jury had delivered their
verdict, the girl Elizabeth Humbler was liberated
from custody, and she was taken away from New-
gate in the charge of her mother,

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—BALBRIGGAN, Oct.
30. —lt is our melancholy duty to record the loss of a young
lady under the following sad circumstances :—Miss Frances
Logan, daughter of tho Rev. T. D. Logan, of Charleston
rectory, county Louth, was on a visit with her uncle, Mr.
Ellis, of Tankerville, near this town, and on Tuesday about
1 p.m., she was seen walking beyond Fanceort-terrace. Of
her subsequent fate nothing is yet known with certainty,
but it, is supposed that she slipped on the rock and was car-
ried out by the ebbing tide. No alarm was felt at her ab-
sence until 6 o'clock, when inquiries were at once set on
foot; and a search then commenced, and was continued
during the night, by her uncle and servants, accompanied
by several gentlemen of the. town, assisted by Sah-insPec-
tor Carey and the constabulary. No trace was, however,
discovered until the following morning, when her boots,
he met her sad fate ; and as
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