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AT BIRMINGHAM.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUE:BOAV EVENING, JUNE 24, 1866.

PRESIDENT PIERCE ON THE NOMINA-
TIONS FOR THE PRESIDENCY.

After a democratic ratification meeting at Wash-
ington on the 7th inst. the mob who composed the
meeting formed in procession, and proceeded in
order to the Whitehouse, numbering rank and file
near 5,000. The President appeared at one of the
upper windows of the mansion, and said :—I con-
gratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the occasion
which brings you here, and I indulge the confident
hope that the joy with which you hail the harmo-
nious and unanimous result of the deliberations at
Cincinnati may be strengthened and deepened by
the ratifying voice of our countrymen. It is plea-
sant to realise that, however other parties may be
divided and distracted, there is nothing with us
but union of purpose, and will be nothing but
union in action. From this hour to that when the
polls will be opened in November, all prejudices
and personal animosities among those who should
cultivate mutual regard and afford mutual support
will be laid aside. Nay, even preferences that may
have existed in our ranks are already no longer
remembered. The preference of every friend in
this crisis who cares more for the country than for
himself, devotion to the cause, and an earnest sup-
port of the standard-bearers who are to lead us
through the great struggle, will be the controlling
sentiment of the democracy, north and south, east
and west. We are all, lam sure, quite sincere in
our convictions that not only the prosperity of this
republic, but the perpetuity of this blessed Union,
depend essentially upon the vindication and main-
tenance of the principles declared by the recent
convention. But these principles can be vindicated
and sustained only by concerted action, and that
can only be secured by organisation. Hence, fide-
lity to this organisation and its usages, becomes,
like fidelity to principles, a cardinal virtue. The
latter can only be manifested and made effectual
through the former. My friends will have duties
to perform in the canvass which my position alone
will prevent me from attempting to fulfil in per-
son. It is never to be forgotten by me that in
1852 older and better soldiers (cries from the mul-
titude, "Not better") than myself, Mr. Buchanan
and Mr. Cass—men who had been faithful and tried
leaders through many years of labour and conflict—
were passed by to callme from the retirement which
I had sought, and to which I shall return without re-
gret. May I not add, gentlemen, if life be spared, I
shall go back to the State of my birth conscious of
having adopted no single measure of public policy
during my administration which I did not believe
to be demanded by the best interests of my coun-
try, nor one which does not to-night command the
approbation of my judgment and my conscience ?
The conduct of those older and better soldiers of
whom I have spoken, and of the younger but
nevertheless better soldier, Judge Douglas, whom
I am glad to see now standing by the great and
good man, General Cass, who for so many years
has had not merely my confidence and respect,
but/my affection, will never cease to be gratefully
remembered by me. They were all in the field,
not merely to encourage and direct, but actually
to lead the columns. Their energies were not
put forth because the standard was in my hands,
but because its bearer was, in their estimation, for
the time being the impersonation of those sound
constitutional principles which they believed could
alone give stability and permanence to this glorious
fabric of our institutions. It is cheering to know that
the action of the late Convention places the states-
men and patriots who are to lead us now upon the
identical platform which I accepted, with full con-
viction of my judgment, and with every sentiment
of my heart, and that they are to occupy it with
the standard lowered never an inch, so far as the
strict construction of the constitution and the vin-
dication of the constitutional rights of every por-
tion of the Union ate concerned. Much and justly
as we admire the patriotism, attainments, and pri-
vate virtues of our standard-bearers, there will be
nothing like man-worship in this contest. Men
become comparatively insignificant, except as in-
struments, when great principles and the vast
interests of a country like- ours are involved.
There will be, on your part, no appeal to un-
worthy passions, no inflammatory calls for a second
revolution, like those which are occasionally re-
ported as coming from men who have received
nothing at the hands of their Government
but protection and political blessings ; no declara-
tion of resistance to the laws of the land, no in-
vocation to the shedding of blood by those who
have bad none to shed when our countrymen have
stood face to face with foreign foes. But the issue
will summon you to a calm, earnest struggle for the
constitution, and consequently for the Union. You
will bear yourselves like men determined to cling
to that sound instrument as the only security from
general wreck and the only refuge from universal
ruin. Men who feel and act with you will cling
to it with patriotic wisdom and steady fortitude,
and they will defend it, if need be, with heroic
valour against all assaults from without or from
within. That a signal triumph awaits you in such
a cause I entertain no doubt. If, as I fully be-
lieve, our fathers were not only guarded and sus-
tained through the changing scenes and struggles
of the revolution, but were inspired after its close
to devise and adopt this constitution by Omnipo-
tent Power, we may repose upon an humble but
unwivering faith that that power will not permit
the madness of their children to destroy it. Ac-
cept, gentlemen, my best wishes for you, collec-
tively and individually, and my thanks for this
gratifying call.

THE MURDERS AT MELTON mOTVBRAY.

The suspected murderer, 'William Brown, has at
length been arrested. A man answering to his descrip-
tion was apprehended on Sunday at Wetherby, near
York. Intelligence was at once forwarded to Mr. F.
Goodyer, chief constable of the Leicesterhire police, and
from the papers found upon the man, as well as from his
description, there can be no doubt of his identity.
The adjourned inquest was held at the Wheatsheaf, at
five o'clock on Saturday afternoon. All the jurymen
answered to their names.

John Brown, brother of the supposed murderer, deposed
that his brother William came into his shop a week last
Thursday, and witness accused him of running away with
his wife. Witness called him a scamp, and said if be
were sure ho had slept with her he would run him
through with a knife. His brother then pulled out a
pistol, and presenting it, said, " Look here, this is loaded
and capped." Witness then passed it off as ajoke. He
afterwards examined the pistol, and believed it to be the
same as he saw at the Melton police station—(the one
found near the murdered man).
Henry Baker, a groom, of Melton, deposed that he
and his little boy went through the Thorpe toll-gate
about a quarter past two on Thursday morning. They
went mushrooming in a field about 200 yards off, and
about half-past two heard a loud sharp report of a gun
or pistol. They thought it was a keeper or poacher.
Superintendent Burdett produced a pair of trousers, a
shirt, a black silk handkerchief, a waistcoat all torn up
and in a wet state, together with a black hat. There
were spots of blood upon them, and fresh dirt marks.
The clothes, which appeared to have been roughly
washed, were found on Saturday morning in a hedge
bottom near Mr. Cross's barn, each article at a distance
of five or six yards apart.
Wm. Moore, baker, of Melton, and two other wit-
nesses, identified the trousers and waistcoat as those
Wm. Brown had on when he came to him.
After some little conversation it was agreed still fur-
ther to adjourn the inquest till four o'clock on Friday
afternoon.

The man will arrive at Melton early this (Tuesday)
morning. It appears that the landlady of an Inn at
Wetherby had been reading an account of the murders,
and was directly afterwards called upon to supply a glass
of ale. To her astonishment she found that the man
who required the refreshment exactly answered the de-
scription given of him in the papers. She detained him
until a constable could be sent for, and ho was then
given into custody.

TIM ALLEGED MANUFAcTURE OF IDOLS

Some months ago a story was in circulation charging
the Birmingham manufacturers with making idols " for
exportation." We explained at the time that the story
was based on a joke which appeared in Punch. As a
joke it was copied into an American newspaper, but a
religious journal reprinted it in sober earnest, and so it
made its way into the French newspapers. From them
it returned to England invested with the full proportions
of a solemn affirmation ; it bad its day in the press'and
on the platform, was explained, and died away.
People thought they had beard the last of the idol
manufactories of Birmingham, but last week the story
was revived, Birmingham itself being the place where
the renewed charge was made. At the Church Mission.
ary Meeting in our Town-ball on Tuesday, Lieutenant-
Colonel Martin, an Indian officer, affectionately begled
the audience to " cause making idols," and to give
him, instead, a bell for a chapel at Peshawur. The Rev.
Hugh Stowell, of Manchester, speaking on the same
tempting subject, ingeniously combined an eleemosynary
appeal with vehement denunciation. He said :—" Let
the manufacturers of Birmingham, if they bad got money
by the making of idols, bring forth fruit meet for repent-
ance, and pay back every fraction of the accursed money
into the treasury of the Church Missionary Society, and
never again manufacture an idol lest they should be found
to be worshippers of the God Mammon." We regret
that of the Birmingham clergymen present on the plat-
form not one thought it his duty to rebut this slander on
his fellow-townsmen ; and we wonder that strangers to
the town should have ventured to use a wholesale accu-
sation of idol-making as an argument to induce larger
subscriptions to the society whose cause they were sent
to advocate. The charge having been so deliberately re-
peated in so public a manner, we are entitled to ask
Colonel Martin and Mr. Stowell for the proofs by which
they support it. If they have proofs our columns are
open for their statement ; if, having none, these gentle-
men remain silent, the public will know in future how to
estimate the valtw of their "facts."—Aris's Birmingham,
Gaixtee..