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had less ability to overcome its friction awl resist-
ance, it can scarcely be said to be too heavy for deep
water, where it was necessary for the increased
weight of cable to restrain its rapid motion, by ap-
plying to it a considerable degree of additional
friction ; its action was most complete, and all parts
worked well together. I see how it can be improved
by a modification in the form of sheaves, by an ad-
dition to the arrangement for adjusting the brakes,
and some ether slight alterations ; but with proper
management. without any change whatever, I am
confident that the whole length of cable might have
been safely laid by it, and it must be remembered,
as a test of the work which it has done, that unfor-
tunate as this termination to the expedition is, the
longest length of cable ever laid has been paid out
by it, and that in the deepest water yet passed over.
After the accident had occurred soundings were
taken by Lieutenant Dayman, and bhe depth found
to be 2,003 fathoms.
It will be remembered that some import tnce was
attach.id to the cables in the Niagara and Agametn-
non being manufactured In opposite lays. I thought
this a favourable opportunity to show practically
the difference was not of consequence in affecting
the junction in mid-ocean ; we therefore made a
splice between the two vessels, and several miles
were then paid out without difficulty.
I requested the commanders of the vessels to pro-
ceed to Plymouth, as the th.cks there afford better
facilities than any port for landing the cable, should
it be necessary to do so.
The whole of the cable on board has been care-
fully tested and inspected, and found to be in as
perfect condition as when it left the works at Green-
wich and Birkenhead.

southward, was a natural and providential opera-
tion. The African slave trade, which gave value •
and vitality to those discoveries, was als ) of nat ur:il
origin and growth. No man, no set of men, no
nation preconceived, predetermined, cr planned
any of the mighty changes in the common relations
and subsistence of the word consequent on the dis-
coveries of which we 'nave spoken. All has been
natural, all providential. But just when the world
has accommodated itself to this new state of things
—just when its subsistence and existence had
become dependent on it--a narrow- sighted,
intermeddling, sickly " rose water' philan-
thropy steps in to disturb the scene, and
to mar the work of time, of nature, and of Pro-
vidence.
The infidels of France and the fanatics
of England have by West Indian emancipation
rendered famine the normal cJudit'on of a large
portion of Christendom, and made savages and
pagans of the liberated negroes. It required cen-
turies of continuous and laborious industry and en-
terprise to reduce the tropical regions of America to
the uses of civilised man, but these sentimental
charlatans have destroyed this great work in less
than an agm. The momentous c.msequences likely 1
to ensue from the rebellion in India can only be
justly appreciated when viewed in c,umection with
the def:cient supply of slave products which now
" perplexes nations " Should England, as we be-
lieve she will, succeed in suppressing the outbreak,
she will have no spare capital, or energy, or indus-
try, while the war lasts, with which to increase her
supplies of cotton and sugar, and to ward off that
famine with which she is imminently threatened
from a deficit of those articles. Even after the re-
bellion is suppressed, she will have her hands fall
in keeping up a force sufficient to prevent its recur
r nice, and will have li tle time, capital, or labour
to devote to the purpose of raising increased quan-
tities of sugar and cot on. Years will probably
elapse ere industry in India will return to its
wonted channels ; so that instead of an increased
production of these articles, she has reason to ap-
prehend a diminished one.

One important point pre3se3 for your considera-
tion at an early period ; a large portion of the cable
already laid may be recovered at a comparatively
small expense. I append an eitimato of the co-t,
and shad be glad to receive your authority to pro-
ceed with this work.

I do not perceive, in our present position, any
reason for discouragement ; but I have, on the
contrary, a greater confidence than ever in the
undertaking. It has been proved beyond a doubt
that no obstacle exias to prevent our ultimate suc-
cesa ; and I sea clearly how every difficulty which
bas presented itself in this voyage can be effectively
dealt with in the next. The cable has been laid at
the expected rate in the great depth ; its electrical
working through the entire length has been most
satisfactorily accomplished, while the portion laid
actually improved in efficiency by being submerged,
from the low temperature of the water and the close
compression of the texture of the gutta percha.
The structure of the cable has answered every
expectation that I have formed of it ; and if it were
now necessary to construct another line, I should
not recommend any alteration from the present
cable, which in its working has confirmed my be-
lief that it is expressly adapted to our requirements.
Its weight in the water is so adjusted to the depth,
that the strain is within a m❑ageable scope, while
the effect of undercurrents upon its surface proves
how 'dangerous it would be to attempt to lay a
much lighter rope, which would, by the greater
time occupied in sinking, expose an increased sur-
face to their power.
I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen,
Yours very faithfully,
(Sig ned) CHARLES T. BRIGHT.

(Prom the New York. rferoll.)
There is one point of view in which the Indian
mutiny has not yet been consid-red by our people.
Admitting that the English have pursued an un-
principled course of Fillibusterism in the acqui-
sition of territory, and a very oppressive and
tyrannical policy in their method of retaining it, it
cannot nevertheless be denied that they have con-
ferred some benefits on India by their rule. Of
late years especially honest and well-meant efforts
have been made to introduce European civilisation
into the country ; works of irrigation have been
undertaken on a large scale ; railroads and tele-
graphs have been established ; roads for the con-
veyance of produce horn the interior to the sea-
board have been projected and even commenced ;
an administration of justice—faulty and corrupt,
no doubt, but yet far superior to the native courts
—has been solidly planted ; large and beneficial
improvements have been made. in the Hindoo laws
concerning land tenures, marriages, and wills.
Under ordinary circumstances the effect of these
and the other similar improvements which are
going on would in 50 years make of India a far
greater country than she has ever been. If, how-
ever, the present insurrection is to succeed, and the
English are to be driven out, these works of civili-
sation cease, all internal improvements are stopped,
and India relapses first into anarchy, next into a
desolate barbarism. Again, the possession of India
and the invincibility of the British army cannot be
sacrificed by England without an awful loss of
prestige and credit. She could not raise her head
again in Europe if she suffered the Hindo)s to
drive her out, nor could she assume the attitude of
an equal in dealing with this country if she were
smarting from so hum'liating and irreparable a de-
feat. Indeed, we hava. no hesitation in saying that
in general terms the power and prosperity of Eng-
land depend upon the prosperity and maintenance
.. of the Indian empire. If the latter be lost, England
will, like Portugal, sink to the rate of a fourth-rate
Power, and will cease to fill any place in the world's
eye. The question for the practical American mind is
therefore how would this country be affected by a
relapse of India into barbarism. And how by a
decline of England from a first to a fourth rate
Power The answer to both queries is the same :
The United States would in both cases be affected
injuriously. Time need not be spent in argument
to show that we should be losers by the relapse of
Hindostan into barbarism. Our trade with East
India is not large, though it is largo enough for its
withdrawal to be felt. But every year, as our
capacity to produce and the capacity of the Hin-
duos to consume increases, it would swell and be.
come more important. Moreover, as a leading
nation of the world, we are to a certain ext
partners of every other race, and sharers in their
prosperity and their reverses. Tbe relapse of Him-
dostan into barbarism would affect us as injuriously
as, for instance, a. commercial convulsion in Eng-
I land, and with more permanent results. But the

A very full meeting of the directors of the At
lantic Telegraph Company was held at their offices
this day (Wednesday).
The fullest investigation into the events which
have led to the present pause in the undertaking,
into the sufficiency of the appliances for paying out
the cablP, and into theaddrtional arrangements and
precautions which the valuab'e knowledge and ex-
perience gained by the late attempt will dictate in
respect to future operations, has been committed to
the charge of sub-committees appointed for the pur-
pose to report to the general board.
The directors will sit in permanence till their
future plans have bean fully discussed and deter-
mined on.

The appeal of the directors to the commanders
of the several ships composing the Atlantic Tele-
graph squadron to come forward and aid the un-
dertaking at this juncture with their advice and
experience has been cordially responded to, and the
following officers have arrived in town, and will be
in consultat'on with the directors to-morrow :
Captain Wainwright, H.M.S. Leopard ; Captain
Sands, U.S. frigate Niagara ; Master-Commander
Noddall, H.M.S. Agamemnon ; and Lieutenant-
Commander Dayman, H.M.S. Cyclops. •
Sufficient information has already been obtained
.to show clearly that the present check to the pro-
gress of the work, however mortifying, has been
purely the result of an accident, and is in no way
due to any obstacle in the form of the cable, nor of
any nautical difficulty, nor of any experience that
will in the future affect in the slightest degree the
entire success of the enterprise. The only sudden
declivity of any serious magnitude (from 140
fathoms to 1,700 fathoms) had been safely over-
come ; theEbeautiful flexibility of the cable having
rendered it capable of adapting itstlf without strain
Ito circumstances which would probably have been
its ruin had it been more rigidly cork-mated. The
combined influences of the low tanap.3rature of
the water and the compression of the pores or the
insulating medium had practically shown that the
is materially improved by be.ng sunk in
action of a telegraphic cable, so far from bring im-
paired,
deep water. The only difficulty worth of conside-
ration which remained was to demonstrate the
practicability of making the splice in mid-ocean.
This was put to experimental test by the engineer,
in a Leavythe
return e a
home of the ships. The two ends, subsequent to the accident, and
before
on board the Agamemnon and Niagara were joined
together, and the splice let down to the bottom,
into soundings of 2,000 fathoms, during a heavy
sea.

decline and fall of England would be a far more
serious matter.
,Besides being our best customer
and our clese-st commercial ally, England stands in
a position that is peculiarly interesting to us, as the
head and home of liberty in Europe. England is
the only country ita Europe where speech, thought,
the press, and action are free ; the only home fur
patriots exiled by despotisms. Were England de-
stroyed there would be no refuge on that side of
the water for such men as Victor Hugo, Kossuth,
and Mazzini ; no dam or breakwater against the
ferocious tyranny of the royalliouses acid oligarchies.
There would not be a foot of soil in Europe where
an honest man could safely speak his mind on poli-
tical matters. From the Frozen Sea to the Mediter-
ranom, Europe—freed from England—would be
sealed to despots; and in theirexultation at beingre-
leased from their tsrrible antagonists—the great'
free press and the bold free mind of England—
there is no saying to what lengths these despots
might proceed. The fall of England might quench
European liberty for a whole century. To an
event which might possibly lead to such an end
this country could not by any possibility remain
indifferent. It is claimed by our statesmen awl
our poets that our mission in this world is to disse-
minate and plant the roots of pure liberty ; a part
of that mission is evidently the maintaining awl
succouring of liberty wherever it is planted. For
fear, therefore, on the one hand, that a successful
mutiny of the lindoos should replunge Hiudostan
into barbarism, and lest, on the other, Indian dis-
ast,rs should precipitate the fall of the only coun-
try whose face is not set against liberty, the only
country besides our own whose existence is a pl
for human dignity and capacity for self-govern-
ment, the temper and feeling of this country
would, if properly handled, take a s'rong turn in
favour of England in the Indian matter. Vor need
such sympathy be barren. Were proper means
taken to place the contest in India in a true light
before the people of the United States, it is highly
probable that active aid could be obtained here for
the Indian Government. The United States con-
tain far more men who are ready to serve as troops
in actual warfare th to Great Britain ; and as we
have no treaties with the nations or peoples with
whom the English are fighting in India none of
our laws would be broken by enlisting them. To
gain their good will it would, of course, be neces-
sary to satisfy this community that, in return for
our sympathy abroad, the English were willing to
cede to us the entire control of the affairs of
this continent .and its dependencies ; and this
would not be an easy thing either for so un.,end-
ing a politician as Palmerston to achieve, or for
so incredulous a people as ours to credit. But
were it accomplished there might doubtless he
awakened a strong feeling here in favour of the
British in India ; and very likely, with proper
measures and a suitable outlay, 50,000 men could
be enlisted in a few weeks.

The experiment was perfectly successful, and
all other circumstances which have been brought
out by the recent expedition have made more and
more cheering and certain the prospects of complete
success on the next occasion.

AMERICAN VIEWS OF THE CRISIS IN

(Prom the Washington Union)
We do not believe that the rebellion in India
will eventuate in successful revolution. Asiatic
nations have, with few exceptions, been easily
conquered by Europeans, however great the dis-
parity in numbers. Indeed, from the days of
Xerxes, large Asia-be armies have been as inefficient
as small ones. The
150,000,000 of population in
India can be retained in subjection by such an
army as England can readily command. The Sepoys
alone are to be apprehended, and they, however
well disciplined as common soldiers, will have no
officers qualified to carry on a long and
regular warfare against the English forces.
England never was so powerful as she now is,
and never so Well prepared to carry on war
in a distant theatre. Her immense steam navy,
aided by rapid communications by mail and the
telegraph, makes it less difficult for her to conduct
a war now in India than to have carried on one in
America 40 years ago. Yet, with all these advan-
tages, the struggle may be protracted ; and even
when the rebellion is suppressed consequences will
probably ensue seriously affecting the weal of Chris-
tendom. Instead of exerting herself, as she has
just proposed, to increase the supply of sug tr and
cotton, which have become alarmingly deficient,
the fact stares us in the face that this deficiency
must increase, and the suffering consequent on it
be aggravated. - But England is not alone con-
cerned in this matter. All Christendom, except
the slaveholders of America, will suffer alike. Since
Columbus and Vasco de Gama openedup the south

to European conquest, enterprise, settlement, and
trade, many new and artificial wants have been
created. Almost a third - of the necessaries of
modern life were unknown or unused by our an-
cestors a few centuries since. Sugar, cotton, coffee,
tea, rice, tobacco, molasses, and many other slave
and tropical proddct4, have not only come into
general me, but have become, even with the poor,
necessaries of life. It is true, they might beds-
pensed with if other articles of food and clothing
could be produced at home to supply their pace ;
but that is impossible. Southern colonies and trade
with the South have furnished Europe for three
centuries past largely increa-ed supplies of food and
clothing. This has stimulated the increase of popu-
lation. We have no accurate census extending so
far back ; but we may safely assert that the popu-
lttion of the larger portion of Europe has trebled
since the days of Columbus and De Gama.
This population has been pinched by frequently-
recurring famine for more than half a century,
despite of its supplies of food from the south.
Emancipation in South America and the West In-
d;es has been annually diminishing these supplies,
while a continuing increase of population has all
the while been begetting greater demands. Eno.-
land and France have for years past been engage
in spasmodic but vain efforts to retrieve the error of
West India emancipation. They push their con-
quests south, and resort to coolies, apprentices, an I
African immigrants to supply the place of
and sugar to
ward off famine and prevent revolution. None of
their experiments have
succeeded or promise to
more gloomy than the
succeed. The future loOke
past. And now this cloud •
of East Indian rebellion
passes athwart the face of that
future to give it still
a darker and a more sombre hue.
Mau has inter-
fered with nature, usurped the part
pf Providence,
arrogated the functions of Divinity, and he is just
reaping the bitter consequences.
The spread of
discovery of wilquest,) of settlement and trade

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IRELAND.

I asked to give the promised narrative he said that he
had none to give ; that.the advertisement had lent.
I drawn up,for him by a young man connected wits►
DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING. the place, and that he knew nothing of giving a
SPOLLEN'S " PERSONAL NARRATIVE." narrative. He only wanted to get an expression
Spollen's lecture was delivered twice yesterday, of sympathy and funds. Probably the proceeds of
morning and evening, according to his advertise- ; the day were from 41. to 51. on the whole.
ments, in a third-class Dublin theatre. It was can-
vassed pretty freely by the groups who crowded to
read the placards, which appearei on the walls,
whether the personal narrative would include any
confession of guilt or any observations upon the
mode in which the murder was committed. It was
also suggested that Sp:Alen ought, to apply t 3 the
Crown Solicitor for the instruments with which the
crime was perpetrated, and for the towel found in
Mr. Little's room, in order to make the shameless
exhibition as complete as possible. Before 1 o'clock
a uumb:r of persons assembled near the theatre in
the hope of seeing the lecturer arrive, but he had
already taken hs place in the interior. Very few, it
is pleasing to record, felt disposed to visit him there.
Those who did go turned into a dingy hall, and went
up a steep flight of stairs to a lobby, where, from a
hole, they were desired gruffly to " pay," Within
the cashier's box sat Jas. Spollen, jun., with the
same offensive, repulsive expression which was ob-
served when at the police- )ffice he unwittingly con-
firm-id so much of the evidence of his sister and
younger brother. Having paid ls. at this point-,
another flight of unpleasant stairs conducted the
visitor to a sort of dirty, ill-lighted loft, almost
without seats, and totally withiut ceiling. At one
end of this wretched place were a small stage, some
three feet above the floor, and a miserable attempt
at a proscenium. Ther, was no curtain, and -he
back scene, some four feet from where the footlights
would have been, represented an impossible inte-
rior, gaudily painted in all the colours of the rain-
bow. Upon the stage were a ricke:ty table and a
deal chair. Up to 1 o'clock Spoilers did not appe
butt might be heard behind the scenes walkinl st a-
dily to and fro. To the honour of the city be it said
that scarcely 20 persons visited this miserable loft
drying the morning, and these were mainly com-
posed of the representatives of the press, of mem-
bers of the police force, and of two or three
others who came to protest against the audacity of
the man who had solicited their attendance.

LECTURE BY LOLA MONTES

The celebrated Lola Mentes has been lecturing in Canada
on Female Beauty. According to the Canadian papers. -
the lady proceeded to ask where beauty lay ? " Where,"
she said, "shall we look for this source of power? Often,
perhaps, in a mere dimple, sometimes in the soft shadow of
a drooping eyelid, or again beneath the tresses of a little
fantastic curl. Alas !" and she spoke it most impressively,
" Ales I am ashamed to think what small things will often
move thel strongest and bravest of men ! Many times in .
my life, in the company of kings and nobles, have 1 been
forced with sadness to reflect on the words of the sublime
Milton, in which he speaks of woman as—
` Fair, no doubt, and worthy well
Thy cherishing, thy honour, and thy love,
Not the subjection.'"
Lola considered the English, Irish, and Scotch women to
be the handsomest. Speaking of beauty, she give the
palm to the well known Duchess of Sutherland, who moved
a natural queen, and was the paragon among the beautiful
aristocracy of England. Lady Bles4ngton was a mer
vellous beauty ; kings and nobles were at her f ,et. In
Italy they called her La Diva—the goddess. She was en-
chanting, with a neck that sat on her shoulders like the
most charming Greek models. She had a wonderfully beau-
tiful hand, and an eye, that when it smiled, captivated all
hearts. She was a far more intellectual style of beauty
than even the Duchess of Sutherland. The present Duchess
of Wellingt, n (when Lola saw her Marchioness of Doti, o)
was an admirably beautiful woman, with little intellect or
animation. She was a fine piece ut sculpture—and as 011
as a piece of sculpture. The most famous beautiful
family in England was the great Sheridan family. There
were two so es, both, said Lola, known to herself, who
were considered the handsoniest men of their day. There
were three daughters—the Hon. Mrs. Norton, well know U
on this side of the Atlantic through her poetry and her mis-
fortunes : Lady Blackwood and Lady Seymour, the latter of
whom was the Queen of Beauty at the famous Eglinton
tournament. These three were called the three graces
of England. Speaking of French beauties, Lola first
praised the Marquise de la, Grange, and afterwards the
Empress Eugenie. When Lola last saw Eugenie, she
(Eugenie) was certainly one of the most vivacious, witty,
and sprightly women of Paris. All the portraits he this
country greatly exaggerated her size, for Eugenie was really
a small woman. Before her marriage with the Emperor, and
when she was the belle of Madrid, she evinced a high ad-
miration for Louis Gottschalk, the pianist, who, by the way,
had carried off unwittingly half a million of hearts from the
United States. Eugenie cawed him to he received into
the most aristocratic families of Madrid. Lola then passed
on to sketch the various characteristics ,of the beauties
of the various countries, and took occasion to hit Lord
Brougham. The Constantinopolitan ladies, with whom
corpulency was beauty, would, she said, have elicited
from that polished gallant the exclamation, " what quan-
tity." Lola decried all cosmetics. She recommended
three things—temperance, exercise, and cleanliness, as pre-
servatives of beauty. The bath, she said, which was uni-
versal everywhere but in Britain and America, was the best
wash that could be desired, although, indeed, it was men-
tioned that tincture of benzoin, precipitated by water, was
used by the beauties of Charles ll.'s reign, and really
brought blood to the surface. Bran might be advantage-
ously used in connection with the bath. A well-cultivated
mind was that which gave not only eloquence to the tongue,
but lustre to the eye, vermillion to the cheek, and lighted
up the whole person as though the whole body thought.
Lola moralised much and well, and when in this vein drew
'orth the heartiest applause.

Shortly after the appointed time Spollen came
upon the stage, holding in his hand a slip of paper.
.He looked furtivelyround for a moment, and turned
a newspaper which lay upon the table over and
over. In expression and bearing he was altogether
unchanged since the day of his arrest, and he wore
the great-coat which he had on at the police-office.
After a moment, he said :—" You all know the
position in which I am placed. I have gone through
a dreadful ordeal, it is true. Situated as 1 am,
without means, you may say without character—
that word ' character,' I think, will draw from you
a degree of sympathy that any poor min may be
entitled to—l need not enter into much details con-
nected with my present! circumstances ; but my
object in coming before you is for the simple pur-
pos 3 of obtaining the means of leaving the country.
In Dublin it would bo diffieult enough to obtain
employment. lam burdened with a portion of my
family, a young man, who is excluded now by the
mother. She is determined not to do anything for
him. That, you will admit, will be a great weight
upon me. Of course I will not be capable of sus-
taining that burden without 1 obtain those means
necessary for my exit from this country. I have
not entered into this without very good advice,
even from the mechanical portion of society, know-
ing that the public would cheerfully respond to give
a man the means of leaving the. country. I have
otherwise, and in a private way, made application
for a fund, but I have been totally unable to obtain
it, to the degree that I require. lam not confin-
ing any gentleman who may think proper to the
amount of admission. Any gentleman who feels
anxious to volunteer further aid may do so."
Having.for some time proceeded in this strain, he
was interrupted by a Mr. Fitzpatrick, who said he
thought the citizens ought t) show a good example
to Ireland, for this man, if allowed to make his
speech there, and obtain money, would go to every
town in the country.
Spollen—That I deny.
Mr. Fitzpatrick—At all events the citizens of
Dublin should denounce such a thing. The place
was so thin because the public were disgusted.
They would not come in to listen to this man, and
he protested against him. It they encouraged this
it would be holding out a bounty to others to--.
He came there, although he had business which
should have been done elsewhere. Ic was mon-
strous to allow that man to come forward, but it
showed what he was. Branded as he was, how
could he dare to come before the world ? [Mr.
Fitzpatrick here used some observations which,
however just, were too strong for publication.]
" You have," continued the indignant gentleman,
addressing Spollen, who stood like marble unmoved
upon the stage, " you have plenty of money, and
you are able to go wherever you wish ; but you had
the audacity to go the other day to the other rail-
road to ask for employment, that you might take
the opportunity"—
Mr. Spollen—That I deny.
Here James Spollen, jun.. rushed into the room,
and attempted to put Mr. Fitzpatrick out.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, after some further observations
to the same eff ct, was about to leave, when Spol-
len, who remained calm and cool during this stormy
episode, said, "Will you answer one question ?"
Mr. Fitzpatrick—Not a word, and I hope no
citizen will hear you.
Spollen—Have the kindness to hear me. Now,
even suppose I was the most guilty man in exist-
ence, would you run me into a hole to starve ?
Suppose I did commit the murder, would you
starve me ?
Mr. Fitzpatrick—Upon my word, I would run
you into a hole, where you would be away from the
public and the power of doing mischief. If you
are employed again you will—
Spollen—That is not a Christian feeling, at all
events.

Mr. Fitzpatrick—l will wait upon the Lord
Mayor to say whether you cannot be put down, and
I hope no one will give you any money.
Mr. Fitzpatrick having retired,
Spollen said that his ebullition of temper was in
no way Christian or feeling, but he laid his case be-
fore the public. They would admit it was a hard
case. What was he to do ? If he was not encum-
bered with a portion of his family he would retire
to the poorhouse and eke out existence in it. He
would imagine it would be the object of any humane
gentleman to assist him in leaving the country, and
not show the feeling that Mr. Fitzpatrick had. He
then proceeded to request tjae press to put his case
favourably to the public, and continued to say that
his present step could not add to the notoriety he
got during his trial. Even though he had been the
guilty man, it was an awful and dreadful thing that
that sacred bondage of matrimony should be de-
stroyed by a wife. He had no more to say, except
that his object was to appeal to their synipathies.
A Gentleman—How do you explain that your
w;fe knew where the money was ?
Spollen—lt would be hard to know what the
police could not find out.
Another Visitor—You did not say you were in-
nocent yet ?
Spollen—Oh ! 'always held forth my innocence.
Visitor—You did not even do that in the dock.
Another Visitor—Who put the money where it
was found ? Did you know anything of it ?
Spollen—Nothing whatever.
Visitor—Have you a suspicion of anyone ?
Spollen—No Suspicion whatever. There may
be domestic faults that it would not he very
right for me to enter into and explain.
Perhaps it is better that I should hold. them
in silence. My position is a very severe one.
Visit .r—lt does not appear to annoy you much.
Your conduct surpasses in audacity all I ever heard.
of. I paid ls. to come in ; you ask a further sub-
scription ; if 'there is a subscription got up to buy
you a rope I will give another shilling.
Spollen (submissively)—Of course, there must be
dissenting parties. I want barely enough to leave
the country.
A Gentleman—You got eight sovereigns, and
why did you not go ?
Spollen—What would you have me to do with
my son ?
Visitor—He is as well able to work as you are.
You would get out to America, at all events, for
3/. each.
Spollen—Will my son get work in this country ?
Would you want I 1 1 e to land in New York without
a shilling iu my pocket ? Take a view in every
way, I would be worse off.
Another Visitor—You ara the coolest fellow I
ever met.
Spollen—Would you have me hang about the
country, amongst society ? A little thing will
serve me. - I have no more to say.
Spollen then retired behind the scenes and the
audience withdrew.
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