The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-31 00:00:00

MR. TRAIN'S LECTURE AT COPE:

The Corn correspondent of the Daily News, writing on
Wednesday evening, has the following :—" Mr. Train
seems to have been emboldened by the impunity which at-
tended his first lecture. His second harangue was much
more inflammatory than the first, and that delivered to-
night was more mischievous and exciting than any of its
predecessors. In his first lecture, which he avowed to be
an experiment, Mr. Train limited himself to abuse of the
officials who had arrested him at Queenstown, and vague
denunciations of England, with some allusions to Fenian and
to United States politics calculated to awaken national pas-
sions.
Last night he trenched upon more dangerous ground.
The bulk of the lecture consisted of abuse of England and
Englishmen, which was, of course, most grateful to the
unwashed mob composing the majority of the audience.
With this, however, Mr. Train interwove remarks which
directly appealed to the passions of the disaffected. He
spoke again of his arrest ; of the terror with which his ap-
pearance seemed to have inspired the Government officials ;
and then asked, If they are so much afraid of one Ame-
rican citizen, in God's name what will they do when we
let loose forty millions upon them ?' The response
to this question was a ringing and prolonged cheer.
The cherished hope of the disaffected lies in a war
between England and the United States, and Mr.
Train's hint at ` Ireland's opportunity' was rap-
turously greeted. Again, Mr. Train alluded to
the imprisonment of the Irish-American citizens in this
country, and denounced the American Cabinet for leaving
them at the mercy of England. The English, lie said, had
sent an expedition to Abyssinia to rescue her Fenians ; but
America was too small, too weak a nation to protect her
citizens. The contrast artfully suggested between tho
power of England and the 'United States—another idea in
which the disaffected find consolation—was appreciated
by the audience, and loud and prolonged cheers
assured the speaker that his me ming was under-
stood. The scns;:tion of the evening was produced

by Mr. Train's proposal that the United States
should, purchase Ireland from the British Government.
The Washington Cabinet, he said, had already paid a
million sterling for a volcano, and on the part of the
United States Government he offered one hundred and
fifty million dollars in gold for Ireland. Here again the
cheers of the audience sheaved their perfect sympathy with
the proposal. These are but a few examples of the inflam-
matory matter of the lecture. The idea inculcated
throughout was that the United States was friendly to
Ireland and hostile to England ; that hitherto the United
States had been tolerant of England, from which she had
received a series of injuries and insults, but that this
toleration could not always continue, and then-. (The

cheers of the mob suggested forcibly their hopes of the
future course of events.) It is ditilcult to exaggerate
the mischief these harangues is doing here. The persons
to whom they are addressed are chiefly men and lads of
the lower classes, those who form the backbone of
Fenianism, who greedily receive every statement, no
matter how absurd, as to the decadence of England ; enter-
tain the wildest hopes of succour from the United States,
and cherish the most exaggerated notions of the power of
the American Republic. To these people Mr. Train pre-
sents himself as an Amercan politician in the confidence
of the American cabinet, and his undisguised assurances
of American sympathy for Ireland are more calculated
to keep alivo disaffection than all the writings of the
'lien)) an, or all the speeches of Mr. John Martin.
" Mr. Train's lecture to-night was to have had reference
As the English national debt, the impending great war in
?asrope, and the fall of Napoleon. These topics, however,
mcupied but a small share of his attention. He began by
trading the despatch he had forwarded. to the. President of
United States on the occasion of .his arrest. In this
document the President is reproached for not I,AvilY
insisted with sufficient determinatien upon the Alabama
claims, and is admonished to require England to pay
those claims or take the risk of war. Allusion is also
made to the Fenian rain in Canada, which Mr. Train
says was badly managed. These two points were loudly
cheered . 11Y the audience. Mr. Train next referred
to the Manchester executions which he described
as a blunder. Then he talked oi the .` English Fenians,'
who had obtained by frand and violence all the present
possessions of treat Britain. After this Mr. Train went
on to describe the advantages which Would result to the
United States from a war with England, which would
reconcile parties, and promote the growth of native manu-
factures ; next, Mr. Train bestowed his attention on
Continental politics. He described Russia and America
as friendly to each other and hostile to England. France
was also hostile to England; and to France, he hinted, in
some doggrel verses, Ireland was to look for her future
ruler. After a wildtalk, which very few of his audience
were able to follow, Mr. Train went on to discuss the pros-
pects of the great war, which he was treating of as I close
this despatch."