The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-21 00:00:00

MR. MAIN'S ECCENTRICITIES.

The Dublin correspondent of the Times writes :—" It is
a great privilege to be a native-born American. His lot
is enviable, at least outof his own country. Mr. G. F. Train
is at present enjoying to the full the superior advantages
which belong to such a condition. He is ' stumping the
country,' as he says, and with a vengeance, too, speaking
and agitating with a freedom which makes him an
object of wonder and delight to the Fenian audiences who
throng his lecture' rooms. His actions are a strange com-
mentary upon the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act and the
Press prosecutions in Ireland. He was lately in Dun-
garvan , and treated the inhabitants of that little port
to some original and agreeable views of the Jacmel
expedition and other kindred topics which have re-
cently been brought before them under less pleasing
circumstances. He thought it extraordinary, he said, that
Nagle and Warren, who, as he assured them amid cheers
and laughter, only came to the town to 'shake hands'
with the people, not to capture it as Cromwell did, and
threaten to slaughter its inhabitants, but ' merely to see
if they had got a good harbour where vessels could land
without cannons, revolvers, or muskets,' should have met
with such an unfavourable reception from the British
Government. Now, the sooner those two American citi-
zens were given up the better it would be for England.
He entertained the assembly by relating in a characteristic
manner how he had snubbed' Charles Francis Adams. It
was he who had raised the cry which earned Mr. Adams's
recall. He would shew them, he said, that England was
going down and America going up. She was 'ruled by dotards,
octogenarians, septuagenarians, nonagenarians - - arians
whose white hairs had no wisdom, and who had grown old
without arriving at maturity so far as judgment went.'
They were so busy babbling about other places they had
no time to busy themselves about Ireland. The next place
they would think of if they got into a war with America
would be 'the place where they did not rake the fire.'
The British Parliament, he informed them, so far as
representation was concerned, was a perfect farce. Of
500 members, 450 were landowners. It was absurd to
expect a Tenure Bill from them. He declared that
' hell would be a divine institution for England.'
He referred to some commentaries which had been made
in the Conservative press respecting the language which
he had been allowed to utter in other places, and
declared that he was not a Fenian, but head and shoulders
above the Fenians."

The Cork Examiner, which has recorded the sayings and
doings of Mr. Train, con amore, adds :--" Mr. Train con-
cluded by a brilliant rampage over the social and political
morality of England. At the c)nclusion of his lecture he
was escorted to his hotel by a vast throng of the towns-
people, who carried him upon their shoulders amid the
most enthusiastic cheers."

Mr. Train delivered his first lecture in Dublin on
Thursday night to rather a thin audience. The only part
of the room that was filled was that to which admission
was cheap. His language was cautious, hut humorous,
and his hits at England were loudly cheered. Some
persons who expressed dissent were ejezted. As a specie
lation the lecture was a failure.