The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-29 00:00:00

LEI TER FROM GEORGE FRANCIS
7 RAIN.

(From the Anglo-American Times)
Dublin, Four Courts, Marshalsea, July 20.
Dear Anglo-American Times,—
It was very kind for you to remember me in my
" summer cottage" in Ireland, so kindly furnished
for me by the greatest nation on the face of the
airth. Britons never will ba slaves so long
as, in the midst of life, they are in debt.
Is it time to abolish this relic of the barbarous ages ?
Five years of idleness can be produced by a £lO
bill. These things are recorded in this debtor's
jail.

DOWN WITH IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
THE SPECIAL OF TILE WORLD.
" George Francis Train, having nothing else to do in the
Marshalsea, has written reams upon reams, and the Ame-
rican papers team with his productions. It astonishes us
that he who writes so much should write so well, and in
such spirits, considering the circumstances ; but ho has
ono inexhaustible theme of inspiration, and that is—him-
self."—Anglo-American Times.
Himself.—Why not? Humility is cowardice.
Egotism is courage. Don't we all know our
friends ? Does water run up the hill? Can we get
above our level and hold our own long ? Are there
not natural' laws that keep us in our places? If you
can edit a" first-class journal, don't you know it?
When any man says, " Train, you are clever." I
say, " Yes—much more so than you think I am."
the party is usually astonished at my catching
him in the act. Put a lot of potatoes in a spring
cart over a rough road the small potatoes must go
to the bottom. Let us introduce a new religion
and tell the truth, even though a congregation may
walk out of the church.
WHAT IS HIS INFLUENCE AMONG THE IRISH.
(From the Anglo -American Times.)
" George Francis gives a touching picture of his child-
hood in New Orleans, written with a power that shows,
when he chooses to be rational, how great the talent is he
does in truth possess. If all his loose joints were well
screwed together, and ceased to rattle in that plaguey,
ridiculous way when ho got into motion, he would have
taken a very different position in his country. Without a
particle of real sympathy by blood, or any otherbond, he de-
sires to walk on the shoulders of the Irish into the Pre-
sidential Chair, and he pursues this infatuated idea with
a waste of toil, talent, and energy, which, well directed,
would make any other person's fortune. After abusing
England to his heart's content, he expects to be received
by Englishmen with outstretched hand. Otherwise,
what could have induced him to brave the lion is his
den on the Liverpool Stock Exchange? There are only two
ways in which he can be received in England, either with
indignation, or with curiosity. lie has too much talent
and energy, however misdirected, to ba treated with con-
tempt. We are sorry he was not permitted to leave, as he
desired, by the Scotia, for we aro curious to see what his
influence among the Irish in America really is. But the
Republicans need not hug themselves on the prospect of
seeing the Irish vote split in favour of George Francis
Train."

Our Convention meets on the sth of August in
Chicago, and will adjourn to the Academy of
Music, New York, to the 20th of September, to be
adjonrned again to Cincinnati, to meet on the
anniversary of Lord Cornwallis' surrender on the
19th of October. Two weeks of telegram will call
our organization to the ballot-box. Our Labour
Societies, our Reform Leagues, and the Fenian
Brotherhood are completely organized. I hold the
balance of power.
THE IGNORANCE OF THE " TIMES" ON AMERICAN
NEWS.
The ignorance of the London Press on American
affairs is proverbial. You well describe it in your
Leader. Hit them again ; thsy have no friends
among my Irish boys. Only last week Punch makes
Horace Greeley proprietor of the Philadelphia Led-
ger ; and the Times, during the war, anchored
Burnside's naval expedition in the mountains
of Western Virginia— while the Standard landed
the pilgrim fathers at New Orleans on the
banks of the Ohio. The people know no-
thing of America. The penny papers sel-
dom discuss American affairs. The Lord Mayor
of London, it will be remembered, introduced
4t Daniel Webster as a member of the Upper Senate
of New York." Reuter sends about twenty lines a
week by the cable, and the mails only bring a para-
graph or two. What is the remedy for this lack of
enterprise and lack of disposition to discuss Ameri-
can affairs? It is this—An Ocean Penny Postage.
Randall did right in snubbing Trollope. Open the
gates of the Atlantic, and give us free trade in let-
ters. We must have another Collins' line of
steamers.
JUDGE KEOGH lIND GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.
MR. TRAIN MAKES ANOTHER STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY
AND FAILS.
Since you published my last trial I have made
another attempt without success. Lord Jeffries
says I am in his custody—Lord Norbury says I am
in his ; and my corpus seems to belong to anybody
who is disposed to habeas it. Ask your legal readers
if a man can be arrested under fiat and afterwards
detained under ca sa—in other words, for twice the
sum? Again, can individuals arrest under fiat,
and the firm detain in ca sa ? Would not either of
these legal informalities release a British subject?
Is there a different law for an American ? Here
are the facts of the case for your column of co-
nundrums. GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN.
[We have read the Irish 7 imes' report of the pro-
ceedings, and although we would be sorry to hazard
an opinion against that of Mr. Justice Keogh, we
cannot help thinking that there is neither law nor
justice in the decision of which Mr. Train com-
plains. We regret that the report is too long to
publish, and we cannot doubt that Mr. Train will
soon be at liberty, for a creditor imprisoning
debtor, except as a punishment for an intent to
defraud, is a foolish proceeding, and if the report
we elsewhere give regarding Mr. Train's property at
Omaha be correct, he must be, or soon will be, able
to pay anything he considers justly due.--En.
A.A.T.]

ADVERTISEMENT.i.—HoIIoway's Pills.— In bilious dis-
orders, sick-heache, indigestion, and affections of the
nerves these famous Pills, so highly appreciated in all
quarters of the world, are regarded as a perfect remedy.
They purify the blood, regulate the secretions, give tone
to the stomach, restore the appetit,:‘, and renovate the
whole system. After a course of these Pills the once
emaciated and feeble patient is so changed that his frienis
are both wonder struck and delighted. These cheap pre-
servatives of life and health are a blessing to mankind. It
would be hardly possible to overstate the good that they
have effected in diseases which through maltreatment or
negleA had gained such a mastery over the system that
their eradication seemed perfectly hopeless.