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

1118. TRAiN'S LECTURE•' AT CORI:.

The Cone correspondent of the Daily News, writing on
Wednesday evening, has the following :—" Mr. Train
seems to have been emlphlened 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. Ia 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 cf 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, `lf 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, be 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 the
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 n.e ning was under-
stood. The sensation of the evening was produced
by Mr. Train's proposal that the United States
should, purchase Ireland from the British Govermikent.
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 shewed 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 bad

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 difficult to exaggerate
the mischief these harangues is doing here. The persons
to whom they are addressed are chiefly seen 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 alive disaffection than all the writings of the
rrishman, or all the speeches of Mr. John Martin.
" Mr. Train's lecture to-night was to have had reference
o the English national debt, the impending great war in
:grope, and the fall of Napoleon. These topics, however,
,ccupled but a small share of his attention. He began by
:cading the despatch he had forwarded to the President of
the United States on the occasion of his arrest. In this
document the President is reproached for not having
insisted with sufficient determination upon the Alahairra
claims, and is admonished to require England to pay
those claims or take the risk of war. Allusion is also
afa,le to the Fenian rain in Canada, which Mr. Train
says was badly managed. These two r.ints were loudly
cheered by the audience. Mr. Train next referred
to the Manchester executions, which he described
as a blunder. 'Then he talked of the Enf;lish Forians,'
who had obtained by fraud and violence all the present
possessions of Great 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."

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1868.

the 2d Royals are to be held in readiness to embark

Church electing and consecrating her own bishop
without the intervention of a Minister of State. It
seems to ns that the Natal case is exactly parallel
with that of Canada, and that the proposed conse-
cration can hardly involve any of those appalling
consequences anticipated by the Bishop of London.
We apprehend that the Crown is quite capable of
taking care of its own rights in this matter, and
judging from the policy of the Colonial-office under
the two last Administrations, it will be chiefly
anxious to leave the Colonial Church perfectly
free, and to avoid such embarrassments as those
with which, thanks to the blundering of Attorney-
General Bethell, it was saddled in the case of the
/N atal bishopric. At the same time we entirely
agree with the Bishop of London that Bishop Gray
is bound to exercise all possible care that every
step he takes is consistent with legality. We
have no doubt that he has done this, and that he
will proceed to c3nsecrate a new bishop for the
Church in Natal with the assurance that he has
ample warrant for doing so."—Anglo-America 1/
limes.