The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-23 00:00:00

(From the "Train Extra.")

In the Grand Court of All Nations.—America v. Eng-
land in the case of Train.—For the Plaintiff, Benjamin F.
Butler, Member of Congress.—ln a British Jail, Anniver-
sary of American Independence, July, 1868. Ron. Ben-
jamin F. Butler, M. 0., House of Representatives, Wash-
ington.—Dear Sir,—Three cheers for the Fourth of July.
Civis Americanus sum. You are another. You possess
pluck. It is rare with Americans. You possess enough
for several. You are generally sound. Sound at Baltimore
on the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington ; sound at
New Orleans ; sound on American industry, and hoisting
the first flag over the capitol made of American Bunting;
sound on Grant, sound on Patent Medicines, sound on
Educated Suffrage, and had you impeached Johnson for
being a Bourbon iu a Bonaparte age, instead of other
counts, you would have been sound,on Impeachment. Ir.
gaol for life for being honest, I want a friend a lawyer.
Here is digest of my sentence. (From the Irishman, June
27.)—Judge Miller gave judgment.) He went over the
evidence at great length, and to the utter astonish-
ment of every person present concluded that as
no offence by Mr. Train of a criminal nature
against the Act of Parliament was before the court, he
would gladly assist in any arrangement by which the
opposing creditor would be enabled to restore Mr. Trait
to his liberty and his country; but having regard to the:
fact that this admitted debt was due to the Ebbow Vale
Company since 1861, and also to the fact that Mr. T
Australian property, said to amount to £lB,OOO, and his
American property, estimated at £30,000, were alleged to
be settled on his wife and family, without any real infor-
mation being given as to tho settlements, or the docu-
ments themselves, or copies produced, to satisfy the cre-
ditor, he could not, under the 208th section of the Act,
declare that he entertained a doubt touching any matter
alleged against Mr. Train to prevent his discharge from
the legal custody in•which he was at present detainedi;
therefore he should adjourn the hearing and examination
of Mr. Train sine die with liberty to him to apply for a
rehearing when advised. Not a word in reply. People
stared in amazement at each other as they heard this de-
cision, and Mr. Levy, who appeared to be taken aback
by the refusal of his client's petition, rose and asked per-
mission to make an observation respecting the decision.
Not a single word would Judge Miller allow him to
say. He had delivered judgment•, and would not allow
it to be questioned or commented on. Then arose Train,
and in a csitt tone of yoke asked U he would_be allowed

to say a word? No. His lordship would not allow any
one to speak. This reply did not satisfy Mr. Train, who
in an excited manner exclaimed—" Why even in criminal
cases a prisoner is allowed to speak. Am Ito be treated
worse than a criminal ?" Judge Miller—This is a civil,
not a criminal case. Mr. Train—And yet I am not allowed
to say a word, although condemned to imprisonment for
life ! Baron Bramwell would not allow the patriot
Burke to speak, but I must be heard. Judge Miller
—I most carefully guarded myself against treating
you as a criminal. You must recollect the state of
the case. You are not in my custody, but in the cus-
tody of the Court of Exchequer, whose judgment is against
you. You ask me to relieve you from the process of an-
other court ; but I can only do that on certain terms —on
your affording me the information which the law requires.
I shall be very glad to give the opposing creditor every
opportunity of effecting a settlement. Mr. Train—As a
stranger I don't understand the judgment. If lam right,
I am to return to the Marshalsea. Judge Miller—
That entirely depends on your giving the infor-
mation which is required from you. Mr.' 'Train
That is implssible. I have given every infor-
mation in my power. My schedule has been pre-
pared without falsification or prevarication, and I can do
no more. Judge Miller—l believe the documents are en-
tirely under yourcontrol ? Mr. Train—No, my lord ; my
father-in-law has the documents. Judge Miller—You
could get copies of them. Mr. Train—As I understand

you send me back to the Marshalsea for perpetual impri-
sonment. Judge Miller—No; that is not my in-
tention. 1 have given you the best explanation in
My power. More than that I cannot do. It is not I who
keep you iu custody ; that custody is under the power of
another court.

TRAIN PRONOUNCES HIS TRIAL A FARCE.
As Judge Miller concluded these remarks ho appeared
;o think the affair was over; but Mr. Train was not to bo
squelched" so easily. Turning from the judge to the
tudience he said in an excited manner—l came here as a

stranger, and I must say that I did not get the fair play
that I would if I were an Englishman or an Irishman. With
regard to the fiat, I look upon the whole thing as a farce, and
I believe it to be a political dodgA. The official assignee--
Mr. Levy—Would your lordship allow me— Mr. Train
—Allow me, Mr. Levy, I am now my own counsel. Judge
Miller, who appeared very nervous, said he was anxious to
allow every latitule to Mr. Train as a stranger to this
country. Mr. Train-1 do not understand anything of
your law. Judge Miller—l have made the decision I have
done upon the ground that the schedule does not afford
the requisite information. Mr. Train—l have given
every information in my power. You said my first
schedule was a farce. I say I believe it to be the
most honest schedule that was ever brought into
your court, and I pronounce my trial a farce. Judge
Miller—l will give you any information I can, but
I cannot allow you to comment upon my judgment. Mr.
Train—lt is altogether a political affair. Judge Miller—
I
cannot hear you on this topic. Mr. Train—You will
allow me to make a remark.• Judge Miller—l will allow
you to make any remark you please, but I cannot hear
you talking of politics. Mr. Train—l wish to say that all
flip persons engaged against me are Government officers.
Mr. Ashurst (Ashurst, Morris, and Co.) is solicitor to the
Post-office, Mr. Fitzgerald is a Government officer, and
you are a Government officer. Judge Miller—No, I am
riot. lam not a Government officer.

TRAIN APPEALS TO AMERICA.

Mr. Train here turned to the audience, and, at the
highest pitch of his sonorous voice, said—l here solemnly
protest against the proceedings from beginning to end.
I protest in the name of the American Government against

this arrest. Your lordship stated that there was no ap-
peal from your decision in this court, but I appeal to the
army and navy of 'the United States of America, and I
will yet have the power to remove you from the bench.
There has been no fair dealing from the commencement.
It i swindle of the British Government ; but I shall yet
have power, and that before two years are over, to repay.
them. The effect of this speech was electrical. Every par-
son in the densely-crowded court rose to their feet.. Every
sentence uttered by Mr. Train was followed by bursts of
enthusiastic applause, and at its conclusion the cheers
were almost deafening. Judge Miller appeared to be not
a little alarmed at the attitude of the people, and police-
men flocked into the court, ready to act in case of emer-
gency. When order was partially restored Mr. Train was
removed in custody. On making his appearance in the
courtyard Mr. Train was greeted with cheers, and as he
proceeded to the Marshalsea, in custody of two hatchmen,
the cheering continued, until at Arran-quay some mem-
bers of the police force came up and dispersed the crowd,
Mr. Train was then conducted to the Marshalsea without
any further demonstration.

GEO. FRANCIS TRAIN.

THE GREENBACK QUESTION ILLUSTRATED.--If
we were buying and selling fabrics by a yardstick of daily
fluctuating—to-day, thirty inches; to-morrow, twenty-
eight ; next day, thirty-one, and so on—and if our gallon
and bushel measures of quantity were equally elastic—and
if our standard ton were daily varying from fifteen hun-
dred up to nineteen hundred pounds, with corresponding
fluctuctions in the number of ounces in the pound —and if
some mutton-head should open his face and gravely pro—
pound that we couldn't yet afford to return to the use of
uniform yards, gallons, bushels, and tons, because we were
so recently involved fn an exhausting civil war, and have
come out of it loaded with a heavy public debt, wouldn't
we readily agree to shave that fellow's sconce and
put him into a safe place until ho could talk less absurdly?
And wherein does our national persistence in the use "4
currency of that "false balance," which the Good Book
pronounces "an abomination unto the Lord," differ from
the course advocat3d by the mutton-head aforesaid
Tribune.

ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.—Up to the present tiine
:he number of public acts is 57, and of local acts 146. TO
Session commenced on the 19th of November.
STATISTICS OF COINAGE. —The amounts of golds
silver, and copper moneys coined at the Royal Mint in eachof the years 1853-67 were as follows: —ln 1853, £11,952,391
tu gold, £701,544 in silver, and £10,190 in copper. In 104
he amounts coined in each metal were £4,1508,.3'
£140,4).0, and £61,538 respectively ; in 1855, .£9,008,601
£195,510, and £41,091; in 1856, £6,002,114, £462,028, and
£11,418; in 1857, £4,859,860, £373,230, and £6,720; in 1858,
£1,231,023, £445,896, and £13,440; in 1859, £2,649,5099
£647,064, and £8,512 ; in 1860, £3,121,709, £!18,403, ttad
£37,990 ; in 1861, £8,190,170, £209,484, and £273,578; is
1862, £7,836,413, £141,518, and £352,800 ; in 1861
£6,997,212, £161;172, and £151,648; in 1864, £9,535,59'1
£535,194, and £18,069 ; in 1865, £2,367,614, £501,732, and
£57,493 ; in 1866, £5,076,676, £493,416, and £50,621; itt,
1867, £496,397, £193,842, and £33,301. The total amount
of moneys coined in 1853 was .£12,664,125 ; last year, I-837
the total amount coined was only £723,540. The BoYa'
Commissioners on International Coinage held a meeting
last Tuesday, at 6, Old Palace-yard. Present—Viscount
Halifax, Col. Right Hon. J. Wilson Patten, M.P., Bigbt
Lion. C. P. Villiers, M.P., Right Hon. S. Cave, M.P., Bar°ll
L. de Rothschild, M.P., Sir John Lubbock ; the G, vern°r
of the Bank; Mr. T. Baring, M.P., Mr. Hubbard, AO"
Mr. J. B. Smith, M.P., Mr. Thomson Hankey, M.P., til°
Astronomer Royal, the Master of the Mint, and Mr. Rivers
Wilson (Secretary).
DEAD WEIGHT IN A BOAT RACE.--A story is told Of
Clodoche (Clodoche will be remembered as one of foot'
clowns, who performed a short time in 'London, at the
Princess's Theatre), the extravagant dancer of the masked
balls of the Grand Opera and other theatres. He was, at
the outset a life, an undertaker. Devoted to boating, be
gave all his leisure hours to the oar, and belonged to a crert
which frequently won purses in races. One day, Nrii;il
his boat was entered for a valuable cup, he was unable
to get leave of absence. A baby had died in the hospi
tal, and he must carry it to the graveyard. Nobody coining
to the baby's funeral, Clodoche put the little coffin mid`s
his arm and set out for the graveyard. What harm sra,
there in going to see the boat race ? Ho had no sooner
appeared on the river's bank than his comrades' shouted
for him. Row he must. The honour of the boat de-
pended on him. He refused, and explained his position ta°
them. They insisted upon his joining them, and Weal
take no refusal. He placed the coffin on the bottom of the
boat And took his oars. The' boat beat all the others
The victory was celebrated with many a bottle. It ri'a
nights before he put the coffin under his arm and turned
his face towards Paris. What was his terror when uP°
reaching Paris he remembered the octroi search eve,c);
thing. The coffin was opened. He was arrested. I'o,
story was investigated, and he was liberated from Pris° _I
but dismissed from service as an undertaker.—Spirit
the Times.
Twice lately John Hare's morning train from t_se
north brought through Springfield 40 Canadian xoutM
en route for Italy and the Popo.

Births.
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FAIRBANK—On the 19th inst., at Windsor, the wife °-
Fairbank, of a daughter.
JOHNSTONE —On the 21st inst., a; Kilburn, the wife of 'Qv'
Johnston,', Esq., of a son.
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VAVASSEUR —On the 17th inst., at Knockholt, Ken',
Vavasseur, of a daughter.

Marriages. am
LIANBURY—TOWNLEY—On the 21st inst., at Dc's',igte,r
Market, Norfolk, F. A. Hanbury, Esq., ?LA.,
at-law to Blanche, youngest daughter of the .in'"
Townley, Esq., of Downham.
MooRE—RvDER —On the 21st inst., at Bovingdon, ifortS
William Westby Moore, second son of the /ate c The
Hon. Judge Moore, to Isabel, secoud daughter of
Hon. Granville and the late Lady Georgiana Rydr'

Deaths. Af arl
CURZON— On the 21st inst., at 10, Stratford-plac,°•„,idi
Florence, wife of Captain G. A. Curzon, 2d Life
aged 27. • k
NOBLE —On the 21st inst., at 2, Coluev-hatch-Par' Jesse
Noble, Esq., aged 80. odd' '
S ETON—On the 16th inst., at 14, King-street, Si. s'oec-
from the effects of an accident, Sir John Seton, 0'
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corn, Bart., K. 0.11., aged 72.
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