New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-05-09
GREAT BRITAIN.
THE FENIAN PRIsONERs.

prisoners who were captured on board the JAG
mel packet Erin's Hope, some time since, and inn
prisoned have been released from confinement, hay-
ing previously given the authorities the pledges re-
qulTed. They celebrated their freedom yesterday
by calling George Francis Train, who is in jail IN
this city.
TRAIN ~ THE BANKRUPTCY COURT
The case of George Francis Train was before the
Bankruptcy Conrt here to-day. 10 reply TO questions
Put to him Mr.. Train said he had no property him.
self and no control over that pertaining TO his wife
lie was recommitted for further examination
TIE ATTACKS ON Mr.. GLADsTONE-LAw FOR
MARRIED wOMEN-THE PRINCES IRISH VISIT
A GREAT sPIRITUABIsT CAsE-NEW BOOKS
Mr.. WALT WHITMAN AND HIS CRITICS.
'''" '1 ''' LONDON, April %, 1868
M Gladstone has been stung into writing letter
of formal contradiction to SIX several charges which
during the Easter Holidays the Tory press had en-
ployed its leisure in inventing and which, says Mr..
Gladstone, have been assiduOusy circulated in
different parts of the country. That Mr. Gladstone
is Catholic at heart, and when in Rome arranged
with the Pope to destroy the Protestant Church IN
lreand that he opposed the appointment OF Bishop
because he was anti Romanis that he has publicly
declared himself against a State Church in England
that he refused to go to church with the Queen at
BalmOra that the Pope has thanked him for ms
efforts against the Irish Church; finally. that ne is
member of a High Church Rltualst eonaegat9nII
these are the charges in respect 10 which Mr. Glad
stone declares that they are lone and all untrue in
letter and spirit from the beginning to the end" 1t
is difficult 20 conceive that the persons who put
afoat snch prepOsterOus calumnies themselves be
Heyed them. They were, however, not III calculated
TO produce an impression ON the minds OF persons
who could be influenced by the squeals of terror
which Mr.. DisTaeli has INDUCED IN with respect TO
the danger to the State arising ont OF MI Gladstones
Those resolutions, Mr.. Gladstone himself an
nounces will be pushed to the bitter end Not the
first only, but the second and third, must be voted
on If adopted, as they surely will be, and an adj
dress from the House goes TO the Queen praying her
TO SURRENDER the Church patronage OF the Crown IN
Ireland TO the House. what advice Will MI. DsTaell
give to her Majesty-he being her constitutional, and
what is more her responsible adviserf 10 reject
them He flies in the face OF the House. 10 accept
them lie insults and betrays his own party, ms
is but one of the dilemnas IN which Munster at
tempting to govern without majority is likely TO
find himself involved.
friend TO America brought into the House this week
a bill TO protect the property OF married women, lie
proposes that woman, AFTER her marriage, snalI re-
tain complete control over her fortune, and over her
earnings with liberty TO sue and be sued as II she
were single This very moderate measure Nh Lefe-
,re SUMMARIZED i'm an able and moderate speech point
ing out that at present the END ne desires Is attained
IN the case OF the rich by marriage settlements but
that there is no protection for the poor woman
against the Tapacity mprOvidence OF her husband.
Leave to introduce the bill was granted but there
scarcely be any chance for sueh measure our
ing this crowded and belated session. once before;
think in 1857 similar bin ordered TO second
reading by large majority, but IT never got any tur-
Their. bgOted hostility sprung az once INTO actiN-
There is cause to be thankful that the visit of the
Prince and Princess Of Wales to Ireland IS at las, last
ended In the course of the Alabama debate IN Par
lament. Mr. SandfOTd, Tory member for AIaldOD,
once jealous Anglo Rebel, was good enough TO say
that the Americans whom he had met were very GOOD
fellows and that he did not believe the American
people were One-twelfth part SO great snODs ana
hmkeys as the English. Whether they deserve 50
hatteTing comparison viii not attempt TO say, but
at least may believe they wonld have grown weary
of the tide of gushing tunkeylsm when, Tor week
past has poured through the columns OF the LOhdOH
papers There is reason to think that the accounts of
Irish enthusiasm have been greatly exaggerated. L
don't know what your correspondent may haye VIII
ten yOu but private letters received here speak OF the
reception of the Prince cold Some of them have
found their way into print one saying that tne
enthusiasm was OF the mlldest character, ah any tne
public greetings scarcely decent Such cordlalty as
there was seems to have been called out chiefly by
the Princess of whom 10 one ever says anything but
good and who is really beloved. -
One of the most celebrated of the persons called
Spilitualists is now before the Nice-ChancellOrs
Court as defendant in an extraordinary case. Dlll
has been filed against Mr.. Douglas Home by widow
lady of 75 named Lyon to compel the restitution OIL
no less sum than 100000 eXtOTted from her by Mr..
Home by the exercise of his spiritual influence Mr..
Home does not deny that he had the money, but as
Serts of course, that IT was gwen 10 hlm by MIS-
Lyon Of her own free will, or rather in accordance
with the inuDetiOns OF the spirit OF her dead nus
hand communicating its wishes TO Mrs. Lyon
through the involuntary medium OF Mr.. Home. Bank
of En9land stock to the amount of $4,000 was trans
ferred bv Mrs Lvon to Mr. Home within few days
of their first acquaintance, 70 winch was aued bot
long after further sum OF 46'OOO III STOCK, ana
mortgage for $4,000 There appears 10 DC some rea-
son TO suppose that Mr.. Home intended 20 escape
with his plumber since writ of ne Great was OBTAINED
against him. He was lockedbp ~ WhlteerOss fIls9n,
and finally was obliged to lodge IN court uie
stock and mortgage securities for the wh0le
amount OF which Mrs. Lyon had been de-
PriSed The hearing before " ice eaF ang
has been chiefly taken up with the cross-eKamlnatlOn
of Mrs. Lyon. The counsel OF hr Home mas done
hfS kaet oho was
sane, clear-headed, competent TO manage her pro
perty amounting il Is said, TO El5OOOO, and neither
ont Of her mind nor subject To undue influence in
giving $4,000 TO the spiritual medium who persuaded
her that such gift was the wish Of her husband,
The evidence is extremely curious, but / have no
space to 90 into it, and the is unfinished. Mr..
Home himself must take his turn the stand next
week and IS meantime an object Of hOOtngs by the
crowd tat gather daily M and around the Court. II
is even said there has been attempt 20 assassDate
him-pOssibly by some victim less fortunate than
Mrs. Lyon. / need not express an opinion on Mr.
Homes conduct in this case but IL should divide
SpiritRalists broadly into impostOrs and dupes il
may be feared Mr.. Home could not be reckoned
among the latter
OF great interest They are not even very numerous
reason for which is that the trade think TOO many
books have been issued of Late years, aud there Is
something hike glut in the market and, after all
the English are not a bO0k-buying people. Ruskin
says somewhere they are not clean people but prefer
thumbng greasy copies from circulating library TO
reading their OSn. The same remark was made to
me recently In another shBpe. Editions even OF sue
cessfal books are not large. That nobody buys a
novel has long been an axiom and now Mndle has
GOne far TO make II true OF other books suspect
that the publishers would be glad 90 bring back
Tie old days Take snch a book as Bakers Abys-
slnl9, the most readable, and certainly one
81 The most popular works issued last year. IL has
reached third edition only and it's total sale does
yolume went far beyond this, but his second was q
ds eaI great failure that Murray lost good
Of b 90 money BY t. you 9Ss back over the tS s
laliy, weekly and Quarterly periodicals, you NAV