The Sun. — 1869-04-20 (London, England)

ASSOCIATIO N THE NORIVICII MURDER.---SHETKARD'S CONFESSION  The Earl of Shaftesbury presided on Monday night, in Exeter Hall, at the anniversary meeting. As usual the large hall was crowded to excess The Revs. J. MoorJiouse, J. C. Harrison, W. G. Williams, M. C. Osborn, • and-several other clergymen and employers were upon the platform. Mr. W. H. Smith, M.P., and Mr. C. Reed, M.P.. who had been announced to speak to the first resolution, sent letters of apology, expressing the warmest sympathy in the objects of the association, but excusing their absence on the ground of expected important divisions in the House of Commons on the Irish Church Bill. The Rev. A. J. Murray having offered up prayer, Mr. Shipton, the secretary, read a report, which gave a very satisfactory account of the success of the society during the past year in the increase of the number of Bible classes in houses of business, devotional meetings, and the reformation of many young men who had been brought within the society's influence. The progress of the work .in Ireland and on the Continent was also spol:en of as satisfactory, and it was announced that agencies had been organised to promote the work in the British provinces. The Rev. J. Moorhouse delivered an address on the motives furnished by the facts of Christianity, to the cultivation of personal holiness, and moved a resolution recognising the great benefits the association conferred on commercial young men. The Rev. J. C. Harrison delivered an address on the opportunities of Christian testimony afforded by business life ; and the chairman wound up a speech testifying to the benefits the society had and was calculated to confer.  LOPEZ AT _HOME.  As' Worksop boy, who ran away from home to see the camp- of Lopez, writes his experiences to his mother. The letter is dated Feb. 15. The following is the most interesting passage : " When I wrote to you last I told you that I was going to Paraguay. Well, I have just returned, after having endured great hardship. I arrived in Asuncion and Conxepsion, the capitals of the before-named country, on the 7th, and I saw the allied army ; and then went outside the city for (a league or two. As I went np in the steamer I saw all the fortresses where the bloody battles have been fought, and they were all in ruins. When I got to my destination, I saw that the cholera was raging there. When we saw this, we knew it was healthy in the mountains where Lopez and his army were. ' Well,' I said, ` let us go there,' and my friends said, ` No, no ; if we go there Lopez will make us serve in his army.' T,said, ` Well, we had better do that than die of cholera.' Well, they consented, and we went about fourteen leagues up the mountains, when an escort of Lopez's troops came on us, seized us, and took us before Lopez, and I knew we should be sure to have to work at either one thing or another. Well, we had been working in the foundry for four days without almost anything to eat. At first they thought we were Brazilians, and all they gave us to eat was a piece of dry hide and some herbs, and hardly any water. I knew Lopez's wife was English, and one day she came close past me, and I spoke to her, and she at once told Lopez, and he let us enjoy ourselves as much as we liked. We saw how they lived, and we saw female battalions go through their drill and everything. Lopez bad been driven from every stronghold he possessed, and is now in the mountains. Where we were there is a