The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1865-06-24 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

PROUIBITED FROM INC.- -In a letter to the l'aris Pram M. Alexandre  Dumas, referring to the prohibition oi his lectures by the authorities, thus states the groundi of Um prohibition :  I said, in speaking of my friend Hugo, and in explaining the difference between his early poetry and his national poetry, "I continue to give my hand to those who are led by change of opinion to misfortune and exile, but I withdraw it from those whom their change of opinion leads to fortune and hi sours." In uttering those words. I believed, I confess, that I was giving expression to a noble axiom Junco-41s, and not proclaiming a dangerous political maxim. I committed the Manic error when I composed the famous hymn of the Girondist, Mourir pour la patrie,. which for fifteen years has prevented the piece from being played. It seems that I shall never learn. I lose by this defect of social and literary intelligence 5,000 or 6,000 Banes a month ; but the poor, to whom In one month I have Jun nearly 3,,,00J francs, will lose yet more. But, in default of France, foreign countries remain to me,  WENDELL PHILLIPS ON THE TREATMENT OF TITS Somru. —ln the course of a speech deliveredion negro suffrage a few evenings ago, at the Cower Institute, New York, Mr. Wendell Phillipe observed It is idle to talk of punishing the South. You cannot, said Burke, indict a nation. I cannot draw an indictment against a whole people, said the great British orator. It would be in vain, also, to indict as guilty of murder fourteen States, or to convict them of treason. Every unneeenntry severity is cruel; and if this notion Is az strong as it seems to be, it does not need vengeance. (Applause.) The serene elasticity 4 a structure of government which has borne the rebellion of intil with hut-thy a jar, which never felt the assassination of its chief magistrate in the crisis of civil war, but moved snajestically forward undisturbed, Is too strong to tremble before even ten ouch States in anus. (Applause ) I would not proclaim, then, to the world such a lurking eonseinuant,s of weakness as would be evinced by a great people's taking vengeance on a section which it had subdued. (Applause.) Whet, by the world, will be the appreciation of our condition If it he supposed that our safety lies simply in the extermination of those men outside the picket line "Oh," said Uncle Toby to the insect that disturbed him, raising the whitlow, "the world is wide enough for thee and me, poor fly," So I would say to the lenders of the Confederacy. I shall never consent to the death of Jefferson Davis until I fear his life. Ile is weaker alive, a Ml:minus fugitive, than dead and buried in the sympathies of millions, lot him live, then. I once said of John thrown, "Virginia dared not let him live." No man, with my consent shall ever have it to say of this strong, serenely secure nation, "It dared not lot Davis live." We are too strong to need vengeance, but what we do need is security. Mr. Phillips then proceeded to argue that this security would be found in negro suffrage. AN OPINION !—This is what an English Bishop thinks of the Record. Dr. Connop Thirlwall, of St. David's, writing to ths-Spertator concerning an attack made upon Mr. John Stuart Mill, rat by the Record and then by the Morning Advertiser, nays :1. have nothing to add to your exposure of the Record's argument, but I entirely acquit it of intentional misrepresentation. I believe it to be an honest exhibition of intellectual and moral incapacity, as worthy of the Rceord and its satellit• as It would have been impossible for any journal which had the smallest title to respect as a guide of religious , . . . .  opinion. Perhaps it might have been Rarely predicted that, there were ayaiwagos in Mr.. Mill'a work which the Record  would select tt".;i• condemnation and would denounce as "Satanic," it would be that, which breathes the purest spirit of Christian morality.