The Sun. — 1865-07-19 (London, England)

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.  The following telegram has been received by Reuter's Telegram Company (Limited) from A. R. Glass, Esq., managing director of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company (Limited), July 19 :  VALENTIA, July 19. The Great Eastern and Caroline have arrived here all well. The former goes to Bantry to-day, whilst the latter is laying the shore end, and this will be accomplished on Friday or Saturday if the we ather moderates.  The Terrible and the Sphynx are also off here  A Poisoner's Confession.  The following is the main portion of the conies_ sion of Lindbach, the Swedish clergyman, who was recently condemned to death for murdering several of his parishioners by putting arsenic into the communion wine :  I comprehend "the pastor's" duty as a father's. I ordered notice to be given me every Sunday by appointed persons of where any poor sick person was to be found. After such inquiries I went round with food and medicine, and became witness of much misery and hopelessness. When one stands beside an incurably sick and dreadfully pained fellow-creature, eno wishes, of all his heart, that he might be released from his heartrending misery. By those hungry, cold, incurables in Silbodahl I have often stood, moved by the deepest pity, and thought, " Were I in such a miserable plight I would bless him who hastened the end of my pain, and God would forgive that merciful one." With every renewed visit to these poor people I was strengthened in this idea. I prepared separate wine, as help in trouble, when this, my misdirected charity, should urge me to it. I thought, also, what none can deny, that very few human beings pass to the other world in tho course of nature, i.e., when the powers of soul and body are worn out by ago. Some external cause occurs, which God, though he does not advance it, yet does not prevent, in virtue of the freedom ho granted, the understanding he gave. How many in the prime of life, in their full vigour, are their own murderers, involuntarily, yet through misuse of their understanding. How many have fallen out of the hands of the most skilful physician into the grave. The patient's statement is not always properly comprehended (yet the statement determines the prescription, and the prescription determines life or death) without God's either helping or hindering, and neither doctor nor patient are thought to have any share in the death. How many an illness which in the beginning might easily have been cured has, through delay in seeking help, precipitated its victim into the grave. From these incontrovertible facts, and the many such examples which I have partly heard described, partly witnessed myself, I have come to the conclusion and belief that science as well aa ignorance often bears the most decisive part, and that pious faith is often wrong in saying "the hour had come." I therefore believed that the merciful God would not condemn me if I shortened the sufferings of a miserable fellow-creature. This action is certainly to outward I appearance against all law, but in reality rests upon grounds of compassion. Mbefore whom I shall finally answeti, knows this, and God,wit deep contrition I feel towards the dead persons e sinful compassion I exercsed myself worthy of the sore punishment of the civil law for inthi the case. Respecting Lysen, men will likely reject my assertion of mercy and call it selfishness in its grossest form, but those who knew his dreadful sufferings and our written agreements will admit my motives of pity. My guilt is groat, my enemies acted right in their earnest investigations. To their consciences, however, I put the question, " Was it zeal in service, or zeal in persecution which directed your course ?" Hate, tho world's demon, is a murderer, and wants even the pool. comfort of having meant well by its crime. Who is most responsible—he who against the law frees one from misery, or he who, under protection of the law, precipitates one into misery ? Cilod alone will judge ! How I have sinned is confessed before God and man ; and now, my persecutors, I pray you, be merciful as our Heavenly Father is ! Let your false imputations now cease, and spare my blameless relatives the heartrending scream of that hate. You have enough—my crime confessed, my house destroyed, my grave opened. Farewell ! farewell, Carlstadt ! That day I was ordained your pastor, I was ordained to death. 0 God! have mercy upon me !