and put it in the fire, and washed his hands | of his age to drop from; and here he reand face. He was very kind to me, and mained waiting for somebody to pass to kissed me very much. I went to bed, but whom he might appeal for assistance. The he did not, as he said the Volage's boat cottage being beside the sea, and removed a would come in with the tide. I never saw considerable distance from any other, it was André afterwards, but if you search the ground under the dung-heap, behind the not much a matter of surprise to him that arbor, you will find his body, hour after hour passed by without his "For more than three months from this seeing any body. The opportunity came at night I never went outside our garden, for last, however; but it was near sunset before fear somebody might speak to me about the he was able to lay the confession before the murder; and it was nearly two years after-authorities, so that very little could be done wards before I heard that young M. Charles in searching for Loret that night. At the had been sent to the galleys for murdering first glimpse of daylight the following mornhis father and mother. I told Philippe when I got home what I had heard, and it was then he told me that he and André had quarrelled about the money and had fought; that André had tried to stab him, and he had killed him in the scuffle, and buried him behind the arbor. "I liked M. Charles very much-he was so young and gay, and used to speak to me so kindly, and often brought me pastry and fruit when he came to give orders about his boat; but I loved Philippe like my own soul, and I could not betray him to death, and he knew it, and has always been as kind to me as any man could be; but now that I am about to appear before the great God I must speak, and I have told the whole truth. (Signed) "AGNES DESNOYERS.' ing, the principal authority of the town, myself [Langenis], and a body of gens d'armes entered Loret's cottage. We found a woman there whom the priest had sent up the preceding night, but she had seen nothing of the man of whom we were in search. The whole day was spent in looking for him without success, and hitherto he has escaped apprehension. The heap of refuse behind the arbor was removed, and the ground dug up, and about a métre below the surface we found the skeleton of a man, to which still adhered fragments of clothes. In the course of the search we discovered a passage running down into the ground for some distance. It was very steep, and brought us out at last to a small platform, the front of which was planted with shrubs. This platform was on a kind of promontory, up to which the tide flowed to a considerable depth at high-water. One of the gens d'armes suggested the use to which this passage was put, and a further search was made with the object of discovering whether there was or not a storehouse for smuggled goods, which was successful. Behind some growing shrubs an opening was discovered which admitted us into a cave of no great size, and almost filled with contraband articles, chiefly tobacco. We expected to find Loret here, but were disappointed; and we are now pretty certain that he took advantage of the priest's imprisonment to get on board the smuggler, the crew of which he in all probability persuaded that their hiding-place had been discovered, and and he has thus made his escape. "The Père Phillippart was still praying beside the dying woman when Loret entered the room. The ink was still on the table, and he seemed to comprehend at a glance what had occurred. He came to the bedside and looked steadily at the woman. The poor creature put her hand towards him and murmured in a low tone: "I am dying, my Philippe." After a moment's hesitation, he knelt down by the bedside, and took the hand in his which she offered him, kissed it, and held it for some minutes. Then he laid it on the bed, rose and kissed her repeatedly on the face, and quietly left the room. All this time the priest continued to pray, and when at last he spoke to the woman and receiving no answer, laid his hand on her forehead, he found that only the earthly shell remained the immortal part had entered upon a new phase of existence. He gently drew down the eyelids, and was about to leave the "A statement of the whole case was drawn room, when he found that the door was fas-up," added Langenis, "and sent with the tened, and all his strength was insufficient to confession of Agnes Desnoyers to the home force it open. He went to the window, but minister, and in the shortest possible time this was too narrow for him to get through, an order was transmitted for your release in even if it had not been too high for a man the manner which should most clearly prove with innumerable little wrinkles. My heart swelled, but I turned for consolation where in my long imprisonment I had been accustomed to seek it, and found it. I accepted from Langenis a sum of money on account of what was due to me, shook hands with him and the governor and, amidst audible expressions of sympathy from all present, with brimming eyes and a sad heart, I stepped into the street, free to go where I pleased. I walked straight along till I reached the open country, where I sat down under a tree growing beside a brook, and with a piece of bread I broke from a loaf I had bought coming along, and the water flowing below me, I made a meal which tasted sweeter than any I had eaten in my the recognition by the government of your innocence; and also that as much of the property which had been left by M. and Madame Evrart as could be recovered, should be restored to you with the least possible delay." The governor invited me to dine with him, and to stay in his house a few days; but I had such an intense desire to find myself free, in the open fields, that I refused to remain an instant longer than was necessary to get decent clothes to cover me, from a shop in the town. When I had put on the clothes which the tailor brought me, I went to the glass, and I am almost ashamed to acknowledge that I trembled and hesitated before regarding myself therein. At last I had the courage to do it, and what did I see? Instead of the clear, brilliant complex-life before. I spent the night in thought beion and rosy cheeks I had seen when I last saw myself in a glass, I was looking at a gray-haired man, with a pale face, covered neath that tree, looking with wonder and admiration at the stars which had been hidden from my view for so many weary years. DEATH OF PROFESSOR RENWICK.-Professor James Renwick, LL.D., died at his residence in this city, on 12 Jan. He was born in 1785, was graduated at Columbia College, in this city, in 1807, and in 1820 was elected professor of chemistry and physics in that institution. This post he held till 1854. Mr. Renwick had, according to Mr. Pierre Irving, often met Burns at her father's fireside, and beside the "Blue-Eyed Lassie," he mado her the subject of another song, "When first I saw my Jennie's Face," not published in the poet's works, the concluding stanza of which runs thus: "But gang she East, or gang she West, In 1838 Professor Renwick was appointed by the Government one of the Commissioners for the exploration of the north-eastern boundary between the United States and New Brunswick, an exploration which led to the Ashburton treaty in 1842. He wrote the biographies of Robert Professor Renwick was one of the contribuFulton, David Rittenhouse, and Count Rum-tors to the first New York Review, conducted by ford, in Sparks's American Biography; and was Messrs. Anderson, Bryant, and Sands, and the the author also of a Memoir of Dewitt Clin- Whig Review, and one of the earliest members ton," published in 1834; of a “Treatise on the of the Century Club.-N. Y. Evening Post. Steam Engine;" and a "Treatise on the Practical Application of the Principles of Mechanics." (1840.) His 66 Outlines of Natural Philosophy," published in two volumes, in 1832, was the carliest extended work on that subject printed in the United States. He was author also of "Outlines of Geology," and of text-books on Chemistry and Philosophy, for the use of schools. ADVICES from Lyons state that the sale of raw silk is difficult there. The merchants of that city, taking into consideration the great increase in the quantity of foreign silk imported Mrs. Renwick, the mother of the professor, is into France, have decided on building storementioned in the "Life and Letters of Washing-houses for its reception. Japan produces three ton Irving as "the lady whose name will be held in honor as the heroine of The Blue-Eyed Lassie'" of Burns. She was the daughter of the Rev. Andrew Jeffrey, of Lochnaben, Scotland, and passed the greater part of her life in New York, where her house was a cherished resort of Mr. Irving. thousand bales of silk, being more than the produce of France and Italy. The East produces three hundred thousand bales. The greater part of these silks arrive in London by the Cape of Good Hope, but it is expected that when the canal across the Isthmus of Suez is completed,, silk from the East will first arrive in France. From The London Daily News, 2 Jan. VOICES OF BRITISH WORKING MEN. It does not properly belong to any one or two classes of the community to maintain the honor and character of the British nation in the eyes of the world. But there is no class which may not aspire to do so when others make default. This duty the working classes of our great towns are now performing in a particular direction, to the advantage of the entire country. To them has fallen, as it has fallen to no other class, the task of asserting, in respect of this American struggle, England's old attachment to the principles of freedom, and its undying hatred to oppression in every form. So our governing classes have willed it, and so it is. It was for them to judge whether they could sincerely hold the ancient language of Englishmen and to take their part. They have accounted themselves unworthy to do so; but the work is not the less done. mality is now laid aside as unnecessary of useless, and the latest profession which our betters deign to gasp out as their New Year's gift to the world is, "We are not enthusiastic just now for the oppressed or the negro." Such being the conspicuous result to which the leisured and refined classes have worked their way, it was the turn of the common people, the sons of labor, to speak; and at Manchester they have made a good beginning. Perhaps no speech could be more eloquent than the patience with which the Lancashire operatives have borne a calamity directly due to the American War, notwithstanding the attempts that have been made to stir them up to demand action against the Government of the United States. But as a part of the nation they would be heard. The sympathizers with the Slave Oligarchy will not find much to please them in what was said or what was applauded. For their talk Two years ago, when the hearts of men was of the "sacred and inalienable rights of were but little tried, the charity which be- every human being," and of the "common lieveth all things would have said unhesitat- brotherhood of mankind "-words big with ingly that the heart of the country was as the hopes of the many, but an offence and sound as ever on the subject of slavery. foolishness to the privileged few. The cause Now, whatever we might wish to think, we which our governing classes delight to honor are not permitted to believe so. One by in their literature, in their public appearone the reserves and disguises of decency ances, and in society, the attempt to or have been thrown off. At first sympathy ganize on the American continent a nation with the Slave Oligarchy was like "the having slavery as its basis, is one for which tawny lion, pawing to set free his hinder they express their strong detestation. They parts; " now the beast has "broke from do not share the unbounded admiration of bounds, and, rampant, shakes his brinded their superiors for the virtues peculiar to mane. The courage and fortitude with conquerors. And although they had been which the slaveholding caste has upheld the strongly counselled not to meet and encourgrandest iniquity of the modern world could age the North in attempting to "subjugate" never have dazzled men whose principles had the South, they were not to be made the not been undermined and sentiments cor- dupes of words. They saw the absurdity of rupted previously. The brutal mob may pretending that a war to restore a Union of admire the pirate who "dies game," but we self-governing and equal States was a war are not fascinated by material virtues dis- of subjugation. The subjugation which came played in defence of causes which we detest home most vividly to their minds and aroused as morally bad. At first the admirers of the their indignation was something real. Why South thought it politic to declare their con- should the Lancashire laborers sympathize viction that the triumph of their friends would with the laborers in the Southern States? prove the death of slavery. We forget Why should they not, like the economists, whether it was two or three days afterwards argue that the slavery of Alabama is a part that this declaration was formally withdrawn. of the complex labor system by which they Since then a vague and general repudiation live, and wish it to go on? Why not asof slavery, accompanied with unbounded eu-sume the languid indifference of the upper logy of slaveholders and energetic vitupera- classes as to the result of the great struggle ? tion of Abolitionists has been held to satisfy Simply because they are men whose hearts the requirements of opinion. Even this for- guard their understandings. Perhaps it is fraternal sentiments towards you and your country. We rejoice in your greatness as an outgrowth of England, whose blood and language you share, whose orderly and legal freedom you have applied to new circumstances over a region immeasurably greater than our own. We honor your Free States, as a singularly happy abode for the working millions, where industry is honored. One thing alone has, in the past, lessened our sympathy with your country and our confidence in it-we mean the ascendency of politicians who not merely maintained negro slavery but desired to extend and root it more firmly. Since we have discerned, however, that the victory of the Free North in the war which has so sorely distressed us as well as afflicted you, will strike off the fetters of the slave, you have attracted our warm and earnest sympathy. We joyfully honor also because, possessing little more than our common humanity, they prize that above artificial distinctions of class or color. At all events, whatever others think is to be said for the slave-owner, in their eyes his offence is the greatest that man can commit against man, the sum and parent of all villanies. It does not matter under what fine names, of old associated with freedom, republic or democracy, the slaveholding caste organizes itself, its character is fixed by the fact that it holds millions of men in bondage, denying to them education, the rights of family, and the rewards of labor. Let it be known at Richmond that whatever favor the Southern oligarchy have found in England, our work ing classes understand their cause. The "chivalry" have inflicted on honorable industry, by the position assigned to the labor-you, as the President, and the Congress with ers in their system, a stigma and an insult that will never be forgiven. you, for many decisive steps towards practi cally exemplifying your belief in the words of your great founders, " All men are created The Manchester workmen were not con- free and equal." You have procured the libtent to dwell in abstractions, but declared in eration of the slaves in the district around a resolution their "profound sympathy with Washington, and thereby made the centre the efforts of the Government of the United of your Federation visibly free. You have enforced the laws against the slave trades States to maintain the Union in its integ- and kept up your fleet against it, even while rity," and also adopted an address to Presi- every ship was wanted for service in your ter dent Lincoln. We printed this address yes- rible war. You have nobly decided to res terday for the information of our readers, ceive ambassadors from the negro republic, and we print it again to-day for the honor of Hayti and Liberia, thus forever renounc of Old England and the instruction of all ing that unworthy prejudice which refuses whom it may concern. Let the Scribes who the rights of humanity to men and women have labored to pervert the moral sentiment on account of their color. In order more of the nation read it. Let the Pharisees who made with our queen a treaty, which your effectually to stop the slave trade, you have made soirées for Mrs. Stowe, when the repu- Senate has ratified, for the right of mutual tation of a philanthropist involved no respon- search. Your Congress has decreed freedom sibility, and whose voice is not now heard as the law forever in the vast unoccupied or except in favor of the slaveholder, read it. half-settled territories which are directly Let the epicurean who deems it folly to dis- subject to its legislative power. It has of fered pecuniary aid to all States which will tress himself about the wrongs of others, read enact emancipation locally, and has forbidden it. And let all who have labored to glorify your generals to restore fugitive slaves who the slave power, the most monstrous out- seek their protection. You have entreated growth of the modern world, read it, and the slave-masters to accept these moderate see how vain have been their efforts to cor-offers; and after long and patient waiting, rupt the minds of the working classes, and how wide a gulf is fixed between them and the great body of the people. THE MANCHESTER WORKMEN'S ADDRESS. Below is the address to the President of the United States adopted at a meeting of the working men of Manchester, on 31 Dec. To Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States: As citizens of Manchester, assembled at the Free Trade Hall, we beg to express our you, as commander-in-chief of the army, have -a con first time in the history of the worldfederacy with slavery and the extension of slavery in yet unformed States for its basis, we regard with horror and abhorrence. And we earnestly pray that the Great Ruler of events may strengthen you and your cause, in order that the present unholy contest may be speedily brought to a successful issue; and, as the crown of all, that liberation and freedom, with all their accompanying blessings, may be given to the millions of our colored brethren now in bondage. That you may be the chosen instrument in effecting this glorious emancipation is our earnest hope. And if, in your aspirations for the freedom of the negro, the sympathy and good wishes of all men who love liberty can cheer your heart in moments of doubt and perplexity, you may assuredly feel convinced that such sympathy and good wishes are not withheld. For ourselves, we beg to assure you of our strong belief in the justice of your cause, of our warm sympathy with your noble efforts for emancipation, and of our certain faith in your ultimate triumph. We hold that your cause is the cause of humanity, of religion, and freedom; and in this belief again express our sympathy with you in your present onerous and trying position, and assure you that, whatever may be said to the contrary, the vast majority of English people are anx ious for your success in this great and terrible contest." beings should not be counted chattels. Women must have rights of chastity and of maternity, men the rights of husbands, masters the liberty of manumission. Justice demands for the black, no less than for the white, the protection of law, that his voice be heard in your courts. Nor must any such abomination be tolerated as slave-breeding States and a slave market, if you are to earn the high reward of all your sacrifices in the approval of the universal brotherhood and of the divine Father. It is for your free country to decide whether anything but immedi! ate and total emancipation can secure the most indispensable rights of humanity against the inveterate wickedness of local laws and local executives. We implore you, for your own honor and welfare, not to faint in your providential mission. While your enthusiasm is aflame and the tide of events runs high let the work be finished effectually Leave no root of bitterness to spring up and work fresh misery to your children. It is a mighty task, indeed, to re-organize the industry not only of four millions of the colored race but of five millions of whites. Nevertheless, the vast progress you have made in the short space of twenty months fills us with hope that every stain on your freedom will shortly be removed, and that the erasure of that foul blot upon civilization and Christianity-chattel slavery-during your Presidency will cause the name of Abraham Lincoln to be honored and revered by posterity. We are certain that such a glorious consumImation will cement Great Britain to the United States in close and enduring regards. Our interests, moreover, are identified with yours. We are truly one people, though locally separate. And if you have any ill-policy of the American Government was wishers here, be assured they are chiefly held in the British Institution, Cowper those who oppose liberty at home, and that Street, City Road. The following address they will be powerless to stir up quarrels be- to the President of the United States was tween us from the very day in which your proposed by the Rev. J. H. Rylance and country becomes, undeniably and without unanimously adopted :— exception, the home of the free. Accept our high admiration of your firmness in upholding the proclamation of freedom. THE BIRMINGHAM ADDRESS. GREAT DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON. On the evening of Dec. 31, a grand demonstration in support of the Emancipation To Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States:— We The following is the address of sympathy sent from Birmingham, England, to Presi-enjoy-the liberty of free labor upon a free dent Lincoln :— soil. We have, therefore, been accustomed to regard with veneration and gratitude the "We, the undersigned, inhabitants of the founders of the great republic in which the borough of Birmingham, desire to express liberties of the Anglo-Saxon race have been our deep and heartfelt sympathy with you in widened beyond all the precedents of the your endeavors to preserve the union of that Old World, and in which there was nothing great and free country over whose destinies to condemn or to lament but the slavery and you were elected to preside, and whose Con- degradation of men guilty only of a colored stitution you have sworn to defend. The skin or an African parentage. We have attempts of the Southern States to form-looked with admiration and sympathy upon as their leaders unblushingly avow-for the the brave, generous, and untiring efforts of |