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Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 349, 9 April 1868, Page 3

Mr Train has given two public lectures at Cork. Ho had enormous audiences, avlio appeared by their noisy manifestations to be vastly delighted. Our correspondent says that the lectures were of a very rambling character, but withal amusing. He remarked, in commencing, that he had sent invitations to the detective police to attend his lectures. He went on to praise Ireland, referring, of course with disapproval, to Mr Roebuck's recent ■speech at Sheffield ; and as a proof of Xrish greatness he recited a list of distinguished Irishmen. After this he called for groans for "Mr Roebuck's slanders," and the appeal was very heartily responded to. Mr Train then spoke of himself. He said he was born in Boston, which he characterised as one of the meanest places in America. He was sorry for that piece of ill fortune, and begged to apologise for it. His ancestors, however, were very distinguished people, and one of them had been second cook in the Mayflower. All the Americans who had come here, he said —Mr Everitt, Mr Bancroft, and Mr Adams — were "bottled up" pn getting to London by Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone. Assuming that be should get the LIOO,OOO he claims as damages from the British Government, he said he would give it all for a single hour to speak for Ireland in the British Parliament. Ho concluded the first lecture amid immense cheering, and was afterwards borne in triumph on the shoulders of some of his admirers, and at the end of the second some of his female hearers presented him with a bouquet.