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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 63, 11 July 1874, Page 12

Home Affections.— Where a family of children are taught from childhood to manhood and womanhood to be kind and loving one to another, and see the daily exhibition of like kindness and love between the parents, and from the parents to them, there we see "strong manhood and noble womanhood. 'Affection does not beget weakness, nor is ie effeminate for a brother to be tenderly attached to his sisters. That boy will make the bravest, the noblest man. On the battle-field, in many terrible battles, during the late American war, those boys who had been reared under the tenderest home culture always made th best soldiers. They were always brave, always endured the severe hardships of camp, the march, or on the bloody field most silently, and were the most dutitul at every call. More, much more, they resisted tho frightful temptations that so often surrounded them, and seldom returned to their loved ones stained with the sins incident to war. And further, they were always kind and polite to those whom they met in tho enemy's country. Under their protection woman was always safe. Often have I heard one regiment compared with another, when the cause of difference was not comprehended by those who drew the comparison. I knew the cause — it was home education.

Accobding to a despatch from the Secretary of State, it appears Sullivan, the murderer, left Auckland in the Hindostan, on the Slat March, under the name of Clark, aad that he has been furnished with money to enable him to obtain employment in London, or journey to tho Western States, North America, in search of employment, if necessary. The Wellington correspondent of the 'Evening Star,' gives the Governor's statement of the reason for the Executive's pardon* ing Sullivan, and in which he fully concurs. Sullivan's confessions, full and unreserved, resulted in the total destruction of the gang, and it did not appear that Sullivan actually killed any one ; but that it had been entrapped into joining the gang, and was an unintentional accomplice in the first and subsequent murders. Finally, there would be reason to fear that future promises of pardon would fail to induce confessions, if the promise made to Sullivan were permanently disregarded. It appears he was pardoned some months before being re* leased from gaol, but continued there and worked voluntarily for months to disarm suspicion. He desired to go to South America ; but as it was impossible to convey him there, he left in the Hindostan* (which sailed from Auckland on March 13), under the name of Clark. The prison authorities and police consider it very unlikely that he will return to crime, but think he will endeavor to find industrial employ* meat in London.