The Hon. Auberon Herbert has been made acquainted with some facts in refer ence to the Shakers which have induced him to withdraw his support from them. The personal visit which he lately paid to the community convinced him that all the arrangements for living and sleeping were clean, orderly, and decent, and everything bore witness to Mrs. Girling's account of the strict morality on which the community was founded. Other op portunities fell in his way of learning something more about the community, and he thought the life pleasant in its virtues and harmless in its delusions. .He now learns from an ex-member, whose statement he believes to be substantially true, that they are in the habit of indulg ing in dances in which nude men and women take part. Under these circum stances, although he will not withdraw the temporary shelter he has given them 3 he has informed them that he will do nothing in helping the community in making a fresh start or in acquiring a new home, and above all he will be no party to keeping any facts from the public* He added that he felt bound to tell them frankly that the possession <,i a new home and their continued existence as a com munity would be contrary to his own hopea. Mr. Herbert concludes his pro test by stating that, although without strong prejudices on the subject of clothes he considers that if ever the experiment of living decently without them is tried, it must be by persons not in a state of re ligious delirium.
HOW MR. LINCOLN FORGAVE HIM.
