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Show Condon -Melody Meeting New York, 21. A numerously attended meeting waa held at the Cooper Institute, to-night, to give expression touching tbe barbarities practiced in English prisons, and to extend welcome to Condon and Melody, the recently arrived liberated prisoners. A portion of the Sixty-uiuth Sixty-uiuth regiment, in full uniform, pa.r ticipated in the meeting. Lion. August Sohell occupied the chair, and John J. BreBlin read letters from Ferdinand Wood, Benjamin Butler, Dion Boucicault and others regretting their inability to be present. Condon and Melody were introduced receiving round after round of cheers. The latter gave a graphic account of bis arrest, trial and tbe in- ' dignities he was subjected to while in prison. Speeches were made J by the Honorable S. S, Cox, and 1 Honorable William E. Robineun, the latter denouncing in unmeasured terms, tbe apathy and indifference indiffer-ence of the late United StateB minister, Charles Francis Adams, when appealed to to interfere in behalf be-half of Coudon the American citizen. A resolution was adopted that the best thauku of all lovers of American liberty are due to UntUd States Minister Min-ister Welsh for his persistent and successful suc-cessful eflorta lor the release ol Ed ward O'Meagber Condon, and also to tbe senators and representatives in congress, whoso advocacy of the claims of tbe American citizens lead to congressional action, upon which the administration based its instructions instruc-tions to Minister Welsh. Tba meet ing was very enthusiastic |