The Express. — London, England, 1865-04-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAYvaVENING, APRIL , i THE NEW PRIMED ENT OF THE UNIT= peatemat of the °shiest oaks taw ineegkg Vomigsmt STKfES. Thee, shosild we not be balks in Illa Unica, —w-- by reshatiag even th e Cepniellede 111\11 Admisiddiges la (From the Deily News.) a etealltetiewal mode; sat e b b (From Wily to= on our Ir the estimate of the new President of the stl e.t nd adalistna la vag to taWir eLjW 7 — • a thsaseeiry ? se IiJNITSD STATIS put forward by some of our con- 1 8 17 0 , eppelemia sees e reiehem saved ii , meesrea d, the temporaries is comuct , it must be acknowledged s ens i ng Administration will have no power without our that in his present position he is one of the most reeme t, if we /* mac hares It moss Into °Moe Imad tics auffed, extraordinary phenomena of an extraordinary age. powerless te do hum. We, standing here, hold We do not refer to those who are writing of him of power is_ r m ., heads . _.; .._we ,, ,_..,.._ sin _ ..,. it u at ,,... t the s s a re i y a Sri a new and unknown man, a recent disoovery, our t . ____•=_!_:_nr d L e 'll;: t il' ° h" re s ot e ven the exoavated from the mud of Tennessee, but to power e __'_',.l7. t ' s e ....,,,,, r wham wary moods 1,00 6 those who must be aware that Mr. Joassox has • Z lien , a re v e 7": w i thas e "; oonniTitntin„ith, and the mini. Public history, or, Is the Americans call it, $ eneeeee of , the Senate of to draw him m the United Slary—his take. The P 000 reside dal " reward.as not even the power 25,. Mr. Liereote's rise to station and power was V" bus per amlllt —tualst 7e el!Tr i !!' a I !". l a mtual •_.. o . than ! morally considered remarkable, but it was a com- that the tree . Pam . pro to fi ght t he thenanle is th e U_ln . ns srm al mon-place progress compared with what in . 7;,.......4 .1 . ~.......„...,w ithout appropriations ... by supposed to have been that of Mr . Jan " . Congress; and if we were apprehensive that endosebeneote SON. Here is a man who, according to c n° would be made on the Southern Staten and on their much insti. authority, is " • mechanic whom none of us would wa wa , i„ideur dollar even s , of the onnatitut food his army co his o tino, we mom " trust to perform the humblest o ffi ce ;" who, him from having • according to another, is "an i nca p able and igno- awry. " rant person," who " cannot speak or write • word Mr. Davis replied : "of decent English." Let us grant that such a lam entirely satisfied that the answer of the senator . owe mhe e did not intend to fight at all ; that it UM as this might by accident become President sh ows wen a figure of speech, and does not justify converting 1 of the United States : many stran g e things the Federal capital into &military camp. But it is a sort of happen in revo lutions, and this may be one revolutions , which h . prop.... ; is is a revolution ..4.s.sue of them. But his elevation to the Presidency foam et the government. Now, I have to say, owe for all, is not the difficulty that most needs to be that, u looses I ant • senator here, I will not use the explained. The fact is that the man who points I passim to deetroy the very government to which I is described as we have just seen, has been am aocredithd. I will not attempt, in the language of th e before the public—and before the same public— senator, ii iht°,,loodmitradran,. the Presidenttration b. I ng .will o n ib o oe t . atr o ntlth i for thirty years, and his career has been • steady nister y its f ti I should vote, as I y have done to ad advance from trust to trust, and from honour to „ entreat , a to which I stood in owe ., relation, araievt a honour. That is the broad fact which our con- e rn e nomination; but I never would agree, ender the forms temporaries have to reconcile with the theory they of th e enni tit n ti on oind with the powers I h ow an a .water offer to the public. of the United Stem, to turn those powers to the deem- Mr. Jonrisox is • Southern man, • " poor tire of the government I was sworn to support. near* who take the oath with • mantel reser. 4 ' white," who if be was to rise honestly must rise ve t t " n. It is cot ' my policy. If I must have revolution, by labour. And he did so. His ener gy and I say let it be a revolution such as our fathers made when courage were exerted to supply the deficiencies of they were dialed their natural rights. his humble birth. If he had been born in Massa- It is impossible to miss the contrast thus pre ohusetta he would have had a common school edu sented between Mr. JOHNSON, on the one hand, cation ; but in North Carolina he grew almost to counselling moderation, and urging the duty of manhood without being able to read or write, and exhausting the resources of the Constitution in never attended • school. This may be the defence of the rights which it protected before fault of the community in which he was born, abandoning the Union, and Mr. Davis on the but the merit of conquering knowledge under diffi- other, distinctly declining the methods of conati culties is all his own. He became an earnest, tutional and parliamentary warfare, and deliber solitary, and successful student. His character &tidy preferr i ng a resort to violence. We may and conduct gained him the respect of his notice, once more, the only reference Mr. JOHN , . neighbours, and after having served the of fi ces SON m ade to the bitter personal attacks already of alderman and mayor in Greenville, Tennessee, referred to. On the 2nd of March, 1861, he said : where he carried on business, he was elected Bet, air, it mast be apparent, net oily to the senate, bet to the State Legislature in 1835, and to the whole country, that either by accident cor by dolga, again in 1839, and to the State Senate in there has been an arrangement that any one who seemed 184 1. He represented Tennessee in the United in this Senate to vindicate the Union of these States States Congress from 1843 to 1853. In the course should be attacks& Why is it that so one in the Senate or ms on n t i of it, in w at ho is k in favour of . th e Union of these S tates of the latter year be was elected Governor of the has State. In 1855 he was re-elected Governor, and three who hare tohow a P h a o u th me • a:dby secret ground lt in in 1857 was elected Senator in the United States Wks of the Constitution, for the disruption of the govern- Congress. These successive honours, it will be meat ? Why has there been • cowered attack upon me remembered, were all conferred by a Southern from Use beginning of this discussion to the present State. Tennessee, now free, wen at that moment, sot even confined to the ordinary courtesies of time, with the exception of Virginia, the debate and of senatorial decorum? It is • question which most populous and the most wealthy slave littluan itself `b° , :t ic i""" alitili I oar, not from what dim' State in the Union. Thus for twenty-five years words me ; s i i n tha r t I feel" who liwdulges abo i v n e P l e sim, and .tiew tha tw ; Mr. JOHNSON was promoted from appointment to h e is my inferior. Personalities are not arguments ; they appointment of increasing trust and responsibility, are the resource of men whom minds are low and coarse. having been twice chosen Governor of his State, I have preeseted facts and authorities ; sod upon them I and mainintained for 16 years as its representative have argued ; from them I bare drawn conclusion' ; and in one or the other House of Congress. We why have they DIA been met! Why have they not been answered ! W h y abandon invite our pro-Southern contemporary who pater - the great issue before the oonn day described him as " the most brutal of North- t ; i y r, ' here gar,. in to Pe ed • point rsonal a s i t i" whi io c as h we c a rr ot Pe' : I;alkal attack k hout " ern demagogues" either to deny or explain these theism t Our forefathers talked about it ; they spoke of it facts. in the Coostitntion of the country ; they have defined what We stated yesterday very briefly the nature of trance was : is it an offence, is it • crime, is it an intuit to the testimony borne to Mr. JOHNSON'S character and Naito the Conatitution that was mark by Washington and ability by those who had known him well, and the his compatriots? What does the Conetitution say : " Trams spinet the United State, shall comet only is confidence felt that his administration would disap- l ening war against them, or in adhering to their anemia point the sinister predictions of his enemies. For l o i ns them aid and comfort." There it is defined olearly our further satisfaction we have since consulted that teelloll shall comet only in levying war agains tbe the volumes of the Congressional Globe (the United States, and adhering to and giving aid and comfort American Hansard) for 1860-2, in order to to their enemies, Who is it that has been engaged in learn what part he was able to sustain in Con- esioPirssiss , Who is it that has been engaged in making geese in those years. We should be glad to see war upon the United States? Who is it that has find upon n" flag f Who I. that has giveneD M. these volumes in the library of every public insti- etra . oa to take oar so take oar tution, convinced that a perusal of the debates foe* to tau our dockyards, to take the pebble property? which preceded and accompanied secession would Is the language of the coedit/dim of the United States, throw more light on that event than all the leading hays not those who have been engaged in it been guilty of articles that have ever been written. Any treason tWe mike a fair issue. Show me who has been one, no matter what his previous opinions, who engaged in then eenaltirsniae , who ha fired umlaut flag, will consult them as we have done, will rise from has given inatnictioes to take our forts and oar custom. them with the conviction that Mr. J °suitor( is a hones, our animAl4 and "rd"h7ania' and I will show you • traitor. man of high political capacity, who would acquire influence in any deliberative ale Throughout the debate we are astonished at the repeated proofs of Mr. JOHNSON'S moderation and sembly. He figures in these reports as a man of eminently parliamentary mind, practical, temper that everywhere recur. No one will deny di sc i p li ne d to „i f _ ocmmen d , conc i l i atory in his de _ that in his controversy with the leaders of Pieces meanour, vendible of the value of rule, a thorough lion he showed himself immeasurably superior to master of the forms of the House, and preferring to his opponents in this respect. facilitate business by brief and appropriate susses, It is suggested, in more than one quarter, that tone rather th„ occupy time w i th long speeches, Mr. Jonesoe will not exercise the prerogatives of though equal to any of his contemporaries in his office. One predicts that the people of the the power of presenting an argument in ita fullest United States will not obey him ; another, that logical and rhetorical development- He particu- the great officers of the State will not serve under larly distinguished himself in the debates which him. A contemporary who, in the summer arose when secession was contemplated, and when of 1861, strongly urged General WPCim.u.sii to his position as a Southern citizen and • Southern depose Mr. Liecour and to seize the government, Senator, protesting against the division of the Re- now suggests that Gluier may do something of the public, marked him out as the object of most bitter kind. Those who thus write can know little of personal attacks Even then, however, the the people or public men of America. The people . allegations now raised against him by journ- will rally round their Passumer. Mr. ST•STON, alista who show themselves utterly en _ Mr. M'Crrueen, Generals Geezer and Snaesue, acquainted with his history and character, and Mr. Smraal4 if he survives ' " ill Mild firml y were unheard of, and his opponents treated him by him. Mr. JOHNSON will receive and accredit as a formidable antagonist. An encounter be- ministers, authorise negotiations, move fleets and tween him and Mr. JEFFeBSON Davis respecting armies, and do all that pertains to his office as Mr. the alleged necessity of secession may be noticed LINCOLN did, and it will be once more seen that as an illustration. Mr. JOHNSON argued that the the Government of the United States is not a battle of slavery was to be fought within the personal accident, but a regular and stable instita- Union. Mr. Davis seized on the word battle him ' and said, " I can understand how men may fight Whatever there is of real danger in Mr. " when they assume attitudes of hostility, but I JOHNSON'S accession to power, lies in a direction "do not understand how men, remaining con- which has not yet been pointed out. Instead of the people not following him, it is possible that " nected together in • bond as brethren, still pro-" pose to fight each other." they may follow him too easily in a path upon lir. Joassos—What I mean by fighting the hattle In the which his peculiar experience as a Southern Union is, I think, very distinctly and clearly set forth in Unionist may lead him to enter. We have com ely speech ; and if the Senator will take it from beginning mended Mr. Joarisow's moderation as • member to end, I apprehend that he will have no difficulty In war- l of Congress, and spoken of the value of the poll seining what I meant. But for his gratification elms this . tical education he received there. But he paired particular point, I will repeat, in "M aim . wh at I th em the last two years in a furnace of political pas mid as to fighting the battle in the Union. I meant that i 111011. Listen to the description of the condi we should remain here under the Conelitution of the United Staten and amtand for nil it . guarantees ; awl hy presser- ; Lion of Tennessee, spoken in Congress, in Ja ing the e Cstitutio and all its guarantees we would ors .. nuary 1861 :—" The people of my State are serve th Union. Our true place to maintain these guano . ' coerced, overborne, trodden down by the tem, and to preserve the Constitution, is in the Union, there I " heel of (Confederate) power. They appeal to e) fight our battle. How ? By ailment ;by " you for protection. They are arrested by hun the patriotism , to the good genie, and to the judgment of It dreth and by t h ousan d s 1 a...; they are drafted away the whole country ; by showing the people that the " f rom their homes and thrown into dungeons. tuition had been violated ;that all its guarantees ware not I " They were taught to love end respect the con theyped with ; and I have entersed the hops that when ' were posseased of that fact, here would be found ea- " etitution of the United States, and to-day they triotism end honesty enough in the great mama the people, " are hunted and hurried like the beasts of the North and Sonia. to come forward and do what was just " forests by the Secession hordes. They are shot and right between the contending sections of the country. i "or hung for no crime but a desire to stand b y I that the Wu way to fight the battle was for us I m I " the constitution of the United States. Help to remain here and occupy the places deigned to um by the of 1 , " rtion th country. Why did I make that e. less children and innocent women are murdered t Wee be e cause, on the 4th day of Kuck next, dat we 'in cold blood ; our men are hanged and their six majority is this body ; sad if, as some appro. " bodies are left on the gibbet ; they are shot and the incoming Administration shall show any din- " their bodies are left lying in the gorges of the to make encroachments upon the institution of " mountains. We appeal for protection, and encroachments upon the rights of the ii the senator from Indiana rep lies that he is or any other violation of the Constitution, I „ against a coercive policy. Ido not say these remaining in the U n i on' an d standing at our 1 " things in unkindness, but it is • duty I owe to rill have the power to resist all these encroeoh- 1 How ! We have the power even to fejed the sp. "my country and to my wife and children. Pee- " don me, sir ► for this personal allusion. My wile Smd clakholt,"" been turned into the steel, ." end my home has been *inverted info a barrack, " because I steed by the oonalitution and tt a iasti " Odious I have been taught to love end respect. , "Of my manieln-law, one has been thrown into I " prison and another is forced to fly into the " mountains to evade the pursuit of this hell-born " conspiracy of disunion and secession." ' Mr. JOHNSON returned to Tennessee with the victorious armies of the Union, and was until lately Military Governor of the State, by appointment of President LinooLx. In that capacity he has for the last two years been battling with the pas sions which he had so energetically described. In such a school a man learns the value of vigour but naleartui that of moderation, and the danger we spoke of is that he may carry the feelings of the par tisan into the office of President. There would be danger of this at any time, but Mr. Jonr‘sox takes office at a moment when the whole North is axes pointed almost to madness by the murder of the best of magistrates, and when it is in a position to take a signal vengeance on the South. It may be assumed with oertainty that if Mr. JOHNSON were to pro claim a policy of vengeance,le would carrythe whole Northern people with him. The mistake would soon be perceived, but not until it was too late to re trieve it. But although this danger is real, we hope it is not great. We sincerely trust that the people of the Free States will not permit sorrow for their late President to lead them from that magna nimous policy for which their voice was so lately raised, which is that of the truest wisdom, and which Mr. Ltwootar could his sentiments reach them, would certainly enjoin. Let them be mo derate, patient, generous, and they will thus show themselves worthy of the great position which Providence has called their nation to fill in the world. AMERICA. flOrAildee us emu& by imo s Johasea pc is la the shy, NAM@ headedietsrs . Were sorrow is depicted ia 4meelenindla at *Om an@ eveahi s dhat ()warred te W Lai alp, aid the greed Aimed ems is &epeeist everywhere at Mks Assails of the Preeklent. No Asp were Weld la this city this merslag until the slate of the President was known—erkse they were all eland at half mast. The people sipper per. hotly horrified, sad the utmost rose is fell towards all known seressioakes sad rebel sympathisers. • Another Washington despatch mays the audience in the theatre heard the shot, but, supposing it to be fired in the regular course of the play did not heed it till Mrs. • n'a screams drew attention. The whole affair, including the escape of the tame sin, occupied scarcely half a minute. The assassin is about thirty years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high, sparely built, of light complexion, and of a genteel appearance. He entered the box which is known as the state box, being the upper box on the right hand side from the dress circle, in the regular manner. When be emerged from the box after the deed he was followed across the stage by a gentleman who sprang out from an orchestra ()hair. He rushed through the side door into an alley, thence to the avenue, and mounted • dark bay horse, which he apparently received from the hand of an &mom plisse, lashed up to F street, and thence towards the back point of the city. The escape was so sudden that he effectually eluded pursuit. During the night cavalry and infantry scoured the city in every direction for the assassins, and the people were almost mad with excitement. _ _ . The New York papers publish the following despatch, dated Washington, April 15 : The eititiONlA throughout Washiogtoe is intense, and the horrible proeeedinp of last night are the only theme of conversation. The muslin of the President left behind him • het and • spur. The hat was picked up in the Pre sident's box, and has been ideotified as one belonging to the suspected man. The spar hid dropped upon the stage, and that also lies been identified* one procured at a stable where the same man hired • horse in the evening. Two gentlemen who went to the Secretary of War to apprise him ,of the attack on Mr. Lincoln, met at the madame of the former a man muffled in • cloak, who, when accosted by them, hastened away. It had been Mr. Stanton's intention to accompany Mr. Lincoln to the theatre, and occupy the mime box, beta pees of badness prevented him. It, there fore, seems evident that the aim of the plotters was to pars lyselthe country by a4naoe sinking down its head, bsart,•ad arm. As aeon es the dreadful events were announced in the doves Superintendent Richards and his assiatanta were at work to discover the theamins. Ina few moment. the Wle gfraph had moused the whole police force of the city. Mayor Walled' sad several members of the city government um moos on the spot, and every preparation was made to preserve order and quiet. Everytstreet was patrolled. At the request of Mt. Richards, General Augur not horses to mount the police. Every road leading out of Washington is strongly picketed, sad every possible avenue of serape thoroughly guarded. Steamboats about to start down the Potomac were stopped. TheCtronicle osys,th it is suspected this conspiracy originated in Maryland, the telegraph dashed the mournful news to Seidman, and all the cavalry were put upon active duty. Every road was picketed, and every precaution taken to prevent the cacaos of the meanie. A preliminary examination has been made by Superintendent Richards and his assistants. Beyond per sons were called to testify, sad the evidence is coo elusive to this point, viz. : —That the murderer of the President was John Wilkes Booth. His hat was found in the private-box, and identified by several parsons who had wee him within the last two days, and the spur which he dropped by accident after he jumped to the stage was iden tified as one of those which be had obtained from the stable where he bad hired his horse. This man Booth has played more than once at Ford's Theatre, and is of worse ac quainted with its exits and entrances, and the facility with which be escaped behind the scenes is easily understood. The person who attempted to assassinate Secretary Seward left behind him a slouched hat and au old rusty navy re volver. The chambers were broken loose from the barrel's' if done by striking. The laths were drawn from the cham bers, one beingibet • rough piece of lead, add the others, smaller than the chambers, were wrapped in paper, as if to keep them from falling out. ~ " - 100011 .* astmiethoilbs lot widee Ptiliani be ha wse aggi ellEal ls. P ni ir d lBB° RDEß ß OF G LDIVP/ISSINIDSNSKTITRWic°6I3I4 and that before his death he men the 'Union rimlM sad slavery virtmelly - • cad wt . too, .. Um diction malt of his own Me tetimefhi leper from Nohow • * Cola Buhl Pogo 7. Nominee deeply sympathies with Mrs. Ida- Peen is She Deal News :1 Pogo la bar ipso. efilletica, and with the peopled the Muted B's,—lt is difficult to measure th e Stare la the hoeporable loss = have wentathed by the w hi c h th e u n i te d g ut , and death of their great sad good megiskatis They wealtl r_______,. the the world hav e also express their conlidmies in the ameeter cad thrifty el mmuu b y m urder of President Lit i c o b a. President Andrew Jamme r whose ememdaladerthishostion, amegg i o he. dose his b oo to maika of the State ot TIMMINS. endlawcwo Alligilkli at purpose ___, 4,. both _, which th is Mercy as ea anti4lavery may, are pledgee that he will carry on '•'‘. `'.vni of UK the "overflown in the spirit el his illustrious predeoweer." hie was the mainstay. It is imposeible not to The Emseeipelimi Seamy _h oe h ave eservemed ersehlit inmailll gm "' or i gg fri ngo as t o th e tur n w hi c h ties to be bald at lit. Jamee's-ball Saturday swirls" aeon. le Tindignatioa at the assessitio nof Preehleot Us. may give, politically and 'morally, t o th e eo-1/1„," ad sympathy with 161. Lthoo na la aad the Poo* at events. No doubt the powers o f ev i l of e(( the the United States. Mr. William Enos, the president of the society, will take the th eir at sews *Week. There will, will see their advantage in it. But I he w no doubt, be a Plat ati•Gdalios of Meow anxious to PIP- greatest and most unfeigned confidenc e i n g m port the object of the meeting. =se, the humanity, the self-control, the AKKILICANB 111 LONDON. and constitutional character of the Yesterday afternoon &meeting of American gentle- , nes MIA held at the Gresvemir Hotel, Pimlico (coursed by Peelhe• the Mo. F. Wood), for the purpose of • ' . mew The loss of Mr. Seward also, if be is W e d southwest with reference to the late lementable in NM much to be lamented, strange as t he , from the United States. asaerta ce * Mr. Rosa= moved that the Hos. Penrod° Wood should seem to those who, without knowing ea r vtli.- take the their, epos which, and before the motion could be "I to man or oerididly watching his .., -Ye a Pet nave Dr. Bum, who wee aanonneed se • loyal gentleman on from des to day 'Venting the ac cowwr from Kestseley, mid he led men to the seeds" scoffs and denunciations. Under tryi n n g * ma direct from the Amine= Embassy, at the .riequest of shames, sud notwitheteming great prevccatict, hi Mr. Adams, their weeentative in this country, with whom sad other gentlemen he had been in consultation as to the has honourably laboured to keep the New e best steps to be taken oo this dreadful sod edema oacisioe. world w ill b e fortunate if his a _ 41 The gestlauses to winos he had alluded thought that women does h aa ia " tb P°4l"d • metrtipo s lis houl t d o b ta iri ti7 6 1eir all Amsrialsa sorrow is residen t s he alline. depi bl o y re obj w ec h t st in " wri ir t re in par g t:byleioubruhtowtoever, second yea i l : wnthict a Mr. linwill's c*lialbnisattialtitithttiselinstaimmia:tte:Lrect-ti: coming manner (hear hear) ; with thst view they e:: s tt e si t le g red m i x t w oods ould y, be st dasimble st. j&mos t .hau hol , d o s s grza hic t t zegregato mmoks deprecating exaggerated vagant language as to the Mr. Adams would take th e tear. (Applaniee.) He woule therefore, mak the pressen meeting for a mainfestatioa character cad .tubule opinion upon this point All bands were held up in favour of the proposition . The accession of Andrew Johnson to th e p ris , Dr. BLACK mid he was delighted to lind that such maid. ~_ _„, be . r . linty prevailed, end he would et owe report the mown. wino,' WILI receive:l with almost as WWI ii i . stance to th e American Weider. Mr. Norm meted that Mr. Wood eke" take the gi Am vin eri g ot i n " peo eri ple l i i is u nt ere don ; chair, end that the Inuthon be proceeded with, but the proposition was rejected. as to the best means of obviating the dagger to f it The proposition for adjournment till Moeda . next was State which this event may entail. Should law ultimately agreed to, and this closed the sity arise, means of securing the public interen The following communication was yesterday sent to Mr. . f ound hai ltr il a t it c l e : hod .- M i o u ' s i o ittir esofroinu e of the distressing dist ila 7 .d eesing we Sta i l l te i ,llig as i : 6"s eoce rns whe; i be btit reso ii rted nal f th o to rm o tili u s g n il t o h t e be d resouroes a co nati° nstitu n tr o o f n a ll t nac he ex oitaliom pedi e t t 7a eamm7 h am o s to o m or wav r o ai u bs o u i a nMe an tiag exprilelien d the Amerkaal el their feeling resid l i n t have been exhausted. Rv are an are il anno i te t da w uca ;clee t d i:, this sad 0 0 0 • 111 : 1 L If ootmaioat to your gelagebeT , We Andrew Johnson were no better than a New a , eo P ro c.baim P e :i eeetl id : ,tc t be y' leaweer ldl eabod y I ' r g aussai d e e gm 4 p . m., Biurgia.te d meeting , ,t v g jer g ameh merpee m y rl a te ! Marian seapolitan iello r t mo he b Am ; trained to eriethea at yn • s tion, and amble by te, . h. Lampeco, denies M'Heary, J. &Black, Paha Burritt i z atsi ,". , Benjamin Moran, Crammed Kennedy. po litical Bites, it. Hooting, W. B. Ballard, W. N. Newman , Lacrimum,ke." ing expressed is your Doted this day, end with what I prienene war have shown. But it is quite premature t assume that Johnson when in power will tan or to be the Rests! wick of Americansia Landes, I ooamat to year P e r la ' end heleh = t 2 memitigoodoil""sy next, a filmset or a Masaniello. An American poli ti ca to inset or th e purpose at 3 pan., at St. Janieei-1 aM your obedient servant, (and the same thing may be said of the politi ca , C. F. ADAMS: in our colonies) may be very rough, even come and yet he may have in biro sterling stuff, whit power and responsibility may bring to light. li. ooln himself was originally • rough man, and if c had looked only to certain parts of his early mitia and speeches, we might have despaired of hub coming the worthy ruler of a great nation. At is inauguration, Andrew Johnson, under the jets influence, it appears, of great excitants and drink, behaved in a way which shocks his countrymen as much as it did a But we ought not to forget that Pitt was once a least seen the worse for liquor in the Raise el Commons, and that if current tradition does al deceive us, a speech was made by a very emina member of the House of Lords, in the debate a the Reform Bill, which showed that the speaks was not under the influence of political excitemen alone. This incident seems to me less serious the the arbitrary proceedings of which Johnson he more than once been guilty in Tenneeme, and whiel appear to betray a character prone to violence the thing most of all to be deprecated and dreaded at the present juncture. But Teaussesse, when • desperate conflict has been going a between the Secessionist and Union parties, sal where Union men, Johnson himself among the number, have undergone every kind of out's. • the hands of their opponents, is the bad d violence ; and it is not to be assumed that s sla would behave everywhere as he would beim there. High position and heavy responsibility hue sometimes a great effect in moderating and else& ing the character, especially among the Ms et strong, rough men to whom 1 think it very peo bsiblethe new President belongs. I shall not darer till facts compel me, of seeing him, in his new dig*, mend his manners, throw off his Tans= animosities, behave as becomes his statics, sad treed, to the best of his ability, both at hoop sad abroad, in the steps of the truly great man (ice* though in an unimposing form Lincoln was), We whose place he has been unex pectedly called. Ili first speech seems to promise well. Ido sot OM to underrate the gravity of the accident which, at this crisis, substitutes for a representative of the shrewd and kindly West a man chosen to whet seemed an office of little importance by IV d tribute to the Unionist martyrs of the violent sad stabbing South. I only wish to avoid aggravating evil (as we well may) by anticipation, and, at any rate, to aid in arresting, if possible, the float d dangerous vituperation which is ready to flow from the pens of a portion of our press. These jonroditi have just had as tremendous a lesson on their own fallibility as the severity of destiny could rend 1 them ; and they could scarcely select a more clsk germs moment than the present for another aid. bition of their temperance and discretion. The Senate. the House of Representatives, the . Supreme Court, all have in their bands power" a restraining the action of the executive, which , . especially in the case of the Senate and Rouse d Representatives, increase in effectiveness in neela'' tion as the personal influence of the President ova the nation diminishes. The army is in the lands ct Grant, who has been styled by journalistic man' =nos a " butcher," as Lincoln was styled s " Robespierre," but who is in fact an Amnia+ Duke of Wellington, as straightforward and MO in character, as modest, as devoid of Wale d° ambition, as little likely to swerve from the d'at path of military or civil duty, while his ear l , treatment of Lee and the captured army sh ows the" be knows well how to behave to a vaneniehe ll enemy.—l am, &c., April 27. GOLDWIN SMITH' P.S.—" Now that Mr. Lincoln is dead," sir virulent tory journal, " his good qualitie s seem le come to the foreground." And why, let nee sit . ,. the name of common homey and veracity, a" they not "come to the foreground" at the tine when they were being displayed ? In the st!! article I fi nd the new President belaboured with all the aristocratic epithets bestowed till rater' day on his predecessor, with an unthinking "4" . 1 . i : tion of the impudent falsehood originated 1 7„ . ."" Times, that he proposed " to Jiang the Elea w " e leaders as high as Haman." Thus slander lear 0 .. the dead, wi th a hypocritical tribute to the virtues a has =4A only to fix upon the living. 01:1131•103 IN ZEGLAND. The following address from Germane in England was yesterday sent to Kr. Adams :—" Sir, we the under- Signed, speaking the feelings of a large number of Germans resident in England, express our sincere grief at the &Wm. tics of the life of the Provident of the United States, whose very forbearance and leniency in the boar of national triumph has not been able to stay the hands of eseamins. Whilst deeply deploring that the joy we have felt at the remit victories of the American R ep ublic should be thus marred by the untimely and violent death of its chief slants trete, we firmly trust that the people of the United States, who have carried on during four years a gigantic war in the cause of freedom and civilization, will only feel nerved to further exertion' in rooting oat the hateful institutions from which the shiveholders' rebellion, with all its at. tendant crimes, has sprung. We beg you, sir, to convey thee, sympathetic seetimente of ears to the authorities of your free and great Republic, and we subscribe ourselves yours obediently, Karl Blind, Ferdinand Freiligrath. Alexis HelatiMin, Ernst Juch, Gottfried Kinkel, P. H. Berodee, 0. W. Siemens, Nicole= Trubner, E. G. iteivenstein." mkayLemoss. Yesterday at the meeting of the representative vestry of Mary lobate, held at the court-house, Mr. Clnueb warden Redd/airy in the chair, Dr. Richardson moved the following repolntion :—" The vestry of St. It arylelicae, having heard with the profoundest regret of the aseassina- Pon of the President of the United States, beg respectfully and earnestly to *convey at the Garbed poesible opportunity to bis Excellency the American Minister the expression d their honor at the detestable and cowardly crime that ban been committed, and their despot Tuxtla; with the American people on the lamentable which has befallen them." Mr. J. A. Nicholay the resolution, and observed that, although be quite agreed that they should„consider this deplorable event apart Iran any political considerations, at the mans time he amid not bat feel that to the noble canon who had thus mid his death at the hands of a bias amens was the world in debted for the total abolition of slavery—a crime which every free Englishman hoped never to ass again eetablished is America or elsewhere. Other members gave their cordial support to the resolution, and it was put and carried unanimously, and ordered to be forwarded at owe to Mr. Adams, the American Minister. A very large town's meeting was held in the St. George's Hall, yesterday, to express sorrow and indignation , at the atrocious Bess nation of Proddeat Lincoln, and the attempted samennetion of Mr. Seward. The room was crowded in !ivory part, many ladies being proms. Before I the procadm commenced. Ms. Best performed with 1101111211 affect, the " Dead Marsh in Saul" upon the great spa. Upon the platform were the leading merchants and bankers of the town, men of Nor th ern and Southern view. bung freely mingled. The Mayor, on taking his seat yea loudly cieered. He said, if there was one time more than another when men should cast amide all their antipathies and differenom of opinion, surely it was when they were calla upon to vindicate their oomince humanity from the crimes and outrages which were peeper tread in Be name. He hoped his fellow townsmen would be satisfied that he, no is than any . amongst them—what ever might be their individual vows of the American qosetion—felt the deepest sympathy with their brothel's on the other side of the Atlantic, who were now sorrowing for the lout of .their political chief, cut ruthlessly down to the heyday of prosperity, and in the zenith of his power, and an utter detestation of one of the foulest crimes that wad be found in the long _ pages of the blood stained records of our ram (Chlters)- Mr. O. B. Rawlies. jun., moved the following resolution " That the inhbition' of Liverpool. in publics as sembled, do hereby expos their deep morrow and ti on at the atrocious umanation of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United Stags, and of Mr. Frederick Seward, Assistant Secretary of State ; and at the destardly attempt about the ammo hour, on the life of Me. Sewar d, Sec State. They desire that the government and the; tar sciple of the Veiled States should understand that no difference of opinion on the merits of the conflict of the Lai four years avails to prevent the unanimous condemnation so great a mime against our common humanity." Mr. 8. R. Gram esoooded the resolutioe, which I= supported by a Parsee gentleman (a local merchant), and by Mr. John and carried unanimously. Mr. W. BaXhbons, inn., moved, and Mr. C. Bushell mended, that cora: , the resolution be sent to the President of the United through the minister in London, and also to Mrs. Linea& Tim reeolutioo wee carried unanimously. On the actin of Mr. Patterson, seconded by Mr. Frederick Hamilton, a' vote of thanks was passed to the Mayor for his conduct in the chair. Mr. Hamilton said that be was acquainted with both Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Frederick Seward, and it was impossible to know two more sincere, una ff ected, and amiable men. The proceedim then closed, it being an nounced that another meeting would be held in the even ing, for the purpose of giving an opportunity to the work men of the town to pass resolutions on the occasion of the President's death. A second public meeting was held last night at St. George's Hall. which was densely crowded. Resoluticess assomming the murder of Mr. Lincoln and the attack on Mr. Seward were pealed unanimously. The Mayor of Birmingham has called a meeting is that town for Friday, "to consider as address to the American people." __ _ A meeting is to be bald to-day at Bradford. to express syssoisby with Mrs. Braes on saeonst of the sadden end spoiling death al the be. President WWI& 6Y/#ll ream dm plio M. de Lampe guarantees, it is said, that the canal which is to unite the lied Sea sad Mediterranean' will be finished in Jona, 1866. The ocatreetora, who have under taken the works fa 100 minims, are bound to pay 500,000 fr. for every month's delay. Oa the other head, they are to receive a like sea far ovary . smooth that the weal shall be bushed before the time stipulated. Y. de Lumps and the cornatercisl delegable have addramaid a letter of coodolsaoe sad sympathy to the widow cg the late Richard Oolidee, Fag., 11. P. cid t edi Ad y Terthie the bas medi ramy t — for HoLLO diaord. WAT'll 0 1: th lila . a...hare ladde win Lospos bum:maul KuusiTio Dowell. the User sad kidney,. They set with so decided sa bisorma cereaseey tab fillaw at the side de* sad yet so gently, that people of the most delicate eon- Nee bd, Whitlow may take them with the most perfect couidsece. 01 ""„ t " Mao" , hey he a • I They do not mostala a ONO grata of memory or other noxious odo , Ttss =Wed ansegssasals ralistmsee, being composed szateelvely of rare talsems. They lrea mee sahli7 a;iathe araisseles we fit this sow " are therefore equally safe and efliceciees. and. as a faailly meth- the amass of all the lama seaman dee, nothing yet Invaded er discovered sea be eampersi with u s g oa . Th e amber of am= d essadte for s e,ag *sailor moment With theme isestizaable PW• at MEd. tags- mam m y empm d w ith "wawa of r, it., with the printed &reales elided te aech bet, no other imisstakim bids isis medical winos or sasielsoss OW be needed to any steam ems ""•"""P *lam. wog swim Ceastitutio meat? It shall base heeded, tl ,\ pastime' I slavery, , Of we, by n playa, vi mats. B i,1446 THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. The following telegram, published in the New York papers on the 15th, Free full particulars of the assassination of President Lincoln and the at tempt on the life of Mr. Seward : • • WASEiLNOTON, Arum 14. President Lincoln sod wife, with other friends, thle area ieg visited Ford's Theatre, for the purpose of witnessing the performance of the American Cousin. It was miaow-iced is the papers that Cloworal Gnat would also be preeent. but that gentleman took the iste train of cars for New Jersey. The theatre was deasely crowded, mid everybody 'seined delighted with the soon before them. During the third sot, and while there was a temporary panes for one of the vetoes to enter, a sharp report of a pistol was heard which merely attracted:attentien, but suggesting nothing serious until a maniroshed to the front of the President's box'. waving a long dagger in his right hand, and exclaiming, " Bic wow tyreanie," and immediately leaped from the box, which was in the second tier, to the stage beneath, and acres' to the opposite side, making his escape amid the bewilderment of the audience from the rear of the theatre, and, mounting a horse, fled. The screams of Mrs. Lincoln first disclosed the fact to the audience that the President had been shot, when all present rose to their feet and rushed towards the stage, many exclaiming, " Haag him ! hang him !" The excitement was of the wildest possible description, and, of course, there was an abrupt termination of the theatrical performance. There was a rush towards the President's box, when cries were heard to " stead back and give biro air. Has any one stimulants!" On a hasty examination it was found that the President had been shot through the heed, above and below the temporal bone, and that some of the brain was oozing out. lie was removed to a private house opposite to the theatre, and the surgeon-general of the army and other surgeons sent for to attend to his audition. On an examin►tion of the private box blood was dis- covered on the beck of the cushioned rocking chair on which the President bad been sitting ; also the partition ; sad on the floor a common single•batrolled pocket pistol was found on the carpet. A military guard was placed in frost of the private residences to which the President had been con veyed. An immense crowd was in front of it--all deeply anxious to learn the condition of the President. It had been previously announced that the wound was mortal, but all hoped otherwise. The shock of the community was terrible. At midnight the cabinet, with Messrs. Sumner, and Farnsworth, Judge Curtis, Governer Aglesby, Meip, Colonel Hay, and a few personal friends, with the anew, Gomel Barnes, and his immediate assistants, were around his bed-side. The President was is • state of syn cope, totally insensible, and breathing slowly ; the blood oozed from the wound at the bath of the bead, and the sus. goons exhausted every possible effort of medical skill, but all hope was goae. The parting of his family with the dying President is too sad for desoriptioe. The President and Mrs. Lincoln did not start for the theatre until fifteen minutes after sight Speaker Colfax was at the White House at the time, and the President stated to him that be was going, although Mrs. Lincoln bad not been well, because the papers had announced that Genital Grant and they were to be present, and as General Grant had gone north, he did not wish the audience to be die. appointed. He went with apparent reluctance, and urged Mr. Collar to go with him, but that gentleman had made other engagements, and, with Mr. Ashman, of Maaaachir setts, bid him good night. When the excitement at the theatre was at its wildest height reports were circulated that Secretary Seward bad also been asawainated. On reaching this gentleman's residence, • crowd and • military guard were found at the door, and on entering it was also ascertained that the reports were band on truth. Everybody there was so excited, that scarcely an intelli gible world Gould be gathered, but the facts are substantially as follows :—About 10 o'clock • man rang the bell, and the call having been answered by a coloured servant, he said he had *me from Dr. Verdi, Secretary Seward's family physi cian, with a prescription, at the same time holding in his hand • small piece of paper, and saying, in answer to • w hirl, that he most see the Secretary, as he was entrusted with particular directions concerning the medicine. He still insisted on going up, although repeatedly informed that no one could enter the chamber. The man then pushed the servant wide and walked heavily towards the Secretary's room, and was then met by Mr. Frederick Seward, of whom he demanded to see the Secretary, making the same repre sentations which he did to the servant. W hat further passed in the way of colloquy is not known, but the man struck him on the head with • Dilly, severely injuring the skull, and felled him almost senseless. The amessin then rushed into the chamber and attacked Major Seward, Paymaster United States Army, Mr. Howell, a messenger of the State Department, and two male nurses, disabling them all. He then rushed upon the Secretary, who was lying in bed in the same room, and inflicted three stabs in the neck, but severing, it is hoped, no arteries, though he bled profusely. The amialain then rushed downstairs, mounted his horse at the door, and rode off before an alarm could be sounded, and in the same manner as the assassin of the President. It is believed that the injuries to the Secretary are not fatal, nor those of either of the others, although both the Secre tary and Assistant Secretary ere very seriously injured. Secretaries Stanton and Welles, and other prominent offl ine, of the government, called at Secretary Seward's house to inquire into his condition, and there heard of the assassination of the President. They then proceeded to the house where he was lying, exhibiting of course intense anxiety and solicitude. Au immensecrowd was gathered in tract of the President's house, and • strong guard was also stationed there, many pawns evidently supposing he would be brought home. The entire city to-night presents • scene of wild excite ment, ne mnspsaisd by violent expressions of indignation and the profoundest sorrow. Many sped their way W the military authorities to have dispatched mounted Waala is every direction, in order, if possible, to arrest the assmains. The whole metropolitan police are Mamie vigilant for the same purpose. The attack With at the theatre and at Secretary Seward's house took place at about the same hour (la o'clock), thus 'bowing • pcsooncerted plan to assassinate these patiemes. Some evidence of the guilt of the party who attacked tie President are is the preetesioa of the police, EXPRESSIONS OF SYMPATHY AND CONDOLENCE. It will be seen by reference to our parliamenta report that both houses of the legislature are about to give formalexpression to their feeling of horror of this atrocious crime! and their sympathy with the Ameriaui people, and thew expressions will doubtless be warmly ooincided in by and and utterance through our Queen. In the provinces the greatest sympathy is felt and expressed with the American nation under these trying circumstances, and in nanny townspnblie msstinp on the subject hese been bald. COURT OP COMMON COUNCIL. A Court of Common Council was held yester day mauling, and the LORD MAYOR having taken the their, Mr. Henry Lowman Taylor rose for the purpose of address ing his lordship and the court. After some discussion as to whether Mr. Taylor or Mr. R. N. Phillips should address the court, and the former having been selected for that purpose, Mr. TAYLOR than said he could have wished that the decision that the court had come to in giving him the preference to address them upon so sorrowful • subject had been of • different cha racter. Nothing, he was sure, had more affected the minds of the citizens of Loadoa, and the public generally, than the sad mid deplorable event that had been communi cated to this country from America, and the citizens of London, one end all, he was sure, would deeply sym pathise with the American people in the deep calamity which had befallen them. He felt it right that this court, the reflex of the City of London, should tithe the earliest opportunity of evincing their deep sympathy with that deplorable and sod event. Nothing, be mid, could have taken them by surprise than the melancholy news which had reached them of the death by sasassination of • man, who, be believed, bad always been actuated by the beat m otives to do what he could for the interest of his beloved country. (Hear, hem.) It was • subject on which he could dilate at some length, but it would be enough to give ex- premien to the feelings of the court in the words of a resolution he was about to propose. Mr. Taylor ens:laded his remarks by potting the following reso lution :—" That this court desires, before proceeding with the business of the day, to express its profound sympathy with the people of the United States of Americo in the loss sustained not only by them but by this country in the melancholy death of President Lincoln by the hand of an miasma and remembering that the last act of his life bad beau to breathe words of pages and °emaciation, this court cannot but deeply deplore Ms untimely end ;" and further, " That • copy_ of this resolution, signed by the town clerk , be forwarded to the American miaister in London with • request that he will transmit the same to the Sec retary of State at Washington, sod to Mrs. Lincoln." Mr. Alderman and Sheriff BYSLIT secooded the motion. He said it was quite unnecesury that he should use any language to deprecate assassination, as it WU so re pugnant to the feelings of every Eoglishman • but in the present position of this country with the United States he could not but think that the present expression of the court, which he was sure was that of everyone in the coun try, would be of some good, and he sincerely hoped that the American people would receive it in the spirit that it was tendered in. He thought they could not begin better than by tendering their heartfelt sympathy with that country for the deprivation which they have sustained by an act which amid not be regarded by anyone with feelings other than utter detestation. He concluded by seconding the motion. Mr. R. PHILLIPS said it would require but few words from him to support the motion, as the subject had been dwelt upon in such a manner by Mr. Taylor and Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Begley. What had occurred at the introduction of th e oubject be was sure would be attributed to the anxiety of every member that no delay should be made in giving expres- , aka to their feelings, which were from one and all sympathy for the mad event alluded to, and he was sure not , only this court but every citizen of London and everyone in Übe eountry were equally desirous of expressing their dates lathe and disgust at su ch a horrible atrocity, and of showing to those who inhabit the United States of America, who were the descendants of those who left this country origin ally to cultivate America, their deep sympathy in the de privation they sustained. Some slight alteration was made in the motion, and it was unanimously agreed to in the following terms :—" That this corporation desires, .before proceeding to the bushier of the day, to express its profound sympathy with the United States of America in the lees unstained is the death by &origination of Mr. Lincoln, the President of the United States, and to mooed its detestation of the atrocious aims which has been committed." THE EMANCIPATION SOCIETY. A special meeting of the Emancipation Society wee herd ai Andertoa's Hotel yesterday shames, to ex* mem indignatioc at the murder of President llboolo. Mr. WiilllZA Enna, proof/lent of the misty. occupied the i chair. The following reeolation wee mianimonely adopted : "That the committee of the Emancipation Seelety desire is express their grief and horror at the amaisinalion president Linoobi, who bad endeared himself to his mitentry sad mankind sot Use by his pure and stainless character the. by the permobeat services which he rendered to the meat Republic darks four memorable years of rovolutim. With the indigaatios they teal at • aims which= without a parallel is the history of the world is I