The Express. — London, England, 1865-04-27 00:00:00

TIM BUDGET. ADOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS win be Deldlaised TO-KOREOW AFTERNOON, cos • POLL REPORT et the BUDGET, together with besperta= details oonsetied therewith. the Privets % lew of the at, a A l l ACADEMY, &c Advertisements reoeived not later thee 2 o'clock. TORN BROGDEN. /VAGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANCIPACTODY, it is itioranerrA4miner. 00VINT-GAIDEI. JOHN BROODEWS GOLD CHAINS. JOGN BROODEWS GOLD GUARD CHAINS. JOHN BROODKNIIGOLD ALB= CRAIN& JOHN BROGDENIGOLDBROOOIIOIIAUIa IIIEOUBERB.—The NEW 000D8 an non weedy, end Gentlemen gib° do not mind paying talr peke to good pate of Trousers con depend on the best ailarisla Ai HAMILTON end ILIMPTGPES,.. 106, Strand. °Moan* N 1 •416 B." 12 MOM= I you willo diall amouryo frivolo at JAP NVA3rel afar the Opera WShwa Eke Ovortoo. TO 00111118PONDRN1S. dvernseinente Intended for " The London ltvenine Poet, must be as the Otnee, 14 1 =slontreet. by Two Wolock on the day ol pabboatlos. HAMAD/U. TWA Immo. THILLY WISES APTEB. ILMILIAOII.-78 1 WOMAN IN EAUTIL Wow Sothena : Isacknoes,and Nap les : Ilmodamos Stuart aad Levell.—LOAD DI/NOWAY lUD, MID AND DUNI FOIL lir. Botbern.—And FAMILY JAIL LLE PILINIMMta. Tao; E AND FIDDLY-STENO& —ARRAY( NA POWIL T4STAINGS Marrs. D. Bondman.. J. ikg Yandeaholt D. Maher. D. Manta, Seytoo, Chariss: Yea D. Seedlcauft Lad KW M. Otiver.—And AN AMPLE APOLOGY. LYCEUM. Td® Erman, A DAY ATM TES WEDDING. Mama Sersosa sad Wham . Mat lionsia and Mn. G. Liss.--THE MOUWITHANIC loafer sad Maxim IN:atm, 31r. tomb ; Ml. Laden% MN& Issieco—kid TEI LOGY CHILD. • BRITANNIA. Tau rims% THE VOLCANO OF ITALY; 01, THE ZUGITIV FIRM. lira 8. Lana —Prolemar HiItaa.—DZEO MAIL Was Clara at Qtrs.—AM THE WILE AND CHILD. .—Castateace at bonito& 111011 WA AT LONDON-BEIDOL Till Dar Xenia A Mas.....Atlonsoca, 31t. 111. To-moasow Minim iik. Ma ....Abargoos, ik. 3.. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 27. 114 the hour of his great work done, President Lricour has fallen. Not, indeed, in the flush of triumph, for no thought of triumph was in that honest and humble heart, nor in the intoxication el applause, for the fruits of victory were not yet gathered in his band, was the Chief of the American people, the foremost man in the great Christian revolution of our age, struck down. But his task was, nevertheless, accomplished, and the battle of his life was won. So he passes away from the heat and the toil that still have to be endured, full of the honour that belongs to one who has nobly done his part, and carrying in his lest thoughts the sense of deep steadfast thankfulness that he now could see the assured coining of that end for which he had so long striven in faith and hope. Who shall pity or lament such a death, while the tears of a nation fall upon his corpse, and the world softly speaks bow true and good he was ? Who will not bow the head submissive to the inscrutable decree which mocks our plans and fancies, but even in our sorrow makes us feel that it is wiser, juster, kinder, than our vain wishes might have been? For in all time to come, not among Americans only, but among all who think of manhood as wore than rank, and set worth above display, the name of ABRAHAM LiNcouc will be held in re- Terence. Rising from among the poorest of the people, winning his slow way upwards by sheer hard work, preserving in every successive stagea &erecter unspotted and a name untainted, securing a wider respect as be became better known, never pretending to more than he was, nor being less than he professed himself, he was at length for very singleness of heart and uprightness of con duct, because all felt that they could trust him utterly, and would desire to be guided by his irmness, courage, and sense, planed in the chair of President at the turning point of his nation's history. A life so true, rewarded by a dignity so . . majestic, was defence enough against the petty shafts of malice which party spirit, violent enough to light • civil war, aimed against him. The lowly callings he had first pursued became his titles to greater respect among `those whose respect was worth having ; the little ex ternal rusticities only showed more brightly, as the rough matrix the golden ore, the true dignity of his nature. Never was any one, set in such high place, and surrounded with so many motives of furious detraction, so little impeached of aught blameworthy. The bitterest enemy could find no more to lay to his charge than that his language was sometimes too homely for a supersensitive taste, or that he conveyed in a jesting phrase what they deemedmoresuited for a statelier style. But against these specks, what thorough nobility have we not to set ? A purity of thought, word, and deed never challenged, • disinterested ness never suspected, an honesty of purpose never impugned, a gentleness and tenderness that never made a private enemy or alienated a friend—these are indeed qualities which may well make • nation mourn. But he bad intellect as well as goodness. Cautiously conservative, fearing to pass the limits of established systems, seeking the needful amend ments rather from growth than alteration, he proved himself in the crisis the very man best suited for his post. He held back the ardent while he gave confidence to the timid, his reluctance to innovate did not prevent him from recognising and accepting the changes in the situation which the progress of events 'brought to pass, and the firmness with which he refused to proceed faster than they war ranted was equalled by the tenacity with which be refused to retire from the position he had at last thought it right to take up. So four years of trial convinced his countrymen that there was none among them who could better fill his place. And there can be no doubt that in his known respect for established rights, as well as in his known justice, impartiality, and benevolence,i South as well as North bad begun to look upon him as their surest friend, and se the safe arbiter in whom they could both trust to exact no more and to claim no less than might suffice to make their reconciliation perpetual. But be bar fallen, and by a Southern hand. We cannot as yet tell the motive that urged the treacherous blow, but the fact that two had con spired to murder, the one the PRESIDENT, the other the SECRETARY of &Jai, shows that at least then is not insanity to be reckoned as a possible ex planation. But we will not, without overwhelm ing proof, let the horrible conspiracy, or the phrases of its actors, lead us to lay it to the charge of abettors in the South. We will not doubt that from what lately was the Southern Government and people there will come at once earnest dis avowals of any knowledge of the medit►ted crime, and that if the murderer of Mr. SEWARD has reached the territory their power yet holds, he will be seized and surrendered as one guilty of a *rime against humanity itself. On no other terms TIM EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1865. at least will their English sympatftiaern believe in excels/ . But amends , do look so far beforehand. Southern " chivalry." For though , some among ! be immediate *tit at thlllehturdst I. the trihrePh us have by growth of prejudist oar . to think ° I 11 . "It "sPialle sad elteeden. the prime of sr assassin was political, be Mum hare' slavery not sin, there is no Englishman yet whom struck his blow is the Lateran of the extreme abolitionist ; secret amansination does not horrify. And the if he win • Beath ... the act ww sot political kindly nature, the earnest desire to do right, which eination, but a personal revenge." At the ume time the even his opponent' confessed in ABNANAN LINCOLN, Standard doss not mess to say that it is impossible that gone, t urn t o him all sym. Sow Southern kind may bare mingled in the plot. " Soo' will, now that he ishusband or father, whose nearint and dearest have summed pathies and make all among us c all with one voice the last indignity at the heads of Lincoln's soldiery ; some for vengeance on his detestable murderer. near relative of three who were butchered is Palmyra with But a harder task than vengeance lies yet on the annetlee sad approval of the commander-incitief of all the North, which they must enter cm before the first the Federal armies ; some dear friends of the pliant Cap tious, of mourning havepeased. Theyhave a govern-' tan Beek, so lately sundered by the immediate order of merit to carry on, a war so finish, a Commonwealth the Prendast—may have bees maddesed by brooding to reconstruct. It were vain to conceal how the over these wrongs into this criminal act of personal Tee difficulty of each part of their task is enhanced by P ace '" the loss of their chosen and tried head. Nor, unhappily, have they made provision for an event so wholly unforeseen. The VICII-PIIERIDIINT, who, in virtue of the Constitution, hula:early taken the oaths as President for nearly the term of four years still remaining to be run, is not the man whom they would have selected had they thought of such an event as his sitting in the President's chair. Already, too, there has been removed from his side the SECRETANY of Srsre, who has during Mr. Lurecur's tenure of office shared most fully his confidence and his designs. It is a great and terrible crisis. But we have confidence that the people will meet it worthily, and if they do, that they will surmount all their troubles. Chief among our reasons for this belief is the reflection • that Mr. LINCOLN was himself rather a represen tative than a leader. His personal influence had not formed his party ; he was only selected in its exigencies to do its behests. Admirably as he has • done them we must not think that he was the only THE BUDGET TO-NIEIT. It is stated to-day upon good authority that Mr. Gladstone will dispose of the surplus of more than 3,500,0001., which he has to announce to-night, by further reducing the duties on tea ; by lowering the income-tax by 2d. in the pound (the lowest point to which it has ever yet fallen), and by re ducing the insurance duty. These are understood to be the principal features of the financial state ment. one who could have substantially done the same. And though foroasw Jonersori was not selected to represent the party, but only aa a secondaryoompro mime between sections, this is an occasion which it may be hoped will extinguish sections, and unite all in • common effort. Round him will still stand the old leaders--firmerort, CRAB; and GRANT. The responsibilities thus thrust upon him will, it may be expected, force him to guide his acts by their counsels, and by the public opinion of the people which has made him what he is, and which they guide. But in the firm heart of the people, tried and purified, as it has been, for four years, in the furnace of affliction, lies, under Gon, our hope for the future. Eminently • law-abiding people, they will follow, first of all, and u far as possible, the path their Constitution points out. But if • chance more powerful than their will, if the perversity of this man or of that, ren ders the effort dangerous, they will know how to save the Constitution by sacrifice. Meantime, their great common sorrow, their great common danger, will obliterate division, and nerve them to energy. As when a beloved captain falls in fight, his men proms forward with more impetuous and irresistible force to secure the post to which he led them ; the fallof the Captain of the People will fill them with the sterner resolve to be victors in the combat in which he was their leader, and to gain the object for which his life was given. THE LONDON PRESS AND THE MURDER OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. "Unjust as we believe it to be," observes the Times, "the Confederate C 116211 will Dot escape the die honour teat upon it by the wanton murders of Mr. Lisoole and the Secretory. The admiration won by the long end pliant defence of Richmond will be lessened ; the memory of Lee's lofty bearing and Jackson's deep religious feeling will be obscured by the atrocities committed in the name and oe babel( of the South. Arson in New York, theft, under the pretence of war in Vermont, and assassination in the capital dim the lustre of a four years' renitence to superior foam and of many a well-fought field in Virginia." The Times proceeds to point out the perfect hominy and the temperate demeanour towards opponents and neutrals which distinguished Mr. Lincoln. and the quality of the "conservative progress" which °ha redefined his administration. "He felt his way gradually to his ereclusions, and those who will compare the different stages of his career one with another will find that his mind was growing throughout the come of it." With regard to the new President, the Times trusts that it "his own SOUS of decency" does not suggest the voluntary resignation of his office by Mr. Johnson, mach a pressure of public opinion will be brought to beer upon him that he may be led to adopt it. " ins instant assumption of the Presidency was probably deemed neoeseary, and, eider such exciting circumstances, little can be gathered from the few words uttered by Mr. Johnsen when the oath of office was administered to him. Such as they are, they point to a resolution to execute the duties of the post, but the influences by which the incom ing President is surrounded cannot be favourable to his re jection of offioe. General Grant and General Sherman are both in or near Washington, the one the commandsr.in altin and captor of Richmond, the other the man who first demonstrated the hollowness of the Confederate resouraw. Neither they nor Mr. Stanton, the Secretary of War, can wish to see the work on which they have been engaged so long, and on which so much life and treasure has been spent, wasted because it has fallen to a hand which is incompetent to carry it through. The task which lice before the Pre sident and his cabinet is the most considerable that has engaged the attention of statesmen for several generations- It was doubtful whether Mr. Lineoln could have accom plished it ; it is morally certain that Mr. Johnson cannot. The fate of a nation hangs in the balance, and we wait with anxiety to see which way it will turn." The Poet moot discover the motives which would actuate a Southerner to this particular crime. " Mr. Lincoln could not be held individually accountable for the cruel war which has made so many regions of the Confederacy desolate, and none who took the trouble of considering the matter would fail to perceive that that war would, in all probability, have squally run its coarse it another individual of the same politi. on opinions had been elected President four years ago, or if Mr. Lincoln had died at any period subsequent to his sommion to office. The assassination of Butler in New Orleans would have been perfectly intelligible ; but that of Mr. Lincoln in Washington, at the very moment when the war bad to all appearances come to an end, is apparently motiveless. The circumstance, however, that an attempt, and probably a suoceesful one, was made to murder Mr. Seward at the same time, shows that the double crime was the result of a carefully organised scheme." We may ob. 'WM that the Poet alludes to the new President as "the armies rowdy whom, in a moment of inadverteece, the American anion Gloated to a sinecure office." The Herald says :—" Now that he is dead the good qualities of the unfortunate Lincoln seem to come into the feraground. We remember his honesty and his manliness, we &jellabas to has consistency, we give him all praise for the spirit of send Union which he has shown, for his retinal be be borne along by the sanguinary counsels of hie Merida we make some allowance for his frequent and untimely levity, we almost excuse his obstinacy in the prosecution of l ike war. Such, we are persuaded, will be the sentiments of every right-minded Englishman ; end they will be aimed in by the vast majority of the Confederate people." To describe the new President, the Herald ransacks the dictionary of slang,-calling hicn,—" this incapable and igeorant person; this blustering and bloodthirsty ruffian, who has expressed a wish to hang the Southern leaders ' as high as Hamm ; this low devotee of the brandy bottle, who has Boated like the scum of the cauldron to the surface of the revolution ; this man who, even when sober, cannot speak or write a sentence in decent English, who is as incapable of the feelings as he is of the masers of a gentle man," &c. ; and the Herald adds :—" It was just possible that the South might have yielded to Lincoln ; it is out of the question that it should submit to inch • fellow as Jobosoo." The Standard also indulges in abase of Mr. Johnson : " The drunken tailor of Tennessee, the one man more brutal than Butler, more savage then Brownlow—the 0111115114 most vulgar, most ignorant of Amernan politicians; sad my; "the ultimate result may possibly be advantageous to the South, by reuniting her people in a desperate reels. ten" and giving the North over to manly sad sill ROME. PARIS. Ana 27. The Moniteur of to-day says :—" Despatches re• ceived here from Rome justify us in the belief that the negotiations between Cardinal Antonelli and Signor Vegezzi for the arrangement of the difficulties relative to the installation of the Italian bishops, are proceeding favourably." EXPRESS FROM PARIS THE FRENCH JOURNALS AND THE ASSAS SINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. (MN cos OWN 0011111111PONDLIM PARIS, WEDNESDAY Erman. On sitting down to write I am overwhelmed by the shocking news, rumoured at the Bourse and now printed in positive terms by every evening paper, that the good, the great, the honest Presi dent Lincoln is murdered. My first impression was to consider whether by any possibility the tele graphic intelligence may be false. All we know here is that on the night of April 14 Mr. Lincoln was shot, that he died on the morning of the 15th, and that Mr. Seward, who had also been murder ously attacked, was not expected to survive. It is truly marvellous that the telegram should be so meagre. Nevertheless when I find that Consols fell at 11 o'clock this morning, and that the sad intelligence, after being known for several hours in London, is not contradicted in any quarter, I dare not flatter myself that it is untrue. I subjoin what is said on this tremendous subject by the evening papers : Avenir National : The telegraph brings disastrous news which will cer tainly be • mum of mourning for all Europe. Presi dent Lincoln is murdered. The great citizen has fallen a martyr to his cause—but his triumphant cause The death of one citizen, however illustrious and how ever great, cannot compromise the destinies of a people whom institutions are democratic and free. But If it may be confidently said that the triumph of the people of the United States will not be imperilled by the death of Abra ham Lincoln, one cannot but feel • certain degree of anxiety at seeing removed from the political scene the man who, with the prestige of authority, united to mottoes patriot ism, might have moderated the pinion' of his fellow citi zens, transported by eattiusiMm of victory. Opinion Nationale: A 'ado' painful, a frightful pima of news arrives just is we are going to press. • • The Temps : We wish we could doubt the truth of this news, hut it unfortunately opines in too unquestionable • shape. We have no hare for the greeters of the Union nor for American liberty. A crime sever yet saved • last cause. But everybody most fed that the entire Union, the South ea the North, ham been wounded by the bulls' which has taken off this great citizen in the midst of such reified circumstances. It is unfortunately improbable that toe present vies-president, Kr. Johnson, will be found of • calibre to fill the void left by the austere and firm Abra ham Lincoln. We will venture upon no precipitate judg ment. It is to be hoped, for the honour of humanity, that this atom crime may have bees but Use week of some isolated elastic. It would be too sad to me • lest came respond by • martler le the megnanimity of the emmeerom At all woe" It may be eddy affirmed that the crime is se useless as detestable. Mr. Linda dies covered with the purest glary that ever crowned • einternms, bat his work will me vim him, and the greatest of liberty's victories will not have been pined in rein. The providentbil mimics of the limited States does not depend upon the life of any one ass ; and that liberty which created Yr. Lincoln, and whirl be has serval, will raise up inememors worthy of Wm. The Pays and Pattie make no observations. The evening Afonifeur, which appeared after the other papers, and whose issue was I understand re tarded for an hour in order to see whether the American embassy had received any'additional news publishes the " private " twlegnsph with the follow ing addition ponsmost ku es jot waived solids( to soda' this imaproboblo sows. can derive small comfort from the fact that the French government has no official knowledge of the facts. It gets its news continually later than pri vate individuals. At the Bourse the terrible news of the day— which, however, it must be said was doubted up to the close of business—produced very little effect. Rents and Mobilier closed with scarcely any varia tions from yesterday's prices. EXECUTION OF LEDUC.—(TaIi DAY.) BOULOONEBUB•YS6. TIUPBDLT. ..._._ . Leduc, who murdered his two children lAA November, was guillotined this morning on the Place Impdriale. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. LAYBETEL PRESENTATION OF A REQUISITION TO MB. ALD. J. 0. LA/FEMUR—cram DAY.) In view of the anticipated retirement of Mr. W. Williams from the rep Wise if Lembeth, a nmandtios to Mr. Alderman J. 17. Lawreeoe bag for the last few days been in course of signature throatiest the borough, sad it wee presented to that gentleman, this naming, at his offices, at Pitfield.wharf, Waterloo. Fifties of the most influen tial gentlemen of the di trio Minded to support the requi sition. to which were Appended upwards of 2,000 signs. tares of electors. In introdudeg it to the alderman, Mr. Webber, chairman of the meeting, mid he believed that if Mr. Lawman would only opine forward that number would soon betrebled. Mr. Latrines, after the requisitaos had boss ma, said that some time since be had promised that if the electors of the borough would come forward is &syllabi( like large numbers, he would seriously entertain the q uestion, and possibly give his word to and a 000 test. The requisition which had boa nod proved that that time had now come, and it was for him to say whether be would became a eaudidote for the tion of tke borough. In warm* dellaitively= he would come forwurd—Dtear, hear)—to claim the web traps of the electors, he was not unmindful of the haw of the borough, or of the magnitude of the services which it would require of its representative, bet be would do all is his war to nerve the interest" of the eoestitusaly if (Applause.) A committee was thee formed to conduct the maws of the alderman, and the meeting separated. CHESTER. Mr. Wm. H. Gladatone, eon of the Chancellorof the Exchequer, lam just issued his address in reply to the requidtion be hod received from the electors, ankle( him to come forward sea coodidete for the eity of Chester. After =priming his gratitude et Sliding that tar no semi* of Ma own hi has become the object of capitalises toe large body of gentlemen, he said that he renew« that another gentleman (Yr. Fenton) la in the field, who expresses his intention to support the present goverment ;, and h. (fir. Gledsten•) feels that se the son of a member of that government be should not be justified la beaming a miss of division amongst the electors, ear could be pat himself in competition with Mr. Fades unless he were In posassion of full proof that he was likely to be the object of the choice of Um oonstatnency. Should the requisitionists be joined with such a number of their fellow-electors se would afford the proof described, he should be prepared to offer himself for election. He sets forth the following as the nature of the opinions which would guide him parlia ment : " I should offer my ?apron to the present edrolaistretie and my votes would . Intros is &vier d temp e rate bat liberal messurm, which think Nodes Masai. sad which lfluswiee appear to me to afford the surest guarantee for the public welfare, sad for the strength of all the hatitu tions of this country. I sin is favour of a liberal esteinsioa of the frabohiss, sad I would gives fair and careful ime adoration to any sisaeure with that object is view. I believe that the ballot would sot avail to protect the lade pendonee of the gaoler ; and am also ha to perceive that the right to such indepeadence is Mo torsevery day more and more generally acksowledged. As respeets the present law of church rotes, I wielder it veretions sad impolitic, sad, in the absence of any such plan for its amendment as should fully meet the demands of religions liberty, I should be disposed to vote for its abolition. You , will, I am ears, neither expeet uor desire me to have a ' ready-made set of opiniose on all the arduous quieten's ol public policy at a time of life when it is best toin wi l Laming, bat the sentiments I have now ex perhaps serve as indications of the spirit in wh=should apply myself to public affair.." - the liberals are busily esgard in obtaining further sup port to their requisitios. No public aunonnoement of the muss the ocesenatives are taking has bees made, but it is known that they have a candidate ready to come forward. WAITING FOR THE BUDGET.-(THIS DAY. The usual scene was witnessed this morning in Westminster Hall, St. Stephen's Chapel, and the to the Howie of Commons. As early as 7 &ober several made their appearance by the door of Westminster ET,:nd quietly walked up and down until they were admi= for the purpose of securing goad places to hear the fi statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer this wooing. It is a rule on these °oculars that the persons who arrive first shall have the right of tatty into the gallery, and So. oordingly the first man takers his seat at the foot of the gal. lery stairs, others taking their places, as they arrive, and extendieg in a line along St. Stephen's chapel right away to Westminster-hell. By 10 o'clock time were at hest 200 persons in the seats, and during the day haadreds more will arrive, almost every one of the 650 add members having given an order far rulmissios into the gallery. Most of the persona who had thus exhibited their determinatioe to at out the many weary hours which must *lapse before the Chancellor of the Exchequer rises to unfold hie Midget. were amply supplied with refreshments, while to others bread and cheese, nandwiches, and beer,were supplied from the neighbouring public-homes. Many City men who were aaxiose to hear the financial statenseat, but who could not sit out the whole day at Westminster, for the purpose, employed substitutes, with whom they exchanged places as the day advanced. The budget night is the only one at which " strangers " are allowed to be in the house while Prayers are being read. Os this oemekce Lord Charles Russell, the Serjeant-at-Amis, usually anises the gallery to be thrown open two or three hours before Mr. Speaker takes the chair, and whoa about 120 of the vest number who have semenbled have been admitted, ell chance for the others, however long and patiently they may have wailed, is goes. MR. LINCOLN'S ASSASSIN. Wilkes Booth, the aesassin of President Lincoln, is said to be the son of an Emilia tragediaa, whom some of our theatrical radars may, perhaps recollect. He (the father) is thus described is the American Encycloxrdia "Booth. Juni= Brutus, an Fattish tragedian, born is Loudon, May 1,1798, died on the purge from New Or leans to Cineinuatti, December, 1e 32. After fulfilling en gagements at Deptford, sear Lesion, and other plea= and even performing at Breed.. in 1814 he made his &WU at Covent-garden Theatre, in Laudon. as Richard HI. His personal resemblance to the wookbacked tyrant conformed exactly to the traditions of the stage, and his peneeifiestion of the character was in ether reopens so striking that he competed successfully with Edmund Kean, then just rising into fame. The managers of Drury-lane induced him to act there in the same plays with Kean ; but when, after a few eights, he was again announced at Govezt-Nar den, his appearance ass the signal for a serious theatriad riot, which resulted is driving him far a time from the Load= Maga le 1821 he made his first ap is the United States, at Petersburg, Virginia, as in New York, at the Park Theatre, in the succeeding year, on both of which occasions he assumed his favourite charac ter of Richard HI. From that time until the date of his life he acted repeatedly in every theatre in the United States, sad, in !pits of certain irregu kr habits, which sometimes interfered with the per formance of his engagements, enjoyed a popularity which a law gifted eater would have forfeited. During the latter part of his life he raided with his family at Baltimore, ecomionel professional exotusions to other cities. He had just reamed from a lucrative tour to Califon= when be died. The nap of characters which Booth so mooed was limited, and was confined almost exclusively to tit we which he had studied in the =grating of his caner. ' is most closely ideetified with that of Richard. is width. c the death of Bdmsad Keen, he had so rival. Amen bk other most familiar penonatioes we= Imo, Shyleek, •. olet, Sir Giles Overreach, and Sir Edmund Karam= In Ws peculiar sphere—the sudden end nervous ed °moistest= pennon --as Name le the mars quiet = l i ' gnimges of his .ftlinsatimis, he exercised a wonderful sway =or his audience, and his appearsoos upon the stage has I baba kw= be awe a crowded and tumultuous home babe iseteut silence. His premises sad action, net hie shad suture, were tmporiug, sad Ids tame, unaided after the antique type, was capable of =premien under the influence of excitement. Several el lux childree have ralmilled a portion of his dramatis Went. ' and are now =ambient odors en the Am nia= stage." Wilkie Booth is also said to have been en the stage, aid •to have been an especial favourite at HAUL It wee pro ; b i bly by MOMS of his familiarity with the arrangements be hind the son= that be siontrived to efface his eseepe front •j the theatre. VArroorrezz's ISLAND. —A gold field has been disoesered at Saks, &boat° miles frees Victoria, is Vas courses Island, rapper has also bele discovered there. 30.000 tons of coal were exported bora the Woad last year. Female somata ors so SOUP three that their mires Ispelo from 501. to 701. a year. THE EXPENSES OP GARDE RES LEL PLEASURE S. n o own of 99,089/. 4s. 9d., which is raged* to deny each experee daring the year ending m u & 3 1. 1866, is the Neve& cord Pub *al Palos, et us Novak be maiatais eon ice the public we, le distributed es tic lows : AlberWeed, Itesearelaek, 42194 3 s lot Balorwo.park, SAW. 21 . 34 4 B adWiech. 2.88 K. 10 3 , 7d. ; Obelus Hospital Gram* utti. °beim Mier, Asylum Grounds, hill. 10a; G NU ,: o rkk.park, 2,0231. 19.. 4d. ; att. (mow s & vit. 3611, Se. ; Haespica Ociart.perk, 9161 , 1k . liampteepeeart pioseare mew, 1,9141. Oa 101 , ; R amo : toacaartnoade. 9474 ; riciTroodlitk. 1,9044. 1k ; Koadeptco-peril, 1.2824 16e. ; Kftelagies.p o i mk kgpoi. 04. sd. ; Kew Botasietardees, 15,3t0 i 17e. 6d. ; Kew 11914111e-PE4era 4.5061. 17e. 104, Longford Rives, 1.0374. ; lup•eslark sad Priem o .kg: AL; Rieleseead-park, 3,6494 es. ; ditto (* a u and o p so n0p0r1,2,7101. 3e. ; Itiohnoad sad Kew Itoso, 1,1071.10 e. 9d. ; St. Jeans's, Green, sad Hide Po l / 4 , ; 94,7741. 2.. 9d. ; ditto (departmeat of the realer), 1,661!. Se. 6d. ; Vielorie.park, 6,2401. lae. ld. The Isom' derived from the rani parks sad terd ft paid late tho coasolidated toad. The snout SO paid la 6 6 oat yew wee 3,5841. 17e. lid. ._-- c ouRT: pew , * olisai4 Dr. T. ay. Dew _ i•A P III 7, 1 Sio - doi 1 .44* WI % wool. 1 i row. :,, boo th• 1 g i i..... ....... Eh :Pa t hl i gr. Ts ! alsossibsi a lai : ieis moris t speadost I be sew I issols oor The oc srliada I ilsoble 80 bo Idol triin NM IV, Cbt Court. _ OSBORNE, APEIL 26. Her Majesty and Princess Louise drove out yesterday, attended by Lady Churchill. Princess Helena also drove. Lady Watermark ham succeeded Lady Churchill as Lady is Waiting. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colooial•offioe to the Governors of Malta, the Mauritius, Coyloc, Hoag Koss, Lamm, the Cape of Good Hops, Natal, sad the Assta• lien colonies. Their Royal Highnessee the Prince and Princess of Wales are expected to leave Sandringham on Tuesday nut for Marlborough House. Owing to the death of the Csarewitch their royal highnesses are expected to seek retirement for a few weeks. Theirßoyal Highnesses the Duchesa of Cambridge and Hiner Mary proper to return to tows nut week from Cambridge Cottage, Kew. The Karl de Grey will leave town to-day to in spect the fortificatiose on the rads of Haste and Devon, r Secretary of State for the War Department. Lord Stanley, Di P., has arrived in town front Knowsley Park, Lancashire. We (Post) are authorised to contradict a report which has appeared in our columns, of a marriage about to take plies between the Dowager Lady Holland, of Holland Haase, and Roar• Admiral Yelvertoo, C. 8., rued In com- mand in the Mediterranean. We are informed that her ladyship will 'rad the summer at Kensington. The celebration of the marriage of the lion. Alice Charlotte Pak fourth daughter of Lord sad Lady Rivers, of Rushmore Lodge, Wilts, and Captain William Arbuth sot, 14th Hiram eldest son of Archibald said the Hoe. His- Arbuthnot, of HYdelierk-garras, took place yester day, the 26th, at the parish church of Tolland Royal. BLUR Or LORD PAIMIR.VTON.—During the last few days some extravagant rumour have been in circula tion reverie( the health of the noble Premier. We leans, however, that the extent of his indisposition is a slight at teak of gout in his right hand. LETTER FROM THE EMPEROR NAPO LEON TO THE FAMILY OF THE LATE MR. COBDEN. The following is a translation of two letters of sympathy received by the family of the late Mr. Cobden, one from his Majesty the Emperor of the French and the other from Prince Napoleon : The Tuileries, April 20, ISO. Mr. Charles Cobden. Sir,—l hare deeply participated in the misfortune which has stricken your family ; for Mr. Richard Cobden has always evinced a grist sympathy for Franos, and his infill- IDC4 over his countrymen could not but contribute to draw 010111, the ties which unite England and France. I beg you to convey to his widow my serious regrets, and to rewire the assurance of my sentiments of high esteem. NAPOLEON. To Mn. B. Cobden, Midbunt. Paris, April 4. Madam,—l have just learnt the death of Mr. Cobden. I participate moat deeply is your groat affliction. The personal relations which I have had with that good man, so illustrious and Do medest, inspired me with a great esteem and a sincere frisodahlp for hies. I was happy to see him as a member of the Imperial Commission over which I preside, assoniated in our labours far the Universal Exposition of 1867. He has rendered as much service to France as to England by the grandeur of his ideas and 6 e part which be tool; in our commercial reform. His memory will among us. Receive, madam, the expression of all my keen regret'. Richard Cobden will be wept by all true friends of liberty sad of progress. Men of hie character and of his value are rare ; they belong to humanity. Accept, madam, the "'ammo of my most distinguished sentiments. NAPOLION (nit 01116). CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES. --•-- PUBLIC WORKS AND BUILDINGS. A statement of the estimates of 1865-6 of public works and building was issued this morning. The total sum required is 799,3704, being • decrease as compared with last year of 54,1481. The vote for the new foreign office is 15.0001. less than lase ear, and that for the harbours of refuge 20,0001. less. There are the following reductions: in the vote for the new record buildings at Dublin, 12,0001. in the came of Holyhead and Portpatrick harbours, 7,9461.; I public buildings, 6,9414; furniture of public offices, 5,3001.; royal palaces, 3,4224; and other votes, including 55,0001; for land, he., at Kensington-gore ; end 20,0001. for West minster•bridge approaches, which appeared in last year's estimates, are sheen this year. The total decrease would, in fact, have been 152,0841. 1 had there not been new and increased items. The new items are :—Publicofficee site, 20,000/. ; Metropolitan Firs Brigade, 10,0001. ; Patent-office, 4,000/. ; Isle of Man Lunatic Asylum, 4,0004 ; Leption Houma, Tangier, 1,5591. The sum required for the new houses of parliament is increased this year by 17,3121. ; Probate Court and Registries take 8,3191. more ; and the British embassy houses, Paris and Madrid, 4,1911. more; public buildings in Ireland are increased by 6,2251.; lighthouses abroad by 5,7711.; the Nelson column by 5,5001.; the shard court-homes, Scotland, by 3,0004; the Pablie Record Depo sitory by 2,7501.; the ladustrial Museum at Edinburgh by 2,3084; royal parks and pleasure gardens by 1,0964 ; New Weelmininer-bridge by 1,0701. The net reduction, however, as cowered with the mate for 1884-5 is, as we hennaed. 54,1484 "The Cobden family," Mr. W. Durrant Cooper says, " were Lammers in Sasser is the time of Henry if not earlier. William oobere, jos., was owner of I lands in West Dean, part of the Hospital of Arundel. He died on the 4th of February. 1563 (see 'Sumer Arch. Col lections,' vol. xvi., p. 511. For this same property, as worth 401. a year, his deeesedent woe fined is 1623 for non attendance at the coronation of Charles L to receive his knighthood ; and for the same property another William Cobden voted at the county election of 1734 ; • relative, I Richard Cobden, end the ancestor of the late Richard Cob den, voting for a freehold at Midhuret." The opening of the Philharmonic-rooms in Southampton was inaugurated by a grand fancy ball oa Tuesday night. The rooms form one of the most elegant baddinp in the town. RIPRIZINTATION or WIICDSOZ.—We are in formed that Sir Henry A. Hoare, eon of the banker of that name, will oder himself as a madiclate for the representation Of the borough of New Wisdom., in the liberal icairest, at the apposseing reseal 'lmam. Mr. Flower, of Stratford -1DOO•AVOC, haring retired from the coaled, the candidates who will b e w as tormed by the liberal pert, in opposition to Mr. W. Vanaittart and Colonel R. H. Vise (both of whom are staunch coessevatives) , the present sitting mem here, will thus be Mr. !Abut:pliers and Sir H. Howe. As mum very peat alumna's in the siesta& roll of the beessagh of New Windier have ben saga slime the hi election the mated Mend likely to pone a men NW LATICST rf4TELLIGENCL AMERICA. THE STATE OF MR. SEWARD. THE ASSASSINS NOT APPREHENDED. (zzam's TILIKIZAIte.) ARIVAL OF THE ETNA. (Via Roches Mat) NEW YORK, Aram 15, 5 P.Y. Mr. Stanton telegraphs as follows : " Mr. William Hunter has been appointed Act ing Secretary of State during Mr. Seward's illness. " President Johnson has announced that he will make no changes in the cabinet. "Mr. Seward's throat is not cut, but his face is gashed. He saved himself by throwing himself out of bed. The surgeons report his condition un changed, and that he is doing well. Mr. Frederick Seward's condition is eritital. • " The assassin• have not yet been apprehended." PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Amin. 27. Herr von Bismarck was present to-day at the sitting of the committee appointed to examine the bill for the increase of the Prus sian navy. The minister expreesed a hope that the government would succeed in obtaining the port of Kiel for Prussia, and under certain conditions for the Ger man navy. The latter will grow out of the Prussian fleet by developing the maritime resources of the other States of Northern Germany. Herr von Bismarck further said that he wished in the interest of the country that the Prus sian Diet would declare that the acquisi tion of Kid was necessary. The acquisition of this harbour was intended by the government but on the basis of a common understanding. The tract of land situated between Holtenar and Friedrichsort and the opposite vil lages were also required by the government. He declined to state whether under certain emer gencies the realisation of this scheme so far as foreign powers were concerned would be effected by force. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Ann. 27.. - . Baron Werther, the Prussian ambassador at the court of Vienna, read yesterday to Count /dens dorff a note proposing the convocation of the Diet of Sleswig-flolstein. The note does not mention that the elections are to take place on the basis of the electoral law of 1848, and it is therefore sup posed that the electoral of 1850 will be the basis of the election. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Arm 19. The Sultan has ordered machinery and engineers from England to work the coal mines in Turkey on his own account. The Russian railway between the Black and Caspian seas is progressing rapidly, 20,000 forced labourers being employed. It is to be finished next year. Letters received here from Bokhara state that the Emir is preparing an expedition to assist the Khan of Kokan against the Russians. SIR W.. 7. HOO GARDENS.KER'S REPOS? 011 Ur Sir W. Hooker's report for last year on Kew °ardor appears in • parliamentary Mon beard this asm. big. The number of visitors to the royal w oo h i* the put year prorate ea imam of 72,246 over Vet g 1863 ; sad was distributed as follows :—Tritsl smite • Sundays, 2111,306 ; total number on week days, 25055_ total, 473,307. Greatest monthly attendiums (July), 115,575 ; smallest ditto (February). 1,760; great* wssii.dss it . tosama (Kay 18), 10.307 ; smallest ditto (Lard t ; greatest &today etteedemos (July 10), 13" ; sum o ditto (7sauery 17). 28; Good Friday (mob 251, 8,g4 . A asap of curators has taken plea* is ths Dew& miedsse, Yr. John Smith having retired stir Xi yen sisporintsmisses of all depart:Beets of the pude'. R i vaaaamar, also Ir. John Smith. was We hied paha* i s the Deka of Northumberland, at Byorlicess. Nagy proemial' are being introduced in the Mealier, lai q sad walks ; the original arboretum near the Masts poi his been replenished with a oollectios of seises sad our. natal flowering trees, maifers, kr. ; many nhabli es. lectioas of Using plaits sad seeds have bees issinitia the colonies sad foreign coentries, sad shoat 4,000 in Paste sad 41,600 packets of seeds ham bees didaliad. Is the Amore grenade the most impertiat work ms mooed dans' the past year bee boss the milk% k. , d the Montan, the pleasure grounds being devoted a its erdtivaticto of • complete named collecting of all the ksr and Mats that will stand our climate. TM mosey la **supply of the per* is stocked with mar trim d which 1665 have been 'applied to the dear-park sad E. mond-park, red a large stack is about to be Best a as metropolitan parks. The scientific duties of tits tad prdens continues, f4lr W. Hooker says to be the eat warm cansested with the eitablislimest, Mug tees Mims* demands for the same of pleats in our see ad other gardens, sad of those collected by imams ad es placers on government and other expeditions, and isa is formai* as to easamnic plants and vegetable pads* Is addition to the Massive sad evasiscressing aolssil set foreign oorrespondenos sad publicatioss. THE LONDON INSTITUTION. Yesterday the annual meeting of proprietors v held in the timer* of the inetitation, in Tiaakerynireer Mr. T. Sainte, ILP., io the chair. The nigmet el the committee of management am me seated. The CHAMYAN having moan oh. adoptioa ci the report Fnarrnur made ease obeervations • • Gat greitsr fesilitim to this use of the library, • y _ nod the °healable:a of books. amid be affrededoompiessi that ths iodates WWII sat properly selected, sad Nem mended the appointment of a superinteedad who she'll be reopeenible - for the whole misogamist wad eroded d the institution. Hs took axeoptioa to that pmt report which replied to the suggsetioas of the amines at aad istimated that ameadresst would is Pra mio=l at . report this reaped. The chid gonad d alarm an the part of himself and his him& Ina i. ro fawn to the Oity of London College, and spa fiat point they bad thought it regulate on a late mein to yaks dinmenstration against the project, which he lame we opposed by the majority of prop:Mae and the press, and, if he was not mnieformed, that was mods:able diffsainoti of vision swag dr members of the committee ci managemeat. Ha lei • ~intim in the form ol emeaduei rrt i r d ro forms, either of which be would submit Wt.& be preferred ; the ooe was that the resolution morel bus the chair be altered, by striking out the word " adsplif: and ribititnting these words, " that the traumatise t oll timber natil the proprietors have pronounced en yam a the proposal to associate the City of Loucks 00l vS this institution, and to stay sll proceedier for promelii that proposal, either by the creation of votes ce adroit or still striking oat tho word " adopted," sobstitiliti word., ' but that the principle of issoriPmft a amociatiog this institutioo with the Cityof Lasko Weft is isappved, aad that the manager* be requested te use pee d d an ro y appropdatios of forfmted shares sail chi the p ▪ a geni i I. general meeting have maelisned 4K nernies r—The qnsetkni of minutia of the CIS of London College is to be submitted co the 9th. bon. proprietor may of course move the amendruest, tel it will be my date to put it, but u a matter of cal not allow say disenasion apes the • of he UMW Hop until the question coma ly before U. Several proprietors took exception to this rase, orstred ing that ovary subject referred to in the report rriikl discuised when they ware asked to adopt it, and discuss oomvenation upon the point of order. Kr. neernima moved, the wood ameadmmt b bed la r. li tionece seroaded this, in mowed dm wad topics referred to by the moon A kid, end orawkonelly a perecnel, dimmers folioed , hi the Gomm of which Dr. GIBBOY and ether proprigon recommended OA lie amendment should be wiaidrawn, while some avocets postponement of the entire dinomerion metal the 9tb when the proposal for emalpmating the college to is 'Omitted ; and two or three proprietors aarewalf genii upon Die board of m anag em e n t for • pledge thit 1 07 would not in the meantime dispole of the shares rstamod their kends ms to sirs • preponderence of votes is boo the annezalion. Mr. GAISIOT (one of the managiag cominittes) rid thd by the Merles the appropristios of the shires was lath* in the hands et the managers without referee's to the Pr' pistols He declined to give any pledge, b a t Wiese& that the shares would be disposed of for the bete& d ths institution. The smiadmest was thin put. and lost by • T 1 ,7 WW2 =Z. A poll was demanded, but after emsms dike io was withdrawn ; sad Dr. EDNUNDS moved another amendment. "NON O . aret page of the report, and receiving the remesift polio without adoption, but adding a clause dime* it to Is enticed an the minntea, and declaring the noscenned the preesat roosting to the propoied amalgamatioe City el Imam College, and the desire of the irePn!" 6 that the slimes in the beads of the managing noinnutte should not be disposed of until after the demote!) a de 9th minims. This wee semowled, and after a long, irregular, and "I song dbasseion, was put and carried, whsreoCee t;„; demanded on the past of the and the appointed it to be taken ea Monday next. kedwel ° hours of tee sad tom. A vote of thanks to the chairman then coecloded the Po needier, which had extended over thine bolus. The Balk Chrootick in giving an amount of the ermakatkia of kW Hat at Trowbridge yesterday. sir " All was are tamed is pity towards her. She rig- with a slip whisk brayed to emotion, but will 411sorsh oyes. sad took a seat in the der as Wake of Miry, who had a most shiest at' bramisa of oastaaass, rain sideways towards be. Oho ran alma Wog rammed, bat stood with dowsers oak the Mks of Macy ear and anon metier ass ors korawsada, r if Jerkin diva" aid. TM pres" tat arks bars award may is that Cesar Is cwt as unsissas. Her want is wart ts' alma arsortikary &mass of stir. air res' Rea mart mot be takes as say widows elf h. gat Thal her safssios is supported by altar Pro pis mast soomiad Mak Warr. fihe k • gbl al isd Ward osmotic areloprowt, sad scams to har grows rams or two is Might sad so bar bona a bater tbas who hest acv kr fa this oast. Sr yam ago. His whole astastr tit balisabes • awn doasemisist will, and a know ar Yr what ar who has adapd bar to maks this raordies7 ratomsat. Mr tart tho mart via a dna stop." The Weymouth and Portland BaDray Wills it b soda& bo opened a the Bth proasto. The foundation stone of an additional wind to as Royal Swath Brats lairmary was kid a limodef. It is Its bri aroolod la mammy or tho Croat Sir Crab, a groat benefactor to that larkatioa. &ha ill. AI M. ' is 11l WINN deillid Mee d a ll ellb Mill 01 hit lOL .st it: WWI lel .du moth a' asks Jo amM whik lag