The Express. — London, England, 1865-04-29 00:00:00

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MASON has published a letter to show that the assassination of Mr. LINCOLN was not, as Mr. Srairroe has said, " planned and set on foot by " rebels under pretext of avenging the South and " aiding the rebel cause." This was a very proper object for any friend or agent of that cense to pro pose to himself, and the position of Mr. MASON LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 28.—Notice marked him out for the task. If he has not sue- is hereby riven that the Queen's Drawing-room, Innotinced oeeded it may be because, the facts being imper- so be held os Tuesday, the 16th of May nut, by her /loyal fectly known, the attempt was premature But if Highness thnent il Priarbuss Heitz urs : i o. bi alf a ot a b ea er t. Majesty, is postponed . of Mr. Mason had not the means at hand, se it was It is understood th y s:t the Prince a y ud Princes.s of hardly possible he should have, of at once disprov- Wales ars to visit the Duke and Dachas of Sutherland at ing Mr. STANTON'S grave but hasty accusations, he Duirobiis Castle in August. has certainly lost a fine opportunity of exPresaing The Duke of Somerset will bold levees for the sentiments suitable to the occasion, and has said reception of officers of the Royal Navy and Manses on the something which his friends and he himself in his following days, at half-pest two p.m. :—Tburoday, May 4 ; calmer momenta will regret. For our own part, Thursday, May 11; and Thursday, May 18. we are quite content to wait for further light on The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa this painful subject. In common with the rest of Cavendish have arrived at Devonshire nova, for the mere the world we assumed when the news came that hem Liamote Cull., Ireland ' The Marchioness of Salisbury had an evening Mr. Lisoout had fallen • victim to the spirit of Ply lil y t . night at the family residence in Arlington-strut, political revenge. It was a natural assumption, to be etelfirmed or corrected by subsequent iniormatlon. 'NO (L'iraki) unde r," - sad that Viscount Palmer ,- Mr. STANTON says he has evidence of the fact in ton is suffering from gout, aid is obliged to discontinue his his hands. He may have; but knowing the excite- attention to public Maine,.. His lordship bas left tows ment amidst which he wrote, we do not accept his for Brooket Hall. statement as • final decision of the question. The marriage of Viscount Chelsea with Lady Mr. Mamie might, therefore, reasonably urge upon Bratrix Craves, defined on account of the death of Lord rteinetoo, will take place privately at Coombe Abbey on the English public the propriety of suspending their judgment upon this mysterious case, and if he sh°l64ll of Ma y. Albion farewell r dinner .r. was given last night at the had done so simply and temperately, pointing out the want of adequate motive to the commission of F.B. Z , oil ev r ka ' o, eof his doetmet`part ure from to Eng land . Heir% such • crime on the part of the adherents of his sequence of an invitation he had ived from the eel ; cause, we should all have recognised the justice of gareremeie e to °ma i se a chemical laboratory in thii Uni the claim. He has, however, seen fit to take varsity of Berlin, and to undertake the chemical chair in another course. His object, he states, is " only to that university. Mr. Warren os la Rue occupied the chair. The dinner was attended by a numerous oampasy " repel a calumny." We shall presently see whether his letter is of • defensive or an sggremive cha- °_,f2te friends, supporters, an d former pupilsof the lemma oc de ratter. One thing will strike every reader of it— Paris: t e h h e Duke de Ch a r tres , the Collage etChe mistry , 1 i ncl uding rinccdeonde, he the Mr. Mr. MASON has not a single word of regret for the We (Athenaeum) are glad to find that the " Dort," death of Mr. LINCOLN. In this respect his letter by Stanfield, and "The Interior of St. Stephen's Church, is unique among the compositions of various kinds Vienna," by Roberts, wan bought for Mr. Tile, M.P., and that have been published on the subject during the are sow in his collection. The price of the two pictures last few days. Mr. STANTON, who if he has mu- was about 4,000 guineas. taken!) , connected Mr. LINCOLN'S assassination The French government has despatched a scion with abettors of rebellion at least fell into ti 6o mminiiai°n to Mount JEtee, b make inquiries on the the error most natural to a person in his root into t . he °Mr " of the last eruption. The members of situation, is accused by Mr. MASON of deli- of the' m oun tain, ssion Ps" and thfowten returned days sad tonig ea tania ht. on th wieths'irit h berstely inventing the statement to that effect harvest nbnevations sad in his telegram for a calculated purpose. Mr. Mason The Press states that the Edmund' committee says :—" He has adopted that theory which he will meet on Tuesday for the last time. "We have reams " deemed would be the most useful to set before to believe," tars the Press, " that, whilst Lord " the country." This is an imputation of the Bough= is completely exonerated, a very severe warm basest motives. But it is weak and pointless com- will be passed upon the share his brother, Mr. William Brougham, had in them) unfortunate Oar:sections. It it, pared with what immediately follows. Mr. MASON moreover, whispered that the Lord Chancellor will receive • correctly observes that the assassination of Mr. reprimand, on which even he can put but one construe. LINCOLN could not "aid the rebel cause." The t a m .. same, however, was truly said of the Lake Erie DEATH or Ste SAIIIJEL Ccoraae.—We regret to piracies and the St. Alban's raids, which announce the death of Sir Samuel Cunard. which took place Mr. DAVIS acknowledged, and also of the at 6 p.m. yesterday. This melancholy event had been fore. firing of New York hotels, which one of the sees for some little time by Sir Samuel's (needs, by whom, perpetrators of that deed confessed. Having as well as by the public in general, his ices will be mesa* by this reflection, as he supposes, disconnected —rife B the partisans of secession from the murder the Right irinf: itoutta George z. n r u rripate . of the rick willd Esrf of of Mr. 'Armour, Mr. MasoN proceeds to point of Carlisle, E.G., P.C., of Castle Howard, Yereihire• out that the parties who stood in • position to profit Haworth Castle, Cumberland ; and Grasvenor-pkice: by the removal of the late President were Mr. 1 0 ,:el p ota e was f. gr i tt i lL o her hia and l ast r. y . s . Court of Prob ate shed Ihr ,to JOHNSON and Mr. STANTON, who could not carry Gray's-ins, the 'pint action executors. The personalty was their schemes of plunder and rapine into effect at 186 - sO l d Ki l e t r is lordri.eiTerPeos will bean bbt11:1:f date Augus t 23, 23'he the South while Mr. LINCOLN remained at the age of 62, somarviee m an y annuities are December, head of affairs. It is in this sinister way that Mr. his brothers, i sisters, nephews, _ nieces, and MASON pays the only tribute to Mr. Li/mote's e ca te w e L , Te 'iroi . T rer ea l e T e L feleed t . a i. ese t : of ble a r,: memory which his letter contains. The late Pro- servants, each ; and lemeres to his other meant. free 'adept has been murdered, and the new PRZEIDMIT d d u t y. founded ,Prarrdstimad;ifeerA,.......„4" support that a the sabot gaios by it. This is how Mr. Malbw states and mire' tbs - fion. Ed w a r : . G r y,sl,7 . " f ia n imithe Ld A hl; leaves the matter; and it would have been difficult w ife, may select any object which might not improperly be a isir k :etfrom the f p a s tl e y d esti l te u , as memorlal o s s i f o r e ec: t iz ; to carry insinuation farther. We deprecate and being forced to form an immediate judgment and satiated by friends who am enumerated by hie lordship i rw . ill irt. ar a t r tres in his sta is to ben to in the present state of our information, bet it cer- tt. b i na l a tainly seems more likely that Mr. Litroomi was with right of selection. Than re e l bles 2 nd Afe e t e ersbequest:: shot by • fanatical opponent than that be was got All the furniture and effects, sculpture, wittier, bale, rid of to make way for Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. °tete ' er ( r de : e ertu, hd - , :t as C as ,, tie Howatrod,b4Nrpridortit MASON points out that Wrixas Boom, who is trust as heirlooms for the person inheriting the title sad estates v ii pi1a ,... 373 . 7 thereto bids sext brother, the Hoe. and believed to have committed the murder, is of now i a Car lisle English descent, and has practised his profession— W e (J o h n B u ll) lear n with pleasure that the that of en actor—chiefly in Northern cities. Boma, Qum has bees ersciosaly give a doestioa of we believe, is as much an American as one-third and e an t" . Bl . lla t ad " . . 14°6146,1. please d ec to iv"/"Mint• at or one-half of the young men in that country, ' Ko m i, aina.ll°.nb:rns2ll.74. ..re,:gthat the population of which is so largely sustained by .beet i. the hospital. It is Prwtstwad to moue n one tag immigration. He is said to have been an eve- i7 ust ee tlfr th e e see • f r ° ° :.,, j u z dasi e ra r Mr. li t r e eed i ri e trial favourite at Mobile. In the absence of direct work will enewarage others to do se too, for warty raol3ol. is testimony we should have inferred from his con- 't o l e dt n er h t ... ,,he dra,L_eeets hi ly l tr a aZd th ere is little more thee duct that he had graduated at New Orleans in me person c some,hapel feesommlb:obefit at the pre-Butlerian era. Mr. MasoN considers that take this put of the west. The object cif the home le to his origin and mental training were little likely to k o a P gisi t a tin . ti r ir ba aleb atfeeleetle mewed for ork mid to amiss fa pteg them eel engender the slightest sympathy with the South. in seem remunerative 00011$1•611. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL SO, 1865. That is a speculation on which we seed not enter. But supposing it to be correct, hew in the name, of logic does Mr. Mason strive in the following outlaws at the conclusion that the crime is "the " necessary offspring of those scenes of blood " shed and murder which have signalised the " invasion of the South by Northern armies?" If the assassination of Mr. Latooma was a ne cessary conaequence of the war prosecuted in Southern States by the North, then it follow' that the real murderer is some in censed Southerner. It is not we who say this ; we merely point out the inevitable conclusion of Mr. Meson's argument. Looking at the pro babilities, we think Mr. MasoN is nearer the truth this time than when he connects the murder with Mr. lisnazw JOHNSON'S ambition. In con clusion, we would just remark how fully Mr. MasoN expresses in this statement the anarchical spirit out of which this war bas grown. Let us understand what this doctrine of a " necessary" consequence means ; to affirm of any act of an intelligent, free, and accountable agent that it is necessary, is to declare that it is justifiable. Four years ago, in the judgment of the Southern leaders, it was necessary that, if beaten at the ballot-box, they should take up the sword. Having appealed to the sword, and again lost their cause, we are now told that assassination is neces sary. We see here the same ungovernable temper, the same perverse wilfulness, which is everywhere horn of slavery, which rejects every kind of arbi trament, which led Mr. Davis, as we saw yester day, to pour contempt on fair oonatitutional war fare, and to declare his preference for a bloody fight, and which now refuses to abide the Mine of that chosen appeal. Englishmen know how to honour fidelity to principle, constancy in effort, fortitude in adversity, but they also know how to distinguish these from malice, bad temper, and the passions which make all government and all society impossible, and which they by no means consider " necessary." SW 601111. OSBORNE, APRIL 28. The Queen walked and drove in the morning with Princess Louise; and drove out in the afternoon, at. tended by Lady Caroline Barrington. Princess Helena and Princess Louise rode on horseback. A deputation from the corporation of Liverpool had an interview with Mr. Baring, M.P., at the Home-offlos, yes terday, oo .he subject of the Liverpool Gunpowder Rev lotion Bill. The deputation was introduced by Mr. !fore tell, M.P., and Mr. J. O. Evart, M.P., and consisted of Mr. Treads A. Clint, Mr. J. G. Livingdon (vice-chairman of the Chamber of Camera), and Mr. Clarke /topical, sc. companied by Mr. M . Gowen (deputy town clerk) and Mr. Thomas Baines. Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial office, from the Governors of Canada and the West India laleodi. The Hoe. G. E. Cartier and the Hon. A. T. Galt, from Canada, had an interview with the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, at the ColoniaLoffiee, yesterd►y. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left Cambridge home, on Thursday afternoon, for Brackett Hall, Herts. LATEST 121 1 11ILLIGENOE. ---- AMERICA. (11401111'• TILISZLIL) ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA. (VA Roches Foist.) NEW YORK, Aran. 19, Nowt. The following are the heads of the news brought by the China : President Johnson has made a speech in which, without defieing his future policy, he announced his conviction that traitors should receive the fullest punishment. Mobile was occupied on the 12th inst. Sherman has occupied Raleigh. . Johnstone is reported to be retreating, having avoided a battle. It is supposed he will surrender. Stoneman has captured Salisbury, North Ca rolina. Mr. Lincoln's funeral took place to-day. Mr. Seward's condition is improving. His assassin is reported to have been arrested. Gold, 147 g. NEW YORK. APRIL 19, MORNING. President Lincoln's funeral takes place at Wash• ington at noon to-day with great ceremony. The people will assemble at all the churches throughout the country at that time, and the remains will lay in state at the Capitol under a guard of honour. They will afterwards be carried in state through New York and Philadelphia, en route for Springfield, Illinois, where the body will be buried. The mourning is universal. Throughout the Northern States public buildings and private residences are draped with black. Popular indignation has been re-aroused against the South, and a cry for severe measures against the Confederates has arisen. President Johnson's previous speeches indicate that he will adopt • severe policy against the South. A fuller report of Johnson's inauguration speech has been published. He said that his past course in connexion with the rebellion must be regarded as a iparantee for the future. He felt in the end that the government would triumph, and the principles of free government be permanently established. Yesterday Johnson made a speech in reply to an address from the inhabitants of Illinois, in which he said that the government would not always bear with its enemies ; it was strong not only to protect but to punish. Let it be engraven on every heart that treason was a crime, and that traitors should suffer the penalty. What may be mercy to individuals were cruelty to the State. As events occur, and it becomes necessary for me to act, I shall dispose of each as it arises, deferring any declaration or message until it can be written, paragraph by paragraph, in the light of events as they transpire. Lafayette Forster succeeds to the Vice-Presi dency. Mr. Seward is much better, and sat up a short time yesterday. Mr. Frederick Seward is improv ing. He has regained consciousness. 30,000 dollars' reward has been offered for the arrest of Booth and his accomplices. It is believed that the assassination was the result of a regular conspiracy. The Vice-President and other prominent persons were particularly inquired for on Friday by suspected persons. Yesterday a man, supposed to be John Surratt, of Maryland, who made the attempt on the life of Mr. Seward was arrested near Washington and identified by Mr. Seward's servants. He is now in close confinement. A resident of Baltimore has confessed to com plicity with the assassin, and has been arrested. Booth, with numerous companions, are be lieved to be concealed in Bt. Mary's County, Maryland. His capture is hourly expected. All civil, military, and naval officers have bees ordered to wear mourning for Mr. Lincoln for six months. The foreign ministers Lave sent • deputation to convey to Mrs. Lincoln's family expressions of their sympathy. The Governor of New York Las ordered the 20th inst., which had previously been appointed as a day of thanksgiving, to be dedicated to the services appropriate to a season of national bereavement. The British and French residents of New York have held • meeting, when resolutions expressive of deep sympathy were passed. The greatest order continues throughout the Northern States. A universal feeling of sympathy prevails throughout the British provinces. The Governor of Nova Scotia announced, on Saturday, that, in consequence of Mr. Lincoln's assassination, he would postpone his intended visit, and recommended the adjournment of the legislature as a mark of sympathy. General Dent has permanently superseded Wait, tel in command at Richmond, and the latter com mands at Petersburg. The order permitting the Virginia legislature to assemble at Richmond has been rescinded by Gene ral Ord, and delegates who had arrived were di rected to leave within twelve hours. General Grant reached Washington on Saturday, and held • conference with Johnson and the Cabi net. Immediately afterwards the arrests of Judge Campbell and Ex-mayor Mayo, of Richmond, were ordered. General Lee has arrived at Richmond, where he was enthusiastically received both by the Unionists and Confederates. Lee's farewell order says that after four years of arduous service, marked by ursurpassed courage, the army had been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. and bad surrendered to avoid useless sacrifice of life. It is reported that Itilpatrick's cavalry had captured the Governor of North Carolina while bearing an offer from Johnston to deliver up the state to Sher man. Johnston was subsequently visited by Davis, under whose direction the proposition was counter manded. President Davis was reported to have reached Macon, Georgia, on the 10th. Butler, who is now in Washiagton, was reported on Thursday to have resigned ; he has since with drawn his resignation and it is supposed that Johnson will give bim a oommand. The Confederated have destroyed their navy yard at Halifax, North Carolina. General Anderson formally replaced the United States flag on Fort Sumter on Friday, the 14th, when the Rev. Ward Beecher and others delivered patriotic addresses. General Dix, commanding at New York, has re ceived information that an organised band of 150 men were in Csroltoa county, Canada, prepared for • raid upon Rochester and Ogdensburg. The New York Herald, in ita correspondence from the city of Mexico, states that rumours were current that a large number of Confederates pro• pose shortly to cross the Rio Grande, and march to the assistance of Juane. It is reported that a Federal force has crossed the Rio Grande, near Pelo Alto, Resacs, and Depalma, and has destroyed 4,000 bales of cotton which were stored on Mexican soil. The Kangaroo, Germania, Baltimore, Belgian, and Persia, have arrived out. (►ROM TES " TIM " TIFIJOILLIL NEW YORK, Ann. 18. General Canby reports the capture of Spanish Fort, with 563 prisoners and 30 pieces of artillery, on the night of the Bth inst., and of the fortifica tions of Blakeley, opposite Mobile, with 2,400 pri soners and 20 cannon. On the following day the majority of the garrison of Spanish Fort escaped to Mobile, across the bay. On the 12th Mobile was discovered to have been evacuated by the Confede rates, and was immediately occupied by the Federals. Not the slightest enthusiasm has greeted this event, it being regarded as insignificant in compa rison with the calamity to the country in the un timely and violent death of President lineoln. NEW YORK, APIUL 19, 11 A.r. It has been decided that Mr. Lincoln shall be interred in Illinois. His remains will be carried through and laid in state in Philadelphia, New York, and all the principal cities on the route. They will reach New York on the 25th. Secretary Seward and Mr. Frederick Seward are better, and it is now thought that both will recover. Mr. William Hunter, who has been for many years chief clerk in the State Department, has been appointed Acting Secretary of State pro tern. A man, named Suratt, who suddenly disappeared from his home in Washington, has been suspected of being the assassin of Mr. Seward. The female members of his family were arrested on Monday night. While the officers were in his house, a man disguised and covered with mud entered, and was also seized. Upon being confronted by Major Seward and the domestics he was at once recog nised by them as the one who made the assault. Many other arrests have been made in Wash ington ; among them a number of the crap/oyes of Ford's Theatre. There have also been arrests at Baltimore and Fortress Monroe—one of whom confessed that he was privy to a plot to kidnap, but not to murder, the President, and convey him to the South as • hostage. It is reported that it has been discovered that the plot for the assassination of Friday night in cluded the Vice-President, General Grant, and every member of the Cabinet. The Washington Republican states that ex-Mayor Mayo, Judge Campbell, and all the Confederate officers on parole in Richmond have been arrested, and will be held prisoners pending the investigation of the circumstances of the murder of the President. 01/1712103 TZLIOIL FRANCE. PAR'S, Aram 29. Prince Murat left yesterday for Nioe in order to present the condolences of the Emperor and Em press to the Czar on account of the deg% of the Czarewitch. THE SPANISH CONGRESS. MADRID, Ann 28, Emu No. To-day in the Congress Senor Rios Rosas ex plained his motion for a parliamentary inquiry into the events of the 10th inst. He said the ministry could neither dissolve parliament nor govern with it. Sailor Gonzales Bravo stated that he considered the motion as a censure upon the conduct of the government, and called upon the majority to reject it. The proposal was subsequently rejected by 134 against 104 votes. BELGIUM. TEE WEEKLY PEES& The Saturday Review thinks the principal fault of the budget is that the estimated surplus is too men. I Both the Chancellor of the Exolreqser and the Housed Com mons rely with natural eonlideace ea the continued growth of the revesne, which is said to expand at the satisfactory rate of 1,700,0001. a year ; but part of the probable isereme bad ban already included in Mr. Gladstese's estimate, and ' " it is imprudent sot to take into wound the pomade coa -1 tingency of some public embanammeat or disaster. Above all, It is desirable, la a moos of unexampled prosperity, to make some serious effort for the reduction of the debt. is one part of his multifarious speech, Mr. Gladstone ob served with much truth that an avenge reduceios of 3,000,0001. a year was not to be regarded with eomplaessey or pride. In the wares of last year he has had the good fortune of paying off 4,000,0001., but it is scarcely probable that he will be able to repeat the opera. I tion. The country would sot submit to say large amount of taxation for the *sprees purpose of forming a sinking 1 1 fund ; and indeed it may be plausibly argued that the money would be more advantageously invested by the tax payer than by the goverment, which amid only relieve itself of a charge of about 31 per asst. Nevertheless, Finance Minister ought to take care that the proems of re duction io never interrupted in time of peace. Half a million of estimated surplus generally ewers' a balance of four or five times that amount, which will be applicable to the payment of debt. A quarter of a million forms an in sufficient margin ; and it must sot be forgotten that during his present tenure of office Mr. Gladstone has twice been embarrassed by a dellcit." The Spectator observes that in L 0613011 the press, with only two exceptions, his expressed the eirengest abhorreeoe of the asemeination of Mr. Lincoln, the two exceptions being the Standard sad—strange to say—the Globe. The former applies to Mr. Lincoln the words need in &Weed to con demned criminal', the latter publishes an elaborate exam ration of the South. "It in neceseiry to remind the Ameri cans that on such points the Globe does not re present the feeling of the government. All the greet cities Intend, we believe, to present addresses of coodoleuce either to Mrs. Lincoln or the American govern ment, and we trust that u the emotion of horror dies aw►y into cue of regret the intention may be persisted in. For owe the feeling of all parties in the United Kielce= is unanimous, and if those who draw up the resolutions will but exprees them in terms which do not commit the Southerners to an odicial condeinnstioe of the South, unani mous atheism of sympathy may be seat to Weshington from every city and town in Great &dein. la Ireland even this degree of caution will, we believe, be moose- nary." We read In the London Review :—" After all diorites as to political principles are at as sod, it will, we believe, be acknowledged on both sides that there wee something great in that humble, uncouth, gigantic, halLedocated raileplitter from Illinois. He socestimes astonished, some times annoyed the refilled statesmanship of Europe ; but in the end he wrung from it respect, which in the last few weeks was rising into admiration, and which his bloody death will heighten and crousecrate. He had the bark of the back woods about him, and he weld not divest himself of it even in the saloons of the White House ; he made strange jests when be should have been decorously reserved; but he never disgusted any but the vulgar at heart. It was as though nature had fashioned him punt, and huge, and army, the better to encounter the grim work to which he had set his hand. We who live in en age of special earreepeadeata and of photographs, and who see everything analytically and as it were under the miarceoops, have perhaps dwelt somewhat too much on these defect. ; but will posterity regard them to t►e same extent' Who thinks of the warts on Cromwell's face now that, having needed so far from the man's time, we see him in hie totality? Abraham Lincoln 'mama the chief magistracy at a period of ea* paralleled difficulty, of overwhelming national disaster ; and even we who have disagreed with the policy which he represented meat admit that few met could have borne such a burden with greater inaate power and constancy, or could have peeped through each a fiery ordeal with fewer mistakes of a serious kind. When he might have been almost 'zoned for despairing, he was calmly hopeful ; when the hour of manse arrived, be did Dot yield to the drunkenness of revenge. We are judging hits, of course, on purely moral pounds, sad from the point of view *bids he oreceived to be right. Setting aside, then, all debateable matters of opinion, it most be admitted that Abraham Lincoln has won for himself, by consistency, by firmness, and by a certain progressive aad expanding power, the most conspicuous place next to Washington in the het of American President.. Neither his capacity nor his education was great ; but hoesety is in itself capacity, and that of no mean order—it is in le& education, and that not of the worst. His death will only increase his fame. It sets him en a pedestal from which he cannot be taken down, and crystallises his reputation at the very moment of his triumph." The Army and Navy Hardie remind, those who speak of the sew President as a man of so capacity and worse than no character, that he was twice, before secession. °oversee of Tensaw., and Neater from Tennessee in Congress. He was then thought by the elaveowners of Tennessee to have capacity enough to be their ruler end their representa tive. "We know very little about him ; but his pre vious employment in these official pasta must, in spite of his humble origin and shameful behaviour on the 4th of March, be taken into account. Harsh judgments are to be deprecated on say man, and especially on one with whose career we on this aide are little acquainted. The chief fear from him is lest he should be led to call for vengeance; but we may fairly hope that enough of ➢fr. Lincoln's kindly, nay mag nanimous, spirit remains in the councils of Wuhingtos to prevent what would be a crime greater than the base ea susiaation of Abraham Lincoln. There I. little hope for the Confederatee except ia a civil war in the North ; and every reader can eerily determine for himself how far that is likely to occur." In the Press of to-day we meet with " James," who thus discourses of the events of the week and their open panties importance: —" What a week of sensations has this been ! The surrender of General Les, the fatal asses sination of President Lincoln, the discovery of the Rood tra gedy, the attempt in Paris to murder the attache to the Rue sian embassy, and the early death of the yonthfulexanswitch. Of all these incidents the latter is the most mournful, and the one that tends most to elicit the sympathies at least of the e d uca ted caw: refined classes of society. The accessories of the event are *a needier', interesting and dramatic. The youth of the sufferer, the magnificent iotimitanoe of which he was the destined owner, the promos in his last moments of his august pares* and, above all, the womanly and delicate atteedanee of his affianced bride, the fair daughter of the royal house of Denmark, all unite to invest with peculiar significance this early removal of the Crown Prince of Hassia." Th. Era says : " The Southerners, through their agent here, affect• belief that the assassination will be used as • pretext for arbitrary conduct towards the Closferierates, but at present no ground whatever has bees given for such en assertios. It would be well that they should boldly and earnestly condemn the atrocious deed, for though there are thousands among them who detest such acts se hastily as we can do, it is notorious that their organs have been for months menacing the North with private ven geance,' and the firing the New York hotels Wee certainly arranged at Richmond." THE AMERICAN MINISTER AT BRUSSELS ON THE ASSASSINATION OF MR. LINCOLN. The following letter has been addressed by his Excellency Mr. Sanford, the United States Minister at Brussels, to the American Consuls in Belgium : Legation of the United States, Brussels, April 26, 1865. Sir,—Another dreadful crime has signalised the slave holders' rebellion. After having bees marked by barberi ties which could only emanate from the influences of a barbarous cause, its overthrow has culminated in a crown ing atrocity ; the President, whose assaisination was at tempted through the same influences at the outset, has been murdered. A merciful God has weakened the arm of the assassin who *ought to murder, in his sick bed, the Secretary of State, and add another affliction to the country, soother foal crime against society. Elevated by his own worth from the humblest sphere to a position of power and responsibility unequalled in the world, Abraham Lincoln has given to mankind a raze ex ample of unselfish patriotism, integrity, and singleness of purpose in working for the country's good, and carrying out the behests of the people. The denomination of " honest," which popular sentiment had affixed to his name, will pass to history as his well-earned distinction, with that of patriot and martyr. What a bright example he leaves for those who follow after him ! Providence spared him to see the virtual accomplishment of the great work to which he had been called. The rebel lion, end slavery, ire cause, are at an end ; and the Union is not alooe preserved, but has gathered new strength and vitality as • nation. Thank God, its safety or peril can depend on the life of no one man ! Its government is but an emanation of the popular will, and the ceasing away of the elect of the people at an another time than the limit of his presidential term, can cause no perturbation in the state, The people remain, and their will is continued by his sue- COMM Called upon to mourn the death of a great and good man, and the loss of an eminent chief magistrate, I have to re nest you to display your flag on the day, and for the three following days, after the receipt of this communication at half.enast ; also that you will cause the mutants( Amerissa shipping in your port to hoist their figs for the same period at half-mast. I have farther to request that you wear the usual band of mourning for thirty days.—Respectfully yours, (Signed) H. S. Samoan. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) SATURDAY. Aria 2D, • A.Y. I B. IT.I Hato. 50.23 4? Abortions —lir 44 Limb . ...... 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P., Mr. H. °rens% M.P., sad Profane, Henry Fsweetk s ome or the proviscdal journals received to-e 6 have black borders round their columns, and is all we the eteregest =premises of regret at the crime which le e been committed is America, and of sympathy with people of the United States. If estinp are assimecal 6 venom towns. At Leeds, Neweastirom•Tyne, and unsay ether name addressee will be eva dT e in the course of the coming week. meeting et the Macs and Emeactipstios Soy ft held in the Amomblproom of the Free-trade Hall, yr nester, last sight, to madam with Mrs. Lincoln sal 6. Ansarken people. It wee soon apparent that the room me mush too mall for the numbers that attended, sae simultaneous meeting was held in another part of the lame. hog. Addresses were adopted, and the samba wen animated with the liveliest sympathies with those 16 hare suffered in the horrible outrage, and with indigseat e against the perpetrators el it. At a meeting in the Town-hall, Birmingham, y o u* aftensoor the following resolutio n , proposed by the m em was agreed to :—" Teat this meeting desires to ape the deepen regret at the irreparable Ices whkit people of the United States of America te e sustained by the untimely death of Presidia li e cola ; that this meeting regards with horror sat 6, tailrace the crime by which the Prreident's }ifs see sacrificed ; sad that, on behalf and in the naves of Sala habitants of Birstiaglisen, this meeting remedially eg o to the goverment and the people of the United Seas 6 8 most sincere and earnest sympathy under the calamity which has befalls& them, sad that as addrees of sympatey be also transmitted to Mr. Seward." At Bradford. yesterday, at a similar &ha*, lie mayor presided ; and the speakers dimwit of varying taw diaties heretofore with mama to the Amadeu eye6d, were united is impairing their hearty deastatiee of ye dastardly deed st Washington. A working man's meeting was held at Dahlia he aiek in the Mechanics' Institute, to sympathies with ihe bay of the late President Lincoln, and demean his mar A Southerner who was present spoke at some lama, 6.. flouncing Wilkes Booth sad eulogising Lincoln, sal met. hag that wham North sad South were again united "tie see and stripes would float over Collageireen." It was resin to hold a mass meeting at Clatter( co Sunday week. The following notice is oe the eider book of the Han et Commons for Monday nest :—" Viscount Palmemie— Amaisination of the Presided of the United Stabs—U. dress to the mown to express the sorrow sad isdiptest of this house an the amateteatios of the Prseidset d Or Usited States ; and to pray her Majesty to eaanteeels thew sentiments as the pert of the Hones of Camas to the goeceseiset of the United States." A similar Neu appears ou the Lords' paper in the =roe of Bul Remit P 481110215 POB MAY. (Freak Le Po11d.) • The sudden change in the temperature hes earned se great a demand upon the time of our leading szeirstse, that it is a difficulty for them to satisfy oar impales however, we have managed to obtain some useful isfams: doe. We led that all the spring dresses, ens thus h deshabille, are made with a deeded train ; they are she without emeepties, gored—the only means of ekes* an *lnset end graceful fellatio These sigfigfe bone have no trimmiap, with the eruption of a lint end mead the bottom; or, perhaps, the skirt jest eat festoons, lightly edged with pamententeria, Obis" • velvet. Worming dresses, as we have already said, are sill worn with palettes of the same material; Dses, tog* poll de aliVue have reappeared, but still foulard rapt soprano. It is DOW adopted hy all wows of tarts, fa they lad nothing pettier or fradret-looking. The plain foslamik the most fashiorsable, but there are also splendid fulmar with • pattern imitating beads of eultmirs, is the fern of the robe Princeene. This is • great novelty, and very elegant. Those with a white ground sod small patter in oolours may also be mentiosed as being gsrtleshdp suitable far this bright weather. The robe priapism I woes more time any other this onion, but with sue happy modificetioea. It is so longer the simple owe without plait. ; now the fronts alone are completely pleb, trader the any there are large plaits : the sidelines IMO plain down to the waist, bat there they am cut saes, sad the waist is at on is large plaits, so sits give a rani fullness This is a charming model, and see Nee is sops ; bat it is very sessosary that the Maeda, we. with this style of dress should be particularly wells* tic so mach of its elegem", depends upon this. Vestes~ sleeves are very much wets ; and some very la p awl. metes are made to wear with the Bolero vaster„ as sell ID with skirts without bodies. Oreso appears to be die favourite colour jut now, and it is mid, will remis so during the summer. There is DO Da d increasing the size of the bonnet*; indeed, sow id the eye is becoming accustomed to the small hem" on. ten merely help acknowledging that they are nes universally becoming than the larger shape. the newest models is the chapeau Medico, of straw, trimmed with blue ribbon worked withs Millis( in loops and long mob, with steel tassels. The lib edema with tulle Domineer:6 and small field fees Another, of pink crape, bouquet of IDOSO4ONS sad his el the back, with violates of bloods sod gold mammals Ibis dean of pearl beads. A third, of white tulle ; the drolly covered with light feathers, and at the side • poops of grit*. A star of mother.of.pearl at the bath, win which la !metaled a barbs of leas. White rows wilier& inside. The chapeau Etude, of blue craps with %dm worked with steeL At the back, s row of Ades, wood seder a steel star, and fastening a voilette of ills Mlle worked with visa A boons' of whits ti n% worked with gold beads, trimmed at the side with ivy boo and gold fruit. Basdeau of white tulle with ivy loess and gold fruit. A moot of white tulle, covered with deak of crystal and long louse of water.plaota, with el - drops at the points. In the issue ease tall with • roes on which is placed • green and gold lOW' fly. Chapeau Jodi* Frealow, made to all colours. heel ray low our the forehead sad backward st the Am The first model was in white crape —gold grape Ned love forming the crown, under which falls a ? Watt* of teas, worked with gold, a fringe of floss elk. Is the Wide • gold orememit and tulle bouillooce. Striae of wliat ribbon. The second was of pink crape. At the lids end crows, bouquets of moss roses and leaves. Violater werkni with gold. Roses and tulle inside. Scrimp of Pia and scarf etrinp of tulle, edged with niches. EITEAORDINABT SUICIDE OP 4 CLURL• An inquiry wan held by Mr. Humphrey 4 carom, at she King and Queen Tann, Limo:hoed lea, ✓ight, respecting the death of Mr. Joseph Col id, Moo 69 years. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Shutt, Moo* of the Brunswick Saw Mille, Limehood, that who bad bees • entered his en'elol. •il dark, lad Thursday l ewek. Ou Monday be for s deemed insensibly drunk, but being willing to rTr., the affair, he simply lacked him in the preriees t.stpt Deemed got out, however, and the next inoroicg Mr. 8111, found him in the same position. Bs, therefore, le deassawl's wife to send and take him away. Thor was the note sent in reply : " 36, Desmerk.gme, Barnsburrned N., " April 27, 1865. GRAND LODOD 01 , Fess AND AOCZPTID MADONa. to g" tr o....asud —Hl eaahasa wi lm tb biwrrY s. ba sballsbaDd lto ta trr iera rooar bl.givue b li.""n oa "g toot : "be ; —The annual meeting of the Grand Lodge .1 Free and to reclaim him, but to no purpose. I sheall Yr. AcelPi.d Mast". a England was haid al ' WafiaoadoY obliged if you would send for a policeman, and let lid !,e . evening, at the Fred:mons' Ball, Great queseedred, to taken to • dation. When he gets sober he will Ma r elect a mod toaster, end for the derietuesat of the way bole& —Yours respectfully, " Ifi• J. C 4 a llai t,, grand of fi cer' for tee year asoaist• ma is as "maim I Mr. Shutt lacked deceased out of the premiss that "Mri which brings together the hnibest mecabwre of the emit l er _ Re got is during the sight through the while., ow f ro m even part or the kingdom . The Right Bea. the the neat mo m s , he was boned banging by her breed 1,90 Earl of v &dead was unanimously elected Grand Master of . iss a s l a dd er , whisk he bad pissed Is the 5a,,,,, en It Manila for tiro Yaw osoutaB, aid wao saki" with the r statid that Aderead used to swear at his wife while be all usual honours. In retuning thaeles for his meleatias to b un k. but vie k noodowsta dumb when sober.Ay OA cues which be had ailed far twenty-one yeses, his Th e j ag retried a mdlo• of '• Suicide while la • '"'" lordship mid : Oar charities have increased to a d einewad mind.* which wee never expected sweaty-oneyeas ago degree ......—e--..-----f• they are all in • meat douriehieg date, it is most ago , ; AsalrY Slesolat. SUND infilli to me, and reflects the highest credit upon the daft. I ' Wsgrarrairrrsit AY am getting old is your service, but am most merinos to do ligsvtima.—Thasorrow maim the sermon at the spa! PSOKAIIII. my duty, and I hope I shall ociatinue to receive that esp • agile i s 11, 4 p g oo o c w ai k k i ke tar Abb e y, whisk oar IMDAT. CO NOIMIZIM MOTDAY. port yehich has derays been acciorde.i. The noble earl then imam at 7 p.m., win be preashed by tha Raw. T.._ 0 MIL to N. D., troth, Odra. S. to W. strf Jo . appointed Earl de Gm and Ripen as Deputy Grand lbs. motor Of anew. The following an the Preichl":7.. 4 gement' DAL Medira * some ter for the year , Mein that he omenuance of thedespateh oco uina m outh : May 7, Rev. Major Moore, heemaio• en. !of three foreign mans he was unable he be t with ouphorivall sad Ooldea leotard ; May 14. Rev. ls RAIL to RILL. Mamma. NI. to ILL and tt.d., dem to fresh. wit h freak egAialli to I °''' tb..l that iamb * Th. 1681 et the to having Conway, reeler d St. Margaret's, Wean:jester : MO T T', Omen. deist& Ms a ppoint, the read lodge was dosed, and do brethren Bishow of Wont ; May 28, Archbishop of Thib lia * ism s maddir se S.. strong lionsions. NAL to & E-_, awl In proceeded to the benquetting ball, where • splend i d mad m i o m enses to these werdoes rat the deer 0 th • to wortorate, rid plans to 8. Iv.. tzed. use poseided, mid al the edgy. iliF a l thirr i e Xi and N., Ildron. As above. I The committee appointed to consider the best Tan Btsaor ca LowDos.—Flie lords means et preeereleot for the public we the forest eon- reeds at 81 . Isluse° °hwe i le Plicsitili,--.8 is his 81.... 5i 0 0 10/116 te fresh. moss, sad epee spade is and around the me met metes—es the engrafts, ef the nest the Seder. ._, • 7 " mils "' WWI " /1.1112 d. 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