The Sun. — London, England, 1865-05-02 00:00:00

'he Assassination of President Lincoln. . A meeting of the Americans in London was held on yesterday afternoon, at St. James's Hall, for the purpose of giving expression to their feelings in re lation to the untimely death of their late President. The hall wore the same emblems of mourning as on Saturday last, with the addition of an immortelle which hung beneath the Stars and Stripes. The meeting was well attended, but not at all so nume rous as that of Saturday. Though the requisition which convened it was addressedto Americans alone, a large proportion of the assembly consisted of our countrymen who wished by their presence to testify their sympathy and regard. The proceedings were most harmonious. The chair was taken shortly after three o'clock, amid applause, by his Excellency Charles Francis Adams, Minister of the United States. Among those present were :—Lord Houghton, Mr Cyrus Field, Judge Winter, Dr. Black, Mr. Fuller, Mr. E. C. Fisher, United States' Sanitary Commis sion, Rev. Crammond Kennedy, Mr. Morse, Consul of the United States ; Mr. Nunn, Deputy Consul of the United States; Mr. B. Howard, New York, late United States' Army; Mr. Mason Jones, Mr. Henry Bergh, late Secretaire de la Lega tion des Etats Unis d'Amerique St. Petersburg; Dr. Coffin, Mr. H. Thornton, Mr. J. B. Stephenson, Mr. C. M. Lampson, Dr. F. Robinson (Scots Fusileer Guards), Dr. Charles R. Nicoll(Grenadier Guards), Dr. Ludlow, Mr. E. G. Tinker and Mr. Ward, New York; Mr. H. Stevens and Mr. B. F. Stevens,Ver mont ; Dr. Storrs, Mr. Peach, and Mr. Massey, New York ; Mr. Phillips, Wisconsin ; Alderman Salo mons, M.P., Mr. Potter, M.P., Rochdale ; Mr. G. J. Abbott, Consul of the United States for the Shef field and Bradford district Rev. J. Shaw, Boston; Mr. J. Holmes Goodenow, United States' Consul at Constantinople ; Mr. G. Grant, Mr. G. Ralton, Philadelphia, Consul-General of Liberia; Captain Richardson, San Francisco ; Mr. C. Stratton (General Tom Thumb) and Mrs. Stratton ; Mr. J. M'Henry, Capt. Tomkins, Mr. H. Brough, &c. The CHAIRMAN, on rising to address the meeting, was greeted with renewed applause. He said—l have been desired to call you together, my country men, for the sake of giving some common form of expression to our emotions, stirred up as they have been by the late fearful calamity. In presence of such an awful event we are forcibly impressed not merely with the commonplace idea of mortal vicissi tude, but with the more solemn duty of keeping our selves wholly free from the indulgence of any un worthy passion. (Applause.) The ordinary jars of human life are hushed before such a catastrophe. A great Virginian statesman once said that "he trembled for his country when he reflected that God is just." The dreaded visitation appears to have come upon us in the third and fourth generation. Let us endeavour to bear ourselves with patience and humility. But, while acknowledging our short comings, let us draw closer and closer together while we unite in one earnest wail of sorrow for our loss —(applause)—for I may be permitted to observe that in this loss the bereavement is wholly our own. We are entirely to bear the responsibility of it. The man who has fallen was immolated for no act of his own. It may well be doubted whether, during his whole career, he ever made a single enemy. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") In this peculiarity he shone pre-eminent among statesmen. No ; he who perpetrated the crime had no narrow purpose. It was because Abraham Lincoln was the faithful exponent of the sentiments of a whole people that he was stricken down. (Renewed cries of " Hear, hear.") The blow that was aimed at him was meant to fall home upon them. The ball that penetrated his brain was addressed to the heart of each and every one of us. (Applause.) It was a fancied short way of paralysing the Government which we have striven so hard to maintain. It was then for our cause that Abraham Lincoln died, and not his own. If he was called a tyrant who was elevated to his high post by the spontaneous voices of a greater number of men than had ever been given in any republic before, it was only because he was obeying the wishes of those who elected him. It is we who must stand responsible for his deeds. It is he who has paid the penalty for executing our will. Surely, then, this is the strongest of reasons why all of us should join, as with one voice, in a chorus of lamentation for his fall. (Applause.) It was one of the peculiar merits of Mr. Lincoln that he knew how to give shape in action to the popular feelings as they developed themselves under his observation. He newer sought to lead, but rather to follow, and thus he succeeded in the difficult task of successfully combining conservatism with pro gress. (Hear, hear.) This, surely, was not like tyranny. (Hear, hear.) His labour was always to improve. Hence it was that he conducted a war of unexampled magnitude, always bearing in mind the primary purpose for which it had been commenced, at the same time that he associated with it broader views as the opportunities occa sionally offered. He had pledged himself at the outset to accomplish certain objects, and he never forgot that pledge. The time had at last arrived when he might honestly claim that it would be fulfilled. It was in that very moment he was taken away. On the very same day of the year when the national flag, which just four years ago had been lowered to triumphant enemies at Fort Sumter, was once more lifted to its original position by the hand of the same officer who had suffered the indignity that commenced the war Abraham Lincoln fell. His euthanasia is complete. For him we ought not to mourn. His work was done ; he had fought the good fight, he had finished his course. The grief is all for ourselves alone. And now we, the nation, who stand around his body may well cry, " Go up, go up, with your gory tem ples twined with the evergreen symbols of a patriot's wreath, and bearing the double glory of a martyr's crown. (Loud applause.) Go up, while for us here remaining on earth your memory shall be garnered in the hearts of us and our latest posterity, in com mon with the priceless treasures heaped up by the great fathers of the republic, and close by that of the matchless Washington." (Renewed applause.) Bat, although we profoundly lament this loss, it must not be presumed that we do so as having no hope. We have parted with a most faithful servant. But the nation has not lost with him one atom of the will which animates others of its servants as fully as it did him. (Applause.) It is one of the notable features of this great struggle that it is not particular men who have attempted to lead on the people, but rather that the people have first given the tone, to the level of which their servants must come up, or else sink out of sight and be forgotten. (Cheers.) They have uniformly designated to them their wishes. To one man they have said " Come up," and to another " Give way," and in either case they have been as implicitly obeyed. Whoever it be that is employed, the spirit that must animate him comes from a higher source. The cause of the country, then, does not depend on any man or any set of men. It has now called to the front the individual whom it had already elevated to the se cond post in the Government. He had been pointed out for that place by a sense of his approved fide lity to the Union at the moment when all around him were faltering or falling away. (Cheers.) In the national Senate he stood, Abdiel like, firm and determined in e ncountering with truth and force the fatal sophistry of Jefferson Davis and his associates, and in denouncing the course of action which was leading them to their ruin. (Hear, hear.) Four years of intense and continued trials within the borders of his own State ha ve effort to reconstruct the government which they had overthrown. No one has braved edifice beenclvirssed in the greater dangers to his person and to all that is held most precious to a man in this world than he. Those four years have not been passed with out at once proving the firmness of his faith and the Progressive nature of his ideas. He, too, has been susceptible to the influence of the national opinion. He, t oo , has gradually been brought to the conviction that slavery, which he once defended, has been our ban e and the cause of all our woe. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") And he, too, will follow his prede cessor in making the recognition of the principle of human liberty the chief pathway to restoration. It may be that he will colour his policy with a little more of the sternness gathered from the severity of his own trials. He may give a greater prominence to the image of Justice than to that of Mercy in dealing with notorious offenders. But if he do, to whom is this change to be imputed ? Lincoln leaned to mercy—and he was taken off. Johnson has not promoted himself. The magician who worked this change is the enemy himself. (Hear, hear.) It would seem almost as if it were the will of Heaven which has interposed the possibility of this mar vellous retribution. Yet, even if we make proper allowance for this difference, the great fact re mains clear, that Andrew Johnson, like his pre decessor, will exert himself to the utmost of his power fully to re-establish in peace and harmony the beneficent system of government which he has already hazarded so much to sustain. (Cheers.) And should it happen that he, too, which Heaven avert, should by some evil design be removed from the post now assigned to him, the effect would only be that the next man in the succession prescribed by the public law, and inspired from the same common source, will be summoned to take his place. And so it would go on, if need be, in a line, like that in Macbeth's vision, " stretching out to the crack of doom." (Applause.) The Republic has but to com mand the services of any of her children, and, whether to meet open danger in the field, or the more crafty and desperate assassin, experience shows them equally ready to obey her call. (Cheers.) So long as the heroic spirit animates her frame, the re quisite agents will not fail to execute her will. Any attempt to paralyze her by striking down more or less of them will only end, as every preceding design to injure her has ended, in disappointment and bit ter despair. Let us, then, casting aside all needless apprehensions for the policy of our land, now con centrate our thoughts for the moment upon the magnitude of the offence which has deprived us of our beloved chief in the very moment of most in terest to our cause ; and let us draw together as one man in the tribute of our admiration of one of the purest, the most single-minded, and noble-hearted patriots that ever ruled over the people of any land. (Loud applause.) Mr. MORSE moved the first resolution, which was as follows : " That we have heard with the greatest indignation and the most profound sorrow of the assassination which has deprived our country of its beloved chief magistrate, as well as of the audacious assault which has greatly perilled the lives of the Secretary and Assistant-Secretary of State ; and that we regard the taking of the life of our chief executive officer while our country is passing through unparalleled trials, after all loyal Americans had learned to love him, and with good men the world over to confide in him, and when so much of national and individual welfare and hap piness depended on his existence, as the great crime of the 19th century, memorable in its atrocity, and entailing on its perpetrator the execrations of mankind." He said when the wires flashed the sad intelligence of Mr. Lincoln's death from one end of the vast country which he governed to the other, 20,000,000 people were at once bowed down to the deepest sor row, all business was suspended, and villages, towns, and cities were draped in mourning. (Hear, hear.) That sorrow was felt irrespective of party. It was felt, in the first place, on account of Mr. Lincoln's own personal qualities, on account of his kind and genial heart, his unselfishness and his patriotism ; and, in the next place, because during four trying years of a war such as no other country had ever waged, he had amid unparalleled difficulties carried on the government of the nation with moderation, ability, and success. (Cheers.) He need not re mind them how Mr. Lincoln had prosecuted that war, nor of the great end at which he aimed— namely, the restoration of the Union, and the pro pagation of liberty throughout the land. (Cheers.) With regard to Mr. Lincoln's successor, he would say that having been in Congress for some years with Andrew Johnson he had never during all that time heard one word whispered against his fair fame. (Applause.) He had never once heard him re proached with intemperance. He had seen Andrew Johnson daily and knew him well, and he knew that to accuse him of habitual intemperance was one of the foulest of slanders. (Applause.) Andrew John son came from the ranks of the people ; he had been in public life for 30 years, commencing as an alder man of his city, then becoming mayor, next member of the Lower House of Representltives, then a Senator for the State of Tennessee, then presidential elector, then member of Congress for ten years, then Senator of the United States, until at last he was made Vice President, and now the Providence of God has raised him to be President of the United States. (Cheers.) The American people had no distrust of that noble man who had made his way from the ranks of thepeople. (Cheers.) As had been well remarked by the late Pre sident in the spring of 18G1, when everything seemed to be crumbling around him in Washington, when Southern senator after senator and member after member left his seat and went home to carry on the rebellion, when Slidell, Mason, and Davis were plotting in the cells of the Capitol, where the light of day never entered, Andrew Johnson was at his post in the Senate, upholding the flag of his country like a true man as he was. (Prolonged cheering.) Mr. LAMPSON seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. H. BERGH moved the second resolution, which was as follows : " That we tender to Mrs. Lincoln our heartfelt sympathy and expression of condolence in the great affliction that she and her family and the nation have sustained." _ . _,.... Mr. MORGAN seco n d e d it, and it was carried unanimously. Dr. BLACK moved the third resolution, viz. " That in the long public career of Andrew Johnson, now President of the United States, the early and pre eminent sacrifices he made from his devotion to the cause of the Union, and his pledges to maintain the great prin ciples of human liberty, we have every assurance that he will faithfully prosecute to its final success the wise, hu mane, and statesmanlike domestic and foreign policy of President Lincoln." He said that people who had never lived in the South could have no idea of the courage which it required for a man to resist every influence which surrounded him. (Hear, hear.) It was a grand moral spectacle to see An drew Johnson as he stood there. If any man chose to doubt the integrity, the ability, the patriotism, the kind liness of disposition, the broad power of looking at great subjects possessed by Andrew Johnson, let him read the speech which ho delivered in the Senate of the United States on the 19th of December, 1860, and any man who should do so, if he had the slightest common sense, could not but feel that it was the effusion of a great mind and a great soul. (Cheers.) The American people wore safe in the hands of that man. (Renewed cheers.) The enemies of republicanism and of the government of the people were ready to catch at everything. (Hear.) Mr. Lincoln was too tall; he was not polished enough; he was too good humoured; he said too many capital things. He was at fault in everything. But not so now. (Cheers.) The world now acknowledged that he had done wonderful things. He had had before him one of the most difficult tasks that ever fell to the lot of statesmen, and he had successfully performed it. (Loud cheers.) And so it would be with Andrew John son, who had now upon his hands as difficult a task, for he had to bring the war to a close, to reconstruct the Union, to put its finances on a sound basis, and to conciliate hurt feelings everywhere. (Hear, hear.) Grant and his generals would close the war, but then came the greatest of all the difficulties —namely, the reorganisation of the Union, be cause that included the question what should be done with the slaves—where were they to be placed, how many privi leges were to be given to them, how far were they to be brought in all respects near the position of the white man. That was a difficult question, but not so difficult as the enemies of the United States gloated over when they talked of it. In Jamaica a great difficulty had been felt, but the negroes in that island had little in common with the negroes of the States. In Jamaica there used to be fresh importa tions of native Africans every year, who kept up the bad habits of the race ; their masters were always in England, and they never had association with anybody superior to their drivers, so that at last slavery and labour became synonymous in that island, as did liberty and laziness. But in the States the case was very different. Lies upon lies had been heaped up with regard to the cruel treat ment of slaves in the South. (Hear, hear.) He was a Southern, but a Union man to the backbone, and he had always been so. Southern men had done badly enough, but they had been punished to the last degree for their cruelty and wickedness. But, to return to his point. Since 1808 there had been no admixture of fresh Africans with the slaves in the States. And here he would remark that it was the United States that first abolished the slave trade, and Great Britain followed. But the black men of the States were from association with the families of their masters entirely different from what those of Jamaica had been. They were willing to labour, and so there would be no difficulty on th a t po i n t . M any persons, with the kindliest dispositions, were fearful that America would not pay her debts. But in 1815 E ngland h a d a debt nearly twice as great, while her commerce at that time could not be com pared with that of the United States at present, and her population was not half so great. And did not the people of the United States, sh rewd as they were, know well that it was their interest to p ay t h eir debts ? (Hear, hear.) Mr. H. PARKE; in seconding the resolution, said that THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENIING, MAY 2, 1865. Andrew Johnson had been a poor labouring man, who had not learnt to read until he was 17 years of age, and he had worked his way to the highest honour which the Republic could bestow. He had done that without influence and in spite of the slaveholding aristocracy of the South, the shadow of which was ten times colder than any of which the Times had ever complained. (Hear, hear.) And the Southern aris tocracy had not the justification even of rank—the guinea's stamp of Burns. (Hear, hear.) There was little but gallant fighting by which the South had shown their claimio aris tocracy. (Hear, hear.) It should always be borne in mind that Andrew Johnson had made his way in spite of want of influence. (Hear, hear.) It had been said in one of the daily papers to-day that his motto was Vie victis. That was not so. All that Andrew Johnson had said was that treason must be punished. (Cheers.) He (Mr. Parker) thought that every individual case might be left to the new President to deal with as it might arise, surrounded as he was by the Cabinet which was familiar with the views and principles of Mr. Lincoln. (Hear, hear.) By the last news that had arrived it appeared that it had pleased God to spare the life of their Foreign Secretary, and though Mr. Seward had never been a favourite of his, yet he was bound to say that Mr. Seward had always honestly maintained that peace should be kept with all abroad whenever it could be done without sacrifice of honour. (Cheers.) Mr. RUSSELL STURGIS proposed the fourth resolution— . viz . : " That, as loyal American; we have witnessed with pe culiar pleasure the expressions of indignation and sorrow throughout Great Britain at the assassination of President Lincoln, and the cordial and hearty sympathy which has been extended by the people of this realm to the Govern ment and people of the United States in this great bereave ment and public calamity." He said, while a very large and influential party in this country had been the firm and unswerving supporters of the Government of the United States in the late struggle, it was alleged that a still greater party had unkindly with held their sympathy, and had given it to their opponents. (Hear.) How far that might be true, or how far the natural and inevitable excitement existing in America might have obscured and blinded reason, he was not there to decide. His was the far pleasanter office to speak to a point upon which there was no difference of opinion, but perfect una nimity. From rich, from poor, from high, from low, from the castle, from the cottage, from the palace, and from the hut, from public meetings and from private individuals, there came one universal lament, and one universal expres sion of sympathy for the sorrow which bowed down the American heart both at home and abroad. (Loud cheers.) The drapery which he saw around him reminded him that some of the best men in England had on Saturday last poured out their indignation and their feelings of horror in that hall at the crime which had been committed, and to-day, before he had left the City, the last thing he had seen was an address emanating from the Bank of England, and signed by the leading firms in London, preparatory to being delivered to Mr. Adams. (Renewed cheers.) It be came American citizens, therefore, to: express their appre ciation of that sympathy. (Hear, hear.) There was one man, his senior, in the City, whose noble heart and liberal hand had spread blessings over both nations (pro longed cheering), who, had his health allowed him to come there that day, would have occupied his (Mr. Sturgis's) place more ably—he need not say he meant Geo. Peabody. (Renewed cheering.) The resolution which he had been asked to move had been committed to him because he re presented, as he was proud to do, an American citizen and a British merchant. For 12 years it had been his fortune in the far East to be continually with Englishmen, and for 16 years in the City of London, and he had learnt that not only was there a common lineage and a common language be tween the two nations, but also a common heart (loud cheers); and whatever differences of sentiment there might be upon other matters, whenever a crime like that which they had met to condemn and deplore was committed, the heart of both would be foundin the right place, and not Ate single throb on the American side but would have its cor responding pulsation on the English. (Much applause.) He would:go a step further and say, when the time came in which discussions should take place—and they knew if on the part of America such discussions were to be conducted by their chairman how they would be managed by him— (cheers)—he would undertake to say that everything which honour and honesty demanded would be acceded to by Great Britain. (Renewed cheering.) Let both nations, therefore, cultivate feelings of peace and goodwill towards one another. He would appeal to his fair countrywomen, whose hearts fitted them peculiarly for this service, whose influence no man had ever been able to resist, and he trusted no man ever would, to exert themselves to promote those feelings of goodwill between the two kindred nations. (Loud cheers.) Mr. C. M. FISHER seconded the resolution, which, while it met his own views, would, he was sure, receive a hearty response from all true men in America. (Cheers.) Let every American present that day cordially acknowledge the sincere manifestation and sympathy which had been made by the whole people of Englandtowards their country. This was no time for littleness of feeling. While they were met to mourn their generous and barge-hearted President, they should try to lift themselves up to his high standard. (Cheers.) Was not that the best and most appropriate way of honouring him for whom they had met to express their grief ? (Cheers.) The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. ADAMS moved the fifth resolution from the chair without observation. It was carried uuanimousiy. Mr. CYRUS FIELD, in moving a vote of thanks to the chair, said, just before leaving America he called to 830 Pre sident Lincoln, and he knew how deeply ho desired peace in America and peace in all the world. (Hear, hear.) Ho trusted, therefore, that everything calculated to stir up ill feeling between North and South—even the last sad deeds —or between England and America, would be allowed to die with the good man who had been taken away, and would be buried in his grave for ever. (Applause.) If Mr. Lincoln could speak to-day he would urge on every one of them to do all they could to allay the passions which had been excited in America, and he hoped that they would all comply with what he believed would be his wish. (Hear, hear.) He now begged to move a vote of thanks to Mr. Adams for having presided at the meeting, and for the able address which he had delivered. (Loud cheers.) The vote was passed with acclamation. Mr. ADAMS returned thanks, and the meeting separated. Naval and Military Intelligence. The Tamar, screw corvette, Capt. John M. Hayes, arrived at Spithead yesterday evening from China, after having been nearly five years in commission. On passing the Royal residence at Osborne she saluted her Majesty, and on anchoring at Spithead she exchanged salutes with the Victory, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir M. Sey mour, K.C.B. The Sprightly, steam tender, pro ceeded to Spithead to disembark the naval invalids and the crew of the Racehorse, recently lost in the China Seas ; and it is expected the Tartar will pro ceed to Sheerness to be paid off. The Salamis, paddle, Commander F. G. Suttie, having conveyed Col. Clarke, Director of Works, to Alderney, returned to Portsmouth harbour yes terday. The Geyser, paddle, Commander Thrupp, re turned to Portsmouth harbour from the eastward yesterday morning. A notification has been received at Chatham gar rison from the Horse Guardsthat the next examina tion of candidates for direct commissions, under the regulations dated the Ist of January, 1864, will commence on Monday next, at the Royal Military Hospital, Chelsea, before Major-Gen. F. W. Hamil ton, C. 8., Vice-President, and the Council of Mili tary Education. The examination of candidates for admission to the Royal Military College, Sand hurst, will commence on the 19th of June. The deaths of the following officers have been offi cially recorded at the War Office since April Ist : Generals Sir J. W. Guise, G.C.8., Colonel of the 85th Light Infantry Regiment ; and Sir E. Nicolls, K.C.8., Royal Marine Light Infantry. Colonels J. A. Vigors, 52d Light Infantry Regiment ; and the Hon. F. Cathcart, 92d Highlanders. Majors G. E. Rose, Rifle Brigade ; and C. Wilkinson, Royal Artillery. Capts. IL P. T. M , Carthy, Royal Artillery ; C. J. T. Duesbury, 66th Regiment. ; W. Smith, J. Lilley, Quartermaster, Grenadier,Guards; and J. Baxter, Quartermaster, Royal Canadian Rifles. Lieuts. G. H. Bowyer, Ist Dragoon Guards; J. H. Urquhart, and A. J. W. Cumming, Royal Engineers ; W. Clegg, 2d Battalion, 11th Regt. ; T. 0. Johnston, 40th Regt. ; R. Evans, 62d Regt. ; and H. Nason, Bth West India Regt. Cornet T. J. Newnham, 6th Dragoons. Paymasters Major G. Moore, 32d Regt., and C. Barlow, 22d Regt. Ad jutant F. Osborne, 62d Regt. ; Quartermaster J. E. Tripp, 2d battalion, 12th Regt. ; Deputy-assist.- Commissary-Gen. G. F. Anderson ; Assist.-Surg. H. 0. Harvey, 21st Fusiliers ; Chaplain the Ven. Archdeacon J. Timbrell, D.D. ; Deputy-Assistant.. Superintendent of Stores J. Gartlan. Chief Inspector Brine, in charge of the Royal Arsenal police force at Woolwich, who died on Wednesday last, was yesterday interred in St. Thomas's Cemetery, New Charlton, with official honours. The procession was composed of about 200 members of the police, from New-cross, Lewis ham, Blackheath, Deptford, Lee, and other adjacent stations. • The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander G. R. Miall to the Cygnet, vice Mackenzie, invalided ; Commander W. Chimmo to be Inspecting Commander in the Coastguard ; Commander H. W. Mist's appoint ment, as Inspecting Commander in the Coastguard, has been cancelled ; the Rev. J. Lugg to be chap lain and naval instructor to the Caledonia, commis sioned ; the Rev. T. E. Meredith, chaplain, to the Donegal ; and the Rev. Stephen H. Jacob, chap lain, to the Seringapatam, as additional for service at the naval establishment at the Cape of Good Hope. The Late Volunteer Review at Brighton. HORSE GUARDS, April 28, 1865. Sir,—l have the honour, by direction of the Field- Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, to transmit, for the information of the Secretary of State for War, the accompanying copy of a report which has been re ceived from Major-General Sir R. Walpole on the review of volunteers held under his command at Brighton on the 17th inst., and to request that you will state to Lord De Grey that the same is very satisfactory to his Royal 11ighness.—I have, &c., (Signed) J. YORKE SCARLETT, A.G. The Under-Secretary of State for War. Government House, Chatham, April 24, 1865. Sir,--Having commanded the volunteer review held at Brighton on Easter Monday in accordance with the in structions of the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, I have the honour to transmit the following report for the information of his Royal Highness and the Secretary of State for War. The review commenced by the whole force marching past on the Race-course. This was well performed ; I was much struck with the ease and freedom with which the volunteers marched, and the dressing was well preserved ; the distances were not, in some instances, so accurately kept as is desir able ; I mention this, as 1 consider it of very considerable importance that, in all marching in open column, whether by companies, subdivisions, or sections, the proper distance should be preserved. I then divided the force, so as to represent an attacking and defending army, being of opinion that it would be more instructive than manoeuvring the whole insone body with a supposed enemy, and that the general effect would be better. The latter I placed under Major-General Russell, C. 8., the former under Major-General Rurnky. The ground selected was in many respects well adapted to the purpose. It consisted of a range of hill facing south east, the access to which was steep and difficult on its right and front. On this hill I placed the defending force ; the valley which divided it from the hill opposite, on which the attacking force was formed, swept round the left of the defending army, where it gradually rose until it became level with their left rear. There was a farm in the valley, under the right of the defenders, called Lower Bevendean, which they occupied ; another—Upper Bevendean—on the hill on which the on the commanding poi n ts on h at tacking party was posted, on which its r i g ht res t e d. The h e heavyeigt s on guns were ranged either side. The plan of attack, which was well carried out, was to make a vigorous show of attacking the right and front of the defenders, by an advance of skirmishers along the whole front, and by driving them out of the farm in the valley. While this demonstration was proceeding, to move the second line (which consisted of two brigades formed in columns) to its right under cover of Upper Berendean, advance it in an echelon of battalions, then form line to its left, and thus place it on the left flank of the enemy. This movement to be covered by skirmishers and by the light field guns, while the cavalry and horse artillery swept round and formed en the extreme right of the new line, to threaten the left and rear of the defenders. To meet this movement the defending force was obliged to change its front, and to bring up its second line to protect its left. These movements were satisfactorily performed; the lines, though extending over a great space of very uneven ground, were well formed, and the skirmishers showed considerable knowledge of their work. The guns took up their position with celerity, and the fire of both arms was well sustained. I was pleased with the general appearance of the volunteers. They were well appointed, had a soldier-like bearing, and have acquired very considerable efficiency. There were upwards of 20,000 men present, and 46 guns; a satisfactory proof that this movement, of so much national importance, is supported with as much, if not more, spirit and zeal than when it was first established ; this fact is highly satisfactory, and—considering the time and expense that a vast number of the volunteers, who have other occupations to attend to, must give up to it—is most creditable, and deserving of great praise. The arrangements for the assembly of this large body of men, some of whom came from great distance; and for their departure, were excellent, and reflect great credit on Colonel Erskine, the Inspector-General of Volunteers, by whom they were made.—l have, &C., (Signed) B. WALPOLE, Major-General. Lieut.-General Hon. Sir. J. Y. Scarlett, K.C.8., &c., Adjutant-General. • War Office, Ist May, 1865. am directed by the Earl De Groy and Ripon to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th ultimo, forwarding the copy of a report from Major-General Sir R. Walpole upon tho volunteer review hold at Brighton on the 17th ult. ; and, in reply, I am to request that you will express to his Royal Highness the Field Marshal Com manding-in-Chief the Secretory of State's gratification at receiving so satisfactory an account of 'ate volunteers assembled on the occasion.--I have, (to., (Signed) EDWA4D LITOARD, The Adjutant-General, EXHIBMON OF MODEL DWELLINGS.—In connec- tion with the North-Eastern London Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures will be an exhibition of models, plans, diagrams, &c., of the improved dwellings erected for the labouring classes. The co-operation of the principal socie ties engaged in the erection of model lodging-houses has been promised, in addition to which Mr. T. Twining will supplement the exhibition with a further selection from his valuable collection in the Twickenham Economic Museum. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND. The adjourned half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at Aberdeen to receive the report of the committee of investigation on the affairs of the company ; Mr. J. Duncan in the chair. The committee of investigation stated in their report that the capital account was correctly given in the statement of accounts. With regard to the revenue account, they considered that items making £5lO might with propriety have been debited to the interest suspense account instead of to revenue, and have been added to the surplus for divi dend on Jan. 31 last. They stated that it belonged to the 4i per cent B. shareholders, in addition to which they were of opinion that those shareholders had also a lieu upon the sum of £6,700 owing to the company by the branch lines, and that it should be paid half-yearly as received until the arrears on the B shares were satisfied. The committee found that X 86,982 of the company's funds had been invested in several shares of the Deeside and Deeside Extension Railway. The company had expended .£7,450 in the shares of the Montrose and Bervie Railway, and had yet a further liability for calls of £5,000. In addition to this outlay the company had paid £9,423 as the Parliamentary charges in curred in promoting the Bervie Railway. The committee stated that very large sums had been invested in branch lines, amounting together to £590,092, with Parliamentary authority, and £94,432 without authority, making the total £684,524. They considered that the practice which the directors had initiated and the shareholders had sanctioned, of crediting to revenue for three . years after the opening of some of those branch lines any portion of interest which they were unable to pay out of their own earnings,was most fallacious. The committee could not see any justification for a large portion of that expenditure, and regretted that the shareholders should have given the directors authority for its expenditure, as in the opinion of the committee the country through which several of those lines passed did not warrant the outlay upon them. They, however, found some justification for the purchase of shares in the Deeside Rail way as a measure of protective policy, but for the amount expended on and yet to be paid for the Montrose and Ber vie Railway they could not find the slightest excuse. The committee were fully satisfied that the financial difficulties and loss of dividends were to be entirely attributed to the very large outlay upon branch lines, particularly those constructed north of Keith, from which the actual returns were so very unprofitable. The sum of £78,500 as a lia bility for the construction of an extension of the Strathisla Railway from Porstsoy to Buckie, under an agreement with that company, the committee thought should be re considered and postponed for the advantage of both com panies, as its construction would only add to the list of un productive branches. Upon the main line and branches there had been a considerable increase in the traffic since the close of the last half-year, which the committee be lieved would continue steadily to improve. From the small amount of the ordinary share capital, a moderate in crease per mile per week would, in their opinion, before long enable the directors to place the dividends of the company in a much more satisfactory position than they were at present. The committee concluded by adverting to the accurate manner in which the books of the company were kept, the eeonomical management of the workshops and the working of the main line and branches, and to the ready facilities afforded them by the directors and officials of the company in obtaining the requisite information. The CHAIRMAN replied at considerable length to the ob servations of the committee, and defended the course adopted by the directors under the circumstances in which the company was placed. The shareholders had sanctioned from time to time the whole of the proceedings of the direc tors, and it would be recollected that many things had been done with a view. to protect the interests of the com pany, which were submitted at the time and approved by the shareholders. As to the small surplus 0f.£510 referred to by the committee, the directors would have added it to the surplus and paid it to the B shareholders if they had had it, and also the £6,000 due from the branch lines in the past half-year. The board intended to pay those sums when they got them, but not until they actually received the money. He thought the branch lines would in the course of time become of great value to the undertaking. He concluded by moving resolutions adopting the directors' report and statement of accounts ; thanking the committee of inquiry for their able report, expressing an opinion that it was not desirable to disturb the transactions referred to therein, but to leave the directors to ad minister the affairs of the company as might be best calculated to render productive the branch lines, and to develope the resources of the company as early as pos sible ; approving the Abernethy Junction Bill and the measures proposed by the directors for securing running powers and through rates in the amalgamation bill of the Inverness and Perth and Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Companies. A long discussion ensued, in the course of which an amendment by Professor Fuller was rejected, and the reso lutions were adopted. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to tho chairman. MADRAS. The report of the directors states that during the past half-year the length of railway open for traffic was in creased 123 miles, by the completion of the Bangalore branch of the south-west line, and of the north-west line to Reddipully. The entire length of the former was now 492 miles, of the latter 79 miles, making a total of 571 miles of railway completed and opened. Tho mileage worked over averaged 538 miles for the half-year, as compared with 448 in the two preceding half-years. The number of passengers had risen from 662,948 in the corresponding half of the previous year to 776,826 in the past half-year ; and the tonnage of goods carried from 123,527 tons to 137,088 tons. The traffic receipts for the six months amounted to £169,565 against £127,705, and the net receipts to £83,688 against £46,308 for the same half of the year preceding. While, therefore, the average mileage open was greater by 20 per cent., the receipts were greater by nearly 33 per cent. gross, and 81 per cent. net. The permanent way and rolling stock had been well maintained, and the passengers had, as heretofore, enjoyed entire immunity from injury upom the company's lines. The shipment of materials, plant, and stores during the year 1864 amounted to 36,073 tons in 72 ships. The further opening of the north-west line to Cuddapa and the survey to the point of junction with the railway from Bombay was proceeding. Measures would be taken to secure the simul taneous completion of the line with that of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway to Raichoor. On the south-west line the Bangalore branch, 85 miles in length, and attaining a height on the Mysore table land of 3,000 feet, was opened for public traffic on the Ist of August last, and had been regularly worked ever since. The receipts for passengers during the half-year ending the 31st of December amounted to £57,647, against £44,030 for the same half of 1863. The increase in the number of passengof s was 15i per cent. and in the receipts of 31 per cent. The goods traffic, ex clusive of railway materials, exhibited an increase of 9,025 tons in weight, and £26,387 in receipts, :which was nearly 50 per cent, above those of the corresponding period. The receipts were £79,522, against £53,135, The entire receipts for the half-year were £157,343 against £121;089 for the corresponding half of 1863, showing an increase of £36,254. The working expenses amounted to £80,624, or 51.24 per cent., against £78,017, or 64.43 per cent. ; and the net receipts to £76,719, or 48.76 per cent., against £43,017, or 35.57 per cent. The receipts per train mile amounted to ss. 71d., against 6s. 34d., and the expenses to 2s. 101 d., against 4s. op. for the corresponding half of 1863. The receipts for car riage of railway materials, which formed 11 per cent. of the gross receipts in 1863, formed only per cent. in the past half-year. At the same time, the whole of the main line had for the first time been maintained during the half-year out of revenue. On the north-west line the extension to Reddipully was opened on the Ist of October, making 79 miles open from the Arconum junction. In the course of next month the further opening of the line to Cud ' daps, 41 miles, was expected to take place, and to be followed about the end of this year by another exten sion. The total traffic receipts on the north-west line for tho past half-year amounted to £12,221, against £6,616, showing an increase of £5,605. The working expenses amounted to £6,969, or 42.98 per cent., against £3,237, or 51.07 per cent. The receipts per train mile amounted to ss. sid., against 4s. 844. in the corresponding half of 1863 ; the expenses amounted to 2s. sd. per train mile against 2s. 41d. in the same half of 1863. The main south-west line and its Bangalore branch were now estimated to cost, in cluding adequate rolling stock for probable traffic during the next two or three years, a sum not exceeding £ll,OOO a mile. Upon this probable cost the net profits of the last year were equal to a return of 3 per cent. per annum. The voluntary payments by shareholders in anticipation of calls having fully sufficed for the expenditure of the company, no call was at present contemplated on the shares of the fifth extension capital. Tho total amount expended on capital account was £7,466,063. DUTCH RHENISH. The receipts for the fortnight ending April 15 amounted to £11,635, and for the corresponding period of last year to £8,765, showing an increase of £2,870 in favour of the pre sent year. The receipts since the commencement of the present book year, on the Ist of May, including the above, amounted to £259,931. The working expenses for the fort night amounted to £4,373, or 37.58 per cent. of the re ceipts, and for the corresponding period of last year to £3,694, or 42.51 per cent., showing an increase of expenses amounting to £679 against the present year. The working expenses from the Ist of May, 1864, ,to the 15th of April, 1865, amounted to £97,865, or 38.65 per cont. of the re ceipts. The working expenses for the year 1863-64 were 38.16 per cent, of the receipts. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN- SHIRE. The total expenses of this and the South Yorkshire Company's railways, including rents, tolls, duty, &c., from January 1 to April 23, amounted to £127,240, as against £124,610 for the corresponding period of 1864. The pro portion of the South Junction receipts accruing to this company from January 1 to April 23 amounted to £10,980, as against £10,657 for the corresponding period of 1864, and the expenses to £6,014, as against £5,231. READING. A public meeting was held yesterday in the Town-hall, Reading, presided over by Mr. C. J. Butler, the Mayor, for the purpose of expressing the sorrow and indignation of the inhabitants of the town at the atrocious assassination of President Lincoln, and their sympathy with the people of America. Among the persons present were the Rev. A. P. Cust, the Rev. J. F. Stevenson, the Rev. F. J. Ponsonby, the Rev. W. Jenkinson, Mr. Lewis Cooper, ex-Mayor, Alderman Palmer, Alderman Darter, Alderman Blandy, Alderman Walford, Mr. J. 0. Taylor, Dr. Wells, Mr. H. Cowslade, &c. The Rem. A. P. OUST, vicar of St. Mary's and rural dean, moved the following resolution : " That this meeting, having heard with great sorrow and indignation of the assassination of Mr. President Lincoln, by which the United States have been so suddenly de prived of his services, desires to express its utter abhor rence and detestation of the crime, and its sincere sympathy with the people of the United States on so trying an occa sion, and trusts that the sad event may be so overruled as not to be prejudicial to the continued prosperity of the best interests of the nation." Alderman PALMER (of the firm of Huntley and Palmer) seconded the resolution, and it was unanimously adopted. The Rev. J. F. STEVENSON, B.A. (Dissenter), proposed "That a copy of the resolution, signed by the Mayor on behalf of the meeting, be forwarded to the representative of the United States in this country." Dr. WELLS seconded the proposition, and it was agreed to. A. vote of thanks to the Mayor, on the motion of Alder man Darter, closed the proceedings. NOTTINGHAM. At a special meeting of the Nottingham Town Council yesterday (Monday) Mr. Alderman CULLEN proposed the following resolution, which was seconded by Mr. J. SWEET and unanimously carried :—" This Council desires in its corporate capacity to express its extreme sorrow and in dignation at the assassination of the late President of the United States of America, and to convey the expression of its sympathy and condolence at the loss which his widow and that nation at large have thereby sustained. They also express their regret at the attempt made upon the life of Mr. Seward and his sons, and the pleasure with which they this morning received the news of their improved condi tion." It was further resolved that the resolution be sealed with the corporate seal and sent to Mr. Adams for trans mission to the United States. KEIGHLEY. Yesterday evening a large meeting of the inhabitants of Keighley was held in the Mechanics' Institute of that town to express indignation at the assassination of President Lincoln, and condolence with his bereaved family and sym pathy with the American people in this afflictive dispen sation. Mr. John Briggs, the chief magistrate in the petty sessional division, occupied the chair, and several resolu tions condemnatory of the murder of President Lincoln, and of deep and heartfelt sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln and the American nation, were sustained in earnest and elo quent speeches, and unanimously adopted. GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.—Lord Palmerston's prize of £36 for the best essay on the "Influence of Party on the Development of the British Constitution" has been gained by Mr. James Moffatt, Caldorbank, Airdrie. Mr. Moffatt is facile princeps in English language and literature this year. ADYERTISEMENT.]-11olloway's Ointment. and Pills.— Unerring Precision.—When the health is breaking down from the continuance of some weakening discharge, when ulcers refuse to heal and extending mischief is threatened, then is the time to try the potency of Holloway's healing Ointment and purifying Pills. No treatment for giving ease, and safely leading to a cure can be compared to this. The Ointment cleans and cools the foulest and most angry sores, aiminishes the inflammation, reduces the swelling, prevents the growth of proud flesh, and spares both pain and danger. Thousands testify, from their own personal experience, to the unvarying success attending the use of Holloway's medicaments in cases of ulcerated legs, en larged veins, scurfy skin, and swelled ankles. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Ties.—The American residents in London yes terday did fitting honour to the memory of their late:President. Men in their position are more than usually sensitive to patriotic impressions. When people live at home, seeing few but countrymen, distracted by party politics, and engaged to some extent in every public transaction, patriotism, though a strong, is a quiescent feeling. But abroad their country is too far away to be ever out of their thoughts. The presence of a strange nationality leads them by contrast to dwell upon their own ; association and mutual friendly services bind the little community by a bond of which national feel ing supplies the links, and anything that affects the common country finds them united and almost unanimous. What wonder, then, that the Ameri cans in London should have been prompt to mark their sense of the bereavement which their nation has sustained ? They have for four years beheld from a distance the struggle in which it has been engaged ' • they know the effect of th a t s t rugg l e on the minds of European nations, and particularly on English society.; and they are aware how much they have lost in the man who has just been taken away. To a patriotic American, looking upon the war from across the ocean, it will seem that Abraham Lincoln was pre-eminently one to bear rule at such a time. His countrymen here have seen how his practical and tentative statesmanship has succeeded, while the dogmatism of a more trained politician might have erred ; they have noticed that even the faults with which his opponents charged him have won him favour in the Old World, and that the geniality of his fresh Western nature has enabled him to live through one of the most terrible revolutions in his tory without committing a single cruelty, and to go down to the grave without making a single enemy. They can understand that which strikes all on this side the ocean who have watched his career—the moral ascendancy which during his term of office the President gained over the experienced poli ticians who surrounded him, and gradually over the public opinion of his own country and the world. To these feelings Mr. Adams gave utterance yes terday. It was but natural that the United States' Minister should see in Mr. Lincoln the representa tive of the country—the servant, indeed, rather than the leader. Mr. Adams has been engaged familiarly in the transactions of this war. He has known the ideas with which it was begun, the changes which came over men's minds alit advanced, the new views taken by politicians of all parties in his own coun try, and the effect which the tremendous succession of events produced at home and abroad. He may, then, fairly consider Mr. Lincoln the embodiment of the national resolutions, as a man through wh om the republic spoke at each crisis of its fortunes. But this certainly does not detract from his merits. If the North has achieved success, it has been mainly by his means. If it spoke through him, it was only because his own feelings were those of the great mass of his section of the republic. Whatever fame belongs to a successful statesman is his, for from the first days of his assumption of office he devoted himself to the policy which has now triumphed. He declared his intention of retaking the forts and pro perty of the United States, he called out 75,000 volunteers and then hundreds of thousands, he issued the proclamation emancipating the slaves, he bore up against all the discouragement produced by two years of constant defeat : and in all this he is said to have taken his own line, and to have been in re ality, as he was in law, the head of the government. It is, therefore, in the highest sense of representa tion that Mr. Lincoln represented the Northern States during the present contest. Every American may be content to see in him a bold leader who did what thousands would have shrunk from, what no toriously some of the most experienced politicians in the country shrank from. But there is a part of his character which at this time will command even more admiration than his firmness and courage. He was not only the most determined in policy, but he was the least swayed by passion, of all the leading statesmen of his party. There is no utterance to be recorded of him which could offend the government of any other country or could shock humanity. He was never captious, nor defiant, nor menacing. Any indiscretion of his military or naval subordinates he promptly repaired, and, as far as he could, he en deavoured to keep peace with all the world. But it is his policy towards the vanquished Confederates which will chiefly give him honour. He has been, beyond all doubt, one of the most moderate men in the United States in his ideas of the treatment which the South should receive. For the Confederate Generals and their soldiers, even for the political leaders of the South, he had, unless report err, only schemes of amnesty. So much was this the case that the crime which has placed another in his seat is looked upon as likely to lead to a fiercer rule by taking away one who had pledged himself to conci liation. Of the ominous speculations of Mr. Adams concerning the policy of President Xohnson we need say little. " May be he will colour his policy with a little more of the sternness gatheredfrom the severity of his own trials. He will give a greater prominence to the image of Justice than to that of Mercy in dealing with notorious offenders." Such are the anticipations of the American Minister as expressed to his own countrymen. We can only trust that they will prove unfounded, and that official respon sibility in the most exalted post of the Republic will moderate the fiery zeal of the late Governor of Ten nessee. Of this, at least, we are sure—that if anything can increase the regret of Europe that an assassin has taken away the late President's life, it will be the knowledge that his policy is abandoned. But it is diffiult to believe that the course of mercy, which is that of true wisdom, should be thus de parted from. Mr. Johnson is, perhaps, a man of even more originality and strength of character than Mr. Lincoln, and such a man always intends to do what is most serviceable, even though a storm of passion may sometimes bscure his judgment. We have, therefore, a well-founded hope that there will not be this additional reason for deploring the death of Mr. Lincoln. For the present we can only join the American community in their regrets. They do not require to be told how deep is the sympathy of the British nation. From the Queen to the humblest citizen there has been but one voice. Over the grave of Abraham Lincoln all differences are hushed, and the two nations mourn as one the high-minded and good-natured magistrate. Under men like him the Republic will have no cause to fear either timid or tyrannical counsels. POST.—Admiral Fitzroy, who may be said to have originated and popularised a science which has for its direct object the salvation of human life on a scale of great magnitude, has succumbed to the fate of those who perish from an over-taxed brain. In devising the means for preserving the lives of others he has lost his own. His famous weather forecasts had become known all over the world, and there was no region so remote—provided only that its inhabitants went down to the sea in ships and transacted business on the great waters—but what has directly or indirectly profited by his most useful labours. He has given an impetus to the investi gation of practical meteorology which had never been known or even contemplated before. The proverb about the inconstancy of the weather has lost its force under his investigations. He has shown that in this difficult department of knowledge chance is only another name for human ignorance, and that the apparently most capricious atmospheric changes are governed by laws as fixed and regular as those which keep the planets in their orbits, so that we have only to study those laws, which are indeed among the most abstruse in nature, to be able to predict the weather as certainly as we can predict the eclipses. If Admiral Fitzroy had done no more than to illustrate by another demonstration the great truth that there is no such thing as chance in nature, even in those departments where uncer tainty appears to prevail the most, he would have deserved to rank high among our greatest scientific discoverers. But, besides this, there was a practical utility in his labours which sets their value far above the solution of mere theoretical and abstract pro blems, however abstruse their nature or general their application. So great and so successful were the labours under which his brain has at length given way, that, paradox as it may sound, we shall not miss him, as a public benefactor, so much as we should have done had hi s abilities been less and his success more restricted. But the fact is that he has so far completed the science he undertook to formu late and to utilise that the machinery he has con trived will now go on working by itself. The mas ter's hand is withdrawn from the helm, but so well have the crew been trained that they will be able to steer the ship in her proper course. Had Admiral Fitzßoy's genius been inferior to what it was, so perfect a state of working order would not have been arrived at in a machine so complicated as the " weather office ;" and when its chief was withdrawn, it might have got out of gear, or stopped altogether. But the creations of genius are immortal, and, when once perfected, survive in after ages to tell posterity of their author's skill and power, when the poor frail body has long mouldered into dust. Admiral Fitzßoy appears to have been for some days past in a state of great depression, the result of over study and too great mental toil. Probably, also, the late unseasonably hot weather may have had something to do with his indisposition. Sudden atmospheric changes, whether from hot to cold or the reverse, act more or less powerfully on the brain and nerves, and even on the stomach, which is known to exer cise so great, though indirect, an influence on the mind itself. We are not ourselves when nature, being oppressed, commands the mind to suffer with the body. There are conditions of the nervous system in which an amount of mental labour which in ordinary health would scarcely be felt may yet make the brain reel under it. In what may be called the more mechanical of the departments of mental . _ labour it is difficult to form any idea of the strain involved in those other kinds of brain-work, in which, so to speak, the very cerebral matter itself is wrought out into a tangible result. It is this coining of the b ra i n w hi c h i s th e most wearing a nd arduous of all mental labour ; and it is not the least of the disadvantages attending it that the habit of work grows so strong with constant use, that to leave off and to keep on are almost equally difficult, if not equally dangerous. To desist frorl the occupation which has grown into a second nature will often entail an apathy, a weariness, ° degree of ennui, only second to the utter depressioi, and despondency which w ill b e the inevitable res ult of intense mental application too long susta i ne d. The mind which has thus become wedded to it s Work can neither exist with it nor without it. To forego the customary- avocation at the customary hour mak es life appear a blank, and to escape from the wears; ness thus produced recourse is had to the fatal to is slowly but surely destroying life. NIL: time comes when natu r e is e x hausted, and i, flagging powers are found unequal to the daily t 217 which had grown into a necessity o f existence. I n attempt is made to resume the wonted labour, but the mind fails. The trains of ideas become va g i c l e ; and confused ; their co nnec ti on ca nnot be grasP e all seems incoherent and disconnected, and thoug h the patient himself may not be conscious of 111 ' there are the signs and tokens that the end is ne n ; Despondency and depression occur. The body o ° o begins to sympathise with the mind, and both gi r ', way together. An abnormal condition of the new,,„ will now supervene, which permits the sufferer or have no rest. He is alike unable either to sleek' a to work. The present is a torture, the future T he blank ; the past only harasses the mind with," apparition of scenes and remembrances which lost their charm, or onlyserve to contrast the g lo ° and despair of to-day with the hopes and the her , piness of other years. If in this condition the an ferer's friends could carry him away where he e° l "`: see nothing but the rustling of the wind in the trees° and the song of the birds, but where at the ftt time he could mix with cheerful company, 00 hss mind would be at once occupied and at there would be some hope- for him. Indeed, he would be sure to right himself when the strabl wl taken off. But the difficulty is to accomplish „, Men of Admiral Fitzßoy's stamp never know when they have had too much work, any more than m o b of another stamp know when they have had to° r ° ,l o . wine and delirium tremens is beginning to Bein The abstinence, which is as essential in one case as the other, is always put off until too late. gel l , e i; not be dealt.with like children, and made to do tt, i , duty to themselves. A man like Admiral FitzlloY 7, d naturally forms a high estimate of the duty 7 s m a the responsibility attaching to his labours. It hp . characteristic of the higher order of minds t° Sea pressed with this sense of duty in their work. bra in if we take the case of the literary man—whose 'd u ty often gives way from over-work—he has 3 an though it be not of a public kind. He is uncle,a engagement which must be completed within a g` his time ; he has a family who are dependent ontiot labour. This sense of responsibility—the dependent. of fulfilling a duty imposed upon him—has th e e IS it of keeping a man to his work, even when he fee n ot is killing him by inches. He is told he work so hard ; he answers that he must —it musts duty, and he cannot shirk it. The reasoning must—it. d e f e at answerable that the course he is pursuing liot the object he has in view, that the means wil e l t t i 3 q merely miss the end, but reverse it ; but agai n A the force of habit, the promptings of instinct, 0,-,.„,„a pressure of necessity, what reasoning was v e er to succeed ? Admiral Fitzßoy is no more. - " re f big bear at present to touch upon the particulars e ,„,,nd melancholy end, the details of which will be is Jo in another column. He will be deeply lamen t on the scientific world as one of its most gifte d , 1 1 , 11 00 bers, by multitudes of th os e w ho se lives his ', rat a AS have tended to save, and by the whole coun'' e . one of the most eminently useful men of his tw- COUNTRY MARKETS NORTHAMPTON.—APRIL 29. o ld New white'wheat, 38s to 42s ; new red, 366 to B l' i rld white, 43s to 44s ; old red, 38s to 39s p er 36 stone. i „ e r 5° for malting, 31s to 33s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 3 ! ) l r t eve' stone. Oats, old, 25s to 265; new, 18s to 24s pm' : ress , Beans, old, 36s to 40s ; new, 35s to 38s per 38 stone. 33s to 38s per 36 stone. COLCHESTER--Aritn, 29. , s , re 15 , The supply of wheat was small, and pric:e s A feor, the advance on last week. Barley not much inqulfe"„ s were malting season being nearly closed. Beans and P" scarce, and rather dearer. 86A VI 400 Wheat, white 42s 48s Beans, Mazagall••:;•'&50 red 3es 42s ' Middle and small - 35s ;:qo Barley ... •88 35 8 Pe a s, w hite. ......... 3 6$ Oats ...20s 25s grey ... . ..... .• • GRANTHAM—APRIL 29. , 14; ne t Old white wheat, 41s to 445 ; old red, 38s to 13'x white, 40s to 44s ; new red, 37 8 to 40s per 36 stolle• os pg ley for malting, 29s to 33s per qr.; grinding, 2 4 '.; s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to 27 8; new, 22s to 24s per stone. Beans, old, 39s to 41s; new, 36s 38s per ° Peas, 34s to 36s per 36 stone. CHELMSFORD—Arun, 28. ar ii et, There was a fair supply of wheat at this day 6 11'r with and former quotations were exceeded by is Pe r c l: o thet trade a trifle better. Barley supported late ru tes ' articles a dull sale. 365 31389 0 Wheat, old white....4ls 476 Peas, Partridge .... ....3 0 42 0 new 4ls 47s White ...... .. .. 0.,„, 3io old red 40s 42s Wiling ...... ;1; ..„, new. 38s 42s Dun.••• ... ..,'''• --0 , Barley .. 25s 32s dit co, e,,,e"":.310 , 0 Chevalier 266 .3s Beans, Tick, °tut*" —0 0 Grind ng , Os Ss neut. •'• -- icke. 3 • s6 - 0 Malt 61s 67s Barrow ricks' 6 Chevalier 64s 68s new••• • • • ,,,,, 3. 3 Oats - ABERDEEN—Arm 28. The weather continuos fine, w ith o ccasional s b on:, The deliveries at market to-day are rather on the incloug and we quote all grain in fair demand at barely Pr e rates. White wheat 35s Od to 38s Odl . 621 b v bushe l. Red wheat 34s Od to 36s Od j Potato oats 20s Od to 21s Od i g m It b us bel• Common oats l9s Od to 20s Odj Pere 21s Od to 22s Od t Od to 22s 6df Oatmeal lss Od to 16s Od 11 boll of 14 a, Oan 11 bliS . l l , e o l 6) . . 060 w . ;no . 3 2 2 l ss Od to —s Od li sack a 43FlaorulerY, KIRKCALDY-App 29. t Bol a Moderate supplies of all kinds of grain. Whet' eelr, Archly at an advance of is on the prices of this day I t Barley and oats sold slowly, at is lower. Wheat. Barley. Oats. 25s Od 24s Od 228 Od k•econd.... 398 Od I 2Cs Od I 230 Od Third..... 41s Od 28s Od 24s Cd Foreign Mail Packet List. Val 1 " . Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton ..... is, Ditto, via Marseilles .......................... gal 4, Brazil and Cape Verde. by British pacset .......... DOI 2 2 , ... g a l 6. Ditto, by French packet .......... • ~s , „ 2 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.•••• ° ";,„., 2. China, Penang, and Singapore, via, Southampton•••°'';. 11 . ) 18 Ditto, via Marseilles ......................... Falkland Islands .................................. 2 ' _,_„, Gibraltar, via Southampton ........... . 1,22:11 g India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, v i a SouthamPton...° IS' Ditto, via Marseilles . gay /2. India (Bombay), via Southa m pt on .. ............... goy 2 " 4. Ditto, via Marseilles ......................•••• rlloy 12• Mauritius via Southampton ..................... . 7 „f 1 6. Ditto, via Marseille I. ...................... • • .day 1 0 • Newfoundland ................. . .................. Portugal ... . ..... .... ...... ••• • Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. • ........ „7„1 . . United States and British North America, 731-"` .... s tish packet ' •• •.......... Ditto, by by United States packet, via SOuthalnlr ton . .................... • Ditto, via Cork , .... ... rsi 6 Ditto, by Canadian packet, via LondonderrY• . , , v t 7, 13. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ... D . j 5. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cli ba ' A ray - t and Mexico • .• • . .............. isi si 4, Bahamas, via New York. .......................... iga I°. .. _. Bermuda, ditt0...................... . ............ ~.., 29 Cuba and Mexico ............ A 1" dmmee.-wm........ ALLEN.—On Births. 1 2 .. .. Art o f bie dow — A. o ll n en t , h o e f l a st d i a n u s g t h ., t a e t r. Stoke Newington, 0...r5• ICIBIBER.—Ou the Ist inst , at Park Villa, W il 'tab eri park-road, Wandsworth,' the wife of flew/ Esq., of a daughter. -,,, , si° n• 3111 ' MONCICTON.—On the 80th ult., a t SouthWollt 41 ' --- E. Monckton, of a son. LUKIN—FREELING. —On the 27th ult Freeling, E sq ., o f 21, Marriages. Lieut.-Colonel Cha r les Osbaldeston., a st• Lukin, 4 "-" Ova" 3 1 , 9 J syg.N..l to Emily Charlotte, eldest daughter a Charles WILSON--CATTEII.—On tho 27th ulty- t Westerhaol, 00, Wilson, Esq., of 166, Camden-road, Loudon, to . third daughter of John Cattell, Esq. Upper llarlestreet. ceo• B A R sin::::: Le g n . St. Lawrence Ahb s urnham. tr .„zsleP , y a e g ars ed . 63. IL29,ltmhsguaitte.: otehoorgLeaßdryownCh,aorlfo:/::: —tche,:n the D2e6tahthuZ, at Southwood p.'rogeof near Alton, Hants, aged 66; also on the 28th ttit., oA a h VE ge N d w D l l i f o s e x . .—On the 29th ult., at Latimer the 1 1 ° 11 , 11- .la lg a e ll ir : D no y - m n W ok il e, li ß ani art ° . DYMOKE.—On the 28th ult., in Fortnum -square' Sir lII' Cavendish, scond son of Lord Cue' Frrzßoy.—On the 30th ult., suddenly-, at I:7PP e Norwood, r N °l .° Admiral Fitzßoy, aged 60 . r ou l)e, LAmBE.—On the 28th ult., at Bath, John gonk -i-- Esq., RS.. --___ London : Printed and Published—byWlLlANlA Nl tn 1 12 : s of tr N an o. ct li in 2, tShterapnrde,cinneitntoefr, tahteTsrlavEoS,trs Offic e ' ''''', of Middlesex.—Tuesday, May 2, 1 865 . in the Collia I I