The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-08 00:00:00

THE ASSASSINATION OP PRESIDENT
LINCOLN.

A Naples paper, under date Dec. 3, publishes
intelligence from Alexandria (Egypt) announcing
that Soratt, the 'American who was charged with
being one of the accomplices in the aseassination of
President Lincoln, has been arrested in that city. The
arrest, it is stated, was edec:ed in consequence of
information teaosmitted to the Egyptian authorities
by the Prefect of Police of Naples.

On the shove subject, the Naples ccrresnondent of
The Times record, the following, and 'which it is
thought mat, po,,inly occa,ion some difficnlties be.
tween the United States and England. Writing on
the ?Tth Mt., he says:—

The receipt of a letter at the American Contelaee In this
city last evening from the I'nued Stain' au,trmitiss in
Malta compel, me to advert to a inbjsct which may create
iome uneasiness. Surratt, one of tun corm:dr/items &amine'
th• late President Lincoln, has been for ten month. or
More in the titmice of the Pope In the regiment of
Z mama, hut emitting It and flying from Rome, he arrived
In Naples snout • fortnight since wearing th• Uniform
of the Z alirea Qo Sunday, the ISO, the American Consul
received a teleararn from his oolleague In Rome to the effect
that the ref &aunt Walters was no other than Snrratt, hod
oMerlog his Immediate arrest Immediate applteation was
made to the police of Napier*, and every 7,,tschle facility
afforded, but it Was f, nod they were too late, and that the
mit:nips' had started the night herote hy the Liverpool screw
Trij ma fur Malta and Alexandria The telegraph was teen
pus in Onolllllln 'cation rich Malta, and fliTeOtlol23 were given
to the Conant General of the United dotes In that Hand
to arrest Walters Immediate,y on his arrival. A letter
received at the American ,n,uhas only !art evening states
that 115 rriponi touched at Mal a early en Monday morning
the 10th ; that the consul immediately &poll. d for powers to
ii//11/1“/ that PO [MVO, Was Writhe itill just before the
hour ot the departure of the Trrynti•or A IrS3ll.,rla and that
the answer wag in the hermit., on the groutid 01 there being
no auth,rity for doing to. Telegrams have thrrelf.r', heet,
lent Irene the I ,Itorl :Betts' represenriplives in Rome, Naples,
and Malta to the eAseul In A.exandrirs, and m vessel., item
Liverpool undergo • quarantine It that city, It is folly ex-
petred that Sfirratt will there he rsptnred. it,, whit
grounds Ihe Br tish authorities In Malta declined to act Is
not known, stud It would he premature, therefore, to express
any opinion on the subject ; out the ne-e feet of their
having decined has created the worst possihle feelings tit
the nynds of American agents. The consul at Malta ex-
presses the opinion that it was by • mere legal notorde "
the brad and Bout Si the conenieary was permitted to es
c•pe ; am! Ihre I have heard the refusal of the British
anthorities to not contrasted with the matinee, which was
shown in AliDOillia in R/VO tip Milner, It must, however, he
clear to emery elattammria, person that there I. not the
Chastest wallet between the two rases. In that of M Wier
the American authorities had been epplled to come day. be-
fore his arrival, and all the forma observed which the treaty
of &tradition required In the present carte &telegram only
conveyed the information and demand. I have reason to
believe that • nes,,atch has been already meet tit to Mr
Seward couched In the strongest terms, and m Americans
are distsosed to regard almost every act, word, and thought
of E,lgland as belng hostile to them, some d filcnity may be
expected. From the sympathy INTO, Indiancion which were
expressed In England at the time of the assaminatlon of Mr,
Lbseeht and which were ha doeply felt and erpressed by every
Engliehroan on the Continent with whom I come In contact,
the Americana ought to feel that therl can be no diSposition
on nor part to screen from jostlce anyone who was Implt
hated in that heinous crime.