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

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COURT OP COMMON COUNCIL.
A Court of Common Council was held yester-
day mauling, and the LORD MAYOR having taken the their,
Mr. Henry Lowman Taylor rose for the purpose of address-
ing his lordship and the court.
After some discussion as to whether Mr. Taylor or Mr.
R. N. Phillips should address the court, and the former
having been selected for that purpose,
Mr. TAYLOR than said he could have wished that
the decision that the court had come to in
giving him the preference to address them upon
so sorrowful • subject had been of • different cha-
racter. Nothing, he was sure, had more affected the
minds of the citizens of Loadoa, and the public generally,
than the sad mid deplorable event that had been communi-
cated to this country from America, and the citizens of
London, one end all, he was sure, would deeply sym-
pathise with the American people in the deep calamity
which had befallen them. He felt it right that
this court, the reflex of the City of London, should
tithe the earliest opportunity of evincing their
deep sympathy with that deplorable and sod event.
Nothing, be mid, could have taken them by
surprise than the melancholy news which had reached them
of the death by sasassination of • man, who, be believed,
bad always been actuated by the beat motives to do what
he could for the interest of his beloved country. (Hear,
hem.) It was • subject on which he could dilate at
some length, but it would be enough to give ex-
premien to the feelings of the court in the words of a
resolution he was about to propose. Mr. Taylor
ens:laded his remarks by potting the following reso-
lution :—" That this court desires, before proceeding with
the business of the day, to express its profound
sympathy with the people of the United States of Americo
in the loss sustained not only by them but by this country
in the melancholy death of President Lincoln by the
hand of an miasma and remembering that the last act of
his life bad beau to breathe words of pages and °emaciation,
this court cannot but deeply deplore Ms untimely end ;"
and further, " That • copy_ of this resolution, signed by the
town clerk, be forwarded to the American miaister in
London with • request that he will transmit the same to
the Secretary of State at Washington, sod to Mrs. Lincoln."
Mr. Alderman and Sheriff BYSLIT secooded the motion.
He said it was quite unnecesury that he should use any
language to deprecate assassination, as it WU so re-
pugnant to the feelings of every Eoglishman • but in
the present position of this country with the United States
he could not but think that the present expression of the
court, which he was sure was that of everyone in the coun-
try, would be of some good, and he sincerely hoped that the
American people would receive it in the spirit that it was
tendered in. He thought they could not begin better than by
tendering their heartfelt sympathy with that country for the
deprivation which they have sustained by an act which
amid not be regarded by anyone with feelings other than
utter detestation. He concluded by seconding the motion.
Mr. R. PHILLIPS said it would require but few words
from him to support the motion, as the subject had
been dwelt upon in such a manner by Mr. Taylor
and Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Begley. What had occurred
at the introduction of the oubject be was sure would be
attributed to the anxiety of every member
that no delay should be made in giving expres- ,
aka to their feelings, which were from one and all
sympathy for the mad event alluded to, and he was sure not ,
only this court but every citizen of London and everyone in
Übe eountry were equally desirous of expressing their dates-
lathe and disgust at such a horrible atrocity, and of showing
to those who inhabit the United States of America, who
were the descendants of those who left this country origin-
ally to cultivate America, their deep sympathy in the de-
privation they sustained.
Some slight alteration was made in the motion, and it was
unanimously agreed to in the following terms :—" That
this corporation desires,
.before proceeding to the bushier
of the day, to express its profound sympathy with the
United States of America in the lees unstained is the death
by &origination of Mr. Lincoln, the President of the United
States, and to mooed its detestation of the atrocious aims
which has been committed."

THE EMANCIPATION SOCIETY.

A special meeting of the Emancipation Society
wee herd ai Andertoa's Hotel yesterday shames, to ex*
mem indignatioc at the murder of President llboolo.
Mr. WiilllZA Enna, proof/lent of the misty. occupied the
i chair. The following reeolation wee mianimonely adopted :
"That the committee of the Emancipation Seelety desire
is express their grief and horror at the amaisinalion
president Linoobi, who bad endeared himself to his mitentry
sad mankind sot Use by his pure and stainless character
the. by the permobeat services which he rendered to the
meat Republic darks four memorable years of rovolutim.
With the indigaatios they teal at • aims which=
without a parallel is the history of the world is