The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-19 00:00:00

SLAVERY TO DIE,

In presenting the abandonment of armed resistance to
the national authority on the part of the insurgents as the
only indispensable condition to ending the war on the part
of the Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to
slavery. I repeat the declaration made a year ago; and
that while I remain in my present position I shall not at-
tempt to retract or modify the Emancipation Proclamation.
Nor shall I return to k 1 a very any person who is free by
the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the aots_of
Congress.

If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make
it an Exeencivo duty to re-ensiava such persons, another,
and not I, must be their instrument to perform it.

In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply to
say, that the war will cease on the part of the Government
whenever it shall ha re ceased on the part of those who
began it.
(Signed) AIIRAS/11k1 LINCOLN.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH STREET,

SNOWBALLING.—Joseph Wood, a lad, was charged
before Mr Tyrwhitt with disorderly conduct.
Gordon, 33 C, said that on the previous morning, about
half-past eleven o'clock, he saw the defendant and about
forty other lads in Castle-street, Leicester-square, snow-
balling every person passing along the street, elderly per-
sons going to church being more especially selected. One
person complained to him (Gordon) that his hat had been
broken by a snowball thrown by one of the lads. As the de-
fendant was the ,biggest of the lads, and the most active, he
took him into custody.
Mr Tyrwhitt ordered the defendant to find one bail in
£5 to keep the peace for two months.
ASSAULT ON AN OMNIBUS CONDUCTOR; Mr. George
Frederick Bridges, sculptor, of No. 3, Vincent-square,
was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with bung drunk, and
assaulting Sydney Simmunds, an omnibus conductor,
badge 505.
The conductor said the defendant got into hisomnibus on
Saturday night while he was giving some ladies change, he
(complainant) not noticing that ho was drunk. While
passing along Oxford-street, near Berwick-street, the
defendant put his hand through the window of the door and
gave him a blow on the back, Ho told the defendant to
keep his hands to himself, and on the omnibus reaching the
end of Orchard-street, the defendant got out, and as he
would not pay, and had kept the omnibus waiting a quar-
ter of an hour, he gave him into custody.
Mr Tyrwhitt said if the defendant liked to settle the mat-
ter with the conductor, he would permit him to do so.
Subsequently it was mentioned to the magistrate that the
conductor had offered to take 7s 6d, he having lost a day's
work, but that the defendant declined to give it him, where,
upon Mr Tyrwhitt fined the defendant 20s.

TEE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT BLACKHEATH.—
The inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate men
killed by the collision in the tunnel near Blackheath, was
opened this afternoon, but the proceedings consisted chiefly
of identifying the bodies. The inquiry was adjourned.
WANTON REMOVAL OF LONDON ANTIQUITIES.—
A correspondent of the Tinzes writes—" Eeelesi.
astical sculpture in London is so rare that we cannot afford
to lose any of what little still remains to us unless there is
absolute necessity for its removal. Among the most curi-
ous things of the kind were the representations of the
Last Judgment that were placed over the entrances to
some of the City churchyards. Not many years ago there
were three instances—namely, at St. Andrew's, Holborn,
St,Giles'e-in-the-Fields, and St Stephen's Coleman-street,
which is still in situ, and appears to be valued, as it should
be, by the authorities, as S'3lllo pains have during the last
few years been expended on its repair and preservation.
That which was over the gateway of St. Andrew's, Hol-
born, was some years back taken down and erected for a
time in Shoc-lane. Ultimately it was, I believe, given or
sold to aMr Beasley, of Bangor-Nouse, where it still re-
mains as an ornament to the chimney-piece. It is to the
second example that I especially wish to call your attention,
and through your world-wide columns to protest against its
removal, What has become of it ? Has it shared the fate of
the Lynn carved stallwork and been sold to some dealer or
collector ? Or is it still in the possession of the parochial
authorities ? In any case, sir, if the thing is not impossible,
it ought to be restored to its original position. As a work
of art, it is by no means to be despised ; as a London curi-
osity, and above all as an instance of post-Reformation
sculpture. it is of the highest interest. This mania for
destroying, or at best transferring to antiquarian collections,
everything that the individual parsons, churchwardens,
architects, or builders do not happen to understand or value
is truly distressing.