The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-08 00:00:00

Course of the Exchange.—This Day.

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 171 11 17f
Antwerp .. 25 42i 25 45
Brussels — 'l5 421 25 45
Hamburgh — 13 71 13 71
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine --.., 1191 114
Vienna
Trieste
Peters burgh — 351 35i
Berlin —
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn — 25 471 25 b2i
Milan — 25 471 25 524
Genoa — 25 471 25 624
Naples
Palermo .-- 25 521 25 57}
Messina .. 25 52/ 25 575
Lisbon — 521 53

Oporto —62 i
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars 0 0 0 0
Silver in Bars (Standard)
0 0 0
South American Doubloons

THE MURDER OF COLONEL KIMBALL;

We do not know of an event in the whole history
of the war that reveals to the public the abject con-
dition to which the American press has fallen
equally with the recent killing of Lieut.-Colonel
Kimball, of the 9th New Yurk. Among the bravest
of the brave of the youths who rushed to the defence
of our country, decorated with the trophies of 18
contested actions, blameless as a soldier, the idol of
his regiment, he is ruthlessly shot down in his own
camp while in the performance of a soldier's duty,
and there is not one voice raised to vindicate his
conduct or demand atonement for his murder ! Set-
ting aside the merits of the case, and let them be
what they will, how can the press justify its silence
on a state of facts that intensely stirred the public
and made every heart burn with indignation? The
answer is found in the fact that his slayer was a
popular Irish general, and those crouching jour-
nate, not truly estimating Irish honour and justice.
(eared the Irish vote. The humiliation inflicts a
blush upon the cheek of every citizen, and makes
us almost feel as if we were a conquered race. It
reminds us of the tame Saxons, who bent content-
edly beneath the Norman yoke, and lost their coun-
try because they were no longer worthy of retaining
it. Not a word of sympathy or defence for the brave
boy who had been in 16 battles! Not an expression
of regret for that bold spirit whose flashing sword
was the first upon a long causeway, and over the
ramparts at Roanoke, and who, incessant in his
duty, was the model soldier of the Army of the
East. Shame on such countrymen as have no gentle
word for such a countryman as he! The paragraph
announcing Col. Kimball's death appeared here on
Tuesday. The statement was that he had been shot
down by Gen. Corcoran for refusing to let him pass
without the countersign. It was a statement to ap-
peal to the indignation of every journalist, as it did
to every citizen ; but no journalist ventured to
speak upon the subject. There was nothing said by
the press on the next day; on the third a oontradio;
tion of the fact that Colonel Kimball was on pdickneo
' duty, and an assumption that he therefore
ehda
in a
right to demand the countersige, p
be that Lcieerutin..
yalas if moved by a common motive, gave it republi-
cation. The public, however, reasoned the matter
Hartford paper, and presently all our city
for themselves. They knew that an officer was
bound to have the countersign, and that it was easier
to
tswohfothweacsastehweilmi porsotvveitgoi
give it than to sheot the man who asked for it. We
the camp, was going his rounds; or it may b
e he Was
voluntarily inspecting the pickets of If-
exveirnthbeLtic,
ls regiment.
At any rate he was within the Hui'
Col.heli
its of hi.
and he found a mounted party late . camp,
to the front. He would have been at night passing ,
dier had he not required the an unworthy sol-
Gen. Corcoran is unfit to be countersign and
stantly responded with it. one for not having in-
simplest citizen has of military The first idea which the
in the picture of Napoleoni itary rigour is inculcated
sentinel; of
Washingtonbeing being stopped by the
final ;of Frederick theG stopped by the sen-
rieat being
l stopped by the
sentinel—for the countersign, It is the imperative
duty of every, officer or soldier
in camp after the guard is set to be instrumovescted
in aboutthe
countersign, and the blood of Kimball is criminally
on the hands of Corcoran for not having it and
giving it. We desire no statement of the matter
out Corcoran's own. Ho was surrounded by his
staff, and Kimball was alone. If the latter drew
his sword, he did so according to the routine of the
challenge, and it is absurd as well as die
- al
eoduiti:btec;
for Corcoran to say that in the centre oNf hoi.s m
he slew
friends he bad a right to fear
him.
him through arrogance and pride,i and we demand
. The death of
that he be held to answer for t
not
go by wipes-
such a man as Kimball
meet
that would per-
tioned ; and the military
authoritiesof obedience. Messieurs
mit it would be
ul"vartbYbe not afraid. Murder
has no nationality, and
of the army and the press,
n no
people are less likely
on mere
than the Irish to shield criminala
Unless Corcoran be
consi-
deration of his birth or elation..
.Irelieved and tried, we predict that the
.. .
promptlywill he worth nothing
troops of his invasion
.to the
Wiikeis Spirit of the Age.
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