The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-01 00:00:00

WOOL.

Holders of English wool are firm in their demands, and
although the amount of business doing is very moderate,
all descriptions fully support last week's currency. In
colonial wool, by private contract, very little is doing.
Last week's import was 1,423 bales from Launceston ;
6,666, Port Philip; 4,976, Melbourne; 1,045 bales, Algoa
Bay ; and about 300 bales from sundry ports.

Current prices of English wool per lb.
ed sd
Fleeces —South Down hoggets 1 8 1 9
Half-bred d 0... 1 9 110
Kent fleeces
south Down ewes and wethersl 6 1 7h
Leicester do 1 8 1 9
Sorts -Clothing. ..+ 1 6 111
Combing 1 7 2 0

SEEDS.
The small supply of mustard seed on offer is held at high

A crowded public meeting was held on Saturday night at
St. James's Hall, for the purpose of expressing the feelings
of detestation with which they had heard of the assassination
of President Lincoln, and Their condolence with his widow
and the people of the United States. The chair was taken
by Mr. W. Evans. Among the gentlemen present on the
platform were—Mr. Crum Ewing, M.P. ; Mr, P. A. Taylor,
M.P. ; Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P. ; Mr. G. Hadfield, M.P.;
Mr. Grenfell, M.P. ; Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P. ; Mr. Caird,
M.P.; Mr. E. Baines, M.P.; Mr. J. White, M.P.; Mr. E. A.
Leatham, M.P.; Mr. J. Stansfeld, M.P. ; Mr. Gurney,:M.P.
for Falmouth; MM. A. Kinnaird, M.P.; Hon. Mr. Stanley
(son of Lord Stanley of Alderley), Profestor Fawcett, Mr.
Edmund Beales, Mr. Mason Jones, Mr. Vernon Harcourt,
Major Evans Bell (Madras Army), Dr. Hodgkin, Mr. Ser-
geant Parry, Mr. B. Moran (secretary to the American Le-
gation), Judge Winter, Mr. Cyrus H. Field, Dr. Cleveland
(Connecticut, United States), Dr. Bliss, Colonel Hoe, Rev.
R. Everest, and others.
The CHAIRMAN briefly explained the object for which the
meeting was called, and expressed a hope that, although the
country had lost the valuable guidance of President Lincoln,
his successor would be actuated by the same policy and
guided by the same principles as those which had been pro-
fessed and acted upon by the great and good man who had
been the victim of the foul murder which they all deprecated.
Mr. CRESSON, the secretary, read a letter from Sir C. Lyall,
regretting his inability to attend, and stated that he had re-
ceived letters to a similar effect from Lord Hou ghton, Mr
Baxley, M.P., Mr. Goschen, M.P., Mr. Buxton, M.P., and.
others.

Mr. Fortsrmt, M.P., proposed the first resolution, which
was—" That this meeting desires to give utterance to the
feelings of grief and horror with which it has heard of the
assassination of President Lincoln, and the murderous at-
tack upon Mr. Seward, and to convey to Mrs. Lincoln and
to the United States Government and people an expression
of its profound sympathy and heartfelt condolence." He
said that the present was a time when the ties of blood
which bound England and America together were, indeed,
dearly felt, and the indignation which had swept through
the land had been conveyed to the heart of every English-
man, as though some fearful calamity had fallen upon him-
self. (Cheers.) It was to the credit of the country that all
clasies, rich and poor, friends of the North and friends of
the South, were anxious to show that they forgot all
grounds of difference with their American kinsmen, and
shared in deep sympathy with them their overpowering
sorrow. It would be unpardonable for any Englishman to
add fuel to that fire of anger, by the burning up of his
heart, from which every American must pray to be pre-
served—by saying or insinuating that any of the leaders of
the slaveholding rebellion either instigated or were cog-
nisant of this foul crime. He could not, however, avoid
tracing it to the influence of that system of slavery which
those leaders had fought to preserve, and which, until it is
totally abolished, will render peace and safety impossible
in America. He was anxious that a ship should not leave
our shores to-night without taking out a message of sym-
pathy, and at the same time an expression of faith in the
future, and our confident belief that the ruler to whom God
has now entrusted the destinies of the country will be
imbued with the spirit of the patriotic statesman whom
they had now lost, and be actuated by that spirit of mingled
firmness and moderation which, exercised as it had been
with integrity and judgment under circumstances than
which none were more trying, had made the name of
Abraham Lincoln one that would be pre-eminent in all
future history. (Great cheering.)
Mr. PETER TAYLOR, M.P., seconded the resolution, and
expressed his deep sympathy with the nation that had lost a
worthy successor of the great Washington—ono who had
really fulfilled the task which God had put into his hands,
of maintaining and extending the cause of human freedom.
He did not believe that there was any danger of the Go-
vernment of the United States falling into the miserable
mistake of retribution and vengeance, but thought rather
that the atrocious crime which had been committed would
nerve the people as one man firmly and courageously, and
without fear or favour, to consummate the union of North
and South by establishing the emancipation of the negro.
(Cheers.)
Mr. LEATHAM, M.P., in supporting the resolution, said he
was glad of the opportunity of publicly expressing his pro-
found sympathy with the great Union of North America
upon their national bereavement. Of the crime itself he
would not speak, for, like the preceding speakers,he felt that
no terms of abhorrence which were at his command could
adequately convey his sense of its enormity, nor would he
speak of the manly and earnest statesman in the shadow of
whose death he then stood. It was enough to say that his
great career had passed into the domain of history,!and that
history herself would be kind and just to the statesman who
proclaimed liberty to four millions of our fellow-men, and
wh6 not only proclaimed it with his lips, but as though a
special and priceless sacrifice were needed to give to his en-
actments irrevocable solidity he had sealed it with his blood.
(Cheers.) The eyes of the world were now rivetted in ex-
pectancy on America. We had seen her pass triumphantly
through a gigantic peril; we expect to see her surmount
with equal fortitude and equal dignity this, which would be
perhaps the greatest and last of her severe trials. (Cheers.)

Who was the man who, conversing amid suspicion andtho
unfavourable criticisms of the world, simply by dint of his
own simplicity of character, his own steadfastness, truth-
fulness, and utter selfishness of purpose, had won his way
to the admiration of the world ? Who was it but this man
of the people, this uneducated man, without experience in
great affairs; this man, whose heart, visible before the
world, grew sadder and gentler to the last, amid all the
death and all the suffering which he witnessed ? Who was
it but Abraham Lincoln, the martyr of his country and of
freedom. (Cheers.)
Mr. POTTER, M.P. for Rochdale, in seconding the reso-
lution, stated that he stood in the place of the great and
good man Richard Cobden, whose highest praise it was
that his life was devoted to the work of dignifying labour.
This too, was the noble mission of President Lincoln. He
sought to put an end to slavery. Ho (Mr. Potter) wished
to destroy serfdom at home. He rejoiced that popular Go-
vernment had stood the severe test to which it had been
subjected ; that the so-called " bubble of democracy " had
not burst, and he hoped to see the spirit of democracy ex-
tend in our land.