The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-12 00:00:00

The Assassination of President Lincoln.

Confederate Gen. E. G. Lee has addressed the
following letter to the Montreal Gazette, denying the
assertion of Mr. Stanton that the assassination of
Lincoln was approved in Richmond :
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MONTREAL GAZETTE.
Sir,—Although it is beneath the dignity of a Govern-
ment, or the humblest servant of a Government, to notice
any Charge made against it which is preposterous for its
littleness and meanness, yet, as I know of no one nowout-
side of Confederate and Federal lines who can better speak
upon the subject which prompts this note, I beg leave to
address the public through your columns.
In a despatch addressed to Major-General Dix, dated
Washington, April 24, 2 p.m., and marked official (in which
Mr. Secratary Stanton announces the capture of Macon,
Georgia, in violation of an acknowledged armistice, and
states his permission for the Federal commander to rectify
his dishonourable act), the following language occurs :
"This Department has information that the President's
murder was organised iu Canada and approved at Rich-
mond. One of the assassins now in prison, who attempted
to kill Mr. Seward, is believed to be one of the St. Albansi
raiders. "E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War."

(The italics are mine.)
My object in writing this is to say that I, as an officer of
the service of the Confederate States of America, in their
behalf, deny everything which Mr. Stanton means by the
assertion that the " President's murder" was "approved at
Richmond:, I assert that no official of the Confederate
States authorised, or was cognisant, of that assassination ;
and I make this assertion because I have heard both the
President and Secretary of State express views concerning
the policy of the Confederate States in conducting this war
so utterly at variance with the unmanly charge of the Fede-
ral Secretary that I know they neither prompted nor sanc-
tioned the deed. It is my high privilege to know most of
the members of the Confederate States' Government, and to
have had frequent official intercourse with them. And for
them (as their own self-respect will not permit them to no-
tice
it) I aver, upon the faith of a Christian and the honour
of a gentleman, my belief that they were as little the pro-
moters of the murder as Secretary Stanton or Vice-Presi-
dent Johnson.

A few days before I left Wilmington (a broken invalid) I
had the honour of conversing with the President and Mr.
Benjamin, and the remembrance of the high, noble send-
Monts expressed by both increases the wonder how Mr.
Stanton, who knows them, and the other members of the
Confederate States' Government personally so well, could
lend himself to this low slander, when he must ha-ve known
it to be such. In denying it indignantly, contemptuously-,
I fear that I am even in my own humble person conde-
scending too far ; but I think this despatch should not go
uncontradicted to the world, although, perhaps, our past re-
cord would have been it best rebuke. Whether President
Lincoln's murder was " organised" in Canada or not is a
!natter of which lam equally ignorant and careless. I be-
lieve this statement to be false—l know it to be so, so far
as it involves any imputation of instigation, complicity, or
remotest connection on the part of myself or of any other
Confederates, so far as my knowledge extends. As the
act of an individual whose motives are, as yet, undeclared
and unknown, it was a daring one, concerning the perpe-
trator more than any one else, and each one may criticise
it as his feelings dictate. But as the act of a Government
would be a cowardice which I would scarcely have be-
lieved that even Mr. Stanton could have charged upon the
Confederate authorities. If he have any proofs let the
world have them, and judge between the two Govern-
Inents.—l am, respectfully, &c.,

EDWIN G. LEE,
Brigadier-General, Confederate States' Army.
St. Lawrence-hall, Montreal, April 25.

bIONEY MARKET

uuIiiTITERCIAL INTELLI4ENGE,

- -0 - -

TWELVE O'CLOCK.
A very good inquiry has prevailed to-day for dis-
count accommodation, in consequence of a large
number
of bills having fallen due in connection
with the trade of India. Brokers still require 4f
Percent, for the negotiation of the best short-dated
Inmercial paper. At the Bank of England there
nave also been numerous applications.
The weekly returns of the Bank of England present
ranges more satisfactory than were generally
ulagined, the bullion and reserve of notes having
then increased, while a reduction has taken place in
amount of other securities. Subjoined is our
usual analysis :
Active Circulation
..• ••• ....£21,238,875
369 525
131111i°4
Decrease
••
• •• • •• • • •••• 14,862402
metln;ease••• •••
•''
•
••• ..• ••• ••• 182,128
P 3 120 554
,

nblic —crease , ,
eposits 8,988
Inc ••• •.. 7 349 114

Other De 'el'eas°
• ..
.
... :•••
.636,649
Rosus
...
..
...
ge„re .„ecoase
•••
•••
•••
467,505
a liay and Other Bills ... ''' 1,106
:::
:::
13,760,032299248
Decrease
Genernment Securities ::: :::
Other
Securities
...
•.*
20,068,537
206,370
Decrease :: : :N. o alteration.lo,9Bi
• - 7 3 950
otes Unemployed ...... ::: ::: ...
- '444'335
Increase
••• •.• ••• ..• In the return issued this morning by the Bank of
Pra
;„4g -nee an increase is shown in the bullion amount-
to £360,000, and a diminution of £720,000 in
.tile
bilis discounted. The advances have been
-11gInented £32,000, the notes in circulation
224,000
Whil , and . the Treasury balances £24,000,
e the current accounts have been reduced
X 168,000.
~eater cla thilY £3,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
J y
~,, The directors of the City Offices Company have
il:4 a, de a call of £2 10s. per share, payable on or
uele re the 15th of June, at the Agra and Master-
kan's Bank.
Po? he Committee of the stock Exchange have ap-
t, -- tea
-, Wednesday next a special settling-day in
tTe Shares of the Registered Land Company, but
iteY are not to be marked at present in the official
lists.
piNotice is given that the subscription-list of the
, Yrlaenth Shipbuilding, Dock, and Ironworks Com-
L'ailY close on Tuesday next, the 16th inst., for
and on Thursday, the 18th, for country
aPPlicants.
The subscription-list of the Estates Investment
ins tan
Co subscription-list
will close on Tuesday next, the 16th
t.
_ The dealings in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
limited
during
n the last few days have been on a
t
I.ra nited scale. Tea has been neglected, while few
nsactions of importance have been effected in
Sugar or coffee. Rice has been in demand, but,
owing to the high rates demanded by holders, there
has been only
there has been a moderate business. For tallow
a moderate inquiry at steady rates.
At the public sales of second series for the colonial wool (being the
menced yesterda present year), which em-
y, there was a good attendance of
both home and foreign
niP
dealers, and a fair ceti-
aliantion prevailed for the better descriptions °of A us-
torf _. Prices
the , however, compared with those
previous sales, exhibited a decline of about
am
to ld. per lb. The quantity to be offered
mounts to about £1.68,724 bales, principally
Australian.

Two o'CLock.
At Paris to-day, accordbag to Mr. Reuter's tele-
gtar,ll) the French 3 per Cent Rentes were 67f. 70c.
of 4.he English Stock market has shown symptoms
--
aetivitY, and quotations have varied, although
not to any important extent. The Funds, after
„eg 1- lower, have recovered, and Consols are
;p rw quoted 901 i for money with the dividend, and
1 for the account, without the dividend. The
1.,, ew Threes and Reduced Annuities are 881 1 ;
, lehequer 13as, 6s.
.1 061 , prem. ; and India 5 per Cents.,
{ tr.
is )reigli stocks have been dealt in to a rather
values rge extent, and a few changes have occurred in
A• Turkish Consolides remain at 518 *
;w ve4eali are better, the ex all being 261 I, and the
janiLoan 251 i ; Greek are firm at 201 21;
sh Passive have advanced to 29* 30*, and the
otertificates to 151 i ; Italian are 64* i ; and a rise
t li Per Cent• has taken place in the Confederate
hase, which is now 13 15. The American market
: not been very animated; United States Bonds
"'IT aill at 631 i ; Illinois at 75 / ; and Erie at 55 1.
be'll the Railway Share Market the dealings have
irt,Tl.. verY restricted, and prices have in several
11c es shown a slight depression. Great Northern
wve declined 10s. and Great Western, North
estern, Metropolitan, Midland, and South Eastern
each ss.
The PYrel •
material-"`r
alteration-
lines remain without
~n anColoniald

Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue dull.
London and Westminster have receded to 95,
Union of London to 53, and London Financial
to 22.

Subjoined axe the current quotations of some of
the principal new projects :—Russian Iron Works,
3 4 prem. ; Estates Investment Company, 21
prem. ; Ottoman Loan, dis. par ; Rio de Janeiro
Gas, 1 1i prem.; South African Land and Finance,
1 1i prem. ; Colonial and General Land Credit,
1 1- prem. ; London and Mediterranean Bank, 1} 2
prem. ; Blackwall Shipbuilding Company, 1* 1f
prem. ; Animal Charcoal Company, 11 21 prem. ;
British Mining and Smelting, 1 1i prem. ; Anglo-
Egyptian Navigation, 4 1 prem. ; Lion Brewery
Company, 21 2f prem. ; Ottoman Co., 1 11 prem. ;
and Moore, M'Queen, and Co., 14 21 prem.

' BRITISH FUNDS-ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.

-3 per Cent. Consols
Do. Account, June 6 B9i a
o per Cent. Reduced BBi i i
New 3 per Cent BBt
New 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent —
Do. £5OO 6
Dp. £lOO and £2OO
Bank of England Stock, n per Cent 240 2
Do Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 101- per Cent., April 1874 2lB 16
Do Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Do. Account
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 5i- per Cent., May 1879 —
Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 —
Do. Bonds, £l,OOO —
Do. under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
l3razilian 5 per Cent

Do. 41 pe-i Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Do Account

Do I per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Chilian 6 per Cent
Do. 41- per Cent
.
Colombian 6 per Cent.—
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Do 5 per Cent, 1864 —
Do. Scrip, £55 paid
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825
Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 —
Do. 5 per Cent, 1773-77, £25 paid
Danubian Principalities
Do £B6 paid
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do., Provisional Land Warrant
Egyptian 7 per Cent
Do., Second Issue
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. 1864 93 2}
Do £lOO Bonds
Do Scrip, £5O paid
Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
Do Account 2o}
Do. Coupons
Po. Account
Guatemala 5 per Cent.
Do. 1839 and 1850
Italian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway)
Do 1865
Do Scrip, £s7} paid 4} } dis
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Do. Account
DC. 1864
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French
Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c
Montevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent —
New Granada —
Do 2 per Cent —
Do Deferred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Peruvian 4} per Cent.
Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) —
Do 1} per Cent., 1862
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do Account —
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3,
Do Account 4B} I
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St.,
Do 4} per Cent., 1850
Do 1860
Do 3 per Cent., 1859
- Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do 1864
Sardinian 5 per Cent

Do. Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do New Deferred —
Do Account —
Do Passive —
Do Account 291 k
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded —
Do Account l5/ 1
Swedish 4 per Cent. —
Do. 41 per Cent. 1864
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 9Ol 90
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account 721 31
Do. £lOO Bonds 73 1
Do 6 per Cent. 1863
Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent look
Venezuela 3 per Cent. —
Do. Account
Do. 6 per Cent, 1862 —
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent.,1864 —
Do. 11 per Cent —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
lustrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gail —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certill—xtes 961
French Rentes, 3 per Cent. —
Do. Account
Italian t, per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account
TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols
Do. Account

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.
Market quiet and drooping. Sales, about 6,000
bales.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
THE SUGAR ROBBERIES.

John Green, Samuel John Phillips, and William Ive-
mee, were again placed at the bar, charged upon a fresh
indictment ; the two former with stealing, and the latter
receiving, a large quantity of sugar, the property of Messrs.
Holdsworth, Hunt, and Co.

The prisoner Phillips was last night aquitted of the
charge laid against him, but the present indictment was
proceeded with to prove, if possible, his complicity in the
robbery.
The jury, after an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict
of not guilty against Green and Phillips, but guilty against
Ivemee.

Mr. Poland said as there were still other indictments
against the prisoners he should proceed with them.

Commercial Treaties with Prussia and

Austria.

The President of the Liverpool Chamber of Com-
merce has received the following letter from the
Foreign-office respecting our commercial relations
with Prussia and Austria :

"Foreign-office, May 9, 1865.

" Sir,—l am directed by Lord Russell to acquaint you,
for the information of the Chamber of Commerce over
which you preside, that her Majesty's Ambassador at Ber-
lin, having addressed to the Prussian Government certain
questions as to the position of her Majesty's Government
with regard to the new Zollverein tariff, has received in re-
ply authoritative information to the following effect :
"1. Great Britain will be admitted to all the benefits of
the new tariff of the Zollverein States on the Ist of July
next, whether, the treaty between Great Britain and the
Zollverein be concluded or not at that Elate.
"2. The tariff of the Zollverein States, which will come
into force on the Ist of July next, will embrace all the re-
ductions contemplated by the Franco-German treaty of
1862, including those for 1866.

"In communicating the above information the Prussian
Minister for Foreign Affairs requested that the attention of
her Majesty's Government might be called to the two fol-
lowing points, although he added that the events to which
they related were not Likely to happen :
" 1. Should the treaty recently concluded between Austria
and the Zollverein not come into effect their relations will
continue to be regulated by the treaty of 1853, which grants
certain preferential rights to Austria until the Ist of January,
1866 ; and in that case England, in common with other
Powers, would.norbe admitted to those rights until the
last-named date. Should the treaty be accepted and ratified
at Berlin and Vienna, Great Britain will be admitted to all
the exemptions and deductions of duty accorded by it to
Austria, from the Ist of July, 1865.
" 2. In case the commercial and political relations of the
Zollverein should not be entirely regulated with all foreign
States before the Ist of July next, England and the other
States which are freely admitted to the benefits of the
new tariff might incur the obligation of exhibiting certi-
ficates of origin on goods imported into the Zollverein.
" I am, sir, your most obedient humble servant,
LAYARD.
" To the President of the Chamber of Commerce,
Liverpool."

By advicas from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per marl
and the short exchange on London is 13.6 i per £1 stErlin
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
10ths per cent, dearer in Lo ndon than in Hamburg.