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.
s d
Plaices South Down hoggets ..ls 8 d 1 9
Half-bred do.. 1 9 110
Kent fleeces •• •• •••, 8 1 9
south Down ewes and wethersl 6 1 7}
Leicester do I S t
Sorts Clothing 1 6 11 t
Combing 1 7 2

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

Mr. FORSTER, 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.
classes, 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. Ho could not, however, avoid
tracing it to the influence of that system of slavery which
thoso 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 tho 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.
Ho 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 negto.
(Cheers.) _ _

Mr. LEATIIAM, ➢I.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
who 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.)
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
Mr. STANSFELD, M.P., proposed the next resolution,
which was—" That this meeting desires also to express the
entire confidence which it feels in the determination and the
power of the Government and people of the United States to
carry out to the full the policy or which Abraham Lincoln's
presidential career was the embodiment, and to establish
free institutions throughout the whole of the American re-
public." The hon. member said—Sir, wo are assembled
here to-night, not so much by speech, for who is there who
does not feel his heart too full for that utterance to-night,
but by our common presence and our common acts to express
the horror and indignation with which we have heard Of
deeds so foul that history cannot produce their parallel, to
express our sympathy, our deep and heartfelt sympathy,
with the wife who has become a widow, and with the
nation which staggers, while moaning, beneath the loss of
its elect. But we are here, it seems to me, for a further
purpose even than this. I at least can take no part in these
proceedings without also at this the time of its direst trial,
at its most momentous crisis, expressing my sympathy with
a cause which began by being honourable, which grew to
be righteous, and which above all by the acts, by the life,
and by the death of their martyred President, has become
sacred in our eyes. The cause of the North was in its
conception an honourable cause. One who ranks high
amongst us in influence and position, and upon this very
question, as well as upon many others, deserves our respect,
Lord Russell (cheers), once said that the North Was fighting
for empire, and the South for independence. (Hear, cheers,
and hisses.) He had himself on frequent occasions supplied
the omissions which render inaccurate and incomplete the
definition of this mighty struggle. The South was fighting
for independence, but for independence with the sole and
avowed and deliberate purpose of promoting and perpetu-
ating the institutions of human slavery. (Cheers.) The
North was fighting for empire ? No. The North was
fighting for a common country, which it would share, but
which it would not allow to be torn asunder. I am not
here to say that I for one could have justified the long
persistence at so great a cost of life and suffering in that
war had there been no other question than secession con-
cerned in it (hear), but the'crime of the South was from
the very first a justification of the great cause of which the
North was, it may be at first, in some part an unconscious
and, if you will, in some part, even an unwilling instrument.
Well, then, this cause, which began by being honourable,
grew, as I have said, to be a righteous cause. Step by step
the North grew to the height of this great, this holy argu-
ment. Every fear—every hope, I fear I must say—every
hope of those who wished ill to the republic was disappointed.
Each delay, each difficulty, each defeat, served to render
more stern the resolve, higher dnd more pure the policy of
the North, till from their original stand-point of the Union,
extinction of slavery, up through the emancipation procla-
mation, to the final decree abolishing slavery through the
States, the North rose to the full sense of that duty which
perfected their right, and then, and not till then victory was
permitted finally to crown their achievements. Now, who
was it who from the first watched over and controlled over
for good these various and progressive phases of this
mighty struggle ? Who was the man, who taking his
stand first within the Constitution and the law upon the
ground of the non-extension of slavery to the territories of
the United States, who then came as an act of war to feel
that he might issue his emancipation proclamation ? Who
next defeated the machinations of that party who loved
the Union in such wise that, for union they would have
sacrificed that sacred object which alone justified their
war ? Who was it who contributed, perhaps more than
any other man, to the passing of the first abolition decree ?
Who was it who, when victory seemed to dawn upon the
arms of the North before Richmond, was already there,
thinking and busying himself about the works of recon-
struction and of peace ? Who was it whose face, wo have
been told, ever since• those days had seemed radiant and
illuminated with blessed thoughts of mercy and of peace ?

ASSAULT ON A POLICE INSPECTOR—GETTING UP A SCENE
AT A WORKHOUSE DOOR.—Charles West, Eliza West, and
Jane Hampton, tho first two named husband and wife, and
residing in Hand-court, Holborn, and the last-named resid-
ing near Fitzroy-market, were charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with being drunk and behaving in a disorderly
manner, and assaulting Inspector Silverton of the C
Division.

Inspector Silverton said about twelve the previous night
he heard a disturbance at the door of St. James's Work-
hogs°, and on going up found the defendants and a woman
not in custody, and who was well known to the police as
a beggar. The male defendant was knocking at the door
and demanding that the woman should be admitted. He
said he paid poor-rates, and that if the woman was not
admitted he would have the door down. The woman, in
whose behalf he was interfering, was drunk, as also were
all the defendants. He requested the defendants to leave
and got them from the porch into the street. The male
defendant then began making a sensation speech about the
rights and wrongs of the poor-law system, and that he kept
such persons as him (the inspector). He told him that he
thought he had enough to do to keep himself, and he
then came and made a rush at him, and his wife then
scratched his face, clawing at him like a cat, and tearing
the skirt off his coat and a part of his cape. He secured
the male defendant and his wife, and then the other de-
fendant attacked him right and left, and also tore his clothes
After sometime, there being a scene of great excitement
and confusion, the defendants were secured and taken into
custody.

In answer to the defendant, the inspector said he did not
see a child in the arms of the woman he was interfering on
behalf of.

James Caird, of 46, Poland-street, corroborated the in-
spector.

In answer to the male defendant, the witness said he
heard him (the male defendant) talking a great deal
about the law of the land. The inspector told him to go
home and not make a noise.

A person from tho workhouse said that two women, both
of them drunk, came to the door, ono of them having a
child. They said they had been refused admission at the
casual ward, and as that was the case, they being drunk,
he refused to admit them. The defendants came and made
a great disturbance.

In answer to the male defendant, the witness said that
he certainly did say to him, " Go home to your mother."
The male defendant said bis wife and her friend were
not drunk.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said he was afraid he (the male defendant)
was drunk, and that he could not see that his friends were
drunk too.

The male defendant then entered into a long rigmarole
as to how he had spent the day, the treatment he had re-
ceived, and how he had been insulted by everybody.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that not much harm appeared to have
been done, the fact being that all the defendants were
drunk. The men would have to pay a fine of 10s., and
the women ss, each.

The Earl' and Countess of Lanesborough and
Miss Eliza Butler have arrived at their residence in Great
Stanhope-street from Smithland Hall, Leicestershire.

ORDINARY OF NEWGATE.—On Saturday the alder-
men of London constituting the Gaol Committee, at a meet-
ing at Guildhall, presided over by the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor, elected the Rev. F. E. Lloyd Jones, M.A., curate of
Greenwich, to the office of Ordinary of the Prison of New-
gate.. There were five other candidates. Mr. Jones was
elected by 18 to 1. The salary of Mr. Davis, who last
held the appointment, was £4OO a year.
BEVERLEY AND MARKET WEIVHTON RAILWAY.
This lino will be opened to-day, having been dulyapproved
by the Government inspector, Capt. Tyler. The line leaves
the Hull and Bridlington section of the North Fa-stern
about half a mile north of the Beverley station. There are
two stations. Some of the earthworks are rather heavy.
The contractor for the line was Mr. T. Jackson, jun., of
Nottingham.
REPRESENTATION OF GLASGOW.—Mr. W. Bucha-
nan, M.P. for Glasgow, in compliance with the request of
the Lord Provost and magistrates of that city, will not, it
is understood, vacate his seat in Parliament (which ho re-
signed on the much-regretted failure of the firm in which
he is a partner), but will pair off for the remainder of the
session.

SPORTING MATCH..—On dit, that Mr. Banting, of
corpulent notoriety, has made a match with a young
gentleman, of Walford, 71 years of age, to run 100 yards,
and give 10 yards start, for £l,OOO a side. As such au
event will create vast interest, not only amongst the medi-
cal profession but the public generally, it has been sug-
gested that tho match should come off on Epsom race
course just before the Derby, or in the presence of royalty
at Ascot, on the Cup day.—Sporting Gazette.
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