The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-03 00:00:00

OVER DARWEN.

A public meeting was held in the town's Assem-
bly-room, Over Darwen, near Blackburn, on Satur-
day evening, to condole with Mrs. Lincoln and

family and the American people generally on the
irreparable loss they have sustained by the assassi-
nation of President Lincoln. There was a crowded
attendance, over which Mr. R. S. Ashton presided.
He said that whatever differences of opinion there
had been with respect to the war in Amerita he was
sure there was but one feeling with respect to the
cruel murder`of President Lincoln, which was so
deep and strong that it must convince the American
people that there was a deep brotherhood between
them. (Loud applause.)
The Rev. T. DAVIES moved :—" That the persons
present at this meeting desire to express the feel-
ings which they as Englishmen entertain with re-
gard to the assassination of the late Abraham Lin-
coln, President of the United States of America.
They profoundly sympathize with the people of those
States in the calamity which has befallen them by
his sudden and lamented death, while they view
with the utmost horror and detestation the .atro-
cious crime which has so cruelly deprived his
family, his country, and the world of his valuable
services." There is no incident in history parallel
to that which occasioned that meeting. The man
who had been so foully murdered perhaps never
showed himself to the world to such advantage as he
had done during the past two months of his life, and
he (Mr. Davies) felt some compunction with regard
to his former estimate of Lincoln's character, for he
was both a better and a greater man than he had
once been disposed to admit. (Hear, hear.) He
felt bound to say that Lincoln had never uttered a
word or done a single act betokening a hostile spirit
towards England. (Cheers.)
Mr. ECCLES SHORROCK seconded the resolution.
He said that with their feelings of deep regret for
the death of Mr. Lincoln there must be mingled a
sense of satisfaction at the wonderful unanimity
with which the people of England had risen as one
man to express their sense of sympathy on the sub-
ject. He was afraid that the loss of Lincoln's
moderate and conciliatory counsels would be a serious
thing for the South.

The resolution was carried unanimously, as was
another ordering copies of it to be sent to Mr.
Adams to be forwarded to his Government and to
Mrs. Lincoln.

THE WONDER OF FRENCHMEN AT THE SIMPLI-
CITY OF MR. GLADSTONE'S BUDGET is thus com-
mented upon by the Paris correspondent of the Times :—The
astonishment expressed by some of the Parisian journals
at Mr. Gladstone's financial exposition on Thursday even-
ing is somewhat amusing. They are astonished not only
at its results, but also at the manner in which the Budget
of a great empire is placed before the world so as to be com-
prehensible to the meanest capacity. The Temps describes
it as characterized by marvellous simplicity. It is particu-
larly struck by the fact of the public debt being diminished
by 441,150,000 f., the taxes diminished by an annual sum of
nearly 168,000,000 f., and the public revenue increased at
the same time by 38,750,000 f. But they all seem actually
bewildered at the thought that this has not prevented the
building of a formidable ironclad fleet, of " exaggerated for-
tifications," nor the equipment of Volunteers. "And yet,"
it says, " what a contract would the history of French
finance offer, did we take it up, not from the accession of
the Imperial Government, nor even from the period
which the Chancellor of the Exchequer takes as the
starting point for his calculations, but merely from
the 14th of November, 1861, the date of the finan-
cial reforms sot forth in the celebrated report of M. Fould!"
The Debars declares that the most unheard-of, the most
marvellous, and the most incredible of all—" the monster
in the sense which the ancients gave to the word, that is, a
phenomenon contrary to the natural order of things"—is
not so much the surplus of £3,185,000, nor the augmenta-
tion of income which has produced it, as the fact of the
expenditure being £611,000, or 14 millions of francs, less
than that which had been voted by Parliament. "In other
words, for we must put the picture before us in all its
astonishing reality, the House of Commons had voted
£67,730,000. The money was there in good and solid
sovereigns ; he had only to hold out his hand to touch it,
without discussion, without any indiscreet question, with-
out asking for fresh credits, and yet the Minister refrained,
and spent only £66,462,000. We fear wo should weaken
the marvellous character of such a spectacle by any com-
ment of ours." And then what does the Chancellor of the
Exchequer purpose doing with the estimated surplus of the
coming financial year? Why, instead of asking to spend
it in costly undertakings, "called productive," ho employs
it in reducing taxes by which the public are immediately
benefited, " and which," says the Debars, "is the muck
safer way."

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