The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-14 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AUSTRIA.
VIENNA, JUNE 14.

The Neue Frere Presse of to-day says :—" A
despatch from Herr von Bismark to Baron
Werther, the Prussian Ambassador, has arrived
here, strongly supporting the reservation made by
the Grand Duke of Oldenburg in the question of
the Duchies. It urges the necessity of placing the
two pretenders on an equal footing, and therefore
declares that the Duke of Augustenburg must be
removed from the Duchies."

RIO DE JANEIRO, MAY 25.

M. Octaviano Almeida, being at present absent
on a mission in La Plata, M. Saraiva, the Minister
of Marine, will also act as Minister for Foreign

Affairs ad interim.

FRANCE,
PARIS, JUNE 14.

The Moniteur of this morning says :
" Several journals have furnished the public with
a narrative of incidents alleged to have occurred at
Oran during the Emperor's stay at that place, and
of demonstrations made in the presence of his
Majesty against a personage holding an important
command.

"It affords us great pleasure to be able to state
that there is absolutely no foundation for these

rumours."

BOURSE, June 13.—An almost unaccountable
indisposition to operate has been manifested in
the various departments to-day; and a further re-
trograde movement has taken place in all classes of
Securities. Threes, for the Account, are quoted at
67f. 32in., and Mobilier at 757 f. Italian Loan has
ceased to exhibit the buoyancy recently so remark-
able, and is now done at 66f. 60c. Mexican Loan
has also participated in the general tendency of
transactions, and is quoted—the Old at 45 ; and
the New at 324. The market closed as follows :
q per Cents 95 50 Ditto Threes —
Do. end month New Mexican
3 per Cents. 67 25 Do. Bonds 321 25
Do. end month 67 27} Russian —
Credit Mobilier 758 75 Austrian
Do. end month 755 Spanish Threes
Bank Shares 3650 Home Debt
Credit Foncier 1260 Deferred
Italian Loan 66 70 Roman
Do. end m0nth...... 66 70

!TAYS.

Cash. Acct.
Orleans
Northern 1066 25 ... 1067 50
Lyons and Mediterranean 843 25 ... 842 50
Southern 590 ~. 587 50
Western 527 50 ... 525
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 493 75 ... 493 75
North of Spain lB5 ... 186 25
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona 155 ...

The Duke of Cambridge and the Royal
Military College.

Yesterday being the date fixed for the promulga-
tion of the results of the usual half-yearly examina-
tion at the Royal Military College, H.R.H. the
Commander-in-Chief came down to be present at
the ceremony. The gentlemen cadets, under the
command of Colonel Halliwell, the Lieutenant-
Governor, were drawn up in line in six divisions,
with a detachment of Royal Engineers, under the
command of Captain Hall, RE., on the left, and a
detachment of dragoons, detailed from various corps
for the service of the riding-school, on the right,
under the riding master, Captain Ward. In front
of and facing the cadets were the students of the
Staff College ; the medals and whiskers of the
latter scarcely giving the beholder the idea that
these very old boys could be still in stain pupillari.
At half-past ten precisely the Commander-in-
Chief, attended by Colonel Tyrwhitt, his equerry,
and accompanied by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry
Jones, K.C.8., the Governor of the College,
Lieut.-General the Hon. James Scarlett, K.C.8.,
Major-General Forster, K.H., and Lieut.-General
Sir John Pennefather, K.C.8., and the Duke of
Manchester, appeared on the ground, and was re-
ceived with a royal salute. After a minute inspec-
tion, the cadets, engineers, and dragoons marched
past in slow and quick time, and the cadets in double
time. Several cadets were then called to the front
and ordered to put the cadets through the manual
platoon and bayonet exercise, as well as some bat-
talion drill. This part of the performance was very
creditably gone through ; but the marching past,
was indifferent. Drill
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opvaretri,ctulhaerelyadientsdfoourbmleedtinathree sides of a square, and,
with beating hearts listened while Major-General
Hamilton, Vice-President of the Council of Mili-
tary Education, read out the names of the suc-
cessful candidates. One hundred and forty-
eight cadets had competed for 35 commissions ;
of the remaining 113 cadets, 103 were pronounced
qualified for commissions by purchase, while only
10 failed altogether. The Duke of Cambridge then
proceeded to the B company dining-hall, in order
to investigate a very discreditable outrage which
had been committed by the cadets the previous
evening. It is difficult to ascertain the precise cir-
cumstances, but it would appear that a party of the
cadets determined to have a carouse after tattoo,
and assembled in the bath-room round certain jugs
of claret for that purpose. The subaltern of
the company going his round discovered the party,
and as he saw no reason why the regulations should
be transgressed caused the wine to be seized. Some
accounts say that the offenders took instant ven-
geance by mobbing and throwing water on the officer ;
others, and we believe with more correctness, declare
that they broke the windows of hisquarters, in which
be it remembered his wife was at the time. The
Commander-in-Chief administered a severe lecture,
pointing out how ungentlemanly, as well as insub-
ordinate, their conduct had been. He reminded his
listeners that heihad given them fair warning when,
on a former occasion, they had shown a similar
mutinous disposition. This time, he assured them,
he would deal severely with the offenders. In con-
clusion, he said that unless the ringleaders were
given up he should withhold all commissions from
the B company, and detain them at college into the
bargain. If they gave up their ringleaders they
alone, he announced, should be prevented from
entering the army. This discreditable event is but
the last of a series of periodical outbreaks which
have brought disgrace on the once soldierlike repu-
tation of the Royal Military College. And the worse
feature in the case is that the cadets have nothing
whatever to complain of. Indeed, they are as little
fettered by harassing regulations :as possible, and
every possible exertion is made by the authorities to
provide for their comfort and happiness. Some
people even think that they are pampered, and that
a little more severity would produce better results.
They are provided with a smoking-room, canteen,
billiard-room, reading-rooms, racket-courts, and
gymnasium ; fare luxuriously as regards food, and
when not at study, on parade, or in their barrack-
rooms, do pretty nearly what they like. Neither are
they mere children, for whom allowances could be
made, but young men ranging from 17 to, in one or
two cases, 22 and 23 years of age. The Duke of
Cambridge has hitherto treated them with the
greatest consideration and kindness, but is now
driven to impress effectually on their minds that
those who cannot submit to discipline are unfit to
be entrusted with the care of enforcing it on others

The Price of Gall

The quotation of gold at Paris is about per mflle pm, and
the short exchange on London is 23.20 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £•i
17s. lOad. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
at about the same price in London and Paris.
By advicce from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per marl
and the short exchange on London is 13.61 per £1 stErlin .
tandard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
3-10th per cent. dearer in London nun in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills h
60 days' sight is about 249 per cent. At these rates there is
a small profit on the importation of goad fr.= the United
States.

The Assassination of President Lincoln,

,

The following, which we extract from the
Bermuda Royal Gazette of the 16th ult. (just come
to hand), will be read with interest, as indicative of
the kindly sympathy of the Bermudans for the
American people upon the bereavement of the latter
of their late humane ruler, President Lincoln, struck
down by the dastardly hand of an assassin :
The public meeting convened to express and put upon
record the indignation and horror felt in this community
at the murder of the late President of the United States
was held on Thursday last at the town hall at Hamilton,
his Worship and Honour H. J. Tucker, mayor and member
of her Majesty's Council, presiding. The meeting, which
was most respectably attended, would have been held many
days sooner, but for the business of the Assize Court (a
part of which, even then, had at the last to be adjourned
by the Chief Justice expressly for the purpose), together
with a succession of other accidental causes, small to men-
tion, but practically unavoidable.

The proceedings were opened at about a quarter to 12 by
the CHAIRMAN, who said that they all knew the purpose for
which that meeting had been convened, and ho would not
detain them to urge views and feelings which were
equally theirs and his and all men's. In ono sense, the
public of these islands had already solemnly declared and
evidenced in what light they regarded the foul and horrible
act lately perpetrated at Washington. On the day of the
President's funeral business had been to a great extent
suspended in these islands, the flags had fallen to halfmast,
the bells of the churches had tolled, the whole community
had bowed its head in sorrow. But it would be well to
leave a permanent record 4af the sentiments thus evinced
and add their voice to that of the whole civilised world:
With the politics or the merits of the murdered Chief
Magistrate it was no business of his to deal. He should
feel it a kind of impertinence to open that question. They
were met to protest against the monstrous precedent that
a private individual had dared to make an attempt at es-
tablishing. He would confine himself to that. The gentle-
men present would have now the opportunity of freely
speaking what they thought and felt. He begged to call
upon her Majesty's Chief Justice for Bermuda.
The Chief Justice read the first resolution as follows:

"Resolved,—That in the opinion of this meeting, the re-
cent barbarous assassination of the late President of
the United States of America, was an atrocious outrage
upon all the principles of humanity and good government,
and deserves to be mot with the just indignation and
fixed abhorrence of every peaceable and well ordered
community."
He said it would be absurd to labour the establishment of
a proposition, which he well knew was already affirmed in
the mind and the heart of every person present. The
dreadful crime just committed was a blow struck at the
very root of social order and against the first principles
that gave security to human institutions everywhere, and
rendered, he would not say, progress, but even civilisation
itself, possible. Lot such deeds go unmarked by the de-
testation of manldnd, let them be tacitly encouraged or not
loudly discouraged, and the world must be thrust back into
a state of barbarism. The event concerned all nations. To
be silent about it would be to take a deliberate step down
towards the condition of savages. Happily he believed
that we were not forced to live in terror, lest the like hor-
rible crime should ',be committed against our own Sove-
reign, yet whoever felt with him this consoling confidence
must only be the more appalled and the more indignant
in contemplating the enormous wickedness, by which a
friendly, a kindred, a great and powerful people, had been
suddenly deprived of their head. Every circumstance of
the act aggravated the horror of it. In the midst of the
capital, in the midst of his people and his friends, in the
centre and the heart of his family, on an occasion of rejoic-
ing, unsuspicious of any mischief, the first and highest per-
son of the powerful republic at our doors had been barba-
rously slain. He need not expatiate on such an event, and
least of all before such an audience as he saw around him.
He had adjourned the further hearing of causes in the
Court of Assize, in order to attend this meeting, and having
but a limited time to spare, he would not set an example of
that prolixity, which he had already stated to be, in his
opinion, out of place. He would move that the resolution
which he had read be adopted by the meeting.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in rising to second the re-
solution moved by the Chief Justice, observed that it
would not be surprising, and was even desirable, that a
character of sameness, and almost of iteration should
mark the expressions of opinion elicited on such an oc-
casion. The circumstance which forcibly arrested at-
tention in considering the abominable crime by which
the late American President had been taken from his place
among men, was, in a human point of view, and it was
only in its human aspects we were now denouncing it, the
relation which that crime bore not merely towards its im-
mediate victim, but towards 20 millions of a people in the
very van and front of our race. Besides being a cruel and
most atrocious murder, it was an affront, an insult, an out-
rage upon a whole nation, stricken down in the person of
their elected chief. It was their voice, their choice, twice
pronounced, which had for a second time solemnly raised
up to the most august dignity in their gift the man whom
one individual had thus pulled down by the most nefarious
and daring of assassinations. The deed was a parricide.
The criminal, as far as in him lay, had attempted the very
life of his, country in thus killing its head. There was not
a freeman in that free land that was not stricken by this
hateful and terrible act. Wherever the news of this
catastrophe penetrated, and as soon as it penetrated, the
same instantaneous thrill of horror shot through all
classes of civilised society. Probably at the very
moment he was _now speaking similar words were be-
ing uttered to assemblies trembling with the very same
sentiments all through England. The duty which they
discharged in that meeting to-day was one of those acts
which almost seemed superfluous, but the omission of
which could not be endured. After a few more excellent
and eloquent observations the learned Attorney-General
concluded by seconding most cordially and earnestly the
Chief Justice's resolution.

His Honour G. SOMERS TUCKER, Speaker of the General
Assembly, then proposed the second resolution, which was
expressed in the following terms :

Resolved—" That this meeting desires to express its
sympathy with a neighbouring nation deprived by this
outrage of the Chief Magistrate of its choice, and also to
convey to the bereaved family and personal friends of the
lato President Lincoln a heartfelt expression of condolence
with them in their deep affliction."

He felt sure there would be no difficulty in persuading
the gentlemen around him to indorse those sentiments.
He confessed that he never in his life had felt more indig-
nant or more dismayed by any event than by this dreadful
crime. In his opinion it was the very worst political mur-
der in all history. And why did he say this? Because there
was a vast difference between killing a king who had come
to his post through hereditary descent, however wrong
and abominable murder always is and must be, and kill-
ing the representative of twenty millions of voters. Here
was a man choson, picked out deliberately by a whole na-
tion to preside over its affairs, and taken away from them
by this sudden and atrocious act of an individual. He must
repeat that he knew of nothing, in his mind, so bad in all
history. It was not an ordinary murder nor even an ordi-
nary political murder. We were all hero supporters of re-
presentative institutions. And this act would tend to sub-
vert them. It had been said, and justly, that they had
nothing to do at such a meeting with the differences of
Americans among themselves, or with the conflicting esti-
mates arrived at on the subject of the various distinguished
public men of that country. But this much he might say,
that, besides the enormous aggravation of the offence in the
present case, arising from the fact that the murdered man
was not a mere king, or holding his place by a sort of acci-
dent, there was iu the character of Mr. Lincoln himself much
that made the act more enormous still. Who was he, and
what kind of man was he ? He was the elected—twice elected
indeed—of a whole people ; and he was carrying on their
affairs with great ability, at all events to the best of his
ability, and to their perfect satisfaction—a straightforward
man, a moral man, a good husband, good in the various
relations of life ; and this was the man who had been
slaughtered in so shocking a manner. President Lincoln
had been under-rated ; he was rising in public estimation
when he was assassinated ; and he would rise further still,
and be still more highly estimated hereafter. Mr. Tucker
had great satisfaction therefore in moving the second reso-
lution, which, he was sure, would be warmly received by
the meeting.

The Hon. MILES GERALD KEoN (H. M. Colonial Secre-
tary) rose to seeond this resolution.

After observing how much he felt the honour of having
the support of such a resolution, and at such a meeting
entrusted to his feeble advocacy, he said—
I wish, Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,—l wish to Heaven,
that the crime the consideration of which has brought us
together this day had no more than its political and moral
bearings, dreadful as these are. Unhappily, it has its
domestic aspect also. There is, at this moment, a home
laid newly waste ; there are orphans now where the scions
of a prosperous house lately rejoiced; there is a poor dis-
tracted widow lady, in tho decline of life, fleeing from man-
kind, fleeing from hope, turning away her face from com-
fort, and calling, even while I newspeak to you, gentlemen
—calling, calling upon the grave, as the only object of her
desires. I wish to lay before the meeting a distinction which
may seem at first sight thin, but which most completely
and thoroughly severs the two propositions which it is
intended to demarcate and divide. The distinction is
this: the more wicked the act, and the more foolish and
doltish the wickedness of the act, by which that lady has
been bereaved, the greater must be her grief ; but not the
greater her grief the more we deem the act wicked, the
more we deem it foolish and insensate. Our opinion of its
guiltiness, and its motiveless guiltiness, cannot be greater
or stronger than hers. But to find that mankind every-
where tako the same view of it that she does, to find her
self at unison with the great human family, to find that
they feel even as she feels, and that they press forward from
every side to lift a portion of that burden under which she
is lying crushed, must manifestly be an alleviation of her
woe—some little solace—some assuagement, all that we can
tender, all that we have to give. Let us then speak out on this
occasion. Now, Mr. Chairman, there is one characteristic
in this atrocious crime, which transcends even the atrocity
itself ; I mean the unspeakable folly of it. The unfortunate
and misguided man who perpetrated it professed to be
actuated by two motives but be betrayed a third. You