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Death of President Lincoln,

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. i Mr. J. Stansfeld, M.P. ; Mr. Gurney,:M.P.
for Falmouth; Hon. A. Kinnaird, M.P. ; Hon. Mr. Stanley
(son of Lord Stanley of Alderley), Professor 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 CH:4IRMAN 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. CHESSON, the secretary, read a letter from Sir C. Lyall,
regretting his inability to attend, and stated that he bad re-I
ceived letters to a similar effect from Lord adtigliton, Mr
Bazley, M.P., Mr. Goschen, M.P., Mr. BuxtOn;
,andl
others.

Who was the man who, conversing amid suspicion and the
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 "tier 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. He (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.

Mr. BAXTER, M.P. for Montrose, in supporting the reso-
lution, joined in the expression of his deep regret at the
untimely death of President Lincoln by an act than which
history had recorded none more atrocious. , But whilst
deeply regretting this terrible calamity, he could not for a
moment imagine that the glorious cause of emancipation in
America, the triumph of free constitutional government, and
the suppression of the revolt of the slayeholder, depended on
the life of one single man. (Cheers.) The contest between
a great democracy and a slave-owning aristocracy would,
he was convinced, be brought to a satisfactory conclusion,
and he was much mistaken if the result would not give an
impetus on this side of the Atlantic to the cause and pro-
gress of reform.

The Hon. LYELL STANLEY, a son of Lord Stanley of Al-
derley, who had recently visited America, said—l am
proud to have this opportunity to add my testimony to those
which you have heard in honour of this great and good man,
President Lincoln, who has been taken from us so suddenly
and so deplorably. I think, in the speeches which we have
heard to-night, it has very properly been insisted upon as
one of the leading traits of President Lincoln's character,
that he was full of gentleness, and forbearance, and tolera-
tion, even to those Southern. insurgents who, as has been
said, with truth, I believe, proposed to take his life as he
passed through Baltimore on the way to the capital for his
first inauguration. One of his most striking characteristics
was that, while holding firmly and tenaciously to that great
principle which he was elected to support—l mean the
restriction of slavery in the territories—and while he was
willing,as occasion offered, to bring on to the side of freedom
the exercise of the war power which he used in preserving
the Union, he was able, side by side with that determina-
tion, to resist evils, able to be forbearing and tolerant to the
Southern people. I had the pleasure about this time last year
to see Mr. Lincoln at Washington. Mr. Seward took me to
see him. I recollect it was just after that horrible massacre
at' Fort Pillow. He commenced talking of it to Mr. Seward
and wa4 reluctant to believe it. There had been other
massacres.before, and he was talking of doing then what I
believe was afterwards done—sending a senator out to the
West to investigate the facts. He was loth to believe that
his countrymen, even misguided and blinded by slavery,
could commit such horrible acts as that. It was this charac-
teristic forbearance and generosity to his foes which pre-
eminently characterised President Lincoln, and which I
specially admired in him, connected as it was with firmness
of principle. _ _ _

Mr. H. FAWCETT and Mr. SHAW LEFEVER, M.P. for
Reading, also supported the resolution, which, like the
preceding one, was carried without a dissentient voice.

Mr. CALLID, M.P., proposed tho following resolution :
" That copies of the foregoing resolutions be placed in the
hands of the Hon. C. F.Adams, the American Minister, for
transmission to his Excellency the President of the United
States, Mrs. Lincoln, and the Hon. W. H. Seward."

Mr.Grenfell, M.P. for Stoke, seconded, and Mr. Crum
Ewing, M.P., tho Rev. Mr. Newman Hall, and Mr. Mason
Jones supported the resolution, which was also unani-
mously adopted, and the proceedings were brought to a
close with the usual vote of thanks to the chairman.

Awful Suicide of Admiral Robert Fitzroy.

A sensation, which it is almost impossible to de-
scribe, has been caused throughout the whole of the
Norwood district, and, when this notice becomes
public, will be shared with equal pain by the whole
of the scientific world. Admiral Robert Fitzroy,
the great prognosticator of the weather, has de-
stroyed his life by cutting his throat with a razor.
The sad event took place at Lyndhurst House,
Norwood, Surrey, yesterday morning.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day.

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