The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-27 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT IN A THEATRE.—Robert Smith,
a labourer, was charged with the following outrageous
conduct in the Marylebone Theatre.

Mr. Wilding, solicitor, atttended to prosecute on behalf
of Mr. Cave, the lessee.

Henry Ireland, attendant at the Marylebone Theatre,
said—Last night the prisoner, with another young man,
was in the gallery, and during the performance his com-
panion kept up an incessant annoyance by shouting and
whistling. Three or four times he was requested to desist,
and as he refused to do so, witness took hold of him to
eject him. The prisoner jumped up and struck him, and
knocked him down. The prisoner then struck him again,
and put his (witness's) thumb out of joint. He was very
violent and kicked about.

The prisoner was sentenced to one month's hard labour.

Letter from the Hon, J• M. Mason,

The Index publishes the following
TO THE EDITOR OF THE INDEX.

" Sir,—Time will develope the mystery as yet attending
the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late President of
the United States, and the attempted assassination of Mr.
Seward, his Secretary of State. I desire only to repel at once
the calumnious assertion of Edwin M. Stanton, the Secre-
tary of War, in his letter to Mr. Adams, printed in the
London journals of this morning, that these acts were
'planned and set on foot by rebels, under pretence of
avenging the South and aiding the rebel cause,' and of
which he says there is evidence obtained.'
" Mr. Stanton's letter is dated on the 15th April, and
states that Mr. Lincoln was assassinated in the theatre at
half-past 10 the previous night, and died at 20 minutes past
seven on the morning of the day that he wrote. I adduce
this to show how unlikely it is, in the hurried excitement,
and the necessary occupations attending such events, that
any but the wildest theories would prevail in regard to the.
cause of the event, or the objects of the perpetrators. Mr.
Stanton adopts that which he deemed would be the most
useful before the public of his country. Should the
evidence' to which he refers to support his calumny ever
see the light, it will be scanned with the experience de-
rived in regard to other evidence, unscrupulously fabricated
in the same quarter, during the present war, for base
political effect. It is the crudest conception, too, that the
murder of Abraham Lincoln was planned and executed for
the purpose of 'aiding the rebel cause ;' but I can well
understand that it may have material influence in aiding
the cause of that overpowering party in the United States
which Mr. Stanton is the type, and Andrew Johnson, who
succeeds as President, with Butler of the notorious prefix,
are the exponents and leaders—a party in whose path the
late President and his Secretary were acknowledged
obstacles in their projected schemes of plunder and rapine
to follow their dominion over the Southern States.
" For the rest, 1 learn from a well-informed source in
London that Wilkes Booth,' who is accused of the deed,
is a son of the celebrated English actor of that name, was
of his father's profession, which he pursued principally in
the Northern States, and was generally understood as in-
heriting those traits significant of his father's name, Junius
Brutus Booth, by whom he was named John Wilkes, after
the great English Radical—an origin and mental training
little likely to engender the slightest sympathy with the
great cause of the Conservative South. As to the crime
which has been committed, none will view it with more
abhorrence than the people of the South, but they will
know, as will equally all well balanced minds, that it is the
necessary offspring of those scenes of bloodshed and mur-
der in every form of unbridled license, which have sig-
nalised the invasion of the South by Northern armies,
unrebuked certainly, and therefore instigated, by their
leaders, and those over them.

"Pardon the length of this note. I desired only in-
stantly to repel the atrocious calumnies in the letter of Mr.
Stanton.

" Very respectfully yours,
"J. M. MASON.

"24, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square,
. London, April 27, 1865."

Bank of England Returne—Last Evening,

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending Wednesday, April 26, 1865.

ISSUE DEP A.RTMEDI T.

Notes issued 1.......Z28,793,055,

Government Debt £11,015,110
Other Securities .. 3.931,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 13.910,415
Silver Bullion

£28,50,445
RANKING D
oprietore Capi-

.£28,500,415

,EPARTMENT.
Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead WeightAn-
nulty) £10,931,441
Other Securities 19,057,904
Notes ......... 7,551,410
Gold and Silver 814,350
Coln

tal _ .
£14,553,000
at st
VublioDeposits (in-
cluding Exche-
Auer, Savings'
Banks, Conarnia-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and

Dividend Ac-
counts) 6.208.382
Other Deposits 13,9.35,270
Seven Day ad
other Bills

35,433,169

£33,438,169
r. MILLER, Chief Cashier.

April 27, 18C5.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.
LONDON, April 27.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather.
OFF THE LIZARD, April 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived.—
Flying Fish, from Barbadoes.
FALMOUTH, April 26.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Scottish
Chief, from Melbourne.
FORTY, April 25.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Bessie, for
Trinidad.

PORTSMOUTH, April 26.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Rox-
burgh Castle, from Sydney.
CARDIFF, April 25.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Tangier, for
Romberg; lda Jardine, for Callao; Lucie and Harriet, for
Bombay ; Annie Monroe, for Mauritius ; Psyche, for Rio
Janeiro.

NEwrorr, April 26.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Orion, for
Vera Cruz.
MUMBLES, April 25.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Polar Star,
from Caldeira.
SWANSEA, April 26.—Wind
Jackson, for Valparaiso.

THE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE LIFEBOAT —The
people of Derby on the 22d inst. witnessed a most
interesting sight in the launch of their lifeboat in the river
Derwent. The lifeboat was christened by Miss 'Wilmot
" The Florence Nightingale," after the distinguished lady
of that name, who is a native of Derbyshire. The banks
of the river were thronged by thousands of spectators who
heartily cheered as the boat glided into the water. The
cost of the lifeboat has been collected by the people of
Derby and presented to the IsLational Lifeboat Institution.
Tho boat is to be stationed at Sunderland, where she
arrived on the 25th instant.