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London, England, 1865-05-08 00:00:00

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A public meeting was held in the Subscription
Rooms at Stroud, on Friday evening, to express in-
dignation at the late assassination, and sympathy
with the American people. There was a crowded
audience, and great enthusiasm and unanimity pre-
vailed. Lord Amberley, in proposing a resolution
expressive of the feeling of the meeting, said if any-
thing can comfort the people of the United States at
this time of profound grief, I trust that they will
derive some consolation when they see the manner
in which this sad intelligence has been received in
England. There have been times in the course of
this war when the prospects of the Federal army
were not quite so brilliant as they are at present.
At such times we may have thought it a most despe-
rate undertaking to continue in the attempt to effect
the restoration of the Union ; but though I could
not tell how this war might end—although it
was impossible to say whether it might result in the
subjugation or in the separation of the South—
yet it always appeared to me that it would infal-
libly result in strengthening the power and adding
to the greatness of the United States, inasmuch
as they would be delivered for ever from
the burden of a great injustice. (Cheers) It is im-
possible for any nation to continue in the perpetra-
tion of a gigantic wrong without deriving from that
wrong something of weakness. (Hear, hear.) Now
that this consummation is happily approaching, we
look with feelings of hope towards the United States;
and if I might endeavour to interpret what I imagine
to be not only the feelings of this meeting, but that
of the country in general, I would say that there is
mingled with that hope a gread deal of anxiety.
(Hear, hear.) We are anxious lest the people of the
North should be led by the misguided counsels of
sanguinary men into acts of hostility and hatred
towards the Southern people. We trust that they
will continue to be animated by that love of
humanity and kindliness which is said to have char-
acterised Abraham Lincoln. (Cheers.) We trust
that in all their dealings with broken and humbled
adversaries they will be actuated by no spirit of
hatred or revenge, but by one of mercy and forbear-
ance. (Cheers.) They will have a great task befoe
them—the task of utterly extinguishing and uproot-
ing the institution of negro slavery. That is one
of the highest duties that has ever fallen to the lot
of any nation. (Hear, hear.) The American
people have had in this war to solve an extremely
difficult problem—the subjugation of the South.
They have succeeded in that, but they will have to
contend now with a problem which perhaps is more
difficult still, for that unhappy race of negroes who
have been degraded, morally and intellectually, by
so many years of servitude, have a right to demand
at their hands not only emancipation, but also that
education and those material comforts which will
enable them to use and wisely to enjoy the blessings
of liberty. (Cheers.) This will be a glorious duty;
and I for my part cannot doubt that the people of
the United States will be fully adequate to its per-
formance—that they will perform it in a spirit of
wise humanity and moderation and justice—and
that having performed it they will rise to a position
even greater and higher than it has ever been their
lot to occupy among the nations of the civilised
world. (Loud cheers.)

THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.—
HAMBURG, May 4.—ln conformity with an adver-
tisement in the local papers convening a public meeting
of the United States citizens residing in this
city, to give expression to their feelings on the late atrocious
tragedies at Washington, they assembled yesterday very
numerously at the United States consulate, Mr. J. R.
M'Donald, the United States Vice-consul, in the chair, when,
after-several eloquent speeches had been delivered, the fol-
lowing resolutions were moved, seconded, and unanimously
agreed to :—"Resolved,—That as it has pleased our
Almighty Father to suffer our beloved President Abraham
Lincoln's useful and honourable career to be brought sud-
denly to a close, we, the undersigned citizens of the United
States, temporarily removed from our transatlantic homes,
have assembled to give expression to the overpowering
sorrow and regret with which we received the intelligence
of that melancholy event. God in his infinite mercy per-
mitted him to live long enough to impress us with the
deepest and most indelible sense of his many virtues, and
in our hearts he will never die. His memory will remain
to us, and with the Father of our country' he will jointly
occupy the post of honour as the 'first in the hearts of his
fellow citizens.'" "Resolved,—That our chairman, James
R. M'Donald, the United States vice-consul at Hamburg,
be requested to send a copy of this resolution to the Secre-
tary of State, and convey to Mrs. Lincoln the expressions
of our deepest sympathy and heartfelt condolence with her
on her irreparable loss.—Hamburg, May 3, 1835." (Follow
the signatures.) Last evening, in the sitting of the Bur-
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loss."

TOBACCO.—The Presse Scientifique contains an in-
teresting article, in which Dr. Joly's late researches
on tobacco in a hygienic point of view are analysed. Dr.
Joly is a declared enemy of the " fragrant weed," and some
of his arguments are certainly telling. Thus he shows that
while the tobacco of the Levant, Greece, and Hungary does
not contain any nicotine, that of Arabia, Brazil, Havannah,
and Paraguay contain 2 per cent. of that deleterious base ;
that of Maryland contains 2.29 per. cent., of Kentucky 6.09,
and that of the department of the Lot nearly 8 per • cent.,
while the sorts of Alsace, the Pas-de-Calais, Ille-et-
Villain°, and Virginia are not far removed from the two
latter figures. It evident thereforo that tobacco is
noxious in proportion of the nicotine its contains ; and
that if the Turks, Greeks, Hungarians, and Brazilians
smoke with impunity from daybreak to sunset, it is be-
cause their tobacco either contains no nicotine at all, or at
best very little. Other nations smoke very innocent herbs,
such as hops, teas, aniseed, &c., and hence the very diffe-
rent opinions held by medical men concerning the effects
of smoking. Nor is the mode of smoking indifferent
either. John Nicol, in order to promote the custom of
smoking, imported a quantity of long hollow reeds from
Lisbon, to which he attached a small silver bowl, not un-
like those now in use, made of meerschaum or clay. Dutch
pipes were introduced next, then the long Oriental ones,
&c., but the most noxious of all aro the short ones, while
the cigar is the least objectionable of all. Napoleon did not
smoke at all; and Goethe says-that a man of genius can-
not cultivate both his science and his pipe together and
that if there are a few illustrious exceptions to the rule,
still it is certain that there have always been more learned
mon taking snuff than smoking. According to Dr. James
Johnston, 800 millions of men smoke differonts sorts of
tobacco ; 400,000 smoke opium and its compounds; 300,000
hemp and haschisch, 100,000 betel, and 40,000 the Ame-
rican plant coca. _ _ .

THE MOTHER OF KANGAROO.--Although the high
priced Kangaroo was defeated for the Two 'Thousand
Guineas, the history of his dam, Yarra Yam, who has re-
cently been brought into notice again in consequence of
Kangaroo's recent successes—forms such an equine romance
that it is worth a brief record, even at the risk of diverging
from our direct narrative. Stranger oven, indeed, than the
career of the Godolphin Arabian—so vividly depicted by
Eugene Sue—has been that of Kangaroo's dam. She was bred
by Sir Joseph Hawley in 1856, being by Cowl—Diversion,
and was purchased by Mr. "Dunbar" as a yearling at Tatter-
sall's at the sale of a draught of Sir Joseph Hawley's stud.
Not caring about her, however, Mr. "Dunbar" disposed of
her to Mr. Smith, and he also being disappointed in her, she
passed into the possession of Mr. Alfred Sait. Mr. Sait
however,like her previous owners,"did not find her answer,"
racca
and disposed of her to Reeves, the trainer, of Epsom. Once
more she was destined to '• change hands," for, after an un-
successful
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chased privately of Mr. Edmund Tattersall by Mr. Blen-
kiron. In 1860 Mr. Blenkiron also appeard to have got tired
of her, and she returned to Messrs. Tattersall's with a colt
foal at her side by Buckhunter ; being "put up" two or
three times without provoking a bid, nobody, as heretofore,
appearing willing to have her—Mr. Tattersall wrote and
asked Mr. Blenkiron to take her back again. This ho even-
tually did, giving 30 sovereigns for her, and subsequently
sold the foal for the same amount. Yarra Yarra was now
put to Hobbit) Noble, and Kangaroo was the produce. She
was again covered the following year, but proving barren,
she was once more discarded, and sold as a hack for 25
sovereigns, but, like all who had previously possessed her,
her new owner did not like her, and she was returned to
Mr. Blenkiron, who then exchanged her for a little Volti-
geur mare, valued at about 15 sovereigns, and once more
she became the property of Mr. Reeves. He, however, did
not keep her long, for, losing money by her, he sold her to
a cabman. The cabman, however, could not get her
to go in harness, and got quit of her for four sovereigns.
Her now purchaser then had her raffled for, and she was won
by a costermonger, who had her turned out at the rate of
about Is. or ls. Gd. per week. The recent successes of Kan-
garoo, however, caused attention to be once more directed
to his dam, and Reeves having traced her out and secured
her after some trouble, Mr. Blenkiron, a few days since, re-
purchased her in a very forlorn condition for 300 sovereigns,
and she will be, or has been, put to Dundee. Suchis equine
life, and such have been the vicissitudes experienced by the
dam of liangaroo.—Bell's Life.