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

The Assassination of President Lincoln.

A public meeting of the working men of London
was held last evening at St. Martin's-hall, Long-
acre, to adopt an address of condolence to Mrs.
Lincoln and to the people of the United States of
America. Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P., presided, and
the meeting was addressed by Mr. George Potter, a
delegate and leader of the Trades' Unions ; Mr.
Leicester, a glassworker ; Mr. Osborne, a working
man ; Mr. Mason Jones, the Rev. Newman Hall,
Mr. Beale, and others. An address to Mrs Lincoln
expressive of the indignation and grief with which
the working men of London had received the intel-
ligence of the atrocious deed that had at once de-
prived her of her natural protector, and the Ameri-
can people of an able, honest, and truthful President,
and offering her the heartfelt and sincere sympathy
of the meeting in her present profound affliction,
was agreed to. A hope was expressed that while
mourning her loss she would feel some consolation in
the fact that her late husband was looked up to by the
working men of all countries as their champion, and
though cut down in the hour of triumph, he yet lived
long enough to see the dawn of negro emancipation
rising rapidly before him. A resolution was also
passed by which, while expressing sympathy with the
people of America for the great loss they had sus-
tained, the meeting offered their congratulations on
the decisive successes which had lately attended the
Federal arms, affording a just hope of a speedy sup-
pression of the rebellion, and the entire extinction of
slave institutions. An address to the President, Go-
vernment, and people of the United States was then,
in accordance with the terms of the resolution,
unanimously adopted.

At the public meeting held on Wednesday in the
Music-hall at Edinburgh, with reference to the mur-
der of President Lincoln, briefly referred to in 7 he
Sun of yesterday, the speakers were Mr. Sheriff Gor-
don, Mr. Duncan M'Laren, Sir John M'Neill,
Bishop Morrell, the Rev. William Arnot, Professor
Simpson, and the Rev. W. H. Gray.
At Sheffield, on Wednesday, a meeting of the
Town Council was held, at which various resolu-
tions were passed. An address to Mrs. Lincoln,
expressive of sorrow and sympathy, and signed by
the Mayor on behalf of the meeting, was approved
and ordered to be transmitted to her.

Meetings, convened by the Mayors, at which simi-
lar resolutions were adopted, have been held at York,
Birmingham,Blackburn, North Shields, Sunderland,
Liverpool, Chester, Southampton, Dover; Colches-
ter, and Newport. The merchants of Cardiff have
signed an address which they have handed to the con-
sul at the port. At the meetings of the Commis-
sioners of Supply for Lanarkshire, Forfarshire, Aber-
deenshire, Roxburghshire, &c., resolutions have also
been passed expressive of sorrow and sympathy. An
address from the Greek merchants in London with
130 signatures, expressing the horror and abhorrence
with which they have heard of the crime, and their
prayers for the prosperity of the United States, has
been forwardedto the American Minister in London.

THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.—
A painful interest is new attached to the following
paragraph, which appears in the Evening Bulletin of San
Francisco in its issue of the 24th of February, under the
heading of "A wicked jest."—" The Selma (Alabama) Dis-
patch publishes the following as an advertisement :—" One
million dollars wanted to have peace on the Ist of March.
If the citizens of the Southern Confederacy will furnish
me with the cash or good securities for the sum of one
million of dollars, I will cause the lives of Abraham Lincoln,
Wm. H. Seward, and Andrew Johnson to be taken by the
Ist of March next. This will give us peace and satisfy the
world thise
world that tyrants cannot live in a land of liberty.
is not accomplished nothing will be claimed e
neces-
beyond the
sum of $50,000 in advance, which is supposed to
sary to reach and slaughter the three villains.
I will give
myself $l,OOO towards this patriotic
made
ettiohne
finonNd,v
purpose.ah Every one
wishing to contribute will address Box X, , Alabama.
whetherarise remarks the
this aba
_.correspondent 1,
. who' "
hasTh e
adver-
tisement, esteemed by the editor of the
Bulletin as only a
"wicked jest," was not in sober reality the • serious proposal
fora murder which the language used imports. It is a
curious coincidence that Wilkes Booth immediately
murdering Mr. Lincoln applied to him the after
the word tyrant
contained in the shameful advertisement, which, it will be
observed, contemplates the death of Seward, who has, in
point of fact, -been all but assassinated as well
p sident