The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-23 00:00:00

TRIAL OF SURRA7'T.

The Surratt trial was resumed on Wednesday, 3d June.
Charles 11. M. Wood, a coloured barber, was sworn, and
testified that ho had seen the prisoner before. "On the
morning of the assassination I saw Lim at B,x)ker and
Stewart's barber shop. Surratt came to the shop with
Booth, M‘Laughlin, and another gentleman. They talked
about coming from Baltimore. I trimmed Booth's hair
that morning, and while I was waiting on Mr. Booth, Sur-
rutt was in the rear of me, and a small thick-sot man,
whose name I did not know, was sitting near the glass.
When I was done waiting on Booth ho got out of
the chair and went to the back part of tlio stand
op,
whore McLaughlin was, standing at the gass
disguising himself with false hair. Surratt had by this
time taken the chair vacated by Booth, and told me to clean
him up nicely. Surratt looked like a man who had been
travelling a short distance. lie called my attention to tho
scar on Booth's neck, and said that it was caused by a gun-
shot wound. I shaved Surratt clean that morning, all but
his moustache. This was about 9 o'clock a.m., for I had
had my breakfast and had boon up to Mr. Seward and
shaved him. The cross-examination developed nothing
new.
Russell, of Boston, and a member of the third
Charles
etts cavalry, testified to having soon a man on
Massachus
horsbick on the road to Fort Bunker llill the next morn-
ing after the assassination, whom he thinks resembled
Surratt.
Frank M. Heaton was sworn and said—On the night of
the assassination I was standing in front of the theatre
when the President's carriage drew up. When the car-
riage came up half a dozen persons from the restaurant
came out, and I recognise the prisoner as one of the men.
Theodore Benjamin Rhodos sworn— I was in the theatre
on the day Mr. Lincoln was assassinated. I went in about
half an hour before noon to look at the theatre, and ,sart
ono of the boxes open, and wishing to see the stage from
that point wont down there. The person wild was in thc.-
box walked away, and after a time came up again and
spoke to me; saying that ho was connected with the
theatre. He had a piece of wood in his hand, about eight
foot long and two inches wide, and remarked that the Pre-
sident would be there that night, and he was going to fix
the box so that the President could not be disturbed. Ibe
thou placed the stick, which was of oak or pine, against
the door, and in the niche in the wall, and adjusted it,
asking me if I thought it would bon I beard some ono
hammering behind the stage curtain, and this mac imme-
diately went away, and a short thick-set man came in.
Subsequently another party came, and they proceeded to
lix up the box. Tho prisoner went out before these parties
came to the stage.
On the cross-examination the witness distinctly recog-
nised Surratt as the man with whom ho had the conver-
satiou in the box, and said that ho had no doubt
of his
identity.

CONSULS ABROAD.—Our Consular servica
pri abrsesoad
now costs a total sum of £16g,189. The staff
servo
consuls-general, 137 consuls, and 90 vice-consuls, two sur-
-22
gams, one chaplain, and four law clerks,
whose salaries
amount unitedly to £141,288. The amount of consular feos
remitted to the Paymaster-Gonoral iu 1866 was £17,963.
Tel and Laguna di Terminos in'
The salaries of ,:,onsuls at Calogue, Lagos, and Johanna in
PlZlrltuga, Turkey,b
in Peru, 5. in,
the Comoro Islands are abandoned, as also those of vice-
consuls at Rhodes,
Mexico. There aro 15 British consular (dikes in the United
in Spain,
15 States,
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Prussia,
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jua,EBuirno
the Netherlands, 9 in Morocco, 10 in Brazil, 23 in France,
9in 'pt, and 13 in Italy.
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