Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-07-27
From Our Regular Correspondent
London Letter.
LONDON, Eng. July IL, 1881.

LONDONt LuS't SN'J - -
Great anxiety, though not uumixed with
hope, continues to be the feeling universal.
ly experienced in this country. as well as
throughout the civilized world, at the
latest news respecting the condition OF
the sorey- wounded American president.
Her majesty the queen was among the
very first to express her heartfelt sense OF
d" horror and deep sympathy at this awful
crime;' and from every capitol OF Europe
kilograms bearing similar messages have
/ been dispatched to the borrowers by that
bedside at Washington. The British par
liament-always representative of any
profound emotion which stirs popular
sentiment in this country-gave utterance
to the national sorrow last night in both
chambers, and the English people will
cordially echo Lord Granville's statement
that public sympathy increases every
hour in intensity with the president and
his family, and the people of the United
States" The prime minister had little TO
tell the House of commons last night as
to the condition of General Garfield, and
that little was of somewhat unfavorable
character; but in letter which the pre-
mier had addressed to the Honorable
james Russell Lowell, the American min
lister, occurs sentence which will at once
commend itself to the public feeling in
England as being a simple and eloquent
statement of AN undoubted truth. Inc
heart of this country" so writes Mr.
Gladstone, will he deeply moved with
sympathy for Mrs, Garfield"
Continental opinion on this deeply pain
ful event has been stirred almost as pro-
foundry as in the United Kingdom itself.
1t was only natural that from all the
capitols of Europe kilograms OF coincidence
and sympathy should at once he dispatch
ed, but the outspoken and spontaneous
sorrow of the foreign press and public is
IL gratifying feature. Abroad it is pointed
out that the act of Guiteau is not, in all
probability, the outcome of political
conspiracy but the personal fury OF n
maniac. The result, of course, to the
distinguished victim is equally disastrous.
but at the same time it is a relief-as
foreign journals express it-that no deep
seated organic ,tion for the assassination
of the great of this earth is at the bottom
of the detestible crime which has Just
been committed. European opinion Is
always peculiarly sensitive at any tidings
which remind ii OF the awful re2icidal
events that have taken place on this side
sident should be shot at-chief OF the
nation and the country to which all the
disconnected and poverty-stricken in Eu-
rope turn longing eyes is an event which
brings home to Europeans the real soll-
darity existing among people, under
whatever form of government they carry
on their daily existence. Within living
memory the sovereigns of Germany. of
Austria, of Russia, of France, of Italy,
of Spain, have all been sought by the
weapon of the assassin; two, at least, of
these barely escaping with their lives,
albeit terribly wounded, while the most
powerful potentiate in Europe actually fell
only few months ago, by means of the
bomb hurled at him by nihilst fanatic.
With such recollections, foreigners may
well feel sympathetic emotions when they
hear of the last item in the miserable
catalogue of attempts to murder rulers of
stttes But in England the sentiments of
horror is deeper still. For the next few
hours. and it may be days. every one will
he anxiousy awaiting further-and, it is
to be hoped, acknowledgements from the
sick mans chamber ut Washington. The
bulletins, alternating between hope and
fear, will be scanned by eager eyes and
the slightest symptoms of returning health
md strength will be welcomed almost as
| Joy ously in the mother country as in New
York itself.