The Sun. — 1865-04-27 (London, England)

THE EDITOR 01' 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 Secretary 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 derived 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 inheriting 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 l abhorrence than the people of the South, buht,tthiteyiswtille know, as will equally all well balanced minds,ds et necessary offspring of those have Engder in every form of unbridled of the South by Northern armies, nalised the invasion eenelsiceofusbe,lo whichh (.1‘ and mu.rluonardeebrus,kaendd ctehioisaeinolyv,eratnhdemt.berefore instigated, by their "Pardon the length of this note. I desired only instantly to repel the atrocious calumnies in the letter of Mr. Stanton.  4, very respectfully yours,  "3- M. MAsox. "24, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square, London, April 27, 1865."  Bank of England Return,.—Last Evening.  An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending Wednesday, April 26, 1865.