The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1881-10-01 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

THE LATE PRESIDENT.  Throughout the whole country, nay, throughout the whole civilised world, one thought and one feeling united all on Monday. The outward signs of mourning, the general crape bawl, the half-mast high flag, the closed shops, were not only the visible manifestation of a conventional grief, but the symbol of a heartfelt grief which pervaded all alike. Englishmen of all ranks, from the Queen on the throne to the peasant in the cot stood, in imagination, by the open grave of JAMES GA MELD, and saw consigned to their last resting place the remains of him on whom, so short a time since, all eyes were bent and all hopes centred. A circumstance so sad and so mournful lots yet the advantage of showing that, after all, the English nation is one with our cousins across the Atlantic. Wherever the English tongue is spoken the loss of the PRESIDENT is felt as a personal matter, as if one to whom we are connected had been removed, and it is by such solemn and painful events that the bitter animosities of the past are obliterated, and nations are drawn nearer and closer together. The last obsequies having been performed with pathetic and touching sadness, and the grave closed which contains so much that was loved and revered by the sorrowing nation, it will not be out of place to consider how wanton and useless was the crime which has deprived the American nation of its first citizen. There are crimes of a similar nature which will bear analysis. The civilised world beard with horror and indignation of the murder of the CZAR of RUSSIA, and an infinite pity was felt for the tragic end of the old man, who WU the first and only Emperor who afspeared willing to grant some sort of liberty to his people. But the crime was one which, hideous though it was, was comprehensible. Russia is ruled with an iron tyranny, and the people, forbidden legitimate expression of their opinions, are driven to anarchy and crime. The motive of the EMPEROR'S murderers is easily to be understood, though it was impossible that his death could in any way help forward the project they had at heart. The murderers no doubt thought they were engaged in a holy mission, and helping to Alee their country from an almost unbearable despotism. But the murder of President A RFIELD is perfectly incomprehensible, and the wanton nature of it lends an additional indignation to our view of it. The murderer belongs to one of the meanest and most contemptible classes of the universe --he was a disappointed place hunter. e bothered and annoyed the late PansiDENT to give hint a place, and because he failed to obtain something, to which he had plainly no right and was manifestly 'unfitted, he vented his spleen and his spite in the dastardly manner which robbed America of its brightest ornament, and removed from the ranks of the living almost the only man who was capable of purifying the sadly too corrupt political life of our cousins across the Atlantic. The moti e of the murderer in this case was a personal one and was had altogether, there is no redeeming feature in the whole history of the case, ;Ind one charitably hopes that the plea of insanity may be proved, so as to relie e the perpetrator of the crime of some portion of the terrible odium which will :14 twit to hint.  The queen and Prim...egg Beatrice will, accordlag to prepent arrangements, reside at Balmoral till about No% ember 20, when the Court will return to Windsor Castle for a short period.