adopt such resolutions thereon as to the said meeting may appear expedient, the worshipful the mayor, J. L. Brigden, esq., in the chair, it was Resolved, That this meeting regards with feelings of utter abhorrence and indignation the atrocious murder of Mr. Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States, by the hand of a ruthless assassin, and desires to express its profound sympathy toward those who are our brethren in origin at the awful calamity which has thus befallen their great nation and stricken us with amazement and terror. Resolved, That the deepest sympathy of this meeting be presented to Mrs. Lincoln on this most calamitous event, which, while it has deprived the nation of the United States of its President, has rendered her a sorrowing widow under circumstances so cruel, lamentable, and distressing. JOHN LEONHANDT BRIGDEN, At a public meeting of the trading and working classes of Brighton, held at the town hall on Friday evening, the 5th of May, 1865, on the assassination of the President of the United States-J. L. Brigden, esq., mayor, in the chair—it was unanimously resolved as follows: That this meeting regards with feelings of utter abhorrence and indignation. the atrocious murder of Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States, by the hand of a ruthless assassin, and desires to express its profound sympathy with those who are our brethren in origin, at the awful calamity which has thus befallen their great nation, and stricken us with amazement and horror; and that this meeting of working men sympathize the more deeply with the untimely death of Abraham Lincoln, as he was the first President elected from the working classes to the high position of ruler of one of the mightiest nations of the globe; that he carried successfully the struggle of free against slave labor, and we confidently hope and believe that his successor, Andrew Johnson, who also sprang from the same class, may complete the work so nobly begun. That the deepest sympathy of this meeting be presented to Mrs. Lincoln on this most calamitous event, which, whilst it has deprived the nation of the United States of its President, has rendered her a sorrowing widow, under circumstances so cruel, lamentable, and distressing. That the address adopted at this meeting, as well as the foregoing resolutions, be presented to his excellency Charles Francis Adams, minister of the United States, by the mayor of Brighton, in conjunction with the members of the borough, who are hereby respectfully requested to join him therein. Signed on behalf of the meeting. JOHN LEONHANDT BRIGDEN. BRIGHTON, May 5, 1865. To the people of the United States of America: We, the working men of Brighton, in public meeting assembled, desire to express our utter abhorrence and indignation at the atrocious murder of Mr. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by the hand of a ruthless assassin and the profound sympathy of our hearts towards those who are brethren in origin at the awful calamity which has Befallen their great nation, and stricken us with amazement and horror. While we recognize an overruling Providence in all things, it is beyond human power to fathom the depths of this mysterious dispensation at so eventful a crisis in your history. It is our confident hope and earnest prayer, that America may speedily emerge rom this sad sorrow, and all her troubles, and continue with our nation the happy relations of peaceful commerce for generations to come. Signed on behalf of the meeting. JOHN LEONHANDT BRIGDEN. Resolution passed at a meeting held by the Local Board of Health of Balsall Heath. At a meeting of the Local Board of Health for the district of Balsall Heath, near Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, held at their offices in Vincent street, Balsall Heath, aforesaid, on Wednesday, the 3d day of May, 1865, it was Unanimously resolved, That this board desires to express its deepest sympathy with the government of the United States of America, and Mrs. Lincoln, in the bereavement which both have sustained by the lamented death of the late President, and to record its horror and detestation of the crime which has caused so great a national loss. SAMUEL BRIGGS, Chairman BOURNEMOUTH, April 28, 1865. We, the undersigned, inhabitants of Bournemouth, have learned with the deepest horror and regret that the President of the United States of America has been deprived of life by an act of violence, and we desire to express our sympathy on the sad event with the American minister in London, as well as to declare our hope and confidence in the future of that great country, which, we trust, will continue to be associated with enlightened freedom, and peaceful relations with this and every other country. A. MORDEN BENNETT, Perpetual Curate. R. S. MCDOWALL, M. A., Assistant Curate of St. Peters. WILLOUGHBY W. BURSLEM, M. D. L. UPPLELY. GEORGE J. BARKER, Banker. CHRIST'R C. CREELES. FRED. W. COATES, M. D. WM. STEWART FALH, M. D. ROBT. CAIM LIPPINCOTT. And over one hundred other names. His Excellency the Hon. CHARLES F. ADAMS, Minister of the United States of North America, at London. To the President of the United States of America : SIR: At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the township of Bilston, it was Unanimously resolved, That this meeting desires to express its feelings of grief and abhorrence at the assassination of President Lincoln, and at the horrible attempt to murder Mr. Secretary Seward; also to convey to the government and people of the United States, and to Mrs. Lincoln, the expression of their profound sympathy and condolence under the awful and lamentable bereavement which has befallen them. CHARLES BEARD, Chairman. This address was adopted at a banquet held to congratulate the American government on the suppression of the slaveholders' rebellion. BARRHEAD, RENFREWSHIRE, May 4, 1865. DEAR SIR: We cannot express the grief and horror which filled our hearts at the tidings of President Lincoln's death. But who shall say that a crime less atrocious than the murder of that great and good man, who, in the eyes of the world, stood, by character and position, the most prominent representation and champion, in the history of this or any other age, of the cause of personal and national freedom, would have befitted the death, desperation of southern slavery? In the light of this, its last and culminating sin, which has at length revealed its infamous depths as a treason against all that is sacred to humanity and shocked the world, we bless God for the men and the measures which have swept that accursed institution away for ever. We congratulate your government and people on the suppression of this gigantic rebellion, and the successful assertion of your indissoluble unity as a nation, results fraught with incalculably blissful interest to every other nation, and especially to the sons of toil everywhere throughout the whole earth. And while we would turn with tenderest sympathy to the sad, bereaved ones in your midst, from the home first desolated by this fearful struggle to that of your lamented President, and would seek to mingle our sorrow with theirs, and while we would weep for the innocent sufferers whose natural protectors have fallen in a bad cause, we cannot but hail the dawning of a future for your country infinitely more glorious than its past, and rejoice in it, not for your sake alone but for our own, and for the cause of liberty and labor in all time coming. Signed at a social meeting assembled for the purpose. Hon. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. JOSEPH M. NAB. ALEXANDER JOHNSTON. THOMAS PATRICK. WILLIAM PATRICK. WILLIAM CRAIG. At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Bridlington and the Quay, held in the Town Hall, on Monday the 15th May, 1865, convened by the chief lord of the Manor, in compliance with a requisition, numerously and respectably signed, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: 1st. That this meeting desires to express emphatically its feelings of horror and indignation at the atrocious crime by which the life of Mr. Lincoln has been sacrificed, and that of Mr. Seward endangered, and its warm sympathy with the American people in the loss they have sustained in the untimely death of their distinguished President. (Moved by the Rev. J. Dickinson, independent minister; seconded by Mr. John Reed.) 2d. That this meeting desires to convey to Mrs. Lincoln its sincere and earnest expression of sympathy and condolence in the heavy bereavement she has sustained by the sudden and untimely death of her distinguished husband. (Moved by the Rev. J. Hodgson, Primitive Methodist minister; seconded by Mr. P. Mackley.) 3d. That the aforesaid resolutions be forwarded by Thomas Cape, esq., chief lord, the chairman of this meeting, to the honorable Č. F. Adams, the American minister, to be by him sent to the American government and to Mrs. Lincoln. (Moved by the Rev. Thomas Barnes, United Methodist church; seconded by George Barm, esq., West Hunton House.) THOMAS CAPE, Chairman. Resolution adopted at a meeting held by the inhabitants of the borough of Blackburn. BOROUGH OF BLACKBURN, in the county of Lancaster. At a public meeting of the inhabitants of this borough, held in the Town Hall, on Tuesday, the 2d day of May, 1865, the following was adopted: That this meeting desires to express the feelings of horror and indignation with which they have heard of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and of the murderous attack made upon Mr. Seward, Secretary of State. This meeting further expresses its cordial sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln, and the relatives of the late President, believing that her husband's name will remain embalmed in the future as a martyr; and prays that an all-wise Providence may protect and cheer the widow, who has thus lost her affectionate partner in life, in the service of his country. [SEAL.] WILLIAM STINES, Mayor and Chairman of the Meeting. BOROUGH OF BLACKBURN, in the county of Lancaster. At a public meeting of the inhabitants of this borough, held in the Town Hall, on Tuesday, the 2d day of May, 1865, the following address was adopted: To Mrs. Lincoln, and family; Mr. Seward, and family; and the American people generally: We, the inhabitants of Blackburn, in public meeting assembled, desire to convey the deep sympathy we feel for the unfortunate position in which you were placed, through the assassination of President Lincoln, and the attack on the life of Mr. Seward. We deeply lament the existence of the civil war which has for four years devastated your country, and stopped your progress in the paths of peace, but in. our regret we recognize the future greatness and prosperity of your nation. In all your troubles and afflictions, whether as governors, families or people, we have sympathized. It has been wisely said, that the exigency of a nation demands an able leader and that God, in his providence, always sends the man for the time. We believe that Abraham Lincoln was the man raised up for the special work, and lament his horrible death by the hand of the assassin. We read with pleasure, that in the cabinet council, on the night the assassination took place, the flush of victory in the fall of Richmond, and the surrender of General Lee, did not inspire your lamented President with revengeful feelings, but that his last words were for the reconstruction of the Union on conciliatory principles, in which mercy for his opponents was the leading feature. To the American people we send loving words, and trust that these great afflictions will work out an abundant harvest of liberty, whereby free institutions may be consolidated, and labor, by whomsoever performed, dignified. SEAL.] WILLIAM STOWES, Mayor and Chairman of the Meeting. Resolution passed at a meeting held at Burnham, Somersetshire. HONORED SIR: The underneath resolution was unanimously passed on Wednesday last, by a crowded meeting in the Union Chapel, Edith Meol, Burnham, Somersetshire, at the close of a lecture delivered by the Reverend J. S. Balmer, of Bridgewater, on "the late President Lincoln, and his assassination," and I have now the honor, as chairman of the meeting, to forward the same to your excellency. The Hon. C. F. ADAMS. RICHARD WILLIAMS. "That this meeting desires to express its horror and indignation at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the late distinguished President of America, and to assure the bereaved widow, and the American people, of its deepest sympathy with them in their hour of great trial. It would further express the ardent prayer that America may yet come out of this struggle, trusting in God, who has hitherto been its helper, and that, guided by Him, it may be led to permanent peace, great prosperity and entire national freedom. SIR: We have heard with profound sorrow of the death of your late distinguished President, and that he has fallen by the hand of an assassin, and that other citizens of the United States have narrowly escaped a like fate, and are still suffering from their wounds. We believe there is not a Christian community who will not, by deep and heartfelt sympathy, participate with you, and with your country, in an expression of grief and sorrow at this event, as well also of their horror and execration of the murderers. The inhabitants of the village of Broomfield, in the county of Essex, in England, have been reminded of this terrible crime when assembled for Divine worship, and having prayed with especial reference to the calamities of the war now devastating your land, that Almighty God would mercifully grant peace and concord to all nations. They desire to express to your excellency their sincere condolence; and they further desire their church wardens will cause this document to be forwarded to Mr. Adams, the American minister, for transmission to the United States. His Excellency ANDREW JOHNSON, J. B. WHITING, Vicar. Church Warden. THOMAS B. DAY, President of the United States of America. Church Warden. And thirty-three others. At a public meeting on Tuesday evening, called by the mayor, at the request of a large number of the citizens of this town, for the purpose of expressing their feelings of condolence in regard to the assassination of the late President of the United States, the mayor was called to the chair, and Mr. D. Wylie appointed secretary. The Rev. Mr. Poole opened the meeting with prayer; after which the following resolutions were passed: Moved by the Rev. J. V. Smith, A. M., seconded by D. Wylie, esq., and Resolved, That we, the inhabitants of Brockville, in public meeting regularly assembled, hereby express unfeigned sorrow at the death, by assassination, of |