THE NETHERLANDS. Mr. Van Limburg to Mr. Hunter. [Translation.] NEW YORK, May 16, 1865. SIR: In the Netherlands, as everywhere else, the news of the assassination of President LINCOLN, and of the attempt on the life of the Secretary of State, has caused a universal shock and deep indignation. On the part of the royal government, the minister of foreign affairs would have wished to request Mr. Pike to be so good as to transmit to Washington the assurances of the sorrowful impression caused throughout the Netherlands by this double crime, but the temporary absence of the minister resident of the United States not putting that in my power, it is in virtue of the King's order, and in accordance with a resolution adopted by a council of ministers, that I am charged to present, without delay, to the American government the assurance of lively sympathy in the loss and profound indignation at the crime, in which all the Netherlands partake with the King. I am charged to express, sir, at the same time, the wishes of his Majesty and of the royal government that Divine Providence may preserve the life of Mr. Seward, so precious to the people of the United States. In acquitting myself of this duty, sir, I have the honor to repeat to you the assurances of my high consideration. Hon. WILLIAM HUNTER, ROEST VAN LIMBURG. Acting Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. Mr. Van Limburg to Mr. Hunter. [Translation.] DETROIT, May 25, 1865. SIR: The minister of the King for foreign affairs has just given in charge to me, to communicate to you, a resolution passed on the 2d instant by the Second Chamber of the States General, tending to invite the royal government to make known to the government of the United States the sorrow and indignation the Chamber has felt on learning the perfidious and base outrage of which President ABRAHAM LINCOLN has been the victim. On the occasion of this resolution, its mover, Mr. de Zuylen de Nywelt, remarked that in the Netherlands it was caused, more perhaps than any like . resolution could be elsewhere, not alone by the ties of friendship and of alliance which for a long period have existed between the two countries, but moreover by the circumstance that a great many old families of Holland have established themselves in the United States, and that our country, at a period already remote, contributed much to the sowing of the seed from which the great American nation has sprung forth at a later day. The minister of foreign affairs, fully adopting this principle, expresses anew the general indignation at the horrible crimes by which the President of the United States was snatched away from his great task at the moment when achieving the object of his efforts, and by which the lives of the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State were put in peril. It was in the nature of things, said Mr. Cremers, that the assassination of a man whose character bore so great a resemblance to that of the noble founder of our liberties should make a profound impression. Here, where the name of Balthazar Gerard (the assassin of William of Orange) is, even now, never pronounced without a horror, a crime resembling his must excite extraordinary sympathy and indignation. I take pride, sir, in being again instructed to express to you similar sentiments; they cannot but convince you, as well as the President and people of the United States, of the lively and sincere friendship which attaches the Netherlands to the United States of America. Please accept, sir, the fresh assurance of my very high consideration. Hon. WILLIAM HUNTER, Acting Secretary of State, &c., &c., &c. The announcement of the assassination of the President, the news of which reached here last week, fills me with profound emotion. The dreadful suspense we were in, for many days, in regard to the Secretary of State and the Assistant Secretary, is happily removed by this mail. The tenor of our first advices was such that we had not dared to hope for the recovery of Mr. Seward, while we had taken for granted that the Assistant Secretary was no longer among the living. It is an inexpressible relief to receive the assurance that the lives of both are saved. I have forwarded to the department a copy of Galignani's Messenger, con taining one day's summary of the public commentary upon the hideous crimes committed by the assassins, which is but one of a series of the same character. By this record you may, in some measure, judge of the violent shock these monstrous assassinations have given to the European public. It would be difficult for me to exaggerate it by any description I could give. I have been called upon by numerous gentlemen of high political distinction, among them the ministers of foreign affairs, who have desired to manifest their sympathy with the government in its distress; to bear their testimony to the pure and lofty character of the deceased President, and to express the universal horror and indignation at the foul deeds which have at once robbed the nation of its head and daringly put in imminent peril the life of his first cabinet officer. I have the honor to be, with great respect, your most obedient servant, Hon. W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary of State, Washington. Mr. Pike to Mr. Hunter. No. 165.] UNITED STATES LEGATION, SIR: Yesterday the second chamber of the national legislature, the only branch now in session, passed resolutions instructing the ministers of foreign affairs to communicate to the cabinet at Washington their sense of the great loss sustained by the United States in the death of the President, to tender to them the sympathy of the chamber, and to express their horror and detestation of the foul crimes by which the President's life has been terminated and that of the Secretary of State endangered. These resolutions were supported in debate by the minister of foreign affairs on the part of the government, and by M. Van Zuylen on the part of the opposition, and were unanimously carried. To-day the minister of foreign affairs has called and communicated to me this action on the part of the second chamber, and requested me to transmit it to the government at Washington, and to add that nowhere in Europe has there been a profounder emotion felt than in Holland over the awful tragedy enacted in the United States, and nowhere can its condemnation be more heart-felt and unanimous. I have the honor to be, with great respect, your most obedient servant, Hon. W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary of State, Washington. NICARAGUA. [Translation.] GOVERNMENT HOUSE, MR. MINISTER: His Excellency the captain general, President, has been made acquainted with your despatch of the 17th instant, in which he is notified through me of the unfortunate events which occurred in Washington on the 14th of April last, the assassination of his Excellency the President of the United States of North America, Mr. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, and the serious wounds inflicted by the hand of another assassin on the person of the very illustrious Secretary of State, Mr. William H. Seward. I am also notified in the same communication of the elevation to the presidency, by virtue of the laws, of his Excellency the Vice-President, Mr. Andrew Johnson, and to the ministry temporarily of the chief clerk, Mr. Hunter, until the recovery of Mr. Seward, which now seems probable. The government and people of Nicaragua are not nor could they be indifferent to an event which has so great effect on all classes of society, as well on account of the welfare of the country which Mr. LINCOLN governed so worthily, as because of such excesses. In a republic, too, like the United States-model of civilization and of grandeur-it seems impossible to conceive the existence of a man that, even by the means of the most exalted imagination, could conceive the design of applying his treacherous hand against the life of him who, by the general choice of the people, had been called for a fixed period to the presidential chair. But the deed is done, sir, however extraordinary it may seem to those who know its magnitude; and while it meets solely with universal condemnation, let us indulge the grateful hope that his principles may be securely preserved for the United States of North America under the presidency of a successor worthy of the immortal LINCOLN, for which we trust in the co-operation of Mr. Seward, that veteran Secretary, whom Providence has so marvellously preserved for the benefit of his country. These are the sentiments of his Excellency the President of Nicaragua, and in transmitting them to your excellency, with the expression of my sincerest sympathy, I have the honor to subscribe myself once again, your affectionate servant, His Excellency A. B. DICKENSON, BASILIO SALINAS. Minister Resident of the United States, &c., &c., &c. f SIR: Although this government has already paid its due compliments through the minister resident of the United States, I have to say, in answer to your esteemed despatch of the 18th April, ultimo, and the mournful news it contains, that the assassination of the illustrious President of the United States, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, and the barbarous assault on the persons of the honorable Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Seward and his son, martyrs of the glorious cause in which they were happily winning victory, have been in Nicaragua, as well as in all Central America and over the whole civilized world, the source of a general feeling of horror and sadness. Sympathy for the administration of Mr. LINCOLN, for the cause he maintained of freedom of the human kind, and with the impulse this same doleful event imparted to the triumphant opinion, cause this government religiously to cherish the glorious memory of the illustrious dead, to heartily hail the providential salvation of the honorable Mr. Seward and his son, whom we duly honor, and to behold with the highest esteem, respect, and our best wishes the heroic decision with which Mr. LINCOLN's worthy successor comes forward ready to perfect the sublime but unfinished work which falls to his lot. The President trusts you have, in anticipation of the desire and well-known feelings of his administration, interpreted them with your usual faithfulness, near the government of the United States; and directs me to authorize you to leave a copy of this despatch with the honorable Secretary of State. I am, sir, your obedient servant, His Excellency Don LUIS MOLINA, PEDRO ZELEDON. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary No. 101.] Mr. Dickenson to Mr. Hunter. [Extract.] LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, Leon de Nicaragua, May 19, 1865. SIR: Your despatch No. 69, dated April 17, conveying the painful intelligence of the assassination of President LINCOLN and the murderous assault upon the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State, has been received and read with a mixture of indignation, horror, and grief altogether beyond the power of words to express. That even the rebellion itself, black and terrible as are its crimes, could |