ENGLISH AND AMERICAN NEWS.

Marlborough Press, Volume VI, Issue 58, 22 July 1865, Page 2

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN NEWS.

LATER AND FULLER PARTICULARS. On no previous occasion, has the English Maij conveyed to this colony intelligence of such deep importance and fraught with such dire consequences. In our last issue wc'had but little space and time to give more than a few heads of the most important events which had occurred in England, Continental Europe and America. We shall therefore in the present issue exclude much matter of local and provincial interest in order to give as full a digest of home intelligence as our columns will admit. From a careful] perusal of the Amercian telegrams we cannot make out whether Booth the assassin of President Lincoln has been captured, or shot, or was still at liberty up to the latest hour when the news left America. A Mr Secretary E. M. Stanton, in his official telegrams to the United States Legation in London, announces the escape of Booth at the rear of the theatre, immediately after the bloody deed had been committed, while another telegram announces that Booth, resisting the attempt to arrest him, was shot dead. A third telegram mentions that a large reward had been offered for the capture of the villain. The following is Mr Secretary Stanton’s official report:—

Sih,—lt lias become my distressing duty to announce to you that last night his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United Stab s, was assassinated about the hour of half-past ten o’clock, in his private box at Ford’s Theatre, in the city. The President, about eight o’clock, accompanied Mrs Lincoln to the theatre. Another lady and gentleman were with them in the box. About half-past ten, during a pause in the performance, the assassin hastily entered the box, the door of which was unguarded, liasiiy approached the President from behind, and discharged a pistol at his head. The bullet entered the hack of his head, and penetrated nearly through. The assassin then leapt from the box upon the stage, brandishing a large knife or dagger, and exclaiming “ Sic semper tyrannis,” and escaped in the rear of the theatre. Immediately upon the discharge the President fell to the floor insensible, and continued in that state until twenty minutes past seven o'clock this

morning, wheff he breathed his last. About the' same time the murder was being committed at the theatre,- another assassin presented himself at the door of Mr Seward’s residence, gained admission by representing he ha 3 a prescription from Mr Seward’s physician, which he was directed to see administered, and hurried up tor the third story chamber, where Mr Seward was lying. He here discovered Mr Frederick Seward, struck him over the head, inflicting several wounds, and fracturing the skull in two places, inflicting, it is feared, mortal wounds. He then rushed into the room where Mr Seward was in bed, attended by a young daughter and a male nurse. The male attendant was stabbed through the lungs, and it is believed will die. The assassin’ then struck Mr Seward with a knife or dagger twice in the throat and twice in the face, inflicting terrible wounds. By this time Major Seward, eldest son of the Secretary, and another' attendant reached the room, and rushed to the rescue of the Secretary ; they were also wounded in the conflict, and the assassin escaped. No artery or important blood vessel was severed by any of the wounds inflicted upon him, but he was for a long time insensible from the loss of blood. Some hope of his possible recovery is entertained. Immediately upon the death of the President, ntoice was given to Vice-President Johnston, who happened to be in the city, and upon whom the office of President now devolves.He will take office and assume the functions of President to-day. The murderer of the President has been discovered, and evidence obtained that these horrible crimes were committed in execution of a conspiracy deliberately planned and set on foot by rebels, under pretence of avenging the South and aiding the rebel cause i but it is to be hoped that the immediate perpetrators will he caught. The feeling occasioned by those atrocious crimes is so great, sudden and overwhelming, that I cannot' at present do more than communicate them to you. At the earliest moment yesterday the President called a cabinet meeting, at which General Grant was present. He was more cherful and happy than I had ever seen him, rejoiced at the near prospect of a firm and durable peace at home and abroad, manifested in a marked degree the kindness and humanity of his disposition, and the tender and forgiving spirit that so eminently distinguished him. Public notice had been given that he and General Grant would be present at the theatre, and the opportunity of adding the Lieutenant-General to the number of victims to be murdered was no doubt seized for the fitting occasion of executing the plans that appear to have been in prepay ration for some weeks, but General Grant was compelled to be absent, and thus escaped the designs upon him. It is needless for me to say anything in regard of the influence which this atrocious murder of the President may exercise upon the affairs of this country ; but 1 will only add that horrible as are the atrocities that have been resorted to by the enemies of the country they are not likely in any degree to impair the pnblic spirit or retard the final overflow of the rebellion. In profound grief for the events which it has become my ditty to communicate to you, I have tho honor to be very respectfully, your obedient servant, Edwin M. Stanton.

GENERAL SUMMARY. \ ENGLISH AND EUROPEAN. The Queen is in good health, and holds courtfestitals, and takes her scat at the Privy Council. The Road Hill house murder lias been voluntarily confessed to by Miss Constance Kent, sister of the murdered child. She appeared before Sir Thomas Henry, at Bow-street Police Court, and handed in a detailed account of the murder. A new expedition to the North pole is anticipated with success. The boat race between Oxford and Cambridge was most exciting. The boats were close together throughout the race, the former winning by six strokes. A new national league association has been formed in Dublin. It alms at making Ireland independent.

The epidemic in Russia is depopulating whole districts. Great consternation prevails in St Petersburg, where it has broken out in the hospital, carrying off all the patients and the sanatory staff. England has sent over several eminent medical men, to make them acquainted with the disease, for national protection. An epidemic of a typhoid nature is raging in Savoy attacking all classes. On the 25th April, a stranger presented himself at the Russian Embassy in Paris, requesting speech with the secretary of legation. After his reception a noise was heard, and the secretary found covered with blood, and stabbed»in fiver places. Before the murderer was arrested, lie stabbed two other persons. At least S,OOO engines will, according to a Pennsylvanian journal be, at work in the Pennsylvanian oil regions this summer.

The Emperor Napolean has sent M. Guilemet, a distinguished French Artist, to paint a life-size portrait ot the Sultan, to he placed in the Salle de Souveraines at the Tuiler'les. A son of the Swiss Colonel Salis having died of a wound received in a duel with another pupil of the Federal Polytechnic Institution at Berne, the Academical Senate has expelled the students who acted as seconds, and ordered proceedings to be taken against the adversary. The only living things found in Fort Sumter when taken by the Federals were a cat and five kittens, says a contemporary. By will the Duke de Moray has left the education of one daughter to Mdlle. de Flahault, and the other to Mdme. de Cadroc. lie lived at the rate of £40,000 a year, and was, it is now said, not worth less at his death than lialf-a-million sterling. The Siamese twins are living in Nor h Carolina, where they farm a slave plantatioi. They married two sisters, and while they had five ffiudren each the sisters lived happily. V hen one of them, however had a sixth child, t’ ey quarrelled and would not live under the s me roof. The twins are now fifty years old. Oik of them is drooping, and experiments have been ma le to find out if the ligature that hinds them were cut whether they could survive. On the ligature being tied so as to prevent the circulation of the blood, the twins fainted. It is evident, therefore, that when one dies, they cannot be separated, and both must perish. Their respiration is synchronous when they are calm; their hours of sleeping aud waking, and their joys, sorrows, and desires, are the same. At a recent Parisan bal costume a lady appeared in tho costume of a heathen goddess, and, to render the dress more classically striking, the fair and bashful dame appeared in Nature’s stockings from the bottom of the tunic downwards. Sandals she wore, and no more. It was considered quite a success. The Queen is expected to visit Edinburgh this year to inaugurate the Museum of Science and Art, the laying the foundation stone of which institution was the last public act of the Prince Consort. Fifteen days to China! Such is the promise that comes to us from the projectors of the new

line of railway from San Francisco, in connection with the new railroad to the Pacific. At present about G2 days are required to go to China, and when the new line is opened one may go round the world in 80 days.