6 MAY 1865, page 3

Wilkes Booth, The Murderer Of Mr. Lincoln, Left Behind Him,

in the care of his brother, amongst various bonds and samples, a very curious letter in vindication of the act he was meditating. It is a curiously fanatical......

Consols, Which Left Off On Saturday Last At Soij For

money, and 90i 91 for the present account, closed yesterday at 901 f for delivery, and 90/ for the June account. The Directors of the Bank of England have advanced their minimum......

Mr. W. Laing Has Effected An Arrangement With The Govern-

ment of Turkey which Turkish creditors are informed is greatly to their advantage. All the debts of the empire are consolidated into one big one, amounting to about sixty-six......

Mr. Cardwell On Thursday Night Produced His Bill For Grant-

ing pensions to retired Colonial Governors. The pensions com- mence at sixty, must have been earned by at least eighteen years' service, and are proportioned to salary. If the......

Mr. Darby Griffiths, Member For Devizes, Has A Peculiar...

in 'the House. He asks the questions nobody else will, getting snubbed very often, but sometimes eliciting useful in- formation. On Thursday he asked the Chancellor of the......

On Wednesday, 3rd Inst., A Meeting Was Held At The

Social Science Association to consider the best mode of applying fonds to the education of girls, the Dean of Canterbury in the chair. Professor Plumtre, of King's College,......

Annexed Are The Closing Prices Of The Leading Foreign...

ties yesterday and on Friday week :— Friday, April 2. Friday, May 5. Greek .. Do. Ooupons Mexican .. Spanish Passive .. Do. Certificates Turkish 0 per Cents., 1958.. "......

The Reduction Of The Tea Duty Is To Be Postponed

to the 1st of -June next, because the Chancellor of the Exchequer admits that in 1863 he gave the tea-dealers explicit reason to believe that the reduction he then proposed......

If The Lord Chancellor Is Obliged To Resign, One Among

many unhappy legal results may be, we fear, the loss of the Record of Irish Titles Bill, which is an application to Ireland of the very useful principle for registering titles......

Mr. Lincoln's Murder Has Thrown Some Of The English Con-

federate writers into curious embarrassment. They try to express the national sentiment towards him without quite suffocating their real feeling towards the North, and the......

Mr. F. Gisborne, Who Has Had A Good Deal Of

experience in the laying of electric telegraph cables, has published a clear little paper .of statistics bearing upon the subject. His conclusions seem to be that the heavier......