§ Mr. SPEAKER acquainted the House, That, in pursuance of a Resolution of the Congress of the United States of America, a Volume containing the expressions of condolence and sympathy communicated to the United States Government on the subject of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late President of the United States of America, and the attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, on the evening of the 14th of April 1865, has been transmitted to the House of Commons as a testimonial of the grateful appreciation by the People of the generous expressions of condolence and sympathy in the late national bereavement communicated by the House of Commons to the Department of State of the United States.
LORD STANLEYsaid, he rose to move a Resolution of Thanks from the House to the Congress of the United States of America for the gift of a volume in reference to the late President Lincoln, and that the Resolution be forwarded to Mr. Secretary Seward for presentation to Congress.
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Resolution agreed to.
Resolved, That this House accepts, with much gratification, the Volume transmitted to them in pursuance of the Resolution of the Congress of the United States, and hereby directs that the said Volume be placed in the Library of the House; and that a copy of this Resolution be forwarded to Mr. Secretary Seward with a request that he will communicate the same to the Congress of the United States.—(Lord Stanley.)