§ THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURYI should like to ask the noble Earl the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can communicate any later intelligence in respect of the detestable attack on the President of the United States? If he has any, I am sure it would be gratifying to the House if he could give it.
§ EARL GRANVILLEMy Lords, I am anxious to give all information in my power as to this most sad event, which has so deeply excited the sympathy of this country with the President and people of the United States—sympathy which, is every hour increasing in intensity, and is, at least, equal to that felt in the United Stales itself. I have been in communication with the American Minister here; but he does not appear to have any later intelligence than that which we ourselves received, dated midnight last night, to this effect:—"President seems a little better, and is resting quietly; pulse, 124; doctors have some little hope." I am sorry to hear—but this I cannot vouch for—that later telegrams of a private character are not of so good a description.