Mr. Hunter to Sir F. Bruce
Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 19th instant, transmitting a resolution which was adopted at a meeting of the inhabitants of [Page 166] the borough of Sheffield on the 1st instant, and presided over by the mayor of that city, expressive of their condemnation of the assassination of the late President, and of their sympathy with the government and people of the United States in this great national bereavement.
I will thank you, with the permission of her Majesty’s government, to convey to the inhabitants of the borough of Sheffield, through their chief magistrate, the high appreciation in which their manifestations of sympathy and good will on this sad occasion are held by this government and people.
I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your obedient servant,
Hon. Sir Frederick W. A. Bruce, &c., &c., &c.