The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3974, 23 September 1881, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1881.

The English Court lias very properly gone into mourning for one week for the late President of the United States of America. "This is the first occcasion on which such a mark of respect has been shown a deceased President, and will, We are sure, be accepted by the people of the States as a compliment, and in the spirit in which it is offered. It not only shows respect for the late President, and symptaby with that mighty nation under their affliction, bat it shows that the bonds of sympathy between the people «f England and America are closer than in the past, and is an unconfutable answer to those who say the relations between the countries are strained. This manifestation of sympathy will hare the effect of increasing that feeling of kinship which the wisest men of both nations long to see more frequently exhibited, and will do more in that direction than conferences, friendly meetings, or treaties. Few men are ungrateful enough to forget consideration shown for them in their hour of affliction, for it is by sympathy, as says a great writer, "that we enter, into the • concerns of others — that we are moved, as they are moved, and are never suffered to be indifferent spectators of almost any thing which men can do or suffer. For sympathy must be considered as a sort of ■ substitution, by which we are put into the place of another man, and affected in many respects as he is affected;" and as with individuals, so.with the masses, .for the same feelings that can stir the heart of one man will most likely find an echo in the great heart of a nation..