“To-day, as on every previous day since the President’s death, the London papers print many columns of accounts, each account very brief, of what has been done and said in the so-called provincial towns.  One journal prefaces its copious record by the impressive statement that from nearly every town and village telegraphic messages have been sent by its correspondents describing the respect paid to General Garfield on the day of his funeral.  These tributes are necessarily in many places of a similar character, yet the variety of sources from which they proceed is wide enough to include almost every form of municipal, ecclesiastical, political, or individual activity.  Everywhere bells are tolled, churches thrown open for service, flags drooping, business is interrupted, resolutions are passed.  Liverpool, as is natural for the multiplicity and closeness of her relations with the United States, may perhaps be said to have taken the lead.  She closed, either in whole or in part, her Cotton Market, her Produce Markets, her Provision Market, her Stock Exchange.  Her papers came out in mourning.  The bells tolled all day long.

“Few merchants, one reads, came to their places of business, and most of those who came were in black.  The Mayor and members of the Corporation, in their robes, attended a memorial service at St. Peter’s, and the cathedral overflowed with its sorrowing congregation.  Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham, Glasgow, Bradford, Edinburgh were not much behind Liverpool in demonstrations, and not at all behind it in spirit.  It is an evidence of the community of feeling between the two countries that so much of the action is official.  What makes these official acts so striking, also, is the evident feeling at the bottom of this, that between England and America there is some kind of a relation which brings the loss of the President into the same category with the loss of an English ruler.

“At Edinburgh it is the Lord Provost who orders the bells to be tolled till two.  At Glasgow the Town Council adjourns.  At Stratford-on-Avon the Mayor orders the flag to be hoisted at half-mast over the Town Hall, and the blinds to be drawn, and invites the citizens to follow his example, which they do; the bell at the Chapel of the Holy Cion tolling every minute while the funeral is solemnized at Cleveland.  At Leeds the bell in the Town Hall is muffled and tolled, and the public meeting which the United States Consul, Mr. Dockery, addresses, is under the presidency of the acting Mayor.  Mr. Dockery remarked that as compared with other great towns, so few were the American residents in Leeds, that the great exhibition of sympathy had utterly amazed him.  The remark is natural, but Mr. Dockery need not have been amazed.  The whole population of Leeds was American yesterday; and of all England.  At Oxford the Town Council voted an address to Mrs. Garfield.  At the Plymouth Guildhall the maces, the emblems of municipal authority, were covered with black At Dublin the Lord Mayor proposed, and the Aldermen adopted, a resolution of sympathy.