The Express. — London, England, 1861-12-16 00:00:00

the MUNICIPAL ELNCTORB of the WARD of LAXOIIIOIIIN. u Eirruarrsc —At the mama of many Electors and rahaM. la. d bre someone, It Is my intentioa, on L Thomas's Day, be Yilnstant to our aunt' as a CA N DI DATZ fee the hamese being elected rue of your lIKPRIVENTATIIIIM laths COM' diINAIDION COUNCIL heft I hires Me era .to la Wherri:Srp, rommaitar• that ha yawnyes olsolnd • grattsman who cams greased I eliemanalmosit sod in whom election I took • pail. I vanante Is hum that pan will confers !Ike upon NM I as well knows an meat of yen, baited ben born and brought to r ailisMing Maid Hamner, al Thilla my father b at pra t owe of tho npromallattwas Y the Coma of Common Council, ml I bars Oates lad a bemire to Wahl to • similar position, Inking that I might bowl seem wee, to my fallow-citizens. tor as venal wear pa* I to,. taken an actin part In bringing hs question of the wids.js of Woe-street/fore the public and • eteunlislmenii of Norers, and have waited (mon the principal repayare of larratriat and aeighbourhood with a petition, sing In Mew that dostrable object . It elected, I promise to ass y beet ableavnan Set further this much required, and other Is oar Important ward favour of local salwovernment, and of reforms, accordance with the program of the ago . my daily occupation In the Ward. 1 shall always he accemible In any inhabitant bn I seek.may wish to see me on any matter appertaining to the office 1 n....., - titi;l.lst .4 Ward Voter, Is very Incomplete, and might tro I. I to the number of the Parliamentary Lid . this matter, togettaa with the Gas sad other argent questions, should mars lay earliest attention. . . As my brother and . myself carry on business In the want, I may base my dolma to your consideration upon the ground that thus.: who have a stake in the sell brink of the ward, should ba the pbmer persons to represent it If elected, I promise to attend Welch, to the Melees Incumbent upon the oaks, and to ,upholfl mud support the charitable Institution of this City, and th. ancient fights and privileges of my fenow.cltizena. Sir WarvlmMes hare for some yowls been mere formal ceedlnga and the attendance very mewl . I Intend, tMnfore, If the show of hands 1w against me, to go to a poll . and respect fully asking the fawner"( lour support, on that occasion, which will In all probahlllh take place on Monday, the yid lament., I hare the honour W remalu, gentknes, year fartheal servant. 7. IlltattY EMIL 4!, Lombard sbemet. EC., Dec 12. IBM. OM arm AND 00.1 )1111 EXTRACT of CALVES' FEET, sir La st/ and Cannar, Daa d el.. ,14. fa, sad as. Realm% In all abasina, Weer% ea VIACIO&Y, ftur t MMAND4T.„ liersd-4., W. 'EOOND-HAND PIANOFORTIS. 7 CLIMB. UAL; and WOOD Om a Dry ameeleaso• asuomilmil Thrisforka, by We mot alsoold swim ot is* wire/ plow-01. Diewl4awA ght ewes 's. 110 COWIPONDZITTIL =tormasi kr "TM I== s4 des Bombe MY la= sa r. by Teo saw eared 1 lIATIIAREZT. Tationtiow WIMP.. FAMILY JAIL-0171 untascArt COI: MS. Marra Scam. bealsaras ; Ign. C. nal* MV AUNTS ADVICIL Kr. isetent.—aed MT EMUS u 8 ti uizr. 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Until Saturday morning there was no general apprehension of any serious danger to the Bead of the Royal fflossebold, sod even then it was almost univerially hoped and believed that the Plumes's comparative youth and unimpaired strength of constitution would in the end triumph over the more alarming symp toms that had appeared. But before the day closed all was over. The highest family in the / realm wee desolate and the Royal Lady whom all hearts revere had bosom a widow. We cannot attempt to describe in detail the public impression produced by this most afflicting raw& Since the death of the Princess Citations there bee been no each deep and touching appeal to the national sympathy ; nor, insuredly, has there been any such profound, universal, and heartfelt napalm The first feeling of every heart is that of poig nant grief at the terrible bereavement, and of tenderest sympathy for the Royal Lady who Malmo made so suddenly desolate, and the children who are now fatherless. The agonising sorrow of such a moment is too deep for any earthly relief, and too sacred to be disturbed by any intrusive conso lation. But the nation cannot but share in the afflictioos of its beloved Sovereign. The widowed Qintex lives so entirely in the affections of her people that it is impossible for her to weep alone. And this is of all others the very calamity that touches most directly and most powerfully the very sources of that affection. It is in her domestic relations that the Quasi has set so noble op example to every household in the realm. It is es • wife and • mother, in the exemplary discharge of all thefisties belonging to those sacred relations, that she has won so largely the respect and pale. ful affection of the nation. And it is as • wife and a mother that she is sow called to bear the heaviest lose, to endure the bitterest pain that can ever rend a human heart. The home that wee always bright has become suddenly darkened, the united circle is broken, the guiding strength to which the wife had looked up, and the tried affeo- Bon on which she has leaned for twenty years can now support her no more. No words can measure the lose, and few can realise the full meaning of the change. But it ia impossibie to glance at the past, and think of the Royal sufferer who now mourns alone, without an aching MOM of grief and desolation. The union thus severed by death, unlike so many royal sisreieges, was cee not only formed in the very morning of life, but founded on mutual esteem and devoted affection. The long working years of wedded life more than realised the brilliant hopes and prospects of its commence ment. The domestic hie of the I.II.IZZN and Palace Commerhasbeen throughout an example of conjugal happiness, harmony, said peace. It has never for a moment been darkened by any cloud of diffe rence, coolness, or suspicion. As the cares of domestic life multiplied they were faithfully shared, as its duties increased they were diligently discharged, said both brought with them new en joyments. The Quzaw and Parses devoted them selves with conscientious zeal to the education of their family, and they had their reward in watching the gradually developed character and accomplishments of their children. For twenty happy years no cloud of affliction or bereave meat darkened this picture of domestic happi nem But in one short year death has made fearful inroads on the favoured circle. Only nine months ego this very day the country was giving expression to its sympathy with the Royal daughter on the loss of her devoted mother, the late Dacia= of KINT. And now, when . scarcely recovered from this first heavy domestic lose, our beloved Sovereign ia called to endure another blow far more terrible and severe. This overwhelming distress of the Royal Family touches every husband and wife, every sun and daughter in the kingdom, and it will, as we have said, be deeply shared by every family in the realm. The Royal sufferers have the full and tender sympathy of a devoted people. Urief like theirs levels all distinctions of rank ; and while the heart of the Sovereign is wrung with the terrible agony which so many of her sub jests have felt, and so many more must surely THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EY*I4 I INO, DECEMB j feel, they in their turn are genuine mourners with tho widowed Qt:rt.s. But GOD alone can ease tually comfort the fatherless and support the widow. And at • moment when human help is so powerless, the aroused sympa thy of the nation will intercede with Heaven in behalf of the Royal mourners for that divine consolation which alone can be of any real avail. But while the nation sympathises with the Sovrerinit in this bereavement, it also shares her loss. The PRINCE whose untimely death we mourn, had richly earned, through • long and patriotic career, the respect and gratitude of the nation. Placed at • very early age in a position of great delicacy and responsibility, he conducted himself from the first with a prudence and dia -1 cretion which excited the admiration of his con temporaries, and will be even more fully appre elated hereafter. His position virtually excluded him from any active share in the politics or government of the country, and he wisely ab stained from all attempts at interference. But as an educated man, of large sympathies and ener getic mind, he soon sought and found other spheres of congenial activity. He took a genuine interest in art and science, and laboured with conscientious seal to promote the advancement and popularise the results of each. His patriotic services as President of the Fine Arts Commission, as head of the Great Exhibition ,Council of 1851, as pro moter of the Manchester Fine Art Exhibition, and aa president of various learned and scientific associations, are still vividly remembered, and will not be easily forgotten by the grateful people whose interests he laboured in so disinterested a manner to promote. But as Panics CONSORT, in the Royal Household, and as representative of the Court, ho has established even • stronger claim to the gratitude of the whole nation. His con duct was as exemplary as that of some of his predecessors had unhappily been the reverse. His character and example helped most powerfully and directly to raise the moral standard of the Court, which in previous reigns had fallen so low. And in this respect he is un doubtedly entitled to the gratitude and respect of every Englishman. His personal influence was exerted on behalf of noble objects, and his private pursuits were of • dignified and elevating kind. He had a sincere sympathy with the educational and industrial movements of the country, and was to the moment of his death actively engaged in efforts to promote them. Such a man would be a loss in any station, at any time. But • Royal Consort of such a character, and endowed with inch qualities, dying at the early age of forty-two, is in every sense a deep and irreparable loss to the nation. For the moment, however, the sense of national loss is almost absorbed in deep and uni versal sympathy with the overwhelming grief of the Royal mourners. The immediate commercial feature just now is the anxiety of the community to reduce their outstanding engagements until the ques tion of peace or war between this country and America shall have been decided. Now, suspense, more than any other oondition of the public mind, conduces to the accumulation of idle money. Bankers, in particular, let themselves " run into " money" at such times • that is to my, just at a period when, owing to the diminished inducements to enterprise, borrowers become careless of bor rowing, bankers may be for the moment teas eager to lend. Thus the little enterprise that exists may receive, perhaps, a further check, and bankers' reserves may rise still faster. There was on. quarter in which, latterly, an opening had lime presented for the employment of a portion of our surplas, and that was France, where, by a reversal et the usual order of things, the rate of interest was six per cent., while ours was three. But Franco has apparently tided over the worst of the pressure ; and though there is always a suspicion that the rate of interest in that country is regu lated too much by Imperial decree, the increase of 1,600,0001. in the bullion in the Bank, as shown in the return published on Friday, justifies the reduction in the charge of that establishment to Eve per cent. It is probable, therefore, that we may soon have thrown back on our hands even that portion of our floating capital which we had sent over for employment on the other side e 1 the Channel during the recent crisis. In financial matters there is not a cloud in say quarter. The gloom arises solely from political complications, and will not disappear until they are solved, no matter how long and dreary may be the interval. The present depressed, though expectant, atti tilde of the mercantile world contrast' strongly with the feeling of hopefulness with which, prior to the occurrence of the difficulty with Americo, the advent of the New Year bad been looked for. Money was abundant beyond all wants ; the Em peror of the Faxscu had spoken with unseen*. tomcod energy in favour of financial reform and retrenchment ; the alarmists on the Paris Bourse were beginning to entertain an apprehension that there would be "no First of Jemmy" for them; while the proposed visit of the Emperor NAPOLSOI to our Court at the opening of the Great Exhi bition seemed to afford a fresh guarantee for political tranquillity. Public securities were already evincing a degree of elasticity unknown for a long Cum past, and there were many indications of a steady growth of confidence. One day's news hes been sufficient to give it a complete check. We can only hope that the cloud in the West which now so gloomily darkens the horizon may be scattered. lint the last days of the departing year are days of mourning and calamity for England. A meeting of the subscribers to the testimonial to theists Mr Hy. Nareh Bart., was bell at Dublin on Friday, to decide on the form of the testononiaL Dr. Corrigan occupied the chair. Resilatioas were passed by which it was determined to erect a zombie statue in the ball of the New College of Physicians. A banquet of a novel character has been held in Melbourne. Some time since an andimatisation society was set on foot by Mr. Edward Wilma', who has effected so much in the way of introducing foreign animals, game, singing birds, tic., iatoVictoria. This society is now en• morons, and has several active members. They h►ve had an experimental diorite, at which were served up many of the native animals, birds, and fiches. The bill of faro wen. priced kangaroo, wallaby, wombat, butdicoot, opoesum, and porcupine among the animals ; black swan, wild turkey, pareamrt, waterbart, and wattle birds smoug;tbe fowl, and mod of the A& of the Australian seas and huh waters. It is understood that the usual steps will be taken to ruse Thursday week (the day after Christmas try) to be kept as a holiday to such an extant as rosy be preetralik at the Stock Exchange sal in the city generally. The probability is, as the produce markets will be closed, that there will Dot be much busmen after Christmas-day till the Monday following, but it is possible that the new of the chore of the Washington cabinet for peace or war try be received re the afternoon of Saturday, the 2811. There is a report that the prospect of the war with Astoria will deprive the Exhibition commissioners of the able assistance and co-operation of their general reeepr„ Colossi Birdwell. He :tea, it ia said, received en iatiarkea to bold himself in readies.. to start at a very short errs to Cards, The plLnt colonel served in the respign is the Criers. RirizoriorrAriox or &lamest:tar. —Mr. R. A. Shuiey retiree et %beamed the preemie parliament. and Mr. Broesey, Pia., late • eaadielate for Birkeahred, will offer Wm/all is la rhea I=I.I.IIIMINIIMINIIIII THE AbiIIRICAN NIWS. DANGER OF WAR. (From the Daily News.) The Message of Mr. linool n has reached Eng land, but does not contain the reference to the seizure of the Treat which was expected to give it value. The omission of that reference must have been deliberately resolved on, and we can only suppose the President to have passed over a sub ject so important from a sense of the necessity of serving it entire, until he could learn in what manner the seizure of the com Missioners had affected the English Government. So far, therefore, the Message is an indication of a pru dence and caution on the part of the Washington Cabinet which is favourable to peace. On the other hand the " Federal Congress , by which title we assume that the Rouse of Representatives only is designated, has approved the act of Capt. Wilkes. The rashness of such a vote is obvious enough, but it is a step which may be retraced if the govern ment is equal to its duties. (From the Times.) On this day of sorrow, when we are mourning for the dead, and mourning still more for the living, we have goarcely heed to count up probabilities and enmity critically the news that reaches us from across the Atlantic. Troubles are said to come in troops and in battalions. We have so long been spared any national calamity of teat magnitude, that it is with almost • feeling of consternation we find ourselves called upon to add another cause of grave disquietude to the one event which moat weigh upon the mind of every Englishman. The news just brought by the AO& ;. not encouraging. The Congress of the Northeta Republic has passed • vote of thank, to Commander Wilkes, and has thereby identified itself with the act of aggreagico which that officer has'oran &Hod. Again, the Admiralty of the Northern Republic hes approved the conduct of the'r subord'aata la this affair, slightly censuring, at the same time, his for boatel*, in not capturing the Trent, and threatening neutral vessels with capture is all similar came for the Mee% These are important facts, and they do not promise peace. We must remember that in the hands of Coogans lies the question of peace and we% and that, according to the pre cedent of 1812, the massage of the president in that Republic takes the place of the manifesto which is customary among European nations, while an act of congress declaring that the United States' government is at war doge the offload the moolamatios or the order in council which is the formality is this country. The vote of the Federal Congress, therefore, je diecomeging to all who had hoped that pesos might yet be preserved. The" Navy Department" moray a portion of the government, which, acting la the armies of int gene ral duties of approving or censorial( the conduct of • steal officer, is perhaps scarcely to be ocosidered as comprcenising the whole government to any large political extent. The decision of each • department may possibly admit of being ecreeeted by the opinion of the slate kepi% sad we may hope that when the demand of the /MIA gavot sment aims,' before the Federal Cabinet that demand will be submitted to their legal authorities, as the outrage itself was submitted by us to eon. We can, how ever, have no equal cosildenoe that a meow body will consent with the moot ohmage to mosses • mass it has once enthugiastieally takes up, or to sake restitution for • wrong to which it iv sow (agilely committed. Hops with what earn- fitness of hope we may that war win sot be added to the gelernities by which we are visited, we may not shut oar eyes to the fact that this news 4 1 very dis couraging, and that danger appears imminent. (From the Morning Post.) Os the wee day that we record the death of the Prises (need of linghwid, it she hawses our panful duty to *dais the Ina tine 'itakable evidesese of lapsed * war. The proverb which tails us aid seinfortiose WPM some dome in the pretest iastease boss sat to be toe tame The messy of President Linde to Ocograw, of whisk es sbeirect is published is meth* patios dew' ahem% is esemiehly warlike For seise days peel we have bees hu aped hops. ad, astwith •aad* the litinepseate mincer is Whig the Amami pipers Mesta the many ea the Trod, sad the abase of lie reverateeet, we dill evaded thee whoa Mr. Used* woad meet Omereee be would Imam to disavow the grow riddle of iatametiosal law committed by the captain of the Bea Jaelsto. He barn moles, but the disavows! hue ad been made. nod the President simply released ideal{ es the subject of the caber committed oe the Treat, sr Indulged only is that empty bombast towards the Southern States to which w here bees hitherto accustomed, we would have con cluded the* he was reserving the declaration of his inten dose respecting the an, render of the Confederate eomaissieoen iinfll we had made oar demands, and vs would still have hoped that ultimate de. tsradnation would have been of rock a oaten* as to afford an satisfaction. But when he rims the noes► sity of raising fortifications and coast defences, and when we couple with such advice his neglect to disavow the act el hie sillier, and the 0011110 taken by Omigrass in expressing their approval of a deed which, if not atoned for, most had to hostilitioi, we cannot but conclude that the manage means war. If such should unhappily prove to be the eaas, the blame must lie at the doors of those alone who provoke a 000dict by an act 000densned sot only by the people ag• plowed, but by every other civilised Dation. . ;.. THE DEATH OF THE PRINCE CONSORT. LATEST PARTICULARS. To-day there has been o universal manifestation coadolence for the above isteisocholy event. Tradesmen and others have partially closed their shops. The royal standards at the churches of St. liartin's.in.the.Pields, St. Margaret, Westailester, and St. Mazy Abbott, Kensington, which ere coiled royal parishes, from the fact of the palaces of the royal family being situated In them, were displayed half.resst high. The colours of the Foot and Life Guards abo had a piece of craps suspended from the pike-head, and the oommiuioued Akers wore crape each on his arm. All along the river below London-bridge there was s similar manifestation of nicest and sympathy, the ships of all nations having all their national flags exhibited half-mast high, as was also the case at the Tower of London. At the University College, Goweretreet, where the rises woo by the oaken sad privates of the Westminster Rifles were to be distributed this 'veiling, on which masks there was to be a 'oink, a notice was issued that, in consequence of the death of the Prince Consort, the wit* sad distribution would not take pleas, and that for this daythe college would be closed. We read in the Timor ; -l' We believe that the Prim Mara& had far some days a Neelancholy conviction that hi s end was at hand. The ricer death of his relative the Kiag of Priori from a similar disorder is understood to have bed an iinfcctunate inflame upon him, and possibly as sisted the program of the malady. It is rid that r early as Wedarday morning the Pr:nos =premed his belief that he should not recover. Wham the improve- 1 meat took pleas on ilatorday it was agreed by the medical men that if the patient could be carried over one more night his life would in all probability be ma. But the sodden failure of vital power which occurred In the afternoon intrsted these hors. Osagettien di Jhelum, the result of complete exhaustion, eat is, the Prim s breathing berms continually shorter and 41st, and he expired without pain at a few minutes before 'levee o'clock. He was inneiblit, and knew the Queen to the last. The Duke of Oralridge and the following gentlemen connected with the Clourt were preeent—Geseral brace, Sir Charism Phipps, Oettorul Gni, Decent Be.. time, Lord Alfred Paged. Ms* Du MA, Genera Sey mour, Colossi Elpidaotom mud the Dour of NV-Indoor. It mast have cheered the last momenta of the Marione paean to see his wife ad early all his children round his bed. The Priam Royal, who is at Berlin, was prevented by rasa severe indispositioa from travelling, sad, indeed, the death of the Prince followed too moos on the discovery of hi, danger for such a journey to have availed her. Prime Alfred is serving on board his ship on the rater Bids et the Atlantic ; but the Priam of Wales mad the Priam Alice were by his aid*, together with several of the younger members of the family. Of the devotion ad strength of mind shown by the Prisms Alice all through these trying scenes it is Inspostible to speak too highly. Her Royal Highness has, indeed, felt that it was her photo to be a com• fort and support to her mother in this aMictioa sad to her dutiful are we may perhaps owe it that the Queen bas borne her loss with exemplary resignation, ad • composure which under so sodden and so ten ible • be. rsaventeet Gould not have bee& anticiatiA This bet will, wears sum, give the greatest saidestioa to the country, and we may eddthat, after the death of the Prima, the Queen, when tke fiat pamismeto beret of grief was over, caked her children argued her ad with a seheasse whisk gives proof of peat maul emegy, addressed that ia solemn and affenicents terms, whisk may be east dared as indicating the intsekeno al • Sovereign who feels that the interest* of a peat nation depend oe her firmness. Her Majesty declared to her family that, though she felt crushed by the lass of one who had been bar companion through life, she knew how much wee expected of her, and she accordingly called on her children to give her their amiamos, In. cedar that she might de bee duty to these and the country. That her Majesty may have health aad strength to fulfil these noble intentions, and that she may live many years in placid charfulases and peace of mid, alleviating the recollection of her keg by sharing the happieess of her &Urea will be the earn* prayer el all her subjoin. Her Majesty and the Piastres will leave for Osborne to-morrow morning, and remain there until after the funeral, wheat will take place this day week." A letter from Windsor, dated last night, appearing in the Manchester Guardian of today, differs is several genially, from the above account. The writer says :—" Her Naivety bears up with considerable fortitude. To one who spoke to her of ruination this morning, her Majesty replied, through her tears, ' I suppose I must not fret too much, for many poor women have to go through the same trials.' last night, about half-past eight o'clock, when no hope remained, her Majesty and her children were admitted into the chamber of death to take a last earthly farewell of the Prince, All were present save the Crown Princess of Prussia, Priam Alfred, and Prince Leopold. The mono was istsoady painful and affecting. The Princess Alice was carried from the chamber in a state of hysterical agita tion, and when the fatal news was communicated to her else was seized with a rigidity of the nerves and tempo rary insensibility which alarmed the ateenclantr. The grist of her Majesty and the royal children was seereely less in tense. At ten o'clock, General Biddulph, muter of the household, entered the Prince's chamber. The Prince did not know him. A state of coma had supervened, which con tinued until death ; and in about aa hoar the sufferer ceased to breaths. "The Prince's mifferinp daring the last day or two of his We are said to have bees agonising. When an attempt me made to lift him, or move his position, his pouts were distressing to hear. During the latter part of yesterday his weakness was so peat that he could not raise his head from his pillow. "The Queen's attention to her Royal consort has bees mast exemplary and unceasing. As his disorder ap proached its crisis, the Priem could not bear her to Isms the room, and was impatient for her return. The Queen and the Princess Alice sat up with him the whole of Fri- day eight. About three o'clock they were joined by the Prince of Wales, who remained with them during the reel of their mournful vigil. A gestleman who has seen the corpse informs me that the features have more than the usual pallor of death. The face, always composed and statuesque in expression, is wonderfully calm, placid. and peaceful in death. It is as if the figure had been suddenly transmuted into the whitest alabaster. "Th. Princess Royal wan it is said, prevented from obey. tog her desire toreeeive a parent's dying breath by her ap• preaching accoashentent. The King of the Belgians hail been urged to visit the royal mourners, and is expected in the course of a day or two. Prince Albert's brother, the reiguing Duke of Saxe Oobarg, and his sister have also been invited to the house of mourning. " The Lord Chamberlain arrived at Windsor to-day, end immediately proceeded to make the arrangements neemeary for the funeral. The restoration of the Waterloo Gallery wee actively proceeding under the direction of the Prince Consort. Orders have of course been given to countermand these and other works. "It appears that Prince Albert has not been in a good state of health since Lis return from Scotland. His illness dates, however, from Ilia visit to the Prince of Wales at Cambridge, about a month ago, when he went out @boot leg, got wet through, and, it is said, was imprudent enough to sit in his wet clothes. The private apartments end corridors at Windsor Castle are, I hear, kept at • temperature of about 60, and hence the Prince took with him to Cambridge a susceptibility to cold which rendered any long exposure imprudent, if not dangerous. About a fortnight since the Queen and Prince Consort reviewed the Eton School Volunteer Rifle Corps. The rain fell feat during the ceremony, and the Prince was seised on the ground with pints in the back, resembling an attack of lumbago. He became feverish and com plained of pains in bin limbs. Confinement to his mom was ordered. Gastric fever supervened, and wasted his strength. Typhoid fever followed, and his five physicians were unable to make heed ag►inst this combination of mala dies. I bear that Sir James Clark, a week ago, prophesied that lad night would be the crisis of the patient's disorder. Sir James and Dr. Jenner remain at the Castle, as a matter of caution. Dr. Jenner ia an eminent authority in came of fever, bet it I. consolatory to know that there is nothing infectious in the disease which cerriedoff the Prince. "The marriage of the Prisms Alice will be, it is be lieved, postponed for another year. "The obsequies of the Prince Consort will not be per formed for about three weeks. It is currently believed that his remains, although be was not of the blood royal, will be interred in the royal vaults under St. George's ChapeL" bt Court. W/NDIJOH OAII/11, Dso. 14. The Prince of Wales arrived at the Castle at 3 o'clock this mon* tress Red*ley Hall, attended by Major-General the Hoa. 1L Brew and Major Teesdale. The Prince of Lasing's welareed is the foreseen. Captain (key has succeeded Major Teesdale as Mown la Waktiog to the Paws et Vale& TM Duke al Osoitridet strived from Looks surly tics saoroiag. to asks inquiries altar the Prime Contort The Dula el Nam= goo called to mkt homilies. The Movies bulletin of the state ot the Quem'e mu eahlbited yesterday at Buckingham Panel : " Windsor Cast* kiesday Noon, Dee. 15. _ " Qesss, although ovsewlielmd with grid, basis haw beresmimist id* minimum, sad has sot masts& is bag& " JAmms Mai, M.D. " Han HOLLAND, IL D. " TIONAIi WATSON, M.D. " Wa.uma Jima, M.D." The ambers of the diplomatic' corps sod s large body of the lability sod gentry celled yesterday at Buckingham Palma to maps inquiries after the health of the Queue. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dia. BA The Deka el Cambridge arrived early Ibis monks; sad remshis at the Owls. Promos Nary ot Quabridp arrived front Km to ma. Inquiet's. Governor Walker treated.' business et the Colonial office on Saturday, on his departure for Barbados& Despatches were received on Saturd►y at the Colonial office from the Governors of the West India Islands, the Australian colonies, Ceylon, Hong Kong, and Liman. Despatches were sent to the Governor, of the North American Province' and Bermuda, and to the Lord High Coesteirione el the lonian Is la nds. His Highness the Prince Radsiwill and Count Krehiseki have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn street, from Paris. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury left Hatfield House ea Saturday, on a visit to the Earl sad Ciente= of Hardwick., at Wiropole Hall, Climbridde shire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath have arrivrd M Thomas's Hotel, Berkelargos:o, from Longleaf, Wilts. The Earl of elanwilliam has arrived in town from Ton may. Count Blucher ham arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from Berlin. Lord Crewe arrived in town on Friday from Ornr• HAll, Cheabire. _ The marriage of Lady Loodeaborough with Lord Othe Yltagersid, younger we of the Duke at Latest/Jr, took pines as listarday. The termaimy was quite private. Mr. W. W. Beaumont, M.P., and Lady Margaret Ilemiatent arrived at their rmidame a few dye silos from BMWs HA Yorkshire. Colonel and the Hon. Um. Loyd-Lindsay, ac eompanied by Km Liadeay, have anima at Mmotro lislabfria Leskbp Ms" Waling% NM& ;iiii. j •• V • 16 , 1861. THE CONTINENTAL PRESS ON THE DEATH OF THE PRINCE CONSORT. The Moniteur of this morning, in speaking of the death of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, says :—"The Emperor, the Imperial family, and the whole of France will mingle their regret and grief with the royal family and the English nation." The Debats of to-day observes :—" The moura ful and premature event which has halation the Qumn and the royal family, in the midst of the gravest political diffi culties, will be keenly felt, not only in England but throughout Europe. In France especially, where Prince Albert has left personal recollections, public opinion will, we are soundest, unite in the private but severe grief into which this great misfortune has plunged Queen Victoria, the constant and faithful ally of France." The &Ms observes :—" In a difficult position, Priam Albert won the esteem of the English nation, and the sympathy of all those who, arilsta, literary men, inventors, scientitio men, form the party in England of intellectual progress, in which the deceased Prince was specially interested. Pliably accepting the subordinate part of th sovereign's husband, be sought in learning and the protec tion of the arts and of indium/, an emploj.nent, useful to his new country, of that intellectual activity which he was prevented by the traditional susceptibilities of the nation from applying to political affairs." " His elevated Mateo, the dignity of his character," rya La Prate, " obtained for the deceased Primo • well de served popularity." The Indepaidame Belo has the following comments : " Although plamid in a position more subordinate bat not less difficult than that of a reigning sovereign, especially towards a people who are proud, reserved, and impatient of all foreign inflame, Prince Albert, without ;ever exciting the least 0111BMIII, moseeded in exercising in the councils of Great Britain, with as much dignity as prudence, a legitimate authority, the good Oats of which are denied by none. All the useful institutions which originated in England by the initiative of the people --in this country so vigorous —were honoured with his advocacy, one which was never sterile or merely nominal. Wherever these was progress to buten, swim work to found or develops, the sympathetic, motive, and energetic concurrence of the Queen's husband was over to be reamed upon. This intelligent and comprehonaive participation of the Prince in the social life of the English at first pined him their esteem sod then their affection. They regarded him as one of themselves, and certain prejudices, or rather indisetive prepoissedons sedan him at the time of hie marriage with the Queen on account of has nationality and tendencies towards absolutism which were more or lees attributed to him, were soon completely dispersed, to be replaced by feelings of the utmost cordiality. Thus his loos will be deeply felt, and all England will participate In the grief of the royal family.. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (azonz's TILIGIIIX6.) AMICIUCA. VOTE OF THANKS TO CAPT. WILKES. In the American Howe et Representatives, on the 2nd insk, Mr. Lovejoy, of Illinois (Rep.), offered • joint resolution tendering the thanks of Congress to Captain Wilkes for his arrest of the traitors Slidell and Mason. Mr. Egerton, of Ohio (Rep.), moved as a sub stitute that the President be requested to present Captain Wilkes with a gold medal with suitable emblems and devices expressive of the high sense of confidence enterlained for him by Congress in his prompt arrest of the rebels Mason and Slidell. The substitute was rejected and the original reso lution adopted. In Congress on the 2nd, Mr. Colfax, of Indiana, offered a preamble and resolution, which were unanimously adopted, requesting the President to direct the confinement of the rebel envoy Mason in the cell of a convicted felon, until Colonel Oorooran shall be treated by the rebels as the United States have treated all prisouers taken by them on the battlefield. It was subsequently decided to advise the same treatment of Slidell in reference to the imprisonment of Colonel Wood. [A full summary of President Lincoln's Message will be found an our fourth page.] NEW YORE, Dec. 3, EVrtl3lo. (Per Asia, cid Queenstown.) The Federal Navy Department has expressed its emphatic approval of the capture of Messrs. Mason and Slidell It also states that Captain Wilkes displayed too much forbearance in not capturing the Trent, but that this must not form a precedent for any future similar infraction of neutral obligations by foreign commercial vessels. COMNERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money abundant. Exchange steaiy at 108 k to 109. Stocks firmer and in moderate demand. New York Central, 774 ; Erie, 31k ; Illinois, 60k. United States Sixes, k lower. Cotton very firm. Sales to-day, 3,500 bales. Middling Uplands, 28kc. Flour unchanged. Wheat quiet. Corn rather firmer. Provisions quiet. Coffee firm and ad vancing. Sugar steady. Molasses unchanged. QUEENSTOWN, Die. 15. The Royal Mail steamship Asia, from New York on the 4th inst., arrived here at 8 a.m. She brings 68 passengers. She landed 90 sacks of mails and three passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 8.20 a.m. All well. QUEER TOWN, Dic. 16. The Royal Mail steamer Niagara arrived at 9.46 p.m. yesterday. She embarked mails, passengers, and latest telegrams, and proceeded for Halifax and Boston, at 10 p.m. All well. She experienced very severe weather during half the passage. FRANCE. The Mouiteur of this morning announces that the interest on Treasury Bonds has been lowered to si, 4, and 4 respectively. BOMBAY MAIL The Manilla and Ellora, with the above mail, left Alexandria on the 12th (13th I) inst., for Marseilles and Southampton respectively. The Chita brought the mail to Suez, arriving there on the 11th. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Ceylon, from Southampton on the 4th, reached Malta on the 13th, at 10 a.m., and would leave at 8 p.m., for Alexandria. The Toronto Globe, of November 29, days General Sir Fenwick Williams, Commander of the Toms, will arrive in town this form:l°,o, by the Grand Trunk train, accompanied by his staff, including Colonel Wilmot Colonel Rollo, Captain De Winton, and Captain Grant, for the purpose of inspecting the defences of the neighbourhood. The excavations for • new fort, • short distance from the old one, were commenced a couple of days ago under the superintendence of Colonel Robertson, Royal Engineers." _ _ Railway travelling in France, which was for merly comparatively safe, has latterly become more dangerous. A sad accident, attended with fatal conse quences, has just occurred on the Bordeaux and Cette Railway. A passenger train which left Toulouse, on arriv log at the Carcassonne station, ran into a goods train through the fault of the pointsman. The shock was so Molest that one compartment of the pameoger train was knocked to pieces. IL Calvet, a professor of chemistry at the School of Medicine at Toulouse, and who was going to establish himself in business at Carcassonne, and six other passengers were dangerously wounded. The pointeman ban been arrested. Tits Msuais.—Two gold medals founded by the late Sir Gilbert Blanc have just been awarded to Mr. Christopher Knox Ord, M.D., of her hpijady's ship Hermes, and to Mr. William Macleod, M.D., of her Ifaisosy's ship Ilreapsear. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova ows PARIS, SUNDAY &IMMO. The Coludittaiceinel desires to protest emphati cally against the following passage in yesterday's Debate: The reeognition by France of the Southern States would not Indeed constitute a breach of neutrality in the eye of international law ; but that is mere theory, for, in a mon' and politics' point of view, neutrality would be at an end; although France world not have throe a her sword into the scale, she would have pledged her influence, and that is what she ought not to do. " says the Constifutionnei, "is an idea which would never have occurred to ns ; we would never have written such a sentence. Our dissent ' vom the Dards on this theme is profound, irrecon cileable, absolute. We know the strength of our country ; we are quite of opinion that this immense strength should be well husbanded and reserved for great occasions ; the sword of the Charlemagass and Napoleons should only leap from the scabbard when French interests and French glory call for its services. But French influence never abdicates. We do not remember—we will not remember— that there ever was a government in France capable of acting upon such a maxim ; but if such a government ever did exist it must have vanished, to use the words of the poet, ' without so much as. leaving its ahadow on the wa ll .' " After this hit at the Orleanist party, of which it assumes the Debate to be the representative, the . Constitutionnet proceeds to say, in the spirit of the Nmperor's famous proclamation declaring that France had an interest wherever there was a great idea to be served : We ray, for our own parts, that French inflames should be exercised everywhere and every how, honestly awl openly, d aoaree ; that this inflow:ice should be felt at the oOportaas moms* ea t h e beaks of the Mississippi, just as mach as in Syria sad in the Fist, just u much as ia every pert of the globe when than is a French tradition tol matins', or • Frauds Wang to ',smote or protect. THE CASE Or THZ HARVEY BIRCH. The New York Poet, seeeired by to-day's mat e l rye :—" l 4s of the most hrotiful of the packet ships red; mail from thin port—a pride and basset of oar oommereleli manes—the Harvey Birch, belonging to gr. J. H. Brower, of Sorb-skeet, has fallen ► victim to the piratical ler of the rebels. Returning to this port from Havre, is ballast, after a prosperous outward she seised by the Asszaship Nashville, water's edge. There are reasons, should sot particularly comminierate loss; but be that as it may, the circumstances excite many reflections. Her crew, - ' sailors, prosecuting an boot and 1 wire seised by the lawless rovers, put had been criminal* and in that carried off to a foreign port. " Whether the Nashville professes mistimed vessel of war, or a privateer, probability is that 1611 is neither, and like a pirate, on bee own reposelbility. be nominally, the outrage is the same ; that has yet been inflicted upon country, sad the honour as well citizens. New York must feel wrong to bar very heart. Seldom history es a commercial metropolis dared to question her right to nevi which is the source of her wealth UK the seas of the world foreign powers ledge the emblems of her enteritis, t the most frirodly relations with her glad to do all in their power to fc zonuserce. But these rebels do not . merrestmen, sink them in the great their rem to the indignities which -' for Gloom* Mr. Musey, M.P., will publish concluding volume of his History at El Reign of George ILL, in the course of the emu; og spring. Mr. Adderley will shortly publish a letter to Mr. Disraeli, on the present relations of England with this colonies. The Dublin Evening Mail announces the death Lord Riven&le, the aged Biahop of Killaloe, who had bi in a dangerous state of health for some time. He was b< in 1784, oonsecrated Bishop of Killeloe in 1839, and Imo needed his brother William, an third Baron Riveradaba in 1848. A puiene judgeship in India has been offered to Mr. li'Mahon, M.P. for Wexford, and declined. The appointment is worth 5,0001. a year, with 1,5C31. for an outfit, but the locality, Agra, is extremely ill-suited to Europeans until they have been acclimatised by early and lose residence. The Let occasion on which the people of Eng• land were called upon to put themselves into mourning fix the death of a Prince Consort was just 153 years ago, Prinoi . . George of Denmark, the consort of Quee• Anne, having died on the 28th of Oct., 1708 ; but the easy end placable prince was socially and politically very much of a cipher. The Morning Post remarks :—" A sad new year awaits us. A cowl and • nation in mourning, no royal marriages, • melancholy opening of the Great International Exhibition when he who was its prime mover and very soul baa departed ; • sad new year when we are suffering from so dreadful • chastisement of Provident's." The Bombay Gazette says that a monster train, consisting of 77 cerrisges, was run from Surat to &rods, the day before the fah. held on the Dussera festival. When it pared over the Tapia) and Nutted& Iron Bridges, the passengers offend to the rivers micoanuta in such large quantities that the waters for the time seemed quite covered with them. It is saki that this shower of cocoa nuts was offered that the rivers, over which such monster trains were to pas, might not open " their wide mouths a • • swallow up the human freight." DEA= OP PRINCIPAL CUNNINGILAIL —The free church of Scotland have sustained a serious loss in the death of Dr. William Cunningham, Principal of the New College, Edinburgh, which took place early on Saturday morning, after an illness of ten days, terminating in pleurisy. Dr. Cunningham was recognised * one of the leaders of the great woledeatical secession from the Scotch establishmen in 1843 having taken a prominent pert in the conflict. debate in the church courts that preceded that event. Af the "disruption," as it was called, Dr. Cunningham, w had previously been minister of Trinity College Church. Edinburgh, wee appointed Professor of Church History Divinity in the New College then instituted, and iu IS 47, o • the death of Dr. Chalmers, be was chosen to fill the *lice principal. The deceased clergyman has long been *one of the alibi* theologians in Scotland. He was a • stanch defender of the Calvinistic divinity, and admitted'. possessed great logical power and critical acumen. 1/ . speeches possessed a sort of stern, argumentive force that bad the effect of eloquence upon the bearer, and it was Mfg cult to say whether they were more impressive or oonviocing. His last great effort on the platform was a speech at UM burgh about a year ago on the Carlini's cue, which puerally manic t as the most lucid exposition and a• defence of the views Dow maintained by the free church * opposition to the civil courts on the question of ecc tied discipline. Dr. Cunningham, who was a native Berwickshire, died in his 56th year. About two yeaGN sga on showing indications of failing health, some friends pro , posed to unite in subscribing to a testimony of persona esteem for him, and in a few days the suni of 7.0001. raised for that purpose. The rev. doctor was chosen mode rater of the free church assembly in 1859. THIS SPRCIAL SUND AY EVENING Nene! , fis. Yesterday evening Exeter-hall was thrown open for first time this winter for a special service. The ball well fills 1, and a sermon was preached by the Rev. William Brook, on the duty of British Christians in relation to th Amenca arida. At St. James's-ball there were two service' that in the diem* being conducted by , the Rev. tewm Hall LL.B., Minister of Surrey Chap e l ; an d that io th evening by the Rev. William Chalmers, Preshyte Yielder of Marylebone. At the Victoria Theatre the was a special service *inducted by Mr. C. M. Rushy. " Surrey Chapel evangelist ; " and at the Surrey Theatre sermon WU preached by th Rev. Daniel Hatteras, of Rut ney. Special religious services were also held yesterday I the Standard Theatre, Shoreditch • the Pavilion Theatre. Whited** ; and Sadler's-wells Thewtre. It is armour" , that St. Martin's-ball, Long-acre, will be opened fora spec service next Sunday. Yesterday morning the Rev. Dr. Thomson a'i'l the Rev. Thomas Staley, designate Bishops of Gloom& and Bristol and Honolulu. were consecrated in the chile' of Lambeth Palace, in the presence of the Archbishop Canterbury, the Bishops of London and Oxford, the do trio clergy, sada very crowded congregation. ►and voyage, she wee i, and burned to the is, it is said, why we rats the owner ea roomstiooes of the ow, a body of femme id honourable motto,, put in irons as if they ignominious 000dltioa es to be a regularly OCCiI• ier, does not appear. The sod that she is cruising ility. But whatever she was ; one of the grossest pan the deg al ow it as property of oar 1 the insult and the Seldom before in her stropolis has micas navigate the great ocean and supremacy. In all ears are glad to so:know- n, are glad to cultivate her representatives, sod D foster sod extend h not scruple to arrest her great deep, and sub civilised nations reserve blish the fourth a cl England du.ing SoL The Ila Non l " ihar, At the hall and 11.111311 M, jointure, a net in* estates w the prob per MUM children. solute it bilious were sou being a I life - note copse on tell them e period, ac ciency wo early perm liked to waited at a footman exceeding he went where be practice a to Eton, prove in was dill masters, h that, Mate tutor pare home, whi form. Ht that very of educati verity, of indite There wa id not Loot Snipi toll then 'Loral poi placinued 4t Etoo In gorging that an m. obliged to s ,dress. At ebristenod be was still of bchavutg robious L bw sereechi Ire Werewere ions. 1 alluded 000 desirable th Le period he exhibts. On wltw ia e nc greati" ou t gt i n e . : • gentleman and screech sudden out he had a lei drinking, eo to drunkenu inn, it had n violent outt was • dwre 'persons of ---7 of reasoning Eton animal animals that would not in him mouth in not even wit , of him for to he one day t whom they a tieletilsted to Mr. GoteaWit and he woule In 1&57, Gen the Crimea. Sophie were his going t, Lord Mkt., tion. At the leocompeniecl traordi ry obliged to a only three nu At Sp :draw him int, I Ifttlidi W TI l' I I I iterough the 'tat jigs pro; E- Th elak-haLl Windha with who soqwilat "led th if 1 quo ate pall nom r• pin n th 4 it r t wa /evidei and h CM w IDOL they 1 moth Icy be the ;charm ,and ex !not int !ladi llir e; had ma Lain. The hire/tell Sir Mr. for th 4 his si