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rHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DEOMMBER 16, 1861. JESTY un44,„,tke overwhelming weight of her supreme sorrow, we have the solace of knowing that that mitigation at least her MAJESTY pos sesses to the very uttermost. this is all that can be said of it. That he is indis posed to give up his prisoners, is clear from his passing by the opportunity of doing it with the best grace. Ho knew, for all the American press knew, the illegality of the mode of cap ture. This was never denied—it was only alleged that we were gainers by not taking the Trent before a prize court—the clear illegality would have been an easy ground for saying, even to an American mob, that their Government must offer the restoration of the prisoners. Such dignity and honour are, of course, hardly within the com prehension of a nation of DODSON and FOGOS but as the illegal retention of the prisoners has been his deliberate act, we presume he means to persist in it, though he had not the folly to speak out till he could tell Congress hew the business stood on both sides. before 11 o'clock, his Royal }frailness the Prince, Consort departed this life, at Windsor Castle, to! the inexpressible grief of Her Majesty and of all Ithe Royal Family. The Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince ofi Wales, their Royal Highnesses the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, and their Serene High nesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, were all present when his Royal Highness expired. The death of this illustrious Prince will be deeply mourned by all Her Majesty's faithful and attached' subjects as an irreparable loss to Her Majesty,l 'the Royal Family, and the nation. t4ATE':3I‘INS S, by the rebellion are not beiOnciihe resources of the loyal ;,'people, and to believe that the same patriotism which has :thus far sustained the Government, will continue to sus itain it till peace and union shall again bless the land, I re spectfully refer to the report of the Secretary of War, for !information respecting the numerical strength of the army, and for recommendations, having in view an increase of its efficiency, and the well-being of the various branches of the service entrusted to his care. It is gratifying to know that the patriotism of the people has proven equal to the occa sion, and that the number of troops tendered greatly ex ceeds the force which Congress authorised me to call into the field. I refer with pleasure to these portions of his report which make allusion to the creditable degree of discipline already attained by our troops, and to the excellent sanitary condition of the entire army. The recommendation of the Secretary for an organisation of the militia upon a uniform basis is a subject of vital importance to the future safety of the country, and is commended to the serious attention of Congress. The large addition to the regular army in con nection with the defection that has so considerably dimi nished the number of its officers gives peculiar importance .to his recommendation for increasing the corps of cadets to the greatest capacity of the Military Academy. By mere omission, I presume, Congress has failed to provide chap lains for the hospitals occupied by the volunteers. " This subject was brought to my notice, and I was in duced to draw up the form of a letter, one copy of which properly addressed, has been delivered to each of the per sons, and at the dates respectively named and stated in a schedule, containing also the form of the letter, marked A, and herewith transmitted. These gentlemen, I understand, entered upon the duties designated at the times respectively stated in the schedule, and have laboured faithfully therein ever since. I, therefore, recommend that they be compen sated at the same rate as chaplains in the army. "I further suggest that general provision be made for chaplains to serve at hospitals as well as with regiments. " The report of the Secretary of the Navy presents in detail the operations of that branch of the service, the activity and energy which have characterised the Adminis tration, and the results of measures to increase its efficiency and power. Such have been the additions, by construc tions and purchase, that it may almost be said a navy has been created and brought into service since our difficulties commenced. • "Besides blockading our extensive coast, squadrons larger than ever before assembled under our flag have been • put afloat, and performed deeds which have increased our naval renown. I would invite special attention to the recommendation of the Secretary for a more perfect organisation of the navy by introducing additional grades 7 in the service. The present organisation is defective and •: : . - unsatisfactory, and the suggestions submitted by the De - partment will, it is believed, if adopted, obviate the cliffl . culties alluded to, and tend to promote harmony and in crease the efficiency of the navy. " There are three vacancies on the Bench of the Supreme 'Court—two by the decease of Justices Daniel and M`Lean, 7 and one by the resignation of Justice Campbell. I have, so far, forborne making nominations to fill the vacancies for reasons which I will now state ; Two of the outgoing Judges resided within the States now overrun by revolt. z. So that, if successors were appointed in the same localities they could not now serve upon their circuits, and many of the most competent men there probably would not take the personal hazard of accepting to serve even here upon the Supreme Bench. " I have been unwilling to throw all the appointments northward, thus disabling myself from doing justice to the South on the return of peace, although I may remark that to transfer to the North one which has heretofore been in the South, would not, with reference to territory and popu lation, be unjust. " During the long and brilliant judicial career of Judge INl`Lean his circuit grew into an empire, altogether too large for any one judge to give the courts therein more than .a nominal attendance, rising in population from 1,410,01 8 in 1839, to 6,151,405 in 1860. Besides this, the country generally has outgrown our present judicial system. " If uniformity was at all intended, the system requires that all the States shall be accommodated with circuit courts attended by supreme judges, while, in fact, Wis consin, Minnesota, lowa, Kansas, Florida, Texas, Califor nia, and Oregon have never had any such courts. "Nor can this well be remedied without a change of the ;;system, because the adding of judges to the supreme c ourt enough for the accommodation of all parts of the country with supreme courts, would create a court altogether too numerous for a judicial body of any sort, and the evil be one that will increase as new States come into the Union. " Circuit Courts are useful or they are not useful. If useful, no State should be denied them ; if not useful, no ;';-'State should have them. Let them be provided for all or abolished as to all. ••• " Three modifications occur to me, either of which I think would be an improvement upon our present system. Let the Supreme Court be of convenient number in every Expiring as his Royal Highness has done in the forty-third year of his age, it is impossible to regard his demise as otherwise than lamentably rremature. Yet within the narrow span marked out by these two simple dates—the alpha and omega of his earthly career— His Birth on the 26th August, 1819, and AMERICA. THE FEDERAL CONGRESS. PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S! MESSAGE. His death on the 15th December, 1861, how much is there not comprised of worldly honour enjoyed and of good work nobly and earnestly ac complished ! More than half of the Prince Con sort's lifetime, it should be borne in mind, has been passed in a position of the most delicate and supreme responsibility. It will be recorded in his regard upon the pages of our National History that of that most supreme and most delicate responsi bility he acquitted himself almost entirely—to ad miration. Occasional errors of judgment were in his instance, and with respeot to those respon sibilities—we are willing to believe now—the rare and fleeting exceptions. At any rate, it must henceforth be remembered in connection with the resplendent and courtly existence of his Royal Highness ALBERT FRANCIS AUGTJSTUS CHARLES .EMMANUEL, Duke of SAXE GOTHA and PRINCE CONSORT of England, that throughout nearly the whole of the glorious Reign of VICTORIA he stood beside the Throne as the Royal Husband and intimate ad viser of that Monarch who, among all our monarchs, has won the distinetive title of the most Con stitutional Sovereign who ever wielded the sceptre of these realms. Sharing in the splendours of the Court, he must be allowed to participate in some measure in the glory of winning for his Queen- Wife that magnificent appellation. In this lies, in truth, whatever there is for him of political fairl fame. His intellectual eminence is yet more distinctly defined, and is, we may rest perfectly confident, assured in its perma nence. Prince ALBERT'S name must hence (From the Court Circular.) WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 14. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived at the Castle at 3 o'clock this morning, from Nladingly-hall, attended by Major-General the Hon. R. Bruce and Major Teesdale. His Serene Highness the Prince of Loiningen returned in the forenoon. Captain Grey has succeeded Major Teesdale as Equerry in Waiting to the Prince of Wales. The Duke of Cambridge arrived from London early this morning to make inquiries after his Royal Higheess the Prince Consort. His Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours also called to make The following is the full text of . President_Lin• 'coin's Message : "FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF , REPRESENTATIVES,— " In the midst of unprecedented political troubles we have cause of great gratitude to God for unusual good health and most abundant harvests. " You will not be surprised to learn that in the peculiar' exigencies of the times, our intercourse with foreign nations' ihas been attended with profound solicitude, chiefly turning upon our own domestic affairs. A disloyal portion of the! American people have, during the whole year, been engaged in an attempt to divide and destroy the Union. A nation which endures factions and domestic divisions is exposed to disrespect abroad, and one party, if not both,"is sure, sooner or later, to invoke foreign intervention. Nations thus tempted to interfere are not always able to resist the coun sels of seeming expediency and ungenerous 'Ambition, al though measures adopted under such influences seldom fail to be unfortunate and injurious to those adopting them. " The disloyal citizens of the United States who have offered the ruin of our country in return for the aid and comfort which they have invoked abroad, have received less patronage and encouragement than they probably expected. llf it were just to suppose, as the insurgents have seemed to lassume, that foreign nations in this case, discarding all moral, social, and treaty obligations, would act solely and selfishly for the most speedy restoration of commerce, in cluding especially the acquisition of cotton, those nations appear as yet not to have seen their way to their object more directly or clearly through the destruction than through the preservation of the Union. If we could dare to believe that foreign nations are actuated by no higher principle than this, I am quite sure a second argument could be made to show them that they can reach their aim more readily and easily by aiding to crush this rebellion than by giving encouragement to it. " The principle ever relied on by the insurgents for ex citing foreign nations to hostility against us, as already intimated, is the embarrassment of commerce. Those na tions, however, not improbably saw from the first that it was the Union which made as well our foreign as our domestic commerce. They can scarcely have failed to per ceive that the effort for disunion produces the existing difficulty, and that one strong nation promises more durable peace, and a more extensive, valuable, and reliable com merce than can the same nation broken into hostile frag ments. "It is not my purpose to review our discussions with foreign States, because, whatever might be their wishes or ,dispositions, the integrity of our country and the stability of our Government mainly depends, not upon them, but on the loyalty, virtue, patriotism, and intelligence of the American people. The correspondence itself, with the usual reservations, is herewith submitted. I venture to hope it will appear that we have practised prudence and liberality towards foreign Powers, averting causes of irrita tion, and with firmness maintaining our own rights and . honour. Since, however, it is apparent that here, as in 'every other State, foreign dangers necessarily attend do mestic difficulties, I recommend that adequate and ample measures be adopted for maintaining the public defences on every side. While, under this general recommendation, provision for defending our coast line readily occurs to the mind, I also, in the same connection, ask the attention of Congress to our great lakes and rivers. It is believed that some fortifications and depots of arms and munitions, with harbour and navigation improvements at well-selected points upon these, would be of great importance to the na tional defence and preservation. " I ask attention to the views of the Secretary of War, expressed in his report upon the same general subjects. " I deem it of importance that the loyal regions of East Tennessee and western North Carolina should be connected with Kentucky, and other faithful parts of the Union, by railroad. I therefore recommend, as a military measure, that Congress provide for the construction of such road as, speedily as possible. " Kentucky will no doubt co-operate, and through her Legislature make the most judicious selection of a line. The northern terminus must connect with some existing railroad, and whether the route shall be from Lexington .. event. or Nicholasville to the Cumberland Gap, or from Leba- •'• " Then, first, let the whole country be divided into cir non to the Tennessee line in the direction of Knoxville, , :,1 cults of convenient size, the supreme judges to serve in a ' or on some still different line, can easily be determined, :number of them corresponding to their own number, and Kentucky, and the general government co-operating, the ;independent circuit judges be provided for all the rest. work can be completed in a very short time, and when s "Or, secondly, let the supreme judges be relieved from done it will be not only of vast present usefulness, but ,71!, circuit duties, and circuit judges provided for all the cir also a valuable permanent improvement worth its cost in cuits. all the future. Some treaties, designed chiefly for the ' " Or, thirdly, dispense with circuit courts altogether, interests of commerce, and having no grave political ima .:, leaving the judicial functions wholly to the district courts portance, have been negotiated and will be submitted to s and an independent supreme court. the Senate for their consideration. Although we have• L s "I respectfully recommend to the consideration of Con failed to induce some of the commercial Powers to adopt ~ gress the present condition of the statute laws , with the a s alesirable melioration of the rigour of maritime war, _ hope that Congress will be able to find an easy remedy for " JAMES CLARK, M.D. we have removed all obstructions from the way of this many of the inconveniences and evils which constantly ear " HENRY HOLLAND, M.D. humane reform except such as are merely of temporary barrasss those engaged in the practical administration of " THOMAS WATSON, M.D. " WILLIAM JENNER, M.D. and accidental occurrence. them. " I invite your attention to the correspondence between . : " Since the organisation of the Government Congress h as This document, and the letter of Sir George Grey. her Britannic Majesty's Minister, accredited to this Govern-;p' enacted some 5,000 acts and joint resolutions, which fill a copy of which was likewise posted at the entrance meat, and the Secretary of State, relative to the detention more than 6,000 closely-printed pages, and are scattered to the Mansion-house, were read with melancholy of the British ship Perthshire, in June last, by the United • through many volumes. Many of these acts have been interest by thousands of the citizens throughout the States steamer Massachussetts, for a supposed breach of tdrawn in haste, and without sufficient caution, so that remainder of the day. the blockade. As this detention was occasioned by an obvi- , their provisions are often obscure in themselves or in con- Yesterday afternoon the Rev. Canon Champneye ous misapprehension of the facts, and as justice requires• i flirt with each other, or at least so doubtful as to render it the preacher at St. Paul's, made a touching allusion that we should commit no belligerent act not founded on 4:; very difficult for even the best informed persons to ascer to the great national loss in the course of his ser - strict right, as sanctioned by public law, I recommend thats,:. taro precisely what the statute law really is. It is difficult even now to realise the magnitude) mon, and earnestly commended her Majesty and the lan appropriation be made to satisfy the reasonable demandi s "It seems to me very important that the statute laws of the calamity that has abruptly befallen the Royal family, in their state of grief and desolation ' of the owners of the vessel for her detention. zr should be made as plain and intelligible as possible, and be •" I repeat the recommendation of my predecessor in his 't reduced to as small a compass as may consist with the ful - QUEEN and the Nation. As difficult as it would be to the sympathies and prayers of the congregation. : annual message to Congress in December last in regard to vness and precision of the will of the Legislature, and the to exaggerate the profound sympathy with which The bells of the City churches were tolled at inter- : e the surplus which will probably remain after satisfying thea - perspicuity of its language. These, well done, would, 1 vals yesterday, and in most of the sermons preached • claims of American citizens against China, pursuant to the : think, greatly facilitate th e labours of those whose dut y it all the loyal subjects of the Crown, of every glass , allusions were made to the solemn event. Nor was ', awards of the Commissioners under the act of the 3d of ~is to assist in the administration of the laws, and would be regard the exquisite affliction of our revered and this manifestation of public feeling confined to the :, March, 1859. s a lasting benefit to the people by placing before them in a beloved SOVEREIGN, Suddenly snatched from the clergymen of the Established Church only. At "If however it shou l d not be deemed advisable to carry s more accessible and intelligible form the laws which so WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 15. , , '• advisable 4 • • midst of us, in. the very flower and fruition of his the Roman Catholic, the Jed ish, and the Gres& His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ar that recommendation into effect, I would suggest that deeply concern their interests and their duties. lam in manhood, His Royal Highness the PRINCE CON- • churches similar heartfelt prayers and solemn. contrived early this morning and remains at the Castle. authority be given for investing the principal over the pro- s. : . formed by some, whose opinions I respect, that all the acts coeds of the surplus referred to in good securities, with a of Congress now in force and of a permanent and general dolences were offered. • SORT has been so long and so conspicuously fami- . Her Royal Highness Princess Mary of Cambridge lyiew to • • At Cambridge, both by reason of the intimate .. arrived from Kew to make inquiries. 1 ordinary and liarised to the public gaze, that it will require the ; citizens against China as are not unlikely to arise hereafter „m one volume, or, at least, two volumes of the satisfaction of such other just claim of ouri` ,.. n . ature might be revised and rewritten so as to be embraced relationship with the University as its Chancellor ' LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, DEC. 16. • • convenient size, and I respectfully recommend to Congress lapse of time to render appreciable, in the first and the residence of his Royal Highness the Prince . In consequence of the melancholy event of the l in , liie course of our extensive trade with that empire. instant even credible, the fact of his disappearance. of Wales in the town, the news produced a profoune ' 'Teeth of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort - rised the President to instruct the commanders of suitable to devise such plan as to their wisdom shall seem most pro- By the Act of the sth of August last, Congress audio- to consider the subject, and, if my suggestion be approved, The earliest intimation received by the public that' . sensation. It did not reach Cambridge yesterday . the theatres will be closed this evening, and again g in acknowledging the belligerent position of the .‹ till 10 40 a.m. It then spread with proverbial ra-; an the evening of the funeral.of the present there was any probability whatever of a Death so: South, and that wrath we believe is hardly subsided 1 pidity, but nevertheless was not so widely know? . - • Thisvesse vessels t t oh authority defendtyhas been themselves exercised against in anda single t o c a instance ptiue pirates.on only.: . , :per ~ foron "One of attainmentthe unavoidable of the consequences e p q r u o e p n o c s e e s d . " For the more effectual protection of our extensive and ''''' insurrection is the entire suppression in many places of all utterly unhooked for, was conveyed through the , yet. Much of Mr. SEWARD'S later insanity is to: out that in some of the churches of the city uhf ' (From the Observer.) - -valuable commerce in the eastern seas especially, it seems ~, ordinary means of administering civil justice by the officers Bulletin issued on Thursday by the physicians in ' I !.. petraced to it •; and though they now see that the Z . ; speedy recovery of his Royal Highness was ear attendance upon his Royal Highness. That • prayed for. The bells of the University (St. Mary's: His Royal Highness Francis Albert Augustus Charle s .to me that it would also be advisable to authorise the and. in the forms of existing law. This is the case in whole position cannot be censured, still it was not the con- ' Emmanuel, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe Coburg an d ~,, commanders of sailing vessels to recapture any prizes :,^ or in part in all the insurgent States, and as our armies ad document, it will be remembered, spoke of the 41 ' - commenced tolline• but still the mass of the people . Gotha, K.G K.T , K.P., G.C.8., G.C.M.G , LLD which pirates may make of the United States vessels and 't ranee upon and take possession of parts of those States the duct which the great people of the North, the chi)- .- • to -• D.C.L., Ph.D., &c., was the second son of Ernest Duke of s their cargoes, and the consular courts established by law in piratical evil becomes more apparent. There are no courts, " quiet night " passed by the Prince—adding, - • . . . , were unwilling to believe the melancholy news wae s something, surely, worthy of notice that Brent 'of " Manifest Destiny, ' the fathers of the , true. In the University Church profound emotior Princess of Saxe Gotha. His royal highness was born at Saxe Coburg and Gotha, by his first wife, Dorothea Louisa, 's eas t ern countries to adjudicate the cases, in the event that "nor officers to whom the citizens of other States may apply however, rather dubiously (for the announcement ,' , a young Prince, who came amongst as in the .''- ions who were to rule the whole of North America, ,was - might have signified anything) ; the symptoms , was evident when the cfficiating minister, the Rev. ' ?osenan, August 26, 1819, and his marriage with 0 • this should not be objected to by the local authorities. ;k", for the enforcement of their lawful claims against citizens Queen 1 "If any good reason exists why we should persevere of the insurgent States, and there is a, vast amount of debt heyday of his youth, closes his life two and;; and in due time the South also—it was not the''' C. D. Marston, of Caius College, omitted the name Victoria took place on the 10th February, 1840. The A-et, 4 had undergone little change. The twenty years afterwards, with a wholly spotless conduct which so Republic expectedofof h' late Royal Highness from the for grand a and sovereignty of Hayti and Liberia, lam unable to dis- -as two hundred million of dollars, due in large part from Bulletin, the one issued on Friday , spoke, on the Royal Family, and (as Chancellor) from that for the co ntrary, of " a restless night" having been passed Pl* t ' a . r iamen was £30 , 000. He received his titleof Royalthe disch si• of their ;very d \ - pattern an model of a true Husband and 8•- cool down the present temper of the North remains - 1 bluesing of the Almighty on " this our body" (i.e. i 'in regard to them without the approbation of Congress, I < now making great sacrifices in al s o ../ cern it. Unwilling, however, to inaugurate a novel policy insurgents in open rebellion, to loyal citizens who are even by his Royal Highness, and but too plainly avowed .'', A - the University), in which prayer the various digni- ' . Highness by patent, dated February 6, 1840, and was en), - submit for your consideration the expediency of an appro- patriotic duty to support the Government. Under these tender Father. England, in effect, has abounding 'to be seen ; but we must confess that at present ,- . that the symptoms had assumed an unfavourable ''' aowered to quarter the royal arms on the 7th February in - - , - s' taries of the University are enumerated. character. , 'reasons enow at this moment of supreme anguish .. they seem to be like the " drunken man " of Mr. '.' the same year. On the following day he received his com these new States. It does not admit of doubt that impor- military power o . C urts to administer it justice in such priation for maintaining a Chargé d'A f faires near each of - cir . cumstances I have been urgently solicited to establish by - Coupling with this the eh cumstance"e , under a very solemn and startling bereavement, to • • BRIGHT'S picture " hitting all around them." We 'At Bristol the news of the death of the Prince,' mission as Field-Marshal, and he was made Colonel of then ?-'• that the Heir to the Crown had been summoned in e; lb h l 1 d '. a t oug not a toget ier unlooke for, from th, ,or PrinceAlberts the dead of the night • from Cambridge, and had**. treasure up the good name and the fair fame of the e can only hope that our demands may operate on - gloomy nature of the telegrams of the preceding da . :- ' '. ' 11th ' Own Hussars on the I,oth of Apri , ' 1840 In April 1842 he received his commission as Colonel :treaties treaties with them. ; any doubt that the end proposed, the collection of the • tint commercial advantages might be secured by favourable •. cases. I have thus far declined to do it, not because I had consequently hastened instanter from the Univer-41'1' PRINCE CONSORT, while proffering to her Most ; .„. Americans as the cold air or a sudden fright some- "S was received with profound regret by all classes oi • he pressure of necessity in the un • if the Scots Fusilier Guards. In August, 1850, he became ..,_ . l. " The operations of the Treasury during the period which - debts, was just and right in itself, but because I have been sity, arriving at Windsor Castle by express train e 4 Gracious MAJESTY, in these first agonising mo• e times does on an intoxicated man. a .the citizens. From the pulpits of the variom 3010nel-in-Chief of the 60th Rifles, and on the 28th of Chas elapsed since your adjournment have been conducted 4 unwilling to go beyond t y at three o'clock in the morning, the public were. e ; : ments of her widowhood, the heartfelt sympathy e , - " " September, 1852, he was appointed Colonel-in- Chief of ;-". with signal success. The patriotism of the people has 33 usual exercise of power. But the powers of Congress, I A churches and chapels touching reference was made the Rifle Brigade and Colonel of the Grenadier Guards. l' pl ace d a t th e di s p osa l o f th e G ove r n ment the large means:‘,lsunPose, are equal to the anomalous occasion, and there' almost prepared on Saturday forenoon for the catas- ~,, of a whole nation's grief. ENGLAND AND AMERICA. ;to this national calamity, and sincere prayers were : t on the death of the Duke of Wellington his Royal B igh.. d eman d e d by th e p u bli c ex i genc i es . m uc h o f the national fore I refer the whole matter to Congress, with the hope .. tropho which was unhappily s o soo • — * ' in the sth of March, 1810, and was nominated a Member ..e' offered for the Royal widow and her fatherles, .' less was granted letters of precedence next after the Queen `'. loan has been taken by citizens of the industrial classes, 'that a plan may be devised for the administration of justice n of to ~ The long-exnected document from Washington ' ,jchildren. ' 4 the Privy Council on the Ilth. of September, 1840. He whose confidence in their country's future, and zeal for then: in all such parts of the insurgent States and territories as be announced. As the day advanced, ' - - ei ... 1 Our contemporary the "'aerie is really great st ',' country's deliverance from its present peril, have induced . may be under control of the Government, whether by a At Reading, about an hour before the church ser- ''' however, the has arrived and if in one respect its contents are r• • joyful tidings were received that the condition of the e ' batter than and had feared in others and in con. i ~.J , e k. invention. The public are acquainted with the .1t• vice, the funeral knell at St. Mary's and St. Giles', 1 ' was appointed Grand Ranger of Windsor Park in 1841, Ind received the Order of the Golden Fleece in April of them w to contribute to the support of the Government the is. voluntary return to allegiance and order or by the power of Royal Patient evidenced a manifest imp f f _ baseless character of saveral of the statemen ts r Churches announced to the inhabitants the death of a hat year. In April, 1842, ho received the appointment of of their limited acquisitions. ac hole • • ' •• • This f• t imposes pecu- our arms ; this, however, not to be a permanent institu r"eraeno nect - son with the circumstances, they are worse. .Z which it has made within the last few days. Al, the Prince Consort. At St. Mary's Church the 6 Lord Warden of the Stannaries and Chief Steward of the 1. W.' t* to economy in di s b u rsement and energy in "; lion, but a temporary substitute, and to cease as soon as Jar o iga ions It would not be extravagant to assert that the j The PRESIDENT li . "' ". telegram which wepublish "column'` 13'Oxford in another Bishop of preached in the evening, an r•• d - I Duchy f Cornwall. He became Governor and Constable action. - • 1 f '', o - the ordinary courts can be re-established in peace. re- . does say fortify your coax says not ing respecting the seizure ... intelligence conveyed through this brief announce- -' of the Commissioners on board the Trent ; but he i ) . f Windsor Castle in May, 1843, and first and principal -- " The revenue from all s ources, i ncluding loans or the "It is important that some convenient means should be ..!: furnish some fresh instances of its inaccuracy. ? most touching allusion was made by his Lordshir'financial year ending on the 30th June, 1861, was eighty- provided, if possible, for the adjustment of claims against went on Saturday afternoon, was everywhere . ..4 Is is quite untrue that England has " consulted •:, 'l ' to the melancholy event. 1 ['night Grand . Cross and Acting Great Master of the Order pi six . sts, lakes, and rivers. Con- • (86) millions eight hundred and thirty-five thousand the Government, especially in view of their increased num eeived with a sense of positive relief and of grate- „areas, again, goes muc h . the other great Powers" with reference to thee:. .of the Bath in June, 1843. He was also made High Steward . es dollars (486 nos 900) and twenty-seven cents •;* ber b - f the war. It is as much the duty of Go further ; it votes thanks to-, ..- 4 -. At Warwick the intelligence was first of all com- lif Plymouth in June, 1 d,"::::: ~ an Captain-General am- enera an 5 . y reason o and the expenditures for the same period, including pay- ik vernment to render prompt justice against itself in favour ful consolation. The improvement thus notified ''the man who had the courage to beard common- outrage by the San Jacinto It is however, a fact .1843 d C t • 13 - ; 'll "Colonel of the Artillery Company on September of that year. t . A naun' at dt M Justice W'll h' h lci the , , ic e o r. i es, w ois o ing el i by the physicians, however, was only too soon atter-. .sense, international ~.:law, and England, by what his that France has volunteered her opinion that thewinter assizes there, ard who, on receiving the k [lfs election as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge" iSsiments on account of the public debt, were eighty-four mil- I ' 4 -of citizens as it is to administer the same between private I d m ol n l ::e s d anforty-sev , en ;eats, ( .. lions five hundred and seventy-eight thousand and thirty-7 , individuals. ;act of the American captain constituted a violation -, wards recognised to have been wholly illusory. .leountrymen term the "gallant" It. i mournfulin ormation, ex a ressed his tee sorrow P.i, act of tt le 4 f ' h a ac mg an._ o neutral rig ts. , Steward of New Windsor, in July, 1850, and President of . leaving a balance in the I " The investigation and adjudication of claims in their As typhoid had supervened upon gastric fever— ,, r— :pa unarmed mail steamer. What is the in e r tia and great regret. '1 he bells of the churches were ; he Z ioloa . c 1 SocietylBsl. On the 19th of Octo a ; Treasury on the Ist July of $2,257,065 80c. for the first .nature belong to the judicial department, besides it is ao terpretation It is also untrue that " Lord Lyons will remi 't d ' e s a inJuly, ~ . • ry d these words and votes ? a . .oiled ; and it was not until they heard the tolling - iei, 18)2, he was nominated Master of the Trinity I , 1 10 - ase R'i nailer of the financial year, ending on the 30th September, ; "- 4 attention of aparent that the Congress will be more than the original disease —so a profound exhaustionvi : second note to the Cabinet of Washington," or the bells that the inhabitants generally would i r..:' , 1 It had been feared that the PR[n. February, 1836, he was made Knight of the Order of the's. asfii. Th e rece i p t s from all sources, i nc l u di ng th e balance, engaged for some time to come with great national ,- that all the appliances of art failed to contend with PRESIDENT —that 1 5 :. i that any " new" instructions have been forwardedU believe in the truths of the reports, In the evening. jo era phi in by the King of Sweden. His creation as Prin erof July Ist, were one hundred and two millions five hun- lquestions. `;.y, e executive of the Northern States— havetato him. His orders are imperative, and he will of -, effectually, resulted from both. And by 10 minutespri— '' 4 --It all the places of w h. t' 1 'on sox t , ors ip, prayers were offered on , . , , . , was ,i c c yletters p, sf , i , d b :tent dated the 23 of JuIY,S ilred and thirty-two thousand five h un d re d a n d n i ne d o ll ars ~ It was i n t en ded 'lby the organisation of the Court O f 1 ' 0, nitted himself by his Message. He has not k course obey them to the letter.—Morwing Post ~, , 1 857 ; and he was elected President of the Hort'cultura . to eleven o'clock on Saturday night his ROyalgp o M l - ti '' Ilf ftl Q dR If ' • no , .',e la ose ueen an oya amily. and twenty-seven cents and. the expenses ninetY-eight mil- /Claims mainly to remove, this branch of business from the ,41 ; Highness had ceased to breathe. The intellie'ence fedone this. So far good. But it has to be remem- e TN ----------- L i 1 At Nottingham the intelligence arrived by tole-,'; 3ociety in February, 1858, The Prince Consort was ode- , lions two hundred and thin ty-nine thousand seven hundred /Claims of Conoress ; but while the court has proved to be an a sti until he had learned what the En ..,ISTINGUISUED VISITORS AT KNOWSLEY.—The;- - h and s ' se • 4 > s '. l- sted with his elder brother, the present Duke Regnant; and thirty-three dollars and nine cents, leaving a balance 4 ' • ' . • • . effective and valuable means of investigation, i , at in great of this most lamentable event, it is simple truth tibered that un glish'4Earl and Countess grap , ,vas nun draiel3 po..ted up at the Coint f Spit Coburg Gotha, under tho Consistorial Councillor, , say on the subject, it would have e. been ent t• • sof Derby have, in course of las` we(k H E . ~,e, exchange. All classes, r i c h an d poor, appeared to r..s ialorchutz, and at the University of Bonn. His studies. on the Ist of October, 1861, of four millions two hundred ' •effect the of cr eation for want of a degree fails to say, has been received everywhere throughoutiCabinet had to er aming a select circle of friends at Knosysle "' and ninety-two thousand seven hundred and seventy-six i"power to make its judgments final. London,,-,.. throughout England, as it will be reeeived'heen most unbusinesslike and imprudent to declaree Dthall. Among the visitors were Manchester Lord d s the Duke and Duchess of ,;;; Y - - sympathise with her Majesty in her sad bereave '.. hero included ancient and modern languages, history, the . C-. , dollars 1 " au( eighteen cents. ' i " Fully aware of the delicacy, not to say the danger of s, s i an .Lady•ment. ...;idlysical and natural sciences, music, and paining. In 1838, Vis isi 4- I consideration • Estimates for afterw ..._ , and what his cours Newport, Lord C t b ' )1 and other members of the aristoerae L an er ur3''4 the remaining three quarters of the year, a iate su.Jec.,, commend to your careful ards throughout the utmost limits of this what his own opinions were,iee visited England with his father, and in two years afters ' _ a a -Mt empir • ~s'. It is well that exul-, • . ;the Hon. Colonel andnady Emma y Lard Stanley and . .,a; t oards was married to Queen Victoria, at St.:James's Palace.':, and for th e financial year o f 1863, together with his view 'oavlicther this power of snaking judgment final may not pro e, with a pang to each like that of''' would be he could not know. , residents at the hall. Talbot have also been *( 8 oat the London Gazette Extraordinary of Sunda?') '1 .. _—_- --.-...,,,, Seta e 0 si a of the ways and means for meeting the demands conterntperly be given to the court, reserving the right of appeal on Personal affliction. If e•• t personal enemies did. : Ri Dec. 15.) plated i wa sympathy can in - any;-J',tation in the capture of almosl,, Governor Walker transacted • f,..: i Despatches were received on Saturday at it e by them will be submitted to Congress by the Sem- questiens of law to the Supreme Court, with such other y tend to allevi business at theal 'WHITEHALL, Dec. 15. V Colonial •office from the governors of the West India Islam's +ofthe Treasury. have shown to be necessary. ) tart' ate tb.e bitter grief of her MA-iinot hurry Mr. LINCOLN into an obvioue folly; buti j - Colonial-office on Saturl• on • ay, his departure for lialbaalces. On Saturday' t nigiit, the ' 14th inst., at 10 minutes the .A.tistralian Colonies, Ceylon, Hongkong . , and Labuan. i i i Si "It is gratifyiuete knew that the expenses made necessary " I ask attention to the report of the PostmastelaGeneral, The fortifications of the coast-line could point to but one danger—that of war with England. It is a second edition of the letter of Mr. SEWARD to the Governors of the States urging them to fortify their lake, river, and coast lines, and is doubtless suggested by the danger to which he knew he had exposed him self already, or was about to incur. So far it goes the " Emphatic approval of the conduct of Captain WILKES by the Navy Department," must be con sidered as an expression of the opinion of the Ex ecutive. It has not, however, all the importance which a similar act would have in England, the relations of the Departments with the Cabinet being far less close than with us. Still it is a very grave, and ill-looking fact that a first-rate Federal Govern ment Department should openly give its sanction to the act which England will not submit to. The vote of Congress, however, is the most' serious of all. Whether by that term be meant only the House of Representatives, or the Senate also, it can hardly be regarded as other than a national defiance of England—one which the PRESIDENT, after receiving our demands, must • sustain by refusal to comply. That the vote of Congress represents the vote of such cities as Boston and New York we already know; nor .do we see how the vote can admit of more than one interpretation. Had there been anything but the " outrage" in what Captain WILKES did—had there been high courage or consummate skill, or any naval merit to praise, we might have supposed that the feat, in that aspect, had elicited the commendations. But it is significant, indeed, that while we read of no vote of thanks to General BUTLER for his conduct at Fort Hatteras, or to SHERMAN and DUPONT for the Port Royal affair, we hear of a vote of thanks where the only bravery was that of defying the ..laws of nations, and the only skill that of worming the intentions of men out of them by accepting their hospitality, and then set 'ing off to take them prisoners from what was 'really British territory, and where they had every right to believe themselves safe from violence. -.Such a vote, by the mildest interpretation, can only mean that Congress exults in having a commander who defies the British, while the South defies it. • It is meant as an intimation of the kind of answer which the President is to give to Lord Lyons, and there is little reason to hope that the President is inquiries. The following bulletin of the health of the Prince Consort was issued this morning : " His Royal Highness the Prince Consort has had 3. quieter night, and there is some mitigation of the severity of the symptoms. " JAMES CLARK, M.D. " HENRY HOLLAND, M.D. " THOMAS WATSON, M.D. " WILLIAM JENNER, M.D. "Windsor Castle, Saturday, 9 a.m., Dec. 14,1861." A telegram was despatched at 10h. 40m. a.m. of the state of his Royal Highness : " WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 14. " There is a slight change for the better in the Prince this morning." In the afternoon the following bulletin was issued : " WINDSOR CASTLE, DEc. 14, 4u. 30M. P.M. "His Royal Highness the Prince Consort is in a, most critical state. " JAMES CLARK, M.D. " HENRY HOLLAND,;„M.D. " THOMAS WASON, M.D. " WILLIAM JENNER, M.D." The bulletin announcing the decease of the Prince Consort was as follows ; " WINDSOR CASTLE, SATURDAY NIGHT, DEC. 14. forth be for ever inextricably connected with the l development of the blended excellences of Art and; Industry in the United Kingdom. His Royal l Highness was, beyond all question and without, "His Royal Highness the Prince Consort became rapidly weaker during the evening, 'and expired without suffering at 10 minutes before 11. " JAMES CLARK, M.D. " HENRY HOLLAND, M.D. " THOMAS WATSON, M.D. " WILLIAM JENNER, M.D." :he shadow of a doubt in our minds as tol the literal accuracy of the words here em-1 ployed while we are waiting them ones of the most accomplished Princes who ever lived.l Individually rarely gifted, he had his natural en-I dowments cultivated to the utmost extent of culti-I vation, first of all under the care of private tutors, subsequently through three years of student-life in the University at Bonn, and afterwards we may assert pretty confidently, more or less during thel whole of the rest of his existence, by that most im-1 portant of all kinds of education, self-education.) And it became one of the most vital parts of they , business of his energetic life to turn those culti vated intellectual capacities of his so far as might be in any way practicable to the national advan tage. That in this endeavour he achieved an in- The following bulletin of the state of the Queen'k•l health was exhibited yesterday at Buckingham, Palace : " WINDSOR CASTLE, SUNDAY NOON, DEC. 15 " The Queen, although overwhelmed with grief, bears her bereavement with calmess, and has not ,uffered in health, " JAMES CLARK, M.D. " HENRY HOLLAND, M.D. " THOMAS 'WATSON, M.D. " WILLIAM JENNER, M.D." Among the members of the Diplomatic Corps and the nobility and gentry who called yesterday at Buckingham Palace to make inquiries after the Health of her Majesty the Queen were—the Russian Ambassador and Baroness Brunow, the Turkish lAmbassador and Madame Musurus, the Danish. Minister, the Swedish and Norwegian Minister, the Portuguese Minister, the French Ambassador and the Countess de Flahault, the Greek Minister and ladame Tricoupi, the United St Ites' Minister and Mrs. Adams ; Mr. Wilson, Secretary, and Mr. Moran, Second Secretary of the Legation; the Italian Minister, the Brazilian Minister and Madame Mcreira, the Austrian Ambassador and Countess lA.pponyi, the Netherlands Minister, the Bavarian Minister and Baroness Cetto, Secretary Sir Georg( ind Lady Grey, Viscount and Viscountess Torring- , ron, Mr. Phillips, Lord Harris, the Hon. Mortimer and Mrs. Sackville West, the Duchess Dowager of Somerset, Sir J. South, the Lord Chief Justice and Lady Erle, Sir J. and Lady Emerson-Tennant, the Hon. C. Gore and the Countess of Kerry, Admiral Ind Mrs. Bawles, Mr. and Mrs. H. and Miss Hope• Reeve, the Chaplain-General, the Dowager Lady Clinton, the Earl and Countess of Airlie, Mr. and \frs. Merivale, the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, Sir J. and Lady J. Walsh, Mr. E. Marjoribanks, Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour, the Dowager Viscountess and the Hon. Miss Har dinge, the Dean of Westminster and Miss Trench] Sir J. Romilly, Lord and Lady Elcho, the Dowager] Countess of Lichfield, Sir Benjamin and Miss Brodie, Colonel and Mrs. F. Paget, Viscount May nard, Lady Caroline and Miss Lascelles, Mr. C. Greville, Sir C. Douglas, M.P., Mr. Du Pasquier, the Countess of Fife, Lieutenant-General Sir F and Lady Smith, the Earl of Lucan, Lord Suffield, Mr. A. Biddulpb, Lord Dynevor, Mr. and Mrs. H. Addington, the Earl and Countess of Cork, the Countess Dowager of Jersey, the Earl of Clan wil Ham Sir R. and Lady Murchison, Lord and Lady Mon-I teagle, Mr. and Lady C. Schreiber, Sir Fitzroy Kelly,l Sir R. and Lady Mayne, the E arl and Countess Grey,l i Colonel the Hon. A. and Mrs. Liddell, the Cauntess of Falmouth, General Sir G. Bowles, Mr. and Lady E. Walsh, General Sir H. and Lady Ross, Captain the Hon. J. and Mrs. Denman, Sir Benjamin and Lady Hawes, Sir J. and Lady E. Ferguson,Viscount and Viscountess Bury, Viscount Bury, Lieut.-Gen and Lady Mary Fox, Mr. and Mrs. H. Rich, Lady G. Fane, together with numerous others. disputable success we all of us perfectly well know. The simple and undeniable fact that it is so, is in effaceably stamped indeed upon the record of the growth of late years, particularly of the blended growth, of Art and Industry in this country. In testimony of which it is only requi site to bear for a moment in remembrance the man to resist his Congress. Some of Mr. LINCOLN'S remarks with regard to foreign Powers will be read with a smile. We foreigners are reminded that the preservation of the Union which passed a MoRRILL Tariff was more forl their commercial advantage than Free Trade with half of it by its separation from the Protec tionist half—a rather doubtful view of the case, as many will think. Further, that the Union was the maker of the foreign commerce, and that the trade i with one strong nation is of more value than with what was indubitably the most splendid of alli Prince ALBERT'S personal achievements—the first great international Exhibition. An achievement that we may surely designate with the strictest accuracy of phrase—remembering the Fairy Palace that glittered ten years ago on the green eward of Hyde -park— the same nation broken into hostile fragments. 0. !this, however, again, many will doubt ; since the larger part of these fragments want to sell us either corn or cotton, and are there fore naturally friends to Free Trade with! foreign countries. England cannot doubt that, l so far as commerce is concerned, it would be fart better for her that both the South and the North west of the old United States should be independent Governments—both of them would tolerate nothing but a revenue tariff on foreign goods, and would make the manufacturers of Philadelphia and Massa ilhusetts pay the same duties as were paid by those of England and France. " One entire and perfect Chrysolite," The honour due to the departed Prince we have 'endeavoured briefly to define in its political appli cation, and its purely intellectual application. Whatever political honour he has won from his adopted country, he has won simply as we have said in his capacity as the Royal Husband an d the intimate adviser of the most constitutional Sovereign who ever sat upon the Throne of England. Whatever intellectual honour he has associated with his name he has so associated by his enlightened and assidu- ous promotion of the interests of Art in its alliance_ with the ceaseless developments of Industry among the toiling millions of the United Kingdom. But immeasurably beyond these merely political and in tellectual titles to our lasting admiration, and even to a considerable extent be it said to our grateful remembrance—there is a far higher, purer, nobler, more enviable renown that is unquestionably his. We cast upon his tomb the most perennial and deserved of all the votive wreaths that can be laid there by national respect and affection, when we record the simple but significant fact that his Royal Eligintess the PRINCE CONSORT closes hie career in the forty-third year of his age—he who, shortly after his twentieth anniversary, be came the central figure of a brilliant Court, sur• rounded from that instant by all this world's most enervating end exquisite seductions—that ALBERT, the Prince Consort of England, closes his life, after the:lapse of nearly a quarter of a century, passed in the midst of this earth's most refined allurements, and this, moreover, in the full glare of public scrutiny, without ever having had the hint of a moment' slur :of suspicion upon his character. Remember ing the profligates who have revelled of yore in i the midst of the luxuries of our Court, it The PRESIDENT declares that his reliance is not on foreign States, but on the integrity and patriotism of his own people. Still he seems almost to bid for foreign support. He says we might be easily taught that our aim—our commercial aim he means —could be much more easily gained by" aiding to crush the rebellion" than by giving encouragement to it. We have a strong suspicion, that, with all their pride, Mr.LINcoLN and the Americans did wish in some way for our aid. Hence their mortification and bitterness towards England, and their concealed mortification with France. They wished that we should treat the South as a rebel mob, whose rebellion interfered with our cotton supply, that by denouncing them as rebels, and by treating them as such, we should give a strong moral support to the North, and perhaps do the South some unkind and damaging turn. This was the cause of their wrath at the conduct of England THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 16, 1861. T 4-1 Sr - ir • 1 6,1 , . 1 41.1011, , r ; 'll 4 ' „ s . fi . • , r - • ~. THE DEATH ITHE PRINCE CONSORT.' The news of the serious illness of the late Prince Consort alarmed and amazed all England on Satur day. To the attentive readers of the Court Circular it was only known that bis Royal Highness was. slightly indisposed, and the bulletin which on Satur- - day announced that his illness had taken an un- . favourable turn spread dismay and astonishment throughout the country. Then, all at once, the fear ful affliction which threatened her Majesty was seen, and on every side information as to the state of his Royal Highness's health was sought for with the most intense eagerness. The announcement which :1 we published in The Sun of Saturday, that a change, slightly for the better, had taken place in the illustrious patient's condition, was welcomed as, almost a relief from the state of feverish anxiety under which all had waited for news. Unhappily, this slight improvement, which raised such ardent hopes wherever it was known, proved to be but a precursor of the fatal issue. During Saturday morn ing—at least in the early part—his Royal Highness undoubtedly seemed better, and, notwithstanding that his condition was in the highest degree precari ous, the change, though sudden, was marked, and almost justified the strong hopes which were then entertained that he would recover. This change was:' but for a short time, and, in fact, but one of those expiring efforts of nature which give delusive hopes to the mourners round so many death-beds. Soon afterwards his Royal Highness again relapsed, and before the evening it became evident that it was only a question of an hour more or less. The Prince sank with alarming rapidity. At 4 the physicians issued a bulletin stating that their patient was then .'in" a most critical state," which was indeed a sad truth, for at that time almost every hope of recovery had passed away. Her Majesty and the Prince of Wales (who had travelled through the previous night from Cambridge), the Princesses Alice and Helena, and the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, were with their illustrious relative during all this mourn ful and most trying period. The approach of death from exhaustion was so rapid that all stimulants failed to check the progressive increase of weakness, and the fatal termination was so clearly foreseen that even before 9 o'clock on Saturday evening a telegram was forwarded from Windsor to the city. stating that the Prince Consort was then dying fast. Quietly and without suffering he continued slowly to sink, so slowly that the wrists were pulseless long before the last moment had arrived, when at a ler minutes before 11 he ceased to breathe, and all wall over. An hour after and the solemn tones of the great bell of St. Paul's—a bell of evil omen—told all citizens how irreparable has been the loss of their beloved Queen, how great the loss to the country. Daring yesterday the intelligence was received ; everywhere with a feeling so painful that it would really be difficult to exaggerate the amaze ment and grief manifested. The first fear—a wide, deep, and general fear —was, that the great : and keen affliction with which it has pleased Heaven in its wisdom to visit the Royal Family might prove too much for the strength of her Majesty, and that she herself might sink under her irreparable bereavement. A bulletin, however. posted at Buckingham Palace, stating that the Queen, tl”ugh overwhelmed with grief, bore her loss with calmness, and had not then suffered ir health, was soon known everywhere—such was the eagerness with which news of the Queen at such r. heavy time was sought for. Yesterday intelligence of the national calamity was communicated to the citizens of London. through the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, it the subjoined official letter from the Secretary ID! Siate for the Home Department : " Whitehall, Dec. 15. " My Lord,—lt is with the greatest concern that I inform your Lordship of the death of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, which took place at Windsor Castle last night at ten minutes to eleven o'clock, to the inexpressible grief of her Majesty and the Royal Family. ,‘ I request your Lordship will give directions for tolling the great bell of St. Paul's Cathedral.—] have the honour to be, your Lordship's most obe• dient servant, "The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor." " G. GREY. Again, yesterday afternoon his Lordship received by special messenger the following bulletin, copies of which he immediately caused to be posted on the most conspicuous places in front of the Mansion ,house " Windsor Castle, Sunday, Noon, Dec. 15. "The Queen, although overwhelmed with grief bears her bereavement with calmness, and has no suffered in health. ROYAL ENGLISH OPER A,i COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. Win. Harrison, Sole Lessees. To-Morrow Evening THE PURITAN'S DAUGHTER. Miss Louisa Fyne, Miss Susan Pyne Messrs. Santley, A. St. Albyn, Corri, G. Honey, Patey, Pall, W allworth, T. Distin, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. To conclude with THE TOY MAKER. Mr. H. Haigh, G. Pyne ; Mesdames Susan Pyne and Thirlwall, Commence at Seven o'clock. The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge fort booking, or fees to Box -keepers. lIHEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Lome, Mr. J. B. Buokstone. To-Morrow Evening FAMILY JARS. Mr. Compton and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. To be followed by OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Farren, Mrs. C. Young. Arc. After which, MY AUNT'S ADVICE. Mr. Howe, Mr. 1 Sotheran, Miss Oliver, dr,c. To conclude with MY HIJSBAND'S GHOST. Commence a 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. ITo-Morrow Evening the performances will commence with THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING Mr. Walter Lacy and Mrs. St. Henry. After which, at a quarter to Eight (32d time) the new] and original Drama, entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmun t Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. To conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in which Miss Lydia Thompson will Dance the Volunteer Step. Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Prices as usual. Doors open athalf-past 6, to commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. 1 - 10 Y A L i essee and Mana ger , Hattie, 'To-Morrow Evening JEANETTE'S WEDDING. Miss M. Barris and Mr. IL Widdicomb. After which, at Eight o'clock, Shakespeare's tragedy of OTHELLO, with new scenery, dresses, and appointments. Othello, Mr, Fechter NEW ROYALTY THEATRE Dean-street, Oxford-street. Under the Direction of Mdlle. Albino. di Rhona. To-Morrow Evening the petite Comedy, MATRIMONY. Camelia, Mdlle. di Rhona. Followed by ALL IN THE DARK. To con:lnde with A SMACK FOR A SMACK. Box-office open from 11 to 4. Doors open at 7—Commence at half-past 7. NOTICE. —In consequence of the lamented Death of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, it is respectfully announced that " THE OXFORD" and CAN TERBURY HALL will be CLOSED THIS EVENING (Monday). MORTON and STANLEY, Proprietors. MUSIC HALLS and PUBLIC GARDENS.— At a Meeting of the Proprietors of Music Halls and Public Gardens, it was resolved that, in consequence of the melancholy event of the death of his Royal Richness the Prince Consort, the Music Halls and Public Gardens in the Metropolis should be CLOSED THIS EVENING (Monday), and also on the day of the funeral. And it was further resolved that the Meeting should recommend the Proprietors of Music Halls and Public Gardens throughout the United Kingdom to close on the last mentioned day. These resolu tions to be inserted in The Times and other daily papers. Dated this 16th December, 1861. FREDK. STANLEY, Chairman. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. LAST WEEK of MR. SAM COWELL, who will, - at Eleven o'clock, sing several favourite Songs, including " THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. " Grand Selections from STRADELLA and LA TRAVIATA, By Miss Russell, Miss Brim t, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Herbert, &c. Solos by Herr Sesselberg, the great Basso. Comic—Mr. Marshall, in "John Bull, or they don't bam boozle me ;" Mr. Randall, from "The Oxford ; ' Mr. Wood and his talented son, and Miss Harriet Coveney. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, M.; Stalls and Balcony, ls. CANTERBURY HALL.-GRAND CHRIST. MAS ENTERTAINMENT, by Mr. E. MARSHALL "THE ENCHANTED HASH SECOND EDITION," (Written expressly for him.) Commencing on BOXING-NIGH P. CANTERBURY HALL. -M. VICTOR I JULIEN, " TIIE FLYING 31AN," from Paris, will make his First Appearance on the 30th December. THE OXFORD 6, OXFORD-STREET. Selections from "LA CIRCASSIENNE," " Simon Boma - nr.f.rra," and " Ernani," by Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, and Madame Enderssohn ; Messrs. Albert, W. Morley, Greene, and Greville. Full Band and Chorus.—Conductor, Mr. F. Jonglimans. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame Enderssohn (composed expressly for them). And Varied Comic Entertainments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Randall, Sam Collins, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and SAM CO WELL. Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, lb. 12m.—Afternoon, lh. 38m. To -MORROW. -Morning, lh. 54m.—Afternoon, 2h. 10m. THE WEATHER.—Sim OFFICE, DECEMBER 15, 1881 THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 46—kighest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this;day at noon. BAROMETER -30.29. WlND—North-Westerly; light, with cloudy weather. DEC. 16. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 47—highest since noon yesterday. 43—lowest this morning and during the night. 49—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.27. WlND—North-Westerly; light, with dull, foggy, mild weather. I'Vh Pit Prof tell itse mat