The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-22 00:00:00

THE COURT.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 20.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party
yesterday.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Alice, Prince 66
Helena, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice, walked,
in the Home-park this morning, and visited her Boys,'
Highness the Duchess of Kent and the Princess 0'
Leiningen at Frogmore.
The Prince Consort, attended by Major-General the
lion. C. Grey and his Equerry in Waiting, went to
London by a special train of the South-Western Rail'
way. The Prince drove from the private station in
Vauxhall to the Palace of Westminster, where bis Bar
Highness arrived at eleven o'clock and presided at 11,
meeting of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition 0'
1851.

The other Commissioners present were Earl Gran'
yille, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., the Right
Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P.,; the Right Hon. Robert
Lowe, MX., Sir Alexander Spearman, Bart., Sir C.
Eastlake, Sir Charles Lye'', Sir Roderick Murchison+
Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. Bazley, M.P., Mr. 0;
P. Bidder, Mr. C. H. Dilke' Mr. T. F. Gibson, and
Mr. Leonard Horner. Mr. Edgar Bowring, secretary'
to the Royal Commission, attended.
The meeting broke up at twenty minutes before two
o'clock.
The Prince Consort returned to Windsor in the
afternoon.

The Prince of Wales went out hunting, attended 11
Lietenant-Colonel Keppel.
Prince Leopold took a carriage drive.
The Duchess of Kent and the Prince and Princess of
Leiningen visited the Queen at the. Castle and took
luncheon.
The Duchess of Athole has succeeded the Countess °f
Caledon as Lady in Waiting to her Majesty.

THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED

STATES.

The following account of Mr. Abraham Linco
just elected President of the United States, 0
given in a letter from New York published in tll°
Opinion Nationale :

- -
-He was born in the county of Hardem, in Kentuck 1
the 12th Feb., 1809. His grandfather, who emigrateu
from Virginia into that State, in 1781, was killed by tbe
Indians whilst engaged in clearing his lands. His SO'
who, like himself, was very poor, also died prematurely'
and left a widow and some children, one of them being
Abraham, then aged six years. The widow, with her
children, after a while, took up her residence in the south
of Indiana, and there Abraham, in course of tilne,
reached man's estate. In stature he is almost gigantic'
being six feet three inches. His mother was able to gls'e
him but little education; in fact, he passed only six or
eight months at school. He was in succession a fall
labourer, a woodcutter,oodcutter, and a boatman on the Wabas
and the Mississippi. In 1830 he went to the State of
Illinois, and earned his living for a year by working 35
a labourer in the fields ; and then he got a place as II
shopman, and afterwards enlisted as a volunteer in 3t
company which was raised at New Salem to take par,
in the war in Florida against the Indian tribes, heacl.7,
by the chief called the Black Hawk. He served iv„lt:
credit, and was promoted to the grade of captain. u"
his return to Illinois he took up his residence near
Springfield, the capital, and has ever since resided
there. In 1852 he was a candidate for a seat in the
Legislature of the State, but failed. The year after'
however, he was elected, and he sat during 'fel
sessions. During this time he studied law, all.;
having become an advocate, practised with great sucePst.
at the bar of Springfield. In politics, to which, wi?li
following his profession, he paid great attentionoi
he joined the Whig party, and was a warm supporter a
Henry Clay. In 1846 he was elected to Congress, ario.
continued to belong to it till 1849. He was a strel.l.:
Abolitionist, and repeatedly expressed his sentiments u,,
the subject of slavery. In the stormy debates which to
place on the Wilmot proviso he bore an active part, a
ea
voted not fewer than 42 times for that measure. He oprn
0,0
e
the war with Mexico as unconstitutional. From 184,,
1854 he kept aloof from the political arena, devoting hl T
self exclusively to the exercise of his profession. In
1854 he was the candidate of the Whigs for the dignity is
Senator for his State, but was defeated. In 1856 0.1
name was at the head of the list of the electors
Illinois, who voted for Fremont, in opposition,
Buchanan. In 1858 he was unanimously designaten,7
the Republican Convention of the State to succeed
pia
Douglas as Senator, and a warm contest
.took
between him and that gentleman. Both vi.sited. e „W.
part of the State to harangue the populations!
Lincoln boldly declaring for the abolition of slav_tt•T
and Mr. Douglas standing by what is called squc,3 ,0_
sovereignty. Fortune was then adverse to Mr. Lin •QP,
his opponent having been elected."

,liow-

CORONER'S INQUESTS.—The Coroner held the folio,
mi g nquests yesterday :—On the body of Solomonßuben, a Jew traveller, who was 67 yeariold. He cut 110
throat on the 23rd October, whilst labouring under
temporary insanity. The wound was healed, but .he
died from exhaustion and nervous excitement. Verdict
accordingly.—On the body of a child named Kelly, Ms
months old, that was overlain in bed in Wigan-street.
Verdict, suffocated.—On the body of John Priestly', 34
years old, who was a jobbing breaksman at the Edge-
hill goods station. On Monday night he was caught
between two buffers, and killed. There was no blame
elf,
attached to any one but t poor fellow hims
verdict, accidental death.