The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-23 00:00:00

TEE PRINCE AND PRINCES!, OP WALES'S

ANNUITIES.

The following is a copy of the bill brought in
the Horne of Commons by the government to enable
her Majesty to provide for the establishment of his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wake and her Royal Highness the
Princess Alexandra of Denmark, and to settle certain an-
nuities on her royal highness :
"Mort Gracious Sovereign,—We your Majesty's most
dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in parliament mum-
bled, having taken into consideration your Majesty's most
gracious menage that your Majesty has agreed to a marriage
proposed between his Royal Highness Albert Edward
Prince of Wales and her Royal Highness the Primus
Alexandra Caroline Maria Charlotte Louisa Julia of Den-
mark, do most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may
be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's most excel-
lent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this pre-
sent parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
same, ea follows:
"L It shall be lawful for her Majesty, in order to provide
for the establishment of his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales and her esid Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra, by
letters patent under the great seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, to pant to his said royal
highness or to such persons as her Majesty may think fit to
name in the said letters patent, in trust for his said royal
highnees, an annuity of forty thousand pounds, to com-
mence from the day of the marriage of his said
royal highness with her said royal highness, and
to continue during the joint lives of her Majesty
and his said royal highnees, to be paid quarterly
on the sth day of January, the sth day of April, the
sth day of July, and the 10th day of October in every
year, the first payment to be made on such of the said quar-
terly days as next happens after the said marriage, of such
portion of the said annuity as may have accrued between
the date of the said marriage and the said quarterly day,
and a proportionate part to be payable for the period from
the last quarterly day of payment to the day of the deter.
ruination of the annuity.
" 2. It shall be lawful for her Majesty, by letters patent
under the great seal of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, to grant unto her royal highness the said
Princess Alexandra, or to such person as her Majesty may
think fit to name in such letters patent, in trust for her
royal highness, for her sole and separate use, but without
any power of anticipation, an annuity of ten thousand
pounds, to commence from the date of the marriage of her
saidroyal highness with his royal highness, and to be payable
during the continuance of that marriage, on the quarterly
days aforesaid, the first payment to be made on such of the
said quarterly days as happens next after the said marriage,
of such portion of the said annuity as may have accrued be-
tween the date of such marriage and such quarterly day,
and a proportionate park to be payable for the period from
the lest quarterly day of payment to the day of the deter-
mination thereof.

" 3. It shall be lawful for her Majesty, by letter patent
under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, to grant unto her said royal highness, in
case of her surviving hie said royal highness, or to such
persona as bar Majesty may think fit to name in the said
letters patent, in trust for her said royal highness, in the
event of her so surviving, an annuity of thirty thousand
pounds, to onnmenoe from the day of the death of hie said
royal highness, and to continue from thenceforth during
the life of her said royal highness, and to be payable on the
quarterly days aforesaid, the first payment to be made
on such of the said quarterly days as happens
next after the death of his said royal highness,
of such portioo of the said annuity u may
have accrued between the date of the said death sad
the said quarterly day, and a proportionate part thereof to
be payable for the period from the last quarterly day of
payment to the tiff of the determination thereof.
" ""

" 4. The annuities panted by tads act shall be charged
on and payable out of the Consolidated Fund of the
United Kingdom of Croat Britain and Ireland, after
tyv ieni, csirenreaerving sufficient to pay such sums as may
directed to be paid out of the said fund by
former acts of parliament, but with preference to all
other payment. which may hereafter be charged on the
said fund."

Puniic Scat:Jou COMXISSION.—The commiaaionere
held meetings on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday lad, at
No. 2, Victoria-etreet. Present, the Earl of Clarendon, the
Earl at Devon, the Lord Lyttelton, Sir S. H. Northcote,
Bert., M.P., the Rev. Professor Thompson, the Hon. Ed-
ward Twidlton, and H. Raiford Vaughan, Esq. The secre-
tary attended.

iteauaa ELEL-rton.—The liberal bits won at
Lisburn. The contest was exceedingly close. Until noon
the numbers were equal. At 1.15 Barbour had a majority
of A. For an hour and a half after there was no polliog.
At length one vote more was added to the majority. At
a quarter to three o'clock the numbers were—for BArbonr,
142 ; for Verner, 133. At three the majority was reduced
to 5. Close of the poll—Barbour, 140 ; Verner, 134 ; ma-
jority, 6. There was great excitement, but no breach of
the pesos. The streets were crowded ; the police and
military under arms. _

Dtri FRI di BURGH--.—On Monday last Major
Walker, of Cm/foram, who contested these burghs in
1859 and was nearly successful, announced that, for private
reuses, he did not intend to appear as a candidate at the
next general election. On Friday, the 20th last., Colonel
Clark Kennedy, C. 8., issued an address, intimating his in-
tention of opposing the sitting member, Mr. W. Ewart, in
the event of • dissolution of parliament. Colonel Ken-
nedy promises to support Lord Palmerston'a government,
and Ins political opinions appear to be those of a moderate
liberal. The present member is • radical.
KR. EWA= M.P., AND Mi. PAIITENNON. —The
Liverpool /kilos of to-day publishes the following letter
from Mr. J. C. Swart, M.P. :—" 1 have just seen in the
Liverpool Mercury • report of a speech stated to have been
made by Mr. Patterson at • meeting at the Amphitheatre
on Thursday last, of which the following is an extract:—. A
man, who protested to represent Liverpool, was sees the
other day cheering and hurrahing, when Mason, of Virginia,
was entertained by the Lord Mayor of London; dec. There is
no foundation for such a statement. If Mr. Patterson wants
any 000tirmation of what I state, I refer him to Mr. Mackay
(of Mews. J. Baines and Co.) who eat nearly opposite to me
at the dinner. When I aooepted the invitation of the Lord
Mayor I did not know the name of a single individual whom
I was to meet, and it was not until Mr. Means's name was
announced as he entered the drawing-room that I knew he
was to be there. I always had the deepest hatred of slavery.
but I fear the sudden emancipation, lately proclaimed by
Mr. Lincoln, may be fraught with terrible and sanguinary
results to all parties, whites ea well as never., ma was seen
in the instance of St. Domingo. Mr. Patterson knows very
well that I have always been in favour of the strictest
neutrality, on our part, in this unfortunate war; and he
ought to know that, in the ate session of parliamast. I
appealed to Mr. Gregory not to bring forward his motion
for the recognition of the Southern States, fearing that the
discussion might give rid to expressions calculated to
irritate the feelings of both parties. I think each • warm
the most appropriate one for • representative of • great
commercial town like Liverpool.—Youre. truly, J, C.
Bwairr.-84, Pall-Mall, 20th Feb., 1883."