The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-04 00:00:00

LETTER PROM THE PRINCE OF WALE.

At • meeting of the council, epochally summoned
at Thursday last, the follow* autograph letter from his
Royal Hy lames the Prince of Wales vas resolved :
" OSBORNE, Dec. 28, 1861.
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" GrxrcrwEs,—Prortrated with overwielming grief, and
able, at present, to tura her thought* but to one object,
the Queem my mother has constantly in her mind the
meioses desire of doing honour to the memory of him
whose good sod glorious chanter the whole nation in its
soiree so justly appreciates.
" Actaated by this constantly recurring wish, the Qum
has eornmaisded me to mall to your recollection that her
Majesty hail bees *mod to smelt to a proposal to place
• statue of herself upon the memorial of the Great Haiti-
Utica of Ihsl, which it was intended to erect in the New
Horticultural Gardens.

" The characteristic modesty and self-denial of my deeply-
Luneoted father had induced him to interpose to prevent
hie own statue from tilling that position, which properly
Wiwi to it, upon a memorial to that greet wetissieking
which agrung from the thought of hi enlightened mind,
and wee tarried throogli to a terrnisatios unessinpled
seism by hie aiming sepwintesdenoe.
" It timid Isom/wit wow, her Majesty directs me to say,
be wt hurtful to her hasp were say other sato* to
BUTTIOSSi this ineaswil but that of thereat, good prince,
my dearly beloved faihrs. to whew bowitir it is in reality
mimed.

" The Quire, therefore, would aaxiously desire that,
Mewed of ber status, tk.et of her beloved husband should
stead ulna ibis memorial.
" Aarious, however humbly, to fedi& my respectful and
heartfelt affectio• for the best of fathoms, nod the gratitude
and devotion am" enroswing km* I have einglit, and hems
with thaakfulsom obtained, the pormeieds• of the queen
my mother to offer the feeble tribute at the admiration and
lows of a bereaved se m, by pomades the 'Wee thus pro-
posed to be placed in the gardens wider your ammegement..-
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remain, ;teatimes, yours, " ELM? EnWalLi.
"To the Council of the Horticultural Society.'

The letter having been read, the council resolved :
That soder the lamentable and afflicting cirettmelemess in
which the council are placed by the irreparable leas Wash
they, is common with the 'ratio's, have sustained by the
decease of their late president, the gracious offer of his
Royal Highnees the Prinoeof Wales should be acctpted ; but
at the same time that he should be assured that they con-
template the loss of her Majesty's statue with very great
regna."

His Royal Highness; the Duke of Cambridge is
rfteoveriag from hie attack at goat. Yesterday, although
his royal highness Ina much better, he was usable to &nand
at the Horse Oyu&

The Duchess of Atholl has arrived M the St.
Osorge's Hotel from Osborne.

The Earl of Norbury bas arrived at Farrauce's
Hotel from Valletta, Kent.

The Countess of Hardwick° comes to town on
Tuesday next from Wimp*be Hail, Cambridgeshire.

We learn that Mrs. Coventry, wife of the Hon.
Hoary A. Coventry, died at Malice Mowbray oe Wedoes.
day last. Mn. Oommtry wee daughter of Mr. Jammed Dun.
das, of Dundee, N. 3., cad Lady Mary Doom, youngest
daughter of Adelina Visaing Deacon, the victor of Cam.
perdo on. She meth& Aug. 2, 147, the Hem H. A.
Coventry, yosumpat son of the late Earl of Coventry, by
whom she UMW a SIMI /MO US family.

A deputation, consisting of Mews. Robert
renter, Samuel Fox, and William Allen, had an interview
yesterday afternoon with the Home Secretary, Sir G. Grey,
Hart, to preseut an address from the Society of Friends,
expressive of sympathy with her Majesty in her remit
bresvernent.

On Thursday evening Sir Robert Peel attended
• uneetiog of the Young Men's Christian Association at
Dehlio, in cminexion with the United Church of England
and Ireland, for the parishes of St. 'lichen and St. Paul,
Se the schools of which he had promoted a donation of lOC
He addressed some friendly coueeels to the young men,
sad was enthusiastically applauded. The chairman (the
Rev. J. MonAhan) stated that Sir Robert bad, a few clays
ago, visited the vault. el St. Ilichan's. In walking through
the charchyard be saw a ton:bowele with this iwienlition,
" Let so man write his epitaph until Ireland shall be free."
Sir Robert Peel remarked, Now is the time to write it,
for there is no country more free than Ireland." It was the
tomb of Robert Emmett.

Mr. Maguire, M. P., ha* been elected Mayor of
Cork for the present year. The defeated candidate was Sir
John Araott, whose extensive charities sad liberal prin-
ciples have repined him $ favourite. After the iaaugura-
ties of Mr. Maguire, tbe city trades, to mark their sym-
pathy with Sir John Arsott, ch►ired him through the city,
preceded by beads of music aid the various symbols of their

The Rev. T. W. Goodlake, M.A., bite rector of
Broughtoe-cum.Filkins, Oxfordshire, bad been instituted,
by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. to the rectory
of Swindon, is Olossosstembire, recast by the resignation of
Lilo Rev. 1.. R. C. Griffiths, on the presentation of John
Burman Sermon. Esq., of Swindoe-hall.
The Rev. Canon ninon has be ti admitted and
licensed, by the Lord Bishop of (41ouesstar and Bristol, to
the timely constituted district sod perpetual curacy of St.
Arnse'sOldlina, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, oa
the nossinatioo of the Vicar of Bittow—as such the patron.
Her Majesty's Commissioners for the 'uterus-
tinsel Exhibition of 1862 held a meeting at their offices In
the Strand yesterday.

The Haudel Festival at the Crystal Palace is to

aocaineace on the lied of Juse—to continue ow the 25th,
and conclude on the 27th. There will be this year a band
and chorus of four thousand performers.

DZATiI or 7113 COUP:rim (DoWaor-lt) or MAC-
etanrotta.—We bare to an 001111. the demise of Elise.
Dowager Canalise at Meoelestabl, who died at Eyoeham
MidL as the *demised legs of In yean. The late countess,
who was the yosagset dauhter of Mr. William Breton
Woletealmilnis, of Holly Hill. Hume:, married March 19,
1907, Thome. Um fifth. and lit. Earl of Macclesfield ; by
w►om her ladyship had a son, the present earl, sod two
daughters, Luta, Countess (Dowager) of Antrim. and Lady
Uvula Agnes, muried to the Hoe. J. Dittos.
Captain Kelloelt died yesterday, at Lis reaitleone
s$ lreemantle, near Enatharnploa. He yes upwards of 20
years in the Peeksoalar sad Oriental Compasy's
Ina we of their mat pepetersommanders, and was ...motel°
of am, of their lawn smi guest shim, imch as the His-
dasten, Beatiack, sad Himalaya. He took out the Hin-
dustan le ladia, and was for many years the notopany's su.
pariateodest at Calcutta Be was shoot SO years of age,
sad low left a wife and you"' handy to lenient his hoes.
The deg■ of all the Peninier and Oriental Company'.
vessels in the Southampton Water, were lowered yesterday
out of respect to his memory.