The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-19 00:00:00

THE LATE QUEEN DOWAGER.

(From last night's Gazette.)
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, DEC. 18.—Orders
for the court's change of mourning on Sunday the 6th of
January, 1850, for her late Majesty the Queen Dowager,
viz. :—The ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen
or muslin, white gloves, black or white shoes, fans, and
tippets, white se astute and ear rings; no diamonds. The
gentlemen to wear black, lull-trimmed, fringed or plain
been, black swords and buckles. The court to change the
mourning further on Sunday the 13th of January, 1850;
siz. :—The: ladies to wear black silk or velvet-coli-nred
ribbons, fans, and tippets. The gentlemen to continue in
black, and to wear coloured swords and buckles. And on
Sunday, the 20th of January, 11352, the court to go out of
mourning.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, DEC. 18.—It is the
intention of the Queen and that of the royal family to con-
tinue their mourning f.r her late Majesty the Queen Dow-
ager until the 13th of March,lBso, changing to half mourn-
ing upon the 13th of February, 1850.
Warren/six, Dec. 18.—The following addresses
of condolence to the Queen, on the eccision of the death of
her late majesty Qui en Adelaide, having been transmitted
to the Right lion. Sir George Grey, Burt, her Majesty's
principal secretary of state for the Home Department, for
presentation, were presented accordingly to her Majesty,
who was pleased to receive the same very graciously :
TO Ina QUERN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
May it please your Majesty, We, the mayor, alder-
men, and burgesses of the borough of Liverpool,
in ceuncil assembled, beg to approach your Majesty
with tke ezerersion of our sincere and heartfelt sor-
row for the loss which your Mejeaty yid the people of these
kingdom. have sustained by the lamented death of her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager. The virtues which adorned the
private lite of this illustrious lady, the rectitude of her yieb.ic
conduct, and the munificence with which she supported
every object calculated to promote the interests of true cha-
rity, and to es red the knowledge and influence of religious
principles, a:I endeared her to your Majesty's loyal subjects,
and render her loss an occasion of general and unaffected
sorrow. Whilst we approach your Majesty with our
sincere candslence and our deepest sympathy, we at the
same time venture to elm, so our earnest hope that
your majesty may he long spared to perpetuate the virtues
which distinguished Queen Adelaide, and to reign in the
hearts of a loyal and devoted people.—Signed on behalf cf
the Council of the borough of Liverpool. JOHN Horses,
Mayor. Transmitted by the mayor.
And the f lowing on the same subject : From the magis-
trates of the county of Middles., s. Transmitted by H.
Puwnall, , Chairman of the Court.—From the Citified
of the borough of Portsmouth. Transmitted by the Town
Clerk.

FLEETWOOD A PORT.—By a Treasury minute re-
cently issued, Fleetwood will become, atter Gth of January,
next an independent port. It belongs at present to the ',At
Pres'on.

PERMISSION TO USE FIRES AND LIGHTS ON 8111E-
71°mm—A humcrous meeting of shipowners, shipmasters,
and others interested in the welfare of the port was held in
Liverpool on Monday afternoon, for the purp-ce of adopting
such meosun is as migkt be c 'knitted to induce the Liver-
pool dock committee to reltx their present stringent resolu-
tions with regard to the use of fires and lights on board
vessels when in dock (Mr. William liathbone, secretary to
the East India Atticiation, in the chair), when the fol.
lowing roe:it:ion and memorial were unanimously adopted :
That Chrivinnity and humanity alike demand the mode.
rate use of fire' and lightt on board of vessels while
in the Liver. •.1 Docks, aed that the prompt cam.
pliancc with is demand would be both safe and pelitie."
•• To the Cheirm►n and lu• mb re of the Liverpool Dock
Committee —Gentlemen,—We, the undersigned merchants,
owners, I:netters, and n•here, of vessels trading to the per of
Liverpool, beg respeclully to be allowed the uss a fire,
aid lights on board our ships, while in dock. In asking
this accommodation, we only seek the convenietei4 per-
mitted io London and other wet docks in this country ; aLd
where, in no instance, has there been a case of col:fin/ration,
to our knowledge, arising from fins or lights, either is
caching, plays, ea forecastles. Tht undersi,:ned are pre-
pared to show that the want of the common com orts of
cooking on hoard obits tends to make Liverpool on of the
must espen•ive ports in the kingdom, and to demo/elite the
SCAIIICLI to a degree scarcely to be credited."