The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-08 00:00:00

(Stamped Id. Additional.)

ing. To Thy name be the glory that this Fork has been
brought to a proeperous issue. Accept our tribute of
thanksgiving, and rwrive the supplications which we have
now made in Thy Son's name.
Let Thy blessing descend upon this town and all who
dwell in it. May Thy Holy Spirit in all things direct and
rule oar hearts; that we, inclining always to Thy will, and
walking M Thy holy fear, and in dutiful allegiance to the
Queen, may ever be showing forth Thy praise from genera-
ting' to generation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
It was remarked that at the end of the prayer for
the Queen the responsive " Amen" from the assem-
bly was exceedingly hearty. At the conclusion of
the prayers the first verse of the National Anthem
was sung by the choir, the organ accompanying
them, and the solo part being executed by Mrs.
Sunderland, a Yorkshire °enteric, of greet cele-
brity and popularity in the district. The mayor
sad the town clerk, Mr. lkin, then proceeded to the
feet of the dais, and the latter read the following
address from the corporation of Leeds :
TO TRZ cane's MOST ISCILLZRT MAJESTY.

May It plow your Majesty,
Wo, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Barger," of the borough
of Lark, bid your Majesty welcome to this your faithful and
loving town, and thank you from our harts for having
(manta our pray," that you would maks Ede happy and me-
merebls day doubly happy and doubly memorable by your
enspitious presence.
We mature to hope that so excellant a judge of art as your
Malady, may find something to approve in the Hall in which
we are now for the first tins meembled, amid may be well
pima to see a stirring and thriving set of English industry
mandliahed by an edifioe not inferior to those stately piles
oilkh WE attest the ancient opulence of the great commercial
chin of Italy and Flanders.
For the name purposes of municipal government a lase
speck= and way building might have onMoed. Bat Is
ourarchileotural pima, we have b one in mind the proba-
bility that, at no very distant time, civil and criminal justice
may be disposed to an extesteive region, in this town, the
reel capital of the West Riding. We were also desirous to
provide a place whim large amenable% might meet in oom-
fort to mercies their oonatitutioaal right of discussing public
questions, to listen to instruction on literary and philosophi-
cal @objects, or to enjoy innocent amusements.
CosMeut that nothing which mice= the happiness of
your subjects, from the solemn administration of those

law, witch protect oar lives and our property down to the
hamlets recreations from which a laborlona population ro-
tom with now rigour to its toils, as be uninteresting to
your Majony, we were esoouraged to prefer our regnant
that the opening of our Hall might be graced by your
presence • and we see with pride and pleamulf the fulfilment
of our hopes.
We prey God to Mem your Majesty ; we prey God to pro-
long your reign; and we know that, in so praying, we are
preying kr our own happiness, and for that of all of your
people. May a long line of desoindants be, like you, repaid
for the mild and constitutional exercise of regal power by the
respect and love of a free sod high-spirited Latloll. It is
probable that in the days of those descendants experimental
science will have made great grogram ; that in random of
which we have men the prinnlelag balmy will have been
brought by incomelve improvemsab user to perialion; and
that the malarial wealth of oar bird mg be sash a• would
now seem &Woo& Yet we treat that madam ear Hell will
be seen with interest as a memorial of a time when England
already enjoyed order and freedom, profound tranquillity,
and steadily inereming preepeeity, under a Sovereign Una.
platy is the discharge et every political and of every domestic
duly; and that them who vide this building will contemplate
it with double interest when they are told that it was inau-
gurated by the good Queen Victoria.

- After the reading of this address, the Earl of
Derby, who stood throughout the ceremony on her
Majesty's right, and with whom she communicated
when necessary, handed to her Majesty the fol-
lowing reply, which she read aloud with her usual
distinctness of utterance:
Kr. Mayor sad Oastlertaen,

I accept With ?lessors your 'Ova address, and I thank you
shweetely for the °oral"' welcome with whteh I have been
reeetvei.

It if highly gratifying to me to witness the opening of
Ai noble hall, a work well worthy of your active industry
and mitmprielsg spirit, and while it will tidied a Luting
beam ea the town of Leeds, I feel assured that it will
oleo move to the thriving community whom you remount
the important social and municipal advantages for which it fi
designed.

The Mayor and the mover and seconder of the
address were then graciously allowed to kiss hands.
The following address from the corporation was
afterwards presented to tie Prince Consort :
TO HIS ROYAL H/OHNISS TEI PRINCZ CONSORT, 1.0.,