The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-26 00:00:00

YARMOUTH.

The following vote of condolence has been
adopted by the tows ocuseil:
May it please your Majesty,— We, your Majesty's dutiful
and loyal subjects, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the
borough of Greet Yarmouth, is the comity of Norfolk, in
common council amembled, beg leave to approach your
Majesty with the impressice of our heertfelt ',arrow at the
lom which your Majesty arid this nation have sustained by
the tinlookerl.for death of him Royal Highness the late
Priam Consort. We hasten to offer your Majesty our
most respectful sympathy on this melancholy aromas, sad
to condole with your Majesty on the great and inoperable
bereavement which your Mejosty and the royal family
have suffered. me virtues which adorned the Prince Con-
suet, both inpublic and private life,
ts, and the patronage which
he ex to the fla• ar~
b, the late-
:est which he took in promoting and esoosregieg
all social im vementa and ioduaLial pursuits, most
justly eadared his Royal Highness to all classes of your
Ifajaity'e salijoota • sod we feel orsedent that upon *la
moms" both in lamenting Wilms and condoling with your
Majesty, wean expressing the sostimeets of every inhabit-
ant of this ancient borough. We mason your Majesty of our
continuous attachment to your Majosty's pence and govern-
ment, and of our readiness to afford your Majesty on all oc-
casions our most loyal support, and we pray that your Ma-
jesty may be sustained by Divine Provides°, under your
present affliction, and be onab4d to continue as heretofore to
discharge the duties of your exalted station for the benefit
of your people."

[TW OPENCE

so long amonpt us, the perfect pattern of a happy wife
and mother, her first prayer as a widow was that heroic
petition put up for calm of mind under her all-crushing
bereavement ; for that she bad still many and urgent
duties to perform, as the parent of her people! May the
long yams that mellow afilictioo and soften the asperitase
of grist be yet vosehsafed to our beloved Sovereign ; and
may she still be mercifully 'pared to opine bsetk on
festival days, in all the glory of another Judith, the joy
of her kiogdom, and the Moms. of her people! May
there be peace within her cities, and abundance within
her towels; and may her last earthly song of praise be
like to that of the widow of Bethnlia ' Begin unto my
God with timbrels, sing ye to the Lord with cymbal*,
tune Him a new palm, exalt and call upon His name.
The Lord putteth an end to wars, the Lord is His
setae '

ADDRESS TO THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA.
The Town Council of Berlin have voted the fol-
lowing address to her Rol Highness the Crown Princess
of Prussia (the Prime's Royal of England) on the occasion
of the death of the Prince Consort:—
" Most Sarum Most Mighty Crown Priam" Most
Glorious Crown Phnom and lady,—With the deepest
grief we learn the mournful intelligence of the inexpressible
loos which your Royal Highness and the whole Royal House
have suffered by God's inserntible decree through the
premature and unexpected decease of your most serene
father, the noble and universally beloved and honoured
Prince Consort of England. By the universal grief which
this deeply-moving event her caused to the people of
England we comprehend the depth of the affliction
which must have penetrated the bout of your royal
Meows, esnd thelungsd profound grief into which your royal
iamb,brims be paver Cl are eatdespeptod wage-at bib snow° usitnA
your
highness. is the Ass. sermiw which Wei deems be east
upos you. will lied theit easselaties whir& sin may peened
hem Him, and that (led will grant that you may dad a
dimbelio• al year pia b theunivenel sorrow which pre-
vails at the departure at a prince whose malted virtue and
able ebonim have reary.where sad at all Masse dimwit
forth the truest reignites, and which will always be paid
to lb memory. Nay your royal highness preciously deign
to moire this expmesioa of our truest and most profound
sYmPathy, and pt the same time the aasuranos of tie great
respect with which we, your royal highness's moot de
tees, and cilbsdlant mayor and town council, tab oar leaven
"Drubs. Des. 17,1!181."

rim PUNEALL AMMON Ai CRAMS.
On Saturday • person was sent to Crathie from
London, by an ceder from the Lord Chamberlain's Moe,
to th.w the pulpit of the clew* the fronts of the
the ampulla's sent, ead that of the choir, wit=
On ihneley, the Rev. Arch. Andreae preached from
Hob. ix. 27—" It is appeinted unto men own to die."
After iamb:Ming the universality of death, its certainty,
led also iM oneurtahity as to the time and MaDOIR, end
.Sim esaderbg the preedeat effect which thew thighs
euglit be ham ea the seeduct, concluded a diacouree,
Muth was listened to with marked attention, needy as
damn:
" I sauces emotede without briefly &denting to the
mime eireumskiesse is which we are this dey placed.
Lithe did say of us think, when we lest Lord'ethy offered
trines
muft payees fee the speedy reeovery el the Mw
indlviihsal whim death had oviewhelmel us with
pied,
_QM eves before then be had been celled hence ;
Mat betterthee he imminiel spirit had wheel its flight
to his Owl. Ito suddenly, so unexpectedly did the
mthneliely lidless semi that I on
the general feel* whenes. I may thatbelieve I
we m lyeld harspeakdly
bring ounsivw to credit the sed Dews. For thirteen
e= la Royal Higher the Prime Consort bee
been a werdhow with us within these wells during the
time of kis -iheees in this neighbourhood, end, I may
odd, se euesphry we. he is it seendenes, that he we.
cooly ante or twin shiest fret church. We meet, i fear,
Lei. fully
_realise the lois which not only our own medal but
meld at large his sustaieed by this mil event. Remy
day will et :as it more and more impanel. His elm-
resew has been so fully Red faithfully drawn by the
press that it be out of place for me to enlarge Epee
it at presses. It may perhaps be more for edification to
cell your attention to what bee taken pleat amongst our-
selves. By all in this quarter his to. will be deeply de-
"We hem oily to cast ear eyes wound us to see how
much his hem done fee the dithict. We have only to ester
the dwelhags of the poor to find evidences of his
kind &Menthe to reader then comfortable is their de-
theft yrr • It may is may respects be rid respect-
is, kith test when the ear heard him, then it blessed
him, sad when the eye saw him, it gave wither to him ;
beeves delivered the peer at cried. and the father-
less, and him that had use to help him. The blessing
of the men that was ready to perish came upon him,
sad he snide the widow's heart to sag with joy." How de-
lighthd it wee to sae him attended by our gracious sod be-
loved Sovereign, and surrounded by their lovely children,
walking about amongst us. With what delight did we an-
smelly welcome their return, their kindly smile of mow
n sad how sorrowful did we feel when they tools
their re. Ales ! he who enjoyed himself so meek
among our Highland glens returns to us no more. No more
shell we spun behold his noble countenance mom* us.
We hone that exalted as wee his rank on earth, and high es
were his honours, he is now adorned with a more glorious
diadem than that worn by an earthly monerch."—Rdin-
intryA Courant.

EDMOND ABOUT Oh PRINCE ALBERT'S DEATH.

The brilliant French writer, M. Edmond About,
Is at present contributor to the feuillerom of the Constite-
tionowl. The following passage is from an article in that
journal of Tuesday, which bears his signature :
" Have you remarked that phrase in the official publica-
tion of the English Government after the death of Prince
Albert—qt is expected that all persons will assume a
decent mourning
" How much is said in a few words ! A whole treatise
might be written on them. The Queen of a great nation
has just lost her husband, and she hopes that in her
three kingdoms every person will assume a decent
mourning. This is neither a decree, nor an ordinance,
nor • command sent down from on high ; it is a simple
appeal to public sympathy, and at the same time •
reminder of a social obligation. There is in the formula
a mingling of dignity, confidence, and familiarity. You
feel, from the very fist word, that the dynasty which
speaks is in the most courteous, if not the moat intimate
relations with its subjects ; that no one disputes its rights
—that it has no declared enemies in the nation—that it
may rely, on all occasions, upon that loyalty without
meanness which the English display with • sort of
coquetry. You perceive a Queen who reigns and who
does not govern—a people which manages its own affairs,
and fears all the less to appear humble and submisove
because it is sure to remain free—a country of tradition,
of decency, and of decorum, governed by manners even
more thee by laws.
" We, of course, are proud of being French—that is all
settled. But there must pass away many years before our
political manners are elevated to the high tone of those of
England. Nothing is more unequal, more capricious, less
logical, than our relations with the men who govern us.
The French reoplo conduct themselves towards monarchy
as towards a mistress. We embrace it, we beat it, we put
it out of doors—we seek it out next day and cling around
its knees. Yesterday we could find no came foul enough
foe it ; to-day we flatter it, not without blushing at our
present baseness and our past violence. It is a question
of on and temperament. We adored Louis XI V. as a
god, yet we flung mod epee his funeral cortege. There
was, too, that bun bonne of a king whose hand we clasped
between both our own, full of respect for his coiffure and
of admiration for his umbrella, yet he had to fly in the
midst of hooting*, honest man though he was in his own
person. With what acclamations did we not deafen Lamar.
tine upon the Pleas de l'HAtel-de-Ville! Apollo himself
descending upon earth to bring us harmony could not
have been more welcome. Fourteen years after this splendid
triumph Apollo pines in hunger, and the generous little
journals follow him with the bitterest cries.
" I have already assisted ut some ovations, political and
otherwise. These blustering gooses fill me with • profound
sadness. It is not jealousy—of that you may be certain.
No ! I pity the recipient. I should rather see for him the
tokens of a ' decent ' approbation as they phrase it in
London. He would then be exposedi to lees terrible re-
actions. _ _