The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-25 00:00:00

DOVER.

A special meeting of the Dover Town Council
was held at the Sessions House on Monday, when the fol-
lowing address of condolence with her Majesty the Queen,
on the Waisted death of the Prince Consort, was unani-
mously voted :
" Most Oflioollll Sovereigo,—We, your Majesty's most
dutiful sod loyal subjects, the mayor, aldermen, and bur-
gesses of the borough of Lover in council assembled, hasten
most respectfully to smarts your Majesty of our sincere
condolence and heartfelt sympathy on the afflictive be-
reavement with which it has pleased Almighty God
to visit your Majesty sad the Royal Family in the re-
moval of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. The
oatiou at large mousse with your Majesty the lose of the
illustrious Prince, who by his distioguiahed and cube:a-
lined career, and by his faithful attachment to the institu-
tions of the country, had woo for himself the universal
respect and esteem of all dames of your Majesty's subjects.
The unceasing care with which his Royal Highmiss entice-
raged both literature and the arts and sciences, and with
which he festered the sources of native industry and the
social comfort and advantages of the people, will ever
make his memory revered and dear to the country ; and
though removed, as our hope is, to a higher and better
sphere, ha, being dead, yet speaketh, and we trustthat the
bright example which in his exalted station he uniformly
set before others in all the relationships of life, will abide
alike an eodunug mosiument of self-denying devotion and
cultivated taste and enlightenment, and a pattern to be
emulated by all who seek their own or their country's hap.
piums and welfare. That your Majesty sod the Royal
Family may, in the poignant grief/mulled by this greet cala-
mity, be supported and comforted by Him who afflicteth
not willingly, but for our proelt, is our earnest desire and
fervent prayer."

After attending Divine service, on Monday, the
Town Council of South Shields met in the Council Clam-
ber, Town-hall, sod adopted the following adds= al eon-
deism* to her Majesty :
" May it please your Majesty,—We, your Majesty's
loyal subjects, the mayor, Warms. and burgesses of the
borough of South Shields, ia the °panty of Durham, humbly
venture to tender to your Majesty, under your great and
trying afifiction,pur heartfelt sympathy and ouodulenue on
the mournful bereavement whi&your Majesty and the Royal
Family haven) unhappily sastaised in the greatly lamented
deems of Me late Royal Mishima' the illustrious Coasort of
your Majesty. Viewing the death of the illuatrious Prince in
the light also of a sallied calamity, we dutifully convey to
your Majesty, at the seam Urns, oar deep-felt *ease of the
loss which has befallen the °sentry, by the departure from
arnocigot us of on. whose easelast solicitude for the adverse-
meet of British interests, nocsming exertions is the cause of
literature, education, art, and senses, and steady support of
all such measures as had for their object industrial, agricul-
tural, moitary, and general improvement, had pined for
binned" the attachment of your Majesty's subjects, and
earned • reputatios which will long secure for his memory
the affectionate regrets and lasting rewerubrauce of • grate-
I ul people.
" We devoutly pray to Almighty God, that under His
divine protection your Majesty may be streogthened and
supported in the mad bereavement which, in Hu inscrutable
wisdom, your Majesty has been permitted to sustain, and
that for many years to come your Majesty may reign in
health, tranquillity. prosperity, and peace, over • loyal, an
affectionate, and a united people."

GLASGOW.
At a meeting of the Glasgow Merchants' House
held uo Monday, the following address of condolence to the
gusto was unanimously voted :—" To the Queen's Most
Lustiest Majesty. —Most Gracious Sovereign.—We, the
Dean sad Guild and Merchants House of the city of
Weaver, with feelings of profound sorrow, in approach-
eg the Throne, beg to offer to your Majesty and august
family our sincere sympathy and condolence on the
severe and sudden berrevernent with which it bee
plowed Almighty God to visit you in the death of hie
Royal Highness the Prime Consort. We desire.
with the deepest feelings of loyalty and affec-
tion towanla your Majesty, to record the high admiration
is which, from hie numerous virtues. the Prince Consort,
was held by the whole British nation, whether as • de-
voted husband, a kind and affectionate parent, ore wise and
judicious counsellor. Our fervent prayer is that your Ma-
jolty may receive that divine support which can alone
sustain you under your irreparable loss ; and that you may
be long spared to reign over a loyal, affectionate, and de-
voted people.
" Signed sod sealed with the corporation seal of the Mer-
chants' House, to mune and by appointment of the said
house, at Glasgow, thiiterenty-third day of December,
one thousand eight hundred and sick one, by
"JAIIIII LousoLs, Dean of Gala"