The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-03 00:00:00

LITTER O► LORD LYORR.

Washington, Dec. 8, 1960.

Sir,—The Queen, my august sovereign, has commanded
that the earliest opportunity after the return of the Prince
of Wales to England be taken to convey to the President of
the United States the expression of her Majesty's thank.
for the cordial reception given to his Royal Highness during
his late visit to this country, by the President himself and
by all classes of the citizens.
One of the main objects which her Majesty had in
view in sanctioning the visit of his Royal Highnees, was to
prove to the President and citizens of the United States
the sincerity of those sentiments of esteem and regard
which her Majesty and all classes of her subjects entertain
for the kindred race which occupies so distinguished a
position in the community of nations.
Her Majesty has seen with the greatest satisfaction that
her feelings and those of her people in this respect have
been met with the warmest sympathy in the great Amer'.
can Union ; sod her Majesty trusts that the feeling of con-
fidence and affection—the existence of which late events

hare proved beyond all question—will long continue to pre-
vail between the two countries, to their mutual advantage
and to the general inteiests of civilization and humanity.
I am commanded to state to the President that the Queen
would be gratified by his making known generally to the
citizens of the roiled States her grateful sense of the kind-
ness with which they received her son, who has returned to
England deeply impressed with all he saw during his pro-
gress through the States, but more especially so with the
friendly and cordial good will manifested towards him on
every occasion by all classes of the community.
I have the honour to be, with the highest consideration,
Sir, your most obedient humble servant, LYONS.
The Hon. Lewis Cass, &c.
?Hit IMPLY.

Department of State, Washington, Dee. 11, 1860.

My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your note of the Bth inst., in which you have conveyed
to this government the expression of her Britannic
Majesty's thanks for the cordial reception given to his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales during his late
visit to this country by the President and by all
classes of the citizens, and of her Majesty's wish that
ker grateful sense of the courtesies extended to her son
may be made known generally to the citizens of the United
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I am instructed by the President to express the gratifi-
cation with which he has learned how correctly her
Majesty has appreciated the spirit in which his Royal
Highness' was received throughout the republic, and the
eordial manifestation of that spirit by the people of the
United States which accompanied him in every step of 11;4
Mimic

Her Majesty has jastly recognised that the ♦isit of her
son aroused the kind and generous sympathies of our citi-
zens, and, If I may so speak, has crested an almost personal
interest in the fortunes of the royalty which he so well re-
presents. The President trusts that this sympathy and in-
terest towards the future representative ci ths sovereignty
of Great Britain is at once an evidence and a guarantee of
that consciousness of common interest and mutual raped
which have in the past, and will in the future, bind
together more strongly than treaties the feeling and the
fortunes of the two nations which represent the enterprise,
the civilization, the constitutional liberty of the same great
race.

I have also been instructed to make this cortespoodence
public, that the citizens of the United Mates may have the
satisfaction of knowing how strongly and properly her Ma-
jesty has appreciated the cordial warmth of their welcome
to his royal highness.
I have the honour to be, my lord, with high considers.
Lion, your lordship's obedient servant,
Wm. Hmtay Tuscore, Assistant-Secretary.

Her Majesty the Queen and hia Royal Highness
the Prince Consort have just forwarded through Colonel the
Hon. Sir C. B. Phipps a donation of 150/. towards the fund.
of the Reformatory and Refuge Union, which appears to
hare extended its ramifications all over the United
Kingdom.

Her Majesty Queen Victoria, in grateful remem-
brance of the escape of the Prince Consort from the &a-
prom accident which betel his royal highness during the
remit visit of the Queen to Coburg, has forwarded a sum
of money which is to be devoted towards the foundation of
a charitable institution in that place,

A Berlin letter, of Monday, says :—" Prince
Alfred (of England) has not appeared much in public since
hi. arrival in Berlin, but he spent nearly the whole of
the time in the company of the Prince and Princess
Frederic William at their town palace. On Saturday,
however, his royal highness enjoyed the sport of skating
with Prince Frederic William at Shandant, and in the
afternoon was present at a grand dinner given by the
Prince Regent and the Princess of Prussia, at which the
Prince and Princess Frederic William were also present.
Yesterday his royal highness went to the palace of Sans-
Send at Potsdam, and this morning left Berlin at half•past
7 for Ooburg, where his royal highness' will per some
days."
The Prussian Minister and the Countess Bern-
storff, who had been staying on a visit to the Earl and
Counter of 01nrendon, at The Gro►e, returned to town
yesterday morning, on the receipt of the melancholy intel-
ligence of the death of the King of Prussia.
The Earl of Sandwich has been entertaining a
succession of visitors at Hinchingbrook, his seat in Hun-
tingdonshire, during the festive season.
The Countess Dowager of Macclesfield and Lady
Louisa Parker have arrived at Howchin's Hotel, from their
seat, Eynsham Hall, Oxfordshire.