Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-07-14 00:00:00

present Government will have nothing further
to do with the matter.

THE DEATH OF GENERAL ANSON.

The mournful information was considerately broken to
the Hon. Mrs. Anson on Saturday afternoon, before the
sad news became generally known. Mrs. Anson, who has
returned only a few weeks from India, was deeply affected
on receipt of the information. The gallant General was
second son of Thomas, first Viscount Anson, and conse-
quently brother of the Earl of Lichfield. He was born the
13th October, 1797, and at an early age entered the army
in the 3rd or Scots' Fusilier Guards, with which regiment
he served at the battle of Waterloo. He continued in the
Guards until he obtained the rank of Lieut.-Colonel in
May, 1825, when ho was placed on half pay. The lamented
General was for many years a member of the House Of
Commons, being returned to that assembly in 1818, for
Great Yarmouth, which he represented in several succes-
sive Parliaments to 1835. In February, 1836, he was
elected for Stoke-upon-Trent, and sat for the southern
division of Staffordshire, from 1337 to 1853, when in
August that year he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds on
being appointed to his command in India. General Anson
served the office of principal storekeeper of the Ordnance
under Viscount Melbourne's Administration, and was clerk
of the Ordnance from July, 1846, to February, 1852. He
was a liberal in politics, and invariably sided with the
leaders of the Whig party. General Anson married, in
November, 1830, the Hon. Isabella Elizabeth Annabelle
Forester, third daughter to the late and sister to the pre-
sent Lord Forester. On his assuming his important
command in India, in 1855. he reeeivei the local rank of
General. On the death of Lisut -General the Hon Henry
E Butler, in December, last year, Gen. Anson succeeded
to the Colonelcy of the 55th Foot, which becomes vacant
by his demise. His commissions bore date as follows :
Ensign and Second Lientenant, Bth January, 1814 ;
Captain, 20th January, 1820; Major, Ist April, 1824 ;
Lieutenant-Colonel, 19th May, 1825 ; Colonel, 28th June,
1838; and Major-General, 11th November, 1851. The
late General was a zealous and liberal patron of the turf,
and was, perhaps, better known as Colonel Anson.

PRESENTATION OF THE FREEDOM OF THE
CITY TO PRINCE FREDERICK WILLIAM OF
PRUSSIA.

Yesterday afternoon, according to arrangement, the
Prince Frederick William of Prussia, the affianced husband
of the Princess Royal of England, arrived at the Guildhall,
at one o'clock, for the purpose of having conferred upon
him the freedom of the City of London, according to the
expressed wish of the Court of Common Council, intimated
to his Royal Highness a fortnight since.

Mr. Bunning (the City architect) had fitted up the
Guildhall to represent a chamber for the assembling of
the Court of Common Council and decorated it to do-
honour to the Prince of Prussia. Flags of all nations
were suspended from the large cornices. In the centre of
the eastern window was a bold medallion of her Majesty
decorated with golden lions, wreaths, and flags, beneath
which, and at the sides of the gallery for the ladies, were
suspended heraldic shields of the several nations. In the
centre of the western window was a trophy composed of
flags. The several compartments on each side of the
hall were also decorated with trophies of flags and
wreaths.

Immediately beneath the ladies' gallery at the east end,
and in:the centre of the hall, the chair from the Court of
Aldermen was placed for the Lord Mayor, on the right of
which was a chair of state, composed of gold and crimson
velvet, for the Prince of Prussia ; and on the left was
placed a chair for his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge, and on either side seats for the aldermen. In. the
front were arranged seats for the distinguished guests.
On the north and south sides of the hall were stages in
radiating lines in three heights for the gentlemen of the
Common Council, behind which seats were provided for
ladies. In the centre of the platform were placed a table
and seats for the officers, on a lower level than the floor,
so as in no way to impede the sight of the very numerous
company.

At the south entrance of the Great Hall was ...vended
a large curtain. On gothic pedestals on each:side of the
opposite door on the north of the hail, were fixed two
golden figures of plenty. The lobbies and passages
throughout were decorated with flags, and the beaatiful
bust of her Majesty, by Durham, in the:CommonlCouncil
Chamber was also decorated.

Vast numbers of people assembled in the neighbourhood
of the Guildhall at an eariy hour, and by half-past twelve
o'clock every seat, except those appropriated to the
principal guests, was occupied.
Among the most distinguished'persons were his Royal
Highness the Duke,of Cambridge, the French Ambassador
Earl of Harrowby, the Marquis of, Bre adalbane, Ear
Clarendon, the Prussian Minister and Countess Bernstorff,
the Turkish Ambassador, Duke and Duchess of Argyll,
the Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait, Sir George and
Lady Grey, the Belgian Minister, the American minister,
the Greek Minister, &c. .

His royal highness having taken his seat upon a chair
of state on the right of the Lord Mayor (the Duke of
Cambridge being on his left), the court was formally
opened, :and the resolution of the court in favour of
presenting the freedom of the City to Prince Frederick
William of Prussia having been read:

Sir John Key, city chamberlain, addressed his Royal
Highness Prince Frederick William, dilating, at the Com-
mencement of his speech, upon the prestige attending the
freedom of the City, and then proceeded personally to
apply his remarks. The corporation could not forget (he
said) that the guest whom their Queen had delighted to
honour came of the time-honoured house of Brandenburg
—was descended of a distinguished line of princes, beginn-
ing with one on whom con! emporaneous history bestowed
the title of " Great," and brought down to the time of
one who had everything of greatness but the name ; for
there were qualities in the relative of his Royal Highness
which placed him higher in the rank of potentates than
any of his predecessors, entitled him to the love of his
subjects, and the moral esteem of mankind. But there
were other considerations and reasons for bestowing upon
his Royal Highness a municipal token of respect—reasons
of a loftier, closer, and more sacred kind. His Royal
Highness was about to contract a relation with this
country, to make " one of us." He was on the point of
being entrusted by the people with one of their most
cherished and deeply-prized possessions—to have be-
stowed upon him the band of England's daughter—the
first-born of England's Queen, whose interests and happl-
- were bound up with the nation's, as were those of
the nation bound up with her's. Loyalty with them was
no mere sentiment ; it was a principle—a nationality as
much a part of the British character as the fidelity which
never forsakes a friend, or the courage which never
feared a foe. And if upon this aboriginal and instinctive
loyalty his Royal Highness supposed to be engrafted
all that affection which was inspired towards a
beloved Queen, by an unsurpassed combination of per-
sonal qualities, by wisdom, by moderation, by a heart
that feels for the meanest of her subjects, he could well
well understand with what feelings of emotion the people
contemplated their separation from au illustrious Princess,
and the earnestness of their prayers that she might find
in the country of her adoption the virtues of an English
court, and the comforts of an English home. With
respect to his Royal Highness personally, his, qualities
commanded the admiration and esteem of his court-
trymen, who were as incredulous of there being a
princess worthy to be honoured with his affection, as were
we of any Prince being found worthy of the daughter of
our unrivalled Queen. Sir J. Key concluded thus :—" In
this reciprocal persuasion of the two nations, therefore,
that each is offering of its best to cement ancient ties, to
strengthen the bulwarks 01 the Protestant faith, to hasten
the reign of a world-wide brotherhood and peace—our
country bids you God-speed,' and this Court tends
to you the expression of its homage. Whether
sir, in the providential orderings of Him 'by whom
kings reign and Princes decree justice,' it may ever be
yours to ascend the throne of your ancestors, we know
not. :But should such be His will, I feel that, in the
name of this court and of our common country, I can ex-
-1 press for you no higher or better Wish than that, as much