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London, England, 1864-01-13 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1861.

NEW WORK BY THE DUKE OF MANC ESTER.

WHERE CAN WE MEET Al? MR THE
PANTnium Es ? 31y dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup
at EVANS', Covent-garden.

On Friday, Jan. 15, in 2 vols., with Portraits, 303.,
C 0 U 'U AND SOCIETY,
FROM ELIZABETH TO ANNE.

its appropriation ie this purpose. It has been fitted up with
a sp iICiOTIS platform, and all the arrangeraents necessary for
a course of entertainments to be given weekly throughout
the whiter.

COURT OP ALDERMEN,
THE PRINCESS OF WALES.

Edited from the Papers at Kimbolton,
By the DUKE of MANCHESTER.

A special Court of Aldermen was holden yesterday for
the purpose of receiving a communication from the Secretary
of State, announcing the safe delivery of her Royal High-
ness the Princess of Wales, and the birth of a Prince.
The Lord Mayor presided, and there was a full attendance
of members of the court.

Hurst and Blac lett, Publishel s, 13, Great Marlborough.
street.

The LORD MAYOR opened the proceedings, and read the
letter of Sir G, Grey, which merely announced the fact above
stated.

Alderman COPELAND, M.P., in rising to move that the
communication be entered in the journals of the court, said
he should wish to explain why he merely made this motion,
and why he did not at the same time move that a dutiful
and loyal address be also presented to her Majesty upon such
an auspicious event. (Hear, hear,) When ho first had the
honour of taking his seat in that court, it was•the custom
upon important and interesting occasions like the present
for two addresses to be voted to the Crown, one by the Court
of Aldermen, and the other by the Court of Common Coun-
cil, and the two addresses were carried up conjointly. It
was, however, found to be very inconvenient for so large a
number of persons to approach the Throne, and it was there-
fore arranged that only one address should be moved in the
Court of Common Council, and he apprehended that was the
course which must be taken on the present occasion. He
wished his brethren of the Court of Aldermen to understand
at the same time that he was as anxious as any one could
be to uphold all their privileges, and those of the corporation
generally, but for the reason he had stated he felt that on the
present occasion all he could do was to move that the com-
munication of Sir G. Grey be entered in the journals of the
court.

Alderman Sir T. DUKE, M.P., seconded the motion.
Alderman SIDNEY, M.P., said that but for what had been
stated by the senior member of the Court with regard to the
rights of the Court of Alderman, he should possibly have
allowed the motion to pass sub silentio, but he could not help
thinking that, by adopting the proposition, the privileges of
himself and his brother magistrates were taken from them.
(Hear, hear.) He was aware there was a jealousy upon
this subject in the other branch of the Corporation, but he
could not help expressing his opinion, notwithstanding what
had been said by Alderman Copeland, that the magistrates
of this great Corporation had an undoubted right to move
an Address to the Crown upon so important and interesting
an occasion as the present, and to present that address,
as any other body of magistrates in the kingdom. (Hear,
hear.) As to the inconvenience that had been alluded to of
so large a body going np to the Crown, if he remembered
rightly this difficulty was merely suggested by the Secretary
of State for the time, and he was not aware that any objec-
tion had ever been raised by the Crown to the magistrates
of the City of London offering it their loyal homage upon an
occasion like the present. (Hear, hear.)
Alderman CHALLIS said he fully concurred in what had
just been stated by his brother alderman. It appeared to
him that this court ought not lightly to give up any of their
ancient privileges, and he could see no objection to two ad-
dresses to her Majesty, one from this Court and one from
the Court of Common Council being agreed to. (Hear.)
Alderman COPELAND wished the Court to clearly under-
stand that ho had no desire to sacrifice any of their privi-
leges, and when the, proposition was made originally that
there should be only one address to the Throne upon such
an occasion, he opposed it. If however they referred to the
journals of the Court, they would find that the course he
now proposed had always been taken, and he had therefore
no alternative but to propose it on the present occasion. If
however the Court should be of opinion that a special ad-
dress should be presented by them to her Majesty, he was
quite ready to support such a motion. (Hear, hear,)
The LORD MAYOR then rose and read a telegram he had
received that morning, announcing that her Royal High-
ness the Princess of Wales and the royal infant were pro-
gressing favourably.

Some further discussion then took place, during which
Alderman Sir R. CARDEN proposed a motion to the effect
that the Court of Alderman should present a special address
to the Throne upon the auspicious event that had called
them together.

The LORD MAYOR, under the advice of the Recorder,
however, ruled that this could not be done unless the stand-
ing orders were suspended, as the Court had assembled for
a special purpose.

Alderman SIDNEY said he was quite ready to move that
the standing orders be suspended; but at the suggestion of
the Lord Mayor, and after a few observations had been
made by Alderman Phillips, Sir It. Carden consented not to
take any further proceedings in the matter at present, upon
the underatanding that a special court should be called at
an early day to enable him to do so.

The motion of Alderman Copeland was then agreed to,
and the Court adjourned.

COURT OP COMMON COUNCIL.

Immediately upon the breaking up of the Court of Alder -
men, a Court of Common Council was holden for the pur-
pose of considering a motion by Mr. F. W. Truscott, the
Chairman of the City Lands Committee, " That a dutiful
and loyal address be represented to her Majesty to congratu-
late her on the safe delivery of her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales and the birth of a Prince."

The Lord Mayor presided, and the Council Chamber was
crowded with members of the court.

After some formal business had been disposed of,
Mr. Thuscorr rose to propose the motion of which he had
given node°. In doing so he said he could not help congra-
tulating the court that the first meeting after the recess
was devoted to an occasion so auspicious as the present, and
he hoped he should not be deemed intruding his own perso -
nal feelings if he ventured to remind the court that he had
been most singularly favoured during the period he had the
honour to hold the important position of Chief Commoner of
that ancient Corporation. Early in his year of office it was
his pleasing duty to propose the address to the Throne of
loyal congratulation on the nuptials of his Royal Highness
tho Prince of Wales with the illustrious Princess Alexandra
of Denmark, and at the close thereof he had to move the
address of felicitation upon the birth of a Royal Prince, the
first fruit of a happy union, He could only express a fer-
vent hope that the gleam of sunshine which irradiated the
heart of their beloved Queen by the marriage of her son,
might glow into perennial summer by that blessing which
it had pleased Almighty Providence now to bestow--(hear,
hear, and cheers)—and that its infant smiles might brighten
with silver lining the cloud of sorrow that had attended
her Majesty since her melancholy bereavement. The birth
of an heir lineal to the Throne of Great Britain was an event
no less momentous to the country than to the Royal Family
itself, Some of the older members of that Court could per-
haps recal the sensations created by the lamented decease
of the Princess Charlotte and her infant child, and by the
barrenness of succession of those nearest the Throne during
the last years of George 111. ; and many of them could re-
collect the solicitude attendant upon the birth of the
Princess Royal, so ardently watched for and so longingly
expected. The Royal Prince was placed most fortunately.
He was born while England was at peace, but whilst the
din of the preparation for Continental war was resounding
on all sides. He would also inherit that proud distinction,
far greater than all his titles, that he was descended of one
best remembered as Albert the Good--(cheers)—and that
the Monarch in whose reign his existence commenced was
not lees honoured by queenly dignities than for the virtues,
affections, and sympathies of home. And as the national
poet had placed in the mouth of Cranmer a prophecy of the
splendours of the succeeding ages of Elizabeth, let them
hope that the glories and the honours there depicted might
be the birthright of their newly-barn Prince:—
Peace, plenty, love,
That were the servants to this chosen infant,
Shall then be his, and like a vine, grew to him.
Wherever the bright sun of Heaven shall shine,
His honour and the greatness of his name
Shall be, and make new nations : he shall flourish,
And like a mountain cedar reach his branches
To all the plains about him. Our children's children
Shall see this, and bless Heaven."
Mr. Truscott concluded by proposing his motion amid loud
cheering.

Mr. Sheriff NISSEN seconded the motion, which was car-
ried by acclamation.

Alderman COPELAND then moved that the congratulations
of the Court be presented to their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales upon the birth of a Prince.
Mr. IsAAcs seconded the resolution, which was put and
carried unanimously.
Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said he should wish to ask the Lord
Mayor whether he could inform the Court if there was any
intention on the part of the Court of Aldermen to present
a separate address to the Throne upon the present occa-
sion f (Hear, hear.)
The LonD MAYOR said the only reply he cou'd make
was that at present ho was not aware of there being any
decision on the part of the Court of Aldermen to present
a separate address.

Mr. Ti. L. TAYLOR said he hoped they might understand
from this answer that the Corporation would address the
Throne on this important occasion as one united body, and
that there would be no separate addresses. (Hear, hear.)
A committee was then appointed to agree upon the terms
of the address, after which the Court adjourned.

THE CRICKET CHIIONICLE, the first of a set of
volumes to be published annually, has been written by
Captain W. Bayley, and published by the Messrs. A. H.
Baily and Co., of Cornhill.

VETERANS.—The report presented to Congress at
Washington from the Department of the Interior mentions
than ten soldiers of the Revolutionary War, pensioned off
at its close 80 years ago, still survive and receive the pan •
sions granted to them at that remote date, when the Ameri-
can Union was formed and recognised. They " sat by its
cradle,"

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