The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7,

THIRD EDITION.

BUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

REMOVAL OF THE PROHIBITION ON

THE EXPORTATION OF ARMS, 4c.

(From the Gazette of this evening.)
At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the sth
day. of February, 1862, present the Queen's most excellent
Majesty in Council. It is this day ordered by her Ma-
jesty in Council that theprohibitions now subsisting, under
her Majesty's Orders in Council of the 30th day of Nov.
and the 4th of Dec., one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
one, cn the exportation or carrybeg coastwise from the
Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, and the
Isle of Man, respectively, of gunpowder, saltpetre, nitrate
of soda brimstone, arms, ammunition and military stores
(including percussion caps and tubes), and lead, be, and the
said several prohibitions are, hereby taken off. And the
Lieutenant-Governors of her Majesty's Islands of Jersey,
Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark, and the Isle of Man, respc c-
tively, for the time being, are to give the necessary direc-
tions herein as to them may appertain.
ARTHUR. HELPS.

At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the sth
day of February, 1862, present, the Queen's Most Excel-
lent Majesty in Council.—lt is this day ordered by her
Majesty in Council, that the prohibitions now subsist-
ing, under her Majesty's royal proclamations of the
thirtieth day of November, and the fourth day of
December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
one, on the exportation out of the United King-
dom, or cirrying coastwise, of gunpowder, saltpetre, nit-
rate of soda, brimstone, arms, ammunition, and military
stores (including percussion caps and tubes), and lead, be,
and the said several prohibitions are, hereby taken off.
.And the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of ber
Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions
therein accordingly.

ARTHUR HELPS.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB, 7.

An address of condolence from British residents and
visitors in Paris, on the occasion of the death of his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort, has been transmitted to Earl
Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, by his Excellency the Earl Cowley, to be
laid before the Queen.

DOWNING-STREET, FEB. 6.
The Queen has been pleased to reconstitute the Bishopric
of Toronto, in the province or Canada, and to erect a por-
tion of the said Bishopric into a now See, to be called the
Bishopric of Ontario; and her Majesty has further been
pleased to appoint the Rev. John Travers Lewis, LL.D.,
to be the first Bishop of the new See.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS-THIS EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at the usual hour.

THE THEA'r RES IN LENT.
Viscount DUNGANNON gave notice that on Friday,
the 14th, he should call attention to the licenses granted by
the Lord Chamberlain, in which the clause prohibiting
performances on Ash Wednesday had been excluded.

CHURCH RATES,
The Bishop of WORCESTER presented petitions from
places in his diocese against the unconditional abolition of
church rates.

and diocese of Lincoln, the same being void by the death
of the Rev. James Aspinall.

The Queen has beenFEBRUARY pleased to 7 present the Rev. John
M'Calman to the church and parish of Inch, in the pres-
bytery of Stranraer, and shire of Wigton, vacant by the
death of the Rev. James Ferguson.
CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 5.
The Queen has been pleased, by letters patent under the
Great Seal of the United Kingdom, to constitute and ap-
point William Matthewson Hindmarch, of Gray's Inn, in
the county of Middlesex, Esq. ; George Boden, of the Inner
Tempi-, London, Esq. ; and Thomas Weatherley Phipson,
of Lincoln's Inn, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., to be
her Majesty's counsel learned in the aw.

FEBRUARY 6.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT

PARLIAMENT.
Borough of New Shoreham—Sir Percy Burrell, of Knepp
Castle, in the county of Sussex, Bart., in the room of Sir
Charles Merrik Burrell, Bart., deceased.

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
Charles Chambe:s, builder, Hampstead
David Wood, merchant, Bramley, Yorkshire

BANKRUPTS.
James Coultman Wilson, auctioneer, Notting-hill
Henry Janson estate agent, Jewry-street, Aldgate
Alrcande Ver m'er Dufour, schoolmaster, Lewes
David Hill Bell, ship chandler, Crutched-friars
"William Henry Smith, attorney, Lincoln's-inn-fields
John Rut ety, umbrella maker, Birmingham
nry Bailey, grocer, Stoke-upon-Trent
George Hart, George-street, Euston-square
Daniel de la Cherois Gourley, Queen's Prison
Henry Whitfield, Harrow-road
Buckwell, Phanix-wharf, East Greenwich
William Eaton, cab proprietor, Clarence-place, Islington
Edward Adams, coachmaker, Regent's Park
Henry Apsley Pellatt, Weston-road, Bermondsey
John WeAcock, horse dealer, Ashford, Kent
Wan. Topps, merchant, Great Yarmouth
Gardner B. Hiorns, sexton, Edmonton, Middlesex
Richard Gale, hall porter at a music hall, Holloway
E. W. Davenport, vendor of patent medicines, Charlotte-
street, Bedford -square
Joseph Aguilar, commission agent, Cheapside
Campion Napper, Milton-street, Dorset-square
John White, builder, Victoria Dock-road
Thomas Cleft, baker, Gillingham, Kent
John Evans, warehouseman, City
Luke Kilack Loft, gate-porter, Bank of England
Mary Ann Hodges, trimming manufacturer, Brunswick-
square, Middlesex
Edward Parsons, farmer, Tugford, Salop
Charles Ilartrodt, commission agent, Birmingham
Edward Hopwood, coach spring maker, Birmingham
Heron Hudson, commercial traveller, Handsworth
George Hall, house agent, Birmingham
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS,
John Whyte, grocer, Rothesay
J hn and Samuel Brown, grocers, Newbigging
Wm. Allan, merchant, Cumbernauld
Mrs. Catherine Mitchell, widow, Port-Glasgow
Robert Clark, miller, Aberdeenshire
John Graham Galbraith, calenderer, Glasgow

1862,

I AIPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—YESTERDAY.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsaek
at five o'clock.

VESTRY BILL.

This bill was read a first time, on the motion of Ear:

GRANVILLE.
HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH—THE ADDRESS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then read the following
most gracious Speech :
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
We are commanded by her Majesty tc assure you
that her Majesty is persuaded that you will deeply
participate in the affliction by which her Majesty
has been overwhelmed by the calamitous, untimely,
and irreparable loss of her beloved Consort, who
has been her comfort and support.
It has been, however, soothing to her Majesty,
while suffering most acutely under this awful dis-
pensation of Providence, to receive from all classes
of her subjects the most cordial assurances of their
sympathy with her sorrow, as well as of their ap.
predation of the noble character of him the great-
ness of whose loss to her Majesty and to the nation
is so justly and so universally felt and lamented.
We are commanded by her Majesty to assure you
that she recurs with confidence to your assistance
and advice.

Her Majesty's relations with all the European
Powers continue to be friendly and ' satisfactory ;
and her Majesty trusts there is no reason to appre-
hend any disturbance of the Peace of Europe. •
A question of great importance, and which might
have led to very serious consequences, arose be-
tween her Majesty and the Government of the
United States of North America, owing to the
seizure and forcible removal of four passengers from
on board a British mail-packet by the commander
of a ship of war of the United States; but that
question has been satisfactorily settled by the resto-
ration of the passengers to British protection, and
by the disavowal by the United States Govern-
ment of the act of violence committed by their
naval officer.

The friendly relations between her Majesty and
the President of the United States have therefore
remained unimpaired.
Her Majesty warmly appreciates the loyalty and
patriotic spirit which have been manifested on this
occasion by her North American subjects.
The wrongs committed by various parties and
by successive Governments in Mexico upon fo-
reigners resident within the Mexican territory, and
for which no satisfactory redress could be obtained,
have led to the conclusion of a Convention between
her Majesty, the Emperor of the French, and the
Queen of Spain, for the purpose of regulating a
combined operation on the coast of Mexico, with a
view to obtain that redress which has hitherto been
withheld.

That Convention, and papers relating to that
subject, will be laid before you.
The improvement which has taken place in the
relations between her Majesty's Government and
that of the Emperor of China, and the good faith
with which the Chinese Government have cm iuued
to fulfil the engagements of the Treaty of Tien-
tsin, have enabled her Majesty to withdraw her
troops from the city of Canton, and to reduce the
amount of her force on the coast and in the seas of
China.

Her Majesty, always anxious to exert her in•
fluenee for the preservation of peace, has concluded
a Convention with the Sultan of Morocco, by means
of which the Sultan has been 'enabled to raise the
amount necessary for the fulfilment of certain
treaty engagements which he had contracted to-
wards Spain, and thus to avoid the risk of a renewal
of hostilities with that Power. That Convention,
and papers connected with it, will be laid before
you.

GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
Her Majesty commands us to inform you that
she has directed the estimates for the ensuing year
to be laid before you. They have been framed
with a due regard to prudent economy and to the
efficiency of the public service.
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
Her Majesty commands us to inform you that
measures for the improvement of the law will be laid
before you, and among them will be a Bill for ren-
dering the title to land more simple, and its trans-
fer more easy.
Other measures of public usefulness relating to
Great Britain and to Ireland will be submitted for
your consideration.

Her Majesty regrets that in some parts of the
United Kingdom, and in certain branches of in-
dustry, temporary causes have produced consider-
able pressure and privation; but her Majesty has
reason to believe that the general condition of the
country is sound and satisfactory.
Her Majesty confidently commends the general
interests of the nation to your wisd nu and your
care; and she fervently prays that the blessing of
Almighty God may attend your deliberations, and
may guide them to the promotion of the welfare
and happiness her people.
Lord DUFFERIN, who wore the Windsor uniform,
rose to move that an humble address be pi esented to her
Majesty in answer to her most gracious Speech which had
just been read. He said, on rising to perform this duty,
he felt that no person had ever had to move an address under
more painful and trying circumstances. For the first time
since the commencement of her Majesty's most auspicious
reign they met under great affliction, because a great and
mournful event had occurred, which opened up a vista of
unexampled calamity. He felt that this was not the proper
place, nor he the proper person, to pass a panegyric upon
the character of his late Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, more esFecially as the whole nation had
given most solemn expression to its feelings under the
affliction. Monarchs, statesmen, and patriots, had passed
from amongst them, but one had latterly quitted the scene
who had endeared himself to the whole nation. Coming
amongst us a stranger and an alien, he had by his conduct
earned for himself the general esteem of the nation, an d
the death of so eminent a personage tamed England into
general mourning and grief. He was ever found fore-
most amongst those who, by their talent and ability, ad-
vanced the glory of this country. It was not for what he had
done,but for what he was, that Prince Albert would be remem -
bered. Politically speaking, the Prince Consort was ignored
by the constitution, yet we all know how well the Queen's
first subject had fulfilled his duty. (Hear, hear.) Until
the present generation had passed away, it would be
impossible for the people of this great and powerful
country to estimate the obligations they were under
to that good, wise, and accomplished Prince. Well had he
fulfilled the expectations that were raised of him by the
people of this country, when, 20 years ago, they confided to
his keeping the happiness of the Queen of this land. He
would not touch upon the grief such an affliction had
occasioned to her Majesty, but this he knew—that
the Queen of this land was now a stricken woman in a
desolate home. He was sure their lordships would agree
with him in hoping that as so much affliction had been cast
on the Sovereign, the Father of the fatherless and the
Comforter of the afflicted would give our disconsolate Queen
patience to endure her trial, and to bow her head with re-
signation to the will of the Great Ruler of the universe.
Such a wish as this could be conveyed in no nobler words
than those furnished by the great poet of our day :
" May all love,
His love, unseen but felt, o'ershadow thee,
The love of all thy sons encompass thee,
The love of all thy daughters cherish thee,
The love of all thy people comfort thee,
Till God's love set thee at his side again."
Since the time they had last met two other cele-
brated men bad passed from amongst them, one a mem-
ber of this branch of the Legislature, and the other a mem-
ber of the House of Commons and colleague of the
late distinguished statesman, Sir R. Peel. The noble lord
whose death they all regretted was always the steady and
true friend of the British soldier. If anything could have
deepened the gloom that had overspread this country it
would have been to become involved in war with a
nation speaking our own language, but by the most prompt
exertions of Government this calamity has been spared us.
The utmost miscalculation had been put upon our acts by
the Northern States of America. Instead of being
jealous of her prosperity we have always looked
upon it as the most satisfactory security for our
success. The good feeling that had existed between this
country and America for years had lately stood in jeopardy
through the acts of a blundering captain seeking for per-
sonal notoriety. Within eight and forty hours
after it had been known that Messrs. Mason and Slidell had
been taken from on board an English steam vessel coming
from a neutral port, a feeling arose in this country which
left no doubt as to the course the Government would pur-
sue. That step had been taken, and had been successful.
In looking back upon the events which had occurred, they
could not but reflect with satisfaction on the loyalty and
attachment which the inhabitants of Canada had shown to
the Crown of this country in the prospect of a war. When
the signal to arm was given by the Governor, the people
stood forward with a fervour and readiness that did thorn
the highest honour. The Roman Catholic Bishop in Ca-
nada oft ed to give up his palace for barrack accommoda-
tion—(hear, hear)—and the Irish emigrants there, includ-
ing Mr. D'Arcy Magee, volunteered and formed themselves
into a_ regiment, thus showing their attachment to the
throne and reign of her Majesty. (Hear, hear.) All this re-
flected credit on her Majesty's Government, to whose zeal
in the interests of the public service much credit was due.
With respect to the occurrences in Mexico, he trusted the
convention which England had entered into with France
and Spain would lead to a satisfactory settlement of their
differences with that state. He begged, in conclusion, to
suggest to their lordships that they should endeavour, as
much as possible, to mitigate the deplorable loss which her
Majesty had sustained by the death of his Royal Highness
the Prince Consort. The noble lord here read the Address,
which was in accordance with the sentiments expressed in
the Speech from the throne.
Lord SHELBURNE, in seconding the Address, said he

trusted their lordships would permit Wm for a few moments
so far to tread in the steps of his noble friend who had so
eloquently addressed them, by recurring to the melancholy
death of the Princa Consort. (Hear, hear.) It would be
in vain for him to attempt on this occasion to add
anything that could give force to what had been so elo-
quently expressed by his noble friend on the subject, and by
other noble lords in other places. The melancholy event,
he might however say, seemed more and mc re ev,ry day to
be deeply felt by her Majesty's subjects. (Hear.) He could
only say with reference to that most deplorable event, that
in all parts of her Majesty's dominions where the melan-
choly intelligence became known the deepest sorrow was
felt; and in circumstances of such deep affliction it must be
most gratifying and soothing to her Majesty's mind to dwell
on such testimonies of her people's attachment. Such ma-
nifestations could not fail to minister comfort to her Ma-
jesty's mind, indicating, as such expressions did, how
deeply her Majesty reigned in the hearts of her people.
(Hear, hear.) it was pleasing to know that her Majesty's
sorrows were soothed by such genuine expressions of sym-
pathy on the part of her people for the death, of her Majesty's
Consort. The Prince Consort was a foreigner, and the con-
stitutional manner in which he bore himself in rf lotion to
the institutions of this country, had won the good opinion of
all men ;he believed the truth IF-td been well expressed by
the late Earl of Aberdeen, when he said that his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort never expressed, wrote, or
ut?ered a word inimical to the Constitution of this cowl- I

try. Having paid this well-deserved tribute to the memory
of the Prince Consort, he would now, wi h their lordships
permission, say a few words in reference to those recent
occurrences between the Government of this country and
that of the United States of North America. He was de-
lighted that the recent differences which at ono time
seemed so alarming, were explained in a satisfactory man-
ner, and that the just reparation which was due to this

country had been made by the Government at Washington.
There had been a great manifestation of irritation among
some classes of the people of the United States towards this
country, but he was happy that those ebullitions—natural
perhaps in same respects—had subsided, and that the people
of the two Governments were now ieconciled to each other.
He could say with confidence that the Government and
people of this country had no desire to aggrandise them-
selves by the existing troubles between the people of the
Northern and Southern States of America. He might here
allude to the case of the Chesapeake in 1807, as somewhat
analogous to that of the Trent; but in the case of the
Chesapeake the spontaneous manner in which reparation
had been made by the British Government must have been
most gratifying to the Americans. He regretted that the
American Government did not act in the same spirit in the
case of the Trent. (Hear.) Her Majesty's Government
had exercised the strictest neutrality uuder great provoca-
tion, and nothing therefore could justify the language of
the American Secretary of State. It must be remembered

that in 1849 the American Government authorised their
agents to recognise the independence of Hungary, a prece-
dent which might have been followed by the Government
of this country ; but so far from going that, they observed
the strictest neutrality. He thought the conduct of the
Emperor of the French in the matter was worthy of all
praise, because, not contenting himself with keeping aloof,
he avowed the expression of opinions which corresponded
with those of this country, and thus brought to bear on the
subject a weight of authority and influence of the highest
character. There were many other topics to which he
wished to call their attention, but as they would form the
subject of future debates, he would no longer trespass on
the time of their lordships.
The Earl of DERBY—The presEnt is certainly an occa-
sion, if ever there was one, when it is most desirable not to
mar the harmony or to interfere with the unanimity which
all must wish to prevail when the main topic of the Address,
jest moved and seconded, is to express our sympathy with
her I',lajesty in That deep affliction in which it has pleased
Providence to place her; and our sense of the irreparable
loss which the country has sustained from the same hand by
the decease of the late Prince Consort. (Hear, heir.) Of
that Royal man it is much to say that, called suddenly and
in early life to a situation most exalted and perilous, sur-
rounded by every temptation, having at command every
luxury and pleasure which the human heart could wish for,
he yet knew how to avoid both temptations and perils,
and that for a period of 22 years ho blamelessly and most
irreproachably discharged alt the duties attached to his posi-
tion. (Cheers.) He made his household a model of domes-
tic order and family affection, and, placed in a situation of
extreme difficulty, so conducted himself that even the breath
of calumny never ventured to insinuate against him the
slightest abuse. (Hear.) With respect to that illustrious
Prince, whose loss we all lament, and to whose merits and
virtues so much justice has been done in eloquent terms by
the noble lord who moved, and the noble earl who seconded
the Address, it may be said that he was no ordinary man.
He was illustrious in the truest sense of the word, and gene-

ral terms of approbation in his case convey but feeble, ina-
quate, and almost negative praise. He has passed from usin
the prime of life and in the full vigour of bodily activity,
but he has not passed away without leaving a mark behind
him. He never condescended to flatter—on the contrary;
and on home occasions he went to the very verge of indis-
cretion in combating what seemed to him national preju-
dices. At the sme time he pursued steadily, silently, and
most un, stentatiously that line which he had chalked out
to himself, and succeeded in establishing an impress of
himself, which will long remain, on the habits, feelings,
and hearts of the people of the country in u hich
he lived. (Hear, hear.) Comparatively few persona
have had the opportunity to know how wide was the circle
of his occupaticns, how rare and sparing were the hours ho
employed even in the most innocent recreation ; how assi-
duonsly he exercised a mind of more than ordinary powers
and of far more than ordinary cultivation; with how com-
prehensive a grasp he seized on the main and leading prin-
ciples of every question submitted to his consideration, and
with what untiring industry he worked every question out.
This is not the time for speaking of these things. Full
justice will yet be done to the subject, and the country will
have more amply means of estimating the invaluable
service he for some time rendered to the cause of art and
science. Nor is this the fitting place to speak of that en-
couragement and that stimulus he gave by his personal at-
tention and unremitting efforts to the promotion of every-
thing tending to increase the domestic comforts of the
humbler classes, to expand the mind, to enlarge the sphere
of reflection, and to elevate the social and moral condition
of every class of her Majesty's subjects. (Hear.) The
debt which is due from the country to him on these ac-
counts can hardly be estimated at present, and, I fear, will
only be estimated by the experience of the loss of the advan-
tages we derived from him. (Hear.) But this is the place in
which one word, at least, should be said on a different por-
tion of the subject— I mean on the part which the late and
illustrious Prince took, and greatly to the benefit of the
country, in regard to public affairs. I refer to this matter
because, some years ago, I recollect it was a subject, not
unnaturally, of constitutional jealousy that any interference
in the affairs of the country should take place on the part of
one who was altogether in an irresponsible situation. The
persons who so argued, argued, I repeat, on a not unnatural
feeling of constitutional jealousy ; but they demanded what
was, iu point of fact, an impossibility. What they required
amounted to this— hat two persons should be in the closest
and most intimate relation, and that yet, in spite of the
amplest confidence existing between husband and wife, one
of them should be content wholly to abstain from the con-
sidera, ion of those topics which day by day formed the sub-
jects of care and fnxiety to the other. The very statement
of the circumstance shows the impossibility of carrying out
the views of the persons who so argued. T shoulfdorsay, un-
doubtedly, 1 ,thatthiezeinwhotldhihgahve groundsobseiettn.eu
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jealousy
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sort had made htrimsueelsf the
and tool
machinationsofpapar of the differentty,' the Prince
or had supported
i
any of the intrigues
parties, but all who had the opportunity of judging know
that it was impossible for any one to be more absolutely
and entirely free from such an imputation than the late
Prince Consort, and know also that the whole of his endea-
vours were directed, irrespective of party, to give to his
So- ereign and his wife that counsel which he thought
most befitting the interest of the State. But it it was im •
possible that there should not have been that communica-
tion between the Prince Consort and the Queen on all
questions connected with the public affairs, how much
more desirable was it that his influence should be exercised
with a full knowledge of all the circumstances attending
every political question, of all the views, and their reasons,
entertained bylthe Ministers of the day, and of all the die-
cussions that had taken place, than that it should have
been exercised in private and in secret, with only an im-
perfect knowledge of the gr. unds on which certain ques-
tions were submitted for her Majesty's approbation

(Hear, hear.) I feel confident, my lords, that those who
have had the opportunity and the honour of being admitted
to that personal communication with the Sovereign which
is the highest privilege of a Minister of the Crown will ac-
knowledge—l appeal to all who have filled thaqposition to
say whether they were not always indebted to the Prince
Consort for the cool, calm, and impartial judgment, for
the great ability he applied, and the valuable and useful
suggestions he made on every topic discussed. (Hear,
hear.) My lords, in the Prince Consort the Queen has
lest, not only the husband of her youth, the father of her
children, him to whom her youthful affections were freely
given, and for whom maturer years only augmented
and intensified her conjugal love, but she has lost
ewveitrh
her familiar friend, heran dtrtuoswteidmmcosunhesedlliodr
failing adviser, to whom she could look up in every diffi-
culty
of her
thatcnity
paronudd loaonkdunp
ehmuncrifleitnycYm'hich none butt a woman's heart can
know. (Cheers.) From the surviving
family her Majesty has derived alltheet,
hcoensolation that
withoutub l i c
affection can give ; but in the discharge
she must henceforth tread her lofty path alonrep,
sustaining hand of him wh3se counsel had never failed her.
How deeply and with what profound emotion she felt con-
sciousseheofredseeaitlchneath the overwhelming weight of, and in the
firstshe prmomentovedo in
f t
ht haet
of this aggravated responsibility
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that crushing sorrow, resolving, under God's blessing, to do
her duty to the country. And of this 1 am certain, that all
who hear me •
will pray that she may
be strengthened to
carry out that high resolve. (Cheers.) May He who has
seen fit to inflict this
heavy,blow—may He who has de-
prived her of her one earthly comfort and support, be Him-
self her comforter
our and supporter I (Cheers.) My lords,
the Address inadequately express what we feel,
the words of