The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-11 00:00:00

CANADA.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 9.
The Canadian Mail steamship Hibernian, Captain
Grange, has arrived with advices to the 27th ult.

The Hibernian was detained until the morning of
the 27th, in consequence of the non-arrival of the
Canadian mails, the storm causing them to be late.
On the 28th she passed a steamer, supposed to be
the Anglo-Saxon, bound west. On the 29th she
passed a ship-rigged steamer, funnel abaft the
mainmast, bound west. On the 30th she passed a
large steamer. On the Ist of February she ex-
changed signals with one of the Company's steamers.
The transport steamship Mauritius put into St.
John's, Newfoundland, on the 24th, short of coal.
She experienced very severe weather, and had to
throw a number of horses overboard.
The Quebec Chronicle of the 25th says:—
" The military authorities continue their task of
perfecting the defences of the city with unabated
vigour. Scarcely a day passes but guns of heavy
calibre are conveyed to the citadel for the purpose
of being placed in position ; and no available point
will be left without its piece of ordnance. We saw
yesterday a 90-pounder—a weighty-looking piece
of gun-metal—being dragged to its destination by
a working party of the garrison."
The Quebec City Council had resolved upon the
following address of condolence to her Majesty :

6, To TUE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

" May it please your Majesty,—We your Ma-
jesty's faithful and loyal subjects, the mayor, coun-
cillors. and citizens of the city of Quebec, beg
leave with feelings of deep and respectful sym-
pathy, to express to your Majesty our sincere con-
dolence with you in the great affliction with which
it has pleased God to visit your Majesty in the
death of your beloved and illustrious Consort, his
Royal Highness Prince Albert.

‘ We feel this sad event has occurred at a time
when your Majesty was more than ever in need of
that faithful assistance and enlightened counsel
which it has been the especial province of the
Prince to render with honour and advantage to the
nation during the eventful period of his connection
with our country. Placed in a more than ordinary
difficult position, he succeeded in winning the
esteem of all. He honoured with his advocacy all
the useful institutions of the country, and to him
the Empire is largely indebted for the advance-
ment which has taken place in the arts and sciences
of the community. To his children he has left an
example which affords a new guarantee for the
happiness and prosperity of England.
" Devotedly attached as we are to our connection
with your Majesty's Crown, it is not only with the
good and beloved Sovereign we sympathise,
but,
subjects,
in common with the whole of our fellow.
we feel profoundly for your Majesty in the rela-
tion of wife and mother—a relation which has en-
deared you in the affections of ycur people.
" That the Almighty may enable your Majesty to
support your great bereavement with resignation to
His Divine will, and long spare you to guard your
Royal family and guide the destinies of this great
Empire, is our earnest prayer.
" THOMAS POPE, Mayor of Quebec.
" Quebec, Jan. 4."

NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION.—The annual
general meeting of the National Rifle Association will be
held at Willis's Rooms, on Saturday, March Ist, at half-
past 2 o'clock, 11.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, president
of the association, in the chair.