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MONDAY, JANUARY 20TH.

NUMEROUS meetings are being held in the provinces for the purpose of drawing up addresses of condolence with her Majesty on the la- mented death of the Prince Consort. At Twickenham his Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale presided, and addressed the meeting

as follows :

"The object of this meeting is well-known to nil present. We are convened to devise the best mode of expressing to her Majesty the feelings which a most melancholy occurrence has elicited from the hearts of the inhabitants of this parish—of telling her what share we all take in her pain and sorrow, and how much we associate ourselves with the deep and universal mourning of the whole country. Ladies and gentlemen, I generally abstain, from obvious motives, from assisting at any public meeting: but on this occasion I was anxious to join my friends and neighbours, the inhabitants of Twickenham (Hear, hear); for the regrets which have been awakened by the sudden decease of the late Prince Consort are not only general ,throughout these kingdoms, but are also universal abroad. The great blow which has struck your Queen has been felt everywhere. Here the late Prince was known to be free from party ties or class prejudices—to be the most unostentatious, wise, and sagacious ad- viser of the Crown, the spirited, enlightened, and successful promoter of all good and useful undertakings. Abroad also it is well-established that his influ- ence and great faculties have always been used to help the cause of peace, liberty, and civilization. (Hear, hear.) All this was well known for some time past ;

but it is now perhaps more than ever felt and understood. The best and most pular of our French Kings, Henry IV., said one day, in one of his public ad-

es, ' When I am no more you will regret me.' The thing happened as he had predicted ; his great popularity began after his death. Well, the late Prince might have said the same thing. (Hear, hear.) Certainly, he was esteemed and popular during his life ; but it was only at the hour of his departure—it was only when he was lost to this world, that the whole extent of his merits and virtues was fairly. appreciated. (Hear, hear.) And I dare say that is the greatest praise which may be bestowed upon his memory. Personally this good and illustrious man has always given me so many proofs of his friendship that I have looked upon his death as one of my own family's bereavements; and your Queen has always shown to me so much kindness that I could not neglect any occa- sion of conveying to her the sincere expression of my devotion and gratitude. Hear, hear.) May the sympathy which is felt for her Majesty be, if not a consolation, at least some alleviation of her sorrow ! May she find, in the unanimous senti- ments of regret for her late husband—of devotion for her own person, additional strength for the fulfilment of her great duties! May God bliss her and her children! May her reign be yet long, peaceful, and prosperous! (Hear, hear.) I will now ask the vicar to read the address of condolence with the Queen which is about to be proposed to you."

General Peel, M.P., proposed the adoption of an address, and spoke in the warmest terms of eulogy of the high character of his late Royal Highness, and the beneficial influence he exercihed on the moral and religious tone of the country, and also of his great abili- ties and sound common sense, which, he was able from personal ac- quaintance to assure the meeting, were of a much higher order than was commonly supposed. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the Duke d'Aumale for presiding.—A similar meeting was also held at Durham on Thursday, and was attended by nearly all the influential residents in the neighbourhood. Mr. R. Pemberton, High Sheriff for the county, presided, and an address of condolence was proposed by the Duke of Cleveland, seconded by Lord Ravens- worth, and unanimously adopted. A vote of thanks to the chairman was proposed by the Earl of Durham, lord-lieutenant of the county. —At a county meeting at Maidstone, attended by nearly twenty peers, and present or late members of the House of Commons, a similar address was adopted. Hundreds of others from corporations, towns, universities, societies, congregations, &c. &c., have also been forwarded.

— The Dole of Devonshire was formally installed as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, on Friday last. The vice-chancellor, the university council, and about two hundred members of the senate, went in procession to Devonshire House, and presented to his Grace the letters patent of his office. The formal presentation was made by the vice-chancellor, and the public orator having delivered a short Latin address, his Grace announced his acceptance of the office in appropriate terms. After alluding to the melancholy event which had caused the vacancy, he spoke as follows :

"As the successor of a Chancellor who thus admirably discharged the duties of his office I cannot hope to repair the loss; but it shall be my endeavour to the best of my ability to follow the excellent example of my predecessor, and any i

assistance t may be in my power to contribute in promoting further advances in the good path which the University has been pursuing with so much zeal and diligence shall always be cheerfully afforded. From early associations, as well as from a grateful sense of favours and benefits conferred on me, 1 must always entertain feelings of the strongest attachment to this University; both from in- clination and duty I shall always endeavour to promote its prosperity and repu- tation. But I am convinced that you neither expect nor wish me to regard it with that blind and exclusive veneration which would make me indifferent or hostile to other institutions which have been founded in more recent times for the promotion of learning. (Cheers.) I do not wish to forget—indeed on this occasion it appears to me that it is my duty to remind you that for several years I held the highest office in another University, the University of London, an institution the establishment of which was, in my opinion, urgently demanded by the present state of society, and by the circumstances and established opinions of the age in which we live. With that University I am still connected as a member of its senate, and I should not do justice to my feelings if I did not avow that I continue to take a warm interest in its success. (Cheers.) Allow me to say that it has given me very great satisfaction to find that my connexion with the University of London has not been regarded by you with disapprobation, nor been considered as in any respect disqualifying me for the office in which you have placed me. You have conferred on me this high distinction in the conviction that my best energies would be devoted to your service. I trust that these ex- pectations will not be disappointed, and that you will find in me a faithful guar- dian of those rights which you possess for the public advantage, and which are essential for the performance of your future duties. At a time when the sub- ject of education in all its branches has acquired such vast importance it must be evident to us all that the proceedings of our University will command a large share of public attention. The working of those alterations in the system of

studies to which I have already alluded, and the result also of those changes in the regulations and government of the University which have been recently effected by legislative enactment, will be sedulously observed. Entering on my

office at a period when these changes are in active operation, I may be allowed to express a fervent hope that they may not only be found consistent, as the vice-

chancellor has said, with the principles on which the institutions of the Univer- sity were founded, but instrumentalin still further increasing the reputation and prosperity of the University, and in extending the vast influence which as the

legitimate guide and guardian of the highest education of the country it has long exercised, and I trust will continue to exercise, in the formation of the national character. (Loud cheers.)"

— In reply to an address from the Liverpool Shipowners' Asso- ciation, strongly protesting against the destruction of Charleston- harbour, the following commumcation was received from the Foreign Office by the chairman.

"Foreign-office, Jan.15.

"Sin,—! am directed by Earl Russell to acknowledge the receipt of the letter which, on behalf of the Liverpool Shipowners' Association, you addressed to him on the 13th instant, calling his attention to the course which the Federal Go- vernment of the United States have adopted for closing the main channel of Charleston harbour by sinking there vessels laden with stone, and expressing the fear of the Association that unless strong representations and remonstrances are promptly made, a similar course may be immediately followed in the case of the other harbours of the Confederated States. I am to request that you will state to the Liverpool Shipowners' Association that the attention of her Majesty's Government was at once attracted by the rumours which obtained currency some weeks ago of such a course as that to which you refer being con- templated by the Government of the United States, and on the 20th of Decem- her her Majesty's Minister at Washington was informed of the view taken of it by her Majesty's Government. Lord Lyons was told that such a cruel plan would seem to imply despair of the restoration of the Union, the professed object of the war ; for it never could be the wish of the United States Government to destroy cities from which their own country was to derive a portion of its riches and prosperity. Such a plan could only be adopted as a measure of revenge and of irremediable injury against an enemy. Lord Lyons was further told that even as a scheme of embittered and sanguinary war such a measure would not be justifiable. It would be a plot against the commerce of all maritime nations, and against the free intercourse of the Southern States of America with the civilized world. Lord Lyons was desired to speak in this sense to Mr. Seward, who, it was hoped, would disavow the illegal project. Now, however, thrt the project seems to have been carried into effect at Charleston, Lord Lyons will be instructed to make a further representation to Mr. Seward, with a view to pre- vent similar acts of destruction in other ports. "I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, " E. HAMMOND.

4' F. A. Clint, Esq., &c."

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21ST.

— "A. British Resident in Paris," in a letter to the Times, gives the following explanation of the apparent apathy of the English com- munity in Paris in failing to express their respectful condolence with her Majesty under her recent bereavement : "Our Ambassador holds no intercourse with tiny class of his countrymen here; he does not even live in Paris, residing permanently about thirty miles off, at Chantilly, and running up once or twice a week for a few hours with a return ticket to transact his office business.

"Yet he is, undoubtedly, the proper and only person to initiate such a meeting as ought to be held on this melancholy occasion. It would be a grave insult to his Lordship were it to be convened elsewhere than in the reception-rooms of the British Embassy, or held under any other presidency than his own while he is in any part of France.

"I feel assured that if Lord Cowley feels disposed, even now, to undertake this sad duty, he will not find the British residents in Paris, although strangers to him, unwilling to support him with becoming loyalty."

— Father Daly has left Galway on his way to Rome, where he hopes to obtain redress for his grievances from the Pope. The feeling in his favour seems to have died out in Galway, and the scheme for the presentation of his petition to the Pope by a deputa- tion has fallen to the ground. Father Daly announced his approaching departure in an address, which was posted on the walls throughout the town.

— The Times of Tuesday publishes intelligence of the arrival at Halifax, Nova Scotia, of large bodies of the Canadian reinforcements en route for New Brunswick. On December 26th, the Australasian arrived with the 1st battalion of the Rifle Brigade ; on December the 30th, the 62nd, stationed at Halifax, embarked for New Brunswick ; on the 31st, the Adriatic and Asia arrived. The Parana was at Sydney, Cape Breton, on January 6th, and was expected at Halifax on the 9th. A correspondent of the Times, signing himself " A Nova Scotian," gives an account of the arrival in Halifax of the Grenadier Guards. He says he never saw the men looking in better condition. They were all provided with winter clothing of the best description, and were not apparently suffering so much from the cold as they often do when on duty on a cold March day in the Park.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22ND.

— Lord Cowley has at length found a champion in the Times against the attacks of " M.P., a British Resident in Paris," which have appeared in that journal: "A Reader of Blue-Books" writes in Wednesday's Times on the subject, and refers to Lord Cowley's evidence before the committee of the House of Commons on the diplomatic service, in 1861:

"Lord Cowley is a man of high position and character; his word no one can doubt. His evidence will bear me out in stating that during the year he resides in Paris about seven months, and, with a salary of 10,0001.. per annum, his ex- penditure for those seven months is 13,000/. The remaming period of five months Lord Cowley resides at Chantilly, and the expenditure there is entirely 'defrayed from his private resources.

"1f therefore, I clearly understand Lord Cowley's tmcontradicted evidence, he pays a sum of 80001. per annum for a seven months' residence in Paris, and for fulfilling a twelvemonths' hard work in superintending the affairs of the British nation.

"I think, therefore it is proved beyond a doubt—without going into the miserable question whether M.P.' has dined at the Embassy or been compelled to dine at a cafi—that Lord Cowley has paid pretty severely for the honour of serving his country as Ambassador at Paris, and does not deserve the ungenerous attack that M.P.' has made."

—Lord Worsley, having succeeded to the Earldom of Yarborough 1hron0 the death of his father, a vacancy is occasioned in the repre- sentation of the borough of Great Grimsby, and a Conservative and a Liberal are already in the field. Mr. G. Chapman, Chairman of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, has been put forward by the Tories, and says in his address :

"Sincerely attached to the time-honoured Constitution of this country, I am, at the same time, prepared to give my best consideration to any proposition which may be brought forward for the remedy of any existing grievance. I respect the conscientious opinions of the various religious denominations, and it is my wish that they should be dealt with in a spirit of justice and impartiality. It is mate- rial that the dignity and honour of our beloved country should be maintained at home and abroad, and I would support any Government in carrying out measures necessary for that purpose. The patriotic spirit evinced by the Volunteers of this country has my cordial admiration' and I shall be reedy to support any measure that may give such aid as will make the service one of the permanent institutions of the country, feeling, as I do, that it would be the best safeguard to our island. The agricultural interest will not be neglected by me. I am myself a large landed proprietor, and will give my best attention to its interests, with a view to a removal of any burdens which press unduly upon it."

Mr. J. F. Heneage, who has resigned his seat for Lincoln in order to contest Grimsby, has issued an address on the Liberal side, in which he thus refers to his past political career :

"It is well known to you that, in the event of the Reform Bill having passed in 1860, I hail intended to offer myself to your notice. A committee of several most influential persons kindly offered me their assistance ; that assistance they are prepared to give me on the present occasion. It is now just thirty-six years since I first stood a contest for Grimsby, which I represented for four years; during that time the removal of the Catholic disabilities and the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts were carried, for both of which I voted. When I afterwards represented Lincoln the Reform Bill was passed, and during the last ten years I have represented Lincoln in three Parliaments. My public career is thus clearly before you. My name was on the back of a bill introduced into Parliament last year for relieving the persons unwilling to pay church rates, while, at the same time, it reserved to the members of the Established Church the right to manage their own affairs in vestry as before."

— The annual meeting of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce was held on Monday, and the report of the Council included some highly interesting details of the working of the French Treaty with regard to the staple manufactures of Yorkshire. The Council state that though hitherto the French demand has been limited to a com- paratively small number of articles, they have every reason to believe that the more intimate contact with our manufactures, into which 37,000,000 buyers will be brought, will tend to an increase of trade, which will surpass the expectations of the most sanguine. A. letter from the President of the Chamber to M. Boisselin, the French consul at Leeds, was reproduced in the report, and is of some im- portance, as showing the feeling of the manufacturing interest of i

Bradford with regard to the way n which the French Government has carried out their part of the contract :

"Dear Sir,—Your letter of the 19th of December, referring to certain state- ments which appeared in some of the London papers in October last, on tlo sub- ject of the Anglo-French treaty, was laid before the Council of this Chamber at its meeting on Monday last, and I am desired, in reply thereto, to express to you the perfect satisfaction (so far as I am aware) of the mercantile community of this district with the honourable and straightforward manner in which the French Government has given effect to the treaty, by facilitating the introduction of English manufactures into France with the least possible inconvenience. It must, I think, be evident to every one conversant with the subject that the duties of the French Custom-house officers have been performed in full accordance with the spirit of liberality, good feeling' and regard for the true interests of both countries which, I believe actuated the Emperor of France in negotiating and completing the treaty. I have great pleasure in handing to you an official copy of the resolution unanimously passed at the meeting referred to."

Mr. R. Kell gave the following statistics taken from official docu- ments of the export to France of cotton and woollen fabrics during the past year :

"Of cotton and woollen manufactured goods there were no importations its 1859 and 1860. In the first eleven months of 1861 the importations into Franco of cotton fabrics amounted to 108,318/. in value, and the woollens (which in- cluded worsted goods), to 525,428/. But the tariff did not come into operation until the 1st of October, so that this was virtually a return of the admission of woollen goods into France during two months only (October and November), and those months the most unfavoarable. He thought, from these facts, they might look forward to a largely increased importation of their goods into France."

Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P., moved the adoption of the report, and spoke at some length on the negotiations with Belgium for a treaty of com- merce similar to that contracted with France.

"He believed Lord Russell had done everything he could to obtain a treaty from that time. There was no doubt that before that time the subject was neglected. If it bad been pressed when the French treaty was obtained, he believed the Protec- tionists of Belgium would have had only one pill to swallow, and that this country might now have bad a similar treaty with Belgium; and he thought the inattention of the Government at that time was a very strong reason why they should press for some such system as had been mentioned in the report, with re- gard to the Foreign-office taking means to put itself more in communication with commercial bodies in this country than at present. The Foreip-office must con- duct those foreign negotiations. They conducted those negotiations from infor- mation obtained through their own consuls abroad as to what were the feelings of foreign countries and the position of trade abroad, and from information obtained at home as to the wants and wishes of commercial bodies in England. Well, instead of the information being obtained from those bodies, it was got from the Board of Trade. That, on the face of it, was a circumlocution affair, and everybody who bad had experience of office in connexion with publio or private bodies was aware that it was always difficult to obtain information from 008 body through another. Therefore he thought the Foreign-office ought to obtain this information direct from the commercial bodies.

In conclusion, Mr. Forster briefly adverted to the deposits of Charles- ton harbour, which he feared, from the accounts in the American newspapers must have been intended for the permanent destruction of the trade of the town, and consequently a permanent injury to the civilized world. He hoped, however, that if other Governments joined our own in a moral protest, it would suffice to prevent a re- petition of the act.

— Mr. J. H. Lloyd, Honorary Secretary to the Bagged School Union, writes to the Times, to suggest that as the year of the Great Exhibition of 1851 was marked b-y the establishment of the "Shoe- black Brigade," so the Ragged School Union hope to mark the year of the second Great Exhibition by giving. employment—useful and remunerative employment—to another "brigade," to be selected from

the same class, who will collect rags, bones, &c.

— "D. C. L.," in a letter to the limes of Thursday, draws atten- tion to the fact that in leaving the harbour of Southampton without seentwenty-four hours notice to the Nashville, the Tuscarora has been undoubtedly guilty of a breach of international law : " By the practice of nations, no armed vessels of a belligerent Power which has entered a neutral port and found therein another armed vessel belonging to an adverse belligerent can quit the port without giving twenty-four hours' notice to the other vessel, if her commander should think fit to depart first. Lampredi, Mune, Martens, Chitty, Ortolan, and Hautefeuille, among other European pub- licists, recognize this rule as agreeable to the law of nations; and Chancellor Kent, in his Commentaries on American Law, says: 'If the armed vessel of one nation should depart from our jurisdiction, no armed vessel, being within the same, and belonging to an adveme belligerent Power, should depart until twenty- four hours after the former without being deemed to have violated the law of nations."

After quoting other authorities, and adducing precedents, "D. C. L." concludes as follows :

"The Tuscarora has already infringed the rules of neutrality, for she has sailed °atones from the port of Southampton without any previous notice to the Nashville.

The Tuscarora is again infringing the rules of neutrality by lying off the entrance i

of the Southampton Docks, in which the Nashville s berthed, without any anchor down and with her fires banked up; for she is for all purposes en vedeite, which is contrary to the law of nations. The British Government may well hesitate to tolerate any longer such a flagrant disregard of its neutral rights, more espe- cially after so glaring a violation of neutral territory as the Captain of the Tus- carora committed when he sent an armed party on shore to reconnoitre the Nash- ville in dock, and to give notice if she was about to sail. " If matters continue as they are at present, a neutral port risks to become the scene of hostile operations; and the Nashville will find herself taken in a trap, when she was entitled to expect from the justice of a neutral Power the security of an asylum."

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24TH.

— The Right Honourable C. B. Adderley, M.P., lectured on "the British Colonies," at Saltley, on Monday last. Mr. Adderley devoted the greater portion of his lecture to the consideration of the relations of the colonies to the mother country, as affecting the question of taxation and defence, and summed up his conclusions at the termina- tion of his lecture in the following terms :

"He was satisfied, however, that he had only to call upon sensible Englishmen to examine the subject to bring them to the same conclusions, and he further believed that but for this the country would have gone on for three or four more years spending four millions annually in suppoit of troops in different partS of the world where they were perfectly unnecessary, without ever considering whether the enormous drain of English blood and English money was of any pro- portionate use to the colonies. He hoped England would tell the colonies that they should not have troops in time of peace. if there is war, let her say that she is prepared to concentrate her forces and assist in the defence of her colonial empire, but that in time of peace every part of that empire should be prepared to maintain its own security. The instant the security of Canada is threatened let England go to her assistance, and the moment England is threatened let the Canadian Militia come and help us, for there was nothing calling upon us to help Canada in the time of need which did not call upctu her to aid us under like circumstances. If this principle were recog- nized and carried out by England, we should become not only the greatest but the most envied nation in the world. Was it not monstrous that this little island should undertake to maintain the defences of great continents like Canada, Australia, and South Africa, and that the cost of maintaining those defences should be provided by the tax-payers of this country? It was ridiculous that Englishmen should be so bamboozled. Those colonies must be told that they must organize their own militia, and provide for themselves when hostilities were not directed against them. The right honourable gentleman then proceeded to the consideration of the importance of our colonies to us, if the relation in which we stood to them were corrected, and he did so from three points of view—firstly, their utility in the recruiting of our naval and military forces, thereby rendering us independent of foreign legions; secondly, their value commercially, provided we could make it our interest to thrive with them instead of by them ; and, thirdly, the expansiveness which they afforded to this country as outlets for our constantly augmenting population."

— At a Court of Common Council held at Guildhall on Thursday, it was agreed that a standing order which renders it necessary for notice to be given of any motion, was all but unanimously suspended, and a donation of one hundred guineas for the relief of the wives and families of the unfortunate victims of the Hartley Colliery accident. The Lord Mayor was requested to transmit the amount to the Mayor of Newcastle for immediate distribution, and the propriety of a further donation at the next meeting was suggested by Mr. Deputy Harrison. — The fund for the erection of a monument to the Prince Consort is rapidly assuming very considerable proportions. Up to last even- ing, the total amount received was upwards of 14,000/., 2366/. of which had come in during the day.