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I have transmitted the vohime in question to the 

 Earl of Malmesbury with the accompanying dis- 

 patch, requesting that his Lordship submit the offer- 

 ing of the Society to Her Majesty with the expres- 

 sion of their humble duty and attachment. 

 I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your obedient, faithful servant, 



Napier" 

 To the President of the St. George's Society, 

 New York. 



Washington, June 30th, 1858. 

 My Lord : 



" On the last anniversary of St. George's day a 

 sermon was preached before the St. George's Society 

 of New York, by the Rev. W. F. Morgan, D.D., 

 rector of the parish of St. Thomas, in that city. 



" The service of the church was read on the same 

 occasion with the prayers for Her Majesty and the 

 Royal Family, a circumstance unusual, if not un- 

 precedented, in the United States, but which was 

 justified in the opinion of the Rector by the char- 

 acter of the congregation and by his office as their 

 representative. 



" The sermon was marked by an admirable spirit of 

 sympathy for the recent distresses of our country, 

 which was fully shared by the American people at 

 that time, and it contained, without adulation, an 

 expression of an esteem for our Sovereign, which 

 is a national feeling in this Republic. 



