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respect toward her which are contained in his ser- 

 mon, with the spirit of which Her Majesty has 

 been much gratified. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your most humble and obedient servant, 



Napier." 

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

 New York. 



On September ist, 1858, on the invitation of the 

 Trinity Church authorities, the Society attended a 

 special religious celebration at Trinity Church, in 

 commemoration of the successful completion of the 

 first Atlantic cable, which had been laid between 

 Valencia Bay, Ireland, and Trinity Bay, Newfound- 

 land. Later in the day a demonstration took place 

 in the city, in which the .Society participated, by in- 

 vitation of the Mayor, in a procession from the 

 Battery to Forty-second street, when the freedom 

 of the city was presented to Mr. Cyrus W. Field 

 and Captain Hudson, two gentlemen who had taken 

 a prominent part in laying the cable, and speeches 

 were delivered in honor of the occasion. 



In the year 1859, ^^^ Constitution was amended 

 so as to increase the number of members consti- 

 tuting the Charitable Committee from five to seven, 

 and in the following year it was further amended so 

 as to make emigrants from the British Colonies 

 eligible for relief as well as natives of England. 



