Separate

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Grace's
despatch of the 16th December last, conveying the melancholy
announcement of the death of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort.

2. I considered it becoming on such an occasion to issue a
Government Notice publishing your Grace's despatch and calling
upon all persons to go into mourning.

3. The mournful intelligence has been everywhere received
by all classes of Her Majesty's Subjects with the most profound
regret, and not even in the Mother Country could the universal
expression of respect and sympathy towards our beloved Sovereign
have been more heartfelt and sincere.