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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18.

THE PIINCI CONSORT has nobly avenged him-
self on the Colonel of the Guards, whose exoenive
royalism and ultra-military spirit astonished even
his brother officers at a recent banquet in St.
James's-palace. It was easy to conceive, with-
out sharing, the indignation of certain over-sensi-
tive constitutionalists at the tone of that all but

royal talk on that occasion, and at the pri.
Tampa speaker's glib suggestion of civil conflict
as a service of honour and distinction which the
flower of the British army might in time to come as
in times put be summoned to perform. We may
now confess that the ebullition appeared to us
sufficiently harmless, and that it would take
a good many more of the sort to cause
WI a moment's uneasiness. Nevertheless we
are free to own that, spirited and offer.-
tive as the Pfturcs Colrain/a always appears as
a soldier, at the head of a table ; we prefer him—
if we may be permitted the preferenoe—in his
civil character and capacity. As a Colonel of the
Guards he is, for a military man, only one of
many gallant specimens of quick promotion ; bat

as President of the British Association foe the
Advancement of Science, or of the Statistical Con-
gress of All Nations, he occupies a position which
no other Prince, perhaps no other professor, could
occupy as well. It is always a matter of honest
pride to the English press to be able to do justice,
without suspicion of unworthy flattery, to one so
user the throne, and so intimately amo-
Mated with the dearest hopes of the nation.
That criticism must be narrow and bigoted indeed
which would hesitate to recognise in the opening
address of his Royal Highness to the Interns-
timid Cosines a composition which the highest
name in mance would not disdain to sign. In
1110111110 i and manly grace, in cordial and unaffected
sympathy, in large and liberal exposition, in
breadth of grasp and logical precision of thought,
in bold encounter of prejudices, in searching and
comprehensive glances at immediate objects and
distant aims, in rapid yet exhaustive generalisa-
tion, in closeness and carefulness of detail, In
happy illustration, in austere elegance of language,
this Address is worthy of more than peening admi-
ration. It bass certain stately, spacious, and sove-
reign air, and withal it grand humility—a Teutonic
love of abstract speculation for its own sake, a
turn for the concrete peculiarly English, and,
above all, a religious fearlessness in pursuit of truth.
We shall not be accused of indulging in empty
panegyric by any reader who has judged this mar•
terly address by the highest intellectual standard,
without reference to its authorship. Perhaps
it is almost a misfortune to so conacientioui
and profound a thinker to be also a Prince;
perhaps it is one of the penalties of the most
exalted station to suffer a kind of intellectual

banishment, and to dwell beyond the limits of the
common censorship. In the republic of letters idle
compliment is often the thinnest disguise of con-
tempt. In the PRINCR CONSORT, however, the

men of science discover one of thenmelves—a
product, as 31T. FARADAY might say, of German
culture and English custom. From Germany the
PRINCE derives a certain universality and
independence of intellect—to England he
owes an enjoyment of that " intense political
" life in which every question of interest]
"or importance to the nation is publicly
" canvassed and debated." If there were any
foreign delegates to the Congress who looked foe a
merely honorary presidency in the Ccersiet of the
Queen of ENGLAND we envy the surprise they
must have felt on Monday. They will take bask
to their own countries and governments a vivid
and enduring impression of the admirable unity of
the British Crown and Commonwealth. This
unity no doubt they will have felt in every pulsation
of our national life—in our public assemblies, in
our streets, in all our manifold activities as a
people who have long worked out the problem
of ordered freedom. But the PanNCE CONDORT'D
address, full as it is of sympathy with all the vir-
tues, and even with all the prejudices, which this
energetic liberty fosters, will, we are persuaded,
disclose to them more significantly than all the rest
of their experiences the secret of our social and
political progress and stability.
The Palmy defines with nicety and exactness the
range and boundaries of statistical science. With-
out attempting to dimities that England, though
the originator of this International Congress,
though the first to promote statistical science, and
though likely to derive the greatest benefits from
its achievements, has much to learn from other
countries less advanced in political development,
he grappled with the timorous fallacy, or
the rash presumption, that the study of eternal
laws, the calculation of probabilities, and the
collection of dads, are calculated to deprive, " in
"maw's estimation, the ALMIGHTY of His power of
"free eslf-determinstion, making His world a mere ,
" machine, working according to a general
" pre-arranged scheme." To this objection,
" terrible if it were true," what is the answer I
We give it in the PRIMES'S own words "
Oar statistical science does not even say that
" this must be ao ; it only states that it Ms bees
r " so, and leaves it to the naturalist or polities'.
64 economist to argue that it is probable, front the.