The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-28 00:00:00

THE PRINCE OP WALES.

The eaten)e earnestness—we had almost alibi
vehemence —with which the Tiwu, far two or three con•
secutive days after the death of the Prince Consort, appealed
to the Prince of Wales to decide instantly and finally in
favour of a life of honour and usefulness in preference to a
life of frivolity and folly, has induced many persons to Bap-
pees that Ids royal loOmes was hesitating as to the choice
he should maks, sod that his testes and habits are
not such as kis royal mother could wish, or the nation
approve of. Under other circumstances it would have been
gran impertinence in us to thrust ourselves forwards as the
intenders of his royal highness ; but, as most erroneous no-
tion about his life and conduct have been prevalent for the
last few days, and as our journal is published among a
community which has lately bad the best means of knowiug
what the tastes and habits of the Prince of Wales really are,
we are sure we shall be pardoned if we give public'
expend= to what we king is the universal opinion
in Cambridge on the subject. During the time
the Prince resided at Madingley and Cambridge,
his daily life was so completely before the public ;
there were so many ways of aseertainiog how he spent
kis time. and everything connected with him was so
completely free from secrecy and seclusion, that if
there bad been anything to dad fault with in his conduct, it
most certainly had been known to ourselves and the Cam-
bridge public ; and therefore, considering the unreserved
manner in which he lived among us, it is proof
positive that kis conduct wee irreproachable when we
ere enabled to assert, in the most emphatic manner,
that we sever once heard even • whisper demo-
dietary of his royal highness's tastes and habits. We
declare, without fear of contradiction, that while the Prince
el Wales was at the University he proved himself to be •
good and amiable young man, a true English gentleman,
and a prince wholly free from every thing approsching to •
debasing tendency. No parent could wish his son to
Wave better, and now that his time of trial has come, we
feel coolidset that his royal highness will be found ueither
nawilliag nor unfit an unable to console and assist his
bereaved mother, and to fulfil the warmest hopes of the
people.—Casitridpc indepredest.

PERSONAL TRAITS OP THE PRINCE CONSORT.

A few personal traits may be added to our brief
sketch of the prince who was no Monday Lid in his splen-
did tomb. Professes Goidetneker, • fellow•student with
him at Bonn, remember. him as the only prince who was •
real reader there. " I believe," says the professor,in • letter
which we are allowed to quote, "he never missed •
single lecture." It was sot the way with princes at
Bonn. During the list year. of Prince Albert'.
residence is England, he gave much time to •
thorough study of English law and of our con-
stitutional history—rending the best authors, abstracting
their accounts, and, by help of good guides, discussing the
principles contested and established in oar several civil
wars. Few English gentlemen know the statute book so
well as 11.1 knew it. It is oo great secret that in the inter-
views between Prince Albert and the Emperor Nepoleon
the former thought it his duty to Europe to endeavour by
arguments drawn from the history of event. in England to
engage the Emperor in a more constitutional course than
be has yet adopted in France. The Emperor had, we be-
lieve, the highest respect for the intelligence of his illus-
trious adsisow.

Is thinking of what was most characteristic and iodi-
vidaal about the late Prime Consort, we feel in the same
difficulty as one who would point out the cluirecteristic
features of a beautiful fees and head, where every part is
perfect and all the parts are in equilibrium. That which
perhaps most characterised Prince Albert mentally was his
stapler power in aequirieg knowledge ; he teas truly " wax '
to receive and marble to retain" impressions. Though of
late he bad not much time, be re.d the best books and
papers—knew the last literary mod artistic gossip—could
chat about the lion of the season with the familiarity at
club lounger. His knowledge of personality was very great ,•
of portraits, of biography, of family history, and at
all the illustrations of such studies, en wings,
memoirs, earicatrues, ballads, and the small wraps
of literature, he was amazingly food. The trait
which personally distinguished him from other MOO
was his daily and hourly interest in the education of
his children ; not only the moral education, which no
English parent ever does or, under any circumstances,
ought to neglect ; but the ordinary treining of the school-
room. Of course, the royal princes ao 1 prinoemes had
many masks and roistered, bat their chief instructor wee
the Prince. He not only furnished a geoeral plan for their
instruction, but superintended it himself--not only ap-
pointed to each eon hie and her teachers, but thought it
his duty to read every book which any of them was about
to read. Of how few English gentlemen could the same be
said.—Afteesters.

It was determined, at a highly influential meeting
Indit in Baked yesterday, ander the presidency of the
Imre, to greet a statue of the late Prises Consort in Peel
Past A subscription for carrying this resolution into
effect has been sot on foot.

ADDRESSEN or CONDOLENCE TO THE QVREN,-.-
lest night's (lathe cookers addreesse and resolutioee of
imedolseos to her Majesty on the measion of the death of
his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, from the Court of
Aldermen and the CoorroosCouneil of the City of London; 1
the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of Glasgow ;
the Bishop and Clergy of Down and Connor and Drumm ;
the Dees sad Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral ; the Dean
end Chapter of Boattesteri and from "meaty-eight other ,
pima and oorpotstions. The *innovate addresses are from
the following canalised towns :—Glasgow, Wakefield. Owen-
i Liekfield, Bootee, Newport, Neweastleosi-Tyne,
la,pswiel, Hartlepool, Brighton, Newport, Mounrouthabire,
=Exeter, Guildford, Brndninch, Wished;
Aberdeen, Preston, Built, WWia, Darter ilba
Aberdoes, 'adhere% Wrexham, Blandfmd Forum, Kidder-
minster, Dover, Nerthamptoo, Sunderland, Liverpool, Lei-
meter, Pak,Ayr, Hankrory, Waterford, and Chelmsford.
TEE ILLNESS OP THE PRINCE CONSORT. —The
fares of the onavisaleas ermined ta a numerous eons-
addressed to this journal, and the extent of
riti"pressious prevailing in the . public mind, compel
ma le recur to the subject of the illnessof the lamented
Priam Consort. It is generally strongly felt that ea
*Heist account of that ill 011111 is due to the nation which .
so deeply mourns his sudden end unexpected loos. It is
needles' that we should recapitulate all the grenade
ea whisk this respectful anxiety re founded. It is sufficient
to observe that public attention has been fixed upon
the facts, that the Prince's illness was officially
eaneuneed as gastric fever, that the first bulletin,
hewed es Wednesday, December 11, spoke of the fever
as " unattended by unfavourable symptoms," and that on
Saturday, December 14. the Prince breathed his last. It
is perfectly understood that gastric fever, usattesded with
unfavounible symptoms, cannot usually prove so rapidly ,
fatal, and the official accounts are, in lam, at present con-
tradictory to accepted fact. is medical seems. The articles
published in the Lancet of the following week, and other
journals, were, therefore, read with great interest by the
public, who therein. an hetelllgible explanation of the catae.
trophy. Them stataziente were made, however, upon no official
authority ; but me timed it ourduty to present to ou r renders
such ieformatiere as was current in well-iuformed medical
circles. There 'lamina a strong wish on the part of the
majority of the prefeenoir and of the nation, that the
edictal attendants of the Primo should publish such an
account of the Wow as may cover the discrepancies and
manifold imperfections of the bulletins. It is openly
stated that the bulletins were not issued as written
that, is that already alluded to, the word "hitherto,"
standing before " unattended by unfavourable symptoms,"
was struck out by an illustrious person with her own hood.
Them and other report', which are by oo means idle
gossip, but statements on excellent authority,
. are addi-
tional remote why the Woodson of the Prince should
allow as to give to the medical world au authentic i'enae.
al thet Maass in which their devoted fill 4 Dui able 'set.
?Mae mere thesinPl.7o4_, .ass i" r*: is oa
,ich the wamt' *
I o P 14,14 Mtglesieti.—Lanrer.l
tOID BROUGH&M.--Several of tho French
I journals have published a ph stating that " Lord
1 Brougham, at the unexpected intelligence of Prince Albert's
death, was so dreadful y affected that be fainted, and that
it was necessary to carry his lordship immediately from the
garden into the house, where an attack of fever supervened,
but which gave way afterwards to proper medical treat-
ment." The statement, a letter frog Canoes inform' us,
has caused the greatest surprise to ell the persons ad-
, milted to his lorchhip's intimacy, as only bee Lord
Brougham never fainted in his life, bat, in the present
case, was, in a magma prepared for the sad intelligence
by lettere previously received. His lordship also has not
burn attacked by fever or any other ailment, but mutilates
in excellent health. The whole account is a mere tenet'
in every respect—without a shadow of fouadotioa.—
, Galloon i.
ST. JaliEleit Per.aca, Dtc. 26. —Tho Queen has
beer, pleased to appoint Colonel the Lord James Charles
Plantagenet Murray, extra greens in weitiog to her Majesty,
' to be one of the grooms in waiting in ordinary to her Ma.
jests, in the room of General His Edward Bowater, deceased.
—Gazette.