The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1861.

obedience, and, when possible, their eager aid.
Thus, however bereaved, however suddenly platted
apart from the ordinary course and prospect of
earthly happiness, she is not, and never can be
desolate. She will ever be surrounded by support,
aid, friendship--everything which loyalty and
esteem together can afford to sustain and cheer.
To her eldest son the chief lesson of the hour will
be to marl• the natural operation of his parents' de-
votion to duty in the supreme trial of their parting.
The great characteristic of their common life, and
of the bond between them and the people, was
their devotion to duty ; and now, that is precisely
the ground of such hope as exists for his mother's
solace and eventual repose, and of the heartfelt
honours which are paid to his father. He cannot
but see how all the millions of the people of Eng-
land would devote themselves iu any manner and
degree to secure peace to the suffering heart of
their QUERN. He cannot but feel, now that the
attributes of ■ princely station are nothing to his
departed father, it is a greater thing than all else
to live so honoured and to die so lamented. And
the way to such greatness in his crew was alle-
giance to law—to the constitution in the political
department of his influence, and to the eternal
law of right in his personal conduct. Obedience
and loyalty, due from all men, are the most in
dispensable requisites in the rulers of men.

THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.

I Our Windsor correspondent, writing last even-
' ing, says :—" Preparations are rapidly being made in the
Chapel Royal of St. George for the approaching funeral of
the late lamented Prince Consort ; the north, mouth, and
centre aisles, have already been boarded over, and by to-
morrow will be ready to be covered with black cloth, the
pavement in the choir has been covered with cocoa mat-
ting, previous to the cloth being laid over it, and the stalls
of the Knights of the Garter will then be draped
in black. The entrance of the royal vault has
already been opened, and the machinery adjusted
for lowering the coffin, which, as we have before
stated, will be temporarily placed without the iron grating
of the tomb-house, in the same m►nner as the late Duchess
of Kent's remains were rested until removed to the mau-
soleum at Frogmore. It is the intention of her Majesty to
erect a still more w.agnificeot tomb in the garden at Frog-
more, near to that of the royal duchess, to which when
finished the remains of the Prince Consort will be
removed. A covered building is also nearly com-
pleted at the south entrance to the chapel, wider
which the hoarse will be drawn, sod where the corpse
will be received by the Dean and Canons and
officers of state. Cardinal Wohey's Chapel is also being
fitted up, and a covered entrance to it by the Cloisters is
being erected. The chapel will be appropriated exclusively
to the members of the royal family, who, as the procession
moves down the south aisle, will proceed along the north
aisle, so as to join the procession as it proceeds up the nave
into the chapel.

"The Queen left Windsor under the strictest privacy,
having proceeded through the Slopes to the South Western
station, no person being on the platform but Lord Alfred
Paget ; not even a royal servant was allowed to be
in attendance. The Prince of Wales, and Princesses Alice
and Helena, accompanied her Idajesty; the junior members
of the royal family having left by a 10 o'clock train.
The Prince of Wales returned to Frogmore this evening
after accompanying his royal mother to Gosport, and see-
ing her on board the yacht. As her Majesty will be as
secluded as possible whilst at Osborne, more than one-half
of the usual number of royal servants will be sent to Buck-
ingham Palace. Immediately the Queen left Windsor the
royal standard was lowered, and the union jack hoisted.
half•maat high, as the Prince held the nominal office of
governor or constable of the castle."

Resolution, and addressee of condolence with her
Majesty still continue to be passed by different bodies in
London and the provinces, and in most of the chief provin-
cial towns bnaineu will be generally suspended on the day of
the funeral, is a mark of the respect which ia felt by all
classes for the memory of the deceased.
At a meeting of the Farnham (Surrey) auxiliary to the
British and Foreign Bible Society, at which the Bishop of
Winchester presided, his lordship referred in feeling terms
to the death of the Prince. After remarking that all who
were personally acquainted with his Royal Highness must
know that ever since his find appearance before the British
public he had on all occasions acted in a Christian spirit,
him lordship proceeded to say—" In looking over some
papers which many yean ago I put away an oontiining a very
Interesting record of the noble mind of the late Prince Consort,
my eye alighted upon one which I put into my pocket, thinking
that it might ic.teeeet you as it boa interested myself. It
is a few sentences which his late Royal Highness uttered,
and although not strictly connected with religious objects,
it may not be unfitting at the present time to read them
to you. ' Depend upon it,' said his Royal Highness, ' that
the interest, of classes now separated are identical ; and it
is only ignorance which prevents their union, to the advan-
tage of each other. To dispel this ignorance, and to show
how man can meet man, notwithstanding the complicated
st►te of civilises' society, ought to be the aim of every phi-
lanthropic person ; and this was more peculiarly the duty of
those who, under heaven, enjoyed wealth, station, and
distinction.'"

(From the 1.4110 ti of to-day.)

It was during Divine service on Sunday last
that the majority at the people of this lead first heard the
sad ialeafiesees cof the death at the Prince Consort. It
cam* es a beery sad sadden blow ; for althoullb touch
anxiety bed ban felt for some days previously by
those who feared hie power of bearing up whist
so depreesin a dimes., yet eves the lout sanguine
had so anticipations of the slowly but surely deoreasiog
debility—resisting all efforts to stay its advance—under
which the Prince gradually sank, dying at last from pul-
monary engorgement.

Thodissise was typhoid fever, not very SWIM in its early
symptoms, but, from its very nature, taxing keenly the re-
militant vital power and energies of the sufferer—that reserve
force of which the physician so carefully takes stock in every
osae of fever; for be knows not bow soon it nmy be tried to
the uttermost, or all his efforts be unavailing to keep the
fortress of life.

The insidious character of this disease is always opposed
to any early and decisive diagnosis of its precise character.
Moreover, its first symptom are common to various mild
farm of febrile disorder. It should not, however, be
omitted to note that typhoid fever, although less to be
dreaded than typhus fever. inasmuch as it is not con-
sidered to be communicable from one member of a
hosselold to another by contagion, is, nevertheless,
in Teepees to mortality, equally formidable. The
death-rates of those attacked by typhoid and typhus fester
are sea* equal, both being fever of a very fatal chanter
ter. II the diatom by which the Prism Consort fell was
by no means of that ambignus and venally innocent cha-
racter which popular report hes assigned to it, no doubt
from misinterpretation of the necessary official reticence
of the early bulletins, so also it should be observed that
the illness was of looter duration than at first appeared.
The Prince Consort had been attacked at least a fort-
night before the fatal termination. On Sunday week be
was unable to attend Divine service, a duly he ever held as
of paramount importance in his well-balanoed mind. On the
Monday following Dr. Jenner was summoned, end fromtbat
time the Prince was tinder cmtinuous medical advice. It is
perhaps commonly thought that, as a man of middle age, well
nourished, sod of course highly cared for in all materiel wants,
the Prince might have been lees than usually liable to fall •
victim to low fever of this kind. But the opposite series of
retakes may always be predicated In typhoid fever. Thin
iv a disease which has invariably proved far more fatal to
sufferers of the upper class and of middle period of life
than to patients of the poorer kind. MO unhappy issue
must therefore be regarded as • source of deep Lamentation
rather then of surprise. There is nothing la the known
course of the disease during the last week of the attack to
take it out of the ordinary character of typhoid fever. The
immediate muse of death is believed to have been congestion
of the lungs, es above stated. This exemation was, of course,
hypostatic or gravitative, and each vervain Lathe last stages
of weakness of the circulation. On the other band, there was
'though of suddenness in the immediate termination of the dis-
ease to raise the question whether it might not have been
due to attentive perforatioa of the bowel, a well-known
complication of typhoid fever. But we are unaware of any
feats which sufficieutly uphold this belief.
The melancholy occurrence most (educe the profession to
revert, to the former epidemic of typhoid fever which :aged
severely in Windsor two years 'ince. That attack's& traced
by Dr. Murehison very clearly and distinctly to bad drainage
se lie cause. The qusetios bas been asked whether the
Castle itself kas badly drained as the tows, and whether
there be anything iu the tlraioag• of Wiadeor Casale which
could be expected to favour the growth or dissemination
the disease. It must be remembered that this is one of those
zyntotie ailments essentially connected in their origin with
local defects of sanitary arrangements. So close is the eon-
minima between bad drainage end typhoid fever, that Dr.
Murchison has, with the assent of Dr. W. Pan, denomi-
nated it pythogenic fever, or fever generated by dirt. In
the ewe of the epidemic of Windsor two years since, this
was very observable. A plan of the drainage of the
Castle sod town, given by Dr. Murchison in his valua-
ble description of the cense of the epidemic, shows,
however, that the Royal residence is directly and
I perfectly drained into the Manna It deserves.
perhaps, to be mentioned also, that this good drainage is
peculiar to the Castle. only one-half el the Royal Mews
I participating is He benefits. Thew two bleak of buildings
are separated merely by a roadway, end while that half
which has the benefit of the Castle drainage remained free
from fever, in the other ill-drained block there occurred
thirty sees. at fever end three deaths among the royal
servants.

(From the Medical Times.)
There were fluctuations Irvin time to time, and even
within an hour of his death the Prince expressed himself as
Arai enough to get out of bed ; nevertheleee, a terrible et
elleeopetion of the lungs ensued, in which he expired,
she my before eleven et night.
_ .

The Prince's constitution was one of those which was not
annulated to bear the brunt of an enfeebling syntotic dis-
ease. Spite of an active athletic life and of careful diet

Ihe displayed an early tendency to increase of bulk which is
timely compatible with a healthy rigidity of fibre. He was
early depressed by a common cold or any other alight sari.
dental illness, had a feeble circulation, and firmly believed
that any severe Sinew' would at any time be fatal to him.
How and when be contra.sted his fatal Slams
is matter of conjecture purely. All maladies of
this class have a " period of incubation." The fatal symotio
poison is imbibed, but it does not at once show it full effects.
It broods for a certain number of days, like leaven, in the
veins of the victim before there ensues that shivering fit, of
greater or less intensity, which is the starting point of the
actual fever. Some poisons, like the small-pox, have fixed
periods of incubation ; others, as the scarlet fever, are m•
certain, for there may be no interval whatever—the fever
may begin immediately on the receipt of the poison. In the
typhoid the period of incubation is probably about a week.
and the source of the fatal poison must have been at some
place which the Prince visited during the last week of
November. Was it Cambridge ? Was it South Kensington ?
It is vain to speculate. The causes of typhoid fever still
abound even in places which ought to be the most exempt
from them. Like poisons of their class, they evidently do
not affect all alike, but only some persons who are predis-
posed, and noose who travels much can be sure that he may
not meet with them.

So soon as unfavourable symptoms manifested themselves,
Sir James Clark and Dr. Jenner requested that the patient
shouldliave the benefit of additional advice, and that their
own responsibility should be divided. This proposition was
very unwillingly entertained at first by the Personage most
'early interested, partly from her unbounded confidence in
her advisers. and partly from fear of still further depressing
the vital power of the Prince, and increasing his despondency
by alarm at indications of increased danger. The repeated
request of the physicians, however, was at length complied
with ; and two physicians were specially selected by the
royal family—Sir Henry Holland and Dr. Watson i the
former distinguish: d by his knowledge of the minutiae of
therapeutics and the pectoiarities of aristocratic life, the
latter for having enjoyed some of the largest fields of
experience, and for the reputation of possessing a most
mature and sober judgment and unimpeachable conscien-
tiousness. The confidence which the royal family placid
in their advisers is fully shared by the public and
by the profession. They may be sure that the most
refined and energetic resources of medicine and diet
were employed to eave and sustain the patient's vital
powers. After the fatal event, the Queen, with a calmness
and dignity which never desert her, expressed her warmest
thanks to Sir James Clark, as one of her oldest and best
friends ; and more than one member of the royal family
testified to Dr. Joiner their gratitude for the attention
which he had lavished—unavailingly, alas f—on their de-
Vrelative. We have these details from a patient,
in office, who rewired them from a member of the
royal family.

' day, a juryman, named Da Costa, begged to be
excused from serving, on the ground that he was
the chief of the claque (or hired band of applauders)
at the Ambigu Comique Theatre. M. Oscar de
Vallee, advocate-general, questioned this claim to
exemption, and observed that M. Da Costa's duties
only required his presence at the theatre in the
evening. To this argument, however, the latter
replied that he was obliged to attend rehearsals in
order to know what passages were to be applauded,
and the court ultimately held that the occupation
of clapping hands at a theatre was essentially
"manual" labour within the meaning of a law of
1853, regulating the composition of juries. M. Da
Costa was therefore struck out of the panel.

THE IVINDHAM LUNACY COMMISSION.

FIFTH DAY.

The tee/airy wale renamed this morning.
Ilie Ant witness allied was

Thomas Partridge, ;Medical man, residing in Edin-
burgh; he depued—l was residing in Loudon in;June last. I
was intimate with Mr. Peatfield wheu he was lodging at
Mra. Lewellyn's in Duke-street. I frequently saw Mr.
Windham there. I bad frequent opportuuities of observ-
ing and conversing with bun. He had a very peculiar
laugh, he shivered at the mouth, and on two MOMS= he
threw up the window and shrieked out two or three times.
He seemed to do this from a sudden imp lee, and without
any apparent reason. The window did not open into the
street, but to • side yard. It did not attract notice.
This was while he was at lunch, and when he had
shrieked out of the window he returned to table. I did
did not speak to him about it. I conversed with him
on ordinary subjects, and found he conversed coherently.
I did not observe anything remarkable in his conversation.
,1 In eating be heat his head very much over the table, and
occsaiondly would make a peculiar noise. He helped him-
self to very Liege quantities. On one occasion to drove
me out. He drove in a very impetuous and reckless way.
We drove to the Crystal Palace at Sydeoham. We visited
the palace together. He stood in a conspicuous part of the
Palace and spoke to a policemen in • manner which seemed
to attract attention. He had told his groom to meet him at
the Palace doors at • certain hour, but the groom failed,
and Mr. Windham in oonsequeuce flew in • violent •
swore very violeutly, using strong oaths, and famed at the
mouth. I returned with him to town in the phaeton. He
drove in the same rapid restless way on the rued back.
From what I saw of his genets! behaviour I thought his
mental condition was one of imbecility.
Cram-examined by dir H. Cairns—l think that is • con-
dition of imbecility in which there is a great peculiarity in
the laugh, the dying into • passion without apparent came,
• sloveuly habit of dram, a desire to attract attention, and
vacancy in the expression of features. I was never, but
on the occasion of our going to flydenham,ao loos in his com-
pany. The proof of his desire to attract attentionl infer from
the conspicuous position in which he stood at the Crystal
Palace when speaking to the policeman. It was in the centre
transept, where there were the greatest number of people,
and he stood with his hand, behind his hack and with his
head stooping. The groom did not come until I went to
the stables where tho horses had been put up to fetch
him. The horses were not put to when I fouled
the groom. I should say it was half an hour from
the time I went to look for the groom, before we got back
with the phaeton to the Palace. Ido not know that Mr.
Windham had an engagement in town that afternoon. I
don't remember the words he used when he swore at the
groom. Going back we two or three times needy came into
collision with carriages on the road, but we did
not. I was never in a mail phaeton before. I
am not in the habit of driving myself. When I
went to Mr. Windham's lodgings in Duke-street, it wag
rat luncheon. I went on the invitation of Mr.
aelhetreily
d, riot of Mr. Windham. I did not ask Mr. Wind-
ham, when he called out of the window, whether he was
calling to anyone. I do not know that kitchen was in
the direction in which he was calling. I should think I
lunched there ten at • doses times. We had wine at lunch,
generally champagoe and ebony. Mr. Lewellyn,
the landlord, was there, and sometimes canie in
and joined us—that is, he would take a glass or
two of wine by invitation. I had occasionally some °epee.-
eati•an. Mr. Lewellyn generally waited at the table, and
be would be asked to take a glass of champagne. He very
seldom eat down. I have heard that Mr. Lewellyn is a
wine merchant. I came up to town from Edinburgh in on.
sequence of being written to by Mr. Peatfield to Wend and
give evidence.
By. Mr. Chambers—He divined me by his reckless mode
of driving. When he screeched oat of the window be did
not appear to re, to be calling to the servant. When he
was stauding talking to the policeman at the Crystal Palace
he did so far attract attention as to cause the people who
were passing to tern round.
By the Jury —I do not remember whether Mr. Windham
ever started • subject of conversation when I was with him.
It was at the mid of June or the beginniug of Jaly that we
went together to the Crystal Palace.
Mrs. Jessie Campbell Enclend, examined by Mr. Field—
Mr Peatfield and Mr. Windham came to lodge in my house
in June, 1660. When he came iii be. in • strange manner
kicked about, jumped and danced about like some fool or
other, and I thought he was not right in his mind. He
opened: his portmanteau andtook out everything he bad, sad
We, it and kicked it about the bedroom. That was the
Ent day be came in. I waited upon bins myself became of
what I had seen him do, and observed his strange conduct
at his meals. On the moruing after he came is at breakfast
he was foaming about the mouth, and going ces so thee
I really was frightened of him. Mr. Peatfield asked
him what he would have for dinner ; he said he could not
tell, and began laughing and jumping about the room.
His laugh was not like that of any human being. After
dinner he was not quite so bed. He was in my house a
fortnight, and he continued all the time to behave in the
same strange manner. He would open the windows and
throw himself forward, and almost threw himself out.
He would make a great noise, hallooiog and laughing, so as
W attract the attention of the people teasing, who would
sometimes come in to me about it. He made noises at
night like • at, and sometimes other swifts, disturbing
everybody, tall I was obliged to turn them off ; I could not
keep them for it. My opinion was, the moment he came
into the house, that be was not right is his mind.
Crosauxaroioed by Mr. Kerslake—Mr. Peatfield took the
lodgings. Mr. Windham did not come with Mr. Peatfield
to take them. Mr. Peatfield remained at the lodgings all
the time and took his meals with Mr. Windham. I some-
times might have laughed at him, but I was
generally frightened. I told Mr. Peatfield that
I objected to the house being kept np so late. I have known
them both stay up making a noise till 3 o'clock. Mr.
Windham CAMP nut of has bedroom at times into the other
room, after everybody had gone to bed, and made • notes
like a cat, or bowled Like a dog. They were sometimes visited
by an officer of the army. I was summoned here on dater-
day lad.
13y Mr. Chambers—lt was Mr. Windham who made the
noise, not Mr. Peatfield. Mr. Padfield tried all he could to
keep Mr. Windham quiet. I never saw • young man in my
life like Mr. Windburn.

By theJury—Mr. Pastasll and Mr. Windham appeared
to be always on very good terms.
Mts. Augusta Lewellyn. emunined by Mr. Chambers—l
and my husband live at 35, Dultestniet. St. James's. My
husband isa wine importer and agent. Mr. Windham corns
to lodge with me in May, 186 L He was recommended to
to me by a person of the name of Skelton, who lives op.
polite me. General Wiodham had nothing to
do with taking the lodgings. I bad
General Windham at that time, nor did I see
him for ea weeks after that. Except at cer-
tain intervals. Mr. Windham remained with roe up to the
24th Angled. I bad full opportunities of noticing his manners,
conduct., and habits. I funned the opinion from what
I saw that he was not in his right mild.
He had a bedroom and sitting-room at my
house. When he first came be was alone. Afterwards Ins
tutor, Mr. Peatfield, had another bedroom. Hs was on.
cleanly. He did not wash himself. My husband mad to
put bfm into his bath in the morning. We have a bath-
room on the ground floor. He very seldom
washed after he bad had his bath, and his
bands were frequently very dirty. At times
when he was in the lath I have known him
get out of it. He has on two on three ocosaions *piped
out of his bath, and ran without his clothes on as far as the
dining-room door, which is thee to the street door. While
running from his bath to the dining.room door he used to
make noises like eat-calling. Chem were three female remote
is the house, but at the time be so left his bath they
would be mostly up in the bedrooms. My husband gene-
rally had to Winn him back sod get him auto the bath again.
At the latter end of June I spoke to him about doing this.
I was at dinner at the time. It woe our dinner and his
luncheon. I told him that I would not allow such conduct
in the house, and I would tell Mr. Loyally° to send him out
of the house. I also told him that when the General
came I would tell him of his conduct. He used very bad
language to me when I said so, and took spa very Lir
carving knife, and said he would immediately np
me up. There was nobody else present, but Mr. Lewellyn
mashes by. What he mid was, that he would rip lip my
b—y gate if I dared to dictate to him. I left the drawing-
reran as soon as I could.

[The smartumatice at the wiener w propagating when our
report left]

Flll AT WYNTASD-EALL,—About ten o'clock
yesterday morning, a Ars broke oat in the north bedroom at
Wyoyard-hall, the east et the Ithrehiouese of Londonderry,
sear Stockten.on-Tees. At ose time it threateaed to be of
a very destructive character, but fortunately the flumes
were weaned to the bedroom sad the chapel, both of which
were destroyed. The fire was then extinguished without
say very mellow damage.

Mr. Nathaniel Hawthorne will commence a new
nwassee is the danntic Montli/p, in January.
The late King of Portugal is said to hare left
some political essays, written in a liberal and enlightened
spirit, which it is intended to publish.