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LONDON.-1,0- NDA I', DEC. 23.

Ti I% is in many respects the most profoundly
Mournful day the nation has known for nearly
half a century. The last sad rites which have
'eat been observed at Windsor, are, indeed,
'niple and unostentatious enough, in harmony
ith the sterling virtues, and modest, manly cha-
• rof the Peixre whose untimely loss we de-
,. • . Comparatively few have followed his illustri-
• remains to the tomb, looked on the touching me-
. of departed greatness, and blended their
t farewells with tho solemn music of the Choi.,
• the sublime words of the funeral service.'
I:•• t the whole nation in spirit accompanied that
procession, and joined in sympathy and .-
mourners around the open grave. These out
ward symbols of public grief, the .
in the busiest centres of commerce, the
'udowa and closed doors in the great
ares of trade, the sombre hue of
in the crowded streets and places of
ably, tho tolling bells and solemn
services, the universal hush of secular voices,
the affecting pause in all the activities of eve
ife—these, so far from being mere empty fot.
oe, are the feeble but spontaneous expressions
grief that is as real and deep as it is univer
nd with the public mourning of to-day
. • nee the peculiar and concentrated sadness ,
..longs to every last act. It is the last tribute
ection and respect which the nation as a wt
front the highest to the lowest in the land,
nite in paying to the memory of ono who
twenty years has been so closely identified wit'
• ighest welfare and dearest interests. There
indeed, be many occasions hereafter of ,
• e services of the late PRINCE CONSORT,
.oing honour to his memory, but the na
. mourn together at his open grave no more.
The sense of national loss is, we venture to
.• ore deep and general to-day than even a
~ when the country was suddenly ;.-
ith the unexpected tidings of the Peisee
sonv's death. At that moment the sense of
was merged in the universal feeling of deer
i• thy and almost trembling concern on boh
widowed guess and her bereaved ft
painful anxiety of the country as to the
•f such a sudden blow on the health of its '
Soveesuix was, however, very greatly
• uriug the week. Her Moiety has borne
were trial with an exemplary fortitude ;
• nder the sustaining impulse of that deep sec
• uty that has marked her whole career,
ted with a dignity and firmness
ill endear her still more to the
.f tho people. All immediate cause for .
on this head is therefore at an end. But as
'ntensity of this first feeling of overwhelming .
ocriorun for its bereaved Sovereign subsided,
retry has gradually realised more and more
magnitude of its own loss. Now that we have '
midway bereft of the capacious •
iiidgment, the upright heart .
a word, the wisdom and rectit
of the Pitisee C,oxsoter were .
, to counsel and guide the Sovereign,
gone is surprised to find how large i
public affairs Prince ALesze insensibly
. the part he had to —'-
in the quiet discharge .
be had established himself
and affectionate esteem of
' surprise, while natural
au unconscious but eloquent *
ilica's high and peculiar merits.
e that while be lived very little
the part he took in public affairs.
t because he himself appreciated
so justly the precise position '
crfectly understood from the
neither show any political
active share in the government
His public responsibilities
mandokl, but they were co.
wed, because they necessarilj
form of private duties. He had t,
. as a husband and friend
guide her decision
perplexing emergencies; and
criticism, the smooth course
lii,tory fur twenty years, ..
preof of the admirable manner
uniformly discharged the delicate -
duties of his position. Had '
I of during his life—had his
the object of much praise ..
in itself have been a severe
',relent and discretion. If
it he had outstepped
and made himself se conspicuous
whose first and last political '
of the most private and retired "
Prince and loyal Consort
to grasp at lease or notoriety,
,lion of any kind in the politics
A of the country.
In other spheres of public usefulness
not really more beneficial,
and therefore more generally
importance to direct political i
‘ the enormous social influence for good the
,s indirectly exercised. His conduct and exam-
As in all social and domestic relations not only
wised the character of the Court, but helped mate-
rially to give a higher and healthier tone to public
mearals. Nor was hia estimate of the value and his zeal
for the decencies of well-ordered family life confined
to the Court. He took a deep and practical in-
terest in the humblest forms of domestic life, and
laboured with characteristic energy and success
prove and beautify the dwellings of the poor.
He was, indeed, amongst the first to recognise in
practical form the direct and important in
nonce which improved homes, and better sand
revisions have on the physical and moral health
e industrial classes. The PRINCE was in th'
ay the friend and helper of the people. Nor was
its enlighten .1 activity in the departments of
science, of art, and of education less conspicuous.;

~ and when a negative external

have been a heavenly virtue.
pire to bid us uphold the
the great, to call frivolity taste and
and weakness good nature, that it is no w$
that the fame of many princes has .
a tissue of vain opinions, flattering '
oaluations. He whose parting 1
to-day knew this, and, even before
was revealed to him, had nobly
his place in men's esteem
In the PRINCE CONSORT we
_ without honouring, a man ,
circumstances ; greater, not by
y success, the illegitimate paths
hasten to a forbidden good,
decisive moral election, bearing
the whole life. The
of high position never .
_ became their creature ; for
influence, and every form of poi
station and dignity, were not
for, but means and opportunities
how to use them for the greatest I
-•men was his study. The most
. refined Prince who ever attained
these islands, he considered most
conditions of actual life. He
the field in which he could
limitations, marked out a wise and
vas, and held ou his way to the en
to-day men mourn for him with
, not as over a lost life, but as
wisely garnered up his hopes
the sympathy of the
,saped the bounds of class
finds him nearer as a man than
as a Prince ; therefore there is
in lowly station " to fill
with deeds of light and hopes
who will not this "
.ith grief.
thought of reverent sympathy
• to the solitude where
sorrow. Many a pray
in the PRINCE Of WALES
a tender and devoted
41 the PRINIE what are his
him in the language of
nation desires no better
that can exalt and
discernment and free choice
They misinterpret the
publicly counsel the
and who would press on
differences of circumstances,
of activity which w'
father. The positions _
r Apparent are unlike those
he lamented PRINCE saw ••
Englishman the son will
Thich his father wisely av
difficulties and the national
limited the circle of '
activity do not exist for 1
as the political actii
.4CE CONSORT would hai
the Paixrx of WALES milli
and foreign interests
objects of the attention
and they do not well
PRINCE as a first duty
' and scientific objects
We see symptoms
.4rx into a position in we,.
in early youth to comparison
father, as he was known '
f training and study. Si
are not formed by imil
useful and noble is the
which the Paixior. Co:
son. But an example
adopting the principles on v
:hen by copying its details. The
lamented did in England was
independent study of his circum,
the second, to qualify himself to
That the PRINCE of WALES, too, 1
to the height of his calling, and attract
iimself as much affection as that which '
Mended his father to the grave, is the hope
raver of the nation.

THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN GUY Xs.
We hate good reason to believe that Lord Lyons
ruled by the British government to commun'
(daily to Mr. *end the substance of Loral
it h demanding the surrender of Messrs. Slidell
a day or two previous to it. formal delivery.
is
decisive as to the conciliatory spirit of the
meet. -Special...
THE HEa LIN or LORI) PALMERSTON.
mentoti has suffered during the week from Sr
in his legs, which has prevented his 1-
town residence in Piccadilly, bat has
met attending to public business. The m.,.._
better yesterday (Saturday). but of course will k
be permit at the Bine& of his Royal Meows
Lemienrt. Earl Granville and other mil:deters of
!wills however, attend the solemnity.— 014errer.

)und judgment,
ill—in a w.,rd, I
e person of the
nd to counsel s
veryons is surf
n public affairs
how important th
oroughly, in th
uLes, he had
pinion and &ifs
his feeling of su
I mever au uncoil
l'Rtx+•e'r high an
rue that while h
I the part he to
'oat because he h
nd so justly the
Ho perfectly oni
ould neither sh
e any active
untry. Ili pa
and marefol
unrecognised, be
lie form of privai
overeign as a hr
eliberatious and
d perplexing e
verse criticism
lantana' histm
ble proof of
o uniformly disc
ilg duties of hi
iked of during 1
wen the object
would in itself
us judgment
.roved that he
is position, and
t whose 6n
ere of the mole
triotic Prince
ttempt to grasp
listinction of an,
vent of the cow
In other arbor
though not real
and there
Next in imperial
ranked the cue
Paixet indirectli

'thy and feulin: to manners, and
re. These out- , ke up the most
strange silence to day tills every
, the darkened It might have
great thorough- .. ye been wher
of mournin_ .urselves happy
places of publi picuous of
olemn religiou. .tmented to ell
ular voices, an ecorum, and wh
ties of everyday would have been
empty forms o interests conspire
s expressions o .f the great, to c
it is universaL and weakness
of to-day the • .er that the fa
ad sadness tha • .nly a tissue of vs
e last tribute o alse valuations.
Lion as a whole, my to-day knew
in the land, can estiny was revel
of ono who fo . owe his place
lentified with i uk. In the Ps
its. There will, a ever see without
ter of recalling I is circumstance.
CONSORT, and worldly success,
but the nation en hasten to
aye no more. decisive mo
venture to say, .roughout the
in even a wee id pleasures of I
ily overwbelme. e never became
se Pstecs Coe- ity, influence, as
he sense of . • . rem station ani
ing of deep sym- ',red for, but me
rn on behalf o ud how to use t
ereaved family. . ellow-men was 1
as to the effec .d refined Princ
th of its belov. ;n these islands, I
greatly relieved tern conditions c
has borne thi eyed the field in
fortitude ; and, in
tat deep semis u ..une, and held
•Jle career, . . ore, to-day men
firmness whic .t, not as eel
to the h. - ad wisely gal
Mae for anxiety , ore the aye
iL But as the .verleaped the
erwhelming con- .1 finds him m
t subsided, the loved as a Princ
re and more ill- .n 1 striving in It
at we have bee " lamp with dee
intelligence, the " not shame,"
t and steadfas thankfuluees will
rectitude that ii Many a thougl
r were always a . •d to-day to
ivereign, ahnos its in pensive
>iv large a space breathed that in
insensibly filled, may find a •
play, and how .'hall we tell the
o of unobtrusive we address him
elf in the : No; the nation
of the nation. .very quality the
turd enough, • o the discerrirm
ent tribute to the - ' . vereign. The
rite. It is quite ountry who pu
ile was ever said . imitator, ani
ors. But this I . of different
ed so accurately pecific forms of
he had to fill. I. is illustrious fat
he first that h. ties of an Heir AI
l partiality, no onsort. The 11
,vernment of the a native Eng'
sties were indeed ; spheres which
re comparatively •.nstitutional di
essarily assumed 'bates which
had to advise the oesoat's active
td ;to share he In proportion
son in all critical euted Pale(
I the silence o iked, that of the
urse of our con e domestic au
ears, is the .. re the proper o
manner in which to the Throne, a
:ate and perplex- Mpose on the P
be been much .f the special
• public conduct . ether followed.
or blame, this force the Pelee'
were reflection on .. exposed in es
It would have ~ented father,
i the limits of • fter years of to
conspicuous in .ul characters an
political duti • mple at once us
ired kind. Asa. of the legacies w
sort he made . queathed his son
riety, or to seek owed by adoptii
Utica and govern. formed than by
ling the lament
ilness his activity„ ke an indeper
ial, was less re- nil duties ; the
tally appreciated. ; . them. That
itical action must ise to the heig