The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-14 00:00:00

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A NOBLE TRIRITTE.•
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(From the Vines of This Mo7ning.)
His Royal Highness the Primo Consort.
BORN '2l3Th AUGUST, 181 r
DIED—TWO YEARS AGO TO-DAN-14V' DECEMBER, 1861.,
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the Monday morning without showing any signs
of their presence. As soon, however, as the na- trust on whichthe
lives knew that they were fairly gone, and nothing and gentle '
nation fouled repose. A \ vise
prince possessed the whole heart end
but a garrison of 25 volunteers left at the stockade, absolute coefide
they began a fierce attack in great force, their that lofty place nee
of the Sove.reign, and uscid
numbers being at least 300 men. The small gar- stitutional tend a personal boy alty and a con'-
but even ideal s passing not only example,
rison resisted stoutly, and returned the fire with of conception All the circumstances
the country, whether '
spirit, keeping the Maories from attempting an immediate
. abroad, or fa home, or in
the more imine
actual escalade. The heavy and continuous firing want of such a gutiedecLrhelel of Royalty, showed the
was soon heard at other camps any posts on the by a rare fortune, theree Pwraand friend, and such,
eolith road about four or five miles off, and detach- C msort.
wit.lMe nation local: .4
found in the Prince
inents of small fare were sent out from several of Y't not out Home ,:i.ll` with nts ich hope,
'lT:sees to a sadly
~ casegasrsd p- st, To the risi
these. As these gradually arrived at the seene or panding cos nsetioa, and trite6l; fi'molly, and fah° ex-
action the fight became more equal, and in the interests that tied prong many new sod a tiried
afternoon ng out, of this happy
was waged almost on a perfect equality, Over this ever wideniiig presaa
onect there o hsa A, le
party being in the clearing, and the other i one soft and genial light ; there, wa„, , —"`"
under cover ' sire to be respected, one eye that one anthority
of the edge of the bush. The fallen
logs afforded excellent aantimend love, one voice that could never always
cover for our men, and the • plead in
vast superiorityvain, one who could at the same time hold
of our marksmanship was soontogether
distribute ON
d 'er new fields of dot
apparent. Before anY. end us
evening we had fully 150 men /less. With this best of human securitie eful"
upon the ground, and the s, we all
1 our ha pp_ lot with that of
natives seeing that they contrastea PP. any former
were about to be charged made off, taking with generation And any mete people. We would take
them, as usual, all the killed and wounded they nothing on trust, so we criticized and even re-
could venture to stricted within due limits this
boon, which
reach without fear of being them-
selves shot. No be too much, but could not fail. The Prince Con-
Wounded men whatever fell into
our hands, but the bodies ninesort had learnt what he could do and what he could
of natives
were taken not do; and that little region of his own, won by
and buried, which had fallen_ too far within range '' his own sword and bow,' circumscribed, as it
for their comrades to remove. Very many were were, by one day iommion
's furrow tien', and watched by
seen to fall who were dragged off into the bush; jealous neighbours, he made at. Yet, in
and the most moderate estimate of this country of domestic life ad,d unobtrusive in-
the native killed
and wounded makes it at least fifty fiuences, we all thought more of die Prince as the
men. Our own
loss was three men killed and seven prop of his household. Indeed, to this one duty
t which was wonderfully
engagement, , little
.wounded in the and the service of his Queen he had bowed every
'when it other consideration, so that, wlaatever else he wits
is considered that it lasted nearly a whole day, and in quality, in hope, in speculation,
or capacity, this
the firing never ceased during the whole time, and he was alone in fact—the perfection of a Royal hus-
was so heavy as to be distinctly heard over a die- band. Then all at once he was taken away,and an
trict of many miles in extent. The whole district anticipation that already covered Europe And half
has since been placed under the able command ea apocentury with a continual presence and a visible
power had become as the hri ht to recall
of a sun-
Colonel Nixon, the commander of the Colonial De set, a thing • it is g P
which
fence Force, who, with a flying column of between mind's eye.
In du
two and three hundred men, is constantly travers-
it came out that the Prince Consort
e
time
had be n
ing it in search of natives. It appears that this
imagined,e even more of a necessity th an most of us
has frightened the Maories across the Waikato, as Sovereign not
td that he had become one with the
there are manifold traces of their exodus in great heart, mind, an°dllli in affection and in ystic tie—in
numbers at a favourite crossing-place, Their return By his aid alone had the Queen been enabled to dis-
must, of course, be provided against, but in the
anxious from thio'usly a great variety of (fettles either
meantime it is no trifling moral advantage to have minuteness and erier gravity. or burdensom aby their
driven them headlong out of such a stronghold as have supposed as muchpetition. Common see se might
his bush afforded. and approved as n iuch, but
the state of Royalty is notconsidone upon evil. ieh it is
easy to be sensible and
of envy, of admiration, and. It is the object
erate
but not of sympathy, We somewhatdon't even of awe,
under ordinary circumstances, eigns
and
pity is pity So v
ta er
only
key that can ever open to one sumari ',
heart t h e mys-
tery of another, and disclose to us
the
overwh
difficulties and necessities of each other's
a lming
,is
pal high. The outside of a princely career met the
and
' became as customary as the order of Nature 3 it-
self ; but " the sublime life," as it has been iatsti
called, was within, and few indeed of the multite ode
who saw in the Prince the most fortunate cf m en
would themselves have borne for a single week h is
round of duteous toil. A better insight into t e
story of that life only served to prove the greatness
of the loss suffered by the survivor. It is believed
that she sought a dreary and ineffectual consola-
tion in a long atruggleto do single-handed, without
cheering voice and helping hand, the daily work
that had been lightened in a labour of love. Foyr-
tune, however, it was felt, hau brought and as
still bringing a more real allele and comfortla-,
and one in ptoportion to the great scale of the Ga
mity. No Royal family in the world can be smile d so
prosperous and happy to mortal eye as this of o ors.
The Prince had doue his work, and his reward , was
come. His children were responding to his CI ire,
and were rising, one by one, either to take his p ace
in the Royal councils or to establish homes a nd
houses of their own. How many would gladly t lie
if by so doing they could leave their families WI 111
on with the world, started fair, and giving hani V
earnest of a brilliant future! So all hoped that t.:'' a
Queen would look to the future, not in order to forwe t
the past, but to see the past in the future, and va °
absent in the grog!) that met trio eye. Perhaps l t
Was too natural to contrast her case: with that of tb 3
typicel widow, desolate, friendless, perhaps childlest ,
destiVite, with a blank where there should be a
future, and, as if more were wanting, robbed, in 7'
suited, ant persecuted. But in these matters, un-
less we have more sympathy than falls to the share
of most natures, we are the slaves of types and con-
ventions. Experience shows that anything the
sufferer has, or receives, or expects, or has to do—in
a word, the whole outside world, be it ever so
splendid, is clothed with the dark hue and loaded
with the dull weight of the one master sorrow. Out-
side things only reflect the light withf.n, A
darkened palace is not so bright as the deli that is
penetrated by the smallest ray. A routine of plea-
sant occupation may become crushing bondakt.,es
when it has to be borne alone. What should
.t.
happiness is misery where there is none to
Perhaps,sharei
So the nation, slow to learn,
ornubut yet by no means thoughtlese
a Royal
feeling, has seen without murmuring
our I lis-
retirement without a precedent.
cants, eleas flattering,
tory. It has seen troops
ofgin and a glori-
about, more than Royal
paf dours of the hot ir,
ous future anticipated in the sp
.eno
of our allegianite
at the time that the true Soverteol
mind.
We believ e
was out of sight, but never
heveirt
out
have found it absen-
that her Majesty' woul
k from the world of memo..
lately impossible busbrea
1. .
been lying. It is vain to tell'.
ries in which she
nt to be present. You may
the absent that they wig_
from that vasty deep,summon the human eptrit
do call for it. but
it will not come when You
time there •
is Nature
will take its course, and for. ano
arebreak-
interwoven all the
ing the spell in which
of a
~e
Yet, plea-
sures and all the pains . lit
,e. sooner or
later, there comes a time when 'Ale continual con-
templation of one w. ho oigone
leaves something ,to
be desired which life and action alone can supply--
He still lives, and it must be in the living world.
He is not a memory, an image, but
a real existence.
Ills works are in the world, and ah
• e 'world continues
his work and asks his aid• lie dealt with the
spirits of men, and still deals
advance and to improve : It was his nature to
not stopped—there is
stillell about him ; he has
im-
provement he
still room for all he quickened and shared. There is
word of wisdom
th did, and oceasion for every
admirer, the eahsa i 9,1: he uttered. The warenest
that the object of • loving heart could never imag:'",..°
at once into not
hl.fs regards, if worthy, was to sm.!.
the clay. Al' ingness when the spirit had left,
by death is goes on still, and the interval created.
or any , no more than that created by distance
J ether t would the
Prince h emporary obstacle. What w this
day ? Aave wished could he have foreseen
in tombs _sepulchral life in the past ? A
~ '1
A grief
'tee r
sr A shadowy haunting of in TT
deaf and No. In
dumb to this waking world?
due time changes itsgarb,
the most pious menaorylight of
death itself shines through tellyast in the
a victory, and what we natur celebrate under a
and a present
revered name is a living history
power. t be considered, WAS
The Prince Consort, it mus
This is a quality
eminently a practical character.
k actually done, for
not to be measured by the worow
opportunities ; it
that work may have but miff_
may
even consist
may lie under the surface ;s it
practical to meet diffi-
much in prevention. It was _ .
of a sound judgment ; it
copies with the quiet force
was a proof of practical sense to enjoy the respect of
the soverei ns . It
successive Ministries and g
de ree of practicalabroad power
required a high g
as rare devotion to do so much in
Bs well
so short a time for the encouragement of
British art and science, and for improvement in.
all matters relating to health, material wellbeing,
and mental elevation. Many of our Princes have
had their ideal as marked in their memories as
their lives, but those ideals hive generally beenin of
the sentimental order. It was either a superstitious
heroism, or a wild spirit of adventure, or
pomp and pageants, or a gallantry" a bigotry,
a taste for
or a rivalry, or a foppery, or some folly
with the hour. The P Consort rinse C sure to pass
rt bqt
elated his adopted country and a er appree
he a„a„,;,,
aimed r.t practical benefl. s, acing mane "g".
it.
Stich
a name
sbolocio le!ive his mark upon,
asts e
power, and sugg
honourable arati,.,,,mcctliter, "f duty, sacrifice, and
called on to live and a • A numerous family iS
and to win the love ott In. tile spirit of P.s father,
and usefulness. That°' . eations by active goodness
or relinquished. I is a Mow meat to be sustained
her strength that t could onl be from a distrust of
lead a work a at her Majesty would hesitate to
the security 0, necessary to the welfare of nations,
of Uovernmenta, peace of the
world. bin roments, and the
value, for t,,eces in these days musth
prove their
do. It
was tulle tut ylaerper.ltnakeeneat what
made
i:or himself
w I,')sideu batter than :i.ee gaoanesohics, and left Erg-
laud his debtor, It is thus that his survivors must
Prove their affection his for wenanrY' atidllerPet'''`'lt4
his moral presence among 10-

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JAPAN.

The intelligence from Japan leads to the cone
sion that however bad foreign relations with tha'
country may be, they are not so bad as has been
represented. The British Minister at Yokohama
remonstrated with the Tycoon's Government at the
obstructions placed upon the transit of produce from
the country. The Japanese authorities replied that
no such obstructions existed, but that a combination
of native merchants had arranged that produce
should only come to market in driblets, and that
these merchants fabricated the story about Govern-
ment obstructions to suit their own ends. In a situa-
tion of alarm foreign. merchants naturally seek to,
realise their imports and to invest in exports, so as
to restrict their liabilities. Tois natural impulse
the Japanese merchants have managed to excite by
the extravagant stories lately current.
Then the massacre of the native merchants at
Nagasaki, referred to in last report, is quite untrue.
Still matters are in a bad state. The Mikado, and
the leading hostile Daimios have undoubtedly com-
bined to expel foreigners if they can. The Tycoon
is powerless, and is temporising—seeking to keep
the treaty if be may. Foreigners are confined to
the settlements of Yokohama and Nagasaki. A
French officer has been assassinated wantonly at a
very short distance from the former place. Produce
is prevented from coming to Nagasaki by the
Daimios, and a lage body of their followers are in
that town threatening the native merchants. A
rumour prevails that. civil war has commenced,
but the accounts cannot be relied on. Admiral
Kuper is wisely awaiting the arrival of land troops,
and Satsuma is preparing to repel another attack.

The Loss of Fishing-Boats on the East Coast,

GREAT YARMOUTH, Dec. 12.

To•day the crew of the steam tug Volunteer, five
in number, were brought into Great Yarmouth by
the smack Eliza. The tug, which belonged to Mr.
S• J. Fill, left the harbour on Thursday with three
other steamers, for the purpose of cruising in the
German Ocean and obtaining intelligence of the
missing boats. The weather was exceedingly bois-
terous, and the sea ran fearfully high. After cruis-
ing about 20 hours, at a distance of from 60 to 70
miles cff land, without falling in with any of the
missing smacks, it was found that the Volunteer
had sprung a leak and was in a sinking state. The
crew at once took to the pumps, but it was with the
utmost difficulty that, in the heaNy sea, the steamer
could be kept afloat. About 5 a.m. yesterday, see-
ing a light ahead, they made for it, and came up
with the smack Eliza, of Great Yarmouth. The tug
was then on the point of foundering. The crew of
the Volunteer got out a boat, but it was instantly
swamped. They then ran their vessel alongside of
the Eliza, and, at great risk to themselves and to
the smack, they jumped on board the latter and
were saved. Tne Volunteer, which was valued at
£1,600, and had been recently fitted with new
boilers and thoroughly repaired at an expense of
£6OO, soon afterwards disappeared. She was unin-
sured. It appears that the total number of smacks
belinging to Yarmouth, and still unaccounted for,
has been reduced to-day to 11, but little hope is en-
tertained that these boats or their crews will
a fish-
again be heard of. Each smack, with nets an
tog gear, cost from £6OO to .£7OO, while the average
yen hands.
crew carried by each ranges from six to se
Ded is
The number of Yarmouth fishermen drew
should the worst
already known to exceed 30, and,
smacks still
fears be realised with regard to the 11. ed
to
missing, the total deaths will be
cartrhi at about 20
some-
where about 100. It is computed
portion of
smacks have been lost withthe
greaterastrous gales ; and
their crews during the late_ disastrous d
istess prevails'
as may be supposed, the tri°
us
who havers een left in
among the bereaved 8,
fa- I laestitution, and on Whose
circumstances approac
behalf aid is urgently needed. ever

ALboAoCkE OoFfTin'rEavrreaUlri.:' writer) that nothiLnnEgoßtchTEiund.
Ville but badtthheo
rill:el:se:si
Tuileries the i-. when
The el the furniture,
crimson coloured velvets and satins, the - the green and
fancied
ac
surpasssonu Tcdtiarine
gst
ecl(tlrj,evibyeTesseiEpdtonhlsfeihnti:tdnhiti
oasseora
nirToirenuseteerhnuePoet:f
which festoon the windows of each s variegated brocades
magnificence of the chandeliers and successive saloon, the
mirr
the bronzes, of the Florentine tables, ors, the beauty of
and
cabinets, and the splendour of of the marbles and
tapestries—all combine tothe Gobelin and Beauvais
render
fur-
nished, the beats ideal of au • this palace, as now
imagine that when the m Imperial home ; and I can easily
reflected from the any thousand dazzling lights are
and bright eyes who mirrored Walls on the richly dressed forms
casion of an imperial crowd
these vast apartments on the oc-
even an ball, a sight
Arabian poet will be presented of which
when traversing those could scarcely dream. I remember,
attendant towards ose
gorgeous rooms, I was called by the
gardens, from
which
hthe centre balcony which overlooks
and beauty, extendingcthere is a vistah ofi splendourwonadnedrfuitla
gardens
across the Place de la Concorde, Croonnicotrdee, Pandaeaelong the Champs
Elysees, to the Arc de Triomphe, with all the uiony ad.
junets of moving life which throng that lovely and animated
Scene. But when my foot reached this Belvidere balcony
recollections swept athwart my memory that made me alto-
gether forget the landscape. I remembered, when first in
Paris, I had seen the portly form of Louis XVIII. showing
himself to his subjects on the very spot where I thendstood.
I recollected that there, too, the hero off 31.anr,engioe
of
~Avui s-a
terlitz had frequently listened to the
c_l_ea eni t
Louis
ss
Philippe
l'Empereur"—that there Charles
S.
and
~ i i
had each received the nattering salutations of Viva le
Roi,', and that even before the last named king, when flee-
ing from the threatenings.of an infuriated mob, had reached
Neailly, the cries of " Vive la
the road to Republique"
had been thence bellowed. Neither could I forget that the
' throne which then occupied the neighbouring Levee room
' had been but a few years. ago borne away in triumph and
burned, amid the demoniacal exclamations of a maddened
i populace,