The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-24 00:00:00

TILE LATE PIII.?,"CE CONSO.7?T.

When the grave closed yesterday over our lost Prince
the Garter King at Arms stood forth to proclaim his titles.
We, in our place, have now to detail the leading events of
his career and to chisel the dates upon his tomb. The dates
are few, and the career is, above all, remarkable for its
calmness. Seldom before has so much greatness been com-
bined with so much of shadow and of silence. The temple
of fame for Prince Albert has risen somewhat like the
Temple et Jet usalem, without the sound of the busy work.
man hewing and hammering. A life of silent growth and
unobtrusive work has yielded most precious fruit and has
left a noble example, but its marked events are few; and the
Prince Consort will no doubt hereafter be more famous for
what he has been than for what he has done. Through the
accident of his position, what he has done cannot easily be
put into a tangible shape and meted out by line and rule,
What he was we cm easily appreciate, and run little risk
of overrating.

His Royal Highness Francis Albert Augustus Charles
Emmanuel, Prince Consort, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha, Duke of Saxony, was born at Rosman Castle, about
four miles from Coburg, on the 26th of August, 1819. The
funny f om which he sprung was remarkable for its ability,
and of late years has acquired enormous influence in Europe.
At this moment it is the strongest of all the reigning fami-
lies in the world, and holds a prouder position than that
of any Hapsburgs or Bourbons ( f old. For renown,
we need not go back to the time when the ancestors
of Prince Albert were Margraves of Meissen and
Electors of the Empire. The rise of the Coburgs
into a first-rate position in European politics is but a few
years old; their rise into anything of importance is not
half a century old. The fortunes of the family were laid by
Prince Albert's grandfather, the Duke Francis Frederic
Anthony, who had a family of seven children. The fir,t of
these who took a position was Prince Leopold; he married
the Princess Charlotte, who seemed destined to establish
the Coburg dynasty on the British throne, and he has suc-
ceeded in fixing that dynasty on the throne of Belgnm.
After him came the Princesss Victoria, who, marrying the
Duke of Kent, had the happiness of providing an heir—her
Most Gracious Majesty,Coburg on the mother's side—for the
British Crown. There was another brother, Prince Ferdi-
nand; he had a son, named after himself, who married the
Queen of Portugal, and through whom it now happens that
a Coburg reigns in Lisbon. Another Prince of the same
family, Augustus by name, married a daughter of Louis
Philippe, and indeed there are three intermarriages between
the Coburg and the Orleans families, binding fast together
the two chief Royal Houses in Europe. We reserve to the
last all reference to Duke Ernest, the eldest son of Duke
Francis Frederic Anthony. He had the paternal dominion
of Saxe Saalfeld Coburg, which was afterwards changed to
Saxe-Coburg Gotha. He had not so large a family as his
father. He had only two sons, but these two have in diffe-
rent ways kept up and spread the power of the house. It
was but the other day that the elder, now Duke of Saxe-
Coburg and Gotha, took the rather unusual course of giving
to the world an account of his career. Some of his revela-
tions were as curious as the fact of his writing a book at
all, end proved the simplicity of his character. Still he
showed in these pages how far his ideas were in advance of
those current among the crowned heads of the Continent--
how pure were his motives, how noble his purpose ; and,
though the work was to some extent a confession of failure,
its effect was to raise the author in public esteem and to
add to his moral influence. For his younger brother, who
has gone down to the dust before him, a much brighter
destiny was reserved. It has been his lot to plant the Co-
burg family in England, and to have made himself a name
that will never die in the history of the greatest Empire
which the world has seen. His son, a Duke of Saxony,
will one day wield the British sceptre. His daughter, a
Duchess of Saxony, is now the Crown Princess of Prussia.
Others of his blood are ripe for new alliances, and it was in
his person that the Coburg family became the most power.
ful in the world.

Of Prince Albert's education much has been said, but to
us the chief point of interest is that it has been the model
upon which he has improved in the education of his son,
the heir apparent. It was diversified as much as possible,
the young man being never left very long in any one place.
At first the Prince, together with his elder brother,
pursued his studies at the Castle of Ehrenberg, under
his father's eye. So they remained until 1835, when
Prince Ernest was 17 and Prince Albert 16 years of
age. They were then taken by their father to visit the
Courts of Berlin,Vienna, and Dresden, and to travel through
Hungary. In May of the following year the Duke took
his children to another Court—that of St. James's, where
King William reigned. During this visit they stayed
at Kensington Palace with the Duchess of Kent; and
here the first meeting between Prince Albert and the Prin-
cess Victoria took place. From London the two Princes
went to Paris on a visit to Louis Philippe, two of whose
daughters had married two of their uncles. And having
thus got a glimpse of the world, they went to Brussels,
partly to be near their uncle, King Leopold, partly to con-
tinue their studies. They had an English tutor, and they
had the advantage of studying mathematics under Quetelet,
who had the very highest opinion of Prince Albert's abilities.
Thus prepared, the brothers were now fit for the University
of Bonn, which they entered as students of law, and where
they attended a great variety of lectures, some on the clas-
sics seine on statistics, those on jurisprudence, these on
history, on philosophy, now and again cn mathematics.
Among the names of the learned men whose acquaintance
the Princes sought are mentioned Tirelcker and Schlegel.
In the meantime their education in other arts than those
which a university teaches was not neglected. They studied
poetry, music, and drawing. Prince Albert could boast
some skill as a composer of music, and he made considerable
progress as a painter. So the in others lived for three terms
at the University of Bonn, giving their vacation to a tour
on foot into Switzerland and the North of Italy. In 1839
their formal education might be regarded as complete; in
that year Prince Albert, then but 20, was declared of age,
and towards the close of it he found himself, together with
his brother, again at the Court of St. James's, now ruled by
the young maiden Queen, their cousin.
The Queen gave her heart to Prince Albert, and was mar-
ried to him en the 10th of February in the following year.
At a meeting of her Privy Council in the previous Nevem_
ber she announced her intention of forming this union, and
her words are memorable. " I have caused you to be sum-
moned," said her Majesty, "in order that I may acquaint
you with my resolution in a matter which deeply concerns
the welfare of my people and the happiness of my future
life. It is my intention to ally myself in raarrihge with
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gctha. Deeply im-
pressed with the solemnity of the engagement which I am
about to contract, I have not come to this decision without
mature consideration, nor without feeling a strong assu-
rance that, with the blessing of Almighty God, it will at
once secure my domestic felicity and servo the interests of
my country." These anticipations have hitherto been ful-
filled to the utmost. Of the Queen's domestic felicity, and
the bright promise of her family of four sons and five daugh-
ters, not a word has been said more than the truth. Upon
the more public question, as to the service which Prince
Albert performed for the nation, the point which especially
calls for remark is—that, having done a great work, and
having fairly earned a great reward, his merits were never
fully recognized, and it is not until we have lost him that
we have discovered all his worth. Now, in making this
admission we appear to be blaming ourselves—we seem to
confess an injustice. In rendering Prince Albert, however,
his due raced of praise, let us render to the English people
their due. The, Prince was some 20 and odd years among
us. During the first half of these he could have been
but little more than a learner—learning our language,
learning our history, learning our ways. Ten years is but
a short time for a foreigner to become naturalised among
us, and it was not till 10 years had elapsed that Prince
Albert made his first mark in this country. All that time
he had been taking root. At the end of it he felt the ground
firm beneath him, and he struck out the idea of the Great
Exhibition. It was a success, but we, at this distance of time,
forget the novelty of the idea, and the doubtfulness with
which it was received by men of eminence, such as the Duke
of Wellington. Prince Albert, high as his position w, s,
could scarcely have trusted himself to carry out that scheme
in the face of coldness and opposition before he had felt
himself thoroughly master of the situation. The result of
that work was to him an immense accession of popularity.
People began to discover that he had a will and a mind of
his own, and that the country had somewhat to learn from
him. Now, it is only from that time that Prince Albert can
properly be said to have attained his true position; and
therefore it is only for about 10 years that we have had real
experience of him at the head of affairs. But, considering
the nature of his work, 10 years is a very short time for the
discovery of a man's reputation. It will show how slowly
his anonymous kind of work comes to be known and appre-
ciated, if we call to mind the outcry that was raised against
him eight years ago, for his alleged improper interference in
State affairs. Lord Aberdeen and others of our great
statesmen crushed the outcry by admitting the facts. It
was admitted that Prince Albert had been present at
the interviews of her Majesty with Ministers, was in
the habit of seeing all State papers, and continually
advised the Queen. But how could it be otherwise ?
How was it possible to reverse the relations of husband
and wife ? The answer was complete ; but the most remark..
able thing about the whole affair was that for 13 years the
Prince had been married to the Queen, and yet it never en-
tered into the minds of those who raised the scandal that the
Royal wife would have to turn to her husband for support
and guidance. The Prince's work was of the anonymous
kind, and if it was not fully appreciated, it was chiefly be-
cauco it was little known. That his merits were not entirely
recognised is not an injustice, but a pure accident, which
time would quickly have rectified. We may say roundly rt
that the Prince had been bat 10 years in the fulness and in I
the consciousness of his powers. But a few years more and
he would have been thoroughly understood.
With regard to the part of the Prince's work which was
not anonymous, and which was regarded as peculiarly his
own, full justice has been done to his reputation. With an
income of little more than £30,000 a• year, his means were
fettered, but yet he accomplished great things. In him all
the fine and the useful arts had a most ardent patron. His
taste in music was very refined, and no man has done so
much as he to direct the musical inclinations of the metre-
pHs. The sculptors and painters can tell how he encou-
raged cud led them. Even in the lower details of decorative

art his influemn has been profoundly felt, and those who
might set their judgments in opposition to his could not
fail to acknowledge the importance of his example in attach-
ing weight to the det ails of decoration. His interest in ag
riculture was exhibited in his farms, and in the zeal with
which he contended for the prices at Agricultural Shows. In
manufactures he took au equal interest, and was always
ready to do his part in any great public undertaking—the
opening of a bridge, tho commencement of a railway, the
laying of the foundation stone of docks or of a museum.
One of the points in his career with which he was most
satisfied was his Presidency of the British Association ;
and on assuming that office he made one of his best speeches.
His speeches on public occasions were collected together
same years ago, and form a remarkable testimony to his
powers. The thought is always good, often original, and the
moral tone throughout is pitched high, although every-
thing is in good taste. The only weak part is the style,
which, while manly and quite correct, is sometimes rather
involved and on the borders of a haze. If, however, we
complain of any deficiency of terseness and lucidity, we
do not forget that the author is a German who had a Ger-
man education, and from that point of view cannot praise
the writing too much, as the triumph of a strong mind.
Sometimes, indeed, his words rose into eloquence of no
mean order. His voice is now hushed for ever. How
sadly he will be missed in the coming time—in many a
scientific gathering, in many an artistic meeting I Notably,
how will his presence be wanting to that Great Exhibi-
tion springing up under his auspices at Kensington I
Ile will be the more thought of because of his absence,
and he will live more in our hearts because he is dead to
our eyes.—Times.

IMPORTANT FRENCH DESPATCH TO
WASBINGTON.

The following highly important diplomatic des-
patch has been addressed by the French Minister
of Foreign Affairs to the representative of France
at 'Washington :-
4, THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO THE
FRENCH MINISTER AT WASHINGTON.
" Paris, Dec. 3, 1861
_

" Monsieur,—The arrest of MM. Mason and
Slidell on board the English packet Trent by an
American cruiser has produced in France, if not
the same emotion as in England, at least great
astonishment and an extreme sensation.

" Public opinion at once inquired, with anxiety
for the 2onsequences, whether such an act could
possibly be legitimate, and there cannot be the
slightest doubt of the general impression. The act
seems to the public so entirely at variance .w ith the
ordinary rules of international law that it throws
the responsibility exclusively upon the commander
of the San Jacinto.

" We cannot know yet whether this supposition
is vi ell founded, and the Emperor's Government has
therefore felt called upon to consider the question
raised by the capture of the two passengers on
board the Trent. The desire to contribute to pre-
vent a conflict,which is, perhaps, imminent, between
two powers towards whom it is animated by equally
friendly sentiments, and the duty of maintaining
with a view to put the rights of its own flag
beyond the danger of attack—certain princi-
ples essenti.l to the security of neutrals, have, after
mature reflection, convinced the French Govern-
ment that it cannot remain completely silent under
existing circumstances.
" If, to our great regret, the Washington Cabinet
should be disposed to approve the conduct of the
commander of the San Jacinto, they must consider
MM. Slidell and Mason either as enemies or as
rebels. In either case there would be an extremely
regrettable forgetfulness of principle, on which we
have always found the United States agreed with
us.

" On what ground, in the first supposed case, can
the American cruiser have arrested MM. Mason
and Slidell ? The United States have admitted,
with us, in treaties concluded between the two
countries, that the freedom of the flag extends to
persons found on board, even though they be ene-
mies, except in the case of military men actually
in the service of the enemy. MM. Mason and
Slidell were, therefore, by virtue of this principle,
which we have never found any difficulty in getting
inserted in our treaties of friendship and commerce,
perfectly free under the neutral flag of England.
" It will not, doubtless, be pretended that they
could be considered as contraband of war. What
constitutes contraband of war is not, it is true,
precisely settled; the limits are not absolutely the
same for all powers, but, as far as regards persons,
the stipulations found in treaties relative to mili-
tary persons clearly define the character of the in-
dividuals who alone are liable to be captured by
belligerents.
" Now it cannot be necessary to demonstrate that
MM. Mason and Slidell can in no way be assimi-
lated to persons in this category. There would,
therefore, remain no ground to explain their cap-
ture but the pretext that they were bearers of
official despatches from the enemy. But this is the
place to call to mind a circumstance which overrides
the whole case, and shows the conduct of the Ame-
rican cruiser to have been unjustifiable.
"The Trent was not bound to a point belonging
to either of the belligerents. It was carrying its
cargo and passengers to a neutral country, and,
moreover, it was at a neutral port it had taken them
up. If it were admissible that under such circum-
stances the neutral flag did not completely cover the
persons and goods transported under it, the immu-
nity of that flag would be a vain word; the com-
merce and navigation of third powers would be liable
to suffer at any moment for their innocent, or even
indirect, relations with either of the belligerents.
The latter would not only have a right to require
from neutrals the most complete impartiality, and to
interdict him frem being mixed up in any way with
acts of hostility, but they would inflict restrictions
upon the liberty of commerce and navigation which
modern international law refuses to acknowledge
as legitimate. There would be a return in a word
to those vexatious practices against which in former
times no power protested more energetically than
the United States.

" If the Washington Cabinet should regard the
two persons arrested as rebels, whom it has always
a right to seize, the question, though shifting its
ground, could not be more resolved in a sense
favourable to the commander of the San Jacinto.
In such a case there would be a contempt of the
principle in virtue of which a ship is held to be a
portion of the territory whose flag it bears, and
there would be a violation of the immunity which
forbids a foreign Eovereign to exercise jurisdiction
on that territory. It cannot doubtless be necessary
to call to mind the energy with which the United
States has, on every occasion, defended this immu-
nity, and the right of asylum, which is a conse-
quence of it.

" Without wishing to enter upon a more thorough
discussion of the question raised by the capture of
MM. Mason and Slidell, I have said enough, I
think, to show that the Cabinet of Washington can-
not, without infringing those principles which all
neutral powers are alike interested in maintaining,
nor without putting itself in contradiction with its
own conduct up to the present time, give its appro-
bation of the conduct of the San Jacinto. In this
state of things the Cabinet of Washington cannot,
in our opinion, hesitate as to the course to be taken.

" Lord Lyons is already charged to present the
demand for satisfaction which the English Cabinet
is under the necessity of making, and which con-
sists in the immediate release of the persons taken
from the Trent, and explanations which shall relieve
the act of the captain of the San Jacinto of his offen-
sive character to the British flag. The Federal Go-
vernment would be inspired by a just and elevated
sentiment in yielding to these demands. It is im-
possible to conceive any object or any interest that
it could have to run the risk of provoking a rupture
with Great Britain by assuming a different attitude.
" For ourselves who would see in such a rupture
a complication in every way deplorable of the
difficulties with which the Cabinet at Washington
has already to struggle, and a proceeding calculated
to occasion serious uneasiness to all the powers not
parties to the present conflict, we think we are
giving a testimony of loyal friendship to the cabi-
net of Washington in not concealing from it our
opinion.

" I request you, sir, to take the first opportunity
of speaking frankly with Mr. Seward, and, if ho
should desire it, to leave him a copy of this despatch.
—Receive, &c., " TIIOUVENEL."

A dividend of 10 percent., free of income tax, ea
the capital stock of the Scottish Union Insurance
Company will be payable to the shareholders on and
after the 2d proximo.

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Counts. par 1 p
Ditto £SOO
Ditto Small Northn.&E,tn. sp. c. all Do.
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Do. 6 per cent. .... all Do
Do. Fixed sp. c.... all Do.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent, 1860
L&N W
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Preston and Wyre. I all & Lick .1 43 45
ditto Account
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Acco .nt
Peruvian 41 per Cent --Do. Do.
. 97
Ditto Account . South Staffordshire.. 100 Ln.&N.W
7
. , 4 ,64 Wilts and Somerset.. 100 Gt. West. 92 94 921 31
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853. 4l
Wimbledn & Croydon, all L.&Brgtn 81 91

Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent, 1860
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
i iitto Account
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Acco .nt
Peruvian 41 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 471 61
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, and'6o 46 1
Sardinian 5 per Cent. .. —
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
511 1
Ditto New Deferred 2
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Pitt° Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Venezuelan 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.

Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

RACING FIXT

FEBR'

Lincoln

Nottingham S
Derby Spring

Northampton 1
Croxton Park 4
Epsom Spiing
Ponteland

Newmarket F S 5
Chester Spring
York Spring
Ji
Epsom Summer 3
Chelmsford ll
Manchester ll

Odiham
Bibury Club
2
Newton
3
Stockbridge
4
Winohester
Newmarket
10
Worcester
15
Liverpool

RES FOR 1862.

:VARY.

25

Liverpool S ll
Shrewsbury S
IL.
Newmarket C 2l
Catterick Bridge
Thirsk

Salisbury
Bath
Harpenden 3O

AUG
Radcliffe
Brighton• Brighton Club
8
Lewes
11
Wolverhampton

As4cot
Newcastle
:Hampton
LY.

Abingdon
Pontefract
Hungerford
Nottingham
Southampton 22
Stamford 24
Marlborough
Goodwood
UST.

SEPT]
Devon and Exeter .. 2
Derby
Plymouth
-Walwick 9
Doncaster

Reading
Egham
York
Oxford .. 20
Stockton
:MIME.. - -

OCT(
Bedford
Newmarket S 0 .. 13

Richmond
Leicester ....
Monmouth 25
Manchester 26
Newmarket F 0

)BER.
Gloucester .......... 21
Newmuket H ........ 27
MEER.
Liverpool .......... 12
i Shrewsbury ...... 18

NOVE:
Worcester
Hereford

Advices from Montevideo of the 13th ult. state
that her Majesty's ship Ardent, Commander Parish, had
arrived on the previous day, having on board the ex-Pre-
sident of the Argentine Confederation, Dr. Derqui, and his
family, who had solicited the protection of the British flag,
and who had embarked at Santa F 6 on the Bth. The
weather had been very bad, and the Ardent had had to
anchor off the island of Martin Garcia, the Buenos Ayrean
commander of which sent on board a demand that Dr. Der-
qui should ho given up to him, in oraer to be tried by the
Supreme Court of Buenos Ayres. Capt. Parish of course, in
very plain terms, met this by a reply that it is not customary
for officers of the English navy to give up political refugees who
have once been received under the protection of our flag.
The flight of Dr. Derqui, it was thought, would leave
Buenos Ayres free to treat with the provinces, and gradually
to reassume her proper position as the capital and seat of
Government of the Confederation, which ought never to
have been at any other place. Foreigners have little or no
interest in the interior provinces, or out of that of Buenos
Ayres, where British capital has become very largely in-
vested, and where alone they have uniformly been protected
by anything like a regular Government. There had bean
extraordinary storms it the River Plate, with great damage
to shipping, including a Brazilian man-of-war steamer,
wrecked on the reef to the east of Montevideo, and a fine
American steamer, which went on shore at Buenos Ayres.
AUSTATA.—VIENNA, DEC. 21.—The Emperor
leaves for Venice this afternoon, and will not return to
Vienna until Jan. 15. When on his way home his Majesty
will inspect the forUfications which have recently bt en made
in the Southern Tpol.