The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-16 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DEOMMBER 16, 1861.

JESTY un44,„,tke overwhelming weight of her
supreme sorrow, we have the solace of knowing
that that mitigation at least her MAJESTY pos-
sesses to the very uttermost.

this is all that can be said of it. That he is indis-
posed to give up his prisoners, is clear from his
passing by the opportunity of doing it with the
best grace. Ho knew, for all the American
press knew, the illegality of the mode of cap-
ture. This was never denied—it was only alleged
that we were gainers by not taking the
Trent before a prize court—the clear illegality
would have been an easy ground for saying, even
to an American mob, that their Government must
offer the restoration of the prisoners. Such dignity
and honour are, of course, hardly within the com-
prehension of a nation of DODSON and FOGOS
but as the illegal retention of the prisoners has been
his deliberate act, we presume he means to persist
in it, though he had not the folly to speak out till
he could tell Congress hew the business stood on
both sides.

before 11 o'clock, his Royal }frailness the Prince,
Consort departed this life, at Windsor Castle, to!
the inexpressible grief of Her Majesty and of all
Ithe Royal Family.
The Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince ofi
Wales, their Royal Highnesses the Princess Alice,
and the Princess Helena, and their Serene High-
nesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, were
all present when his Royal Highness expired.
The death of this illustrious Prince will be deeply
mourned by all Her Majesty's faithful and attached'
subjects as an irreparable loss to Her Majesty,l
'the Royal Family, and the nation.

t4ATE':3I‘INS S,

by the rebellion are not beiOnciihe resources of the loyal
;,'people, and to believe that the same patriotism which has
:thus far sustained the Government, will continue to sus-
itain it till peace and union shall again bless the land, I re-
spectfully refer to the report of the Secretary of War, for
!information respecting the numerical strength of the army,
and for recommendations, having in view an increase of its
efficiency, and the well-being of the various branches of the
service entrusted to his care. It is gratifying to know that
the patriotism of the people has proven equal to the occa-
sion, and that the number of troops tendered greatly ex-
ceeds the force which Congress authorised me to call into the
field. I refer with pleasure to these portions of his report
which make allusion to the creditable degree of discipline
already attained by our troops, and to the excellent sanitary
condition of the entire army. The recommendation of the
Secretary for an organisation of the militia upon a uniform
basis is a subject of vital importance to the future safety of
the country, and is commended to the serious attention of
Congress. The large addition to the regular army in con-
nection with the defection that has so considerably dimi-
nished the number of its officers gives peculiar importance
.to his recommendation for increasing the corps of cadets to
the greatest capacity of the Military Academy. By mere
omission, I presume, Congress has failed to provide chap-
lains for the hospitals occupied by the volunteers.
" This subject was brought to my notice, and I was in-
duced to draw up the form of a letter, one copy of which
properly addressed, has been delivered to each of the per-
sons, and at the dates respectively named and stated in a
schedule, containing also the form of the letter, marked A,
and herewith transmitted. These gentlemen, I understand,
entered upon the duties designated at the times respectively
stated in the schedule, and have laboured faithfully therein
ever since. I, therefore, recommend that they be compen-
sated at the same rate as chaplains in the army.
"I further suggest that general provision be made for
chaplains to serve at hospitals as well as with regiments.
" The report of the Secretary of the Navy presents in
detail the operations of that branch of the service, the
activity and energy which have characterised the Adminis-
tration, and the results of measures to increase its efficiency
and power. Such have been the additions, by construc-
tions and purchase, that it may almost be said a navy has
been created and brought into service since our difficulties
commenced.
• "Besides blockading our extensive coast, squadrons
larger than ever before assembled under our flag have been
• put afloat, and performed deeds which have increased our
naval renown. I would invite special attention to the
recommendation of the Secretary for a more perfect
organisation of the navy by introducing additional grades
7 in the service. The present organisation is defective and
•::.-unsatisfactory, and the suggestions submitted by the De-
- partment will, it is believed, if adopted, obviate the cliffl-
. culties alluded to, and tend to promote harmony and in-
crease the efficiency of the navy.
" There are three vacancies on the Bench of the Supreme
'Court—two by the decease of Justices Daniel and M`Lean,
7 and one by the resignation of Justice Campbell. I have,
so far, forborne making nominations to fill the vacancies for
reasons which I will now state ; Two of the outgoing
Judges resided within the States now overrun by revolt.
z. So that, if successors were appointed in the same localities
they could not now serve upon their circuits, and many of the
most competent men there probably would not take the
personal hazard of accepting to serve even here upon the
Supreme Bench.
" I have been unwilling to throw all the appointments
northward, thus disabling myself from doing justice to the
South on the return of peace, although I may remark that
to transfer to the North one which has heretofore been in
the South, would not, with reference to territory and popu-
lation, be unjust.
" During the long and brilliant judicial career of Judge
INl`Lean his circuit grew into an empire, altogether too
large for any one judge to give the courts therein more than
.a nominal attendance, rising in population from 1,410,018
in 1839, to 6,151,405 in 1860. Besides this, the country
generally has outgrown our present judicial system.
" If uniformity was at all intended, the system requires
that all the States shall be accommodated with circuit
courts attended by supreme judges, while, in fact, Wis-
consin, Minnesota, lowa, Kansas, Florida, Texas, Califor-
nia, and Oregon have never had any such courts.
"Nor can this well be remedied without a change of the
;;system, because the adding of judges to the supreme court
enough for the accommodation of all parts of the country
with supreme courts, would create a court altogether too
numerous for a judicial body of any sort, and the evil be
one that will increase as new States come into the Union.
" Circuit Courts are useful or they are not useful. If
useful, no State should be denied them ; if not useful, no
;';-'State should have them. Let them be provided for all or
abolished as to all.
••• " Three modifications occur to me, either of which I
think would be an improvement upon our present system.
Let the Supreme Court be of convenient number in every

Expiring as his Royal Highness has done in
the forty-third year of his age, it is impossible to
regard his demise as otherwise than lamentably
rremature. Yet within the narrow span marked
out by these two simple dates—the alpha and
omega of his earthly career—
His Birth on the 26th August, 1819,
and

AMERICA.

THE FEDERAL CONGRESS.

PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S!
MESSAGE.

His death on the 15th December, 1861,
how much is there not comprised of worldly honour
enjoyed and of good work nobly and earnestly ac-
complished ! More than half of the Prince Con-
sort's lifetime, it should be borne in mind, has
been passed in a position of the most delicate and
supreme responsibility. It will be recorded in his
regard upon the pages of our National History that
of that most supreme and most delicate responsi-
bility he acquitted himself almost entirely—to ad-
miration. Occasional errors of judgment were
in his instance, and with respeot to those respon-
sibilities—we are willing to believe now—the rare
and fleeting exceptions. At any rate, it must
henceforth be remembered in connection with
the resplendent and courtly existence of
his Royal Highness ALBERT FRANCIS
AUGTJSTUS CHARLES
.EMMANUEL, Duke of SAXE-
GOTHA and PRINCE CONSORT of England,
that throughout nearly the whole of the
glorious Reign of VICTORIA he stood beside the
Throne as the Royal Husband and intimate ad-
viser of that Monarch who, among all our monarchs,
has won the distinetive title of the most Con-
stitutional Sovereign who ever wielded the sceptre
of these realms. Sharing in the splendours of the
Court, he must be allowed to participate in some
measure in the glory of winning for his Queen-
Wife that magnificent appellation. In this lies, in
truth, whatever there is for him of political fairl
fame. His intellectual eminence is yet more
distinctly defined, and is, we may rest
perfectly confident, assured in its perma-
nence. Prince ALBERT'S name must hence-

(From the Court Circular.)
WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 14.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived
at the Castle at 3 o'clock this morning, from
Nladingly-hall, attended by Major-General the Hon.
R. Bruce and Major Teesdale.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Loiningen
returned in the forenoon.
Captain Grey has succeeded Major Teesdale as
Equerry in Waiting to the Prince of Wales.
The Duke of Cambridge arrived from London
early this morning to make inquiries after his
Royal Higheess the Prince Consort. His Royal
Highness the Duke de Nemours also called to make

The following is the full text of. President_Lin•
'coin's Message :
"FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF,
REPRESENTATIVES,—
" In the midst of unprecedented political troubles we
have cause of great gratitude to God for unusual good health
and most abundant harvests.
" You will not be surprised to learn that in the peculiar'
exigencies of the times, our intercourse with foreign nations'
ihas been attended with profound solicitude, chiefly turning
upon our own domestic affairs. A disloyal portion of the!
American people have, during the whole year, been engaged
in an attempt to divide and destroy the Union. A nation
which endures factions and domestic divisions is exposed to
disrespect abroad, and one party, if not both,"is sure, sooner
or later, to invoke foreign intervention. Nations thus
tempted to interfere are not always able to resist the coun-
sels of seeming expediency and ungenerous 'Ambition, al-
though measures adopted under such influences seldom fail
to be unfortunate and injurious to those adopting them.
" The disloyal citizens of the United States who have
offered the ruin of our country in return for the aid and
comfort which they have invoked abroad, have received less
patronage and encouragement than they probably expected.
llf it were just to suppose, as the insurgents have seemed to
lassume, that foreign nations in this case, discarding all
moral, social, and treaty obligations, would act solely and
selfishly for the most speedy restoration of commerce, in-
cluding especially the acquisition of cotton, those nations
appear as yet not to have seen their way to their object
more directly or clearly through the destruction than
through the preservation of the Union. If we could dare
to believe that foreign nations are actuated by no higher
principle than this, I am quite sure a second argument
could be made to show them that they can reach their aim
more readily and easily by aiding to crush this rebellion
than by giving encouragement to it.
" The principle ever relied on by the insurgents for ex-
citing foreign nations to hostility against us, as already
intimated, is the embarrassment of commerce. Those na-
tions, however, not improbably saw from the first that it
was the Union which made as well our foreign as our
domestic commerce. They can scarcely have failed to per-
ceive that the effort for disunion produces the existing
difficulty, and that one strong nation promises more durable
peace, and a more extensive, valuable, and reliable com-
merce than can the same nation broken into hostile frag-
ments.
"It is not my purpose to review our discussions with
foreign States, because, whatever might be their wishes or
,dispositions, the integrity of our country and the stability
of our Government mainly depends, not upon them, but
on the loyalty, virtue, patriotism, and intelligence of the
American people. The correspondence itself, with the
usual reservations, is herewith submitted. I venture to
hope it will appear that we have practised prudence and
liberality towards foreign Powers, averting causes of irrita-
tion, and with firmness maintaining our own rights and
. honour. Since, however, it is apparent that here, as in
'every other State, foreign dangers necessarily attend do-
mestic difficulties, I recommend that adequate and ample
measures be adopted for maintaining the public defences
on every side. While, under this general recommendation,
provision for defending our coast line readily occurs to the
mind, I also, in the same connection, ask the attention of
Congress to our great lakes and rivers. It is believed that
some fortifications and depots of arms and munitions, with
harbour and navigation improvements at well-selected
points upon these, would be of great importance to the na-
tional defence and preservation.
" I ask attention to the views of the Secretary of War,
expressed in his report upon the same general subjects.
" I deem it of importance that the loyal regions of East
Tennessee and western North Carolina should be connected
with Kentucky, and other faithful parts of the Union, by
railroad. I therefore recommend, as a military measure,
that Congress provide for the construction of such road as,
speedily as possible.
" Kentucky will no doubt co-operate, and through her
Legislature make the most judicious selection of a line.
The northern terminus must connect with some existing
railroad, and whether the route shall be from Lexington .. event.
or Nicholasville to the Cumberland Gap, or from Leba- •'• " Then, first, let the whole country be divided into cir-
non to the Tennessee line in the direction of Knoxville,
,:,1 cults of convenient size, the supreme judges to serve in a
'
or on some still different line, can easily be determined, :number of them corresponding to their own number, and
Kentucky, and the general government co-operating, the ;independent circuit judges be provided for all the rest.
work can be completed in a very short time, and when s "Or, secondly, let the supreme judges be relieved from
done it will be not only of vast present usefulness, but ,71!, circuit duties, and circuit judges provided for all the cir-
also a valuable permanent improvement worth its cost in cuits.
all the future. Some treaties, designed chiefly for the ' " Or, thirdly, dispense with circuit courts altogether,
interests of commerce, and having no grave political ima
.:, leaving the judicial functions wholly to the district courts
portance, have been negotiated and will be submitted to s and an independent supreme court.
the Senate for their consideration. Although we have•Ls "I respectfully recommend to the consideration of Con-
failed to induce some of the commercial Powers to adopt
~ gress the present condition of the statute laws, with the
asalesirable melioration of the rigour of maritime war, _ hope that Congress will be able to find an easy remedy for
" JAMES CLARK, M.D. we have removed all obstructions from the way of this many of the inconveniences and evils which constantly ear-
" HENRY HOLLAND, M.D. humane reform except such as are merely of temporary barrasss those engaged in the practical administration of
" THOMAS WATSON, M.D.
" WILLIAM JENNER, M.D. and accidental occurrence. them.
" I invite your attention to the correspondence between . : " Since the organisation of the Government Congress has
This document, and the letter of Sir George Grey. her Britannic Majesty's Minister, accredited to this Govern-;p' enacted some 5,000 acts and joint resolutions, which fill
a copy of which was likewise posted at the entrance meat, and the Secretary of State, relative to the detention more than 6,000 closely-printed pages, and are scattered
to the Mansion-house, were read with melancholy of the British ship Perthshire, in June last, by the United • through many volumes. Many of these acts have been
interest by thousands of the citizens throughout the States steamer Massachussetts, for a supposed breach of tdrawn in haste, and without sufficient caution, so that
remainder of the day. the blockade. As this detention was occasioned by an obvi- , their provisions are often obscure in themselves or in con-
Yesterday afternoon the Rev. Canon Champneye ous misapprehension of the facts, and as justice requires• i flirt with each other, or at least so doubtful as to render it
the preacher at St. Paul's, made a touching allusion that we should commit no belligerent act not founded on 4:; very difficult for even the best informed persons to ascer-
to the great national loss in the course of his ser-
strict right, as sanctioned by public law, I recommend thats,:. taro precisely what the statute law really is.
It is difficult even now to realise the magnitude) mon, and earnestly commended her Majesty and the lan appropriation be made to satisfy the reasonable demandis "It seems to me very important that the statute laws
of the calamity that has abruptly befallen the Royal family, in their state of grief and desolation ' of the owners of the vessel for her detention. zr should be made as plain and intelligible as possible, and be
•" I repeat the recommendation of my predecessor in his 't reduced to as small a compass as may consist with the ful-
QUEEN and the Nation. As difficult as it would be to the sympathies and prayers of the congregation.: annual message to Congress in December last in regard to vness and precision of the will of the Legislature, and the
to exaggerate the profound sympathy with which The bells of the City churches were tolled at inter- : e
the surplus which will probably remain after satisfying thea- perspicuity of its language. These, well done, would, 1
vals yesterday, and in most of the sermons preached • claims of American citizens against China, pursuant to the: think, greatly facilitate the labours of those whose duty it
all the loyal subjects of the Crown, of every glass,
allusions were made to the solemn event. Nor was ', awards of the Commissioners under the act of the 3d of
~is to assist in the administration of the laws, and would be
regard the exquisite affliction of our revered and this manifestation of public feeling confined to the :, March, 1859. s a lasting benefit to the people by placing before them in a
beloved SOVEREIGN, Suddenly snatched from the clergymen of the Established Church only. At "If however it should not be deemed advisable to carry s more accessible and intelligible form the laws which so
WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 15. , , '• advisable 4 • •
midst of us, in. the very flower and fruition of his the Roman Catholic, the Jed ish, and the Gres& His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ar that recommendation into effect, I would suggest that deeply concern their interests and their duties. lam in-
manhood, His Royal Highness the PRINCE CON- • churches similar heartfelt prayers and solemn. contrived early this morning and remains at the Castle. authority be given for investing the principal over the pro- s.:. formed by some, whose opinions I respect, that all the acts
coeds of the surplus referred to in good securities, with a of Congress now in force and of a permanent and general
dolences were offered. •
SORT has been so long and so conspicuously fami- . Her Royal Highness Princess Mary of Cambridge lyiew to • •
At Cambridge, both by reason of the intimate .. arrived from Kew to make inquiries. 1 ordinary and
liarised to the public gaze, that it will require the ; citizens against China as are not unlikely to arise hereafter „m one volume, or, at least, two volumes of
the satisfaction of such other just claim of ouri`,..n.ature might be revised and rewritten so as to be embraced
relationship with the University as its Chancellor ' LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, DEC. 16. • • convenient size, and I respectfully recommend to Congress
lapse of time to render appreciable, in the first and the residence of his Royal Highness the Prince . In consequence of the melancholy event of the lin
,liie course of our extensive trade with that empire.
instant even credible, the fact of his disappearance. of Wales in the town, the news produced a profoune ' 'Teeth of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort
- rised the President to instruct the commanders of suitable to devise such plan as to their wisdom shall seem most pro-
By the Act of the sth of August last, Congress audio- to consider the subject, and, if my suggestion be approved,
The earliest intimation received by the public that' . sensation. It did not reach Cambridge yesterday . the theatres will be closed this evening, and again g
in acknowledging the belligerent position of the .‹
till 10 40 a.m. It then spread with proverbial ra-; an the evening of the funeral.of the present
there was any probability whatever of a Death so: South, and that wrath we believe is hardly subsided 1 pidity, but nevertheless was not so widely know?. - •
Thisvesse vessels tt oh
authority
defendtyhas been themselves
exercised against
in anda single t o c a
instanceptiue pirates.on only.:
. , :per
~ foron
"One of
attainmentthe
unavoidable of the
consequences
epqruoepnocseesd .
" For the more effectual protection of our extensive and ''''' insurrection is the entire suppression in many places of all
utterly unhooked for, was conveyed through the ,
yet. Much of Mr. SEWARD'S later insanity is to: out that in some of the churches of the city uhf ' (From the Observer.) --valuable commerce in the eastern seas especially, it seems
~, ordinary means of administering civil justice by the officers
Bulletin issued on Thursday by the physicians in ' I !..
petraced to it •; and though they now see that the Z.; speedy recovery of his Royal Highness was ear
attendance upon his Royal Highness. That • prayed for. The bells of the University (St. Mary's: His Royal Highness Francis Albert Augustus Charles .to me that it would also be advisable to authorise the and. in the forms of existing law. This is the case in whole
position cannot be censured, still it was not the con- ' Emmanuel, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe Coburg and
~,, commanders of sailing vessels to recapture any prizes :,^ or in part in all the insurgent States, and as our armies ad-
document, it will be remembered, spoke of the 41' - commenced tolline• but still the mass of the people . Gotha, K.G K.T , K.P., G.C.8., G.C.M.G , LLD which pirates may make of the United States vessels and 't ranee upon and take possession of parts of those States the
duct which the great people of the North, the chi)- .- • to -• D.C.L., Ph.D., &c., was the second son of Ernest Duke of s their cargoes, and the consular courts established by law in piratical evil becomes more apparent. There are no courts,
" quiet night " passed by the Prince—adding, - • . . . , were unwilling to believe the melancholy news wae
s something, surely, worthy of notice that Brent 'of " Manifest Destiny, ' the fathers of the
, true. In the University Church profound emotior Princess of Saxe Gotha. His royal highness was born at
Saxe Coburg and Gotha, by his first wife, Dorothea Louisa, 's eastern countries to adjudicate the cases, in the event that "nor officers to whom the citizens of other States may apply
however, rather dubiously (for the announcement ,'
, a young Prince, who came amongst as in the .''- ions who were to rule the whole of North America,
,was -
might have signified anything) ;the symptoms , was evident when the cfficiating minister, the Rev. ' ?osenan, August 26, 1819, and his marriage with 0
• this should not be objected to by the local authorities. ;k", for the enforcement of their lawful claims against citizens
Queen 1 "If any good reason exists why we should persevere of the insurgent States, and there is a, vast amount of debt
heyday of his youth, closes his life two and;; and in due time the South also—it was not the''' C. D. Marston, of Caius College, omitted the name Victoria took place on the 10th February, 1840. The A-et,4
had undergone little change. The
twenty years afterwards, with a wholly spotless conduct which so Republic expectedofof h' late Royal Highness from the for
grand a
and sovereignty of Hayti and Liberia, lam unable to dis- -as two hundred million of dollars, due in large part from
Bulletin, the one issued on Friday, spoke, on the Royal Family, and (as Chancellor) from that for the
co
ntrary, of " a restless night" having been passed Pl* t '
a.r iamen was £30,000. He received his titleof Royalthe disch si• of their
;very d \ -
pattern an model of a true Husband and 8•- cool down the present temper of the North remains -
1 bluesing of the Almighty on " this our body" (i.e. i 'in regard to them without the approbation of Congress, I< now making great sacrifices in also
../ cern it. Unwilling, however, to inaugurate a novel policy insurgents in open rebellion, to loyal citizens who are even
by his Royal Highness, and but too plainly avowed .'', A
- the University), in which prayer the various digni- '
. Highness by patent, dated February 6, 1840, and was en), -
submit for your consideration the expediency of an appro- patriotic duty to support the Government. Under these
tender Father. England, in effect, has abounding 'to be seen ; but we must confess that at present ,- .
that the symptoms had assumed an unfavourable ''' aowered to quarter the royal arms on the 7th February in - - , -
s' taries of the University are enumerated.
character. , 'reasons enow at this moment of supreme anguish
.. they seem to be like the " drunken man " of Mr. '.' the same year. On the following day he received his com-
these new States. It does not admit of doubt that impor- military power o .
C urts to administer it
justice in such
priation for maintaining a Chargé d'Affaires near each of - cir.cumstances I have been urgently solicited to establish by
- Coupling with this the eh cumstance"e ,
under a very solemn and startling bereavement, to • • BRIGHT'S picture " hitting all around them." We 'At Bristol the news of the death of the Prince,' mission as Field-Marshal, and he was made Colonel of then ?-'•
that the Heir to the Crown had been summoned in e; lb h l 1 d '. a t oug not a toget ier unlooke for, from th, ,or PrinceAlberts
the dead of the night •
from Cambridge, and had**. treasure up the good name and the fair fame of the e can only hope that our demands may operate on - gloomy nature of the telegrams of the preceding da. :- ' '. '
11th ' Own Hussars on the I,oth of Apri , '
1840 In April 1842 he received his commission as Colonel :treaties treaties with them. ;any doubt that the end proposed, the collection of the
• tint commercial advantages might be secured by favourable •. cases. I have thus far declined to do it, not because I had
consequently hastened instanter from the Univer-41'1' PRINCE CONSORT, while proffering to her Most ;
.„. Americans as the cold air or a sudden fright some- "S was received with profound regret by all classes oi • he pressure of necessity in the un-
• if the Scots Fusilier Guards. In August, 1850, he became ..,_.l. " The operations of the Treasury during the period which- debts, was just and right in itself, but because I have been
sity, arriving at Windsor Castle by express train e 4 Gracious MAJESTY, in these first agonising mo• e times does on an intoxicated man. a.the citizens. From the pulpits of the variom 3010nel-in-Chief of the 60th Rifles, and on the 28th of Chas elapsed since your adjournment have been conducted 4 unwilling to go beyond t y
at three o'clock in the morning, the public were. e
;:ments of her widowhood, the heartfelt sympathy e
, - " " September, 1852, he was appointed Colonel-in- Chief of ;-". with signal success. The patriotism of the people has 33 usual exercise of power. But the powers of Congress, I
A churches and chapels touching reference was made the Rifle Brigade and Colonel of the Grenadier Guards. l' placed at the disposal of the Government the large means:‘,lsunPose, are equal to the anomalous occasion, and there'
almost prepared on Saturday forenoon for the catas- ~,, of a whole nation's grief. ENGLAND AND AMERICA. ;to this national calamity, and sincere prayers were :ton the death of the Duke of Wellington his Royal B igh.. demanded by the public exigencies. much of the national fore I refer the whole matter to Congress, with the hope
..
tropho which was unhappily so soo • — * ' in the sth of March, 1810, and was nominated a Member
..e' offered for the Royal widow and her fatherles, .' less was granted letters of precedence next after the Queen `'. loan has been taken by citizens of the industrial classes, 'that a plan may be devised for the administration of justice
n of to ~
The long-exnected document from Washington ' ,jchildren.
' 4 the Privy Council on the Ilth. of September, 1840. He whose confidence in their country's future, and zeal for then: in all such parts of the insurgent States and territories as
be announced. As the day advanced, ' - - ei ...1 Our contemporary the "'aerie is really great st ',' country's deliverance from its present peril, have induced. may be under control of the Government, whether by a
At Reading, about an hour before the church ser- '''
however, the has arrived and if in one respect its contents are r• •
joyful tidings were received that the condition of the e' batter than and
had feared in others and in con. i ~.J
,e
k.
invention. The public are acquainted with the .1t• vice, the funeral knell at St. Mary's and St. Giles', 1
' was appointed Grand Ranger of Windsor Park in 1841,
Ind received the Order of the Golden Fleece in April of themw to contribute to the support of the Government the is. voluntary return to allegiance and order or by the power of
Royal Patient evidenced a manifest imp f f _ baseless character of saveral of the statemen tsr Churches announced to the inhabitants the death of a hat year. In April, 1842, ho received the appointment of of their limited acquisitions. ac
hole • • ' •• • This f• t imposes pecu- our arms ; this, however, not to be a permanent institu-
r"eraeno nect-son with the circumstances, they are worse. .Z
which it has made within the last few days. Al, the Prince Consort. At St. Mary's Church the 6 Lord Warden of the Stannaries and Chief Steward of the 1. W.' t* to economy in disbursement and energy in "; lion, but a temporary substitute, and to cease as soon as
Jar o iga ions
It would not be extravagant to assert that the j The PRESIDENT li. "' ". telegram which wepublish "column'` 13'Oxford in another Bishop of preached in the evening, an r•• d -
I Duchy f Cornwall. He became Governor and Constable action. - • 1 f '',
o - the ordinary courts can be re-established in peace.
re- . does say fortify your coax says not ing respecting the seizure
...
intelligence conveyed through this brief announce- -'of the Commissioners on board the Trent ; but he i ).f Windsor Castle in May, 1843, and first and principal -- " The revenue from all sources, including loans or the "It is important that some convenient means should be
..!: furnish some fresh instances of its inaccuracy. ? most touching allusion was made by his Lordshir'financial year ending on the 30th June, 1861, was eighty- provided, if possible, for the adjustment of claims against
went on Saturday afternoon, was everywhere . ..4 Is is quite untrue that England has " consulted •:,'l' to the melancholy event. 1 ['night Grand. Cross and Acting Great Master of the Order pi
six .
sts, lakes, and rivers. Con- • (86) millions eight hundred and thirty-five thousand the Government, especially in view of their increased num-
eeived with a sense of positive relief and of grate- „areas, again, goes much . the other great Powers" with reference to thee:. .of the Bath in June, 1843. He was also made High Steward
. es
dollars (486 nos 900) and twenty-seven cents •;* ber b - f the war. It is as much the duty of Go-
further ; it votes thanks to-,
..-4-. At Warwick the intelligence was first of all com- lif Plymouth in June, 1 d,":::::
~ an Captain-General am- enera an 5 . y reason o
and the expenditures for the same period, including pay- ikvernment to render prompt justice against itself in favour
ful consolation. The improvement thus notified ''the man who had the courage to beard common- outrage by the San Jacinto It is however, a fact .1843 d C t • 13-
;'ll "Colonel of the Artillery Company on September of that year.
t. A naun' at dt M Justice W'll h' h lci the
, , ic e o r. i es, w ois o ing eli
by the physicians, however, was only too soon atter-. .sense, international
~.:law, and England, by what his that France has volunteered her opinion that thewinter assizes there, ard who, on receiving the k [lfs election as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge"
iSsiments on account of the public debt, were eighty-four mil-I'4 -of citizens as it is to administer the same between private
Idmolnl::esdanforty-sev ,en ;eats,
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.. lions five hundred and seventy-eight thousand and thirty-7, individuals.
;act of the American captain constituted a violation -,
wards recognised to have been wholly illusory.
.leountrymen term the "gallant" It.i mournfulin ormation, exaressed his tee sorrow
P.i, act of tt le 4 f ' h
a ac mg an._ o neutral rig ts. , Steward of New Windsor, in July, 1850, and President of. leaving a balance in the I " The investigation and adjudication of claims in their
As typhoid had supervened upon gastric fever—
,, r— :pa unarmed mail steamer. What is the in e rtia and great regret. '1 he bells of the churches were ;
he Z ioloa.c 1 SocietylBsl. On the 19th of Octo a ;Treasury on the Ist July of $2,257,065 80c. for the first .nature belong to the judicial department, besides it is ao-
terpretation It is also untrue that " Lord Lyons will remi 't d ' es a inJuly, ~ .
• ry d these words and votes ? a. .oiled ; and it was not until they heard the tolling -
iei, 18)2, he was nominated Master of the Trinity I , 1 10-ase R'i nailer of the financial year, ending on the 30th September, ;"-4attention of
aparent that the Congress will be more than
the original disease —so a profound exhaustionvi : second note to the Cabinet of Washington,"
or the bells that the inhabitants generally would i
r..:',1 It had been feared that the PR[n. February, 1836, he was made Knight of the Order of the's. asfii. The receipts from all sources, including the balance, engaged for some time to come with great national
,-
that all the appliances of art failed to contend with PRESIDENT—that 15:. ithat any " new" instructions have been forwardedU believe in the truths of the reports, In the evening. joeraphiin by the King of Sweden. His creation as Prin erof July Ist, were one hundred and two millions five hun- lquestions.
`;.y, e executive of the Northern States— havetato him. His orders are imperative, and he will of
-,
effectually, resulted from both. And by 10 minutespri— ''4--It all the places of w h. t' 1 'on sox t ,
ors ip, prayers were offered on,. , , . , was ,i c c yletters p, sf, i,d b :tent dated the 23 of JuIY,S ilred and thirty-two thousand five hundred and nine dollars ~ It was intended 'lby the organisation of the Court Of
1 '
0, nitted himself by his Message. He has not k course obey them to the letter.—Morwing Post ~,,1857 ; and he was elected President of the Hort'cultura .
to eleven o'clock on Saturday night his ROyalgpoMl- ti'' Ilf ftl Q dR If ' • no, .',e la ose ueen an oya amily. and twenty-seven cents and. the expenses ninetY-eight mil- /Claims mainly to remove, this branch of business from the
,41 ;
Highness had ceased to breathe. The intellie'ence fedone this. So far good. But it has to be remem- e TN -----------
Li 1 At Nottingham the intelligence arrived by tole-,'; 3ociety in February, 1858, The Prince Consort was ode- , lions two hundred and thin ty-nine thousand seven hundred /Claims
of Conoress ; but while the court has proved to be an
a sti
until he had learned what the En ..,ISTINGUISUED VISITORS AT KNOWSLEY.—The;-
- h and s ' se •4 > s '.l-sted with his elder brother, the present Duke Regnant; and thirty-three dollars and nine cents, leaving a balance 4 ' • ' . • • .
effective and valuable means of investigation, i , at in great
of this most lamentable event, it is simple truth tibered that un glish'4Earl and Countess grap , ,vas nun draiel3 po..ted up at the Coint f Spit Coburg Gotha, under tho Consistorial Councillor, ,
say on the subject, it would have e.
been ent t• • sof Derby have, in course of las` we(k HE.
~,e, exchange. All classes, rich and poor, appeared to r..s ialorchutz, and at the University of Bonn. His studies. on the Ist of October, 1861, of four millions two hundred ' •effect the of creation for want of
adegree fails to
say, has been received everywhere throughoutiCabinet had to er aming a select circle of friends at Knosysle "' and ninety-two
thousand seven hundred and seventy-six i"power to make its judgments final.
London,,-,..
throughout England, as it will be reeeived'heen most unbusinesslike and imprudent to declaree
Dthall. Among the visitors were
Manchester Lord d s the Duke and Duchess of ,;;;
Y- - sympathise with her Majesty in her sad bereave '.. hero included ancient and modern languages, history, the. C-. ,
dollars 1 "
au( eighteen cents. ' i " Fully aware of the delicacy, not to say the danger of
s, s i an .Lady•ment. ...;idlysical and natural sciences, music, and paining. In 1838,
Vis isi 4- I consideration
• Estimates for
afterw ..._ , and what his cours Newport, Lord C t b ')1
and other members of the aristoerae L an
er
ur3''4 the remaining three quarters of the year, a iate su.Jec.,, commend to your careful
ards throughout the utmost limits of this what his own opinions were,iee visited England with his father, and in two years afters ' _
aa
-Mt empir • ~s'. It is well that exul-, • .
;the Hon. Colonel andnady Emma y Lard Stanley and..,a;
t oards was married to Queen Victoria, at St.:James's Palace.':, and for the financial year of 1863, together with his view 'oavlicther this power of snaking judgment final may not pro-
e, with a pang to each like that of''' would be he could not know. , residents at the hall. Talbot have also been *(8 oat the London Gazette Extraordinary of Sunda?') '1 .. _—_-
--.-...,,,,
Setae 0 si a of the ways and means for meeting the demands conterntperly be given to the court, reserving the right of appeal on
Personal affliction. If e•• t personal enemies did.: Ri Dec. 15.)plated i
wa sympathy can in- any;-J',tation in the capture of almosl,, Governor Walker transacted • f,..: i Despatches were received on Saturday at it e by them will be submitted to Congress by the Sem- questiens of law to the Supreme Court, with such other
y tend to allevi business at theal 'WHITEHALL, Dec. 15. V Colonial •office from the governors of the West India Islam's +ofthe Treasury. have shown to be necessary.
) tart'
ate tb.e bitter grief of her MA-iinot hurry Mr. LINCOLN into an obvioue folly; butij
-Colonial-office on Saturl• on •
ay, his departure for lialbaalces. On Saturday' t
nigiit, the '
14th inst., at 10 minutes the .A.tistralian Colonies, Ceylon, Hongkong., and Labuan. iii
Si "It is gratifyiuete knew that the expenses made necessary " I ask attention to the report of the PostmastelaGeneral,

The fortifications of the coast-line could point to
but one danger—that of war with England. It is
a second edition of the letter of Mr. SEWARD to the
Governors of the States urging them to fortify their
lake, river, and coast lines, and is doubtless suggested
by the danger to which he knew he had exposed him-
self already, or was about to incur. So far it goes
the " Emphatic approval of the conduct of Captain
WILKES by the Navy Department," must be con-
sidered as an expression of the opinion of the Ex-
ecutive. It has not, however, all the importance
which a similar act would have in England, the
relations of the Departments with the Cabinet being
far less close than with us. Still it is a very grave, and
ill-looking fact that a first-rate Federal Govern-
ment Department should openly give its sanction
to the act which England will not submit to.
The vote of Congress, however, is the most'
serious of all. Whether by that term be meant
only the House of Representatives, or the Senate
also, it can hardly be regarded as other than a
national defiance of England—one which the
PRESIDENT, after receiving our demands, must •
sustain by refusal to comply. That the vote of
Congress represents the vote of such cities as
Boston and New York we already know; nor
.do we see how the vote can admit of
more than one interpretation. Had there
been anything but the " outrage" in what
Captain WILKES did—had there been high courage
or consummate skill, or any naval merit to praise,
we might have supposed that the feat, in that
aspect, had elicited the commendations. But it is
significant, indeed, that while we read of no vote
of thanks to General BUTLER for his conduct at
Fort Hatteras, or to SHERMAN and DUPONT for
the Port Royal affair, we hear of a vote of thanks
where the only bravery was that of defying the
..laws of nations, and the only skill that of
worming the intentions of men out of them
by accepting their hospitality, and then set-
'ing off to take them prisoners from what was
'really British territory, and where they had every
right to believe themselves safe from violence.
-.Such a vote, by the mildest interpretation, can only
mean that Congress exults in having a commander
who defies the British, while the South defies it.
• It is meant as an intimation of the kind of answer
which the President is to give to Lord Lyons, and
there is little reason to hope that the President is

inquiries.
The following bulletin of the health of the Prince
Consort was issued this morning :
" His Royal Highness the Prince Consort has had
3. quieter night, and there is some mitigation of the
severity of the symptoms.
" JAMES CLARK, M.D.
" HENRY HOLLAND, M.D.
" THOMAS WATSON, M.D.
" WILLIAM JENNER, M.D.
"Windsor Castle, Saturday, 9 a.m.,
Dec. 14,1861."
A telegram was despatched at 10h. 40m. a.m. of
the state of his Royal Highness :
" WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 14.
" There is a slight change for the better in the
Prince this morning."
In the afternoon the following bulletin was

issued :
" WINDSOR CASTLE, DEc. 14, 4u. 30M. P.M.
"His Royal Highness the Prince Consort is in a,
most critical state.

" JAMES CLARK, M.D.
" HENRY HOLLAND,;„M.D.
" THOMAS WASON, M.D.
" WILLIAM JENNER, M.D."
The bulletin announcing the decease of the Prince
Consort was as follows ;
" WINDSOR CASTLE, SATURDAY NIGHT,
DEC. 14.

forth be for ever inextricably connected with thel
development of the blended excellences of Art and;
Industry in the United Kingdom. His Royal
l
Highness was, beyond all question and without,

"His Royal Highness the Prince Consort became
rapidly weaker during the evening, 'and expired
without suffering at 10 minutes before 11.
" JAMES CLARK, M.D.
" HENRY HOLLAND, M.D.
" THOMAS WATSON, M.D.
" WILLIAM JENNER, M.D."

:he shadow of a doubt in our minds as tol

the literal accuracy of the words here em-1
ployed while we are waiting them ones
of the most accomplished Princes who ever lived.l
Individually rarely gifted, he had his natural en-I
dowments cultivated to the utmost extent of culti-I
vation, first of all under the care of private tutors,
subsequently through three years of student-life in
the University at Bonn, and afterwards we may
assert pretty confidently, more or less during thel
whole of the rest of his existence, by that most im-1
portant of all kinds of education, self-education.)
And it became one of the most vital parts of they,
business of his energetic life to turn those culti-
vated intellectual capacities of his so far as might
be in any way practicable to the national advan-
tage. That in this endeavour he achieved an in-

The following bulletin of the state of the Queen'k•l
health was exhibited yesterday at Buckingham,
Palace :
" WINDSOR CASTLE, SUNDAY NOON, DEC. 15
" The Queen, although overwhelmed with grief,
bears her bereavement with calmess, and has not
,uffered in health,

" JAMES CLARK, M.D.
" HENRY HOLLAND, M.D.
" THOMAS 'WATSON, M.D.
" WILLIAM JENNER, M.D."

Among the members of the Diplomatic Corps and
the nobility and gentry who called yesterday at
Buckingham Palace to make inquiries after the
Health of her Majesty the Queen were—the Russian
Ambassador and Baroness Brunow, the Turkish
lAmbassador and Madame Musurus, the Danish.
Minister, the Swedish and Norwegian Minister, the
Portuguese Minister, the French Ambassador and
the Countess de Flahault, the Greek Minister and
ladame Tricoupi, the United St Ites' Minister and
Mrs. Adams ; Mr. Wilson, Secretary, and Mr.
Moran, Second Secretary of the Legation; the Italian
Minister, the Brazilian Minister and Madame
Mcreira, the Austrian Ambassador and Countess
lA.pponyi, the Netherlands Minister, the Bavarian
Minister and Baroness Cetto, Secretary Sir Georg(
ind Lady Grey, Viscount and Viscountess Torring-,
ron, Mr. Phillips, Lord Harris, the Hon. Mortimer
and Mrs. Sackville West, the Duchess Dowager of
Somerset, Sir J. South, the Lord Chief Justice and
Lady Erle, Sir J. and Lady Emerson-Tennant, the
Hon. C. Gore and the Countess of Kerry, Admiral
Ind Mrs. Bawles, Mr. and Mrs. H. and Miss Hope•
Reeve, the Chaplain-General, the Dowager Lady
Clinton, the Earl and Countess of Airlie, Mr. and
\frs. Merivale, the Lord Mayor and the Lady
Mayoress, Sir J. and Lady J. Walsh, Mr. E.
Marjoribanks, Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour,
the Dowager Viscountess and the Hon. Miss Har-
dinge, the Dean of Westminster and Miss Trench]
Sir J. Romilly, Lord and Lady Elcho, the Dowager]
Countess of Lichfield, Sir Benjamin and Miss
Brodie, Colonel and Mrs. F. Paget, Viscount May-
nard, Lady Caroline and Miss Lascelles, Mr. C.
Greville, Sir C. Douglas, M.P., Mr. Du Pasquier,
the Countess of Fife, Lieutenant-General Sir F
and Lady Smith, the Earl of Lucan, Lord Suffield,
Mr. A. Biddulpb, Lord Dynevor, Mr. and Mrs. H.
Addington, the Earl and Countess of Cork, the
Countess Dowager of Jersey, the Earl of Clan wil Ham
Sir R. and Lady Murchison, Lord and Lady Mon-I
teagle, Mr. and Lady C. Schreiber, Sir Fitzroy Kelly,l
Sir R. and Lady Mayne, the E arl and Countess Grey,li
Colonel the Hon. A. and Mrs. Liddell, the Cauntess
of Falmouth, General Sir G. Bowles, Mr. and Lady
E. Walsh, General Sir H. and Lady Ross, Captain
the Hon. J. and Mrs. Denman, Sir Benjamin and
Lady Hawes, Sir J. and Lady E. Ferguson,Viscount
and Viscountess Bury, Viscount Bury, Lieut.-Gen
and Lady Mary Fox, Mr. and Mrs. H. Rich, Lady
G. Fane, together with numerous others.

disputable success we all of us perfectly well know.
The simple and undeniable fact that it is so, is in-
effaceably stamped indeed upon the record of the
growth of late years, particularly of the blended
growth, of Art and Industry in this country.
In testimony of which it is only requi-
site to bear for a moment in remembrance

the man to resist his Congress.
Some of Mr. LINCOLN'S remarks with regard to
foreign Powers will be read with a smile. We
foreigners are reminded that the preservation of the
Union which passed a MoRRILL Tariff was more forl
their commercial advantage than Free Trade
with half of it by its separation from the Protec-
tionist half—a rather doubtful view of the case, as
many will think. Further, that the Union was the
maker of the foreign commerce, and that the tradei
with one strong nation is of more value than with

what was indubitably the most splendid of alli
Prince ALBERT'S personal achievements—the first
great international Exhibition. An achievement
that we may surely designate with the strictest
accuracy of phrase—remembering the Fairy Palace
that glittered ten years ago on the green eward of
Hyde -park—

the same nation broken into hostile fragments. 0.

!this, however, again, many will doubt ; since the
larger part of these fragments want to sell
us either corn or cotton, and are there
fore naturally friends to Free Trade with!
foreign countries. England cannot doubt that,l
so far as commerce is concerned, it would be fart
better for her that both the South and the North-
west of the old United States should be independent
Governments—both of them would tolerate nothing
but a revenue tariff on foreign goods, and would
make the manufacturers of Philadelphia and Massa-
ilhusetts pay the same duties as were paid by those
of England and France.

" One entire and perfect Chrysolite,"

The honour due to the departed Prince we have

'endeavoured briefly to define in its political appli

cation, and its purely intellectual application.
Whatever political honour he has won from his

adopted country, he has won simply as we have said
in his capacity as the Royal Husband an d the intimate

adviser of the most constitutional Sovereign who
ever sat upon the Throne of England. Whatever
intellectual honour he has associated with his name
he has so associated by his enlightened and assidu-

ous promotion of the interests of Art in its alliance_
with the ceaseless developments of Industry among
the toiling millions of the United Kingdom. But
immeasurably beyond these merely political and in-
tellectual titles to our lasting admiration, and even
to a considerable extent be it said to our grateful
remembrance—there is a far higher, purer, nobler,
more enviable renown that is unquestionably his.
We cast upon his tomb the most perennial and
deserved of all the votive wreaths that can be laid
there by national respect and affection, when we
record the simple but significant fact that his Royal
Eligintess the PRINCE CONSORT closes hie
career in the forty-third year of his age—he
who, shortly after his twentieth anniversary, be
came the central figure of a brilliant Court, sur•
rounded from that instant by all this world's most
enervating end exquisite seductions—that ALBERT,
the Prince Consort of England, closes his life, after
the:lapse of nearly a quarter of a century, passed in
the midst of this earth's most refined allurements, and
this, moreover, in the full glare of public scrutiny,
without ever having had the hint of a moment'
slur :of suspicion upon his character. Remember
ing the profligates who have revelled of yore in
ithe midst of the luxuries of our Court, it

The PRESIDENT declares that his reliance is not
on foreign States, but on the integrity and patriotism
of his own people. Still he seems almost to bid
for foreign support. He says we might be easily
taught that our aim—our commercial aim he means
—could be much more easily gained by" aiding to
crush the rebellion" than by giving encouragement
to it. We have a strong suspicion, that, with all
their pride, Mr.LINcoLN and the Americans did wish
in some way for our aid. Hence their mortification
and bitterness towards England, and their concealed
mortification with France. They wished that
we should treat the South as a rebel mob, whose
rebellion interfered with our cotton supply, that
by denouncing them as rebels, and by treating
them as such, we should give a strong
moral support to the North, and perhaps do the
South some unkind and damaging turn. This was
the cause of their wrath at the conduct of England

THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 16, 1861.

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