Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-11

tiff in that matter was Lord Pamerston, who
complained he never could see the wife without
the husband being present. In 1854 that no.
BILE lord was charged by the queen with send
ing dispatches to foreign powers, without her
royal sanction-in other words, with having
usurped the Office of the crown. In conse.
quence of that, Lord Patmerslon was dismiss.
ed the foreign secretaryship, and this las was
generally understood at the time) was through
the direct personal influence and advice of the
late prince consort
The revenge which the noble lord took
upon that occasion was peculiar and character
istic; he cultivated the personal acquaintance
Of the editors OF some SO called liberal" jour
mails, and persuaded those gentleman to "write
down the prince, denouncing him as an enc
my OF England, and a supporter OF what were
then called German interests" as if any
thing could be to the interest of Germany
which was not also really to the interest Of
England. The minimizing people took mp the
cry, and The prince was actually hooted in the
streets oil Lendon. The journals which seven
years ago did this TO The prince are now among
the iondest and most pretensious of the mourn.
ers. So short are human memories.
These events happened but seven years ago.
and although the prince never again openly
interlered with the foreign policy OF the minis
ter, who did not long remain out of office, il is
not to be supposed that either prince or minis
ter forgot those transactions. The interval
between 1854 and his death was mainly
spent by the prince in promoting his schemes
tor what he believed to be the interest
of the fine arts in this country, and by a
tacit understanding, lie was permitted by the
ministers to dip as deeply into the national
purse TOR that purpose as it pleased him to do;
yet, while he was by the side OF the queen, it
is not to be supposed that he did not privately
afford to her majesty the benefit of his saga
cious counsels in matters of far higher impor
lance than the destnies of South Kensington,
or the commercial success of the Horticultural
Gardens. We have reason to believe that up
to the time of his death, the prince eonsort
raised his voice energetically against the haste
with which England is rushing into war
with the United States-an event which he
denounced as subversive of her interests, dan
gerous to the real sources of her power, and
certain to be advantageous only TO the despotic
powers OF Europe. Whether that view was
right or wrong, SUCH we believe, was the faith
III which the prince consort died.
We have thought it necessary TO explain the
grounds OF the sorrow which we have at heart,
that the reader may know that it is less as the
patron of literature and the fine arts than as
the supporter and adviser of the queen that
we deplore the loss of the prince consort
That God will be pleased to strengthen her
majesty with power to bear with her great
loss, and to continue to exercise her high func.
tions with firm and Independent will, is our
earnest prayer; for it is only by the answer
Vouchsafed to that prayer that the sum total
OF the loss which the nation has sustained can
be exactly calculated"