New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-12-23
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
BRITISH TOPICS.

Mr,,r Ty1EGRHPH STRIKE, AND Mr.. SCUBA
MORES CENSORSHIP.
yxos rHB RkGy1AR CORRESPONDENT or THK TsiBuNk]
LONDON Dec Q--Without accepting quite al the
papers alege it il safe to say that the ieene a'"'
thc Prince OF Wales has been very strong during the
a hours Just past. How much Of it is loyalty ana
Aov much curiooty and how much pure human
vvmpathy with human being known to be in great
uuaenng and peril, tbCre 10 not much need
70 inquire. Re the elements Of the emotion
What they may. there is cause enough TOT
all that exists. A. write at five O'clock ths Satur-
day afternoon. il is still uncertain whether the
Prince will live or die. That uncertainty has lasted
for four and twenty hours; quite long enough 10
cell on ordinary Until yesterday noon the
Prince believed Ia be going on WELL The fourth
week of his fever-it began Nov. 49, brongh: no
unfayorable christening symptoms The daily
bnllets had grown monotonous from their 'hcour-
aging though still cautious tone. l think the
popuiar interest in the ease had somewhat abafed.
and this simply because it lie not possible TO maintain
for long time 70 tense feeling as was mani
tested IN the beginning. People went about their
business. The very family of the Prince seemed 10
take things easily fer HE brother the Duke Of Edin
buryh was rcIaI:csi out shooting in the Sandring-
liam preserves.
Yesterday changed all this The SO'cVck bullc-
Tin announce, that the Prince had passed very
unouie, night with - considerable increase in the
f.bril, syu,pto,nx At o'clock there was no change
for the better. 1t socn bccam known that the
Queen had been autographed for, and had left III a
ey~,ial tram Ter SIndringhaIn accompanied by the
Princess iousr. The dispatch which summoned
the QC,en warned hen that if she hoped to
ae her sn alive there was not n moment
TO lose. Windsor il fOnr hours distant by
rail: il io"k tw hours more 10 get spectral tram
ready and il was i'll the evening before the
lain In, ur,Sf
town To Sandrnyham house, the glOoniest appr-
hensions prevailed all yesterday. From hour to
hour. the news of the end expected, and the
mothers arrival. while her still lived, II sur
prise well ~ pleasure TO her own family There
has since been an interval Of consciousness, when
ia, farewell if farewell it il to be- may have been
uttered o, both sides.
Down To very late hour last evening the London
papers issued extra editions with the newest bull
l-iIus. Not word of good omen came, and the Iso-
pl, ci London went to bed expecting to hear in the
n,ori,ing that the Prince dead When the last
bulletin dated at l this morning, had been read.
tr!e >tIll no hope but at 8 o'clock the doctors
NcntuIcd telegraph that the exhaustion
had NOT Increased and the general symp-
toms somewhat more favorable. At
noon the fchrile raroxysln of yesterday was sub
siding and the ex hausion greater, aud up to
tins hour we know nothing more The Queen Ie-
Win DtI son. ali DIOtueTh anu hAtcTs
are III the country have gone down, and the Home
Secretary who was sent for yesterday, reached the
house tins morning 1t is condition of royalty that
neither liz born die without officer of
state IL look CD.
The London papers have kept their correspondents
al Lynn. and have made great efforts to add to the
intelligence given 10 the public by the official
bulletins. The truth is those bulletins though
hIgned hy two Of the greatest medical names i'll En-
gland. Sr William Jenner and DR.. William Gull,
have been read with dstrust. Nobody bcey ed they
told the whole truth. doubt whether the most
Energetic Of special correspondents has succeeded
in " interviewing either of the physicians but
guod many details. more or less authentic, have been
Published il was stated in one newspaper last
night that bronchitis had set it, and that of the
lungs was entirely gone In another, with perhaps
nore probability read that the deteroratcd condi
of the coats of the intcstnes, always the evil to be
sleadtd these cases had been clearly pronounced;
that hcuorlhage from the inner surface manifested
itself III alarming degree, and that there
dread that the most portelOus of all symptoms,
lrrfOTation Of the bowel. the result Of liberation
bad made It's appearance. The end OF that would he
mort ication. have heard of good many other
symptoms described during the last few days which
do not care repeat for all these stories must be
more or less speculative Nor isthere any need to
dwell the extreme danger Of such relapse az has
in at SO late period. There had been mt least
ole night much earlier when the Princes condition
WIS very pre,slrious lie rallied from that and
body is willing to suppose he may not from this.
The history Of the Republican movement in En-
gland during the last two three weeks recalls the
hStor, Of the Abolition movement in America. The
plIti>ans OF Royalty adopt the same line which the
par.Naus 81 Slavery followed for quarter of cen
tury. Them If the same bitterness Of personal at
tack. tie same determination to silence Free Speech,
the same readiness To resort TO violence Sir Charles
Dixie has not vet had a rope round his
neck, ~ Garrison had i'll Boson, has
any Mayor YET headed mob Ly man did. But the
parallel is probably close Is Sir Charles cares to
have II. lie spoke at Bolton amid STORM of mis-
sjits which sInOte in through every window, and
which really put life in peril Meanwhile the Boil.
ton magistrates in session within 500 wards of
she hall, and sent word 20 the rioters that they
should not hr inierfcred WITH You have had All ac-
count of that srene. but il is brought up again
TODAY by the death Of one of the audience
struck i'll his seat by stone iron bar from
the outside. A letter from Sir Charles is published
III some Of the London newspapers this morning,
containing IA portion Of the testimony, which proves
that the violence was the work of organization.
The BoL.0n Journal reproduces the plarard which
summoned the loyal peonle" Of that town to refuse
ah.arng to Sir Charles Dixie, and adds that il was
followed mp by the hiring of band of roughs SOW
er,l hundred strong, wEo armed with blud-
eeous aud prined with drink. The Mayor
was several times informed that an attack
Was Ia I've made sn the hall; After it
had hcg1ln. notice again given to him, and
LIS answer WAS "A recommendation to throw open the
hall 10 tie mob. The outside attack lasted three
quarters of an hour. When the police were finally
allowed 10 approach the building, the riot was
,.i once quclled. Meantime. many men had been