Year: 1862

a~7 YNIAY 8, slS62..S5sq5f .is d as.'v A CURIOUS DEvEL 0PEMENTAPRINUE ALBERT AND LORD PALMERST0N.s The LondonsCrtic, one of the ablest of the British literary weeklies, has the following sin.

 gular. comments upon the death of Prince Al

 bert limiting at very curious bit of secret poll tical history, in which, it seems, Americans are

 interested as we'll as Britons: b-s aifa .qes B" Whoever wrote Tn the Times of last Monday

 that the nation has sustained the greatest loss

 that could have fallen it, perhaps scarcely

 understood the full meaning of those momentous words. No one can at this time estimate the exact amount of loss which this nation has sus- taiued by the death of the Prince Consort; no one can say what might have been spared us, had his life been sayed or what will happen to us as consequence of his death. T The blow which fell upon us on Saturday night cast a gloom over the mind which is, we fear, but a foreshadowing of events to come; and the solemn tolling which pealed from every church tower ill the kingdom-the tears which suffused knoWn-may be but precursors of times even more lugubrious and tears more bitter still.

 |" Far be from us the imputation of fattery of the dead by assigning to.him too much impor- tance in the state. 1t is not the Patron of the Arts it is nut the great exhibition of 1851, and of the South kenslngton scheme /; it is not the great model farmer that we lament-although with some reservations) his career in all three respects was eminently useful and fructifying to the country it is the supporter and sustainer of the Queen it is the wise and prudent guide and counsellor who enabled her most gracious maj esty to bear up under the weight of the crown, and to support the cares of her high office, under difficulties and amid int,iguss such as hace sel- dom oppressed C socercign Prince it is the saga cious guardian, who knew what were the perils which menaced and do menace the people over which it is the high privilege of his widow to reign aoo knee0 ,ohich ter ministers a0ere hoi- est, and ,chich tue rererse; ; it is this that we mourn for with angushed heart-it is the loss of this that we feel to be ifreparable indeed. *

 In order that this may be better understood, and that those of the University of Cambridge may know what they are doing when they talk of eleyatng the present Premier Lord Pamerston to the Chancellorship of the Uni versity we will recall to mind one or two simple historical facts not very remote from this time. About the year 1851, and during the years in which the war with Russia came about, the pub lie was agitated through the press about the in- reference of the Prince Consort with foreign politics. The plaintiff in that matter was Lord Palmerston, who complained that he never could see the wife without the husband being present. Ln 1854 that noJle lord was cha1yed by tue Queen aciM senoing dispatches to Foreig7, Po,c- CTS ,cifhom her Royu sanction-ia otler ,cords aeah haring usu'ped tue oG9ce ot tue cfoaon. In consequence of that, Lord Palmerston was dis missed the Foreign Secretaryship, and this las was generally understood at the tme) was thro' the direct personal influence and advice of the late Prince Consort.

 "The revenge which the noble lord took upon that occasion was peculiar and characteristic; he cultivated the personal acquaintance of the edit CTS of some so-called liberal" journals, and per suaded those gentlemen to ''write down" the Prince, denouncing him as an enemy to England and supporter of what were then called " Ger man interests s'-as if anything could be to the interest of Germany which was not also really to the interest of England. The minimizing peo- pie took up the cry, and the Prince was actually which seven years ago did this to the Prince are now among the loudest and most pretentious of the mourners. So short are human memories.

 "These events happened but seven years ago, and although the Prince never again openly in terfered with the foreign policy of the Minister, who did not long remain out of office, it is not to be supposed that either Prince or Minister forgot these transactions The interval between 1854 and his death was mainly spent by the Prince in promoting his schemes for what he be- leved to be the interests of the fine arts in this country, and, by t"cit understanding, he was permitted by the Ministers to dip as deeply into the national purse for that purpose as it pleased him to do; yet, while he was by the side of the Queen, 1t is not to be supposed that he did not privately afford to her Majesty the benefit of his Sar nnupsal, i'm # f. portance than the destines of South Kensing- ton, or the Commercial success of the Horticul- tural Gardens. We have reason to believe that up to the time of his death the Prince Consort 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 to her interests, dangerous to the real sources of her power, and certain to be ad- vantageous only to the despotic powers of Eu- rope. Whether that view was right or wrong, such, we believe, was the faith in which the Prince Consort died.

 We have thought 1t 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 de- plore 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 con- tinue to exercise her high function, with firm and independent will; is our earnest prayer for it is only by the answer vouchsafed to that pray CT that the sum total of the loss which the ma. tion has sustained, can be exactly calculated"

 THE HEROINE OF NEwBERN.-Mrs. Brownell, wife of Orderly Sergeant R. s. Brownel of the 5th Rhode Island Volunteers, arrived atNew York, with her husband, who was severely wound