Year: 1871

Or THE LONDON JOURNALS.


,yRoM TIM REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF ThS TRiBuSk'l


loNpoN, Tuesday, Dec. 12.-feis aow nearly
,,u, days since that sudden change for the
worse occurred In the condition OF the Prince
of Wales which led everybody to believe
that his death inevitable and imminent.
During all this time there has been hardly one Official
bulletin bearing any real encouragement ON iu isce'
During of 1t the public las fully expected ha' tno
next would he the last Yesterday ater
noon every him up. even the newspapers "on
had preserved certain caution. declaring that the! no
longer hoped. This morning tho current sets the o'er
way aud people begiu tO think he may live IL ohy DO
cause he has already 80 long ouIh'eu .ht.
forebo,,uss Yet the bulletin, dated al haii-
mast this morning. states, with an emphasis
quite unusual that the Prince is passing 'eS
reses. night without signs Of Improvement. whether
thc details OF the Princes illness possess mnch interest,"
for YOU In America cannot tell We do not ge'' as We
generally get occasions OF great utefnAtoha' eAc
ment any teegsphic echo from your side oi the "aer
Rut III any case, neither you nor any other aoh can
help being struck by the singular state OF ieee weh
prevails among very considerable portion of TINS In
elsb neonle To most Americans, must be surprising
fact To none is 1t very easily explcahe yet there are
plenty Of ying plain on the surface anu p'ny
OF motives Why classes OF Englishmen should ex
press at least much emotion us they actually fee
THERE'S good deal of genuine emotion; some display
Of also probably not altogether genuine anu ooIh are
worth understanding


Loyaty-the true and not the sham kind-goes Tor
something II does exist and where it exists It is strong
and denioustratye II We can manage to give per-
sona color to American sentiment OF loyalty TO the
fsg shall get notion Of the kind Of respectful
and devoted attachment which many Engishmen still
ohcrh toward the Queen and toward the Prince as her
and their future King. There is neither syco-
phancy nor intellectual degradation In such feeling.
IL be- very noble II coexist with the highest
degree Of personal independence and mental energy
shall easily forget what Count Bismarck said tn me
IN 1856. on this point "iou an American and Re
publican" he remarked, can hardly understand the
sentiment have toward the King My ancestors have
been faithful servants to his for three hundred
years | respect that record and share their feeling
This he with evident sincerity. In another minute
hc was explaining how be had led the King along
Liza own path for years. and how at last he had
made hum. half bndly and unwiinGy, accomplish the
plans OF his Minister Well. Monarchy is older In
England than IN Prussia, and there plenty OF able
men here as skeptica selfreliant full OF the mod
ern spirit Bismarck himself. and "a loyal Their i'll
the Of OpiuoR great and to the extent
OF their influence and within their circle at least this
almost passionate manifestation is sincere Society too.
loyal in Its way The arstocracy have lost few OF the
traditions their past history Most Of what called
the upper stl cling to their kingy form Of
ernncnt The middle casses-he great majority of
them ON the side II they have less romance
about IT, they have interest quite strong They
for things they The shopkecpers mOnarchss
10 Their trade. a great part of it, depends on
court splendors and that general prosperity which
attends undsturbed political condition.


Having far think must STOP at any rate.
must pass that great body OF skilled working
men to whom England owes in great measure her pros
pcy aud commercial preGninence Beyond, that is be-
low them, w should find loyalty enough dare say in
the OF untaught abOrers, agricultural aud other


should hnd it it were worth searching for. But it is
OF little real weight, and makes sign in such
moment as this capable Of reaching or influencing any
body ABOUT them. Men who don't read and who only
vote they told hardly ~ counted active
force With the skilled workingnen II is very different.
Recent events have shown much to the surprise of the
best Informed politicians low large proportion of them
art totally devoid OF loyalty to the Throne. and quite
ready to exchange 1t at the earliest
public II this body Of is not to-day very busy In
party politics, is because they only slowly becoming
acquainted with the most effective methods Of political
artOn But In the future, they will he more pow
crful than any other class They are more numer-
ons than the middle class; they far more cour-
ageOus they have much less 10 lose and far more
to gain: and they perhaps the only set OF
EngllrlImen who have emancipated their minds from
that terror Of mere change which is the strongest


port u monarchy and every other existing institution
IN England. They were only friends during our
and they the advance guard Of that Democracy
which Carly 10 sad would rush at railroad speed
le.s Republic broken up. They not loyal in





whom have spoken above. They scarcely loyal III
any sense except that they hide their time don't be-
lieyc they particularly whether the Prince Of
Wales ~ an individual. lives dies. They not


RED away by the force Of public opinion and the general
acutmcut OF thoee above them They little affected
the extraordinary demonstrations OF the newspapers
They discuss the question of the life death of this
young with little anmOsty against him, but
with affection for him. To them 1t is question OF
Ilce. They interested and greatly interested, in
the but thu motive uf their interest is TO be sought
~ the influence which his life death will have their
social and political state, politics in general, and,
above ALL the duration Of this form Of government.


body who takes his opinions from the
London sapers accept this view OF mine. They
have nothing cOmInOn But the London papers. with all
their wonderful ability and the general honesty not
trustworthy guides such question as this. Their
sratous draw from comparatively shallow
that among the upper classes They don't sink
their shafts deep enough they don't get at the feeling
cf the peoplc-the great body OF intelligent artisans
They would probably not care 10 express If they did
They must with the surface stream But with what
Ia called the provincial press the journals published out
OF London. the case Is different In those which
the demonstrations much moderate than those
OF the metropolitan press.


1t must he added that OF the London papers
guilty OF improving the occasion very extraordinary
degree They regard the Princes fitness an incident
most opportune. am far from saying they rejoice in
from doubling that their regrets for his suffering
sincere. But they look upon this as a means
Of checking that sudden and alarming development Of
Repubhcanism which they trace TO Air Charles bikes
Newcastle speech tas his speech created IT, OF could
have done much except draw attention the Repub-
lcaDism which existed before They make the most OF
it. think their descriptions Of the popular feeling are
somewhat highly colored; and it is plain anybody
who looks at their with eye that they
omit nothing which tend " exaggerate the H.,
ressiOn VI the public state Of mind nothing which
could increase tho feeling that does exist They
plot the Princes Illness The Times issues Of Saturday