Penny Newsman (Newspaper) - December 22, 1861, London, Middlesex TRANSMISSION Milt AID PUBLISHING SALISBURY FLEET ONE V M DECEMBER THE PRINCE THE year which opened in doubt and fear for the preservation of peace in Europe closes with civil war raging in toe United the threat of involving us in the bloody strife suspended oer it has been marked by an unusual mortality among royal personages aad statesmen on whom we believed we rely for aid in the coming struggle which all but none know vrith Among we have lost Lord best qualified man in England to act as Wai Minister Sir James the friend of ripe matured Parliament through many difficulties and the who and counteract the deep patriotism and i intelligence were capable to the task of building up a united Italy which would not be the vassal of France Among whom death hath i suddenly stricken down in their prime are the who had by to be the staunch f ally of UHS country the of ji from family ties no less than from obedience 3 traditional policy of his stood upon our i rage offered to him by France in i the case ifia Charles had shown who I were his and who his foes and now the 1 Prince of the the supporter adviser of out is J snatched away from the midst us without fore J for few knew iic was If 6 signs of the may well make the boldest pause and recoil from action in apprehension what may come Internecine war con stiftes an English community in and starves oar people at Every day brings us nearer to the whirlpool which threatens to drag us down into a sea of and the props and stays on which we trusted to lean break down before they are The evils from which we pray to be j and sudden death us privy and rebellion are preached openly in the second capital of the and we have in the increasing prices of indications of the approach of pesti and f they come not single fully alive to the dangers that beset r that we are entering upon a period of Hurt tile like of which has not been our it would ill become us to despair To do so would be to doubt Providence which protected our fathers and ia hold their own against a world in gave them the mastery over the enemy they built up the and per r i our float on every the emblem of fit d ana refuge from It 1c to our race to allow the slightest doubt BU in the coming contest to unstring r or to enfeeble our We know our and that right will in the end we do our as by Gods help we we know that come what and I the hand of affliction press never so heavily upon if our country will come out of the trial and and to the utter confusion of our enemies who sought to bring about our down fall and great as may be our I in ultimate it is impossible not to look on j the course of recent events without and not feel acutely the losses death has inflicted upon us in such rapid the greatest of which has been that of the Prince It has been that is happy whose history is a and from the same premisses might argue that the man is happy whose even tenor of life affords few incidents for biographers to lay hold In that case a superficial observer might conclude the Prince Consort to be supremely blest ior save his connection Great Ex is there to link him with our T When it shall be said that he was born on such a educated at and was married in such a that will be all that history will have to unless history be hereafter written in a spirit more greater philosophical than it has But if we dive below the surface it will be found that the departed exer cised more real influence upon our national policy than has been for he was and in all save outward the King of By a constitutional fiction he was prohibited taking part in public He was not to express an opinion on political or to offer suggestions but it was impossible to prevent him from counselling the as he did do on all occasions and equally impossible to prevent her Majesty from following the advice of her and sincerest Whether or it was wise to keep the fiction up we have not to u We know that it was a and that J whatever share the Crown had in the direction of 19 public affairs proceeded from the Prince and that its credit and discredit belonged to him What influence the Crown may upon the councils of themselves can That it did exercise a certain influence perhaps no more than by the judicious expression of an honest that that influence was always in a direction essentially and that it proceeded from the Prince we have the best possible proof in the rancorous hostility dis played towards him by French Government jour During the Italian war more when every effort was made to induce a departure from our neutrality to assist in substituting for Austrian influence in on that if when it to induce us to ferent while Germany was Consort was assailed by the coarse of the servile mercenary Paris and accused of resist ine French policy even at the risk of the The the highest that could be and the accusations were testimonies of Consorts devotion to English his remains are and ere the tomb has closed upon the same calumnies and are re by the Paris paper which calls the journal o the The it was alarmed at the progress of the and threw himself into the arms of the Tory Jle may well have witnessed with apprehension tne progress of a policy which is and and have placed no faith democracy but the party into whose arms he threw himself was all England and when at his advice and suggestion the Crown called on the nation to protect itself in despite the Premiers at the li the Prince Consort showed a prescience superior to that of our and a far greater confidence than they exhibited in the patriotism and loyalty of the It in the history of the progress of civilisation and the development of human happi that the Prince Consort will occupy his true which will be chief of To him the working classes owe a deep debt of for by the institution of International Exhibitions he caused the dignity of labour to be and opened a bright future to the sons of He it whether by himself or by the intervention of that removed most of the barriers to self to the instead of being compelled to languish in obscurity and and remaining dependence on ca may now submit the fruits of his creative ties to the whole this all by insti tuting prizes at public schools for the study of living he changed the direction of and made it more practical than it had previously shall not err probably in imputing to the abolition of Government and of Government appointments to public The reform is too recent for us to fully appreciate its but it is destined to effect a radical change in the condition of By its means the highest offices of Government are open to the children of working men if they qualify themselves by It rests whether or not they will enter the service of the State on equal footing the sons of peers and who can tell the condition of the people may be improved when their own children share in the administration of public affairs When this is then they who reap the benefits will not forget him who sowed the Whatever may be felt in the abodes of the the Prince Consort will be remembered with gratitude and respect for ages to and his name will be familiar in their mouths as household In the first moments of our grief we may feel some hesitation as to how we can best manifest the feelings that animate us towards the dead but one thing we can which we are Sure agreeable and protect those who in were him most To his widow and our bereaved Queen let us exhibit increased affection and Let us close in dense and serried files around her so that no breath of threatening danger shall reach the circle in which she If she misses from her side the counsellor and partner of her the sharer of her joys and let us give proofs that her happiness and the welfare of her family will be the first care of millions of for sake of him who is dead m his And hath not left his THE CHRISTMAS CATTLE Next in succession and importance to the exhibition of stock at the Prize Cattle Show is the display at the Christmas Cattle There was a the farming interest at de spite the ofthe In reference to the of beef the show of beasts was cal rather to moderate thaa anticipations which a visit must have point of the largest on record but it the general that there was not which has been shown on previous occasions nor was the pick near so even as on some thegreat in preceding the show was ho means and if not best that has been it must be as by no means an unsatisfactory were perhaps the most conspicuous for the force in which they mus and they comprised many very beautiful annuals but we missed that regularity in the as a which so striking on prior The Here fords maintained their well as regards condition and form a very large proportion of them was qf a most saleable and described as all that a batcher could The shorthorns and crossed oxen made an extensive and held their own well by their massive structureof good solid Of either horned or the gathering was not were some as fine specimens them as and they were pronounced to be as near perfect as possible to the eye or to the The entire collection numbered of which were from from other parts of 700 from and the remaining from Ireland and weather was against and the of the stock was rather heavy whilst the prices realised were generally about per stone under those offered great day last the general top quotations of prune being per The show of being the largest to decidedly better than that of and fully as good as The Downs were very included some extraordinarily fine whilst Leicesters arid other long wools maintained an honourable The mutton although not so might have been the case with more able was tolerably animated as with the prices realised fell about per stone below the currency of the present average top price being per stone but a picked pen here and there made The total number offered was Veal and as usual on the grand attracted but little ALARMING MILITARY FRACAS AT a meat threatening nature took place at the Fleetwood School of Musketry on Monday one time appeared likely to culminate hi loss of Between seven and oclock oh Monday a number of the soldiers under course of instruction were drinking together at the Crown and whilst they were there a sweep entered and placed himself immediately before the position he was pushed by one of the Another soldier upon took up the cause of the who a diminutive and this led to a violent from some cause that does not at present appear in an attack upon Private Cane by five the 10th To free himself from Cane escaped from and made his to the Victoria situated between the town of Fleetwood and the soldier quarters but he hadnot been there long before the other five soldiers also and the Cane was re He again attempted to escape his and went upon the adjoining bowling where he was found by the men and being most dangerously is by the belts of his five soldiers spon afterwards proceeded to their but were stopped by the Ben aud placed in the guardhouse on the of beteg drunk and absent from quarters after the prescribed which the charge of committing assault upon Cane wards About rune they from the in which at the time there two other prisoners confined rushed past the three in who their side were to with the who proceeded to the and seized their afterwards fixing bayonets and pro which EO alarmed the that they hesitated to attempt to A report at tho noncommissioned officer on at the and the was reinforced and folly On their proceeding to the it would seem that the men bad seen the imprudent and nature their the 6t them either were or pretended to be They gave themselves quietly and expressed themselves sorry for what haa 6c five prisoners wetts brought before Lieutenant Walsh anii Ensign at by they were in charge of a to of the commanding THE COMMISSION OF UPON On Monday morning a commission de inquirendo was opened in the Court of at before Samuel one of the Masters in to inquire Into the allegations of a petition presented against William Frederick of and From the statement made by Chambers for the peti that Windham obtained his majority on the 9th of and the object of the inquiry was to ascertain whether on the 1st of August ho was competent to manage ills He was the only son of William of Felbrig Hall a gentle man well known in the and a relative of that Windham so well Known in relation to political matters years late Windham married Lady Sophia sister of the Marquis of and that family were parties to the present the sub ject of the present inquiry by the will of his who died November Felbrig with a about a mothers Jointure of a year and other leaving a nett receipt of from to a other property would also come to the 1869 but the real income which he would inherit then would only be about a and that his own case for the petition would show that the object of tlie inquiry was hot a raving but a young man with mental of simple Early in life his father had noted and a a in a man wellknown in lunacy who gave so hopeless an ao count of the boy as to cause his father the greatest and Nichols predicted instead of the defect of the boys intellect being and the mind coming to a healthy the malady would Increase as time went The toy was exceedingly fond of low pursuits and low com He desired even to wait at table and wash and do other acts inconsistent with the conduct of a and his father indulging him osie would indulge a person of admittedly unsound absolutely purchased him a foot mans which he wore on many At nine years of when he first went to school at his manners were peculiarly he was feeble iu his mental dirty and his habits with respect to his and had a strong propensity to express himself in filthy lan In he was removed to in the hope that association with boys of his own age would improve him though ho waa placed under the care of a private there was no perceptible improvement in his manner or and his soon found how disagreeable a had Cheales was obliged to thrash him make him attend either to lessons or remonstrances upon his bad and his falsehood waa so great and BO trans parent that utterly impossible to place the slightest reliance upon anything he and that was a leading characteristic of his conduct at the present He also gorged himself with which he devoured more like a brute than a rational At Eton he was called Mad and while there continued the same practices of associating with the servants whenever he and he abused and insulted them in every using the worst and He was in the of and and suddenly giving way to our passion arid most incomprehensible At the dc his In he went to Felbrig and his cc while there gave evidence of cruelty and HI taken to where he a most strange m seizing a gentleman by the whiskers without any provoc him up against the screeching and he all the It was important to notice that he had been inclined to and his strange conduct was not to that drunkenness in him only prod There some cunning about and strong animal After further the learned counsel said in Get thought it advisable to moke his nephew lunatic a ward in and that brought under the care of who thought it he should and he did so with Colonel found him so strange that he could not restra Colonel was his friend and associate for thr He found was quite unfit ft decent v it Spa he threw money did not know its A Horrocks fount the same propensity as had pre Twen On ono occasion he took a solemn oath he hid when there was no truth in he nearly drove ahorse to assumed the name of and was so addressed by the and also in He hada mania for acting as a railway upon one at the Cambridge he suddenly took away whistle and blew it thereby starting a to of many He would go to station a guard in all take from the open the and tell the get in or out of the and act in like a Upon going to Yarmouth day he stopped at and ex himself from proceeding further on the plea that he was going to work tlie at six back to He went to his dressed as a covered with smoke and having really worked as a He on another into a mail at and got into a row with one of representing that lie was ou her and be A fight and upon a doctor being called he told heaps of lies upon the He was under the care of a a Sidney Sussex taken to Scot and there continued the same course of In General Windham returned to England from having been written to by his He proposed to send Kim abroad with some one of position and the alleged lunatic thought most wrongfully that the general was his and wished to prevent his marrying or having in order that he the general might possess his pro He went to live in Jamess and on one because his dinner was not ready the moment he came howled and screamed so that the whole street heard On some he had for on another and at dinner eat nearly the whole of a leg of He Chambers believed there was a song called Old Bob and Windham got into a way of calling every one he saw Old Boh and he used to strum on tlie table in the middle of At this time he lived in He there ordered a great number of and also on having two pairs of boottrees for every pair of Tho bootmaker did not send but ho took his and then this unfortunate young man became produced suddenly broke and Come Old Bob Rid and have a bottle of chamy meaning and he produced He now came jo ft part of the case which proved his want of honour and During the Ascot he met Miss alias mid a who lived in a handsome house in had a madea dashing appear ance about and was a wellknown man in certain He and Miss Agnes Willoughby hod according to the statements made by the alleged for some time upon dose and intimate and Miss Willonghby was chastest of the On the 30th of having come of age on the Windham was married Miss Rogers both he and the lad knew at the time that he was a and hurriedly marriage settle ments were prepared by Bowen a solicitor In giving the lady a year at to be Increased to In when the settled The date was August and the setae inent was one in that pecuniary might get rid of her admitted sue she Nor was this Those now got possession of man were not satisfied with a year they tool Mm to a and with an he ordered Jewellery to the of or went to represented the woodman had timber estate have cut itr staying at taken An old family asked sneaking of his relations entertain any such allowed to see Windham was that sent for return loi town a short time ago outer of irot the relations before and after m ii or a from hum is a vary I lito leo to protect him out of his of those persons who had had charge of and were and several of them bore out the statement made by counsel for the prose of the There were many very serious break which told Immensely in favour of the alleged All the witnesses expressed their conviction that was extremely in fact a mere child in and had performed sundry which they could only attribute to a On Thursday the alleged a portion of the examination of his Lord Alfred He sat beside Ills and conducted him self with the utmost propriety and At some sages of the evidence a faint smile passed over his and he occasionally communicated with Karslake that gentleman the He be a yonng manof considerable physical about the middle of a full habit of with on inclination rHe has a dark his hair down the in his upper to eo many have been is partially con by a but it is still plainly exposing some of his of Bristol was but nothing of any moment was elicited from Lord Alfred Hervey said he did not believe to he distinguishing between right and and considered that if he were not under his life would be short who was tutor In related certain extravagances the young gentleman whilst in was the middle of the rHe if Tom cat will have his sweetheart on the I cant help He behaved in the streets In a way I can scarcely He would shout roar out foolish such Youre a Im all there when Im finishing up what he called chaffing the Ho would imitate cocks and the latter and jump about All this would be mixed up with snatches of negro such as So early in the morning 1 Were all off to Dixies Ho could imitate cats very He took a delight In fra and we it several times when in Edin The passage which he was so fond of and caused a row in was not a but rather burlesque It ran in this way A haughty ruffian sure am A dab at the stiletto If any one disputes my Or says that I aint here there Is a line which I but the up with Pop goes his The haughty ruffian danced on the and at Kildare Windham danced Other wise there was not a very great deal against and day after this remarkable examination goes When it will end it ig impossible to probably not before two or three THE OP MABY NEWELL At the Middlesex sessions on Tuesday Mary was indicted for stealing a DOX containing a other articles of wearing and a the property iv her and other to ng at v to th ras he 70S ion air ing i a ost jec tha that tothe ub ent but tas de was the was had not idea mn scribed sure that and he fount sprinkled The defence a kind exactly insane umu playing the part of a heroine in She was of very weak and her grandfather The learned counsel argued thr no felonious as must be inferred flom the though she packed up tho plate she did not take it and that as far as was known at was missing but one pocket nor but a case of diseased mH in constitutional it wass Uot near of was Truth is stranger than might have her motive at the she had t a ready market to dispose of the It i and he submitted that it was the upon the evidence safely come to the at the moment she dld she was under some and on that ground acquit Evidence was given of the facts stated in the after a lengthy summing up by his the jury a guilty of His after some remarks upon the prisoners r i lard FIRES IS THE Monday morning between two 1 und three a fire broke out in the premises be longing to the Thames Iron Shipbuilding near f the The discovery was made by one of j the watchmen seeing a body of flame shooting through the He aroused the and by i the time the engines arrived the in which were the patterns of the Warrior was in a sheet of j and the models for another vessel were also on I A plentiful supply of water being at the men succeeded The burnt the roof f The angle iron bending were also considerably damaged by file and The origin i of the disaster is The it is under were I Monday forenoon Stratford near was discovered to local engines were soon in and the men in i charge succeeded in the flames extinguished be fore the brigade had timeto arrive from The chapel was insured in the Imperial to cause of the fire nothing could be Sunday about three on the premises known as the property of hay mer in North flames when first dis were used j in which were five and owing to the exertions ofthe and the the horses were all saved but tie fowls and rabbits perished in the Engines arrived in rapid i and a plentiful supply of water having procured the firemen went to firstrate but j were unable to get the flames extinguished until about j of the building were and about j loads of i also been done to Norway but principally by water and hasty inJ the Sun The origin of the fire is on Sunday morning a fire broke ont in the of I The discovery was made by a after sounding an succeeded the who fortunately a safe The I powerful engine belonging to of as well as the engines of the parish and of the The firemen did not j get the flames extinguished until the warehouses and tents were damaged by and the back premises of damaged j by fire and The sufferers were cause of the fire is Tuesday morning afire broke ont j in the premises belonging to the j The house contained about a dozen and at the tune of I the discovery the household were in bed and f innately they were awakened in time to effect a safe rej by forcing their way through the attic windows j and makinc for the nest house in their The fire was not extinguished until mises were The origin of the fire but the it were fire broke out on Tuesday in the I premises numbered ing to the Baths The were I unable to get the fire subdued until a serious amount of damage was of the fire could not be j before noon on a fire j belonging to aj Bose near i The frames were not discovered until they had and set on fire a large quantity of and were i not extinguished until that part of the building in which it commenced was burnt and the remainder j considerably Unfortunately Glover was i not fire broke out on Thursday in the premises of clothiers The inmates having been aroused succeeded in effecting a safe A serious amount of mischief was The cause in both of these cases is in he the jury could not have come to sentenced her to eighteen months har THE TRADE MURDER AT SHEFFir The inquiry into the death of Bridget 0 P explosion of who took the dopo the proved that she was not at the time state of and that no importance was her incoherent tending to implicate the hub v the woman seen the prisoner Thompson ii the can had thr the former dered quite thG ladder the She then became ing f uttered MTU gunpowder at ui the on i at their houses for small tin can filled with powder D his coat with a ha alap the and Oat Joseph Thompson is the The prisoner accordingly committed to await trial at the York A FATHER SHOT HIS doing at 6Upv wj the oclock 6pTVe with Ja pistol hehad a playing time Ti Soon afterwards htg father came in u stn THE IATE ATTEMPTED HURDER OF A BROTHER AT The of Christopher time a Ln attack tr by his taken on v g He stat to lend him Tuesday before and On the Jiti intl the J prisoner nnd at his without any of wanted with j walking along the 1 bun oi iro Jie times by his B in With i he in a I i and got into the aren Tie at the out T man and n ills o V JIBS convicted and himself with a fsw days this age 13 who de himself r residing at 20j Ormsby Kingslan was placed at the bar on d with and wounding his with to mur as above j 47 addition to the nee the last the which resect had stated he had been found in i thi wr near Highbury New at the spot at i the man stated the prisoner tried to throw ium im the appearance of it would prisoner hold of the unfortunate man by the rollar of the waistcoat arid intended to throw him uito thv This he in as of the waistcoat came away from the feU on the leaving a coat m the prisoners The the in and which the prisoner had for an excuse to take the injured man on had been and it contained some stones and some three this the prisoner ad attempted to New Part with a loaded a The only has assigned for thr that Its constant Jury be Respect by The evidence folly Uad been examined up to great Several the nqt go for arid as toe report of n I pistol Hie i ii vim onco entered houseand her wng son before the ana has been remanded until Barker again remanded the OE HER Majesty left fdp thought b g was principally distinguished
