Prince Albert has taken a lead in two public movements.
He graced with his presence and a pleasant speech the opening of the New Cattle and Meat Market at Copenhagen Fields,—an improve- ment which London Corporation adopted reluctantly and carried out grandly. And, presiding at the dinner of the Elder Brethren, of the Trinity House, he took occasion to deliver a brief but weighty lecture on the trial to which representative institu- tions are put by the excessive publicity and distracted au- thority, while the autocratic Czar centres all knowledge, will, and motive power, in his single person. The rebuke is true. It has been construed to imply that the Prince is for Russianizing or at least Germanizing our institutions,—as if he could not, while noticing our disadvantages, also appreciate our blessings, and even in war compare the real successes of England with the reverses of Russia and the painfully humiliating " neutrality" of Germany. But our representative system, indifferently worked, does make us abandon one class a advantages to the Czar ; and Lord Raglan has been a witness that the forces before Sebastopol have felt the evil consequences.
