Queen Victoria and Prince Albert have been engaged in two
of those useful public services which they so gracefully perform. The noble memorial which the nation is erecting to the memory of Wellington—the commemoration of a great man by the trans- mission of his spirit through the channels Of education—could not have been more fittingly inaugurated, than by the Queen. The Wellington College will provide shelter and instruction for nearly 250 orphans of officer a who have served in the Queen's Army and the Army of the East India Company. The ceremony of Monday was a national event, showing that we have found A better way of preserving the memory of our great men than by erecting statues in their honour and conferring large estates upon their descendants. Prince Albert was engaged on Saturday in a lesser but still useful and benevolent duty—that of laying the foundation-stone of an institution for the benefit of those Oriental strangers brought to our shores in the pursuit of com- merce, and hitherto exposed to the dangers, privations, and temptations of homelessness in the deserts of London.
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