LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 6, Issue 358, 7 February 1863, Page 3

LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS.

(From the Home Neios; November 26.) The Internationa] Exhibition, the marvel and glory of the year 1562, closed on Saturday, the Ist November. We shall, probably in our time, sever witness a scene so crowded with imtiges which the mind garners up amongst its noblest acquisitions, or suggestive of reflections so elevating and ennobling. Subscriptions to the relief of Lancashire distress are coming in liberally. All over the country, house to house canvassing has commenced, and there is little doubt that by- Christmas the subscription will have readied a million sterling. A great addition will probably be made in December, a meeting having been called for the 2nd, at which every Lancashire man of note or weuilh is expected to attend, and do what in. him lies to answer the accusation thjafc Lancashire has failed in its duty. This accusation has been made by the Rpv. 0. Kingsley in a letter to the Times, couched in language of the plainest kind, lie accuses the wealthy men in Lancashire of coaxing England into subscriptions, in order to save their own luxuries. Mr. Gladstone and others have expressed a contrary opinion, and scores of letters, pro and con, had been elicited. The " London Review " says tiiat the picture of the manufacturer with a large balance at his bankers, and enjoying a store of other available resources, is for the most part purely imaginary; a few may be found to realise it, but the great mass oi manufacturers are self-made men, whose whola capital is engaged in the occupation, and who are, indeed, often working on borrowed capital. ■ No man can imagine that the men who are so constantly cited as beginning a few years since with nothing, and now worth their tens of thousands, are men of ready money ; their wealth consists of mills and machinery, and they now find its value rapidly decaying. Their capital brings in. no income, and is becoming worthless ; ' and, on the other hand, they have obligations to meet which they cannot avoid. In spite, however, of the pressure upon themselves, there is overwelming evidence that the manufacturers, as a class, are behaving nobly. Even if their names were not found on the subscription-lists, they might still be doing their duty, fur, .as Mr. Gladstone weil said at St. Martin's-in-the-Pields, that is not the place where they should be found. They have, however^ subscribed, and they- have done much more ; the greater number of them have taken their own workmen in charge, and by weekly payments, by daily bread, and by supplies of clothing, hßve prevented them from becoming a burden to their impoverished neighbours. "It is seldom," says the Times, that the Gazette contains so pleasant an announcement as that which has just been published — that her Majesty has given, her consent to the contract of marriage between the Prince of Wales and the Princess. Alexandra of Denmark. To see the prince of Wales united at an early age to a Princess of beauty, taste, and amiability, and to know that the union was not prompted by political motives, but by mutual afi'ectiou, must be gratifying to those who hope, not only for his sake, but for the sake of the country, that his course will be that of a high-minded, self-respecting, constitutional prince — of one who wishes to fit himself for the momentus duties of an English king. A generation has now sprung up which remembers little of the earlier part of the Queen's reign, and to which the feelings called up by the presence of a young girl suduenly placed in a high and con - spicuoue station will be new. But the change which took place in the early life of the Princess Victoria of Kent on that morning when Lord Melbourne and his colleagues waited on her with the news that she had succeeded to the first throno in the world will behardiy greater than that which . awaits the young princess who is shortly to come to these shores as a bride. Although of royal birth, and in every way a fitting consort for the prince, she is just emerging from girlhood, and has, of course, passed her life up to this time in. the bosotn of her family. The Princess of Wales will come at an early age of 18 in a land of foreigners, and have to take the highest place in a society which is strange to her, and, which continentals believe to be far more cold and exacting than it really is. From the simple life of her - father's house she must come to bear a part in the ceremonial of a great and stately monarchy, and . sit near a throne which, in a land of free Bpeech, is only protected from cenßure by the blamelessness of those who occupy it. In such circumstances we know that all the feelings of respect and affection which are never wanting in the heart of a manly nation will be evoked by the arrival of the princess among us. It will be a return of the same impulses which 25 years ago. made the young Queen Victoria the favourite of the nation, and raised loyalty to'a height that was thought unattainable in a material and revolutionary age." . ..,•>. ; Poor Garibaldi has been the subject of" endless surgical examinations during the last four, weeksOn one occasion no fewer than 17 physicians ' diidi ■-':■ burgeons from different parts of Europe -hpldia *;;" sonference at his bedside. The grand que'stiqit tobe determined was whether the bullet was still in "'■ his foot, and if it was Btill there, , wjbat iras the r probable position, of it. To this questjola" thaidoctors gave, no unanimous and decisive r reply,-; The day before yesterday, Nov\ 24j, we receiv.^a^ ! despatch from Turin stating that aßplintetKbQno'3 ' together with the bullet; '-had "been extraotedljifrpia;. •the wound. - . - . ' ■ : ' : ).' : y'.\<; l / x '-'i '■'''