THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1872.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1152, 8 April 1872, Page 2

THE Grey River Argus. PUBLISHED DAILY. MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1872.

Fortunately the fears entertained as to the causes of the delay of tho San Francisco mail steamer have not been realised. The Nevada has arrived late, but free from accident and adventure on the voyage, and the marine section of the mail service remains as efficient as it has been from the first. The delay has been due for the second time to a serious snow blockade of the Union Pacific Railway at those high elevations along which the line passes in its intersection of the Rocky Mountains, and there is fortunately some ground far supposing that such delay is not likely to be a permanent institution in connection with railway travelling by this particular route. The statement is that snowstorms of such severity have not been known in that part of the American continent for the past thirty years, and the probability is that the company whose line of rail has this year been blockaded will, ere another season, have put their section qf> the. line in as. r ... j- »<r-«r-wt»»vw— -~r- Uto— ulrenmataiicpo will permit, according to the example of other companies whose preparations were more complete.

In the news conveyed to us by anticipatory telegrams there is nothing of very extraordinary importance, yet the intelligence cannot be said to be uninteresting. London has been the scene of one of the grandest spectacles of modern times— a procession by the Queen, the Court, and as many of her people as could congregate, from the metropolitan palace to St Paul's Cathedral, there to celebrate, by thanksgiving services, the recent recovery of the Prince of Wales from the illness which so eudaugered his life, and probably much more than hia life — the homes and lives of the humbler millions of whom, in the ordinary course of events, he is destined to be King. The.same line of procession has, even of recent years, been the scene of wonderful sights and popular assemblage^—the funeral of tha "nuke of Wellington, the entry of the Emperor and Empress of the French, the reception of the Prince himself and his Danish bride, but, according to the brief description given, there has been no procession such as this, either as regards the peculiarity of the occasion, or the magnificence and meaning of the popular display. After the extraordinary expressions of sympathy with the Royal Family which the recent illness of the Prince provoked on the part of the people, it was an appropriate act on the part of the Queen to join with her people, under the dome of the greatest church of the greatest city of her great empire, in thanksgiving for the removal of a threatened calamity to her house and to the country, but it is not merely for its propriety and picturesqueness in this particular that the incident is a remarkable one. Loyalty to the existing institutions of the country has been otherwise aroused than even by 'sympathy with the members of the Royal "Family in their late distress, and the extraordinary demonstrations made on the 27th of February last were, no doubt, fraught with meaning as an assertion of the popular will and feeling at the present time. In this aspect the demonstration may well be said to be the most significant that the world has seen during the present century, in connection with the conservation of the form of government under which the British Empire has for centuries existed and advanced ; and, after such a demonstration, it is doubtful if we shall hear much more of ex-parlia-mentary addresses by republican baronets, or by others whose restless Bpirit finds exercise in public agitations for a constitutional change. To the Queen herself the demonstration must have been a most gratifying one, and if the Heir Apparent is not influenced by it and by the incident of his illness— influenced towards the goodness and greatness which should characterise the occupant of his high position— ho must be slow in appreciating the depth of the loyalty of the British people, and the height of those virtues by which, on the part of his royal mother, that loyalty has been excited and sustained.

While there has been in England this extraordinary illustration of the prevalence of peace and good order, there is not in the domestic affairs ' of some of the continental countries much to create a feeling of assurance as to the future. France appears to be the theatre of plots and counterplots as to the form and personality of the Government, and, according to the telegrams, Germany has not yet finally laid down the sword, but is prepared to re - enter the French territory if there is not established some Government which will by its nature and constitution, give some guarantee of peace. Spain continues in its; chronic state of disturbance, and the young King Amadeiis, realising how "Jtneasy lies the head that wears a crtywn," and especially a Spanish crown, prefers abdication to a continuance of royal honors and responsibilities. There is, in the general news from England, a fortunate absence of any mention of serious disasters by flood or field such as too often occur in the earlier months of the year. In the Valley of the -Tay, however, and in the vicinity of "Bonnie Dundee," there has been some serious damage done by floods, and in the city of Edinburgh, aa in the northern

cities of the United States, the scourge cf small-pox seems to be seriously prevalent. The experience of Chicago has, to some extent, been realised in Toronto, which has already been no slight sufferer by fires, and in Europe the city of Florence has also been the scene of a great conflagration.

In its Colonial connection, the commercial intelligence of the month continues to be satisfactory. There is apparently no limit to the steady and prolonged increase in the value of wool, and, of all readers of the news, the woolgrower Jhas greatest reason to be gratified. Our monthly summary is, strangely enough, incomplete in one particular. That everlasting Tichborne case is at length conspicuous by the absence of any mention of its name, though there is little doubt that, at the date of the telegrams, it still " dragged its slow length along."