148 HISTORY OF PRINCE ICIHVARD ISLAND.

Jacinta—the American vessel by which the outrage was ,. committed—having been disapproved of by the American government. the Southern commissioners were set at liberty, and the dispute happily terminated.

On the eighth of January, 1862, intelligence of the death of Ilis Royal Highness Prince Albert reached the island. He died at “'indsor Castle on the fourteenth of' December, 1861, in the forty-second year of' his age. Official intima- tion of his (loath was eonnnunicated to the lieutenant— governor by the Duke of Newcastle, and His Excellency ordered that forty-two minute-guns should be fired from Saint. George’s Battery at twelve o’clock, noon; and Her blajesty’s t'aitht'ul subjects were enjoined to put themselves into mourning. The life of the departed Prince was one of singular purity and usefulness, and his memory will forever stand honorably associated with that. of Queen Victoria, than whom a more Virtuous and beloved Sovereign never swayed a British sceptre. An address of condolence to Her Ma- jesty was adopted by the legislature. I

In answer to a despateh from the governor to the colonial secretary, requesting that he should be favored with a copy of the land commissioners’ report, Ilis Excellency received a despatch from the Duke of New :astle, dated the seventh of February, 1862, accompanied by a copy of the report, which was anxiously desired by the people. His Grace said that he was desirous of' expressing his appreciation of the painstaking, able, and impartial report, which the com- missioners had furnisluul,-——a report which would derive additional weight from its unanimity, and which was the result of an investigation so complete that it had exhausted the material for inquiry into the facts of the ease. The difficulties that. remained were those which were inherent in the subject, and which had, for a Ion};r course of' years,