MARCH 15, 1862.] F U N-. SONG FOR THE THRONG. OR, VERIFICATION FOR THE NATION. NO. X.-THE ALBERT MEMORIAL AND THE QUEEN'S LETTER. As slowly to its close the year did move, Where Windsor's tower on the Thames looked down, Our QUEEN, long diadem'd with England's love, Was crowned with sorrow's crown. At solemn midnight spoke the deep-toned bell, And gave the mournful tidings to the winds, That sobbed and sighed the news they had to tell, Like things with human minds. And England woke-listened with lips apart- Half hoped that she had dreamed the sound of dread- And heard the hollow whisper at her heart, ALBERTT THE GOOD is dead!" Then Sorrow earth's distinctions did efface- One love-one loss-a common grief and care; Death led the people to the QUEEN'S high place, To weep beside her there! The Father of our kings, wise, faithful, good, Passed from the vext earth into heaven's repose; Too lightly prized, too lately understood, At life's untimely close. We knew his everlasting rest secure, Whose earnest in the Sacred Book we trace- The Blessing promised to the meek and pure- To see GOD face to face! How shall we honour our dead PRTNCE'S name? What fit memorial of his virtues raise, That England's Art may give to deathless Fame Her benefactor's praise ? Then while the nation pondered how, aright, His goodness and our sorrow to proclaim- The widowed QUEEN down from her lonely height Among her people came! "I, too, would honour our dear PRINCE," she said; "I, too, my country, in thy task would share, To raise some worthy record of the dead, Some stately work, and fair! " a a * So be it! QUEEN and Country-royal pair, Equals anointed of the chrism of death, Seek, hand in hand, Goon ALBERT's tomb, and there Lay your Memorial Wreath! THE EDUCATION OFFICE, AGAIN. WTILL assuredly prove the deanlh of SitN. LIo\wE:, and 11 nu. LowlE'S evasions, Ss, 1 excuses, and (,xpll:lntions, would assuredly prove ihe death of us, if Il:nghliter could send us to our grave. 'hat right, hlonouralle but nhflppy ) petitlgentlieman was ,called to task iheo o other night, by Losn R. Crcu., to S account, for various acts of breach of faith conimmiitted by the Conmnitiee S1of S 'Education towards the 1House of CoiI jCmmons and tlh public. lie was l charged (nniong other delinqunccics) with having sent, or caused to lbe sent., divers notices to divers schools, to the effect that all payments made anl er the IlL of Novllembeir, 1861, would be governed by the principles of fthe lievised Code, wliercns, MR. LowE had informed the lHouso in iiunmistakablo terms, 1li1t, (thua Code couldn't, under any possible circumstances, conic into operation before July, 1862. Poor MiII. Lowl's reply to this clhrgo is remark- able, for it teaches us the system (or rather the wantof it) upon which official correspondence of' te gravest iunporInuce is conducted in Government offices. He says: "Wo correspond with some 16,00 or 7,000 schools, and it is impossible for lilo or for aniy other Jiprsoln Vo Ie responsible for every letter." We have not the good fortune to occupy an arm-chair in a Gfovern- ment office,-wewish we had, for ( overnmenLt service always uppiors to us to combine the maximum of authority with fllt iniiniun of responsibility,-and therefore wo cannot lay claim to liny personal familiarity with the methods upon which business is transacted in lihe various public departments; but we venture humbly to suggest that letters despatched from a Government office are, as a rule, adorned with a signature of some kind, and experience has taught us that theo person who signs a letter is usually held responsible for its contents. MR. LOWE goes on to say that tlio statement that such letters have been sent to various schools, "is not in accordance irithi. or practire, because we have in innumerable cases, since the notice was given on the 23rd of September, consented to the apprenticeship of fresh pupil- teachers under the old code." Now, who is the audacious Education-office subordinate who lies dared, on his own responsibility, to dictator to managers of schools terms which MR. LowE publicly declares to Io at variance with thI principles and practice of the office? If we were in Parliament (which we are never likely to be), we would insist upon having tho name of that subordinate, and we would move to have his official stool drawn from under him, and his official pen plucked from behind his ear, and we would have him drummed out of tihe service, as wiln had drawn down public obloquy upon thie unIolIt'loding head of his department by fraudulently making him responsible for a gross violation of the commonest principles of truth and justice. One thing is very clear; although Ma. LOWE may be thec head of his own department, he is certainly not captain of his own ship. AN EPIGRANM. WRITTEN ON A L:l) IGEn. Nofair-play in the whole affair T can see, The fancy fair has fared but, ill, 1 fancy. Tins AiLTERS TITE CASE.-The Board of ectl ll at, tRugby re in a fix, for in sinking an artesian well to supply the inhnbliitant with drinking water, they have come upon a salt spring, and will lave t o begin afresh. We beg to suggest that the discovery may lie st ill turned to advantage, for as the water is reported to be "an excellent saline purgative," Rugby, that has long been celebrated for its boys, may now be famous for its Spa. WHAT's IN A NAMEt P-un M. WruILKI: or.I.Ns illclls fo eall his new novel "No Name," wishing, perhaps, thliIt, tie public should tako more than a nominal interest in it,. If we Fhould insist on his christening his oifspring, lie might perhIli]s aic5use s o'f unworthy M or N"-mity. AN UNENVIABLE FRAME or MIND.-We doln'lt know whether Itho O'DoNo;nUE is fond of pictures in general, u))lt w have evcry reason to believe that lie has a great hankering after Teo Last Appeal"- the last O'PEEL, ! A WARNING TO AusTRIA.-llungary's opitaph-" R-surgnm! "