Our friend the Spectator, oddly enough, is, for once, very like Tyger Roche. He says—
"It is evident that a serious disturbance in Europe might be very inconvenient to the minor German Powers; and that fact has perhaps suggested the rough guess, that a Prince bound up with German interests by family relations, has used his position near the British Sovereign for the purpose of inducing England to assist in hushing up the quarrel, with scanty regard to the justice of the case; in short, that Prince Albert has induced England to abandon her pledge and her ally!"
The Spectator having made "the rough guess," reasons on it in his own logical way, and concludes with these convincing words—
"We do not believe that Prince Albert has so far forgotten his happy and exalted duty, of which he has shown so just an appreciation, by officious meddling with affairs which are not his."
That the Spectator, the Esquimaux of the Press—for somehow he always appears to Punch in a suit of sealskin, with a very blue nose, prepared, if necessary, to harpoon the whale that shall supply his midnight oil—that the cold Spectator should suggest such a charge against Prince Albert merely to express a disbelief is, at least, a very unnecessary trouble.
"Don't nail the poor man's ears to the pump!" cries Tyger Roche.
"Don't believe Prince Albert an ally of Nicholas!" cries the Spectator.
A Serious Question To Colonel Sibthorp.—Is the ghost of Pond Street, Chelsea, the ghost of Protection?