Thus ended this grand and joyful service, which will be remembered in English history. Altogether it is with the utmost gratification we can look back upon that memorable 27th of February. A demonstration more general and spontaneous has not been recorded even in the annals of this loyal nation. Among high and low, rich and poor, there was one harmonious spirit of thankful joy, in regard to the recovery of the Prince. But apart from the special and personal aspect of the occasion, there was much to cause national gratulation. The combined feeling of religion and of loyalty showed that in this England of ours, the divine precepts: "Fear God, Honour the King," are as inseparable as they are powerful, and that their influence pervades the nation, when circumstances call them into exercise. The words of the "Thanksgiving Hymn" well express the sentiment of the whole service of the day:-- "O Thou our soul's salvation! Our Hope for earthly weal! We, who in tribulation Did for Thy mercy kneel, Lift up glad hearts before Thee, And eyes no longer dim, And for Thy grace adore Thee In eucharistic hymn. "Forth went the nation weeping With precious seed of prayer, Hope's awful vigil keeping 'Mid rumours of despair; Then did Thy love deliver! And from Thy gracious hand, Joy, like the southern river, O'erflowed the weary land. "Bless Thou our adoration! Our gladness sanctify! Make this rejoicing nation To Thee by joy more nigh; O be this great Thanksgiving Throughout the land we raise, Wrought into holier living In all our after days! "Bless, Father, him Thou gavest Back to the loyal land, O Saviour, him Thou savest, Still cover with Thine Hand: O Spirit, the Defender, Be his to guard and guide, Now in life's midday splendour On to the eventide!" What may be the depth of the duration of the feelings thus alluded to, it is not for man to judge; but it is not as mere forms, that in tens of thousands of churches there are still uttered, week by week and day by day, prayers for the Queen, and for the Prince and Princess of Wales,--expressing the faith, and the goodwill, and the loyalty, of the people of this empire, as truly and heartily as on that special thanksgiving day in St. Paul's. NORFOLK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. _June 19th, 1872._