wishes, and it was indeed through her influence that the Queen was finally induced to quit Windsor before her husband’s remains were laid in the grave.[122] “What a blow this has been,” wrote Bishop Wilberforce to the Hon. Arthur Gordon when describing the scene at St. George’s Chapel; “all my old affection for him (the Prince Consort) has revived over his tomb--and for our poor Queen.... The funeral was most deeply affecting; you saw old dry political eyes, which seemed as if they had long forgotten how to weep, gradually melting and running down in large drops of sympathy. The two Princes and the brother (the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha) and the son-in-law intended (Prince Louis of Hesse) were all deeply moved.”[123] CHAPTER V. WAR AND FAMINE. Outbreak of Civil War in the United States--Origin of the Dispute--The Missouri Compromise--Effect of the “Gold Rush” on the Extension of Slavery--Colonising Nebraska--The Struggle in “Bleeding Kansas”--Assault on Senator Sumner--The Wyandotte Constitution--The Dred Scott Case--Election of Mr. Lincoln as President--Secession of South Carolina--Organisation of the Southern Confederacy--The Firing of the First Shot--Capture of Fort Sumter--Lincoln’s Call to Arms--Opinion in England--The _Trent_ Affair--The Queen and the Prince Consort avert War--Opening of Parliament--Bitter Controversy over the Education Code--Parliament and the Civil War--The Cotton Famine--A Relief Bill--War Expenditure--Mr. Disraeli denounces Lord Palmerston’s “Bloated Armaments”--A Budget without a Surplus--The Fortifications at Spithead--Floating _versus_ Fixed Forts--A Mexican Adventure--Revolution in Greece--Bismarck’s Visit to London--Anecdote of Bismarck and Mr. Disraeli--Progress of the American War--Mr. Peabody’s Benefactions--The Exhibition of 1862--The Prince of Wales’s Tour in the East--The Hartley Colliery Accident--Marriage of the Princess Alice--The Queen’s Visit to Belgium--Her Meeting with the Princess Alexandra of Denmark--The Queen’s Visit to Gotha--Removal of the Prince Consort’s Remains to the Mausoleum at Frogmore.