Tidings From The Sandwich Islands.

episcopal form , m the presence of the King s household , cabinet , and chiefs , and named Albert Edward Kanikeonli Feiopapa a Kamehameha , Mrs . Synge , the Avife of the British Ambassador , standing as sponsor for Queen Victoria , and Mr . Synge for the Prince of Wales . As the closing scene approached , our royal brother and his partnerbroken doivn with

, grief , stood by the couch of their dying boy , and with them Bro . Wylie and some others . Seeing that the child Avas dying , his Majesty took the prayer-book and requested Bro . Wylie to read the prayer approp riate for the occasion . " This scene , as the royal group knelt hy the death-bed of the childand joined

, in supplications to their Almighty Father , while the infant spirit peacefully left the body and winged its flight to its Creator , was one which can be better imagined than described . " On the 28 th the remains of his Eoyal Highness , tastefully dressed in white satin , were laid in state

in the palace , and from 9 a . m . till noon , one eontmous stream of people , of every class and condition of life , passed through -the reception room of the palace and around the catafalque , on Avhieh the remains of the Prince reposed . On small tables around stood vases filled with the most fragrant and beautiful flowersand at the head on a separate table stood

, the gift of his august godmother , Queen Yictoria , —a large vase of consummate Avorkmanship , with most exquisite chasing and tracing . The funeral , which Avas a private one , took place on the Sunday follovring , the coffin being deposited in a tomb built on the palace groundsbeneath the shadoiv of a

beau-, tiful tamarind tree . The Prince was only four years and three months old . The newspapers , from which we glean these particulars , are full of addresses of condolence to their majesties , on the melancholy occasion whicli has bereai'ed them of their little son . The following is that presented by Mr . Synge : —

" SIBE , —May it please your Majesty : " I haA'e the honour to place . herewith in your Majesty ' s hands , a letter fromEarlEussell , Her Britannic Majesty ' s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , notifying to your Majesty that the Queen , my August Sovereign , has been graciously pleased to appoint me to be Her Commissioner and Consul-General to the Hawaiian

Kingdom . I have received Her Maiesty's commands to assure you , Sire , that the Queen and Government of Great Britain will ever continue to take the liveliest interest in the welfare and prosperity of your Majesty ancl of the interesting kingdom which your Majesty governs so Avisely and so well .

" I was further commanded by Her Majesty to inform you , Sire , that it was with very sincere gratification thafc She accepted , the office of Godmother to His Eoyal Highness the Crown Prince of Hawaii ; inasmuch as she was thereby enabled to evince to you the very cordial friendship Avhich she entertains for your Majesty , for your Gracious Consortand for your Eoyal House ; and

, I shall ever esteem it a signal source of pride and happiness to myself , that my August Sovereign chose my wife to act as Her Majesty's Proxy on the solemn occasion of His Eoyal Highness's baptism . It was Her Majesty ' s earnest desire that the Christening Cup which she sent to the Prince , aud which I had the honour to present in the Queen's name to Majesties

your , should have been preserved by him as a testimonial ancl memento of His Eoyal Godmother ' s friendship and regard . But it has pleased and all-vri . se Providence to frustrate my Sovereign ' s wishes , and to blight the dearest hopes

of your Majesty and of the Hawaiian people . The Prince , Avhose sweetness of disposition endeared him fco all , and whose budding talents appeared to all human seeming to promise so bright a future for himself and for his country , is no more among us . The earthl y croAvn ivhich he seemed born to inherit has faded from him . But , Sire , instead of that he is now crowned with

an incorruptible diadem of glory in Heaven . In this religious conviction , andinthe affectionate and respectful sympathy of j'our people , and of the foreign residents hi your dominions , your Majesty can hardly fail to derive some amount of comfort and consolation . Queen Victoria , ivho herself has drank so deeply of the cup of sorroAV , will heartily feel for your Majesty and

for your Eoyal Consort , in the terrible bereavement which has befallen you , and will greatly deplore the untimely death of a Prince in ivhose Avelfare she was so especially and so nearly interested . " On behalf of myself , of my wife , and of Captain Hall and his officers , I would also venture to tender to your Majesties the expression of our most respectful sympath

y , and to assure you that we entirely participate in the grief so universally felt throughout fche islands . " I ivould crave permission to assure your Majesty in conclusion , that my humble but zealous efforts shall never be wanting to promote and foster those hearty feelings of amity and good will which have so long and so happilsubsisted between the rulers and le of

y peop HaAvaii and Great Britain . By so acting , I shall hope to merit the good opinion of your Majesty and of the Hawaiian Nation , as well as the approval of my own Government , whose instructions I shall be thus carrying out . "

Their Majesties were much moved by the address of the British Ambassador , and returned a feeling reply . Mr . Synge afterwards presented to their Majesties Capt . Eobert Hall , of H . B . M . Ship , Termagant , who assured them of the deep sympathy ivith their Majesties which he and all his officers felt for the great loss which they had recently sustained .

The King thanked Capt . Hall in terms of great kindness , and with much emotion . In a resume of the Session of the Legislature for 1862 , the Polynesian specifies five useful acts which have been passed . They are as follows : —1 . An Act to abolish the punishment of mothers of illegitimate

children . 2 . An Act to provide for three scholarships at Oahu College at Punahon . 3 . An Act to provide for the separation of the sexes in the Government Schools . 4 > . An Act to establish a Lunatic Asylum . 5 . A joint resolution of a Sanitary Commission . Speaking of the 4 th of these acts , Tlie Polynesian

remarks" When history and posterity shall take note of the humanising effects of civilization upon apeople ' s character as embedded in its institutions and IaAvs , they will mark ivith a white stone the passage of this Act . They will record that in the 41 sfc year after the Gospel Avas first preached here ; in the 22 nd year after a quasi Constitutional Government was instituted ; in the llth year after

the people , through universal suffrage , had obtained the management and responsibility of public affairs ; and in the eighth year of the reign of Kamehameha IV . —that then the claims of that most helpless portion of humanity —the insane—were recognised and provided for . The records up to that time may be full of the dedication of churchesthe institution of schools aud collegesfolios of

, , laivs may have been enacted , many more nice than wise , the map of the national progress may have been gilded and varnished by every assiduity of pride and conceitbut the first place where the Eecording Angel will put his Divine Imprimatur , will be at the Queen's Hospital , and the second afc the law of the 24 th of August , 1860 ,