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SATURDAY, APRIL sh, 1884.

THE LATE DUKE OF ALBANY.

The interment of the remains of the late Duke
of Albany in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, closes
the life-record of a prince universaly esteemed
and beloved, and the suddencess of whose death
has been an added element in the national grit f
at his lose. It is not often the lot of one placed
in the station of hiva who will be best re-
membered as Prince Leopold to have so early
disp:ayed those virtues and talents which en-
deared him to the people of England ; but he
had before himthe example of a father who had dcne
all that in him lay for the public good ; aad in
his very youth the deceased prince resolved to
follow in the footsteps so worelity laid down.
The consequences of the course he adopted are
plain to all ; his death has been followed by an
outburst of grief as sincere as it was general,
and whether expressed in the gilded salooes of
the aristocracy, the shops, the country-houses,
and the parlours of the middle c:ass:s, or the
meeting-places of those who in the most literal
sens-, earn their bread i y the sweat of their
brow, was ex: reseed aith a depth of feel'ng
which it has felloi to the lot of but few princes
to reach. The funeral at Windsor serves only
to intensify this mournful sensation. The popu-
lar memory goes back more than twenty years
to another royal funeral in the venerable chepel
of St. George and under the waving banners of
the Knights of the Garter and in the sae,.e,l
edifice fiiled with so many solemn and historic
aseociations, in imagination sees once again the
ceremonial which attended the interment of the
Priuee Consort. The recollection of the grief
of the widowed Queen, left to biing up her chil-
dren alone, has served to deepen the sympathy
felt .it this moment with the widowed Duchess
whoee little one will never have the remembrance
of the father who loved it so dearly and Melo it
whoeo last occupation in England was to hold
it in his arms whilst the sculptor traced its linea-
ments in clay. The breaking up of the little
home at Claremont, the sudden severance of
husband from wife and child appeal with pe-
culiar force to a race so much in love as the
English with the:word "home" and all which th it
word convey& The spectacle of the young girl wee
not quite two years since was welcomed to our
shor la, not as a stranger in a strange land, bat
as a easy daughter whom the nation was ready
~nd willing to receive—the spectacle of the same
one now bowed down with grief at the loss of
i:er husband, and finding consolation only in o.•e
resi tee of her child. This is a spectacle not
lightly to be looked a'. But the reverse side to
the personal grief, the reverse side to the na-
tional grief, is to be found in the example which
the Duke of Albany has left. In olden days
when the divinity which doth hedge a King was
still intact, it was the fashion to impute to royal
rersonages the possession of virtues of some of
perhaps, they had scarcely as much as
dreamed. In these times it is different ; the
Poet Laureate bae well spoken of the fierce light
which beats upon the throne and blackens every
blot, and the fierce light beats upon those im-
mediately surrounding the throne as upon the
occupant herself. It has been the happy lot of
the departed Prince so to live and so to die as
to be enabled to boar that light in the fullest
degree. In his dying moments when conscious-
Lesa had well nigh departed and life wee swiftly
ebbing away, three words, and three only, were
heard to fall from his lips. The word
"mother" showed how tenderly he loved her who
so tenderly had loved him ; "Windsor" indicated
his deep affection for the home of his childhood
and "Egypt" was a proof of his sympathy in all
those outer affairs that most concerned his
countryweu. The love of mother, the love of
home, the love of country, were shown in the
moment of death as they had throughout Prince
Leopold's life.