The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-16 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1871.

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

We &reassured that every item of intelligence
we elsewhere give, with regard to the alarming
illness of H. lt. H. the Prince of Wales, will be
read with deep interest, though the main facts
may have been read again and again previously.
For many days past there has been but one ab-
sorbing subject in the press and in private life,
Everywhere the fearful malady with which the
Prince of Wales, in the prime of manhood, has
been struggling has been the one subject which
has called out all the enterprise of journalism,
and which has formed the topic of conversation
in perhaps nearly every house in the United
t Kingdom, while e telegraph has dashed along
the bed of the Atlantic and over the continent
of Europe the varying news as to the one sad
event which has dwarfed every other public
topic.
If anything could console our good Queen,
whose maternal character has always been an
example and a modal to her subjects, if anything
could assuage the sorrow of the relatives and
Immediate friends of the royal patient, himself
unconscious of the deep interest in his condition
which the whole country has taken, it mast be
the knowledge that the nation profoundly sym-
pathises with the afflicted. "We all press, as it
were, round the darkened chamber," said Dean
Stanley. in his sermon at Westminster Abbey;
" we all feel that with the mourning family—
mother, wife, brother, sisters—who are there
assembled we are one. Who can doubt or deny
it? The terrible and too often fatal malady un-
der which the Prince has been suffering, is cha-
racterised by fluctuations which now excite hope,
now deaden the hearts of those who watch the
sufferer, and at times create despair. Ile cau-
tiously worded telegrams which have been flashed
over the civilised world, and which have been
eagerly read by countless thousands of people,
have doubtless truthfully tallied with the vary-
ing symptoms of the disease, and the national
heart has beat high with hope and emotion, or
has been deadened by fear for the worst, accord.
Mg to the nature of the last telegraphed news.
For some few days previous to the tith instant,
the telegrams had been mainly of a reassuring
and hopeful character, but since that time they
have been indeed grave and alarming: and
throughout this period the utmost concern and
sympathy have been manifested throughout the
Queen's domains. We are a commercial people
and every important public event affects us in
that character. We need not remind our readers
how the funds have been affected, how trade and
commerce have been adversely influenced, and
how political and social meetings have been
abandoned or postponed. We all know and feel
this too keenly. But it would not be well to be
otherwise. The alarming and dangerous illness
of the Heir Apparent must at any time in our
country be a grave and serious national matter,
but if at the present time our worst fears were
to be realised, the blow would be indeed severe.
The nation previously to this sad event deeply
sympathised with her Majesty, over whom a dark
cloud of sorrow and bereavement has hung for
ten years, and the death of her eldest sun would
deepen the gloom of her widowhood and further
sadden the national heart.

At the moment of going to press, we are glad
to say that several telegrams have reached us of
a much more favourable character, and hopes
are now entertained of the Prince's recovery.
The malady has made alarming progress, and
no doubt if all goes on well, it will be some time
before he will be able to appear in public. hut
we can hope and pray that the Great Disposer
of events may in His mercy, see fit to preserve
the precious life of the illustrious patient.

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organ, in an article entitled •• France it Angleterre,"
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Lbemista. London." Also, makers of Epps's Milky
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