The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-12-12 00:00:00

ALARMING CONDITION

OF THE
PRINCE OF WALES.

RETURN OF DANGEROUS

SYMPTOMS.

THE WORST FEARED.

Up to Thursday evening the mediaei bulletins
respecting the state of the Prince of Wales were
uniformly fevourable, and from the steady improvement
which has been manifested up to that time a feeling of
hone was pnerally entertuned of a happy issse t
the Prinoe' illness. On Priday morning, bow ,rer,
the bulletins which Dret, Jermer, Oug, an I lowa Fit
out were of the most aerating character. " Tarr , •
oonsiderable increase in the febrile symptoms ;" " then:
is no abatement of the graver symptom' ;" tho Princo
continues in a preoarious state. The exacerbation of
the symptoms which begun late last evening has ben
attended by great prostration of strength." "The Prince
of Wales has slept, bet still continues in a pro,trAt
oondition." The gravity of the feeling which they
called forth was subsequently heightened by the tidings
that came to hand that the Queenly mother of the
young sufferer had been suddenly summoned to alt -nil
his bedside, and that she and other members of the
Royal family bad made forced journeys by simnel
trains to Sandringham.
The bulletins of Saturday, were more encouraging.
The exhaustion of the Prinoe, they told us, hid not
Increased, whilst the general conditions of his ailment
were more favourable. "His Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales," said that issued at noon." has passed
the morning more tranquilly. The febrile paroxysm
of yesterday is abating. There is no increase of
exhaustion." This revived hope considerably, and
although the ten o'sleek bulletin WU not quit, so
assuring, stating that although the Royal patient bad
slept at intervals, there was no improvement in his
symptoms, yet, followed as it was by the somorrhat
encouraging report, dated sight o'clock on Sunday
morning, which stated "the Prince of Wales has passe I
• quiet night, although there is still great prostration.
The graversymptems has not increased," and the more
satisfactory one which the Prince's physicians putout at
noon—"the Prince has passed the morning tranqutily.The
general condition is somewhat more satisfutory th‘n
yesterday,' encouraged a confilent belief in ths min Is
of many that the worst had been visaed. But later in
the evening the bulletin issued at 5 p.m. stating "the
Primo* has pseud an unquiet afternoon, with a return
of the more urgent, symptoms," once more pointed to
a mournful diountemeug, and the hopelessnou of the
case was intensified by the last aeooent on Sunday—
"HlS Royal Highness has been restless during the
evening, sod there is no abatement of the urgent
symptoms."
The following special prayer' were offered in all the
churches of Dorchester on Sunday. having bun for-
warded by telegraph from the Home-Office t

't 0 Almighty God and Merciful Father, to whoto alone
belong the issues of life and death, look down from Heaven,
we humbly borsch Thee, with syr of oompasion upon Albert
Elward Frinoe of Wales, now lying upon a hod of sit:knots.
Thou, Father of Mervin, and 034 d of all comfort, our ouly
help in time of need... fly unto Thee for succour in behalf
of Thy servant. Grant 0 Lord that all the sins of hi, life
pha may be done away and bin soul washed in the precious
blood of Christ, that it may be pure and without spat bef are
Thee, ehalonlearthbe Tb!..diple;Lunreto
tb.tprolohnge.weybeireclire
toh Tnhoocc,
and be an instrument of Thy glory and a blessing to our
Church and nation. Prepare him, 0 nabst loving Father, by
ThryHt jc.ySpil hrilct,fodr .11 that ;,ord. Am
11.. before him in life or in death
through
Almighty and Everlasting God, who guides the hearts of
mop, and who has bland and sanctified the bonds of love
to knit ther the members of all Christian families, look
&ern we Thee on Thy servant our Queen, and the
Princess of Wales, in this day of their great trouble, and on
ill the Royal Fealty, comfort and support them lit their
,mt trial, and great that their hearta may be stayed only oa
Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."
The following extraste give fuller details of the
variations in the Prince's condition :-
8•11DZINGRAII. Saturday, 5 p.m.—The °hinge for the
better in the Prince's rendition is regarded here as
marvellous. Al one o'clock on Friday night dupla,
was well nigh universal; Every minute the Prinee was
expected to breathe his hug, The attendants, and ser-
vants, and °lasers of the household, not to mention
those nearest and dearest to the Royal suff-rer, were
almost distracted with grief. A general fear was
entertained that the Prises would not survive the try.
int hour which separates night from day: It was not
expected that the Prince would be able to speak again.
All that could be said wee that life was not extinct.
However, towards the early hours of the morning, a
decided change for the better took place. The fever
diminished considerably In it. intensity. The Prince
has been dosing off and on all through the day, and it
lucid to be a good sign that he his been enabled to
take soma slight nourishment. The devotion of the
Primes, of Wales and of the Princess Alice are spoken
al by every one with the utmost enthusiasm. They
have scarcely closed their eyes daring the night, and
the Princess Alice was with difficulty persuaded to take
• little rest to-day. Prince Leopold arrived here early
this morning. They were followed by the Duke of
Cambridge.
7 dOLOOC.—A. personage entitled to speak upon the
subject with authority, says, "We are anxious—most
anxious—painfully anxious. But it is note hopeless
ease." Neither in the present nor on the moult visit
of her Majesty to Sandringham, ham the Prinoe been
able to recognise his mother. For some time put the
Prince has been in a dosing ; dreamy stste, and as his
medical attendants' insist upon the necessity of absolute
quiet, they have forbidden any attempt to try the ex-
periment of recognition. At old intervals the Royal
patient is conscious, but only for a very short time.
molly he his asked fer something or somebody,
but before his request could be complied with he would
fall off again into a dose. The Prince Is not aware of
the presence of the Duke el Edinburgh. The Rev Kr
ha. Mao onnstiiark In hi. v 1.114 to the 1141, but
It hes been considered useless to allow him to see the
patient.

r The Queen has been out for a drive to day, notwith-
standing the oold. which Is intense. Thu snow lies
upon the ground for lanai and miles round.
The QOAsin hie borne her troubles nobly, neither
concealing It nor sinking beneath it- bat the Duke of
Edinburgh, who had from the grit been very sanguine
and could hardly at any time be brought to think
that his brother could snosumb, had been specially
buoyant during the days of his brief visit to London
and Windsor, and had oommunioated his fraternal end
affectionate confidence to thole around him. The
blow fell the heavier upon him ; but he quickly
rallied from it, and has oontlnued to hope against
hope. The Princess Allot has shone with the bright-et
and most skilled devotion, Happily all are io•
eluding the Prime's of Wales, who has been naturally
the object of the deepest sympathy.
Of the energy and self-restraint of the Queen no
one can think without admiration. Since her arrival
at Sandringham she has been much in the sickroom,
muoh too with her disfavored daaghter•in•law since
that embrace of silent weeping in which the mother
and the wife of the sufferer were clasped on Friday
evening.
The popular belief that the usual remedies hod
ceased to be effieecdous may be gathered from a
rumour, rye: the Daily Neat, which had obtained
currency that ithe Prince's butcher wan in readinees all
Friday and throughout the night to kill and skin •
sheep, that the reeking skin might be utilised for
wrapping the Prince's form to it, in the dreaded event
of coldness from collapse setting in and refusing to
yield to ether treatment. There is some warrant in
history for this reeipe sa • Royal one in more than one
sense, and of late, as it happens, there have been some
sontribatkase in professional journals to the medical
arohmology on the snbjeet.
etnro AY, NOON.—The morning service at Sandringham Church
was touching and impeeedve. and marked by more than one
incident whichotronStY *roomed the feelings of the worship-
pers. The nell eongysgaßea emensbied early, an it was
understood that hit Royel Highness the Princess of Wales
would Wend the service, and it was felt that it would be right
to respect the privacy of bee sorrow. There were no lounifor.
In the narrow churchyard through which she had to paw. or
slow the short path connecting the church with the private
grounds of Banngtiain Rouse. The Prince. had written
in the morning to the Rev. Luke Onslow, Vicar of nandrlnti-
ham and chaplain to his Royal llighneet, saying in few and
idmpie words . -

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'' Ily husband 4 batter, and I am coating to church. I
must watch with my husband, and therefore must Nays before
the sod ol the serolos. Cannot you my a tow words lor him
In prams early in the Nova" that I may Join with you in
prayer tax Wm r