The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-12-24 00:00:00

DEATH Of THE PRINCESS ALICE.
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The Court and the country generally will
mourning for twelve weeks.
I mmidiately on the event becoming known in Lauda
the Home Secretary wrote to the Lord ltayor, coo.eating the sad intelligence, sad requeettair hint to ow.
directions for the tolling of the grist WS of St Pmtri
Cathedra . .

—T-14—preeen— ration of an address to the Premier from the
British residents ill California was postponed in om
sequence of the death of Prince= Alice.
Most of the foreign
which is felt throughortl=erar tiro( lesastheiirM
family in this bereavement.
When the Prince of Wales wee struck down in 1871 by
the same malady which killed his (ether, the Prinows
Alice found the place of watcher by his bed-side the °sly
one which her strong affection would allow her to occupy.
To him eiss well what site had been to the Prince Conant,
sad had the happiness, on another 14th of December, to
see Me ant smptonas of that returning life of which well
deb had begun to despair.
•01=Ifie!., dargroett Ottoilbhderelictihlic;rel6dn IX. hitt
under her ern from a window and was killed. The dm*
was terrain sad its effects seemed to he visible Lag
atterwerds Ins certain abatement of the Prinoess's rata
force and vivacity.
Her devotion to her husband and children in their
meet Wars was what might bans been expected of this
noble woman. The death of the younger girl struck deep
to her heart, for the child was winning and gifted la no
ordinary degree. We have herd that Ur struggle is
conceal from the other children that their fevoa was
dead cart the Princess Alice, down to the time of her own
fatal ensue, such • daily and almost hourly adore as in
her weak state, sir WU ill-litied to bear.
Loving.
thoughtful for others, es she had been from girlhood,s
she wee to the last. Of lieglsed's Princesses nese will
leave a more gracious memory. Done be more deeply
mourned by those who had the happiness to know ker.'
The body of the Princess Alias was removes
from the Palace to the Castle Church on Tues-
day evening A short service, according to the
English ritual, preceded the removal The body me
received by the Court cler
vs girtilr ceremony 14=olernA
isiomtgleerretidtsVailwes more spewup:thetic than curious,
our Correspondent says and greeted the soder in the
most reverent =AWE Ther determination of the Crown
Prince and Princess of Germany not to expose trianglese
to the danger of the epidemic, and of the Prinos of Wales
and the other Princess ms the night in Darmstadt,
have voted the superstitious alarm with which the
news is regarded and the hour is aboard as
an acted place.

11111 FT/lIIIAL

The corpse of theflaran—d—Dorrese of Heem.Darm•
'tea was on Wednesday consigned to its rerting:place
In the Mateolean of Rambo* the place of sculpture
of the Grand Ducal family of Hesse. The Prince of
Wales, Prince Leopold, and Prince Christian were
present at yesterday's funeral oerecnony, which was of
• very hapressive character. The Emperor and
Empanels of Germany, the Crown Prince and Princess,
the King of the Belgians, the King of Bavaria, aad
other crowned heads were represented at the funeral.

THE WORKING PEOPLE OF SHEFFIELD.
Half -famished children, with nothing but bread and
water to live upon, are wandering about the streets, and
their parents, honest, bard-working artisans, when they
have employment, are in no better plight In some mate
every available article of furniture kas been said in order to
purchase food. The accounts from trade centres are
almost equally gloomy. [Yet Home Secretary Crow to not
alarmed, but puts burdens on the local authorities in
rivalry of his colleague's loads upon the nation I Why
should he be alarroedl He Ands plenty of mosey for
toldiers and police, and to purchase geola—to.)