The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-01-30 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1875.

HEALTH IN HIGH PLACES.

The bulletins which have been issued from
Osborne House showing the progress of the
311neas under which Prince Leopold suffered,
have been scanned with very cdnaiderable into-
rest. Tennyson has written of "the fierce light
which beats upon the throne," and certainly those
who occupy the most prominent places in the
lend have to pay in this way one of the penalties
attashing to a high position. The fact that" the
Queen drove out yesterday morning" is gravely
ehrenieled by the Court Newsman and in frosty
weather it is deemed worthy of record that
" the Princess Beatrice walked and skated for
6010 e time." The ordinary incidents of life,
which to the general run of the public pass as
unheeded as the daily fuzing or setting of the
sun, assume an interest when taken in connection
with the movements of the titled and the great.
At no time is this more manifest than when a
member of the Royal Family is suffering from
illness. We all remember the excitement caused
by the dangerous condition of the Prince of Wales
rather more than three years ago. The pulsations
of the national life seemed almost to stand still
au the midst of the allabsorbing strains upon the
public attention. Nothing else could be thought
of or talked about for days; and other topics
which under more favourable circumstances,
would have been eagerly looked after, now re-
ceived little or no notice. Of course there were
conditions surrounding the illness of the Prince
of Wales which would not attach to that of any
other member of the Royal Family, the Queen
ezcepted. In the first place, aided by his amiable
and popular Princess, the Heir-Apparent had for
years been the most conspicuous representative
of the Court in the -metropolis. Her Majesty,
as is well known, doea not now reside at Buck-
ingham Palace, as in the earlier years of her
reign, so that Marlborough House had become
the centre of rank and faehion in London. The
removal of the heir to the throne by death at
thirty years of age, with a splendid future be-
fore him, and leaving a young widow and several
little children behind him, wouli have inflicted
such a blow upon the sentimental feeling of the
people from which society could not have re-
covered for years. It would have driven the
sovereign into closer retirement than-before, and
would practically have left Royalty in England
with a little boy eight years old as its foremost
representative. The believers in durable institu-
tions, who had had their fill of horrors during
the reign of the Commune in Paris, recoiled with
affright from the thought of a Regency of thir-
teen years, a withdrawal of monarchial state from
the eyes of the people, and free scope for the
progress of those levelling doctrines which
scatter all venerable and historical associations
to the winds. Nervous persons saw, in
imagination, the Nelson Column in Trafalgar.
square. sharing the fate of the Column Vendoeie
in Paris, Buckingham Palace on fire, the flames
enveloping the National Gallery, and the British
Museum, West minster Abbey and the Houses
of Parliament in ruins, and St. Paul's Catherdral
turned into a vast goods station for the city
railways Fortunately these chimeras were
dispelled. A favourable turn in the illness of
the Prince of Wales was noted, he gradully
emerged from the Valley of the Shadow of
Death, and to-day is as strong and healthy as
he ever was, the living embodiment of his fu-
ture Crown, and the genial hearty representative
of those sports of the field, in which so many
Englishmen delight.
Prince Leopold is, in all .respects, a contrast
to his elder brother, and, indeed, to all his bro-
thers. While the Prince of Wales glories in
donning a scarlet goat, and in riding well to
LoundF, while the Duke of Eilieiburgn, as a na-
val captain, has circumnavigated the globe, and
Prince Arthur has thrown himself heart :het
soul. into the pursuit of military studies, the
youngest son of the Royal house has led a gale-,
anti is secluded life. This has been due partl ;
to the delicate state of this health, and partly Co
to the bent of his inclination. He would rather
be a student at Oxford than joining in the eager
chase for a fox's brash, suiting over the seas in
distant climes, or mas.ering the diErence b
tween a Snider rifle or a Martini-Henry. Wile,'
be mune of age last year, Mr. Disraeli, in mov-
ing the House of Commons to grant fain the
customary annuity of X 1.5,000, raferred to his
studious habits and retiring which he had dis-
played. He had not been mach before the
public, but this was explained by his frequent
attacks of ill-health. There is eo doubt that his
Royal highness has for many years been very
far trout well. In the very last journey which
he took with the Queen to Balmoral, he was se
wattle ,that he could not walk even from the rail-
way station to the carriage in waiting, and had
to the conveyed thither in the arms of the at.
tendatits. To many such an existence would
long ago have become really burdensome. With
evry variety of diet, and with a choice of reeren-
tiorrs such as riding driving, or walking, with
surroundings not only of comfort, but of niXary
bad dignity ; with 110 anxiety as to iIOW he was to
make his way in the world, and with an adequate
income whether he is well or ill—the life of the
Prince has lacked the sparkle and animatiini
which may be seen on any day ground
of one of our National Schools. The reason ia
clew—the occupant of the Palace has been
deprived of that health so freely granted to tens
of thousatuds of the denizens of our sqrtalhl
courts and stifling alleys. how he must have
auvisal them, and what a poor compensation he
must have found rank, wealth, positiou,
mil
gorgeous aecessories of life for deo greatest of
earthly blessings—health. The death of the
Prince Consort from fever, ad the aft icks of
the BAIDO diNeaset u 0 i the Priece of AVU:t!S and
Prince Leopold, shew that even the hieliest and
mildest in the land are not, free from the ills
wic'ueffect ordinary meetais_ins, hi oreovut,
which the medieiti feetilty ileelare are prey, wile,.
Ttle.). assure us that ~,reatet• attenti )11 to sat:it:llW
rofortns would eradicate fever from our midst:.
It Prince Leopold'is ifiness drieva public
this most important matter, who shall say
that it has not proved a blessing in disguise ?

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