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LOZDON, fiIIBDAY, DEC. 17.

lx the PRINvE Co,oiost the labouring classes
have lost an unostentatious but enlightened and
zealous observer of their condition. Before more
than a superficial attention had been paid by
the higher classes to the necessity of improving
the physical condition of those in the lowest posi-
tion, ho gave a powerful stimulus to improvement
by the erection of a model cottage, at his own
expense, in connection with the Exhibition of
1841. He had been in quiet communication with
sanitary reformers on this topic, and was confidently
looked to for further manifestations of interest in
the same direction on the occasion of the Exhi-
bition to be held next year. There is good autho-
rity for affirming that if the sanitary condition
of agricultural labourers were as well attended to
by proprietors throughout the country as on the
estates of her Mariam, without any social dis-
turbance, the death-vs* e►en in that class, which
is so much above the rate prevalent amongst the
labouring climes in towns, would be reduced by
nearly oue-half. His speech on the subject of
the condition of domestic servants will be remem-
bered for its soundness, and for its startling clear-
ness of view, and for its benevolence in relation to
the interests and condition of that large class of
the community. His speech, as President of the
Educational Conference, when he pointed out
the place which the early earnings of children
must have in the budget of the poor man's family,
developed elementary conditions affecting the
question of popular education which, except under
the half-schuol-aine system, had not commonly
received due consideration, even from professed
educationists. He was in advance in seeing the
economical value of art-teaching, as well as its
refining social importance. In these courses ►e had
no doubt the entire sympathy of her MAJesTY.
To superficial observation he might appear to be
cold on social topics ; but it was only because he
had that calmness, and quiet persistency of obese,
vation and dispassionateness which is really neces-
sary for their most efficient treatment. It would
have been easier for him to have obtained a higher
and warmer popularity by other pursuits, deemed
more princely, and befitting his high political
platform, than those in which be laboured to obtain
sound preparation for the improvement of the
physical, intellectual, and moral condition of the
lowest classes of the population.
The breadth of hie view is exemplified in the
fact, that when in his position as President of the
Society of Arta, the project of an Industrial
Exhibition was first submitted to him simply as
an exhibition of English industry, he replied,
"Why not make it an exhibition of the in-
" dustry of all nations?" Ho was well aware
that such competition would tend to the sound
industrial advancement of the country ; that
it was important that its condition in respect to
the arts should be confronted with that of other
countries. France had had previous exhibitions,
but of another character. Under his auspices
the lnternational Exhibition became a great con-
secration of industry and of the arta, said an
institution imitated by all civilised popula-
tions. What a void does his loss occasion in its
next celebration ! There is in preparation for
the next year, besides a meeting in the
metropolis of the Association for the Pro-
motion of Social Science, a meeting of the
kindred continental association, the Congress
de Bienfaisance, in continuation of the meetings
held at Brussels, Paris, Frankfort, and Vienna,
for the promotion of measures of social and admi-
nistrative improvement. The Panics's high and
commanding intellectual position had canoed him
to be regarded as the future President, the one
most qualified to give to the proceediagis a be-
fitting international character. Who may worthily
fill his place I To those who have had business
relations with him his speeches were well
known to be in every sense his own, and
to be characteristic of his own mind and studies.
When his position is considered, those of his
addresses which went beyond the requiraniente
of State etiquette will be acknowledged to be
of the highest public clan of our time.
At the meeting at York, where several Prime
Ministers sod practised orators noire, it was ac-
knowledged that the speech of Prince Masse had
an intellectual pre-eminence corresponding to his
superior position. The last characteristic speech
he mado was at the opening of the Station-
al Congress in London, where he ecimed a
mastery of the science which professors from all
porta of Europe were assembled to promote. le
hie appreciation of the arts of peen he was the
promoter of a new branch of the Order of the
Bath, instituted in order to furnish a means of
honouring civil merit.
His own tastes were known to be for scientific
and intellectual companionship rather than for the
common aristocratic society. His toter, QUITZLIT,
of Brussels, speaks of him, from his knowledge as
a tutor, as a thoroughly intellectual and good man,
who, if he had not bean • Prince, would have
attained to intellectual eminence from a lower
station. He brought scientific professors into the
palace to give instruction to the royal children.
It was at hi. instance that a place was given to
Dr. LTtin rtAl PAIR in the royal household, and
that a home was given to Professor Owe", in
Richmond-park, and to FARADAY in the palace at
Ilauspto:..-court.