The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-16 00:00:00

THE COBURG SUCCESSION.

The following is the text, according to the _lrani-
teur, of the Act by which the Prince of Wales has
renounced for himself and his heirs the succession
to the throne ot the Duchies of Coburg and Gotha.
This Act has just been communicated to the Diet of
the two Duchies :
Pre Royal of Great Britain and
having acknowledged the
IreWlanedA, ate. tmEadkwe akruclo,
known
i tnhea t
adhesion given by our father, dead in the Lord, to the law
of March 1, 1855, as to the House of Saxe-Coburg Gotha,
and the fundamental law &creed by it, May 3, 1855, for the
Duchies of Coburg and Gotha, we have seen that the desire
of our father was that his posterity should completely re-
nounce the right of succession to the throne ot the Duchies
of Coburg and Gotha. In consequence we have the intention
of realising this paternal wish, which hitherto has not been
in our power because of our minority ; we wish to realise it
in as complete a manner as possible, and by that add, ac-
cording to our power, to the prosperity of the kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland as well as that of the Duchies of
Coburg and Gotha, while giving to our brothers an evidence
of our fraternal love.
We renounce, then, for us and our heirs, all right what-
ever of succession to the throne of the Duchies of Coburg
and Gotha and the provinces belonging to them, in favour
of our well-beloved brothers, the Princes Alfred Ernest
Albert, Arthur William Patrick Albert, and Leopold George
Duncan Albert, and their malo successors ; and we desire
that this right of succession to the throne of the Duchies of
Coburg and Gotha, and the provinces belonging to them,
pass to our well-beloved brothers and their male successors.
In the case, nevertheless, of our brothers and their male
line becoming extinct before us and our male branch,
this
reserve to ourselves, for us and our male successors,
right of succession to the thrc ne of the Duchies of Coburg
and Gotha and the provinces belonging to them, conforma-
bly to the dispositions of the sa:d law of March 1,
1855, and
be Act of
and that of May 3, 1855. 'We have caused a dou
l d thereto
renunciation to be executed, have signed it, an
affixed our seal.
Given at the Castle of "Windsor the 19th of April, 1863
ALBERT EDWARD.

The following is the Act eanexed to the above
document :
We, Leopold I , King of the BeXgians, &c., hereby de-
clareal Highness Albeit. Edward, Prince Royal
ia Rey
o
fG Great
tt
Britainh and Ireland, &c., having deigned—by an
Act iven on the 19th of April last, at the Castle Of Windsor
—to grenounce all right whatever of succession to the throne
of the Duchies of Coburg and Gotha, and the provinces be-
longing to them, in favour of his brothers and their male
successors, with the reservation desired, has communicated
to us this Act in our quality of legal tutor, as Prince of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and as such we declare in the name
of our pupils that we recognise on ail points the Act given
by the Prince Albert Edward on the 19th of April this year,
at the Castle of Windsor. Given at Lacker., 25th of May,
1863. LEOPOLD.

FRANCE, according, to M. Jules Simon, with
70,000 schools, has not 1,000,000 of children to attend
them.