The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-12-12
TIE HEIR TO TIE THRONE.
Gloomy OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Might
Happen''-A Reaction In Public Sem
timent.
Correspondence of the New York Tlmesl

Correspondence OF the New YORK Times
LONDON, Saturday, November 25.i
The alarming illness Of the Prince OF Wales,
following close upon the illness Of the Queen,
and occurring In the midst OF heated discus
sions as TO the advantages and disadvantages
of q monarchy, has naturally caused good
deal OF nneasiness. For about week he had
been out of sorts, and teverish symptoms had
been observed; but lt was thought 10 be only
an ordinary attack of influenza. On Monday
last the sickness was unmistakably recognized
as typhoid fever. DR.. Gull was telegraphed
tor from London, and Sir William Jen-
nsr @ the Queens physisian ar., who b,,Iss Tas
eouth, ss fast as express engines could carry
him. There can be no doubt that the attack
has been sharp one, and though the doctors
bulletins, issued twice day, are Of the most
reassuring character, 1t caDnot be assumed
that all danger Is oyer. The Prince is young,
he has never been seriously Ill before, and
typhoid fever is usually very mild atair com D.
not the fever itself, but tie patients general
state Of health, which Is low and depressed,
that excites uneasiness. He has been sufer-
ing from q whitlow on the hand, which seems
to resist treatment and 10 chow q poor condl-
ton; and 1t Is remembered that bis father was
carried of, not by the fever which first struck
him down, aud which at the outset was con-
favorable symptoms, but by his want Oh
recuperative power, or, as the doctors
called 1t, by q sudden failure Of vital energy.
If they could have sustained him by stimu'
lants, even for another night, they thought he
might have recovered. IL 10 feared tnaI the
Prince of Wales has inherited his fathers lynn.
phatic constitution, which his habit OF exces-
sIge and iucessant smoking is not likely to
have strengthened. Uuder these circum-
stances very ordinary sickness might be pro-
ductive Of very serious and alarming conse:
qusnces. The doctors are evidently afraldso or
combinations The Queen returned to Wind
sor this morning, having travelled all night.
WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN.
The Queen is now in her nfty-second year,
and has only Just recovered from complica'
tlon Of distressing maladles. The Prince
completed his thirtielh year week or TWO
since. His eldest son, and heir to the crown
in the second line, Prince Albert Victor, VIII
there can be no fear for the succession, since,
apart from the Prince Of Wales's brothers and
sisters, he has o second son and three daugh-
ters. Rnt long minority would be very
awkward and unpleasant occurrence, espe!
lclalIy at the present time. A Regency, which
might devolpe on the Duke Of Edinburgh, or
perhaps on the Duke Of Cambridge, would De
almost certain 10 be unpopular, and practi-
cally the country would be governed by, q
Parliamentary Convention, which would as
simulate the conditions Of government much
more closely than at present to an actual Re-
public, not merely In substance, but In out!
ward form. tits conceivable that there might
not be q i.good time" Ia store for young
several years during which the country had
become accustomed to do without one.. On
the other handit Is not improbable that tbe
country might. in the interval, have felt the
want OF g sovereign 80 much that 1t would
hail his appearance with much The same wild
delight as. In former age, 1t welcomed back
Charles II, and the monarchy might, to
the confusion Of prophets and pniloso-
finite lease Of popularity and power. For
my own part, have no pretensions to be con-
sldered either prophet or q philosopher, and
really have no idea what would be most likely
to happen iI such contingency, but you will
see from what have said that people who
think it worth while to consider the fllIuyeand
who believe that the destlnies of States are in'
luenced BY their forms OF government, have
abundant material for rather anxious .Ieheo-
tI0n. One Of the Immediate results Of any
thing happening to the Queen or her, eldest
SOD, would certainly be 10 produce strong
reaction In favor of the royal family. Even as
1t is, this Is quite perceptibe.
SENTIMENT IN RELATION TO TIE PRINCE.
The Queens illness made people very.sun-
comfortable at The recollection Of the hard
things which had been said about her seclu-
sion, and within the hast day or two 1t has
been generally discovered that there Is good
deal to be said In favor of the Prince Of
Wales, as undoubtedly there Is. He was q
frank, loyal, warm hearted and affectionate
Young man, who has been much more sinned
against than SHINING, and about whose prt-
Tate lie and character the scaLdalous stories
which have been circulated are as absurd as
they are false and malicious. He Is good
fellow" OF the Jolly, boyish type Of many
other young n0blemen of his day, who
has had q tremendous share Of the good
things of this world brought within his
reach, aud who falls to upon them with an
excellent appetite. His life is not dissolute or
debauched, but 1t Is O life without elegance,
refinement or intellectual or moral digoity.
He Is not monarch OF men, certainly; he Is
not an ideal King; but then ideal Kings have
ALWAYS been rather scarce, and II one we're to
turn up nowadays, he might have some diff
lculty in finding subjects. An ideal, King
might not care to play the Princes part.
King Alfred, il the historians are right, was
really ki6gly man, but some OF bis ways
might not ft In very we'll with the conslitu-
tional system, with ballot-boxes, Ito come next
year. the soothsayers TELL majority votes and
vor Del bawled through the hoarse throats Of
the populace. The Prince, fancy, Is neither
better nor worse than the continuity OF history
and the conditions OF bis time permit him 10
be- He is not great man, but he ls very
fair Prince, as Princes go. +. j. n.