The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-12-15

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LONDON, December IA.
Dispatches to noon to-day Indicate slight
| Improvement in the condition of Wales.
SANDRINGHAM, December 4-5 A. M.
Wales is less restless. There is no increase
Of exhaustion, and he has had some Sleep,
LONDON, December IA A. N.
| There is O slight change for the better. The
Prince had comparative quiet last evening,
and the rest last night proved beneficial.
SANDRINGHAM, December l4-S o'clock.
Wales slept during the night, and there Is
some abatement of the graver symptoms.
| SANDRINGHAM, December IA Noon.
Wales has been tranquil this morning, and
| the gain OF last night maintained.
SANDRTNGHAM, December l4-2.30 T: NJ.
There Is no further change reported. Hopes
| OF recovery are freely expressed.
The Princes Parentage.
1t is almost supererogatory tJ state that the
parents OF the Prince of Wales were her Ma
| festy Oueel Victoria and his late Royal High
| ness Ffaucis Albert, Prince Consort, who Was
| by right of birth Duke OF Saxouy and Prince
| of Coburg and Go,ha. Her Majesty Is the
daughter of Edward, Duke OF Kent, fourth
son Of George III, and the Princess Victoria
Mary Louisa of SAKE. xe.Coburg-Saalfeld relict OF
the hereditary Prince OF Leiningen. Prince
Albert, afectionately remembered in England
as 1.-THE Blameess Prince" and man who
owed his dignity not so much to rank and
power as to maDful worth and true nobility OF
nature, was the second son OF Ernest, Duke
of SAKE Coburg Golha. He was born at Bose
nau August 26. 1919. and died, universally Ia
mented by the people of Great Britain, in the
forty-second year Of his age, at London, De-
cember IA, 1861. He, too. died Of fever, re-
sultiGg In congestion OF the lungs-the story
| borne BY the cable In detailing the disease OF
| his oldest son, the Prince of Wales-and vas
| buried amid greater manifestations OF popular
grief than will probably be shown to the
memory of the present heir to the throne of
England. The world is familiar with the
sonibre shadow cast upon the life Of Queen
| Victoria by the death OF her friend and hus-
band the Prince CoDsort. From the date OF
HER MARRIAGE TO THE PRINCE,
February 10th. 1910, to the day of his death,
she had ever found In him a'wise counsellor,
| a good husband, and man who bIlsed MIN:
self in endeavoring to gain the affections OF
| her people and to aid In the advancement OF
all useful systems Whereby the working clae-
ses and the needy OF the metropolis, especial,
| ly. might be benefited. Upon The Memorial
| Gsirn. erected on high mountain overlook
inc Balmoral Palace, In Scotland-the spot
which he 80 loved and which has since been
ever dear to her widowed heart-she has had
| this Inscription placed ITO the beloved men,
| orr of Albert, the great and good Prince Con-
sort. erected by his broken-hearted widow,
Victoria R.. 2lst August, 1852" Many memo,
rials of The Prince Consort were set up
throughout the United Kingdom; but the no.
blest Of them all was the Albert Memorial. or,
| as it Is better known,
THE ALBERT HALL,
erected In London. and which last summer
was inauguraled with imposing ceremonies,
the Queen Issuing from her melancholy re-
tIrement to honor the occasion, which attract
ed to the edifce an immense multitude OF
| people of all ranks and degrees. Her Majesty
mad originally desired that this memorial
| should take the shape of an obelsS, to be
erected in Hyde Park, on or near the sits oil
The great exhibition of 1851. Shortly after,
a committee was appointed to fulfil her Ma
jesty's desire, and contributions of money
were sent in-more freely, We are ashamed to
say, than has been shown by our people In the
case OF the unfinished shaft on Monument Lot.
in our city-but, as suitable block OF granite
could not be obtained, the proposal for an
obellsk was given up, and the plan OF me-
mortal hull was adopted
THE ROYAL FAMILY.
The children of the Queen and of The Prince
Consort are niue In number, all of whom, but
one, are living. These are, In the order of
their birth, first, the Princess Royal Victoria
Adelaide, born November 81, l840, and mar
ried to the Crown Prince Frederick William Of
Prussia, (the "Unzer Fritz of the late Franco
Prussian war; Of which marriage six children
survive; second, his Royal Highness Albert
lS4l: third, her Royal Highness Alice Maud
Mary, born April rs, l54S, and married July l.,
1852, to Prince Frederick William OF Hesse
Darmstadt, who have issue five children;
fourth, Prince alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl
of Kent and Earl OF Ulster, born August 6,
1874, and now captain In tue royal navy; fifth,
her Royal Highness Helena, born NAY rs, 1916,
T,,I,, foD do, tab
Christian of Schleswig- -Holstein AugusIenborg,
who have issue two children; 9Th, her Royal
Higt ness Louise, born March Is, ls46, who
was married few months ago to the Marquis
of Lorne; ,th, Prince Arthur, (who visited
this country several months ago. born May
l, 1850, ami who Is now lieutenant In the
Rifle Brigade; 9Th, Priuce Leopold, born April
April, 1857 1t will thus be seen that the royal
family of England is large one, entaillng
vast expenses upon the taxpayers OF the ma
ton. But to come, now, to the central figure
in this sketch-the man about whose death
bed so many solemn responsibilities of tho
future gather, and who IN his death at this
iuncture may prove of vastly more Importance
than he ever was during his lifetime.
ALBERT EDWARD. PRINCE OF WALES,
was born OF Buckingham Palace, London, on
November 9th, le4l. 1t has been alleged against
-
this were 30 the fault must have lain with his
native mental weakness; Tor every opportuni-
ty was provided iu his youth to prepare and
fit him for the exalted position which, as 1t
seemed. he was destined 10 fill In the future.
He received In his early boyhood careful ed
ucalional training under the care of compe-
tent masters. His instructors at this period
wrre the Rev. Henry NJ. Birch, rector Of PrPst-
wich, Mr. Giobs, bsrrster at law and Others.
After studying for a session at Edinburgh, he
entered Christ Church, Oxford, where be at
tended the public lectures Tor year. He af-
forwards went to Cambridge, where, still in
pursuit of that knowledge which was never to
come to him, he resided, following the usual
university lectures for three or four terms.
In the summer of the year 1860. during the
Presidency Of Mr.. Buchanan,
THE PRINCE VISITED THE UNITED sTATE',.
an event iThich was attended with an enthusi-
Astic reception by the people wherever he
went. The occurrences connected with that
visit are not as far distant In the past but that
the memory of most Of those who read these
lines will vlvidly recall the fatteriDg recep-
tion which met the beardless youth, VINO came
to Republican country, with the prestige
upon him of future sovereignty over q great
and friendly nation. But when the feaslings
and rev.lries-the balls and juuketngs- the
speeches and the seryiliLies We're over, his
Roya Highness, with the bloom of boyhood
upon his face, and reminding men somewhat
of his nnble father In his lineaments, returned
to Eng and to enter upon the-for hlm-seri-
Gus busines of life.
SEEING LIFE