The New York herald., 1878-12-15

of sympathy heard on all sides for the Queen.
The Superior Court adjourned out of respect for
the memory of the deceased
SKETCH OF PRINCESS ALICE MAUD MARY, GRAND
DUCHESS OF HEssE- -DARMsTADT.
The Grand Duchess Of Hesse Darinstadt. better
known as the Princess Alice of Great Britain.
was the second daughter of Queen Victoria. 1t
will be remembered that the Grand Duke Louis and
nearly the whole Of his family prostrated by this
disease from which the youngest child Of the late
Grand Duchess, the Princess Marie Victoria. died
few days ago. aged four years and six months. The
condition of the Grand Duchess first became critl-
cal about the 10th inst, since which date the
bulletins OF her health became daily more and more
alarming. The Queen. whose own health now in
spires serious anxiety, very much affected by the
loss of the little Princess who was one OF her chief
favorites among her grandchildren. and upon the
news Of the critical condition OF her daughter
would have hastened to her bedside but that
her medical adviser deemed it dangerous to take such
a STEP She. however, despatched to Darmstadt Sir
William Jenner. the eminent physician. to whose
skill the recovery Of the Prince of Wales in 1872
attributed and thus procured for her dying daughter
all the aleviaton possible under the circumstances.
On Friday morning the bulletins reported slightly
favorable change in her symptoms the fever having
by ten o'clock she became unconscious. her pulse
ran up to l4o and breathing ceased. The kilograms
published in yesterdays HERALD left little hope of
favorable result, and ut early hour yesterday
morning the cable announced that all was She
had expressed an ardent wish to her mother, to
whom she was fondly aud devotcdly attached, but
that comfort was, unfortunately, impractcable.
The deceased Princess, Alice Maud Mary, the
second daughter and third child Of the late Prince
Consort Albert (Albrecht, of SAKE Coburg Gotha and
Of Alexandrina Victoria. Queen OF Great Britain and
Ireland and Empress of India. She was born at
Windsor Castle April 25. 1s43. and few days later
the happy mother wrote follows to her uncle King
Leopold
Our little baby is to be called Alice ian old Eng
lsh namc) and the other names are to be Maud IAN
other old English name) and Mary, as she born
on Aunt Gloucesters birthday. The sponsors are to
be the King of Hanover Ernestus Prinus, poor Prin-
cess sophia Matilda and Fe0dorc. and the christening
is to be on the I'd Of June.
The King OF Hanover, it is chroncled. arrived too
late to present at the ceremony which. neverthe
less. the Queen duly reported to her uncle. event
of very brilliantly. Nothing could be anstindg.
and little Alice behaved extremely we'll" The Prin-
cess Alice have been devoted from her cradle
to the especial affection OF the people of England.
her elder brother to the principality or Wales.
the Duke OF Edinburgh to Scotland and the Duke OF
Connaught to Ireland. At all events, she be-
came especially dear to the English subjects Of Her
nearly every village in England.
The late Princess perhaps the best known
and loved Of all the daughters OF the EmpressQueen
from the tender which she lavished upon her
father during his last Illness .her name becoming
synonymous with fathers farewell and mothers
consolation" She also OF all the royal children
the one who most resembed her mother both in per-
son and character. Her elder sister, now the Crown
Princess Of Germany, having been early destined and
trained for her brilliant marriage and the Prince of
Wales being notably the nations ward. Princess Alice
was the first of the children of the Empress Queen
in whom the royal mother could fully rcalze
sense of personal maternal ownership, and II was,
perhaps for this reason. aided by especially at
fcctionatc disposition that she became the avorto of
both her parents and ultimately OF the whole British
public, in far personal qualities were al
| lowed to outweigh the claims of primo
| geniture. The Memoirs of the Prince Con-
| sort" so large portion of which is made
| mp of the private correspondence and journals
OF the royal parents. bear ample testimony to the
affectionatc fondness with which Princess Alice was
regarded by them from her infancy OF the particu
lars OF her education we have as yet no accurate in
| formation, but II is known that she an
| apt scholar in all the usual branches OF
princcly study. and particularly accom-.
| pshed in instrumental music.
At the time OF the death of her father. the Prince
Consort Albert, which occurred Saturday, Deccn
Der IA. 1851. just sesenteen years before her own
Alice the member Of the royal family who next to
the Queen herself excited universal sympathy, mixed
with respect and admiration During the long, weary
days of watching ut her fathers bedside she his
| chosen attendant companion and conhdant, and
seemed to be endowed with q prcternatura caniness
and fortitude. Her father used to speak with her
openly of his dying condition and of his desires for
the future when he did not deem 1t expedient
| to speak with the same certitude Of impending
death to the Queen herself Day by day she sat
at his bedside. nerying herself to look cheer
| full, and whenever the agitation OF the mo-
ment proved too strong for her emotions she would
repress her tears until she could gain the quietude
| OF her own apartments. All this time 1t was her
trying task display her usual cheerfulness to her
royal mother, to brothers and sisters and when all
fell to her lot TO be the chief stay and
ISOLATION to the widowed Queen. These circumstances
became
by the loyal people OF Great Britain who knew more
| over that that dark winter of mourning was the
neriod of all Others which ought naturally to have
been filled with joy the crowning season of her
life. II in fact no secret that for some months
before the death OF Prince Albert she mad become
engaged to her second cousin Prince Friedrich Will
helm Ludwig Karl, generally known in England
Prince Louis of Hcsse, now the Grand Duke OF Hessc
| Darmstadt under the title of Ludwig Nv. The mar
riagc was highly approved by both her parents.
and, though not uninhuenced by the usual political
considerations chiefly one OF affection. Her in
| tended husband six years her senior having
been born September IL. 1885,, and the eldest
and heir apparent OF Grand Duke Karl Ludwig
wilhelm, who died last year June Is. 1871, his
mother being Catholic princess, Mathilde, daughter
Of King Ludwig !. OF Bavaria. nhe % marriage hrst
Albert was second lime postponed on account of
the death of Prince Louis mother which occurred in
Apri 1862 and still further delayed by the danger
ois illness OF the King OF the bclgans. But four
years previously her sister, Victoria Adelaide.
Princess Royal, 1.-The Rose of England. as she
called was welded in royal state her father giving
her away and the holiday cheers of merry
crowds bidding her Godspecd. How diff
| f,rcnt was the Princess Alicc's bridal day! Tho
ceremony was privately performed at Her Msjcsty's
marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. by the
Archbishop OF York, on day snatched from mourn
ing with not color aud shade of brighter
hue to mark the exception to the uniform gloom.
There was crowd of privileged spectators, no long
train OF bridesmaids but such moderate ana ncedtul
attendance would be thought it for the most
firing couple In some private walk Of life.
There was, however. one bright side There
not that utter separation which struck all pain
fully when the Princess Royal left her home for the
society OF strangers and foreigners Thc position of
the Prince was not such 10 compel his residence
In his paternal dominions, and IL was with general
satisfaction that it found the happy couple
would take up their abode in England They
had q villa residence the Isle OF Wight.
not far from the favorite dwelling place OF the Prin
cess in earlier life, and there they passed much OF
their time for several years In the society OF the
Ouccn The Princess thus remained fully identified
with the land of her birth. led happy married life
and was blessed with children, ivc girls and
two boys The eldest son. Prince Ernest Ludwig Karl
Abrccht born November 70, 1868, and IL conse-