The Republican journal., 1892-01-21
Death of Prince and Cardinal.

Inc luke OI CldIence, elueSU son OF Une
Prince and Princess of Wales, and the heir
to the British throne, died last Thursday
morning. He was betrothed to the Prin-
cess May. Cardinal Manning died in Lon
don the same day and at nearly the same
hour. The London Star, after warm ex-
preston of sympathy with the parents of
the dead Prince and with Princess May,
says 1.-THE Prince and Cardinal-death
seeking for it's victims in palaces as well
as in novels, poor and rich are alike in
death.''
SKETCH OF THE DEAD PRINCE.
Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward
Duke of Clarence and Avondale, was the
eldest son of the Prince of Wales and heir
! presumptive to the throne of England
He was born at Frogmore Lodge, Wind
sor, January 8, 1864. His father, the
Prince of Wales, had married on the 10th
of March 1868, the Princess Alexandria
daughter of Christian TX, King of Den
mark, a lady three years his Junior, the
Prince being %: when his first child was
born. After an education at Trinity Col
| lege, Cambridge, and at the Heidelberg
University, Victor served two years as a
naval cadet on the Britannia, and started
in 1879 for three years voyage around
the world with his brother. The line of
succession to the throne of England
will now descend through the Prince Of
Wales to his next eldest son, Prince
George, ''the sailor He is not especial
ly robust. A recent attack of typhoid
! fever has left him weak and has enfeebled
a constitution never too strong. Next to
| him in the line of succession is the baby
of the Duke of Fife.
AMERICAS $ REGRET.
Sir Julian Pauncefote British minister,
informed Secretary Blaine Thursday of the
| death of the Duke of Clarence and Avon
dale. Secretary Blaine, in reply, said
that he was directed by the President to
express the sorrow with which he had
learned of this sad bereavement suffered
by Her Majesty and the royal family.
| The following cable message was sent to
Minister Lincoln at London:
| Express the deep regret and sincere con-
dolence of the President by reason of the
lamented death of the Duke of Clarence
and Avondale. BLAINE.
| THE LATE CARDINAL MANNING.
Henry Edward Manning, Cardinal, was
| porn at lOtterdge, HerefordShlre, Eng
land, in july 1908; studied theology at
the University Of Oxford, and was appoint
ed rector Of Lavington and Gratfam in
Sussex in 1884, and archdeacon of Chiches-
ter in 1910; but the Gorham case occasion
ed him to give up in 1851 his preferments
in the Angical church and join the Roman
Catholic. After residing for several years
in Rome, he was ordained a priest in 1851
and appointed rector of st. Helen and st.
Mary's, Bayswater, and on the death OF
Cardinal Wiseman in 1865 he was nominal
ed archbishop of Westminster. He was
created a Cardinal, March Is, 1873. He
founded the Roman Catholic University OF
kensngton, October -, 1874, and took a
very active part in the Council of the Vati-
can defending the dogma of the infallibil-
ity OF the Pope. The most prominent OF
his writings are: '''rhe Temporal Mission
of the Holy Ghost Qs65), 1.-The Tenn
poral Power of the Pope" GS66), Eng
land and Christendom," Qs6D, "Petri
Privilegum," Qs7D, and Unity of the
Church, "ds72.) Cardinal Manning re-
piled to MI. Gladstone's EXpostulation,
in the Vatican DEGREES in their Bearing OF
Civil Allegiance QS73.)