, 1892-02-10
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The country has been saddene,l this week
by the death Of the Duke of Clarence and
Avondale, the ultimate heir to the Throne,
whose betrothal 10 the Princess Mary of Teok
has brought his name into all mems mouths.
The Duke, it is believed, caught cold at the
funeral Of Prince Victor of Hohenlohe- Ian
gsnberg, and on Friday week was compelled
to take to his bed with influenza, com
plicsted, the doctors perceived, by congestion
of one lung. The fever was severe, the tenn.
persturo rising to LOT but no serious result
was expected until Monday, when it was seen
that both lungs had become affected. By
Tuesday evening delirium had set in, and the
doctors in th"ir nextd8y's bulletins W rned lie
public that the gravest danger WIS apprehend-
ed. On Wednesday night there was for a time
q slight Improvement, but the Princes vitality
was never strong, and at 9.15 am. on Thurs
day he died. The grief of the PRINCESS Of Wales,
q most affectionate mother, ID overwhelming
but the country thinks first of the Princess
May, the expectlnt bride. whose hopes have
been so cruelty blasted. The mourning is uni
versal, for though the Prince was little known,
the circumstances have touched all hearts ;
and any grave misfortune to the Royal House
calls out the sleeping loyalty of the people,
We have said enough on this sad event clse.
where, but may point out nero that il is of
some political Importance. Although the
Queen has, VT believe, more than seventy liv-
ing descendants, the direct line passes through
the Prince of Wales alone, and he has but one
remaining son. railing Prince George, the
succession passes to the Ouch IS of Fife, AMI
England would SET another female reign.
With the present long reign before them, there
would be no dpead Of this contingency. hut
it was not expected whca the Princess Louise
Of Wales married and the country would pro-
fer descent through the male line. Prince
George proved the comparative strength of his
constitution by his resistance to q severe
typhoidal attack but the male descendants Of
the King Of Denmark, in Russia as we'll as
here, show a tendency to low vitality and it will
be we'll if the Prince marrics quickly, and
selects his wife, too, from a healthy house.
remark has been m lde all through Eng
land, and is well deserving he attention Of
the Prince of Wales 4ud AIS sou, o., s>on ~
natural sorrow allows them TO think OF Stale
necessities. The influenza spares no one. and
there is neither preventive against It's attacks
nor cure when it seizes those who are Liable 70
its power Of suddenly developing acute lung
disease.
Cardinal Manning died on Thursday morn
ing, in the eightyfourth year Of his aye. about
an hour and a half before the Duke Of Clarence.
as to whose condition he had been very
nxious during the night. He was one Of the
later converts whom the Judgment III the
Gorham case drove over to Rome in lo5l, NJ
the same time as the late Mr.. Hop Scott.
His earlier controversial pamphlets after his
conversion gave the men of that generation
q very high conception of his force AMI off e
t~iveness; but in later days there was n iuml-
nous haze in his treatment of theological. and
more especially of philosophical subjects,
which did not give the conception Of vivid
and accurate thought. He was the great Ro-
man Catholic democrat of his time, and might
sven in a popular, though not quite accurate
sense, have been called the great Roman Catho-
lie Socialist of his time. Not but that he
accepted er amino the Pope's recent powerful
allocution on social questions. But he inter
preted it, we think, if we may Judge by his
in relation TO strikes, i'll a sense more
f vourable ia the Socialists views than any
which the Pope himself intended to be ~givento
il. He hsd been q Cardinal for more than six
teen years, and an Archbishop for more than.
twenty-six. Mr.. Disraeli painted him in.
10th air. az Cardinal Grandson, and put in.
to his mouth the very happy CIRCULAR apoph-
thegm '.Perplexed Churches are Churches
made by Act of Parliament, not by G ID"
Perhaps Mr.. Disrasli may have heard him
give utterance TO that characteristic oracle.