The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-01-17
ENGLAND'S LOSS,
The Two Noted Deaths in the Past
Week.

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-Smalley's cable
gram to the Tribune from London says:
Seldom indeed does the same day and al
most the same hour witness the deaths of a
prnca of the state and a prince of the
church; Of one who had scarce entered his
public career and of one who had completed
a long life Of incessant activity in a great
sphere. Cardinal Manning died at o'clock
on Thursday morning in his eighty-fOurth
year; an hour later passed away the eldest
son of the Prince Of Wales, who had just
celebrated his twenty-eighth birthday, and
six weeks hence would have celebrated his
marriage. Whatever we may think about
royalty death which puts the empire into
mourning is no light matter, and that is
what the death Of the Duke of Clarence has
done. The general grief is, if outward signs
60 for anything, genuine. The Duke was
well liked so far as he was we'll known. lie
was amiable and had social gifts, gave prom
fse of civil capacity, chose his friends we'll
and did his duty as soldier we'll. He had
just come from some weeks under canvas in
Ireland taking the rough and smooth of
soldiers life like his comrades. His recent
engagement to an English Princess had
added vastly to his general popularity; stlll
he was not yet great figure 10 public life
impress the imagination of his future sub
jects.
HEIR TO THE THRONE.
He was then the direct heir to the throne
next after his father. The throne is still
an institution. Loyalty is still a living
force Whatever touches one or moves the
other has still deep meaning for the En-
gliSh people. The fiOOd-tide of English
democracy pOurs steadily along, rises
higher and ever higher, bat so far from
submerging the throne or sapping its fOun-
dations seems to bear it on its surface, as il
it were, indeed, and as in this nation Of
seamen it should be, itself the ship of state.
The prince who is gone profted all mis- life
by the good will which descended upon him
from his fathers mother, as II he were heir
not only to the throne but to the virtues
and high capacity for rule which. for more
than fifty years, have made this reign
illustrious. In Ireland itself loyal
voices are heard. The capitals Of
Europe vie with each other in tributes
which, if not always sympathetic, are de-
cOrouS. The ambassadors of the great
powers are in consultation on the mo-
mentous question whether their messages
of coincidence should be left both at Osborne
and at Marlborough House or at Marlb0r-
Ough House only In the absence OF a
strict precedent thev decided for MarlbOr-
ough House only. The sOverelgns Of every
country in Europe have telegraphed their
regrets. The message from the President
of the United States came IN less direct,
more official and less personal form, but it
was expected and Is welcome. There is no
quarter Of the globe from which something
is not heard, for there is none where the
British empire has not fOOthold. Colony
answers unto colony, and states which
under this boys ancestors were colonies do
not forget that his people are their people,
removed by few generations.
CONsPIRACIEs AGAINST BULGARIA.
A fresh conspiracy seems to be on foot in
SerVia-Whlch is a hornets nest of cOnsptr-
ators-against Bulgaria, and more especially
against Prince Ferdinand and his Prime
Minister, the very able and undaunted
Stambouloff The Minister has been talk
ing publicly about it, and in terms which
ought to win him the sympathies of Europe
and America. He faces this as he has faced
scores of other conspiraces. He has conf
dence in the army. 'And the people,"
queried his interlocutOr, "are you sure of
ihem?"
The people," exclaimed Stambouloff,
''are our chief source of strength" and he
added that were even a conspiracy success
full his principles would not die with MIN.
The Prince is the incarnation of the pOpu-
larwlll, and neither the bombs and bullets
of Russian intrigue nor SeTvian assassns
can affect the national development of Bull
garia. 1t is a sanguine view, but honorable,
nevertheless, to the man whose genius for
rule and neVeT-failing courage have saved
Bulgaria from anarchy and from tyranny.
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