Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1879-07-26 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

XVIII., were interred. The Abbey knows no dkfference of politics, either foreign or domestic. It is, as Lori Macaulay has well described it, 'the great temple of silence and of reconciliation.' It seemed that another example of this cherished characteristic of our great national mausoleum, another link in the invisible chain of hoepitality and charity which stretches across the widest gulf of race and party and creed, would be added U eves against the memorial of the Bourbon Prince of the Rouse of Orleans were erected a me. mortal of the &let of the rival dynasty, who, like him had been received on our shores and died surrounded by more than like respect. There is no IMOelation in Westminster Abbey which attracts greater interest than the analogous correspondence between the tombs of Elizabeth and Mary; and if to these we add the circumstance that not far of is the grave, now, alas I rifled and undistinguished, of the ruler whom history has always compared more or less with the first Emperor of the Napoleon dynasty, it was thought that the circle of historical combinations would at least be not unsuitable.  "It had been objected that the space of the Abbey for the memorials of eminent Englishmen being so limited, no permission should be given to the commemoration of any persons not falling under that designation. No one can feel more strongly the duty of rigidly protecting this space than he, whoever he may be, who is its appointed guardian. But the chapel in which the monument of the Prince Imperial was to be erected is altogether apart from those portions of the building that are appropriated to such interments or commemoration.; and it must farther be added that there is another stream of—interest in the Abbey altogether disconnected from the recollections of great men. The tombs of Princes are not merely the monument' of the members of Royal families, but they are landmarks of English and European history in a sense which has not belonged to the tombs of private individuals, however eminent. There is no comparison between the individual ,claims of Mary Queen of Soots and Biz Isaac Tlewton, or between the twe Princes murdered in the Tower and these of Pitt and Fox; yet it is not too much to say that the publi, interest attaching to the former exceeds the interest attaching to the Latter; and it was thought that such an extraordinary eombination of historioal associations as is presented by the death of the young Prince wee not unworthy to be thus distinguished. "One word more. I have not ',the honour of aoquaintance with any member of the Imperial Family In Frau°e or in England. No one rejoiced more than I did in the fall of the empire at &dam Even should the present Government et France fail to establish itself in that country, it is to the hope of a Constitutional Monarch 7 that I should look, under the guidance of those Orleans Pringes whom if I may be permitted to say so, I regard with so sincere and grateful a respect. But I should have been ashamed of myself if I had allowed theee predilec• tines to interfere with the natural response to what I believed, and still believe, to have been the genuine expression of national concern in an event of singularly tragic( interest, in which the spontaneous sentiments, not of England only, but of Europe combined."