NEWS BY THE MAIL

Evening Star, Issue 2807, 15 February 1872, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL

THE riITNCE or WALES. The Home papers arc full o' the details of the Prince of Wales’ illness ; and column after co’umn is tilled with accounts from all parts of the kingdom, of the state of public feeling. The Brnz telegram “ Royalty is triumphant everywhere,” was noexag' ration. Writing at a moment when the Prlnc ’’s recovery was considered hopless, the Home News says :—“ Crowds are gathered in the streets anxiously waiting for every fresh message from what even now may he the bed of death. The wording of the bulletins as they are issued, is carefully scanned and considered. The phases are carefully noted, andthechancs for life or death calculated from them with an intensity of feeling that the English people had never before manifested in our time. The depth of these feelings no words can tell, and it would be difficult to describe their outward manifestations. There are few of the ordinary occupations of life but have been to some extent interupted or changed in their character'in consequence. Pub ic institutions, and societies have postponed their regular meetings, private engagements have been ignored, the ordinary amusements of the season indulged in to a limited degree, and life inall its a poets been colofed to some extent bythp gloom that surrounded Sand, rmgham. The announcement o p the critical state of H.R.H’s health gave rise to some circumstances of extreme interest. At a meeting of working men and women assembled down in the New Cut at Lambeth, the news was received at first with perfect silence. Only a few reponds elapsed when fbe] whole company, as though moved by a common impulse, stood up ami with great feeling sang “Go 1 save the Queen.” ’That little incident told ). o;e for the abiding and deep loyalty of the people, than a thousand labored orations could do. On the 11th the news was of a move assuring character. The fever was reported as diminishing, without any increase of exhaustion. Hope became strong, but the news of the next day changed it all. Restlessness and entire want of sleep seemed to p’acc the Royal sufferer beyond the probability of recovery, “If he could only sleep,” it was said, “ho might have a chance,” but rest of any kind appeared impossible. During the day Ur Jenner allowed his patient to choose his own refreshment The Prince asked for a gUse of beer, he cf ra,l H if, and dicing the afteyuqqn twp alsft. Proip the liph of December dates H.R.H.’s recovery, At Sandringham the anxiety was of course intense, and early in the clay the Princess of Wales wrote to the vicar of the parish, the Rev. Lake Onslow, as follows :—“ My husband is better, and 1 am c raing to church. I must watch with my husband, and therefore must leave before the end of the service. Cannot yon say a few words for him in prayers early in the service, that 1 may join with you in prayer for him ?” These earnest, simple, and Christian words—this most womanly and wifely request —was of course acceded to. Lire chaplain, who was deeply affected more than once during the service, offered up a short prayer, before reading the the Collects of the day, in which he begged the whole congregation earnestly to Join an belgdf of his Rqyal Highness. Tlyefe was noi a dry eye in the ohurbu when this prayer concluded ; for the struggling emotion which broke the voice of the chaplain as he put forth his earnest supplication lent double significance to his pathetic language.