THE LATE ALICE.

Kumara Times, Issue 772, 21 March 1879, Page 2

THE LATE ALICE.

. The follqwing lettet from the Queen has been received, by. ■ Right Hon. the Secretary • ot■ State-for , ; fctie'..Home .,

Osborne, Thursday, faec! 2fa r . The Queen is. anxious/ to, take" life earliest opportunity of' expressing publicly her heartfelt thanks For the iiiu» versal and touching! sympalhy' shown to her by all classes of her ! loyal and 'faithful subjects on : ' the pi-eseut occasion When it has pleased God to will away froniHhisuv6r:U "lier deafly..bei loved th'6 .Princess .Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse. Overwhelmed ; with f grief at .the lpsi of her clear child)' who; wiis a bright sajnple;of loying coni;age<tUa devotion, and 'self sacritice l tp ; dhty, it it most soothing to the'QuVen's feelings to see how entirely -her grief is shared lay her people// The. Queen's. deeply afflicted soh-in*law/ ! th^'Clrmid Dttke \>t Heese. is iiso anxious tb : make'fchown his sincere •gratitude" foi\ the''fund -ffjef* iugs expressed towards himself and" hik dear children, in then* tembld bereave^ ruenfc, and-his gratification atthe appVe; ciation the shown by the 1 peophr&f England of -Ziie noble and endearing qualities of her whom jail* now mourn. ! Seventeen years -ago, at this Very time, when, a similar, bereavempnt crushed the Queph's happi'ueps,' anil this lamented daughter was her .comfort arid support, the nation evinced the same touching sympathy as well as wlieri,' in December 1871, the Prince of Wales was at the, point of death. . »

Such «h f tender feeling-will; ever regain; engraven *an the Queen's heart, t and is 'the nrofe valued at" this anoißehi of greaj;distress in the country, which no one moredeeply deplores than the (Jueeh.'herself; : ! . ..