The anxiety for the Prince evinced by all classes has
been of unusual extent and sincerity. Throughout the country all festi- vities and almost all public meetings have been suspended, the London evening papers have issued Sunday editions—which they did not do even in war-time—and all places at which the bulletins are usually put up have been besieged. In a great many parishes the bulletins have been read from the pulpit, and in many country towns the local newspaper offices have issued "extras" without charge. The Democratic Associations have been as cordial iu their expressions of regret as'the rest of the community, and the strongest feeling of all has been expressed by men who can scarcely read. The manifestation of feeling has, in one or two places, taken rather grotesque forms, but there seems no reason to doubt that the feeling itself is both deep and sincere, and that it proceeds, in part, at all events, from something beyond kindliness, —from a real loyalty to the reigning House.
