We have said enough on this sad event elsewhere, but
may point out here that _ it is of some political importance. Although the Queen has, we believe, more than seventy living descendants, the direct line passes through the Prince of Wales alone, and he has but one remaining son. Failing Prince George, the succession passes to the Duchess of Fife, and England would see another female reign. With the present long reign before them, there would be no dread of this contingency, but it was not expected when the Princess Louise of Wales married ; and the country would prefer descent through the male line. Prince George proved the comparative strength of his constitution by his resistance to a severe typhoidal attack ; but the male descendants of the King of Denmark, in Russia as well ae here, show a tendency to low vitality, and it will be well if the Prince marries quickly, and selects his wife, too, from a healthy house. The remark has been made all through England. and is well deserving the attention of the Prince of Wales and his son, as soon as natural sorrow allows them to think of State necessities. The influenza spares no one, and there is neither preventive against its attacks, nor cure when it seizes those who are liable to its power of suddenly developing acute lung-disease.
