THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN PRINCES.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." _I SIE,—Allow me to tell you a curious instance of the "public interest in Princes" which is spoken of in the Spectator of June 5th, and which I witnessed. On December 12th, 1881, I went in a train, which carried a Royal party, consisting of Prince Christian, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Duke of Albany, to a public meeting at Manchester, in support of the Royal College of Music, which the Prince of Wales was just establishing. Between the place at which the train joined the Liverpool and Manchester line and Manchester, it did not stop, but went through at express speed. During the greater part of that distance, however, the sides of the line
were crowded with people, mostly of the lower class, evidently animated by an anxious desire, if only to see the rapidly passing images of the Princes as they went by. There could be no doubt of the desire, or of the cause of it, and it struck me at the time as very remarkable.—I am, Sir, &o., G.
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