We suspect it was the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh who uncon-
sciously killed Prince Alamayu, the son of the Emperor Theo- dore, and descendant, in Abyssinian belief, of the Queen of Sheba, who received a sort of State burial on Friday week. The Sikh Prince, caught young, has grown up an. English gentleman, and it was hoped that the Abyssinian Prince would do so also. Alamayu, however, had to face the intolerance of colour in a much deeper form than the Maharajah, who is so visibly Aryan ; he had not the Asiatic quickness for book-learning, and he had the African constitution, which suffers in the Northern winters. He should have been educated at Bombay, as Dr. Wilson advised, in the Free Church College, where he would have been turned out fit to command a regi- ment of native cavalry or manage one of the smaller princi- palities, natives being quite accustomed to " Hubshee " rulers. The experiment of bringing coloured Princes to England does not often succeed. They either die of the climate, which this year would have killed anybody born where the sun shines ; or they acquire a strong dislike of the English, who rarely or never recognise rank except in a white man, and whose civilisa- tion strikes them as at once complex and dull. They can be just as well educated in Bombay, in a suitable climate, and amidst a civilisation which does not so greatly fatigue or irritate their minds.
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