The Duke of Albany will be buried to-day in St.
George's Chapel, Windsor, amidst universal regret, which found good expression in Lord Granville's and Mr. Gladstone's speeches on Monday, when moving the votes of condolence with the Queen.. Lord Granville dwelt especially on the ability of the Prince, which, but for the "judicious resolve" of the Royal Family not to mingle in the strife of parties, might have made him a valuable Member of the House of Lords ; while Mr. Gladstone, while acknowledging those gifts, spoke more of the unremit- ting cultivation by which the Prince had improved them, and his disposition to use them in raising the condition of all around. In his mind, he said, and even in the general turn of his ex- pressions, the Prince repeated and recalled his father. The mourning for the Prince has been unusually general, and as far as observers can judge, the universal regret for his untimely end has been more than conventional.
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