THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 246, 16 October 1891, Page 4

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

H. R, H. is recognised as being in a bad way by the Wesleyan Conference sitting in London, or they would scarcely have considered it necessary to offer up prayers for his conversion. It is really not easy to feel anything but sorrow for thia genial but misguided gentleman, who denounced as a common spieler, made the subject of ribald ballads in the democratic press and of oir' toons in the illustrateds. And then, after has undergone all these things, and paid the penalty of publisity in its worst shapes, he is prayed for like a new recruit at a Salvationist meeting. It scarcely seems worth while to be a Prince now, so great are the restrictions plaoed on the occupant of the billet, although the screw is still good and and the perquisites large and frequent. The good old days are gone by for princes, and in the course of a few years they will all be compelled to learn the inevitable lesson that they can only be tolerated in condition of being very quiet and well behaved, expressing no opinion and attracting no attention beyond what is absolutely necessary when they pay their periodical visits to the Treasury to draw pension allowances. Long before that time, however, it will have become universally reeognised that no matter how many princes there may be, and without any regard to their morals or peculiarities, there is but one source of artificial light that can justly and honestl claim superiority over all others known, and that is the latest discovery. Luxene, the new illuminant, about which it is impossible to Bay aught but what is good and for the more exact definition of which there are no exa pressions in the English language that oan possibly flatter it, or do it more than caramon justice. For safety, economy, brilliancy, and general comfort it has no compeer and never will have during the lifetime of his generation, 4