THE PRINCE OF WALES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1024, 16 October 1891, Page 23

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 this genial, but misguided gentleman, who is denounced a 3 a common spieler, made the subject of ribald ballads in the democratic press and of cartoons in the illustrateds. And then, after he has undergone all these things, and paid tho penalty of publicy in its worse shapes, he is prayed for like a new recruit at a salvutionisfc meeting. It scarcely seems worth while to be a prince now, so great are the restrictions placed on the occupant o£ the billet, although the screw is still good, and and the perquisites large and frequent. The halcyon days are gone by for princes, ana m the course of a few years they will all ba compelled to learu the inevitable lesson that they can only bs tolerated on condition of being very quiet and well-behaved, express, ing no opinions 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 recognised that no matter how many prinoes there may be, and without any regard to their morals or peculiarities, there is but one source of artificial light that can justly and honoßtly claim superiority over all others known, and than is tho latest discovery, Luxsne, the new illuminant, about which it is impossible to say augbt but what is good and for tho more exact definition of which there are no expressions in the English language that can possibly flatter.' it, or do it more than common justice. For safety, economy, b i.liancy, and general ccmhatit h-i 3 no o .ir.peer and nevos will have during the lifetime of this generation. B