THE NEW HEIR PRESUMPTIVE.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXV, Issue 7169, 9 March 1892, Page 3

THE NEW HEIR PRESUMPTIVE.

The Loudon correspondent of the Argus ends a lengthy message regarding the illness and death of the Duke of Clar&nce with the following remarkb on Prince George of Wales: •' We havo been so engrossed with tho sorrows of the Eoyal house that absolutely no at' tention has been given' to the which the death of Prince Edward makes in tho order of tho succession, Pi-inco George of Wales is now heir prosumpItive. He is a very dijl'erent character | of a mua to tho Duke who died lately. Ho is clover, without perhaps being brilliant, and, instead of being listless and apathetic, as whb his brother, he is lively and "larky" in an uncommon degree. As a Naval cadet he always boat bis brother in their examinations, aud in spite of the recent attack of typhoid his seamen's lifo bus given him a better frame aud more -vigour than Prince Eddy ever possessed. T'hcse last are advantages when we consider the intorests of the dynasty, aud much an we regret the death which has so startled us it is perhaps a tnct that tho race issuiug from the loins of the now heir presump» live will be moro robust (ban could have becu hoped for in the other case. Prince George's educatiou is, no doubt, a little drawback in the circumstances, hut it is certain ho will go to sea no raore'as the olli* cor tu charge of a vessel, and it may be hoped ho will drop " larky" mauuow with tho calling of a seamen. On the other hand, wc do not want him lo fall into (ho apathy aud listoncss which werccuugcuituliu the case of hm brother. I , Ho takes his new position and prospects with the utmost good wishes of the whole people."