The Court is again in mourning. Another bereavement has befallen the Queen which she describes to her people as a very grievous loss. The only son of our Duke of, Edinburgh, who would, if fate had not ordered it otherwise, become in due course Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, is being buried to-day in a Mausvleum of his ancestors in the Duchy that has not been opened for centuries The remains were taken from Moran in the heart of the Tyrol, where he had gone for his health, intending to travel to' Egypt in the company of his sister and brether-in-law ina little while. The cause of the death is stated to be an affection of the brain and it appears that serious symptoms developed themselves just before the silver wedding celebrations of his father and mother only two or three weeks ay Unfortunately there are stories afloat of reckless extravagance and dissipation ca nected with his life in the crack Prussian Regiment of which he was a lieutenant, leading to an order from the Kaiser, removing him to a distant ordinary line regiment which practically amounted to a dismissal from Court favour. Great anxiety has for some months past been felt as to to the health of his father,
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