2nd Aug. 'THE news of the death of H.R.H. the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, more familiarly known to Englishmen as the Duke of Edinburgh, will be heard with sincere regret on all hands, and in Shanghai with a tinge of personal sorrow born of the fact that H.R.H. once visited these Settlements, and many have still a warm reedllection of a gracious and gallant Prince. The Dake of Edinburgh was born at Windsor Castle on the 6th of August, 1844, and his death thus came but a few days before his fifty-sixth birthday. He was privately educated, with especial reference to his choice of the naval Ts. Euryalus as a Naval Cadet. profession, and in 1838 he joined
From this point onwards his life was a busy one. He showed sterling merit in his profession, and won a way up its promotion ladder to the dignity of Ramiral of the Fleet. He refused the offer of the throne of Greece in 1862, and stuck manfully to his naval work, every year showing him some part of the world hitherto strange to him. So came about that—after_being created Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Kent, and Earl of Ulster, sworn in as Master of the Trinity House, and iven the freedom of the City of ondon—he embarked on that cruise in 1869 which included Japan, where he was received by the Mikado, and China, where he spent several days in Shanghai. He was received here with enthusiasm, and was feted to the extent of local means and opportunity. Addresses were _presented, dances, theatrical performances, and athletic sports were held—one even reads that the rigours of mail-day were softened in his honour. Five years later H.R.H. married the Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna, only daughter of the Emperor Alexander LI of Russia. Not until 1893 did he succeed to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. His only son} had died four years before, and his successor is the Duke of Albany, since the Duke of Connaught relinquished his right, and Prince Arthur of Connaught reserved his onl in the event of the Duke of Albany dying without issue. As the Queen's second son the Duke of Edinburgh's death will naturally be a source of deep sorrow to her. The sympathies of the whole nation will go out to her in her loss, sustained at a time political urgency, when the air holds for her little save the echoes of war. ces with the 2177225); of Bombay.
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