The Archive · 1901

Speech by the King

of Bike hbercular conference at Marlis Majesty, who received the delegates borough House, testified to the deep interest he took in the subject, and regretted that owing to circumstances over which be had no control he had been unable to vreside at the opening of the Congress. After referring to the horrors of the dread complaint, the King went on to say: "There still one other terrible disease which so far has baffled the: scientific and medical men of the world, and that is cancer. God grant that before long you may be able to find a cure for it or check its course, and I think that to him who makes the discovery a statue should be erected in all the capitals of the world.

'THE LAST KING OF THE EAST ANGLES, known as St. Edmund, is at last, after many vicissitudes, to find his last resting-place in the new Roman Catholic Cathedral at Westminster. Ho died in the year 870, and was in the first place buried at Home. From there, thirty years later, his remains were conveyed to Bury St. Edmunds, which lace owes its name to this occurrence. Fouls VIL, many years afterwards, had the body removed from England, and for some centuries it has rested in Rome. Now, however, owing mainly to the efforts of the Duke of Norfolk, the remains are again to be entrusted to our care, and a few days since they were conveyed quietly to Arundel and placed in the chapel of the Castle, where they will remain untill the Cathedral is ready to receive them, which will be probably in about a year's time, though at present the edifice appears to be along way off completion. J.B.

2nd August.

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