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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 435, 29 March 1890, Page 3

The London Catholic Universe, commenting on the Prince of Wales* speech at the dinner in aid of the leprosy fund, says:—" To our thinking he is the beet of his family. He may have sown wild oats like most other hearty young Englishmen ; he may be fond of horse racing, and now and again weakly patronise prize fighters, but there is nothing radically vicious in him. He ia no leader of a backstairs palace coterie. There is no legend of penurioneness attached to him as to one of his brothers, nor of ptiggishnesa as to the other. He knows how to do the right thing in the right way at the right time, as on the 29th of December last, when he was foremost with his congratulations to Mr Gladstone on his birthday. His Royal mother omitted that courtesy, but that august elderly lady does not conceal her dislike for the great statesman. It is not yet forgotten that when Beaconsfield had her carriage to wait upon him, the Grand Old Man had to tramp it up the Castle Hill at Windsor. The Prince foresees that there is a rising tide of democracy in this empire, and he wisely accommodates himself to it. Instead of segregating himself from his future subjects in a cold isolation, begotton either of selfish notions of oomfort or obsolete notions of srroganoa, he mixes freely with the people, rejoices in their joys, and sympathies! in their sorrows,'*