Death Of The Duchess Of Kent

The África brings us intclligence of the death, on the lüth of Maren, of the Duchess of Kent, the mother of the Queen of England. For a long time the late Duchess has been afflicted with a cáncer, which was the iininediate cause of hor death. Since the accession of her daughtcr to thfi proudest throne of Europe, she bas remained a resident either at Windsor Castle with the Queen, or at Frogmore a mansion of her own, a mile or two distant from the Castle, whither tha Queen went daily to visit her. The late Duchess had attained a venerable age. She was a Princess of the house of Saxe Saalfeld Coburg, was born on the 17th of August, 1780, and was baptized under the names of Marie Louiso Victoria. She was, at an early a"c married to Priuee Henry, of Lenniugen, who, dying left her a blooming young widow, in 1814. A ycar or so later, she attracted the attention of Edward, Duke of Kent, the fourth son ot George III, and was married to him in Londoa on the llth of July 1818. But the married life of the new Duchess was but short ; for in less than two ycars the Duke of Kent died, and she was again a widow with ono child - the Princess (now Queen) Victoria.- At that time the accession of this little child to the British throne seemed but a remoto coutingency. Gcorge III, outlived bis son, the Prince of Wales, while George IV. and William IV. nis other sons, who reigned after him, both died without issue ; thus the issue of the nest brother. the deceased Duke of Kent, became heir to the British throne. As aoon as this contingency gradually resolved itaelf into a probability and theu a certainty, the Duchess of Kent devotud her time to fitting her daughtcr for the high station sho was cali upon to occupy. A firm and consistent Protestant, sho taught the young Priucess a veneration for that reliinon as expressed in the Jhurch of England. Mental aud persoual accomplishments were carefully at:ended to, as well aa pbysical aeijuircmeuts. ïhc daughtcr throve under such iudicious treatuient, and the mothcr had the satisfactiOQ of attonding the coronation and the marriagc of her child, of seeiug her the mothcr of a large family, and of knowing that her throne was built upon the hearts of loving subjects. The life of the Duchess of Kent, iiuiet and unogtentatious was so indentiñ'.'d with that of the present Qucen, that thcre is little to say of her otliorwi.se. - Her dcath will place 'm raourning most of the rei'niing fomiiies of Kurope, wkilo at the Baglish oourt thora can be littlc doubt but that the official trappings of woc will this time repregeot - what thej Bcldom do in coart circlcs- the honest 'nui uuafFoctod grjcf of the wearev. It may bc addcd that this is the first serious bereavemeut Quoon Victoria lias ever experieuoed. Her father died before she was old enough to know hini, and she has nover lost a child. An only child hcrseli', she had never a brother or sister to loM or mourn for, and tlius the preseuL bereavement must be poculiary afflictiDg to her.