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The Conservative majority is sufficient, in ordinary circum- 

 stances, to last four or five years. The choice between LiberaUsm 

 and Labour, when that period comes to an end with the inevit- 

 able swing of the pendulum, seems to depend mainly on the 

 internal economy of the Liberal Party itself. Labour has 

 profited very considerably from the Liberal dissensions of the 

 past six years, but the figures of the election show that Liberalism 

 is still strong in spite of the handicap it has imposed on itself, 

 and the mere fact that it has an old historic tradition should 

 give it an advantage in the fight it will have to wage with 

 Labour in its future struggle for existence. Indeed, it will 

 have to engage in a fight on both fronts — with Conservatism as 

 well as Labour, and its situation is by no means easy. But it 

 will probably discover that the hardest of fights is preferable to 

 painless extinction. 



The Late Prince of Monaco (Sir Arthur Shipley, G.B.E., F.R.S.). 



We regret to record the death of Albert Honorie Charles, Prince 

 of Monaco. The Prince belonged to the reigning House of 

 Goyon de Matignon-Grimaldi, and amongst his other titles 

 the following may be enumerated : 



" Due de Valentinois, Marquis des Baux, Comte de Carlades, 

 Baron de Buis, Sire de Saint-Remy et de Matignon, Comte 

 de Thorigny, Baron de Saint-L6, Baron de la Luthumiere, 

 Due d'Estouteville, de Mazarin, de la Meillerage et de Mayenne, 

 Prince de Chateau-Porcien, Comte de Ferrette, Belfort, Thann 

 et de Rosemont, Baron d'Altkirch, Seigneur d'Isenheim, 

 Marquis de Guiscard." 



The Prince was born on November 13, 1848, son of Prince 

 Charles III and his wife, Antoinette, Grafin von Merode. In 

 1869 he married Lady Mary Douglas-Hamilton. This marriage 

 having been annulled, he married in 1889 Alice Duchesse de 

 Richelieu, who was, we believe, a niece of Heinrich Heine. He 

 is succeeded by his son, Louis Honorie Charles Anton, who was 

 born on July 12, 1870. 



At an early age the Prince joined the Spanish Navy, and 

 he remained for the rest of his life a thorough sailor, and, indeed, 

 in external appearance he had a singular resemblance to the 

 captain of a battleship or of an Atlantic liner. His love for 

 the sea never left him, and he spent most of his spare time and 

 much of his fortune in oceanographical studies. The first 

 yacht which he devoted to practical research at sea was the 

 Hirondelle, in which twenty-five years ago, 1885-6, he 

 carried out his pioneer investigations as to the influence of 

 the Gulf Stream upon the French coast. This he did chiefly 

 by floats thrown out at various places to the south-west of the 



