The medical journals evidently believe that the disease was con-
tracted while the Prince was staying at Lord Londesborough's seat near Scarborough. At least if it was not, it is a strange coinci- dence that Lord Chesterfield, also staying there, should also have been attacked and so rapidly carried off, and that no leas than six other persons, including Lady Londesborough, were more or less eeriously unwell during the visit. On the other hand, Lord Loudes- borough writes that four children who had been residing in the Louse remained perfectly well, that the water is supplied from the Scarborough mains, and that the pipes had pre- viously been carefully examined. Moreover, a groom in the establishment of the Prince who had never quitted Sandringham is now lying ill under a similar attack, a fact which seems to point to some local cause at Sandringham itself. The matter will, of course, be very carefully investigated, and except to Lord Londesborough —who may find the refusals of hia invitations frequent for a while —and to science, is not of much importance.
