put on your armour by diligence, keep it bright by holy service, and watch in all things unto prayer.” Such letters might by the unsympathetic be considered but trifles, but they exhibit in a beautiful manner the tenderness of this strong man’s heart January 1892 brought with it a burden of sorrow to the English people. The dread scourge influenza caught and slew the young Prince Albert Victor in the early summer of his manhood, and as the bells were tolling for him, the venerable Cardinal Manning