The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-11-14 00:00:00

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Lord Bacon says that " reading maketh a full
man, conference a ready Man, and writing an
exact man ;" but bad travel been indulged in itt
Lord Bacon's time half as much as it is in our
own times the noble anther perhaps have inclu-
ded it in his category of aids to the formation
of character. That the influence of travelling
ie foreign countries is pave-fill in this respect,
cannot be denied. That it is stricely and la-
terally true as Shakespeare puts it, that" hmee-
keepieg youth have ever homely wits" would he
too much to assert ; but it is undoubtedly true
Bea travel tends to remove prejudice, to expand
the mind, to enlarge the heart, awl to cause us
te look upon matlind as one great family, and
admit the fit that the moral interests of man,
in whatever e'inie his lot may be caet, are ever
ideutical. No one who has watched the ednee•
tion and training of the sons and daughters of
our goal Queen can believe that they have mach
British prejudice to remove. Our princes and
princesses may be patriotic; they may say
" England, with all thy faults, I love thee still ;"
but they wig doubtless admit she has her faults.
The training that our princes especially re-
ceived, must almost inevitably have a tendency
to make them citizens of the world. Their
sympathies to a great extent must he cosmo-
politan. Very few young men indeed in the
present day, whatever their advantages of wealth
or station, eon have had so large, and, in the
hest sense ef the word, so liberal en education its
the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh
have received; and, as a means of education—
s term that is usnally adopted with but a partial
notion of its real power of significance—travel
has net bt en forgotten. Beth are famPlar with
the manners and customs of foreign hinds, and
must be well acemanted with the local and per-
sonal eheracteriltles which distinguish various
parts ef the United Kingdom, and of some of
our colonial possessions as weil tin with thee°
of the great continent of America. The younger
Prince has now at out on a protracted voyage
In the Galatea, whioh is to visit Australia, New
Zealand, India, &c.—a voyage which is net to
be completed till some time in the year IS7O.
In a few days too, the Prince of Wales and his
ermine wife are to set out on a long journey.
They will pass through France and Germany to
Denmark, on a visit to the Danish royal family,
now so closely allied with our own royal house,
and then will visit Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt,
Sic. No doubt mere pleasure is H. strong ele•
ment in these wanderings, but they will not be
without their beneficial influences. Everywhere,
the princes and the princess will he received as
representing the sovereign of that power "on
whose empire the sun never sets," and thus
friendly feelings will he established and reeipro-
cieted. In their jonrneyinga the heart of the ,
reat English people will be with them. We
have efreiely heartily wished the Duke of Edits- ,
burgh hn rooge end a safe return, and as hear-
tily will the best wishes of the Country fIUOIII-
- the Prince and Princess of Wales during
the lengthened journey on which they are about
to set out.