The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-20 00:00:00

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6d.
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PRILPOPIS. 11. PICCADILLY.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 20.

MR PRINCE of WALES is receiving deserved
congratulations on his first appearance as Chairman
at a public dinner. The occasion was well chosen
and happily employed. For presiding with suc-
cess over a festive assembly, qualities are requisite
which we esteem in all men, but which we most
prize in those who are placed highest in the social
scale. It is impossible to read of the Prince of
Wai.as presiding over the festival of the Literary
Fund without thinking of the valuable services of
a similar kind which his father so frequently
rendered, and wishing for him many like
opportunities of attaching himself to the various
interests of the public whom he will one day be
called to govern. The duties which the PRINCE
thus discharges are those to which public opinion
universally designated him when a great calamity
cast its shadow over the nation. The position of
the ParircE is, however, not in all respects that
which the nation then anticipated for him. It
was impossible at that time to foresee that, after
a lapse of two-and-a-half years, the PREYCE would
be called to discharge, in addition to the duties
which naturally devolve on the nearest male rela-
tive of a female Sovereign, what it has become.
customary to speak of as the representative duties
of royalty. In this respect the situation of the
PRINCE is somewhat peculiar. Last year and the
year before the public regarded the suppression of
the social observances proper to courts as a matter
of course. This year, however, it appears to have
been felt that a return to former usages might
reasonably be expected, and arrangements were
made to gratify that wish. It is on all hands
acknowledged that thePrinoe and Princess of Witte
have sustained the parts assigned to them with
infinite grace and all the dignity which is natural
to them, though it must be admitted they have
done so under some decided disadvantages. We
must reckon among these the publication, just at
the beginning of the season, of the estimate formed
by the QUEEN of those ceremonial duties which it
was proposed to delegate to the PRINCE and
PRINCESS. Loyal subjects do not discuss the ac-
curacy of the I judgment which sovereigns put on
the value of the more genial offices of royalty : but
it was impossible that the British public,
while acquiescing, should not be discouraged.
It is difficult to know which to regret
most—the solemn assurances that the QUEEN
is sequestered from the people by the
pressure of duties which seriously impair her
health and strength—or the impression that has
been undesignedly created that the duties which the
PRINCE and PRINCESS have been appointed to per-
form are of • trivial and formal character. But
neither this disadvantage nor its natural consequence,
the diminished complimentary attendance at levees
and drawing-rooms, has abated the zeal with which
the PRINCE and PRINCESS have pursued the path
marked out for them. The conscientious care
with which the Princess of WALES has devoted
herself to those public charities which could be
benefited by her patronage and presence, is
known to all readersof the newspapers. The duties
thus discharged, considered in themselves, may
be of inferior importance, but the temper in which
they are performed becomes almost heroic when
the circumstances of the PRINCESS are taken into
account. This illustrious lady, who little more
than • year ago came among us • stranger, is
showing herself every inch an Englishwoman. But
we should not think of her more highly than we
do if we believed that she had wholly forgotten her
worthy countrymen and her father's house. She
cannot forget them, their brave struggles, their
cruel wrongs, and their bitter anguish; and if, never-
theless, she smiles on us and our merriment, she
smiles through tears. Such a noble surrendering
of private feeling, such complete self-abnegation,
at • time when the indulgence of private sorrow
might seem not only natural but pious, well de-
serves to be remembered in the mother of our
future kings.
It may be hoped that the division of the duties
of royalty which is now forced on public notice will
not be permanent, although the reasons assigned for
it are such as may be of indefinite duration.
Should it, however, be much protracted, it is hardly
possible to foresee how a reconsideration of the set-
tlement made for the Prince of WsLas can long
be avoided. It is notorious that the pecuniary
arrangements made when the PRINCE came of age
were not made in contemplation of such a position
as that which he now occupies. Duties have been
imposed on him which prescribe observances that
press upon his actual income, and a foreknowledge
of which, had it been possible,would probably have
led to a different investment of the accu-
mulations of which he came into possession
two years ago. The time has not come yet for
the public consideration of this subject, and we
would fain hope that the necessity for entertaining
it may in some way be averted. The pecuniary
affairs of the Royal Family have hitherto been ad-
ministered with consummate wisdom, the best proof
of which is that the world has heard scarcely any.
thing of them. Still, as the public was • party to
the settlement made for the PRINt F., it is concerned
in whatever affects its sufficiency.

THs REPR F,ENTATION or PIN BROK E. —lt was
announced a few weeks sines that Sir Hugh Owen, Bart.,
the present member for the Pembroke borough, did Dot in-
teed to seek the suffrages of the electors at the east greeral
declare ; and Sir S. M. Peer mid Mr. R. Potter (chairmen
of the Great Wester' Railway) were earned as probable
medidates. After a emit, however, to bis constituents, Sir
Hugh Owen has expressed his detanniaatioa to come for.
ward again, and three is not likely to beans. opposition,
as he was retuned last time by • large majority over ha
opponent, Mr. Me rick.