The Express.
London, England, 1856-06-12 00:00:00

PRINCE ALFRED A SAILOR.

BY THE AUTHOR OF "SINGLETON FONTENOY,

R.N."

The Potentate of Europe in these modern days is
is rather a helplese position. His tasking is done for his.
by • reiniater, sad his fighting by • petrel. If he sets for
Waal( asakisd aware spinal him as a despot Itheald
ha be as .Misery pass the weed chronicles hie diatom,
mad is statist to pay bia a peat deal of neverence, ea en-
dltka that I. meddles with seething. When he has uy
shareeter or braise he is manually lapelled to essething
more—amiss, art, the opera, botany, or Addles. Bat
really it is bud foe hie that he has not the we abases to
dialers's\ klasslf as you, or I, or Final. His very rash
is ea esniabresee. He nay play at soldiers, or invent
saikema, bat he unit sot Wed armies is create pan. He
playa the kin, Ms Kan or Tama, Wad ; and we ate
dem to pales kis masers if we weal to prase Ida at all,
—that it, to raise him for goat* like what he ought to
a--for is aster's fumigates to Freesis the Fart, or the
Bled Prate Is ear meditative and, I think, we all
pity the Petestate (all of ss bat those Wilo take the valet's
view sad envy his upholstery); and that, I believe, ts why
we beadle kis debaucheries (whoa he kappa. to De
&beadles) so teaduly. Ws feel that the peer
tau is Saves to pt at agars sad 0011011 the best
way he sea—ad area liarpas is sot very bud on Ilia for
his Pada& se his peach. la feet, we would like ear can-
peps with his Majesty of —, if he asked se, sad make so
leer sheet it: sad I dare say be talks better over it Ulna
alarteatha of the ma whs have no other claim to cos-
skaratica.

Tits loyal British reader mes at one that this. apparestly
banning remarks are artfally rotation to sot off • con
pliant to the august yosag gintlonsa whose ante I pre •
nun to on at the head of this paper. The lburi Animal
has lately hammed so that Prises Alfred is piss to sea,
sad U the ante authority be oredible, he is sow bully on
plond es lansa red the Naatioil Almon. I moot bet
thisk that this is • very hastening annossamat. It to-
Wads us that non is on way is whisk • pmatato may
mope the inastivity Minimd ahoy., and it would be da-
nk to show how a manage of such rook mild is well
"nape it is mother prohnios. They are all edam, of
moors, bet a red soak a glimmer el the plebes .:erodes,
and the power of Minns one's sword bon between on's
lige will easy alma is la that moor, particularly if ha
*sly at poen os parade ea kolkisys, tad don't go us the
wars, UM. or Onsda. But Main are somewhat different
at na. The sea itself is trismadeinly impartial to bigia
with ; mak. • dessesdaat of Witold's& silk, as
rapidly is • brim plots (nerybody Is • terra JUSa
to it, la fist, sad is nth nest lad • boas, for
blown( oat the new 'limos'); sad will capsize the first
enter whoa Prism Alfred is steering, U he is melon, with
porton bodiffnem. AM what is important, too, yos hays
sot your AGIN of gnaw" thin. Sono fellows try hard to
pith oat jun those parts Olt Mika Rama to sad
Piersdilly os shore. Fits-Penn many esatrivss to he I.
the Koditernana, sad whin la the Nieditstranon, to be
Moaned at Costs ; bat ha mud he eight la • sale now
aid this ; he my be onside bolted MGM (at once hap.
pond to !Abbe, of tho PelgspetAss, to the amaionint of kis
eabordlaatii), la whin sees he w ill probably be some days
without milk or vegetables. Samba= he will get
dinned ; he may ken his mesa, get sight ea • In non,
and hays thrash " off, Ice fast, he moat me
some !molar work ; sad there eso wavy bw too la the
any who Met Mow their we* more or lea—though, of
mono, we haw. all Maid of ism spoidans who knew is
little that everybody wendand—sot that they got eon-
moods (so, so, wo wen not gram" as that !)—but that
toiy maned to rob Mai quietly to their Emily vaults,
without owing ono public calamity. The Priam, thee,
will get a fair shams of bolas • thoresik sad real Prima
(which may his Mud as •as porisctly dovslopod for
sosinand)—ead aeseldoriog all no mot non he onus
bon, of the house of lbotosy sad other bosses—lt
Is Me to hope that osek • 'ham b all he
ass& Be will get a far tinter chases thou
man Priam, nonever, al • UM etwaidentkm
hafts will show us. Ile will eater so a bey, before
the owes' too suet fats the Royal Higbee* (reek
helm Mows pee* like Noodle's wsisteset, whisk hoops
It, by Its sesifillosato, ell the ovoalag),
bugs • bey Ito will keys to bold his own with other bop.
The Oreteesiss itself will Mom to him a soma st 'rids
sod a stoadard of "piano, sad the probississ will Imam
lin la peopertkla as be is atieeL There is sossethiae my
elevattog la the merit de grope: mad whin tho Debi of
Monne man N Cellingwood that he valeta kb opines
sad N•lies's trisadildp MOM than saythiag--saa both be-
lieves bin and numb him The sank* was Ufe MIEN the
nes of that age, sad if windy faseln that isolative ham
the world Is that klail of way me sessesartly Wynn to •
Übsr.l sultan, let him osatemplate Colliag weed sad "heap
his nisi. He he boos &Mort sonstastly at in from
childhood—that groat slea—oad wee coo of the welt whet
potion= sad most thansab mann that nor lived.
Will, the Merest of the Prion's matey lam the service to
she nutty is this—that it will la scan doves Meet the
dm whets horn of the myna This good it may do him
will he initial of more good to the any. His attalansats
will he the !ware of no sttaisissata of taken, sad
his seeded the iced" et the madam of edam
Am oroomplishod tad 'alma geadelaus Is the klad of
pima a Prism is mann to be. AM whoa It pa
oboist that Prism Alfred " knows " this we that--that
he bee seat is as wenn ef the sides palsies which lost
lilies with 1110 sester's, while Egg takes bee eat 10 deg.
eastward of where she wield possibly ho—thot he smelts
the bealswek sa hosts sad lawn as wail es the foam all
shoat Met the weed Are No. 1 "—does ee sad so—that,
wins • host assawassjaa Tnwok triple dada, kis vat*
he sae teak to the Ohm le the Pm& 'pekoe oat the GM-
bassi—din he he 'ether a tors kw 'Wyly, the estians sf
the kW, war, 10/ le ehoorywi to peruse leases gad Ng
Howled Dessire—why, Ober yowassises win bogie to ass
that It is doe to balk themselves. Whatever toss I*
takes may slut our soul Warty sad solar the thaw
riteratisa.
It slams • easiest mead ler 4000•1• Nos whet kW d