The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-06 00:00:00

goad order, intelligence, and quiet prosperity of its
inhabitants—the model city for the jealous care
with which the progress of public education is
watched and fostered by the State. New Yorkers
sulkily admit its superiority in these respects, but
fairly enough point to the heterogeneous mass of '
emigrants who yearly inundate their streets as rea-
son why that city is less orderly and has made less
intellectual progress ; so, with the exception of an
occasional sneer at the rigid excellence of Boston,
and now and then a bitter cut when they do detect
a shortcoming among its people or rulers, the claims
of the English city of America, as it is called, are
as generally admitted as superior excellence ever is
in this world. Boston, both in its general appear-
ance and in the houses and manners of its people,
is certainly the most English city I have seen on
this continent; its inhabitants, too, are not a little
proud of this resemblance, which strikes the visitor
at once, foi in no city in the United States is the
feeling of affection towards what they term the
mother country so strong and so kindly. Yet the
hall is still standing where the harangues com-
menced which ended in the War of Independence,
and a tall and rather ugly obelisk looms over the
city marking the spot where was fought and won
the victory of Bunker's-hill. Surrounded by such
memorials and with others still more suggestive in
the very streets where the first blood was shed, an
anti-English feeling would not be surprising. But,
as I have said, the reverse of all this is actually the
case, and the name of England and the English
not only admired here, but loved. There may have
been some little misgiving on the part of Boston,
when they heard of the grand decorum with which
New York had received his Royal Highness, and
even the most patriotic of Bostonians who witnessed
that display admitted with reluctance that the model
city could do no more than equal it. It has equalled
it, however, and in saying this I think I give the
highest praise that can be bestowed upon either city.
At Albany, where the Prince remained on his
arrival from West Point, there was nothing of inte-
rest. His hotel was in the upper part of the town,
which certainly contrasts most favourably with the
narrow and dirty streets which terminate at the
edge of the river. On Wednesday the Royal party
again resumed their journey, and came down to this
city in a special train. All the stations along the
route were crowded with eager visitors, who had
been waiting for hours merely to see the train whirl
by and to cheer with as much vehemence as it
passed as if every one of the hundreds present had
not only seen his Royal Highness but had been
favoured with a personal interview. At Springfield
Station, where a short stay was made, there were
many thousands assembled, and the Prince came
out upon the platform of his car and bowed his
acknowledgments of the perfect storm of enthusiasm
with which his arrival was welcomed. So, again, at
Worcester there was the same never-tiring cordial
multitude shouting and waving hats and handker-
chiefs as if they were demented.

At the little suburban station of Longwood,
about three miles from this city, the train stopped.
Mayor Lincoln was in waiting to receive his Royal
Highness. With his worship were a few of the chief
citizens of Boston, who were duly presented to the
Prince, who bad an appearance of much fatigue—an
appearanoe which has shown itself unmistakeably in
all the suite more or less during the last week or two.
The party then entered the open carriages which had
been provided specially in honour of the occasion,
and a kind of half procession being then formed,
escorted by Volunteer troops of Light Dragoons, the
cortege proceeded to the city. The crowd was com-
paratively thin in the suburbs, but along the streets
leading to the Revere-house they formed in such
dense, impenetrable masses as almost surpassed the
throngs at New York. Windows, roofs, and bal-
conies, too, were crowded in the same manner, and
all were cheering and waving hats and handkerchiefs
--the same as at the capital, the same concourse, the
same fervonr of welcome, the same good order. In
all its grandest and most touching details it was
alike in both cities. Beyond their escorting him
home to his hotel, however, nothing was done
worthy of record on the night of the arrival, save
that the streets were kept in a pretty considerable
uproar till an advanced hour by a grand torchlight
demonstration of the Bell and Everett party in
reply to the Republican fete of the same kind on

the previous evening.
Yesterday was made the great day of the recep-
tion, and in order that it might be observed with all
festivity and honour the Mayor suggested to the
inhabitants that it should be kept as a grand public
holiday. The hint was no sooner given than
adopted, a general suspension of all business was
decreed, and every shop in Boston was closed yes-
terday as if it had been Sunday. The first event
of the programme for the day was the inspection
of the
Militia on the Common, Before his Royal
Highness set out for this an old veteran, Mr.
Ralph Farnham,
the only remaining survivor of
the battle of 1: ker, s-hill, was presented to him.
This venerable luan is now in his 105th year, hav-
ing been born at
the commencement of 1756. To
this day he
preee
to " a mental and bodily vigour
which seldom falls
the lot of those who pass the
allotted span of
three
eater part
and ten. He served
throughout the
'part of the War of Inde-
pendence, was in most of
theth half skirmishing ac-
tions which distinguished
present when General at struggle, and was
rged
Burgoyne ca pitulated at
Saratoga. lam sorry to be obliged to add to this
record that the old veteran--thei
f of the men
•
on either side who fought round the
earth works
in the midst of which the B unker's.h'll
Monu-
ment now stands here— from far
-r°lll
inde-
pendent in his old age. He is even g .
seeking for
subscriptions to enable him to eke out With comfort
the few remaining days which can yet be vouch-
safed to him. What passed between his Royal
Highness and this venerable relic of bygone days,
I am not aware; but the fact of the interview up.
pears to have given much satisfaction to the kind.
hearted people of this city, who have so completely
buried their animosities as to look on England with
a feeling of hearty affection, such as one does not
often see equalled, even in our most loyal colonies.
The review took place in the pretty little park in
the centre of Boston, and which, though called " the
Common," is as picturesque and quite as well kept
as St. James's. Here all Boston seemed to be as
sembled ; in fact, I felt sure of this till I saw the
return of his Royal Highness to the city. The
troops wore drawn up in the centre, looking at a
distance amid the mass of people like a bright
coloured picture set in a dark, sombre framework.
To the delight of all, his Royal
Highness
came
upon the ground in uniform. His suite also
—At least, the military portion it—of ofr
course,
paid the same compliment to the occasion. The
ttillltlitiounn of
the people was boundless. It