The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-15 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 15, 1880.

A right cordial Welcome Home again to his
Royal Highness the Prince of WALES will start
spontaneously to-day from the lips and heart of
every loyal Englishman. Not one is there surely
amongst us to whom the news just telegraphed
from Plymouth will be other than pleasant tidings
—particularly after the delay in the arrival of
H.M.S. Hero through the prevalence of contrary
winds in the Atlantic since the date of her depar-
ture, on the 31st ult., homewards from the shores
of the North American Continent. Under any
circumstances, the reappearance again off the coast
of Old England of the youthful heir to the Crown
of " Revered VICTORIA,". after an autumnal tour
like that recently made by his Royal Highness in
the New World, could not but be hailed far and
wide in this land with feelings of the most
pleasurable satisfaction. As if to impart a
glow of personal sympathy to the warmth of the
Prince's reception here at home, there has been
that doubtless purely passing, that merely momen-
tary sense of solicitude, which, however fugitively
entertained, has still been solicitude as to his safety,
that vague sense of anxiety in his regard which
now that it is entirely dissipated by the glad tid-
ings of his actual arrival Home Again only serves
to enhance the cordiality of the greeting given to
him. It is nothing less than grateful to our hearts,
moreover, to remember at this moment that the
maternal solicitude of the QUEEN, however briefly it
also may have been entertained, is by this time, in
like manner, effectually dissipated. REUTER'S
Telegram, it will be seen, dated "Plymouth, Thurs-
day Morning," sums up everything in one sentence
—a sentence certainly that is all-sufficient. " The
Hero and the Orlando," it says, " were in sight at
eight o'clock this morning, making for the Sound"
—'the Orlando, it will be remembered, being th e
easel sent out a few days since to reconnoitre. So
that, after all—had the wind chopped round only a
little Sooner from the east to the south-west, from a
directly adverse quarter to one of all the winds that
could blow from any one of the thirty-two points
of the compass decidedly the most favourable—the
Prince might have been
home again by his Royal
Highness's birthday on Friday—his Grace the
Duke of NEWCASTLE might have been in ample
time to join his fifteen Ministerial colleagues in
the Cabinet Council held on the Tuesday following,
only the day before yesterday, at the official resi-
dence of Lord PALMERSTON. "After date" though
they are in coming, this royal party of excursionists,
headed by the Hope of England—they are perhaps
all the more welcome by reason of their very tardi-
ness. Upon the return of the young Prince and his
companions, in truth, we can offer to them, and for
that matter to each other, the heartiest congratula •
tions.

Our veteran. Premier has been again giving evi-
dence in the metropolis of his unfailing energy and
unfading adolescence. It was only the other day,
upon the occasion of the LORD MAYOR'S Banquet,
on Friday the 9th of November, that the Noble
Viscount addressed himself to the consideration of
public matters generally, with a blending of reso-
lution as a patriot, and of adroitness as a diplo-
matist, pre-eminently worthy of him as the Minis-
terial champion, and the political type of a free-
born and out-spoken Englishman. Last night, in
another of the great City halls, Lord PALMERSTON
spoke again upon many matters of great import,

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