New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-30
A ROYAL ORATOR.

| lief is permitted to venture beyond the confines
Of his palstial poOrhOuse, he must obtain the
parnission Of his keeper the Minister of the
hour; and if the faintest suspicion entertained
of his induleing in the forbidden fruit thought,
or that ray of mind has ever escaped him, he is
obliged to take his copy like child and speak
by rote jingling string of sounds sweety set
TO rothing. Such is the Royal regulation.
| The world is by this arrangement at
| least occasionally delighted and confused.
| There are few things to us more full of excel
lent mrth than those Royal speeches at the
opening and close of Parliament, in which an
unhappy man or woman the case may be,
| gewgsw we'd in the gear of some dead century. Is
| compelled before the same rORd, often within
| few months, upon the change of rival Minis
tiers, to cant and rec ant and entreat the blessings
| of Providence on exactly opposite ends =" in
| "silyer tones and with marked emotion" as the
| hunkeys of the Press inform US. Sir Robert
Wapole used to take intense delight in drilling
the Royal BOBBY whom he ruled for this greatest
duty of the English throne. Aud the irrspreach-
able correctness with which Victoria reads
the dozen sentences committed 10 her
is ssid to be the result of Lord Mel
bourne's elocutiOnary science. In general,
Royalty has rather resbed this ruie. 1t saved
trouble, the great object of most Royal exis-
fences. and did not disturb the listless current
of its easy eDnui. The present Prince Consort
has, however, formed an exception and has ex-
hibted disposition to think and speak for hum
self which has occasioned his paymaster Mr.
Bull, on more than one occasion, consid-
cradle uneasiDess and surprise. In one OF
those wllfUl freaks it appears he has been
again INDUCING; and venturing beyond his
allotted ground, has given expression to his
opinion of the present aspect of affairs
at one of those great guzzles where English
Corporations love to gorge. The address of the
accomplished husband of the Queen, for his
abilities are considerably above the average of
even unroyal men, was marked by its charac-
teristic compactness of fact and close vigor OF
application. The advantage which an absolute
Government has over a constitutional, in its
eespotism of design, secrecy of council, and dis
patch of execution was presented with per-
spicuous brevity from which the voluminous
orators of the House of Commons might derive
a wholesome lesson. But however we may adj
mire this Royal effort, we would commend in
kindness to this Prince, whose valor has been
hitherto somewhat tempered with discretion,
an attentive study of those profound words in
which distinguished member of his Order in
days of old commended the benefit of silence.
The youth, as old Isaac of York said of another
adventurous knight of England, is goody
youth, and it were pity harm should befall him.
The note of the old bird may always be gath
cred from the chirp of the young. There are
few of the prejudices and failings of our own
country which do not possess on the other side
of the Atlantic parent still more sturdy.
John Bull is indeed big bundle of prejudices.
He rather glOries in its bulk. But if there be
one bigger and bitterer than another in that
bundle it is his prejudice against foreigners
interfering in his family affairs. That spirit
which impes our Know. Nothings to put down
all strangers the moment they interfere in the
sacred family brOls, is even of keener sense
and more delicate nerve in England. It's jea-
ousy once rOuvfd is not easily bated; and it has
not of late with respect to Prince Albert felt
quite comfortable. The husband of the Queen
has experienced the fickleness of popularity.
AS long as he carried out the object for which
lie was imported, John Bull did not grudge him
an occasional relaxation. If he was not per-
mitted to win medal for the Alma he carried
off for the past two seasons medal at Smith
field for the prize pig. He was even allowed
on fire days to fire into crowd Of fat pheasants
or gallop after an obese hare. He composed
symphony laid few first stones" opened
an exhibition, and let of his steam in affairs Of
this innocent class. But growing on these
indulgences, his yaulting ambition over
leap.d itself. Without one Of the sins
of Don Giovanni he met Don Giovannis fate
Through a statue came his fall. Ar the close
Of the great Exhibition his Majesty Of the
City, the Lord Mayor, mindful Of the bonOrs
heaped upon himself, was DESTROYS Of sharing
them with his Royal co-laborer and proposed TO
erect q statue 10 Prince bert in font of the
Guildhal. The natural vanity which prompted
Prince s. bert to look with favor on the project,
though harmless in itself, betrayed 10 the sense
OF his Governor disposition to travel too fast
This feeling, which at first only Weakened eau
tioD, was reused into anger when some time
after it oozed out in one Of those quarrels be-
tween statesmen, such as that between
Soule and Marcy in which the world
comes by its own, that coDjugal influence at
Windsor exercised a virtual censorship over the
productions of the Foreign Office and occasion.
ally introduced an Interpolation for which the
Ministers responsible to the country owned no
responsibility. A cloud fell on his fair fame.