New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-27

smoke ard nsst everAewing froth reason Psys
noble psr,, snd ss the Epghah gownsmen delight
IN boxing and huntiog and rowing and such phy''d
encounters, 50 do the German in eli mental With the
few Of beer rrns q flow Of soul. On the smske
Of tobacco foats q favor ofwit- You find the Ger
msn student swallowing bis beer, and tIkisg ct the
zane time With frghtully dogmstic esrnestne" about
some serious matter, or drinking and putting away
and DIVE ling with bour dless joty upon some titiing
little hing Il is enly by sssocisting with Germans,
and indeed all Peep es, in hours when they IN send
thst human nature be faithfully read; but this
opportunity Albert took, and a. the one or two
public speeches, or rather public INTAKES ne has
since &C show, he ia merely an accomplished iheorN
II 10 40 with all of bic class. They hsve only book
and fssey, not real knowledge Of hHmas nature, aod
all their philosophy is built sand. In the abstract,
such 8 man viii render full homage to humanity, bat
trained into sderiDg theory Sc belonging ID ths age
and practice 10 another, be will always remain sbse-
lutte in bis views about Government. Such man
NAV show high regard for the feelings aud comfort
of people, bat be will grant only as favor that
which belongs TO the people as right These
few renaIss may throw ssme light upon Prince
Alberts present and future position in England asd
with them We will leave him for time TO his life OF
study and prncely refI at Bonn and retura for
shor. time to the castle Of Ehrenburg.
The Cobure Ia like most other German castles aad
those Americans who have seen one, doubtless vi
have noticed that cir Of intense status quo and sunsy
floth which usually hangs so heavily around them.
Yet even they have their moments Of perturbation
And this " az one cOmisg about tzo years after Al
bet had been Bonn To tbs superficial observer no
trace Of il was visible, but ii only necessary TO
inspect somewhat closely the countensnce OF Hans
TO find unerrpg evidence Of some unusual Oc-
ourence About bis phi egmatic German grin there
played email fntter. There was guest in the cas-
tie, q royal guest None other than Leopold Of BEL
GUM. And when Leopold traves there are royal
matches in the wind. The only precedent to
the sensation this visit produced was that crested
at Hanover by the visit of King George. For
although Leopold was one Of the scioDs Of the
house Of CebuIg, the strict etiquette of the cas-
tie opposes every familiarity which the affinity
Of blood might be supported to suggest, and Leo
pOld was received if be had been the Emperor OF
Austria of Russia, the prou1est IN position OF all
The Duchess of c. burg especially ia most sarched in
her notions Of etiquette much 30 as to give rise to
some pie asant satire TO her 1ming il TO supply her
tcieny of position the Princes OF COburg being pro-
veibia for connecting themselves with prit cey
families of-ss in her Dstance-oDy equal birth, but
always with those Of higher. To see the Duchess
caly sailing TO al fro in the caste, with a supercil
Gus air one forciby struck with the happiness OF
expression in which the late Emperor of Russia
dsgueIeotyped her an auguste parvenu.'
To him the court of Coburg always gave contempt
nous delight and he used aughngy to say, there is
"rever Gro drops in the street which one of my
Coburg cousins is not ready to and pick up
The old Duke Prince Albers father, is, as Coburg,
a decided failure He made two love matches. Until
the recent connubis exploits OF bis children, which
have redeemed the prestige Of the house, he was al
ways treated with that "oe baut en- bas" by his rea
tives with which young Wall street broker would
look upon brother who had made marriage not OF
profit but inclination. But be is courty Duke, with
smile which, from its long residence on his lip, has
almost q look Of fatigue The notion cherished by
himself, and psndered to by others, that he bears
slight resemblance TO Louis XIV, Ia the happiness Of
his lfe His sorows like those ofmos Germ Princes
have been purely pecunisry But even in bis hours OF
deepest desoation of pocket and when emptiness most
called him Der own, q look at the mirror maintained
bis pessanness and his smile lost under such nspi
ration ,s routine ancient look and was worthy TO be
placed alongside of :" beau SQUIRE" of the grand
Monsrque of Versailles himself. Such we're the most
noble Duke and Duchess to whose castle Leopold came
and Victoria.
When Leopold lived at Clermont after ChsrlOtte's
death, on the bounty Of England, Albert a. boy had
paid him visit and sometimes went over TO keosing
ton to his aunt the Duchess Of Kents, to pass the
evening and pay with his cousin, the future Queen
then little blue-ey ed, gold haired girl Albert was
quiet thoughtful lad, and not OF the bold, buoy ant
blood which women, even as little girls, love- Ii Is
possible he may have trundled hoop with hs noly
little cousin or licked her donkey down the pleasant
lanes OF Kt nsngton but cannot find that the most
imaginative Celtic edtor-snd in such aft ,irs they are
of wondrous prescienct then deserted the dawn
ing of that love which found in later years fruition
Bat as Leopold looked on their young gambos, come
such visions may have gttered in the distance, for
Leopold is far seeing and calculating msn.
In appearance the Belgian King is precisely Ike one
OF those German hsdesmen who throng the fairs Of
LEIPZIG. An expression Of jolly good.nsuredness
struggles with that of business ike eageness for bar
gaining in bis uninspiriDg, spicurean face. Louis
Philippe considered him one Of the shreTdes men he
had ever met and thought il wise and prudent thing
TO give him his daughters hand, anc so retain him as
a kind of go-bstween and mstch maker, and treaty
maker, and peacemaker, between the Courts of Eu-
rope, which is precisely the position he fills The sen
sible in which he declined the thony crown OF
Greece and in which in ls4s he prevented the Bel
gans from turning him ont of his kingdom by quietly
offering TO leave if required, were so many proofs OF
that tagacity which fascinated the late Louis Phil
ippe-or, as be more happily styled himself, the late
Mr.. Smth-and which be displayed with consurnmats
skill in the connection Of the match between Albert
and Victoria Always keenly bsnt on one or the
other bsre ain and revelng in schemes, he knew