The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-09

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return home full Of -four and grain.
The OvATIoNs TO THE PRINCE on WALE5.-THg
EFFECT on HIS VISIT TO THE UNITED SrArks.-We
continue to publish accounts of the progress of
the Prince of Wales through the British pro-
vinces. The enthusiasm and excitement have
not at all abated. Wherever he comes the
stores are closed, and the people give them
selves up to the festivities of general holiday.
Addresses and fstes and balls are the order of
the day and of the night.
In the dance we observe that the Prince only
gives the lady his left hand, and she is not
permitted to take his right, as being contrary to
the etiquette due from a subject to the heir APP
parent to the throne, the next in rank to the
reigning sovereign. 1t is said that this restric-
ton has sometimes very awkward effect upon
the movements of the Prince in the dance, and
that when he sees a lady attempting to get hold
of his right hand he lodges the effort
in way that ia sometimes very ludi-
crous. We should think that this restraint
upon the ladies must be very disagreeable to
the Prince, who desires to take the sex by both
hands, if it will please them. When be comes
here the case will be entirely different. He will
mingle, not with subjects, but equals He will
be no longer Prince, but private gentleman,
and, relieved from the trammels Of royal eti-
quette, he can dance with the ladies just in
what way he pleases, and allow them to take
him by the right hand or left hand, or both
hands, or in whatever way will be most crafty
ing to him and them. He will thus learn the
difference between the thraldom of Prince
and the freedom of man, and he will be able
to give loose rein to the abandon of his ma.
ture, and develope his true character. He has
been hitherto kept under very strict surveil-
lance by religious tutors, and the sweets of
liberty will, therefore, be the L,ore appreciated
by him. 1t often happens that youth,
who have been held under puri-
tanical restraint that was unnatural,
when they get the reins in their own hands
amply indemnify themselves by giving free
indulgence to their faculties. Princes are hui
man, and do not essentially differ from other
men.
In his visit to the United States the Prince
will learn more Of the world and of men and
women than he ever did in England or can now
in the British Provinces, because he will mingle
freely with the people, luxury not permitted
to the Prince when he is at home. Peter
the Great Of Russia travelled everywhere
incognito, and even became mechanic that he
might acquire a deeper insight into men and
things The result was seen in his future reign;
and we have no doubt that the Prince Of Wales
will be able hereafter, when he sits upon the
British throne, to trace his best ideas to his in
tercourse with the American people, and to
look back upon his visit here with feelings of
pleasure and satisfaction.
THE CENTRAL Notwithstanding the
vast amount of labor and money expended on
the Central Park, and the general progress
made there since the work commenced, the
visiter who seeks it for shelter and comfort one
Of these hot days will be disappointed at find
ing little or no shade there; and without q
grateful shade such weather as this comfort is
out of the question, and place of pleasure be-
comes place Of torment. 1t Is very much to
be regretted that the Central Park Is 80 def
doubt that a great deal of work has been ac-
complished in laying out the walks and drives,
building bridges, cutting transverse roads,
draining and planting shrubs; but, after oil,
this work makes very little show for the time
and money lavished on 1t, and one good, long,
shady avenue or grove of full grown trees
would be more acceptable to the public just
now than the whole of It.
One of the first things which should have
been done in the park was to transplant q
large number of full grown forest trees; few,
we believe, were transplanted from the shores
of the North river, but they do not seem to have
aourished very well Why not adopt the sys-
TEN practised by the French Emperor in Paris,
when he was laying out the Bots de Boulogne,
where huge trees Of mature growth might be
seen daily carted along the avenues, to be
placed in their new beds, in which they soon
rested securely, without leaf or branch faded?
1t would be worth while spending good deal
of money to accomplish this. A park without
shade trees is like theatre without scenery; II
is but the skeleton Of a park after all, be its
walks and drives, and lakes and bridges, ever
so perfect. Next to plenty Of breathing space,
a pleasant shade is the most essential feature in
a public park; but we are afraid, at the rate
the Central Park is going on in this respect
that the present generation will have passed
away before any Of our citizens can enjoy
themselves there, like Tityrus Of DID, sub tegnine
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THE GREAT EASTERN AT THE SoUrH-The
Great Eastern festival, as the Virginia papers
call the visit Of the big ship to Southern waters,
has made q tremendous sensation down there.