The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-10-20
The Prince Of wales,

Prince OF wales TO SAIL AT any rate IL it be
| not, his stay will be protracted but few days
| longer. He will leave our shore. after having
| seen what Prince of Wales never saw before.
| and what he could zee Ia 10 other part of the
world. In Paris or elsewhere on the CONT
nent, such crowds as ne saw In this country
could not have beer assembled without tu-
mutt, and would not have been permitted by
| the authorities 10 come together. In London,
| even, such assembiages would have been
watched by an army of police, and could
| hardly have been brought together without
| riot and loss Of life. In America, and in
| America only, vast crowds can gather 10.
| gether, enjoy the amusement or transact the
business of the hour, and disperse. without
having disturbed the peace, or rendered the
presence even OF a single warchman neces-
sary Could there be better commentary
upen republicanism rs IL exists in America.
or upon the asseverntion of THOMAS JnFvgR-
SON, that this is thestrongest Government in
the worldl
The Prince, IL he be a man of rejection.
will have received food for thought which
may last him for the rest of his life. 1t is
trae that King of England is not govern
ing King. But as the first man In the realm
as the Executive OF the nation, as the man who
bears the sword and executes the laws as the
fountain OF honor from which flow all digni-
ties and all rewards, as the commander in
chief of the army and navy, and as the head OF
the Church, his position is most potential for
good or evil. From the despotisms on
the continent, he can learn nothing There
is no analogy between them and the Gov
ernments OF which he is the head. But in
this country, he saw a government of the
people in its strictest and most extensive
sense. We do not believe the British
people will ever change their form of
governmental least, such a thing can
not take place, in our opinion, in many
centuries. If Lord BRoUGHAM is to be
trusted, they have n natural and instructive
love of royalty, which will prevent them, for
ages to come, at least, from making a greater
change in the Executive than consists in sub
s,ituting one branch of the royal family for
another. Yet, with the preservation, always
OF hereditary chief magis tracy, it seems oh
vious 10 us that the cons titutiOn of Great
Britain is becoming more Democratic every
year OF its existence that the people are ey-
cry year acquiring importance, and that the
aristocracy are gradually losing their power
The time will surely arrive, when every man
in England will vote for his representative in
the lower House of Parliament, and when
that time shall have come, England Will cease
to be governed by few great families, as she
always has been since the accession of the
House of Hanover. 1t is certain that even be-
fore the reign of the Prince should he live to
be King, shall have termina; ed, great advances
will have been made in the direction of popu-
lar influence. In England revolution is per-
petualIy In progress. 1t never sleeps from
day TO day, nor from year to year. The strong
hard, every day sense Of the nation, the pos
session OF which renders the race from which
they are sprung people distinct from all
others on the face Of the globe, preserves them
from the danger Of those sudden and violent
explosions which have proved so disastrous
to free government on the continent: Their
revolution resembles the encroachment of q
river upon its banks. 1t is gradual, almost
imperceptihle. 1t never pursues a fresh ad-
vantage, until it has secured the one last OBJ
tanned. 1t undermines an abuse so thoroughly
that when il advances, ii is certain TO fall 1t
is important for a future King of England
thus situated, to sec how safely the race. over
one branch of which he will be called to reign.
may be entrusted with power limited only by
such laws as they themselves have made. He
may thus see that his throne and his person
may be safe, in the midst of the greatest free.
dom, and it may save him from many mistakes.
into which he might otherwise be liable to fall.
How the Prince was pleased with his recep-
ton, it is difficult to say. As man of sense
we think he ought to have been very wei,
pleased. He could not avoid seeing. at apy
rate, that there was, on all sides, an earnest
desire to make his time pass as agreeably as
ncGih IN raj W fhaf 10
of candor and sound judgment Much has
been said Of the vulgarity Of that curiosity
with which he was pursued wherever he went.
They are but snobs who talk il this strain
The curiosity was natural, and nothing which
is natural is vulgar. Alteration, pretension.
and assumption, alone, are vulgar. The man
who does the best he can, in the best way he
knows, and without pretending to be more
than he is, cannot be vulgar, let him be as
awkward as he may. In this sense, neither
the public curiosity, nor the attempts to honor
the Prince, had the slightest touch OF yul-
garity about them. The first was natural,
and could not, therefore, be vulgar. The last
had no pretension in them, aud, therefore no
vulgarity. The people of this country had
never seen a Prince before. Was il not natural
that their curiosity should be aroused by the
visit of so great Prince as this isl Even if
it sometimes proved a little annoying, 1t was
not the less compliment tary. Lord NELSON
could not appear in the streets of London
without being followed by ten thousand bows
and idlers, who waited at the door whenever
he went into shop, and huzzaed whenever he
came out. Such popularity must have become
very troublesome; but it was so we'll meant
that he would have been something very like
a brute not to have felt kindly disposed to-
wards those who sought TO do him honor in
this way.
The Late Commodore skinner